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By Len Wallick
Nobody told me there’s be days like these / strange days indeed”
— John Lennon
Tomorrow, Chiron enters Pisces direct just before 3 pm ET. It will remain in that sign until 2018. If history and synchronicity have anything to say about it, it will be a big deal. That does not mean you should hide under the bed. To paraphrase the late astrologer Al H. Morrison, the events associated with this Centaur planet may be inconvenient, but ultimately they are beneficial. The purpose of today’s blog is to make Chiron less of a stranger.
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Chiron was controversial and compelling from the very beginning. The photographic plate on which it was discovered was exposed on October 18, 1977. The astronomer Charles T. Kowal identified it on November 1, 1977. The public announcement came three days later. For the latter two dates, there is no commonly agreed time. To this day there is some controversy over what data to use in constructing the natal chart. There is some inconvenience for you.
It was Mr. Kowal who referred to Chiron as a maverick. It was difficult to identify, especially back in the 1970s when there were fewer known objects to which it could be compared. It is of indeterminate composition, bearing resemblance to both comet and asteroid. It has a highly elliptical orbit which translates into a widely varying apparent speed of motion around the zodiac. When it is in Virgo and Libra it moves through in about a year and a half, faster than Saturn. In Pisces and Aries it moves through in eight and nine years, respectively, slower than Uranus.
We do know that Chiron completes one orbit around the Sun in just under 51 years. In the process of doing so, it crosses the orbit of Saturn into the area between the Ringed One and Uranus. The astrological identity of Chiron thus fluctuates between that of the trans- personal (Jupiter and Saturn) and the historical (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto). Temporally this centaur is leaning decidedly towards the latter three planets, although its spatial placement in a sign ruled by Jupiter retains a link to the former two.