A personal timeline
Life events are placed in sequence and compared with the twelve houses and recurring seven-year periods used in the book.
Myth · body · biography
Chiron
An idea space in Allen’s work: how history and experience take shape in a life, how the body remembers, and how symbols can help a person read patterns without becoming trapped by them.
Enter the inquiry ↓
Two related works
Two works meet around one enduring question.
Astrology and Healing Trauma is the current publication. The Chiron Text is an older, expansive working manuscript from Allen’s archive.
Both ask how a human being can become more conscious of the forces shaping a life. One offers a practical framework made with Karen Beth Wilson. The other ranges through myth, physical culture, planetary archetypes, religion and historical research.
Forthcoming · 3 November 2026
Astrology and Healing Trauma
Using Your Birth Chart in the Journey Toward Recovery
Robert Allen Pittman and Karen Beth Wilson bring astrology, somatic attention and spiritual psychology into a practical map of biography. Readers construct a life timeline, compare it with the natal chart and look for recurring patterns across childhood, ancestry, relationships and transition.
Publisher & preorder ↗How the published book works
A map for reflection, not a verdict.
Biography
Chart
Body
Attention
restores choice
The natal chart
The chart is used as a reflective map for recurring themes, inherited stories and periods of change — not as a medical diagnosis.
The Congruency Process
Mirror work, breath and guided self-inquiry ask where inner experience and outward expression have moved out of relation.
The book and related conversations are educational and reflective. They do not replace medical, psychiatric or psychotherapeutic care.
Allen’s route into the subject
Twenty years reading one chart against one life.
With the guidance of astrologer Brian Lynch, Allen studied his own natal chart over two decades.
The study extended his bodily work to another scale of observation: the sequence of a life, the return of patterns, and the distance between what a person senses inwardly and what they are able to express. Authorship and inquiry connect the fields; each retains its own method.
Unpublished · working archive
The Chiron Text
A thirty-thousand-word manuscript organised as a sequence of meditations, practical exercises and planetary archetypes.
Allen uses Chiron — healer, archer and teacher — as an organising figure for a wide Western history of physical and spiritual culture. The chapters move from intent and personality through healing, essence, emotion, structure, transformation, warmth, rest and what he calls the yoga of emotion.
The working manuscript reveals the scale of Allen’s research and the connections he drew between history, myth, symbolic anatomy and lived experience.
Inside the manuscript
A field of correspondences.
The planetary names operate as chapter headings and organising metaphors, forming a symbolic language for reading the work.
Mars
Intent
Physical training, will and practice as a path into conscious action.
Jupiter
Personality
Dance, aspiration and the forms through which a person meets the world.
Mercury
Healing & communication
Medicine, language, exchange and the body as a bearer of information.
Sun
Essence
Identity, vitality and the attempt to bring inherited ideals back into lived reality.
Moon
Emotion
Feeling, memory and the shifting relationship between body and inner weather.
Late chapters
Warmth, rest & posture
Sleep, recovery and the way bodily positions can participate in emotional states.
Position inside Allen’s wider work
One question, several forms of inquiry.
A movement practice grounded in direct experience, attention and relationship.
The home for the manuscript, source notes and its continuing editorial development.
Selected reflective conversations may draw on biography and astrology when that is the explicit subject.
Continue through Allen’s work