# Reflection of the Week: Falling Out of Eden

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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: 2026-06-15T09:26:53+00:00
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit reflectorsreflections.substack.com Especially during the beginning of this week, we are under the Cross of Eden. I have my Personality Nodes in the first lines of the 11 and 12 which makes it a psychological theme that deeply colours my life. There are moments in life when something we long for begins to feel real before it is actually ours. In my case, it was a house that caught my imagination over the past month. But is can be a relationship that starts to take shape, a new career path that opens before us. We begin to inhabit a future that has not yet arrived. We furnish the rooms in our minds, walk the halls of possibility, and quietly rearrange our lives around what might be. Then something changes. A door closes. New information emerges. Circumstances shift. What seemed certain becomes uncertain, or disappears altogether. The loss can feel surprisingly intense. Not because we have lost something we possessed, but because we have lost something we had already begun to live inside. This is the psychological experience I think of as “falling out of Eden.” And under the actual Nodal Perspective in Gates 59 and 55, it can feel particularly intensified. The biblical story of Eden is not only a religious myth; it is also a profound description of a recurring human experience. Eden represents a state of harmony in which life appears coherent, meaningful, and aligned. There is little tension between desire and reality. We feel we know where we are going. The Fall occurs when that certainty is broken and the actual nodal environment brings forward uncertainty through the 55th Gate in the North Node. What makes this experience so painful is that we are rarely mourning only the object itself. We are mourning an en…

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