Chiron in Pisces - can someone please explain this placement?!
Question: And to confirm - Is Chiron, where we have healing powers?
Answers: And to confirm - Is Chiron, where we have healing powers?
Chiron in Pisces
If Chiron falls in Pisces in your chart, you bear the pain of losing your faith. At some time in your life, you have been let down by the world or by some belief you had held very dearly. You may become bitter and close off your once very open heart, wanting to avoid any further pain of disappointment. At the heart of Pisces is belief and faith and a need to follow intuition and understand deeply the motivations of human nature and the universe. When Chiron is in Pisces, though, disillusionment or betrayal undermines your connection to the universe, making you cold and untrusting. Rather than turning your back on your beliefs, Chiron in Pisces compels you to realize that things happen for a reason. Once you realize that your suffering is not in vain, that losing your faith can actually enrich it, you open yourself (and your wound) up to the world and share what you have learned from your pain. Give your time to causes that nourish our faith in humanity and in higher purposes or to groups that reconnect us to either the spiritual or natural world.
Chiron
One of the most recently discovered heavenly bodies is a planetoid named Chiron. Although there are differences of opinion over the actual classification of this body (some claim it's a comet or an asteroid), its power is widely acknowledged. It was first sighted in 1977 on its trek between Saturn and Uranus.
The Planet was named after Chiron, the Centaur (see Sagittarius). In Greek Mythology, Chiron's mother was a water-nymph who, while trying to run from Zeus' amorous overtures, turned herself into a horse. She did not escape, however, and Zeus impregnated her. When she gave birth, she was shocked to see that her newborn was half horse, half boy. The mother was so terrified that she prayed to the gods to be changed into a tree. Her wish was granted. Thus, both of Chiron's parents abandoned him. Instead of dwelling on that, though, he became a skilled teacher and healer. One day, while he was handing a poisoned arrow to a student, it dropped and pierced his leg. Since his father was a god, he was immortal, so he could not die. In terrible pain, he prayed to the gods to let him die. They, in gratitude for his teachings, let him out of his misery and placed him in the sky.
Chiron is the wounded healer. This Planetoid is for everyone who, rather than giving in to despair amid their own suffering, reaches out so others will not have to experience the pain they've felt. Many people who have had a painful childhood grow up to be psychiatrists or therapists so that they can help other people get through the same things that hurt them. Parents who have lost children to drunk drivers go on to form support groups so that other parents know they are not alone. These people feel the influence of charitable Chiron. It can be healing for a person to help others cope with a pain that they themselves have lived through.