The Chiron Effect: Healing Our Core Wounds through Astrology, Empathy, and Self-Forgiveness

Written by Lisa Tahir

Narrated by Lisa Tahir

A guide to using astrology to identify your core wounds and heal them using psychological techniques, affirmations, and self-compassion

• Explains how the placement of Chiron in your birth chart identifies the core wounds and unconscious patterns that block empathy and self-forgiveness

• Offers a descriptive chapter for each of the 12 zodiac sign placements for Chiron, revealing how Chiron affects you psychologically, emotionally, sexually, spiritually, socially, financially, and intellectually

• Provides specific steps for each sign to shift self-destructive patterns as well as powerful affirmations infused with Reiki healing energy

We all have experienced disappointment, sadness, rejection, or the loss of something meaningful in our lives. When you are wounded, innate animalistic instincts for self-protection kick in as a means for survival. These behavior patterns are a natural and necessary coping strategy, at first. But many dwell far too long in these patterns and separate themselves from their source of inner wisdom and intuition.

Using astrology as a diagnostic tool, Lisa Tahir reveals how to use the astrological placement of the minor planet Chiron in your birth chart to identify the core wounds and unconscious patterns that block your capacity to have self-empathy and to forgive. Coining the phrase “Chiron Effect” to describe the magnetic pull that individuals have around specific areas of vulnerability, she explains how, like a raw nerve, the placement of Chiron describes what parts of our lives we might edit or hide for fear of being rejected as well as the areas of sensitivity where we are triggered. Offering a chart and online links to allow you to determine Chiron’s placement in your chart, the author explains how Chiron affects you psychologically, emotionally, sexually, spiritually, socially, financially, and intellectually depending on the sign and house it falls within. She outlines how to begin healing your core wounds through empathy and self-forgiveness, providing several steps for each sign placement to shift self-destructive patterns and learn to protect yourself as well as powerful affirmations infused with Reiki healing energy to help you anchor a new belief system.

As Lisa Tahir reveals, once identified, your personal Chiron placement can become the source of your greatest healing and empowerment. By recognizing your core wounding and learning to offer yourself empathy and forgiveness, you can finally break free from suffering, end self-sabotage, and allow your life to unfold in a new way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inner Traditions Audio
• Release date: Dec 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781644113820

Lisa Tahir

Lisa Tahir, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker. She is certified in EMDR Level I, in Reiki Level II, and as a thought coach through the Institute for Transformational Thinking. The host of the weekly podcast All Things Therapy on LA Talk Radio since 2016, she lives in both Los Angeles and New Orleans.

Reviews for The Chiron Effect

[Ildikó Roth · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

It drained me before I finished the introduction. The monotonoty of her voice is the only thing that is more boring what she's on about in the book

[Just Nourish It · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Fair warning! This is for folks that don't know much about therapy or astrology. Don't waste your time if you are familiar with psychology or astrology in any practical way. It is NOT for anyone who may be triggered by condescension, blatant capitalism, a privileged voice, or spiritual bypassing.


It's a decent introduction to psychology and therapy terms and definitions. It seems to be the standard formula writing you find in similar books claiming to be introducing a new methodology or idea. That's fine for what it is, but the title is misleading for people already well (or moderately versed) in either subject. I'm beyond thrilled that mental health providers are branching into the esoteric/spiritual realm, and this may help begin the process of normalizing these ideas with consumers which leads eventually to real (albeit motivated by monetization) shifts in available services.

I would like to subtract 5 stars for the following reasons.
1. She declares she's trademarked this method (it's unclear if it's just the term she's coined to describe this method or something more specific about the method itself) which instantly soured the rest of the book. She does this very early on in the book, like marking her territory or something. Some of us have been studying and applying these and other subjects in congruence since...the beginning of introspection and astrology, eastern religions and philosophy studies of any human era.
Trademarks are for monetization of a product or concept. This is not a new concept, and at best the motivation for it is to mark her place with her own peers for recognition, I guess.... Which leads directly to:
2. At several points she is completely condescending, speaking *about* spiritual bypassing *WHILE* spiritual bypassing, and a few other instances of writing in a distinctly privileged voice on other topics. My teeth are set on edge about it, but it made my skin crawl at a few points.
3. Being excited about making a meaningful connection between apparently disparate things does not mean it's an original thought, nor does it give license to plant one's flag on the cosmos or the psyche.
4. For a mental health professional to be so blatantly oblivious to the tone and voice of the writing, not to mention the reality of history and the human experience is just beyond surprising and disappointing.

Hubris is icky.
Trademark THAT, folks.

[reb · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Blah blah blah, very much “when your assignment is based on the word count”

[Nici · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Accurate, digestible, insightful. Definitely would recommend if you are interested in Jungian psychology, astrology, etc.