Around the first half of April 2025, one of my closest friends, a Cancer Sun at 24°, began describing a feeling she couldn’t explain. Not sadness. Not burnout. Something deeper. She said she felt like she had no value, like she was fading in the background of her own life. This didn’t land overnight. It arrived in slow waves. One day she was fine. The next, she felt small, unimportant, and emotionally drained.
The intensity faded for a while, only to return again around September. This time it wasn’t only emotional. Her body felt it too. She was exhausted, dry, empty of spark. Meanwhile, I was drowning in heavy Saturn transits and honestly stepped away from astrology for a bit, so it took me time to put the pieces together.
But when I finally pulled up her chart in December, everything clicked.
In May 2025, transiting Chiron in Aries made an exact square to her Cancer Sun. Then Chiron turned retrograde and hit her Sun again in October. She described that second hit perfectly: “I feel like a rag that’s been wrung out.” In March 2026, Chiron will square her Sun one last time, but that final pass is usually weaker. The hardest part is already behind her.
What a Chiron Square Sun Transit Feels Like
A Chiron square Sun transit is a period that brings doubt, vulnerability, and a temporary dimming of your usual self-worth. Confidence drops. Self-worth wavers. Old insecurities you thought you outgrew start creeping back up.
Some people feel it emotionally. Some physically. Some both.
Chiron represents the wound we carry and the healing we eventually learn to give ourselves.
The Sun represents confidence, ego, vitality, direction, and the core of who you are.
When Chiron challenges the Sun, your inner light flickers a bit. The experience can bring:
- a feeling of inferiority
- loss of confidence
- emotional vulnerability
- physical fatigue
- a sense that your usual spark is muted
My friend’s Sun is in Cancer, ruled by the Moon. Both the Sun and Moon connect to vitality, which is why the transit affected her health so strongly. And because Chiron is in Aries, a sign tied to the physical body and raw life-force, the exhaustion she felt makes complete sense astrologically.
Why This Transit Hits So Hard
Chiron transits are slow. He can square your Sun three times in one cycle: direct, retrograde, then direct again.
It stretches the experience.
You don’t just feel the wound.
You learn from it over time.
Chiron teaches through discomfort, which is why these transits often feel heavy. But they’re never useless. They reveal where you’ve been giving too much, neglecting yourself, or carrying an old story about your worth that no longer fits.
My Cancer friend is someone who would always choose others over herself. She would give away her last bit of energy without thinking twice. She would sit with strangers, listen to their entire life story, hand them her lunch, and then forget she hadn’t eaten.
Chiron square Sun forced her to stop living like that. It asked her to choose herself.
The classic plane metaphor applies here: you put on your own oxygen mask first so you can actually help others. She learned that self-sacrifice is not love. Self-erasure is not kindness. She needed to support herself emotionally and physically before pouring anything into anyone else.
And yes, this included family.
Sometimes especially family.
The Lesson Behind Chiron Square Sun
This transit teaches you to rebuild your relationship with yourself. To look at where your confidence cracks. To acknowledge where you’ve abandoned your own needs. To stop shrinking so others can expand.
Chiron doesn’t rip your identity apart. It asks you to see where it needs strengthening.
If you’re currently in this transit or preparing for it, pay attention to what hurts. Not to dwell, but to understand where healing wants to begin. You may feel inferior or blocked at times, but the purpose is to push you back toward yourself.
Chiron in Aries wants you to remember your own power. The Sun wants to shine with authenticity. Their tension is uncomfortable, but it clears a path.
When the transit ends, you don’t go back to who you were. You step into someone who knows their worth more clearly. Or at the very least, someone who finally realizes they deserve to.
