Chiron at 6 degrees: what the degree means, the birth windows when Chiron sat at 6° in each sign, and the real age your Chiron first gets squared, solved from the ephemeris.
Chiron at 6 degrees means Chiron sits in the 7th degree of whatever sign it occupies in your birth chart. In degree theory, 6 carries a Virgo-flavoured wound: it hides in never feeling correct or useful enough, and it heals through good-enough work offered without apology. 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 6° 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 6 degrees means
In degree theory, 6 carries a Virgo-flavoured wound: it hides in never feeling correct or useful enough, and it heals through good-enough work offered without apology. That flavour sits on top of the sign Chiron is actually in: a 6° Chiron in Capricorn and a 6° Chiron in Cancer share the degree’s tone but not its story. 6 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 6°: the birth windows
Chiron takes about fifty years to go round once, so it has crossed the 7th 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 6° Chiron is in, then use the calculator for the exact minute, house and aspects.
- Chiron at 6° Aries: born May 25, 1969 to Feb 6, 1971 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Apr 5, 2020 to Feb 23, 2021 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 6° Taurus: born May 7, 1978 to Mar 21, 1979 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 6° Gemini: born Jun 18, 1934 to Apr 18, 1935 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Jul 5, 1984 to May 6, 1985 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 6° Cancer: born Aug 1, 1938 to May 14, 1939 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Sep 4, 1988 to Jun 12, 1989 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 6° Leo: born Aug 8 to Aug 15, 1941, or Sep 14, 1991 to Jun 11, 1992 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 6° Virgo: born Sep 9 to Sep 16, 1943, or Oct 24, 1993 to Jul 9, 1994 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 6° Libra: born Sep 9 to Sep 16, 1945, or Oct 21 to Oct 27, 1995.
- Chiron at 6° Scorpio: born Dec 30, 1946 to Sep 14, 1947 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Oct 20 to Oct 26, 1997.
- Chiron at 6° Sagittarius: born Jan 19 to Oct 16, 1949 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Nov 17 to Nov 24, 1999.
- Chiron at 6° Capricorn: born Jan 8 to Oct 4, 1952 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Feb 9 to Nov 22, 2002 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 6° Aquarius: born Jan 28 to Nov 15, 1956 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Feb 20 to Dec 20, 2006 (on and off across its retrograde loops).
- Chiron at 6° Pisces: born May 3, 1961 to Dec 28, 1962 (on and off across its retrograde loops), or Mar 8, 2012 to Jan 19, 2013 (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 6° 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.
- 6° Aries, born 2020: first square at about 19 (around 2039), opposition at about 26, return at about 50.
- 6° Taurus, born 1978: first square at about 13 (around 1991), opposition at about 19, return at about 50.
- 6° Gemini, born 1984: first square at about 9 (around 1993), opposition at about 15, return at about 50.
- 6° Cancer, born 1988: first square at about 7 (around 1995), opposition at about 13, return at about 50.
- 6° Leo, born 1991: first square at about 6 (around 1997), opposition at about 14, return at about 51.
- 6° Virgo, born 1993: first square at about 6 (around 1999), opposition at about 18, return at about 51.
- 6° Libra, born 1995: first square at about 6 (around 2001), opposition at about 25, return at about 50.
- 6° Scorpio, born 1997: first square at about 8 (around 2005), opposition at about 31, return at about 50.
- 6° Sagittarius, born 1999: first square at about 12 (around 2011), opposition at about 35, return at about 50.
- 6° Capricorn, born 2002: first square at about 17 (around 2019), opposition at about 37, return at about 51.
- 6° Aquarius, born 2006: first square at about 22 (around 2028), opposition at about 36, return at about 51.
- 6° Pisces, born 2012: first square at about 23 (around 2035), opposition at about 32, 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 6 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.
