What will you let in?
We're transiting Gate 6 from September 15 – September 19
“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.” ~ M Ester Harding
This transit brings us to the emotional center and the energy of friction.
Gate 6 is the gate of our pH. It establishes and maintains the boundary between what’s outside and what’s inside our body.
And perhaps this is where the mystery of conflict begins.
What happens when something or someone crosses a boundary? What happens when what’s outside meets what’s inside?
Friction creates chemistry, and it can bring pleasure or pain. It can draw us closer or create separation. It can expose what we’ve been unwilling to see.
And with the Earth in Gate 36, the energy of Crisis, you may find yourself standing at the edge of the unknown, where emotional experience can become intense, unpredictable, and deeply revealing.
Could the conflict you’re experiencing show you something about your own boundaries?
Instead of believing your issues are taking place somewhere outside, it’s possible that the conflict is an energy arising inside you.
Whatever is repressed ‘in here’ finds expression in the situations you’re caught up in ‘out there.’
This doesn’t mean every conflict is yours to fix. Nor does it mean you should open every boundary.
The experiment is to become aware.
So, what are you allowing in and what are you keeping out?
Where have you lost touch with what’s true for you?
Gate 6 asks you to experience the friction without rushing to resolve it.
Gate 36 reminds you that you can’t always know where an emotional experience will take you. Staying present with the unknown, rather than reacting to the moment’s intensity, may teach you something.
Will you harness the flood of emotions surging through you with emotional awareness and wait until you’re clear before you act?
Are you open to intimacy, vulnerability, and truth in your relationships, while still honoring your own boundaries?
Perhaps conflict isn’t here to be conquered.
Perhaps it’s here to reveal.
After all, opposites turn the wheel.
Through friction, something becomes defined.
Through emotional experience, something becomes known.
And sometimes, what you meet in the mysterious mirror of conflict isn’t the other person at all.
It is YOU.
Love Yourself,
Ruth Brennan
www.embraceflux.com
Gate 6 is the gate of our pH and establishes and maintains the boundary between what is outside and what is inside our body.
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What are Solar Transits?
In Human Design, Solar Transits reflect the impact the Sun is having on humanity as it moves through the Gates and Lines of the Mandala (64 Gates and 384 Lines). Transits are potentials that you may see in others and the world around you, and, may become a part of your experience as well.
Not everyone experiences these energies … and if we do, we experience them filtered through our own unique Human Design.
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I am a Human Design teacher, guide, and survivor whose path to purpose was forged through profound transformation. In 2012, a Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis shattered the life I knew—and became the unexpected beginning of a deeper awakening. What followed was a journey through illness, the unraveling of a long marriage, and the quiet rebuilding of a self I had never fully met. Human Design found me in the midst of that unraveling—during a time of deep searching, blackouts of identity, and a hunger to remember who I really was. What began as a personal tool for survival and self-reclamation soon became a lifelong path. Human Design gave me language for what I had always felt but couldn’t explain. It helped me understand my energy, my wounds, my gifts—and how to live in alignment with my true nature.
Today, I teach Human Design not as a system of labels or rules, but as a living, breathing map back to the Self. My work is rooted in lived experience—because I know what it’s like to lose your way, and what it takes to come home to yourself. I specialize in guiding others through times of transition, awakening, and reinvention—helping them understand the unique blueprint they were born with, so they can navigate life with clarity, self-trust, and deep compassion. My gift lies in transmuting adversity into wisdom—and walking with others as they remember who they truly are.
Ruth Brennan is an IHDS Certified Professional Analyst, Certified BG5 Career & Business Consultant and Certified Teacher of Human Design. She currently lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwestern area of the U.S.
