Chiron at 4 degrees: what the degree means, the birth windows when Chiron sat at 4° in each sign, and the real age your Chiron first gets squared, solved from the ephemeris.
Chiron at 4 degrees means Chiron sits in the 5th degree of whatever sign it occupies in your birth chart. In degree theory, 4 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. 4 is also a mutable critical degree, which turns the placement up. The number itself is not an age: transiting Chiron first squares a 4° 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 4 degrees means
In degree theory, 4 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 4° Chiron in Capricorn and a 4° Chiron in Cancer share the degree’s tone but not its story. 4 is one of the mutable critical degrees (4 and 17). A point here is read as changeable and quick to adapt, which for Chiron usually means a wound that shape-shifts: it shows up in different rooms of your life over the years and asks you to recognise the same pattern under new costumes. Degree theory is a modern reading, not a measurement; treat it as colour. Everything dated on this page is measurement.
Born with Chiron at 4°: the birth windows
Chiron takes about fifty years to go round once, so it has crossed the 5th 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 4° Chiron is in, then use the calculator for the exact minute, house and aspects.
- Chiron at 4° Aries: born Apr 13, 1969 to Mar 4, 1970 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Apr 30, 2019 to Dec 26, 2020 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 4° Taurus: born Jun 5, 1977 to Apr 20, 1978 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 4° Gemini: born Aug 28, 1933 to Mar 9, 1935 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jun 6, 1984 to Apr 6, 1985 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 4° Cancer: born Jul 10, 1938 to Apr 14, 1939 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Aug 6, 1988 to May 21, 1989 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 4° Leo: born Jul 22 to Jul 29, 1941, or Aug 26, 1991 to May 19, 1992 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 4° Virgo: born Aug 26 to Sep 1, 1943, or Oct 5, 1993 to Jun 19, 1994 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 4° Libra: born Aug 26 to Sep 1, 1945, or Oct 7 to Oct 13, 1995.
- Chiron at 4° Scorpio: born Dec 11, 1946 to Aug 26, 1947 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Oct 5 to Oct 12, 1997.
- Chiron at 4° Sagittarius: born Dec 31, 1948 to Sep 24, 1949 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Oct 31 to Nov 7, 1999.
- Chiron at 4° Capricorn: born Dec 20 to Dec 28, 1951, or Jan 19 to Oct 28, 2002 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 4° Aquarius: born Mar 22, 1955 to Jan 15, 1956 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jan 26 to Nov 13, 2006 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 4° Pisces: born Mar 23, 1961 to Feb 4, 1962 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Apr 13, 2011 to Nov 20, 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 4° 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.
- 4° Aries, born 2019: first square at about 19 (around 2038), opposition at about 26, return at about 49.
- 4° Taurus, born 1977: first square at about 14 (around 1991), opposition at about 20, return at about 50.
- 4° Gemini, born 1984: first square at about 9 (around 1993), opposition at about 15, return at about 51.
- 4° Cancer, born 1988: first square at about 7 (around 1995), opposition at about 13, return at about 51.
- 4° Leo, born 1991: first square at about 6 (around 1997), opposition at about 14, return at about 51.
- 4° Virgo, born 1993: first square at about 6 (around 1999), opposition at about 18, return at about 51.
- 4° Libra, born 1995: first square at about 6 (around 2001), opposition at about 24, return at about 50.
- 4° Scorpio, born 1997: first square at about 8 (around 2005), opposition at about 30, return at about 50.
- 4° Sagittarius, born 1999: first square at about 12 (around 2011), opposition at about 35, return at about 50.
- 4° Capricorn, born 2002: first square at about 18 (around 2020), opposition at about 37, return at about 51.
- 4° Aquarius, born 2006: first square at about 23 (around 2029), opposition at about 36, return at about 51.
- 4° Pisces, born 2011: first square at about 22 (around 2033), opposition at about 33, 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 4 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.
