Meaning of Chiron and North Node?

[astrop86]

I have read a bit on here and a few other sites that Chiron is your personal weakness, yet also one of your strongest gifts to share with others. I also read that your North Node is supposed to be your direction in life.

Is any of this true, and if so, why are they not connected to anything in the natal charts?

[R4VEN]

I have read a bit on here and a few other sites that Chiron is your personal weakness, yet also one of your strongest gifts to share with others. I also read that your North Node is supposed to be your direction in life. Simply and concisely put, that is true.

Is any of this true, and if so, why are they not connected to anything in the natal charts? By `not connected', I suppose you mean that they are not normally included in Grand Crosses and the like.................
This is because neither are actually planets, and only planets (usually) can be part of major aspects and configurations. The Moon's North Node is a mathematical calculation, whilst Chiron is a `planetoid'. Some astrolger's sneak at least Chiron into configurations like Grand Trines, but the purists tend to be outraged by this.

This link gives some good basic Chiron information, particularly in relation to what it means to have Chiron in each sign:
http://www.astrology.com/allaboutyou/healingsign/index.html

[Kerrie]

Thanks Raven I enjoyed that link, it has touched me for some reason. So what happens after Chiron has been healed?

[astrop86]

Ah, okay. Somehow that makes sense. I've got mine in Gemini, and despite my use of my intelligence (usually for good, occasionally for my own humor), I still feel as though I'm constantly falling on deaf ears, as if no one understands me, inside or outside.

Sadly, I can't legally teach until around 40 or so, but then again, there are many ways to teach outside of a classroom or other similar areas.

[R4VEN]

Thanks Raven I enjoyed that link, it has touched me for some reason. So what happens after Chiron has been healed?
The jury is still out on whether Chiron wounds are ever truly healed. Chiron wounds tend to go deeper - into the past, and even into our heredity - and the best way to cope with them - to work with them, rather than becoming overwhelmed, and then perhaps damaged by them is to:
name them - as they apply to you
recognise how you express your Chiron wounding (eg. one with Chiron in gemini may look to cover up the fact that they feel - or believe themselves to be - under-educated, or a bit stupid, by using intellectual bravado)
take responsibility for your wounding - usually by not getting into blaming others for the way in which you feel
keep track of your automatic responses to this wound (eg. I have Chiron in Scorpio, which describes the wound of loss, which I can detect operating in my life whenever I feel irrationally fearful about some event in my life. To take full responsibility for this means I have to pull back into myself, and work out what it is in my past is being re-enacted in the present.)
It helps to work with others with similar or the same wounds, and these will usually be those of the same age as you. As you become more conscious of the nature of the wound, then you are better able to share what you know with those who have similar wounds.Sometimes Chiron wounds go back generations, so they may never be fully healed. The idea is to be able to live with them without them running your life.

[Kerrie]

I have a Taurus Chiron conjunct Moon, my partner also has the same aspects, and so we both have it in the composite. So I agree we share with those close to who we know.