30/07/2025
"The wound is the place where the light enters you" - Rumi Chiron retrogrades in Aries💥🐲
Chiron Retrograde in Aries ✦
July 30, 2025 - January 2, 2026
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” -Rumi
We are entering another profound chapter of self-initiation, a season of soul surgery, as Chiron, the Wounded Healer, stations retrograde in Aries, the sign of selfhood, courage, instinct, and fire-born emergence.
This retrograde is a cosmic journey inward.. a remembering, a reclaiming, and a rewriting of the story we tell ourselves about pain, protection, and power.
From July 30, 2025 to January 2, 2026, the medicine of Chiron calls us home. Not the kind of “home” built of bricks or lineage, but the deeper home of identity, your unfiltered essence, before we learned to armor up.
What is Chiron? The Soul Healer Archetype
Chiron is the bridge between Saturn (what limits us) and Uranus (what liberates us). It is where the old wound meets the future healer and the pain we thought disqualified us… now that becomes our medicine.
Chiron transits don’t operate on surface level. They touch the cellular memory of abandonment, betrayal, and deep grief. They also reveal the unique healing path your soul came here to walk. This retrograde is the deep inner training ground.. the forest we must walk back into, this time with eyes wide open, heart unclenched.
Chiron in Aries retrograde says:
What parts of you were forced to grow up too fast?
Where did you equate survival with silence, aggression with safety, independence with isolation?
When did the fire in you get mistaken for danger, instead of truth?
This retrograde brings us face-to-face with the exiled inner child, the sacred rebel, the one who had to fight their way through the world to feel seen, loved, or free. And it’s not subtle. This one burns where it hurts most, especially if you’ve internalized your pain as a flaw or your anger as unworthiness.
And for those of us, like me, with Capricorn Sun in the 4th House, this retrograde comes with a square. A frictional initiation, a holy tension between the child who learned to become the adult too soon... and the soul who now knows better.
This square from Chiron to my Sun is digging into the bones of my story, the stories of responsibility, control, shame, abandonment, emotional drought, and the deep ache to feel safe in my softness. To feel held not for what I do, but for who I am. There’s a reckoning here, also a revelation, deep healing and so mch acceptance of who i am, and was in order to survive.
Because this square is also sacred confrontation.
Chiron in Aries is not interested in tiptoeing around what hurts. It comes wielding fire, asking: Will you reclaim your right to exist without apology?
Will you let go of the roles that once protected you but now imprison you?
Will you let yourself be witnessed in your rawness, not your performance?
Look at where 27º Aries is in your chart to underatand where these deep initiations and healing are unraveling for you.
Is it near a planet, a house cusp, your IC/MC, or your nodes? This will tell you where this sacred fire is lighting up your life.
If you don’t know.. now is a beautiful time to learn. See my Chiron Report below or book a private session and we will go deep in your story and blueprint!
On a collective level, this Chiron retrograde is activating our relationship to:
* Anger as medicine, not poison.
* The right to take up space.
* Initiating a new identity not built around wounding, but healing.
* Reparenting ourselves through empowered action, not self-punishment.
* Healing generational survival coding that says strength equals stoicism.
And personally, if you're navigating big transits, especially squares to Chiron, this is a season to get radical about your inner support, your nervous system, your sovereignty, your sense of safety in your skin.
This retrograde may strip away illusions of independence that are actually emotional isolation. It may bring up old family wounds, especially around identity, self-worth, and feeling emotionally unseen. If you've carried ancestral burdens, if you've felt like the container for everyone else's emotions but not your own, this is your call back to self. Listen my love!
Healthy Anger is Holy
Let’s be clear: rage is not shameful. We just weren’t taught how to hold it.
Anger is your sacred boundary system. It’s the pulse of “no more.” It’s the scream that was never allowed to be screamed.
I was driving in a car recently, after a conversation that triggered an old wound, and I just let myself scream. No words. No explanation. Just pure sound from the belly. And it didn’t break me. It freed me. I do this often, especially when things have silently accumulated inside. Anger is a healthy emotion. It’s not a weakness or something to spiritually bypass.. it’s our inner protector. Let her speak. Anger, when felt safely, is medicine. It shows us where our “no” lives. Where our fire wants to clear the old and life force is ready to return.
As Chiron journeys backward, we are reminded that healing is not linear, and wholeness isn’t perfection, it’s our reclamation.
So if you're being cracked open, if you're feeling raw, if you're grieving the masks, know this: You are not falling apart, you are coming back to your holy, unfiltered self.
Love x
Inese Soncika
Inese Soncika - Astrology 𓂀 Alchemy 𓂀 Healing
