The wounded healer
Chiron, in mythology, is the wounded healer.
Mythology pushes things to the extreme, so the fact that the wound can't be cured in the myth should not scare us. Myths are stories.
When we are wounded, especially psychologically, we learn a lot; pain is has always been a great motivation to try to understand what's going on.
Mythology pushes things to the extreme, so the fact that the wound can't be cured in the myth should not scare us. Myths are stories.
When we are wounded, especially psychologically, we learn a lot; pain is has always been a great motivation to try to understand what's going on.
The more we try to understand the more we know, and before we are able to sort out our own problems, we become able to understand and help those who have
similar problems, but not as deeply as ourselves...
The psychotherapist or healer may have great difficulties in their personal life. If they have a healthy attitude, they won't hold others responsible, they won't play victim or use all kinds of unhealthy coping mechanism which would make them toxic...
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| This Buddha feels like Chiron don't you think? |
The psychotherapist or healer may have great difficulties in their personal life. If they have a healthy attitude, they won't hold others responsible, they won't play victim or use all kinds of unhealthy coping mechanism which would make them toxic...
That's a risk on the healing path.
Hopefully, like Chiron in the myth, healers will expand their knowledge and awareness, but unlike Chiron, hopefully, will be able to heal their wounds... or at least, to "heal them enough"...
Chiron has been hit in the thigh by an arrow poisoned with the blood of the Hydra.
The Hydra was this monster that lived in a swamp. Its symbolism is connected with the Water element: feelings, emotions and the unconscious.
Hopefully, like Chiron in the myth, healers will expand their knowledge and awareness, but unlike Chiron, hopefully, will be able to heal their wounds... or at least, to "heal them enough"...
Those who are so wounded that nobody on earth can help them have to find their own way, and if they find it, they become blessings...
In some way, this it true for everyone of us. Sharing our intimacy, not only physically but emotionally at the deepest level is opening a door to a place no one could access without being invited. Is it even possible? Our mother may have known this place well, once upon a time, even though, even mothers can't always know what's going on in the mystery of the innermost place of their babies... Mothers are human beings, they have their own problems and limitations.
Within ourselves is our psychological home. There is a front door which can be open to others... or not.
If our wounds make us close that door once and for all we're locked up inside. The Great Spirit may be the only possible first guest to bring our isolation to an end.
"In the thigh" may well mean in the genitals. It's certainly not too far!
Sexuality involves the ability to approach another human being and therefore requires self worth and acceptance, ability to master emotions, ability to communicate, self care, social skills, energy, health.....
The Hydra was this monster that lived in a swamp. Its symbolism is connected with the Water element: feelings, emotions and the unconscious.
To fight the Hydra, the method was very similar to what is told in Vampires tales: in some versions, it's about hitting the heart - which means pointing at the core truth hiding behind layers of defence mechanisms. In other versions of the myth of Chiron, he has to drag the monster into the light - which is also a way to kill vampires, and a symbol for bringing clear consciousness to whatever hides in the unconscious dark. 
Chiron has been poisoned with the blood of the Hydra: Chiron's problem has come in his own blood, as intimate to his being as can be.
To understand particular placements, we simply need to understand what the sign, house or aspecting planets mean and what happens when wounding and healing happen at that level...
Chiron has been poisoned with the blood of the Hydra: Chiron's problem has come in his own blood, as intimate to his being as can be.
To understand particular placements, we simply need to understand what the sign, house or aspecting planets mean and what happens when wounding and healing happen at that level...
Jean-Marc Pierson
Blog posts written between 2017 and spring 2021 have become a book: Planets, houses and signs. You can order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0948JY5W1
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