On today's Experimenting in Real Time forest walk I'm unpacking what happened when the transiting Sun and Earth lit up my Design Nodes, Gate 6 and Gate 36, the once a year moment when the sky retraces the exact unconscious axis your body has been walking your whole life.

I talk through what it's meant to live inside Gate 6, the gate of friction, testing, and the peacemaker energy I share with my daughter's own design sun. I trace the pull toward Gate 36, the gate of crisis and surrender, and why my Virgo south node's need for control keeps bumping against my Pisces north node's call to release the outcome.

I also share what came up in a recent card reading with my mentor, the mantras I'm carrying into the season, and an invitation for you to check what's showing up on your own nodal axis right now.

If you've ever felt like your body knew something before your mind caught up, this one's for you.

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The Aries Last Quarter Moon on July 7, 2026 marks the end of a 2.5 year lunar cycle that began with the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aries back in April 2024. Reflecting on that full arc, from the seeds planted at the eclipse, through the breakthroughs of the First Quarter Moon, the boundary work of the Full Moon, and now this moment of integration.

At the center of this reflection is the cardinal square between Aries and Capricorn: the tension between building the structure that carries your work and surrendering into the undoing that makes deeper capacity possible.

In this episode:

🌗 The full timeline of the Aries lunar cycle, from the New Moon Solar Eclipse in April 2024 to this Last Quarter Moon in July 2026

🌗 The cardinal square between Aries and Capricorn, and what it means to move from overworking and under receiving toward presence, boundaries, and rest as a birthright rather than a reward

🌗 Naming a wound around worth and intellectual achievement

🌗 The Revolutionary Reflections essay and the birth of Season 2, Tools for the Revolution

Wherever you are in your own lunar cycle, this episode is an invitation to reflect on what is ready to be released, and what you are being asked to lead.

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It's Taurus season, and I'm out here in the forest streets on my morning walk again having full-on revelations in real time, and of course I'm here to share my cosmic hot take with y'all.

In this episode, I'm exploring and experimenting with what Taurus energy actually is. The groundedness, the sensuality, the slow and sacred buildup before everything blooms. Also reflecting on the ah ha moments of how it shows up in the charts and Human Design blueprints of the people closest to me.

This one got personal deeper insights to those closest to me as I am a Gemini surrounded by a sea of Taurus Bulls. We're talking about my mom signing the lease on her new home, my husband stepping into his next chapter, my brother doing exactly what Gate 8 would have him do (showing up fully and refusing to budge), and the quiet confirmation of my own Jupiter in Taurus doing what it does.

In this episode:

♉️ What Taurus energy is in its highest and shadow expression

♉️ The five Human Design gates of Taurus season (Gates 24, 2, 23, 8, and 20) and their themes

♉️ My journey with having my natal Jupiter in Taurus

♉️ A preview of what's coming with the Cosmic Wisdom School

Reflection prompt:

Where does Taurus energy live in your chart?

Do any of these gates: 24, 2, 23, 8, or 20 show up in your Human Design blueprint?

What's being built, grounded, or realized for you this season?

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