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\"Chiron<\/a>Art borrowed from the New Moon Journal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>It\u2019s good to see Huffington Post carrying some serious astrology articles like this one (not that our friend Michael Lutin<\/a>, HuffPo\u2019s usual astrological source, isn\u2019t serious although he is quite entertaining).<\/p>\n

Astrologer Virginia Bell has a good article<\/a> on the Chiron Return as the turning point at age 50 (technically the Chiron Return occurs at age 51, but let\u2019s not quibble). \u00a0I particularly love this paragraph:<\/p>\n

At our Chiron Return we have the power to change our story and it is not unusual for our life to take off in a new direction. The period leading up to the Chiron Return, in our late forties, is significant as ideas, plans, and projects are seeded at this time. Located between the orbit of Saturn and Uranus, Chiron is frequently described as a bridge. Often a teacher or mentor appears at this time to act as a bridge or catalyst from one life to another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wrote about this on my Facebook page \u2013 the fact that the role of mentor is an aspect of Chiron that often gets lost when we think of him solely as the Wounded Healer. \u00a0I have found that it is not correct that Chiron\u2019s Wound doesn\u2019t heal \u2013 as we age, particularly as we age through the Chiron Return, the wounds CAN heal. \u00a0As the wounds heal, the energy that they hold are replaced by a wisdom that goes deep into the soul and at that point we may take on the role as teacher or mentor ourselves.<\/p>\n

Today is my birthday, and as many of you know I am in the middle of my Saturn Return right now which means that the Sun conjoins Saturn in the sky as it conjoins my own natal Sun\/Saturn conjunction, embedding the combination of the Sun and Saturn in my Solar Return chart. \u00a0This suggests there is a years of hard work and productivity ahead and that has certainly been the focus of my life for the past two weeks.<\/p>\n

Chiron serves as the bridge from the discipline and structure of Saturn to the transformational outer planets and assists in the healing and evolution of the soul. \u00a0It\u2019s great to see him getting some good press in the mainstream media! \u00a0Thanks to the Astrococktail <\/a>news service for the article link.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Art borrowed from the New Moon Journal.\u00a0It\u2019s good to see Huffington Post carrying some serious astrology articles like this one (not that our friend Michael Lutin, HuffPo\u2019s usual astrological source, isn\u2019t serious although he is quite entertaining). 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