How to Make Correct Decisions: Human Design System Sacral Center Authority
How to Make Correct Decisions
Using Your Human Design Sacral Authority
In part two of our Authority article series, “How to Make Correct Decisions Using Your Human Design,” we will discuss the nuances of Generators and the three kinds of Sacral Authority.
In case you missed part one of this Human Design Authority article series: We covered a bit of a background on the origins of Type and Strategy, why Mind is not your Authority and the Solar Plexus/Emotional Center as an Authority.
The Sacral Center Defines a Generator
If you have a red square in the bodygraph, your energy is incredibly powerful in response. Your aura is like a pulsing vortex that draws situations to you so that you can react to them. As the Sacral is the only Center that defines an Auric Type, this means you are a Generator.
Approximately 67% of the people on this planet have a Generator Type of Aura - open, enveloping and available to respond. All Generators (Manifesting Generators included) who do not have the Solar Plexus defined (approximately half) have Sacral Authority, with the accompanying decision-making strategy of waiting to respond.
"Waiting?” you may exclaim, “What do you mean, I have to wait? Who wants to wait? Why should I wait? I can't just sit around waiting. If I wait, I'm going to miss out! Who's going to make things happen for me if I don't?"
Let's get clear on what waiting is and the reasons Generators of all kinds, emotional or not, are advised to experiment with waiting to respond, rather than initiating action. As you can see there are issues this strategy initially creates on the mental plane. Then we'll discuss the three kinds of Sacral Authority.
The term "waiting" brings to mind boredom, long lines at the post office or bank. Waiting in our Human Design System context means an active state of being, a sustained quality of being present to the current conditions, absorbed in the living of your life, attending to what needs to be given your full attention right now, and available to respond.
Let’s contrast that active state of Being Present to… obsessing about how or when what you think you want to happen will happen, or trying to make things happen from the realm of your mind, or thinking about how to manipulate the future or rewrite the past. Active, present waiting allows you to see clearly, and be ready to respond to what life brings your way - which is a whole lot, as the world is filled with things for you to respond to!
Ra Uru Hu - Human Design System Type
The Two Kinds of Human Design Generators
Pure Generators are people who have the Sacral Center defined without a motor (Solar Plexus, Ego, Root or Sacral) connected to the Throat.
If you can trace your finger from any of the motor Centers along a colored in Channel up to the Throat (perhaps going through the Splenic Center or G Center along the way) then you are looking at the bodygraph of a Generator with Manifesting potential, aka in general as Manifesting Generators. These people are able to verbalize the sounds of their Sacral if it’s connected to the Throat and have the gift of being able to get things done very quickly, but are likely to skip steps.
The 34-20 is a channel that you'll often see in Generators as it is one of the three oppositions in the Rave Mandala that creates a channel. When you see this channel defined, regardless of any other definition present, you see the bodygraph of a pure Manifesting Generator. These kinds of Manifesting Generators can be lighting fast at getting things done but are even more prone to skipping steps. Nevertheless, they have tremendous power in the Now.
Because of the powerful fuel of the motors connected to the Throat, the bodygraph configuration of the Manifesting Generators can often lead them to engage in activities they may not have the engagement or agreement of their Sacral on, and so they end up getting stuck, feeling frustrated and quitting.
As any kind of Generator, you are designed to follow the response and yield to the authority of your Sacral motor (waiting to be clear emotionally if the Solar Plexus is defined). Your Sacral motor is a biological function, a physical mechanism that only you (of all the four Aura Types) have consistent access to. Because the Sacral Center is a mechanism that powers the creation and nurturing of life, you are designed to be the builders of the world. In fact, this is what we call your Career Type - Classic Builder (Pure Generator) or Express Builder (Manifesting Generators).
Your Sacral Center has a magnetic capacity, generating an aura with an expansive, open quality to it, inclusively drawing in what it can respond to. Years of conditioning to initiate action from your mind ("Just do it! Go out and get 'em! Make it happen!") can atrophy your use of the response of your Sacral and your ability to sense its truth.
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As a Generator, you are designed to respond in the specific way that energy flows consistently through your defined channels. Your life force emanates fields which draw in data your Sacral knows it can engage in to generate the frequency of satisfaction or not. The satisfied vibration of your energy field (or frustrated if the activity, timing, place, people or situation is not correct for you) colors the frequency of your reality.
The serendipity of what it is to be a Generator is that the Sacral is the only Authority center that makes sounds. Spontaneous and uncontrived, sacral sounds are your inner Authority, whether they are verbalized or not. These responsive sounds that come naturally when your Sacral is faced with a choice or engaged in an activity are how you are designed to navigate your world.
This energy source of your being can be relied upon to know whether you have the energy to participate satisfactorily in the task at hand at present. Grunts and groans, moans and sighs, “uh-huh” and “uh-uh”, or “mmh” when undecided, are all sacral sounds that are great tools for recognizing energetic response before, during or after an activity, and most come naturally to Generators. That is unless they have been conditioned to suppress or ignore them by well-meaning parents who told them to "use your words" in the name of politeness. Listening for sounds or tuning into the gut feeling in your body is imperative for you to rely on, giving you the ability to find satisfaction in how you expend your energy, rather than frustration.
With so much power, you are designed to be a busy person and may not be comfortable sitting still long, especially as a Manifesting Generator. You may have noticed that you are a bit like an energizer bunny that likes to keep on going and going until you become exhausted and need to rest. So when we advise you to "wait to respond" your mind may balk or draw a blank at what that means since you are wired to experience busyness as a natural state of being.
Trust the Response of Your Sacral
The magic of responding is something a Generator naturally experiences by feeling energy (or not) for something you see needing to be done. Your body wants to be busy with the tasks it enjoys, so let it do its thing. Honor your energy, follow your body. Living requires time, and there's a correct time and place for activities. Your Sacral is informed by the Channel and Centers it’s defined to), and therefore your body knows in the now if it wants to do something, or not.
The biggest signpost of a Generator not listening to their own Authority is frustration or feeling stuck. Doing something that your Sacral says "uh-uh" or "no" to causes a sense of difficulty or impediment that arises when you try to force yourself to do something your body just doesn't want to do. Frustration offers insight into your Sacral availability to perform an activity.
Watch for any thoughts like "I have to..." or "I should do..." and a resulting feeling of dread or being immobilized that facing the contemplated direction or decision can bring. Should your mind win the battle to initiate action, and you do what it thinks you should do while ignoring your sacral response, notice whether or not the experience was worth the struggle, effort or discomfort. When frustration arises because you can't make something work, stop what you're doing, take a breath and a reassess the situation. Perhaps now is not the correct timing for the activity?
With practice and experiences of testing the waters and your response, you'll eventually get to the place where an "uh-uh" brooks no argument from you, or others who know you. You'll learn that sometimes it's just not the right activity, question or the correct timing. Gently teaching others by living the example of you honoring your sacral authority and that rationalizations or excuses just won't work to change your decision takes time. Patiently set an example of someone who trusts their body to make the right choices for themselves.
Your Sacral knows what energy it has available for IN RESPONSE! So what task specifically to do? Watch for when life gives you something to respond to - the right question at the right time can be very helpful to uncover your truth. Making a list can be helpful when you are faced with choices, then getting a non-partial other to ask you questions to assist you in discovering what the correct thing to do is. Allow your use of precious life-force energy to be guided by your Sacral response so that you can perform appropriately and efficiently in life, being your own Authority.
Kinds of Sacral Authority
The Sacral Center energizes from one or more of 11 different Channels - connecting to five other Centers - that can define this powerful source of life energy. Keep in mind that if the Solar Plexus Center is defined, that the Sacral no longer is the overriding authority as this person must honor their emotional clarity that is gained over time.
Manifested Sacral Authority
HILLARY CLINTON example Chart (Click link to add to your free chart Library)
When your Sacral Center is defined to your Throat, either directly as in the case of a Pure Manifesting Generator or otherwise, you are able to speak your response in the now, colored by the awareness and energy of the Channels defined.
Generated Sacral Authority
ROBERT DOWNEY JR. example Chart (Click link to add to your free chart Library)
When your Sacral Center is defined without the Splenic or Solar Plexus, your response in the now is fueled by the adrenaline of the Root Center (if defined) or powers your sense of love and direction in the G Center (if defined).
Splenic Generated Sacral Authority
MADONNA example chart (Click link to add to your free chart Library)
When your Splenic Center is defined in addition to your Sacral, then the authority is Splenic Generated Sacral Authority. You are designed to generate a response in the now, with the awareness of what can give you well-being and keep you healthy.
Generator, You are Designed Perfectly for You
Remember the purpose of Human Design is to help you to be yourself by taking away authority from your conditioned mind and putting it where it belongs. You discover who you are by finding personal satisfaction in the activities that you enjoy. In the case of a non-emotional Generator, your true authority is deeply rooted in your body and designed to respond in the now when asked. The fact is that your body can be depended on to be a reliable source of knowing,
Often people will ask if it is a good thing to have this or that Definition. There is no such thing as a good or bad in Human Design. Subtleties within your bodygraph are neither positive nor negative. Yes, there can be challenges that may prove difficult to overcome from a place of ignorance, but the understanding and facing the challenges inherent in your design can be enormously rewarding. You are designed perfectly for your life, which is why it is so important for you to navigate correctly and live out your true nature.
Experiment with following your Strategy of waiting to respond, and honoring your inner sacral authority to make decisions. Then watch as the magic of feeling satisfied with the activities you do grows and flowers while frustration and feeling stuck lessens.
I hope you enjoyed this basic introduction to Human Design Authorities. Please share and comment with any questions.
Portions of this article were originally published on JovianArchive.com, reused with permission.
How to Make Correct Decisions: Human Design System Emotional Solar Plexus Authority
Emotional Authority
If you see the inward pointing triangle on the lower right-hand side of your bodygraph colored in, you know that you are an Emotionally defined being because of your consistently defined (energized) Solar Plexus.
In the video below is an excerpt of a class on Solar Plexus as the Authority in the Human Design System chart.
Imagine you are a body of water - a tranquil lake.
Small decisions are like small pebbles thrown into you; it doesn't take long for your waters to grow still again so that you can see clearly and make a decision from that place of clarity.
Now imagine someone is backing up a huge dump truck to roll a boulder toward you, the lake. Boom! The boulder crashes into the lake, throwing out huge waves and shaking the earth. This time it takes a much longer time for the waters to become clear, with ripples bouncing back from the shore and mud being stirred up. Large decisions (like romantic relationships or big career moves) can take far more time to get clear on.
However, your emotional waters are never completely still - because your chemistry creates waves on its own. As an emotionally defined being, you are more like an ocean, with varying kinds of waves depending on what kind of definition you have. Because of the motor function of the Solar Plexus, you can never get a completely clear picture of decisions. When you're feeling good, everything looks better. When you're feeling bad, everything looks worse. You can only reach a sense of clarity over time as the waters - your emotional waves - keep on moving.
The Most Important thing to Know if Your Solar Plexus is Defined!
If you have the Solar Plexus defined, the most important thing for you to learn is patience, to avoid premature action that your mind or others condition you to take. The capacity to accept what is, to endure nervousness and upsets or elation without acting from the high point of either emotional extreme is of the utmost importance for you to learn.
Patience allows you to experience the "wave" or swing of moods and emotions generated by the Solar Plexus, and practice allows you to make your decisions from a place of clear waters - a place of calm.
Types of Emotional Authority
Did you know there are three kinds of Emotional Authority (different wave frequencies of emotions) caused by the Source wave that generates them? They are the Tribal Racheting, Individual Spike and Collective Crash Waves. Also, there are three Types of Emotional Authority - Manifested, Generated and Projected. Here are some Emotional Authority chart examples below.
Manifested Emotional Authority, Frida Kahlo example chart
FRIDA KHALO (Click link to add to your free Human Design chart Library!)
Frida Kahlo was an Emotional Manifestor with the Individual Spike wave (39-55 Projected and 22-12 Manifested).
Pure Emotional Generator, Richard Branson example chart
RICHARD BRANSON (Click link to add to your free Human Design chart Library)
Richard Branson is a Pure Emotional Generator with the 59-6 Source Wave, which is stable and stalls.
BARACK OBAMA (Click link to add to your free Human Design chart Library!)
Barack Obama is an Emotional Projector with the Abstract Crash wave, which builds with expectations and then crashes.
The Benefits of Patience in Decision-Making
Regardless of the kind of Emotional Authority you have, (Manifested, Generated or Projected) you need time to experience emotional clarity throughout the depth and breadth of your emotional wave. Wait for zero emotional turbulence on decisions before you move forward on anything, as there is no absolute truth in the now for you.
As an emotional being, you are here to know things deeply, experience a full range of emotional experiences. You are here to move forward when you are clear about your impact (Manifestor), response (Generator) or recognitions after having been invited (Projector).
Truth reveals itself as a sense of clarity over time as you experience the myriad of perspectives from riding your emotional wave.
You might also enjoy this article on the Solar Plexus if you’re new to Human Design! Excerpt:
Defined Solar Plexus - Emotional Authority
“If your Solar Plexus is defined, the emotional frequencies of your defined gates above are hardwired into how you consistently experience your life.
Remember to wait out your waves of emotions for decision-making as you have your unique time-frequency. It is not about explaining or controlling your emotions. Release your emotions when and how it feels correct for you; otherwise chaos ensues.
When you repress or stuff your emotions (as many of us are trained to do when raised by unemotional parents) they can cause all kinds of physical problems. Remember to BREATHE and allow the emotion to be felt. In this simple act, you honor who you are as an emotional being, and allow your connection to spirit to be open.
There is "no truth in the now" for you as an emotional being - you are designed to explore and feel things more than others, taking in experiences deeply over time. You simply cannot be in a hurry to make decisions, as you are here to come to profound decisions.
A good rule is to always at least "sleep on it." Be hard to get when it comes to committing your energy to experiences. Correct decisions come from a sense of emotional (not mental) clarity over time.
What matters is your awareness and cultivation of what it feels like to operate correctly. Learning the lessons and experiencing what patience brings allows you to revel in the rewards of being emotional.
What are the rewards? A depth of perception over time which gives a richness and a complexity to life that brings pleasure to us as physical creatures and makes us wonderfully HUMAN.” Laveena Lovick
Here is a private video documenting an emotional crisis I was having earlier this year (2018) in which I was experiencing another “shattering” of my mind’s conditioned reality. One of my esteemed mentor of Human Design is Alokanand Diaz Del Rio, a highly experienced Analyst and Teacher, 1/3 Emotional Manifestor on the Cross of Consciousness. If you’re having a difficult time, I hope it helps you as much as his words helped me.
In our next Authority Article, we will continue with the topic of Sacral Authority.
A portion of this article was written for Jovian Archive, home of the Human Design System, under the birthname Andrea Abay-Abay in 2015, text and images reused with permission.
How to Make Correct Decisions: Human Design System Authority Hierarchy
How to Decide Correctly for You - original article by Andrea Abay-Abay, republished under new name of Laveena Lovick with permission from JovianArchive.com
The Human Design Bodygraph has an Authority Heirarchy
In this article series, “How to Make Correct Decisions Using Your Human Design,” I would like to educate you by presenting the different kinds of Authority in order of hierarchy.
In this first article, let’s cover a bit of a background on where Type and Strategy came from. We’ll also touch on why Mind is never your personal Authority.
When Ra received this knowledge, “the Voice” did not give him Aura Type, Strategy and Authority as we know it today. Ra received the raw substance of Human Design, which he then synthesized through his thousands of readings and teaching his students about how this illusion that we live in functions. Through teaching it as the authority and creator, he structured the Mechanics of the Maia into the "Human Design System, the Science of Differentiation" that we have today.
Entering the place and date of your birth (including the exact time) at “myBodyGraph.com” allows you to create a free account to discover your Human Design. You'll be able to access various graphical views of your Bodygraph, along with written descriptions and audio recordings.
Ra Uru Hu’s Message that he created was Type, Strategy and Authority. It is his legacy to the world that anyone can experiment with for free.
You'll hear Ra Uru Hu, the founder of the Human Design System, explain your Strategy as to when to make decisions, and what your Authority is according to the hierarchy - your way of choosing correctly. Making decisions you trust are as simple as aligning to your inborn nature. Learning all about this complex system is unnecessary to operate correctly; all you need to do is KNOW YOURSELF and experiment with living your design to discover how well it works for you.
Discovered this handy graph on Facebook! Thanks to Mark Germain for creating - Human Design Aura Type Chart Determination
Decision-Making is Navigation through Life
Moving through life and being yourself is about making decisions correctly - deciding what to do in a way that is authentic to the being you truly are. Making decisions authentically as yourself requires that you honor your personal authority. Human Design offers everyone a simple way of helping you discover how you can reliably make the right choices as and for yourself - by being your own Authority.
Strategy and Authority represent the surface of this complex body of knowledge in a way that anyone coming to Design can easily experiment with the System. It doesn't take a lot of effort to verify whether Human Design works for you. Simply experiment with making decisions according to your Strategy and Authority, which can lead you to living a fulfilled life.
Here are the possible Authorities of the Human Design System Manifestor Type
One of the most stunning accuracies provided by the Human Design System is the signature of Type. Signature is the essence of your spirit translated into form in this life. By discriminating what combination of energies in the Rave Bodygraph resulted in which frequencies, Ra associated with each of the Types a special "Keynote" that represents the way they experience fulfillment. Making decisions correctly leads you to the "signature" of your Aura Type - Peace for the Manifestor, Satisfaction for the Generator, Success for the Projector and Surprise for the Reflector. Each of these Types are broad categorizations that have sub-Types - all unified through their expression of Signature - their goal in this life.
Mind is Never Your Authority
Here are the possible Authorities of the Human Design System Generator Types
Not-self conditioning causes your mind to become the false authority. Your deeply conditioned mind attempts to be your authority because it is subject to the adaptive strategies taken on to protect the openness within you. Adaptive strategies such as avoiding confrontation and truth result in not being able to live as yourself.
Mind acts as a spokesperson for the openness in your chart - specifically your undefined centers, as well as bridging gates between areas of your definition if you are a simple split. You can’t turn off your mind’s pratering, but you can watch the interaction between the mind and the Centers to facilitate awareness.
When you are new to your experiment, you'll notice your mind second guesses your Authority, which is a clue as to what to ignore or not believe. Your mind can never know what is right or what is wrong when it comes to making decisions about yourself, because of conditioning. You can't believe anything your mind says about you!
These are the Human Design System’s Centers which never are your personal authority
Like snowflakes, all of us have an exquisitely unique design. Life Force Energy flows through the channels within us all from the Pressure Centers at the Head and Root, to be expressed at the Throat, our Center for communication and manifestation. Like Mind, all three of those Centers are also never an Authority in your life.
Strategy provides the Solution as to When to Decide
The Human Design BodyGraph provides a map of the template for what it is to be human. The kind of energy that is consistently present and active within you determines the holistic frequency of your Aura, which is you. The Aura Types may be only four in number, but there are endless variations of these four found in the world.
All Types are given a simple Strategy for decision making that allows each to bypass the conditioning of their mind and access their Authority. In this article series, we'll cover all Four Aura Types along with their Strategies and possible Authorities. We'll also provide example charts that you can click on to save to your free myBodyGraph Chart Library for your reference.
Here are the possible Authorities of the Human Design System Projector Types
Unique Frequencies of Authority
Separated into two kinds of Personal Authority, here is the hierarchy of the Human Design System’s "Inner Authority" and "Outer Authority."
Inner Authorities:
Solar Plexus
Sacral
Spleen
Heart
G
Outer Authorities (aka No Direct Inner Authority):
Environment (always the Mental Projector Type)
Lunar (always Reflector Type)
Here are the possible Authorities of the Human Design System Reflector Type
Common Human Design Authorities
The Solar Plexus (Emotional Center), Sacral and Splenic Authority Centers are the ones that show up most often in the world, with about half of our population being Emotionally defined.
Often you will see Human Design charts that have one, two or all three of these Centers defined. Once in a while, you'll see a bodygraph with none of them defined. We will cover these and more in future installments of “How to Make Correct Decisions.”
Why Mind is Never Your Authority
The voice inside of your head about yourself and others is NEVER your personal authority. It cannot be, for it is too tainted by conditioning and is not authentic to you. Please watch the video above for the science behind this concept.
I hope you enjoyed this basic introduction to Human Design Authorities. Please share and comment with any questions.
Portions of this article were originally published on JovianArchive.com, reused with permission.
Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph - Head Center
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Let's Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph! Here’s the source of mental pressures in your life - your Head Center. As the Center that provides inspiration as well as questions, doubts, and confusion, it is also the location of your personality "crystal," which is made of dark matter. Do you see all the calculations in black on the right side of the bodygraph? The neutrino imprinting you received the moment you left your mother's womb is what you identify with as your personality, and the personality crystal is what received that imprint.
Have you noticed that of all the centers in the bodygraph, only one protrudes outside of the outline of the person? That's because this crystal sits on top of the head - not inside the physical body! When you surrender to being the witness to your life rather than trying to control it, you get to see the beauty of what it is to be you - as yourself. Fulfilling your life purpose brings you the sense of satisfaction, success, peace or surprise in life that you were born to experience.
The biological correspondence of the Head Center is the Pineal gland (aka third eye) which is an endocrine system gland that produces Melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of sleep patterns.
Having just three gates - the least of all the Centers - the Head Center brings an incredible amount of mental pressure that is processed by the Ajna below it to make sense of the doubt, confusion, and inspirations. The Head Center pressures our minds to seek inspiration, to make sense of the past and project into the future for us to see and share the nature of what it is to be us.
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When your Head Center is defined, you have a fixed and reliable way of experiencing the mental pressure, which is detailed in the gates and lines you have defined there. Learn to enjoy your defined mind as a playground of measurement and comparison without making decisions about yourself from this place. You can practice tuning into the correct timing for decision-making using your strategy and honoring your inner authority to discover the uniqueness of your authentic being.
As you read about the Head Center gates below, have your bodygraph handy to take special note of the ones imprinted in your Human Design. If your Head Center is defined, you can be mentally inspiring for other people. The gates you have activated are the very specific ways you consistently experience your inspiration and pressures to resolve doubt and confusion.
If your Head Center is undefined, the gates waiting to be activated are themes you are genetically programmed to experience when your Head Center is defined by transits or people in your environment. Remember, the mind is always an outer authority only - follow your Strategy and Authority to make correct decisions that lead you to your unique purpose and expression of fulfillment.
As always, remember that Human Design is a dualistic system; the "this and that" of it all means that every gate can express as its opposite as well.
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Gate 64 - The Gate of Confusion
Pressure to make sense of the past and to resolve chaos and confusion is shared through Gate 64, “Before Completion,” which is an abstract, collective energy. This pressure of mental activity (or not) is an energy that brings cyclical mental images from the past, all jumbled together. Mental stress comes from trying to make sense of and make decisions from this cyclical energy of mental images of all your past experiences.
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Gate 61 - The Gate of Mystery
Inspiration leads to “Inner Truth” which is a mutative pressure to know something new, to know the unknowable. If you have this gate defined, there’s a pressure within to understand life's mysteries, a spontaneous individual knowing that can be empowering to yourself or others. Like all individual gates, this is an acoustic knowing that has a melancholic chemistry and operates in a pulse.
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Gate 63 - The Gate of Doubt
Gate63, "After Completion," is always being pressured / underpressure to make sense of mental patterns through doubts, and toproject into the future new patterns based on logic. Doubt and suspicion are natural pressures when the pattern does not project successfully into the future. These questions can be deeply stirring, and it takes determination to find the way through your doubts or share your recognition or the question and search for the answer.
If your Head Center is defined, the conditioned behavior possible is that you may turn mental pressure in on yourself, causing deep anxiety, self-doubt or depression. You may try to resolve this pressure by taking action with hasty and inappropriate mental decisions. You can be incapable of remaining patient and miss opportunities for inspiration.
The effect of your defined Head Center on undefined Head Center people is that you can pressure others to act on things that inspire you that may not be correct for them. Conversely, you can also pressure others to give up things that are worthy of inspiration.
Your behavior as someone with a defined Head Center when operating correctly is that you naturally create a mental pressure in the world to grasp and understand things. You are comfortable with the experience of confusion, doubt and clarity as a natural process with its own inner timing and resolution. You can uplift and empower others with your insights and inspiration and be an outer authority for others.
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Undefined or Open Head Center
If you have an Undefined Head Center, your inspiration comes from external conditioning. You have an openness and flexibility in experiencing mental pressure, with themes particular to the gate and line activations present in your design.
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When operating incorrectly, you may notice that you lose focus easily, becoming lost or overwhelmed and make decisions from doubt, confusion or wanting to understand WHY?! If you have an undefined Head Center, ask yourself... am I occupied with thinking about myself, or questions that don’t matter to me? Am I trying to answer everyone else’s questions without invitation?
Trying to release mental pressure through action, or trying to resolve other people's questions by taking on the worries of others may result in you experiencing the not-self theme of your Type.
Also, if you have an Open Head (with no gates defined), not knowing what to focus on, or what is really important to you is a strong theme when you are not operating correctly. It is so very important for you never to give authority to your open head - the moment that you do that, your actions are from a deeply conditioned place, and you cannot live out your unique potential.
When you are operating correctly as someone with an undefined or open Head Center, you have an ability to develop wisdom about the variety of mental pressures you encounter in life. Because you tend to amplify the confusion, doubts, and pressure to know, there is an opportunity to cultivate wisdom through the exploration of ideas and inspiration coming from all directions. Being open to the wonder of the unknown and uncertainty is healthy for you.
When operating correctly (following your strategy and authority), you won’t act on mental pressure or take on the pressure of other people’s need for answers. You can simply enjoy the pressure to know more without becoming identified with it or make decisions from it. Enjoying the questions and trusting that doubts or confusion will become clear (or not) is another signpost. And using your mind as an outer authority for others to draw from, rather than as a decision making tool for yourself, can become second-nature.
The Mechanics of Conditioning In Action
Personally, my undefined Head Center has a Dormant Potential of Gate 61.3 via a Conscious Moon. This is also what is known as a Conditioning Receptor. Anytime my head gets turned on, this fixed gate is how I learn about mental pressure, and my driving force is to want to know the mysteries, to discover what works (through experiencing what doesn't!) when it comes to resolving this individualized internal pressure. When invited, I can use this pressure to help other people know things about their inner truth. It's one of the ways I can make money by providing my perspective when I am invited to collaborate with my clients. From the Rave I-Ching:
3rd line - Interdependence
It is exceedingly difficult for truth to stand alone.
Moon Exalted The ability to establish relationships for the actualization of truths, and through their nurturing and protective power to ensure a stable environment in which they can continue to grow. The pressure to know enhanced through collaboration."
The Harmonic Influencer here is at the other side of the channel, Gate 24. This gate makes my conditioned mind think I have to rationalize every personal decision to deal with and resolve the internal pressure! It can also force me to want to open my mouth and share the rationalizations my mind sees for other people's behavior.
My Not-Self Gates are the Hexagram 63 and Hexagram 64. This is where my mind can see that the other person has a problem and is confused or at ease, doubtful or has clarity.
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Questions for Inquiry:
Have you noticed yet that your mind will continually try and make your decisions? Have you noticed how your mental dialog relates to your undefined/open centers? Making decisions from the pressures of mind won't relieve the pressure for long and can often lead to frustration, bitterness, anger or disappointment. What examples of the thoughts below, which may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind, do you recognize in you?
I need some inspiration.
Maybe if I do this or go there, I’ll find inspiration.
I need to figure out the answer to these questions.
Where can I go to find answers; who has the answers?
I have to understand this; I need to make sense of things.
Am I supposed to be interested in that?
What am I supposed to think about?
No matter the configuration of your Head Center, you are perfectly designed exactly as you are. Remember that everyone has everything present and functioning in the bodygraph. Certain areas are consistently energized and specific in the way they show up in your life, while others are open to experiencing the abundance of possibilities and potentials that you can learn from and hopefully grow wise about over time.
You were born unique. Following your Strategy and Authority is key to releasing your mind's conditioning and control over your life. Over time, this experimentation with Living Your Design expands your awareness, eventually transforming your physical body’s chemistry and your experience of your life.
Living your Human Design helps you to live the fulfillment of what it means to be authentically you. Would you like to share any of your Head Center epiphanies or feedback with the Human Design Community below? You’re invited to ask questions as well.
A version of this article was written for and published by JovianArchive.com in 2015, republished here with permission.
Human Design System Angles - Personal Destiny, Fixed Fate, Trans-personal Karma
Discover The Theme of Your Role on the Grand Theater of Life
A young girl is rummaging through old trunks with her mother, pulling out uniforms and dresses, scarves and hats, shoes and jewelry. Giggling and trying on different clothes, they pose and pretend, joyfully playing dress up and delighting at the instant transformation that donning different garments can bring. Gazing at their reflections in the mirror brings instant recognition and energy of the characters they are pretending to be.
Clothes can make a tremendous difference when it comes to playing a role. We all have mythological costumes that we were born to wear, and we grow into our roles over time. The longer we operate according to our authentic nature, the more easily and gracefully we wear our costumes.
Understanding your Human Design Profile and the Angle it belongs to allows you to look in the mirror and “see” what costume you are wearing so you can get clearer on the role you’re here to play.
The Truth About Behavior
Do some of your behaviors (or others’ behaviors) confuse you or make you uncomfortable?
Would you like to see how understanding the role you’re here to play can not only help you alleviate anxiety, worry, and depression but also live a truly fulfilled life?
Struggling with aspects of your behavior that you don’t like (or that other people don’t like) doesn’t have to cause suffering.
Can you imagine no longer suffering feelings of emptiness or pointlessness when going through the motions of daily living? Do you recognize that there must be more to life?
Only the not-self suffers in its existence, carrying around the burden of constantly trying to control life and others, and change or fix itself.
Human Design brings an enormous wealth of information, much of which can help you understand the mechanics behind the madness of “normal” life. A big part of waking up is coming to terms with the roles we’re here to play.
Studying your Human Design can increase your self-awareness, and help you yield to the inherent intelligence of your form so you can discover what it means to live life awake.
(Prefer to watch Human Design videos instead of reading to learn? Scroll down to the three videos I created for Jovian Archive's You Tube channel!)
Where To Find Your Profile In A Human Design Chart
Your Profile is something that you are going to resonate with on the Personality side (calculations in black on the right side of your bodygraph). The first of the two numbers comes from the line values of the Personality Sun and Earth Gates (that are at opposite positions in the wheel and always the same line). This number represents themes of your conscious attributes, the behaviors, and way of viewing the world that you personally identify with and are here to live out in this life. Using our costume analogy, these are your everyday clothes that you are completely comfortable in and think of as part of you.
However, an equally important and more mysterious part of you is waiting to be discovered. Your Design Sun & Earth Gates are in red on the left side of your bodygraph, and the line values there are where we get the second number in your Profile. This represents your unconscious behaviors, hidden to your conscious awareness. Think of this number as garments other people see you wearing that you’re usually completely oblivious to (until they tell you what they see, or until you discover your Human Design). This is one reason you may be confused and feel uncomfortable about how your body behaves, or why others see you so very differently from the way you perceive yourself.
Both of the numbers in your Profile combined represent key aspects of you. For you to wake up to your true nature, understanding, accepting, and honoring both is an important part of your process. You have a very specific frequency that can be mapped out in your Human Design Chart. The calculations of your Personality and Design Sun/Earth represent seventy percent of the imprinted and consistent energy of your being. Again, this is where we find your Profile. Everything else in the chart describes the nuances and subtleties of you. While Centers and Channels may be defined temporarily by Transits or other beings, your Profile energy is consistent throughout your life.
You don’t have to learn how to improve anything about yourself to live out your purpose. All it takes to find fulfillment is being your true self. Sometimes, through discovering what you’re not, you can find out what is you. For many of us, who we’re not is everything we’ve been thinking we need to be or trying desperately to become all our lives.
This article aims to help you learn important aspects about the Angles that are not yours as well as about the Angle that is. Knowing your Angle is key in seeing and accepting yourself and your path in life. Understanding how we interact with others and the importance they have in our lives helps us see how we’re each essential parts of the whole.
Human Design System Angles
There are three angles that make up the 12 Human Design Profiles. Each Angle carries a particular geometry or theme of movement in this lifetime.
Every one of us has a Profile. We incarnates on one of three Angles: the Right Angle, the Left Angle, and the Juxtaposition. Your Profile belongs to one of these Angles, which shows you how you play your unique purpose in your life.
Your Profile describes your role—your “costume”—the costume you were born to wear and grow into over time. The more you decondition and are moved correctly to action, the more you embody the mythology of the unique role you’re here to play.
As with everything in Human Design, this is not about any person or any Angle being better than the other. They are simply very different. Right and Left angles are complete polarities of each other while the Juxtaposition is the bridge connecting the two together.
Destiny, Fate, and Karma are words that many people use interchangeably in everyday conversation. In the Human Design System, words are used as very specific symbols of frequency representations - we call these words Keynotes. When combined into formulas, we can decipher your bodygraph to help you understand particular thematics in your life - why you are the way you are (and you're beautiful and perfect just as you are!
Let’s discover whether you’re on a path of Personal Destiny, Fixed Fate, or Transpersonal Karma!
The Right Angle Profile - Personal Destiny
Research, Innocence, and Truth
1/3, 1/4, 2/4, 2/5, 3/5, 3/6, 4/6
As you can see, seven of the twelve Profiles come into the world on a Right Angle with a Personal Destiny to fulfill. Your geometry limits the importance of your interaction with others.
The Right Angles are the research and development department of the Hexagrams; an essential aspect of the whole of humanity. This is where the beauty of what life can be is lived out in all its possibilities.
If you are a right angle, you’re gifted with the ability to explore new areas of life without prejudice; you’re here to discover and live out your uniquely personal destiny. Fresh and new, you were born an innocent, open vessel built to be fully absorbed in your process. Right angles often have to deal with difficult situations when it comes to their family life. Your life provides the experimental material the totality needs to experience for all of us to learn and grow.
Your personal destiny fulfilled can transform the whole nature of being. You are here to awaken to and live out your truth; the truth of your uniqueness, the truth of these times you are living. Living as yourself, you experience the beautiful potential of what it is to be you—the actuality of your life substantiating the essence of your truth.
Juxtaposition - Fixed Fate
Communication, The Bridge
4/1
Only one Human Design Profile is born with a Fixed Fate in life to fulfill. This means the quality of your movement in space is not designed to be altered; it is uniquely your own.
Your process is one of bridging two very different kinds of geometry, the Personal Destiny and the Transpersonal Karma. You weave the Right Angle and the Left Angle together, following a very specific path through life that you’re perfectly designed to walk.
As a 4th Line Personality, you have a strong theme of Brotherhood/Sisterhood in your life. Your success, and humanity’s success in evolving, depend on two things: You’re here to investigate a foundation of information, so make sure you’re standing on the solid ground of a secure knowledge base. Then use your innate ability to externalize that knowledge to influence your close network of people.
Investing your time and energy in opportunities via relationships with the correct others is key for you, as they’ll reward you in return. You’re here to figure out how to reach out to those others and influence people with the knowledge you’ve gained through your investigations. In this way, you fulfill your Fixed Fate.
The Left Angle Profile - Transpersonal Karma
Marketing and Role Models of the Hexagram
5/1, 5/2, 6/1, 6/2
Four of the twelve profiles come into this world on a Left Angle, with a Transpersonal Karma to fulfill.
Left Angles have the potential to alter other people’s movement through life as well as have their own movement altered through interactions with others.
As a Left Angle, every person you meet has not only a karmic connection but also value for you. Your interaction has a familiarity, and you as a Left Angle are here to play a role in that person’s life. Whether it be simply giving directions, a casual conversation, a just-in-time rescue or a life-altering transformation of others’ lives, as a Left Angle you have karma to play out that requires interaction with others to fulfill your purpose.
Your life’s possibilities and potentials arise from connections with others from the moment you’re born. As a Left Angle, correct decision-making is imperative when it comes to who belongs in your life, and paying attention to the right beings brings special rewards to your process. The great mystery of what it means to be a Left Angle person is that seemingly inconsequential encounters can make an enormous difference to your whole life.
Left Angles are each here to transmit the truth that the Right Angle has discovered in their unique ways.The 5th line Personalities universalize what is practical (standing on its soapbox dispensing its heresy) while the 6th Line verifies and exemplifies it as a Role Model bringing it to the next hexagram in the chain as the line of Transition. As a Left Angle, you bear the responsibility of transforming the discoveries of the Right Angle into knowledge that can be of value to others.
Live your Uniqueness
The real value in Human Design lies in its ability to illuminate practical decision-making strategies and empower you as your own Authority, enabling you to surrender to your form as you embrace your unique journey.
The fulfillment of your purpose comes through your particular geometry—the Angle of your Profile, in alignment with your Cross within the Quarter of the Wheel you were born in and down through the specifics of your individual hexagrams and the colors, tones, and bases beneath. You’ve been given a very specific “job description,” and Human Design helps you understand, love, and accept the part that only you can play on the grand stage of Life.
Growing into the role you’re here to play takes making decisions from a place of authenticity. Living your purpose requires a process of trusting your decisions and moving through life in a way that surrenders to your form principle—the only thing you can depend on to navigate correctly.
In Human Design, we invite you to enter into the experiment of following your Strategy and Authority, which bypasses the conditioning of mind and allows you to witness yourself starring in your life movie. If you haven’t already done so, we invite you to join our Human Design System Facebook Tribe.
Becoming familiar with your Angle and Profile can help you feel more at home in your skin, accept your nature, and stop struggling against the current as you move through life.
Did you learn something new about yourself in this article or videos (below)? Feel free to share your discoveries or ask questions!
Welcome to this 3-part video presentation on Profiles & Angles. Newcomers to Human Design will want to start with this video. If you are already familiar with this system, how it can benefit you, as well as how hexagrams are numbered and how to find your Profile in your Human Design Chart, you may want to skip ahead to the next video.
Truth About Behaviors - #2
The second part in our Human Design Profiles and Angles Introductory Video series explains our house metaphor for understanding the Lines, giving a basic overview of the themes associated with each, briefly touching on the resonant and harmonic relationships between lines.
(A version of this article was published on Jovian Archive in 2015)
Quarters and Godheads of the Human Design Mandala
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Discover Your Human Design System Godhead
within the Rave Mandala
Human Design System Article by Laveena Archers
Laveena Archers, Human Design System Teacher
Would you like to take a moment to be inspired by the breathtaking beauty of the Human Design System Hexagrams that is the Rave Mandala? And in the process, discover the thematic of your personal Life Purpose fulfillment?
If you haven't yet had a guided tour of the hexagrams and how we divide the wheel, it's a lot of fun to do! Let’s take a preliminary exploration together. First I'll demonstrate my personal discovery, guide you through the structure of the wheel, then invite you to find your Godhead, okay?
I remember what is still a wondrous moment in my decade+ of contemplating Human Design's Rave Mandala. It came during a class with Alokanand Diaz Del Rio, when he explained how, when you are not awake or aware, you are conditioned to live out the dead myth of your Godhead.
My Godhead is called Kali. She is known as the Destroyer of false Devotion. Kali is the goddess of time and brings the death of the ego, the illusory self-centered view of reality that, should you have a personal perspective like myself, you may be deeply identified with. I certainly was.
Gate 30 is also known as the Gate of Desire.
My Personality Sun is in gate 30 "Clinging Fire" The Gate of Feeling "Freedom recognized as an illusion and limitation accepted as a fate." Ra Uru Hu
Kali's homogenized image of a destructive force was no stranger in my life. Before Human Design's virus took hold and gave me some semblance of patience, my emotional nature was so volatile and uncontrollable that I regularly (at least monthly) lashed out when my feelings reached a boiling point. Pity the poor person who happened to be standing nearby! Spontaneous emotional decision-making left a trail of physical and emotional destruction in my wake. From physical items to relationships, the bitterness of false promises and broken dreams weighed me down to the point of suicidal ideation during low waves from all the not-self suffering and "poor me, why me" of my Martyr mind.
My conscious process in this life is fueled by the desire to imagine a new experience, and the Channel of Recognition, with its focused energy to recognize feelings, is my way of consciously witnessing the wild ride of this life's journey.
I share an energy that is contagious and through meeting the Fates regularly, my mind is here to learn to discern truly what doesn't work and universalize it for the benefit of others. This is how I fulfill my Life's Purpose as an "Innocent Instrument of Fate who can step in and Change the Fate of others through Experience, Discovery and Learning" as a Cross of Contagion 1. The one stands for the Quarter of Initiation, which is the first Quarter in the Wheel.
“True angels/godheads (as "frequencies of awareness") are technically all androgynous to some degree. Even when we see all Yang (unbroken) or Yin (broken) lines in a hexagram, every binary must ultimately bow to the union of opposites, which is why the first (all yang) and second (all yin) hexagrams split the wheel as a polarity.” Elad Sky
"We didn't invent these forces. We are genetically imprinted by them... " Ra Uru Hu
Let's see if I can help you to grasp the hexagram wheel structure and begin to understand what it says about the theme of your fulfillment in life.
I'd like to draw your attention to the outer ring of the wheel, to the 64 hexagrams. Look to the top right, and you will find hexagram 1 (right above the blue M looking Astrological symbol for Scorpio in the image below).
Notice there are six solid lines—six Yang lines. Now, let your eyes follow the movement of the hexagrams counterclockwise halfway around the wheel until you reach Hexagram 2.
The Rave Mandala
Notice the Hexagram "chops"—six yin lines, a precise polarity of Gate 1’s six Yang lines. Did you keep an eye on the bottom or 1st line as you moved around the wheel? If not take a glance now. Come back to Gate 2, and continue your counterclockwise discovery of the movement of the Hexagram chops as you reach 1 again.
Did you notice in the first half of your visual journey that the foundation of all the hexagrams was Yang (solid lines)?
And in the second half, their foundation was all Yin (broken lines)?
You just discovered how the wheel is divided in half, a basic polarity of the mandala structure.
You may also have noticed that the polarity pattern of Gates 1 and 2 continues. The perfect opposition in the wheel is maintained throughout the entire Rave Mandala. If you are familiar with the G Center gates from taking a Living Your Design Program or your personal studies, you know that the G Center is home to two critical Incarnation Crosses. These crosses are the Sphinx (direction gates, which Hexagrams 1 and 2 are part of) and the Vessel of Love (our transcendent love gates). Here are the eight gates representing the eight houses of the I-Ching, dividing the 64 hexagrams of the wheel into eight equal portions.
Human Design System Rave I-Ching Gates 1 and 2
When we activate the gates of these two crosses, we see their arms symmetrically reaching out to the borders of the Rave Mandala. This is the G Center (see image below with all the gates colored in to show their position in the Human Design Mandala). The G Center's physiology is the Liver and blood. It delineates the function of our physical Identity, our sense of Direction in life and our experience of Transcendent Love.
Our G Center molds or defines our identity within the pattern of the totality, giving us our place within it and our connection to it. Gate 2 is the location of the Magnetic Monopole, which holds the Personality and Design Crystal together in the illusion of separation from the totality. Your G Center is the home of your Higher Self.
We can divide the 64 gates of the wheel not only into half and eighths as we have seen but into quarters (as well as 16ths, which is where we discover the archetypal themes of the Godhead).
Each Quarter of the wheel is determined by grouping the hexagrams according to their foundations.
In thinking of each of us as a cell in a larger organism, you gain a sense of how we are all here to fulfill a unique role, a unique purpose, working together correctly. Your purpose is revealed through your Incarnation Cross; your costume described by your profile lines of those four gates. The theme of your incarnation cross comes from the Quarter where your Personality (Conscious) Sun shines.
Crosses of the Vessel of Love and the Sphinx
Each of the Sphinx gates (1, 2, 7, 13) in the wheel set the foundation for the 16 hexagrams in the Quarter. Every Quarter ends with a gate of the Cross of the Four Ways (24, 33, 44, 19)—these are the doors that close each Quarter. Midway between each Sphinx and Four Ways is a Transcendent Love gate which set the frequency of how we are empowered to be love through sharing our being with others within that Quarter.
Image via Human Design Canada
So in keeping with my personal example, in the quarter of Initiation, we have purpose fulfilled through the Mind.
This Quarter begins with Gate 13, giving us our shared experiential direction as humans, through the role of listening to the secrets of the past.
13 The Fellowship of Man - The Gate of the Listener
Universal ideas and values in an ordered framework which inspires humanistic cooperation.
The Quarter of Initiation's Transcendent love is shown by Gate 25, giving us our way of being empowered in the universe, innocently, unconditionally loving through others that great unknowable force that we are all a part of.
25 Innocence - The Gate of the Spirit of the Self
The perfection of action through uncontrived and spontaneous nature.
The Quarter of Initiation is closed through Gate 24, the first mutative, empowering Way., designed to take the pressure of wanting to understand the Mysteries of life and help us conceptualize and know them. Is it possible to know the unknowable?
24 Return, The Gate of Rationalization
The natural and spontaneous process of transformation and renewal.
The Rave Mandala: Quarter by Quarter
Every hexagram in a Quarter shares the same bottom two hexagram chops—in other words, all hexagrams in a Quarter have the same first two lines. This foundation determines the thematic that links the hexagrams in a Quarter together and shows us the theme of how our conscious purpose in this life is meant to be fulfilled.
Here are the foundation hexagram chops establishing the foundation of each Quarter:
The Four Quarters
YANG/YIN
In the Quarter of Initiation (Gates 13-24), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Mind. The foundation here is set by the Gate of the Listener, “the Fellowship of Man”—Yang (spirit) pushing upward into Yin (form). When we activate all the gates of this Quarter we see that the only definition in the bodygraph would be the Channel of Initiation. Those whose Personality Sun is in the Quarter of Initiation are here to wake up first. They are initiated through the development of Mind, and, in turn, initiate others according to the nature of their particular Cross and Profile.
YIN/YIN
In the Quarter of Civilization (Gates 2-33), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Form—through manifesting. The foundation here is set by the most Yin hexagram of all, the Gate of the Direction of the Self, “the Receptive”—therefore it is Yin over Yin. When we activate all the gates of this Quarter we see that there would be no definition in the bodygraph and that all 11 Throat gates are present. This is the world of manifestation, where mind is concretized into form.
YIN/YANG
In the Quarter of Duality (Gates 7-44), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Bonding. The foundation here is set by the Gate of the Role of the Self in Interaction, “the Army”—the Yin/Yang. When we activate all of the gates in this Quarter we see that this forms three channels bringing definition to the bodygraph, creating the only pure emotional Generator through the Channel of Mating, along with the Channel of Discovery and the Channel of Abstraction. This is the world of fertility and bonding—your relationships with others.
YANG/YANG
In the Quarter of Mutation (Gates 1-19), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Transformation. The foundation here is set by the Gate of the Expression of the Self “the Creative”—of course, Yang/Yang. When we activate all the gates in this Quarter we have only one definition, the pure Generator with the Channel of Exploration. This is the world where anything can happen—it’s about the process of living (like the rest of the wheel is) but here it is also about the process of transformation and accepting death.
Now that you have discovered the Quarters, it’s time to break them down into the 16 Faces of the “Godhead”. There are four Faces per Quarter—four distinct nuances of each Godhead. These names put a face to the thematics shaping humanity. There have been many names for these faces in different cultures over the eons. The 16 archetypal themes inherited from our 7-Centered ancestors impart their qualities to the four respective gates within each Godhead. Note every Godhead’s hexagrams share the same first four lines.
The 16 Faces of the Godhead - Free Introduction by Ra Uru Hu
Quarter by Quarter is a Human Design home-study program created by Ra Uru Hu. In contemplating the mandala, Ra noticed that the mandala structure was evenly split into 16 archetypal themes that he labeled the Godheads - each Godhead’s four gates are very closely biologically related to each other.
Filled with history and stories, this program enriches your understanding of Gates from the broader perspective of their relationships to the Quarter and Godhead they belong to, as well as their relationship to each other. Ra takes you on a journey through the wheel in a logical progression beginning with the Quarter of Initiation.
Click here to download to the introductory audio to this program, the first whole lecture, absolutely free. Or you can play it right now (but there are illustrations in the download).
What's Your Human Design Godhead?
Below, look for the gate of your Personality Sun to find your Godhead and its theme. This archetype is what keeps you from recognizing how deeply conditioned your perceptions are about your life. Where you can get into trouble is taking the conditioning to its distortion and thinking that your Godhead is THE God.
Human Design Mandala Quarter of Initiation - purpose fulfilled through mind
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Kali—The Destroyer of False Devotion Gates: 13-The Listener, 49-Principles, 30-Feelings, 55-Spirit
Mitra—The Evolution of Consciousness Gates: 37-Friendship, 63-Doubt, 22-Openness, 36-Crisis
Michael—The Angelical Mind Gates: 25-Spirit of the Self, 17-Opinion, 21-Hunter/Huntress, 51-Shock
Janus—The Fertility of Mind Gates: 42-Growth, 3-Ordering, 27-Caring, 24-Rationalization
Click image to read more about the Quarter of Civilization
Human Design Mandala Quarter of Civilization - purpose fulfilled through form
Maia—The Mother Goddess Gates: 2-The Direction of the Self, 23-Assimilation 8-Contribution, 20-The Now
Lakshmi—Goddess of Beauty and Good Fortune Gates: 16-Skills, 35-Change, 45-The Gatherer, 12-Caution
Parvati - Goddess of Domestic Bliss Gates: 15-Extremes, 52-Stillness, 39-Provocation, 53-Beginnings
Ma'at—Goddess of Truth, Justice and Cosmic Harmony Gates: 62-Details, 56-Stimulation, 31-Leading, 33-Privacy
Human Design Mandala Quarter of Duality - Purpose fulfilled through Bonding
Thoth - God of Wisdom, Writing and Time Gates: 7-Role of the Self in Interaction, 4-Formulization, 29-Perseverance, 59-Sexuality
Harmonia - Goddess of the Family Bond Gates: 40-Aloneness, 64-Confusion, 47-Realization, 6-Friction
Christ Consciousness Field - “Love Thy Neighbor” Gates: 46-Determination of the Self, 18-Correction, 48-Depth, 57-Intuitive Clarity
Minerva - Virgin Goddess of Warfare, Arts and Crafts Gates: 44-Alertness, 28-The Game Player, 50-Values, 32-Continuity
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Human Design Mandala Quarter of Mutation - purpose fulfilled through transformation
Hades - God of the Underworld Gates: 1-Self-Expression, 43-Insight, 14-Power Skills, 34-Power
Prometheus - Thief of Fire and Benefactor of Humanity Gates: 9-Taming Power of the Small, 5-Fixed Rhythms, 26-The Egoist, 11- Ideas
Vishnu - God of Monotheism Gates: 10-Behavior of the Self, 58-Vitality, 38-The Fighter, 54-Drive
The Keepers of the Wheel - Guardians of the Wheel - The Hidden Gods (from themselves) Gates: 60-Limitation, 61-Inspiration, 41-Contraction, 19-Wanting
Another way of explaining these Forces is that your conditioned mind tends to interpret the Maia according to your Godhead. When in a "not-self" state, making decisions from your conditioned mind, you can end up living out the homogenized, dead myths of your Godhead, rather than shining with the uniqueness of your authentic and differentiated holistic self.
Following Strategy and Authority keeps you from getting trapped in your Mind’s illusion derived from the conditioning forces streaming through your individual Godhead. Have you seen this at work in your life? How has it shown up for you? Please comment below.
Are you ready to dare to differentiate into the unique being you are here to be?
Join the tribe, let's journey together!
Originally written for, home of the Human Design System, Jovian Archive under the name Andrea Abay-Abay. Updated and republished with permission.
A study group from mid-2018 to walk us through the thematics around the wheel:
Have you taken Living Your Design and Rave ABC’s yet? Then you’re ready for Rave Cartography!
Secrets of being a "Non-Sacral" Projector, Manifestor or Reflector
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Being Authentic in the Generator's World
If you are a Manifestor (Innovator Career Type), Projector (Advisor Career Type) or Reflector (Evaluator Career Type), do you find yourself tired more often than not?
As one of the approximately 33% of humans who are non-Sacral, If you are chronically tired or often exhausted, this Human Design article might be one of the most important you ever read. Suspend your judgment if you are new to Human Design... experiment and see for yourself.
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The primary thing non-Sacral Beings have in common is the lack of definition in the Sacral Center. However, the similarity stops there. Non-Sacral beings can be as different as night and day—indeed, 1% of the population are Lunar beings, the Reflectors. They are here to be the evaluators of who is different, and they experience life very differently compared to the rest of us who are what Ra termed "Solar beings."
We Projectors, Manifestors and Reflectors, we non-Sacral beings, have a tendency to be addicted to the Generator's yummy sacral energy. What happens when we identify with this live-force and amplify it for long periods of time is we end up living not as ourselves, but as false super-Generators, and end up burned-out. If you're a non-Sacral, do you recognize this?
Imagine a really hard-working, overzealous super-worker who never knows when to quit when it comes to work, play, and sex. Perhaps slaving after others, thinking we need to do something ourselves or it won't be done right.
We non-Sacrals just never know when enough is enough. We can be ignorant of (when we are younger) or distraught about our inability to keep up sustained activity without severe detriment to our health. Chronic levels of energy depletion, fatigue, physical and mental exhaustion, burnout, and frequent illnesses are often the results. Lack of self-esteem because we can't keep up with the pace of the world (this is especially true for the non-energy Types, Projectors and Reflectors).
We live in a homogenized world inundated with messages such as "You can do anything you put your mind to," and "Nothing worth having comes easy" with varying beliefs exalting the virtues of hard work. However, this world does not know that some of us are simply not built to be vitalized by work or find it energizing, even when we may truly enjoy what we do.
The Work/Life Balance Myth
There's a flawed assumption in our western society that "work" is draining and non-work is automatically restorative. It's not true.
Can you remember a time in your life when you became so completely absorbed in and energized by a task that it just didn't feel like work?
Can you remember a time when you came back from the holiday and felt like you needed to recover from your vacation before going back to work?
Doing what you love for work and play, as well as intelligently managing your energy is good advice no matter your Type. However, it is essential for non-Sacral beings to manage their time and precious energy in a way that supports their body that is vastly different from a Generator’s.
It can be a real eye-opener to stop the running on the treadmill of "keeping up with the Joneses," to take stock of your life and allow yourself to enter into anything only according to your Strategy and Authority, rather than what your mind thinks you should do.
What I found personally is that it took a long time to let go of from the guilt-ridden feeling I had that I needed to work really hard to prove my value as a person.
What you may find as you begin to enter into more things that are in alignment with your true essence is your life becomes more vitalizing to you instead of draining. Rather than being dragged down by resistance that comes when you are operating from the mind, there is a vibrancy, a sense of clarity and purpose that emanates from your being. You become more at ease in your skin. The decisions you make lead to the perfect balance of restorative or depleting activities for you. You begin to live your true purpose.
No Manifestor, Projector, or Reflector has a mechanism for knowing when to quit. When deeply conditioned, we can ignore our body’s warning signs and “keep on keeping on” until we simply, physically, literally just can't go on anymore. This is one of the most dangerous things you can do as far as your health is concerned if you are non-Sacral. You need to create boundaries around business and mating, even things you do for fun. Implement healthy habits and use protective techniques that honor the inconsistency of your energy. You're not here to labor hard, but rather, to learn to be wise about work and the efficient use of energy.
Work Tips for Non-Sacrals
Delegating and outsourcing are wise practices for a non-Sacral. Remember that you are not the one to be doing, doing, doing and going, going, going all the time. An objection that may come up is—"but someone needs to do all these things! If not me, then who?" My answer to this is that you may have to change your mind about how your live should be lived. Are you ready for a real change in perspective, and therefore, your experience of life? Here's the secret: You've got to learn let go of believing what your mind is saying inside your head about yourself to be the end-all-be-all of Truth for you.
It’s helpful to learn to manage your energy more efficiently through following Strategy and Authority rather than initiating from the dictates of your mind. You mind is here to measure and be of value to others, NOT to make decisions for you about your life. Learn the values of planning and prioritizing, as well as refraining from over-committing—which can happen when you don’t know when enough is enough.
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Accept that things get done when they get done—and it’s all ok. Mastering the discipline of following your Strategy and Authority provides correct timing and discernment.
Each non-Sacral is here for a very particular purpose according to their unique design. Manifestors are here to initiate and inform and have impact. Projectors are here to know others, advise and guide the process. Reflectors are here to be barometers of the health of their community and let us know how everything is going.
No matter how enjoyable or vitalizing you may find your work or play, you are not designed to sustain consistent effort or output of energy over the long term without adequate periods of rest (generally more than what sacral beings require). What works best for non-Sacrals is living a lifestyle that provides a unique balance. What you do to support yourself materially needs to allow you the flexibility of controlling when and how you work, and compensates you according to the value you bring to the table. Caring for your body and respecting its limitations are critical to your health and well-being as a non-Sacral Type.
Though everyone can be prone to overwork and fatigue through over commitment, non-Sacrals need to pay special attention to get regular and possibly prolonged periods of rest to avoid burnout. All Types find different kinds of activities assist their recovery. Participate in the activities that renew your energy, rather than add additional stress or drain you.
Dispelling the Energy Vampire Myth
Ra would often joke about us as “parasites,” saying that Generators are the Life-Force of the planet and that without them, life would perish. A common misunderstanding of the mechanics that arises among newcomers (which can happen when words or phrases can be taken out of context and spread) is that non-Sacrals are energy vampires.
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When you look at a Human Design bodygraph, you can see the juxtaposition of the neutrino imprinting (which is colored in) with your receptivity (which is white). The white areas are where you are receptive to conditioning—you amplify that energy. Just as giving someone a hug doesn't drain the love out of them, but creates more feelings of love, so too do our undefined centers amplify the energy of the beings we are around. Just as a non-emotional being amplifies the emotional energy of the defined Solar Plexus being, we non-Sacrals do not drain Sacral beings of energy but rather, magnify it.
Frequency Distortion
When you turn speakers up very loud, the sound becomes distorted; so too can that sacral energy get distorted within you if you are amplifying sacral energy beyond your capacity to handle it. It can then be draining to others who are experiencing your frequency in a way that is not in alignment with your true nature.
We all put into others the frequency of our Aura; our definition is what we are broadcasting. ANY person can be "off" in frequency, and taking that in can be very uncomfortable where you are open. This can be why you feel drained rather than energized when you are around other people, or if you are in their presence for too long.
Just as you as a non-Sacrals is not designed to work hard for extended periods, neither are you designed to be exposed to the power of the Sacral amplified in your system 24/7. A Generator’s powerful energy can “fry your circuits” if you don’t give yourself breaks from it.
To know when enough is enough, follow your body by using Strategy and Authority in decision-making. Living your design allows the body's innate knowing to guide you. This is preferable to using the deeply conditioned mind which leads you off our true path and often into dangerous territory. Switching to following the body is a difference in frequency you can FEEL in your form. Fatigue, burnout, and exhaustion are frequent body signposts when you do not manage your personal energy resources wisely. You aren't designed for the Generator lifestyle.
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Sleep Alone
One of the more controversial (to newcomers) yet highly recommended and valuable practices the Human Design System has to offer is sleeping in your own Aura. Experiment with distancing yourself from the Aura of others at a set bedtime. Not only will this allow your system the break that it needs to discharge the energy of others, but it will allow you space and time to wind down and ease yourself into sleep.
You may find that this break gives you time for your system to settle and to clean out your Aura.
Your body can more fully recharge and rejuvenate when you are not revved up by being around others. Your sleep time is when you are most vulnerable to conditioning. Give yourself the gift of space to go to sleep alone—see how it works to improve your energy levels over time.
Strategy and Authority
Are you ready for a change in your life? Would you like to try something really different and see if it works? Follow Strategy and Authority to establish healthy boundaries around the themes of the Sacral; particularly in work, play, and sex. Rather than being always available for these things, be very discerning in using your inconsistent energy. Following Strategy and Authority are the only ways to protect you from falling into the trap of the mind and living out the homogenization of the conditioned world.
When you trust in your design, you'll get the most fulfilling life—the career, friends, experiences, places to live and lovers that are exactly right for you. Trust the process of watching rather than attempting to control your life movie. Experience your differentiation—the life you were born for, that only your authentic self can live.
A version of this article appeared originally on JovianArchive.com under the name Andrea Abay-Abay, updated and republished with permission.