โ 40.6 Gate of Aloneness, Deliverance โ Balance โข Virgo
โ 37.6 Gate of Friendship, Family โ Equality โข Pisces
โ 17.4 Gate of Opinions โ The Seer โข Aries
โ 18.4 Gate of Correction โ Integrity โข Libra
โฝ 40.2 Gate of Aloneness, Deliverance โ Balance โข Virgo
โฟ 4.5 Gate of Youthful Folly โ Understanding โข Leo
โ18.2 Gate of Correction โ Integrity โข Libra
โ15.1 Gate of Extremes, Modesty โ The Wild โข Gemini, Cancer
๐ฆ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐ข, ๐๐ก๐ค๐ฌ, ๐ง๐๐จ๐ฉ, ๐จ๐๐ง๐ซ๐๐๐โฆ Re-tuning Our Awareness Around Balance
This past week, the sun has been moving through our heart centers in the Gate of Aloneness, giving us life force energy towards balancing the Self with Community, finding ourselves in the dance between self-care and service. One of the reasons I love Human Design and Gene Keys as frameworks for reading astrology, is that it also includes the Earthโs position and relationship in the scheme of things. Part of becoming/being present and discerning where to go/grow is starting where youโre at right? Lol. So how do we ground ourselves (Earth) in this dance of life force energy (Sun), moving through caretaking as leadership and service, harmonized with our own needs so that we are nourished as well? Here, we have Earth traveling in the Gate of Family Alchemy, which is an awareness center in our solar plexus, where we can bring awareness to our agreements in relationships, noting where there is reciprocity, as well as maybe where we are resourced internally to give more support for those with steeper challengesโand, where we may also need to discern what we ourselves do not have capacity or agreement to serve. Together these two gates form the Channel of Community. Where have moments of rest and balance with work or service been relevant for you this past week especially? This is the dance we continue to grow our energy and consciousness in this life as we work through relationships. Even the Moon is now highlighting this today, joining the sun in its journey through gate 40. Sense and feel into how these energies drive you subconsciously, through instinct and intuitionโwhat works and what doesnโt work for you. What tensions do you notice around balance, rest, and work inside your body, between the the pull of Earthโs gravity and the Moonโs sway?
Mercury in the Gate of Understanding (third eye center) will support any attention given to these matters, to reflect in places of holding and tension, exhaustion, finding the humor or at least ease in not needing to know the answers rather than clamping down with a purist stance of โrightโ or โwrong.โ Explore what it is to love what you love, and also to love what you donโt love. Where can you give yourself wiggle room in your experience? Or others? Try on the archetype of the philosopher, who does not attach to knowledge, but to experiential understanding from different angles, from living through process. Sometimes the most satisfying answer emerges from a place of not having to know โthe answerโ!
And Mars in the Gate of Extremes (higher heart center) will supportโor rather, drive and compelโthe ways in which you can adapt in challenging situations, and find flow and rhythm, as well as influence those in your environment to also come into the flow of life. It teaches us to attune to our wildnessโour natural state that already knows how to nurture connection to wholeness. What is going to be most meaningful to you? It might go against the grain. Being in presence and dropping into well-being comes at a pace that is much slower than the mind of urgency culture we all live in. Sometimes, we need to meet our edges, and sometimes fall off them, lol, in order to know ourselves beyond that which keeps us in pattern. This is the life force energy to follow the tune in our own hearts. I call this being the sacred rebel, as it is an act of rebellion to move against the pressures of society and its conditioning to stay within a small or rigidly defined expression of self.
And finally, with my attention tuned to rhythm, flow, balance between rest and service, walking the mystery, I offer this somatic practice for those who have a holding pattern in their energy, called โthe caregiver with no needsโ: Try on vibrating the words, โI needโ in your throat and feeling how that impacts your bodyโs feeling senses. This is an experiential practice, not an intellectual one! Send me a note if you notice something meaningful open up there energetically. I also recommend the audiobook โWarming the Stone Childโ by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. I found the myths shared around the โunmotheredโ child to be very nurturing and healing, and I love recommending this book especially to the โcaregivers with no needsโ, or the โunmothered mothers,โ in those of us who carry this sort of global level nurturer, Universal Mother, journey that is common for highly sensitive changemakers, wayfinders and space holders.
Shine on,
โ๏ธRaena