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Okay dears, the time has come to talk about Chiron ⚷. This episode is a DEEP DIVE into a very important ingress that is often overlooked, which is the very real tenderness of Chiron’s movements across the sky. Last Friday June 19th, Chiron entered Taurus. This is as big a movement as Uranus, Jupiter, or Saturn’s ingresses, especially because Chiron has spent the last 7 years in Aries.
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In my experience, there is something undeniable about Chiron’s presence and impact on the collective soul. The wounded healer brings our attention to the wound that lives within all of us, which is of course the thing that connects all of us. Faced with our own humanity, we must look at the inextricable interconnectedness of our suffering. Only here can the light actually begin to break through, so we may know what it means to live beyond our identification with these wounds.
This is not about ‘transcending’ our pain, nor diving head first into the wound as some masochistic impulse to get it over with. This is the gentle hand of some force that loves us, something that wants us to grow. It is the silent voice that says “here, look — inside of your suffering you will find a key that opens the heart of all things”. It is tender, vulnerable work. It has the power to bring us to our knees.
For the past 7 years, Chiron has been tracing the contours of a collective wound around individualism, sovereignty, and boundaries. How to assert ourselves without perpetuating systems of harm? How to find our voice in the face of oppression? How to stand our ground when the powers that be seek to smother any ounce of agency we can muster?
This territory of Aries has brought the martial nature of our wounding to the surface. It has asked us to face the cost of hyper-individualism, and the violence it perpetuates through supremacist patterning.
The question remains; how do we maintain our sovereignty while staying in relationship?
And so, as Chiron enters Taurus, we are invited to open into a deeper layer of tenderness in regards to our relationship to resources, security, needs, and the Land itself. To restore our systems of care into one that mirrors the natural intelligence of an ecosystem, rather than a pyramid scheme.
If I had to predict (and perhaps pray) for the specific way Chiron will get at our collective wounding around resources, it will bring commanding attention to the severe unequal distribution of resources worldwide, that by its very nature is not sustainable. It will ask us to reckon with the literal cost of our divergence from circular systems, and challenge our current economic model to recalibrate itself accordingly. Again, this is my prayer.
But this does not only apply to the ‘human’ economy. This extends, and truly originates, in our relationship to the Land itself. As I see it, human supremacy (the belief that our species is more intelligent than, and thus more valuable than, all other forms of life) is at the root of all other forms of supremacist patterning that express through racism, sexism, classism, bigotry + misogyny. Economic supremacy and the wielding of power through unequal distribution of resources is how all of these other forms of cultural harm get carried out.
And so — How do we determine what is valuable? To be more direct; WHO determines what kind of bodies are valuable of respect, humanity, and care?
The answer to the above asks for a direct examination of the patriarchal machinations of the overculture, that orient our collective value systems in service to capitalism. Enter Chiron, bringing our awareness to where the collective body is bleeding out, just as the Land is carved + pillaged for the extraction of resources. It is all interconnected.
One thing I yap more about in this episode, in addition to all of the above — is the psychological nature of Scarcity. Behaviors of Greed + Hoarding often do not equate to how much a person does or doesn’t have, by way of getting their needs met. Some of the richest billionaires function from severe scarcity, lending to the hoarding of resources we see widespread today. Scarcity is a sign of being out of relationship with the larger agreements we have to one another, to distribute our shared resources accordingly. This greed and hoarding is a Rupture of the sacred contract we have to one another, and to all of life. It is the divergence from the ecosystem that creates this kind of psychological vacuum; a hungry ghost that can never be satiated.
So what is the antidote? Relationality. When we are truly in relationship with something, it makes it much more difficult to extract or devalue its personhood. This goes for our relationship to anything; the Land, the spirits, ourselves, and one another. As my friend Skyler so clearly puts it; to orient to the Others around us as Relatives, rather than Resources.
And so, as Chiron begins to move through this Venusian territory of Taurus, the invitation is to pay close attention to the ways you fall in + out of relationship with the world around you. To bring gentle awareness to our collective conditioning around individualism, that lends itself to other forms of supremacist patterning.
In order to unravel this paradigm and begin to tend this wound, we must take needle + thread to the tapestry of our relational field, and begin to mend.
