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<\/dt>\nThe world needs healers right now. Nearly every one of us could use some healing as well. Yet we live at a time when few are inclined to act, even when need is evident. The wounded will to act is an inner wound. Perhaps that is where healing should begin.<\/p>\n
Square aspects imply an inner wound that can be healed by taking an action, such as telling the truth. Think of a time when simply telling the truth lifted a great burden of tension and you will have found an example of how squares work in your life. On a zodiac circle, squares take place when two or more objects occupy the same degree of different signs that share the same quality. The qualities are three: cardinal, fixed and mutable. What the qualities mean is best illuminated by the Sun.<\/p>\n
When the Sun enters a cardinal sign, a new season begins, however subtly. With solar ingress to a fixed quality, the ambient season has gathered enough momentum to make its identity clearly evident. Finally, the Sun on mutable turf brings hints of a new solar personality in development. All the other objects and points used by astrologers emulate the Sun and proceed through symbolic seasons of their own. Hence, when two or more objects view each other from the same phase of different seasons, they see eye-to-eye regarding matters of quality but contrast in their elemental character. <\/p>\n
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What Jupiter and Chiron currently have in common is their expression through mutable quality, which means their respective energies are both on the threshold of a new manifestation. Where Jupiter and Chiron currently differ is in the stage of their development.<\/p>\n
Because Jupiter has been visible to the unaided eye for all of human existence, its expression is familiar and straightforward. Most fundamentally, Jupiter is expansion and inclusion. When you open your arms and take someone in, either literally (as with a hug) or figuratively (as with a welcome guest) that’s Jupiter working through you. <\/p>\n
Similarly, ingesting or creating a place for something to be is Jovian action. Jupiter’s manifestation is not limited to the spatial or tangible. When a sense of awe opens your consciousness to the abundance of time, or when your mind dwells in an awareness of possibility, you are also working with Jupiter. Only two months into the mutable quality and airy element of Gemini, Jupiter is a fledgling, just beginning to spread its wings on the threshold of flight.<\/p>\n
We are not as well acquainted with Chiron’s archetype, yet it is more sophisticated and complex than Jupiter in its presentation. When it was first observed in 1977, Chiron’s\u00a0characteristics were unlike any other solar system object known up to that point. That’s how Charles Kowal, the astronomer who discovered Chiron, referred to it as “a maverick.” As it turns out, Chiron was just first of many objects that required astronomers to revise their classifications and methods. Perhaps that is how the maverick astrologer, Al Morrison, sensing a kindred spirit, referred to Chiron as “the inconvenient benefic.” While the implicit inconvenience of Chiron originates in astronomy, the assumption of Chiron’s benevolence is rooted in the mythology of its name.<\/p>\n
In the Greco-Roman mythology that underlies so much of Western Civilization, centaurs were a hybrid of human and beast. The origin of centaurs was ascribed to misadventure. Their nature was usually misanthropic, but there were exceptions. Chiron was the most notable case of a centaur that people could trust and identify with, precisely because he was a benevolent being, a teacher and healer. <\/p>\n
Another way that Chiron did not conform to the rule is that he was immortal. For a benevolent immortal to suffer an incurable wound, as Chiron did, elicits sympathy. Yet, to describe Chiron’s role in astrology as symbolizing a ‘wounded healer’ is to place too much stock in the mythology. It would be like calling Albert Schweitzer a benevolent physician, ignoring the holistic complexity.<\/p>\n
The consideration of holistic complexity is essential to Chiron. Its role in astrology must necessarily incorporate the serendipitous name, its place in history, and the features of its discovery chart into a systematic whole that forms an interconnected and interdependent system. Chiron is the equivalent of a symphony orchestra, where the ideal symbolism of the composer’s written score is manifested by humans working in concert under a conductor who must track both the ideal and the manifestation in real time. It’s an inconvenient process. It’s also a dynamic system with the potential to transcend its parts to perfection, finding unlikely distinction through its most imperfect part. Pisces buoys all of the parts of Chiron’s systemic pattern to their highest level.<\/p>\n
The mutable waters of Pisces are deep and wide and beyond ken, yet its ultimate nature is as simple as speaking your truth. As a rule, when a planet’s energy dissolves into Pisces apparel, it is not lost, but becomes simultaneously unfathomable and unmistakable in your life. Every half century or so, Chiron finds both empathy and amplification during its Pisces tenure. During those periods, human beings emerge prominently, yet subtly, as avatars in the original sense of the word, demonstrating immortal attributes and a proficiency for healing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An unlikely waif named Louis Armstrong took up music while Chiron navigated Pisces nearly 100 years ago. In doing so, he not only rescued himself from a life of misadventure, he very possibly saved the world with inspiration that transcended his art form, and a breadth of influence that surfaced from the depths as both theory and practice in disciplines beyond art. During Chiron’s most recent previous swim through mutable waters, The Beatles motivated a crucial quota of people to put flowers into gun barrels, rather than taking up guns, by giving voice to the simple truth of love. Now, over two years after Chiron’s return to Pisces some are looking for the next avatar even as the divine stirs within all beings.<\/p>\n
Fear and worry separate us from the immortal. Hate and avarice divide us from the divine. Humanity has reached a threshold where avatars no longer emerge to close the abyss and heal the wounded will to act. Now, we each must do that work, starting within, in order to cultivate our true humanity and recover the capacity to do the same work in community. You cannot rely on somebody else to act until you are willing to do so, and to inspire others by your example. That’s what the coming series of Jupiter-Chiron squares means for you. Healing your will to act, then acting to heal others.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the elemental sense, Jupiter and Chiron are currently at odds. Air and water do not join to promote stability, but they do present a unique horizon. Where air meets water, the sky expands to infinite possibility. That’s Jupiter expressing through Gemini. Where water meets air, the depths of love and truth rise to the sky, without separation, seamless and whole for as far as the eyes can see. That’s Chiron in Pisces. The same horizon exists with you. <\/p>\n
You know that we do not live in stable times. You can feel the anxious need to spread your wings, just as you can feel the tension of an emerging maturity. It’s like being young and old at the same time. It’s a weighty dilemma, but the weight can be lifted if you act as though both your fledgling and your avatar are on the same threshold. If you focus your will on the threshold and act to go through it, the weight will be lifted. On the other side is acting to both speak and be the same truth at the same time. You can start by simply telling the truth to yourself; open to healing whatever is holding you back.<\/p>\n
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