Chiron at 28 degrees: what the degree means, the birth windows when Chiron sat at 28° in each sign, and the real age your Chiron first gets squared, solved from the ephemeris.
Chiron at 28 degrees means Chiron sits in the 29th degree of whatever sign it occupies in your birth chart. In degree theory, 28 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 28° 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 28 degrees means
In degree theory, 28 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 28° Chiron in Capricorn and a 28° Chiron in Cancer share the degree’s tone but not its story. 28 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 28°: the birth windows
Chiron takes about fifty years to go round once, so it has crossed the 29th 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 28° Chiron is in, then use the calculator for the exact minute, house and aspects.
- Chiron at 28° Aries: born Jul 13, 1975 to Mar 9, 1977 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 28° Taurus: born Jul 29, 1932 to Feb 21, 1934 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or May 24, 1983 to Mar 23, 1984 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 28° Gemini: born Jul 29, 1937 to May 16, 1938 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Sep 1, 1987 to Jun 10, 1988 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 28° Cancer: born Sep 5, 1940 to Jun 6, 1941 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jul 4 to Jul 12, 1991.
- Chiron at 28° Leo: born Nov 5, 1942 to Jul 18, 1943 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Aug 20 to Aug 26, 1993.
- Chiron at 28° Virgo: born Nov 1, 1944 to Jul 11, 1945 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Aug 26 to Sep 2, 1995.
- Chiron at 28° Libra: born Oct 27 to Nov 2, 1946, or Dec 9, 1996 to Aug 24, 1997 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 28° Scorpio: born Nov 13 to Nov 20, 1948, or Dec 21, 1998 to Sep 8, 1999 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 28° Sagittarius: born Jan 19 to Oct 26, 1951 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Mar 4 to Dec 2, 2001 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 28° Capricorn: born Apr 3, 1954 to Jan 15, 1955 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jan 29 to Nov 18, 2005 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 28° Aquarius: born Feb 25, 1960 to Jan 2, 1961 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Mar 15, 2010 to Jan 24, 2011 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 28° Pisces: born Apr 27, 1967 to Dec 27, 1968 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or May 17, 2017 to Jan 27, 2019 (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 28° 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.
- 28° Aries, born 1975: first square at about 15 (around 1990), opposition at about 21, return at about 50.
- 28° Taurus, born 1983: first square at about 10 (around 1993), opposition at about 15, return at about 51.
- 28° Gemini, born 1987: first square at about 7 (around 1994), opposition at about 13, return at about 50.
- 28° Cancer, born 1991: first square at about 5 (around 1996), opposition at about 14, return at about 50.
- 28° Leo, born 1993: first square at about 5 (around 1998), opposition at about 17, return at about 50.
- 28° Virgo, born 1995: first square at about 6 (around 2001), opposition at about 22, return at about 50.
- 28° Libra, born 1996: first square at about 8 (around 2004), opposition at about 29, return at about 51.
- 28° Scorpio, born 1998: first square at about 12 (around 2010), opposition at about 35, return at about 51.
- 28° Sagittarius, born 2001: first square at about 15 (around 2016), opposition at about 36, return at about 50.
- 28° Capricorn, born 2005: first square at about 22 (around 2027), opposition at about 36, return at about 51.
- 28° Aquarius, born 2010: first square at about 23 (around 2033), opposition at about 33, return at about 50.
- 28° Pisces, born 2017: first square at about 20 (around 2037), 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 28 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.
