#The Wounded Healer

[dk-thrive]

We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.

— Henri J. M. Nouwen, "The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society"  (Image; November 20, 2013) (via Alive on All Channels)

#Henri Nouwen #The Wounded Healer #success #accomplisment #vulnerable

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#astrology #planets in astrology #zodiac signs #natal chart #astrology blog #the zodiac #astrology on tumblr #tumblr astrology #learn about astrology #astrology on patreon #chiron #the wounded healer #hero #heroism

[everyendeavor]

Intuitive Astrology: Chiron Retrograde July – December 2023

by Tanaaz

Chiron stations retrograde in Aries on July 23, 2023, in the midst of some incredibly significant and intense cosmic energies.

The Lunar Nodes changing signs, the Cancer New Moon, the Sun moving into its home sign of Leo, and Venus Retrograde all happen just days before Chiron, the asteroid known as the wounded healer, journeys into retrograde.

All of this energy combined will intensify the healing work of Chiron, allowing some of our most painful heartbreaks to be channeled into something new.

Chiron will remain in retrograde until December 26, 2023, and by this point, we are likely to have experienced some deeper wisdom, compassion, and understanding from whatever our wounds were trying to teach us.

Let’s dive deeper into what Chiron’s energy is all about and what you can expect as it journeys retrograde in 2023 –

Chiron, the Wounded Healer

Chiron, the asteroid, is named after Chiron, the centaur, and the story of Chiron can help us to understand the energy it radiates.

The myth goes that Chiron was abandoned at birth and left to fend for itself. Chiron was unwanted and unloved, but it was through this painful wound of abandonment and difficult upbringing that he was able to rise up and turn his wounds into powerful portals of healing.

It was Chiron’s wounds that paved the way for his role as a powerful healer, teacher, psychic, and philosopher.

Chiron was able to take his wounds and allow them to guide him in a direction of power. Chiron knew his wounds would never leave him, but he allowed them to become portals of wisdom, compassion, and learning. This is why Chiron is referred to as the wounded healer.

We all possess the same powers as Chiron. Inside each and every one of us has the ability to take our wounds and pain points and turn them into a source of power. As the poet Rumi says- the wound is where the light enters you.

Chiron in our Cosmic Skies

Chiron orbits between Saturn and Uranus. The position of Chiron between Saturn and Uranus is significant to understanding the energy it brings.

Saturn is a very grounded, rooted energy, whereas Uranus is considered a planet of a higher vibration. Uranus’ energy can also bring about awakenings and the rise of kundalini energy.

Chiron can act as a bridge between these two states of being and is sometimes referred to as the Rainbow Bridge.

The Rainbow bridge signifies the link between one state of consciousness and the next, and this idea is further amplified if we look at Egyptian Astrology. In Egyptian Astrology, Chiron goes by another name- Anpu or Anubis, the god of the afterlife and lost souls. Many of the myths and legends used in Western Astrology can be traced back to Egyptian and Babylonian astrology, and Anubis can be seen as Chiron’s counterpart.

Just like Chiron, Anubis was abandoned as a child. It was through this painful upbringing that Anubis was able to rise up into the noble profession of the Guardian of the Underworld.

Anubis’s job was to welcome the newly dead to the underworld and guide them as they transitioned to the afterlife. 

It takes a special soul to be given such a position, and no doubt, it was Anubis’ own pain and suffering that allowed him to develop the compassion, discernment, and loyalty to walk souls through such a journey. As Chiron or Anubis travels retrograde, we can access our own wounds to reflect on how to use them as a source of power and healing.

This energy is not about obtaining a state of perfection through healing, rather it is about bringing acknowledgment and acceptance to our wounds in a way that allows us to access the wisdom they can bring.

Chiron Retrograde in Aries

Chiron doesn’t want us to heal because it will make us “better.” It wants us to learn how to source these wounds as powerful portals of wisdom, knowledge, and power. By extracting this information, we can step into a greater and fuller potential.

This level of healing work is about transcendence rather than trying to “fix” ourselves in order to be worthy. We are already worthy, regardless of the wounds that live within.

This energy is especially amplified, as Chiron is currently in the sign of Aries, the headstrong ram. 

With Chiron in Aries, we are even more supported to find the strength, confidence, and courage that can arise when we face our wounds and look at them not as pain points but as points of potential.

Chiron in Aries reminds us that it is far more beneficial to allow our wounds to inspire, motivate, and offer strength, rather than to think of them as something that slows us down or makes us inferior in any way.

Wounds are painful, and some wounds cut so deep that they never truly leave us, but this is ok. We don’t have to be a neatly wrapped package in order to lead the best life possible.  

We can use this retrograde energy not to sugar-coat our wounds, but to recognize that just like Chiron and Anubis, our suffering very often can lead us to the path of our destiny. 

Use this retrograde energy to reflect on what your wounds have taught you. Sit with your wounds and get to know them. See if you can release any judgments and just sit with any pain they bring up. As you get comfortable with this, see if you can reflect on what these wounds have taught you, how they have shaped you, and what wisdom they may have for you. 

Open to the wisdom and potential that your wounds have to offer.

Chiron Retrograde Exercises

1.) Identify a painful heartbreak you have been facing. See if you can step outside of this heartbreak momentarily, and challenge yourself to identify 5 things you can learn from this experience.

2.) Take a challenging situation you may be facing with another person. Putting all other emotions aside, see if you can just look at the situation from a place of compassion for the other person. Observe what comes up for you. Next, put all emotions aside and see if you can find compassion for yourself in this situation. Observe what comes up for you.

3.) Think of a painful wound from your past. How has this wound inspired you? How can it continue to inspire you moving forward?

4.) Journal Prompts:

* If my pain could talk, it would want me to know…

* When I think of my hardships, I am grateful that…

* I am stronger today because…

5.) Try this Chiron Ritual

About the Author

Tanaaz is the creator of Forever Conscious. She is an intuitive astrologer and aims to use her writing to heal and inspire. She is also the author of several books including the Power of Positive Energy, Messages for the Soul, and My Pocket Mantras. She also runs online courses and in-person retreats.

(via Forever Conscious, July, 2023)

#intuitive astrology #Chiron Retrograde #July’23 through December ‘23 #The Wounded Healer #Tanaaz Intuitive Astrologer

[martyschoenleber]

Thinking of the Slavery of Paul (and ours too)

I have the privilege of attending worship in my home church today after a ten day trip to Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland to care for Christian leaders seeking to be faithful to Christ and His kingdom. It was a good trip even if exhausting. Numerous angels are also exhausted from keeping me awake during my long hours in the car. It was good to be back home, to hug my wife, and be with the…

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#Doulos #Henri Nouwen #Slave #Slavery #The Wounded Healer #Titus 1:1-4 #Trell Ross

[hejee]

i really just wanna draw them shirtless

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #inquisitor lavellan #cassandra pentaghast #varric tethras #the iron bull #solas #solas dragon age #dorian pavus #vivienne de fer #blackwall #cole dragon age #sera dragon age #ouuuugh so many tags #ok but the scenario is them finally taking a rest after fighting a damn dragon #dorian is the most wounded bc he rushed head first lol #this happened to me ingame tbh #viv and myrella are my tank mages #i wanna draw only four of them but nah i don’t want anybody to be left out #solas is the least wounded of the lot bc he’s the healer and uh u know #ngl i first drew varric’s ass

[officialleobrown36]

Card Of The Day: The Wounded Healer. (10/6/22)

Hey Sugarbears,

Happy Friday! Time for today's card of the day. Today's card of the day is the wounded healer. Now that life has changed, it's time to get to work. The wounded healer challenges us to deal with our inner demons.

Does this card resonate with you? Let me know in the comments.

#youtube #psychicleo #psychics #the wounded healer #tarot reading #tarot #tarot cards #reblog

[middlenamesage]

Want to know a secret?

Your Chiron placement is probably where you are bravest.

I used to wonder if it was just me, but the more charts I’ve looked at with people I’ve had firsthand conversations about them with, I’ve noticed something:

Chiron often seems to be pain that one chooses to keep walking into, that eventually breaks open one’s wounds so bad that some tough scabs can grow.

Chiron is often self-inflicted pain that heals, but it takes place over a lifetime, and at many points what we experience with our Chiron feels only wounding. Yet some unrecognized inner wisdom in many people drives them to keep putting themselves in situations that activate their Chirons. It’s not as much like the pain associated with some other planets, asteroids, or points, that people are going to be more likely to try to avoid, and at the same time, it tends to be a wound people actually have very acute conscious awareness of.

In this way, Chiron actually shows a source of strength to me more than anything else.

#chiron #chiron in astrology #astrology #astrology observations #astro notes #astrology tumblr #astrology community #zodiac signs #wounded healer

[cienie-isengardu]

Cienie's Star Wars sidenotes

While doing research and writing down the last pieces of Funeral Rites of the Clone Troopers, it became even more clear how The Clone Wars animated TV series did a great disservice to Jedi, especially in the context of medical care for clones.

TCW has clone medics, both as part of combat units (e.g. Kix from 501st Legion) and working apparently in the medcentre as sometimes was presented on the screen.

The role of doctors treating wounded troopers was given to Kaminoans (Nala Se) and droids and sure, those two groups were part of the whole GAR’s medical system in the Legends too. However Jedi Healers (doctors), as far as I remember, were seen treating mainly other Jedi like Yoda

and even then TCW barely paid attention to force healing as an important skill. 

The research about medical care for clones gives a pretty drastic idea of what was happening during and after battle which is understandable why the show destined for younger viewers didn’t go into full details about triage of wounded but considering how many dark themes were put in the same show, I dare to say not showing medical care provided by Jedi or common Republic doctors and nurses (who btw are a rare example of republic citizens conscripted into army during the war) actually is unfair. The show reduced one very important aspect of Jedi - they weren’t just generals and commanders either sending or leading troops into battle, they also provided medical help, whether they were specifically trained at healing or not. 

In Legends, we could see Jedi Healers assisting the army on various occassions, working in triage area like in Republic comics series:

The triage unit, where Jedi healers labor to save the lives of the wounded, was set up safely behind the line of battle. But as the fortunes of war shift, so do the battlelines.

and worrying first about wounded even in the face of serious danger

Master Saa! We’re cut off! There’s no way to get the wounded out!

and searching for survivors

Master Saa is hurt! She pulled the trees on top of us for protection...

and working in hospitals

Follow me Skywalker. We have much healing to do. The Jedi sickbay, where we treat the most severe injuries. And our own, of course. Master Offee has saved countless lives. She seldom leaves her post to rest. But we all work long hours.

Not to mention the whole Medstar duology dedicated to padawan Bariss Offee, doctors and nurses serving in Republic mobile hospitals close to frontine - and yes, forever I’m gonna be bitter about how TCW/New Canon treated the most iconic Jedi Healer.

(The cover art for Medstar: Jedi Healer by Dave Seeley)

When padawan Skywalker arrived at New Holstice with his troops, he was immedialy called to assist in the nearest sickbay

“Are you injured, master Jedi?”

“Not really, no.”

“Good. You can make yourself useful by heading to the nearest sickbay. We need all the Jedi healers we can get...”

and for context, this is Anakin two days after after Jabiim, one of the worst war campaigns Republic experienced so far, the solely survivor of Jedi Pack traumatized both by the loss of his comrades and what happened on the planet and forced to make a devastating choice is literally told to get at work ASAP because every Jedi in between assignment was working here hard to heal the most wounded..

Though no healer himself, Anakin even force-healed injured trooper on battlefield to stop him going into shock:

Supporting the commando trooper with his left arm, Anakin warded off blaster bolts on the run. The rest of Squad Seven supplied cover, blowing STAPs out the sky with uninterrupted fire. Cody motioned everyone into a shallow irrigation trench just short of the mound. By the time Obi-Wan arrived, the troopers were deployed in a circle, and continuing to pour fire into the sky. Anakin slid into the trench a moment later, lowering the commando gently to the muddy slope. Squad Seven’s medical specialist crawled over, removing the commando’s ravaged utility belt and deeply dented helmet.  [...]

The harvester’s pincers had crushed the armor into the commando’s abdomen. His skin was intact, but the bruising was severe. With only half the original army of 1.2 million in fighting shape, the life of every clone was vital. Blood and replacement organs - - what the regular troopers referred to as “spare parts” - - were readily available - - “easily requisitioned” - - but with the war reaching a crescendo, battlefield casualties were on the rise and treated as high priority.

“Not much I can do for him here,” the medspec told Anakin. “Maybe if we can get an FX-Seven air-dropped - - ”

“We don’t need a droid,” Anakin interrupted. Kneeling, he placed his hands on the injured commando’s abdomen and used a Jedi healing technique to keep the clone from going into deep shock. [Labyrinth Of Evil]

(and included request for evacuation of the wounded trooper when Cody called for artillery support)

In Republic comics series alone we could see Jedi showing concern for the wounded troopers at various moments, putting their well-being as priority:

or helping (healing) wounded enemies:

And I won't lie, it is frustrating how Legends, especially Republic comics series that had around 40 issues put so much pressure on Jedi Force healing and how Jedi care for wounded troopers while The Clone Wars (New Canon) that lasted for decade or so kinda ignored the issue? Which is unfair to Jedi and clones alike. The first are presented as less caring, at times indifferent? the latter deserved to have all the available medical help, not just Kaminoans and droids.

#star wars #jedi #jedi healers #clone troopers #legends vs new canon #anakin skywalker #luminara unduli #bariss offee #aayla secura #mace windu #i wil be bitter forever for how tcw treated bariss offee #i demand new canon to bring back the jedi force healing their troopers and wounded in general

[sesamenom]

Quick hand sketch that turned into elrond with athelas water

I always forget to draw him with it but I headcanon him having pretty bad burn scars on his right arm/side from the kinslaying

#silm #silmarillion #lotr #elrond #also hc that elros burned his left hand pulling elrond out of the fires #which is why elrond became a healer in the first place #even up to the third age he still has to rinse it w athelas water once in a while #bc maedhros' fire-fea may or may not have been making the fire a lot worse than it would have been naturally #hes not /actively/ influencing the fire but him just being there is not exactly helping the situation #elrond only really heals Shadow-wounds by the late TA #bc they have other healers for smaller stuff that dont necessarily need the attention of a part-maiarin legendary healer #and in the war of the ring theres enough people that he needs to focus on tending to the most grievously wounded #kind of like those super specialized surgeons #but hes actually better w burns #the first thing he healed was elros' burnt hand (with some help from maglors song he regained almost full use of it) #later he helped soothe maglor's silmaril burns #but during the war hes needed the most for treating the Shadow because hes like one of two people in the world who can properly use athelas #aragorn taking frodo to rivendell was basically like those cases when a patient gets helicoptered to a specific hospital #to see a specific surgeon about a really rare/difficult/dangerous procedure

[tennessoui]

au where jedi healers take a vow not unlike jedi temple guards, but instead of wearing a mask and becoming anonymous, they give up their sight and wear blindfolds to allow the Force to guide their every action. it’s also supposed to blind them to their patients’ differences, which used to be symbolic but since the war between the jedi and the sith broke out, has become much less so

because jedi healers are supposed to heal regardless of if their patient is a jedi or a sith, when they’re deployed on battlefields after the fighting is over, they use the Force to heal every injured person they come upon.

anakin skywalker, who was chosen from the creche and agreed to follow the Healing path at the age of 9, thinks it’s sort of stupid that they have to wait until after the fighting is over to begin to help because he can feel people dying in the Force, he can feel their pain--

young general kenobi, who remembers his old creche-mate anakin skywalker and how blue his eyes once were, thinks it’s beyond foolhardy that this healer is stealing out across an active battlefield, blindfold over his eyes and bending down to heal karking darth maul and single-handedly diverting all of obi-wan’s attention away from the droids and sith legion because now he has to make sure he’s ok he can’t just leave him to the whims of the Force, he’s unprotected and he’s going to get himself killed----

it’s a headache and a half for everyone involved because general kenobi keeps abandoning his battle strategy and sometimes even position to ensure healer skywalker’s safety and healer skywalker keeps dropping everything and everyone the moment he feels obi-wan kenobi get hurt in the Force to rush to his side, Force Vow of Healing Equality be damned.

but......the Council keeps deploying them to the same battlefield because healer skywalker is never more effective as when he knows he must heal fifty mortal wounds before he can rid general kenobi of a headache, and general kenobi is never as ruthless as when skywalker is on the field close to him, in potential harm’s way

despite how much they insist they hate each other 

#kit's silly lil aus #obikin #healer anakin au #writing this out i thought of like five thousand scenes i'd want for this #a scene where obi-wan is pissed at anakin because he keeps fucking fixing one of the sith #so he's not letting anakin heal him and refusing to see one of the clone medics #so they're in his tent and he's just holding a compress to his head wound and bitching at anakin who is bitching back at him #and obi-wan is like 'at least you don't heal DROIDS' very scathing #and anakin goes quiet and is like 'i used to want to be an engineer did you know that?' #and obi-wan is like 'force when we were kids i knew everything about you. crush the size of a senator's ego' #oh and another scene where a sith (lbr maul) attacks anakin and obi-wan gets in the way #and takes the blade for him and anakin kills him rather violently #because i dont like healer anakin aus that take the violence and teeth out of anakin skywalker #so he snaps and breaks his vows to kill maul and eliminate the threat so he can heal obi-wan #and probably the council had encouraged him to become a healer because they could see his capacity for violence and fear and hate #but they couldn't see his attachment to obi-wan #but then not even obi-wan could see that #and a scene after that where obi-wan wakes up in his tent and the first thing he sees is anakin's blue eyes #because anakin broke all his vows to protect and obi-wan and killed many many people to keep them away (in a very feral way) #so what's one more #and obi-wan's first thought is that he missed those eyes #everything else and their consequences can wait #oh also mostly in it for the blindfold sex before this #absolutely here for the blindfold sex #same age aus also my beloved

[flickeringart]

Chiron and the healing journey

I was thinking about Chiron and how our assumption of rejection makes us feel pain. Chiron is fine tuned to pick up on rejection. It's not really that other people have hurt us, it's not really that we lack in anything in particular, it's just that everything around us seems to scream "this is not ok and you need to fix it". The critique may not even be that harsh or soul crushing, but since we pick up on the slightest feeling of being "damaged" because of someone's comments or attitudes, it's going to reinforce the wound.

The Chiron healing journey is the effort of detaching and disidentifying with the pain in order to see life without pain distorting our perception. This is far from easy because there's almost always ego investment in suffering.

#astrology #chiron #healing #the wounded healer #chiron wound

[steggymus]

older camp counselor nico because i can’t stop thinking about how he’s probably become a role model for all the new campers

#he’s answering questions like percy in the titans curse #how in the world did percy do it #is this what i was like?? #i was annoying af #healer will always there to bandage his wounds though #percy jackson #pjo/hoo #pjo fanart #annabeth chase #jason grace #nico di angelo #frank zhang #hazel levesque #leo valdez #piper mclean #pjo hoo toa #will solace #percabeth #solangelo

[lavenderjewels]

kusakabe going around aimlessly in circles with panda in shibuya to avoid any confrontation with the special grade antagonists while keeping on a serious face and panda not realizing because he have no sense of direction as an animal is still one of the funniest things in all of jujutsu kaisen

#jjk spoilers #kusakabe atsuya #panda #I know they’re both some of the least liked jjk characters but their time in shibuya was so good #and getos family dumping their life story and mission onto them 😭😭😭 while panda is just ‘…ok!’ #unrelated but #was reading the chapters where the healer from Kyoto freezes nobaras wounds and like #WHY. what was the point of all that if she isn’t going to return?? #back to believing in nobaras return #but really. I’m thinking (hoping is more of the right word) nobara is someone gege is waiting on to use #which. hate the amount of time it’s been where her state has been completely unconfirmed but 😃

[yloiseconeillants]

lightwarden thoughts are back on the menu so like. here's mothwarden - aletheia. it's playing so hard into the narrative of the warrior of darkness spun by two rival wizards that that's all that's left in the end. just a cracking shell of mythologized heroism holding back something cruel and resentful.

there's a playlist!

#there's a third much more monstrous form but like. you know. game limitations lmao #it's also VERY VERY VERY wound up in yloise's drk arc which is a soap opera thing #wherein she regularly just. gave up and let esteem possess her (especially during stb) instead #which is inherently wrapped up in her failures as a healer and intention to heal vs. the necessity of harm #also yloise deserves these wings so much more than athena- #soap opera notes #lightwarden au #playlist tag #MOTHWARDEN BELOVED #yloise coneillants #shadowbringers tag #and uh #endwalker spoilers #i guess

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Consequently, the individual history of every creative man is always close to the abyss of sickness; he does not, like other men, tend to heal the personal wounds involved in all development by an increased adaptation to the collectivity. His wounds remain open, but his suffering from them is situated in depths from which another curative power arises, and this curative power is the creative process.

As the myth puts it, only a wounded man can be a healer, a physician. Because in his suffering the creative man experiences the profound wounds of his collectivity and his time, he carries deep within him a regenerative force capable of bringing forth a cure not only for himself but also for the community.

This complex sensibility of the creative man increases his dependence on the center of wholeness, the self, which, in continuous attempts at compensation, enhances the ego development and ego stability that must provide a counterweight to the archetypal preponderance.”

Erich Neumann, Art and The Creative Process, pp. 186 - 187

[Centre of Applied Jungian Studies]

#quotes #Erich Neumann #Centre of Applied Jungian Studies #healing #myth #wounded healer

[probablyevilrpgideas]

The Party-

A femboy from a matriarchal state where men have limited opportunities to advance

A disaffected woman from a tribe where every woman looks the same and has the same job

A man from a tribe similar to but with a different function from the above, taking on the role of a woman in that tribe

A deeply traumatized goblin who drinks to forget the pain of their trauma

NPC: "Y'all good? You all look like you're sorting some shit out... I mean you, the players. Y'all good?"

#Pokemon Greyhawk #Greyhawk #D&D #We don't actually have a trans Officer Jenny #But we do have a Hardby femboy with a whip who was barred from the Hardby gym and now has a chip on their shoulder #An Emo Nurse Practitioner Joy who wants to rebel against tradition #And my goblin who wound up with a few references to Harrier Du Bois after a psychic kung fu nazi killed them #Goblin's chandelure was forced to fuse with them to save their life #their Kadabra and Ponyta burned themselves out to get them to a healer #Their beedrill donated some essence but wound up mostly ok #We also have a couple other characters but they're normal