Chiron in the Houses
Chiron, a comet that orbits the Sun, reveals our own power to process our trauma and suffering so that we can in turn, heal others. According to astrology, Chiron is known as “the wounded healer.”
Chiron’s placement in your natal chart will reveal where your core wounds lie: What are your insecurities? Where do you struggle to feel whole and adequate? And how can you overcome these obstacles?
Astrologically, the wound of Chiron is not one we overcome, but rather a pain that we learn to live with.
Chiron in the 1st House
Chiron in the 1st House shows that your unhealed wound is to your basic sense of self, identity, and self-worth. The wound may manifest in the physical body in the form of disability or disease, or through problems with self-image.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 1st House include: Trouble initiating actions or projects, rushing into doing things, or hesitating due to doubt and insecurity. Chiron in the 1st House could also form aggression or suppressed rage in your childhood home life, pleasing others in order to survive, making yourself ill in order to avoid making decisions or taking action, feeling ugly or deformed, being ashamed or embarrassed by your body, and feeling awkward or uncoordinated.
Healing with Chiron in the 1st House will come when you’re willing to surrender your ego and become centered in your Higher Self.
Chiron in the 2nd House
Chiron in the 2nd House shows that your unhealed wound is to your body and sense of security. It may manifest through issues of emotional and material security, safety, values, and well-being.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 2nd House include: Feeling insubstantial and lacking in solidity, being possessive and materialistic with people and possessions, or avoidance of possessions through not wanting to be tied down. Chiron in the 2nd House can also be reflected by problems with money or finding enough resources, your body seen as unreliable or wounded, difficulty finding the right value system, having trouble giving form to your creative potential and endeavors, and a tendency to take things too literally and get bogged down with practical problems.
Healing with Chiron in the 2nd House comes from finding inner security and integrating your body and soul through learning to trust your instincts.
Chiron in the 3rd House
Chiron in the 3rd House shows that your unhealed wound is to your mind and ability to communicate. It may manifest in the areas of knowledge, communication, and thinking, as well as through the media and sibling relationships.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 3rd House include: Difficulty in expressing yourself and being heard by others, possible problems with breathing, acting obsessive about gathering information which ultimately leads to confusion, having destructive or negative thought patterns, avoidance of emotional subjects of conversation, and difficulty expressing feelings. Chiron in the 3rd House also manifests as learning difficulties or problems with your education. A Tendency toward being rational at the expense of the intuitive, or retreating from the mind completely into feelings and intuition.
Healing with Chiron in the 3rd House comes from speaking your truth by learning the value of your own thoughts and finding your own unique mode of expression.
Chiron in the 4th House
Chiron in the 4th House shows that your unhealed wound is to your instincts and family roots. It may manifest through your home environment, parents, local community, and/or environment.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 4th House include: A difficult relationship with the father and/or mother, struggles to find your roots or somewhere you belong, feeling exiled from life and wounded by a sense of being homeless. With Chiron in the 4th House you experienced family life as bullying and hurtful, an inability to find nurturing or safety within the family home, you would often sacrifice your own needs and feelings in order to belong to another person or group, and overall you feel disconnected from your own inner life and feelings.
Healing with Chiron in the 4th House comes from nurturing yourself Self and finding your roots deep within your own psyche.
Chiron in the 5th House
Chiron in the 5th House shows that your unhealed wound is to your self-expression and creativity. It may manifest through areas of creative work, romance, and children.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 5th House include: Possible heart problems, difficulty in expressing your creative gifts and shining your unique light, feeling self-conscious and unable to let go and be spontaneous, and an overall lack of self-confidence conflicting with your desire to shine and be admired. Chiron in the 5th House can also manifest as hiding your desire to create and criticizing others who do, having a wounding through romance, being let down by partners, or betrayed
Healing with Chiron in the 5th House comes from empowering yourself, living from the heart and seeing all of life as a creative process.
Chiron in the 6th House
Chiron in the 6th House shows that your unhealed wound is to your health and attitude to service. It may manifest through areas of work, health, and service to the community.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 6th House include: A tendency to control your body through rigid diets and exercise, a need to organize the chaos of life into strict patterns, emotional issues mirrored in the body through psychosomatic symptoms, an obsession with detail and perfectionism leading to a crisis in the expression of skills. With Chiron in the 6th House domestic life and daily routines can become chaotic and confusing, you can be overly critical of yourself and others, have difficulty forming equal partnerships with others, and a tendency to approach others as a teacher or as a servant.
Healing with Chiron in the 6th House comes from being of service to others without denying yourself and learning to accept the ordinary mess of daily life without trying to control it.
Chiron in the 7th House
Chiron in the 7th House shows that your unhealed wound is to how you relate to others. It may manifest through one-to-one relationships, social interactions, and social justice.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 7th House include: A major relationship was experienced as wounding which affects all other relationships, longing for a relationship but also a strong desire to be separate, finding it hard to see yourself without the mirror of another, or people pleasing and being too polite which masks a hidden hostility. Chiron in the 7th House can also make you defensive and prone to avoid painful feelings in relationships, prone to inadvertently provoking conflict and power struggles, having an attraction to lost souls and wounded partners, and requiring periods of isolation or separation that provide healing and creative inner balance.
Healing with Chiron in the 7th House comes from reconciling the needs of yourself and others, and being willing to accept some of the darker sides of human emotion.
Chiron in the 8th House
Chiron in the 8th House shows that your unhealed wound is to your power and sexuality. It may manifest in the areas of finances, mortality, and hidden matters.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 8th House include: an encounter with death early in life, perhaps a birth trauma or life-threatening illness, a fascination with death, and your own potential destructiveness. With Chiron in the 8th House personal growth is experienced as a life or death struggle, you have difficulty achieving financial self-sufficiency, and can be controlling and protective to hide your vulnerability in relationships. Power struggles in relationships are experienced as all-consuming and passionate, relationships trigger primitive emotions of rage, jealousy, and fear. Sex and sexuality may be experienced as wounding and/or healing. You may also have a fear of your own power and difficulty taking control of your own life.
Healing with Chiron in the 8th House comes from integrating the dark sides of your soul (your shadow) and making peace with your deepest instinctual self.
Chiron in the 9th House
Chiron in the 9th House shows that your unhealed wound is to your belief system and meaning. It may manifest through the areas of travel, religion, philosophy, and education.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 9th House include: A feeling of being wounded by the belief system you grew up with, having a desire to find a spiritual path that makes sense of your life and gives you a greater purpose, an interest in travel and other cultures motivated by the need to find meaning. Chiron in the 9th House may also give you a tendency to project the need for God or meaning onto external sources, having a crisis of disconnection from your Higher Self, having difficulty turning intuitions of possibilities into real achievements, or disillusionment through failure to live up to a vision or potential.
Healing with Chiron in the 9th House comes from changing the way you think and what you believe so you can see the meaning inherent in all of life – the happiness and the suffering.
Chiron in the 10th House
Chiron in the 10th House shows that your unhealed wound is to your career and sense of achievement. It may manifest through areas of vocation, business, and recognition.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 10th House include: Difficulty deciding what you want to do with your life or finding your place in society, struggling with setting and achieving goals, you may only find your vocation later in life after many false starts, you feel unable to fulfill your parents’ expectations, having an overemphasis on worldly success and status, or going against it and rebelling against authority figures. Chiron in the 10th House will also make you prone to an avoidance of responsibility or taking responsibility for things you can’t control, a tendency to carry others’ burdens in hope of a reward, or having an ability to hold things together and create structure for others even if you can’t heal yourself.
Healing with Chiron in the 10th House comes from finding your inner authority by developing healthy self-respect and self-worth.
Chiron in the 11th House
Chiron in the 11th House shows that your unhealed wound is to your sense of individuality and group participation. It may manifest through the areas of society, community, hopes, and long-term ambitions.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 11th House include: Avoiding expressing original ideas due to a fear of not being accepted or misunderstood by others, being prone to stereotyped thinking or being enslaved by the thinking of a group, feeling alienated or like a scapegoat by your controversial views. Chiron in the 11th House can also make you critical of society and you may reject it through acts of rebellion and destructiveness, struggling to live up to spiritual or political ideals, being fearful of groups and the collective which pushes you to find your own way or being attuned to ideas in the collective that are ahead of your time.
Healing with Chiron in the 11th House comes from reconciling your needs as an individual with society and learning to give expression to collective ideas without losing yourself in the process.
Chiron in the 12th House
Chiron in the 12th House shows that your unhealed wound is to your inner life and spirituality. It may manifest through areas of unconsciousness, institutions, and mysticism.
Other possibilities with Chiron in the 12th House include: A strong need for the experience of unity, ecstasy, and loss of identity, feeling overwhelmed by chaos and struggle in dealing with the practical reality of life, having a vivid imagination, but struggling to make your dreams real, having weak boundaries and a tendency to absorb identity from others, or feeling guilty about becoming an individual and being separate from others. Chiron in the 12th House may also give you a feeling of profound existential grief and loss, sacrificing your own health and well-being to help others.
Healing with Chiron in the 12th House comes from recognizing yourself as one with the Universe and integrating it into daily life.
