Chiron at 1 degrees: what the degree means, the birth windows when Chiron sat at 1° in each sign, and the real age your Chiron first gets squared, solved from the ephemeris.
Chiron at 1 degrees means Chiron sits in the 2nd degree of whatever sign it occupies in your birth chart. In degree theory, 1 carries an Aries-flavoured wound: it fires around the right to act first, to want, to take up space, and it heals through one brave beginning at a time. It is not a critical degree, so the sign, house and aspects carry the weight. The number itself is not an age: transiting Chiron first squares a 1° placement anywhere from about 5 to 23 years old depending on the sign, because Chiron’s speed changes fourfold around the zodiac. The dated birth windows and the real ages are below, sign by sign, solved from the ephemeris.
What 1 degrees means
In degree theory, 1 carries an Aries-flavoured wound: it fires around the right to act first, to want, to take up space, and it heals through one brave beginning at a time. That flavour sits on top of the sign Chiron is actually in: a 1° Chiron in Capricorn and a 1° Chiron in Cancer share the degree’s tone but not its story. 1 is not one of the traditional critical degrees (the cardinal 0, 13 and 26, the fixed 8, 9, 21 and 22, the mutable 4 and 17, or the anaretic 29). Read the degree for its flavour rather than its intensity: the sign, house and aspects of your Chiron carry far more weight than the number alone. Degree theory is a modern reading, not a measurement; treat it as colour. Everything dated on this page is measurement.
Born with Chiron at 1°: the birth windows
Chiron takes about fifty years to go round once, so it has crossed the 2nd degree of every sign roughly twice since 1930. These are the windows, sign by sign, computed from the Swiss Ephemeris. Find your birth date to read the sign your 1° Chiron is in, then use the calculator for the exact minute, house and aspects.
- Chiron at 1° Aries: born Apr 19, 1968 to Mar 9, 1969 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or May 7, 2018 to Jan 17, 2020 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 1° Taurus: born Jun 20, 1976 to Feb 23, 1978 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 1° Gemini: born Jun 21, 1933 to Apr 25, 1934 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jul 8, 1983 to May 9, 1984 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 1° Cancer: born Sep 22, 1937 to Jun 18, 1938 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jul 2, 1988 to Apr 6, 1989 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 1° Leo: born Oct 19, 1940 to Jul 4, 1941 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jul 30 to Aug 7, 1991.
- Chiron at 1° Virgo: born Aug 4 to Aug 10, 1943, or Sep 11 to Sep 18, 1993.
- Chiron at 1° Libra: born Nov 28, 1944 to Aug 9, 1945 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Sep 17 to Sep 22, 1995.
- Chiron at 1° Scorpio: born Nov 18 to Nov 24, 1946, or Jan 12 to Sep 19, 1997 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 1° Sagittarius: born Dec 6 to Dec 13, 1948, or Jan 17 to Oct 12, 1999 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 1° Capricorn: born Feb 22 to Nov 29, 1951 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Dec 21 to Dec 29, 2001.
- Chiron at 1° Aquarius: born Feb 8 to Dec 5, 1955 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Mar 7, 2005 to Jan 1, 2006 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 1° Pisces: born Apr 14, 1960 to Nov 26, 1961 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Feb 24, 2011 to Jan 2, 2012 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
The age your Chiron gets touched
Every Chiron placement is squared, opposed and finally returned to by transiting Chiron. Those are the dates the wound gets touched, and they depend on the sign far more than on the degree: the same 1° gets its first square at 5 in the fastest sign and 23 in the slowest. Ages below are for a birth in the middle of the most recent window and can shift by about a year at the window’s edges; the calculator solves your exact passes.
- 1° Aries, born 2018: first square at about 19 (around 2037), opposition at about 27, return at about 49.
- 1° Taurus, born 1976: first square at about 14 (around 1990), opposition at about 20, return at about 50.
- 1° Gemini, born 1983: first square at about 10 (around 1993), opposition at about 15, return at about 50.
- 1° Cancer, born 1988: first square at about 7 (around 1995), opposition at about 13, return at about 51.
- 1° Leo, born 1991: first square at about 6 (around 1997), opposition at about 14, return at about 50.
- 1° Virgo, born 1993: first square at about 5 (around 1998), opposition at about 18, return at about 50.
- 1° Libra, born 1995: first square at about 6 (around 2001), opposition at about 23, return at about 50.
- 1° Scorpio, born 1997: first square at about 8 (around 2005), opposition at about 28, return at about 50.
- 1° Sagittarius, born 1999: first square at about 11 (around 2010), opposition at about 34, return at about 50.
- 1° Capricorn, born 2001: first square at about 16 (around 2017), opposition at about 37, return at about 50.
- 1° Aquarius, born 2005: first square at about 21 (around 2026), opposition at about 36, return at about 50.
- 1° Pisces, born 2011: first square at about 23 (around 2034), opposition at about 33, return at about 51.
The degree is not an age
A common shortcut reads the degree number as the age the wound formed or wakes up. The orbit does not work that way. Chiron moves through Libra and Scorpio in under two years each and through Aries and Taurus in seven to nine, so a Chiron at 1 degrees is first confronted at 5 for some people and 23 for others born with the same number. If a year stands out in your memory, the ages above will usually explain it better than the degree does.
How to find your Chiron degree
Enter your birth date, time and place in the free Chiron calculator. It returns Chiron’s exact degree and minute, the sign, the house, whether it was retrograde, the aspects that wire it into your everyday planets, and the dated milestones for your own chart rather than for a window. If you only know the date, the sign and degree still come out exactly; the house needs the time.
