Nicole Laino (00:30)
Hello and welcome to Unshakable with Human Design. I’m your host, Nicole Leno. It’s you and me today, and this is gonna be a little bit of a timely episode. So if you’re listening to this on the day that it drops, you’re right on time. If you’re listening to this after, this is still something that you should listen to because it’s gonna give you some background on what eclipses are. And you actually have a longer window with an eclipse than a lot of us think that we do. We think that it happens at the moment.

Right. And everybody’s talking about it right now. You hear it on social media. A lot of people are talking about the solar eclipse. Eclipses are always a big deal. And in this episode, I’m going to get into why. And I’m going to get into not just the solar eclipse, like you’re hearing it spoken about in so many circles, which is purely usually from an astrology perspective. But we’re going to take a look at it from the human design perspective in this episode, because I think that it adds a level of specificity to how you actually work with the eclipse.

So we’ve obviously we’ve talked a lot about this new nodal shift on this show, going from the South Node in Virgo to a South Node in Leo, and then North Node in Pisces to North Node in Aquarius. We have talked about that quite a bit on this show because it is a big deal. The collective theme has changed. But today we’re gonna get into this specific eclipse energy, why it’s important.

How you can work with it because that’s really what this is about. I am not doing this episode just because, I could talk about the eclipse. I’m doing this episode because I am working with this energy myself. I created a whole big guide for the members of my human design authority lab, as well as members, you know, everybody, if you’re in BBD, you get everything down below it. So all of my clients basically are getting this guide.

And then they created a smaller free version for people if you just wanted to get a little taste of it. So if you want to work with this solar eclipse energy and specifically through the human design aspect of it, then just DM me the word eclipse on Instagram. I’m at Nicolano Official or go to Nicole Leno dot com forward slash eclipse and you can get it there. Okay. I’ll have it all linked up in the show notes for you as well.

But this eclipse, it is happening on the 12th of August, which is when this episode actually drops. So it’s happening right now. It’s happening today sometime if you’re listening to this at the time that this is released. But it’s not over. We get a two-week portal. So basically between eclipses, we have this portal. So we have the solar eclipse that is happening here on the new moon. And then we have a lunar eclipse that will happen in fourteen days on August twenty eighth.

We will get that that lunar eclipse on the full moon. So we get this little portal to kind of play with. And so in this episode, I’m gonna break down how this actually works and how we work with this energy and why it works. So why is this a powerful portal for transformation? Now a lot of people will talk about it for manifestation. That’s not really how I see it, but I’m also I will I will be plain here.

Astrology is not my first love. Astrology is not my area of extreme expertise. Human design is. But what I do understand from the astrology perspective, because I am certified in astrology, I just haven’t been doing it all that long. So I don’t really put it out in front. And I do kind of leave things out there to say, you know, if somebody has a more in-depth answer around this or there’s more nuance to it.

that they they very well could be right. But what I do understand about eclipses and my own experience with them is that this is a powerful portal for reflection, almost like like kind of like Mercury retrograde is. Different energy and a very different feel. But the same idea that you know you have to use it in a particular way or tap out in a certain way.

In order to come out on the other side with the lesson that you need. I always find that Mercury retrograde uncomfortably brings up the thing that you need to focus on or the thing that you need to let go. And then by the time that it’s done, you’re almost sick of it that you can let it go, or it’s so obvious to you what the problem is. I think eclipses function very similarly in that respect as far as how they how we experience them. So let me first explain what the eclipse actually

is.

So, for those of you who don’t know, the eclipse is where the moon comes between us and the sun, between the earth and the sun. So the moon is basically on top of the sun, and light is temporarily blocked. So, what this kind of is saying is that it obscures the sun. The sun is is temporarily hidden from us. So you can look at that symbolically: that the light is hidden and it’s hidden behind this other.

object that really does represent a lot of our emotions and inner world on top of our outer world. So that metaphor I think kind of gives you an idea of what this is really all about and how we can work with this. So with the eclipse obscuring the sun, it’s almost like what is hidden

is what we get to explore.

Eclipses typically are known for having a a big effect on the world stage. So what we might see are leadership changes. We might see big things happen during an eclipse portal in the governments in the world. You know, we have a war going on right now. There could be something there. There could be changes in leadership. There could be changes in the way that we are navigating.

This very contentious sort of world stage that we are on at the moment. Bigger things happening that are that are not happening personally to us. But it doesn’t mean that we don’t have a personal stake in this or a way to work with this personally. So let me just talk about, you know, g lay a little bit of history here

We just shifted from the South Node in Virgo and the north node in Pisces. We had 18 months of releasing the perfectionism of Virgo, attaching our worth to results, to what we do. I am this, I I do this thing, therefore I am worthy. All of that type of

I guess we could call it head trash. We could call it perfectionism. Virgo is known for being very, very hard on itself. And I am a Virgo. I have tons of Virgo placements. My North Node is in Virgo. So this was the South Node telling me to let go of my North Node themes. And not completely because the good things we keep.

But the South Node is asking us to let go of the things that don’t serve specifically under this particular theme. So we had 18 months of releasing that. And that was very, very personal for me. So I want you to look at what are your placements here? Where are your nodes? what do you have in Leo in your chart? What do you have in Aquarius in your chart? Take a look at those and look at that from your natal.

Chart and also from the human design chart. You can look at that and see. So we were releasing all of this perfectionism. We were releasing attaching our worth to what we do. And now moving South Node and Leo to North Node in Aquarius, we are releasing what is not authentically ours. We are releasing the need to show up in order to be seen.

In order to be received a certain way, in order be the person taking up space. Hey, look at me. And the North Node in Aquarius is asking us, to step into something bigger. You can still be seen, but what do you really have to say? I think human design really stands out in this aspect because human design is telling us to be ourselves, to not come from a place of.

needing to prove,

So outside of just these nodes, I want to actually move this into the human design part of the conversation because.

While we have these placements in zodiac signs, these zodiac signs translate to specific gates in the human design wheel. So, what does that do for us? Leo is a broad theme. Aquarius is a broad theme. Virgo is a broad theme. But the gate is going to give us much more specific questions to ask ourselves. So this eclipse, the sun and the moon are both in gate four.

Gate four sits in the Ajna Center. It is a gate of the mind. It is a gate of thinking. This is a logical gate. we’re gonna look at the shadowy side of it because the gift we wanna keep. Gate four loves answers. It loves to come up with answers. And to gate four, the answer that it comes up with can be confused for truth.

But it’s always on a quest for truth. It is always seeking truth. What is true? What is true? I need to find the answer. And it’s called the gate of formalization. It wants the formula. I want the answer so I can have the formula to figure it out so that we can do it again. Or we can never do it again if it was something bad. That’s what gate four wants to do. But in its lowest expression, it thinks the answers are the answers to everything. In its lowest expression, it gets caught in analysis paralysis because it is so afraid.

Of getting it wrong or being uncertain, uncertain of the outcome, uncertain of being right, that it does nothing and it doesn’t move, and it withers away in its mind and lives only in its mind, and it doesn’t live out in the world. That’s the shadow of it.

what.

eclipses do to us when we work with it is because it’s obscured, because this thing is obscured and kind of hidden from us, so to speak, I like to think of it as the volume is going to get turned up on these energies. It’s going to go way up. And that can give a certain level of clarity. Now you you have to see how this goes. I’m going to lay it out for you of a couple of ways that this could manifest for you or the way you might experience this energy.

And I just want you to be present during these two weeks in case you feel any of these. So it could feel like you cannot get clarity. And you are trying so, so hard to find answers that you find yourself unconsciously, because this is what it is, we’re being conditioned. That’s what the program does. And an eclipse is just part of the program, just like any other transit. It’s just a powerful one.

And it affects the whole collective in a very similar way. But what it’s doing is it’s turning the volume up, and it might be making you feel like you need to find the answers, that you are being so conditioned by the program that it’s making you feel like answers are missing and that you need to go chase after them because you need to find out the truth. You may really feel like you need to grab on to somebody else’s framework, to somebody else’s thing.

And it doesn’t mean that those frameworks cannot be helpful. It’s just, are you and and let me know if you’ve ever done this, because I know I have. I’ve convinced myself I needed the framework. I just need to know how to do this. So I download something, I buy a $33 product from some well-timed meta ad that gets dropped in my feed because I feel like Facebook and Instagram can

read my thoughts and know exactly what I’m scared of or what I’m going through and plop an ad right in front of me just at that time so I buy it. I buy that $33 thing that is gonna give me the step-by-step framework for how they did something and then I do nothing with it. Never do it. Because it’s not real. You don’t really need it.

Or you need something else in addition to it. You’re there’s something that is drawing you to this. Because when I look back, I’m like, I have like 10 of these frameworks. I collect frameworks. I collect all of these different processes from other people that sometimes I convince myself are smarter than me or more certain than me. Because I have a wide open Ajna center. I never feel certain. I just gotta roll with it.

It’s not how I’m meant to move through this life, waiting to be certain before I move. I’d never go anywhere. So, this is an exercise for me to release some of that and to recognize where it is not serving me. Where am I allowing the answers to be the answer for everything? Now let’s talk about the South Note, because the South Note has a gate as well. The South Note, is now in gate 29.

Which is a gate of commitment. So, it is asking us, where are we committing to things that maybe are not correct? Where are we saying yes when we should say no and overcommitting? Where are we saying no when we should be saying yes because we’re scared of the outcome?

This is an experiential gate. This is one that just says, I want to do it because it sounds fun. I don’t know why. There’s no logical reason for it. So this one might be asking us, where are we letting logic get in the way of what we really want.

Where are we maybe getting, you know, think about if you want something and you’re worried about how people will receive the fact that you want something. So if you want a big business, if you want $100,000 months or something, that’s a goal that you have, you might be ashamed to tell somebody that that is your goal because they might think that you’re greedy or attaching some sort of whatever negative adjective on top of.

what you think people will think of you. All of this falls under this overall theme. So this is such a powerful and important time for us because this is the first eclipse in this little drama we have going on here. We are now moving into this new paradigm.

And we’re doing that in a couple of ways. So we still have one more eclipse. the eclipse on the 28th of August, that is still part of the Virgo Pisces axis. So we haven’t officially closed that out. The nodes have changed, yes. So the collective theme has shifted, but it’s almost like there’s this one last little lesson that Virgo and Pisces have for us. And we’re gonna get that on the 28th of August. But then

We are fully into Leo Aquarius territory. And the next eclipse that we get is going to be right before the 2027 change. right at the beginning of February, we are going to have another eclipse. And we’ll be going into eclipse season. We’re going to get an eclipse right before the change and one right after the change. So for those of you who don’t know, I’m not going to go into a whole thing about 2027.

But I will touch on it here and we’ll drop the links to the other episodes that we have done on the 2027 change. We have done several, but I’ll drop two of the main ones down below. If you haven’t listened to those and you’re interested in this, then please go check those out where I go into it in total detail. But the 2027 change, basically on February 14th of 2027, humanity is changing. The background frequency is going to change.

For the first time in 400 years. So nobody alive has ever experienced what we are going to experience next. And nobody alive has ever experienced anything other than what we are experiencing now. And you’re probably already feeling those themes start to pull apart. The cross of planning, the era that we are ending.

We feel less of a pull toward overworking, maybe feeling like money and growth is the end-all-be-all of this human existence. We are starting to see the cracks and the corruption in these systems and governments and

Institutions that we have put so much of our trust in. We’re all aghast. We’re like, they’re doing what? To children? my god, what’s happening here? You took money from who? You’re doing what? You had investments in that, and then they got a contract. All of that stuff is coming up. So the wool is being lifted from our eyes. The veil is coming off. And the next theme is a very individual theme.

Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix, and we start that on February 14th of 2027. We will officially move over. But we are already feeling these effects So this eclipse season is the last one that is cleanly on this side of that epoch change. The next eclipse season is going to straddle it. We’re gonna have, we’re gonna literally have one foot in one world during the first eclipse, and then the rest of it is going to be one foot in the other world.

after at the second eclipse. So there is so much here that is happening that I always believe that the program, that the transits, that the cosmic weather that we are all experiencing, is preparing us for change. It’s preparing us for human evolution.

that we are constantly changing consciousness is evolving. And I believe that we are being changed now to step into a greater level of authenticity, getting us ready for this very individual era that is coming in February, where we are going to be more self-actualized potentially. and this has been a question that I’ve had for years, where I’ve been like, well, if it’s

All individual in nature, an individual is empowering, but it’s empowering of the self and it’s very self-focused and can be selfish and should be selfish because that’s what it’s here for. Then are we just going to be everybody’s in it for themselves and we don’t care about each other anymore? And that was certainly how I heard 2027 being spoken about for a long time. But as I’m looking at this evolution of the transits.

Leading up to this change, more and more I’m convinced. no, we are being guided and shifted, and the energy is supporting us to be truly authentic to who we are. Because when you’re truly authentic, You contribute to something bigger than you. It’s getting the focus off of us, and that is what this.

Last hurrah in the cross of planning is about right now. We are being prepared to take the focus solely off of us, but not lose any of that individuality. I think it’s asking us, what do you really have to say? And if you weren’t thinking about it, how anybody would receive it, or whether you would be judged, or whether it would be thought of as okay, or if people would agree with you, what would you say? And what would you say if you thought that your words

Could change the world. What do you think people really need to hear? And why aren’t you saying it? Gate four would say, Well, we don’t say it because we’re not sure. We don’t say it because we are uncertain. We don’t say it because we don’t have the perfect formula to let them know how they can do it again and how this can really be something useful for people going forward.

And the shadow of gate twenty nine says, Well, I don’t do it because I don’t know what the result will be. That’s not how it’s meant to function.

So we’re being asked to work through this. So if you want to work through this, you can use this portal. So during an eclipse, we get two weeks of, I think about it like neuroplasticity. So during an eclipse portal, it’s almost like the grip that these themes, this theme of gate four, this theme of gate 29, this theme of Leo, and the

not so nice aspects of Leo that we would like to transcend, they have less of a grip on us. We’ve loosened it. So when we talk about neuroplasticity, we talk about changing the way that our thinking works, how our brain is wired, when you hear rewiring our thoughts, that concept is that

Neurons that fire together wire together. So they become these very locked in connections in our brain. that’s what triggers are. This happened. I’m wired to believe that that’s a threat. So the action that comes out of that is for me to run, is for me to shut down, is for me to flee, whatever it might be for you. Now neuroplasticity is where we loosen those connections and we’re able to create a

new belief or a new set of rules and actions, and we can deactivate those triggers by creating a new set of rules in our brain. I believe that eclipses kind of give us that that same potential to work with this energy to do something similar to that. Because neuroplasticity, we get to those states some people use plant medicine. That is what a lot of people use

micro-dosing of mushrooms and psilocybin to loosen those connections in their brain so that they can create new, more favorable and positive ones. And then some people meditate. It usually requires going into a a different state, a slightly altered state, in order to relax the brain enough. Well, this is sort of the energy is being turned up so that we are in a different state.

during an eclipse. So if you focus your energy on these questions that I’ve put together in the solar eclipse guide, we’ve given you seven prompts So you can do one every two days or so. And what you can do then is you’re diving and we give you prompts and exercises to go into these themes and notice how they’re affecting you, to see them in a new light.

To shift them. You’re not looking to do anything. We are just observing ourselves. We are just seeing what comes up because it’s almost like when the pot gets stirred up you find all the gunk that’s at the bottom of the soup because you stirred it. That’s what this is. It’s being stirred. We have an opportunity here to skim things off the top. We have an ability here to clarify.

ourselves during this portal. And that’s what this guide is designed to do. I was planning on making this for my clients and I decided to make part of it available for free. The clients get an extended version that gives them something to do every single day. And we go a little bit deeper, but this is sort of an abbreviated version that is still very, very powerful for everybody. So if you’d like that,

DM me Eclipse on Instagram, I’m at Nicole Lano official, or go to Nicole Lano.com forward slash eclipse. It’s all linked in the show notes for you, and we can you can get it there. All right. Thank you so much for being here. I hope that this eclipse is transformative for you. One little note as I’m as I’m saying this, I want you to release the need to have a result from this.

Don’t be journaling every day or whatever you choose to do during this portal. Don’t be journaling every day and then, you know, it’s almost like checking your watch to see like, have I changed yet? Eclipses are a portal for you to do the work. The transformation comes later. So don’t expect an instant transformation after the two weeks are done. Don’t expect on August 28th you to be vastly different.

But what you’re going to be able to do is these prompts are going to allow you to integrate these lessons that we are meant to learn during this time period. And over the next several months, you are going to start to see the change and the transformation truly happen. You might see some right away. Just don’t expect there to be this great change right in the beginning, just because that’s usually what leads to disappointment and

You just you just haven’t waited long enough. You haven’t integrated fully. So hold out for the good stuff. Okay? Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you. And remember, in order to have an unshakable business, you must first become an unshakable human. So thanks for letting us help you become unshakable with human design. We’ll see you next time.