Chiron Blue Healing - Who is Chiron?

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Who is Chiron and Why is He Blue?

Well, Chiron isn’t really blue, but he is a great number of things. Perhaps the blue will explain itself in the telling, but there is a story to share. Please read on....

Chiron is:

1) The great centaur from Greek mythology who taught
healing to humans.

Chiron was the son of Cronus (also Zeus’ father) and the nymph Philyra. Cronus had assumed the form of a horse, which is how Chiron was born half-man, half-horse. Disgusted by her son’s appearance, Philyra abandoned him at birth. This could reasonably be understood to be our Wounded Healer’s first significant wounding. Chiron was raised by Apollo and Diana and learned grace and the healing arts from them. While other centaurs were notorious for being violent drinkers and carousers; Chiron, by contrast, was intelligent, civilized and kind. Among the many students he taught were Ajax, Aeneas, Actaeon, Achilles, Jason, Peleus, Heracles, Phoenix, and perhaps most notably, Apollo’s son Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. It was Asclepius’ temples (Asclepieia) to which pilgrims traveled for healing treatments and Asclepius’ Staff which still carries significant medical symbolism. Rod of Asclepius

Chiron was injured in a melee with other centaurs and was accidentally wounded in the leg with an arrow from his student Hercules’ bow. The arrow had been poisoned with the blood of Hydra. The healer applied salve made from the flower Centaurea, which we know today as cornflower, but could not be healed. It is believed that he earned his name of the Wounded Healer in this act. Ultimately, he sacrificed himself for humanity by offering his immortality and assuming Prometheus’ sentence for giving Fire to humankind. This great act of sacrifice was rewarded with a place in the heavens, though sources differ as to whether he lives as the constellation Centaurus or that of Sagittarius.

2) The dwarf planet discovered in 1977.

Chiron was the first known member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs, with an orbit between those of Saturn and Uranus. Although it was initially classified as an asteroid, today it is classified as both, and accordingly it is also known by the cometary designation 95P/Chiron. Chiron's orbit was found to be highly eccentric (0.37), with perihelion just inside the orbit of Saturn and aphelion just outside the perihelion of Uranus. It’s of great interest because it was the first object discovered in such an orbit, well outside the asteroid belt, and is considered an SU object since its perihelion lies within Saturn's zone of control and its aphelion lies within Uranus' zone of control.[1]

[1] a b Horner, J.; Evans, N.W.; Bailey, M. E. (2004). Simulations of the Population of Centaurs II: Individual Objects. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408576. Retrieved on 2008-08-28. Chiron's Unusual Orbit

3) An archetype for the new millennium

The Wounded Healer, also known as the Rainbow Bridge, Chiron sits between the astrologically austere limitations of Saturn (the Teacher who brings our lessons to real, circumstantial life) and the unbounded intuitionally charged altruism of Uranus, planet of social upheaval and change. Uranus rules this Aquarian Age we’re entering into; anyone notice any great social changes of late? Chiron is here to bridge the energies of these two planets for us – to help us find our way from bounded, Newtonian physics to the multidimensional possibilities of quantum physics. We are creating our own realities and Chiron is here to help us let go of the past that has bound us in order to embrace our truest Christed selves. According to Barbara Hand Clow in her book, Chiron: Rainbow Bridge Between the Inner & Outer Planets, “The sighting of Chiron is the Second Coming of Christ, the sign that Christ is incarnating in the heart chakra.” P163 Ms. Hand Clow’s book provides good information on the nature of Chiron, as well as his impact in relation to individual’s horoscopes.

So, blue, you say?

If you read the preceding paragraphs carefully, you might have picked up on the flower that Chiron used to try to heal himself – the mild-mannered, humble, yet oh-so-very-brilliantly-colored Cornflower. You might also have noticed the Cornflower on this website! J The flower’s name ‘came to me’ one day -- out of the blue, so to speak – so loudly and so continuously that I could not ignore it. So I started researching and lo and behold, there was a strong and very clear connection to Chiron, of whom I’d recently been more fully understanding and appreciating. You see, Chiron sits on my Ascendant, which in astrology-speak means that this dwarf planet was on the very eastern horizon of the place I was born at the moment I was born. Little did my mother know, as she grew more angry at the doctor and nurses who appeared to be much more interested in Mickey Mantle and the World Series game being played at the time. Little did I know, until years later, that it was a subway series between the Yanks and the Brooklyn Dodgers, something that only happens say, once in a blue moon? (OK, I’ll stop – while we’ve actually had MANY blue moons in the years between 1956 and 2000, these were the only two subway series in that time). After the autumn of 2000, I understood why the doctors were “paying more attention to the game” (mother’s words) than they were to me. Baseball is baseball, especially there in NY State where I was born! What Ascendant represents to an astrologer is a person’s most outward expression of themselves – their appearance, personality and outlook on life. Chiron sits with me, in this regard, in direct opposition to Uranus, which rules my Ascendant. (OK, I’ll stop with the astrological jargon now.) Basically, it means that I feel in unique simpatico with Chiron, our teacher of medicine and wounded healer himself.

    This is the photo which I like to think
    shows me with my "clipped [angel]
    wing", sitting on our porch in upstate
    NY. For those of you old enough to
    recognize one, that's a milk box to the
    right of our front door where a real live
    milkman used to deliver all our dairy
    items!
   Wounded healer? Think I'll go back to
    check my transits... :-)

So the little Cornflower bears a powerful mythological mantle. Its full Latin name is Centaura cyanus. Cyanus is from another Greek myth. The Greek Goddess Flora was the mother of all flowers, but among them all, she loved the blue Centaurea best. One of her fertility nymphs was a youth clad all in blue, whose name was Cyanos. Cyanos wiled away his time weaving flower-garlands to honor Flora, and so neglected his own good health that he fell ill and died in a field of millet. For her love of him, Flora made Cyanos into the flower that still bears his name, and to this day grows resplendently in fields of grain.