Stay Grounded And True To What Matters

The beginning of anything real rarely feels “aligned.” It feels messy, uncertain, and a little too honest, like life is pulling the rug so something truer can be built. That’s the frequency we’re working with right now, and I want to give you language for it, plus a way to lead yourself through it without forcing clarity or abandoning what matters.

I break down what I mean by “prevailing frequencies” using Human Design, the Gene Keys, and the I Ching, then zoom in on two archetypes that shape this springtime threshold: Gate 3 (Hexagram 3, Difficulty at the Beginning) and Gate 50 (Hexagram 50, Values and Stewardship). Gate 3 shows why new beginnings come with disruption and sacred chaos, and why innovation is often born from fumbling, experimenting, and staying present. Gate 50 asks the deeper leadership question: what do you actually hold sacred, and what are you willing to stop compromising when things feel unstable?

To make it practical, I walk you through a six-day recalibration using the Human Design lines, from grounding your nervous system and trusting what’s natural, to learning from misalignment, bringing values into relationships, embodying leadership under pressure, and stepping back into the long view of legacy. I also share invitations to explore your chart at andvandywater.com, plus ways to go deeper with me in person in Santa Barbara, California, and at Esalen Institute in Big Sur through a Gene Keys activation focused on life’s work, evolution, radiance, and purpose.

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if you feel called to go deeper, I have two upcoming in person workshops here in Santa Barbara:

Living Authentically, a Journey with Human Design, Part 1 on April 25 in Santa Barbara
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Conscious Completion and Creation Circle on April 29 in Santa Barbara
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And May 11-15, I will be at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, leading Awakening Your Genius, a Gene Keys activation.
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Transcript

Welcome And Prevailing Frequencies

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Welcome to the True Self Mastery Podcast. I am your hostess, Anne Andy Water, and this is your weekly leadership recalibration aligned with the prevailing frequencies. So what does that mean, the prevailing frequencies? Well, for a long time, I have charted the seasons, I have charted what's going on in the cosmos, and I have been a long time devotee of working with the Yi Qing and reading the Tao Dejing, and my interpretation of God, the great mystery, the great spirit, whatever you want to call it, I call it the cosmic order of the Tao. And I have been a longtime student of human design and the gene keys, and it is a big part of my work and my offerings. And I am always looking for the rhythms of life and the cycles, because if we are aware of the rhythms and the cycles of life in our existence, then we can align with them and we can be in a flow state. And so in human design, there is the study of the cycles of the frequencies, and what Ra Uru Hu, who is the one who was the receiver of the human design system, he's the channel and the messenger of the system, what he did is he took the astrological wheel with all of the houses and with all of the astrological signs, which varies from system to system. If you are looking at the astrological wheel from the perspective of Vedic astrology, Eastern astrology, sidereal astrology, it's going to say something very different from Western astrology. And then even within Western astrology, there are different people who approach it in different ways. And so it's been quite, I'd say, confusing to try to figure out well, what are the prevailing frequencies right now? What actually is going on in our cosmos? And that is where human design comes in. What Ra Uru Hu did is he took the 64 hexagrams of the Yi Ching and put them in a circle and overlaid it over the astrological wheel. And every year we cycle through different hexagrams. And what the hexagrams are is they represent the different levels of consciousness in humanity and the different cycles and seasons and energetics in nature. And so when we study the hexagrams, it helps us to become more aware of all of the different frequencies that are inside of us and inside of all people, places, and things, and in nature. And these are universal cycles, these are universal themes that we all go through. And as leaders, as stewards, as visionaries, it's very important for us to be aware of all of the different levels, planes, and dimensions of consciousness so that we can align with the highest frequencies and be benevolent, authentic leaders, especially when you are a leader who is holding big responsibility. And you will encounter all of the different levels, planes, and dimensions of consciousness from the shadow to the gifts to the most benevolent. So that said, this week that we are in right now is all about hexagram three, gene keys three, and human design gate three. And we're also working with eaching hexagram 50, gene keys 50, and human design gate 50. We are in springtime. We're in the first month of spring. This is the season, the season of beginnings. This is the season where life is returning, where energy is rising, where things are coming back online. And it's not necessarily clear and clean. And it's not perfectly structured. It's emerging, and that is exactly what these archetypes are here to teach us. So I'm going to name this once so you have the context, and then we're going to move into the lived experience of this work. So in human design and the gene keys, these archetypes point to a very specific evolutionary dynamic. The three is the energy of beginnings, of mutation, of life reorganizing itself through what can feel like chaos. And the 50 is the energy of values, of being the vessel, of what we hold is sacred and what we're here to preserve and refine. And what matters for you as a leader, as a steward, as someone who is here to create and guide and shape something meaningful is how these two forces are playing out in your life right now. Because this isn't just a concept. This is what you are living, this is what you're navigating, and this is what you're being initiated through. And I want to say this in a very real and personal way. These two are so incredibly important to me. They're core to who I am. In my human design, gate 50 is my conscious Jupiter. It is the most exalted part of my chart. It's what I'm really going for at the highest level when I really expand into my full potential is Gate 50. And in Gene Keys, it's called my Pearl. And the Pearl is the be all end-all. It's what you end up embodying if you stay on the path of being your truest, deepest, highest self. And it's a line one, which means I'm here to hold down the energy of the 50 at a foundational level. And gate three in my human design is what's called my unconscious Mars, and it's also a line one. And it's all about how my wound becomes my medicine. And I am in an era of my life right now where all of my wounds are here to be transformed and transmuted into medicine that I'm here to support you with. So everything that I'm sharing today is not something that I'm teaching from the outside. It's not just a concept. These are core parts to who I am. This is something I'm living and refining and being shaped by in real time. So I want to create a little space here, and this is where I'm just going to riff for a moment and let this come through in a very real, very human, very embodied way, how this shows up in my life and in my leadership. So gate three, gene key three, hexagram three is called difficulty at the beginning. And it's about how anytime we're going through a transition, through a change, through a transformation, which in truth we're always going through, there's going to be chaos because you're not a master of it. It's something new. You're in new terrain. And so it can feel quite chaotic at the beginning of something new. And when there is chaos, our job is to innovate a new way of being. And now it just feels natural to me. I'm like, oh, I got it. So it's like this return to innocence of, oh, I'm just a kid, I'm gonna try new things, and now I I've made really good sourdough bread, and it feels great. But at the beginning, I didn't know what I was doing. So that is the medicine, right? That is the teaching that comes forth is when wherever you are in your life, whatever you're navigating, just remember that it most likely is gonna feel a little chaotic, and you're gonna have to innovate new ways of being to return back to that place of innocence and trust in yourself, the trust in the trying until you figure stuff out. So there are moments in your life, in your leadership, in your relationships, in your business where things will not feel clear. They'll feel disorganized or unstable or uncertain, where what used to work is no longer working and what is coming has not yet taken form. And in those moments, the mind wants to do two things. It wants to either force clarity or it wants to retreat and run away from the chaos. And what I'm here to share with you and what we do inside of true self-mastery is that neither of those is the path. Because what's actually happening in those moments is that life is reorganizing itself around a higher level of truth. And this is the energy of the three. This is the beginning, this is the threshold, this is where something new is trying to come into form through you, and it doesn't necessarily come through clean at the beginning, it doesn't come through perfectly structured, it comes in as a disruption or a breakdown of what no longer fits. And it can feel kind of like a sacred chaos, and your work is not to fix it, there's nothing to fix. Your work is to stay with it, to not abandon the process, to not override your inner authority or your intuition, and to not grasp for premature clarity, because clarity is not something you force, clarity is something that emerges when you're in right relationship with what's actually happening. And then this is where the 50 comes in. Hexagram 50 and the i Ching, Jing Ki 50, and gate 50 in human design. Because while everything is reorganizing, you're being asked a much deeper question: What do you hold sacred? What are your values? Not what you say your values are, not what sounds good, not what they should be, or someone tells you they should be, but what you actually live, what you actually allow, what you actually stand for, because your life is a vessel, your leadership is a vessel, and your relationships are a vessel. And whatever you allow into that vessel is what gets cultivated, it is what gets amplified, and it's what gets passed on. And so when you're in a moment of chaos, when things feel uncertain, when things are breaking down and reorganizing, this is not the time to compromise your values in order to create temporary stability. This is the time to double down on them, to deepen them and to refine them. This is the time to let everything that is not aligned with your values fall away. And I want to open another space here. This is where I invite you to feel into your own relationship with your values, with integrity, with what you hold is sacred and meaningful, what really matters. And I'll share a little bit about how this lives in me as someone who carries the 50 so strongly at the core of my being. I am here to be a values guardian. In true self-mastery, this is one of the things that we attune to and tune into every single day is our values. So currently, because they grow and they evolve and they shift, but currently my core values are truth, mastery, focus, illumination, and courage. And I am here to be a guardian of those values. And one of the things that I talk about a lot in true self-mastery is we all navigate many, many circumstances constantly in our lives, and I see all of life's circumstances as being the eye of the needle. And every circumstance in our life is designed to take us through the I, and I say the I, like the I am presence, take us through the eye of the needle, and it's designed to slough off our not true self-energy, our conditioning, our conditioned ways of being, so that we emerge fully aligned with our values. Because at the end of the day, that's all we have is knowing that was a gnarly situation, but I upheld truth. I was courageous. I stayed focused on what matters. I did my very best to be a master of the art of living well and leading and loving well in that particular situation, and I was courageous. I took a stand for what I believe in, and that's what I'm here for to represent for you is upholding your own boundaries of being a values guardian in your life and what you hold as sacred, and how your values shape your decisions and your choices and your relationships and your leadership. And this is exactly how we work inside of the true self-mastery ecosystem. We don't rush people through their process, we do not give you strategies to bypass what you're actually experiencing. We bring you into right relationship with what's actually happening in your life by aligning with your values. And we help you stabilize your system so that you can stay present in the midst of change. We help you clarify your values at a level where they're no longer conceptual, they're embodied. And then we support you in making decisions in real time that are aligned with those values, even when it would be easier not to. Because this is where your leadership is forged. Not when everything is easy, not when everything is clear, but when you're in the unknown and you choose to stay true to yourself. So now I want to walk you through how this energy has been unfolding for the last couple of days and will continue to unfold for the next few days so that you can track this in your own life and work with it consciously. So on Thursday, April 16th, that was the first day of this frequency. So it's in human design, it's called the line one. Line one is about the foundation. So on Thursday, it was all about what's actually happening right now when it comes to new beginnings, to the chaotic energy of fresh starts, of that springtime energy. And what are my values? So it wasn't about fixing or solving anything, it was just about grounding and coming back into your body and stabilizing in your nervous system. It was about clearing what was in the way so that you can actually see what is actually going on. So if there's been any sense of chaos for the last few days, if things have felt unclear, then then good. But as it is said in the Tao Deijing, do you have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water is clear and right action arises by itself? So the beginning of this six-day cycle that started on Thursday was really about getting calm amidst the chaos, not running, not overriding, not trying to jump ahead, but being honest with where you are, and that honesty is what begins to help the water become more clear to help clean your own vessel. And then yesterday was Friday, April 17th. It was a line two day. Line two is the natural. Trust that there is this genius inside of you that is gonna figure things out, even if things feel chaotic at the beginning, and your values are inside of you, they're here already, and can you trust that they're here? So yesterday you may have been feeling the urge to push, to make something happen, to force movement, and this is where you do not do that. That's this is where you allow what is correct for you to come. This is where you trust that the right people, the right opportunities, the right next steps will emerge when you're in alignment with your values. So your work is not it is really just trusting yourself to trust your natural way to not compare, to not force, to not overextend. And today is Saturday, April 18th. It's a line three day, and I chose to record this on the line three day because line three is really about fumbling and stumbling and experimenting and having experiences so that you learn from them and can apply to them. So the question is: what happens when you move out of alignment? And also, what happens when you allow yourself to be in the experience and be in the experiment and not be perfect and not have it all figured out? So you might feel a little friction today of. Ooh, what happens when I live out of alignment with my my values? And you've got you've got some evidence of that, right? We all go out of alignment with who we are from time to time, or we have in the past, and so there might be a little friction when you meditate on that, or when you meditate on where things have not gone as planned, or where things aren't going as you plan them right now, where you may see clearly where you've been forcing or compromising or saying yes when it's not a true yes. And this is not a problem, it's just information. Today is about refinement. Your work here is to learn, to not judge yourself, to not collapse, but to take responsibility for what you see and then recalibrate. Tomorrow is Sunday, April 9th. It's a line four. Line four is the externalization, and this is the question: how do you bring your values into your relationships? How do you allow your relationships to be messy at times and not to think that that's something bad or wrong? Line four is about people, it's about communication with people, it's about connection, it's about community with friends, with family, with your partner, with your clients, with your students. This is about where you are placing yourself and who you're aligning with. And your work here is to be very discerning, to notice where there is reciprocity and where there is not, to notice where your values are being honored and where they are not, and to begin to make adjustments accordingly, because for months now and we continue to be in this background frequency of gate 37 and gate 40. Gate 40 is the gate of aloneness, which is if I can't be in right relationship, aligned with my values, with my friendships, with my partnership, with my family, with those that I love and serve, with my community, then it would be better for me to go it alone. And gate 37 is the gate of friends and family and community, and so there's a deep, deep penetrating influence that's going on on our planet right now about being in right relationship with people, places, and things, and making sure that there is reciprocity, that we're loving and we're supporting each other, and that we're values-driven in our relationships. And so this pocket that we're in is really about adjusting accordingly to that. And do you have the courage to bring your true self into all of your relationships? Monday, April 20th is a line five. Line five is the leader, and the question is how do you lead through this? How do you how do you embody your values? How do you lead with your values through the difficulties that happen when there's transformation and there's transition? This is where you are seen. It's about embodiment. This is where others may look to you for guidance, and your work is not to have all of the answers, your work is to model integrity, to make decisions that are aligned with your values, to show what it looks like to move through uncertainty without abandoning yourself or your values. This is leadership. And then Tuesday, April 21st is a line six. Line six is the visionary. And the question is: what's the higher truth of all of this? This is where you step back and gain perspective and see the patterns, to see what has been reorganizing in your life, to see what is being asked of you at a higher level. And your work here is to anchor into that, to connect to your long-term vision, to remember what you're here to steward, to remember the legacy that you are creating. And when you embody your values as you go through the difficulties that happen at the beginning of any new innovation, that is your leadership. That's modeling, that's being the role model leader. So as you move through these next few days, hold on to this. You're not here to avoid chaos and you're not here to rush clarity. You're here to become the kind of person and leader who can stand in the midst of transformation and remain true to what matters. You're here to become the vessel that can hold a higher level of integrity, a higher level of leadership, and a higher level of truth. And when you do that, everything in your life reorganizes around it. Your relationships, work, your opportunities, your impact. So here's your invitation. If you haven't done this already, go to my website andvandywater.com and look up your design. See if you have the 50. See if you have the three. See where they are in your chart and just begin to notice because these are the core to who I am, and if they're in your design, they're core to you in a very specific way as well. And if you want to go deeper into this work, I have two upcoming in-person workshops here in Santa Barbara, California. The first one is on Saturday, April 25th, and it is called Living Authentically: A Journey with Human Design, Part 1. And the next one is on Wednesday, April 29th, and in the evening, and that one is called Conscious Completion and Creation Circle. And these are spaces where we take everything that we're talking about here and we bring it into real-time application, real-time embodiment, and real-time transformation. And then May 11th through 15th, I will be at the Esland Institute in Big Sur, California, leading a workshop called Awakening Your Genius, a Gene Keys activation, and we'll be focusing on your life's work, your evolution, your health and wellness and radiance, and your deeper purpose, and how we are all encoded in those areas of our life to navigate the challenges that will help us bring our gifts forward into the world and to cultivate our highest potential. And it's the first time there's ever been a Gene Keys workshop at the Eslin Institute, so it's very exciting. So if you feel called, I'd love to have you in any of these offerings and be with you in person. This is the work, this is the path, and this is what we are walking together. So check out all of the information for everything that I just shared with you in the show notes. And remember to embrace the mess that happens with new beginnings. Don't run away from the chaos, just stand in the power of your values, and your values will guide you through to the clarity and the insight and the wisdom. I love you and I support you, and I will see you and connect with you in the next transmission.