Nicole Laino (00:01)
Hello and welcome to Unshakable with Human Design. I’m your host, Nicole Leno, and it’s the start of the month, or just before when this will actually be airing. So of course my the beautiful and talented Miss Christina Luna is with me. Hi.

Christina Luna (00:16)
Hello, I’m so happy to be back. I’m sorry I ended last month.

Nicole Laino (00:20)
I know you were missed greatly. These episodes are are definitely not as as fun for me or as I’m sure helpful for the audience without you. So I’m so happy that you’re back.

Christina Luna (00:33)
I am too. I it I literally had the craziest strange circumstances keeping me out of it last month. And there’s none today. Everything is so quiet and peaceful. I feel so ready to I I think it’s just we were talking a little bit before we clicked record about how during Scorpio season it’s really, really helpful to do a lot of Taurus things.

Nicole Laino (00:59)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (01:00)
And I literally sat outside for about fifteen minutes before I came in to meet with you. Just sat in the sun and drank some tea and Yeah.

Nicole Laino (01:09)
Yeah. And I I told you I’m like, I took a nap. I went and got like in

my in my cozy bed because I’m just I’m exhausted. And I said, you know what, I I need this in order to be able to show up for the episode. The work that I’m doing this afternoon really requires me to be focused. And I’m like, I can’t focus right now. And I don’t really want to try and force myself because one, I’m not at my best, but it’s also, why?

w what are these rules that we’ve set for ourselves that it can’t be this way, that we can’t like take a nap in the middle of the day. So I did it and I feel amazing. So I’m very pleased with myself. So I wasn’t thinking in the terms of doing something Tory and I was really just like listening to my body and saying, no, this would feel really good right now. Which I think goes to how whether you know you’re using these energies or not, you are. Whether you can

Christina Luna (02:03)
Yeah.

Nicole Laino (02:04)
Call it something, or you can say, like, this is because this is in Scorpio right now. people listening to this probably won’t know that, or many of them won’t at least, but they’re getting cravings for things. And I think that that’s part of what makes this work so helpful and how you actually use it. It’s often and not and not in the ways that people think they will use this information.

Christina Luna (02:28)
That’s right. You know, I met with a client earlier today, and as soon as we got on, I could feel that she was like, whoo, like feeling like, what else am I gonna be putting on my desk right now? And

Nicole Laino (02:40)
Yeah.

Christina Luna (02:41)
we did a little inventory, and the the truth is her body wanted rest. Her body wanted to look like attend to her laundry and

like take care of her own personal simple needs and she was keeping her commitment to our appointment but I have found over and over and over that if I honor the natural rhythm and the craving that I’m actually feeling then the alignment happens and it’s actually better for everybody.

Nicole Laino (03:12)
Yeah, and we don’t trust it because we trust obligations more. We feel confined in our lives. And that’s where I think we bump heads with this stuff, because sometimes the astrology is going to push you into something that would push you out of an obligation that will tell you that, you know, you should zig when everyone’s telling you to zag, that you need to rest when everyone’s saying to keep hustling or to show up because it’s on the calendar and you just gotta make it work.

I I wanted to start out by talking about the retrograde season that we have been in. We’ve been in, we are over the halfway point for Venus retrograde. And I wanted to tell my own story. I’d messaged you, we would talk back and forth on text that, you know, I had like the most Venus retrograde thing happen to me, you know, maybe a week, a couple weeks ago, like right when it started. And

You know, and my Venus happens to be at zero degrees Scorpio, which I know you know, but the people at home don’t don’t. So this is very personal for me as well. This is a very, very personal transit. And boy did it show up. And I was so grateful to know this and to be able to see it, or I would have

Probably lost my mind. It’s a financial thing. I don’t want to go into the details here, not because I’m gatekeeping or anything like that. It’s just the the there’s just stuff I don’t really want publicly available. But it’s it’s a financial thing. It will be okay. It will be it will also be a humongous pain in the ass. And

It it’s something that I will say that I’ve always wondered about. I’ve always something got done wrong. I think as a business owner, there’s been something where it’s like, I should know more about this. I should have a little bit more visibility into this. I should have, but you know, you hire professionals and you have people do things for you and you trust and you say, No, it’s not in my zone of genius, so I’m gonna let the experts do the expert thing.

But at a certain point in your business you do have to have some knowledge of things, at least a working enough knowledge, in order for you to really be able to hold where you’re going. Because it’s that uncertainty and that like I I don’t really know that sense of

I’m not really schooled in this, so I’m almost giving over my authority to the professionals rather than being like I trust them and I’m also making informed decisions based on what I know. So this I’ve always had this little like feeling that I should you should learn more about this. You should get a little bit more educated in this area. Well, I am now. And

If

I didn’t know about what Venus retrograde represents, if I didn’t know to maybe expect some things around unearthing old shit around finances, worth, relationships, and things like that, then I I think I would have freaked out. And instead,

I processed, I didn’t compartmentalize, but I allowed it in. I got really mad. I got really upset because those were my natural and true feelings. I processed those feelings and then I said, this is going to open me up.

This is going to make me able to hold more. I’m going to make better decisions. This is what I asked for. It’s just not coming in the way that I thought it would, or the way that I would have wanted it to. But I know this is for the best. And yes, it’s going to be messy and annoying and time consuming, and I hate it. But also I know that it’s.

It’s gonna get me where I’ve been asking to go. Like we do that, you know, we think that everything has to come like a manifestation of some big vision that we have has to only come with good things on the path. And it doesn’t. That’s not how it works. Sometimes something needs to fall apart in order for you to put it back together in a new way and you know, that suits where you’re going. And it really feels like that. So

That’s my little, my little Venus retrograde story. And then the Kazimi and everything that happened, again, all like sitting on my Venus placement, my natal chart. I got so many realizations about my worth and about for me, it was a lot of relationship with myself and relationship

Christina Luna (07:58)
Well

Nicole Laino (07:59)
with like the entanglements that I have with my worth.

And my feel like those were the that was the work I needed to do to get through what was coming through for me. I does that make sense?

Christina Luna (08:11)
Absolutely, yeah. Well, so it’s important to note I think we should talk about what Scorpio season’s opportunity is, even though we were in a Libra season last month. We’re in Scorpio season now and we’re having a little extra because of Venus and Mercury. And

Everyone has Scorpio season somewhere in their recipe, right? And

Nicole Laino (08:34)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Christina Luna (08:36)
so maybe we should talk about what that what that overall means for us, what the opportunity is, and also note that it’s so perfect that you had the experiences in the way that you did because of how your recipe places it right there in the first house, having to do with your identity. And it’s interesting to have an identity that

is is flavored by Scorpio because Scorpio is generally an energy that that isn’t really about the individuated self, but the self that emerges through interdependency with some forces beyond our control. And

Nicole Laino (09:13)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (09:14)
so your identity emerges through forces beyond your control, which is really, really interesting.

Nicole Laino (09:22)
That’s word for it. Yeah.

Christina Luna (09:24)
Yeah.

Nicole Laino (09:24)
I’ve learned to love my Scorpio rising, because I I realize that I I would not be me without it. None of us would be without our placements. But we

Christina Luna (09:33)
Mm-hmm.

Nicole Laino (09:34)
often spend a lot of our lives, and I know I did, wishing things were different and wishing that we were more like somebody else or things look easier. And I don’t at all think it’s easy having a Scorpio rising. I think you you face dark nights of the soul as a as a life path.

In a lot of ways. But yes, this. So let’s talk about Scorpio because I do think it’s misunderstood a lot too. We just hear a lot of like mysterious and dark and difficult. And it becomes sort of a caricature of what it really is.

Christina Luna (10:12)
I know. You know what?

It’s super irritating sometimes to scroll through social media because of how prevalent. I mean, my all my algorithm gives me just a ton of astrology content. And

Nicole Laino (10:23)
Same.

Christina Luna (10:24)
all of it’s like, your ex is gonna come back, you know, these the bound bound. And I I’m just

Nicole Laino (10:27)
Yeah. Yeah.

Christina Luna (10:30)
like, yeah, but what does that mean? What what

Nicole Laino (10:32)
Right.

Christina Luna (10:33)
is functioning below the surface that would have people coming back into your life? What is that really about? So from my perspective.

You spend from Aries to Virgo creating the individuated self. Regardless of where that shows up in your recipe, that could show up in personal places below the horizon line. So it’s it’s going on in a personal way for a person, or it’s interpersonal and they literally individuate through experiences with others. Either way.

When you get to Libra and Scorpio season, you’re taking everything that you thought was your personal business, your personal brand, your personal identity, your personal habits. You know, you can it’s really easy to eat well and work out and get eight hours of sleep when you live alone and and you

Nicole Laino (11:26)
Mm.

Christina Luna (11:26)
have no one you’re beholden to. Like you, you when you have complete agency and autonomy over your life, well, you would think it would be easy, right? But guess what?

Even then, it’s not that easy because you’re still operating against these forces of relationship that are always going to challenge you in these significant ways. And so

What we see when we get into Libra season is the first of these challenges. Like, is it a mindset that I have? Is it a person that I have? Is it a co-creative environment that I have to operate with two sides of an equation in order to bring something together? And so all of Libra season, we’re sort of identifying what are the variables, whether they’re personal or interpersonal, that keep me from having all the agency and freedom to do whatever I want. Is it

I have a job? Is it because I have kids? Is it because I share a house with people? Is it because I’ve got like energy issues and I don’t have enough energy to do what I want to do? What is it? And so we look outside of us to kind of, well, maybe it’s because of this and this and that. So Libra almost gives us what do we blame for our lack

Nicole Laino (12:39)
Mm.

Christina Luna (12:39)
of freedom in our agency? And then Scorpio says, All right, well, let’s.

Let’s actually face let’s see what happens when we face it. Let’s see what happens when you when you get into bed with that thing. Let’s see what happens when you’re bound to it without being able to buy your way out, without being able to disassociate your way out. Like you’re bound by contract to be in this collaborative experience and you can’t get out. You can’t back out. You can’t do it on your own. You can’t be a lone wolf. You can’t just, you know, open up your

your checking account and sign a check and get make it go away. There’s something you’re beholden to. And because you’re beholden to it and it’s gonna keep you and there’s forces beyond your control, you’re gonna have to transform inside of this thing. And the transformation inside of the thing surfaces pure solid wisdom in the you know gold.

Basically, it it it surfaces the Sagittarian stuff, the fire, the elixir of life, like the power. And so I think a lot of times we don’t we resent the things that are keeping us bound and and make us feel like we can’t do what we want to do. But if we could take any

Any like encouragement, it would be to lean all the way into the thing that binds us and let it shape us from the inside. And so you do that through like pretty much you’re you’re alive. The fact that you became alive meant that your soul was gonna use the intensity of being alive to shape an identity.

And I’m just saying that because you have it in your first house. You were born into this like cauldron of circumstances beyond your control.

Nicole Laino (14:29)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (14:32)
I have it in my eleventh house. So I experienced during Scorpio season

All the people that I’m intimately connected to calling me. I get

tons

Nicole Laino (14:43)
Mm.

Christina Luna (14:44)
of voice memos, I get lots of phone calls from siblings and parents and like loved like yes exes, but it’s it’s really people come to me because they know I can hold all of them. And so I get changed from the inside by holding other people.

And it’s because it’s an it’s not in a personal place for me. It’s in it’s in that 11th house of groups and friends and affiliations. And so I I need to keep my calendar clear during Scorpio season because I in turn I change. I turn into a new version of myself through holding a lot of the people I love.

Nicole Laino (15:27)
Yeah, and I think that that’s what’s so interesting about this

let’s talk about what Scorpio season is because you are giving them a lesson in how does this react with our own chart? Because we give you the transits for everybody. We talk about them in general terms because we can’t do it for every single person’s chart, but understanding where these things, where do these themes surface for you, and what part of your life is really what we’re talking about? And that’s the the houses of you know, what what what little tools is the universe gonna use to shift you and where?

And

Christina Luna (15:57)
Mm-hmm.

Nicole Laino (15:58)
like for me, the way that I kind of think about the Scorpio season for me, just being in my first house and also be having, you know, other strong placements there. My moon is in Scorpio, my Venus is in Scorpio. So it’s like it’s a hotbed of activity, of dark underworld act activity. But for me, it feels like I am

My identity is constantly transforming. The way that I see myself, I feel like every year around this year, I have some sort of like, nope, now we’re this. And and this year, particularly uncomfortable with some things. I think that there are certain ways I would allow myself to be seen or to see myself.

Which turns into how I allow myself to be seen, that that in the past I would not have I think all the raw material for them was there. But

Christina Luna (16:54)
Mm.

Nicole Laino (16:55)
now where I’m stepping into, it actually feels like these cycles have done that work on me and I’ve done the work through them to be able to hold that now. And now it’s just all of the other bullshit that says, like, okay, well now allow yourself to be seen that way.

not just to see yourself, but can

Christina Luna (17:16)
Mm-hmm.

Nicole Laino (17:17)
you put that out in the world? Can you allow that to be, you know, what you’re known for, or at least how you show up and let people decide.

Christina Luna (17:28)
Yeah.

Nicole Laino (17:29)
It’s

an interesting it’s an interesting process understanding your chart and looking at yourself through that and that’s why I always talk about human design and astrology as these tools for self mastery. Because we’re not talking about mastering yourself through like having the perfect morning routine and time blocking so you get a certain amount of work done and, you know, journaling on this. It’s a matter of being able to you know,

I watched that movie Ford v. Ferrari. It’s not a terribly

Christina Luna (18:01)
Yeah.

Nicole Laino (18:02)
new movie. Did you ever see it with Matt Damon and Christian Bale? It was all about them building the first the Ford that won the Le Mans, the like F1

thing, I think it’s is it F1? I I’m not good on my racing, but it was all about them building this car. And it was all about how, you know, they were going to take on Ferrari, who had always won. And

Christian Bell plays the mechanic, and this is there is a point to this story, I promise, they’re really pushing these cars to the limits. And because he’s a mechanic, he can hear things and he’s like, Nope, it’s this. We need to change this. Nope, it’s not the tires, it’s this. They needed a mechanic to actually be the driver because they were pushing the car to its limits.

So only he could be in there and be able to intellectualize and understand what the car what he felt, what he

heard, what it was doing so that they could get a car that could win without a different driver, and they had to fight for him and all this stuff this was a true story. they had to fight for him because he wasn’t a terribly easy person to work with, but it really came down to we can’t win with another driver because they don’t understand the car enough. And I feel like that is a metaphor.

For for how I look at these modalities is that we become the mechanic then where we understand that when we feel this or when we experience this, that we can, you know, either temper it or go right into it to understand what’s at the root cause and work through it so that on the other side we can be the best version of ourselves. Because that ultimately that’s the journey that we’re all on, is becoming the best version of ourselves. I think what we’re questioning now is how does that best version?

Get applied? Is it just to our jobs? Is it just to making money? Is it just, I think those are the questions that people are really wrestling with right now. Because I keep hearing from groups that I’m in, from conversations with clients and just people in general and the conversation that’s happening online. It’s very funny. I really feel like people have always gone after money. We’ve always gone after success. There is a definite pattern.

And conditioning that people have in general as a society, but a lot of people are not into it like they were before, but they don’t know what else to do with it. So there’s this push-pull of like, I still have to make money. I still, I still want to like live a good life. I think they’re just questioning: does it have to be like this though?

Christina Luna (20:40)
Yeah, have you noticed that I I started noticing this about mid-September, actually, that

The it seems that the internal compass became stronger than

Nicole Laino (20:54)
Mm.

Christina Luna (20:55)
any kind of external guidance for literally everyone. And you can kind of see how that shapes up on social media. You can see how it trended down. But really, anyone you talk to, anyone you talk to, you can hear that there’s a rejection of feeling receptive.

To someone else’s guidance due to insecurity. It’s not like there’s not an insecurity inside the psyche anymore. There’s there’s

Nicole Laino (21:26)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (21:27)
a sense of like my compass knows, I don’t always know where my compass is going, but I certainly know that I have to listen to it. And I certainly know what it feels like for my compass to tell me what to do and not.

to follow what other people tell y me to do that doesn’t feel like it’s following my compass. I I don’t know how else to explain that, but that seems like a huge paradigm shift.

Nicole Laino (21:55)
I think it is a huge paradigm shift and I think that it’s a combination of we are, you know, a a breath away from twenty twenty-seven at this point. You know, I always joke like I’m like, you know, if we’re in a four hundred page book and you’re on page three ninety-eight, the book’s over and you know it.

And now you’re just sort of like, you know, there’s like some sort of like nice way that they tie it up, but book two is gonna start. You’re also getting a little bit of a glimpse into what book two looks like.

Christina Luna (22:27)
The foreshadowing and

Nicole Laino (22:30)
There well, you know, someone you know, someone’s missing

and we’ve gotta find them. We don’t know what that journey is gonna look like, but we know that this is the journey. And I think we’ve gotten those seeds planted. I think that we’ve read some of those pages already, but we’re not there yet. So it still feels a little bit like a holding pattern, but absolutely after the summer I felt like that compass absolutely kicked in. I do think that there is something ’cause and this relates to this month’s transits.

So

we’re gonna have not in signs, but we’re gonna have the nodes are gonna shift in their gates on the 24th of November. So at the end of November, we’re gonna shift from the 30th gate in the north node and the 29th gate in the south node to the 49th gate in the north node and the fourth gate in the south node. I do think that there is something about these changing values of the Leo Aquarius axis, but particularly.

Particularly

when we look at it from these gates, where we get a little bit more of that that specific flavor of what Leo and what Aquarius are we really talking about. What we’ve been learning since the nodes shifted, what was it, July that the nodes that that’s the about July. I feel like I was in New York when it happened. So I think it was like end of June, early July.

The nodes shifted and we got this assignment to be really asking ourselves, what’s a collective desire? That’s not just a selfish desire, but also make reconciling, you know, what have we committed to and what really feels like a yes for us. And really letting go of that of feeling like we have to stay in things because we’ve always been in them.

And really letting that go, that obligation feeling, and then balancing that with saying, well, well, what’s the what’s the collective desire? What is the real desire for what experience do I wanna have? Not just what do

I wanna get, but what experience do I wanna have? And now where we’re moving to, it’s almost like taking that, you know, what experience do I wanna have? now it’s asking us,

What are you willing to fight for? What what do you really want to change? What’s not okay? And I think that that’s very interesting, just you know, at this point in the American calendar, we have election season coming up, where I don’t love that it’s called the gate of revolution that we’re gonna be in on November twenty-fourth. I hope we don’t take that one literally, but it is really about our principles. It is about what will we stand up for.

It is about

Christina Luna (25:15)
Well and

Nicole Laino (25:15)
questioning the the sorry, just the

questioning of what we’re letting go of in the South Node as far as the gates are concerned. It is the answers being the answer, but also just I think there’s a healthy dose of questioning the status quo.

Christina Luna (25:31)
The good news from my perspective is that right when that happens, Mars will enter Virgo. And I like Mars and Virgo. I like that. I like that for this shift. I know that

Nicole Laino (25:36)
Yeah.

Christina Luna (25:41)
Mars will move forward through Virgo and get his fingers all in the things. And then

Nicole Laino (25:47)
Yeah.

Christina Luna (25:47)
Mars is gonna retrograde in Virgo and back into Leo. And so whatever we get our fingers into when we really start to like do the work of,

Nicole Laino (25:57)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (25:58)
we’re gonna do enough work to know that there’s

Something that we need to redo a little bit. Like, like the thing the this is the main this is the

Nicole Laino (26:05)
We’re gonna clean it up.

Christina Luna (26:06)
main energy that I’m sensing for November. I’m sensing that we used October to release a lot of attachments. Release a lot of attachments to the way we used to do things, to the past, to the right way, to I mean, there were things taken that we had no control over. We released. We just had to let these things go. We let go of innocence or ignorance or like

you know covering our eyes from something we let

Nicole Laino (26:33)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (26:34)
go of all these things and as we open November we’re understanding our compass and our agency on an energetic and emotional level and we’re starting to see that we have a lot of options. We have so much power.

In what we put our energy and emotions and focus in. I think we’re all finding how much the manifesting principle, the rendering principle of reality is responding to our energy and our desires. And I think with that, we’re being mindful of what we desire. We’re being mindful of what we put our energy and focus into.

However, we’re so released from some of the things that we were so bound to in the past that there’s a lot of free energy available. And I think if we use the time between the 1st of November and the 13th of November, the 13th

Nicole Laino (27:28)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (27:29)
of November is when both Mercury and Venus move direct at the same time. If we just sit back, observe, and remember our power, we will know.

more physically, energetically, emotionally, viscerally, what it is we want to actually put ourselves into. And so between the 13th, that 10-day window, between the 13th and the 24th.

That is when I think we actually start putting like real tangible, clear, focused energy into what we really want to be building for the long term. So I’m very, very hopeful for all of this. There’s quite a few little things that are gonna continue to break the break the little tiny strings that bond us, but

Nicole Laino (28:14)
Yeah.

Christina Luna (28:16)
I’m very optimistic about this.

Nicole Laino (28:20)
I think that this can be a surprisingly better feeling. I don’t I don’t have a better word for it.

Christina Luna (28:29)
Ha ha ha.

Nicole Laino (28:29)
Part

of the year than than we often give it credit for. We I think we brace ourselves. I find October actually harder than November, personally. That’s my own personal experience with it. But yes, I had the 13th. Obviously, it’s like a duh kind of day to circle because of Venus and Mercury moving direct again, where I I think that will definitely start to feel like things are progressing. And, you know, they happen in Venus is gonna go direct in gate thirty two.

two,

Mercury’s gonna go direct in gate twenty-eight. The way that I’m sort of feeling about that is, I think you know at that point, there’s some sort of

I don’t know if it’s an aha, but I think we’ve been developing the aha throughout the entire retrograde phases. And what you’re landing on is what do I want to keep and what really matters from here on out? Those are like the two energies that are shifting us direct there. And I think it’s so interesting that they’re doing it. You know, the twenty eighth gate says like life is not worth anything without purpose. What the fuck do you care about?

And Mercury is going to be saying, that that’s Mercury, and then Venus is going to be saying, and what

cannot come along on this ride, what’s gonna keep us from really being able to continue? You were saying, you know, there’s things that we’re free of that we’re gonna be able to move without. And I think it’s very interesting for ever for anyone listening to ask themselves, I feel freer, but is it almost an old habit that’s keeping me from moving with freedom?

Christina Luna (30:11)
Mm-hmm.

Nicole Laino (30:11)
‘Cause I think we can get really stuck in that and I think that those are some themes that come through here just in the human design gates too. Like sometimes sometimes you’re scared to move forward with freedom. Sometimes even though you feel lighter, you are still h pumping

Christina Luna (30:23)
Yes. Well because

Nicole Laino (30:26)
the brakes.

Christina Luna (30:28)
because okay, if you imagine there’s all these cups, let’s say let’s think about the imagery of the seven of cups.

There are we don’t we can drink any of these cups. We have the freedom to take any of them. And we don’t know exactly which one has poison, which one has medicine, which one has water. Like we don’t know exactly what the freedom of choice will bring our lives. But one thing we do know is we’ve got power. That’s the s that’s

Nicole Laino (30:55)
Mm.

Christina Luna (30:57)
Scary proposition. We’ve got power to choose whatever we want. And we’re choosing it with our desire. We’re choosing it with our money. We’re choosing it with our beliefs. And at this point, we know how to take accountability for that very, very clearly. And so what do we want to what do we want to commit to now? We’ve cleared a lot of commitments. What do we want?

I just read I read this really interesting thing on Instagram. And I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s so interesting. It was saying that when you swap any kind of fluids with another person, you’re essentially saying yes to a bond. And

Nicole Laino (31:38)
Okay.

I mean

Christina Luna (31:39)
That it was I think it was probably a some kind of like PSA about going back with your ex or whatever during it was it was one of those I even though they bother me, I still read them because I’m looking for the little nuggets that that are underneath all of the things, right?

Nicole Laino (31:53)
Sometimes

you get something where it triggers something in you. It’s like, I don’t really believe that, but that made me think of this and that made me think of that. And now I have a new thought. Yeah, I get it.

Christina Luna (31:59)
That’s right. That’s

right. And and what it actually triggered for me is what are we actually like blending our fluids with in a lifetime?

Nicole Laino (32:10)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (32:11)
What are we blending? What are we putting our blood, sweat, and tears into that we wanna

commit to that karma of that or commit to the cycle of that, what are we gonna yoke on to for the next part of the journey? Because we still have Sagittarius, Aquarius, we we still know Capricorn? Sagittarius, Capricorn, don’t forget Capricorn. But we have

Nicole Laino (32:30)
Capricorn. Don’t forget Capricorn.

Christina Luna (32:35)
like the the larger picture in front of us before we start a new Aries cycle, right? So the things

Nicole Laino (32:40)
Mm. Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (32:42)
that we’re kind of yoking ourselves into right now, they’re gonna help us go those extra miles.

miles. And

Nicole Laino (32:47)
Yeah.

Christina Luna (32:48)
so we have we have agency. This is this is a powerful moment. And I think this year, of all the years that we’ve ever come into this energy, we feel our compass and our energy and our agency more than we ever have before. We

Nicole Laino (33:05)
Mm.

Christina Luna (33:06)
understand that there is a correspondence between what I desire, what I focus on, what I put my energy toward, and its manifestation. And if there’s some kind of

Entanglement that’s keeping me from that, we at least have enough tools at this point to find what that limiting belief is or what that little contract was and finish the contract. A lot of times it has to do with valuing something that we’re afraid of becoming. Valuing

Nicole Laino (33:34)
Mm.

Christina Luna (33:34)
the arrogance, valuing the cringe, valuing the whatever enough to bring us out of the opposite side of that.

to somewhere in the middle. And

Nicole Laino (33:47)
Yeah.

Christina Luna (33:48)
this this is so ripe for that kind of alchemy. I’m I’m feeling it.

Nicole Laino (33:55)
I love I love

this because there’s so much to this cycle and cause another thing I’m trying to see is there anything during that third week? Cause we covered the beginning. Well the beginning we

Christina Luna (34:08)
Mm-hmm.

Nicole Laino (34:09)
should mention that on the ninth there’s a new moon. The the

Christina Luna (34:12)
There is a new moon.

Nicole Laino (34:13)
new moon on the night

Ninth is in Scorpio. It’s in more specifically gate one of the human design chart. Gate or the human design wheel, I should say. Gate one is the gate of I am me, this is me.

I express myself as this creative being. So there is something about setting an intention around who you’re gonna be, I think that that to use that energy. So I wanted to mention that. and what are you going to express? What are you going to allow yourself to be seen as? And really, really doing the work around that, I think, is is helpful. But another thing, so on the 24th, we already talked about that that the nodes are shifting that day, but it’s

Also, the full moon on the 24th. Full moon is going to be in gate 20. Gate 20 is also, so obviously, it’s going to be opposite the sun because that’s what a full moon is. But this is interesting because the sun’s going to be in gate 34. This forms a channel.

So it’s the channel of charisma in human design. The other thing about this is that on the other side, so conjunct the moon is going to be Uranus stationed retrograde. this is a moment for sure. but what I wanted to bring up about this,

Gate thirty-four and gate twenty, when they form the channel of charisma, it is where,

I don’t wanna say inspiration like it’s a head thing. It’s like what your life force becomes a deed, becomes your action and becomes your words. There’s something about being so self-expressed based on what you see. So there’s something about this time that’s going to be like really pay attention to what you respond to. Cause P.S. everyone’s going to be a manifesting generator during this this moment. Your type doesn’t really change, but you get what I’m saying. Everyone’s gonna have a defined sacral.

Everyone in the world will all have a defined sacral. That will feel wonderful to some people, and it will feel like shit to some other people who are really not used to it, and it feels like a lot. So recognize that. But gate 20 really does ask us, and it’s you know, Uranus has been sitting there since it moved into Gemini. it’s been kind of hanging out here. Gate 20 is the gate of the now, it is presence, and it’s

It’s asking us, I think, you know, with the moon sitting there, it’s asking us, you know, where are you being where are you shaking things up for the sake of shaking things up? Because you’re impatient and because you want everything now, everything now. It’s the shadow of this. And the gift is to just be so fully present in the moment that if you’re really present, everything is brought to you.

Everything is right there if you are just present for it, and you can sit in the uncomfortable space between your last response and your next one.

And to just really be there and to go inward with, you know, what’s changing inside of you? What are you feeling needs to move or shift into this next phase? Because you know, two days before we move into Sagittarius on the 22nd, right? The sun moves into

Christina Luna (37:29)
Nice.

Nicole Laino (37:29)
Sagittarius on the 22nd. So we’re in a different energy there. It’s kind of asking us, you know, something else rather than all going inward, but we’re still asking that question of like

what in me needs to change that I want to put outside in the world? What is the, what’s my big shift that I’m actually going to take action on and not just think about?

Christina Luna (37:53)
I have a personal story about this week

Nicole Laino (37:57)
Okay.

Christina Luna (37:58)
for some reason it’s completely consuming my mind. I can’t even think about anything except for this thing.

Nicole Laino (38:03)
Do it.

Christina Luna (38:04)
So this week I’ll the sun will be fully in my 12th house. Okay, 12th house. If

Nicole Laino (38:10)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (38:10)
for people who are kind of following along, 12th house transits are times where we go inward. It could be into hospitals, asylum. It’s the things that, you know, help us to review the year that we just had or the lifetime that we just had. And so we’ll have that full moon in Gemini on the 24th. Then Mars enters Virgo. This is a very meticulous, you want to have.

Nicole Laino (38:33)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (38:34)
surgeon with Mars and Virgo, right? And then on the same day the sun opposite Uranus. So I tried during the beginning of October to schedule a certain procedure. And I wanted to do it in October, but the only day they could do it was the 25th of November. And it is my first colonoscopy.

I literally will have a very precise instrument sun opposite my Uranus.

Nicole Laino (39:04)
They’re gonna be all up in your Uranus.

Christina Luna (39:06)
There’s gonna be

there’s gonna be light shining deep in the unconscious subterranean parts of myself and

Nicole Laino (39:13)
Yes.

Christina Luna (39:14)
like I I find it almost comical. Like I’m trying to be very like philosophical about this, but this is

Nicole Laino (39:20)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (39:21)
so very specific.

Nicole Laino (39:25)
Yeah.

Christina Luna (39:26)
And it was definitely out of my control. This is not I couldn’t get it any other time. and the thing that is interesting is that there’s illumination from these processes. Something will be illuminated. The light will shine on dark places that we’ve never looked before. And we will come out with

Nicole Laino (39:41)
On your dark place.

Christina Luna (39:44)
complete revelations, epiphanies, complete clarity of what’s in the dark. Exactly.

Nicole Laino (39:47)
Yes. A brand new baby colon and new Epiphanes from this place.

Christina Luna (39:57)
So I just I I kind of find it interesting that this is so very physical and specific for me, but I hope that

Nicole Laino (40:04)
Yes.

Christina Luna (40:04)
someone can use it as a metaphor for some other part of their life that gets to have illumination.

Nicole Laino (40:11)
Right. So if you’re following

along with us, where in your life do you need to send a scope with a light on it to go into all of your dark places, shine lights, and surgically remove any emotional or physical polyps from

Christina Luna (40:29)
That’s right.

Nicole Laino (40:30)
from your insides or your outside? Maybe it’s in an outside part of your life.

Christina Luna (40:35)
You’re a subterranean

material.

Nicole Laino (40:39)
Yes.

Tunnels.

Christina Luna (40:42)
Sound old.

Nicole Laino (40:44)
if you are worried about a colonoscopy, I’ve had three of them. They’re it’s way simple.

Christina Luna (40:51)
good, thank you. Thank you for that.

Nicole Laino (40:54)
It’s very efficient process. You’re in and out. No pun intended.

Christina Luna (40:57)
good. This is this is

good information for anyone who’s facing any kind of fearful

Nicole Laino (41:02)
Yes. Yeah.

Christina Luna (41:05)
dark investigation.

Nicole Laino (41:08)
No big deal. one of the other consequences of being a Scorpio rising is I think you end up with gastrointestinal is issues. So I had my first colonoscopy when I was like twenty-one years old. So I’ve

Christina Luna (41:17)
Okay.

Nicole Laino (41:18)
had to have and they were far less advanced, so just just so you know.

Christina Luna (41:22)
See,

this is why we need our veteran scorpionic people in our corner so they can remind us that the dark is is not that bad.

Nicole Laino (41:31)
We’ve dug out all sorts of shit, we’ve been through it all, we’ve been through the mud and the muck in literal and figurative ways. And we can let you know.

Christina Luna (41:39)
And look at how incredibly

wise and healthy you are. Incredibly wise

Nicole Laino (41:43)
Yes.

Christina Luna (41:44)
and healthy.

Nicole Laino (41:45)
Yes. I have I have walked through the depths of of the darkness. And if you need a guide through it, you know, I’m I’m happy to shine the light and let you know like this path is better. This one, not so bad. You’ll be fine. Promise. They’re they’re a very simple procedure. anything

Christina Luna (42:00)
Thank you. Thank you.

Nicole Laino (42:02)
else that we have to tell the people about November?

Christina Luna (42:07)
you know that’s the most important thing that that the hearing hearing a Scorpio say that we should just take this opportunity to do the scary, dark, precise thing

Nicole Laino (42:19)
Yes.

Christina Luna (42:20)
and look at that thing, look at whether it’s your finances, your intimacy and erotic desires, those tricky conversations that everyone’s tiptoeing around, or your health, your inside of your body stuff.

This is like the very

Nicole Laino (42:35)
It’s a good

Christina Luna (42:36)
best time to do it.

Nicole Laino (42:38)
it is a good day to like yeah sit down with some area of your life like if you want a more practical rather than me talking about you know taking a lighted scope through the tunnels of your darkest darkies. in instead you could think about it like if it’s money that you want to really feel like you have a strong and

transparent relationship that you want to have where do you want to have a better relationship with something personally in your life? Where do you feel like there’s you know dark stuff hiding in corners that you would rather not look at? Make a date and sit down with that stuff. Sit down with your books. Sit down with your with your bank accounts and your credit card bills or whatever it is and go through that stuff in such a loving way. and and don’t

Make yourself feel wrong for it. Don’t shame yourself because that forces more into the dark this whole process. Like that would be a polyp that we are removing and we are cleaning it out so that you can then get a clean bill of health and be on track for because we we’ve noticed anything that you are suppressing is coming out in some other way that is not of your choosing.

Christina Luna (43:54)
Yep, that’s right.

Nicole Laino (43:56)
And that’s what this season is doing. But definitely, you know, this month it’s it’s I think productive in a way that we’re not used to thinking about productivity.

But I think that we get a lot

Christina Luna (44:08)
Yeah.

Nicole Laino (44:08)
of clarity about where things are going and how we close out this year. But also like the astrological year continues after December 31st. You know, we’re still going and we’ve got 2027 and all of these big shifts coming up as well. So

Christina Luna (44:26)
You know,

while while we’re yes, okay, so last year, do you remember how like weird you know, you mentioned without shame, so what we find a polyps, whatever. Last year during Scorpio season, Black Moon Lilith was in Scorpio.

We we

Nicole Laino (44:39)
Mm.

Christina Luna (44:40)
were we we had there’s all kinds of scary stuff about going into those dark regions and there’s what are we gonna find in there and all some people found things that were very scary, right? And then

Nicole Laino (44:53)
Yeah.

Christina Luna (44:54)
we used all of this year up until September with Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius, which was facing the truth of all this stuff, actually looking at the receipts of everything and reconciling it all. And now that Black Moon Lilith is in Capricorn.

Where actually we’re saying, okay, if I’m gonna build something that lasts, if I’m gonna build something that becomes a legacy, I need to make sure that there’s no polyps in the soil. I need to, I need to check, do the blood work before we start putting any kind of supplements in this body because we’re gonna build this, you know, this body a certain way and we want it to last a long time. So let’s not be afraid of whether or not we can build a legacy. Let’s actually just get into it and ensure that it’s

It’s got a sound foundation.

Nicole Laino (45:43)
Agreed. Is there anything that you wanna leave the people with? What do you what do you have going on?

Christina Luna (45:49)
I don’t know if people will be listening to this in time. This

Nicole Laino (45:52)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (45:53)
week I’m having a public gathering, and I think I’m gonna do public gatherings weekly during

Nicole Laino (45:58)
wow.

Christina Luna (45:58)
the dark months. And

This is part of me responding to that scorpionic area in my chart that is the 11th house of community. So I

Nicole Laino (46:09)
Yeah.

Christina Luna (46:09)
if you’re interested in meeting with me live as like a public gathering, I will be doing that and announcing it on my Instagram. So

That is just something I’m gonna do. And if that sounds exciting and cool, things will happen there and I don’t I’m not putting a lot of controls

Nicole Laino (46:26)
Mm-hmm.

Christina Luna (46:27)
on it. I’m just gonna let things happen and I’m gonna be able to respond and hold whatever comes. But that that’s what I have going on and I’m excited about it.

Nicole Laino (46:36)
I love it. So follow her at lunation.live on Instagram so that you can be up to date on when she’s doing that. I have like one final message that I want everybody to kind of hang on to. So we actually have a challenge coming up. It is called Known and Paid. It is all about really integrating your human design around things like being seen. We’re gonna and it’s a challenge. It is not a masterclass. This is something where we’re going to be doing the work. We’re gonna do the inner work and then we’re gonna try

Translate that into outer work specifically around being visible on the platform of your choice. It will be long form or short form. So we’re going to focus on you really putting your design out there and starting to get a really build like an active relationship with it, not a passive one. Not just understanding who you are, but actually understanding how that moves out in the world and how you can start to work with it and putting it out as your message and as your persona.

As who you are. So if you want in on that, just DM me the word known on Instagram or go to Nicole Lano.com forward slash known and you can get it right there. I wanted to remind you of something that we talked about earlier, and I want this to kind of be like the last message that you hear in this episode. I want you to, we’ve talked all about, you know, cleaning out and understanding, but really notice where you are being.

Called

that inner compass is pulling you in another direction. This shit is getting so strong. And I’ve seen it with a lot of people where we have these conversations, and myself included, because you’re probably getting pulled in a direction that feels quite different than the one that you are currently moving in. Can you be there with it? And can you take one step that feels in alignment with that so that you can start to?

feel that new normal and integrate it, because integration happens through action. So I’m not telling you that you have to burn everything down in your life and start this brand new thing and have it uproot everything that you’ve ever done. But I think that the way that we truly acknowledge that things are changing is by starting to live in alignment with those changes. So I would suggest starting that sooner rather than later.

And that is part of what we are doing in this challenge. That’s a great way to do it. If you want to do it on your own, that is totally cool as well. But just really pay attention to this because you’re getting inner messages that are saying it’s not this way, it’s this way. Lean into this. And it’s probably scaring the shit out of you. But by middle of November, I believe you will have the clarity and you will have worked through enough of that.

To really feel like you can take some action. So check in with yourself sometime around s November 15th, where you can start to make small moves or big ones if you’re feeling saucy, but make some moves in the direction of where you’re choosing to go and where this new direction is. Honor it. Okay.

Christina Luna (49:46)
Incredible. I love that message.

Nicole Laino (49:49)
Excellent. Well, we’re gonna leave it here. Have a fun Scorpio season, everybody. We will see you next month. We 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.