I have Chiron at 5N31 declination in 7th house parallel Asc [5N02] in Virgo. Very much like a conjunction. (At 8°02 Aries Chiron is also square Moon 11°43' Capricorn and Uranus 5°32' Libra.)The challenge of Chiron aspects is the same as any other perceived as challenging or having some drawbacks: to go from 'it is doing this to me' to 'this is what I am doing with it'.
However, it does not have the importance of planets or planetary aspects. All the 7 traditional planets are more influential than any asteroid, and I believe the outer three trans-personals are as well.
Notice where various astrologers place the emphasis. Chiron in the mythology is the wounded healer. The verb, the action there is Healer. If we stay stuck in the wounded part we are staying stuck in the past in which we can convince self that this is what has been and is being done to me, that it is somehow my fate. Do that and you never get to the healing -- the doing.
There are no entirely good or bad placements. There are patterns and tendencies, and every placement in the birth chart is just a starting place describing past patterns obscured from view by amnesia or belief. There are no placements that singly or in aggregate prescribe for us bad health or unhappiness.
I could describe for you my physical shortcomings, but I chose this body as an appropriate vehicle. What is important is that I have had health issues that have allowed me to access the genuine desire to help others heal. This is the purpose of Chiron aspects and placements that challenge us, not pain. Pain or woundedness is not the purpose or the destiny of Chiron, no matter how it is spoken of here or in print.
The challenge is always to transmute the negative into positive for self and others. Read the mythology. Look at all the things Chiron did -- a very multi-talented character in touch with both the soul and body natures, a picture of balance of the two. Healer, teacher, tutor, involved in many of the natural arts.
I'm 48. I've had health issues most of my life. Even now I have an odd exhaustion in my knees, weakness, soreness that makes no sense to modern medicine. This is just another example of the many conditions that have pushed me to learn natural medicine (TCM, herbs, homeopathy) so that I can treat myself and go on living. I take what I've learned and help others.
If you are a genuine Chironic person (actually have the aspect to your correct Asc) you are a healer whether you know it or not. Coming to that realization and the compassion it grows in you for others -- those are the only things that matter.
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"Drift like a cloud and flow like water, seeing that all life is a magnificent illusion, a playing of energy, and there is absolutely nothing fundamentally to be afraid of." -- Alan Watts
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