Chiron and the New Moons: New Moon in Aries & the Chiron Cycle
From 2019 to 2027, every New Moon in Aries will be co-present with Chiron.
I’ve put together the strange dance of dates and degrees for every New Moon in Aries with Chiron including Solar Eclipses, as well as the New Moons in Pisces with Chiron we had last decade.
You’ll be able to track your own cycle with Chiron in Aries, understanding these New Moons as activation points of that longer story.
Impact of Uranus in Aries 2011-2018
Uranus through Aries from 2010-2018 showed us the chaos that can come from acting alone, and how authenticity does not need to come at the expense of communion.
The transit of Chiron through Aries points to the crisis that rampant individualism and the violent denial of others’ sacred autonomy has created for our psyches, our relationships, and our planetary home.
The New Moons happening in Aries with Chiron activate these stories and face us with the consequences of our relationship with our own individuality.
Chiron in Aries is showing us how we have been injured and limited by the structures of that cult of isolation that white supremacy, colonialism, and capitalism harbour, bringing to embodied awareness and lived experience the ways we are able to break free of it, shown to us in flashes during the Uranus transit, now accessible to us as a collective.
Chiron in Aries
The medicine for the violences of individualism isn’t only interdependence with other beings, the recognition and revaluing of the ways we belong to each other, although that’s essential. Individualism is remedied by a depth-oriented relationship to ourselves, recognizing that we are a multitude in so many ways, that our capacity for connection is endless, and travels forward and backward through Time.
If Mars serves to separate and sever, how does Chiron, our first teacher and initiator, serve these collective purposes in Aries?
Aries often gets given the attribution of individual action and motivation. The cycles of the planets embody non-linearity in a way that breaks the separations between our movements and theirs, challenges conceptions of fate that insist on the supremacy of human agency.
The Chiron Cycle
If you've worked with me before, you know I’m obsessed with cycles and placing us in relationship with them, mainly for this reason. When I approach cycles thinking, moreso than thinking about repetitions of experiences, I sit with the echoes, reverberations, consequences, and possibilities of our astrological cycles as collective and related events.
Wherever Aries is in your chart, you are in a process of re-entangling yourself with the World, a process of cutting ties that keep you from belonging.
I want to encourage an understanding that this Aries season (like every one that is co-present with Chiron) brings us further into these processes.
We are still in process.
While we are each in relationship with what is happening in our personal chart, to what Chiron is doing in our Aries house and placements, when we work with the living cycles in astrology, we are living history, together.
The Strange Dance of Chiron and the New Moons
Every New Moon in Aries (and Pisces) happens conjunct Chiron either within a degree or two or 11-14 degrees away. This kind of pattern is catnip for my Mercury, so I dug deep for you.
Chiron moves slowest around the zodiac in Pisces and Aries, when it travels the furthest away from the Earth to the orbit of Uranus. So this on-and-off annual New Moon conjunction happens in Pisces and Aries only.
Our personal Chiron transits can have as many as five direct passes (direct and retrograde) when Chiron is at their slowest. It’s deep and heavy work, those transits. We’ve been in them since 2010.
The dates of these New Moons and Solar Eclipses (when a lunar node is also co-present with a lunation) are activation points for the longer Chiron in Pisces and Chiron in Aries stories, especially the ones in the righthand column with a degree or two.
Pisces New Moons with Chiron 2011-2018
Pisces New Moon and Chiron 1-2° apart
February 21st 2012 - New Moon 2° Chiron 4°
March 1st 2014 - New Moon 10° Chiron 13°
March 8th 2016 - Solar Eclipse 18° Chiron 20°
March 17th 2018 - New Moon 26° Chiron 28°
Pisces New Moon and Chiron 11-14° apart
March 4th 2011 - New Moon 13° Chiron 1°
March 11th 2013 - New Moon 21° Chiron 10°
March 20th 2015 - Solar Eclipse 29° Chiron 18°
February 26th 2017 - Solar Eclipse 8° Chiron 23°
Aries New Moons with Chiron 2019-2027
Aries New Moon and Chiron 1-2° apart
May 24th 2020 - New Moon 4° Chiron 5°
April 1st 2022 - New Moon 11° Chiron 12°
April 8th 2024 - Solar Eclipse 19° Chiron 19°
April 17th 2026 - New Moon 27° Chiron 26°
Aries New Moon and Chiron 11-14° apart
April 5th 2019 - New Moon 15° Chiron 2°
April 11th 2021 - New Moon 22° Chiron 9°
March 21st 2023 - New Moon 0° Chiron 14°
April 20th 2023 - Solar Eclipse 29° Chiron 16°
March 29th 2025 - Solar Eclipse 9° Chiron 22°
April 6th 2027 - New Moon 16° Chiron 29°
Chiron & the New Moons in Other Signs
Chiron moves fastest in Virgo and Libra when it is the nearest to us, inside the orbit of Saturn. In these signs, where Chiron most recently was in the 90s, every single co-present New Moon happens within a degree or two of Chiron.
Virgo
September 5th 1994 - New Moon 12° Chiron 14°
Libra
September 24th 1995 - New Moon 1° Chiron 2°
October 12th 1996 - Solar Eclipse 19° Chiron 20°
Scorpio
October 31st 1997 - New Moon 7° Chiron 7°
November 18th 1998 - New Moon 26° Chiron 23°
In the years between, when Chiron is speeding up or slowing down, the New Moons happen further away from Chiron, and the other moon phases happen conjunct instead.
Chiron’s Message
I like to think of the time celestial objects spend furthest away from the Earth (like planets at their superior conjunctions on the far side of the Sun) as when they are receiving messages they then bring to us. Of course, this is most relevant for Mercury, who makes the trip three times a year.
Chiron is a messenger, too, though, one who brings prescriptions and lessons, especially if you ask. Chiron’s full orbit around the zodiac is ~50 years, a very human length of time.
The Chiron cycle is initiatory and invitational. Because of Chiron’s lopsided orbit, every person’s Chiron cycle is different. Some folks will have long Chiron returns, while some will be shorter but have longer mid-cycle oppositions.
Your Own Chiron Cycle
To dig into what this cycle means for your chart, I’d recommend looking at that for context of Chiron's strange orbit and your own Chiron cycle before working with the dates below.
If your natal Chiron is in Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, or Virgo, you’re in the waning part of your cycle, a process of integration of wisdom gained.
If your natal Chiron is in Libra, you’re in your Chiron opposition, a time of peaks and blossoming, opening and reception to the messages and lessons Chiron can offer.
If your natal Chiron is is Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, or Pisces, you’re in the waxing part of your cycle, new questions and horizons becoming active and clear.
If your natal Chiron is in Aries, congratulations! You’re in your return, the time elders may be made.
Your Chiron & the New Moons Story
Look at what sign and house your natal Chiron is in, then look at the sign and house where Chiron in Aries falls in relation to it.
Also check out your natal Mars, the house and sign it is in.
Advanced: check out the aspect between your natal Chiron and natal Mars, and between your natal Mars and transiting Chiron in Aries.
Your stories of disentangling come from these houses, celestial objects, and their relationship to each other.
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