Chiron came into being with the body and shape of a centaur, half horse, half man.  But he was not a centaur.  His father was the Titan, Chronos, perhaps you know him by his Roman name, Saturn. His mother, Philyra, was a sea nymph.  Chronos feared that he would be caught by his wife while having his illicit dalliance with the beautiful Nymph. He hears her footsteps approaching.  In his last throws of passion, he turns himself into a horse and, soon thereafter, he gallops away.

When Chiron was born – half horse, half baby boy, his mother rejected him. She abandoned him.  His father never claimed him.  Newborn foal, half-babe, rejected.

Abandoned. Now there is the original wound, a mythic fear.  So vulnerable and so beautiful, Apollo and Artemis could not turn away from this newborn creature.  They raised him as their own. 

Apollo taught him medicine and music.  Artemis – healing and hunting.  From these beginnings, his story goes on.  And on it will go from January to June, from Sept. to November.