# Reflection of the week: A Shift in the Nodal Perspective

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Podcast: [Human Design Reflector's Reflections with Dirk Nellens](https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-design-reflector-s-reflections-with-dirk-nellens-6800469)
Published: 2026-07-21T13:32:55+00:00
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit reflectorsreflections.substack.com This weekend, the Moon’s Nodes change Gates, marking a significant shift in the Human Design mandala. With every nodal transition, the background perspective through which we collectively perceive reality changes under the current neutrino weather. Since May 15th, we’ve been living under the nodal polarity 55–59 . This polarity invites us to see life through the lens of our emotional and relational experience. It brings our attention to whether we can witness our emotional information field without becoming identified with anxiety, emotional turbulence, or inner nervousness - in other words, whether we can watch the movie without becoming lost in it. At the same time, it asks us to explore intimacy: how can we experience profound connection with others without losing ourselves in the process? This theme of not getting lost in the other is particularly important. Most of us carry childhood wounds that arose because humanity still has a very limited understanding of what I call our libidinal intelligence - the innate intelligence that governs our capacity for connection and interconnectedness. This intelligence has far more to do with relationship, attachment, and our emergence into life than with genitality or adult sexuality. We can only fully embody this relational intelligence when our uniqueness is recognised, respected, and protected from the very beginning of life. It is precisely because we are deeply interconnected that our individuality needs such careful nurturing. In my book, Understanding Our Energetic Architecture , I place considerable emphasis on viewing the centres of the BodyGraph through the lens of child-development. Early development is largely governed b…

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