{"id":49757,"date":"2013-01-28T21:35:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinnerwheel.com\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2013-01-28T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:35:21","slug":"the-endless-hunger-of-chironmoon-part-two-hunger-and-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=49757","title":{"rendered":"The Endless Hunger of Chiron\/Moon: Part Two, Hunger and \u2018Other\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is no accident that human beings seek security.\u00a0 It goes beyond the primal survival needs to something very basic.\u00a0 The Aries point at the Ascendant represents our entry into time and space\u2014otherwise known as the \u2018material world.\u2019\u00a0 It is representative of \u2018the One\u2019, the birth of a unique consciousness from that mass soup of universal mind.\u00a0 However, \u2018the One,\u2019 if it were complete within itself, would not move forward, would not seek out.\u00a0 It is the separative aspect of the human condition on the material plane that makes us seek out our mirror selves in Libra.\u00a0 We operate, in our lifetimes, within a duality and with a dualistic mind\u2014there is \u2018Self,\u2019 and there is \u2018Other.\u2019\u00a0 There is \u2018me in here\u2019 and \u2018you out there.\u2019\u00a0 The seeking of \u2018Other\u2019 is in fact the urge towards growth, to unite with what we have (apparently) been split away from via our material birth.\u00a0 What we are actually seeking is our lost \u201cSelf,\u201d our divine \u2018Other half,\u2019 the thing that will replace this perpetual ache of feeling trapped alone in this prison of a material universe.\u00a0 It is, of course, a myth and an illusion that we can be completed by something outside ourselves, because we are divine within ourselves.\u00a0 (Dorothy has the ability to click her ruby slippers and go \u2018home\u2019 all the while.) We forget that, however, once we are born into this dog eat dog world that is our initial perception of everyday reality.<\/p>\n

In seeking our lost divinity, and the divinity of the material world itself, it is no surprise that we turn our potential partners into gods.\u00a0 The search for transcendence and the search for true partnership have only a soupcon of difference between them.\u00a0 The bursting of the illusions surrounding partnership, or our notions of partnership in this culture at this time, provide the first steps of spiritual seeking for many, the grist for the mill towards an awakened consciousness.\u00a0 When we find that the partner who promised to be the divine entity, the symbol of wholeness and perfection, the great healer of our psychic wound, turns out to be just an ordinary shlub with feet of clay, we can see for the first time that there is a plan for us beyond fulfilling the desires of the ego.\u00a0 If we pursue our spiritual path further, we begin to discover that the entire universe may be within us.<\/p>\n

The Chiron myth is the story of one who sacrificed his \u2018lesser\u2019 life (the mortal existence) for a greater one (his immortality).\u00a0 However, that version of the story is a bit twisted, because Chiron didn\u2019t actually know that he would become immortal and join his pals on Olympus.\u00a0 He was half god\/half man, but he still didn\u2019t have a clue what would happen.\u00a0 He simply threw himself into the fray with all good intentions.\u00a0 Chiron is where we throw ourselves into the fire without ever knowing what will come of it.\u00a0 This is particularly true of Chiron in relationships, where the discovery of our own immortality is a long and painful process, in spite of our best intent.\u00a0 This is particularly true of Chiron\/Moon, where the sense of belonging and security is fractured and we are eventually forced to vanquish our cherished notion that belonging and intimacy will save us.<\/p>\n

When Chiron\/Moon is within a chart, the hunger for divinity is strong and there is a longing to make up for the emotional deprivations of early years.\u00a0 When Chiron touches the Moon the hunger for partnership can be almost physical.\u00a0 Imagine what happens when Chiron\/Moon is between charts, when either party can take the role of divinity and neither party knows what\u2019s coming.\u00a0 The Moon is always hungry, and Chiron is always primed to provide the lessons the Moon hungers for.<\/p>\n

With Moon\/Chiron between charts, both people need healing, though both may not be aware of it.\u00a0 Chiron may be pulled to use its healing powers on the Moon, who may be needy in many ways (whose Moon isn\u2019t wounded in some way?).\u00a0 Chiron may long to heal the Moon\u2019s hard relationship to an outer planet, or a retrograde Saturn.\u00a0 Chiron will respond to the Moon\u2019s inner child and sense all that it needs.\u00a0 This urge to heal \u2018other\u2019 is, of course, reflective of Chiron\u2019s need to heal itself and its own longing.\u00a0 The Moon person may be assuaged at first, and may be thrilled at having its deepest needs met.\u00a0 Chiron\/Moon contacts bring out the \u201cI can\u2019t believe it, I\u2019ve never felt this way before\u2026\u201d element in relationships.\u00a0 To the Moon person, the Chiron person seems like the Wise One, his Cave the refuge and safety they\u2019ve never had.\u00a0 Someone finally \u2018gets\u2019 them, because Chiron \u2018gets\u2019 everything.\u00a0 However, the first seeds of suspicion are often sown when the Moon person feels as if Chiron is stifling its growth.\u00a0 Contrary to popular belief, the Moon is not always happy staying in a Cancerian pool of safety.\u00a0 The initiating, cardinal-mode power of the Moon is towards manifestation; it wants to give birth, wants to reproduce itself and its experiences of life.\u00a0 It wants to replicate its interior life in the exterior world.\u00a0 How can it do that if Chiron is taking charge, and handing it everything before the Moon even knows it needs it?<\/p>\n

Chiron, on the other hand, may not feel it is worthy of this profound love.\u00a0 Chiron will give itself completely, without caring for the consequences, because it is after a kind of sacrifice of the lower self, and when Chiron\/Moon contacts are profound it will do this via relationship.\u00a0 It is a bit like Mars\/Moon contacts, with the lure being not pure sex, but healing.\u00a0 All Chiron contacts between charts can lead to otherworldly experiences via sexual contact\/desire and it is usually the Chiron person who will have the transcendent experiences due to the profound nature of their love.\u00a0 The love of other can literally take them out of their bodies to experience this love on other levels and planes of existence.\u00a0 This can be where the Chiron person goes wrong by declaring the other person an immortal god, not realizing its own immortality.\u00a0 The intense connection that we feel in Chiron relationships is the connection with the divine via the other, not by the other.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Chiron\/Moon between charts can be highly erotic.\u00a0 Chiron itself is very sexual, but in a tantric way.\u00a0 It understands that spirit is what makes the motion in the ocean.\u00a0 Chiron is directly concerned with the distribution of kundalini throughout the body via the chakra system.\u00a0 Chiron\/Moon sex is never casual\u2014even in the briefest encounter, it will affect the body with its transforming and connecting energy.\u00a0 The lure of a Chiron\/Moon contact is in its promise of completion via this energy: it will connect the masculine and feminine halves of the whole.<\/p>\n

Chiron, always the outsider, is always looking for a place to belong.\u00a0 When Chiron meets the Moon, that sense of \u2018home\u2019 in \u2018other\u2019 can be overwhelming.\u00a0 The Moon person can be seen as a refuge for all of Chiron\u2019s pain and inadequacy.\u00a0 The Moon is made to feel secure by Chiron\u2019s wounded state\u2014they may not be consciously aware of it, but the inner script is, \u201cThis person is so crippled he\/she will never leave me.\u201d\u00a0 This is often wonderful at first.\u00a0 And then, depending on the amount of freedom the chart requires, things will change.<\/p>\n

This can be quite tragic, because both are clinging for the wrong reasons, and both are preventing the other\u2019s growth.\u00a0 It can be quite difficult to encourage growth with Chiron\/Moon, because the familiarity of the pain is what keeps them together.\u00a0 Actual healing may not actually be wanted.<\/p>\n

The other thing that goes wrong in Chiron\/Moon relationships is that the Chiron person often takes the lead and becomes the teacher and leader.\u00a0\u00a0 There can be a tremendous amount of co-dependence in a Chiron\/Moon relationship, as the Chiron person may always know best, (or seem to) and tries to lead the relationship in a particular way, even without knowing it.\u00a0 The Moon person begins to resent the \u2018teacher\/student\u2019 relationship; and the once-revered guru\/healer may turn into an oppressor.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Eventually, the Chiron person causes the Moon person to feel unmoored and lose the sense of inner \u2018home\u2019 that causes us to feel confident and independent.\u00a0 At some point the Moon person leaves, or confronts Chiron with its behavior.\u00a0 The Chiron person may often focus on the relationship as a substitute for facing its own fears and being responsible for its own growth.\u00a0 It is particularly prone to relationship dramas that get it off the \u2018hook\u2019 of self-examination, preferring to get caught in the drama of self-sacrifice and immolation rather than take a cold, concrete look at what is holding it back.\u00a0 Intimacy can be a hypnotic lure, but is a poor substitute for the courage it takes to turn an immature Chiron into a mature one.\u00a0 With Chiron\/Moon, there is a particular danger that the physical part of the relationship becomes a drug whereby we intoxicate one another without really learning anything.<\/p>\n

As happens with all Chiron contacts in synastry, but particularly with Chiron\/Moon, there is a tendency for the Chiron person to choose a partner who is not an equal in terms of spiritual evolution and understanding. Chiron does this because he or she is not yet aware of his or her own divine power and spiritual perspective.\u00a0 Or the spirituality may be considered peripheral, and not central to daily life.\u00a0 When we choose partners who are not on our spiritual level, we are always unhappy and restless, something is not quite right.\u00a0 We may begin to feel that our partners are beneath us in some way, or lacking in awareness and\/or perception.\u00a0 Circumstances will intervene where we begin to understand that this partner is not the right partner, that we have moved on in some way and need to find more appropriate partners who will appreciate us for who we are, not who we were, a product of past wounding.\u00a0 We may choose to sacrifice ourselves for the relationship, but this impulse does not often last. Chiron can waste a lot of time worshipping at the wrong altar, and suffer the heartbreak and delusion of having its eyes opened too late.\u00a0 That heady feeling of mutual belonging in the beginning can dwindle to \u2018what was I thinking?\u2019 very quickly once the observation is made.\u00a0 The problem with Chiron is that it may stay\u2014Chiron bonds, once created, are notoriously difficult to extricate ourselves from.\u00a0 Chiron is tempted to squeeze out every last drop of wisdom before the ties are cut.<\/p>\n

The odd thing about Chiron contacts in synastry, and especially Chiron\/Moon, is that the trines and sextiles are often no better than the squares and oppositions, except for the fact that the two people move into the relationship faster and are quicker to learn the lessons involved, thereby releasing themselves more easily.\u00a0 When Chiron is in hard aspect, there seems to be more compulsion involved, more tension, and a more extreme relationship experience.\u00a0 Healing is available in all aspects, but with the hard aspects there is a higher price to pay.<\/p>\n

The best part about Chiron\/Moon is the ability to heal even the deepest psychological, sexual and sometimes physical, wounds.\u00a0 The Moon person may instinctively know how to help Chiron understand its talents and bring them out into the world.\u00a0 Chiron needs, above all, to understand that it is a vessel through which divinity pours, and the Moon instinctively has the trust that allows this to happen.\u00a0 Chiron stops sacrificing itself, and begins to use its talents in new ways.\u00a0 The Moon is enlightened by the relationship, reminded that divinity resides in the smallest crumb of life.\u00a0 Both can be rescued from the compulsive drive to \u2018other\u2019 and be made to understand, through observation, mutual respect, that we are within ourselves complete.\u00a0 At best, Chiron\/Moon feeds the god within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  It is no accident that human beings seek security.\u00a0 It goes beyond the primal survival needs to something very basic.\u00a0 The Aries point at the Ascendant represents our entry into time and space\u2014otherwise known as the \u2018material world.\u2019\u00a0 It is representative of \u2018the One\u2019, the birth of a unique consciousness from that mass soup […]<\/p>\n

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