Last week, on Dec 5th, Pluto entered into Gate 41 "Decrease", line 1.
This is after many years in Gate 60 "Limitation", and leaving the 6th line of Limitation, where Pluto is actually in detriment.
I felt a deep sigh of relief in my Sacral, after years of being consistently defined with my hanging Gate 3, my unconscious Mercury.
The Channel of Mutation. (3-60)
I've nicknamed this channel the "Lynchian channel," since it was film director David Lynch's only defined channel.
It's the feeling under the surface that something that is happening, the build up is increasing, and when the time comes, mutation happens.
Since Pluto is the outermost planet, it moves very slowly. Pluto being in a Gate is a once-in-a-lifetime type of experience.
This means I will never have the channel of Mutation defined for me again (after Pluto retrogrades back into this gate later next year for one last hurrah!)
With the highly transformational alchemy of Pluto (small but mighty when it comes to astrology) and the also transformational channel of Mutation, it was a double whammy of energy transforming me from the inside out, outside in, in every which direction.
I also went through my Saturn return during this time.
Needless to say, these past couple years have been deeply transformative for me.
Ever since Pluto has made this connection in my bodygraph, activating my Sacral, I have gone through experience after experience that was changing me in profound ways.
Limitation was highlighted yes, but so was all the ways I've experienced the "Difficulty at the Beginning" (Gate 3) energy in my undefined Sacral.
When I told my mom about this gate, I witnessed her emotional wave rush over her. "You have been like that since birth!" She exclaimed, in reference to my "difficulty" starting energy.
She has always reminded me I struggled getting started, moving fast enough to keep up with the energy of my Mom, Dad, Sister who all have this full channel defined.
I laugh with the jokes of the universe, because while all of the members in my family have the full channel of Mutation defined, and here I am the black-sheep Projector with only the hanging Gate 3 in my undefined Sacral. It's no wonder I never felt like enough.
It's like the messaging I received unconsciously my whole life in this family system was "Just mutate! Just do it!"... Plus the added conditioning of Nike advertising 😅 (lol)
However, I now see I have the gift of this channel for me is at least I get to experience it turning on and off. This gives me some time to breathe, since I know it will be 'on' again, and activated for me with other transits. Heck, it will even be active at least once a month with the moon's transits.
Mutation comes and goes. Creative potential and inspiration does as well.
The Lynchian energy Pluto brought me in some of the most pivotal years of my life is coming to a close. Then there's last finale to revisit this energy next year when Pluto retrogrades.
And weirdly, I am not even preparing myself for that. I feel more surrendered than ever to divine flow of life. The transformation that happens will be the transformation that was needed.
In these past few years while Pluto was in this gate, I was confronted with the limitation of what it means to be human.
To be haunted by your past, your dreams, the unknown in the shadows.
The limitation of all these things, and the limitation it hides within all of us.
While I now have this channel undefined (my Sacral won't be undefined until Dec 24th- my Christmas present!), I can feel back into myself.
Yes, my "Difficulty at the Beginning" energy is present, it has always been. However, I am full of optimism that this can be moved through with a limitlessness I may have mentally conceptualized in the past, but wasn't integrated or embodied into my being yet.
My Hope motivation, holds me strong. I am reminded, by my own being, that there is always hope. Endless hope, endless potential. Human limitations are present, but many are just an illusion. Like a cloud blocking the sun, our true Spirit is waiting to shine through.
Pluto now in Gate 41.1
So in Human Design, Gate 41 is the start codon. The "Rave New Year" starts when the sun enters Gate 41 in mid-January.
Everything begins from a "decrease". We must fall in order to rise. To lose in order to gain.
Gate 41 is in the collective abstract circuit of the bodygraph. This is a gate about the beginning and initiation of a experiential cycle.
This is a Root center gate, reaching up for the Solar Plexus. Human (emotional) experience begins here, and every collective emotional storyline is seeded through this gate.
This is the point where desire becomes experience.
Since Pluto will be moving through this gate for a few years, the collective narrative is guaranteed to shift at a core level.
We will witness a new emotional tone unveiled for the evolution of humanity.
And since this is a 1st line energy, this is raw, archetypal, potential.
Personally, I feel ready for this reset of emotional consciousness. I can feel many people are awoken, or in the process of waking up, and wanting more. To live better lives. To be healthier - physically, emotionally, spiritually.
We will be going through deep and profound change with Pluto in Aquarius for the next two decades. It will be a massive shift. Many of us already know this.
And while we are here, at the deep point of reflection at the end of a year, simultaneously looking back and looking ahead, we can orient ourselves better to where we are and where we desire to go.
In the past week, I've signed up for courses in the Spring to study ecological landscape design, a desire that has been sitting on my heart for over a decade.
When I am heart-centred, I know I want to work with the Earth.
I also feel called to support people, and I'm giving myself time to keep healing so I can offer my gifts to those who truly resonate and are ready to receive them.
I'm focused on learning to receive my own gifts as they reveal themselves.
Because after so much limitation, confusion, and the dying of the old way of the human experience, I know there's so much blessing coming in with the birth of the new.
Even if it looks frightening, scary, or triggering.
(Because if we didn't know what a women giving birth was, we would feel all of those things!)
And my Solar Plexus says, feel it.
Because here we are.
This is the human experiential way.