Human Design: Values Based Decisions

I’m a Human Design Guide, and I’m starting a simple weekly series here. Each Monday, I’ll share the current Human Design transit of the Sun and Earth, and how I’m personally noticing it show up in real life. Human Design helps us tune into both our own natural rhythm and the shifting energy in the collective—and my hope is this space helps you do just that, too.

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Sun: Gate 4, Gate of Formulation

Earth: Gate 49, Gate of Revolution

Transits for Week of August 11-17, 2025

This is a big shift in energy this week.

Personally, I felt it coming on yesterday. I'm working with someone very close to me who is feeling an overwhelming desire to reconnect to what is important in her life, and working all of the time is no longer viable.

She is trying to formulate a plan to change how she spends the majority of her waking life. Does she want it be non-stop and consumed with putting out fires? Or is she looking for a slower pace of getting her tasks done, allowing for a deeper analysis of a problem instead of feeling like she is trying to stay balanced on a spinning top?

Personal time and how she spends her working time has become her focus and she knows change must happen but how to communicate this to her superiors?

What do you value? Especially in how you choose to commit your time and resources as it pertains to using your gifts?

This Earth 49 energy of revolution is about an emotional re-evaluation of your values. There is an emotional urge to look at where your energy is going and does it align with your current principles and values?

Principals and values change over time. This energy is using the emotional juice of the Solar Plexus to bring an awareness of what has changed in that department and the Sun's energy of formulation is about applying logic and clarity over time to formulate a plan to implement what changes are called for.

Whoosh. Feeling that vibe yet?

Personally, I am feeling it as it pertains to my marriage. What has changed in our commitment to each other? What is important to understand about what we value now vs. what we used to value? What needs to change? We are both emotionally defined so this added ability to thoughtfully and logically look for a way through this re-evaluation is handy to have defined for us this week.

There can be a tendency to jump to an answer emotionally instead of waiting for the wave of emotion to settle out some. Jumping into an emotionally-driven decision is never a good idea. Wait for clarity first. Then apply logic for structuring an appropriate way through the decision.

I try to come up with a list of alternatives and then feel my way through what possible avenues of change can be that I respond to as a Generator.

Mental searching can get out of hand for answers, though. Being obsessive about finding a solution mentally can hinder your success. Relax and use your type and inner authority to formulate a plan of action.

Generators/Manifesting Generators: You'll feel the urge to re-evaluate what you have committed your energy to doing, and may feel emotionally driven to change something about your commitment. Ground this emotional urge to respond to any changes that come your way with your Gate 4's mental ability and ask the question, What's really the right answer here? Am I responding to just any opportunity? Or the right one for me?

Manifestors: Your feeling the urge to initiate a change based on your inner principles and values. Since it's emotional, get clear first about what you want to initiate and wait, wait, wait for that logical way of communication it before doing so. You want your answers to what you are trying to initiate to be reasoned and thoughtful so that the impact has legs to run.

Projectors: Your energy this week is about guiding others to principled clarity. Your ability this week to see where systems or people are no longer experiencing integrity with their process will be acute. Wait for the invitation to give your guidance and deliver your message in easily digestible bits. Big, revolutionary changes are emotionally driven...so be aware that a clear, concise and logical answer is needed here to balance out the need for change. Your answers need to be fertile, so they can be accepted. Wait to speak about what you see when asked. Otherwise it will be dead on arrival.

Reflectors: You will be picking up the disconnect in your community regarding a values/principles based shift. Look for the emotional angles people will be exploring as they look for answers to foment the shift in values. You'll feel the urge to anchor yourself to trusted authorities' viewpoints on the changes and how to go about logically implementing them in a balanced way. Reflect that back to your community when things get too emotional.

So lets recap this week's energy.

Sun 49 = Emotional readiness with values-based change

Earth 4 = Mental clarity looking for structured answers

Together, they ask us to:

Wait for clarity before making a change based on your values/principals so that you can logically explain why the changes are called for. Communicating the reasons are important and being clear about your why's are necessary to bring in the new changes.

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Random fact about me: I love cold coffee.

Fly Fishing: Embracing New Waters Through Grief

The river gave me more than a view yesterday...it handed me back my joy.

I've always loved to fish.

When I was a little girl, and dad told me he was going fishing early in the morning, I would get dressed and sleep in my clothes so he wouldn't leave me behind.

Not that he would, but he liked to tease me.

This trip is showing me what I've been missing in my life since Dad died.

He was my fishing partner for 50+ years, and I haven't returned to it seriously since he died.

That changes now though. I've fished in boats and on banks, but I've only waded into the water and fly fished one time, many years ago.

My stepfather tried to teach me how to fly fish when I was a teenager, but it didn't take.

I can still remember his words, "Fig-ure eightttttttt.....fig-ure eightttttttt...." as he tried to teach me how to plop that fly in the right spot and let it drift to the fish.

I wasn't ready then.

Now I am.

I want to wade into waters I haven't experienced before, and not just as it pertains to fly fishing.

This is just a step towards more merging, less separation.

I think I can appreciate the slow rhythm of the water in a way I wasn't able to before. I've developed patience and now I want more refinement.

Entering the water for the solitary experience instead of feeling like I need another to fully enjoy the moment is...new to me.

Now I know why my stepfather brought that sling on the trip. He told me using a sling will help me throw a fly.

One father died, but my other one has stepped in and still teaches, like he always has.

Even now. At 57.

My stepfather caught this moment below where I became fixed on fly fishing, my mind made up.

Time to enter the water.

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Random fact about me: I was a Campfire Girl as a kid.

The Joy of Play: Learning to Sling by the River

Yesterday, we traveled to Gothic, Colorado, and spent the day playing and resting peacefully near the East river.

The valley past Gothic is one of my favorite locations near Gunnison. Gothic is an old mining town that turned ghost town fairly quickly when the wire-silver discovery went bust.

Now, it's home to the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, where they teach students about the environment in this pristine location.

My step-father and I found a beautiful spot by the river and spent the day there, and I discovered the joy of the sling.

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My step-father brought his sling and gave it to me to try. I spent about an hour figuring out how to throw it and had so much fun picking up rocks and trying to hit a target that we would pick out.

Surprisingly, I picked up the technique pretty quickly.

I realized I haven't just had pure fun learning something new in such an immediate way outside of picking up new jewelry techniques in a long time.

One of my favorite book series is The Clan of the Cave Bear. Ayla, the main character, is a Paleolithic woman who learns to hunt with a sling.

I had a ball experiencing firsthand how the book describes her learning how to throw a sling, hit the target and rejoice in seeing immediate feedback from her intention.

I was in sync with this beautiful environment and play was an essential part of the equation.

I also occupied myself with walking the small river, looking at fish, panning for gold and watching some fly fishermen work the river.

Which brought up my love for fishing, and after watching them fly fish all day, I've decided to take a class when I get back home and learn how, too.

More fun on the horizon.

Play is so essential, isn't it? The river brought back an emotion of total abandonment to the present moment that was invigorating.

Now to balance out this idea of play, I also observed an overly cautious mother thwart her kids opportunities to play because of her incessant chirping be careful.

I watched her telling her kids exactly how to cross a part of the river that was only about 2 inches deep.

They were afraid of it, and didn't want to get their feet wet.

We had a pretty strong wind gust at one point shortly after and I watched her two boys complain about the wind and the dust it was kicking up.

They left the river and ran back to the car where they were parked. They were probably 7 or 8.

This made me sad.

I remember playing without much, or any, supervision for long periods of time when I was a kid their age.

Play is the purest form of learning, and without it, or when it is supervised to such a degree, you end up with kids that become afraid of learning and the discoveries that can happen when you screw up.

What I witnessed profoundly affected me, and I promptly picked up more rocks and slung away.

Here's a cool video I found on slinging.

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Random fact about me: When I was a kid, my dad bought me a compound bow. I was really good at shooting it at the hay bale target in our backyard.

Understanding Marble: From Limestone to Lifelong Growth

Yesterday, I visited a place in the Rockies where limestone is transformed into marble.

It was a heck of trip over the mountains on a forest service road from Crested Butte to Marble, but worth the effort.

But what is marble, exactly?

Marble starts out from limestone. Limestone is the accumulation of life that has been hardened into sedimentary rock made up of mostly calcium carbonate.

Millions of years ago, the sea covered this area, and the tiny skeletons of gazillions of sea creatures hit the ocean floor and eventually hardened into limestone.

Limestone is a very porous material... soft and brittle.

But here's where the magic happens. Slowly, with time, it is transformed into marble with extreme heat and pressure. It becomes compacted into a crystalline structure that is very strong and can withstand transformation.

It can then be cut, carved, shaped, and polished into anything a master builder or craftsman can imagine, and it transcends from rock to something that appears to almost be alive because it holds light.

Now, I know that what God puts in front of me is significant and mirrors what is going on in my own life.

This morning, I was wondering, "Why marble?"

So I thought about it and realized that my life experiences stack up like layers of sedimentary rock, and when I face the pressures and heat of daily challenges, with time, those layers can slowly harden and change—shaping me into my own kind of marble.

I can take that refined aspect of myself and shape it into what desire, like a craftsman.

The kicker is...it can only happen if I surrender to the process and don't fight the changes that inevitably happen with those three ingredients: time, pressure and heat.

I've had periods in my life where I've chosen to ignore them...whether it was giving myself time to experience what I need to understand something important, or avoiding an emotional situation because it was probably going to result in pain.

Dealing with pressure is an ingredient that I see many people struggle with, too. Myself included.

We all have our individual limestone base, don't we?

We have different experiences that settle to the floor of our soul, waiting to be transformed into something stronger and 'more' of itself.

But how that limestone becomes marble still requires time, pressure and heat. That's universal.

But if we choose to avoid one, two or all three of the those ingredients in our lifetime, we remain brittle and soft.

Our limestone doesn't get to transform, and that's a tragedy.

Here's some pics of the day...Marble, Colorado is a small place, with a mighty message.

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Random fact about me: It took me 6 months to summon up the courage to work with a torch in my job as a jewelry designer. Fire and gas scared the shit out of me.

Discovering Insights at Black Canyon of the Gunnison

It's not often that an experience leaves me breathless, but yesterday, my visit to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park did just that.

The South entrance is closed due to fire damage so we took off from Gunnison, Colorado on Hwy 50, and drove to the North entrance to the park via Hwy 92, which takes you through some breathtaking scenery.

Getting to Hwy 92 was a scenic treat, as we passed through Curecanti National Recreation Area.

The road is not heavily traveled, and there are plenty of stops along the way to get a prelude of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.

It took us a couple of hours to travel this route to the park, but the scenery is stunning and worth the extra time.

Once we navigated to the North rim, we went to the campground and took the short hike, Chasm View Trail, that puts you at the edge of the canyon.

I mean...at the edge.

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This was my approach to the first viewpoint. I was stunned. That little trickle of water down this canyon wall is the river.

It's hard to convey the sheer size of this canyon. You really have to see it to take in the scale.

I was overcome with emotion, thinking about how it took 15 million years for that little river to carve this out of rock.

This, of course, led me to contemplate the power of incremental change.

I stood there, on a rock shaped by 15 million years of incremental water flow.

What I realized is that my own self-hood is shaped not by the dramatic, book-worthy awakening story, but by the small choices I make daily.

Like choosing what I eat, drink and deem worthy of supporting my body.

Or choosing the tone of voice I use with people that need further explanation on something they don't get.

And understanding that a kind word travels farther and impacts more people than being an asshole.

I realized that we all have our own drops of water against the rock moments daily, and how those may seem insignificant in the moment, but they cut the canyon of our soul, character and general presence in the world.

We then decided to head on over to Telluride, and we had a very nice dinner and a relaxing walk around the downtown.

I'm not a winter person, but summer in this place is definitely heavenly.

A wonderful day, full of exciting and sobering realizations or reminders, depending on my state of mind.

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Random fact about me: I prefer a skort to shorts or a skirt when traveling.