The Chiron Myth
I have spent the morning deeply enmeshed in the myth of Chiron, the centaur born of a tryst between a god (Saturn) and a nymph (Uranus) who has become our archetype for healing and the learning required to do it.Abandoned by his mother, raised and schooled by Artemis and Apollo, Chiron was the greatest of the centaurs and a renowned teacher. This etching by Zombini (1758) is from a series depicting Chiron's education of Achilles in the arts of magic, music, geography, alchemy and herbalism among others. Here he holds a boiling serpent with tongs above the cauldron, so too must we alchemise the poison of our own wounds and craft them into the medicine we seek.The often skipped aspect of Chiron - as we wear our damage like brooches we refuse to take off - is his ascendancy. He isn't perpetually wounded and bleeding in agony. He isn't cursing and wailing and blaming the accidental arrow. He instead embodies the paradigm for healing and the transformation that is its blessed bedfellow. Beyond his greatest learnings and teachings, Chiron sacrifices immortality to relieve his poison pain and is liberated, elevated, taking his rightful position in the stars. Here he becomes the bridge between Saturn (structure, time, hard work, doing it right) and Uranus (revolution, fresh eyes, new approaches).Chiron turns retrograde today at the most mystical end of the zodiac in Pisces, our ultimate astrological destination if you will. Chiron's glyph looks like the key it is: ⚷ unlocking the door to the Self, our healing and reconciliation, the treasure we discover in the heart of our greatest pain, to then share with our universe. Tis time to work with your poison to craft the medicine our world so sorely needs. And like the greatest physicians, first we must heal thyself.Start where you find yourself now. 
🔭Just like moons and like suns,With the certainty of tides,Just like hopes springing highStill I riseOut of the huts of history’s shameI riseUp from a past that’s rooted in painI rise~ Maya AngelouOr listen to the beautiful Ben Harper version here https://youtu.be/