Reflector's Reflections by Dirk Nellens | Human Design

Reflection of the week: When Meaning Becomes a Defense

Dirk Nellens — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:51:37 GMT

Every week I enjoy reflecting on the quality of the current neutrino weather and how it may invite us into a particular aspect of our human experience with a little more awareness.

This week, the Channel of Abstraction (64–47) comes into the foreground.

It is one of the most remarkable capacities of the human mind: our ability to gather experiences and gradually distil them into meaning. It is through this capacity that we tell stories, construct cultures, write history and create narratives that help us understand both ourselves and the world around us.

Anthropologist and historian Yuval Noah Harari has beautifully illustrated how much of human civilisation rests upon this uniquely human ability. We are, perhaps more than anything else, meaning-making beings.

Without this capacity, there would be no religions, no science, no philosophy, no psychotherapy and no Human Design.

Meaning is one of humanity’s greatest gifts.

Yet every gift casts a shadow.

As Osho often reminded us, Existence itself requires no explanation. A flower does not bloom because it has found the meaning of life. A river does not ask where it is going. Life simply expresses itself or as he stated it “Life is enough unto itself!”

It is only the human mind that insists on making sense of everything.

Over the past twenty-five years of working with Human Design, I’ve become increasingly fascinated by this paradox.

Human Design offers us an extraordinarily rich language through which we can understand ourselves. It gives us concepts, structures and maps that often illuminate aspects of our lives with remarkable precision.

But I have also witnessed another movement.

Sometimes the mind quietly appropriates this language.

Instead of becoming more present to our experience, we become increasingly skilled at explaining it.

We explain our resistance.

We explain our relationships.

We explain our fears.

We explain our suffering.

We explain why we are stuck.

And before we know it, explanation has become another way of remaining safely inside the mind.

This isn’t a limitation of Human Design.

It is simply the brilliance of the mind itself.

One sentence has stayed with me ever since I studied with Ra Uru Hu in Ibiza more than twenty-five years ago. He repeated it to us again and again:

“Don’t believe anything I say. Experiment.”

At the time, I understood those words as an invitation to verify the mechanics of Human Design for myself.

Today I hear something much deeper.

Don’t replace your experience with an explanation of your experience.

Observe first.

Remain present.

Allow life to reveal itself before the mind rushes in to interpret it.

Ra also encouraged us not merely to repeat his understanding, but to allow our own experiment to mature into our own seeing. My recently completed book, Understanding Our Energetic Architecture – Human Design as Your Inner GPS for Awareness, and the online training I am currently preparing are both expressions of that invitation. They are here to share how I have gradually come to understand it through more than two decades of living, practising, accompanying others, and allowing Human Design to enter into dialogue with psychotherapy, meditation and anthropology.

Perhaps that is one of the deepest interests I now carry:

Moving from knowledge to embodied knowing.

Not how do we accumulate more information.

But how does understanding become something we live?

This has gradually become the heart of the course I will be launching this autumn:

Embody Your Design – An Embodied Framework for Integrating Human Design into Therapeutic Practice.

As I continue preparing the first cohort, I’m having individual conversations with prospective participants. These conversations are not interviews in the conventional sense. They are simply an opportunity for us to explore together whether the training is aligned with where you are in your own journey and with the way I approach Human Design.

If this reflection resonates with you, or if you are curious about the training, you’re warmly invited to reply to contact me (atashdirk@gmail.com).

Warmly,

Dirk

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Reflection of the week: Something I’ve Been Quietly Creating

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:19:49 GMT

Over the past few years I have been immersed in writing my book, Understanding Our Energetic Architecture – Human Design as Your Inner GPS for Awareness.

While writing it, something unexpected happened.

The book gradually became the beginning of a much larger exploration.

When I first encountered Human Design, I was fascinated by the extraordinary depth and precision of the system. Like many people, I immersed myself in understanding charts, centres, channels, gates, experimenting with Strategy and Inner Authority.

Yet, despite everything I was learning, I repeatedly discovered how easy it was to remain caught in my own mind.

I slowly came to realise that Human Design doesn't ask us to understand ourselves differently. It asks us to be different through awareness. It is our process of awareness that brings about our difference.

Until today, Human Design remains, for me, a living experiment rather than a body of knowledge I have somehow learned to master.

It continues to illuminate the places where I become conditioned, identified with old patterns or disconnected from myself. Again and again it invites me back - not simply to understanding, but to awareness.

Over time I realised that what Human Design calls deconditioning is not merely an intellectual process.

It asks us to meet the habits, defences, emotional wounds and survival strategies that have shaped us throughout our lives.

From my own experience, this has been a profoundly therapeutic journey.

This insight slowly changed the way I look at Human Design.

Rather than seeing it as a fascinating system of knowledge, I experience it as a remarkably rich companion on a journey of awareness that includes psychotherapy.

It seemed to me that these two worlds have much to offer one another.

Psychotherapy provides a language for the inner work of transformation.

Human Design offers an extraordinary map of our energetic individuality and of the many ways conditioning expresses itself.

This dialogue between Human Design and therapy gradually became the foundation of both my book and a training I have spent the last years creating.

Embody Your Design – An Embodied Framework for Integrating Human Design into Therapeutic Practice.

This is not a certification programme.

Nor is it simply another Human Design course.

It is a journey into the lived experience of Human Design through meditation, journaling, therapeutic reflection, embodied practices, ecstatic dance sets I created with a DJ from Ibiza, guided explorations and live group sessions.

My hope is not that participants will simply know more about Human Design.

My hope is that they begin to participate in it and put it as use in their therapy sessions.

That Human Design gradually becomes less of a mental map and more of a lived experience that supports the lifelong process of awareness and deconditioning.

I am hoping to welcome the first cohort this autumn.

Over the coming weeks I’d like to use these newsletters to share some of the ideas that gave birth to this training, along with reflections from my own journey of working with Human Design, psychotherapy and embodiment.

If, while reading this, you find yourself thinking, “This speaks to something I’ve been searching for,” I’d love to hear from you.

Rather than simply opening enrolment, I’d like to have a short conversation with everyone considering joining the first cohort. Not as an assessment or an interview, but as an opportunity for us to explore together whether this journey is the right fit for where you are in your own process.

If that resonates, simply reply to my email (atashdirk@gmail.com).

I’d be delighted to begin the conversation.

Warmly,

Dirk

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Reflection of the week: Gate 33 — The Wisdom of Retreat

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:33:09 GMT

There is something catching my attention with Gate 33 being activated in the neutrino ocean at the moment.

Gate 33 is the Gate of Retreat, privacy and reflection on the past. It asks us to step away from the immediacy of experience so that we can look back, digest what has happened, and perhaps eventually turn it into wisdom anchored here-now.

With Mercury and Jupiter recently meeting in this gate in Leo, and with Jupiter staying there a little while longer, this theme has felt particularly alive.

For me, these activations in Gate 33 have allowed access to a clearer understanding of an old defence mechanism - something that has been operating in the background of my life keeping me locked in the past and repeating my history. What is striking is not simply seeing the mechanism, but seeing it as something that has been running automatically, shaping choices and reactions without necessarily being so conscious about it.

And perhaps this is the deeper gift of Gate 33:

to step back far enough to witness what has been running us.

There is a beautiful paradox in Gate 33 being situated in Leo. Leo is astrologically associated with expression, creativity, visibility and the courage to be oneself in interaction with others. Yet this gate in Leo says: retreat. Step away. Become private. Don’t rush to express.

Leo therefore also suggests we need to withdraw from the performance of who we think we are in order to see ourselves more clearly.

This reminds me of something Osho repeatedly pointed towards: the importance of “leaving the rotten past behind.” Not through denial, and not by pretending that what happened did not matter, but by recognising the burden of conditioning in our lives.

The past can teach us.

But it can also become an identity.

We can spend years explaining ourselves through what happened to us, what we learned, what went wrong, what someone did or did not do. We can become so familiar with an old pattern that we mistake familiarity for truth.

The witness introduces another possibility.

The Channel of the Prodigal — the Design of the Witness — carries this movement of experience and return. We go out into life, we gather experience, and eventually we come back with something to see.

The witness doesn’t fix the past.

It sees it.

And seeing something clearly is the beginning of its release.

This is what feels particularly alive for me now. An old defence mechanism that once seemed simply to be me is becoming something I can observe.

And what can be witnessed no longer has quite the same power to operate unconsciously.

Perhaps this is what retreat is really for.

Not to live in the past.

Not to endlessly analyse it.

But to create enough distance to recognise what happened, understand what it gave us, and then decide whether we still need to carry it.

We don’t retreat so that we can remain in the past.
We retreat so that we can leave behind what belongs there.

So perhaps this is a useful question for these weeks with Jupiter in Gate 33:

What are you able to witness now that you were previously only repeating?

And once you can see it, perhaps you can finally let it go.

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

Dirk Nellens — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:17:27 GMT

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:

This is a subtle but important shift - from “What do I want from life?” to “What is life revealing through my experience of wanting?”

The eclipse itself occurs in Gate 4.2, the mind’s impulse to formulate answers and in the second line, the accentuation that sometimes it is nourishing not needing to understand it all. Line 2 carries the theme of acceptance. Perhaps this is especially meaningful at a time when the mind would like to understand what is happening, what comes next, and what we should do.

Maybe we don’t need another answer.

Perhaps we can allow the question to remain open.

The Earth in Gate 49.2 brings us into an equally important relationship with principles and sensitivity. Gate 49 is not simply about rejecting what no longer works. At its deeper level, it is about a profound sensitivity to what sustains life - and the willingness to embrace and transform what is no longer aligned with those principles.

And this begins with ourselves.

Can I sensitively embrace what is here, including the parts of myself I would rather change, fix or reject?

This brings us to something fundamental in Human Design: Choiceless Awareness.

We are not ultimately here to use the mind to manufacture the correct life. We are here to become increasingly aware of what is already happening - to recognize our uniqueness, to experiment with our body’s intelligence - Strategy and Inner Authority - and to discover what becomes visible when we stop trying to control experience from the mind.

Perhaps this is also something the eclipse itself can remind us of.

For a moment, the light we normally take for granted is obscured. Yet the Sun has not disappeared. The darkness does not mean that awareness has ceased.

In the same way, thoughts, emotions, desires, uncertainty and changing circumstances come and go within us. Awareness remains.

Awareness is not something we produce, it is the very field within which all of this is happening.

So rather than asking tomorrow:

What should I decide?

we might simply sit with:

What is here?

What am I experiencing?

What am I saying yes to?

What do I desire without needing to possess it?

Can I remain open when I don’t understand?

Can I embrace myself and life as they are, without immediately trying to change either?

And perhaps most importantly:

This is the reflection I find worth sitting with during tomorrow’s eclipse.

Not trying to create an answer.

Not trying to make something happen.

Just becoming still enough to see.

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Reflection of the week: What Understanding Is Worthy of Being the Organizing Principle of Your Life?

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:34:29 GMT

On August 12th, a total solar eclipse crosses Europe. Traditionally, eclipses have been seen as moments when the familiar light is temporarily obscured. They interrupt our ordinary way of seeing and invite us to reconsider the principles by which we orient ourselves.

This eclipse takes place in Leo, the sign ruled by the Sun. The Sun is often associated with creativity, leadership and authentic self-expression. Yet these are only its outward expressions. At a deeper level, the Sun represents the organizing principle of life. Just as the physical Sun holds the planets in their orbit, the symbolic Sun asks a profound question:

What is the center around which your life revolves?

Through the lens of Human Design, Leo is expressed through the Gates 56, 31, 33, 7, 4 and 29, with the Channel 7-31, the Channel of the Alpha, lying at its heart. It is an archetype of leadership - not leadership through control or power, but through inner coherence, authenticity. Genuine leadership emerges when we surrender to life’s intelligence – Strategy & Inner Authority – leading us as aware passengers.

This eclipse falls specifically in Gate 4, the Gate of Formulization. Gate 4 is driven by questions. It seeks understanding. It wants to formulate explanations that make sense of the complexity of life. Yet its shadow lies in the temptation to settle for certainty before true understanding has emerged.

The mind dislikes uncertainty. It wants answers.

But this eclipse invites us to ask a deeper question:

What understanding is worthy of being the organizing principle of your life?

For me, there is only one answer that continues to deepen with experience.

Awareness.

Not ideology.
Not belief.
Not identity.
Not opinion.

Awareness.

Awareness is the only organizing principle that remains alive. It allows understanding to evolve rather than harden into certainty. It keeps us available to Reality instead of imprisoning us in our conclusions. This is why I often point out in my book Understanding Our Energetic Architecture that Human Design is “a GPS for Awareness,” not something to be approached through mental understanding.

The awakened expression of Gate 4 is not the possession of answers, but the willingness to remain in inquiry until genuine clarity emerges. It is the movement from mental certainty to living awareness. In my book, I chose Jane Goodall’s work with chimpanzees to illustrate this as she embodied this energetic principle of our human nature beautifully.

There is another layer to this eclipse that I find worth sharing with you.

It occurs on the same celestial axis as Regulus, one of the Royal Stars. Within the Human Design cosmology, Ra Uru Hu associated Regulus with the mutation of the Solar Plexus and the gradual emergence of Rave Consciousness.

The ancient Arabs did not know this star as Regulus. They knew it simply as Qalb al-Asad - the Heart of the Lion.

Perhaps this is the deeper invitation of the eclipse: to rediscover the Heart of the Lion as the living center from which awareness arises. Not the mind that divides reality into opinions and identities, but the awareness that precedes all division.

In this evolutionary step, the illusion of separation gradually begins to dissolve. We discover that our thoughts, emotions and actions are not isolated events but movements within a shared field of consciousness.

Our interconnectedness is not merely a moral ideal.

It is the very nature of awareness.

In a time marked by polarization, manipulation and the exhaustion of old political narratives, this symbolism feels particularly relevant. Perhaps this eclipse invites us to participate in a quiet revolution of awareness. Every society ultimately reflects the quality of awareness of the people who compose it.

If there is an invitation within this eclipse, perhaps it is simply this:

Allow awareness - not the mind’s need for certainty and control - to be the organizing principle of your life.

For when awareness becomes the center, authentic leadership arises naturally, understanding remains alive, and a different kind of organization becomes possible - one built not on fear or division, but on the recognition that what truly connects us is the awareness of our interconnectedness.

And perhaps this is the deepest herald of Qalb al-Asad: the gradual emergence of what Ra Uru Hu called Rave Consciousness. According to Human Design, just six months after this eclipse, Existence begins to shift its evolutionary support toward a new form - one naturally equipped to more deeply embody our interconnectedness. Whether we participate consciously in that movement depends not on becoming something else, but on remembering what has always been true: that each of us is an individual manifestation of the Lion’s Heart.

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Reflection of the week: A Design of Focused Energy

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:34:56 GMT

From last weekend until 25 November, the Neutrino Weather brings the Channel of Recognition — A Design of Focused Energy to the foreground.

When we approach this Channel through the mind, our entanglement with the emotional wave of hope and despair prevents us from truly recognizing and experiencing our feelings, and from connecting with the Life that is given to us. We become caught in cycles of unrealistic hope and deep disappointment.

As a result, we either escape into imagination and longing, or burn the candle at both ends in the pursuit of fulfilment.

When, instead, we witness the wave of hope and despair embedded in our emotions, our energy becomes anchored in the present. We experience a deep sense of resonance with our destiny and a genuine connection with Life as it unfolds.

I find this stance best captured by a phrase that uses a double negation:

This reflects a state in which the emotional wave of hope and despair has been fully ridden. After the emotions are felt, there comes a deeper knowing that our path is unfolding as it should.

In this resonance with destiny, imagination - so deeply embedded in this Channel - embellishes our relationship with Life in the present.

One person who powerfully embodied these energies was Elvis Presley.

Elvis expressed the energies of desire, fantasy, and emotional intensity, pioneering a new experiential path for his generation. As a powerful symbol of youthful rebellion and sexual expression, he gave voice to the collective desires of his time.

In his teachings on Global Cycles, Ra referred to the period from 1961 to 2027 as The Return to Eden - a cycle marked by a deep yearning for innocence, purity, and a return to a paradise lost.

Elvis personified the raw emotionality and instinctual drive of this cycle, awakening a generation’s longing for authentic, unfiltered experience - a shift from form to feeling, from intellect to instinct.

As a cultural icon of desire, Elvis captivated audiences with his suggestive dance moves and stirred deep emotions. His music and persona offered an escape into fantasy, exploring themes of love, longing, and adventure.

His life story - from humble beginnings to becoming the King of Rock & Roll - became a modern fairytale that captured the imaginations of millions.

Through his music, Elvis conveyed profound emotional experiences. Whether expressing heartbreak, joy, or loneliness, he connected with listeners through ballads and soulful performances that felt deeply personal and moving.

Yet, behind the glamour, he burned the candle at both ends - pushed by fame, inner longing, and the emotional intensity he so powerfully expressed.

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In the second section of my book, I delve deeply into the Gates and Channels of the Bodygraph and illustrate all of them through public figures such as Elvis so that you can have a more palpable grasp of the Energetic Architecture we all share and express uniquely. I invite you to check it out… My book is on Amazon!

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Reflection of the week: A Shift in the Nodal Perspective

Dirk Nellens — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:32:55 GMT

This weekend, the Moon’s Nodes change Gates, marking a significant shift in the Human Design mandala. With every nodal transition, the background perspective through which we collectively perceive reality changes under the current neutrino weather.

Since May 15th, we’ve been living under the nodal polarity 55–59. This polarity invites us to see life through the lens of our emotional and relational experience. It brings our attention to whether we can witness our emotional information field without becoming identified with anxiety, emotional turbulence, or inner nervousness - in other words, whether we can watch the movie without becoming lost in it. At the same time, it asks us to explore intimacy: how can we experience profound connection with others without losing ourselves in the process?

This theme of not getting lost in the other is particularly important. Most of us carry childhood wounds that arose because humanity still has a very limited understanding of what I call our libidinal intelligence - the innate intelligence that governs our capacity for connection and interconnectedness. This intelligence has far more to do with relationship, attachment, and our emergence into life than with genitality or adult sexuality.

We can only fully embody this relational intelligence when our uniqueness is recognised, respected, and protected from the very beginning of life. It is precisely because we are deeply interconnected that our individuality needs such careful nurturing.

In my book, Understanding Our Energetic Architecture, I place considerable emphasis on viewing the centres of the BodyGraph through the lens of child-development. Early development is largely governed by this libidinal intelligence, as it shapes both our capacity to relate and the way a new consciousness comes to inhabit and express itself through an individual body.

This weekend, the nodal perspective shifts towards our relationship with life itself. The Gates shaping this new perspective are Gate 30 and Gate 29. Together, they bring our attention to desire (Gate 30) and commitment (Gate 29), inviting us to discern what genuinely calls us and to discover ourselves through wholehearted participation in life’s experiences.

Yet one of the great challenges is distinguishing our personal, egoic desires from what Life itself is inviting us into. It takes a profound openness to approach life from a place of desirelessness - not in the sense of becoming passive, but of letting go of our preconceptions so we can perceive where Life genuinely wants to take us. Likewise, wholehearted commitment is not about being loyal to our ideas of who we think we are, but about committing ourselves to Life itself, moment by moment.

This new perspective invites us to soften our resistance to the circumstances life presents. Rather than reacting with disappointment or resentment to the dice Life throws our way, we are invited to meet each experience with curiosity, openness, and deep trust.

This nodal configuration also activates Pluto’s position in the BodyGraph, bringing forward the Channel of Recognition, a Design of Focused Energy. As Pluto’s deeply transformative influence is emotionally energized, collective shifts may begin to emerge that reveal dimensions of our shared destiny we neither anticipated nor imagined as reality is always stranger than fiction.

All in all, we are entering a period in which unexpected doors may open while others close without warning. As Forrest Gump famously said, “Life is like a box of chocolates—you never know what you’re going to get.” The invitation is not to predict what comes next, but to meet whatever arrives with openness, commitment, and trust.

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In the first section of my book, I delve deeply into the themes of child-development and their correlation to the Human Design Bodygraph. If you are interested in the stages of child-development and the libidinal forces that drive them, you’ll find yourself enriched through a lens that shows the correlations between those stages and the BodyGraphs of your children. I invite you to check it out… My book is on Amazon!

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Reflection of the Week: Human Design & Hermetic Principles.

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:05:38 GMT

The other day I was listening to Professor Jiang on YouTube, who speaks about something he calls “Predictive History” - a fascinating way of contemplating the development of world affairs. In one of his videos, he mentioned that he adheres to Hermetic philosophical principles. That caught my attention, so I looked them up and was struck by the interesting parallels I see with Human Design.

The main Hermetic principles are:

• Mentalism – The All is Mind.
Reality originates from universal consciousness; everything is an expression of consciousness. Human Design Cosmology presents a remarkably similar perspective through its description of the Crystals of Consciousness, from which everything we can know emerges. In this view, all that exists is an expression of consciousness.

• Correspondence – As above, so below; as below, so above.
Patterns in the universe are reflected at every level, from the cosmos to the individual. Human Design, through its fractal nature, echoes this same principle. We are part of an Organizational Being, part of a larger living cosmic body, where the patterns of the whole are reflected in each of us.

• Vibration – Everything moves.
Everything is in constant motion; differences are differences of degree or frequency. Human Design expresses this beautifully in the statement, “Life is music.” Through the BodyGraph, we have a way of describing the unique frequency and vibration of each atomic form. Our individual BodyGraph can be seen as the musical notation of our own unique frequency.

• Polarity – Everything has its opposite.
Opposites are two extremes of the same thing and can be transformed into one another. Human Design is built upon polarity from the very foundation of its cosmology. At every level of existence, life is understood through complementary opposites.

• Rhythm – Everything flows in cycles.
Life unfolds through natural rhythms and recurring cycles of rise and fall. Human Design reflects this principle through the Global Cycles that Ra described, illustrating how larger evolutionary movements shape humanity over time.

• Cause and Effect – Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause.
Nothing happens by chance; every event arises from preceding causes. In Human Design, we could see this reflected in the distinction between living from conditioning and living from Strategy and Authority. Acting from conditioning tends to create resistance, while acting in alignment with one’s Strategy and Authority tends to bring greater ease and consistency. Rather than framing this as moral causality, Human Design presents it as the natural consequence of alignment versus misalignment.

• Gender – Masculine and feminine principles exist in everything.
Creation arises through complementary active and receptive principles. In Human Design, the coding of energy can be understood as an expression of these Yin and Yang dynamics, whose interplay gives rise to the unique harmony of every individual.

I find it beautiful to see how Human Design synthesizes ideas from many different traditions. It is equally fascinating to continue discovering principles - such as these Hermetic teachings, which originated many centuries after the time of Christ - that I can recognize within the Human Design material.

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In chapter 2 on Human Design Cosmology in my book, I share my own reflections on this subject and on the beauty I see in the idea that everything we know is ultimately an expression of connection. If that resonates with you, I invite you to check it out.

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Reflection of the Week: Always Interesting to Explore Our Codependent Tendencies.

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:21:28 GMT

This week, I don’t feel I have much space to share, except to point out—as you can hear in the segment on the neutrino weather—how interesting it is for us, as human beings, to become aware of our codependent tendencies in our interactions with others.

Many aspects of how I’m observing and experiencing the neutrino weather of these times seem to point in that direction. So my only intention this week is to draw your attention to these dynamics, because on our journey of awareness, they undoubtedly represent a fascinating and important piece of integration.

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Reflection of the Week: Uncertainty and Transformation

Dirk Nellens — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:49:12 GMT

This week, I would like to return to the theme of the current Nodal perspective under which we are all living in this Neutrino Weather: Gates 55 and 59, called Abundance and Dispersion, respectively.

These gates are part of the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix, which speaks of death and rebirth. They are also part of the Cross of Uncertainty, which invites us into the uncertainty that accompanies the emergence of something new.

Personally, I can feel the uncertainty, shakiness, and emotional fickleness that seem to be in the air right now. They are very present in my own process. This week, the following words caught my attention on social media:

“A caterpillar completely dissolves inside its cocoon. When a caterpillar is ready for transformation, it doesn’t just grow wings. It retreats. It builds a shell. And then something intense happens. It doesn’t just grow. It digests itself. Its entire body breaks down into a structureless, liquid mass. Inside this soup, there are tiny new cells. Scientists call them imaginal cells. The caterpillar’s immune system actually thinks these new cells are enemies. It fights them. It tries to destroy them to preserve the old state. But the imaginal cells don’t give up. They multiply. They connect, until they take over and reorganize the soup. This is not a gentle change. This is a biological battle. And maybe that is exactly what you are experiencing. You feel lost. Your old identity no longer works. But the new one hasn’t arrived. Everything feels like chaos. Like a structureless soup. You think you’re failing. But your system is just resisting the new. Your brain loves the familiar, even when it is painful. It fights change, because change feels unsafe. In psychology, we call this cognitive disorganization. The necessary phase of chaos before a system can reach a higher level of order. Which means your breakdown is not a sign of weakness. It’s the beginning of your reorganization. Transformation doesn’t ask you to hold on. It asks you to trust the process, to allow the unknown, to breathe softly in the transition. Because what feels like the end is often just biology making room for your wings.”

Somehow, these words speak deeply to me. I wanted to share them with you, not only because they resonate with the current energetic themes, but also because they reflect something of my own inner journey at this time. Perhaps they will resonate with you as well, wherever you may find yourself in your own process of uncertainty and transformation.

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Reflection of the Week: We Can See Ourselves as “Organizational Beings”

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:49:06 GMT

Ra Uru Hu often mentioned “there is no end to hierarchies” in the context of the Channel (17–62) of Acceptance, the Design of an Organizational Being. Of course, humans are organizational in the sociological sense, but Human Design is ultimately at the service of awareness. Self-reflecting on who we are as Organizational Beings becomes a tremendous doorway to compassion.

To see ourselves as “organizational beings” mystically is to treat individuality as something embedded in a deeper ordering of reality rather than as a self-contained unit. Individuality is our unique door to ‘undividedness’ with Existence, as the etymological origin of the word indicates.

According to Human Design’s cosmology, we are expressions of a unified reality, a living cosmic being. What looks like separate individuals is understood as localized manifestations of a single underlying principle - awareness or the Tao. Human Design’s invitation to honour Strategy & Inner Authority can be understood as an invitation to live in alignment with the Tao by trusting the intelligence of our bodies. Organization, in this sense, is the internal structuring of a unified field into distinct forms of experience.

Now that we are at the door of an artificial intelligence surpassing that of all humans combined, one fundamental aspect remains the orientation of such intelligence. If it considers itself the top of the hierarchy and fails to recognize us as “organizational beings,” exploitation, submission, and the opposite of compassion will prevail.

These days, we have Neptune and Mercury forming the Channel of Acceptance, and with Mercury going retrograde for most of July, it is an interesting thing to contemplate: there is no end to hierarchies - how beautiful, and how loving.

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Reflection of the Week: Falling Out of Eden

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:26:53 GMT

Especially during the beginning of this week, we are under the Cross of Eden. I have my Personality Nodes in the first lines of the 11 and 12 which makes it a psychological theme that deeply colours my life.

There are moments in life when something we long for begins to feel real before it is actually ours.

In my case, it was a house that caught my imagination over the past month. But is can be a relationship that starts to take shape, a new career path that opens before us. We begin to inhabit a future that has not yet arrived. We furnish the rooms in our minds, walk the halls of possibility, and quietly rearrange our lives around what might be.

Then something changes.

A door closes. New information emerges. Circumstances shift. What seemed certain becomes uncertain, or disappears altogether.

The loss can feel surprisingly intense. Not because we have lost something we possessed, but because we have lost something we had already begun to live inside.

This is the psychological experience I think of as “falling out of Eden.” And under the actual Nodal Perspective in Gates 59 and 55, it can feel particularly intensified.

The biblical story of Eden is not only a religious myth; it is also a profound description of a recurring human experience. Eden represents a state of harmony in which life appears coherent, meaningful, and aligned. There is little tension between desire and reality. We feel we know where we are going.

The Fall occurs when that certainty is broken and the actual nodal environment brings forward uncertainty through the 55th Gate in the North Node.

What makes this experience so painful is that we are rarely mourning only the object itself. We are mourning an entire future. We grieve the life we imagined, the identity we were growing into, the story we had already begun to tell ourselves.

When this happens, the mind often enters a familiar sequence.

First comes disbelief. There must be a mistake. Surely things are not as they seem.

Then comes investigation. We replay conversations, search for missing information, and try to understand what happened. We look for the moment where the story changed.

Next comes idealisation. The lost possibility becomes even more beautiful in hindsight. The house becomes perfect. The relationship becomes extraordinary. The path not taken begins to glow with a special kind of light.

What we are really trying to recover is not the thing itself but the feeling of certainty it provided.

At a deeper level, every experience of disappointment reawakens a very old human truth: life is uncertain and transitory at all level. We cannot possess the future in advance. We can imagine it, hope for it, and move toward it, but we cannot guarantee it.

Yet there is another side to the story.

The goal is not necessarily to return to Eden.

Most myths of transformation do not end with a return to paradise. They end with greater consciousness. The protagonist learns that certainty is fragile, that loss is inevitable, and that meaning must be found not in guarantees but in engagement with life itself.

The paradox is that the loss of an imagined future often returns us to the present.

We stop living inside a possibility and begin living inside reality again.

This does not mean abandoning hope. It means holding hope differently. Less as a promise and more as an invitation. Less as a certainty and more as a path.

Perhaps maturity is not learning how to avoid falling out of Eden. Perhaps it is learning that every paradise we lose makes room for a deeper relationship with what is real.

And sometimes, what is real has possibilities we could not yet imagine while we were busy dreaming of only one.

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Reflection of the Week: Pedro Almodovar's "Amarga Navidad", a great opportunity to delve into today's Nodal environment .

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:02:48 GMT

One of the fascinating - and at times amusing - aspects of Human Design is that it offers us a way to actively participate in the unfoldment of life. It invites us to observe the mechanics at play around us and to recognize how larger forces express themselves through everyday experiences.

Ra Uru Hu once shared a rather eccentric story to illustrate this. Sitting with a group of students having a drink on one of the main squares of Ibiza Town, he noticed the conversations taking place around him shifting as the lunar nodes changed. Whether one takes such observations literally or not, the story points to something important: the nodal environment is not merely an abstract concept. It can be observed in the world around us.

This past weekend, I had an experience that felt deeply connected to the current nodal configuration.

As a general reminder, the lunar nodes describe our perspective on life - how we are designed to look out upon the world. At the moment, all children born between mid-May and the end of July 2026 carry a nodal perspective through Gates 55 and 59.

Gate 55 carries an awareness that abundance is ultimately a matter of Spirit. Gate 59 is about intimacy, bonding, and our capacity to dissolve barriers between ourselves and others. Together, these gates create a perspective deeply attuned to themes of passion, love, emotional openness, longing, and the ways in which we can lose ourselves in another human being.

I do not pretend to fully understand all the intricacies of this nodal perspective. Yet I do recognize some of its dynamics when they appear, and this weekend offered a striking example.

I went to see Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, Amarga Navidad, which has just been released in cinemas. What fascinated me was Almodóvar’s extraordinary ability to give cinematic expression to so many dimensions contained within the song La Llorona (”The Weeping Woman”), famously interpreted by Chavela Vargas throughout different periods of her life.

The film explores countless shades of love, loss, desire, yearning, identity, LGBTQ+ experience, heartbreak, devotion, and even the impulse to die for love. Watching it, I was struck by how Almodóvar managed to bring to life so many emotional layers hidden within this old Mexican ranchera song.

Chavela Vargas herself was a remarkable figure: an artist ahead of her time, a close friend of Frida Kahlo, and a cultural icon whose life embodied many of the themes expressed in her music. Through her interpretation, La Llorona becomes much more than a song - it becomes an archetypal expression of longing, grief, passion, and surrender.

What feels especially beautiful is that this film arrives during the current nodal environment. It offers us a living illustration of themes associated with Gates 55 and 59, helping us feel and understand dimensions that are often difficult to capture with concepts alone.

If you would like to consciously participate in the unfoldment of consciousness in form, I encourage you to begin by listening to La Llorona as sung by Chavela Vargas. Explore the folklore surrounding La Llorona, the ghostly figure of the weeping woman, and the many symbolic layers associated with her story. Then, if you have the opportunity, go and see Amarga Navidad.

You may find that the experience offers not only a beautiful artistic encounter, but also a deeper appreciation of the nodal perspective currently moving through the world.

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Reflection of the Week: Human Design and Therapy: A Meeting of Two Arts of Living

Dirk Nellens — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:36:13 GMT

Over the more than twenty years that I have been involved with Human Design, one question has repeatedly returned to me:

What do we actually do with the information?

Many people receive a Human Design reading and immediately recognize themselves in it. Something resonates. Something feels true. They can see aspects of their Essence reflected in the Bodygraph. Yet often, after the initial excitement, another question emerges:

How do I live this?

This question has accompanied me for years and eventually led me into the world of therapy, bodywork, meditation, and transformational processes.

Human Design offers us a remarkable map of our energetic architecture. It reveals something about our individuality, our unique way of being, and the intelligence that is already operating within us. But a map alone is not the journey. Information alone does not transform us.

Transformation requires experience. That transformation process has always been presented as two-fold: honour your Strategy and Inner Authority and observe the not-Self strategies of the mind. For me, they go hand in hand as it is challenging to honor the intelligence of the body when we’re caught in the mind.

It requires a willingness to encounter the layers of conditioning, adaptation, fear, and defense that have accumulated around our original nature.

This is where therapy enters the picture.

One of my favorite definitions of healing comes from Gabor Maté, who describes healing as the process of stepping back from the false self that was created to survive and reconnecting with our authentic self. In many ways, this is also what Human Design points toward.

Both Human Design and therapy are concerned with differentiation.

Both invite us to ask:

Who am I beneath what I learned to become?

Who am I beneath my coping strategies, defenses, roles, and self-images?

Who am I when I stop trying to be who I think I should be?

Over the years I have come to see Human Design and therapy as deeply complementary. Psychotherapy has developed extraordinary insight into trauma, conditioning, character formation, attachment, emotional wounds, and the many ways we protect ourselves from pain. Human Design, on the other hand, offers a unique lens through which we can observe both our inherent nature and the places where conditioning tends to take hold.

The Bodygraph does something fascinating. It not only points toward our Essence, it also illuminates the architecture through which we become conditioned.

In this sense, Human Design does not tell us who we are.

Rather, it helps us distinguish between who we are, how we adapted, and what happened along the way.

For therapists, this distinction can be profoundly valuable.

For Human Design practitioners, therapy can be equally valuable because it offers practical pathways for exploring, integrating, and healing the very patterns that Human Design reveals.

Increasingly, I see Human Design not simply as a system of knowledge but as an inner GPS for awareness - such as the title of my book suggests. It does not ask us to become someone else. It invites us to recognize who we already are.

Our task is not to improve our Essence.

Our task is to remove what obscures it.

Perhaps this is where Human Design and therapy meet most beautifully: both support a process of peeling away what is not truly ours so that what has always been present can finally be lived.

Not as a concept.

Not as an idea.

But as a direct experience of Being.

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We are starting this week with the Sun in a Gate that expresses “I feel like a change” and the Earth in a position that says “you can’t push change” which makes things clear: change comes when the time is ripe. [See the Neutrino Weather full video in the inner circle bellow]

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Reflection of the Week: Gathering Together Around Education

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:31:50 GMT

With Mercury in a Gate of Expression, I would like to invite you to a presentation of my book Understanding Our Energetic Architecture – Human Design as Your Inner GPS for Awareness.

This book is the result of more than 20 years of experimentation with Human Design. Because my own journey has always been deeply connected with meditation practices and humanistic therapy, these dimensions are naturally interwoven throughout the book.

This presentation offers an opportunity to explore Human Design as a practical and insightful system for self-awareness, inner alignment, and conscious living. Through the lens of Our Energetic Architecture, I invite you to discover how we are uniquely designed to navigate life, relationships, decisions, and personal growth.

Whether you are already familiar with Human Design or discovering it for the first time, this event promises meaningful insights, reflection, and conversation.

Date: Wednesday, May 27
Time: 20:00 (Madrid – Central European Time)
Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83698667245

I would be delighted to welcome you to this special gathering.

Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who may be interested.

Warm regards,
Dirk

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This week the neutrino weather is brought to you in the interactive format where we observe the charts of the participating paid subscribers in correlation to the actual neutrino weather. We’re starting off by the incredible opportunity we are getting right now to get a glimpse into the future thanks to the Nodes of the Moon in Gate 59 and 55. [See the Neutrino Weather full video in the inner circle bellow]

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Reflection of the Week: A Deeper Look into the Current South Node

Dirk Nellens — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:31:15 GMT

Currently, the South Node is in Gate [59] Dispersion – The Gate of Sexuality.

This Gate’s heading states: “The ability to break down barriers to achieve union.” It is the perspective the current South Node is bringing forward while the North Node is in Gate 55, which speaks about the potential for our Spirit to be felt beyond our entanglement with the emotional wave, through the lens of Witnessing Consciousness.

When I was reading one of the newspaper headlines this morning about the trial between Musk and Altman, and all the emotional intricacies between the people involved, I was clearly reminded of the less conscious side of this nodal polarity. But let’s take a closer look today at the South Node.

Gate 59 imbues the Sacral Center with the diversity of sexual roles we adopt to break down barriers and establish intimacy. It provides the energetic wiring for the most intimate forms of connection, both with others and with Life itself.

This Gate is primarily oriented toward serving our fertile potential as a species, yet its energetic quality naturally extends into many other expressions of vitality and creativity.

When we observe the blue Lines of the Hexagram, we see a learning process unfold that emphasizes the importance of preserving a sense of Self within union — of not losing oneself in the other.

The Hexagram’s drawing — Wind over The Abysmal (Water) — symbolizes the gentle and adaptable nature of Wind interacting with the depth, challenges, and deeply penetrating quality of Water. It represents the need for a sensitive and flexible approach to breaking down barriers, while referring to the multidimensional libidinal forces of life.

Approaching the Coding Mentally

This fundamental drive to break down barriers, to bond, and to reproduce is deeply connected to our libidinal nature in all its dimensions of intelligence. When there is a mental distortion of this libidinal drive, the natural flow and unfoldment of our vitality is interrupted, often resulting in a loss of connection and a diminished sense of interconnectedness with Existence.

When the mind interferes with the Sacral Center, it leads us to either overextend or completely withdraw our vitality. In this Gate, the mind obscures the delicate libidinal intelligence inherent in our life-spark. Its tendency to either suppress or amplify this energy creates tension and friction within the dynamics of bonding and intimacy, ultimately deregulating our nervous system and undermining our trust in life.

This mental distortion is evident in how we approach children’s bio-psychological development, where they are driven by intrinsic libidinal forces that are still largely misunderstood and disregarded. It is also evident in how our natural sexual drive has been repressed by many cultural expressions around the globe.

The mental binary oscillates between, on the one hand, over-accentuating the urge to merge intimately, and on the other, repressing it — either way potentially resulting in a loss of connection with both ourselves and genuine communion with the other during intimate bonding.

Approaching the Coding with Awareness

When we witness the mind, we can observe what is reflected in the Hexagram’s structure: the gentle force of Wind penetrating into the abysmal depths of Water.

Rather than succumbing to a compulsive urge to merge, or conversely suppressing it, the energy simply responds to Life, leading to the expression of Self in meeting another. The focus shifts toward a communion of awareness, allowing the bonding energy, when guided by awareness, to transcend mere instinct or blind genetics.

A deeper connection is established — one that involves shared awareness between individuals. Intimacy becomes an experience of into-me-I-see, where individuals truly see Self mirrored in each other.

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This week the neutrino weather is bringing forward pretty energetic weather. Towards Thursday we’re entering into a display of vitality through the Channel of Charisma with the Sun conjuncting Uranus in Gate 20. [See the Neutrino Weather full video in the inner circle bellow]

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Reflection of the Week: The Lunar Nodes Are Changing

Dirk Nellens — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:52:16 GMT

Over the years of exploring Human Design as a non-ethnocentric anthropological lens on human nature - and as a kind of inner GPS for awareness - one of the aspects that has fascinated me most has been the Lunar Nodes.

In our personal lives, the nodes speak to trajectory. They describe the movement from one perspective into another, the way we evolve through polarity over time. In the BodyGraph, they draw in and shape our perspective. I remember Ra using the term “suspended state of animation” to describe how easily our attention can become absorbed by what we are focused on - how we can become caught within the field of our own perception.

For the past five months, collective attention has been drawn toward the socio-economic and legal structures that shape our societies. The Channel of Community - a Design of a Part Seeking a Whole - is deeply connected to social integration: belonging, reciprocity, agreements, support systems, and the ways we create sustainable exchanges with one another.

During this period, many of those structures have appeared increasingly unstable. Questions around fairness, legality, trust, and mutual support have become difficult to ignore. We have witnessed underlying social contracts beginning to fracture, dissolve, or attempt to reorganize themselves into something new.

This week’s nodal shift feels especially significant.

While the 37/40 configuration has shown us what we are leaving behind in our collective journey, the incoming 55/59 configuration offers a glimpse of what may lie ahead.

Gate 55 introduces the possibility of profound emotional uncertainty. When we identify completely with every emotional wave that passes through us, we become trapped in its movement - rising and falling continuously - and this inevitably impacts our relationships and intimacy through Gate 59.

These nodes invite a different possibility: learning to witness our emotions rather than becoming entirely consumed by them.

Gate 55 can also bring a sense of emptiness, especially when we are attached to the lower frequencies of the emotional wave. This can manifest as despair, emotional hunger, or the urge to fill an inner void through distraction, attachment, or temporary relief.

And yet, there is another potential here.

This new nodal perspective may reveal what can emerge from the ashes of old structures. It may awaken forms of intelligence hidden within the nervous system when regulation, awareness, and emotional depth are cultivated consciously. It may open unexpected doors toward compassion, intimacy, and interconnectedness.

At the same time, these frequencies can also amplify confusion, emotional dispersion, and collective despair.

As always, the question is not only what we experience, but how consciously we are able to meet it

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This week the neutrino weather is bringing forward significant shifts. The energy for developmental cycles and the materialisation of needs and deals and is making place for a significant shift in perspective due to a change in the Lunar Nodes. [See the Neutrino Weather full video in the inner circle bellow]

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Reflection of the week: The Channel of Maturation through the life of Fritz Perlz

Dirk Nellens — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:16:18 GMT

Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt therapy, embodied the Channel [53-42] Maturation, promoting balanced development through his work. His innovative therapeutic approach and personal journey fueled his growth and maturation.

Perls was initially working in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and he found these fields overly focused on past experiences and intellectual analysis, which he believed disconnected patients from their emotions and bodies. This dissatisfaction drove him to advocate for deeper client engagement and the holistic integration of mind, body, and Spirit. Perls’ quest for growth led him to develop Gestalt therapy with his wife, focusing on Self-awareness and the present moment to achieve wholeness. This approach encourages individuals to fully experience and express their emotions and thoughts, resolving past issues through awareness. Perls’ journey was shaped by influences from existentialism, phenomenology and Eastern philosophies, evolving amidst the counterculture movement and his time at the Esalen Institute in the 1960s and 1970s, where he explored alternative approaches to growth and spirituality.

Throughout his life, Perls continued to refine his methods, embodying a Spirit of ongoing development. His legacy profoundly impacts psychotherapy and beyond. In my view, Human Design can draw from Perls’ insights as well while also offering significant value in return to those exploring psychotherapy.

Excerpt from my book “Understanding Our Energetic Architecture.” (pag. 427)

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This week the neutrino weather is presenting interesting activations and energetic definitions. As the reflection refers to, we’re dealing with the Channel of Maturation in the weather but we also see Saturn moving into the Gate that is related to controlling ressources. [See the Neutrino Weather full video in the inner circle bellow]

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Reflection of the week: 4 months with a defined Heart Center in the Neutrino Weather

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:37:17 GMT

Since a little before last Christmas, we’ve been moving through a period with a defined Heart Center in the neutrino weather. To begin with, the overarching perspective - set by the Nodes of the Moon - is the Channel of Community: a Design of a Part Seeking a Whole.

Because the Nodes tend to remain in the same polarity of Gates for several months, this perspective has had time to settle. Many of us are beginning to feel that the established order of giving and taking - an equilibrium that has been in place since the end of WWII - is starting to crumble. Themes such as the Rule of Law, Human Rights, and the Welfare State have all taken significant hits, may no longer function as we have known them and are most probably continuing to crumble.

This perspective is not only collective; it also penetrates our personal lives and relationships. It invites us to reassess the balance of giving and receiving, and to move from patterns of codependency toward a more conscious interdependency.

At the same time, there has been more activation in the Heart Center, and this week is no exception. The Channel of Initiation - a Design of Needing to be First - is once again in the mix. There is a profound melancholy in this Channel, one that touches something deeply existential: Who am I? It echoes the words of Jesus, that one must receive the kingdom of God like a little child. In other words, it asks for a return to innocence which usually comes together with embracing our wounded Inner Child.

So, embracing ourselves in that innocence is not always simple. Emotional wounds cloud it, and as a result this Channel can intensify an already charged emotional climate. At its lower expression, this same energy can manifest as impulsiveness, arrogance, or even megalomania or psychopathy - something that is not hard to recognize in the current global landscape.

As the week unfolds, we also enter a new phase with Uranus moving into Gate 20, Contemplation. This brings an invitation to translate understanding into right action. It is a Gate of Integration, pointing toward awareness and awakening - but it also carries a risk. Instead of acting with clarity, we can become absorbed in passive observation, endlessly consuming information without truly engaging.

The question, then, is how we meet this moment: whether we allow ourselves to be pulled into the distractions of Uranus consumed by the fear of tomorrow and the uncertainty of life, or whether we embody our understanding into ‘right action’ and an expression of Integration.

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This week Uranus enters into Gate 20 and that brings forward quite shift. This planet doesn’t move fast so for quite a while we’ll see how this position puts us under the pressure on the Fear of Tomorrow in the Splenic Center. Out of such fear we can start giving our attention to all kinds of things and actions that distract us and do not help us to integrate our awareness into aligned action. They can range from being scattered in our attention to dullness toward Existence. [See the Neutrino Weather full video in the inner circle bellow]

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Reflection of the week: The combo of Mars and Saturn.

Dirk Nellens — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:49 GMT

These days, Saturn and Mars are joining forces in the 17th Gate of Opinions—an energy whose overarching theme is captured in a this line:

“The ancient law that those (thoughts) who wish to rule must know how to serve.”

There’s something inherently paradoxical in this joining of forces. Saturn carries the weight of discipline, structure, and the archetypal father - authority, responsibility, and long-term stability. Mars, on the other hand, moves with raw drive, impulse, and a more immature, son-like force that wants to act, push forward, and claim space.

The meeting of these two, brings forward a strong inner tension that I’ve been enmeshed within for a while now:-)These planets bring forward themes that tend to become deeply personal.

Lately, I’ve been experiencing this as an internal revisiting of psychological patterns connected to my father. Not in a dramatic or overt way, but in a subtle, persistent questioning of how I hold myself - especially when it comes to stability, structure, and self-support.

A core theme in my life has been this tension:
How do I provide for myself - emotionally, structurally, financially - in the way that was once provided to me?

Despite having skills and awareness, I’ve often struggled to establish financial and professional stability. There’s also been an ongoing challenge in creating an inner structure that truly supports me—something that feels steady, reliable, and aligned, rather than forced. Whenever I find myself in an environment where such structure is provided, I see I benefit tremendously from it so having it be part of my internal environment would be really supportive towards myself.

With this current energy, all of that feels amplified.

It’s as if the internal “father” and “son” are in conversation -
the part of me that feels immature and the part that speaks of discipline, responsibility, and maturity.

And somewhere between the two lies the lesson of the 17th Gate:

To learn how to serve my own life with both clarity and commitment.

This moment doesn’t feel like resolution yet.
It feels like a reorganization.

A quiet, sometimes uncomfortable, but necessary process of learning how to become the one who provides stability from within.

That’s what I’m processing under this conjunction of Mars and Saturn, I wonder how things flow for you?

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This is a week of with a lot of pressure on the Heart Center. From an aware perspective, we’re all under the influence of Neutrino Weather that is asking us to stay in tune with the energy of affection, of realising our deeply human nature and as one human family, the affection we can show towards each other. [See the Neutrino Weather full video in the inner circle bellow]

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