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Chiron in Aries–Taurus: Healing Through Masculine–Feminine Integration

The healing power of the threshold

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When I was four years old, I remember standing in the doorway of the hallway speaking to my father, very directly and clearly about something that was on my four-year-old mind. His response was immediate. It was anger… I was not to speak to him like that. I remember feeling very confused. My four-year-old mind could not figure out what was so offensive – I was just speaking my mind. Nonetheless, his response left me confused and fearful to speak up again. Worse, because I could not identify what was so offensive, I shut up about everything. Shortly after, I developed tonsillitis. It got so bad that I had to have my tonsils removed.

I remember being in the hospital, lying in the bed, the doctor asking me to count. I don’t know if I even reached seven, but when I woke up, I was in the corner of the surgery room inside what I can only describe as an incubator. I screamed in fear – a painful wrong move for my newly tonsil-free throat.

These were some of my earliest memories. The year was 1975, and Chiron was at 27 degrees of Aries transiting in my second house (the house of self-worth and physically, the throat) in a sextile with my ascendant and trine with my 6th house (house of health) Sun1.

Chiron is the wounded healer and teacher. In myth, Chiron taught war, hunting, archery, medicine and music. Astrologically, Chiron is often prominent during illness and surgery, and that was the case for me. Chiron has a 50-year cycle. It is now 50 years later, and Chiron is again sextile to my ascendant and trine my Sun. And you guessed it, another surgery. This time, my Venus-ruled throat was not the issue; it was my Venus-ruled uterus.

Oh, I forgot to say, natally, my Aries Chiron in the first house is opposite my Venus in Libra in the 7th house. Aries is ruled by Mars, which is our will, actions, motivation and drive, and Venus is our worth and self-esteem. It rules the throat and the womb. Nothing embodies the wounds of the Mars/masculine and Venus/Feminine more than this alignment.

It’s also timely to share this experience, because on June 19th, Chiron will move from Aries to Taurus. It will dip in and out. And it’s this dipping in and out of Aries and Taurus that I want to speak about because it brings up the collective masculine/feminine, male/female, Mars/Venus wounds.

Chiron’s transit:

Chiron is currently in Aries

Chiron in Taurus June 19, 2026 – Sept 18, 2026.

Chiron in Aries Sept 18, 2026 – April 14, 2027

Chiron in Taurus April 14, 2027 – July 2033

The last eight years of Chiron in Aries has been all about the wounds around our movement and actions. Medically, Aries rules the head (the corona), self-expression, the individual, small businesses – especially entrepreneurs. Chiron in Aries coincided with the coronavirus, but the wounds extended beyond the medical expressions of illness. Our movements were limited, and our self-expression and individuality were thwarted as a result. Some faired better with this than others, happy to merge with the hive mind, while if you were freedom-leaning, you felt the wound profoundly. All small entrepreneurial enterprises were negatively affected and many lost their business. In fact, it was one of the greatest wealth transfers (to the 1%) of all time… Some healing came out of it, too… Locked up in our houses, the tables were turned, and we became the zoo for animals to roam around, curiously peering in our windows. The air cleared from reduced pollution, and we slowed down and baked bread. What a metaphor that was…active yeast. And when that ran out, we learned how to ferment sourdough…. a Mars expression to be sure.

So what can we expect as Chiron moves into Taurus? It will bring up wounds around our sense of worth, security, and food. It will also bring up wounds around beauty. Medically, it rules the throat and the womb. I will talk more about that in a moment. Finally, it rules women’s issues…

When Chiron was in Aries in the 1970’s, the famous Roe vs Wade decision was made in 1973, which constitutionalized the right to abortion at the federal level in the United States. Chiron was only discovered in 1977. It was there, of course, in 1973, but was not in our awareness, so when this decision was made, we didn’t have the benefit of Chironic understanding at the time. During Chiron’s return to Aries in 2022, that decision was reversed on June 24, 2022, in the landmark decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Chiron was square Ceres in Cancer). It removed it from the Constitution, making abortion to the State level perogative. Similarly, a law decriminalizing abortion occurred in Canada at the beginning of Chiron in Aries in 1969. But it came with strict criteria. Dr. Henry Morgentaler ignored that criteria and ended up with a criminal charge. But in 1984 at the very end of Chiron in Aries, Dr. Henry Morgentaler was acquitted by a jury. That ruling opened up abortion in Canada completely. Nothing changed in Canada around abortion during the recent Chiron in Aries transit. Instead, Canada saw the expansion of laws around assisted suicide.

The Chiron in Aries wound… the right to bodily autonomy vs the right to life (or, as the case may be, death). While this may seem like a Venus issue having to do with the womb and what happens inside of it, it’s the energy of Mars – of initiation and action and the Aries energy of beginning and putting something in motion that became the crux of the wound.

The impact of Chiron in Aries was huge… but it didn’t make the blockbusting aspects that Chiron will make while it is in Taurus. While Chiron is in Taurus, it will be conjunct with Saturn, and it will square Pluto in Aquarius… and it will do so at the same time. This will happen in 2028. While it is difficult, likely painful energy. It falls within the context of a lot of other astrological help.

I want to return to my story, because it will help to explain the movement from Aries to Taurus. As I mentioned, the second time around, the issue manifested in my uterus instead of my throat… why was this so?

The Aries glyph ♈looks like the uterus and the throat. And I find it amazing that when a baby is forming in the womb, a link to the throat and uterus shows up during the first days of formation… day 15. How strange to learn that they are connected.

Here’s what an AI Search say:

Embryological Link: Both the throat and the reproductive organs (including the uterus) develop from similar embryonic tissue during early development. Around day 15 of embryogenesis, two depressions form—one at the head end (leading to the mouth and throat) and one at the tail end (forming the urogenital and anal regions).

Anatomical and Functional Similarities: The Latin word cervix means “neck”—referring both to the cervical spine (neck) and the cervix of the uterus. The tissues of the throat and cervix/vagina share structural and functional similarities, including responsiveness to hormonal changes and involvement in passage regulation (e.g., swallowing vs. childbirth).

Nervous System Connection: The vagus nerve, known as the “wanderer,” travels from the brainstem down through the neck and thorax and has sensory branches that extend to the cervix and uterus. This nerve connects bodily functions across distant regions, influencing both vocalization (throat) and pelvic organ activity.

Muscular and Respiratory Coordination: The diaphragm and pelvic floor move in coordination with breathing. Relaxation of the throat and jaw during vocal toning (e.g., humming, sighing) can promote relaxation of the pelvic floor and cervix, commonly used in labour and birthing practices.

Energetic and Holistic Perspectives: In some holistic and yogic traditions, the throat (site of expression) and womb (site of creation) are seen as energetically linked, with vocal expression believed to influence pelvic tension and emotional release.

In medical astrology, Mars initiates all activity in the womb, including menstruation and fertility. An imbalance with Mars will lead to imbalances in the womb: heavy bleeding, inflammation, fibroids, and issues with fertility and inflammation. Venus can also affect these areas, but often Mars is too little or too much. It is easy to see these issues in the womb, but they also show up in the throat as they did early in my life… if we stifle (a mars-related activity) our voice (our throat) or our sexuality (uterus), we stifle creativity. And we know the next step is mercury-ruled communication. It is through sex (via mercurial DNA) or words that we create.

If we take out the politically charged womb side of things and focus on the throat, where we can find a comfortable metaphor…

The question we need to answer for us to heal… do we initiate too much, or not enough? Do we stifle initiation, abort actions… AND, when is it healthy to do so? And in what measure? What needs to be vocalized and fertilized? And what internal or external limits are being imposed on that vocalization?

I want to take this post a little deeper because, as Chiron moves into Taurus, we have him holding hands with his wife, Asteroid Chiroklo.

I’ve been deeply experiencing her energy because in her 63-year orbit, she is currently at 26 degrees of Aquarius, conjunct my ascendant. She made a sextile to Chiron in April of this year, and as Chiron moves into Taurus, she will be there to hold his hand several more times as Chiron moves back and forth in Aries and Taurus. Chiroklo brings support and an innovative and loving container for the back-and-forth motion.

Melanie Rehnhart has done a lot of work on Chiroklo and her discovery chart. Discovery charts are the moment when a planetary body comes into our awareness. Chiroklo’s is amazing. When she was discovered, the planets, including Chiroklo, formed a Merkaba. A Merkaba is also called a star of David in astrology and forms a 6-pointed star. In astrology, this represents balanced energy. Interpreted through the Egyptian root of the word, Mer (light), Ka (spirit), and Ba (body), it represents the union of these forces. It’s the masculine represented by the upward triangle (fire) and the feminine represented by the downward triangle (water) combined. When they unite, they bring together all of the elements and create movement.

As Chiron moves back and forth in the Mars energy of Aries and the Taurus wounds of Taurus, Chiroklo lends her balanced support.

I’ll tell you how Chiroklo showed up in my surgery. I was given the option of being put under, inhaling anesthesia, local freezing and/or regular pain killers. I opted to move forward without any drugs, with the option to gauge my needs along the way and take drugs if required. There was the doctor, and about 60 degrees away from her on one side was the nurse. About 60 degrees on the other side was the “chaperon” who ended up coaching me through the pain and being a quiet and cheerful support…. she was my Chiroklo.

There is a benefit to feeling through the pain. I was able to see on the camera what was surgically going on, and it helped me to connect with my body and with the energy of what was going on, and strangely, with the healing beyond the physical that needed to be acknowledged and healed.

Similarly, as we move back and forth through the Chiron in Aries and Chiron in Taurus energy, we will have Chiroklo’s support through whatever wounds arise, whether they are physical, emotional or societal wounds.

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The Divine Feminine Cannot be Stopped – The Astrology of the Reopening of Notre Dame

Bass Relief around the front door of Notre Dame de Paris depicting alchemical prima materia (mother)

There is a passage in the bible that seems to describe the symbol for the sign of Aquarius:

As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, and say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ He will show you a large room upstairs, all furnished. Make preparations there. Luke 22:7

Astro-theologists have interpreted this passage to be a nod to the Age of Aquarius. Aquarius is the man holding the jar of water. This is particularly so because women did not carry water in biblical days, but the sign of Aquarius has been represented by a man holding a jar since ancient Mesopotamia.[ Babylonians identified Aquarius as Gula, “The Great One.” Gula was also known as “the Irrigator,” who harnessed the power of rain and floods. Gula was often depicted with fish swimming in the streams flowing from his shoulders. He’s also seen pouring water from an urn or holding an overflowing vase over the earth.] In fact, as an astrologer, if you read the bible you will see astrological symbols littered throughout. Easy to miss for those who don’t study the stars, but obvious for those who do. This is likely what is meant by ‘for those who have eyes to see’. Everything is hidden in plain view.

On December 7th, 2024 a ceremony to re-open Notre Dame de Paris was commenced with dignitaries which included the President of France, Marcon, President Trump of the USA, Prince William, and many others. The Cathedral dramatically burned almost to the ground in 2019 in an event that many saw as a massive sign of the times. The Catholic Church had been experiencing a dramatic loss of status in the eyes of the faithful with countless scandals involving sexualized abuse of children and other scandals.

Shortly after the fire, many discovered that lying beneath the Cathedral was the remains of a Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter. The truth however is that Notre Dame was the location of a Celtic/Gaul place of worship before that. It is said that the Gauls named it Parisi after the Gaul word meaning a boat; depicting the shape of the island that the Cathedral sits on. Some, however, have claimed that Paris is Par (for) Is (Isis). Notre Dame means “our lady”.

The day of the re-opening was highly significant. Pluto, Ceres and Venus lined up at 0 degrees of Aquarius. Aquarius has been consistently associated with technology, machines, and anything futuristic. It’s also been associated with communism, groups and friendships. Some have linked Pluto in Aquarius with secret societies. And secret society has been associated with the Notre Dame Cathedral.

Ceres is the mother of Persephone, who Pluto stole into the underworld. She is nurturing and in Aquarius, she nurtures individuality and accepts our uniqueness. As a mother, she provides freedom to be. Sometimes too much freedom, which results in us needing to define our boundaries and limits.

Pluto is the planet of transformation. He drags us, as he did Persephone, into the underworld. He’s only just arrived in Aquarius and over the next 19 years will transform our experience of humanity; our freedoms, uniqueness, innovations, individuality and individual expression. Our experiences of groups, friends and associations are also set to transform. Pluto newly in Aquarius is why we care about what happens around the re-opening of Notre Dame as the events in the early days are a setup for what we can expect over its duration.

The planet Venus represents love, our values and relationships. In various times and in various cultures Venus has been Aprhodite, Istar, Inanna, Isis. In esoteric Christianity, Venus is associated with Mary Magdelene and the divine feminine. Some have equated Venus in the underworld (when she has transited too close to the sun to be able to see her) with Persephone (Rome and Greece) and Erishgigal (Mesopotamia). Venus right now in Aquarius is high in the night sky shining brightly and she can be said to represent a version of Venusian energy that is in her power. Unique. Individual. Filled with love, peace, and compassion for humanity. Confident and rebellious she is individualistic, non-conforming and a seeker. Esoterically she loves astrology and she can show us the meaning of the man with the Jar. In so doing she expresses the side of Aquarius that is electric energy; tulluric, and cosmic.

But this is the expression of each of these planets in Aquarius on their own. What do they look like operating together?

Ceres is associated with food and grain and it’s where we get the name cereal. During her sorrows, when she was mourning the loss of her daughter, Ceres starved the nations, causing drought and famine. Many with Pluto and Ceres conjunct in their charts suffer from food disorders. With these two together in the sign of Aquarius, we may see her lash out and reverse her Aquarian nurturing, limiting our uniqueness and freedom instead. Ceres stands beside Pluto in Aquarius at a critical degree making what happens here of even more importance. However, Venus combined with Ceres brings together a value and love of nurturing freedom, creative innovation, unique beauty, and uniqueness of thought and style. Venus gives Ceres what she needs, and fulfills something inside.

The truth is the three of them together may swing back and forth between the extremes of loss and loving.

But Pluto is also alchemical. Alchemy requires processes of calcination, dissolution, separation, conjunction, fermentation, distillation and coagulation. The entire process is meant to transform material or us into purified gold.

The moon makes an applying conjunction to Saturn. Saturn in Pisces is weakened while the Moon in Pisces is strengthened. Cancer is rising and the Moon it’s ruler is in the 9th house of religion. Pisces, the sign of the moon in this chart, is the higher octave of Venus. It’s unconditional love, but Pisces ruled by Jupiter, is in the 11th house of groups opposite the Sun and Mercury retrograde. Jupiter, the Sun and Mercury retrograde are in the Gemini/Sagittarius polarity, which is about religion, belief, and thought. This entire combination with the Moon, its ruler and the aspects to its ruler points to a struggle that remains with belief and fanaticism, church and the true meaning of faith and spirituality. It feigns unconditional love and still needs to figure out its true meaning. After all, it was Jupiter that the Romans built their temple to remind us of the remains of the Roman empire. Jupiter is in the twin sign of Gemini; The twin towers of Notre Dame did not fall during the fire of 2019 so structures of  Catholicism remain. But while the exoteric Catholic structure remains, so too does the esoteric… the hermetically sealed as revealed in the Picture of the Archbishop banging on the doors.

The ceremony for the re-opening of Notre Dame consisted of singing Psalm 121[ On the church’s website they post Psalm 121 (it’s Psalm 122).] three times in response to the Archbishop banging on the front door with his staff (or crozier). He then entered followed by President Macron (Pluto)? his wife (Venus)? and Jill Biden (Ceres)? This may have been the Church’s (and the elite’s) attempt at the embodiment of this energy! But we notice something else. As the Archbishop bangs on the door with his electric blue glassed crosier, beside him is the iconic bass relief depicting what Fulcanelli calls the primitive substance or elementary matter (mother), the Prima Materia in alchemy.

 

The Archbishop of Paris re-opening the door to Notre Dame Cathedral
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This is what Fulcinelli says of the bass relief:

In the place of honour, facing the parvis, alchemy is represented by a woman, with her head touching the clouds. Seated on a throne, she holds in her left hand a sceptre, the sign of royal power, while her right hand supports two books, one closed (esotericism), the other open (exotericism). Supported between her knees and leaning against her chest, is the ladder with nine rungs-scala philosophorum-hiero-‘\ glyph of the patience which the faithful must possess in the course of the nine successive operations of the hermetic labour ‘Patience is the Philosophers’ ladder,’ Valoisl tells us, ‘and humility is the door to their garden; for whosoever will persevere without pride and without envy, on him God will show mercy.’ That is the title of the philosophical chapter of this Mutus Liber, the gothic cathedrai; the frontispiece of this occult Bible, with its massive pages of stone; the imprint, the seal of the secular Great Work on the very face of the Christian Great Work. It could not be better situated than on the very threshold of the main entrance. Thus the cathedral appears to be based on alchemical science, on the science which investigates the transformations of the original substance, elementary matter (Lat. materea, root muter mother). For the Virgin Mother, stripped of her symbolical veil, is none other than the personification of the primitive substance, used by the Principle, the creator of all that is, for the furtherance of his designs. This is the meaning (and, indeed, a very clear one) of this strange epithet, which we read in the Mass of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, of which the text reads : The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his ways. I existed before he formed any creature, I existed from all eternity, before the earth was created. The abysses were not yet and already I was conceived. The fountains had not yet come out of the earth, the heavy mass of the mountains had not yet been formed*, I was begotten before the hills. He had created neither the earth, nor the rivers, nor strengthened the world on its poles. When he prepared the heavens, I was present; when he confined the abysses within their bounds and prescribed an inviolable law; when he confirmed the air above the earth; when he balanced the waters of the fountains; when he shut up the sea within its limits and imposed a law on the waters, so that they should not pass their bounds; when he laid the foundations of the earth, I was with him and I regulated all things.’ Obviously what is dealt with here is the very essence of things. Indeed, the Litanies tell us that the Virgin is the Vase containing the Spirit of things: vas spirituale. ‘On a table, breast high to the Magi,’ Etteila 2 tells us, ‘were on one side a book or a series of golden pages or plates (the book of Thoth) and on the other side a vase full of celestial-astral liquid, consisting of one part of wild honey, one part of terrestial water and a third part of celestial water. . . . The secret, the mystery was therefore in this vase.’

And here we return to the Aquarian jar (vase) and its contents – The divine feminine. The Goddess! In the Jar of Aquarius is the spirit, found in water. Notre Dame, as with all of the Gothic Cathedrals, was built on “clear waters”. Waters that Fulcinelli calls “dry”. Waters that the Druids/Gauls/Celtics all accessed before the Catholic Church and before the Romans without the need for a building. The waters consist of “everything needed for the great work”

In the Church are world leaders, celebrities and billionaires. Salma Hayek was there with her billionaire husband who donated millions for the rebuilding. They, the leaders and elites, are represented in the chart by Mars which is stationary retrograde in Leo. They oppose the transformative Aquarian energy and bring a domineering, thwarting energy. They see themselves as the needed parents of society and create a suffocating presence. Mars is retrograde though and so their attempts to control will be greatly debilitated. Actions that are egotistical and narcissistic will not go over well.

Interestingly, Salma Hayek played the character Esmeralda in the 1997 television film adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In the story, Esmeralda is a woman who both the hunchback, Quasimodo and the priest fall in love with. Esmeralda gets into trouble and Quasimodo gives her safety in Notre Dame to prevent her from hanging for a crime she did commit. The Priest in love with her, turns to dark ways in an attempt to own and control her. When he cannot, she is thrown out and meets her death. Esmeralda represents the divine feminine who society condemned and the church sought to control. Those days are on their way out!

The Sabian Symbol is An old adobe mission. This speaks about projecting ideals onto structures of beauty in the search for an ideal. The adobe mission like Notre Dame are structures that seek to create a temple for the pursuit of an ideal.

But the true temple, the true cathedral is the individual!

You can visit Notre Dame, and you can even seek out the esoteric knowledge hidden in plain sight on the front door base relief (the door is canopied with seven spheres depicting the way through the seven spheres and is surrounded by base reliefs providing knowledge of the path of true spiritual growth) the truth is we are the temple and the land, the clear waters of Notre Dame, like many of the lands where Cathedrals are built, will provide us all the support we need in our transformation and personal growth, whether there is a cathedral of not!

 

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New Moon in Aquarius – Jan 21, 2023

The new moon is at 1 degree of Aquarius. Aquarius represents technology (computers, artificial intelligence), media (including social media), groups and networks (humanitarian and political) and innovations, but, it is also a deeply spiritual sign! Many think that Aquarius is secular, representing communism which rejects belief or religion. The symbol of Aquarius is represented by a man pouring out water from a jar. The man is said to represent Christ and the water, intellect and spirit. The Bible is littered with astrology, and once you know astrology, it’s very easy to see.

Joel 2:28-29

“It will come about after this
That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind;
And your sons and daughters will prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions.
“Even on the male and female servants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

The new moon will help to shift us into a new understanding of spirituality shifting away from religion to something more esoteric and visionary and feminine.

The New moon is conjunct with the asteroid Magdalena representing the divine feminine symbolized by Mary Magdalene who was closest to Jesus, and is exactly opposite Lilith in Leo, representing the banished dark feminine and once the equal partner of Adam.

If you read the gospel of Mary Magdalene (one of the lost and forbidden books), you will read a story of a strong feminine leader, spiritually equal to Jesus. She was not without her problems as it also hints at an attack on feminine leadership and power by the other apostles. A deeper level of Mary Magdalene is shared in the channelled books of Anna, Grandmother of Jesus, The Magdalene Manuscript and The Alchemies of Horus and the Sex Magic of Isis (books worth reading) and others. Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute but a powerful woman representing the divine feminine who embodies sensual and magical powers much like in the eastern spiritual practice of tantra.

On the other hand, Lilith is showing up as opposing energy to the divine feminine. In mythology, Lilith was Adam’s first wife who wanted to be equal to Adam. Adam wanted her to serve him and after she said no, she was kicked out of the garden of Eden and was replaced by Eve, who was created from Adam’s rib. In this astrological configuration, opposite the new moon, Lilith shows up as the shadowy aspect of feminism; anger and vengefulness to the existing power (male power).

At this new moon, we are asked to examine the divine feminine and feminism as we move into a new age, the age of Aquarius. How are they the same? How are they different? Both have suffered the injustices of the patriarchy. Lilith in Leo is a bit of a drama queen who overuses the whoa-is-me card. Though rightly pointing to an imbalance of masculine and feminine leadership, she doesn’t want to share power, but wants revenge on the patriarchy (Adam), for all the shitty things he has done. She demands power and ultimately another form of imbalance. Magdalena however, asks us to set our intentions for returning to the divine feminine, which is soft and powerful, creative and healing, forgiving, kind and gentle. She is sensual and heart-centred and far more powerful when working with (not under) the divine masculine. In Aquarius, she asks us to consider her in our technological creations, the things that we say and write in the media, and our forming groups and networks – Power to the people is the pouring out of the spirit on both men and women equally. Intelligence is bringing those two energies (masculine and feminine) together to serve humanity.

With Pluto moving into Aquarius shortly (See the Pluto in Aquarius post) this new moon is asking us to set intentions for what we want, not just for ourselves, but also for humanity.

The Sabian symbol for this new moon is “an unexpected thunderstorm” and points to the energy that has built seemingly out of nowhere. The thunderstorm often creates lightning, which discharges built-up energy. The spiritual meaning of lightning can be anything from a sudden clarity (spark lighting up darkness), to punishment (struck by lightning) to creativity (gods divine spark). The new moon gives you the opportunity to focus your energy in any of these directions. You get to choose!

Though Aquarius is an air sign, set intentions at this new moon using water. Put some water into a jar and focus your intentions on that water. Like the experiments by Dr. Masaru Emoto and others who have worked with focusing intentions on water, putting your intentions in water is a powerful way of creating and spreading your intentions into the world. After you have focused on the water, pour your intention charges water out, letting the air touch it as it spread to the air and the ground!

Happy New Moon in Aquarius!