Every so often I just know, without checking my transits, that I'm having a transit to my natal Chiron. Today was one of those days. I logged on to Facebook and I swear three posts in a row had to do either explicitly or not with weight/obesity. Last night someone I'm connected with through Facebook for purely political reasons posted the random comment, "On the plus side, fat people." I have no idea what that's even supposed to mean, though perhaps a pun on the word "plus" often associated with "plus-size" or overweight people. Then today a friend posted a link to an article about how portrait artists are not held in high esteem among some people in the art world, and the following picture showed up with the link.



The article linked to had absolutely nothing at all to do with obesity... it just so happened to include as an example of portraiture a painting of an overweight woman. But the synchronicitous weight-related content continued the fuurther I scrolled down my facebook newsfeed. A cousin of mine posted:

I heard this discussion last night on tv:
nurse: "Do you see what that says? 499 pounds, WOW!
Man: " I don't guess I have been this skinny in 25 years!"
and it made me think, it really is your perspective in life...   

    Another person posted a link to an article about two girls getting into a fistfight after one girl compared the other to actress Gabourey Sidibe, a comparison meant to ridicule her for her weight. How can so many people simultaneously be provoking my woundedness about my weight?! "I have to be having a Chiron transit!" I thought, and checked my transits for today to find that indeed the Moon at 12 Virgo is applying to a trine with my natal Chiron at 14 Taurus.
    The ability to recognize this transit for what it is took pretty much all of the sting out of it. I mean, I am overweight. I have been since childhood. None of these posts were meant as barbs for me personally, but with the Moon and Chiron involved, and because weight has been a point of shame/guilt/hurt feelings for me since I was very young, I was bound to have an emotional reaction to this plethora of weight-related posts. The same friend who linked to the article on the Gabourey Sidibe-inspired fight also pointed out this comment on the article, the one posted by someone calling herself divinelioness (I so hope that means she's a proud Leo!). The extended conversation there also points to the complexity of the issue. Is weight the same as health? No. We all know very unhealthy thin people and we all know robustly healthy heavy people (though society teaches us not to recognize health in people who are overweight). Do many overweight people have unhealthy lifestyle habits that contribute to their weight problem? Of course. I am one of those people
    Today I really just wanted to write about Chiron transits and what it is like to be aware of one as it happens, but in the future I do want to write more about my body, my weight, and my struggle with food addiction. Why do I eat to replace what I feel is a lack of love? This is a question I've been asking myself a lot lately. What am I trying to replace with food? How can I see this Chiron transit as healing?