As we welcome 2024, I want to share with you the Human Design perspective on the New Year – it may shed a different light on our conditioned ritual of making New Year’s resolutions.
The Cosmic Calendar
While the world celebrates the New Year on December 31, Human Design marks the start of a new year with the beginning of a new solar cycle around the wheel. This year this cycle kicks off on January 22 – when the sun enters Gate 41 – The Gate of Decrease- Contraction.
During a year the sun moves through 64 gates, 64 hexagrams. A new cycle always begins when the sun re-enters gate 41- also nicknamed The Gate of Fantasy, always on the cross of the Unexpected. This gate signifies a pressure point for a new collective experience, a time of shifting energies as we begin a new cycle around the sun. Fantasy and Unexpected experiences- who knows what the new cycle will bring!
Embracing Intensity as the Year Concludes
While it became a popular ritual to make New Year’s resolutions and set intentions around the end of December, we are still under intense pressure as the past year’s cycle closes. During those weeks we may struggle, feel limited, stressed, pressured, and overthink.
Do you feel the lingering intensity in the air?
If you’ve been feeling under pressure lately, as if a certain process hasn’t truly concluded, and there’s an expectation to calmly and intentionally glide into the new year – it’s essential to recognize that it’s not because your year started off; it’s because the year hasn’t ended yet! Often, New Year’s resolutions can offer a glimmer of hope, only to leave us frustrated, bitter, angry, or disappointed due to the challenges in manifesting them.
A Time for Contemplation and Reflection
This time of the year is inviting contemplation and reflection rather than rushing to manifest your resolutions. It’s an opportunity to ponder the year that’s reaching its conclusion, honoring the experiences and growth it brought your way. It is a great time to remember to breathe.
Navigating Transformative Waves
These past years have been an incredible and unexpected journey. Standing at the threshold of a new world order, we slowly realize that while everything we know is falling apart, we do have ourselves to trust.
Amidst this transformative wave,
I am anchoring myself deeper into me,
Deeper into my inner knowing,
This is what I can trust.
Watching the movie of life unfold,
Witnessing my mind searching for answers,
I am filled with gratitude
To be on this path, my path
And trusting my Strategy & Inner Authority,
To be my anchor.
I hope you had a joyous and fulfilling transition into the new calendar year. Let’s take these next couple of weeks to reflect, contemplate, and welcome the new cosmic cycle and its unexpected new experiences, with open hearts and minds.