Chiron in Cancer, Chiron in the 1st House

Chiron in Cancer ♋︎ in the natal chart

Wound: There is a deep sense of wounding in the heart of a person with Chiron in Cancer in the natal chart. You have a desire to be compassionate, loving, and nurturing to others but often find your outlets for this limiting or that you neglect to give yourself the care you need. This can result in self neglect and a denial of your true heart’s desires. There is often a psychic element to this placement. Individuals with Chiron in Cancer may find themselves overly empathic and unable to find a place to spread their emotional abundance. Some may find their fertility hindered or blocked in some way either physically or creatively.  

Healing Gifts: You have the gift of healing others emotional wounds. You are a naturally therapeutic person, taking a very gentle, non-judgmental, and loving approach to all people. This placement indicates that you have a soft spot for people who have been cast out by society, tending to give the benefit of the doubt. You help people heal familial or past trauma by assisting other’s in transforming the wounds they have into other outlets of expression. Individuals with this placement help people accept what has happened, integrate what is needed, and move forward in life.

1st House

Keywords: The keywords associated with the first house are individualism, identity, selfishness, ego, personality, infancy, imitating, starting line, and destiny. 

Angular House Type: An Angular house is ruled by a cardinal sign. Aries is the cardinal fire sign ruling the 1st house. 

The 1st house in astrology is representative of how you express your self identity. The sign on the 1st house in the natal chart symbolizes the energy through which you tend to filter all of your experiences. 

Here you get to know yourself, your basic needs, and desire to be seen as an individual. In the 1st house you are having a “me” experience. This house is symbolic of initiation and impulsivity. 

Planets placed in the 1st house in the natal chart tend to be very heavily emphasized. These planets will be expressed more easily in your personal expression and circumstances. This is the house is symbolic of where we first breath life into ourselves, where existence first begins. This part of the astrological chart is ego driven in the search for self identity. Here you get to perform or act out the person you are or want to be.