Frequency Forecast: Oct. 25-31, 2025, as the Sun transits Gate 28, the Gate of the Game Player

I know what you’re thinking:

⚠️This is the darkest hour I’ve ever lived through.

⚠️(How) Are we going to survive?

⚠️What’s the point of all this?

⚠️Why bother fighting?

⚠️Why bother voting?

⚠️I’m just one, powerless person.

⚠️Nothing I do will make any difference!

⚠️I’m terrified.

⚠️This is a life-or-death situation!

⚠️We’re doomed!

I’m having these thoughts, too.

But believe me when I tell you, it’s completely normal and rational to feel this way, given what we’re experiencing in the world.

Even more so, given the Sun transit we’re all currently under the influence of.

Welcome to the Sun’s transit in Gate 28, the Gate of the Preponderance of the Great, or the nickname I much prefer, the Game Player.

It kicked off at about 12:10 a.m., Eastern time, this morning, Oct. 25th, and will continue through about 3:00 p.m. EST on October 30th.

And I won’t mince words:

Gate 28 could be a doozy. I expect more challenges to be thrown in our path.

BUT, if we shift the way we’re approaching whatever may come —

and we imagine ourselves as a ragtag sports team who’s had a really rough season; but we’ve got nothing to lose heading into the semi-finals; so we’ve protein-loaded, strength-trained & practiced drills; and now we’re warming up just before the big match; feeling pumped, aggressive, and our offensive line is ready to go balls to the wall against the other team —

this transit could yield us a glorious victory or two.

First, let’s anchor ourselves in why everything feels so extrafuckinggoddamned hard right now. Here’s a quick recap of what’s been happening around us in ‘Merica, just this week:

🆘The grotesque destruction of the White House.

🆘The senseless ongoing government shutdown.

🆘ICE, growing even more bold and unapologetic by the day, with their blatant lawlessness and cruelty.

🆘The $40B of our tax money to bail out Argentina.

🆘The horrific Naziism of it all.

🆘The bogus lawsuits against anyone who dissents.

🆘The continuing corruption that is the heartbeat of the Trump regime.

It’s all just too much, and our struggle is, indeed, REAL.

While thoughts of defeatism and victimhood are natural under this set of conditions. and they’re completely on-brand for the energetic influence of Gate 28, we don’t have to let them take over and rule us.

Besides, turning into victims,

going catatonic,

rolling over and playing dead,

choosing to warm the bench instead of getting our asses on the turf —

these responses fall on the disempowered, low-vibrational, shadowy side of The Game Player’s spectrum.

Let’s zoom in to see what Preponderance of the Great is all about so you understand its full potential and very-typical tendencies:

This badass is:

✅hyperaware of its surroundings and of what’s taking place right now,

✅highly individualistic (read: offbeat, a lil stubborn, must follow its own, weird path, & is uniquely prone to depression),

✅thirsty for a challenge,

✅can sometimes look at life as though it were a video game, like everything’s all fun and games with no consequences,

✅can tend to make everything harder than it needs to be,

✅is prone to getting involved in risky behaviors that lead to chaos &/or violence,

✅is terrified of losing the game, so much so that it might choose to not even play,

✅tends to get preoccupied with thoughts of death & dying,

✅can get stuck revving its engine, so to speak, without ever actually making forward progress,

✅is often willing to take on the toughest challenges when no one else will,

✅knows that choosing the hard road is how it’s meant to level up in life,

✅perceives that doing something difficult equates to doing something meaningful,

✅can choose all the wrong battles and wind up ‘losing’ repeatedly,

✅can easily slide into ‘why me?’ mode,

✅can be profoundly courageous,

✅subconsciously understands that if it didn’t put itself through the toughest stuff in life, it’d be bored stiff.

Above all, the Preponderance of the Great feels a gnawing ache in its gut:

Whatever challenge it gets itself involved in must be purposeful.

See, getting in on the action can be fun.

Sometimes we can’t help ourselves, so we get tangled up in ‘games,’ or other people’s problems, that we have absolutely no business being involved in.

So we get burned out.

And that’s a huge energy suck.

Let’s not do that.

Under the influence of Gate 28, we must be extremely discerning about which games we’re going to play; whose team we’re on; and whether we’re best at playing offense or defense.

It’s critical for us to pay attention to our surroundings throughout this six-day transit, and be ready to jump in when the time is right.

That timing will be unique to each and every one of us.

Let’s rewind for a sec:

We spent all of last week getting very clear on our values, during the Sun’s transit in Gate 50, the Gate of Values, a.k.a. the Maestro.

We witnessed a lot of things happen, many of which utterly offended our sense of what’s right and good and valuable;

things that debased the traditions we hold dear;

and ripped apart the seams of the fabric that has long held our communities together.

What issues emerged, last week, as being the most important and valuable to you?

Use those as your guide, your North Star, as you navigate this week’s transit, so that you know which ‘games,’ or causes, you will get involved in fighting for (or against!).

This week is simply asking us to decide which side we’re on and what position we’re going to play.

Note where 28 lives, in the Splenic Center, as shown in the diagram below:

Remember, the Spleen is all about awareness in the now.

Our oldest energy center in the body, the Spleen is the seat of our primal instincts, responsible for processing our sense of safety, our health, our awareness of what’s taking place in our environment, and our intuition.

The Spleen is also our fear center.

Any Gate that lives inside it comes with a fear, and each carries themes related to these issues of health and safety.

28, for its part, is the specific shade of energy that:

A) surveys the field for incoming threats, so it just knows when it’s time to get into position and be ready to take a shot at the goal so that it can survive, and

B) is deeply afraid of losing.

Greta Thunberg has 28 lit up in her chart, and thus activated in her body at all times.

So does Lady Gaga. And Cory Booker. Jerry Seinfeld, Stephen Miller and Snoop Dogg, too.

Do you have Gate 28 defined in your Human Design chart? Find out here.

Notice how 28 sits across from Gate 38, the Gate of the Fighter, which lives in the Root Center.

When 28 and 38 connect, as they do in the graphic above, they form the Channel of Struggle.

Working together, 28, the Game Player, is the energy that sees a challenge approaching, gets a glint in its eye, and growls, “Let’s roll!”

Meanwhile, 38, the Fighter, is the energy that plants its feet firmly on the ground, squares its shoulders in a fighting stance, and throws a fist in the air, poised to sucker-punch the closest bystander.

For better or worse…

(We’ll cross Gate 38’s threshold right around the New Year.)

When the Game Player and the Fighter unite — and the person who carries them has learned how to wield them both in their highest vibration — it means they:

🦾choose the right battles to get involved in,

🦾feel excited by the prospect of a challenge,

🦾funnel their passion toward struggles that can result in personal fulfillment and collective justice,

🦾show courage and grit in times of desperation,

🦾stand up for the little guy when no one else will,

🦾and they don’t let a wee thing like a problem stand in the way of doing what they know is right.

Cristiano Ronaldo has the full Channel of Struggle activated in his body.

So do I, actually.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy does, too.

In fact, 28, the Game Player, is Zelensky’s Unconscious Sun — err, the underlying driver that makes him who he is deep down.

The Preponderance of the Great is what he came to this planet to be in this lifetime.

Dude is not going down without an epic fight. He was born to defeat the demons.

Here’s Zelenskyy’s chart:

Do you notice the pattern?

People who carry Gate 28 in their bodies are folks who seem to take the hard road on purpose.

But when they choose the right ‘games’ to play, they win.

Even — especially! — if those challenges seem to be completely insurmountable.

They welcome the challenge. They thrive on struggle.

Because they know, somewhere deep down, that there’d no point in living if everything were to be handed to them on a silver platter.

Nope — they’re gonna fight like hell for every scrap they get,

and they’re gonna feel damned proud of themselves for doing it,

because they know how hard they had to work to win.

That’s each of us, this week.

Game Players are people who don’t back out of a struggle just because their Magic 8-ball says, “Outlook not so good.”

Let us all take this approach when we bump up against challenges in the coming week.

When we see a foe coming toward us, let our mouths start to water.

Let our rage, and our fear, fuel us to jump into the match and play like our lives depend on it.

Just…go easy on yourself if you don’t normally have Gate 28 lit up in your chart, because this transit could feel destabilizing and foreign for you.

That’s perfectly okay — this sucker isn’t on your life’s course syllabus, so you won’t be tested on it.

Just be willing to learn from it throughout the week, build empathy for those in your life who carry this vibration inside them at all times, and then let it go, come Halloween morning.

Good luck, Godspeed, and stay safe out there, friends.

Give a shout if you want some help deconstructing your Human Design chart so that you finally understand how themes like struggle, fear of losing, fear of dying, or your tendency to make everything harder than it needs to be may have steered you off-course in life. I’ll analyze and synthesize all the elements of your chart and get you back on track to wielding your superpowers in the highest expression, so that you can finally get more fulfillment, ease, success and enjoyment out of life.

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