“There are more things in heaven and Earth… than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” (Shakespeare) This week is a special occasion of each of our inner planets – Mercury, Mars, and Venus – forming aspect to the wounding/healing asteroid Chiron. Chiron is a very deep archetype that relates to the medicine and wisdom we find in the places that are also our pain points or painful initiations. Thus transits related to Chiron can bring up unpleasant, painful places, as it can also bring healing to those places. Chiron is not just a healer but a philosopher, and we may look to this as a teaching that we also need philosophies to mediate our painful experiences. (If you want to learn more about Chiron, you can read an article I wrote about it here). Some of the mental, emotional, and spiritual pain we experience in this life is so deeply instinctual, and until we have concepts and symbols to interpret it (like astrology, tarot, psychology, etc – any healing art), we are bound to it in a much different way than when we have some kind of story to diffract its rawness, and to catch a breath of clear air. When we […]