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December Human Design & Astrology Transits w/ Christina Luna

Episode 429

Are you feeling the pull between what’s ending and what’s waiting for you in the new year? 

In this episode, Nicole welcomes astrologer and cosmic guide Christina Luna to explore the powerful energetic shift December brings and why so many of us feel like we’re shedding an old version of ourselves. Together, they unpack the themes of the nine-year cycle, the Year of the Snake, and the unmistakable sense of closing chapters as 2025 comes to a close.

Christina shares why Sagittarius season acts like an internal lighthouse—helping us reconnect with our “why” and the deeper truths that guide our lives. Through vivid stories, astrology insights, and a grounded understanding of identity-level transformation, she explains why this month isn’t about forcing action but about recognizing the inner spark that will shape the year ahead. Nicole weaves in the Human Design perspective, highlighting the Sun gates, nodal shifts, and transits that influence our habits, motivation, emotional boundaries, and sense of direction throughout December.

As the month unfolds, they explore the temptation to hit the gas, the discipline required to slow down, and the emotional clarity that emerges when we choose authenticity—especially during holiday gatherings where old patterns tend to resurface. Christina also shares a fascinating “12 Holy Days” experiment that can become a powerful tool for setting the tone and intention for your upcoming year.

If you’re craving clarity, confirmation, or a more aligned way to approach the end of the year, this conversation offers reassurance and inspiration. Tune in to reconnect with your inner compass and step into the new year with meaning, presence, and renewed purpose.

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Transcript

Episode 429:


Nicole Laino
Hello and welcome to Unshakable with Human Design, everybody. I’m your host, Nicole Laino. I am here with the lovely and talented Christina Luna for our final transit episode of 2025. Holy cow, here we are. This year has just. The year’s gone by quickly, but since September, I feel like it has been a rocket ship. 


Christina Luna
Ooh. It definitely. I have so many things to talk about just where December is bringing us to a fresh new shore and how it set it up. We got set up in September. 


Nicole Laino
Yeah, we really did. And I want to talk about that, and I want to. What’s your kind of, like, big thing right now? What are you sitting with where you’re like, this is the thing that’s, like, on my heart, the thing that is the one thing I can’t, like, let go of or that keeps coming back for me. 


Christina Luna
For me, it feels like I am realizing that I have a brand new. Well, I’m developing a new North Star and that my previous North Star was designed to help me heal some old wounds. But this new North Star is developing from a place of a little bit more healed than before. And so a lot of things are shifting in my life. A lot of the reasons I do things, my motivations, my inner fire, it’s all changing a lot because it’s no longer moving toward and through healing. It’s moving toward something new that I haven’t clearly defined quite yet. It’s starting to land, but I believe that’s what will be developing for me in December. 


Nicole Laino
I feel like we’re talking about the same thing in just a different way because I feel the same thing. For me, the thing that has been coming up as a theme that I keep being brought back to is the year of the snake and the nine year. I heard that at the beginning of the year, that nine years are a year of closing, that the snake is a year of shedding. And all of these kind of broader themes that have to do with these two energies colliding, these two things colliding. Boy, do I feel it now, where it’s like I feel all the shedding that has gone on this year. Wow. Did I let go of things? I let go of things that I never imagined I would and let go of them. 


Nicole Laino
Sometimes things completely left my life, or sometimes it’s just they changed in a really dramatic fashion, or at least to me, they did. Where the relationship is so different in my life and the entering a new era is what I feel happening. Like, there’s a chapter closing, and the next chapter is. I feel like I’m in that holding pattern right now where it’s like, I’m almost there. It’s there. I had that in, like, the water season that we just had with Scorpio and all of the flooding of the water that you talked about in last month’s call. I could feel that, like, hurry up and wait kind of energy a little bit. And I feel that. And then I got a reprieve where I started to move, and now I feel it a little bit pulling back again. Like, pulling back the arrow, maybe. 


Nicole Laino
And, yeah, that’s theme that keeps coming back for me, is this endings and new beginnings. And what does it look like going forward in. Like, we have the Year of the Horse coming, which I guess we’ll talk more about in January when it. We’re closer to that happening. But. And I’m a horse. I’m a year of the Horse person. Are you. Are you a year after me? 


Christina Luna
I’m a goat. 


Nicole Laino
You’re a goat. So you’re the next one. So those are the things that are standing out to me. Like, I really feel like this is a transformative. This has been a transformative year. 


Christina Luna
Yes. Okay. So I really want to talk about Sagittarius as an archetypal temple and how it’s even more relevant this year. I. I think I’ve said that every single month, that this year it feels like every astrologer is saying that right now, but it’s because the changeovers that we’re experiencing right now, they are actually very epic. This is a big pivot point, and we’re seeing these pivots in our lives at the core because it’s affecting us on a identity level. And when you change something at an identity level, not only changes how we think of ourselves and the character we’re playing in our life, but also our values and the way we believe and how we nourish ourselves, what we create in the world. Like, everything changes when we change our relationship to our identity. 


Christina Luna
And because we have these large cycles moving into Aries, we’ve got the Saturn, we’ve got the Neptune. A lot of planets are actually changing signs in 2026 because they’re all changing signs. We are shoring up and moving into a whole new way of identifying with ourselves and the role we play in our relationships and the world at large. And so this moment we’re in right now, it’s kind of like we took the fall season, we took the fall quarter. We looked at our life very analytically in Virgo season. We made some mental adjustments. We shifted our approach in October. We went into the deep grotto of our heart. We went into some deeper wounds. We went into some strong feelings. And I’m gonna pause there. 


Christina Luna
I’m just gonna say, whatever themes were during your month of November with all those water trines, I want you to know that was kind of the preview to where all of the Mercury retrogrades will be next year. Mercury will retrograde in Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio, and we’ll have a Venus retrograde in Scorpio next year. So the Scorpio part of our world and the watery elements of our personality and our life, they’re going to continue going through an adjustment next year as the rest of our life changes. And so we’re still in this moment where adjusting the weight that we have one foot, we’re adjusting it onto this new step so that we can actually remove a foot from the old world and put it into the new world. 


Christina Luna
And the weight of that is going to be influenced by the weight of our emotional attachments, the. Our faith, our relationship to uncertainty, to flow, to surrender, to vulnerability, watery things. And so now that we’re in Sagittarius, hopefully we found the deepest temple of our heart. And hopefully during this Sagittarius season, we can adjust our North Star to a new why for our existence. 


Nicole Laino
Why? 


Christina Luna
Sagittarius answers the question why? So now we’re adjusting that why. 


Nicole Laino
So tell everybody a little bit more about the essence of a Sagittarian or the Sagittarius vibe. So you’re saying, like, Sagittarius answers the question or asks the question why? And is able to answer it. What else can we expect? So we come out of Scorpio. We come out of all of this watery energy. We just had the flood. We just have all of this energy coming in and stirring up our emotions, getting us to feel everything. And is Sagittarius then meant to fire the shot, so to speak, where it’s like, now there’s a movement towards something new of transformation? 


Christina Luna
I have two brief stories to talk about. Sagittarius energy. I wish I could say it was that simple, but it’s actually a little More complex than that. The first story is there was a movie back in the 80s called Abyss, and there was a character named Virgil. They were discovering strange phenomenon on their underwater sea lab, and Virgil decided to track this thing down into the abyss. And it was very dangerous. And so he goes down the pressure. It’s like this huge dramatic scene when he gets to the bottom of the abyss, which, as the viewer, we don’t know if this is a dream. We don’t know if this is real. We’d like to think that Virgil’s having an experience down in the bottom of the abyss, but we don’t know with certainty. 


Christina Luna
It’s like he died, or he, at least the reality that he used to live in has died. And he comes to this place that baffles his mind. He doesn’t even know what he’s looking at. And this truce is something that now takes him all the way back to the surface of the real world again. So Sagittarius season is like finding the crazy epiphany truth, Finding the kernel or the valuable thing that changes everything for you. It’s fire that moves, but it moves you because it comes from within. It comes from the depths. It comes from the dark. It’s a light you find inside of you. You know, if you think about life in the Northern hemisphere, the light begins to go away in September. It gets to its darkest point right during Sagittarius season, right before the sun begins to return. 


Christina Luna
In Capricorn season, we have to find an inner light, an inner spark, something that’s real for us, that’s from the inside of us, not from the outside. And so Virgil finds this. It shoots him back to the surface, and suddenly he’s sharing this artifact with the world, and it changes the paradigm. Ultimately, the paradigm changes during Aquarius season. The artifact itself is Capricorn season, but Sagittarius is the discovery of it and the possibility of what could be now because of this. And so it can move us, but it’s still an internal movement, and it moves us to bring our gift to the world in a way that will leave a legacy during Capricorn season. So we will feel stirred, we will feel that instinct. And you know what is kind of interesting about popular culture, or at least the society we live in? 


Christina Luna
You know, we’ve got this archetypal flow of energy, and we get this excited, heartwarming feeling during this season. And sometimes that fire is dampened because we leverage it into obligations or we leverage it into commercialism. We leverage into Christmas Jingles and being busy and whatever. Ultimately, the core of the epiphany is probably something around connection and love. And if we can hold the kernel of that during a season where there’s a lot of expectation and there’s a lot of strange emotional dynamics, maybe this year we could make an adjustment to how we put that heart value first and let the other details kind of be, like, secondary. Yeah. 


Nicole Laino
I mean, you and I were talking before we hit record, and it’s sort of, as I’m listening to you, it’s almost like December is like the permission to not go into massive action mode, which maybe some of us are feeling guilty for not being in action a lot. Like I was saying to you, I go away the first week in December, I come back, you know, we’re home, like, working for, like, two weeks, and then it’s holidays again. And I was sort of facing my Virgo. Ness was like, oh, I have a lot to get done. I gotta make a lot out of those two weeks that I have. And maybe I don’t. Maybe it’s actually. There’s something incubating that. It’s a spark that gets lit. It’s an idea. 


Nicole Laino
And I think that kind of leads us into some of the energies that are coming into play in December, even around the sun gates that we always talk about. But some of the other planets as well, but these energies that come in, where maybe it’s the epiphanies that are coming in, giving you a little bit more of an insight into the direction that you’re going in and pointing in the direction that the action happens after the new year rings in. 


Christina Luna
You just reminded me I work with a lot of female entrepreneurs in the online space. Like 95% of my clients. And a lot of times my clients are very surprised when they first start working with me to understand, because they all want to work with me to figure out how to optimize their businesses, optimize the launches, optimize their timing of when they innovate their offers, and, you know, when they acquire new clients or when they nourish their old clients, blah, blah, like, fantastic that we want to talk about that because we’re so impactful. But what they’re surprised about is that the spark, power, energy, the flow, the magnetism, it actually originates in our eighth house of intimacy. It originates in the fifth house of what makes life worth living. 


Christina Luna
The fifth house and the eighth house have nothing to do with career, work, money, etc. But they have everything to do with fueling the work that we do with fueling the energy and the transmission behind the work we do. And the moments where you’re overseas, seeing a beautiful artist express themselves, like connecting to a crowd of people, like understanding why your life is worth living, being held vulnerably by a lover, those moments of somatic presence, of excitement, of depth, of epiphany, those are the epiphanies that actually fuel the work that we do. It’s like getting to the why outcome of why we would even put ourselves into the world the way that we do. It’s not for money. Actually, there’s a reason why we put ourselves into the world that. 


Christina Luna
That has to do with believing something about humanity, believing what, you know, females are worth in their lives and their bodies, believing what humans are capable of. And Sagittarius season is putting us back in touch with the deeper, fueling why that makes everything possible. It makes it possible for us to speak in podcasts or put ourselves just to get out of our way, because we believe in something that’s bigger than us. We feel something is a birthright that’s bigger than just our personal experience. 


Nicole Laino
Yeah. And if I think about it, like, even going back to what you were saying before about inner fire, the inner fire, that inner light, nothing has ever lit my flame. That’s, like, just about a great launch. It’s never about that. It’s always about, like, the things that light my heart on fire, the things that really are, like, my why? If you go back to, like, that deep why again, to what you were saying before, it’s these other things that make it all worthwhile. Like, I do the other stuff. So I get to fly to Copenhagen to see Radiohead. Like, that’s why I do it. It’s not for the launch. It’s not for some number on the wall or something like that. 


Nicole Laino
So should we dive into the calendar and give them a little bit of some dates or some things, or, you know, what we’re seeing? What you’re seeing? 


Christina Luna
Yeah, absolutely. 


Nicole Laino
So I like to start off with the sun, because the sun does tell us kind of the flavor. So we talk about Sagittarius as a whole just now. If we look at the gates, how they break up, we’re kind of talking about the different flavors of the season and the first flavor, I think, which is interesting, you know, that first week, I think it’s a time for us to sort of check in with our habits and with our patterns. Those could be internal patterns, they could be external patterns. What I see with this energy and People who have it is they either have a habit of setting good habits and they have like really great routines and they are really honoring their way. It’s their way and they’re flexible within that. 


Nicole Laino
However, there’s also the other people that fall into bad habits, which we all know that people do that in this season, that sometimes we’re drinking too much, we’re out too late, we’re. I think that this is sort of inviting us to check in with that and say, like, what are the habits, the patterns that are going to serve us throughout the month and going forward? But I think that’s like a little check in point with that first week to say, like, what are the habits that I really want to ingrain in myself? You might let some of them go for the holidays, but there’s also going to be some that you’re like, but I’m still going to be in bed by 10 o’ clock because I know that serves me and that serves me overall. 


Nicole Laino
So that was one of the keys that I had there. And then what are you seeing? What’s kind of jumping out at you? 


Christina Luna
Well, I definitely feel like the first week is a week where we need to be mindful. We have a full moon that week in Gemini, we’re gonna have Mercury moving direct. We’re gonna have Saturn moving direct. We’ve got Venus in Sag. So there’s gonna be this energy of wanting to move forward, wanting to move quickly, wanting to move with passion. But we have to remember that Mercury will still be in Scorpio. So we’re still gonna be having to create boundaries with ourselves. It’s something really important to remember for a Gemini full moon is that there’s a difference between what we have an opinion about, like what our personal subjective truth is and universal truth. There’s a difference there. 


Christina Luna
And if we can slow things down and try to find some coherence or some congruence with our subjective truth, our opinions and universal truths, and we realize that our passion is real. It’s. It’s important for us to want to scream from the rooftops what we believe is true. And having a little bit of hubris. Is that the word I’m looking for? Having a bit of maturity, that wouldn’t be hubris. Then tell me about hubris. Why is that word coming into my head? 


Nicole Laino
I always think hubris is sort of like an exaggeration or excessive pride or self confidence. Like it’s like overdoing it. Hubris is like too much. 


Christina Luna
That’s interesting. Okay. So I’m feeling that word landing, and I think that’s what we need to temper. Okay. 


Nicole Laino
Okay. 


Christina Luna
We need to recognize when that is activated inside of us because it can be a week where we have a lot of that with a bit of humbleness. 


Nicole Laino
I feel like, as we go into the second week as well, if I were looking at one week, and I’d say that one week where we’re really going to want to hit the gas and maybe we have to pull back, it’s probably going to be that second week. That second week we have some big energies happening. We’ve got the sun in 26, the Earth in 45, which these are big ego sent, not ego center necessarily. 45 sits in the throat, but they are part of the ego circuit, which is business. It’s like, we go. We make it happen. The 26 gate wants to take action in the direction of, like, a strategy. It’s very tactical. It’s very much like, ooh, I know the launch strategy. That’s going to get me the thing that I want. 


Nicole Laino
Plan it, write it out, notice it, but don’t necessarily feel like you’ve got to make it all happen. Then the 14th gate is also where Mercury is 14. That’s a Scorpio gate, of course, but it’s also. It’s this gate of power and great measure, that’s what it’s called, which is an interesting name. It’s a gate of luck. But it’s also. This is a gate of knowing what your capacity is. So it’s a great time to check in with yourself, to say, like, what do I need right now? And am I doing something because it feels like I love it? 14 is often a gate that is difficult for people to understand because it’s so simplistic in the way that it sounds, which is like, it’s basically like a do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life kind of gate. 


Nicole Laino
Like, that’s what it is. You’ll always have capacity if you love it. Maybe it’s a time to check in with yourself, to be like, am I really speaking about the things that matter to me? Am I I really speaking about the things that feel connected to me? Or am I being purely strategic? Am I being purely egotistical? Is everything for a conversion. This is a conversation I have to have for myself, too. Like, am I sharing enough of what I truly care about, of what I really want to say? I think that’s a time to sort of check in with that energy. 


Christina Luna
That’S so appropriate for that week. I’m noticing that this is a week typically where we come to a deeper truth within ourselves. Where we are holding. It’s like the queen of wands, like we’re holding our passion. We know that if it’s true, we don’t have to rush to speak it, that truths are true no matter what truths last. We don’t need to worry about the truth going away anytime soon. And so there’s a maturity in holding that energy. It’s kind of also a week where on the 8th, we’ve got Mars squaring Saturn, and it’s a Saturn that’s just moving forward. So it’s a moment where we could even be blocked. We could have this great idea. We could want to go live. We could want to throw something out into the world. 


Christina Luna
We’re feeling a little stretched, and we’re just going to do something real quick. We probably will experience blocks. And to your point, it’s a moment to kind of step back and ask, is this really aligned with what I want to be saying? Sometimes saying less or saying one specific truth is more powerful than just throwing a lot of energy into the system and that gives way. Specifically, there’s some slow energy during from the 14th through the 20th that’s trying to like, hold this, hold it, grow it, hold it, move with intention. So I feel like there’s a lot of discipline that’s coming in the month of December. 


Nicole Laino
Yes, the discipline is definitely there. I think then when we hit the holiday time, we have some changes. Like from a human design standpoint. Well, one, we have the solstice, where we’re going to have the 10th gate, you know, around the 20th of the month. I always think that this is nice around Christmas, like the week leading up to Christmas. I always like to remind people of this that the 10th gate is going to be shining on all of us. And 10 and 15 are this beautiful polarity in the G center, which is all about identity. But these are gates of love. This is a love for yourself to not give away yourself. It’s really about behaving authentically as you. 


Nicole Laino
And I think that the way to really test whether you are authentically behaving is to go plop yourself in the middle of family and friends and loved ones where maybe you feel like you’ve had to conform. Some of us feel like that’s the place where we are the most authentic. And then some of us feel like it is the place where we are the least authentic. And the people who Know us the least are the ones who have known us the longest. So it’s a great time to check in with yourself about what does correct behavior feel like to you? And correct behavior, what it reminds us of is that correct behavior comes from loving yourself. That when you love yourself as you are, there is no need to please anybody because your job is only to please yourself. 


Nicole Laino
It’s not about conforming to be somebody else or to be more palatable. And then around that same time, the 23rd, we hit the. There’ll be a nodal change. This is from. In astrology, we’re still in the Pisces north node, Virgo south node. But in human design, we are going into the 37th gate. The 37th gate is where the north node will be. 


Christina Luna
The. 


Nicole Laino
The south node will be in 40. This is going to give everybody an emotional channel for a while. We’re all going to be emotional. We’re going to have this emotional connection between our ego. You’re. Everybody’s going to have an. Have a defined ego during this time, and everybody’s going to have a defined solar plexus. And this is the channel of the bargain. This is that channel of friendship, community. It is about loving one another, but it’s also about not giving yourself away. So again, challenging us to really ground into holding our boundaries around who we are, around how we think about ourselves, caring for others, but not giving ourselves away in that process. 


Nicole Laino
And the holidays, I think, can trigger a lot of us into maybe acting in certain ways or thinking we have to be in a particular way, particularly around this energy of I take care of you emotionally, you take care of me materially. It’s a very familial kind of energy that we’re going into. And we’re going to be there for a couple of months. So that all kicks off right around 23rd of December. So we might feel a shift there where we go from having these very heady sort of nodal gates of like looking in the direction of thinking about things to maybe feeling them. 


Christina Luna
Oh, my gosh. You triggered a couple of really important things I’d love to share. So the energies I have for that week, the 21st through the 27th, and then the 28th, leading into the first of the year, it ran to cardinal. Earth. That’s the beginning of Earth. That’s the manifesting generative energy of Earth. It’s like a new arrow being pulled back to manifest in the Earth plane. And you were talking about how being your most authentic, being sensitive presentation, authentic. I want to Piggyback onto that and say that I tried an experiment last year. There’s. I heard about these 12 holy days, and I thought, well, that’s so interesting that there would be 12 holy days during this cardinal earth period of time. What happens on those 12 holy days, which supposedly start on the 25th of December. 


Christina Luna
So that would be the first day that we notice that the sun is still in the sky. It’s beginning to stay longer. So on the solstice, it’s the shortest day. And then by the 25th, it looks like the sun is coming back. So that would mark the beginning of the 12 holy days. So last year I took note of everything that happened from the 25th all the way till the epiphany, which is on the 6th of January, which is the ending of the holy days, right? And supposedly whatever you intend and experience on each of those days corresponds to a month of the year. So December 25th would be January, the 26th is February, 27th is March. So I was so present and authentic last year. And I took notes on each of those days, of what happened during the day, how I felt. 


Christina Luna
And because I set the intention, I came back to presence over and over. And I took notes in a calendar for the next year. So in January, I took notes on 25 December. On the 1st page of February, I took notes for the 26th. And so I started my days exactly how I’d want to spend an entire month. So how do I want the month of February to feel? How do I want the month of March to feel? And as those days progressed, I noticed, good gosh, you know, I’m really paying attention. I’m really noticing how things go. And so I kept like a time tally and everything. Then for the whole year, I let the experiment run. And what I found was very interesting is I had a big conflict right in the middle of Christmas Day. It kind of stood out. 


Christina Luna
On the very first day of tracking, during the middle of January, around the 15th, had a really big conflict with the same person. And it tracked the entire year. It tracked so clearly. And so this authenticity that you’re talking about, imagine on an extra level, what if you were creating from authenticity with your intention, with your presence? What if everything that you paid attention to and you focused on, you really created space for and gave yourself permission for? What if it actually had a correlation for the entire next year? And my experiment, I do experiments like this, like, regularly. But this one, I’m talking about it now because I can a hundred percent validate that it worked for me. I don’t know if it’s because I’m a manifesting generator. 


Christina Luna
I don’t know if it’s because when I’m excited about things, I believe them and then they come true. Like, I’m not really sure if my formula makes this work better for me, but because it’s coming up and because we’re in that season of giving that presence to our lives, I thought I would share it. 


Nicole Laino
I love your experiments. I wrote it down because I’m going to do it. I’ll have to remind myself I’m going to put it in my calendar so I don’t forget. But I love these experiments because whether they quote, unquote, work or not, like as expected or as explained, they tune you in. And I don’t think that it’s ever a bad exercise to be intentionally tuning in and paying attention to the energy that we’re in, what we’re feeling and what’s going on, and then tracking that always. So I think that like all of these are worthy exercises. But I love this idea of particularly during that week, which is it’s sort of this. It’s the time before everything starts. You know, we all get this sort of like little break. 


Nicole Laino
We’re waiting for the next thing, we’re waiting for the new year, we’re waiting for the clock to strike midnight and then tell us that the new game has started, whatever that might be for us. I think it’s a really fun thing to check in with yourself on your way to that. And I love the idea, like whether it tracks this way or not, but just the idea of thinking like, I’m walking through these 12 days as a little like microcosm kind of way of walking through my year and how can I be more intentional about that? So I love that you shared that. Thank you. 


Christina Luna
Yes, of course. Even down to like I had my house cleaned on the day that corresponds with September. Like it was so beautiful and it tracked and I’m gonna do it again with even more intention. Cuz now I know how very real it is. And that’s what Cardinal Earth brings to us. The real tangible experience of being able to take all of our wisdom, all of our depth, all of our truth and actually make an impact and a mark on the earth. And we get to start a new calendar year during the energy of Cardinal Earth. So I kind of feel it’s beautiful, even though it’s not. We’re celebrating like new Year vibes. Definitely isn’t like, oh, there’s a whole new cycle. But it is a cycle that’s built on habits that we intentionally set down. 


Christina Luna
And on that note, I know this is, like, peeking a little bit too far into the future. Something that has come up recently. And I think it’s because I’m doing a lot of quarterly readings for the first quarter now is Capricorn season ends around the 20th of January. And that’s oftentimes when our New Year’s resolutions fail. And it’s because we enter into Aquarius season. And Aquarius is about vibes, not policies. And so we could have the best plans. But if the vibes change, we need to be able to adjust the plans. And because we’re in an Aquarian time, maybe we can play out our Christmas season. We can play out our New Year’s season based on Vibes and not on formulas. And I think that will set us up for different ways of approaching legacy, manifestation, resolutions, et cetera. 


Nicole Laino
Yeah, I love all of that. I think resolutions are something that we’ve, a lot of us have gotten away from. Where I look at them as intentions. Now it’s like I have strong intentions for myself, this where I want to move, because it feels more flexible to me than, like, a resolution. Resolutions always felt very rigid to me, and I kind of broke away from that a long time ago. Intentions suit me much better. So just looking at this month, I feel like we go through these waves of, like, setting those routines, having some ideas come up, really nurturing those ideas, then nurturing ourselves and settling into, like, what’s authentic for us. And then we’re kind of closing out the year. 


Nicole Laino
I always bring this up because I think that it’s worth bringing up, but it’s also interesting because we’re going to be in this, the 58th gate. Mars is in it from Christmas week. And then that week between Christmas and New Year’s, both the sun and Venus are in it. And the 58th gate is the gate of Joy. And it’s supposed to be a time of joy for us, right? The holidays, it’s like this time of family. And, you know, what brings you joy in the 58th gate? One of the things that it reminds us of is that the shadow is dissatisfaction. And dissatisfaction is what blocks us from joy. Not being grateful for what you have. I think there’s an invitation here. I think at the end of the year, we sort of have this invitation anyway. 


Nicole Laino
But especially just with that energy kind of being around us in these different ways, just asking us to really tune into what we’re grateful for what are we satisfied with rather than what are we dissatisfied with? Not what has to change, because I don’t like this, but what are we actively choosing because it brings us joy? So that’s kind of what I wanted to leave everybody with as far as just. It’s a note I remind myself of every year. And this year, we have some other things dancing with it as well. But to me, that’s what always stands out. It’s just, can we not focus on what we want to change because we hate it, but actually, like, what do we want to create from this essence of joy? 


Nicole Laino
Like, things can get better, but we want them to be from that energy of, like, I know how I could make it better. You know, there’s one that has judgment in it and the other that has possibility. 


Christina Luna
Beautiful. 


Nicole Laino
What are your parting words? Is there anything else that you want to lead everybody with or sum everything up with for 2025, for December? We’ve said a lot. 


Christina Luna
Yeah. I still come back to this place. There’s a compass inside of our hearts, and if we can get to the very deepest root of that compass, that’s our task for Sagittarius season. There’s nothing else. Like, we. All the outside world, all the noise, all the things, they just don’t matter. They get to be fun expressions from the internal compass. So that’s what I’m caring the most about right now. 


Nicole Laino
I love that. And I think the message, nurture yourself. Like, that’s permission to tap into your inner compass and to tap into what brings you joy and to tap into, like, yeah, you’re gonna have plans, but there’s also time to enact those plans once we switch over, and we are in Capricorn season, and the energy is supporting that. Christina and I will see you in a couple of days, but Christina and I will see you together next year in 2026, in January. My goodness. Happy New Year to you, my friend. 


Christina Luna
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas and Happy Thanksgiving and all the things. 


Nicole Laino
All the things. Thank you so much for being here with us. 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 year, everybody. 

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