The astrological centaurs have been speaking up quite a bit lately — Chiron, Pholus, and Nessus in particular.
They have been loud and disruptive, as centaurs can be, and asking me to look a little deeper. So, I’ve been following this thread and weaving with them, and breathing their stories into living consciousness. I’ve been feeling surprised and ignited by all they have to say and have felt compelled to share my findings with you as well.
In this newsletter and podcast episode, I am starting a mini-series deep diving into the Creative Rites of the Centaurs and how they have more to offer us than their “Wounds”. The astrological Centaurs are powerful, intricate Weavers and if we’re looking closely enough at their myths, they call us to become Weavers, too.
In a recent conversation with friend and astrologer, Sabrina Monarch, I was reminded that Chiron had a full, boyount, entire, sexy life before he was wounded by Hercules’ poisoned arrow. And the fact that the way that all of modern astrology tends to reduce him to his wound is a reflection of how we reduce ourselves to “what happened to us”, too.
Astrologically, Chiron holds the moniker of “Wounded Healer” in the chart. And everytime we talk about him, we furrow our brows and get really serious and quiet because secretly we all think of Chiron as a little bit of a *victim*. And we get all sensitive, avoidant, and prickly about it.
We reduce the placement of Chiron down to the part of us that is most wounded with a throw away invitation to “try to find and meaning” for the core wound through “sacrificial service”.
But this reduction of Chiron never felt complete to me.
This reduction of Chiron to the Wounded Healer never felt like an honest ID. It has always felt devoid of true context (you know, all the stuff that happened *before* and *after* the “wound” occurred) and devoid of any honest understanding of his mythocultural role and presence in the Greek pantheon.
I also believe that this reduction removes us from the true wisdom that Chiron wants to offer us as the Sensei of Heroes and Gods. It’s time to give Chiron his flowers. Honey, he is not your victim. He is not your thin-voiced, boundariless, sacrificial healer. Chiron is a wild demigod. Adopted and raised by the luminaries. A keeper of the esoteric / hidden histories, wisdoms, and alchemies of the gods. Chiron is an OG Elder standing at the threshold between life and death. Chiron is a necromancer, earth whisperer, and a mf wizard, as well.
Chiron knows what tf he’s doing.
Here’s the story:
Chiron is born and abandoned.
Chiron is adopted by the sun and the moon, Apollo and Artemis.
Chiron is found to be gifted in arts, philosophy, medicine and encouraged.
Chiron becomes a teacher and mentor to heroes and gods.
One of Chiron’s *beloved!* students, Hercules, comes for a visit.
Hercules (dumba**) stirs up some shit with his recklessness (typical).
The centaurs erupt in violent aggression fighting for the magic wine that Hercules was not supposed to touch or open.
Hercules fights them back with arrows poisoned by the venom of Hydra, Hera’s late little pet.
Chiron comes out of his to see what tf is going on and one of Hercules’ poisoned arrows accidentally hits Chiron in the thigh.
Chiron cannot heal himself from this wound because of its divine nature. Plus, he is a demigod and cannot die so he lives for a little while in agony and annoyance.
Eventually Chiron proposes to Zeus / Jupiter, the king of the gods, to trade his immortality for Prometheus’ life—Prometheus’ who was destined to live his immortality on top of a mountain and having his liver eaten out of him everyday because he gave humans the gift of fire.
Chiron trades places with Prometheus and dies after the first liver pluck.
Chiron is immortalized by Zeus within the constellation of Centuarus for his honor and legacy.
Now, let me ask you a question.
Where in this story is Chiron identifying as a victim?
Nowhere.
Sure. He was wounded. Maybe even annoyed.
But it doesn’t become his whole identity. He stays in his essence. He weaves liberation, new beginnings, and new futures.
Instead of becoming a victimeto his student’s aggression, he stays a Weaver laying down the mythic templates for regenerative consciousness, transmutation, internal alchemy, and forgiveness.
And these are the templates we are being offered by Chiron if we can allow ourselves to see them.
Inside of Weavers, we’re not here to nurse wounds indefinitely or stay loyal to an old self that was shaped by other people’s chaos and pain. We’re here to remember. To retrieve. To rewrite. We’re here to allow the wound become a mirror for alchemical process, inviting us to become who we were always meant to be.
Weavers is a three-month container for visionaries, creators, and mystics ready to transmute personal karma into creative power. We work with subconscious repatterning, mythic maps, and soul-led embodiment to access new timelines and new futures.
In a way, Chiron is one of our guides.
If you feel the pull, if your body recognizes this as truth, abd if something in you is tired of circling the same wound and ready to move into a more liberating expression of the Soul Self, then you are invited.
Explore Weavers here.
Doors are open now. We begin on May 4th.
with care,
Daje Aloh
