Chiron at 26 degrees: what the degree means, the birth windows when Chiron sat at 26° in each sign, and the real age your Chiron first gets squared, solved from the ephemeris.
Chiron at 26 degrees means Chiron sits in the 27th degree of whatever sign it occupies in your birth chart. In degree theory, 26 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. 26 is also a cardinal critical degree, which turns the placement up. The number itself is not an age: transiting Chiron first squares a 26° 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 26 degrees means
In degree theory, 26 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 26° Chiron in Capricorn and a 26° Chiron in Cancer share the degree’s tone but not its story. 26 is one of the cardinal critical degrees (0, 13 and 26). Traditional astrology reads a point here as turned up, more decisive and more consequential than the same placement a few degrees away. For Chiron that usually means the wound announces itself early and pushes you to act on it rather than sit with it. Degree theory is a modern reading, not a measurement; treat it as colour. Everything dated on this page is measurement.
Born with Chiron at 26°: the birth windows
Chiron takes about fifty years to go round once, so it has crossed the 27th 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 26° Chiron is in, then use the calculator for the exact minute, house and aspects.
- Chiron at 26° Aries: born May 20, 1975 to Apr 6, 1976 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 26° Taurus: born Jun 20, 1932 to Apr 26, 1933 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jul 4, 1982 to May 9, 1983 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 26° Gemini: born Jul 5, 1937 to Apr 19, 1938 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jul 30, 1987 to May 18, 1988 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 26° Cancer: born Aug 16, 1940 to May 13, 1941 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Sep 27, 1990 to Jun 24, 1991 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 26° Leo: born Oct 12, 1942 to Jul 1, 1943 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Aug 5 to Aug 11, 1993.
- Chiron at 26° Virgo: born Oct 16, 1944 to May 31, 1945 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Dec 20, 1994 to Aug 18, 1995 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 26° Libra: born Oct 13 to Oct 19, 1946, or Nov 23, 1996 to Jul 31, 1997 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 26° Scorpio: born Oct 29 to Nov 4, 1948, or Dec 5 to Dec 12, 1998.
- Chiron at 26° Sagittarius: born Dec 31, 1950 to Sep 17, 1951 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Feb 4 to Nov 12, 2001 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 26° Capricorn: born Feb 28 to Dec 23, 1954 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Apr 18, 2004 to Jan 16, 2005 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 26° Aquarius: born Apr 4, 1959 to Feb 9, 1960 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or May 9, 2009 to Dec 18, 2010 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 26° Pisces: born Jun 6, 1966 to Feb 7, 1968 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Apr 6, 2017 to Feb 24, 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 26° 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.
- 26° Aries, born 1975: first square at about 15 (around 1990), opposition at about 21, return at about 50.
- 26° Taurus, born 1982: first square at about 11 (around 1993), opposition at about 16, return at about 50.
- 26° Gemini, born 1987: first square at about 7 (around 1994), opposition at about 13, return at about 50.
- 26° Cancer, born 1990: first square at about 6 (around 1996), opposition at about 13, return at about 50.
- 26° Leo, born 1993: first square at about 5 (around 1998), opposition at about 17, return at about 50.
- 26° Virgo, born 1994: first square at about 6 (around 2000), opposition at about 20, return at about 50.
- 26° Libra, born 1996: first square at about 8 (around 2004), opposition at about 29, return at about 51.
- 26° Scorpio, born 1998: first square at about 11 (around 2009), opposition at about 35, return at about 50.
- 26° Sagittarius, born 2001: first square at about 16 (around 2017), opposition at about 36, return at about 51.
- 26° Capricorn, born 2004: first square at about 20 (around 2024), opposition at about 36, return at about 50.
- 26° Aquarius, born 2009: first square at about 23 (around 2032), opposition at about 34, return at about 50.
- 26° Pisces, born 2017: first square at about 21 (around 2038), opposition at about 28, 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 26 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.
