Midlife Is Not a Crisis by Virginia Bell

Author:Virginia Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633410466
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser

The Wounding and the Healing

The Chiron Process

The Chiron Return takes us back to whatever has not been healed, and it is not unusual for difficult memories and traumas to surface. These are often connected to family patterns that have continued for generations. Let's face it; there are some things we're just not ready to look at until we're fifty and have experienced our share of losses, betrayals, and disappointments. Something within us seems to soften at this age and allow us access to the necessary wisdom and compassion.

In her book Chiron and the Healing Journey, Melanie Reinhart writes about the Greek word kairos. “The word means opportunity, the right moment, when the timeless . . . nature of an experience may suddenly reveal itself, releasing a process which was previously frozen or stuck; a dam may give way, enabling the river of our life to continue flowing.” The Chiron Return is an excellent time to enter therapy or embark on a spiritual practice, but it's important to remember that this is not an intellectual process. It is less about analyzing or fixing and more about healing, embracing, and forgiving. We can seek help, but ultimately at our Chiron Return, we must heal ourselves; the change must come from within.

Chiron was wounded a second time when his student Hercules shot him with a poisoned arrow by mistake. With all his wisdom and skills, he could not heal himself; and because he was immortal, he could not die. Chiron was finally released from his suffering by a strange twist of fate. It was Hercules who pleaded with Zeus to allow Chiron to trade places with Prometheus, who was being punished for stealing fire from the gods to give to the mortals. Prometheus was freed and because of Chiron's willingness to sacrifice himself, he was allowed to die. Zeus immortalized him as the constellation Centaurus. And so the wound was healed by the very one who had caused it.

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