This is a month to focus on relationships, with your SELF, with others, professionally, family or romantic. If you’re contemplating a new beginning (new relationship or ending one), this is a month of key energy that can help you. Read on to see what could be in store for you this month.
August 2025 Human Design Energy Report
The last couple of months have had powerful introspection energy, encouraging us to come to know ourselves better, to come to find out true values and beliefs in order to withstand the chaos and noise swirling around us. This month, the energy moves to focusing on relationships. One of the things about doing internal work is that it can upset relationships as it brings you into clearer focus on exactly who you are.
The backdrop this month is the Nodal Journey from July continues through the month right through October. The South Node in Gate 47 and North Node in Gate 22 is all about seeking to understand life through one’s personal experiences. It’s the struggle to make sense out of your past experiences.
Continue to reflect on your personal experiences –
- What did you learn from them?
- Are you repeating patterns that are unsatisfactory?
- Consider your experiences as pieces of the puzzle of you. Which pieces fit together for you now and which belong to some other puzzle?
Be gentle with yourself as you do this work. Consider this inner process a gift that will bring you closer to your overall well-being.
Saturn spends August (and most of September) in Gate 25 — the gate of universal love and the spirit of the self. Saturn is here to help you focus on your true beliefs and get centered to be your higher self. It’s learning to give your SELF unconditional love. It’s not going to be a quick fix, because Jupiter is in Gate 39, provoking you emotionally to be sure this is who you are.
Jupiter splits the month between two gates. We begin August with Jupiter in Gate 39, the Gate of Provocation. With all the introspection brought to you via the Nodes and Saturn gates, Jupiter provokes your emotions a bit, wanting you to come to your true inner self.
Jupiter moves to Gate 53 on the 18th – the Gate of Beginnings. With all the inner work from June, July and half of August, you’re now being led to use it to bring about a new beginning. It’s a reward for doing all the hard inner work to come to alignment with your design.
(If you’ve been struggling with or not knowing how to begin the inner work, please schedule your sessions with me and we can get you on track.)
As we turn to the Sun and Earth Transit Gates, there is a lot of movement in relationships, making the above inner work so critical in making the right choices for you.
Sun and Earth Transits
August 1: Sun in Gate 33| Earth in Gate 19
Gate 33 brings us a desire to have alone time to reflect on the past and to process our experiences, to flesh out your stories and lessons.
While you’re feeling a desire for alone time, you’ll also feel a need to connect with others to be able to have your needs met. The key is to discern who they are. This is the energy we will begin with for August.
August 5: Sun in Gate 7 | Earth in Gate 13. Full moon on 9th.
Gate 7 is an energy of leading but not out front. Rather, this is an influential leadership behind the scenes. Gate 13 is a listening gate. You might find yourself listening to others more and taking what you hear and connecting things into a whole that can bring about some change. It’s a time to use your influence to bring people together.
August 11 Sun in Gate 4 | Earth in Gate 49
This might be a period of questioning your relationships, or at least a key one. You might have questions about it, where it’s going, and be feeling some anxiety about it. Or maybe it’s time to lay some ground rules. Gate 49’s energy is that of developing the principles of any relationship. You might feel some ups and downs in a relationship at this time, looking for someone to stand by your side to support you and your principles.
August 17: Sun in Gate 29| Earth in Gate 30
Gate 29 is the Gate of Commitment and so it’ a great time to assess whether you are overcommitted or committing to the wrong things. Use the energies of the previous period where you examined key relationships and now it’s determining what to commit to. Gate 30 is the Gate of Desire and a source of emotional yearning.
August 23: Sun in Gate 59 | Earth in Gate 55. New moon on 23rd
Gate 59 is the Gate of Sexuality, bringing the desire to reproduce. It’s a strong bond for intimacy in connection with others and knowing how to enter a relationship. There also may be a sensitivity to what people say as well as the tone of the voice when it is said. This is an emotional energy and so, let you emotions exist, recognize them, allow them to be and gain what wisdom you can from them.
Gate 55 is a gate of faith…
August 29: Sun in Gate 40 | Earth in Gate 37
The Sun and Earth form the Channel of Community and it’s an energy of trying to discern where you fit in and then live that out. Gate 40 is a Gate of Aloneness and you may find yourself wanting more rest in this time. It’s a time to set boundaries for yourself and to let others know. Know how much you are willing to give without losing yourself. Gate 37 is the Gate of Friendship and is about relationships and the need for recognition. The relationships you’ve been working on this month have boundaries and principles and you’ll bargain to have your needs met. By doing so you can ensure that you have the energy for caring for others.
The Big Picture:
The inner work that you were encouraged to take on the last two months was an important foundation for building relationships, including the one with your SELF. As you get to know your SELF, you come to understand how you got here from your past experiences, the lessons you’ve learned, and determine what you keep and what needs to be discarded. The stronger you are the better relationships you can build with others because the important one, the one with your SELF, is in good shape.
There’s a lot of big energy out in the cosmos and to best manage through it, it is imperative that you get right with you, that you work on getting back to your perfect design that you were born with. By getting right with your SELF, you can build better relationships with others and then, be better able to withstand the chaos above us all.
If you like this Energy Report and want help in gaining clarity on your energetic blueprint, please reach out. Learning your Human Design is crucial in helping you navigate all the energy transits we go through all year long. Visit aprilgoffbrown.com to learn more.
