Solar New Year

I know it's hard for you to

Change your way of life
I know it's hard for you to do
The world is full of people
Dying to be free
So if you don't my friend
There's no life for you, no world for me.

-        Where Do We Go From Here - Chicago

Now that everyone has gone through the calendar New Year, it is time to look at what Human Design refers to as the Rave New Year.  This is the Solar New Year.  This is the moment in which the Sun enters Gate 41.  Genetically, the 41^st gene is the only start or initiating codon – the start of the synthesis of a protein molecule.  In the BodyGraph, this gate lies in the Root Center at the beginning of the Stream of the Human Experiential Wave.  So the Rave New Year then is the start of a new experiential cycle for humanity.

So it is instructive to look at the Gates (or Keys in the Gene Keys) that begin with the calendar New Year and work their way around the wheel to the Rave New Year.   I won’t go into detail since this information is readily available but briefly (and I am drawing most of this straight from Ra):

·        At the calendar New Year, the Sun is in Gate 38 (Gate of Opposition) with its opposition Gate 39 (Gate of Obstruction).  This is on the Cross of Tension.  So the New Year is actually a time of turbulence not completion.  It is a time to look back at the previous cycle and see what you experienced.  Did you find Spirit and purpose?  Did it work?

·        The next Gate is Gate 54, The Marrying Maiden, the Gate of Ambition.  Its opposition is Gate 53, the Gate of New Beginnings.   This is where we start looking forward to the new beginning so that we can achieve the ambition, the transformation.  So we start to look at who our allies are (or who didn’t show up for you), who can help us in this transformation.  

·        Then the Sun enters 61, the Gate of Inner Truth and its polarity, Gate 62, the Gate of Details.   So now having examined the past cycle and investigated our environment for energetic support, we turn inward.  But it has to be based on fact, on the details.  That is where the inspiration is to be found.

·        Then finally the Sun reaches the final Gate before the New Year – Gate 60, the Gate of Limitation.  This Gate is in the Root and creates the pressure needed for pure energy to mutate into form.  Its polarity, Gate 56, The Gate of Stimulation where the mind translates human experience into language.   Once an idea is expressed verbally, the process is complete.  Accept the limitations and just let go.  Most of all let go of the Not-self.  

As with everything else in Human Design, it all hinges on living by Strategy and Authority.  I suppose the sequence as delineated is of value as a process.  It is after all a very logical approach – take the time to assess where you have come from in the cycle, evaluate your resources and processes that didn’t work,  look inside for the insight to where to go next and then let go (“Let go and let God” as Unity Church put it once).  Then you have completed the cycle and are energetically free to begin the new cycle.