Chiron is an asteroid that overlaps the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. It was discovered in the 1970s, so its meaning and energy are still being explored, resulting in diverse interpretations among astrologers. My take on Chiron is that the Chiron wound is the initiator of a journey to our deeper wholeness.
Chiron in Scorpio can have wounds around:
Healing Chiron in Scorpio
- Acknowledge your unique journey through life’s depths and darkness
- Face the vulnerability of your intense emotions and need for deep connection
- Develop self-love for your passionate nature and your ability to face life’s shadows
- Let go of judgments about your desires or your past
- Cultivate a strong sense of Self that remains steady through all of life’s cycles of death and rebirth
- Intimately explore your fears of betrayal or loss of control, seeing them as initiations into true power
- As you accept your human grappling with power and surrender, develop compassion for all beings facing powerlessness in the face of threat
- Realize that your true essence is the eternal consciousness that witnesses all life and all death
The Chiron wound involves a feeling of being different and uniquely broken. There is a sense of vulnerability you can’t avoid feeling. This is the initiation of the spiritual journey, if you are willing to turn toward the pain instead of away from it.
In turning toward it, you develop self-compassion. You bring love to the places in you that feel broken and unlovable. Through becoming intimate with the limitations of your human form, you develop compassion for every human, because we all suffer.
The next step in the journey is one not many people take, but it is the empowerment that I believe Chiron is here to teach us. It is to let go of the identification with woundedness. We recognize ourselves as unlimited spiritual beings having a temporary Earth experience.
We shift our identity from our human ego to our Soul. We hold the dual awareness of grace: compassion for our suffering combined with certain knowledge that we are not our suffering.
Through this process of spiritual awakening and Self-realization, we access our unique medicine that we then become a vehicle for transmitting on Earth. Thus the Chiron wound acts as a bridge both for our journey home to ourselves, and for our medicine to be brought into the world.
