Reflection of the week: The Solar Eclipse: What Are We Saying Yes To?

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Tomorrow, August 12 at 20:26 Madrid time, brings a total solar eclipse, visible along a path crossing Greenland, Iceland and Spain, with a partial eclipse visible across much of Europe and beyond.

From a Human Design perspective, this eclipse brings together a particularly interesting combination of themes. The Sun and Moon meet in Gate 4.2, with the Earth in Gate 49.2, while the lunar nodes are moving through Gate 29.6 in the South Node and Gate 30.6 in the North Node.

Together, they create an invitation to contemplate commitment, desire, uncertainty, acceptance and our relationship with life itself, within the current neutrino weather.

Gate 29 speaks of commitment: the Sacral capacity to say yes to experience and discover, through living it, what that experience contains. With the South Node in 29.6, we may naturally find ourselves looking at commitments - relationships, projects, directions, identities - and wondering whether they are the “right” ones.

But from the perspective of witnessing consciousness, perhaps we don’t need to judge them.

What did that yes allow life to show me? What did I experience through it? What became possible because I said yes?

The North Node in Gate 30 brings us toward our relationship with desire and feeling and in the sixth line it asks us to find the strength to eliminate negative feelings. Gate 30 knows the intensity of wanting to experience life. Yet desire does not necessarily tell us what we should do. When we are identified with the ego, desire can become a demand: I want this, therefore this must happen.

From a witnessing position, something else becomes possible.

We can experience desire without immediately becoming the one who needs to fulfill it.

We can simply notice:

What is life giving me to experience? What is moving through me? What does life want from me now?