What Are You Really Nourishing?

As I sit this Monday morning after Easter, with sunlight creeping across my kitchen floor and the weight of the weekend still hanging in the air, I find myself reflecting on the idea of resurrection.

Not in the traditional sense alone — but as a lived experience. Because honestly? Resurrection, for me, can be daily. Or weekly. Or whenever I feel the pull to realign with what matters.

Today, I feel that pull.

I look outside to my backyard garden, currently overgrown with weeds. 

It needs tending.

But so do I.

I’m torn between the effort the garden needs… and the stillness my mind craves. 

And maybe — just maybe — those aren’t separate things. 

Maybe tending is rest when done with presence.

Still, like many of you, I opened Facebook for a moment. 

And suddenly: noise. 

BIG Opinions. 

CHAOTIC Energy. 

Everyone has something to say (thanks Mercury in Gate 17).

And amidst all that, I know this is transitory. 

I know these themes align with the gates currently activated by the planetary transits. 

And I also know how easy it is to get stuck in overthinking — to be influenced or irritated by other people’s opinions… and maybe even have a few loud ones of our own.

But Human Design has taught me something important: 

That acknowledging our humanness — even the shadowy parts — gives us the soil to nourish and grow something beautiful.

I realize… 

I’m hungry. But not for food. 

For something that nourishes me deeper.

That’s when I remember the current transits — and why they matter.

• Gate 27: The energy of nourishment and caregiving.

• Gate 28: The search for purpose through meaningful struggle.

• Mercury in Gate 17: The pressure to form and share opinions about what we see.

  
  

These gates are alive in me this week — and maybe in you too.

I see it in the stories my clients share:

• Overgiving to the point of exhaustion

• Feeling responsible for everyone else’s health, emotions, or success

• Getting stuck in hard challenges simply because they’re familiar

• Trying to prove a sense of meaning before actually living it

  
  

This week, the invitation is simple, but not always easy:

 Tend to your garden — literal or metaphorical 

Ask: What’s worth sustaining? What weeds need clearing? 

Stop trying to nourish what no longer feeds you

And most of all…

Care doesn’t mean constant effort. 

Struggle doesn’t equal meaning unless you choose it with intention. 

Opinion isn’t truth unless it’s rooted in experience.

In my own life, I’ve seen time and time again — and in the lives of those I serve — how these energies show up collectively. Human Design gives a beautiful language to patterns we feel but often can’t explain.

So today, I offer this reminder:

✨ You are allowed to rest. 

✨ You are allowed to change your mind. 

✨ You are allowed to be fed, not just the feeder.

Because when we honor what nourishes us, we become the ripple that feeds others — naturally, effortlessly, without resentment.

Stay tuned — I’ll be sharing more soon as I (finally) tend that garden.

With roots and ripples,

 Audra