Kissing the Boo Boos better...

Today, at around 2.16pm PST, Chiron ends his retrograde period and goes Stationary Direct ready to continue on his normal maverick adventure through the zodiac cycle.

Chiron in traditional Astrology is the "wounded healer". I like to see him as the Wild Card - the part of our charts that remind us that we always have more to learn, and that if we have buttons to be pressed we have something still to be working on to move ahead and evolve, especially if we're defined by our shadows solely.

We each have pockets of darkness - that instantly begin to heal once we turn on the light and say 'oh yeah...that'.

This period is about opening up the wounds we think have healed. We peel back the band-aid (or someone else rips it off) and we get to see that perhaps it needed some air after all.

How often do we make wounds last longer for that simple fact, that they "needed some air"?

All healing begins when we look at the wound. Only then can we address is - and then dress it!

So look out for opportunities now to face the not-so-nice parts of life, the things that pull on your heartstrings, make you physically unwell. A famous actress, I forget who now, said "go into the painful parts, that's where the information is". By information she meant the truth of life, the 'stuff' we're all seeking, the treasure, the magic.

That comment always stuck with me. That we don't always get very far by avoiding the nasty stuff. Wounds weep, seep, pour, ooze, but the blood cells that create the nasty looking scab are our immune system's rescue device. Well-intentioned things often come in unhelpful and unappealing packages.

Chiron is the maverick, the mover and shaker, the one who has answers we may be too stubborn (since he's currently in Aquarius) and too detached (since Aquarius is an air sign) to notice or be open to.

Doors of sensitivity fly open this week, reminding us we still have those buttons to press, those hurting places. Pain is a signal that something is wrong, remember. So go with the hurt, follow it. As Chiron goes Direct again, pain leads us on a journey.

Chiron represents what we teach by proxy - what others get to see about us and learn from us, whether we stand on a lecture and preach and teach or not. We are teaching all the time - our way of life becomes an example, and we change the world by just living our own life, a day at a time. A lot of wisdom is pouring forth from everyone around us this week and will continue to - if we have ears to listen.

Are we defined by our buttons, our wounds and our ow-ies? If so, the biggest boo-boo is mistaking our misery for the final card. Chiron is the wild card - and the name of the game is not to make everything better, but to allow the chance to be human, and then to remember that we may be more than that - superhuman emotionally charged spirits who have the ability to heal, and teach our own humanity and journey, and share out own mythological story of how we are where we are today.

Giving ourselves a pat on the back for partaking in this physical human life is also this week's theme as Chiron moves forward once more. Life ain't always easy - especially these days! Phew. What a ride. Healing, though it may not seem like it, is already taking place - remember what we see transpiring on the physical level has already passed on the ethereal, astral and energetic level. The world turmoil and pain is the physical manifestation of a passing paradigm, just as personal pain, on the individual human level - the tears, the aches, the symptoms of stress, are all final markers that something is changing, something has already changed, has to change and that something will change.

Another quotation that comes to mind now from a wise mind (Chiron is sometimes referred to as the Zen Master, the guru, the mentor who appears bearing the wisdom we need JUST at the right moment) is: "Sometimes, the lesson isn't always to let something go, but to realize when it has already gone'. Profound and something I will no doubt be repeating as we move into Scorpio Season next month.

Chiron now says "Don't wear your wounds with pride - be proud you had the courage to be open and vulnerable enough that you got wounded to begin with, and then begin the process of seeing, feeling, acknowledging and releasing the causes of the wounds we have suffered, or inflicted." Forgiveness, (true forgiveness) starts form the inside out.

I always laugh now when I hear people talking in terms of 'fixing' situations, or people. Like the Dr Phil school of Tough Love. I guess I see it all differently from the path I walk, that we're not so much seeking to repair ourselves, but repair our connection to our Source, the self inside that never changed, the core of who we always have been (call it innocence, our soul, whatever you like) and to remove all obstacles (exterior or more hidden such as the interior ones such as damaging thought patterns and self-inflicted abuse) so that we may glimpse the eternal 'me' again.

We are wholes living in a fragmented illusionary world.

We so often buy into the fragments, believing them to be us. Why do so many of us enjoy and hold on tightly to our pain? Because it makes us feel ALIVE!

Finding a new way to ground out our lives without the need for suffering, is Chiron's question and answer now - as he moves through Aquarius, the sign of the Brother and Sisterhood of Humanity - earth's residents. Perhaps that's why again we're seeing yet even more TV series (Aquarius relates to broadcast media and our airwaves...as the symbol shows) where healing comes in groups - together we can regroup, rejoin and....remember our heritage and connections.

Remember......to "re-member" - to become (again) members of a Planetary and Cosmic Family.

A healing hug to all who read this!

Physician, heal thyself!

Love,
Neil