Autumn Equinox: Love of the Body
Gate 46: Serendipity
Autumn Equinox: Love of the Body
Seriousness - Delight - Ecstasy
Found in the Center of Self, Gate 46 is known as the Gate of Serendipity. It is the pathway of Delight, linked to the Autumn Equinox, and the Love of the Body (or not.) As part of the Channel of Discovery, Gate 46 helps us to consider that when we honour and delight in the miraculous nature of our body, everything seems to come towards us effortlessly. Delight attracts more opportunities to experience delight, which at some point has the potential to move oneself into a state of Ecstasy, the ultimate transfiguration through Gate 46.
Understanding Serendipity
Serendipity occurs when you just happen to show up at the right time, and in the right place, to receive something beneficial. Perhaps you engage in the right conversation, you find what you were searching for, or receive a piece of the puzzle to help move you forward along your path. You could consider it luck or good fortune, and those with Gate 46 have access to a consistent energy flow to support this if your Center of Self is defined (colored in), and opportunities to experience this if you are undefined (appears white in your chart). Those without this gate in their personal design will still reap the rewards if they trust in the flow, as we experience all gates and activations at certain points throughout the year as they are stimulated within the cosmos.
Remember, you exist within a living information field fed primarily through neutrinos streaming down from the sun, and transits crossing through the galaxy. Neutrinos are the smallest known form of energy particles, and millions are steaming into your aura every second of the day, as it is for us all. Call it chance, fate, fortune, luck, what matters the most is dependent on your attitude and willingness to both trust and be guided by life. What tends to get in the way, is the shadow of seriousness.
Serendipity is magnetic. The Center of Self is our magnetic monopole, pulling things directly towards itself. It is our place of identity, direction, love, and keeps us on the course of our highest good. You cannot detach from your destiny, but you can struggle, ignore the signs, and repeat certain life lessons until you break free of what is not in alignment to your path. Think of this as a spider’s web. We become caught in a web of our own deception whenever we lie to ourselves or become overwhelmed by emotions or fears. This creates the struggle and the more “entrapped” you will become. To free yourself, one must first stop struggling. Becoming still enough to allow for a clear, honest vision of what is entangling you. Preceded by a careful, gentle disentanglement that only through your full acceptance and claiming personal responsibility to change, can you then disentangle yourself, creating the space required for forward movement once again. This is life. The web is symbolic of our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and fears. Aka, what you create into form. The spider is your true self. Often feared for its creative power and potential.
Gate 46 and its relationship to the Fall Equinox provides another opportunity to reflect upon the balance within life that is always in existence. The Fall Equinox is a representation of equal darkness and light. The completion of the fullness of the harvest and the transition now into death, which will then undergo another alchemical change to be offered at the coming of the Spring Equinox as rebirth. New life. New opportunity. Question is, can you surrender to trusting in the natural flow of the universe and its need for you to show up when called forward and to rest when you are not? This is serendipity. Attitude is everything. Trust is everything. And you are asked to deepen this trust through the love of your body. Your vessel that houses your spirit.
Shadow of Seriousness
We tend to take ourselves and life too seriously. Judging experiences as good or bad, or having an expectation of a certain desired outcome. In other words, we forget that we are part of the whole. We are part of the universal body. We have been conditioned to this small view of ourselves. This idea that we can control what is not ours to control, or that we are responsible for another’s life experiences, emotions, their state of happiness. You cannot will another to be taller than their DNA programmed for their journey, so why do we feel a responsibility to adhere to another’s desired state of being? Why is it your responsibility to make sure everyone gets along, that work runs smoothly, that the vibrational energy stays high? Why do your shoulders carry the weight of the world and your place within it?
In all seriousness, what are your needs, your wants and your desires? Are you trying to stay safe? Comfortable? To manage your time and schedule? To not be inconvenienced by life? This is how the shadow so easily creeps in, and it’s deeply seeded within our genetic programming. The concept of right / wrong, good / bad, worthy / unworthy, has deepened the shadow of seriousness and placed a tight grip upon the body. Only you will be able to find the balance, this sweet point of shadow and light within yourself. To use your human journey and life itself to love your body, your vessel, and to honor what it asks of you.
Richard Rudd shares within the teachings of the Gene Keys for Gate 46.
“Seriousness is about how deeply submerged we are in the drama. If we could see that every thought, word, deed, and act we make has direct consequences for our future, the world would clean itself up really fast.”
Seriousness is about attachments. Attachment to an opinion, an expectation, a personal outcome. Attachment leads to disappointment. Disappointment leads to distrust, dissatisfaction, disempowerment. Gate 46 in the Human Design bodygraph is reaching downwards towards the sacral, drawing from it life force energy. So what are you fueling? The shadow or the light? The love of the body, or not? Do you trust in yourself and the laws of the universe that draw us to be in exactly the right place at the right time?
We are each tasked with the responsibility to create our moments and our future. Gate 46: Serendipity offers the ingredients of seriousness and delight for you the creator to alchemize and find just the right balance. To do this, one must honour and trust in the way your body responds to life. If you are holding yourself too seriously, this will be felt as a restriction in the body. Tight muscles, tight mind, tight or loose bowels, restricted breath, rigidness. Perhaps take a moment to consider how you personally experience seriousness.
The Way of Delight
To explain the Way of Delight, I lean upon Richard Rudd’s teachings of the Gene Keys, which takes Human Design into another level. It's delightful to know that we have so many great teachers and modalities of inspiration to lean upon as we contemplate for ourselves what each gate truly means and offers. In Richard’s own contemplation on Gate 46: Serendipity, delight only comes through having a beginner’s mind. It is a realization of the principles of karma. The understanding that our acts, thoughts, and words really do have an impact and that returns to us. This particular Gate or Gene Key is connected to our physical body and internal organs, which developed between birth and the age of 7. In particular how we explore our world through taste. This is an igniting of our senses and you are given an opportunity to re-enact this developmental time frame at any point of your journey.
You can start today to soften your seriousness through discovering, “What delights you? What habits can you cultivate that your body truly enjoys instead of engaging in fleeting pleasures that you may pay for later? Delight is in creating long lasting results. You may take delight in getting your haircut, going for a massage, exercising, cooking and enjoying good food. Engaging in meaningful sex, savoring the moments, taking your time. Having a luxurious bath. Wearing clothes that feel a certain way on your body. Sampling the flavors of life, new places, new cultures, new experiences. Notice what comes up for you. Pay attention to how your body responds to delight. What sensation is created? Where do you feel it? When have you experienced it?
The way of delight has tremendous potential in the workplace, home, and in interactions with others. It is a light touch that comes from the heart, cutting through the seriousness and rigidity of life created through deep attachment, and in its place offering freedom, exploration, appreciation for life itself. It is our birthright to enjoy life.
The Way of Delight placed into your hands creates a Master of living life well. Only you can integrate your shadow of seriousness through infusing the gift of delight. A life lived well, understands that each side has a role to play. Just as the Autumn Equinox shows us the perfect balance of darkness and light, so too are we tasked with discovering the sweet spot between being serious and delightful. The ultimate gift in the balance of these two ingredients is Ecstasy. Our creation of Heaven here on Earth. Ecstasy begins in the breath. Deeply breathing, not by force, but through a relaxed and open way of being.
Lisa Richard, Lightworker Coach / Human Design Guide
Resources
“Human Design. Discover the Person You Were Born to Be.” Chetan Parkyn
“The 64 Ways. Personal Contemplations on the Gene Keys”, Richard Rudd
“The Book of Lines. A 21st Century View of the IChing, the Chinese Book of Changes.” Chetan Parkyn.
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LISA RICHARD
An intuitive and sensitive empath, Lisa is a certified Lightworker Coach, Emotion Code Practitioner, Reiki Master/Teacher, Business Innovator, and certified Living Your Design Guide through the International Human Design School.
With a passion in energy work and strong background working with top executives in the post secondary sector, Lisa combines science and spirituality to create unlimited potential for growth.
Lisa empowers others to embrace and discover their authentic self, bringing forward their own healing abilities, gifts, and stepping into their full potential.
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