Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin

In this episode of Upon Awakening, I talk with Erin Reese – astrologer, psychologist, and writer. Listeners will recognizer her name, as I have been quoting her for some time, regularly tuning into her astrology forecasts. I am honored to present our conversation here, where I ask her to read for us and share her wisdom around Love as Intimacy with What Is. She describes Love as “not a feeling, or...

Sunday through Thursday 1/11-1/15 our Sun transits Gate 61: Mystery, Inner Truth, Inspiration and Sanctity. Enjoy these days of “The Divine Door” by getting still in the body, at peace, or in your breath. Rudd says once we end our Psychosis, the gifts of Inspiration and Sanctity naturally come. We may be able to live in our shadows of Disenchantment and Fanaticism. But it is not really living now...

This week, our Sun transits Gate 54 in the Human Design mandala. The thing about Greed is it is mistaking winning with the process of playing. Acquisition is not prosperity. The secret of material success and of spiritual success are found when we experience them as one and the same. We can be confident because our existence itself has a plan for us. “The Way Knows the Way.” And we are designed to...

This week Tuesday-Sunday, our Sun transits Gate 38: Opposition. Struggle is part of life. How much meaning and purpose we give to our life determines how much meaning and purpose our struggles have. The more we are attuned to the depth of our being, the more we can experience Opposition as the transforming nature of life. We can easily mistrust life, and want to fight the world in our desire for f...

This week our sun transits Gate 58: The Joyous. What are you doing with your life on Earth? “Why are you “there”, when you’re everywhere?” – to quote John Lennon. Bliss is our nature and our birthright. It cannot be faked, and according to Richard Rudd, our dissatisfaction will continue to point us to our true nature: Bliss. We tap our Vitality in our silence, aligning, discretion and care. We All...

Saturday through Wednesday (12-20 to 12-24), our Sun transits Gate 10: Being Human, Treading, Love of the Self, with the Gene Keys of Naturalness, Being, and Self-Obsession – the unique soul spark, the Atman inside the heart, integrating into the voice, intuition, and creative source. This is called Treading. It’s the Behavior of the Self with a capital “S” in this life. This is my gate of Vocatio...

A conversation with Liva Nayeli. We talk about “depth with delight”, hypnotherapy, the subconscious, being fully here in this moment, the magic of receiving, bringing joy in offering, strengthening connection in life through collaborating in new ways, and sharing authentically. This touches on manifesting and keys to manifesting wealth and a full life. She shares a practice to do this with us, too...

The sun transits Gate 11 this week. Monday-Friday. Ideas, Idealism, The Mind of Light, and the Language of Light. I call it Ideation. And Ideation is an important part of manifesting the best world and life. Even the “unimaginable” can become manifest in the Language of Light as this gift carries the potential for our imaginations to be illuminated by divine will. This enters the mind as thought a...

This week our sun transits Gate 26: The Sacred Salesperson. This gift is all about imagining an abundant future for others, selling, and the right use of willpower. This is a great time to know thyself, and love thyself. Whenever someone works with you, hires you, or buys your product, they are “buying” your energy, your frequency, your enthusiasm, your gifts, and your natural magic. This is a gre...

James Governale and I have an expansive conversation around the Full Moon this week (fullest at midday Thursday Dec. 4th 3:30pm Pacific). How the Full Moon draws out the polarity between Sagittarius and Gemini is discussed as a spectrum of experiential knowledge we can choose to engage with. The presence of the Moon’s nodes in Pisces and Virgo add dimension to the workings of this Full Moon. Bring...

Wednesday-Sunday [Dec 3-7], our Sun will be transiting Gate 5: Patience. The energy here is to listen to our inner timing to create healthy habits, rituals, and patterns. If the foundation is laid in this inner listening and inner timing, our patience becomes very active and vital. We are able to channel the Timelessness of our Being into life’s natural rhythms. Like the shadow of Hunger, our Impa...

What is there to be so Determined about? Your inner magic, your Heart’s Magic, is immortal, invincible. It has dreams. And when our dreams are this natural, so deeply natural, all they want to do is become fulfilled. Accepting all that is, and knowing just what is essential and where to put our focus. You become the one who is helping that Heart Dream happen. This is the Determination we are talki...

Have you felt your Majesty lately? Saturday through Thursday (Nov 22-27), our Sun transits Gate 34: Gate of Power. This gate is about the difference between Power and Force. Between outer Force and Inner Strength. Each of us has the gift inner power, and when naturally expressed it is unselfconscious and Majestic. It is simply the right application of our power and in divine timing, responding and...

This week (Sunday through Friday, Pacific) the sun transits Gate 14: Power Skills. The shadow here is Compromise, which is really about inner compromise; Doing what we know is not right for us. When we do what is resonant with out inner wisdom, inner authority and actual gifts and innate genius, we show our Competence. We know it by our efficiency, flair, enthusiasm, and flexibility. I talk about...

Gate 43 will be active Tuesday through Saturday, Pacific time (Nov 11-15). Breakthrough, Crashing Through, Determination, Insight, and Inner Wisdom are all key here. The paradox to insight is that it is not found in the mind. Our greatest Insight and Epiphany come when we listen to what our body is telling us. Our feelings, sensations, intuition, instinct, or inner knowing are our wholeness. The s...

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This week, Friday-Tuesday, our sun transits Gate 44: Coming to Meet. This gate is about Teamwork and Patterns that keep us supported and supportive, and those that cause Interference. Looking at our karma and clearing it can be of great benefit. We can forgive the past. There is a simple tool we can bring to protect our sovereignty while supporting our interdependence; silence. Listen for meditati...

This week the sun transits Gate 28: Great Preponderance. Our fear of death keeps us in our “sin” and keeps our inner demons in the dark. With courage of heart, and knowledge of our true gifts – ourselves, we can see life for what it is; a game. Our great challenge in life is to let it come, and play our part. Listen for insights around sin, demons, death, immortality, and more. This is a public ep...

This week (Sunday through Friday, Oct 19-24) our Sun transits Gate 50: Cosmic Order. We take for granted how much we are all working together to support each other. Life is always helping life. We are so adjusted to a baseline of dysfunction, of struggle, of failing systems and false promises, we forget our natural state is Harmony. We are designed to resonate our gifts and to share those as meeti...

Monday-Saturday (Oct 13-18), our sun transits Gate 32: Preservation, Failure, and Veneration. The only constant is change. Impermanence is our spiritual reality. What endures? What is worth enduring? We only fail when we cut ourselves off from the whole. “Failures” in life are needed to further what sustains us. What doesn’t work must fall away for what does to work. This week we have the ability...

This week, Tuesday-Sunday Oct 7-12, our sun transits Gate 57: Intuition. The shadow here is Unease, what happens when we don’t trust our Intuition. If we put our authority outside ourselves, in expert authority, peer pressure, rationalization, or any other form of understanding that is not within us, we are subject to this feeling of Unease. However, we can simply remain calm, trust our Intuition,...

This week, Thursday through Monday (Oct 2-6 Pacific), our sun transits Gate 48: The Well; Wisdom. This gift of Wisdom is really about the gift of Resourcefulness, tapping something within us that has a answer for every need. That is our nature, because it is the essence of nature; Creative Intelligence. The shadow here is very sad, because we have been made to feel we are not enough. We feel Inade...

Friday through Wednesday (Sept 26- Oct 1), our sun transits Gate 18, Judgement, Integrity, and Perfection. This week we can experience the limits of our victim mindset. We can simply bring awareness to our Judgement, and see it for what it is: the shadow of our great gift of Integrity. Integrity is really about integration. Wholeness. Ultimately this takes us to the healing potential within everyo...

Sunday through Friday (Sept 21-26), our sun transits Gate 46: Delight. The potential here is for embodied life, body love, and tantric wisdom to unfold in our daily life. We take life so seriously, forgetting its rhythms; thick and thin, ups and downs, ins and outs. Under our Seriousness is the feeling that we are not safe in our body. Remembering ourselves – our bliss-based nature – we bring joy...

This week, Monday through Friday (Sept 15-19), our sun transits Gate 6: Conflict. This Gate carries the gift of Diplomacy and the sacred potential of Peace. The energy of this gift is incredible. The shadow teaches us to not identify with our emotional state. Through bringing our awareness to even the most profound emotional states, this gift allows us to not live in our baseline anxiety, mistrust...