Is it time to stir the pot?
We're transiting Gate 50 from October 19 - October 24
The mystical name for this gate is The Guardian.
Our attention turns to caring for and nurturing the relationships we hold most dear: friends, family, and community. Here we establish the values and rules that guide our relationships with others.
At the heart of Gate 50 is the body’s intelligence, the instinct to recognize what’s correct in our relationships with others. In a sense, YOU are the Cauldron, and your instinct guides you.
Everything you are, and everything you know, goes into the Cauldron and emerges uniquely as you. This alchemical process offers an opportunity to understand how you relate to others, and the magic that unfolds when your inner and outer worlds meet.
Every value or rule you establish in your life carries a responsibility. Where do you need to set boundaries with others?
Do you do what’s expected of you, even when it doesn’t match what you know to be true for you?
Discovering what’s correct for you, and how you behave in your inner and outer worlds, is an alchemical process that deserves your reverence.
At its heart, this transit is about supporting others and being supported in return. To thrive in relationship, a balance is needed.
We’re moving through the Quarter of Duality, where purpose is fulfilled through relationships and bonding. What we value, what we protect, and what we’re willing to take responsibility for all play a part in the bonds we create and sustain.
Meanwhile, the Earth in Gate 3, Ordering, grounds us in the challenge of new beginnings. Sometimes what has sustained us must be reconsidered as something new begins to emerge. There may be confusion before a new order takes shape.
Perhaps it’s time to contemplate whether you’re being true to your own unique tribal law.
What if the Cauldron is stirring something within you? Can you feel what’s ready to be transformed? And will you trust your instinct to know when it’s time to stir the pot?
Only you know the answers for you.
YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE TO KEEP OTHER PEOPLE WARM. ~Unknown
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.
