Take a moment. Allow your presence, your awareness, to sink into your body. Feel your breath expand your chest and your being. Let yourself return to center. Welcome to Awakening the Phoenix in the New Human Design Era With this podcast, we’re going to explore not just what we’re leaving behind, not just what the transition will be like, but what it will be like to awaken the phoenix within.
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Show Notes
In the new era, the lock of Gate 1, The Example, asks: whose example or role model do we follow to survive? Gate 1 is the Gate of Self-Expression. It is happily absorbed in doing its own thing and becomes an empowering example simply by being itself. Starting in 2027, Gate 57, the Gate of Intuitive Insight, answers that question.
Gate 57 sits in the Splenic Center, the most ancient of the three awareness centers. The Splenic Center speaks in a whisper. Its themes are safety, health, wellbeing, survival, intuition, instinct, and spontaneity. Each Splenic gate carries its own fear, and Gate 57’s fear is fear of the future, the mirror image of its clarity in the present moment. This episode looks at how defined and undefined Splenic Centers experience these themes. It also explains why someone with an undefined Splenic Center may find it hard to let go of what isn’t good for them.
The hexagram for Gate 57 is wind over wind. Wind finds its way through the smallest cracks, with a subtle, persistent force that has nothing to do with brute strength. The image that carries this episode is a wild fox at the edge of a meadow, attuned through every sense to whether it is safe to step forward. The garden ecosystem has no place for a fox. In the old-growth forest, everything the fox is enhances survival.
The new era may make it tempting to imitate whoever shows the greatest intuitive clarity. What Gate 57 models, though, is that clarity in the moment comes through your own Strategy and Authority. If you aren’t designed to decide spontaneously, behaving like someone who is could be dangerous for you. Heightened sensory attunement can still enrich anyone’s experience of life, whatever their Authority.
In this episode:
- Gate 57 as the new key for The Example
- The Splenic Center: safety, survival, intuition, and its quiet voice
- Gate 57’s fear of the future
- Defined and undefined Splenic Centers, and the magnetic pull of Splenic definition
- Wind over wind: subtle, penetrating, persistent insight
- How every Authority connects to past, present, and future through the Universal Consciousness Field
- Gate 57’s harmonic gates in the new era, Gates 20 and 34
- The wild fox in the garden and in the old-growth forest
Reflection: When the fear of the future rises in you, what helps you return to what your body is aware of in this moment?
Transcript
[00:00:00] Let your awareness return to the center of your being. Notice your breath moving into and out of your body. Let your shoulders, neck, chest, arms, and hands release and relax. Feel your belly soften. Let your legs and feet feel rested and relaxed. Let your body communicate through sensations, awakening greater awareness within. Welcome to Awakening the Phoenix in the New Human Design Era.
[00:00:38] I’m your host, Zette Harbour. In this episode, we’re going to explore the Key that fits into the Lock found in Gate 1. Gate 1 is called the Creative, the Gate of Self-Expression. It is about expressing the truth of who you are as an inspiring creative role model. It’s an Individual circuit, it’s an individual gate in an individual channel focused on empowerment, empowerment as an Example.
[00:01:05] Gate 1 is most interested in being happily absorbed in doing its own thing. And if others view it and are inspired by it, Gate 1 loves that. But Gate 1 isn’t here looking to share or looking to support. It’s looking to be its individual self, and in doing so, be an empowering Example to others. And so when we look at the question, whose Example or role model are we here to follow, we can see that it comes directly from the qualities of Gate 1.
[00:01:35] And in the new era, the Key is Gate 57, the Gentle, the Gate of Intuitive Insight. It is described as a gate of extraordinary intuitive clarity. It’s in the Splenic Center. And so before we go more deeply into what this Key is going to bring to our ecosystem, let’s talk a little bit about the Splenic Center.
[00:01:58] It’s one of the three awareness centers in the body graph. It’s the most ancient primal awareness center, said to be found in all beings, including plants. It’s also described as speaking very quietly. It has a whisper-like quality. The themes associated with the Splenic Center are safety, health, well-being, survival, intuition, instinct, living in the moment, spontaneity, and it’s associated with the immune system.
[00:02:29] And so just like our physical immune system, the Splenic Center has the capacity to alert each one of us to some danger. It has seven gates, each one carrying its own aspect of those themes. And like the other two awareness centers, each gate has a unique fear. The fear that is contained within Gate 57 is fear of the future because this gate is about intuitive clarity in the now, in the present moment.
[00:02:59] And so the fear is the mirror image of that, fear of the future. What will the future bring that could harm us, that could bring us danger, that could even bring us death? And so when the fear of Gate 57 takes the lead- in one’s thinking, in how you make decisions. It’s going to create fear about moving forward into the future.
[00:03:21] It’s gonna create fear about the future, and it’s gonna cause you to hold back what it is that you might be considering doing or being. It’s going to prevent you from letting go of things that aren’t good for you. The not-self talk of the undefined Splenic Center is, “I can’t let go of this.” And if the energy and the fear of the undefined or open Splenic Center is leading in one’s decision-making, it’s going to tell you that you can’t let go of something even if it’s not really good for you, because letting go of it seems like it would be worse.
[00:03:58] And so you’ll hold on to things that actually aren’t good for you because you won’t be able to tell the difference. It’s said that someone with an undefined or open Splenic Center, if they are in relationship with someone who has a defined Splenic, they may not be able to end that relationship even if it’s directly and measurably harmful to them because of that energetic connection, because the need for safety, the need for survival, the need for some quality of consistency in accessing intuition and instincts is so powerful for simply staying alive.
[00:04:36] Now, if you have a defined Splenic Center, you have consistent and reliable access to your experience of those themes depending on which gates are activated for you. And so learning the characteristics of each of those gates and the fear of each of those gates will guide you in correctly making decisions, in living in alignment with your True Self.
[00:04:58] A little over 58% of people have a defined Splenic Center according to Jovian Archive statistics. That means just a little under 48% have an undefined Splenic Center. So those with the defined Splenic walk through the world with some sense of consistency and reliability about their own awareness of their health, their safety, their wellbeing.
[00:05:22] And for someone with an undefined Splenic Center, it’s normal to walk through the world being unsure of your own health, wellbeing, safety, and ability to survive. And so you can imagine that if you’re someone who has a consistent reliable access to themes and feelings and, and awarenesses about your own safety, about your ability to survive, about your health and wellbeing, you’re going to make choices very differently from someone who does not.
[00:05:50] And if you’re someone without that consistent reliable access, when you come into contact with someone who has it, it’s going to feel very magnetic for you. You’re going to want to stay in their presence because you will not only feel the energy of that safety and that security and that intuition, you will amplify it through your undefined or open center.
[00:06:14] And this is where it can be very challenging because your mind will not want to let you know that what you’re experiencing is not your own. I mean, fear and safety and survival are the most primal aspects of being alive. And so if you walk through the world with inconsistent access to knowing what is true for you in those areas, then it makes sense that the moment you meet that, you’re gonna wanna cling to it like someone clinging to a raft after a shipwreck — anything to keep you from drowning.
[00:06:48] In this new era, with the Example being created by Gate 57, bringing this extraordinary clarity and intuitive insight, and along with it, the Splenic energies, the Splenic intuition, the Splenic insights about safety and survival, it’s going to be a very powerful energy and one that it’s going to be really important to understand with great clarity yourself, and to untangle your own aligned and true design from this influence that you’re going to be surrounded by.
[00:07:26] Understanding whether your Splenic is completely open with no gates activated, or whether you have certain gates activated but it’s undefined, or whether it is defined for you and which other center it’s defined in collaboration with. Understanding your design then is the only way for you to genuinely be able to make choices that will allow you to stay safe and healthy and to survive. The hexagram for Gate 57 is wind over wind, and at first one could imagine wind being a very gentle breeze that can hardly have any effect.
[00:07:59] But the truth is, is that wind can find its way through the tiniest cracks. It can penetrate and chill to the bone. It has its own kind of power that has nothing to do with brute force and has everything to do with penetrating insight, penetrating into and within. It’s described as having inner firmness and outer flexibility, and it represents subtle and persistent force.
[00:08:26] And so even though the voice of the Splenic Center is instantaneous and then gone, there is a persistence in each moment as you move through the now and the next now that this Splenic intuition, this wind, will continue to penetrate, will continue to carry upon it the insight and wisdom that you need for your safety, for your survival, for your wellbeing.
[00:08:51] Gate 57 is also described as the gate of the right ear, and if you really want to hear what someone’s saying, listen with your right ear. That Gate 57 is the place from which extraordinary clarity of insight in the current moment exists. And so in the new era, as Gate 57 becomes the Key that fits into the Lock that answers the question, what example or role model will we follow to survive?
[00:09:20] It’s beautifully aligned that it is a Splenic gate that answers this question because the Splenic Center knows everything there is about survival and safety. Now, there’s a couple of interesting elements around this activation in the new era. First of all, Gate 57 will have two harmonic gates activated in this new era as well, Gate 20, which is in the Throat, and Gate 34, which is in the Sacral center, and we’re gonna dive into each of those gates in future episodes as well.
[00:09:52] Because all three of these gates are going to be present in this new era, there will be a quality of energy that is going to be different than if it were just any one of those gates alone. Gate 57, because it is the Key for the Lock of the Example, it’s a part of the landscape upon which humanity and each of us individually are here to evolve in this new era.
[00:10:17] And so in this landscape, when we look for role models of who to follow to survive, the gate says “follow those with intuitive clarity in the moment.” On the other hand, you also might be really drawn to people who are speaking a lot about fears of the future or fears for what the future will bring. Maybe they’re going to even exemplify how not to move into the future, how not to be spontaneous, how not to live out the intuitive, instinctual expression of survival because of this fear of the future.
[00:10:55] And so understanding that this gate isn’t just a one thing, it’s this and that, it has multiple facets and nuances, there’s a complexity to it, is essential in the new era. Now, it would be easy to imagine, let’s say you, you have an undefined Splenic like I do, and you think to yourself, “Well, if this is the role model I need to follow in the new era, then I need to be spontaneous.
[00:11:18] I need to be intuitive. I need to have clarity in the moment, and I need to follow that. Or maybe I need to be afraid of the future.” Instead, what this gate is actually telling us is that if your Splenic Center is your Authority, then it is completely and fully correct for you to make your decisions spontaneously in the now, listening to that gentle whisper.
[00:11:40] Now, I describe it as the wind or the breeze gently moving leaves through a tree. And noticing that movement and hearing and feeling that slight breeze and receiving the wisdom, the intuition, the insight that it offers. That’s the power of the Splenic’s insights and intuition. However, just like that gentle breeze that moves those leaves, it could be gone in an instant and not return, and certainly not move the leaves in that exact way again.
[00:12:08] That doesn’t mean that the consequences of ignoring that voice don’t go on far longer. In fact, sometimes the consequences can be permanent. So while the voice of the Splenic moves very quickly and then appears to be gone, if it comes back, it’s going to look or sound or feel different. Because what it’s telling you is about this moment now, and as soon as you leave this moment, you’re in a different moment.
[00:12:35] And so what the Splenic has to tell you about this new now is also going to be different. And so the Splenic is here only in this moment, just telling you what is happening right now. And so it can never tell you what’s going to happen, and it isn’t even interested in telling you what did happen.
[00:12:53] Interestingly enough, even though the Splenic is centered in the awareness of the now, like all Authorities, it has a really fascinating capacity. You see, every Authority has the ability to know the past, the present, and the future. Each Authority has its own language. All Authorities tell you what is the correct decision for you now.
[00:13:14] Some of them only speak in the now. Some of them speak to you over time. Some of them speak to you as you listen back. Some of them speak to you through the availability of willpower. Some of them speak to you through the environment. Or for a Reflector, as the definition moves through your design over the course of the moon cycle.
[00:13:33] So even though the Splenic only speaks to you in the present moment and only about this present moment, it has its connection to the Universal Consciousness Field, and that field knows the past, present, and the future. So in the new era, as you begin to look around and see what role model should you follow to survive, what might appear to be the right role model, the right example is the person with the greatest intuitive clarity in the present moment.
[00:14:02] However, no matter what that person models for you, the most important thing you can do is follow your own Strategy and Authority. You see, the model is to tune in to your extraordinary clarity in the moment, and yet it’s mirroring that there is only one way for you to have extraordinary clarity and insight in the moment, and that is through following your Strategy and Authority.
[00:14:30] So this gate is yet another example of how this new era is supporting each individual in coming to greater awareness and being empowered in themselves. Because the more you connect to your own clarity through your True Self, your design, your Strategy and Authority, the more you will be supported in surviving.
[00:14:53] Regardless of whether you have a defined or undefined Splenic Center. You don’t need to behave like someone who has a defined Splenic Center. In fact, that could be incredibly dangerous for you if that’s not how you’re designed to make your decisions. And even someone with a defined Splenic Center, if they are an Emotional or a Sacral Authority, that Splenic is only there to add some nuance, add some shades of color and flavors.
[00:15:19] Ultimately, you’ve got to follow the process that your Authority offers you to access your connection to the Universal Consciousness Field, the source of all wisdom and insight and clarity of knowing. And so this Gate 57 Key, this clarity and insight that comes through powerful intuition that is also at the same time subtle and quiet wants only to live as itself in this new era.
[00:15:48] It will not feel the need to share what it knows and what it’s experienced with others. It will not feel the need to support others. It will be mainly focused on self-empowerment. Now, because Gate 57 is going to be activated in this new era along with Gate 20 and Gate 34, we’re going to see some energies moving between the Throat, the Splenic Center, and the Sacral Center.
[00:16:13] All three gates are part of the Integration Channel. So this Gate 57 in the new era is going to be focused on the current moment. What it models will be about having clarity in the current moment and following intuition, following hunches, following what that quiet whisper tells you. One of my favorite images for exploring the experience of what it is to have this Splenic intuition, and in this particular case with Gate 57, the extraordinary clarity in the present moment, think of a wild fox.
[00:16:47] As it moves through the forest, let’s say it’s at the edge of an open meadow, and it is going to be listening and sensing with its ears, its nose, its eyes, its whiskers, its fur. Every bit of it will be in heightened attunement to every condition that exists around it. That quality of attunement, that quality of awakeness and awareness is what Gate 57 can bring for us in this new era.
[00:17:17] Being fully present to what the body is aware of in the moment because it’s what’s going to tell that fox whether it’s safe to move into the meadow or whether the conditions are unsafe, and so it won’t step into that meadow. But if the fox ignores one thing, one sensation, one sound, one smell, one movement, one color, one shape, and goes into the meadow anyway, then there’s no telling whether it will survive or come out unharmed.
[00:17:46] And so in the garden ecosystem, I mean, first of all, we know that foxes aren’t welcome. No doubt the gardener has chickens, and it wants to keep those chickens safe and controlled and create an orderly, rigid structure of rules around it. And those chickens are there to contribute to the community, to the family that- this garden is taken care of.
[00:18:07] And so a fox, with its attunement, is absolutely not welcome here. In shifting to this old-growth forest ecosystem, everything that the fox can do, everything the fox is, is a quality that’s going to enhance survival in this new ecosystem. And so even if you don’t have a defined Splenic Center, even if you’re not here to make decisions spontaneously, you can still tune in to an extraordinary spectrum of sensations, of sounds and sights and flavors and aromas and movement and warmth and temperature and light, and you can be fully awakened and attuned to all of the sensations. Your heightened attunement will serve you regardless of what your Authority is. However, always remember that if your Authority is not here to make decisions spontaneously, if you are not a Splenic Authority, then this information is not what you rely on to make your decisions.
[00:19:09] It is, however, a way of experiencing the richness of your own experience of life, and that is what this old-growth forest ecosystem is bringing us. It’s supporting us in spending more time, more attention, more awareness in the present moment, in what the body is telling us, in what our individuality is revealing to us, in what is empowering of each of us as ourself, and in this case, as a role model for others.
[00:19:41] So yes, follow the Example of becoming more highly attuned to be aware and awakened to all of these extraordinary sensations and experiences that you can have in an old-growth forest surrounded by diversity and beauty, light and shadow, richness, sound and silence, and always return to your True Self-design.
[00:20:07] Always follow your Strategy and Authority. Understand your definition. Embrace, welcome, and partner with your openness. You’re here on purpose, and this purpose is known to you, but perhaps not to the mind that wants to run your life. And everything about Human Design is here to support us in untangling what the mind tells us is the most important from what our True Self, our aligned design tells us.
[00:20:37] And so if you feel the fear of the future that’s activated and perhaps amplified in you by the presence of Gate 57 in this new era, that’s the moment to connect to your practices, right now before the fears even come. Practices that involve returning your awareness to your body, listening and being attuned to everything around you, trusting that whether you have consistent, reliable Splenic intuition and sense of safety and survival and health and wellbeing or not, that as long as you do live according to your True Self’s design, that you will find the life that you are here to find.
[00:21:19] You will live the life that you are here to live. I’ll see you there