Chiron in astrology
Chiron is the wound you learn to work with. It is a small body between Saturn and Uranus, and astrologers read it as the place where your hurt and your skill to help sit together.
What Chiron means
In the myth, Chiron was a centaur and a healer who could not heal his own wound. In a chart, Chiron shows a soft spot that does not go away. You learn to carry it, and in time you help other people with the same thing.
A small body found in 1977
Charles Kowal found Chiron in 1977. Its orbit is long and stretched, about 50 years. It spends as little as a year and a half in some signs and eight years in others.
Chiron in your chart
Chiron opposes its own place in your chart somewhere between your late teens and your forties, and returns around age 50. See the Chiron return.
Where Chiron is now
On Nov 6, 2026, Chiron is at 27°49′ Aries, retrograde. Next, Chiron turns direct on .
Times are in UTC.
Chiron transits
- Chiron opposite Chiron: An old hurt seen from the other side.
- Chiron return: Around 50, old hurts and the means to tend them.
Calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris, tropical zodiac. Updated Nov 6, 2026.
Where is Chiron in your chart?
Chiron’s sign is only half of it. Its house and the planets it touches come from your birth time and place. Solstice works them out and talks with you about what they mean.
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