The New Moon today was powerful and promising. All New Moons can be likened to a seed planted that may bloom in the future. But today we also experienced a partial Solar Eclipse, meaning that the Earth cast its shadow momentarily across the Sun as the Moon passed by. The “black-out” -albeit metaphorical -can be…
The Moon is our source of happiness, safety, and nourishment. It governs our emotional body and the rhythms of our moods. The transiting Moon, going through its phases of New to waxing to Full to waning, is like a cup that fills with light. This light is the information filtering through the stars and then…
Tonight July 17, the messenger, the trickster, the psychopomp will turn around in the Leo sky and retrace its steps, from 15 degrees back to 4 degrees. This is the infamous Mercury Retrograde. What will it mean for you? Mercury stays close to the Sun, and so it goes retrograde three or four times per…
Today is the day that countless sky watchers and dreamers have been thinking about for a very long time. This morning at 12:47 AM Pacific, Uranus (which stays in a sign for almost eight years) moved into Gemini for the first time in 84 years. The changes to come are hard to overstate. Uranus, discovered…
With today’s New Moon, we are called to have faith – faith in what we are doing and why we are doing it. And because it happens in the protective and nurturing sign of Cancer, perhaps we can finally exhale, and settle into the expansive new energy that will be our backdrop for an entire…
Do you know where Mercury is in your natal chart? Or more importantly, do you know its condition and role in your life? Mine is at 15 degrees and change Gemini, which in Human Design is Conscious Gate 35.5 and Unconscious Gate 17.1 . Gemini happens to be my sixth house, which is both a…
Have you ever found yourself sharing surprisingly personal stories with a complete stranger? Maybe you sensed that your secrets would be safe, or that they genuinely wanted to hear your story. In the Human Design system, the archetype of the good listener is found within Gate 13, the Gate of the Listener. In the ancient…
Most of us are familiar with the concept of wanting to be wanted or needing to be needed. This urge, this pressure to reach out and connect interdependently is a fundamental component of our Tribal structure. In Human Design, the source of this drive is Gate 19, the Gate of Wanting. Gate 19 is the…
We’ve all heard the saying Hunger is the best sauce. This is because everything seems more tantalizing when we are in a state of lack, and nothing fuels our desire like scarcity. In Human Design, this is how Gate 41 works. Called Decrease in the ancient I Ching, the Gate of Contraction describes the fuel…
Radical honesty about the limitations you face can be incredibly empowering. This is one of the best things about working with your Human Design. Instead of struggling to change yourself, or to make something into what it can never be, you get out of your own way. Gate 60, the Gate of Limitation, describes the…