Centaur Keywords for Astrological Interpretation

Asbolus #8405

Keywords

development of and use of full intuitive faculties (from the Centaur Report)

Chariklo #10199

Keywords

Assessing personal boundaries, both psychologically and energetically (from the Centaur Report
Holding Space

Chiron #2060

Keywords

Alternative medicine
Bridge
Chronic pain
Coping
Damage / Hit points
Exhaustion
Fatigue
Guide
Hands, healing hand (Cheiron means 'hand')
Healing & Wholeness
Healing psychic wounds of rejection, restoring spirit to body (from the Centaur Report)
Identity crisis?
Injury
Key
Learning
Loophole
Maverick
Mentor / Teacher - and having your pupils turn against you, even if it's unintentional on their part
Putting the 'Chiron' in chronic pain
Quest
Reaching the limit of your abilities & realizing it's time to move on from a particular path, calling, or profession
Rejection by your parents
'Right to die' issues
Unsolvable problem
Worn out
Wounded

Many of the Chiron keywords above generously supplied by Zane B. Stein, from his book, Essence and Application: A View from Chiron.

Myth

Centaur
Shot by his pupil, Heracles, with an arrow poisoned with the blood of the Hydra
He was shot in either the foot or the thigh
Spent the rest of his life trying to alleve the pain of the wound
He willingly gave up immortality to die and escape chronic pain

Relations

Associate of the Centaurs: Pholus, Nessus
Father of Euippe
Grandson of Uranus
Husband of Chariklo
Son of Saturn (Cronus, Chronos, Kronos)
Son of Philyra
Teacher of heroes (Asclepius, Aristaeus, Actaeon, Achilles, Jason, Medus) Source
Victim of the Hydra. The arrow that hit Chiron was poisoned with the Hydra's blood (each time you cut one of the Hydra's heads off, two new heads grow).

Chiron is both a minor planet and a comet. It is located between Saturn and Uranus. Chiron takes about 50 years to make one complete cycle through all the signs of the zodiac. Chiron is in Libra for the shortest amount of time – 1.5 years; and in Aries the longest – about 8 years.

Resources

View references and resources for Chiron

Cyllarus #52975

Keywords

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Cyllarus Centaur #52975

Myth

Centaur

Relations

Centaur
Husband of Hylonome

Ixion #28978

Other Names

Myths

Centaur
Killed his bride's (Dia) parent (Eioneus) on their wedding day
Made passes at Zeus's (Jupiter) wife (Juno/Hera) after being invited to dinner, when no one else liked him
- Jupiter created a cloud that looked like Juno instead, and Ixion fell for it
  - the fake Juno became a real being named Nephele, and gave birth to Centaurus, an ancestor of Chiron
- Jupiter punished Ixion by binding him to a fiery wheel that never stopped rolling across the sky