Chiron in Pisces: Integration and Integrity
© 2010 by Joyce Mason
Healing is bringing mercy and and awareness awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear. ~Stephen Levine
In its 50-year orbit, Chiron changes signs from Aquarius to Pisces on April 20, 2010 where it will remain, ecept for a temporary retrogra!e bac" to Aquarius, until #ebruary 1$, 201%& 'hat news can we epect in Chiron(s realm of woun!ing, healing an! wholeness) #irst, let(s pause for perspecti*e& +ecause of Chiron(s etremely elliptical orbit, it ta"es roughly 0 years to pass from Aquarius through aurus& +y comparison, it ta"es a mere eight years to transit from .eo through /corpio& 1 Imagining this !i*ision in a natural3 chart with 0 Aries 4ising, the Chiron signs ha*e *ery une*en slices of the o!iac pie& 2 /ome loo" li"e a !ieter(s sli*er6others, a birth!ay-sie! in!ulgence& Pisces gets a healthy hun" of pie at nearly nine years in the sign, one of the longer *isits by Chiron& /oon you(ll see why this is probably a goo! omen& he last time Chiron was in Pisces was from late 7arch 1%80 through 9anuary 1%8%& his is the cycle many of us rea!ing these wor!s were ali*e to remember& 'e(ll consult history for some hints about what to epect in the current cycle& : #or people with Chiron in Pisces, it(s your time&3 ;ouow to intro!uce you? If You Have Chiron in Pisces
Chiron in Pisces has absorbe! the full e*olution of the Chiron signs& ;our woun! is a loss of in!i*i!uality or your unique /elf& ;et Chiron as"s us to become all that we are, not =ust for oursel*es, but to contribute our unique gift to help others& ;our lin" to Chiron is your compassionate "in!ness, but you retain the sha!ow of the wil!
centaurs& ;ou want ecstatic unity, but unfortunately, you can be suc"e! into un!ertow of >eptune(s mur"y waters& >eptune, Pisces( ruler, also can lure you into substances an! a!!ictions that go with his realm@ alcohol, !rugs, se, an! a !esire to a*oi! life(s harsher realities& ;our woun! may come from an o*erly spiritual upbringing where you ha! ecstatic, mystical eperiences that were a bit a!*ance! for your ten!er years an! neurological system& 'oun!s coul! be cause! by parents, siblings, or other family members with ba! boun!aries6 in*a!ing your personal space pri*acyB or your physical space incestB&
'hen Chiron is in Pisces, epect the issue of setting healthy boun!aries to be up big time& 7y +oun!aries 101 post was also ecerpte! on onna Cunningham(s /"y 'riter ,where tips from the trenches an! !epth insights on the sub=ect are still being share!& Disit these posts, especially the comments, for more on this issue& .oo" for a +oun!aries 102 follow-up post in the near future& +oun!ary issues light up the part of the Chiron myth where the wil! centaurs thin" anything an! e*erybo!y is theirs for the ta"ing6an! somehow, you ha*e been ta"en& In my article, Eigh /igns @ .i*ing on the Fpsi!e of the Go!iac, I tal" about the sign of Pisces( nee! for !e*otion an! a willingness to come bac" from the ecstatic state to bring the Hneness eperience! !own to earth for others to share& 'hen you are willing to be that rainbow bri!ge,3 you ha*e mastere! the #ish swimming in opposite !irections& ;ou see yourself coming an! going? o bring hea*en to earth in this ecstatic way, Chiron in Pisces ma"e great musicians, spea"ing3 the uni*ersal language that unites the worl!& ;ou can be a !ancer whose mo*ements teach others the path to ecstasy, a gifte! psychic, or a poet& If it in*ol*es bringing that sense of bliss to earth, it(s for you& /piritual lea!ership, artistic talent, facility with !reams an! other tools of psychological eploration are other possible *ocations& Chiron in Pisces "nows the hea*en si!e of bringing hea*en to earth& ;ou "now your gifts are soli! when you begin, figurati*ely, to buy roun!-trip tic"ets from earth to s"y an! bac"&
History Lessons
I re*iewe! the hea!lines for the last Chiron in Pisces cycle, year by year, an! the themes were stunning& hey inclu!e racial integration in society an! music6su!!enly, white people singing an! listening to tra!itionally blac" music6an! the integration of other polarities, such as malefemale in the feminist mo*ement& 4acial integration an! feminism both came of age !uring the J80s& Eere(s a Chiron in Pisces giggle@ +each an! surf music also !ominate!, a tribute to the #ish water sign? Another amusing, Chironic if not Piscean symbol@ he #or! 7ustang was the most popular car of the era, merging a !ri*er(s wits an! top half3 with a horse-name! *ehicle un!erneath& he 7ustang allowe! people in the J80s to become a sort of mo!ern centaur, half-human an! half-mechanical horse& /ince mustangs are wil! horses, e*en the wil! centaurs of Chiron(s mythology are represente! in the era(s fa*orite choice of wheels& I consi!er the American lo*e of 7ustangs to be a precursor of the centaur planet(s !isco*ery
in the net !eca!e& +ecause of Chiron(s connection to health, healing6an! the fact that surgeon was one of his many talents, I wante! to "now what happene! in the area of health an! me!icine& Eealth care was the fastest growing in!ustry an! became more business-li"e as it grew& 5 +y 1%8%, the a*erage net profit of a me!ical practitioner was K2,000 or four times the net income of the a*erage wor"er& Hne of the most re*olutionary changes un!er Chiron in Pisces was the initiation of the 7e!icare an! 7e!icai! programs un!er Presi!ent .yn!on +& 9ohnson& hese programs routinely eten!e! goo! me!ical care to the poor an! el!erly for the first time in history6 certainly in "eeping with the compassionate si!e of Pisces an! Chiron as healer& Hn the !ownsi!e, 7e!icare en!e! up costing far more than e*en the most conser*ati*e planners e*er imagine!, a price that(s still climbing6an! we(re still won!ering how we(ll "eep paying as baby boomers come of retirement age, floo!ing the system with new recipients& o hit =ust a few more highlights in Chiron(s realm of health an! healing@ L Implantation surgery was re*olutionie! with the first human li*er an! lung transplants in 1%8& he first heart transplant followe! in 1%8:, using a chimpanee heart while awaiting a more suitable !onor& 'hile these early patients !i! not fare well, their surgeries were the beginning of the commonplace organ transplants of to!ay& I can(t imagine anything more Piscean than organ !onation, to merge a part of one(s self into another literally& he recipient also becomes a Chironic, composite being&B
L In 1%8:, the /urgeon Meneral first warne! the public of the !angers of smo"ing&
L 'omen were affor!e! unprece!ente! repro!ucti*e an! seual choices as the pill an! IF became rea!ily a*ailable&
L As more !rugs became wi!ely a*ailable to combat a *ariety of !iseases, rigorous #A testing began to pro*e some of those !rugs to be unsafe, such as thali!omi!e, a morning sic"ness me!ication that cause! wi!esprea! birth !efects& Chiron was the original mythical being born with a birth !efect as a horseman&B he biggest, Chironic hea!line of all in the health care fiel!) In the 1%80s, interest in alternati*e forms of health care strengthene!, an! it has continue! e*er since& 8 7ythical Chiron was a surgeon who use! herbs an! other natural metho!s, the original practitioner of complementary me!icine&B .ast time Chiron was in Pisces, compassion an! the goo! of all were reflecte! in pro*i!ing ma=or me!ical ser*ices to the el!erly an! the monitoring health care impacts on the public& !ac" and #hite$ Ma!e and %e&a!e
In 'holeness an! the Inner 7arriage, I !iscuss the concept that astrological Chiron is about the psychological integration of all polarities within us& 4acial in=ustice is still a painful reality to many Afro-Americans, but the !ichotomy of blac" *ersus white touches e*eryone at an
archetypal le*el& 4acial integration is the outer epression of the inner integration we nee! to ma"e with our own sha!ows an! the things insi!e us that seem to be at o!!s with one another& hese are the opposing parts of us that seem, at first, too !ifferent for us to come to terms with them& he feminist re*olution pits male an! female in the same way, an! we all ha*e the recessi*e opposite gen!er insi!e us, the anima or animus, begging to be blen!e! into a balance! wholeness& he cultural shifts that occurre! !uring Chiron in Pisces in the 1%80s punctuate the role of Pisces as the consummate sign in the cycle of twel*e, the place where it all comes together& Chiron in Pisces is the part of the cycle where we see our oneness with the Hther6both inner our !isparate parts of /elfB an! outer people !ifferent from usB& Accor!ing to the opening quote by /tephen .e*ine, that which is unheale! is hel! in =u!gment an! fear& >othing coul! be truer historically about white society(s attitu!e towar! blac"s or other people of colorN an! men(s fear about women claiming their own power& O*en the animus recessi*e maleB in some women cringe! at the 'omen(s 7o*ement& I remember a street-smart mom of a frien! who was a feminist before there was a wor! for it& /he was a single mother who ma!e her way in a man(s worl!& /he thought women(s lib3 was for the bir!s&3 Mo figure& /till, we are fortunate to see how far we ha*e come while not !enying the !istance we ha*e yet to go@ an Afro-American Presi!ent with a prominent Chiron who is actually half-blac" an! half-whiteB, three women /ecretaries of /tate inclu!ing one blac" womanB an! most recently our first Hscar-winning woman pro!ucer& he sign of Pisces rules film, so I coul!n(t eclu!e this category, especially gi*en how much film influences our culture& +arac" Hbama, with his prominent Chiron in Pisces in the 1st Eouse, will eperience his Chiron 4eturn in 2011-2012 with eact hits on 7ay 21, 9une 25, an! #ebruary 28& I suspect we(ll learn much about the archetype of Chiron an! Chiron in Pisces as the lea!er of the free worl!3 eperiences this ma=or mi!life transit in plain public *iew& I(ll be watching those turning-point !ates for both personal an! political changes eperience! by Presi!ent Chiron&3 #hat's the (ut!oo") Chiron in Pisces$ 2010*1+
#rom my typing fingers to Mo!(s ear@ I hope we see more integration6racial, political, sociological, an! cultural6an! in!i*i!ual& 7ost of all, I hope we see the rebirth of integrity as a paramount *irtue& he wor!s integration an! integrity are interrelate!&
'hen we are fully integrate!6when we(*e come to terms with the !ifferent parts of /elf an! no longer =u!ge or fear them6we are a person of integrity& 'e act from this whole self& 'hat we belie*e an! !o is one in the same& he Fnite! /tates of America has not been in integrity3 regar!ing race relations, women, gays, financial an! me!ical equality6=ust to name a few realms of society that ha*e ma=or gaps between what we say we stan! for an! what we !o& 4eflecting on our Constitution an! the i!eals of all men are create! equal3 an! the so-calle! guarantee of the pursuit of happiness,3 I ha*e sometimes won!ere! what country the #oun!ing #athers were tal"ing
about& O*en at those times I ha*e been most !epresse! about how far we ha*e to go, I am still encourage! by our progress towar! racial an! gen!er integration ma!e since the pi*otal !eca!e of the 1%80s& he F/A is har!ly the only woun!e! society on the face of the earth when it comes to these thingsN yet, we ha*e more resources an! "now-how than most to !o something about them& A concept that(s truly Chiron in Pisces3 is the fact that the whole is equal to the sum of its parts& 'e are each other& hat cosmic soup where Chiron in Pisces is so comfortab le is the answer to the !ilemma& /ome say the synergy create! among people is greater than the sum of its parts& Eeal one an! you heal the whole6an! then some& If it spills across the globe, what a legacy& 7en! your own hurts, fin! your own missing parts, an! your special gifts only you can gi*e 6your *ocation& he resultant you in integrity3 is the beginning of a society that(s the same& I call it a !i*ine !omino effect& +e the best, most unifie! you& ;ou(ll "now =ust what to !o to ma"e a !ifference o*er this !eca!e while Chiron in Pisces sensities us, once more, to the issues of integration, integrity 6an! our obligation to lo*e an! care for one another&
ob!igation
c&100, from H&#r& obligation ( 125B, from .& obligationem nom& obligatioB an engaging or ple!ging& .et it be our ple!ge to engage& QQQ Photo Credit: I>OM4AIH> PFGG.O R Diola! reamstime&com ,e!ated ,eco&&ended Posts: Chiron in Pisces - 'ater H*er 4oc"s by 7an!i .oc"ley an! Chiron in Pisces by ony Dowles& Note my comment about Chiron in isces and poetry. -otes:
