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Corinne O'Flynn (00:00):
Hey there, my
name is Corinne O'Flynn and
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small businesses.
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owners like you how to organizeyour business, find more time
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the Calm Entrepreneur podcast.
Welcome, welcome to the CalmEntrepreneur podcast.
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I'm your host, corinne O'Flynn,and this is episode 38.
So I just got back from my firstever human design conference
and it was the InternationalHuman Design Conference here in
Colorado and holy cow, you guys,this was like next level for me
.
I don't think I have ever spentso much time in a space full of
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so much energy-aware peopleLike there's.
Everybody there was like on thesame track with energy, work
and human design and you knowbecoming and the possibilities.
It felt so amazing and meetingso many people who were speaking
the language of human designwas it was really kind of
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profound.
Some of the people there weremany years into their human
design learning, where I'mcoming up on two years in my
journey with human design and Icame away feeling so inspired
and seeing all of these peoplein such an aspirational way and
I you know I want to deepen myunderstanding of human design so
much more now than I ever didbefore and I really wanted to
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before, so that's truly veryexciting for me.
But one of the things that gotme really buzzing was the
conversation that I had had withsomeone who had many years of
experience in their human designlearning and I was talking to
them about my desire to overlaymy executive functioning
coaching with human design andreally lean into where all of
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those skills live in the chart.
And you know what I'm trying todo, or what I'm doing.
Actually I'm not trying, I'mdoing it.
I'm developing a framework toguide my entrepreneur clients
through their own strengths andgrowth areas to transform their
relationship with their businessbased on their human design,
and it's really interesting tolook at the chart and see how
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each of us are meant to useenergy, the potentials in our
purpose and all the archetypallessons that we are here to
learn and we're here to use astools for contemplation and for
growth.
It's also really cool to seethe mechanics of the world in
the chart and this is, you know,it takes kind of like a
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mind-flip because there's allthis personal stuff about you
and the way that you operate,but then when you strip away the
person, the personal stuff, thechart itself has a lot of
mechanics in it, like there'sthings like mental health and
our physicality and thescientific process and even yeah
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, even executive functioningskills.
So I just I came away from thisweekend feeling like I had had
like an otherworldly kind ofexperience, because it was one
of those things where everythingclicked and everything
resonated and the amount oflearning I did kind of blew my
mind.
Like I'm still, you know, I'vebeen back for a couple of days
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now and I'm still just kind oflike floating in it and trying
to let it all you know, sink inand digest, while I just kind of
let myself be Human.
Design is also known as thescience of differentiation,
because it's learning about whowe are right, who are unique
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people, how we are so completelydifferent from everybody else,
and that's our strength, right.
It's about what we are here tolearn, what we are here to be
and how to follow our uniquestrategy to embody our purpose,
assume our right place in theworld.
You know, and being ourselvesis what we're here to be Like.
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When we talk about purposethrough the lens of human design
, human design is all about whatyou're here to be, not what
you're here to do.
It's not your vocation.
It's how you embody theenergetics of your purpose, and
in doing so, you inspire otherpeople, and that's our job.
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Like that's the purpose Inbeing ourselves.
We inspire others to do thesame for themselves, and when we
are all being wholly ourselves,can you imagine what that world
would be like?
You know, and that's what it'sall about, and so one of the
things that I've been digginginto, along with my human design
studies, is cosmic weather.
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Right, it's the astrology of itall and how the transits in the
cosmos inform the energies thatwe're dealing with here on
Earth, and this week, the cosmicweather report.
The message transcends anyone'sinterest in cosmic weather and
gets really to the core ofsomething that I think applies
to all of us and that isself-worth.
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So, when we look at thetransits in the sky, the sun and
the Earth are two of thecelestial bodies that we really
track in human design, becauseit matters, because our human
design chart, the definition inour chart, is informed by the
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position of all these things inthe heavens when we were born.
And then we are impacted as wego through our life, every
single day, by what's going onand which gates are being
illuminated by the differentthings.
And so the sun moves through adifferent gate every six days or
so, and so we are thenconfronted with different energy
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, and so this week's weatherreport shares that the sun is in
gate 47.
And that means that the earthis in gate 22.
Now, gate 47 is all aboutmindset, and in the traditional
human design it's called thegated realization, and in the
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I'Ching it's called the gate ofoppression.
And it's interesting theI'Ching calls it oppression,
because what they're talkingabout is mindset.
They're talking about like youare as free as you believe you
are, or you are as imprisoned asyou believe you are.
Your thoughts create yourreality.
Your thoughts inform everysingle thing that you do, and in
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the case of quantum humandesign, the position of your
mind is the most powerful thingthat there is, because we are
here to change the story of whowe are and find a story that's
big enough to hold all thepotential for all the things
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that we are here to be as peopleand we are here to be in
humanity.
And so gate 47 is all aboutmindset, and the location of the
gate is in the ajna, which isone of the head gates, and it
talks about the pressure tofigure out how right, and it's
one of those times where we'reasked to hold on to this idea
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right, see the potential and thepossibility of an idea or a
dream, without knowing how it'sgoing to come to be.
And so this is why I wanted toshare this with you this week,
because, in order for you toopen yourselves up, to trust
that you don't have tounderstand how something is
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going to be, just that you'regonna hold on to that idea until
it comes to be, you're gonnafollow the next right steps,
you're gonna do all those things.
The only way that you are ableto really do that is through
trust that you are actuallybeing supported by the universe,
by the energy, by manifesting,by source, by God, whatever it
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is that resonates with you andthe language that you speak
about all of these things.
So gate 47, the gate of mindsetasks us to hold on to the dream
, despite the fact that we don'tknow how.
And the earth gate that we'rein right now is gate 22, which
is the gate of grace, which isalso the gate of surrender.
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And the only way that you canactually allow yourself to
surrender is through trustingthat you are supported.
And it's called in traditionalhuman design and also in the
I'Ching, it's the gate of graceand in quantum human design we
call it the gate of surrender.
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And it is all about knowingthat you are truly supported by
the flow, that abundance isavailable to you, that you can
pursue your passion and followyour energy to the next right
step with this underlying trust,with faith, knowing, knowing
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with a capital K right, knowingin your body that you will be
supported, that you aresupported, that you will know
what you need to know when it'stime to know it, that you will
meet the people you're supposedto meet when it's time to meet
them.
And that's really hard.
And the reason why it's reallyhard is because the core of this
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trust, the ability to have thistrust, is based in self-worth,
and when we don't truly believethat we are worthy of the
abundance, worthy of the dream,worthy of the thing that we're
trying to hold onto right, thisimage of possibility, this
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future goal, this aspirationalthing.
If we don't truly believe allthe way down in our core that we
are worthy, then that'ssomething that is causing us not
to have that thing realized.
And it's not enough to say,yeah, I believe I deserve right.
It's not and it's not aboutdeserving the thing.
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It's about deserving supportand it's about being worthy of
support and being able to knowagain, with a capital K know in
your body, in your core, withoutquestion, that everything that
you need will present itself inright time, right when the
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circumstances and the place andthe people, and when everything
comes together to be right.
That that's when something'sgoing to drop in for you.
End the shadow of this.
The reason why we can't, is allabout trust.
And if you can't truly trust,if you don't truly believe that,
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isn't because you don't believethat actually comes back into
self-worth.
I don't believe that I amworthy, I don't believe that I
am deserving, I don't believethat I am going to be rewarded
or supported or provided forbecause of some self-worth issue
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, and those are the things thatwe do the work on in human
design.
So human design is the scienceof differentiation right and the
purpose of human design.
It came to us in a time when wewere what Ra Uru Hu, the man
who channeled this system.
When we are in the not self andmost of us live in the not self
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, like the not self is ourconditioned environment.
It's our conditioned experience.
It's something that happens tous simply because we're alive in
the world today, if you live ina community and if you are part
of the systems, the governmentand the school and all the
things around us, then you'reconditioned.
All of us are conditioned, andthe work of deconditioning is
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life's work.
I don't believe it's somethingthat you actually graduate from
truly.
I think that there'll always besomething more to work on,
although you can make incredibleamounts of progress when you
truly do dig into your design.
But most of the things well, I'mgoing to say all of the things
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everything in human design isabout becoming the highest
expression, becoming the optimalexpression of who we are here
to be, and the healing of all ofthat comes back to self-worth.
In all of the places there'sthese facets of self-worth like
I am, worthy, I choose, I amcompassion, I am, and the work
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there.
It's just really beautiful.
But the reason why I'm sharingthis with you this week is
because the transits this weekspoke about this really
beautifully the sun is in Gate47 and the earth is in Gate 22,
which is all about mindset andsurrender.
And surrender because you knowyou're supported.
And the question it asks is doyou trust?
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Do you truly trust?
And if you don't truly trust,instead of working on trusting,
work on why you think you're notworthy of it, because if you
don't believe that you'resupported or that you will be
supported, it's because youdon't believe that you are
worthy of that support, and sothat then changes the thing that
you work on from something morepractical, tactical into
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something more heart-based,which is really where all the
work needs to be done anyway.
Right, and what's interestingabout this week's message is we
right now, I believe we stillhave six planets in retrograde
and the retrograde energy.
I know we all talk aboutMercury being retrograde.
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I found this really funny memefrom somebody that was like,
okay, so Mercury's in themicrowave this week, so you know
, nothing's going right, and Ithink it gets a bad rap.
And I think that when we talkabout Mercury retrograde and we
simplify it all the way down tolike oh, things are going
sideways, because I think thatit's diminishing the power of
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what's actually happening.
And if you don't understandwhat it means to be retrograde,
basically we are observing theseplanets as they move in their
orbits, but as they move intheir orbits they're not moving
in a straight line, becausewe're moving in the same
direction as they are andbecause we're closer to the sun,
we're moving faster.
So imagine like we're on aracetrack and the planets that
are further away, or actuallythe planets that are closer in,
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they move.
Either they lap us or we lapthem in our orbit around the sun
.
And when we are passing eachother, it appears as though they
are moving backwards.
It looks like they stop andthen they move backward and then
they pause and then they moveforward again, and when they're
in that pause and that quoteunquote backward, because it
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really isn't backward momentumat all.
It just appears that way fromhere on Earth.
That's what we call aretrograde cycle, and what the
retrograde cycle is telling usis pause, right.
The message is take a break,have a moment of peace, go
within like, seek the quiet sothat you can organize everything
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for when we're back in motionagain.
And so right now, with sixplanets in retrograde, there's
this huge amount of hurry up andwait, hurry up and wait, and
we're standing here like to keepon with the race track analogy
we're at the starting line andwe're all revved up and we're
ready to go, and it's like vroom, vroom and we're just waiting,
waiting to be released.
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And the feeling that we getduring these cycles of
retrograde is this feeling offrustration, right, feeling of
stuckness, and it causes us torelease our hold on the dream,
on the desire, and you knowthat's the wrong move.
What we're supposed to do ishold on to it, and not in a
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grasping kind of a way, but justto embrace the dream, embrace
the idea of the thing that we'retrying to achieve, and don't
allow that frustration to makeus quit and trust that things
are going to flow again and whenthey do, we will be supported.
Like isn't that?
Like just the most beautifulthing?
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I think that, you know, weworry so much about how things
work and we worry about howwe're going to figure things out
, and we worry about having itall understood before we take
action.
And the lesson for this week'senergy is all about releasing
how and just trusting and, youknow, using surrender, using the
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gate 22, the gate of surrenderto release and this is the Jesus
take the wheel energy.
Right, this is let go and letGod and this is, you know,
letting yourself be held by theuniverse.
So if you are right now feelingthese energies and you're
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feeling like you can't moveforward and you feel like you're
in your engine and you haven'tbeen able to take off the brake
and put your car into drive,hold on right, hold on a little
bit longer because you know it'salmost here.
But when it comes, the reasonthat you've got here, the reason
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why you made it through, isbecause you've trusted and
really journal about that.
Like, like, find ways to diginto that contemplation.
Right, when you feel into thisenergy, like ask yourself, do I
feel hopeful or do I feeldespairing?
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You know, when I let go ofreally wanting to know how?
You know, how does it feel inmy body to just release that and
say you know what?
I'm just going to go with itand let the universe provide.
What can you do to cultivatethat belief?
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Like, what can you do to reallywork on any self worth stuff
that is holding you back here,because you know one of the
magical things about anythingwhere we're doing growth,
learning but mostly I see it sooften in human design it's you
know, when you startcontemplating a single gate or a
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single transit and you'retrying to understand what
something means for you, youreally start to dig into things
and you start shedding light onit.
And the moment you are aware ofsomething in you, or you are
aware of a pattern that you have, or you're aware of something
that continues, a theme thatcontinues to show up in your
life, the moment that you placeawareness on it, it starts to
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unpack.
And so what is it about yourresistance to this belief, this
faith, this trust?
What is it that's holding youthere?
You know that would be a reallygreat place to dig in.
You know, because, even thoughit is frustrating not to know
how to make something happen,you know trusting in divine
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timing, trusting in divineinsight, you know trusting that
the right information will berevealed when the time is right
is not easy, but it is the keyright, it is the way through.
So you know, where are youdenying yourself the opportunity
to pursue a passion?
Because you don't know how it'sgoing to go.
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Like, are you holding back ongoing after something that you
really want or going aftersomething that really lights you
up?
And you're holding back becauseyou can't figure out how that's
the energy for this week andwhat can you do to reclaim the
power of that passion?
Because when you are driventowards something, when you have
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a fire lit inside you forsomething, the fact that you
want it is the signal that isthe proof that it's for you.
That's all there is.
The desire is the cause ofeverything that's going on in
the world.
Desire is not something that wehave to validate.
Desire is the validation.
If you are holding back andholding yourself back from
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really moving forward onsomething that you want and
really moving forward onsomething that you want to
explore whether that is actuallydoing something.
This could be learning.
This could be just bringingsomething into the world.
It could be anything under thesun.
This week's sun asks you what isyour mindset around this?
Do you trust that you arecompletely supported?
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If not, how can you heal that?
What needs attention here?
To get you back on track?
Because that track is availableto every single one of us.
I know that when we let go andlet God and say the words Jesus
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take the wheel.
I believe I am supported.
That's when the magic happens.
My friends, that's all I've gotfor you this week.
Thank you so much for listeningto me.
I feel like I'm on a magicalmystery tour and I just love
that all of you are along theride with me.
Thank you, and I will see younext time.
And remember, part of being acalm entrepreneur is developing
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the systems, habits and know-howthat lets you know that you are
the one in the driver's seatfor your business.
You get to choose how you thinkand you get to choose how you
work.
So you got this, my friends.
Thank you for listening.