Chaos Training: New Moon in Aries, Gate 3 conjunct Chiron Episode by Alyssa | Magick in the Mundane Podcast | April 16, 2025

This episode is Alyssa's love letter to the April 17th New Moon in Aries at 27°, sitting in Human Design Gate 3 (Difficulty at the Beginning), conjunct Chiron — the wounded healer — and square Pluto.

She calls this lunation "Chaos Training," and the name says everything.The central thesis: we have collectively lost the ability to play, and that loss is a wound around our right to exist boldly, playfully, and instinctually in our bodies. Gate 3 lives in the Sacral Center, the seat of life force energy and Eros.

It's primordial, pre-narrative, pulse-on-pulse-off energy that doesn't know it's at the beginning — it is the beginning. And the beginning, by nature, is chaotic. Confused. Unmapped.

Alyssa argues that we've been conditioned to perceive chaos as a problem to be solved through control, when in reality chaos is the medium of creation. Order is already there — we just can't see it until we're willing to be in our bodies, feel the rhythm, and play with what's alive.

The Pluto square adds pressure. Pluto in Aquarius brings an information deluge that, without embodiment, keeps us stuck in the shadow of Gate 41 — hyperactive, dreamy, overwhelmed, unable to materialize anything.

She weaves in the Channel of Mutation (36-0 defined), the Channel of Community (37-40), Terrence McKenna, Richard Rudd's Gene Keys, the Gate of Innocence (25), and the Gate of Limitation (60) to paint a picture of a collective moment: individual transformation seeding community mutation.

The invitation is simple and radical — get in your body, practice being with sensation, dance in the discomfort, and trust that you were made for this.

Through feeling, what is novel & coming will be birthed through us. S ince December 2025, 100% of us, collectively, have been under the influence of the tribal circuitry emotional wave called the Channel of Community. This wave is stepping us into embodied equality now through May 2026.

If that wasn't demanding enough, January 31st, through the Solar Eclipse into the first days of Pisces season, the collective abstract Wave of Recognition is activated. This wave puts us under pressure to feel for a new way, a new experience, but it can get sidetracked when we come under the illusion that our ultimate potential is to be happy.

It's not. This collective wave asks us to feel EVERYTHING , all the way through, then to recognize what we are feeling. Through feeling what is coming will be birthed through us.

TUNE IN!

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The EDGE Retreat includes four weeks of online coursework with Kati + Lyss, plus & two post-retreat online integration sessions . Claim your spot now! Early bird pricing is listed with $500 off for singles, and $1300 off for couples or duos.

This conversation is dives deep into the paradoxical waters of Eros, shibari & sensation. We hope you enjoy! Learn more about the retreat & coursework, here.