Chiron at 2 degrees: what the degree means, the birth windows when Chiron sat at 2° in each sign, and the real age your Chiron first gets squared, solved from the ephemeris.
Chiron at 2 degrees means Chiron sits in the 3rd degree of whatever sign it occupies in your birth chart. In degree theory, 2 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 2° placement anywhere from about 6 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 2 degrees means
In degree theory, 2 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 2° Chiron in Capricorn and a 2° Chiron in Cancer share the degree’s tone but not its story. 2 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 2°: the birth windows
Chiron takes about fifty years to go round once, so it has crossed the 3rd 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 2° Chiron is in, then use the calculator for the exact minute, house and aspects.
- Chiron at 2° Aries: born May 9, 1968 to Jan 19, 1970 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jun 4, 2018 to Feb 11, 2020 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 2° Taurus: born May 1, 1977 to Mar 16, 1978 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 2° Gemini: born Jul 7, 1933 to May 9, 1934 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jul 28, 1983 to May 23, 1984 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 2° Cancer: born Jun 19 to Jun 28, 1938, or Jul 13, 1988 to Apr 25, 1989 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 2° Leo: born Jul 5 to Jul 12, 1941, or Aug 8 to Aug 16, 1991.
- Chiron at 2° Virgo: born Aug 11 to Aug 18, 1943, or Sep 19, 1993 to May 13, 1994 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 2° Libra: born Dec 11, 1944 to Aug 17, 1945 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Sep 23 to Sep 29, 1995.
- Chiron at 2° Scorpio: born Nov 25, 1946 to Jul 29, 1947 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Feb 5 to Sep 27, 1997 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 2° Sagittarius: born Dec 14, 1948 to Aug 16, 1949 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jan 29 to Oct 21, 1999 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 2° Capricorn: born Mar 11 to Dec 9, 1951 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Dec 30, 2001 to Jan 8, 2002.
- Chiron at 2° Aquarius: born Feb 21 to Dec 20, 1955 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Mar 24, 2005 to Jan 13, 2006 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 2° Pisces: born May 12, 1960 to Dec 29, 1961 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Mar 10, 2011 to Jan 21, 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 2° gets its first square at 6 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.
- 2° Aries, born 2018: first square at about 19 (around 2037), opposition at about 27, return at about 50.
- 2° Taurus, born 1977: first square at about 14 (around 1991), opposition at about 20, return at about 50.
- 2° Gemini, born 1983: first square at about 10 (around 1993), opposition at about 15, return at about 50.
- 2° Cancer, born 1988: first square at about 7 (around 1995), opposition at about 13, return at about 51.
- 2° Leo, born 1991: first square at about 6 (around 1997), opposition at about 14, return at about 50.
- 2° Virgo, born 1993: first square at about 6 (around 1999), opposition at about 18, return at about 51.
- 2° Libra, born 1995: first square at about 6 (around 2001), opposition at about 24, return at about 50.
- 2° Scorpio, born 1997: first square at about 7 (around 2004), opposition at about 28, return at about 50.
- 2° Sagittarius, born 1999: first square at about 11 (around 2010), opposition at about 34, return at about 50.
- 2° Capricorn, born 2001: first square at about 17 (around 2018), opposition at about 37, return at about 50.
- 2° Aquarius, born 2005: first square at about 21 (around 2026), opposition at about 36, return at about 50.
- 2° Pisces, born 2011: first square at about 23 (around 2034), opposition at about 33, 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 2 degrees is first confronted at 6 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.
