Episode 479
What if the emotional shifts you’ve been feeling lately aren’t random at all, but part of a much bigger collective transition already unfolding?
In this episode, Nicole explores the recent nodal shift in Human Design and why the movement from the 40/37 channel into the 55/59 polarity is far more significant than it may initially seem. She breaks down what the nodes represent collectively, how this energetic transition connects to the coming Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix in 2027, and why so many people may already be sensing a change beneath the surface.
Nicole also unpacks the deeper themes of the 55th Gate and 59th Gate, including intimacy, authenticity, emotional abundance, manifestation, and the collapse of transactional relationships. This conversation challenges the old paradigm of “you do for me, I do for you” and introduces a very different energetic framework rooted in alignment, spirit, and emotional truth. Along the way, she connects these teachings to Neville Goddard, the law of attraction, and what it really means to embody the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
Nicole also shares practical ways to work with this transit consciously so you can begin experimenting with the energy now, rather than being caught off guard by the larger changes still to come.
If you’ve been sensing shifts in your emotions, relationships, desires, or connection to purpose lately, this episode offers a powerful lens for understanding what may be unfolding collectively and personally.
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Transcript
Episode 479:
Hello and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design. I’m your host, Nicole Laino. And I know we do a transit episode with my good friend and lovely co host, Christina Luna, every single month. And we touched on this, but this is kind of a big deal, and I wanted to bring it up and give its own episode because that’s what we do here. We highlight the things that are important. Right? So this episode I really want to dedicate to the nodal change. The nodal change is a big deal for the collective and it doesn’t happen very often. It only happens every few months. And it. So right now we just went through a nodal change. We. Which was a big change from, if you remember, when we started the year we started with the 4037 channel. e
The nodes were in gate 40 in the south node and gate 37 in the north node. Now this is still a Virgo Pisces axis, which is. We will be running through that till the summer. And then we will shift over and we will be in a completely different paradigm. We’re going to switch signs, which is another big deal. And Christine and I will talk about that in the transit episodes. But I wanted to talk about the 55, 59, which is where we have moved into. This is where the nodes are now. And if you’ve noticed kind of a shift in things in the last week or so, probably two weeks, if you’re listening to this, right. When we drop this episode, that there’s been a little bit of a change in the way that things feel.
And I want to talk about and explore the shifts between these two things, because the nodes. Why this is so interesting to me is if you listened to those early episodes I did at the beginning of the year, I was talking about how I thought it was so interesting, apropos or whatever, for the 4037 to be kind of making its way into the transits through the nodes, because the nodes are what we’re all seeing, what we’re all experiencing. It’s like the direction that humanity is moving in and moving toward, like where the storyline is going for everybody for that period of time. And for us during those. From January until just now until May, were under the 4037, which of course is the key channel in the cross of planning.
So what were all experiencing was this, like, last hurrah, kind of where humanity was going to see through the eyes of the 4037 channel, which is the channel that will be leaving the background’s frequency formally in February of 2027. So this is like the big theme of community that is no longer going to be kind of silently pulling us together after February of 2027, when we shift into the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix. So we had that shift, but now the 5559 where we have gone now is part of the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix. So isn’t that interesting that we just happen to be in this place with the nodes where we are getting a little glimpse of the cross of planning, and now we’re moving into a cross of the Sleeping Phoenix polarity. So I want to explore this polarity.
I think it’ll help you. If you are interested in the Sleeping Phoenix and what it has in store for us, what’s the difference between these two sets of energies? They are vast. We’re going to talk a little bit about that and what we can expect to see, and just a little bit of a dive into what these polarities mean for us as a collective. And what does it mean to have these in the nodes specifically? So we’re going to cover all of that in today’s episode. But doors are open currently for the Integrated Human Design Certification. So if you are interested in that, if you are interested in diving deep into the aspects of human design, the inner workings of how you actually guide somebody through the journey of their human design, the journey to the center of themselves.
And you want to learn to take clients or you want to do this for yourself, but you want to go on a really deep journey. You want to understand human design at its fundamental levels, what’s happening beneath the chart, not just the elements of the chart themselves, but how do you synthesize this? How do we bring this all together and. And ultimately, how do we help ourselves, the people we love, the people who hire us, to live a life that is more in alignment with ours or their purpose? If you are that person where this interests you, I encourage you to look into the Integrated Human Design Certification. This is my first time launching this certification. I’ve obviously worked with thousands of people at this point, doing all sorts of work with human Design.
Hundreds of readings and thousands of clients and courses and all of the things that we have sold throughout the years. That have to do with human design. This is the first time I’m certifying people. I’ve inspired a lot of people to get certified. They’ve worked with me in different ways, but I haven’t offered a certification until now. And the honest reason for that is I really wanted to make sure that I could deliver for people. I didn’t want to just deliver information. I wanted to deliver true transformation and. And transferring the knowledge of how to help somebody actually embody this. Which was a hell of a lot harder than just teaching somebody about what the things in the human design chart mean. It’s. What do they mean to the person?
The design is one part, the human is another, and we have to bring those two things together, and that’s what we do in order to have integrated human design, which is why I call this certification and my method that. So if you’re Interested in that DM me “Certification on Instagram, I’m @nicolelainoofficial or go to nicolelaino.com/certification and we can get you the information there. You can see it all on the sales page. Okay, so let’s dive into the nodes. All right, so what are the nodes? The nodes in the transit give us the collective way of seeing the collective direction. Where are we all going? What’s kind of the growth path that we’re all going on at this point?
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So when we look at it, you’ve heard, if you go back to any of the transit episodes that have been going on for, oh, my goodness, like, the last year or so, Christina and I have been talking about the Virgo Pisces axis. We’ve been talking about this polarity of moving from the south node in Virgo to the north node in Pisces. Now, human design gives us a more granular look at this. So human design isn’t just looking at the zodiac sign. Every gate within the human design wheel, it corresponds to a zodiac sign because we’re just moving through the calendar in a different way, in a more granular way. Each zodiac sign will have roughly five gates associated with it. So gate 59 is a Virgo gate, and gate 55 is a Pisces gate.
Now, the same thing with gate 40 that were just in the nodes, gate 40 is a Virgo gate 37 is Pisces gate. So all of these gates, they’re moving us through different sub themes of the Virgo aspect and the Pisces aspect. Now, the closer and closer we get to Pisces, like to the end of Pisces we get closer and closer to Aries season, right? So we’re going to get the difference in energy between the start of Pisces season and the first gate in Pisces to the last gate are going to be very different. Now, this is a very emotional axis, just like the 4037. Now, these two gates do not form a channel. The 4037 formed a channel. So everybody in the world was emotional during the last nodal polarity time period that we had.
So from the beginning of the year until the beginning of May, roughly everybody in the world was emotional. We were all emotional authorities for that period of time. Because. Because Everybody had the 40th gate and the 37th gate, which makes the channel of community, which connects the ego to the solar plexus, giving us all consistency between those two centers. So everybody had a defined ego, everybody had a defined solar plexus, which could feel like a lot. If you are not a. An emotional authority. Most of the time, that can feel like a lot. When we take on a new center, everybody thinks it’ll better, and sometimes it is.
But if you don’t know how to ride that bike, it might be fun watching other people do it, or you think you get access to something, but you also, if you don’t know how to ride it, if you’re not used to it, then you might fall down a bunch of times, or it might feel really alarming and a little out of control and overwhelming. That’s typically what I hear from people when they get a new center. They think it’ll better, but it’s actually just usually more than they’re used to. So went from the nodes, give us a sense of what collectively we are being asked to grow into. So the 40 and 37, because they’re a channel, they work together. So were really asked to look at our relationship to community. We were asked to look at our relationship to loyalty.
What does loyalty really mean? To tribalism, all of those themes, and asking us to kind of reach more for that Pisces side, which is more for higher consciousness. Pisces is the most evolved of the signs. And the 37th gate is the gate of loyalty. It is the gate of taking care of people. And I think what it was asking us to do with this nodal polarity was sort of look at how do we care for people? Do these systems even work? If you go back to the 2026 reading that I did at the start of the year, I talk about this in depth. But where we’re moving to or where we are now, you were already here. Is 59 in the south node and 55 in the north node.
Now, what makes this so special is these are obviously two of the gates in the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix. So went from planning to Phoenix. So now what are we being asked to grow into? Now? I almost feel like this is like we’re trying on. This is like the dress rehearsal for, you know, we’re trying on the costume that we’re all going to be wearing on opening night, February 14, 2027, when there’s no turning back. This is like the dress rehearsal to see how this feels. Now, the 59th gate is the gate of intimacy. This is a gate of, you know, it’s also called, like, referred to as dispersion. What we’re getting here, when we’re talking about dispersion, you’ll hear the 59th gate talked about as, like, about reproduction and the furthering of the species, the survival of the species.
Now, yeah, you can talk about it that way, but really, at its core, it’s about intimacy. It is about breaking down barriers between you and me and everybody else. What does it mean for us to really be connected? It’s so interesting looking at the 40. 37, Which can sometimes be superficial. It can be. It’s the bargain, right? All right, I’ll do it for you if you do it for me. Deal. Cool. I got you. I’ll take care of you as long as you take care of me. The minute you stop taking care of me, I’m out. Right? The bargain is broken. 59 Says there are no bargains. There’s just a sense, you’re right for me, you’re wrong for me. I’m here. Are you authentic? Am I sensing that is right now, the 59th gate? Might be.
If we’re looking at it through that Virgo lens, It might be looking for the perfect matches. It might be looking for the right people to connect with. And maybe it gets a little bit in its head about that. Maybe it is not really trusting its instincts, but where 55 goes so that what we’re reaching for, what we’re all getting a little taste of, what we are growing into or being asked to grow into, is the 55th gate of abundance. It’s a gate of spirit. This is a gate that says abundance is an emotional state. I think one of the keynotes of it is that material wealth and individual spirit are connected and dependent on each other. It’s the law of attraction. It says, this is a Great time to go back and read like, Neville Goddard, the Neville Goddard Collection.
It’s actually like free on audible. There’s some of them that I don’t know if they’re like public domain at this point, but. Or eminent domain, but they are. They’re very cheap and they’re amazing. And they so resonate. He was a phoenix. He was a sleeping phoenix. Neville Goddard was cross of the sleeping phoenix. And I think about that all the time. When I think about the 55th gate, that it is just about the 59 and the 55 to me. If you go back to Neville Goddard’s teachings, Neville Goddard, if you’re not familiar with who he is, he was one of the godfathers of mindset, spirituality, and really the law of Attraction, about, you know, being able to connect with what you wanted before and being able to manifest. So he’s sort of like one of the first people to talk about manifestation.
And he’s from early in the 20th century. So if you go back and listen to him, but without even doing that, his whole premise was, imagine the feeling of the wish fulfilled. That’s the thing that he says over and over. Imagine the feeling of the wish fulfilled as if it has already happened. That’s the 55th gate. That’s the 59th gate. The 59th gate says, you cannot be contrived. You cannot be wearing a mask. You can’t be trying to do anything or trying to be anything. You can just be. And the 55th gate says, if you are being in alignment with what you truly want, with what you truly desire, you shall have it. It is the law of Attraction gate. So we’re getting to try this on. So we’re going from bargains. You do for me, I do for you.
The new way is I don’t need to bargain for anything. That’s planning. That’s structure. That is, I work for you pay me a paycheck. That is the cross of planning. That is the channel of community. I sign up, I become your employee. You pay me. I show up for work, you pay me my paycheck. We have a good, solid bargain. As long as we’re doing that’s already pulling away. But now we’ve got a very different polarity that is also emotional in nature, but so different. The 55th gate is emotional, but it’s individual. It is just uncertain until it knows. So you have to find certainty and find your own personal power in just the desire for something, the pure desire for something, and being able to connect with it emotionally. Imagine the feeling of the wish fulfilled, that is.55.
I remember looking up his human design, and I wasn’t even thinking about it when I was planning this episode, but I remember looking up Neville Goddard’s human design when I first read him. And I was like, of course. Of course he was a phoenix because he was so ahead of his time with the way that he was thinking about things. And the 55th gate is. This is what it’s all about. Imagine the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Individual spirit. Can you find your individual spirit? We’re all going to be asked to play with this. This is a time to play with this. This transit will be happening until the end of July. So you’ve got a few months to hang around with it. Try it on and see how it fits.
Now remember, if you have the sixth gate or the 39th gate, you will be emotional through this. Whether you are an emotional authority or not, most of the time you will be. During this transit, you will get that emotional wave that is associated with it. I have the 59, 6 all the time, but I also get the added bonus of having the 3,955 during this transit. So I get to see how that feels. How does that change? I get even more consistency with this one. Do you have that? Take a look at your chart. Do you have the 39th gate? If you do, you’ll have a defined root and a defined solar plexus, whether you do most of the time or not. Do you have the sixth gate in the emotional system, in the emotional center?
If you do, you will have a defined sacral. So if you’re a projector, you’re going to have a defined sacral. And you will be an emotional authority during this time as well. You will have a defined solar plexus, I should say you’re not going to be an emotional authority, but you will get a wave. You’re going to get an emotional wave. So we’re all going to experience what this feels like. The 55th gate. It feels like victimhood in its shadow. So you might see a lot of that out in the world. You might see people not taking responsibility for what they do or what they have or reaping what they sow. And they might claim that it’s never their fault. We might see a lot of that. In fact, we’re seeing a lot of it now already.
But how do you feel when you see it? Can you see it and see it for what it is and not be caught up in the program and defend it? Can you really see it? Can you take responsibility for your own stuff? Can you be authentic? We get a little test run with this. We get to grow with this. And if you use this time wisely, where you’re asking yourself, can I imagine the feeling of the wish fulfilled? Am I taking responsibility for where I am right now, for what I have, for what I don’t have? And can I see beyond my circumstances and still connect with what I want even if I can’t see it? Can I sit with uncertainty and be unshakable in the face of uncertainty? These are all questions that the 5955 are asking us.
And this is gonna be that new background frequency. So it’s going to be there in running in the background after February of 2027. Take it for a dance. Now start to try it on so it doesn’t feel so unfamiliar when it does show up again. I’m going to leave this one here. Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you. If you are interested in a certification, please go to nicolelaino.com/certification get the info there or DM me “Certification” on Instagram. I’m @nicolelainoofficial and we can get it to you in the DNS. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful rest of your day. And remember, in order to have an unshakable business, you must first become an unshakable human. So thanks for letting us help you become unshakable with human design. I will see you next time.
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