The pancreas.
Today I want to take you on a journey,
One that connects your emotions,
Your pancreas and your spiritual growth in a way that you may not have considered before.
You see,
Your pancreas is about so much more than just insulin and sugar.
It's also deeply connected to how you process stress,
Emotional turbulence and those times in life when things feel chaotic or lacking in sweetness.
As a naturopath and a human design analyst with over 20 years of experience in the wellness industry,
This is something that I've seen and even lived myself again and again.
In human design,
There is an emotional gate called gate 36.
It lives in your solar plexus and it connects directly to your pancreas.
Gate 36 is known as the gate of crisis or darkening of the light.
It's emotional,
It's intense and when it's activated either in your personal chart or through the collective transits,
It can stir up waves of uncertainty,
Overwhelm and growth.
Personally,
This gate is very close to my heart.
It's my conscious earth,
So I've been walking with this energy my whole life and one of the first places that I feel its influence in my body is in my blood sugar.
I have learned that when life feels chaotic,
When I resist change or try to control outcomes,
Which I can be a little bit prone to,
My pancreas responds,
My energy dips and my blood sugar becomes harder to regulate and this may sound familiar to you too.
But even if gate 36 isn't defined in your chart,
You're still impacted by it.
Gate 36 carries a pious energy,
Emotional,
Watery and often overwhelming.
It brings with it the void,
It pulls you into the void,
A sacred in-between space.
It's uncomfortable,
I totally get it,
I have been here so many times.
However,
It is also sacred.
Now when you're in the void,
That's when you're being rewired.
It might feel like you're broken,
But I assure you,
You're not broken,
You are evolving.
Now please let that land for a moment,
I'm going to say it again,
You're not broken,
You're evolving.
Gate 36 often brings emotional waves that can feel like you're in a storm,
Pretty much unsure of what's real or what's going to happen next.
This inner turbulence,
It impacts your body,
Especially your pancreas,
Because gate 36 speaks to your pancreas.
Let's pause here and look at the pancreas with loving attention.
The pancreas,
As you probably know,
It regulates insulin,
It helps to manage your blood sugar levels,
Your digestion and your energy distribution.
But when you're under emotional stress,
Particularly the kind that gate 36 brings,
Well that balance is easily disrupted.
And that's when you might notice blood sugar crashes and energy swings,
Feeling hungry or jittery,
Digestive bloating or even erratic hunger,
Fluid retention or dehydration and even moodiness that just kind of hits you out of nowhere.
Now these can feel sometimes like random symptoms,
But I assure you they are not random,
They are a they mirror your emotional resistance.
They mirror the moments when you suppress your feelings,
When you force the solutions or when you try to bypass the discomfort.
So knowing all this,
How do we bring the body back into balance?
Well,
Here is a three-step process to consider that will help you align deeper with gate 36 and thereby support your pancreas through this sacred storm.
Step number one,
Embody patience and trust.
The void is part of the journey.
So do not rush it.
Let it,
Allow it to move you.
Step number two,
Let the emotions move you.
Like digestion,
Emotions need flow.
Feel what's there.
Notice how you are feeling without judging it.
It may help for you to journal about what you are noticing,
Just to kind of purge it out of your system.
And step three is recognize that there is a gift in the chaos.
Gate 36 is the great transmuter.
It turns emotional crisis into soul wisdom and personal evolution if you let it.
Next,
Let's gently support your pancreas from a physical perspective.
First,
You want to make sure that you eat regular balanced meals with good fats and protein.
You want to reduce your intake of processed sugar.
You must stay hydrated because water is essential for blood sugar regulation.
It's also important to move your body via exercise or stretching daily because this supports insulin function and blood sugar stability.
You can also consider adding chromium rich foods like cinnamon to your diet to help improve blood sugar stability.
And finally,
Let's weave in some energetic support.
The crystal called sulfur,
S-U-L-F-U-R,
It helps release emotional congestion.
Now sulfur is not a common crystal.
You don't often see sulfur jewelry or just the sulfur crystal in your say local crystal shop,
But it is out there.
I promise you it has kind of this yellowy color,
Which is so interesting because it supports that emotional energy center and the emotions.
So if you've never seen it before,
I invite you to just type it into your browser,
Your website browser,
S-U-L-F-U-R and check it out.
And you can even find a picture that you like,
Download it and have it as a screensaver on your phone or a background image on your computer.
And that will help you absorb the crystalline sulfur energies.
Now the essential oil called citronella that is also magnificent for helping to stabilize and cleanse your body,
Which is perfect for use during emotional chaos and emotional resets.
So you might want to pop a couple of drops of citronella into a diffuser and let that beautiful aroma move around your space.
You can also get citronella plants,
Which is obviously where the citronella essential oil comes from.
And if you have one of those yourself,
You are very lucky and you could simply sit by a citronella plant.
You could rub the leaves and then smell the beautiful aroma wafting from your fingertips.
Maybe just put a little bit on your temples.
It's just nice to have in your space from the energetic perspective of it supporting you,
But also as a reminder that when you see this citronella plant or smell this citronella aroma,
Knowing that you are actively doing your best to support the emotional storm that you're going through and you're also doing your best to help support and regulate your blood sugar.
And finally,
The flower essence that I recommend for gait 36 and for helping to regulate your blood sugar.
It's called mint bush because it supports spiritual initiation because the gait 36 is all about spiritual initiation,
Which is not necessarily a fun,
Easy journey,
But it definitely has its benefits and its rewards.
At the end,
You're always gifted at the end of the 36 cycle of chaos with some kind of epiphany where you probably wouldn't have experienced if you hadn't gone through that emotional process.
So there is always a gift waiting there and that's why it's a spiritual initiation.
But the mint bush,
It can help you rise from that confusion when you're in that void and step into the clarity that's waiting for you.
So if you have been feeling overwhelmed lately,
And if you're feeling tired,
Craving sweetness,
Or just riding the edge of transformation,
Well,
This may be your gait 36 moment.
As I said before,
It is not here to break you.
It is here to initiate you,
I promise.
So today,
Remember this,
You are not broken.
You are evolving.
Let your emotions flow.
Let your body reset.
Let your body rest.
Let your pancreas feel supported as you grow into this next version of yourself.
And above all,
Trust the timing of your life because gait 36,
It works in divine timing.
It works in universal timing.
You will be in this cycle of moving through the darkness to find the light.
You'll be in that void as long as the cycle is necessary.
But it does always end,
Which is when you will have that epiphany,
That gift at the end.
But the more you can trust that you are moving through this process in divine timing,
Then the more your pancreas can stabilize.
And this is especially important if you have diabetes,
The more you can stabilize your blood sugar and your diabetic blood sugar levels that you obviously need to test regularly.
Trusting is an important part of this process.
And of course,
Bringing the sweetness into your life.
Now I want you to feel the wisdom of what we've just discussed.
Land in your body.
Focus on how your body feels right now.
Is there a particular area in your body which feels maybe a little bit tingly or maybe a little bit heavier or maybe a little bit lighter?
Maybe you're being visually drawn to a particular part of your body.
Focus on that part of your body.
Ask it if it has a message for you because there may be a part of this emotional crisis or void energy that is stuck in that part of your body.
And no,
It doesn't just need to be your pancreas.
And if you can tune into that part of your body,
Listen to any messages it wants to give you and then send love to that part of your body and choose to release whatever needs to be released in that part of your body.
You will be aligning with that emotional energy of the Gate 36.
You will be trusting the flow and you will be stabilizing your blood sugar and your pancreas health more efficiently and more effectively.
Once again,
You are not broken.
You are evolving.
