Will you see with new eyes?
We're transiting Gate 18 from September 26 - October 1
WE DON’T SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE, WE SEE THEM AS WE ARE
This Solar Transit brings an awareness of what isn’t quite right. What has lost its vitality. What could be corrected, healed, or renewed.
Gate 18 carries the awareness to recognize what’s been spoiled. It can be easy to experience this as criticism, especially when you see so clearly what could be better.
But what if this awareness isn’t here to judge?
What if it’s here to help you see what is ready for renewal?
The Earth in Gate 17, Opinions, grounds this awareness through the patterns you see and the opinions you form about them.
You naturally recognize patterns in your experiences. You observe what works, what doesn’t, and form opinions about the patterns you see.
But an opinion is still an opinion.
And when you bring those opinions into your relationships, they can quickly become judgments.
You may believe you’re seeing another person clearly, when you’re actually seeing them through the patterns you’ve developed over a lifetime.
You may see something that needs to change. They may see it differently.
This is part of the great curriculum of the Quarter of Duality, where relationship and bonding become the ground for discovering yourself through another.
Can you recognize what needs attention without making someone else wrong?
Can you hold your perspective without needing another person to see it your way?
And perhaps most importantly, can you turn this awareness toward yourself with the same compassion you are learning to offer others?
Autumn beautifully reflects this energy. As leaves and seeds fall to the ground, nature releases what has completed its cycle, making room for new growth.
You don’t have to hold on to everything simply because it’s been part of your life.
Sometimes correction means changing something.
Sometimes it means releasing it.
And sometimes it simply means seeing it with new eyes.
THE REAL VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY CONSISTS NOT IN SEEKING NEW LANDSCAPES, BUT IN HAVING NEW EYES. ~ Marcel Proust
Love Yourself,
Ruth Brennan
Gate 17: This is what I see.
Gate 18: This is what I recognize needs correction.
Quarter of Duality: And what happens when another person sees it differently?
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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.
