Ask Ada: Can You Have a Yod Involving Chiron?

Question: Can you have a yod with Chiron? Is this about a career in the sign/planet it points to?

Note: The yod in this chart is formed by the moon in Aquarius sextile the MC in Aries. Both are quincunx Chiron in Virgo.

Yes, you can have a yod that includes Chiron. A yod is an aspect pattern, and aspect patterns can involve anything from planets and asteroids to more abstract mathematical points like the nodes of the moon.

Yes, your career is one of the areas this yod is speaking to. Your chart has a yod that involves the moon, the midheaven, and Chiron. Whenever the midheaven is involved in something, questions about life purpose (which generally translate into questions about career in a capitalist society) come along for the ride.

Taking your question at face value, that’s the information you asked for. If you’ll humor me, though, I have a longer response to your question. I have a yod in my chart, and my yod also involves Chiron.

I like to joke that I play the game of life on hard mode. My chart is riddled with “difficult aspects.” The yod in my chart is, by far, the most difficult one.

My yod is made of a sextile between Venus in Aries and Mars/Chiron in Gemini, both of which are quincunx Pluto in Scorpio.

It is a little bit like living with an inner Chernobyl. The Chernobyl disaster happened because energy was allowed to run amok. The engineers believed they had an emergency system, but it was faulty. Pressing the emergency stop button just added fuel to the fire, accelerating the reaction instead of stopping it.

In my chart, Mars in Gemini and Venus in Aries are closely sextile. Sextiles are exciting, and planets that are sextile each other feed off of the other’s energy.

Venus in Aries is the spark of inspiration. The flash of knowing. An entire project appears from nowhere, fully formed in my mind. The beauty of the vision fills me with energy, and I immediately go into Gemini mode. I flail to record everything I can. But the act of recording fails to do justice to the original inspiration. And it triggers a torrent of new ideas. I flail to record these new ideas, too, but fail to do anything but trigger more ideas I flail to record. The intensity builds until I reach the limit of my physical and emotional endurance.

This is not how a sextile is supposed to work. A sextile is supposed to be an easy, supportive aspect. While the initial spark of energy from Aries should inspire Gemini, the exchange between them should be more gentle. An intense tennis match, not Chernobyl.

In my chart, that energetic sextile between Venus and Mars is fueled by the intensity of quincunxes with Pluto in Scorpio. When inspiration strikes, Pluto feeds energy to the sextile, and Pluto’s supply of energy is bottomless.

With Pluto’s assistance, the energy of the sextile builds and builds until Venus and Mars/Chiron are no longer able to handle the intensity. When this happens, Chiron kicks in.

Chiron’s involvement in the sextile feels like slipping on a banana peel at a million miles an hour. This disruption gives my Venus and Mars enough time to realize how tired they are. They collapse, and all of that energy runs down the quincunxes back to to Pluto, triggering a meltdown.

Even though we both have Chiron involved in our yods, your yod is different than mine. While our experiences will likely have similarities, Chiron’s position in the yod would bring with it some fundamental differences.

In your case, Chiron is at the point of the yod, not one of the planets involved in the sextile, which means that Chiron receives the energy of your yod the way Pluto receives the energy of mine.

Chiron doesn’t, however, have Pluto’s ability to feed energy into a system. Chiron is the wounded healer. Not a nuclear bomb. I would imagine that an exhausted Chiron feels more like a deep hole of loneliness and rejection.

I believe that there is no such thing as a “bad chart.” Everyone has the chart they need, even if it isn’t easy to see. Every difficult placement is actually a superpower in disguise. The more difficult the placement, the more powerful the superpower.

If I’m honest, though, finding the superpower in my yod is a work in progress. There have been times when the energy of that yod has allowed me to push far past the limits of my physical and emotional endurance in order to do something extraordinary.

But, this is almost never necessary. As my therapist used to tell me: “Your job isn’t diffusing nuclear bombs. You don’t need to live as if it is.”

It worries me that I have this placement because I wonder what will happen to make me need it.

In your case, I have an inkling that the energy generated by your yod will give you the ability to perform extraordinary acts of healing. Like a neurosurgeon who can spend 18 hours carefully working on a brain.

But that’s only a guess. You’re the only one who knows what you’re capable of.

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Let’s Heal Your Chiron

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That’s not true.

Just like Chiron’s wound is only part of his story, the rejection you feel around your Chiron is only part of yours.

Let’s talk about the story of your Chiron beyond the wound.

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