Transit: Human Design Sun in Gate 62 • Earth in Gate 61

I’ve sat with this blog for the entire length of the transit, and then some.
What I wrote originally was more of a personal excavation than a public reflection. It was raw, honest, and tangled up in the dynamic of my marriage where I’ve often found myself trying to explain, justify, or prove my knowledge in order to be understood.
That original version helped me process something important, but it didn’t need to be shared in full. That’s part of the energy of this transit too.
Because Gate 61 stirs the pressure to understand the unknowable.
And Gate 62 wants to put language to it all.
Together, they had me trying to name everything when maybe it was never meant to be named.
For days I thought about just skipping this post entirely.
But I made a commitment to myself to document each transit this year.
And deep down, I knew there was still something here. Something worth distilling.
So here it is: late, but true. A reflection not on what I figured out, but on what I’ve come to trust.

☀️ Sun in Human Design Gate 62: Details

Gate 62 is not defined in my chart.
But it is my husband’s Conscious Sun, and I’ve been living in the presence of that energy for over 30 years.
It’s only through Human Design, that I’ve started to understand just how much I’ve been conditioned by it. How deeply I’ve internalized the belief that clarity comes from being able to explain things. That if I can’t name what I’m feeling, then maybe it isn’t valid. That understanding is only real when it’s logical.
That belief doesn’t come from me, it comes from his defined Ajna, his Gate 62, his very specific way of thinking. And living inside that mental field for decades has shaped my inner dialogue more than I realized.
So when this transit brought the Sun to Gate 62, I felt it intensely. Not just as a pressure to communicate, but as a familiar echo of my marriage dynamic, the unspoken tug-of-war between logic and knowing, words and wisdom, explanation and intuition.
A quiet questioning:
“Can you prove what you feel?”
“Can you explain why you know what you know?”
“Will it matter if you can’t?”
This is the shadow of Gate 62 and it can expand when it meets the openness of someone like me.
And this week, I could feel it pulling at me again.

🌍 Earth in Human Design Gate 61: Inner Knowing

Gate 61 lives in the Head Center, a center of pressure, not action. It pushes us to understand, to explain, to know… even when there are no clear answers to be found.
Gate 61 is the Gate of Inner Truth, an inspired knowing that rises from within, beyond logic. But in its shadow, this energy warps into psychosis. That might sound extreme, but the essence of the shadow is this: mental spiraling, obsessing, over-identifying with a need to make sense of something unknowable. It’s when the drive to understand becomes so consuming that we lose touch with the present moment and with ourselves.
That’s where I found myself last week.
This gate isn’t defined in my chart, but it is my husband’s Conscious Earth. I’ve been immersed in this frequency for over 30 years, and when the Earth activated it in the transit, I felt an additional layer of that pressure come rushing in.
The pressure to figure it all out and use that gate 62 logic to name it all…
To get it right…
To make my experiences with these gates make sense.
And so, I wrote. And wrote.
Trying to extract meaning from every corner of our dynamic.
Trying to thread insight through every memory.
Trying to create something valuable out of something that was still unraveling inside me.
It was no longer a reflection. It was pressure.
And eventually, that pressure turned into disillusionment.
So I walked away. I let the blog sit. I let myself sit.
And in that pause, I accessed the gift of Gate 61: inspiration. A quiet truth that rose not through thinking harder, but through softening the grip. Not something I could explain, just something I recognized.
Because Gate 61 doesn’t promise certainty.
It reminds us that truth is not something to hold onto, it’s something that’s found in a silent mind.
And when we stop trying to figure it all out, that’s when something meaningful actually arrives.

🌀 What These Energies Are Revealing

Looking back, it’s so clear now: I got completely pulled into the shadows of both Gate 62 and Gate 61, and that’s okay. No matter how far we are in our process the shadows still play a role in helping us to level up.
Gate 62, the energy of details and organization, had me trying to name everything, line everything up, make it make sense. It’s the voice that says, “If I can just explain this clearly enough, it will finally feel resolved.” But paired with the pressure from Gate 61, which was stirring up this deep internal demand to understand the unknowable, it was a recipe for spiraling.
The more I tried to articulate the insights I was having about my marriage, how 30 years of exposure to my husband’s defined ajna had shaped my thinking, the more entangled I became in the mental loops of “getting it right.”
These two energies can be powerful allies. Gate 61’s gift is inspiration. Gate 62’s gift is precision. Together, they can bring mystical clarity to what might otherwise remain intangible. But when both gates are operating from their shadows, psychosis and intellect, they feed each other in a kind of hyperactive analysis that loses the plot entirely.
And that’s what I did.
I lost the plot.
I mistook the pressure to understand for a call to publish. I let the energy of mental certainty override the deeper truth: that some things are still unfolding. Some things are meant to be witnessed quietly before they are named aloud.
But here’s what I also realized: this blog wasn’t a failure. It was a catalyst.
It showed me how easily I can still get swept into borrowed energy, especially energy I’ve lived alongside for decades. It reminded me how much pressure my undefined Head and open Ajna still hold when they think there is something to prove. And it gave me a lived experience of how Gate 61 can pull us away from ourselves unless we pause long enough to let inspiration rise in silence.
This past week didn’t give me a polished revelation.
But it gave me perspective.
And that’s worth sharing.

🔮 Current Transit Influences & Key Themes

This wasn’t a week for clean answers or easy conclusions. With so much retrograde energy and a flurry of mental and emotional activations, it makes sense that the pressure to know (Gate 61) and the desire to articulate meaning (Gate 62) felt overwhelming.
💫 Mars continued in Gate 64, forming the full Channel of Abstraction (64-47) with the South Node.
This kept mental energy on high alert—memories, questions, unprocessed experiences looping through the mind, seeking resolution. It wasn’t about logic; it was about meaning-making through reflection, sifting through the fog of the past to find new insight.
💫 Saturn stationed retrograde in Gate 25.4 on July 13, joining Pluto and Neptune already in retrograde.
Both Saturn and Neptune activated Gate 25, the gate of Innocence and Spirit, while Pluto’s retrograde in Gate 41 fueled pressure to imagine new beginnings and dream into what’s next. These aren’t fast-moving shifts—they’re collective initiations. The kind that ask: What purity of heart do we bring to our visions? Are our beginnings rooted in integrity?
✨ Retrogrades, especially in outer planets, are not setbacks—they are invitations.
Invitations to revisit, review, reflect. This particular retrograde moment felt especially spiritual. Like a call to examine not just what we’re doing, but why—and whether our actions are still aligned with our deeper purpose.
💫 The Moon’s Emotional Solar Plexus Tour added emotional waves throughout the week.
Starting in Gate 49 (Principles) and traveling through 30, 37, 36, and 22, the Moon’s movement reactivated several emotional channels—including a brief connection with Pluto in 41, forming the 30-41 channel of recognition and desire. By midweek, it had landed in Gate 25, joining Saturn in that deep reflective space.
💫 Venus moved into Gate 35 on July 14, and the Moon transited Gate 36 on July 15, briefly reactivating the Channel of Transitoriness (35-36).
This brought an emotional charge to how we pursue experiences, how we move through contrast, and how we assign meaning to life events—especially in relationships and storytelling.
💫 On July 16, the Moon in Gate 17 created the full Channel of Acceptance (17-62) for several hours.
This added another layer of mental energy and pressure to organize thoughts, share opinions, and make sense of the intangible—fueling the desire to say something smart, even when we weren’t sure what we believed.

🔥 How this might have been showing up:

• Feeling mentally saturated or foggy, like your thoughts were skipping in loops
• Emotional nostalgia rising as memories surfaced for reevaluation
• Wanting to be precise—but doubting whether your words were enough
• Feeling unsure whether what you’re sharing is for you, or for someone else
• A deep internal reckoning around how you’ve learned to lead, teach, and trust your inner wisdom
✨ Reflection Questions:
🔹 Where have I been assigning too much weight to finding the “right” words?
🔹 What ideas or insights need more time in the quiet before being shared?
🔹 How have I been conditioned to seek answers—and is that conditioning still useful?
🔹 What would it feel like to sit with the mystery, without trying to explain it away?

💡 Navigating This Transit With Awareness

This week reminded me that even when a blog doesn’t arrive “on time,” it can still be perfectly timed. I’ve learned that part of tracking transits isn’t just sharing what I know—sometimes it’s about not knowing, and choosing to pause anyway. To write for myself first, and only later decide what to bring forward.
Gate 61 teaches us that truth doesn’t come from answering every question or organizing every thought. Truth lives in the silent moments—those flashes of inspiration that rise when the mind softens its grip. And Gate 62? It reminds us that language is powerful, but it can never fully capture the depth of what we know in our bones.
So if you’ve been feeling like your thoughts are spiraling, or you’re questioning whether what you have to say is enough, you’re not alone. These transits may be whispering that it’s time to trust the process of knowing without naming. To stay curious. To step back from the pressure to make it make sense—and instead let the mystery guide you toward the insight that’s yours to share.

☄️ Remember: Transits are invitations, not mandates. They offer a lens—not a limitation. You are not here to get it “right.” You’re here to stay present, curious, and in relationship with the energy. You’re here to trust yourself.

💡 New to tracking transits? Read my blog on how to work with these energies:
Simplify in 2025: Finding Clarity Through Human Design Transits

🎥 Want to hear more about these gates in conversation?
Watch the replay of our Transit Talk episode for Gate 62 and Gate 61:
📺 Watch on YouTube
🎧 Listen on Apple or Spotify

🌀 The next wave is already moving. I’ll share the new blog for Gate 56 and Gate 60 soon—and you can catch our conversation about it in the latest Transit Talk.