Chiron at Aries 1

Chiron’s Miraculous Journey Begins

Chiron is starting its cycle of 51 years, entering Aries on February 18th; symbolising awakening. It leads us to change our experience of events by changing how we see things – and this shift of awareness is part of our spiritual emergence into higher states of consciousness.

Ageing Hippies

It was noticed for the first time in 1977 and this discovery signalled the start of a new age for human consciousness. Those of us affectionately known as ageing hippies remember this time from 1968 to 1976, when it transited Aries.

One small step for man...

We had integrated the juddering shock of rock and roll, The Rolling Stones, Nobel-Laureate-to-be Bobby Dylan, and the Fab Four, and were now dressed in outrageously bright and loose clothing, in open rebellion against suits, parents and convention generally. Also we were, for the first time ever, wielding unimagined power as young spenders.

​This was already massively powerful; yet Chiron entering Aries kindled some events that grew into so very much more than they seemed at the time. These included “One small step for man and a great step for mankind”; Jumbo jets; the incorporation of both IT-giants-to-be…Apple and Microsoft; electronic music; anti-Vietnam marches, Luther King’s shameful murder, and the West experiencing unheard-of riots.

A New Age

Looking deeper into these apparently unconnected occurrences, we might spot the commonality – people were waking up to another level of life, another reality.

Jumbos brought tourism, and so reduced the xenophobic paranoia that white people generally had towards foreigners, especially dark-skinned ones; space exploration brought an iconic vision of Planet Earth as an unprotected little ball in a limitlessness expanse of space, which prompted much more awareness of environmental science and ecosystems. The High-Tech age came with its laptops, The Web, Facebook and cell phones – which until that point were just silly science-fiction toys.

Sex, Drugs...

And the rebellion inherent within “sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll” forced everyone, including politicians, to become a little less reactive, more tolerant and open to minority groups. However bad it may still be today it was so much worse then.

Rainbow Bridge

Known mainly as the ‘wounded healer’, Chiron is also termed the ‘Rainbow Bridge’ since its unprejudiced attitude tolerates all rainbow colours, and its capacity to modify perception bridges the division among those of differing opinions and ways. Only when we see things from another person’s perspective will we know how to walk the road to peace and harmony. Looking for a different viewpoint is the path for all seekers today.

Marc Edmund Jones

Jones describes Aries 1 as follows:  ‘A woman rises out of the water; a seal rises and embraces her’.
We can easily see that the ocean is a familiar metaphor for the instinctive, intuitive knowledge and actions of our species. From this unconscious state ideas arise like the waves of the sea. Equally our every utterance could have a knock-on effect, word upon word, light upon light, which might lead to lasting changes. But most initiatives fail, almost none live on, and we simply do not know until time passes which ones might persist and have any consequence.

Learn to Listen

Yet there are some creative possibilities, many not well-formed nor lucidly explained. They may be vague feelings not even real thought.
If we want to support such nascent imaginings, we may need to improve our listening – to our own inner voice as well as the vaguely described feelings of a friend. We can also encourage children’s silly ideas – they are freer from judgement and outworn old standards.

This is the beginning...

It must be obvious that we will have solved our concerns to do with population, global warming and the abuse of Mother Nature by 2070, or we’ll have suffered a hefty price for failing to do so. Chiron’s teachings offer the safe and clear bridge to that future time. Astrologers might look back to this very year when we discovered the first glimpses of a way out of the bewilderment and misrepresentations that presently shadow our understandings.

Being Aware

So, between 18 February and 8 March, look out for a very subtle new direction unfolding, so subtle that its lasting repercussions may be obscure. If you’ve felt you were waiting for something – that exceptional person or opportunity – then it is now time to be really expectant, and imagine this can and will occur. We should manage each new circumstance with a hopeful attitude, and broaden our view of what exists in the realm of possibility.

Miracle and Magic

Chiron represents miracle and magic, the unworldly world of fantasy and imagination, and in this realm faith is a requirement. For those of us who have the faith, miracles are what to faithfully expect when there is a situation where only a miracle will work.