Is it time to spark a new direction?
We're transiting Gate 2 from May 3 - May 8
Is it time to be receptive and surrender to the direction of your Higher Self? This transit brings potential to ‘spark’ a new direction.
The Sun now enters The Direction of Self, an energy that can align you to your trajectory in life – this gate is also known as ‘the driver.’
It also brings your experience of love of the other as you literally breath love in and out with each breath. And, it can lead to pleasure, beauty and harmony. It’s potential to creatively express yourself … and inspire those around you to find their own way of creatively being in the world.
The ancients may have referred to this energy as the ‘Higher Self.’ It’s the very essence of your direction or trajectory through life. When you allow life to flow to you and through you your higher self knows the path that is correct. Higher Knowing is found in everyone’s direction of self toward love and beauty. It’s the driver of our body and mind through this life.
The Receptive consists of all Yin lines and represents the power of the feminine principle and a receptivity that is more powerful and healing than it’s given credit for in our modern times.
What would it feel like to be receptive and spacious like the vast blue ocean? Will you let the river of changes flow to you? Or, are you too attached to what you believe you want, when life is bringing you what you need? Look around to see what life is saying to you right now.
Is it possible to strive for a natural responsiveness that is based on inner strength rather than outer bravado? You may be able to go further by letting go of control and not fighting the currents.
It’s often in the things that you can’t change that you discover life’s power to guide you the most.
It’s a time to be creatively receptive to what is unfolding while the Sun and Earth are engaged in this beautiful dance of balance. Receptive (feminine) power arises through alignment with the Creative (masculine) power, not in opposition to it. It can be so beautiful.
MUSIC IN THE SOUL CAN BE HEARD BY THE UNIVERSE. ~ Lao Tzu
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.
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.
