Living on your Chiron DC Line
I will have been in my Saskatchewan hometown for 24 years this December, and from an Astro-carto-graphical point of view, it’s instructive to not only google what your relevant planets means on their respective angle, but also look at what event brought you to your current city to begin with, as it can also help make sense of where you’re at in life.
According to my mom’s diary, on Dec. 16, 2000 after I was done my final exams at college in Manitoba my dad picked me up and drove me six hours to Regina. He had gotten a job here, and I accompanied him to help set up the townhouse for when the family arrived. My intention was to turn right back around after Christmas holidays and go back to apartment hunting in Winnipeg with my girlfriends, but I ended up staying in Regina for the next 24 years.
In Regina, I’m on my Chiron DC line, and my Chiron is in the 6th house. My dad and I actually have a crazy Chiron connection, which I’ll go into.
So I’m looking at what was happening with Chiron when my dad picked me up.
Chiron was transiting my second house in Sagittarius. It had just conjuncted my 4th house lord, Neptune (home and family), and had just been crossed over by my sun (father).
My dad got the job offer on Dec. 1 when Chiron was exactly on my Neptune, and on Dec. 5, he accepted the offer when transiting sun was transiting over Pluto. Planets transit over Pluto all the time, and it doesn’t always mean you’re about to go through a big transformation, but in this case, it was a big change for my dad, and because this was happening conjunct my fourth house lord, my family and myself.
Chiron as Wounded Healer
According to the ancient Greek legend, the immortal healer, Chiron was the son of Cronus (Saturn) who had taken the form of a horse and had mated with a water-nymph, Philyra. She gave birth to Chiron who was half-human, half-horse, but was so disgusted by the sight of him that she abandoned him. Luckily, baby Chiron was subsequently found by a god, Appolo, who taught him the magic arts, astrology, and how to heal wounds with herbs. Appolo’s twin sister, Artemis, taught him how to hunt with a bow and arrow. Chiron had intelligence and a friendly disposition, and is depicted by ancient artists with honor and civility.
One day, Chiron was attending a dinner event with Heracles and the vapours of some sacred wine escaped its vessel, intoxicating some wild centaurs who were outside the cave where they were eating. The drunk centaurs tried to invade the cave, so Heracles shot at them with poisoned arrows. Unfortunately, Chiron was hit by one of the arrows in the thigh. Being the son of a god, Chiron was immortal but he was unable to heal his own wound, and, after nine days of trying to heal himself with herbs, traded his immortality for relief from the pain. Therefore in astrology, wherever Chiron is in your chart is an area of life where you will be a “wounded healer”. That is, you will have special knowledge of a particular area that will enable you to heal others (or at least you’re try to heal them), but you will be unable to heal yourself in that area.
Inherited Chiron
As I mentioned, my dad and I have very sensitive Chiron placements. His North Node is conjunct my Chiron in the 6th house of employment, and his Chiron is on my Ascendant. I will not go into his employment journey, but it does appear that he unknowingly passed on some of his difficulties in employment to me, driving me to where I would end up living with Chiron in my 6th house of employment for most of my career. As his Chiron is on my Ascendant, I think I trigger some uncomfortable stuff in him so we don’t talk very often, but as his North Node is on my Chiron, whenever we do talk, he is always concerned about my employment journey and he offers me career advice.
Indeed- that would be his herb: career advice. Once when we were in high school, our dad was between jobs and wrote what ended up being a self-published workbook called, “The Career Warrior’s Journey”, which he dedicated to my siblings and I in the hopes that we’d all excel at great careers.
I never understood why my parents never helped me get set up in Winnipeg. My girlfriends and I wanted to get an apartment together as we were all finished or finishing our degrees, but we kept finding apartments that wanted us to sign a one-year lease. That would’ve involved getting jobs, and I had just finished my last class, so I was available to work. I had my lifeguard certification and had just graduated with a TESOL certificate, and could’ve found a job, but I was pretty airheaded for that age, and I guess my parents decided I’d never make it in Winnipeg. I remember them discouraging me for some reason. I must’ve given up pretty easily too, as we didn’t have the internet back then, and I don’t know how I would have found a job in Winnipeg without going there in person. What a sliding doors moment.
Anyway, having just dug into AstroCartography this year, I realized what a difficult line I’m living on. I’d say the healing aspect does make me interested in helping people find good careers with astrology; whenever I see a Reddit post where someone is asking to have their chart read for career, I jump at the chance. For some reason, I get those questions more than I do others topics, and I like answering them.
If you are on your Chiron DC line, I’d be curious what your experience is. Please send me a note or add a comment, and let me know how it’s affecting your career (if it’s in your 6th house) or relationship with others/marriage (if it’s in your 7th house).