Chiron at 16 degrees: what the degree means, the birth windows when Chiron sat at 16° in each sign, and the real age your Chiron first gets squared, solved from the ephemeris.
Chiron at 16 degrees means Chiron sits in the 17th degree of whatever sign it occupies in your birth chart. In degree theory, 16 carries a Cancer-flavoured wound: it runs through home, mother, belonging and being held, and it heals through the care you learn to give yourself first. 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 16° 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 16 degrees means
In degree theory, 16 carries a Cancer-flavoured wound: it runs through home, mother, belonging and being held, and it heals through the care you learn to give yourself first. That flavour sits on top of the sign Chiron is actually in: a 16° Chiron in Capricorn and a 16° Chiron in Cancer share the degree’s tone but not its story. 16 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 16°: the birth windows
Chiron takes about fifty years to go round once, so it has crossed the 17th 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 16° Chiron is in, then use the calculator for the exact minute, house and aspects.
- Chiron at 16° Aries: born May 24, 1972 to Feb 2, 1974 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jun 18, 2022 to Feb 24, 2024 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 16° Taurus: born Jun 3, 1930 to Apr 14, 1931 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jun 11, 1980 to Apr 23, 1981 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 16° Gemini: born Sep 1, 1935 to Jun 8, 1936 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jun 16, 1986 to Apr 5, 1987 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 16° Cancer: born Aug 15, 1939 to May 21, 1940 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Sep 28, 1989 to Jun 24, 1990 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 16° Leo: born Jul 22 to Jul 29, 1942, or Aug 27 to Sep 3, 1992.
- Chiron at 16° Virgo: born Aug 6 to Aug 12, 1944, or Sep 17 to Sep 23, 1994.
- Chiron at 16° Libra: born Nov 20, 1945 to Jul 30, 1946 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Sep 13 to Sep 19, 1996.
- Chiron at 16° Scorpio: born Nov 23 to Nov 29, 1947, or Jan 6 to Sep 25, 1998 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 16° Sagittarius: born Jan 3 to Sep 30, 1950 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Feb 18 to Nov 13, 2000 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 16° Capricorn: born Jan 26 to Nov 11, 1953 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Feb 28 to Dec 15, 2003 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 16° Aquarius: born Mar 31, 1957 to Jan 30, 1958 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Feb 8 to Dec 6, 2008 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 16° Pisces: born Mar 30, 1964 to Feb 15, 1965 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Apr 17, 2014 to Dec 9, 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 16° 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.
- 16° Aries, born 2022: first square at about 17 (around 2039), opposition at about 24, return at about 50.
- 16° Taurus, born 1980: first square at about 12 (around 1992), opposition at about 17, return at about 50.
- 16° Gemini, born 1986: first square at about 8 (around 1994), opposition at about 14, return at about 51.
- 16° Cancer, born 1989: first square at about 6 (around 1995), opposition at about 13, return at about 50.
- 16° Leo, born 1992: first square at about 5 (around 1997), opposition at about 16, return at about 50.
- 16° Virgo, born 1994: first square at about 5 (around 1999), opposition at about 20, return at about 50.
- 16° Libra, born 1996: first square at about 7 (around 2003), opposition at about 27, return at about 50.
- 16° Scorpio, born 1998: first square at about 9 (around 2007), opposition at about 32, return at about 50.
- 16° Sagittarius, born 2000: first square at about 13 (around 2013), opposition at about 35, return at about 50.
- 16° Capricorn, born 2003: first square at about 19 (around 2022), opposition at about 37, return at about 50.
- 16° Aquarius, born 2008: first square at about 23 (around 2031), opposition at about 35, return at about 51.
- 16° Pisces, born 2014: first square at about 21 (around 2035), opposition at about 30, return at about 49.
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 16 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.
