Chiron at 11 degrees: what the degree means, the birth windows when Chiron sat at 11° in each sign, and the real age your Chiron first gets squared, solved from the ephemeris.
Chiron at 11 degrees means Chiron sits in the 12th degree of whatever sign it occupies in your birth chart. In degree theory, 11 carries an Aquarius-flavoured wound: it is the outsider wound, the one that never quite fit the group, and it heals when belonging stops requiring sameness. 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 11° 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 11 degrees means
In degree theory, 11 carries an Aquarius-flavoured wound: it is the outsider wound, the one that never quite fit the group, and it heals when belonging stops requiring sameness. That flavour sits on top of the sign Chiron is actually in: a 11° Chiron in Capricorn and a 11° Chiron in Cancer share the degree’s tone but not its story. 11 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 11°: the birth windows
Chiron takes about fifty years to go round once, so it has crossed the 12th 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 11° Chiron is in, then use the calculator for the exact minute, house and aspects.
- Chiron at 11° Aries: born Apr 21, 1971 to Mar 11, 1972 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or May 7, 2021 to Jan 3, 2023 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 11° Taurus: born Mar 14 to Apr 1, 1930, or May 26, 1979 to Apr 8, 1980 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 11° Gemini: born Jun 10, 1935 to Mar 31, 1936 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jun 28, 1985 to Apr 26, 1986 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 11° Cancer: born Jun 26 to Jul 5, 1939, or Jul 23, 1989 to Apr 28, 1990 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 11° Leo: born Sep 21, 1941 to Jun 16, 1942 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jul 18 to Jul 25, 1992.
- Chiron at 11° Virgo: born Oct 18, 1943 to Jun 30, 1944 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Aug 12 to Aug 18, 1994.
- Chiron at 11° Libra: born Oct 14 to Oct 20, 1945, or Nov 30, 1995 to Aug 11, 1996 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 11° Scorpio: born Oct 17 to Oct 24, 1947, or Nov 25 to Dec 1, 1997.
- Chiron at 11° Sagittarius: born Nov 22 to Nov 29, 1949, or Dec 27, 1999 to Sep 16, 2000 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 11° Capricorn: born Mar 5 to Dec 14, 1952 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jan 3 to Jan 12, 2003.
- Chiron at 11° Aquarius: born Apr 11, 1956 to Feb 1, 1957 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Feb 11 to Dec 11, 2007 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 11° Pisces: born Mar 10, 1963 to Jan 22, 1964 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Mar 26, 2013 to Feb 9, 2014 (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 11° 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.
- 11° Aries, born 2021: first square at about 18 (around 2039), opposition at about 25, return at about 49.
- 11° Taurus, born 1979: first square at about 13 (around 1992), opposition at about 18, return at about 50.
- 11° Gemini, born 1985: first square at about 9 (around 1994), opposition at about 14, return at about 50.
- 11° Cancer, born 1989: first square at about 7 (around 1996), opposition at about 13, return at about 51.
- 11° Leo, born 1992: first square at about 5 (around 1997), opposition at about 15, return at about 50.
- 11° Virgo, born 1994: first square at about 5 (around 1999), opposition at about 19, return at about 50.
- 11° Libra, born 1995: first square at about 7 (around 2002), opposition at about 25, return at about 51.
- 11° Scorpio, born 1997: first square at about 9 (around 2006), opposition at about 32, return at about 50.
- 11° Sagittarius, born 1999: first square at about 14 (around 2013), opposition at about 36, return at about 51.
- 11° Capricorn, born 2003: first square at about 18 (around 2021), opposition at about 37, return at about 50.
- 11° Aquarius, born 2007: first square at about 23 (around 2030), opposition at about 35, return at about 51.
- 11° Pisces, born 2013: first square at about 22 (around 2035), opposition at about 31, return at about 50.
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 11 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.
