Enter your birth date, the most reliable time you have and your birthplace. Chiron appears in the chart with the same detail as a planet: sign and degree, house, motion and the aspects it makes within the natal orbs.
What to look for in your result
- The sign and degree of Chiron.
- The house, which depends on the birth time.
- The motion, direct or retrograde, from the calculated speed.
- The aspects Chiron makes within the same natal orbs as the planets, with the orb of each.
Chiron is a slow body, so its sign is shared by everyone born across a stretch of years. The house and the aspects are what make the placement individual.
A worked example
| Body | Position | House | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chiron | 5°14′ Leo | 6 | direct, 0.10°/day |
Demonstration birth: 1991-09-06 at 18:30 local time, Kyiv, Ukraine (50.4501° N, 30.5234° E), Europe/Kyiv at UTC+3, so 1991-09-06 15:30 UTC. Tropical zodiac, Placidus houses, Swiss Ephemeris 2.10.03. Full result and settings on How to verify your birth chart.
In the demonstration chart Chiron is at 5°14′ Leo in house 6, direct at 0.10°/day. It is 5.2° from the nearest sign boundary, further than it moves in a day, so no birth time on this date would change the sign. The house is a different matter: Chiron sits 9.7° from the cusp of house 7, and the cusps move with the birth time.
Aspects to Chiron within the natal orbs (conjunction 8°, sextile 6°, square 8°, trine 8°, opposition 8°), tightest first:
| Aspect | With | Orb |
|---|---|---|
| Opposition | Lilith (osculating apogee) | 0.57° |
| Sextile | Mars | 1.78° |
| Opposition | Saturn | 4.40° |
| Square | Ceres | 5.83° |
| Conjunction | Vesta | 7.67° |
The tightest contact is the opposition with Lilith (osculating apogee) at 0.57°, against an allowed orb of 8° for that aspect. Since Lilith (osculating apogee) moves 1.19°/day and Chiron 0.10°/day, their separation changes by up to 1.29° across a day. The contact therefore holds at any birth time on this date.
How Chiron is read
In astrology Chiron is often called the wounded healer and read as a sensitive point: a theme a person is said to keep returning to and, in time, to help others with. NatalChart.AI treats that as a symbolic reading. A chart position cannot diagnose, predict or treat anything, and nothing here is medical advice.
| What the chart gives | How it is conventionally read | What it depends on |
|---|---|---|
| Sign | The style of the theme; shared by everyone born across a stretch of years | The date, except on a boundary day |
| House | The area of life where the theme is said to show | The birth time and place |
| Aspects | Which other factors are linked to it, and how closely | The date, and the time for contacts with the Moon |
| Motion | Direct or retrograde at birth; a retrograde is often read as a more inward version of the same theme | The date |
Read the position first and the symbolism second. If a description of Chiron makes a claim about your body or your health, it has left astrology, and a chart cannot support it.
What birth-time uncertainty changes
Chiron moves slowly (0.10°/day in the demonstration chart), so the sign is settled by the date alone except on the rare day it crosses a boundary. The house is another matter: the cusps depend on the time and place, and Chiron can change house without the sign changing.
Aspects to the slow bodies are settled by the date. Aspects to the Moon are not: the Moon moves up to about 15° a day (14.60°/day in the demonstration chart), so a contact between the Moon and Chiron can fall inside or outside its orb depending on the hour. If your birth time is unknown, keep the house and the Moon contacts marked as uncertain. See what an unknown birth time changes.
Questions
Is Chiron a planet?
No. Chiron is a small body, a centaur, listed both as a minor planet and as a comet, with an orbit mostly between Saturn and Uranus. NatalChart.AI calculates it with the same ephemeris and the same natal aspect orbs as the planets.
Does Chiron in my chart show a health problem?
No. A chart position is a calculated angle, not a medical finding. Astrological readings of Chiron are symbolic, and nothing on this site is medical advice. If a health question is behind your interest, take it to a clinician.
Why does another tool put Chiron in a different house?
Compare the house system and the birth time first. NatalChart.AI uses Placidus; a whole-sign or equal-house tool can give a different house for the same degree, and Chiron near a cusp changes house with a small change in the time.
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