Chiron leaving Aries- The Wounds, the healing and the wisdom you now carry

If you are an Aries Sun, Moon or Rising, have personal planets in Aries, or were born with Chiron in Aries itself ( 1968- 76)  I want to talk to you about a transit that has quietly but profoundly shaped the last seven years of your life.

On the 20th of June here in Australia, Chiron takes its first steps into Taurus. Now, before any astrologers jump into the comments, yes, I know this isn't the end of the story. Chiron will retrograde back into Aries later this year before finally settling into Taurus in April 2027. This is more of a preview than a permanent move, a glimpse of the next chapter before we return to Aries for one final review.

Yet as this shift approaches, I find myself less interested in what Chiron in Taurus might bring and far more interested in what healing and wisdom Chiron in Aries may have brought us

Chiron first entered Aries in 2018 and re-entered permanently in February 2019. Seven years is a long time. Long enough for lives to change, for relationships to begin and end, for authentic identities to evolve and shift and entirely new versions of ourselves to be born.

For those with strong Aries placements, and particularly for those born with Chiron in Aries between approximately 1968 and 1976, this transit has often felt deeply personal. Many people in that latter group have also been experiencing their Chiron Return, a significant milestone that occurs around the age of fifty and often invites us into a deeper relationship with wounds we might still need to deal with, our healing, our sense of self and ultimately an emergence of our wisdom… hopefully

Before we talk about what Chiron in Aries may have meant, it is probably worth talking about what Chiron actually represents.

In astrology, Chiron points towards places where we may carry a wound, a sensitivity or an area of life that never feels quite as straightforward as we would like it to. Sometimes these wounds arise through childhood experiences. Sometimes they emerge through life circumstance or seem to be woven into the very fabric of who we are.

Yet one of the biggest misconceptions about Chiron is that it is only about pain and wounding but in my experience, Chiron has always been far more interesting than that. What interests me is the wisdom that emerges from our wounds.

Think about the people who have had the greatest capacity to help, guide, support or inspire you. More often than not, they are not the people who have lived perfect lives. They are the people who have lived through something. They have experienced loss, heartbreak, illness, disappointment, failure, uncertainty or adversity and have developed a depth of understanding because of those experiences. That is Chiron.

In mythology, Chiron was a healer, teacher and mentor. In astrology, Chiron often shows us where life initiates us into deeper self-understanding. The wound itself is important, but it is not the destination. The destination is wisdom. This is why I often think of Chiron less as the wounded healer and more as the wise teacher.

If Saturn teaches us through responsibility, Pluto through transformation and Uranus through disruption, then Chiron teaches us through experience.

And that brings us to Aries. What Has Chiron in Aries Been Teaching Us?

Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. It is associated with identity, courage, instinct, action and self-definition. It is the sign that says, "I am."

When Chiron moves through Aries, it tends to expose the places where our sense of self has been wounded. For some people this may have looked like struggles with confidence. For others it may have highlighted a lifelong tendency to seek approval from others rather than trusting themselves. Some people may have found themselves confronting fears around visibility, leadership or being seen. Others may have become increasingly aware of where they have silenced their needs in order to keep the peace, avoid conflict or maintain relationships.

For many, Chiron in Aries has exposed questions such as:

Do I trust myself?

Am I allowed to take up space?

Can I ask for what I need?

Do I have the courage to be who I really am?

Can I honour my instincts even when other people disagree?

These are not small questions and they are not questions that can be answered intellectually, they tend to be answered directly through experience.

The Wounds That May Have Surfaced

Over the past seven years, those with strong Aries placements may have found old wounds resurfacing around:

• Confidence and self-belief to be their true selves

• Being criticised or judged for standing out

• Anger and conflict

• Independence and autonomy

• Trusting their instincts

• Boundaries and self-advocacy

• Fear of rejection

• Fear of failure

• Fear of being "too much"

• Fear of being visible

These wounds may have emerged through relationships, work, family dynamics, self, this does depend on where Chiron sits in your chart but they often emerge through life circumstances that required them to become more honest about who they were and what they truly wanted.

Yet Chiron's purpose is not to expose a wound simply so we can suffer. It exposes a wound so real healing can begin.

The Healing That May Have Taken Place

Healing under Chiron in Aries rarely looks like suddenly becoming fearless. More often it looks like becoming more authentic, learning to trust yourself a little more than you did before, setting boundaries where previously you would have remained silent,  making decisions that honour your needs rather than constantly prioritising everyone else's,  learning that conflict is not always something to avoid and recognising that courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to move forward despite it.

As an astrologer I have witnessed a very strong theme of people becoming more comfortable occupying space in their own lives.

When Chiron Crosses Your Sun, Moon or Ascendant

If Chiron has crossed your Sun, Moon or Ascendant during this transit, you may have felt its effects particularly strongly.

A Chiron-Sun transit often challenges your sense of identity, purpose and confidence. A Chiron-Moon transit can bring old emotional wounds to the surface, inviting deeper emotional healing.

A Chiron-Ascendant transit often feels incredibly personal, affecting how you see yourself, how you show up in the world and sometimes even your relationship with your physical body.

For those experiencing a Chiron Return, the themes can feel even more significant. This is often a period where life asks us to acknowledge not only our wounds but also the wisdom we have gained from living with them.

Questions for Reflection

As Chiron prepares to leave Aries, I invite you to spend some time reflecting on the journey you have travelled since 2018.

• How has your sense of identity changed?

• Where have you become more authentic?

• What aspects of yourself have you reclaimed?

• What have you learned about trusting your instincts?

• Where have you found courage you didn't know you possessed?

• What boundaries have you established that previously felt impossible?

• How has your relationship with anger, conflict or self-advocacy evolved?

• What fears have you faced that once held you back?

• What version of yourself no longer fits who you are today?

• What wisdom have you gained because of what you have lived through?

Because ultimately, I don't think Chiron's greatest gift is healing. I think its greatest gift is wisdom.

As Chiron begins its slow transition into Taurus, the lessons might  shifting from identity to worth,  to embodiment, and discovering how to truly value who we have become.

Before we get there, however, perhaps it is worth pausing for a moment and acknowledging just how far we have come.

Because the wounds may have brought pain, but they have also shaped our wisdom.

And before Chiron turns its attention towards Taurus, perhaps there is one final question worth sitting with:

What part of yourself are you no longer willing to abandon?

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Sagittarius Full Moon: The meaning of meaning in your life?

Do you ever stop and really contemplate what meaning actually means in your life?

Not just what keeps you busy or functioning or distracted day to day, but what genuinely gives your life a sense of purpose, resonance, depth and spiritual aliveness.

As we move toward this Full Moon at 9 degrees of Sagittarius on May 31st here in Australia, I keep returning to this question. Probably because I am a Sagittarius myself and I know just how deeply this archetype longs for truth, meaning, understanding and expansion. Sagittarius is not interested in simply surviving life on the surface. It wants to understand life. It wants to experience life fully enough to extract wisdom from it. It wants to feel connected to something bigger than itself, whether that is philosophy, spirituality, creativity, learning, nature, travel, purpose or simply the feeling that life itself means something.

The Moon in Sagittarius is sitting in beautiful flowing aspects to Neptune, Saturn and Pluto, which adds extraordinary depth, emotional honesty and transformational potential to this lunation. There is something profoundly reflective about this Full Moon. It is not simply about optimism or inspiration, although Sagittarius certainly seeks both. It is about emotional and spiritual alignment and asking whether the life we are living, the beliefs we carry and the direction we are moving toward genuinely resonate with our deeper self.

The Gemini Sun is trining Pluto in Aquarius, creating a powerful backdrop for self-inquiry, deeper conversations and psychological insight. Gemini wants information and perspective. Pluto wants truth so there is an invitation to look beneath the surface narratives and into the deeper motivations, beliefs and patterns shaping our lives.

This Full Moon is a blue moon and follows the Scorpio Full Moon earlier in the month, and I do not think this is insignificant. Scorpio invited us into the underworld of ourselves, into emotional honesty, shadow work and confronting truths we may normally avoid. Sagittarius now asks us what meaning we are making from what we discovered there.

Meaning in our lives does not emerge from bypassing ourselves. Real meaning rarely comes from staying comfortable or attached to simplistic narratives. It often emerges through the willingness to meet ourselves honestly, including our contradictions, fears, wounds and polarities.

And I honestly think one of the deepest threads beneath sadness, disconnection and even depression can sometimes be the loss or absence of meaning, or perhaps also, living inside a meaning that never truly belonged to us in the first place.

So many of us inherit belief systems without questioning them. We inherit ideas about success, relationships, spirituality, purpose, identity and happiness from family, culture, media, religion or now increasingly, the algorithm. We are constantly being told what should matter, what should make us fulfilled and who we should become.

But Sagittarius reminds us that meaning cannot be prescribed, i has to be discovered through lived experience, to be explored, questioned, challenged and ultimately felt within the body and soul as something true and unique to us.

This is why Sagittarius is the philosopher, the seeker, the eternal student and explorer of consciousness. It asks us to expand beyond limitation, beyond certainty, beyond dogma and into a more open and curious relationship with life itself.

And perhaps one of the most important themes under this Full Moon is the integration of polarities, because true meaning is often found in the integration of opposites, the hopeful and grieving parts of ourselves, the strong and vulnerable parts and the part that longs for freedom and adventure and that longs for safety and belonging, the light and the shadow and the certainty and the questioning. All of this and its conscious integration helps us discover true meaning for ourselves

Sagittarius energy at its highest expression is not rigid belief or spiritual superiority. It is the willingness to continue growing, learning and evolving and understanding that wisdom often comes not through certainty, but through remaining open enough to let life transform us.

Jupiter in Cancer Square Chiron – The Emotional Undercurrent

Adding another layer to this Full Moon is the fact that Sagittarius’ ruler, Jupiter, is still in Cancer and squaring Chiron in Aries.

Jupiter in Cancer expands our emotional world, our need for safety, belonging, emotional nourishment and connection to home, family and emotional roots. Yet Chiron in Aries continues to expose wounds around identity, self-trust, autonomy and the courage to fully be ourselves.

There may be an emotional tension emerging between the part of us seeking comfort and emotional security and the part of us being asked to grow into greater self-definition and authenticity.

Old emotional wounds connected to belonging, rejection, visibility or feeling emotionally safe enough to express our truth may rise under this Full Moon. But this is not here to punish you. It is here to show u where healing and deeper self-awareness are needed.

Because healing is not about becoming perfect. It is about becoming more whole.

How To Work With This Full Moon Practically

This Full Moon is not only philosophical or spiritual. It also asks for active reflection and conscious engagement.

Here are some practical ways to work with this energy:

Reflect on Your Beliefs

Spend some time journalling about the beliefs currently shaping your life.

Ask yourself:

• Which beliefs genuinely resonate with me now?

• Which beliefs feel inherited, outdated or fear-based?

• Where might my worldview be limiting my growth or openness?

• What truths am I afraid to fully acknowledge?

Sagittarius asks us to remain intellectually and spiritually honest.

Seek New Perspectives

One of the healthiest expressions of Sagittarius energy is openness to learning.

Read something outside your normal perspective.Have a conversation with someone who sees life differently.Travel somewhere unfamiliar if you can.Watch where defensiveness arises when your beliefs are challenged.

This Full Moosn asks us to grow beyond the echo chambers we often unconsciously create.

Explore Meaning Through Experience

Meaning is not something you think your way into entirely. It is something you live into.

Notice what experiences genuinely make you feel more alive, connected and expanded and what drains your spirit or disconnects you from yourself. Your body and emotional responses often know before your mind does.

Spend Time In Honest Self-Reflection and tap into your deepest beliefs

Because Pluto is so active in this Full Moon, there is an invitation to go deeper psychologically and explore what it is you really believe about yourself, what gives you meaning and how you want to be in the world.

Do not fear your depth. There is wisdom there.

Reconnect To Hope

Sagittarius ultimately reminds us not to lose faith in life itself and to find what expands us and gives us grounded hope, not blind optimism. The understanding that growth, meaning and transformation are always possible, especially when we face difficult life seasons, is often what brings us closer to our spiritual practice that then brings meaning into out lives

A Final Reflection

This Sagittarius Full Moon is ultimately an invitation to reconnect with our own inner truth and a deeper sense of meaning that emerges from knowing ourselves deeply enough to live in alignment with what genuinely resonates within our souls.

So during this Full Moon, spend some time with the meaning of meaning in your own life.

What genuinely makes you feel spiritually alive?What beliefs are evolving?What truths are asking to be lived more honestly? And where is life asking you to grow beyond old limitations and into a more expansive understanding of yourself and the world around you?

Perhaps meaning is not something we find once and hold onto forever but it is something we continually uncover as we grow into deeper relationship with ourselves and with life itself.

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Full Moon in Scorpio — May 2, 2026. The courage to feel what’s real

The courage to feel what’s real

There are moments in the year where the astrology doesn’t just invite reflection… it asks for honesty.

This is one of those moments.

A personal note before we begin…

How often in life are you really honest with yourself? No, I mean really?

You know that feeling where you know you have to face something, a truth or an emotion but you just keep sweeping it under the carpet?

Yep… guilty.

Despite doing the work I do, I am just as good as anyone at being in denial or putting off what might need to be faced. But after my last Saturn return, I vowed I would try at least to not do this anymore and come face to face with my shadows, demons and subconscious drivers.

It has literally changed my life. I would not say I have mastered it, but I sure am working through some stuff and well, once the decision was made it is actually easier than I thought.

Sometimes we just have to do it…and this is one of those times.

We’re moving into the Full Moon in Scorpio on May 2nd here in Australia, sitting at 11 degrees, and there is a palpable intensity to this Moon — a sense that something has been building beneath the surface and is now asking, or perhaps even insisting, to be acknowledged.

This is not a light, surface-level Full Moon. This is one that pulls you inward.

The pressure to feel what’s been held

This Full Moon is charged because the Moon is in a dynamic square to its ruler Pluto, with co-ruler Mars activated in Aries.

And this creates is a kind of emotional pressure — not necessarily dramatic on the outside, but internally, something is shifting. So during this Full Moon we may feel our emotions rising more strongly than usual, a sense that something can no longer be contained or an urge to express, release, or confront something that has been sitting quietly

This is certainly the kind of energy that doesn’t allow you to bypass.

Not everything needs to move toward the light

We often think about growth as something that moves us forward, upward, toward the light.

To heal, evolve and become better, more aligned, more aware.

And yes… there is truth in that. But what this Full Moon reminds us is that growth also happens in the opposite direction in the descent and the quieter, darker corridors of our inner world and the places we don’t always want to go, the feelings we soften or move away from, the truths we sense but don’t always fully let ourselves meet.

This is not about staying in those places and it’s certainly not about reliving or overwhelming yourself but it is about allowing yourself, when it is safe to do so, to turn toward what is there… and to feel it honestly.

The Scorpio invitation: truth, depth, and emotional honesty

Scorpio energy is not interested in surface-level awareness; it wants truth, depth and honesty

It asks:

• What are you avoiding?

• What are you suppressing?

• What have you not fully allowed yourself to feel or admit?

And while that can feel confronting, there is something incredibly liberating about meeting yourself in that space, because when you allow what is there… without rushing to fix it or transcend it…to just sit with it, feel it, something shifts.

There is often:

• an opening

• a realisation

• a quiet release

• or a deeper acceptance of yourself as you are

Not everything needs to be polished or resolved immediately,sometimes the growth is simply in the honest acknowledgement.

Taurus vs Scorpio — holding on vs letting go

Every Full Moon sits across an axis, and here we have the polarity between Taurus and Scorpio.

Taurus seeks stability, comfort, and security.Scorpio seeks truth, transformation, and release.

This creates a tension that many of us will feel:

Where am I holding on… because it feels safe?And where is that safety no longer aligned with truth?

This Moon may ask you to loosen your grip on something:

• a pattern

• a dynamic

• a version of yourself

• or an emotional attachment

Relationships, power, and emotional truth

Scorpio also governs intimacy, vulnerability, and emotional entanglement, so relationship themes may come into focus.

You may notice:

• power dynamics becoming more visible

• deeper emotional truths surfacing

• a need for greater honesty in how you relate

This is not about creating conflict, but it is about seeing more clearly, being honest with yourself and with that, allowing something to transform, deepen, shift or release.

 A mind awakening alongside emotional truth

Adding another layer to all of this is Uranus, which has just entered Gemini.

This is a significant collective shift.

It brings:

• new perspectives

• sudden realisations

• shifts in how we think, communicate, and understand ourselves

So what we are experiencing now is emotional truth meeting mental awakening.

You may not only feel something deeply… you may also understand it differently.

And that combination can be incredibly powerful.

How to work with this Full Moon

Rather than trying to “move through” this quickly, consider allowing yourself to be with it.

Some ways to work with this energy:

• Give yourself space without constant distraction

• Journal honestly about what is coming up beneath the surface

• Notice where you are holding on out of fear

• Sit with your emotions without needing to immediately change them

• Ask yourself: what is this moment actually asking me to feel?

Your growth will not always come from staying in the light.

Sometimes it comes from your willingness…to sit in the dark for a moment…and discover that there is something there for you that you could not access any other way. This is about conscious awareness.

If this Full Moon is stirring something in you… if you can feel that there is more beneath the surface that is asking to be understood… you don’t have to navigate that alone.

Your chart holds the map to why this is coming up for you, where it’s asking for your attention, and how to work with it in a way that feels supportive rather than overwhelming.

If you’re ready to meet yourself more honestly, more deeply, and with guidance…you can book a personal reading with me here: www.aspectastrology.com.au