Chiron at 27 degrees: what the degree means, the birth windows when Chiron sat at 27° in each sign, and the real age your Chiron first gets squared, solved from the ephemeris.
Chiron at 27 degrees means Chiron sits in the 28th degree of whatever sign it occupies in your birth chart. In degree theory, 27 carries a Gemini-flavoured wound: it lives in the voice, the mind and being heard, and it heals every time you say the plain thing instead of the clever one. 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 27° 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 27 degrees means
In degree theory, 27 carries a Gemini-flavoured wound: it lives in the voice, the mind and being heard, and it heals every time you say the plain thing instead of the clever one. That flavour sits on top of the sign Chiron is actually in: a 27° Chiron in Capricorn and a 27° Chiron in Cancer share the degree’s tone but not its story. 27 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 27°: the birth windows
Chiron takes about fifty years to go round once, so it has crossed the 28th 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 27° Chiron is in, then use the calculator for the exact minute, house and aspects.
- Chiron at 27° Aries: born Jun 10, 1975 to Feb 14, 1977 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 27° Taurus: born Jul 7, 1932 to May 10, 1933 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jul 26, 1982 to Feb 25, 1984 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 27° Gemini: born Jul 16, 1937 to May 3, 1938 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Aug 14, 1987 to May 30, 1988 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 27° Cancer: born Aug 25, 1940 to May 26, 1941 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Oct 19, 1990 to Jul 3, 1991 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 27° Leo: born Oct 23, 1942 to Jul 10, 1943 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Aug 12 to Aug 19, 1993.
- Chiron at 27° Virgo: born Oct 24, 1944 to Jun 27, 1945 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Aug 19 to Aug 25, 1995.
- Chiron at 27° Libra: born Oct 20 to Oct 26, 1946, or Dec 1, 1996 to Aug 13, 1997 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 27° Scorpio: born Nov 5 to Nov 12, 1948, or Dec 13, 1998 to Aug 19, 1999 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 27° Sagittarius: born Jan 9 to Oct 11, 1951 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Feb 17 to Nov 22, 2001 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 27° Capricorn: born Mar 14, 1954 to Jan 4, 1955 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jan 17 to Oct 22, 2005 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 27° Aquarius: born Apr 27, 1959 to Dec 10, 1960 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Feb 28, 2010 to Jan 7, 2011 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 27° Pisces: born Apr 8, 1967 to Feb 26, 1968 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Apr 24, 2017 to Dec 23, 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 27° 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.
- 27° Aries, born 1975: first square at about 15 (around 1990), opposition at about 21, return at about 50.
- 27° Taurus, born 1982: first square at about 10 (around 1992), opposition at about 16, return at about 50.
- 27° Gemini, born 1987: first square at about 7 (around 1994), opposition at about 13, return at about 50.
- 27° Cancer, born 1990: first square at about 6 (around 1996), opposition at about 13, return at about 50.
- 27° Leo, born 1993: first square at about 5 (around 1998), opposition at about 17, return at about 50.
- 27° Virgo, born 1995: first square at about 6 (around 2001), opposition at about 22, return at about 50.
- 27° Libra, born 1996: first square at about 8 (around 2004), opposition at about 29, return at about 51.
- 27° Scorpio, born 1998: first square at about 12 (around 2010), opposition at about 35, return at about 51.
- 27° Sagittarius, born 2001: first square at about 15 (around 2016), opposition at about 36, return at about 50.
- 27° Capricorn, born 2005: first square at about 22 (around 2027), opposition at about 36, return at about 51.
- 27° Aquarius, born 2010: first square at about 23 (around 2033), opposition at about 33, return at about 50.
- 27° Pisces, born 2017: first square at about 20 (around 2037), opposition at about 28, 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 27 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.
