CHIRON , 2012 AND THE REBIRTH OF THE SOUL.

I love sinchronicity, random coincidences and those moments of serendipity that are at once both pleasant and mind blowing as we observe the sign posts of life that encourage us to keep going as we might just be on the right path.

It was such a moment that I discovered Chiron. His energy had been emerging in my life in numerous ways. The name Chiron had appeared in magazine articles, conversations, recommended book titles and an astrology chart that showed his true nature as he hovered through my houses at a time of a diagnosis for breast cancer; all of these sign posts happened within space of a few weeks.

Intrigued, I began to ponder as to the relevance of such an astrological & mythical character, the inspiration I received procured a profound light bulb moment.

I am not an astrologer, so when I was informed that Chiron and Neptune are in Pisces until 2018, I have to take the word of the authors of the ephemeris at face value.
However, I understood that what was happening to me and the relevance of the presence of Chiron in my chart could also be happening on a global level.

Chiron is called the wounded healer as he was injured by an arrow that carried poison, Hydra's blood. Chiron, being an immortal, couldn't die so he roamed eternity looking for relief. ( He eventually did a deal with Prometheus which ended the cycle of torment!!) Because of this search, Chiron learnt a lot about the healing arts, he became healer and teacher to Achilles, Jason, Asclepius and Peleus.
The presence of Chiron suggests that we are also searching for relief from our persistent wounds.

Much has been said about 2012 and the evolution of consciousness. It begs the question what does that mean and how is it happening? I think that the influence of Chiron at this present time suggests that it is both a zeitgeist and an inevitability that we are exploring all that is not well with us and the planet. The crises that we find ourselves in personally and globally are possible vehicles for transformation.

By being alive now, we have signed up to experience this shift at this most auspicious time in history. Auspicious because we are clearing up history. We are opting to face the challenges of this time as we are capable of seeing the imbalances that have been created.
Never before in history has everyone, no matter their walk in life, had so much access to spiritual information and also the encouragement to act upon that information. We are learning that everything is truly energy.

As we spiral further into 2012 we are becoming increasingly aware of the disfunctional and dystopic. In a sense this has to happen. That gaping wound in the psyche is yearning to be healed. All that drives us into our own disfunction, all that we harbour in the unconscious that is painful and sad will float to the surface. Our every action and reaction will be to serve this wound until we equip ourselves spiritually, mentally and physically, so that we can seal this wound once and for all; by so doing we have taken a giant step on an evolutionary path that will promote wisdom through experience.

Understanding the nature of our wounding is paramount to our healing process. We can trace our dis-ease back, even to our ancestry, be it personal or cultural. The cycles, decisions and actions that lay buried in the layers of experience whose voices implore us on a daily basis to bring salve to the soul by recognising the hurts within.
By understanding we can forgive, by forgiveness we can let go, by letting go, we move on.

Corporeal intelligence will play a part in our growth. We live in societies that encourage self loathing and angst makes us to want. The body's wisdom is dismissed as we were and are conditioned to perceive nature as outside of our self...
Dis-ease is on the increase. Evolution gone awry. We subliminally punish the body for imprisoning the spirit. We see the place of matter, we can even relate it to ourselves but it's relativity to spirit....spirit is something ethnic, something that does not belong to us.
Our personal drive, the desire to function effectively becomes distorted, we cannot be on the path towards the Great Spirit as our tortured mind and bodies get in the way....consequently we believe that any kind of recognition of the divine within is for the wholesome, healthy and undiusturbed, all of these factors do not really exist......truth is we are all disturbed, in some form or another.
Psychic instincts create psychic events; the unfolding of our internal landscape to become that which shapes the exoteric.

Seperation is the deepest of wounds. I think all of us on some level experience this seperation, especially from the divine, psychologically and spiritually. By repairing this rift we become closer to source and the true journey of transformation begins. The end result being our splintered self  re-unites with our divine self in a very real and tangible sense.

Chiron tells us that to cure the body (ours and the earth's) we need to heal the soul. We are all karmically linked together and also karmically linked to the planet. Whatever we do to ourselves we do to the great mother and visa versa.
I believe that our journey here is one of the transpersonal, we are moving towards the higher self, cleaving a path from the lower ego, the nafs amara to the realms of quds or spirit. We are here to heal.
Chiron on one level shows us our ability to gather pain, enhancing every scar but also illuminates the conditions in which we can heal and be healed.

One could say that journeying with Chiron is part of the individuation process. At the same time we become aware of  what is good for us and we take personal responsibility for it. Our vulnerabilities and frailties become our guides bearing witness to our rebirth.
Part of that journey is the sojourn from head to heart, the challenge being that we can recognise pain without becoming it's victim.

Chiron until 2018? We either meet true healers or we become true healers.

BREAST CANCER AND THE CASE FOR CHIRON, WOUNDED HEALER.

It is nearly a year now since I received my initial diagnosis of Breast Cancer in the right breast. As one might expect it is a date that is etched firmly on my mind. Happily, I am through the worst, treatments have finished, the tumour has gone and I continue to stay well and accept the challenge of keeping well with all my heart as I am only too aware that there are those whose journey has a different result.

June 15th 2011; this was no ordinary date. I found myself sitting in a bare and comfortless room awaiting results of a biopsy. There is something psychologically manipulative about the rooms and their ambience relating to the stage of treatment one has reached, as your treatment intensifies and you have got your head around each stage of treatment, the quality of services and atmosphere seems to improve. Thankfully.

So, there was I, telling myself that there was nothing to worry about, yet all the while I had that sneaking suspicion that in fact I should be concerned, really concerned. In actual fact, the diagnosis on some level was not a total surprise; I had a feeling for a while that things were not right. My body already bore the affectations of a life well lived and was beginning to scream at me that all was far from well. I paid regular visits to the doctor for various tests that I insisted on having, which amounted to little more than a wild goose chase. The most helpful information I received at the time was that I had a vitamin D deficiency, which has been linked to Breast Cancer in some people. It has also transpired after talking to Oncology medics that it is not unusual for patients to have an insight into their cancer before the evidence emerges as a concrete fact.

June 15th 2011 is also significant as it was the time of the double lunar eclipse. I am certainly not an astrologer but even I felt that this diagnosis was doubly significant for me on a personal level because of this auspicious lunar movement.

In many respects that is all history now. However, the journey with cancer has been immensely powerful. It threw me smack bang into the middle of my own universe and all that I had been, was and could become. The scales dropped from my eyes and an intense healing began, a healing which was rooted deep in my psyche. I realised that I had become seperated, adrift from myself, what and who I represented and the integral divine essence that flows through each of us. The link to heaven and earth the same had become severed, the journey back to the beloved began in earnest.

It is not my aim to recount at this moment of the various layers that shifted and how the cancer shook my world in a way that was a terrible beauty all at once. Breast Cancer is not new. The picture is Rembrandt's Bethsheba and shows quite clearly her breast which appears to have all the markings of a cancer.
It bothers me enormously that Breast cancer is on the increase and one could summise that we are reaching epidemic proportions. My family and I were discussing another soul, a friend, who had just received a diagnosis quite recently. We were staggered to discover that between us we knew of  12 people in our collective address book who have or had been stricken with this dis-ease. That is a huge figure for just one bunch of people.

Nor is it my aim at this stage to discuss the implications of this disease on women and society, although I do feel that we are experiencing the incineration of the divine feminine and that Witch burnings still continue in a veiled and psychologically surreptitious fashion; this subject will no doubt arise at a later date, as it must.

Let's return to astrology. An astrologer friend of mine pointed out that not only was the date a lunar eclipse but also Chiron the wounded healer had shown up in my chart at the same time, this fact has fascinated me and my research into Chiron has amazed and comforted me. The time for karmic change was nigh!

Interestingly, Chiron will be about until 2018, my sense of it is that a massive karmic shift is happening, women are carrying this shift, the epidemic proportions that we have reached could well be a result of the presence of Chiron in the ephemeris tying into the shift in consciousness that we have attributed to 2012. This means that we must really look hard at how we nurture and are being nurtured and all that which this statement entails. Food, sex, work, relationships and self love all come under close scrutiny as well as repressed creativity and past hurts from significant people and life situations, including our relationship to the Great Spirit. The time for talking about the Great Spirit is over, NOW is the time us to experience the Great Spirit. If all of this be the case, then we are once more reminded that we are totally interconnected with each other and the planet we live on.

Chiron as a planet was discovered in 1977, orbiting between Uranus and Saturn. Chiron also seems to embody the principles of it's neighbours! Interestingly, at the time of it's discovery there was an emergence of  alternative healing therapies. We were ready for the archetype of the inner healer to be absorbed into our consciousness.

In Greek mythology, Chiron was a Centaur. He was also a teacher, musician and holistic healer. He received a wound from a poisoned arrow, Hydra's blood and didn't die as a result of this wound, but could not fully recover and was destined to live in pain. Personal suffering and the awareness that can be derived from it becomes central to the theme of the myth and planet Chiron and the re-emergence of spirit in one's life. As the immortal son of Kronos, he teaches us to fulfil our potential, leading to holistic understanding.

Close to our 50th birthday we can expect the Chiron return effect. The transit crosses over his position in the natal chart, a time of karmic realisation surfaces from the deep and the only way to go is forward. I was 51 at the time of diagnosis. Not everyone is going to go through an illness  to experience Chiron return, what ever shape or form it does take is appropriate to the individual and their karmic patterning. Either way it is a time of liberation of the unlived spirit through the knowledge that life is painful and we must strive to transcend. It is not our own suffering that we carry, but that of another and they carry ours. This is the interconnectedness at work, we are for each other. As we liberate ourself, we immediately liberate others, including Earth into the higher self.

It is my view that the repressed drive and creativity and the subjugation of the divine self resulting in a form of seperation play a part in the formation of a dis-ease. Once that is recognised and all that this notion entails means we can begin to clean up our act. The power of the Cancer journey and it really is a journey, is that it provides a platform to reach into our deepest and most hidden parts and heal all those hurts and anxieties that we have carried for far too long. I began to know love, true love at it's deepest level, it wasn't easy to get to that point, this love gave me the strength to examine my life and to ask life for life itself. Painfully sifting through all my 'stuff ' I realised what love is. For me love is knowledge, that knowledge we all have, to know without knowing, the action of gnosis in our .life, the gnostic self that we fail to recognise in the humdrum activities that we call our life. Love taught me compassion.

There is a sura in the Koran which tells us that 'The Lord sends sickness as a servant to bring us back to the Lord'. Our autonomy and independence through interdependence on each other and the Great Spirit is paramount to our well being and wholesomeness.

By searching for our own healing, we can learn how to heal others. We are the source of wisdom and healing for each other. It is through the expression of this wisdom that we also express the divine at work in both the esoteric and exoteric world.

I feel that life is a whole series of journeys. Each one a miracle in it's own right, each journey offers up a pearl from the bottom of our ocean, this pearl is the gift of experience, a validation to our footprints in the sand.....each pearl we receive is a celebration of our magnificence of being, the treasure within.

As Solomon said to Belqis; 'It is not the riches that you flaunt but the riches within that make you beautiful' .

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