Chiron at 14 degrees: what the degree means, the birth windows when Chiron sat at 14° in each sign, and the real age your Chiron first gets squared, solved from the ephemeris.
Chiron at 14 degrees means Chiron sits in the 15th degree of whatever sign it occupies in your birth chart. In degree theory, 14 carries a Taurus-flavoured wound: it sits in worth, money, the body and what feels safe to keep, and it heals through slow, steady proof that you can hold what is yours. 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 14° placement anywhere from about 5 to 22 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 14 degrees means
In degree theory, 14 carries a Taurus-flavoured wound: it sits in worth, money, the body and what feels safe to keep, and it heals through slow, steady proof that you can hold what is yours. That flavour sits on top of the sign Chiron is actually in: a 14° Chiron in Capricorn and a 14° Chiron in Cancer share the degree’s tone but not its story. 14 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 14°: the birth windows
Chiron takes about fifty years to go round once, so it has crossed the 15th 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 14° Chiron is in, then use the calculator for the exact minute, house and aspects.
- Chiron at 14° Aries: born Apr 15, 1972 to Mar 5, 1973 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or May 1, 2022 to Mar 21, 2023 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 14° Taurus: born May 3, 1930 to Mar 8, 1931 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or May 10, 1980 to Mar 20, 1981 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 14° Gemini: born Jul 21, 1935 to May 15, 1936 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Aug 18, 1985 to Jun 3, 1986 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 14° Cancer: born Jul 25, 1939 to Apr 23, 1940 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Aug 26, 1989 to Jun 4, 1990 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 14° Leo: born Nov 2, 1941 to Jul 13, 1942 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Aug 11 to Aug 18, 1992.
- Chiron at 14° Virgo: born Nov 17, 1943 to Jul 28, 1944 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Sep 3 to Sep 9, 1994.
- Chiron at 14° Libra: born Nov 4, 1945 to Jun 22, 1946 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jan 10 to Sep 5, 1996 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 14° Scorpio: born Nov 8 to Nov 14, 1947, or Dec 18, 1997 to Sep 5, 1998 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 14° Sagittarius: born Dec 17 to Dec 24, 1949, or Jan 24 to Oct 25, 2000 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 14° Capricorn: born Jan 5 to Jan 14, 1953, or Feb 3 to Nov 21, 2003 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 14° Aquarius: born Feb 28, 1957 to Jan 2, 1958 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Mar 26, 2007 to Jan 25, 2008 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 14° Pisces: born May 4, 1963 to Jan 6, 1965 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Mar 14, 2014 to Jan 28, 2015 (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 14° gets its first square at 5 in the fastest sign and 22 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.
- 14° Aries, born 2022: first square at about 18 (around 2040), opposition at about 24, return at about 50.
- 14° Taurus, born 1980: first square at about 12 (around 1992), opposition at about 17, return at about 51.
- 14° Gemini, born 1985: first square at about 9 (around 1994), opposition at about 14, return at about 50.
- 14° Cancer, born 1989: first square at about 6 (around 1995), opposition at about 13, return at about 50.
- 14° Leo, born 1992: first square at about 5 (around 1997), opposition at about 15, return at about 50.
- 14° Virgo, born 1994: first square at about 5 (around 1999), opposition at about 20, return at about 50.
- 14° Libra, born 1996: first square at about 6 (around 2002), opposition at about 24, return at about 50.
- 14° Scorpio, born 1997: first square at about 10 (around 2007), opposition at about 32, return at about 51.
- 14° Sagittarius, born 2000: first square at about 13 (around 2013), opposition at about 36, return at about 51.
- 14° Capricorn, born 2003: first square at about 19 (around 2022), opposition at about 37, return at about 51.
- 14° Aquarius, born 2007: first square at about 22 (around 2029), opposition at about 35, return at about 50.
- 14° Pisces, born 2014: first square at about 22 (around 2036), opposition at about 30, 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 14 degrees is first confronted at 5 for some people and 22 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.