Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin

Tuesday through Sunday, September 9th – 15th 2025, our sun transits Gate 47, Realization. This carries the shadow of Oppression, the gift of Transmutation, and the potential for Transfiguration. With this gate we can actualize and evolve through the “dark night of the soul”. We evolve by turning to face the dragon we are avoiding, owning our own suffering and the situation that oppresses us. As Ru...

This week, our sun transits Gate 64, Wednesday through Sunday (Sept 3-7). Traditionally called Confusion, this Gate carries the gift of Imagination and the potential for Illumination. Confusion is what precedes our clarity, and we must learn to trust ourselves to be patient enough to give it time. To see clarity arise from Confusion simply takes time. And the payoff is glorious, it is the Art of L...

This week, Thursday through Tuesday, the Sun transits Gate 40: Aloneness, in the Human Design Mandala (Aug 27-Sept 2) . The core theme here is the will to provide. But where are we coming from? Is our support for life in the flow of things? Are we forcing it, over using our willpower? This gift takes us from Struggle to Liberation when we are willing to be alone in our resolve, create boundaries,...

“Spirituality is simply how you are in the world.” I loved talking with Paul. In this conversation, we touch on our experiences in nature; the real need for contact in these times; penetrating intuitive clarity; the shadow of loneliness, and turning deeply to spirit when in need. Sometimes we don’t even know what to ask for. We can begin our prayer from there. Surrender to divine will is a deeply...

This week, Aug 22-28 (Saturday through Thursday), the sun transits gate 59: Intimacy. How are we to build intimacy? In our honesty? In our transparency? In our vulnerability? This gate moves us from our trauma to our tantra. That is, from our family and personal karma, inner wounds, trauma, and inner pain – to our embodied awareness, honestly, and capacity for true intimacy and connection. But, it...

This week, Sunday through Frdiay (Aug 17-22), the sun transits Gate 29. This gate is about Commitment, persistence. What can we commit to? There is an element of luck in trusting life. And trusting in life is really what this gift is about; trusting in the life force within the heart enough to commit to a journey through to the end. The shadow here is Halfheartedness; not being reliable because we...

This week, Monday-Saturday (Aug 11-16), the sun will be transiting Gate 4: Understanding, Intolerance, & Forgiveness. This gift is about the limits of the mind. Real Understanding is not to be found in the mind. The depth of understanding carries a powerful aspect: Forgiveness. Forgiveness within our understanding allows it to unfold completely. We forgive our mental constructs, our justifications...

This week the sun transits Gate 7 in the Human Design Mandala. (August 5th-10th, Tuesday through Sunday). This gate is all about Guidance, and the potential to lead in a coordinated effort. All efforts require shared discipline, and the deeper gift of a leader is to empower others and to be an example. The potential here is most exemplified in Virtue. And “virtue is its own reward.” It points to t...

This week, Thursday through Monday, the sun will transiting Gate 33: Mindfulness. (July 31-Aug 8). This brings the gift of being present spiritually without illusion. The opportunity for revelation and evolution is in your very presence and self-witnessing. Avalon talks about the aspects of this Gene Key, and how our Forgetting holds a gift. Through this shadow of Forgetting, humanity is being tes...

This week, from Thursday through Tuesday (July 24-29), the Sun transits Gate 31: Influence. The power to lead comes at first glance from our ability to use language (and the openness of others) to our advantage. But true influence comes from our heart, unlocking the gift of this Gate. When we let go of trying to manipulate through language, and embrace the reality that we are all living in this bi...

This week the sun transits Gate 56: Stimulation. This Gate carries the Gene Key of Enrichment, with the shadow of Distraction. We are able to examine our outmoded beliefs and fixed ideas as we collect new experiences with this gift. Reality itself is a story – and a shifting one at that! Listen to Avalon talk about the great potential of this gift for us; to evolve beyond the distractions which gi...

The Sun transits Gate 62, bringing us the gift of the “Power of the Small”, Expressed Details, true Intelligence and Impeccability. But we may mistake clear knowledge and precise details with intelligence. Only good intentions and our whole awareness can allow us to access our intelligence and not get trapped in the false intelligence of the intellect. Listen for more, as Avalon takes you through...

This week the sun transits Gate 53 in the Human Design Mandala. Development. The gift here is Expansion, the shadow is Immaturity, and the sacred potential is the nature of Evolution itself; Superabundance. We live in the illusion and cult of the Individual. The truth is that our individualities are real, but they are only a part of the forces that make them. Genius, intelligence, coherence, creat...

This week the Sun transits Gate 39: Liberation. This gift is about Provoking with Consciousness, and the part obstacles play in our evolution. Avalon shares meditations for presencing the aspects of this gift that allow us to encounter hardship as discovery, converge and troubleshoot with sensitivity to serve our Liberation. The tension that builds in life is perfectly designed to be released in o...

This week the Sun transits Gate 52: Stillness. Avalon talks through the archetype, touching on Shiva/Shatki, Samadhi, Meditation, and how the power of Stillness is the foundation for harmony, coherence, clarity, and right action. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

This week, our Sun transits Gate 15, associated with balance amidst extremes, humility, benevolence, acceptance, love of living beings, unique rhythm, and the flowering of well-being in life. Humility, integrity, sincerity, follow through without dominance, centering, fellowship and respect all factor this week as we progress through the transit. If you feel a prisoner to your mundane rhythm, get...

This week the Sun transits Gate 12: Caution. This Gate brings the gifts of poetry, fine art, pause, discrimination, and purity. When we deepen our love of what is authentic by expanding our heart, we experience art as life, and life as art. Art is ultimately meditation on transformations. It is the purity of the divine essence that threads through our existence ever drawing us to greater intellige...

June 7- 12, Saturday to Thursday this week, the Sun will transit Gate 45: Gathering Together. Listen in for a description of the collective shift from vertical to horizontal organization and the sharing of resources. “From Hierarcy to Heterarchy”. Notice how all institutions built on fear seem to crumble? We are entering a collective Cosmic Communion based on goodwill. This will allow us to doveta...

I have six affirmations for connecting to our adventurous spirit this week. Starting Monday and through Saturday we transit Gate 35; Adventure. Laying the foundation, we must hold fast in our new experiences. Then, accept the comings and goings of our muse. While combining our energies with others, not being overly impulsive in our shared enthusiasm. Being altruistic in our sharing of experiences...

Monday through Saturday, May 26-31. This week is about Enthusiasm, Skill, and Follow Through (aka sustained enthusiasm). It is about Mastery, Versatility and the magic genius that our enthusiasm can unlock for us. This gate is in the throat chakra so we find it in our performing, expressing, and putting our energy out there. We must express this energy in some way. These meditations will help us p...

In this special subscriber only content Avalon shares a very special Water Blessing . Write it down near where you keep your fresh water and take a moment each day to bless your water. Feel the difference. WATER BLESSING I am a divine being. Purity, peace, & love are my nature. I accept each one as they are. My body is perfect, healthy. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...

Starting Tuesday, May 20th the sun will be transiting Gate 20 through Sunday May 25th. In this audio transit meditation, Avalon helps us access the important themes of this gate: being present, self-awareness, cooperation, and our wisdom in The Now with quotes and meditations. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit upon...

Avalon guides you through the Sun’s transit of Gate 8: Contribution this week. We are each examples in our authenticity, and individual representations of creation. We each shine bright like a diamond in communion with the light permeating all things – through honesty, service, respect, and our dharma. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...

Valentine and I talk about the life-giving matrix, its inversion, being a generative field, and how to presence that in your life. What are you creating? What does it mean to have free will? What is your specific rhythm? Enjoy this deep dive with Valentine. In the life giving matrix, you are sovereign. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...

An introduction to the podcast and what motivated it. Stay tuned for Episode 2 with Valentine Falcon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe