Unlock the Power of Your Throat Center: Communication, Metamorphosis, and Manifestation Through Human Design

In Human Design, the Throat Center is a core of expression and action and a catalyst for manifestation. It's the mechanical hub where we communicate who we are, what we think, feel, and know, and what we have to share with or offer the world. Everything in the bodygraph flows through this crucial center to connect with the outside world, from speaking our truth to taking aligned action, attracting attention to our journey of personal evolution.

Sparking your Awakening is the experimentation of being your own Authority. Try it and see!

The Gateway of Expression: The Role of the Throat Center in Human Design

The Throat Center is not just responsible for manifesting identity, awareness, or energy into communication or action but also serves as a conduit for supporting humanity. It is the only center in the human design bodygraph where this transformation happens to reach civilization, and every gate is a portal to the civilizing effect that communication and action can bring to our form. The Throat Center connects to six other energy centers and integrates the pressures from the Head and Root Centers. All this energy flows to the Throat, allowing us to share, empower, and uplift humanity.

Whether your Throat Center is defined or undefined, one thing remains constant: effective communication and action depend on correct timing. By comprehending your unique genetic blueprint and using the instruction manual offered by experimenting with your Strategy and Authority, you can manifest communication or action in ways aligned with your design, reducing resistance and enhancing fulfillment.

Timing is Everything: The Key to Aligned Communication and Action

In Human Design, knowing when to speak and act is essential. Your relationships and interactions thrive when you understand the correct timing for expression. When you follow your Strategy and Authority, you're protecting yourself from external resistance and ensuring that your voice and actions have the effect that fulfills your life's mission and purpose.

When misaligned, each human design type experiences resistance differently. Manifestors encounter anger, Generators feel frustration, Projectors experience bitterness, and Reflectors face disappointment. These Not-Self Themes are signals that your communication or actions are out of sync with your authentic nature and can impact your relationships and health.

The Biological Connection: How the Throat Center Affects Your Health

Misaligned communication and action affect relationships and can also affect physical health. In Human Design, the Throat Center is linked to the thyroid, metabolism, and vocal cords. Acting or speaking in ways that don't align with our authentic energy can strain these biological systems, leading to health challenges over time.

When the Throat Center is not operating correctly, you may experience a "lump in your throat," sore throats, thyroid dysfunction, metabolism imbalance, or vocal strain issues. Challenges can occur when we attempt to manifest through an energetic block, displayed through misaligned speech or action without honoring our Strategy and Authority.

Find Your Unique Voice: The Gates of the Throat Center

Each of the 11 gates of the Throat Center in Human Design represents a different aspect of communication and expression. By understanding the gates activated in your chart, you gain a deeper insight into your unique voice, distinguishing between speaking from your true self and communicating from conditioning.

Aligned communication comes from the channels and gates connected to your Throat Center. By following your Strategy and Authority, you can find the correct timing for your voice to emerge authentically. Aligned action leads to more fulfilling connections with others and a more profound sense of personal expression.

Embrace Your Unique Potential Through Human Design

By honoring your Strategy and following your Authority, you can unlock the full potential of your Throat Center and experience the power of aligned communication and action. When we speak and act from our authentic selves, we manifest the life genuinely meant for us.

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Relating without Blame: Split Definitions and the Penta

In this article we'll be taking a look at relating with awareness. 

Functional relationships are at the core of what makes civilization work and what allows us to thrive in the many social processes that we get involved in throughout life. And given the nature of the world we are raised in, such relationships need to be fought for. They cannot be taken for granted, they are precious and rare. The legacy of the Not-Self that pervades cultural models, stereotypes and moral ideals include co-dependency, indebtedness, blame and fault-finding - and this is not what relating is about.

This article features valuable quotes not only from course material on split definitions from Ra, but also information from my BG5 Career and Business Consulting on the nature of the Penta. 

The Penta is the group entity that determines group and family dynamics and therefore much of the household scenarios that form our early life conditioning. 

In my experience as a Broad Split design, what I have seen along the way is the complex interrelation between the split definition that is prone to blaming and the emergent stress or toxicity from group fields (Pentas that essentially do not have the energy they need to be successful). These things come together to create dynamics of scarcity, blame and hurt that are unnecessarily personalized and internalized. It becomes a part of our Not-Self story and we carry it with us into any new context we enter into. When a new context is similar enough in configuration to our family of origin, this can be especially triggering and bring out a version of the Not-Self we thought we had left behind.

If you're unfamiliar with the Penta, further below I will describe concisely what it is and the implications it has for human society, community and households - after introducing the split definitions.

Relating Without Blame - Split Definitions and the Penta

The Broad Split

"It says, “Look, I've got this broad split. I need, I need to have this. It’s what I'm about. This is what I'm here to experience; this is what I’m here to learn. If you cannot give this to me, then this is not a relationship that is correct. If you cannot give me, as in this case, the intimacy, if you can’t give me these things, if you don’t give me the marriage and the bonds of the 19/49 or the romance (of the 39/55), if you can’t give me these things, it’s not going to work. And I don't need them all. But, if we are going to work together, this is what I need from you.” 

This is not about saying to somebody that they are not correct. What happens to the not-self with these broad splits is that they’re always just simply blaming. And again, blaming in the context of bitterness, frustration, or anger instead of understanding that because of their very design, anyone who will bridge that split of theirs with that broad split is ready to hear what they need from them, because they’re already bringing it.

“This is what I need from you.” It goes deeper than that because I want you to really understand that this is not about dependencies. It isn’t. These broad splits, in all of their relationships, have big problems because they're always saying there's something wrong with them instead of saying there is something I need from you. There’s something you can give me. And in that, we can form a more perfect bond, because that’s really what it's about. 

Until the broad split gets to that place where they can be comfortable in their skin, then looking out there and seeing that they’re not good enough and that they're not good enough is simply the conditioning mechanism, and in fact, they are good enough, can be, but you’ve got to let them know what you need. 

Two sides of the split definition process: 

• The single bridge learns what it needs for its relating life and then educates its partner.

• The broad split lets its partner know what it needs and then the relationship can flower.
  

This is the fundamental responsibility that is there in the split definition. 

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Everything about the split definition is that they're here to teach relating. But they do it in different ways. The  [simple] bridge split says that you’ve got to be able to do this. The broad split says you’ve got to be able to give this. 

We have an enormous problem in the nature of communion. Human beings operating out of mental authorities are full of fears. Relationships, whether they are going to succeed or fail, can be very threatening. There are all kinds of pressure that is attached to these things.

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All the many, many years that I did readings—I've done readings for thousands of people who are divorced, separated, angry, frustrated, bitter, or disappointed, all of those things. Nobody teaches a child how to be correct. Nobody teaches adults how to be parents. Nobody teaches human beings how to be correct together in respect. Nobody teaches these things. They don't. And the teachers that we need are lost in the maia. 

Imagine, the next time you see somebody, one of these people who tell you all about relating and how people should get along, you make sure that you get to check their data, because you'll see that they're usually single definitions and they don't know what the hell they're talking about. They don't. It’s only the split definition that’s really going to be able to make a difference in that. We need to be properly educated. We need to not be afraid to recognize who knows something.

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If they’re not aware, then we're going to have nothing but problem relationships. Yet at the same time, you can see that it takes a great deal of awareness to be able to come to grips with your design as a split. It takes awareness. It takes real awareness to get past the traps of the bridges as conditioning traps to begin to see that this is what you're here to master and teach in the way of relating. 

None of the rest of us, none of us single definitions, triple splits, quads—we are incapable of evolving in terms of relationships; incapable. It's not our responsibility. It’s not built into us. It puts enormous pressure on that 46% of humanity who are split definitions, because the responsibility then becomes theirs to make the relationships work. And of course, it goes back to what I began with. It is a very difficult thing. Only the split definition can see a relationship as bringing wholeness. Nobody else can. 

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If I'm ever going to give another training for relationship teachers, I will only invite splits. I won’t invite anybody else, because the reality is that they're the ones who have the gift and those gifts can be so special. A lot of it has to do with what it means to accept and be open to outer authority. This is something, when it comes to relationships, is often very difficult. Yet at the same time, to recognize that it is inherent in any split definition to be a true outer authority for what it means to be together and to be able to maintain the quality of our bonds. This is what they’re about."

- Ra Uru Hu (Excerpts from 'Split Definitions & Relationships' IHDS, 2009)

I'll start off by highlighting this bold statement by Ra: "None of the rest of us, none of us single definitions, triple splits, quads—we are incapable of evolving in terms of relationships; incapable."  I'm not sure to what extent this is actually true. What does your experience tell you? 

Personally, the split definition does stand out to a significant degree when it comes to healthy relating for me. The other kinds of definition don't appear to be very interested until they are educated in one way or another to see the value or until they make it a part of their spiritual or vocational path.

Yet, I have also seen single definitions who have worked very hard to relate with awareness and wisdom about the nature of giving and receiving from the other with clear communication. And as a young split definition there were many things I learned from single definitions for me to be able to relate correctly. 

The limitation however, was that in most cases there wasn't the understanding of the mechanics at the time. And therefore much of the examples I saw looked like honourable attempts to forge a lasting bond, with the people involved learning a lot about not disrespecting oneself or the other, but they didn't actually work out as a functional relationship in the end.

Usually the single definition distorted their own nature to the point they got fed up with their partner. I've also seen a weird dynamic of "I'm not blaming you ( -but I'm blaming you)," emerge more than once. Which is almost as funny as it is sad.

When this was not the case and both people felt very content with themselves and the other, it was because they felt like they could be themselves and do their own thing without needing to compromise that. And yet, all of this is still categorically different from the mechanical nature of being a split definition and the outer authority this can lead to.

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One of the reasons why relationships are difficult is that they can get very confusing rather quickly, and most of us want to do it right without knowing exactly what that means. The Not-Self doesn't only want to do it right, it wants to be in the right. It wants to win in the relationship, if you know what I mean. Whether it is by being really 'good', really 'bad' or really 'normal' - either way it wants to be victorious and is willing to pay a very high price for that. 

Few people alive today grew up with parents who could role model for them what relating with awareness is like. One of the reasons for that (beyond not knowing their Designs) is that the moment you're together with both of your parents at the same time, or they're together with you, none of you can fully express yourselves. You're in a Penta. Parents may have a very different relationship that is available to them when they are alone with each other than when they are suddenly joined by their children. They may have a private relationship the children may never actually know about. 

As soon as three people or more come together, the Penta takes over the social dynamics with only one goal in mind: to be a successful family (group) according to whatever societal / material model they espouse. It's about accomplishing the lifestyle and being able to demonstrate that success to other families, inevitably in a competitive way. 

The communion that is possible between two becomes something else once we reach three. It was quite a shock for me to come to see this when I first studied the Penta, and recognized I actually didn't know who my parents were.

So what is a Penta?

Here's a quote from some of my BG5 Consulting work to explain the concept to clients:

The graph that you see above is called a PentaGraph, with its various structural components. It is the Design of the Penta as a Form, in the same way that we have a Human Design, or the various Designs of Mammals, Plants, Cells, etc., which are all different.

You can learn more about this in Ra's lecture series titled 'The Architecture of Life' in which he shares with us the Design of Forms.

At the BG5 Business Institute we use this graph to work with families, teams, communities, organizations in order to learn how to create a social and productive group organism that is functional and effective.   

For this article, what is important to take note of are the empty spaces in the PentaGraph. As you can see, some boxes are colored in and some are left grey. These grey boxes are empty. Those that are colored in are the energies that the team members bring into the group field. These empty places are called 'Gaps'. 

When a Penta has Gaps and is supposed to be a unit of its own, it generates a particular sense of scarcity in the field. The atmosphere and energy of the group becomes oriented around that scarcity and starts to focus on it. This in turn has an effect on the minds of the participating group members; their attention is hijacked to focus on 'what's missing' or 'what's lacking' and 'who is supposed to bring this in?'. And so this is what the mind will start to think about, and subsequently what everyone will start talking about. 

When they can't find that energy, you can imagine the Penta becoming 'ill'. It starts to generate a kind of toxicity in the field that incentivizes the members to seek out the missing energy resources or competences. When acted out, this translates into toxic behaviour and communication. Most of the social dysfunction we see in society is a consequence of getting pulled into incomplete Pentas and being blind to their existence and conditioning influence on human beings. Like liver cells being blind to the fact that they are part of and determined by the liver as a transcendent whole.

Take the PentaGraph in the previous image as an example, you can see that they are missing four vital energies (which we call Skills in BG5). The skills at the bottom you might recognize as being associated with the 5th, 14th and 29th Gates in the Sacral Center. They are the generative power of a Penta, without them the group cannot hold together continuously nor attract the resources necessary to empower their creative direction. There's no sustainable lift-off of whatever vision they might have.

In a Penta these energies do not operate like Gates, their frequencies are modulated and they become something else within the construct of the Penta. Something that we can recognize as the productive energy flow of businesses (and material projects of all sorts) in which human beings come together to generate an income, resources or rewards.

This is the flow that families create. Generate the income that puts the food on the table, pays for the mortgages, pays for schools, pays for the car, the fancy clothes, etc. Assume responsibility for your role in securing everything a family 'should' have in order to be materially successful in the world, to be competitive enough so that its members can 'thrive' as part of society.

Communion goes out of the window here when the Penta can condition everyone to look at everyone else through that material lens. 'Are they upholding the model?', 'Are they fulfilling the role properly?'. And this is what opens the door to dynamics of blaming in the household when the Penta doesn't have the energy it requires. The mind thinks 'We can't seem to succeed in realizing the dream - whose fault is it?' 

What I call a 'Blaming Atmosphere' is especially the case when there is a Gap in the Skill of Commitment. When this energy is lacking, the group is running on empty promises while nobody can actually follow through on their commitments. Among many other things, people start to make excuses and accuse each other for not putting in the necessary effort to make things work. 

So now imagine what happens when we bring several split definitions into this kind of environment... They have a predisposition in the Not-Self to blame themselves and the other for lacking what is needed, and then this whole idea of 'blame' and 'fault' becomes amplified by the Penta and its scarcity conditioning. And eventually this becomes a cultural norm that is part of our lifestyle. It is a milieu we are raised in, it's something that we can take for granted as 'just the way human beings work'. It becomes an internalized part of our psyche.

 And yet it isn't true - there is no awareness in blaming.

On the other hand, by respecting each others' Designs and understanding our context, we can speak transparently about what we perceive, about what we notice, about what is needed in order to make things work, and how scarcity could be overcome. 

Free from expectations, free from blaming and fault-seeking. We can be unattached in a healthy way about actually 'achieving the model' or not.

We can be anchored in the present and with awareness have a healthy dialogue about our experiencing, about our learning, and navigate together moment by moment without disconnecting, disassociating or falling out into blind aggression, contempt or violence due to the mind's fears.

It all starts by understanding who you are, who the other is, who you are together and what context you're participating in.

It starts with awareness and the willingness to relate.

Enjoy your movie,

Hagen

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Human Design System - Love, Sex and Caring in Relationships

Human Design System - Love, Sex and Caring in Relationships

Do you desire profound keys to how you are designed to successfully, peacefully and surprisingly connect in partnership and love relationships that are satisfying? IHDS Certified Human Design Relationship Analysts like myself can help!

Knowing YOUR way of Loving, Caring and experiencing Sex can offer clues to help you accept the kind of movie you’re in.
Which are you?

• Are you more of a chick-flick kinda whirl, or maybe romantic comedy is your thing?
  

• Do you have a “Romeo and Juliet” style of storyline?
  

• Perhaps you’re in a steamy romantic action film?
  

• Maybe the unrequited love and romantic drama is more your style?
  

• Oooh here’s my favorite - the fantasy adventure with some magic on the side?
  

• Or how about a romantic thriller, the kind of damsel in distress show that has you on the edge of your seat?

The funny thing is, although I’m using these homogenized movie dramas to illustrate the point that we all have different ways we’re attuned to love, there are billions of reality shows going on right now, and none of them fit perfectly into those categories above. We are all designed to love, care, and have sex uniquely!

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The more I decondition, the less attractive and real those movies seem, as I’m captivated more by the real-life movie I watch in the people who come to me for advice in their romantic partnerships.

Remember entering into relationships correctly is about Strategy and Authority, not what your mind thinks about any of this stuff. Yes, this is incredibly fascinating. Yet remember to follow your body into alignment. Personally I find great fun in unlocking the mysteries of how we connect, feels like reading those Nancy Drew novels when I was a kid.

In Human Design, there are layers and layers and layers of “keynoting” words or word-phrases that help us understand the function of the 64 Genetic Codes and their 6 different binary ways they show up in humans.

In this article, I’ll introduce the love codes that can give you a general theme of how you love as an introduction and point you to further resources to learn about them. I first learned about these as they were briefly mentioned in my Human Design Foundations classes. You can watch a 30 minute video of me presenting on them here.

THE GENETIC IMPRINTING of LOVE

Ask a physicist, and they’ll tell you love is chemistry.

Ask a romantic, and they’ll tell you it’s a yearning that drives all great fables.

The psychotherapist will tell you there are several kinds of love.

“Love” can be a generic term, for there are so many different nuances to the feelings of love.

One thing we can all agree on: it is impossible to thrive in life without love. Love can seem like an eternal mystery, the idealized myth of fairytales… but when you begin to look at love through the lens of Human Design mechanics, you’ll find that love is all about connectivity.

There are certain hexagrams Gates in the Rave I-Ching that carry the frequency we call love. In Human Design we call these (hexagrams) the “Love Gates.”

Whether you have all the Gates of Love consistently defined in your bodygraph, none of them or something in between, the way you experience those feelings we term love is outlined in these ten gates. If activated in an undefined center, you will be conditioned by that gate anytime it gets defined. If the gate is open (not colored in) then you’re here to experience and can amplify all the ways love can show up in your life. Wisdom is derived here if operating correctly. Rely upon Strategy and Authority to make decisions and the love nurtures you in this life. Make decisions from trying to find or hang onto these themes of love in your life and witness the pain of the mind manifest your not self suffering.

There are two primary themes of love; Transcendent and Mundane. The four Transcendent gates of love are looking for love through the other, and are rather impersonal. Rarely do these gates carry the powerful, intense feelings of love that the Mundane gates do.

The seven everyday, personal, “Mundane” (as Ra called them) gates of love are looking for love with someone, emerging according to the theme of that gate.

There is one gate (10) that carries both Mundane and Transcendent Love themes.

The Transcendent Gates of Love

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Transcendent gates of love are the extraordinary, non-mundane kind of love associated with the following themes:

Rave I-ching Genetic Code Gate 25

“The Spirit of the Self” Hexagram of Innocence: Human Design Gate 25 - Universal Love

Being loving in the universe; having a place to be loving towards what everything is.

Godhead: Michael - The Angelical Mind

Rave I-ching Genetic Code Gate 15

“Modesty” Hexagram of Extremes: Human Design Gate 15 - Love of Humanity

Loving being human; caring about humanity and having a collective vision of how human beings are supposed to operate.

Godhead: Parvati - The Goddess of Marital Felicity

Rave I-ching Genetic Code Gate 46

“Pushing Upward” Hexagram of the Determination of the Self: Gate 46 - Love of the Body

Loving the body; recognizing the beauty of everybody’s form, understanding the beauty of each body as a unique vessel.

Godhead: Christ “Love Thy Neighbor”

Rave I-ching Genetic Code 10

“Treading” Hexagram of Behavior: Gate 10 - Loving being Alive (Transcendent)

Loving being alive in the world; loving the world as it is, loving one’s-self

Godhead: Vishnu “The Godhead of Monotheism”

“The nature of the real Tantra, the love of humanity and the love of the body, they actually go out—and this is very technical—they actually go out through the 10th gate. That is, the 15 goes through the 10, it’s opposite, and the 46 goes through its 25, it’s opposite. Now this is the vaguest system in our health process. In other words, this is literally the way we breathe and live, okay. And it’s a very important circuit that’s in the body. It’s not a circuit I teach you, because it’s something that’s involved in health and in medical practice to understand this circuit. So when you’re looking at, for example, the love of humanity (gate 15), that the natural outlet of the love of humanity is to go through the 10 and either to be awakened, to find your form, or to follow your convictions. That’s one.

On the other side, the love of the body (gate 46) leads to initiation and an entry into communion. In other words, those movements are like this. So you can see what happens is that the individual Tantra fuels our direction and the themes of our direction whereas the Tantra that is collective then goes back into the body itself, goes back down. It’s not looking for the Throat,—goes back down into us. So, for example, the nature of the 15-5 establishes its rhythm to find the perfected form. In other words, to bring that rhythm to a perfected form and in bringing that to a perfected form, the ability to have the energy necessary to struggle in this life. In other words, there’s a whole movement that goes around.

The same thing is true for the love of the body. To initiate the community to the love of the body. To initiate the community to the body as temple which is why we build temples. We build temples because the 46 leads naturally to the 25, it’s opposite which is the priest or the priestess who says we will give them a temple for them. We will create a temple for them. We will create a body. This is the body of faith. You go into a church, you go into a synagogue, you go into a mosque. What you’re going into is the 29-46, going out the 25-51, and down into the 40-37.” Ra Uru Hu 

How Your Human Design Charts Connect

Connecting to people who have these gates consistently active in their design, you experience them as naturally loving. It’s just the way they’re hardwired. Their way of searching for a greater love is to be loving - it doesn’t necessarily mean that they love you specifically; the love itself isn’t necessarily in their other.

In a relationship with these people, it can feel like they are looking beyond you for even greater love. This can be a possibly disturbing experience for others to connect to when attempts are made to make their impersonal loving personal… don’t get offended when they don’t love you back. Its just mechanics.

People with these Gates can be very nice to have around despite their love rarely feeling personal. Transcendent love doesn't have to be personal to feel good and give you that sense of joy and possibility of life with the other. These four gates have a transpersonal quality deeply rooted in the G Center.

Again, this love goes beyond simply identifying with another - it’s finding love through someone. Rarely ever felt as strongly as personal love, transcendent love gates make up the Cross of the Vessel of Love.

The Mundane Gates of Love

Mundane Gates of love are looking for love with somebody through the dynamic connection and unique expression particular to each gate. There is nothing more intense than the definitions in composite charts that involve these gates when they bring connections to each other.

Each of these Gates carries with it a demand for personal connectivity. It is through these seven Mundane Gates - 10, 44, 40, 58, 41, 28, 55 - that we get our illusions of personal love
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Mundane gates of love operate through mundane terminology or keynotes - that is, this is the ordinary, every day, earthbound kind of love that finds love through these gate specific themes with another.       

Which of these gates lead you to experiencing love through these unique aspects of love with the other?

Hexagram of Behavior: Gate 10 - Self Love through Others (Mundane)

Finding love of the Self through being loved by others.

Hexagram of Alertness: Gate 44 - Successful Love

Finding love through material success; the love of talent.

Hexagram of Aloneness: Gate 40 - Earning Love

Finding love through work to earn appreciation; the love of work if the work is supported and the work supports the people they love.

Hexagram of Aliveness: Gate 58 - Perfecting Love

Creating out of correction and challenge, perfect love; love that proves the strength of love.

Hexagram of Contraction: Gate 41 - Dreams of Love

Finding love through fantasies and sexual experience.

Hexagram of the Game Player: Gate 28 - Love with Purpose

Finding love through the struggle for purpose.

Hexagram of Spirit: Gate 55 - Eternally Indecisive Love

Mysterious, mystical, emotional Love that doesn't know if it really loves; unrequited love  

Layers of Interconnectivity - the Human Design Love Connection

All these ways of connecting are part of our program of learning and evolution. Each and every one of us has multiple layers of connectivity to others. But whether we have a connection through these Transcendent or Mundane gates, we call the emotion we feel through those connections Love. Knowing these gates can help you understand and recognize why situations can be uncomfortable, and free you from repeating unhealthy behavioral patterns.

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The Love Gates describe the many themes of love that we can experience with all the people in our lives. Because everything is a duality, these can also be gates of “I don’t love,” or even hate, as well.

Most of us have some of these gates consistently defined within us, and it’s through these gates that we can learn about love from our connection with others by being ourselves.

If you have an activated Love Gate in an open center, when someone comes along with the electromagnetic (the opposite gate completing that channel) you may experience that relationship as “The One” and most likely may feel a stronger sensation of love than the other feels for you.

If you have an activated Love Gate in a defined center, your love for the person who brings the electromagnetic simply isn’t as powerful or compelling. It’s still there, but you don’t have the same response. You’re naturally investigating other connectivities.

The moment that you can be yourself and see the love for what it truly is, you can accept the other for who they are and be with them without trying to change or fix them. Our unique capacity for love develops within us through following our Strategy and Authority; not only for the benefit of others, but also for ourselves.

"If you allow someone to be who they are and they allow you to be who you are, then that's Love. Anything else is torture." Ra Uru Hu

Based on a fundamental transcendent love,
Human Design is a tool that helps everyone
to understand the various kinds of love,
how it works, and ultimately find self-love.

If you’re a mental Projector or the like who really enjoys self-study, I highly recommend “The Love Gates” Human Design System class - an audio program by Ra Uru Hu. Unfortunately the recording is old and not great quality; still if you like listening to Ra it is well worth the cost and the five and a half hours you’ll spend listening to it. It was one of the first programs I bought, even before I joined the Jovian team! (Disclosure: Although I still do work with Jovian, the above link is not an affiliate link nor am I paid to promote their products on my blog. I just like sharing what I’ve found that has been helpful in my experience. Original Love article written under birth name of Andrea Abay-Abay in early 2015 by invitation from JovianArchive.com. Republished here with permission.)

Did you know?

Love is just one of the many ways we are designed to connect with each other. There are also

STREAMS of SEXUALITY

and

STREAMS of CARING

Learn all about how you and your partner are designed to Care, Love, and be Sexuality intimate in relationship…

Five Important Reasons to Take Live Online Human Design Classes Now

Five Important Reasons to Take Live Online Human Design Classes Now

How many times have you bought a book and not finished it? I know you are busy. Life gets in the way of your best intentions, and learning is rarely a priority on your to-do list when there’s so much else pulling at you.

At Human Design Life, we use a better format for learning than buying a book that collects dust on the shelf, or even those large educational sites like Udemy and Lynda.  Our live online courses are interactive yet recorded just in case, with a group forum for participation during and after your experience. Would you like to schedule in your personal self-improvement efforts and be supported in your commitment to an inspirational education that can help you grow?

Here are the practical reasons you'll want to take Live Human Design Courses:

• You're statistically about 75% more likely to finish your course.
• You're going to have the support of meeting other people in Human Design.
• You're going to be able to participate live and get your questions answered as they come up, thereby learning better from the interactive experience.
• You're going to pay a lot less than what you would if you were taking it privately, and the live interaction enriches the group experience.

Live classes such as Living Your Design and Rave ABC's count towards higher level certifications if it’s right for you to answer the call to become a Human Design Professional.

I’ve been teaching the first official step in the Human Design System educational curriculum, "Living Your Design," for over two years now with more than fifty participants. These live online courses have had near 90% completion rates. Between 50-60% attended every single live class; the rest watched recordings (due to time zone differences, travel and work schedules, etc.). We have a private Facebook group to connect and share before, during and after classes.

I don’t know many online teachers who offer live webcams during their classes. Living Your Design is different and requires personalized experiences provided by live interaction. I’m committed to offering this class live in person or online. (If you're ever in Mount Shasta and want a reading or private class, feel free to send me your design ahead of time and invite me to meet up with you.)

Online, I give you the option of both live webcam or just audio in addition to chat - because the two LYD classes I did without video, although great, did not feel as engaged or profound as all the other classes I did with video as an option.

I now use a special internet webinar software that has the least amount of lag (this is not Google-Hangouts!), and all classes are automatically recorded in case you want to review them again later. Feeling shy and don't want to be on camera or audio? No worries, there's live chat as well. Plus you get pdf downloads of the slides we use in class.

If finances are an issue, compared to the prices of one-on-one,  you can’t beat live classroom interaction with real-time Q&A. It's like getting a Human Design Chart reading spread out over two months. I do live screen sharing of interactive Human Design bodygraphs on the fly. Looking at each other's charts in this way helps us all learn, and it’s great fun too!

Would you like to join any upcoming courses I'm conducting by request for Spring 2017? Here are the available courses:

Living Your Design: A Cellular Transformation

Take the first step in your official Human Design Educational Journey

Description: The Living Your Design Workshop is a transformational awakening opportunity that can change your life if you decide to enter the Human Design experiment. Open to anyone without prerequisites; this workshop teaches the essential foundations of Human Design. 

The Human Design System empowers you to know yourself. Take this opportunity to discover and live according to your authentic self. Do you know how to make choices you trust? Where you get thrown off-track? Do you know how to recognize what is correct for you? The information and exercises in this program delivered weekly over two months are designed to shatter the suffering of who you think you are and help you get aligned with your core essence. 

The Living Your Design Awakening Program can be of tremendous benefit in deepening your understanding of your Strategy and Authority and the pain of the conditioning you have experienced. It can assist you with your personal experimentation as well as clarify what it means for you to “live your design.” This Living Your Design course leads you down an incredible path of self-discovery and knowledge. Although a Human Design reading is not required, it is encouraged before or during this program. 

Living Your Design Awakening Program Content:

• What Human Design is & Why to Experiment
• The 9 Centers, How they Function and signposts of Alignment or not
• The Aura Types, Strategies, and Inter-Type interaction
• How Authority is activated and followed in correct decision-making

PreRequisites: None

Required Materials: Living Your Design Manual
Recommended: Human Design Overview or Foundation Reading

Next Group is forming for eight consecutive Saturdays at 10 am Pacific. Sign-Up Now!

Official Human Design Training: Rave ABC's

New class forming now!

Although it may be enough for you to go through the experience of the Living Your Design Awakening program, for some people it is just the beginning. Many students who are passionate about learning more about themselves find the Human Design System provides accurate answers. Whether you want to become a certified professional or simply more informed in using this system for yourself, the Rave ABC's course is the next step. 

Rave ABC’s is the first level of the IHDS professional and general educational tracks. This course is designed to satisfy your curiosity about the basics revealed in a bodygraph. It also provides the required educational foundation for your development as a skilled analyst, Living Your Design Guide, and the many other possible avenues you can explore beyond.

In the Rave ABC's we will discuss more of the origins of Human Design. We'll also delve deeper into the fundamental components that make up the profound synthesis known as the Human Design System. Rave ABC's is designed to show how all these pieces fit together to form the bodygraph and help you begin the process of learning how to analyze a chart.

Official Human Design Training: Rave ABC's Content:

• Black – Red, Personality and Design
• Circuits and Circuitry
• Hexagram Structure

Prerequisites:

Human Design Foundation Reading
Living Your Design: A Cellular Transformation

Required Materials: Rave ABC Student Manual; recommended MMI Software Student Edition

Rave Cartography... 

is the second level of general IHDS education and serves as a prerequisite for all advanced education. Adding depth to the foundation built in Rave ABC’s, together Rave ABC’s and Rave Cartography provide enough tools to have a solid Human Design foundation. It offers a greater understanding of yourself and the world around you. In addition to the weekly classes, this class also includes study group meetings and homework. Total course recommended study time is 48 hours.
  
Classes include both interactive lectures, and study oriented workshops. This class is scheduled to begin January 4th on Mondays at 10am Central for 16 weeks. Guided Study groups are included. There are also 10 or more hours of recorded self-study lectures in addition to reading student manuals and completing various homework assignments designed to creatively help you integrate and practice the material.

Course Content:
1. Nine Centers
2. The not-self and its nine strategies
3. Definition
4. Authority
5. Angles and the 12 Profiles

Pre-Requisites: Human Design Foundation Reading, Living Your Design: A Cellular Transformation and Rave ABC’s

Required Materials: Rave Cartography Student Manuals Volume 1 & 2; recommended: MMI Software Student Edition.

Completion of this Rave Cartography program qualifies you enter the International Human Design School Professional Training Academy to become an Analyst, Cosmologist, Family Practice Specialist, Child Development Analyst, BG5 Consultant, or Professional Teacher. You will also be qualified to enter the Science of Differentiation College to study Rave Sociology, become a Holistic or DreamRave Analyst, or get your Differentiation Degree. 

How You're Designed To Love and Be Love

If you are familiar with your design (you've been studying and experimenting, have a foundation reading and taken any or all of the foundation classes) and are still confused about understanding relationships, this is for you. Get ready to learn how you are designed to experience love and make decisions you trust when it comes to your romantic relationships.

I'm a split definition Projector. As a basic split Emotional Advisor, I'm designed to be an excellent guide and teach others what it takes to be in a relationship because I have experienced many of the mistakes in a relationship yet have a genetic imperative to work things out. Using the power of the Human Design System helps you discover the gift of acceptance and fulfillment in your romantic relationships.

Would you like to:

• Learn about how the different definitions are designed to relate to each other?
• Discover your "Love Gates" - find out how you are designed to be "turned on" when it comes to love relationships?
• Understand where you are open to amplifying the love gates?
• Recognize how you can get pulled away from the kind of love that is authentic and correct for you to experience?

A free introductory webinar is scheduled for February 14th at 12 pm Pacific.

When you commit to classes that take place consistently on a certain day and time, and there’s community, live interaction and Q&A about your real-world issues, you are far more likely to show up. The group participation and feeling of camaraderie means you will not only schedule the time for learning; but you will also participate when it's right for you, and get a whole lot more out of the experience. 

If you do want to learn something new and have it make the biggest impact in your life, live courses are the way to go. Ready to join us?