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<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\nThe Sabian symbol of this degree is “The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,” which symbolizes the link between the mundane and the celestial order. This degree was given a touch of literary immortality in the title of Barbara Hand Clow’s book about Chiron, which has the subtitle “Rainbow bridge between the inner and outer planets.”<\/p>\n
In 1977, Chiron was given the minor planet number 2060. Today the catalogue goes up to about 150,000 or so. That is a lot of discoveries in 32 years, particularly considering that the first one, Ceres, was discovered in 1801. So for the first 176 years there were 2060 asteroids and minor planets discovered, of which Chiron was by far the strangest; and between 1977 and today, we actually know of well over 200,000 — orbiting our own Sun — if you include the ones that have not been given permanent catalog numbers.<\/p>\n
This being said, Chiron remains the one to watch if you want to understand how a small planet works. As Barbara, one of my old teachers, mentions in her book, Chiron provides a connecting point between the difficult to grasp energy of the outer planets, and the easier to understand but generally less meaningful energy of the inner planets. Out in the middle are Jupiter and Saturn (and a heck of a lot of new centaurs), and these two are what were called (starting in the 70s) the transpersonal planets, because they give us components in the psychological model known as astrology that help us bridge the inner world with the collective world.<\/p>\n
Where Chiron fits in is giving all the planets, from Jupiter out through Pluto, a way we can observe, see and use them; or use them in different ways than we learned in the past. For example, Chiron gives us a way to go through the at times solid barrier of Saturn, and to use its structuring power to create a boundary. It can help us ground the energy of Uranus, which often feels too strange to grasp. It can lighten the energy of Pluto and make it useful, whereas otherwise it might just feel relentless.<\/p>\n
The aspect we are in now is a triple conjunction between Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune. This is really three different conjunctions (Jupiter-Chiron, Chiron-Neptune, Jupiter-Neptune) and with all conjunctions it helps spending some time sorting out the energies involved. I will skip that exercise for now, and point out again that Chiron is focusing and helping us penetrate the veil of what has been an extremely challenging transit — Neptune in Aquarius.<\/p>\n
It is difficult to see mass delusion because so many people are zonked out on the same lies, the same trends, the same fundamentally warped values. It is difficult to see through the thick fog of not knowing whether something happened inside a video game or whether it happened in reality. It can be done, however, and Chiron is here to gently show us what the problem is; what the addictive pattern is; what the thing we believe because everyone else believes it is.<\/p>\n
This will call on some of us to make decisions about what exactly we’re going to do. Let’s not wait for 2012. I will say that I am seeing a lot fewer people stand there like deer in headlights as the necessity to participate in their own life comes at them. That is a violent metaphor, but to witness so many intelligent, soulful people stare hypnotized into oncoming lights has been distressing. Confusion may be an excuse, but it’s not a particularly good one. Con-fuse means to take apart; and what Chiron is helping us focus and reassemble is the sensitive nature of our psychic awareness, our perception and our ability to focus and apply wisdom. Not a day too soon, of course, and we can see signs of it many places, if we look…yet what we may soon be asking Chiron is what to do if most of us wake up too late.<\/p>\n
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