“Home sings me of sweet things
My life there has its own wings
To fly over the mountains
Though I’m standing still.” Bonnie Raitt
“Healing is a journey deep within oneself- a search for soul, the essence of the self. It seeks to balance the inner and outer worlds, to connect and to integrate. Healing is the reuniting of the body, mind and spirit.” Diane Mariechild
The Sun entered the sign of Cancer on Sunday at the time of the Summer Solstice. Cancer’s symbol is the crab who carries her home on her back and retreats into it when necessary. It is the sign of home, of nurturing and mothering. The Sun will transit this sign through the 22nd of July.
Chiron, the asteroid of the Wounded Healer departed the sign of Aries last week and entered the sign of Taurus for a brief stint through September when it will retrograde back into Aries until the Spring.
Chiron governs the evolutionary journey towards wholeness of body, mind and spirit. The process involves healing and growing from old wounds in a way that creates increased inner harmony and peace.
The sign of Taurus governs our values and what we value. It governs the material side of life, the body , the senses and the things that bring us pleasure and a sense of security. It governs self esteem and the things we own. Chiron in Taurus brings an opportunity to attend to and grow in a direction of increased wholeness in these realms of life.
The Three of Pentacles is a card in the Tarot deck that I think is a good symbol for the kind of wholeness created through the Chironic journey.
Waite’s deck portrays a painting of three men inside a cathedral. One is the carpenter, one the architect and one the priest working to build the cathedral. They represent the body, the mind and the spirit working together in harmony.
One of the Sabian symbols for this time is, “A clear mountain stream flows steadily downstream.”