HD Transits 28 June – 4 July 2023

Walking your unique soul pathway

Sure, I could look at the transits this week and say not much is going on. But you know I’m going to dig deeper than that! There is a kind of peeling away of who you thought you were, and a – perhaps quite difficult – experience of wondering what it might be like to live as your true self.

I know, we all thought we were already doing this! Perhaps even done with it! And now it turns out, there’s another layer. Hurrah!

So where am I locating this wonderous new adventure we find ourselves on? Let’s go explore.

What Brings You Peace?

Let’s go back to the New Moon on 18 June. I wrote about it here. The Earth was in the Gate of Peace (11), and the New Moon occurred when the Earth was lined up (astrologically) with the Galactic Centre. So it was a pretty big deal. You can have a look at the transit chart for the New Moon here.

I have kept coming back to that moment, as you do with a New Moon, and the question of what brings me peace. How can I feel at peace with myself? What is disturbing my peace and what changes do I need to make in my life?

We can’t find peace if our internal and external worlds at at odds with each other. And so, exploring the ways in which they don’t attune can be helpful. People used to find peace through religion, and of course some still do. But we are going through a period of intense desacralisation – a time when the religious rules (and therefore the underpinnings of morality and society) are breaking down. How does one attune to something that seems to be dissolving before our eyes? And if not that, then what? What do we hold sacred? And how do we attune our inner selves and it’s outer reality?

Interest in Human Design and astrology has exploded in the past few years, because these are useful places to search for the answers to these questions. But if we approach these tools incorrectly – by simply replacing the old rules with new language – they keep us stuck in being wrong, in mis-attunement.

Stillness and Joy

Which brings me to this week. The Sun will be in the Gate of Stillness (52). Many people think of this as something to do with being physically still, but its actually about continually reconnecting with the still central core of your unique self. There is immense power here, in the Root Centre, to follow the impulse of what draws you out from your inner self and into the world.

The Earth will be in the Gate of Joy (58), which is about the joy of sharing, exchanging ideas, flowing together and enriching each other. If we think about the complementarity of these two gates – Stillness and Joy – that Root Centre impulse to engage in life flows best when we are able to open up and share joyfully from our unique central core of self.

The Earth is making a channel this week with dwarf planet Makemake, which is significant. Makemake is currently in Gate 18 (Correction) and has two important gifts for us. The first is to remind us that life goes best for us when we follow our own stars. The second gift is to remind us that we need to formulate our own story of our life, and not to be caught up trying to live from the gaze of another, from the way others frame our identity.

The Shamed and the Deserving

Kassandra is also in the Gate of Correction (18), helping us see where we have learnt to gaslight ourselves, to see ourselves as wrong within the system, rather than seeing where the system itself is wrong. There is something very profound going on here and I want to take a moment to explore it with you.

Remember the days when women who were sexually assaulted were blamed because of what they were wearing? Oh wait, that’s still happening! The story goes something like this – that the child, the queer person, the woman, the altar boy, the person living while black, the refugee holding their child close on a leaky boat, and all the rest, should be ashamed for making the abuser act in the way they did.

It was so obvious this past week, as we watched the millions of dollars poured into looking for one submarine while hundreds of refugees drowned without rescue. It’s a clear acknowledgement of who has carried the shame and who has been considered deserving.

But, here’s what’s changing. We are no longer carrying that shame. We are no longer prepared to hold the secrets of our own suffering close to our chest to protect those who benefit from it.

Chiron and Pandora – an Initiation

We can see more of this if we look to Chiron, sitting in the Gate of Shock (51). This is a gate of initiation. It’s less about shock and more to do with how we respond to shocking events. But here’s the thing, it’s also about the aeons and layers of shock we have taken on from being shamed. This is the underpinnings of conditioning as we think of it in Human Design terms.

With Venus and Mars in Gate 4 this week – the young fool, learning from direct experience – we may be surprised by the outcomes of our actions. This is designed to help us wake up from old shock that locked into our system and kept us powerless to act on our own greater purposes.

Shock can cause a trigger of old shame, and send us reeling into dissociation where we become ineffective in our own lives. We lose our power and our agency. We lose our ability to make our own way, to be creative, to engage in creating culture. And right now, what we all need to be doing is creating culture, reclaiming culture, re-sacralising our lives – deciding what is sacred for us as individuals and living with others in that space.

Joining Chiron in the Channel of Initiation is Pandora in the Gate of Innocence (25). Pandora was created by Zeus to punish an enemy. And what better punishment than an annoying woman, too curious, foolishly releasing curses into the world? But the Pandora we know is based on a more ancient Goddess – Pan Dora – All Gifted. She was originally the Goddess of the bountiful earth. Where we find Pandora in our Design is a place where are truly gifted, both in what we give and what we receive, but have learnt that this connection with life’s bounty is a curse.

Pandora is in Gate 25.3 – a place where we may do further injury to our own innocent nature by believing we are cursed, that we are being punished, or are a punishment to others, by framing what we have done as something shameful rather than a natural response to a shaming system.

Pandora and Chiron are initiating us into a way of seeing ourselves differently, a way of interpreting shock differently, a way of responding differently.

The Way of the Great Goddess

The last part of this tale involves Ceres and Pallas. These two Great Goddess Asteroids are in the Channel of Discovery (29-46) this week. Part of the Abstract Collective Circuitry, this channel is about finding your own unique way, despite difficulties. In fact the difficulties are important, because they shift you off the well trodden pathway and onto what we know as the road less travelled – your own personal soul path.

Ceres can be a tough companion. She will make sure you only do the things that make your life really worth living. Anything less will feel like a walking death. In the Gate of Pushing Upward (46) Ceres is making sure you check in at each step. There is no rushing here. Rededicate yourself to your own soul, to your roots, your own unique path. Whether or not you can see it leading to success, it is your pathway to take.

Pallas is feminine creative intelligence, peeling itself away from patriarchal framing and returning to a deeper and more connected wisdom. When you look at Pallas in your Human Design chart, you should also look at Metis – her mother and the Triple Goddess of Oceanic Wisdom. Right now Metis is with Uranus in Gate 23, stripping away anything not anchored in deep wisdom.

This week Pallas is transiting in the Gate of the Abyss (29) supporting your trust in your own inner wisdom. You must choose your own pathway, even when you are not sure where it may lead you. This is not about escaping, but learning the ways of these deep dark places.

Remember this.

This week, experiences of shock are a sign for you to turn yourself around. Instead of asking – Where am I wrong and how can I fix myself? Ask yourself this – What is it about this situation that is wrong for me and what small step can I take to make it better?