I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself. And behold, then this ghost fled from me.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Having spent years wailing and fighting, surrendering and accepting, the matrix is already rippling with your healing. In 2010/11 when our greatest cosmic teacher moved into Pisces, we were forced into deeper water and given little choice but to begin our life's greatest education. Today we graduate from Chiron University, with our sights on dancing post grad horizons.

The anatomy of our wounding makes us want to look away. We seek to put the greatest distance between us and what happened. When Chiron moved into Pisces we were in danger of drowning in our victimhood or giving up altogether. But instead of a feeble cry or a plaintive matrydom, we realised no one else was going to haul us out of the soup and into the world.

As I am so fond of banging on about, Chiron is built on our overbloodycoming. Chiron as centaur is more than his wound or his pain. He learns how to care for it and in so doing becomes a master healer and teacher. His injured self becomes his immortal offering to the world. This myth is too our template.

So it was never about who or what knocked you flat. The learning was found in how you got back to your feet. It isn't who did what or why or when. How you took responsibility for what was going on inside you and integrated the experience will be scribed into your book of life.

You are not a victim. You are a warrior. You are not broken. Your shattered parts have taken a new shape and knit themselves more strongly together. You have fought every step of the way to get your head above water. You have learned how to wade in the shallows and how to navigate the depths. Bold and strong, you are no longer afraid of your dark.

As Chiron moves into Aries, restarting a cycle longer than our mere mortal coil, remind yourself of how you have been forged these past eight years or more. Gently trace your scars, the marks that prove your healing. They contain the mighty spirit that conquered and claimed her place in the pantheon. Sing your hymn to her.

Untoubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be; she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
~ also Nietzsche


Words c. Kerrie Basha, 2019