Today I was talking to someone who adopts “rescue-dogs” and she was mentioning how they still get triggered (responding to perceived danger/threat) even years later.
Certain physical gestures (probably tones of voice too) can bring them back, psychologically, to the hard times.
They’re wounded and I thought to myself “Chiron dogs.” We’re all Chiron dogs. We’ve all got Chiron somewhere. We all get triggered.
I was writing about this the other day: that if Chiron in the chart shows where you canNOT be completely healed, then what?
I forget who I was reading. Howard Sasportas I think — that you CAN heal the Saturn pains in your chart. But with Chiron? The gift that keeps on giving 😉
What is the solution? Love? Is that always the solution? Patience? Ask yourself: what does my such and such (insert personal chart details here) Chiron need to feel safe? How do you stop the triggers from… not triggering you, but… stop them from doing damage to your heart and self-esteem.
That person you think is hurting you may not really be intentionally hurting you but somehow, someway, reminding you of an old pain. When you feel hurt, leap to unpack it, rather than leap to return the hurt. Now THAT is one way to work with Chiron. Not easy to leap out of Chiron-mind but worthwhile.
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Someone hurt my feelings today but I can choose. I can choose whether to have this person in my life and if so what role they will play. I can choose whether their traits are too… whatever... for me. You do make choices, don’t you? About what you allow in your life?
I get hurt in intimate situations. I just do. Chiron in the 8th House. Get close to me and you will not be rewarded with a cookie. You’ll get other stuff but not so many cookies.
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Transiting Chiron is in Pisces. Transiting Neptune is in Pisces. These fellows are in the early degrees of Pisces. Where they are traveling in your chart will be where you feel, at times, vulnerable and, at times, confused. Mystical. Mystified. And ouch ouch ouch it hurts. Touch at your own risk. You may get bit.
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What does a dog need? Structure, right? Saturn. Exercise. Mars. And love from others and I want to call this love from others, the ability to reliably love, as a Sun issue, not a Venus issue (Venus is usually identified as the “love planet.”)
So try this at home, folks, with your Chiron. Give him something to do. Give him a routine. Food, shelter, hugs. Definitely hug your Chiron dogs. Yeah, you could have more than one, a whole litter maybe…
Revisit your natal Chiron to find out what you should be doing.
Love, MP
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9 thoughts on “Chiron Dogs”
I love my rescue babies! My quadru-ped childen are my favorite as my bi-ped children can irritate me to no end.
Chiron is fascinating to me and the recent discoveries of my wound (thank you very much btw) will help alieviate the desire to feel so tweaked you want to wound back.
GREAT post and this prompts some great questions.
I love dogs. And horses. I’m allergic to cats but I like them from a distance. This resonated for me in a strange way. I’ve never thought of myself as being similar to a dog but maybe that’s what Chiron feels like. I have Chiron in Aries, 4th house, conjunct the IC. This Chiron squares my sun but trines mars and my ascendant. For me the pain comes from not giving up and I will never give up on my 4th house. Even if I thought I could, I wouldn’t want to. It isn’t always black & white; there have been horrors but also happiness. Maybe Chiron is where you don’t get to give up. Every time I’ve run into trouble, I’ve learned something valuable and I’ve used those lessons to heal myself and other people. Literally and figuratively. I feel the trines and I think maybe I just have to keep an open mind and an open heart and be grateful that compassion isn’t as hard as it might seem (another Chiron lesson). Animals (dogs & horses at least) want love & attention & affection- they aren’t dumb but they aren’t as neurotic as us and they keep at it. Oprah had a show about a program where inmates serving very long sentences were recruited (voluntarily) to train service dogs for veterans suffering from PTSD. We heard all about the prisoners and all about the veterans and how beneficial it all was. Nobody mentioned the dogs. It was clear that they were handled with love and dignity by everyone involved and I think that’s what animals deserve but I don’t think the dogs didn’t notice. They lived with the prisoners 24/7 as soon as they were weaned. The prisoners were visibly upset to lose the dogs after training them. A month later the dogs were doing well with veterans and the prisoners had new puppies. It was painful and productive and I don’t think I could do it. But I do. When I don’t have the same choices as other people for whatever reasons, I do the best I can with what I’ve got. It’s definitely a bleak analogy but that’s how Chiron feels to me; I don’t get to win where he is because I can’t forget but I can choose to forgive and use what I know or I can continue to focus on the pain and hurt other people. I didn’t always feel that way but I’m beginning to believe that Saturn as a chart ruler means you won’t get to keep anything worth having until you are able to appreciate it.
love what you have to say here!
Chiron/Ceres/Sun in the 6th. I don’t get to give up on myself.
I have rescue dogs too, and once again, a rescue cat. I love them – they and my family are my life – but I was offended last year, when someone told me that I should be happy loving my family and my pets, that I shouldn’t need the love of a man, or need to love one. I’m not feeling so needy in that way now, but I’m still offended by what he said – especially since he claimed to be in love, in a committed relationship, with a woman he claimed earlier in the year had “saved” him. But me? I’m not supposed to want what other women want. I was angry that I felt the need so strongly, that it affected my self-esteem, when it hadn’t in the past, and angry with myself for not just getting it when I was younger: that I’m not supposed to want what other people want. I’m expected to suck it up and not need what is considered to be a normal human desire for so many people (Aries Sun, Moon/Venus/South Node in Gemini – NN in Sadge, I’m supposed to learn new things, take chances and put them into action – or to tell those people to got to hell. I noticed that people who thought so poorly of me last year, were happily partnered, and had those partners to fall back on – they were there for as long as they live, whereas I, once again, am supposed to not need that.)
i’ve got 3 rescues. i used to have a big magnetic paw that stuck on my car, it said ‘who rescued who’ but it fell off. its true that they rescued me by making me laugh and keeping me company’ i tell people i’m alone but never lonely 🙂
Oh my Gosh, you took this post right out of my brain. Hahaha!
Love your insight!
perfect timing, i say, as i was just sitting here pondering my chiron return which is a degree or two from exact and also conjunct my natal sun. i’m feeling wounded wounded wounded all the live long day these days… kinda like the 10 of swords card… but standing up! LOL!
i’ve spent a lot of time lately feeling hurt by particular folks, but suspecting it was just old wounds bleeding again. thanks for the reminder!
perfect… i needed this. now i can try to attend to my dogs. 🙂
I’m glad I was on time for you 🙂 Seems to be going around….. ….. ….