Can you be with the question?
We're transiting Gate 4 from August 11 - August 16
As the Sun enters Gate 4 your mind may be focused on wanting answers. And, since we’re in the Quarter of Duality with a theme of Relationships, you may find yourself wanting to find your answers in relationships. This mental gate, is an awareness gate and it may bring mental anxiety – the anxiety of chaos – about not having all of the answers.
Can you let questions and answers flow freely through your mind and be at peace with the question until the timing is right and someone asks you to share what you think?
After all, understanding emerges from time and experience. And, simply being with the question can help ease your mental anxiety.
In The I’Ching, the ancient Book of Changes, this energy is known as Youthful Folly. Experience, especially difficult experience, is a most powerful teacher.
Your experience, and the doubts you have, can be inspiration for others. You may offer your wisdom or advice if others are receptive. Ask yourself, have you been invited to share what you think?
But, trying to convince others that you’re right can be exhausting. It serves everyone if you allow people to learn their own lessons. Live and let learn.
Cultivate a state of mind that allows you to stand at the threshold of awareness without judgment. It can bring the joy of discovery that ensures your success.
Sometimes life keeps you in a state of not knowing precisely to keep you growing. So often, your hardships lead you back to innocence and wonder.
Confusion precedes enlightenment.
Your journey through life is a process of discovery. The idea of a destination can be a trap; and the fear of failure can prevent you from realizing your highest potential.
Love Yourself,
Ruth Brennan
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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.
