Nicole Laino (00:30)
Hello and welcome to Unshakable with Human Design. I’m your host, Nicole Laino and welcome. This is the October Transit episode. Unfortunately, the lovely, talented, and beautiful Miss Christina Luna cannot be here with us this month, but I promise you, I will try to hold this down. I will try to do it justice. It will definitely be different. We’ll miss her. But she had something come up that couldn’t be avoided, and she unfortunately couldn’t make it today.

So it’s just you and me. But let’s talk about October. October is always a doozy in the sense that October is the month that we go through all the gates of the spleen. We go through the entire splenic system almost in the month of October. And the gates of the spleen resonate in a low frequency with fear.

So we can get a lot of fear coming up. We can get a lot of feeling like we are scared to take action and all the fears of the spleen start to rear their ugly heads and show up for us, kind of making us feel like we don’t want to take action. And now this October, what makes it even

More of a holding pattern, more of a review and gaining clarity over time versus taking lots of action or feeling super productive is the fact that we have many retrogrades going on. And a lot of them have been happening for a while. But we’re gonna have on the third, we are going to get Venus is going to retrograde in Scorpio, and then she’s gonna move back into Libra.

What that means for us is Venus is obviously the planet of values. It’s what we value, it’s what we love, and it’s a personal planet. So it’s very much about us personally. It’s about us going through what matters to us. So this is a time of taking stock. I think that that is part of this. So we’ve got this.

October energy that usually has us going, wait, you know, look, let’s think this through before we take action, before we move forward. Now we have Venus saying, Yeah, you know what, we should actually think about this and we should really revisit maybe some of these things that we thought were really important, but maybe just aren’t. And specifically, it’s going to be around your patterns. Asking yourself, what patterns am I holding on to? Maybe because I’m afraid.

Where am I afraid of making a wrong choice or the past repeating itself? Or something that I feel like I’m protecting myself from, causing a negative pattern in my life. Where am I holding on to that? And then it’s asking us to really reevaluate what means something to us. And I think it’s important from a context to look at it, that it’s not just what’s important to us.

It’s in the context of our businesses, especially too, you know, what am I willing to put my blood, sweat, and tears into? What am I willing to put my heart into? what am I really willing to struggle for because it contributes to some sort of meaning in my life? These are the questions that are coming up over the month of October. And

Throughout Venus’s whole retrograde. I mean, October, like I said, it’s it’s a it’s a pretty crazy month. We don’t have a lot of planets changing signs or anything like that. So I’m gonna speak a little bit more broadly rather than in all of these specific dates that sometimes we’re giving you. I will give you some dates. But I really want to give you the whole picture of what this is gonna look like. So we have Venus going retrograde on October 3rd. That first week, the start of October.

Is gonna feel like you really do want to move, probably. It might be a little bit uncomfortable. You might try to really control things and take action, like you wanna create change. But if you can resist that feeling and instead use it to go inward to review what you really wanna take action on. Cause come November, when some of these retrogrades end and we have these planets moving direct again, the hope is that you’re gonna have a lot of clarity.

On this, where you’ll be able to move in November, where you’ll be able to, and it’s a great time for you to be thinking about, you know, what do you want 2027 to look like? What does that year look like for you? What did this year look like? This is a great time to do a review of 2026. This is a great time to be looking at what do I want to take with me into this year, into this next year? Because I know that I do this every year around this time.

But I know not everybody does, and it’s a valuable exercise, but the energy right now is sort of begging you to slow down, stop trying to push forward, certainly don’t force going forward and really reflect on not just on what’s happened, but can you look at your business? Can you look at your life and say what matters to me? What’s really contributing to good things in my life, to what feels meaningful for me?

So for me, I look at my business, I look at my life, and I love what I do. It contributes to great meaning in my life, the work that I do. But not everything in my business is contributing to that love for my business. There are things that I did this year that I took action on that I’m like, I don’t think I will do that again. And I’m going to be using

this energy that we’re in over the month of October to really revisit that stuff in much more specificity and with greater intention. To do some journaling on it and, you know, I go for walks kind of thinking about these things and just start to have some sort of dialogue with myself because those questions about what we really value, what we really want to

continue going forward with because a lot of suffering in our lives usually comes from continuing with things on autopilot, not really taking stock, not really paying attention, and just accumulating more and more and more stuff for us to do, to commit to, without it really feeling connected to anything that feels truly meaningful of us for us. That feels truly meaningful for us. And, your purpose matters.

What’s contributing to your purpose? What is actually helping you on that journey? And what is keeping you from it? Those are the questions that I hope you dig into. Definitely in the beginning of October. But it’s going to be, these are going to be the themes that are coming up throughout the entire month until Venus ends her retrograde in November, which is November 13th. But we have some other things that are happening, but that’s those first two weeks, the beginning of October is pretty

probably going to be if you use this and you lean back versus leaning in and trying to push, this’ll actually be a really productive month overall for you because you’re going to have a lot of clarity. If you try to push and force and you’re trying to make things happen in October, certainly in the beginning of October, it’s really not going to feel very good. You’re probably not going to be happy. And guess what? You’re not going to get a lot done. So don’t try.

It’s just gonna be frustrating for you. So in that first week and that the first like two weeks or so, up until about the new moon and the middle of the month on the 10th to like the 15th, we start to see some movement and some change. But up until then, you’re gonna be asking yourself these questions about like who do I really wanna be? Who do I truly wanna be? Who do I think I am? This is a great time to look at your human design chart.

To get a reading, to have some reflection on yourself. Okay? That’s that first chunk, right? And these are the areas where, you know, don’t be surprised, we’re gonna be in gate 48 for part of that, and then gate 57, which is gonna be what the new moon comes in at. You know, and that’s where I’m gonna ask you to tap into something deeper than your intellect.

But in that beginning, there might be a little bit like, am I good enough for this? Who do I really want to be? There might be this struggle of like who you really want to be and who you really believe you can be. And I’m gonna encourage you to dig into that question and to not meet it with criticism of yourself or with doubt, but to just allow yourself to connect with what you want, to connect with what you truly desire, and then look at what’s keeping you from doing that, from being that.

From really stepping into that and owning it. Now, then we move in when we get to like the 10th of the month, we have the new moon in Libra. It’ll be in gate 57, which is the gate of clarity or the gate of intuition. This is gonna be a time the new moon’s sort of asking you to set some intentions that are not necessarily well thought out. It’s more instinctual. You have to really tune in.

Again, when we’re in the month of the spleen, this whole month is about tapping into your intuition. It’s tapping into that instinctual, spontaneous just knowing that you have within yourself and to learn to trust it. So again, this is going to be a moment where there might be some little intuitive hits that you get throughout the month, and certainly around that new moon. I want you to pay attention to what

What is your intuition saying to you? What’s really speaking to you? Not what makes sense. Not what is on the piece of paper in front of you or what somebody else said. What really feels like it’s coming through you from something outside of your brain? What is coming from your real intuition? So that’s on the 10th of the month, October 10th, 1010. We get that. And then on the 15th,

We get Pluto moves direct. Pluto has been retrograde since May. So all summer long we have had Pluto retrograding, which you know, it’s an outer planet. It’s gonna have more of a collective effect, but it does feel like anytime things retrograde, there is a slowing down of things. So now it will move direct on October 15th. That will give us a little bit of relief where you might get an insight on October 15th or around that time.

On something that really feels like a dream that you want to act on. But again, energy is not necessarily supporting that forward movement just yet, even though we’re getting a planet moving direct. We’re not necessarily getting it with the rest of the support that it needs for us to start moving forward with a lot of power and intention. We’re gonna have to wait a little bit longer for it. So October is going to be a month where we are really learning patience.

We are learning to reflect. We are learning to turn inward, to notice, to ask ourselves good questions, and to really start to. I guess plan is a way that we could we could think about it. Planning for where we want things to go. But don’t expect there to be this very clear-cut plan or a specific plan that comes out of this just yet. Because

We do have on the 24th of October, Mercury will go retrograde. So we have this Venus-Mercury retrograde dance that is going on. There’s a big story here between Venus, there’s Mercury, there’s Scorpio, there’s Pluto, there’s this whole kind of story about what we value. what have we hidden deep within ourselves that we have not wanted to look at? What are the patterns?

That if we really look at them, we’re like, this is so not serving me. What are your patterns around money? What are your patterns around giving your energy and your power away to something that doesn’t really serve your greater purpose in the world? What’s taking you away from that? These are all the things that are coming through. So we have Venus and Mercury are going to be retrograde at the same time, and they’re both going to move direct.

On the same day of November 13th. But that’s not until next month. So this entire month, we are gonna have, I mean, Mercury won’t be retrograde that entire time, but Mercury will go retrograde at the end of the month, which is why we’re not gonna get that power to move forward when we think it will. Pluto gives us a little bit of relief around the 15th, but then Mercury’s gonna come in and say, wait. So we have this moment on October 7th where you might get.

A little bit of an aha. You might get a little bit of like a a nudge about ooh, I might have like an intellectual understanding about this thing that I value or these things that I need to let go of, or all around those Venus questions that we were asking you about what you really value and what really matters to you and what matters to the bigger picture of you.

But it’s it’s almost like a conversation that’s gonna be continued once Mercury goes retrograde on October twenty-fourth. It’s almost like that’s probably where the intellectual knowing will come from. So we’re communing with those questions throughout the month of October. Then Mercury goes retrograde, and I know that that feels like nobody likes when Merch Mercury goes retrograde. It’s a cliche and a meme for a reason. However,

I do think that it serves us here. If we use this, we can get so much clarity during Mercury retrograde periods. We will not probably be the most productive version of ourselves. So if you have anything that you are planning, if you are looking at, you know, launching something in your business or doing something, I would do it after the 13th of November. I would move it to that point or definitely into November where we’re at the tail end of these things.

And not do it in the month of October if you can avoid it. You can, of course, do things during these retrogrades. I mean, obviously, we’re launching things all the time. Lots of planets have been retrograding for a good portion of this year. It’s been a a funky year like that. However, sometimes if we have the ability to scoot something a few days in one direction or another, it can sometimes benefit us because people don’t feel themselves.

And they don’t invest and they don’t move and they don’t do things when they don’t feel themselves. So if we can move it to a more easier energy day, we could call it, then it can sometimes benefit us. But the the greater theme that I’m seeing here is this is going to be a time where we get a lot of clarity about where we want to go. What goes

What stays, what’s important, and also maybe some clarity about our our real mission here. Where have you been?

Incorrectly focused, where have maybe you been pulled off course from what your real mission is? From where you really are meant to have an impact in the world, in your own life? Where have you maybe gotten a clouded vision about that? These are the questions, and this is really what the whole month of October is about.

Now we have the full moon on October 26th. That full moon will be in Taurus, which is also for human design, the more specific gate is going to be gate 27. Again, we are coming head to head with these values of what really means something to us. Gate 27 says, This is what I care for. This is what I will put my heart into. This is what I will nurture.

So we’re kind of getting that clarity around what we’re gonna move with come November. So this is where you’re gonna be able to let go of maybe some of those things that are taking a lot of your attention and your energy, and you no longer feel like you need to be attached to those things. That full moon is going to give you the opportunity to maybe let go of some of that stuff that truly doesn’t serve you, that maybe you thought

it did.

Or you had to do it a certain way, and it no longer really feels that way. So this month, you know, we’re gonna go through all of the fears. Like I said, the sun is gonna move systematically through every fear in the spleen. But remember, the purpose of the low frequency of fear is to build courage. The spleen is a courage muscle, but we gain courage through following what instinctually feels right for us.

Not because we think it makes sense. Fear becomes because we are trying to make sense of things, we are intellectualizing it, we are allowing fear to get in our way of correct action, of really just following what feels right, what the universe is really guiding us to. It’s showing us where we’re disconnected from ourselves. So this is a time to reconnect. And the energy is really supporting that if you do the work.

So this is just a big warning sign. This whole episode is really just designed to get you to understand that pushing through this month is not the vibe.

But relaxing into the idea that you are gonna have so much clarity at the end of this if you ask yourself these questions. If you have enough presence this month, and remember, Uranus is in gate 20, also retrograding. Gate 20 is the gate of presence to truly be ready to be present in the moment. Uranus is a slow-moving planet.

When we have slow moving planets moving through a particular gate in human design or a particular sign in the zodiac, what we get is a long-term lesson for us. It’s a time that we are asked to develop in this particular way. So if you have enough presence in the moment to not be swept away by what you think you need to do or what you think you need to be or how you think you need to show up.

Or how productive you feel you need to be in order to be valuable, or in order to be enough, in order to be of value to someone else, if you can have enough presence to recognize when you are being pulled off course by all of those beliefs that you have, or all of those fears, or all of those insecurities, and you can have enough presence to come back to it and say,

This is an invitation for me. This discomfort is an invitation for me to explore this on my own.

To connect with this and transform this. So right around that middle of the month period where Pluto moves direct, we have the ability to have a potential transformation right here, to shift something in us that allows us to have a breakthrough around the time of Mercury going retrograde. And I know it doesn’t seem like that’s what happens when Mercury goes retrograde, but it does if you do the work.

If you can sit in it and allow it to stew in there to deliver you an insight, there is a potential for a great insight when Mercury goes direct on the 24th of October. that last week of October could be incredibly insightful for you. You might really understand and be able to create a transformation in that moment.

And have an entirely different experience than you would have had otherwise, moving into and closing out the year 2026 and going into November and then going into those last months of the year to close them out properly. But what I’ll be doing is I will be and I’ll be taking my clients and BBD through a year-end closing process of really re evaluating ourselves. We’re gonna have some exercises to do for them so they can use this time.

truly effectively. And I hope you do too. So I’m gonna leave this episode here. I appreciate you. I hope that you take this time to reflect on yourself and you get some really beautiful insights and transformations and understanding of yourself so that you can kick the rest of 2026 in the pants once all of this stuff ends. So until then, I will see you next time. 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. I’ll see you next time.