Welcome to Chiron Retrograde. A space of compassion, alchemy, inner medicine and self-healing. It is a journey into our underworld filled with awareness, re-framing, re-orienting, and re-creating our relationship with what it means to heal in its broadest sense.
When is Chiron Retrograde 2024?
Known astronomically as an asteroid, comet, and centaur, Chiron begins its annual retrograde on July 26 2024 until December 29, 2024 in the first zodiac sign of Aries, where it has been since 2018.
Retrograde Medicine
Retrograde planets remind us just how important and defining our perspective is. The lens we look through shapes and colours what we see. The stories that live within us frame and define our understanding of ourselves and of reality. Our outlook determines our living.
When a planet is in retrograde, it is moving backwards only from our perspective here on the Earth. If we were to look up in the night sky we would observe Chiron quite literally turning around and walking where it has just come from, re-tracing its steps. Zoom out into the cosmos however, and you will find that all movement is flowing as usual, with no planets moving in a backwards transit.
Out there, retrogrades don’t exist. Down here, they are very real. Retrogrades are the medicine of perspective.
Just like retrogrades themself are perspective based, they invite us to open to a new way of seeing, shifting our perspective as we turn around and begin re-tracing our steps.
Chiron Astrology
In the world of Astrology, Chiron is often referred to by two different names.
The first and perhaps most common being ‘The Wounded Healer’. A healer for his community, yet unable to heal his own hurts.
The second is the ‘Rainbow Bridge’. A doorway and guide connecting the spiritual and material world, opening us to higher and vaster perspectives and energies to them bring them into our everyday human realities. A name born from Chiron’s orbit weaving between Saturn (material) and Uranus (spiritual) in our cosmos.
Mythologically, he was a medicine man, healer, teacher, shaman, and alchemist. Deeply attuned to the natural world and Universal law, he spent his life learning from and working with both the medicine of the Earth and the medicine of the Soul. Yet none of this was available to him until after a life changing event – an accidental poisoned arrow that left him wounded for the remainder of his life.
Chiron’s wisdom is much like the wisdom of Kintsugi, the Japanese philosophy and art of repairing broken pottery with gold, creating something perhaps even more beautiful than before. Our experiences make us who we are. Each one of them an invitation to open our hearts wider, uncover more of what lives within us, let in more light, cultivate compassion, and anchor deeper into this short yet wildly beautiful human journey of ours.
Chiron Retrograde in Aries
In Ancient Astrology, when a planet was in retrograde it was entering the underworld – free from the usual point of views, narratives, understandings, and frameworks, it could now begin gathering deep wisdom, insights, and perspectives that exist outside of the usual path taken.
While Chiron is retrograde, it invites us into the alchemy of a retrograde perspective. We are entering our own underworld – a space existing outside of external noise, understanding, usual ways of thinking, perceiving and labelling.
Down here we get to meet the parts of ourselves that have been gathering through our many experiences. The experiences that hurt us. The experiences that cracked us open. The experiences that we hardened our hearts in response to. The experiences that we simply didn’t know how, or have the capacity to, tend to when they happened.
And we get to do so from the Chironic perspective. The knowing that within each of these experiences lives a doorway into more of ourselves, more of life, more medicine, compassion, and strength and heart. We get to shift our perspective and remember the beauty of Kintsugi – the bowl becomes who it is through its golden scars. And we get to remember that we are our own medicine, alchemist, and healer – innate as who we are, yet opened and activated by the experiences of our life.
Chiron in Aries is bringing our own healing, acceptance, wisdom, medicine, and perspective shifting to our identity, autonomy, independence, confidence, courage, self-esteem, and relationship to desire throughout this retrograde.
Chiron Retrograde 2024 Horoscopes for each Zodiac Sign
As Chiron transits throughout Aries in its backward spin, it simultaneously retrogrades through the section of our Astrology Chart that Aries lives within – whispering specific themes and invitations for each of us.
By looking to our Rising sign, we can begin to observe where Chiron travels in our chart, uncovering these themes and invitations.
Aries Rising
Chiron Retrograde reminds you that the medicine was within you all along, Aries Rising. Or perhaps more accurately – that you are the medicine that you need. By bringing presence, acceptance, and a new perspective of what it means to be whole into all that lives within, you may just create yourself anew.
Taurus Rising
Chiron is a bridge builder, known as the doorway between the spiritual and the human. While in retrograde, you might just discover a new doorway calling your name. It is a doorway into the spiritual, deepening your connection to the sacred, rebuilding your relationship with the divine, and offering the kind of healing that can only come from re-entering the sacred waters from which we are all One.
Gemini Rising
Chiron retrograde holds a mirror to the medicine within you, Gemini Rising. Medicine for yourself which when claimed, becomes medicine for all. Like Chiron’s mythological journey, it is an invitation to step into the role of healer, observing how each of your experiences and the gold you have gleaned from them are your very offerings to the world.
Cancer Rising
There are deep dreams that you are here to create, Cancer Rising. There are pathways and worlds that you are here to build and there is beauty and healing that you are here to add to the world. Chiron retrograde is a mirror to the medicine that lives within you – the beauty and healing innate to who you are, and the way your dreams and visions could only come through you.
Leo Rising
Chiron retrograde invites a retracing of your journey, Leo Rising, for as we retrace, we discover much wisdom waiting from this new vantage point. Wisdom that when opened to, has the potential to vastly shift our relationship with life, meaning, wisdom, and belonging. Chiron Retrograde is a space of faith building, trust healing, and meaning making.
Virgo Rising
Intimacy, vulnerability, and truth with yourself always offers medicine, Virgo Rising, and this time is no different – only amplified. Throughout these next five months, there is deep healing, wisdom, beauty, and strength found in being truthful with yourself and all that lives within you, and in offering yourself space, intimacy, vulnerability, and presence with what calls your name from within.
Libra Rising
It’s a retrograde of the heart, Libra Rising. A journey into all that lives within your heart, hurt and open, so that we may remember the medicine of love. A retracing of all experiences that opened your heart, closed your heart, hurt your heart, and cracked your heart open – so that we may begin applying your own Kintsugi gold and return to the channel of love that you are.
Scorpio Rising
There is medicine within small steps, Scorpio Rising. Within repetition, continued practice, habit, ritual, and steps taken each day. These next five months are an invitation to devote to yourself each day. To your wellbeing, your health, your heart, your presence. To your joy, courage, meaning, and desires. To your softness and to your passion. Small steps when continued, take us far.
Sagittarius
Life itself is an expression of the Divine, Sagittarius Rising, a creation of the Sacred. Chiron Retrograde is an invitation to remember yourself as the same. It is an invitation to remember yourself as a channel for this sacred energy, here to express, create, live and explore with this energy moving through you. Through presence, acceptance, and perspective-shifting, may you return to this way of being.
Capricorn
Chiron is a doorway between the spiritual and the human, Capricorn Rising. And for the last six years, Chiron has been cracking open the foundations of who you are, so that you remember yourself as this doorway, too. This retrograde invites you deep within, travelling with you down into your roots, formative years, and earlier memories. For there is medicine here awaiting you.
Aquarius Rising
To open the mind to vaster wisdom, understanding, truth, and alternative perspective is courageous, Aquarius Rising – and holds within it vast offerings. To share one’s perspective is medicine, bridging the self and the other and healing together. This retrograde, invite your mind to open, remember your voice as medicine, and observe the healing in sharing ideas and thoughts with one another.
Pisces Rising
Belonging, safety, worthiness, and self-love are your medicine throughout this retrograde, Pisces Rising. To hold up a mirror and remind yourself through your presence, love, care, and actions, that you are worthy – of yourself, your desires, safety, beauty, and all that calls your name and lives in your heart for this life of yours.
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Thank you. This was a beautiful reading.