When is enough, enough?
We're transiting Gate 40 from August 28 - September 3
Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. ~ Rumi
This Solar Transit brings the energy for the transition between struggle and liberation.
Gate 40 supports the effort and energy to sustain relationships, while also demanding the freedom to take time to nurture yourself through rest.
We’re still in the Quarter of Duality, where the focus is on relationships. Gate 37 brings us into the heart of the Tribe. It is about family, friendship, loyalty, and the agreements that hold us together.
AND sustained effort requires rest.
There is an energetic exchange in every relationship. Giving support and being supported. Providing for others and allowing yourself to receive. Knowing when you have something to give and knowing when you need to step away and replenish yourself.
Do you find yourself overextending yourself for others?
Are you being asked to do more right now? Are you giving away your talents, your time, or your energy because you feel you should?
Are you being asked to prove that you’re loyal?
Sometimes we can confuse love with always being available.
Love yourself by learning to say no when there isn’t energy for something. This simple, but not easy, task helps to keep healthy boundaries, so your energy isn’t depleted.
And sometimes the most loving thing you can do is to give yourself permission to be alone.
Deliverance is not about escaping the people you love. It is about freeing yourself from anything that keeps you from being fully present when you are with them.
Life isn’t designed to be as hard as you may sometimes make it.
Whatever is blocking you from moving effortlessly and joyfully through life can be disarmed by letting go of expectations or mental stories that distract you from your own authority in life.
Will you surrender to the beautiful flow of your existence by being loyal to yourself first?
By doing so, there will be enough of you to be loyal to those you hold close.
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.
