Episode 393

Hello and welcome to Unshakable with Human Design. Everybody, it’s Nicole and Christina coming to you with the August Transits. Hi, Christina. How are you doing? 

I am so good, Nicole. Thank you. 

I’m good. Now. It’s been, you know, we’re gonna just kick it off and do our. Let’s not even talk about this. Let’s just hit record and share our little review of, you know, July on the show here. And it’s July 21st when we’re recording this. And, yeah, July was a doozy. This was a time and I heard it all of my clients and everything. I know that I saw a lot of this observing it in people, but I also knew I could observe it myself. And I’m curious, like, what you saw with the people that you’re working with and in your own life. But I saw a lot of people. There was a lot of panic. And what was nice was I knew what was happening and I knew how I was processing it. 

And I’m like, no, this is just a very emotional time. And I think what anything emotional teaches us. So for all of the emotional authorities, our lesson in life is to understand that when we are in a deeply emotional place, which happens for us often and on like a schedule almost, that the world looks scarier, darker, sometimes more exciting, depending on the emotional place that we’re in. And this, to me, felt like an emotionally deep place where it was doing. I mean, intellectually, I was like, I know that this is stirring things up that I need to look at. It didn’t necessarily make it convenient for me to have to look at those things, or I didn’t exactly find it fun the whole time either. But what was your experience and with the people you work with? 

What’d you say? Yes. So this time of year, historically, can feel really challenging for. For anyone who loves structure, logic, well thought out plans, et cetera. And this year especially was a little bit extra because we have Jupiter in cancer this year. And we also had Uranus changing signs from a very solid earth sign to a mutable air sign. And so there were a few things happening all at once. First of all, the structure that we usually get security from, the structure and the rhythm that melted for most of us in a very. At least in the space of the mind. Even if your physical structure didn’t melt, there might have been a structure in your mind in the form of beliefs or ideas or things you counted on about your personality. 

Some kind of structure that just sort of started getting soft and melty. Like what I found. Some examples are I believed myself to be a really healthy person, and I got a health diagnosis. Or I believed that I would have this money to put toward this thing, and I needed it for this other thing I wasn’t expecting. I believed that blah, blah. And then these things started happening, and suddenly this thing I had security around, you know, I could lean on. Other times that suddenly started to dissolve. And so what were left with was an emotional experience. And when we have emotional experiences, they open up files in our psyche of every time we’ve ever had an emotional experience like that. And so for a lot of us, archival memory got opened due to surprising emotions or dissolving emotions or uncomfortable emotions or whatever. 

And whatever was in that file, we got to be with, be present with. And our response to the information in those files was what was actually being focused on, challenged, encouraged to, like, rewrite. We have this opportunity right now to see where we are with our mindset. We’re not really going to mess things up. Even if our mindset isn’t strong, it would just dissolve it even more. It would just bring us even more dissolving. Because we have a mindset that can’t support us when the emotions are high, then that mindset actually could use some restructuring. Then were given this mercury retrograde, and we’re given the retrograde during a time when emotions more soft, when they’re a little bit bigger, when we’ve got Uranus sort of mixing the pot of our belief systems so we get to have everything sort of open. 

There was one client I had. She’s a collage creator, and she’s got all of these different pieces of visual artifacts all over, and she’s got hundreds of collages that she’s made. She knows that there’s a project coming from it. And so one of the most constructive things I saw was that she’s decided to lay all of her collages all over her entire living space and see the chaotic order that these collages are providing her. And I imagine that over the few weeks of the mercury retrograde, Something might come from the chaos. Some kind of new structure may come from the chaos that makes even more specific meaning out of what she’s doing. 

And if we could imagine a part of our lives being like that, what if all your memories, what if all your fears, what if all your needs are being displayed all over your world so that you can kind of take a look at the chaotic, beautiful mess and find a pattern that’s even more true than the one that you were trying to keep organized and safe and locked up in the archives? 

Yeah. As you were saying, all of that. One of the things that kind of stuck out for me. Well, there was a lot. One of the things that stuck out for me was if you are trying to make sense of the chaos and you are actively trying to create structure, which is what me, Virgo, really wants to do. And this whole year has been about loosening the reins on that and not needing everything to be so planned or so perfect. But if I tried to. And I noticed this with clients, too, if they tried. So that client that you’re talking about, the collages, if she goes into that room every day being like, where’s the order? I need to find it. You’ll never find it like that. You have to allow the chaos to be there and let it settle. 

And that was my big lesson in these last few weeks. For me, I really had to allow. And I just had to allow what was happening to happen and to not try to make it something else and to not try to be productive in the midst of it. You know, sometimes you have to get something done, but otherwise, it was just a lot of seeing what was there, you know, and you said the mental constructs and our mindset and how we want things to be and this, bringing up what those are, I found, too, that the emotions were stirring things up. So even the things you were talking about, you know, like, oh, and then the money isn’t there. You know, you had the money for something, and then something came and said, no, it has to go to something else. 

What I found was that even when those things weren’t happening, my mind, I was so emotional about things that I could make up a story about something that was going wrong. But what was interesting to me was I noticed that those stories weren’t true, that I sat with it the day I called you, actually, I called Christina one day, and I was like, so, yeah, I’m in a spot right now, and. And I just kind of need to talk to somebody, just somebody who will understand this. And that day was so uncomfortable and so difficult. I was so in it. But what I had to do was just sit with it. And I realized how Many stories were coming up. 

I realized how many of my old money stories were coming up, and part of it was around I spent a lot of money in the last couple of months. We bought things, went on vacations, we did dinners, and we did, like, were going around to all these different places, and it was busy, and I have the money, thankfully. But the story in my head was around, you don’t deserve to spend this much money. Who do you think you are? What are you doing? It’s all gonna go away. The things that you think you’ve worked through, the things that you think you’ve come. Like, where I thought my mindset had gotten better was when I got into an emotional place and my actions were aligning with a fear that I once had or bad behavior that I have since corrected. It wasn’t frivolous. 

I wasn’t doing anything wrong. But I had such a moment with that where what it forced me to do was become the observer of the feelings that I had. And then I’m like, well, let me go look at the money. Let me go look at the bank accounts. Let me go actually look at the tangible things. And I was like, oh, wait, that’s not a problem at all. I have more money than I thought I had. And I shifted that whole day in the next few days. But I think what was interesting to me was I saw how emotions make us feel things, and then our mind creates a story about something that may or may not be true, but it feels so damn true in that emotional space. You have to become the observer. 

You have to say, let me zoom out for a second and not be like, I can allow these feelings, but can I also take a step back and say, is everything that I’m thinking right now true? Is it really happening? Or am I just scared at the moment? Am I emotionally triggered at the moment that it’s causing my mind to spin on things that might or may not be wrong? And I exposed a lot of lies, a lot of, like, mental head trash, for lack of a better term, that really wasn’t true. But it felt very true in that moment. But it allowed me to see, so I’m better on the other side of it. But it was such an interesting space. So when you were talking about the mindset, it’s like, oh, yeah, mindset is important. 

And I think that the mindset, it really did bring up some things that I hadn’t fully worked through, some fears I still had. I’m in a different place with them. But the emotions allowed me to say, like, you’re not fully done with this. You might have to dive into some of these issues a little bit more. 

And do you know what I love about this so much is you and I and my clients and peers, we’ve all worked through so much. Part of the reason why even people who have kind of faced their shadows, they’ve done the deep work, it doesn’t matter, because there’s always more layers to face. There’s always more. And this year, we also have black moon Lilith in Scorpio. This only happens once every nine years. So we’ve got Jupiter in cancer once every 12 years. We’ve got black moon Lilith in Scorpio once every nine years. They happen to be in water signs at the same time, giving us really strong, sensitive feelings and then showing us all the scary places that we’ve been sort of hiding from ourselves for the last nine years. 

So. 

So we get to look at where those little dark places inside are actually. They’re like little boxes that we continuously put things into it. And we said, nope, I’m fine. I’m independent, I’m strong, I’m good, I’m healthy. I’m all the Virgo things. Everyone’s got Virgo somewhere in their chart. I am doing the right thing. I’m healthy. I’ve been living my life pretty right. You say these. We’ve been living our lives pretty right. Like, we feel like we’re in right relationship with stuff. We’ve been facing our judgments. We’ve been have the hard conversations, blah, da, da. And yet we get this opportunity to be so sensitive, surprisingly sensitive, surprisingly vulnerable, surprisingly open, surprisingly intuitive. And surprisingly, these issues, these boxes of hidden little gemstones of they’re actually power. They’re hidden gemstones of power that we’ve been worried touch. 

Like, what will happen if I touch that? What will happen if I pull that one out of the box and I let it be seen by other people? What will happen if I look at it? Is there something I’m going to have to change if I acknowledge that truth? And so while it’s in the box, it’s very scary because it’s like a mystery box. It’s like putting your hand into the mouth of the sculpture, putting your hand in the box. It’s so scary before you do it. But this month, his hat is actually just freaking. We’ve got to put our hand in the box. You said you had to just look at the numbers. You know, we have to go to the doctor. We’ve got to get the scan. We got to do the colonoscopy. We got to actually look at it. 

Because while we’re afraid of it, we’re giving so much power to it. And so hopefully, many of us face all of this sensitivity and the vulnerability in this month of July. And we actually got to the tangible truth. Some of that tangible truth is, oh, man, I live in a human body that will actually get older and change and have problems. I live in a human body that I have to maintain. I live in a human body that’s susceptible to other people’s choices in lives. I am a mortal human. And that’s what Leo season’s really about. And we get to the heart of human experience in Leo season. That’s really what it’s about. I consider Leo season, you know, cancer season. When we fall on our knees and we say, all right, yes, I’m gonna stay here. 

Mama says that I’m gonna get hurt, that not everyone’s gonna be nice, not everyone will like me. My feelings are gonna get hurt. I’m gonna scratch my knees. And she says, that’s part of the human experience and just make the best of it. Well, if I’m gonna get hurt anyway, if people are not gonna like me anyway, if all these things anyway, then I may as well just do it at the top of my lungs. 

This was a drop to your knees month. I felt curious if the people listening. If you at home, were you feeling that? Were you feeling like July brought you to your knees? Most of the people I spoke to did. Some knew what was happening, and lots of others did not. And I would tell people, I would be like, just so you know, this is a really. I sent them this episode. I’m like, you should listen to this. We talk at length about what’s coming and what we’re in right now. And I think that, you know, one of the things that I feel like I turned a corner with, and you told me you were like, the 21st, 22nd, you’re gonna feel like you got over the hump. And I absolutely felt that. 

It was like yesterday, the 20th, I was like, oh, I feel like I’m coming out of the fog. I feel like it’s the worst is behind me, at least. But I think it’s also behind me because I did do the work during that time. And I think that’s something that I wanna make sure everybody gets across, is that these periods aren’t just to make your life feel difficult and challenging. If you can look at the challenges and you can see them for what they are and do the work. I don’t think inner work in like a vacuum necessarily has sustainability. So when people go and they’re like, I’m going to go heal for like six months and I’m going to do this program and you might have a wonderful experience in that six month container. 

But if it’s completely siloed and in the safe container and you’re not putting it out to use, you know, if you’re driving a car in the parking lot, that doesn’t mean that it will function well and handle well on the highway or a racetrack. Like you have to go and test drive it. You have to really put it to the test. And I think that’s what we have to do with the inner work. And I feel like the transits give us an opportunity where we’re living life and we have to see where, you know, the cosmos throws up a wall in front of us and actually look at the wall and say, this is what I need to do here. This is what I need to work through. This is what I’m being given now. 

And I’m actually going to be in response to it. 

Yeah, you know, it is super helpful to know that like to have the map, right? To have the map and to know that these things are happening and to give yourself permission, but that the terrain is always still really challenging, even with the map. Weekend that Uranus transitioned from Taurus to Gemini. In the course of that, I had experiences where I had so much resistance, I was like sabotaging everything. And then I had the pop and I was like screaming at the top of my lungs, crying. Like I had emotion coming up that, you know, the feeling you get when you have to pee really bad on a road trip, but not because you have to scream and so bursting. And then that also resulted in me going to an emergency room. 

Because when you lose, even if you give yourself permission to lose control, when you lose control, sometimes things happen that are like, oh no, did I break something? Is something not okay now? And so bend the fear. The fear comes after you lose control. The fear sets in the next day. Like, oh no, what if there is? Then you respond to that and then they tell you, oh, there’s no emergency here, everything is okay. And you’re like, well, I shouldn’t have gone to the emergency room. But that’s the reality check. There’s this like terrain of intensity that I think was available to all of us. Even if you repressed it and suppressed it. That’s one way of doing it. If you gave yourself permission, that’s another way of doing it. 

None of the ways are right or wrong, but they just are all going to feel a little unhinged. 

Absolutely. And even, like, you know, I shouldn’t have gone to the emergency room. It’s the same thing. Like, I shouldn’t have been worried. I shouldn’t have fallen apart. It’s also you. Maybe you couldn’t feel the way you do now unless you fell apart. That was necessary. You had to see how ridiculous it was. You had to see how I had to freak out about money. That was not really a problem. In order for me to go back and look at my numbers and be like, oh, it’s so not a problem for me. All these things are going wrong, but it’s not a problem for me. But for some reason, like, I had to go through that emotional roller coaster. Do you know how long it took me before I was like, let me look at the bank account and see if this is real. 

I got so wrapped up in my own head drama of, like, the emotional roller coaster that I chose to put myself on that, like, the energy, like, set up the roller coaster. But I got on that sucker. I was like, let me get on knowing everything that’s going on and everything. It still feels so real in the moment. So all of this stuff, human design, no matter what we know about ourselves, no matter. You know, I was telling my husband yesterday as I’m working on something, and I was getting frustrated and it wasn’t going well, and, you know, he’s talking to me about it, and I’m like, this is my confusion. This is how all inspiration comes to me. This is my gate. This is my key. This is what I teach people. 

But sometimes I have to get in it so far to go, oh, I’m in the thing again. Okay, now I know what to do. I’m like, I need to take a break. I need to, like, breathe a little. I need to just, like, have a little conversation about this and not need to put an outcome on it, because I never get the outcome when I do it like that. But sometimes, you know, you’ve got to get partially through the process in order to realize you’re in the process. So grace, for yourself, you’re not doing it wrong. I think if you’re aware of any of this stuff at any point, even after, to go, oh, I know what happened. You’re already way far ahead than most of humanity who just thinks that life is Insane. 

Well, you know, it’s not a coincidence that everyone’s talking about this like K pop demon Slayer movie, heard about this. But the whole premise of this is that the insidious thoughts that bring our energy down, the shameful thoughts that we tell ourselves, those are essentially the demon realm. It’s this place where we’re giving power, we’re giving our energy over to these very shameful, insidious, fearful thoughts. The thing that gives people strength against those thoughts are high vibrational music. This, this other. Just like the poppy beauty of singing and K pop. So I find it interesting that this is kind of what’s in our social awareness right now. Is this film around how emotions and music and vibration can affect large populations. 

And that when we’re close to a population where the energy is sinking, where we’re susceptible to that field that’s sinking with it, and when we’re taking strength, when we’re finding those tools and we’re remembering our authenticity, the whole key of the film was that instead of suppressing something that was shameful, the acceptance and the authenticity of speaking that truth was what increased the frequency. Not that we got rid of the shameful truth, that we accepted the shameful truth and accepted ourselves, allowed ourselves to be seen accepting ourselves. That was like the whole arc of the show and I didn’t ruin it. It’s an amazing show if you haven’t seen it, but I recommend it especially for Leo season. Yeah. 

And let’s go into that. So we are going into Leo season. We’re officially crossing over and as of like right now, which tomorrow, like officially Leo season. 22nd. Yeah. So yeah, why don’t you kick it off by telling everybody a little bit about. I mean, we kind of touched on it when were talking about cancer into Leo. But why don’t you kick it off with, you know, what is Leo season? 

Leo season is the moment where we realize that, yes, we’re mortal, yes, we might get hungry, we might get sad, and we’re going to go ahead and live anyway. It’s when we just decide, we choose, we make the choice, we step into the imaginal realm of play and we begin to actually playfully create our reality. Like in childhood, it’s the time when you came back to mom, she put the band aid on your knee and then you were so excited to get back out there and create the little, like plant temples to the lizards that you found. Like, it’s like the imaginary realm in the physical world. It’s this combination between those two things. So There is a little bit of mess required. If you’re going to be just in the imaginal realm, that’s more Pisces terrain. 

If you’re going to be just in the physical realm, that’s more a Taurus situation. But when we get into Leo, we’re basically like, oh, I’ve got all of this earthly material to play with. What on earth can I create? And it’s getting lost in the process of that and not being attached to the outcome. Aquarius is the outcome of that play. Aquarius is where the painter finally has their art. Art in the gallery. But if a painter is thinking about the gallery while they’re painting, it takes the joy out of the painting itself. Unless that’s their thing, and that’s a whole different thing. But, you know, you could have Leo in the 11th house and all of a sudden, like, the process is being witnessed or whatever. 

But if we’re just talking about the natural rhythm, it’s whatever you can get lost in where you’re not thinking about the end result, you’re just lost in the present moment. It’s what makes life worth living. And sometimes they call Leo or the fifth house if it’s associated with that pleasure, joy, romance, playfulness, creativity. Children like, not children, because you’re procreating. But yes, like, what types of creations can come from pleasure? What types of getting lost in the moment? What types of things can come from getting lost in a moment and surrendering completely to that transformational experience because it feels good, not because of any other reason. So that’s what is on the table for Leo. But I’ll tell you, a lot of adults have a pretty hard time with the opportunity that Leo season brings. 

And a lot of people chomp at the bit to get back to work in Virgo season. But what I will tell those adults, and myself included, is if we do not play, if we do not fill up our tanks in Leo season, it will be a bear to get through Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and the rest of the freaking year. So it’s a time to fill the tank up for sure. 

I feel all of that. And there’s so much, especially the being detached from the outcome. There’s a whole chunk of the human design aspect of this that is really about that, and particularly this year. But one of the things that I wanted to call out, I do this at every turn for this. But we’re going into a new quarter. So August, when we shift into the seventh gate on 5 August, which is also the lion, you know, I think that’s the people love this 8, 8 portal right around there. But this is when we shift from being. And we’ve been in the quarter of civilization since May and now we shift into another one of the roll gates, Gate seven, which is the gate of called the army, which is really about identity, it’s really about being a leader. 

And what’s interesting about this year is that Mercury is also in gate 31, which this forms a channel. And whenever we form a channel, when the transits form a channel in the human design chart, we take that as like a lesson for us. We take that as something that we’re all working on. This is a big theme for us and this is really about leadership. Forms the channel of the Alpha so that like end of the first week, the 5th through the 10th, we are in this little channel here where the channel of the Alpha, it combines being a leader, not doing it, but being it. It’s in the identity center. This is the identity of leadership. This shifts us from that. 

This is the gate that shifts us from that quarter of civilization which is about concretizing, doing like all of those thoughts and ideas that we had in the first quarter. Now the plans get laid, the groundwork gets laid, the foundation. Now it’s the quarter of duality. And we shift into that with like, okay, now I lead with the plan, now I’m gonna go put it out to the people. Now it’s moving into this collective energy of saying, here’s the direction that we’re going in. It combines I am the leader with the gate of influence, which says I can influence others with my plan. With these new directions that I’m thinking of. It’s almost like we’re all being called to kind of step up and say, what do we really have to share? That’s that first week. 

And you know, it’s the gate seven is known as the role of self interaction. It’s not just who you are, it’s who you are to the rest of the world, who you are. It’s very public facing. I think that’s very Leo too. It’s like, you know, I’m proud to be me. Here’s who I am, here’s what I stand for, here’s what I have to offer you. So that first week is so much about. I think it’s about really coming home to yourself and feeling like, okay, you’ve done all of this work the first half of the year. Now going into the second half, it’s not Just gonna be about what you’re doing. It’s going to be about again, quarter of duality. Duality is about relationships. It’s about connections, about disseminating the information that you’ve been preparing this entire time. 

It’s about now going out into the world a bit more. And it has much more to do with interacting with others versus just you working alone, siloed away. All of those plans mean nothing if you don’t put them out there is what the third quarter would be telling us. 

Correlations between our maps are really close this year or this month. You talked about that seventh gate and I literally have that. That’s the seven of passion, the seven of fire, and have the words what do I stand for? And it’s a question mark. Like we’re being challenged to define what it is we stand for. What are we passionate about? If everything fell apart, if everything opened up, what’s the one thing that you’re going to hold in front of you that says this? This one thing. I know this is true. Even if nothing else is true, this is true. And so we have that, and that is what puts us into motion. So historically, this beginning of this month, there could be a lot of things. 

You could have all of these different launches, all these different products, all these different things that you’re focusing your attention on, but it might be so many that you decide you can’t hold it all. And none of it has gravity anymore. Like every single year, I question my craft during this time of year. You know, is this even valuable anymore? Do I care about this? Is my passion there? Do I feel energy for this? I question it. I usually find this one big huge foundational thing that I’m like, at least this and every single year. And then everything that I build from there, it starts there. There could be the same exact offering, but guess what? It’s coming from a different well of energy within me. 

I know exactly what you’re talking about. I didn’t mean to interrupt you, but I was like, every year in September, something has changed because of something that I, like, locked in on and optimized and refined in August. 

That’s right. Because it almost the cancer season that we’re going through, that’s when we’re like, oh my gosh. This acute thing is so much more important than all these things I’ve been holding for all this time. So it’s kind of like the moment where we let everything go because it got too much. It was overwhelming. It was too much like, I gotta Put this down. So we put it all down, and then we’re like, do I even care about anything anymore? You’re not gonna get me out of bed for that unless I really care. And that’s what we find in that first full week of August. Like, this is the one thing I care about. So I’m gonna put all my ducks in a row. The second week, we’ve got the moving parts. 

Like, if I can hold this one thing as the anchor, then I’m gonna let all of my other things get in line behind that and move it forward. And then we get to the third week, and this is pretty much the last week of Leo where we’re just like, okay, I do know what I stand for. This is the hill I’m gonna die on. This is the investment I’m gonna work on when I get into Virgo season. Last week of July, I’ll just top it off. And the energy of the last week of July is or no, August is. I have chosen wisely. Like, we have the little. We’re holding the thing. We’ve chosen our identity. We know what we’re going to work on. We might not, like, officially get started on it, but at least we know that we have chosen it wisely. 

Yeah, like, it’s the same story that I see. So that second week, or I guess second and third week, August 11th through the 16th, we go from not leadership. Now we’re going to think about it a little bit. We’re going to, like, refine some, like, mental solution here around what we stand for. And the key that I have there for everybody, like, what I wrote here was just, like, look for the potential in everything. Because the tendency can also be to doubt the thing that you said mattered. The hill. You want to die on the thing that you are. Like, I think it’s this. You could very easily doubt it because you want it to be certain. You want to know it’s going to work. And, sorry, that’s not how it works. 

If you believe it will work, your chances of it working are way better than if you go into something wondering if it will work, being scared, or, of course, if you hold back and don’t do it because you’re too afraid of change. You know, that fourth gate that we move into between the 11th and the 16th can really be doubtful and can really be afraid of rocking the boat, because if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But I think Cancer season showed us what’s broken. It showed us what we don’t care about. Anymore. And hopefully that stuff fell away. And we have the courage to peel off those layers and say, you know what? These are dead and they no longer serve. But then we go from the 17th and all of this. 

I see this around like I wrote here, like desire, you know, from the 11th till the end of Leo season, I feel like we’re really starting to ask ourselves, what do I want? Like really, what do I really want? Not what will work, not what makes sense, not what they’re doing, but like, what do I want? And that kind of gets pushed on us a little bit. From the 17th to the 22nd, we have two things going on. Here we go into Gate 29, which is a sacral gate, which anything in the sacral is always saying, what do I love? Is really word saying, what do I really want to put my energy into? And gate 29, especially, because this is commitment. 

This is that first signal of what you were talking about going into something just because you love it, just because it’s fun, just cause. Just because I wanna. And then really committing wholeheartedly to that thing. But if you try to make it where you’ve attached yourself to an outcome, that’s probably the quickest way to make it fail or for you to go into ruining the energy around this. But then at that same time, we have something else that’s going on. We have pluto in gate 41, and then we have the earth gate in gate 30. This forms a channel between the root center and the emotional center. So we will all be emotional and we will all have defined roots for that week. So just know if you have either one or both of those open, this might be a little bit of a. 

It could be very exciting or it could feel like a lot pressure and emotions combined. This is the start of the emotional process around desire. This channel dares us to dream and to dream big and to believe that our dreams just because we want them are valid. And that’s the lesson there at that, like we’re getting that, like really asking ourselves, what do I really want? If I believed anything were possible that week before is trying to get us to play with possibility. If I really believed anything was possible, what would I really want? And I have the fuel. You will have the fuel. We will all have the fuel to take a step in that direction towards something that really matters to us. If you hesitate, if you are afraid, what happens here is you can get caught in either. 

It can just feel stressful, which is what we low frequency here feels like. This can be a recipe for the greatest time in your life, the greatest adventure or disappointment because you had an idea about how it was going to work out, and it worked out differently, and that’s the trap. So I’d caution everybody to really take what Christina was saying before to heart, which is detaching from the outcome. Playing, experimenting, and just having fun here with these. Passion comes from emotions. Manifestation is an emotional process. It is devoting all of your emotional energy to the possibility of what you want actually happening. 

And I think we’re invited into that Leo season, but especially this year, given where these gates are this year, we’re getting some channels here that are also adding to this energy of really inviting us into that conversation and that experience. Dare to dream and then detach from what that dream has to look. I said that to a client the other day. I said, I have no doubt you’re going to get everything that you want. I think you have to let go of what that exactly that will look like and how you will get there. I think that is the problem that is causing you stress and that is causing you actually to not move in that direction or get the thing that you want as quickly as it could come because you have an idea about how it all has to happen. 

And that’s something that we don’t get to choose all of that. We have to be open and flexible in that space to just hold the vision and say, I believe this can happen and my whole heart is there now. I, you know, look, mom, no hands. I’m just going to keep pedaling the bike and letting the sun hit my face and the breeze hit my hair and enjoy this moment and trust that I’m going to get to where I desire to go this or something better. 

I love that you mentioned that it’s a time to imagine this bigger dream because there are some really, this year, specific transits that are happening in September that this month of August is setting us up perfectly for. And I think especially this last week of August in that first energy of Virgo, because we have that new moon right at the beginning of Virgo season this year. I think it’s going to be an inventory, a personal inventory. And I think we’re just going to have all the facts. We’re going to know how much material we have. We’re going to be looking at the facts of how much money we have for it. We’re going to be looking at the relationships that we have, the skills that we have inside. It’s just inventory. If you could just circle that last Week and write inventory lies inventory. 

That’s going to be so beneficial because as soon as we get into September, latern will be back into Pisces, and then we have our whole eclipse season in Virgo. And I believe this eclipse season is going to be such a powerful eclipse season for people who really want to take responsibility for themselves authentically. And so the inventory will set you up. And it could be very humbling, like, I’m heading it up. However, the more humble and connected to the truth that we can be, the more grandiose the vision or the dream that can be implanted during that eclipse season can actually become. And so I don’t even know what else to say about it. It’s just this reality check that’s in the very best way possible. Because whatever processes we imagined coming into fruition, we. 

We’ve got this moment of reset, this moment of opening that opportunity again, of opening the larger vision. Like, I know a lot of entrepreneurs, I work with a lot of female entrepreneurs who are enterprising. They’re bringing in the technologies of the next era, and their dreams are beautiful. And with all of these outer planets retrograde right now, it could look like these big dreams are somehow sort of slipping into confusion. Some of the details are getting mixed up. People we thought were going to invest might not or whatever. Like whatever all of these things are. And all it is realignment to a better frequency. Realignment. You got all those commitments in a frequency of, well, this is how it all has to go in order for it to come to fruition. 

And so I’m so lucky all of these things are coming and we’ve got attachment to the outcome where, like, I’m super attached to working with this person. I’m attached to that person being on my team. I’m attached to these types of investments, blah, blah. So then those things get a little bit messy, a little bit scrambled because it’s trying to reset the vision so it can actually be even bigger than you originally envisioned. So that dreaming is like, wow, what is actually possible if that one company or that one investor or that one client actually isn’t the most high vibe client for you or the most aligned vibe, they could be so high vibe, but it just might not be the right direction. 

That this endeavor that has a life of its own that’s coming through every creator right now, that’s the other thing to witness. There’s this hugeness to what’s possible, and we are humbly just the hands for something brilliant and genius that will actually Require many different people’s hands. There’s this opening to collaboration that’s about to happen. So a lot of people who thought they were doing things on their own, which is very Virgo y, are suddenly opening up to community collaboration that they never even dreamed of. Maybe their dream is going to require far more hands than they anticipated. The era of the Capricornian expert, master leader, top of the pyramid, that era is now over. And we’re now in this vibration of community. And so who are the communities that your project actually needs support from? 

So that’s another, like a big thing that I think if you can let go of attachment to how you thought it was gonna go, you can see that this is a realignment. And then you open up to the faith during the eclipse season in September to receive the acknowledgement that, yes, you are a pillar and a silo of your own. You are a temple unto yourself. You are a temple. Congratulations. You did the work. Those temples were not meant to stand alone. They’re part of ancient forest. And all of the trees together make the ecosystem. And so where are the roots connecting to those deeper subterranean places where all the extra resource comes through that you didn’t even know you needed for scale of what you’re creating? 

That’s the quarter of duality. That’s where we are now. That’s that shift over. I mean, you’re talking more global. But even just this time, this August through, we switch over in November again. So this little carve out, this quarter that we have for ourselves here, it is about the connections. It is about the relationships. It is about being open to not being an island and not being so siloed and not being cut off like you did that in the first half of the year. Now it’s time to invite people to your party. So to be open to relationships changing. And this is our quarter. So you and I are both Virgo. So if you’re a Virgo, you are a quarter of duality person. 

And that was like a huge thing for me to understand was the fact that, like, oh, this is actually my great lesson in life, has to do with relationships. And if I look at my life, that is the headline of my life. Whatever else I’ve tried to make it all comes down to that. And it’s the greatest challenge in my life are these. Is this relationship component. And I just wanted to round out the rest of the month, the 23rd to the 28th. We are in an emotional gate again in the sacral. But this is emotional. It Is the gate of intimacy, the gate 59, highly emotional, very much about breaking down barriers again, relationships again, you know, with the other. This is about doing. But this is the gate that says, I’m open to a relationship with you. 

I will break down my walls in order to allow somebody else in. So it might be time for you to break down your walls or ask yourself, how am I masking myself where people can’t really see who I am? Or intimacy with yourself that you aren’t allowing. Where are you lying to yourself? And then that last week, stretching us into the first couple of days of September, we’re gonna all be emotional again. It’s gate 40 we go into. But gate 40 forms a channel, the 4037 channel. Again, these are lessons for everybody, collective lessons. The 4037 channel is the channel of community. This ties the ego to the emotional system. This is the one that says, I take care of you if you take care of me. It’s the bargain. 

This might be time where deals are being made, where you’re consciously connecting with people and saying, I will help you. And you hold up your end of the bargain and you ask for something in return. It’s the ask and give. It says, I will emotionally support you and I will materially support you. This is like, this is the channel of people coming together and finding balance in relationship and in connection with other people that it don’t over give. And so that’s something that you know, can be brought up there. Maybe what might show you where you are self abandoning and giving and not receiving. Or it might show you where you’re overworking in your own life and you’re not asking for help. And then we’ll be fully into our Virgo season there. I mean, we’re already in it at that point. 

But have some fun, I think is the real takeaway for August. How about you? What do you want to leave everybody with? 

You know, there’s just. Usually I have a whole bunch of dates for people to circle. I actually only have two little date things to circle. The 8th and 9th is going to be a bit of a concentration point. I would circle those and just remind yourself to stay present, calm, witness, be present, stay as present as you can. There’s going to be movement. It’s very Mars, it’s very cardinal. If we lose control and composure during this time, it could look like yelling. And if we apply ourselves with presence, it could be breakthrough, like behavioral breakthrough. And then the other one that I circled is the 12th. Mercury will have just started Moving direct. And then we’ve got the Venus Jupiter conjunction in cancer. And I think this is, you know, back to school. 

And I just think it’s a moment where we could be very tender. We could be feeling very sensitive. There could be a global issue that really pulls on our heartstrings. It could be very feminine, emotional, and compassion triggering. So create emotional safety for yourself. Go grocery shopping before that day and just have, like, comfort foods for yourself so that you don’t have to get out of bed that day. Like, not even. Because anything’s. It doesn’t have to be bad. It just could be a day where you’re like, oh, yes, treat yourself. Like, give yourself the massage. Give yourself all the things, because it will be an extra day. And I just don’t want anyone to be blindsided by how extra it could feel. 

That was how I felt that day that I contacted you. I booked a massage. I was like, I don’t know what to do with myself. And I feel like I just need, like, someone to take care of me for a while and be sweet to me and make me feel better. And it was the best thing. Maybe I’ll book a massage for the 12th in advance. 

And also remember, you know, book a massage with a nail massage therapist. Or if you have a female massage therapist, tip her so well. Be so kind to her because she is working on the day. 

I didn’t think about that. Okay, male masseuse, August 12th. Long deep tissue massage where I’ll probably cry on the table. Okay, I. All right. Well, I feel like for me, I just want you all to remember this month to be kind to yourselves. But I feel like another one of those moments of just saying, like, what are you really dreaming of? And can you allow yourself the space to journal about that? Take your journal out and just be like, what do I really want? If I didn’t worry about the outcome, what would I really want right now? That’s sort of the. The little homework assignment I’m going to give you. So anything else? We feel complete. 

Complete. I love these episodes so, so much. 

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