Cocoon or Monsoon?
What the end of this 7-year cycle is really asking of you
I want to talk to you about something that only recently landed for me and when it did, it reframed everything.
About a week ago I came across something about Chiron, the asteroid known as the Wounded Healer, and a seven-year cycle that began in February 2019.
I don’t usually go digging into what’s coming astrologically since I prefer not to let future energy color how I experience the present. But when something is brought to my attention or my guides toss me a sign and it finds me rather than me seeking it out I have learned to pay attention.
And when I saw February 2019 as the start date, I stopped.
That was the month I met my now ex-partner.
More than that and it was the month I stepped into what I now understand was the beginning of a complete life excavation.
Because just weeks before, in December 2018, I had closed a business I had spent fifteen years building. Fifteen years. Not to mention a divorce a long time coming.
I had to walk away and pressed reset on everything. And then, almost without realizing it, I walked straight into a seven-year Chiron cycle.
Looking back now I can see it so clearly. At the time, I just thought I was rebuilding but on muddy ground that felt like roller skating up a mountain.
If you had asked me at any point in the last seven years how things were going, I would have told you I was moving forward. And I was. But it felt like sliding back down that mountain more than gaining traction.
Two steps forward, wheels sliding back. Start, stop. Start, stop.
In early 2019 I was registered to run the London Marathon in April. My new partner at the time convinced me it was a great idea to roll the entry over to the following year and we’d go together, make it something shared. I agreed. It felt like the right call.
It wasn’t the right call. It just never happened. Enter Pandemic 2020.
Around the same time, I had over 25,000 words written for a book about how I had put my fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis into remission through energy work and neuroscience-based meditation.
I was on track for a TEDx talk that September. I had recently invested in a Microsoft Surface something more portable, something that was supposed to make the writing life easier. It was set up to back everything up to Google Drive. Or so I thought.
A week or so after I met my partner, I was traveling on my commute through Seattle when my laptop was stolen. And it was only after it was gone that I discovered the backup had never actually synced.
Not once. Twenty-five thousand words. Gone. Just like that.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that within the first few weeks of this Chiron cycle beginning, I lost the marathon, lost the book, lost the TEDx path not to mention handed the decision-making on at least one of those to someone else.
That’s Chiron in Aries doing exactly what it came to do. Stripping back the identity.
Asking — “Who are you when the plans dissolve and the work disappears?”
Then a global pandemic arrived, and anything still standing got swept into the tide along with everything else.
Cocoon or monsoon?
Or both?
Here’s what I now understand about the last seven years of my life and maybe yours too.
When I closed my business in late 2018 and stepped into 2019, I thought I was going into a cocoon. A conscious retreat. A reset. And I was.
But what I didn’t know was that the cocoon wasn’t a shelter.
It was the process itself. And it was happening in the middle of a full monsoon.
That’s what Chiron in Aries has been for all of us.
Since February 2019, this cycle has been asking us to heal our deepest wounds around identity. Around who we are when we strip away everything we built, every role we played, every version of ourselves we performed for the world. Aries rules the self.
Chiron rules the wound that becomes wisdom. Put them together for seven years and you get exactly what so many of us have been living … intense, purposeful, relentless excavation.
You weren’t failing. You weren’t stuck. You were mid-transformation in the middle of a storm; inside a cocoon you couldn’t fully emerge from yet.
Because the timing wasn’t yours to control.
What this cycle has actually been uncovering
The clearing that has happened and the relationships that ended, the identities that fell away, the projects that stalled, the plans that dissolved and none of that was loss.
It was excavation. It was the cycle doing exactly what it came to do.
Chiron doesn’t wound us to leave us wounded. It surfaces what was already there, buried beneath the doing and the becoming and the pushing forward. And sometimes that surfacing looks like chaos. Like a monsoon. Like roller skates on a mountain.
But underneath all of it? There is something being uncovered that couldn’t have been reached any other way. That’s the treasure this cycle holds.
For me it’s taken until now and the final weeks of this cycle to feel the ground starting to level. To see the clarity that was waiting on the other side of the storm.
I want you to know that if you’re still in it, still feeling the intensity and the resistance and the sense that something is ending but the new thing hasn’t fully arrived yet …that is not a sign that something is wrong.
That is the cocoon expanding and we are in the final weeks
Chiron moves out of Aries on June 19th, 2026. We are in the threshold right now. The liminal space between what this cycle excavated and what the next one will build.
This is not the time to push harder. It’s not the time to force the emergence. It’s the time to ask yourself with honestly and gently, what has this period been asking you to release? What identity, what wound, what old story about who you are and what you’re capable of, has been loosening its grip?
And what has been quietly uncovering itself underneath all of it?
I’d love to know what’s been true for you. Drop it in the comments. We’re all riding this out together.
And if you want to go deeper — look up your Chiron placement in your natal chart and where Aries falls in your chart. What you find there will likely make a lot of sense right now.
Before you close this tab, I want you to sit with these.
Grab your journal and let these questions breathe for a while.
Don’t overthink them. Just write what comes.
What did you close, release, or walk away from between February 2019 and now that you haven’t fully given yourself credit for?
Where have you been roller skating up a mountain and what would it feel like to finally put the skates down?
What has been quietly uncovering itself underneath all the intensity of the last seven years? What’s there when you stop and actually look?
What is the cocoon still protecting you from and do you feel the pull to emerge?
Ready to go deeper?
If these questions stirred something in you and if you’re feeling the weight of this transition and want clarity on what it means specifically for you, I’d love to sit with you in a one-on-one session.
This is exactly the work I do. We look at what this cycle has been excavating in your life, what’s ready to be released, and what’s waiting on the other side of this threshold for you.
With love peering out from inside the cocoon,
Crystal