Aspects
Chiron Opposition Sappho
The wound around love and belonging tends to come at you through the people you befriend and love. You may draw in those who ache to be accepted, become the one who heals through warmth and beauty, or find that close bonds re-open the old hurt of rejection or not fitting in. There can be a back-and-forth of who is wounded and who heals. The work is to keep the wound from running it: notice when you over-give affection to earn belonging, let others love you too, and bring the bond into balance, so it heals both of you rather than restaging the original exclusion.
Lean in — Let others love you too, not only the reverse.
Watch for — Over-give affection to earn the belonging you fear you lack.
- healing-friendship
- old-hurt
- balance
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Sappho as romantic and artistic affection, friendship-love, and the lyric, creative side of attachment.
- Reinhart, Chiron and the Healing Journey (1989)Reads Chiron as the wound that becomes the source of healing offered to others.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the contact of affection and the old wound as a healing dynamic within the chart.