South Node conjunct natal Chiron
The same ache or the same mood returns in waves across these four months. On the third round, mark the time of day and the setting it happened in, and stop trying to outlast it.
In detail
Transit South Node conjunct natal Chiron describes the lunar node reversing onto the degree where Chiron sits in the birth chart. The node covers roughly 3 arcminutes a day and its mean motion is always retrograde, so a 3-degree orb amounts to about four months, while the whole nodal axis needs some 18.6 years to complete a circuit, which is why a single life meets this contact only a handful of times. Chiron marks a sensitivity carried from birth; the southern end of the axis supplies the pull back onto the well-worn road. Where they coincide, the old coping move aims itself at that sensitivity without being asked, and the person feels reverted to an earlier reaction pattern. Distinct from Chiron pushing onto the natal South Node, which walks forward slowly and once, this pass arrives backwards: the sore point is crossed first and recognised afterwards.
FAQ
- Why does this contact always arrive backwards?
- The mean lunar node moves in reverse at roughly 3 arcminutes a day, so it always reaches a birth-chart degree from ahead of it. Against a 3-degree allowance the whole pass runs about four months.
- Does the ache repeating mean nothing has improved?
- Not necessarily. This kind of pass is circular by nature, so the same tender spot gets crossed several times. The reading comes from what remains after the four months, not from how often it flared.