Mars shifts into Human Design Gate 33, the Gate of Privacy/Retreat, on Monday, May 5, 2025

Stories Shared, Secrets Leaked & Lessons of the Past Remembered

Just before 5 a.m. EST on Monday, May 5, Mars left Gate 31, the Gate of Influence, and shifted into 33, Privacy, also known as the Gate of Retreat.

Both of these are very Leo frequencies, and both originate in the Throat Center, activating our energy for expression and communication.

Find out whether you have Gate 33 active in your body by downloading your free Human Design chart here. See the diagram below for where it lives in the body.

Mars, you’ll recall, is that thing we get passionate and even maybe aggressive about. So it kicks up some intense energy, no matter where it hangs out in the sky, or when.

Meanwhile, Gate 33 is the energy for going deep into Retreat, to process all the pain and suffering of the world, and to remember the lessons of the past.

This energy is often referred to as the voice of remembrance.

It holds the heartache of humanity — all the wrongs done by every generation — right there in its hands.

If it’s going to function in a fast-paced, cruel world,

and if it’s going to survive long enough to share the wisdom it’s gleaned from reflecting on all that suffering —

then Gate 33 really needs to spend ample time in private.

If you or someone you love has Gate 33 ‘defined’ in your chart, make sure to give yourself a safe, quiet, isolated spot in the house where you can regularly decompress and regroup.

This is Throat-Center energy in a Projected Channel (the 13-33 Channel of the Prodigal),

so it compels a person to speak out loud about all the anguish they’ve been processing. But they perform this duty best when someone asks them to.

Oftentimes, those with Gate 33 — especially children — won’t wait for that invitation to share, so they get pushed back against by friends, or shut down by loved ones, for spilling the beans or repeating old news.

With Mars transiting Gate 33 from now through May 16th, 2025, there’s a strong likelihood that all of us are going to feel some level of intensity around:

• hearing painful news,
• our need to get quiet & contemplative,
• finding adequate solitude so that we can try to make sense of the craziness unfolding around us, and
• sharing the stories of what we hear and what we remember.

I’ll definitely have my ears open for news and stories being murmured from so many voices about what people are suddenly remembering…

If you don’t have Gate 33 defined in your body, then try to build a healthy boundary around this and don’t make this energy’s influences all about you.

A standard rule of thumb is that if an energy is not ‘defined’ in your chart, then it’s not necessarily your lesson to learn.

But you can experience a taste for what Gate 33 feels like throughout this transit and, thus, grow compassion and understanding for your friends and family members who do have to live with this energy pulsating through them all the dang time.

So, make some observations.

Notice any uncharacteristic need for privacy arise,

or a sudden flash of intensity around hearing painful news,

or the impulse to gossip come over you.

Once this transit passes, let this energy go, dust it off, and return to the truth of who you Be (i.e., lean into the strengths of the elements defined in your own chart).

Those who do have Gate 33 activated in their bodies at all times, I find, are typically deep feelers; extremely empathetic. They’re also nostalgic and, oftentimes, history buffs.

The gift they’re here to master, with Gate 33, is this energy’s ability to uncover the sacredness in all experiences and be able to share that with the world so that others can heal and do better.

When someone who has Gate 33 hears that innocent people are being imprisoned unfairly, say, in an El Salvadoran torture jail, the 33 experiences the shame and wrongfulness of it all intensely.

They internalize it. They process it. They grieve over it. And, eventually, if they’re practicing living to their highest potential, they find the sacred lesson hidden within the ugliness.

But they have to do that alone. It’s hard to face other humans when they’re carrying all that pain around.

Once they’ve been able to process this kind of outrageous inhumanity in private, it’s our friends with Gate 33 who remember how we got through this kind of thing before.

And so they reemerge from solitude to make their voices heard by sharing the lessons our forebears learned the hard way.

They pass important information on to the next generation.

They draw the important connections, tie the historical relevance into the current moment, and they captivate their audience by expressing the horrors to raise the Collective consciousness.

If, that is, they’re operating in the high vibrations of Gate 33.

Remember: As with every Gate in the chart, there’s a high-vibe expression of this energy, as well as a low-vibe expression of this energy.

Eminem has Gate 33 defined in his chart.

So do Cory Booker and Harry Styles.

Annnnnd so does Felon 47.

You decide how you think each of them is wielding this majestic power.

If someone’s languishing in the low-vibe, shadow realms of Gate 33, they’re likely to tell awful stories just to spook people.

They gossip.

Or they drone on and on about all the terrible things that have ever happened anywhere, boring people to death with their complaining, and earning a reputation as a Negative Nelly.

(Sound familiar?)

There’s also a decent chance that a low-vibe, Gate 33 person may entirely avoid contemplating or reflecting on anything, ever.

They will stay close to people in a desperate attempt to avoid ever having to face the silence of solitude and to ward off all potential for loneliness.

And they may keep their lives so busy doing-doing-doing that they never take a moment to step away from the hustle and bustle to actually process the pain of humanity.

Stuck in the low vibe, they certainly don’t glean any sacred lessons about anything.

And they may develop a terrible or distorted memory for past events.

(Of course, as with any element of the chart, living in the low vibe can be transformed, with a little self-reflection, deconditioning and shadow work! Book a reading if you need some help in that regard!)

With Mars transiting this frequency for the next 10 days, all of humanity is being asked to listen —

— but to listen with a critical ear.

There’s bound to be information getting shared that has heretofore been kept under wraps.

Leaks, perhaps. Whistles may start blowing. We may hear loads of exaggeration and plenty of gossip.

If you listen carefully, you may also hear what’s not being said. You may just feel overcome with your spidey-senses, and that will speak volumes on its own.

Likewise, we may be walloped all over again with more awful news, causing us to retreat into solitude to process the cruelty of it all.

Regardless, from now through May 16, look for the sacred lessons, even in the darkest places.

Do not forget everything you’ve learned so far.

Revere the deep truths our elders have passed down to us and hold them in your heart.

Set aside time for reflection and contemplation.

Make space for solitude.

Don’t believe everything you hear.

Consider who’s saying it — are they someone you’d consider a high-vibe human or a low-vibe individual?

And also, expect old stories to resurface — only this time, perhaps with a few new, intensely passionate or aggressive twists.

Do you have Gate 33 active in your chart? Find out by downloading your free chart at the link(s) below.

Human Design charts for adults – click here

Human Design charts for kids – click here

Share in the comments how this energy shows up for you.

And hit me up for a reading if you’d like to learn how to use it to transform your life for the better.

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