Living the Spiral

Get your Gemini Season Guidebook here! In this episode, Alison shares a refresh to Living the Spiral, moving from full/new moon episodes to a monthly rhythm with three releases: a season-ahead episode (with rising sign horoscopes, key transits, and a Human Design gate walkthrough), ongoing “Magicians” interviews, and a third, more spacious big-picture episode. She also points listeners to her written Mandala 64 Walk on Substack via livingthespiral.com and mentions a new astrocartography app project in the works. She then welcomes Gemini season (May 20/21–June 20), describing its breezy, curious, pollinator energy and its links to breath, lungs, arms, and childhood. She weaves in Gemini mythology (Babylonian Great Twins; Castor and Pollux) and outlines the six Gemini Human Design gates (20, 16, 35, 45, 12, 15), plus major transits, and closes with offerings like the Gemini season guidebook and astro-human design readings at hearthandspiral.com.Work with Alison

Alison is an ecosomatic astrologer, Human Design guide, and spiritual teacher based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She weaves together astrology, Human Design, the Gene Keys, the Celtic wheel of the year, and somatic practice into readings, courses, and seasonal gatherings that help people attune to the deeper rhythms they're already living inside.

Her Soul Shine readings combine astrology and Human Design into a single session that looks at your chart, your body, your timing, and what's asking to move in you right now. If you want to go deeper into how the current transits and your own design are intersecting, her books are open.

You can find her full offering of readings and courses at hearthandspiral.com, and follow the Living the Spiral podcast and Mandala 64 Walk here on Substack.

00:00 Welcome and Updates

01:21 New Monthly Format

02:38 Mandala 64 Walk

04:43 Magicians Interview Series

06:27 Big Picture Episodes

08:43 Summer Schedule and App

10:00 Gemini Season Begins

11:49 Gemini Body and Breath

14:17 Gemini Childhood and Air

19:23 Mercury and Ecosomatic Lens

23:39 Gemini Myth of Twins

27:30 Human Design Gates Intro

31:19 Gate 20 Presence

35:40 Gate 16 Skills

38:52 Gate 35 Change

41:56 Gate 45 Gatherer

45:04 Gate of Caution

48:21 Solstice Gate Extremes

53:28 Six Gates Recap

55:24 Uranus in Gemini Era

58:29 Uranus Cazimi Revelations

01:01:07 Mars Square Pluto

01:05:00 Sagittarius Full Moon

01:08:45 Mercury into Cancer

01:10:07 Venus Jupiter Sweet Spot

01:11:52 Uranus Squares Nodes

01:15:22 Gemini New Moon

01:17:14 Chiron Enters Taurus

01:20:51 Season Wrap and Offers

In this Living the Spiral: Magicians episode, host Alison Dale frames magic as making the invisible visible through attention and intention. She interviews Rachel Simon Stark, founder of Widening Circles Collaborative, about ancestral reclamation, cultural repair, and collective liberation. Rachel describes being contacted in 2018 by her grandmother Ruth during a rock-bottom period, which initiated Rachel’s ancestral work and led to her nine-week course Cultivating Culture that emphasizes grounding, guided tools, community processing, and service. Drawing on urban planning’s focus on belonging, Rilke’s “Widening Circles,” and identity as a fluid river, she discusses chosen ancestors, more-than-human ancestors, boundaries rather than walls, and meeting ancestors in their wholeness. The conversation addresses trauma, shame vs humility, colonialism and indigeneity, being future ancestors, releasing victimization into agency, and Rachel’s plan to offer the course again around October/Samhain.Thanks for tuning in!

Work with Rachel:To learn more about working Rachel and the Widening Circles Collaborative, visit her website at wideningcirclescollaborative.com.

Follow Rachel on Instagram and on Substack at Rachel Simon Stark, where she writes the deep and thoughtful publication hi•ne•ni : here i am.

Work with Alison:Book a reading or explore more of what I offer on my website at hearthandspiral.com, follow along at @hearthandspiral on Instagram, or on Substack at livingthespiral.com.

00:00 What Magic Really Is

02:31 Meet Rachel Simon Stark

04:41 Grandmother’s Wake Up Call

07:23 From Dreams to a Course

10:46 Urban Planning Meets Soul

14:22 Why Widening Circles

18:37 Homecoming to Lineage

22:46 Inside the Nine Week Container

28:22 Future Ancestor Mindset

30:35 Identity as a River

39:22 Resistance and Hard Histories

43:09 Beyond Shame Toward Humility

49:57 Beyond the Melting Pot

51:27 Ancestral Creativity

54:37 Grandfather on the Road

58:04 Calling In Ancestors

01:00:16 Wise and Well Debate

01:06:46 Boundaries Not Walls

01:11:58 Roots Over Progress

01:23:18 Indigenous Marrow

01:27:38 What Ancestors Need

01:33:57 Course and Farewell

Hey friends, happy New Moon in Taurus. We’re 2 weeks out from that potent full moon in Scorpio… how are you all doing out there? How did that lunation show up for you?

This new moon is conjunct the Medusa Star and happens on the same day that Mars meets Chiron. So while it’s not necessarily gentle, it’s still exalted in Taurus, and the gate that it’s falling in is a deep reminder of the power of our personal agency, care, and contributions.

Thanks for liking, sharing, and reviewing Living the Spiral- it truly helps me to reach more people and continue writing and recording this labor of love.

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The Full Moon in Scorpio and the Season of Speaking Your Truth

Sign up for the Beltane Ritual next Tuesday at 5pm MST here!I'd love to invite you to my May 5 Zoom ritual “Blossoming into Beltane” (somatic work, a bit of vocalizing, creative practice, and cross-cultural Beltane teachings).

In this full moon episode I riff on the Taurus–Scorpio axis as security and intimacy (throat and genitals) and track it through Human Design: Moon in Gate 44 (alertness/“coming to meet,” splenic instinct, ancestral pattern-recognition) and Sun in Gate 24 (rationalization, getting out of mental loops into invention and silence). I also ground Beltane as a Gaelic fire festival (bonfires, maypole, flowers, fertility) opposite Samhain/Halloween, and share my course “Your Heart is a Compass,” weaving the Wheel of the Year with G-center gates, Inanna dream symbolism, and practices like coherent breathing.00:00 Scorpio Full Moon Welcome01:24 Mayday Timing Clarified02:15 Beltane Ritual Invite03:25 Finding Your Voice05:49 Wheel Polarity Taurus Scorpio09:19 Gate 44 Meeting Shadows12:47 Gate 24 Mind to Silence15:19 Instinct and Reason Integration20:07 Beltane Origins and Traditions23:31 Heart Compass Course Vision31:51 Why We Need New Maps34:26 Grounding Practices and Closing

Uranus moved into Gemini on April 25th, and I wanted to mark this pivotal moment by talking to someone who knows this energy from the inside out.

This is the first episode of a new series I am calling Living the Spiral: Magicians, conversations with practitioners who have not just studied these systems but have been changed by them. There’s a lot more to come, and this Uranian wisdom with the brilliant Christa Hamilton is a wonderful place to start.

Christa Hamilton is a lifelong student of esoteric subjects and an active practitioner of divination. Astrology is the central core of her practice, and she weaves in tarot, plant medicine, animal symbolism, and dreaming as she works. She is a graduate of the Nightlight Astrology School, a founding member of the Asteri Sofia Kairos collective, a contributing writer and lecturer for the Astrologer’s Co-Op, and a volunteer for OPA. She focuses primarily on one-on-one client readings and also creates art, writes, makes videos, and collaborates with other practitioners to make astrology genuinely accessible to anyone who wants it.

🌀 Find Christa at practicalastros.com

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Work with me:

If this conversation is landing for you, I have a course coming in May called Your Heart Is a Compass that feels very much in the spirit of what Christa and I are talking about here. It is built around the idea that the heart is a navigation system, and that when you learn to read it you stop needing external permission to know where you are going. This could be especially useful when Uranus is scrambling all the signals!

I also offer natal astrology chart readings, Human Design readings, and more through my practice at Hearth and Spiral.

📬 Sign up for early bird to Your Heart Is a Compass, my upcoming course that runs from May 19-June 16.

💫 Book a reading at hearthandspiral.com

🌀 Follow along at @hearthandspiral on Instagram and Living the Spiral on Substack at livingthespiral.com

This week we're sitting inside one of the most concentrated astrological moments in recent memory. There are seven planets in Aries, stacked into three Human Design gates, all with Thunder in their foundation. The new moon on April 17th falls in Gate 3 (Orderi out of Chaos) with Chiron and Eris, seeding directly into the wound around new beginnings. Neptune and Mercury are meeting in Gate 25, the gate of innocence and universal love. Mars and Saturn are exactly conjunct in Gate 17, asking for far-sighted leadership over rigidly defended opinion.

I open this episode with a short three-minute coherent breathing practice, then walk through each gate with its I Ching image and Gene Keys shadow, gift, and siddhi. I also revisit the April 2024 Great American Solar Eclipse and why this new moon is a direct continuation of that thread.

Your Heart Is a Compass — Early Bird If something in this episode tugged at you, this course I'm offering starting on May 19th the longer work of it. My five-week live course starts in May and is built around the eight G Center gates, the Pagan Wheel of the Year, the descent of Inanna, and what it actually means to let your heart lead. Early bird pricing is open until May 1st- come play!

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Libra Full Moon: Tending the Well Before April’s Aries FireYour host Alison Dale welcomes the April 1–2 Libra Full Moon as a doorway into an unusually fiery April featuring a seven-body Aries stellium (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn, Neptune) and Chiron, with all planets direct until Pluto stations retrograde May 6; she also notes Uranus entering Gemini April 25 and the broader shift of outer planets into fire and air, plus the Chinese year of the Fire Horse.

She explores the Aries–Libra “me vs. we” polarity through Human Design/I Ching gates: Moon in Libra Gate 48 (“the Well”) highlighting deep splenic, ancestral knowing (shadow inadequacy, gift resourcefulness, siddhi wisdom) and Sun in Aries Gate 21 (“Biting Through/Hunter”) emphasizing decisiveness, will, and leadership (shadow control, gift authority, siddhi valor). She discusses Lilith sextile the Moon and Jupiter in Cancer squaring both luminaries, offers a spleen-focused embodiment practice, and shares links to her Substack series, calendar, rituals, and readings.00:00 Welcome to Living the Spiral01:16 April Fire Forecast02:45 Seven Planets in Aries04:07 All Planets Direct04:54 Outer Planets Shift08:07 Personal Fire Story11:19 Libra Full Moon Polarity17:17 Gate 48 The Well22:03 Inadequacy to Resourcefulness30:42 Gate 21 Biting Through34:54 Gate 21 Shadow Control36:54 Authority and Valor38:22 Aries Biting Through40:18 Well Versus Ego45:43 Choosing Your Fuel47:30 Quantum Attention Collapse50:00 Lilith and Jupiter Aspects57:17 Fire Horse and Uranus Shift01:07:16 Embodiment Spleen Practice01:10:29 Wrap Up and Resources

Hey friends,

This episode has been a long time coming. It’s the one where I finally lay out the whole architecture… all the systems I work with on Living the Spiral, how they’re related, and most importantly, why I think they matter more than ever right now.

If you’ve been in my world for a while and nodded along when I mention the Fuxi sequence or the 64 gates of Human Design without quite seeing how it all fits together, this episode is for you. And if you’re brand new here, welcome! This is a good place to begin.

The through line is this: all of these systems are, at their root, technologies for locating yourself inside a living pattern. They remind us that we’re not separate from what’s moving around us, that the seasons are not happening to us. I found that when that relationship between my body and the season and ancestral time actually landed in my lived experiences rather than just my mind, something deep shifted. My sense of belonging came alive. And at the heart of it, that’s what this whole project is about.

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Episode Overview:

The Oldest Question

We start at the beginning, with the impulse that every human culture across recorded history has shared - which is the need to locate themselves inside a larger story. Every culture across spacetime has created systems to address “Where am I in the cycle? What is my relationship with the land telling me? What do the shifting stars and planets say about the quality of this moment??

This impulse long predates writing. What I find remarkable is that across wildly different cultures with no contact between them, people arrived at remarkably similar answers: the sky is a clock, the seasons carry teachings, patterns repeat, and inside the repetition there is meaning. That’s the deep root of every system we cover in this episode.

The I Ching: The Origin Story

We go into the history and mythology of the I’Ching, starting with Fuxi, the mythological sage-emperor who received the eight trigrams (the ba gua) by observing nature. He witnessed the marks on the back of a tortoise shell, reflecting the behavior of water, the shape of wood, and the way things grow and die and grow again. Fuxi saw that reality is made of two forces in relationship, yin and yang, and that stacked in threes they produce eight fundamental qualities of energy: thunder, water, mountain, earth, wind, fire, lake, and heaven.

From there we get to King Wen, who (while imprisoned around 1000 BCE) took Fuxi’s eight trigrams and stacked them into pairs to create the 64 hexagrams - six lines, each broken or unbroken, 64 possible combinations. His son the Duke of Zhou wrote the commentaries for each of the individual lines, and Confucius added his own layers later. The I’Ching we have today is a palimpsest- thousands of years of wisdom in conversation with itself, all built on those same 64 patterns.

I also talk about why I have some frustration with how Human Design sometimes presents itself as if it arrived from nowhere, when so much of it comes directly from these ancient systems that deserve their own reverence and credit.

The Fuxi sequence and binary code

This is the section I’ve been wanting to talk about for a long time, and it genuinely blew my mind when I first found it.

The sequence that Human Design uses on the mandala -the Fuxi sequence, also called the Earlier Heaven sequence - is a mathematically precise ordering of the 64 hexagrams that was actually formalized not by Fuxi himself but by an 11th century Song dynasty philosopher named Shao Yong around 1060 CE. Shao Yong arranged the hexagrams starting from all broken lines and moving systematically toward all solid lines, with each hexagram differing from the next by the minimum possible change.

The result is a perfect binary sequence. If you assign yin the value zero and yang the value one and read the lines from the bottom up, the Fuxi sequence counts in binary from 0 to 63 without missing a single step. Shao Yong drew this as a square diagram, with eight hexagrams across, and eight down, where the top line alternates yin and yang every hexagram, the next line every two, then every four, every eight, every sixteen, every thirty-two. This is exactly how binary counting works.

Six centuries later, the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who had been independently developing binary arithmetic since 1666, received a woodcut of this diagram from a Jesuit missionary named Joachim Bouvet who was living in Beijing at the Forbidden City. Within a week of seeing it, Leibniz sent his paper on binary arithmetic to the Paris Academy for publication, titling it with direct reference to the ancient Chinese figures of Fuxi. He wrote that the hexagrams corresponded perfectly to binary numbers and that the ancient Chinese were far more mathematically sophisticated than anyone in Europe had assumed.

There’s a wrinkle worth knowing: the Chinese never actually interpreted the hexagrams mathematically. That structure was always latent in the form, but Leibniz was the first to read it that way. And he was working from Shao Yong’s later rearrangement, not Fuxi’s original work, something Bouvet also didn’t mention. But what Leibniz saw was real, and profound. The binary system he developed with it eventually became the foundation of Boolean logic, then electrical circuits, then the transistor, then the chip, then everything you’re using to hear or read this.

📌 [Add image: Fuxi/Nüwa serpent image — Han dynasty silk painting] 📌 [Add image: Shao Yong’s Fuxi square diagram — the 8x8 binary grid]

The Zodiac: The Origin Story

The roots of Western astrology are Babylonian, going back to ancient Mesopotamia around 2000 BCE or earlier. The Babylonians were extraordinary astronomers who tracked planetary movements from clay tablets across generations and noticed that the sky was a clock, that the positions of the sun, moon, and planets marked the seasons, the floods, and the harvests. The 12-sign zodiac solidified around the 5th century BCE in Babylon when they divided the ecliptic into 12 equal sections named for nearby constellations, tracking the quality of light through the seasons.

When Alexander the Great conquered Persia and Egypt in the 4th century BCE, Babylonian astrology collided with Egyptian astronomy and then with Greek philosophy. The Stoics and Platonists gave astrology its philosophical backbone, the idea that the cosmos is a living, intelligent whole and that the movement of celestial bodies reflects and participates in events on Earth. The hermetic tradition’s “as above, so below, as within so without” comes from this period.

I also touch on the precession of the equinoxes here (the reason the tropical zodiac signs no longer align with their original constellations) and why that doesn’t undermine tropical astrology, which was always a season-based system rooted in our relationship with the Earth rather than the stars themselves.

What moves me most is that these two traditions, the I’Ching in China and the zodiac in the ancient Near East, were developing at roughly the same time, with no contact. And they were doing similar things: reading the patterns of energy as it moves through time across the scope of a year, a lifetime, and beyond. People across the globe finding meaning in the turning, and locating themselves inside something larger.

The European Wheel of the Year

The eight holy days of the wheel of the year (the solstices, equinoxes, and four cross-quarter days between them) are the third tradition I work with. The modern Pagan Wheel of the Year was codified in the 1950s by neo-pagans and neo-Wiccans, but it draws from much older Celtic and various European pagan traditions, some of which may predate even the I’Ching and the zodiac.

These were the fire festivals and seasonal celebrations of agrarian communities in northern Europe. They were ceremonies about the return of the sun, about when to plant and when to harvest, when to go inward and when to put yourself out in the world. They are fundamentally human ceremonies rooted in the body and the land.

The beautiful thing is that the Wheel of the Year and the zodiac confirm each other perfectly. The four cross-quarter days all fall in the fixed signs: Samhain in Scorpio, Imbolc in Aquarius, Beltane in Taurus, Lughnasadh in Leo. The solstices and equinoxes happen at the cusps between the mutable and cardinal signs. The zodiac is already a wheel of the year, based on these astronomical observations. These traditions aren’t competing by any means, they’re translating the same pattern into different languages.

How Human Design and the Gene Keys plug in

In the late 1980s a man named Ra Uru Hu received what he described as a mystical transmission and developed Human Design, a synthesis that took the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching and mapped them directly onto the zodiac wheel, as well as onto the chakra centers of the body. The mandala arranges all 64 gates in the Fuxi sequence around the full 360 degrees of the Zodiac.

The Sun transits all 64 gates through the course of a year, spending about five to six days in each one. Your Human Design birth chart is a snapshot of where the Sun, Moon, and every planet were in those gates at the moment you were born, plus a second chart from 88 days before your birth (the end of the second trimester, when all organs are formed). Those two snapshots of the planets superimposed onto eachother create your bodygraph, with defined centers showing where you have consistent reliable energy and open centers showing where you’re most responsive to the environment.

The Gene Keys, developed by Richard Rudd who was a student of Ra’s, takes the same 64 hexagrams into a more contemplative and poetic territory. Where Human Design describes the mechanical structure, the Gene Keys asks you to move through each gate at three levels: the Shadow (the contracted, fear-based expression), the Gift (what emerges when you work with the shadow rather than against it), and the Siddhi (the fully flowering, transcendent potential of that frequency). I love the poetry of it, and feel that it’s a beautiful complement to the more structural and mechanical language of Human Design.

And the Wheel of the Year loops back in here beautifully, too: the eight Pagan holy days on the wheel of the year correspond exactly to the eight gates of the G Center, the center of identity and direction at the heart of the bodygraph. At every solstice, equinox, and cross-quarter day, the Sun is transiting a G Center gate. The wheel of the year is written into the mandala, and the land, body, and sky are in conversation through these 64 gates across time.

Why Cyclical Living Fosters Belonging

I spent the past few years tracking the sun’s progression through the Zodiac and also through the Gates of the Mandala. And when you know the Sun is in a particular gate and you’re feeling that energy in your life, it is truly profound. The collective nature of this ancient archetypical symbolism means you’re not broken or behind, but you can tell that you’re inside a specific quality of collective energy. The more I attune to this, the deeper sense of belonging I feel. It’s the feeling of being inside a larger pattern that includes me.

And when you know your own gates that are activated in your chart, you start to understand why certain seasons feel like coming home and others feel like unknown territory. It can give you empathy and compassion for why certain people light you up and others grind your gears. It’s attunement to a larger resonance field, because the Sun is transiting the same gate for every person on Earth at the same time, but lighting their charts up in very different waays. That shared invisible weather, and these systems that are making it visible to many, has made me feel more belonging, and more compassion, for myself and everyone around me.

A Counter-Eschatology

At the end of the episode I spend some time with an essay by JM at Starnightdwell that I’ve been thinkin about a lot since I read it. The essay is about eschatology (the study of endings, of last things), and how we are currently living inside a cultural and political moment that is being actively shaped by people who believe in a very specific kind of end times. A time when Armageddon isn’t a metaphor but an actual policy goal.

In their essay, JM points out that astrology is by its nature based on cyclical models of time. And an understanding of the cyclical nature of time makes for a very different kind of eschatology. When endings are also beginnings, you can’t have an end time in the way that many people pulling from the prophecy of the Abrahamic religions are leaning into right now. They argue that the attunement to cyclical time changes the ethical weight of everything- if you believe the land comes back and the story continues in a cycle, you make different choices than if it were all to end. You have to live differently.

In the episode, I also talk about JM’s critique that astrology as it’s currently practiced has largely been captured by an individualized, late-stage capitalist frame -all about my chart, my type, my shadow work- and how that can become another way of feeding the ego while the world contracts around us. The antidote lies in remembering that these were always collective technologies, from the start. The zodiac originated with stories about how the quality of the season shows up for everyone. The I’Ching was always a map of how energy moves through universal situations, not just through individuals. The Wheel of the Year was always communal, celebrating pivotal moments in the year when whole villages moved through the thresholds together.

When we track the Sun through the gates, mark the cross-quarters, and do this work in community, we are practicing a counter-eschatology, a reclaiming of the world away from the doomers and end-timers. We are rehearsing a different relationship to endings, living inside the spiral instead of waiting for it to end.

Tools and Resources I Mention in the Episode

For the I Ching: I use an app simply called Yijing — it has five different translations you can switch between including Nigel Richmond’s Language of the Lines, Brian Arnold’s modern English interpretation, Carol K. Anthony’s Oracle of the Cosmic Way, and Gregory Richter’s transcription from Chinese. You can cast coins or shake your phone to cast, or just read straight through.

For Human Design: My favorite structural resource is the Neutrino app. It’s really easy to use and has a wealth of information about your chart, your centers, your gates, and all the substructures of the system.

For the Gene Keys: The Gene Keys book by Richard Rudd is the source. There’s also an audiobook read by a very serious and eloquent British woman that I enjoy. You can also sign up on the Gene Keys website to receive a limited-time audio transmission (called “The Pulse”) from Richard Rudd each time the Sun transits into a new gate.

The Living the Spiral HD Astrology Calendar: A Google, Apple, or Outlook compatible calendar that tracks all the solar gate transits and major astrological events through the year. Available to paid subscribers of this substack at livingthespiral.com, or you can buy one at hearthandspiral.com.

Come Walk the Mandala with Me!

The Mandala 64 Walk is my ongoing series here on Substack, where I’m writing one post per gate as the Sun transits through the year. Each post will include the I’Ching hexagram, the Gene Key shadow/gift/siddhi, a somatic practice, and a creativity prompt to align with the energies of the week. Free to follow along!

Paid subscribers to Living the Spiral will get tickets to my live rituals that I’m hosting at each of the eight G Center gates/Holy Days, plus a digital calendar of Astro-HD transits.

We started with Gate 25 at the Spring Equinox and we’re moving through Aries season now. Come join at livingthespiral.com.

If you want to go deeper into your own design and explore how your chart is activated inside these larger cycles, my books are open for readings at hearthandspiral.com! I offer astrology, human design, and combination readings for both your natal charts and transits of the current moment.

The next episode will be about the astrology and human design activations of the Full Moon in Libra, happening this week on April 1st-2nd (depending on time zone). See you there!

With spiralic love,

Alison

Living the Spiral is a reader-supported publication. To go deeper into the cycles and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber!

Join me on March 21 from 10am-noon mst for Sprouting Into Action: A Spring Equinox Ritual. Register here!----In this episode, Living the Spiral host Alison Dale focuses on a rare convergence of the Pisces New Moon (March 18/19 at 28° Pisces, later stated as 20° Pisces) immediately before Mercury stations direct and the Spring/Aries Equinox astrological new year, all within about 36 hours. She frames the moment as an endings-and-beginnings threshold and explains the human design and Gene Keys correspondences: the New Moon in Gate 36 (Gate of Crisis; turbulence to humanity to compassion; “darkening of the light”) moving into Gate 25 (innocence/universal love), with Venus in Gate 51 (shock) activating the channel of initiation/awakening. She describes Pisces as boundaryless ocean energy, emphasizes compassion and passion/suffering themes, and notes supportive sextiles to Uranus and Juno. She announces a March 21 “Sprouting Into Action” Spring Equinox ritual and outlines upcoming Wheel of the Year offerings, plus readings and breathwork services.

00:00 Welcome to Living the Spiral

01:16 Pisces New Moon Preview

03:04 Post Eclipse Reflections

04:18 Seasonal Breathwork Rituals

06:47 Sprouting Into Action Event

08:06 Pisces to Aries Threshold

13:38 Offerings and How to Connect

14:49 Gate 36 Crisis and Birth Canal

16:47 Mythic Seas and Darkening Light

21:33 Ages of Aries and Pisces Shift

24:25 Planting Seeds in Turbulence

26:41 Riding Big Waves

27:51 Dark Night Surrender

28:49 New Moon Shift

30:30 Compassion Gene Key

31:28 Christ Symbolism

35:27 Passion Etymology

38:16 Initiation Channel

42:29 Rites of Passage

43:46 Uranus Juno Sextiles

46:43 Mercury Direct Gate 37

49:37 Equinox Gate 25

51:50 Rebirth Invitations

53:43 Closing Blessings

Keywords:

lunar eclipse, Virgo, astrology, human design, imagination, confusion, self-reliance, spirituality, community, transformation____

In this episode, Alison Dale discusses the upcoming total lunar eclipse in Virgo, its significance, and the themes of confusion and imagination associated with it. She explores the role of eclipses in our lives, emphasizing the importance of grounding ourselves in the earthly experience while navigating the complexities of the Piscean energy. The conversation delves into the significance of Gate 64 in human design, the need for self-reliance, and the balance between freedom and responsibility in community dynamics. Ultimately, Alison encourages listeners to embrace uncertainty and trust the process of life as we transition into a new era.

Takeaways

The lunar eclipse in Virgo is a significant event.

Eclipses serve as reminders of our earthly nature.

Imagination plays a crucial role during eclipses.

Self-reliance is essential in navigating life's challenges.

The energy of confusion can lead to illumination.

Community and family dynamics are shifting during this time.

Trusting the process of life is vital for growth.

Embracing uncertainty can lead to new beginnings.

The North Node highlights the importance of family and community.

Living in confusion can be a transformative experience.Want to go deeper?

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