Chiron at 24 degrees: what the degree means, the birth windows when Chiron sat at 24° in each sign, and the real age your Chiron first gets squared, solved from the ephemeris.
Chiron at 24 degrees means Chiron sits in the 25th degree of whatever sign it occupies in your birth chart. In degree theory, 24 carries a Pisces-flavoured wound: it dissolves boundaries, absorbs other people’s pain and forgets where you end, and it heals through compassion that includes you. 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 24° 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 24 degrees means
In degree theory, 24 carries a Pisces-flavoured wound: it dissolves boundaries, absorbs other people’s pain and forgets where you end, and it heals through compassion that includes you. That flavour sits on top of the sign Chiron is actually in: a 24° Chiron in Capricorn and a 24° Chiron in Cancer share the degree’s tone but not its story. 24 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 24°: the birth windows
Chiron takes about fifty years to go round once, so it has crossed the 25th 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 24° Chiron is in, then use the calculator for the exact minute, house and aspects.
- Chiron at 24° Aries: born Jun 24, 1974 to Feb 29, 1976 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Apr 30, 2025 to Mar 19, 2026 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 24° Taurus: born May 21, 1932 to Mar 24, 1933 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jun 2, 1982 to Apr 9, 1983 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 24° Gemini: born Jun 12 to Jun 23, 1937, or Jul 5, 1987 to Apr 22, 1988 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 24° Cancer: born Jul 28 to Aug 5, 1940, or Sep 1, 1990 to Jun 5, 1991 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 24° Leo: born Sep 23, 1942 to Jun 9, 1943 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jul 20 to Jul 27, 1993.
- Chiron at 24° Virgo: born Oct 2 to Oct 8, 1944, or Nov 21, 1994 to Aug 2, 1995 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 24° Libra: born Sep 29 to Oct 5, 1946, or Nov 8 to Nov 14, 1996.
- Chiron at 24° Scorpio: born Feb 8 to Oct 19, 1948 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Nov 20 to Nov 26, 1998.
- Chiron at 24° Sagittarius: born Dec 13 to Dec 21, 1950, or Jan 14 to Oct 19, 2001 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 24° Capricorn: born Feb 3 to Nov 25, 1954 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Mar 5 to Dec 25, 2004 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 24° Aquarius: born Mar 3, 1959 to Jan 10, 1960 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Mar 24, 2009 to Jan 29, 2010 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 24° Pisces: born Apr 16, 1966 to Mar 5, 1967 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or May 4, 2016 to Jan 12, 2018 (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 24° 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.
- 24° Aries, born 2025: first square at about 16 (around 2041), opposition at about 22, return at about 50.
- 24° Taurus, born 1982: first square at about 11 (around 1993), opposition at about 16, return at about 50.
- 24° Gemini, born 1987: first square at about 8 (around 1995), opposition at about 13, return at about 51.
- 24° Cancer, born 1990: first square at about 6 (around 1996), opposition at about 13, return at about 51.
- 24° Leo, born 1993: first square at about 5 (around 1998), opposition at about 16, return at about 50.
- 24° Virgo, born 1994: first square at about 6 (around 2000), opposition at about 21, return at about 50.
- 24° Libra, born 1996: first square at about 7 (around 2003), opposition at about 29, return at about 50.
- 24° Scorpio, born 1998: first square at about 10 (around 2008), opposition at about 34, return at about 50.
- 24° Sagittarius, born 2001: first square at about 16 (around 2017), opposition at about 37, return at about 51.
- 24° Capricorn, born 2004: first square at about 20 (around 2024), opposition at about 36, return at about 50.
- 24° Aquarius, born 2009: first square at about 23 (around 2032), opposition at about 34, return at about 50.
- 24° Pisces, born 2016: first square at about 20 (around 2036), opposition at about 29, 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 24 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.
