Chiron

hat tip: Many/most of the key-words you see in this section of the brain database were taken from Jessica Davidson.

via JessicaDavidson.co.uk :

Creative Expression:

• Healing presence
• Kind
• Caring
• Teacher
• Mentor

Destructive Expression:

• Suffering
• Wounded
• Alienated
• Outsider
• Scapegoat

source: https://jessicadavidson.co.uk/2014/12/18/astrological-keywords-for-the-planets-chiron/

Chiron in Houses of Astrology (Ultimate Guide)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240121072212/https://wisdomtavern.com/chiron-in-houses-astrology/

Chiron (in Aspect, Houses, Signs, Transit)

https://cafeastrology.com/chiron.html

Chiron (in Signs & Houses)

https://www.yourtango.com/zodiac/chiron-meaning-astrology

Chiron (in Signs & Houses)

https://www.lookupthestars.com/post/chiron-in-the-natal-chart-what-hurts

Chiron (in Houses)

https://www.tumblr.com/delaneydiaries/630751092043628544/chiron-and-childhood-trauma

GEMATRIA:

"Chiron" = 40 (Full Reduction) & 67 (English Ordinal) & 64 (Jewish Ordinal) & 37 (Jewish Reduction)

"Hanged Man" = 40 (Full Reduction) & 67 (English Ordinal) & 64 (Jewish Ordinal) & 37 (Jewish Reduction)

• “The Hanged Man” is the 12th Tarot Card

"Wounded Healer" = 63 (Full Reduction) & 63 (Reverse Full Reduction) [symmetry] ---> 6+3= 9

• “The Hermit” is the 9th Tarot Card

"Chiron was a wise teacher and healer, and was also considered a maverick who went his own way."

souce: https://cafeastrology.com/chiron.html

"Yes, Chiron was indeed a centaur in Greek mythology¹². Unlike other centaurs who were often depicted as wild and savage, Chiron was known for his wisdom, knowledge of medicine, and civilized nature¹⁵⁶. He was often depicted differently from other centaurs, with his front legs being human rather than equine, which set him apart and highlighted his unique lineage¹².

Chiron was the son of the Titan Cronus and the Oceanid Philyra¹²⁴⁵, which made him different from other centaurs. He was known for his teaching ability and had many famous students, including Achilles and Jason⁴⁶. His skills and knowledge were so vast that they included medicine, herbs, music, archery, hunting, gymnastics, and prophecy¹.

So, Chiron was not just a centaur, but the wisest and justest of all the centaurs¹³."

Source: Conversation with Copilot, 7/28/2024

(1) Chiron - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiron

(2) Chiron - Greek Mythology. https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Chiron/chiron.html

(3) Chiron | Centaur, Healer, Teacher | Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chiron-Greek-mythology

(4) Chiron - Wise Centaur of Greek Mythology | Mythology.net. https://mythology.net/greek/greek-creatures/chiron/

(5) Chiron - World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/Chiron/

(6) Chiron: The Wise Centaur of Greek Mythology and His Legacy. https://symbolsage.com/chiron-greek-mythology/

via Britannica.com :

"Chiron, icy small body orbiting the Sun in the outer solar system among the giant planets. Once thought to be the most distant known asteroid, Chiron is now believed to have the composition of a comet nucleus—i.e., a mixture of water ice, other frozen gases, organic material, and silicate dust.

Chiron was discovered in 1977 by the American astronomer Charles Kowal and classified as an asteroid with the number 2060. It is about 200 km (125 miles) in diameter and travels in an unstable, eccentric orbit that crosses that of Saturn and passes just inside that of Uranus with a period of 50.45 years. In 1989 American astronomers Karen Meech and Michael Belton detected a fuzzy luminous cloud around Chiron. Such a cloud, termed a coma, is a distinguishing feature of comets and consists of gases and entrained dust escaping from the cometary nucleus when sunlight causes its ices to sublimate. Given Chiron’s large distance from the Sun, the sublimating ices are likely far more volatile substances than water ice, such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. On the basis of that discovery, Chiron was reclassified as a comet. Additional study of historical observations showed that Chiron was active in the past, including at the time of its discovery in 1977. Subsequently, additional asteroid-size icy bodies in orbits that cross those of the outer planets were discovered and given the class name Centaur objects. Several of them have also displayed sporadic cometlike activity."

source: https://www.britannica.com/science/comet-astronomy/History    by Armand H. Delsemme & Paul Weissman

via AstronomyNow.com: 

"[...]Catching a shadow

Chiron, discovered in 1977, was the first planetary body categorised as a centaur, after the mythological Greek creature — a hybrid of man and beast. Like their mythological counterparts, centaurs are hybrids, embodying traits of both asteroids and comets. Today, scientists estimate there are more than 44,000 centaurs in the Solar System, concentrated mainly in a band between the orbits of Jupiter and Pluto.

While most centaurs are thought to be dormant, scientists have seen glimmers of activity from Chiron. Starting in the late 1980s, astronomers observed patterns of brightening from the centaur, as well as activity similar to that of a streaking comet.

In 1993 and 1994, James Elliot, then a professor of planetary astronomy and physics at MIT, observed a stellar occultation of Chiron and made the first estimates of its size. Elliot also observed features in the optical data that looked like jets of water and dust spewing from the centaur’s surface.

Now MIT researchers — some of them former members of Elliot’s group — have obtained more precise observations of Chiron, using two large telescopes in Hawaii: NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility, on Mauna Kea, and the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, at Haleakala.

In 2010, the team started to chart the orbits of Chiron and nearby stars in order to pinpoint exactly when the centaur might pass across a star bright enough to detect. The researchers determined that such a stellar occultation would occur on November 29th, 2011, and reserved time on the two large telescopes in hopes of catching Chiron’s shadow.

“There’s an aspect of serendipity to these observations,” Bosh says. “We need a certain amount of luck, waiting for Chiron to pass in front of a star that is bright enough. Chiron itself is small enough that the event is very short; if you blink, you might miss it.”

The team observed the stellar occultation remotely, from MIT’s Building 54. The entire event lasted just a few minutes, and the telescopes recorded the fading light as Chiron cast its shadow over the telescopes.

Rings around a theory

The group analysed the resulting light, and detected something unexpected. A simple body, with no surrounding material, would create a straightforward pattern, blocking the star’s light entirely. But the researchers observed symmetrical, sharp features near the start and end of the stellar occultation — a sign that material such as dust might be blocking a fraction of the starlight.

The researchers observed two such features, each about 300 kilometres from the center of the centaur. Judging from the optical data, the features are 3 and 7 kilometres wide, respectively. The features are similar to what Elliot observed in the 1990s.

In light of these new observations, the researchers say that Chiron may still possess symmetrical jets of gas and dust, as Elliot first proposed. However, other interpretations may be equally valid, including the “intriguing possibility,” Bosh says, of a shell or ring of gas and dust.

Ruprecht, who is a researcher at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, says it is possible to imagine a scenario in which centaurs may form rings: For example, when a body breaks up, the resulting debris can be captured gravitationally around another body, such as Chiron. Rings can also be leftover material from the formation of Chiron itself.

“Another possibility involves the history of Chiron’s distance from the Sun,” Ruprecht says. “Centaurs may have started further out in the Solar System and, through gravitational interactions with giant planets, have had their orbits perturbed closer in to the Sun. The frozen material that would have been stable out past Pluto is becoming less stable closer in, and can turn into gases that spray dust and material off the surface of a body. ”

An independent group has since combined the MIT group’s occultation data with other light data, and has concluded that the features around Chiron most likely represent a ring system. However, Ruprecht says that researchers will have to observe more stellar occultations of Chiron to truly determine which interpretation — rings, shell, or jets — is the correct one.

“If we want to make a strong case for rings around Chiron, we’ll need observations by multiple observers, distributed over a few hundred kilometres, so that we can map the ring geometry,” Ruprecht says. “But that alone doesn’t tell us if the rings are a temporary feature of Chiron, or a more permanent one. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done.”

Nevertheless, Bosh says the possibility of a second ringed centaur in the Solar System is an enticing one.

“Until Chariklo’s rings were found, it was commonly believed that these smaller bodies don’t have ring systems,” Bosh says. “If Chiron has a ring system, it will show it’s more common than previously thought.”

source: https://astronomynow.com/2015/03/17/chiron-may-be-second-minor-planet-to-possess-saturn-like-rings/

extra stuff: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa9930#ajaa9930s7

example: A 5-Month-Long Retrograde Is Heading Our Way — But It's More a Blessing Than a Curse

https://www.instyle.com/lifestyle/astrology/chiron-retrograde-2021