After a little over five months of retrograde motion (since 27th June), Chiron in Pisces returned to direct motion at 1:53a PST on 1st December 2016.
Chiron Direct in Pisces at this point in 2016 marks a period of reconnection with your own emotional-intuitive bond with the Universe. Rather than intuitively picking up almost exclusively on everyone else’s emotional-spiritual energy and learning more about your own abilities and awareness through your empathy for and responsiveness to the emotional-spiritual energies of others, you’re now regaining full awareness of your own energetic connection with Source energy. Your full awareness of your Oneness with All-That-Is is being restored.
Chiron is the “wounded healer” of the Zodiac, often good at knowing how to assist or heal others because it knows the wounds well – it’s been (or still is) wounded there as well. As the ruler of Virgo, it seeks practical solutions to any problems at hand.
Pisces is the transcendental awareness of what connects us all. It is also our visions and dreams of what is possible when we come together as One for the Highest good of All. Pisces energy lends itself to philanthropy and selfless service. However, like everything else in the world, even giving has darkness as well as light, and in its darkness, Pisces can take on a victim or martyr perspective when faced with practical realities which don’t match its visionary ideals or fantasies.
Therefore, Chiron in Pisces comes in to either heal the rift between fantasy and reality OR to at least make us aware of how the divide between our actual everyday lives and our inspired ideals might be bridged. It also helps balance being of service to both ourselves and others so we are all healthy and well in our emotional, spiritual, and physical levels of being.
The key to working with this energy is to make sure you are also healing your own emotional-spiritual wounds. The retrograde period may have made you more aware of your own wounds as you dealt with those of others. Yet trying to heal the wounds in others first may not do you much good unless you are applying your healing techniques to yourself as well.
This self-healing step is important – you’ll need to make sure you are strong enough to be of healing service to others. Otherwise, you may find yourself emotionally and/or spiritually drained or exhausted and unable to serve. You cannot serve others well if you are not healthy. Therefore, you must remember that you, too, are part of the Oneness. You are included, therefore, you are also worthy and deserving of receiving healing service and a renewal of the light of spirit within you.
While in retrograde motion, the 2016 version of Chiron in Pisces gave us the opportunity to witness and/or experience both the self-others and reality-fantasy disconnects of others, and to feel the impact of their internal and external irreconcilable differences upon our own lives. We learned just what is meant by “everything and everyone is connected” – we really do affect each other with our individual and collective choices and actions. Sometimes, it’s a ripple effect. Other times, it’s a direct hit. Now in direct motion, we individually and collectively get to take steps to heal our unity – to restore our sense of interconnection and Oneness with each other and all others.
At the time of its direction shift, the newly-direct Chiron in Pisces was semi-sextile a conjunction of Uranus Retrograde and Ceres Retrograde in Aries. This indicates that there is an opportunity to bring healing to long-held emotional and spiritual wounds which resulted in victimization and/or martyrdom behaviors. Chiron’s energy – in direct motion –allows for your self-initiated compassion and empathy responses to be applied to others’ actions and circumstances instead of you being in a reactionary mode. You’ll be especially sensitive to provide healing options and opportunities to those which are reflecting or reacting to popular opinions or values. This may challenge you to see whether or not you can actually approach others whose behaviors and values you disagree with in peace. It will be important for you to remember to
Chiron in Pisces was also within 3° orb to square Saturn in Sagittarius at the time of its direction change. This indicates that experiential truths and facts were challenging the idealistic (or possibly delusional) perceptions of what was happening, bringing a rather harsh dose of reality to the matters at hand. This Chiron-Saturn square probably had quite a few people realizing the limits of truth –that you can only add so much to a story before it becomes too big or too good to be true. Once facts began coming in, the bubbles began to burst proving that truth, as always, is the ultimate disciplinarian.
Chiron in Pisces was (and continues to be) trine Scorpio Black Moon Lilith as it returned to direct motion. This reveals the depth and intense emotional charge in these emotional-spiritual wounds which need healing. It also reveals a deep desire for these wounds to be healed once and for all. There is a demand to get to the bottom of these issues – to get to the dark, ugly, painful roots of these issues to finally and permanently resolve them once and for all. We are seeing the worst of ourselves right now because we need to in order to know what we are dealing with and to fully understand what needs healing and why.
ALL of the afore-mentioned transits are still in play, along with a couple more short-term transits:
Pisces Chiron experiences a semi-sextile transit from Aquarius Mars, most exact on 6th December – This helps form a “sequence” configuration with the Aries Uranus Rx-Ceres Rx conjunction. The actions of many result in an emerging need to heal the rift between warring factions divided by perceived values. This is more likely to play out in a larger context rather than an individual one, though you may experience this dynamic among the groups within your own personal experience.
Pisces Chiron square Sagittarius 3 Sun, most exact on 11th December – You’ve already known the truth, but that probably didn’t stop you from hoping for the fantasy anyway. Now you may have to give up on your dream coming true the way you thought it would…or at least come up with a new or adjusted vision rooted in reality rather than fantasy to make your dream real. The truth may hurt more than usual around this time, but it’s all for the best. You’ll grow in positive ways from the challenges these emerging truths present.
Chiron in Pisces next retrograde will begin on 30th June 2017. Until then, put your empathy and compassion to good use by doing your best to heal yourself and others as everyone deserves to be served, loved, and healed. Everyone deserves to live with peace in their hearts, minds, and everyday lives.
Yes, even you.
So don’t resist the Oneness. Release your belief in divisions and embrace your connection to others and All-That-Is. As one is healed, we are all healed…and our differences can be reconciled.
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~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
