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Learning to Live Your Human Design

Learning to Live your Design is a path that frees you from the thrall of your own personal Matrix. Your mind weaves it for you every day, and making decisions with that mind is like entrusting your life to the 4-year-old version of yourself.

Remember that you? Most of us don't. But if you've ever raised a child, you know that by this time they've learned to hide perceived mistakes, omit facts, maybe even outright lie to avoid getting into trouble. Think of Hexagram 4, "Youthful Folly" the Gate of Formulization, that of providing logical answers. Line 4, is "the Liar" lying as an art form. Our homogenized mind lies. Not your fault, it just can't help it. It is irresponsible, lies to you, it seduces you, it goes to excessive lengths to convince you to force the timing of events according to what it thinks will benefit from most and take advantage of others for perceived gain.

Human Design Awakening is the path of Knowledge. It is a complex and profound system, and the basics, to begin with, are not complicated.

Yet, are you feeling a little lost, with too many options available?

Often it can be tricky for a newcomer to orient themselves to the vast variety of courses and materials that are available out there from people attempting to capitalize on its popularity without doing the work of studying AND experimentation. along with implementation to master the System first.

If you're looking for teachings in alignment with the Source material from the founder, Ra Uru Hu, you're in the right place. Still, you may wonder...

"Where should I start and why?"
"How to choose a teacher and what is the procedure?"

Especially for you, we created an article on our learning platform which explains all the essential first steps you need to take on your Human Design educational journey.

If you're brand new to HD, here is a full Introductory Class on What Human Design is, with an Overview of the Centers, Types, and how learning to live your design can help you awaken to your true nature. It's part of the free Introduction to Human Design course on our learning community.

The most critical step on the path of Awakening is the work facilitated by our IHDS Certified Living Your Design Guides. Next Live group class here.

Some people jump right over this step and try to make sense of all the details, overly confusing themselves in too much data, overlooking the rich depth of the simple, yet not easy, process of deconditioning.

Designed as an extension of the LYD, is Rave ABC's. Originally Ra taught each of these programs in a weekend format, as he traveled the world impacting people with Human Design. Now thanks to the internet, we can explore these realms over a once-weekly format, to accommodate our busy lifestyles and learners who want to digest and process a little at a time, over time.

If you need more clarity on the Foundations of Human Design here's an explanation of them for you!

Officially Licensed IHDS Foundational Education Part 1

Or, perhaps you abhor the group dynamic? If you're not a fan of conversational style "flip teaching" and you'd like to go through the Foundations privately because you are:

1) a Mental Projector who studies best alone
2) a Left Variable person who prefers focused study on your own terms
3) unable to attend live classes at the times offered

We now offer customized learning programs that combine one-on-one sessions with a guide of your choice along with assigned videos by me to take you through the core aspects of what you need to know so that you can apply HD to your personal and career life successfully. We have Guides of all Types and Authorities to help you know what it's like to be your own Authority from experience!

Just want to dip your toe into HD for understanding your own chart?

We also offer customized, detailed multimedia presentations explaining your design in a step-by-step manner with videos specific design to your design, that you can watch on your own time.

Your next step in Human Design could lead to the most transformational progress you've ever had in your life that changes your destiny.

Can you try the experiment of being your own Authority with us, for the adventure of a lifetime into your true self?

Love Yourself,

Laveena

BE-ing Ourselves in the Face of Auric Conditioning

Learning through Experimenting
and Experience of
Human Design System Mechanics

Individuals are brilliant.

Groups are mindless.

You are not an individual in a group dynamic.

You unconsciously become something other than just yourself in a group, controlled by swirling energies we cannot see.

It's a mechanical reality.

All one has to do is understand the Human Design System enough to know the truth of this.

The moment you are in a large group of people in aura, you become a mindless part of the group, a slave to that hierarchy, with no choice to be a sovereign individual. Understand your mechanics so you can be on the lookout for times when you need to be extra vigilant about aligning through your Strategy and Authority.

We all have no choice in the effects of what happens to us trans-aurically as an unconscious part of a trans-auric form organized by specific "OC-16" channels (organizing channels of groups of 9-16 people) in groups.

For the Wa, control is imperative, and being in one lends one to operate based on the rules of the Wa, rather than their own Authority.

And another point... we may think we are alone, but in our modern age of densely populated cities, hotels, apartments, condos, townhomes, and duplex life, proximity to auras puts us unconsciously in contact with others, even through walls.

Ra gave us the mechanics of the trans-auric creature called Penta, the vortex of energy that is created when 3-5 people come together. We study this through business and family dynamics.

With 10 of the 26 activations in my Human Design being in Penta activations, including 3 of my 4 Life's Work gates, and creating my Body's only defined Channel (1-8), I find strength in leading the right groups that invite me, to be a demonstrative pillar of unique direction that can take us on a transformative journey into the world of manifestation. And yet, in a group environment, those people will never know the real me, just as I will never see the real them. It's an impossibility in that environment. Truly, we only ever know the other in the way we ourselves meet them.

Transcendent Global Awareness

Now I see my mind (observer) as the witness of my form (observed), in the process of following my body (observation) to express my own divinity in a mystical process of unifying mind and body, a marriage of binary consciousness in the state of transcendent awareness of Being.

When I became a divemaster as a teenager, we were taught to have "global awareness." To be aware of things beyond the normal focus of attention, to be on the lookout for conditions and circumstances that might shift in a moment and lead to danger or disaster.

I led groups of up to 6 divers underwater to tour caves, sheer drop-offs, and magnificent pinnacles of underwater sea-life or on night-time, Manta Ray dives. I was keenly aware of my role as a guide to keeping my group safe and headed in the right direction. My role was to lead them on a fun adventure as well as get back to the boat in time for their decompression journey before running out of air!

Yet, I remember my favorite times working as a Divemaster being those times of being alone in the deep blue, freediving into the weightlessness of the sea. The lack of oxygen suited my Primary Health System as much as this high mountain environment does now. I could be content drifting 60 feet below in apparent nothingness or actively observing gentle giants like whale sharks, humpback whales, or schools of dolphins or hammerhead sharks. Sometimes inspecting the tiniest creatures floating along with me in the endless dark of night as the Manta Rays opened their mouths to scoop them up. Sometimes drifting in the same waters during the shimmering light, watching the rainbow glittering of translucent gelatinous animals out in the deep blue sea.

Everything is imbibed with consciousness, a state of awareness. All things have a design; yes, even inanimate objects. From the rocks to the trees and the seen and unseen, we are surrounded by a sea of consciousness, that we interact with to become aware of in our own special ways.

We are filterers of the neutrino ocean, uniquely aware when enlightened. A natural, normal state of Being accessible to anyone in their own unique way.

And yet, Awakening is not a group thing. It is purely individual. The 10-20 Channel of Awakening, a Commitment to Higher Principals is part of Integration, the backbone of what it means to be a self-empowered Human Being.

Aloneness is conducive to Individual Awakening.

The reality is the world is dominated by trans-auric forms. Most of the things we think are ugly in human beings aren’t in your personal chart, have never been in your personal chart. But they come alive in trans-auric forms. We are all born in Pentas — we live in them, we create them. We walk around in Wa’s. We’re in a Wa in this room. Trans-auric forms have a way in which they condition humanity.

For me, Rave Sociology is very important to understand the way in which we are conditioned. Everything about Human Design, everything I’ve been teaching all of these years is about conditioning. After all, this is the Maia. The Maia is this vast, dense conditioning field. The moment you understand how trans-auric forms operate, you can really begin to understand the world around you and why human beings are the way they are.

Most of the time, we’re so busy looking at a person and saying ‘you’re to blame.’ The moment you’re in a family situation, the moment you’re in a group of four people that are enjoying themselves at a table in a restaurant, you’ve got different rules. They’re totally different. They’re so different that it’s almost frightening, in a way.

Something to understand about us is that we assume that we’re at the top of the heap. The vanity of the mind that we control things, and all of this stuff. But the reality is we’re being controlled by things that we cannot see or have no conscious access to, that the average human being has no fundamental awareness about at all. Think about what it’s like to go home, to go home to your original family.

Think about how you feel when you go back into that environment. Think about all the things that come back that you don’t like, all of those things that are suddenly there in your personality that you thought you had left behind, that suddenly returns. That the way in which you’re being dealt with is no different than it ever was regardless whether you’re 12, 50 or 80. This is the program. This is what Penta does." Ra Uru Hu

There is no mind in a group. They are controlling, homogenizing forces: they are the death of Individuality.

Ra taught that...

Only some of us are open to the profound mutation that Human Design offers. 

When you accept that your "body is the life", your path is your path and it is beyond collective judgment, for it is unique.
 
Remember, the nodes are the path in life that you walk along (design) or the framework of your perception (personality). Nodes are the stage upon which your life is set, a stage you carry around with you wherever you go. 

Just as a fish is not alive when you remove it from the water, so it cannot fulfill its purpose....

So too you are not you if you try to take yourself out of the contextual framework of the path you are on. 

Indeed, so many people rail against the path they are on, attempting to claw their way desperately to the driver's seat in a vain attempt to steer clear of what they fear. 

And in these times of radical change and uncertainty (with Fear as the undercurrent of the global motivation), we are all being conditioned by...

It is important to remember our sovereignty.

In this dawning age, we are responding to be empowered in places where we are allowed to be ourselves.

The moment we are in aura with anyone else, we are not our individuality.

To be ONE we need to be ALONE.

Here on this online platform, being in a virtual environment, we can express our individuality. 

Human Design Holds the Keys

You are not an individual in the auric frequency of another.

That is not a choice.

It is a mechanical truth.

Be that your lover, friend, child or family, your boss, co-worker, roommate(s), or church group.

During in-auric contact, you are a part of something more, an aspect of a temporary merging of energies, and it is important to remember if you find yourself losing your connection to yourself, to step away, pull back, and find that you-ness which is so true and unique to you.

Human Design is a manual for no-fault living.
No shame, blame, guilt, or regret necessary.

I invite us all to honor where someone is at,
no matter where we are in their process.

If it is correct for you to maintain auric contact,
watch, wait, and see.

If it is incorrect, and your process is to break the bond,
no need for justification or rationalization,
nor blame, shame, fault, or guilt.

In life, we simply align, or do not align.

And all of us shift through the seasons of time.

Love Yourself, Beloved.

Laveena <3

What is the Human Design System?

Living Your Human Design Introduction

Our HomoSapien in Transitus Transformation from 7 to 9 Centers

Human Design System: From 7 Chakras to 9 Centers

Client Questions:

“I'm curious about the relationship between the chakras and the wisdom centers. I read what Ra said about moving from a 7-centered to 9-centered being. Are the wisdom centers chakras? With chakras they are said to become underactive / balanced / overactive etc. In your opinion how does this relate to the centers and being open or defined? Do we balance our centers the same way as chakras?”

"Are the wisdom centers chakras?"

It would be technically inaccurate to equate the chakras' 7-centered model derived from the Homo Sapiens to our modern 9 centered Homo Sapien in Transitus because we didn't just add on two centers or split two into four back in 1781. We are taught that every center got an upgrade.

So although we have 9 functional centers within the body, we do not call them chakras to avoid confusion with the ancient strategic homo sapien, which we no longer are but remain conditioned by the mindset of controlling through mental processes of decision-making.

In HD, we call an undefined center an area of potential wisdom. You're working on specific learning described by the planets, which are there in dormant gate activations.

You have total wisdom potential in any completely open center. The totally open center indicates you've mastered that center thematic in a past life. In this life, you're working on your Ph.D. there, so to speak, because there are no longer specific themes but complete wisdom about all the ways that center can function. These are your most profound areas of susceptibility to conditioning and your most excellent places of potential learning.

"With chakras, they are said to become underactive/balanced/overactive, etc. In your opinion, how does this relate to the centers and being open or defined?"

Personally, I haven't seen the terms "underactive / balanced / overactive" used globally across the board in relationship to centers. Doing so might also be misleading because we all have our own sweet spots based on design, as activity and balance are unique to our functioning, depending on much more than definition.

For example, we have the Variable knowledge based on tonal cognition that leads us to live very different lives from each other even if we have similar areas of definition. And every channel expresses uniquely based on the planetary activations that create the “Channels” our consistent life-force or communication flow between the centers.

In HD, we use the terms Healthy/Unhealthy, which can show up in the Defined or Undefined states of any Center. The unhealthy functioning of the open centers tends to show up like the unhealthy of the defined center - only imagine it incredibly distorted, like an electric guitar plugged into an amplifier and turned up way too high.

I'll explain what I know from our HD perspective that I hope will address what I sense you may be looking for.

Defined energy centers are more likely to be overactive in the not-self, leading to dysfunction and dis-ease. This is really a problem with awareness (fear) centers because of biological stress on our body. and psyche. And it is especially a problem with our energy centers, because that tends towards the energy being misused because of mental decision-making.

Let's consider the Throat Center, which is not a motor, but often people use this center to decide when it is never a place of Authority (i.e., "I said I'll do that and I have to prove that I'm a person of my word, consistent and trustworthy so I'm gonna follow through with what I said I would do so I don't look foolish.")

Any throat center gate misuse or overuse can lead to biological dysfunction of the thyroid. Defined throats without connection to energy tend to talk too much, act too much, and give energy away to every impulse. The pressure to communicate and work is immense! Imagine that amplified without awareness by someone whose throat is being hooked up by a transit or a person. So they take action/speak because of the transit, not from a place of Authority, and now we have a similar problem - overuse because of conditioning.

However, take a typical example of a Manifesting Generator since there are many on our planet. In the not-self dysfunctional state (initiating rather than waiting for a response), an overactive MG can tend to have hyperthyroidism issues. See Angelina Jolie’s chart for example of a strongly defined throat. Angelina has an ego and emotional Manifesting Generator design with an Adrenalized Splenic Center Split.

Chronic overstimulation of the thyroid gland can degrade the thyroid's ability to function and turn into hypothyroidism over time. This starts out as overactive, which becomes underactive due to incorrect energy functioning.

The pure Manifesting Generator channel, 34-20 Charisma (the only sacral channel connection found as oppositions in the wheel creating direct generative energy flow to the throat), has more occurrences of removing the Thyroid gland due to overactivity.

If we contrast this with the natural state of a totally open throat center, whose natural functioning is silence, it tends to be quiet in a healthy state. This is its expression of what is balanced for it - quiet, until asked or invited to speak.

However, to an outsider, the totally open throat would be judged as underactive and would always be put under pressure to explain itself. See Lady Gaga’s chart for an example of a totally open throat center, which is that of a single definition pure sacral generator.

Lady Gaga’s Human Design Chart. She battles with the pain of Chronic Fibromyalgia

When the Throat is the only open center, then the entire being's not-self focus is on attracting attention, leading to thyroid issues when imbalanced. Make sense?

That is just one example; here is another common one. We can also tend to overuse certain kinds of energy to "get something done," concerning the misuse of substituting inappropriate energy when it is not designed to be used in that way.

Take an Adrenalized Energy Projector (Root defined to Solar Plex or Spleen) who is attempting to sustain long hours of hard work using the adrenal system is a classic lifelong challenge of the unawakened to their design. As the adrenals are designed to be short bursts and not be "on" like the sacral energy resource can be, adrenal fatigue and chronic fatigue are common problems amongst energy projectors. *raises hand* See Jada Pinkett Smith’s chart for a visual example of an Adrenalized Emotional Energy Projector with a Splenic Throat split.

Throat not connected to motor example - Jada Pinkett Smith (issues with fatigue - her "red table talks" are very open and a beautiful example of a 6th line projector coming into bloom, by the way)

"Do we balance our centers the same way as chakras?"

In HD, we attune to correct decision-making to help keep us balanced. So anything your Authority agrees to can help you maintain equilibrium. Perhaps a salt-water bath to clean your aura? Do you prefer singing, toning, or chanting to raise your vibration? Do you respond well to walking in nature, gardening, or swimming in the ocean? Maybe you feel invigorated by pranayama breathing exercises, drawing, dancing, games, imagining, making love, and making music? Whatever floats your individual boat!

There are specific recommendations I invite people to experiment with to discharge stress and pressure based on channel configurations. I have studied Vedic sciences and it would be interesting to see the correlations but I have not systematized anything. I simply leave it to each individuals' authority to explore organically rather than strategically.

“What I want you to grasp is something very interesting. Where you have definition, you don’t have to learn. So, think about that incarnatively. In other words, this is stuff you’ve learnt, you’ve worked through, and you don’t have to learn about again. Now, remember I'm talking about the true self, but I want you to see something interesting in that; we’re all in an incarnative, ongoing process. And that each incarnation we come in with things that need to be learnt in order for us to go through our progressive process.

So when you're looking at definition, what you're looking at is ‘I graduated, I got my degree. I've learnt that’. In the sense that that is not a theme for learning in this life now. But the moment that you're looking at a center, and you see that there is more than one or two dormant gates in that center, you know there's a lot of work to be done, that has never been done properly in the past. In other words, here is somebody who has built up, incarnation after incarnation, a problem area in which this is somebody who really has to be nurtured, and really has to learn about what manifestation is. What the Throat is. What the voice is. What communication really is. All of those various aspects.

So, it’s something very interesting to look at. You're looking at your own Design. You can see very clearly “Ah ha!. My incarnation, I'm here. This is something that I have to learn this time”. Now, think about the not-self. The not-self can come back over and over again with the same lessons to be learnt. And they keep on adding up. And if you didn’t get it the last time, then you’ve got an extra dormant gate this time!

So, it’s one of those things to just think about. Because it’s an interesting thing to look at. But please don’t abuse people because you know that – “Oh, look at you there. 35 lifetimes and you're still working on that stuff!”. But it’s really important to understand that these are themes that are unresolved and they need to be worked through. I know that for myself in my 49 gate. I've been a great killer. And I've gone through all of the sacrifice / sacrificer, all of that stuff, but there's still a lesson that’s incomplete for me. That I am finally getting to meet in this life, now.

So, it’s one of those processes that you can really look at, those of you that enjoy that kind of stuff, and be able to say “Aha! This is something that I've always needed to work on. This has been there a long time”. And you can see that by the density that is there.

You can also see that when you're down to the point where there's only one gate, you can see that this is an opportunity to close out a process. Very important. The single gates that are there. Many people have single gates in open centers. The single gate that’s there, that’s the indication. Here's your closing theme. You can finally finish this thing off. And if you have no activations, no activations the is the final stage of perfection.

Long ago somebody said to me “If you could have any Design, what would you have?”. And I said “No activation whatsoever. Just a blank chart. No gates, nothing. Just pure white everywhere”. Because that is being one with everything. And so when you have centers that are fully open you can see that these are areas where you’ve gone beyond the corrective process, and the learning process, and you're starting a new process. In other words, a wisdom process. A transcendent process. In other words you're finally getting to your masters degree, your PhD. You're really at another level entirely.

So you can see that definition, the process is over, but after all with your definition you're working with it all the time and you’ve got to work with it correctly. It just means that you don’t have to go through a learning process there. You simply have to use it correctly. And when you have centers where there is activation but there is no definition, then these are areas where you're carrying from your line of incarnation stuff that is still not yet worked out, still not yet finished in your learning process. And when you get to the entirely open centers, no activation, that’s where you're finally free to seek the one, or to seek the whole.”

Ra Uru Hu

I invite anyone interested in learning more to join our IHDS approved Human Design classes for further information and mentoring. We share both what works and what doesn't in our live experiential groups. I hope that helps! Warmly, Laveena

The Cross of Contagion, Cross of Industry, Cross of Fates - Personality Sun in Gate 30

What does it mean to have your Personality Sun in Gate 30?

Are you a Right Angle Cross of Contagion, Left Angle Cross of Industry, or a Juxtaposition Cross of the Fates?

This creation is for YOU! An educational video for those with Personality Sun in Gate 30, the Clinging Fire, Gate of the Fates, Gate of DESIRE. Towards the end, there's advice if your Solar Plexus is Defined with this Gate, this Channel 41-30, and also, advice at the very end by Type. Enjoy!

Human Design System · Personality Sun In Gate 30

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Human Design Time Pressures - What's your Time Frequency?

The three time pressures of the Human Design System Bodygraph. Grab your rave chart and discover something about why you are the way you are!

Rave ABC's Program Overview

Next Rave ABC’s with Peter Berv. Peter is a 3/5 Pure Manifesting Generator, Sacral Authority has been in HD for 10 years, is a Certified Analyst, Living Your Design Guide and Rave ABC's teacher. 

Rave ABC's is an extension of the Living Your Design Awakening Experience, designed to empower and support you in your deconditioning journey. If you've completed LYD and had a Foundation reading, you're ready to continue!

The next six-week online course starts Sunday, September 27th, running for six consecutive Sundays at 10 am Mountain Time. Classes will all be recorded for those that cannot make every class. Recorded lecture material from Laveena Archers included.

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Human Design System Lines of the Rave I-Ching Word Cloud

What Human Design System Geeks do for fun ';-)

New to the Human Design System? You Should Probably Give Up Now

Hi, this is Laveena. I’m updating this article I wrote for Jovian exactly 4 years ago, and specifically writing to those of you who are new to Human Design, yet deep into the Human Design Experiment, within your first 3.5 years.

Perhaps you’ve seen the not-self mind chatter with awareness, and in the beginning of recognizing your design’s conditioning, been horrified, or in awe, at how precisely Human Design can track your mind’s running commentary about the life experience you are in.

If you believe the story inside your head about yourself, you are identified with who you are not. If this is still the case, can I ask your conditioned mind a question?

Are you ready to Surrender?

Just give up right now.

As a 3/5 Profile; a "Martyr/Heretic" learning through inevitable mistakes, I found the yammering of mind can be very hard to ignore in the first half of my first 7 years. The “Not-Self” seems to take a long time to tame in the beginning. Not-Self is a term we use to describe deeply conditioned behaviors as a result of our response to the energies of others and the neutrino transit program we encounter every moment of every day.

Your not-self mind is so very powerful.

Without awareness, it's a nightmare that you don't even realize you are dreaming in.

And with awareness?

Well, sometimes it can be even more horrid to observe. Imagine realizing the dream you are in is a nightmare - and your eyes are wide open. While no matter what you do, you just can't seem to wake yourself up.

Please allow me to illustrate this point with a story wherein perhaps you can identify with what this is like. Would you like to hear about one of my biggest turning points?

I remember as a child growing up, I took every failure as proof that there was something wrong with me, perhaps missing or broken. Just a function of mechanics in my design (3rd line personality, undefined heart, head and sacral with 3rd lines as well).

In the middle of taking my first Human Design Class, Living Your Design the first time in 2013, I experienced my first profound “shattering” of the not-self mind. I broke down crying in grief when we got to the heart center. Because my tape-recording inside my head about myself was I can’t do anything right, nobody loves me, there’s something wrong with me and after that first release I could finally see the conditioning at play. Later I remember making a “mistake” in relationship with my boyfriend at the grocery store, where I found myself saying in desperation out loud - “I can’t do anything right.” All of a sudden my hand flew to cover my mouth, my eyes went wide open with shock, and I had the first conscious moment of realization in seeing my not-self mind at work! Now I knew exactly where it came from, and that it was absolutely NOT the truth.

Until you follow your Strategy and Authority in decision-making consistently, all the Human Design education you can handle does you no good. Until you live your Design, education means nothing. Until you "Just Do It" - which ironically in most cases begins with a strategy of waiting for life to come to you rather than initiating - you'll never get to live the uniqueness that you were designed to be.

Oh, I've seen this first-hand, how very hard it is to stay committed and focused on your experiment. "But... but... but; I want, I need, I have to; I should do this, I should do that; I’ve gotta make it happen, mine, mine, mine...." Good grief, how bossy our busy not-self mind can be! How can you not think, want, need, and be passionate about everything your mind thought you've always wanted or wanted to be??!

Only a very small percentage of the people who come to Human Design are likely to take it to the furthest extent possible. Ra said 4% of 4% of the population could live this. It is a fact that, even if you can’t live this knowledge, you can still benefit from increasing your awareness and using the tools to come to grips with the challenges you are living in this reality. It took me years to unravel the false belief system of something wrong with me that held me back from accepting, honoring and loving myself unconditionally.

Really, this knowledge is for children. To help parents guide their little ones to be empowered so that they can make decisions for themselves, as themselves. In the coming years, especially after 2027 when our background frequency shifts, you'll see how terribly important it is that this knowledge is passed along to our kids as soon as possible.

Whether or not you follow the original version of this knowledge as delivered by Ra and certified analysts; or if you get pulled into one of the offshoots of Human Design, or whatever else you find works for you.... either way, it's all ok. We all have our own “fractals” of people we are here for. And we are all here for certain others in our journey.

If you're an adult locked deep in the illusion of Maia (the mire of mind’s illusions!), likely you are someone who won't make it to full differentiation. If ever one had the chance to though, the fact that you are reading this tells me something about you - you’re on my fractal, and I know that’s where I’m heading. Who knows whether we will make it there? That’s really not the point.

When you wake up you realize that your path, your process, is perfect, exactly as we are. The joy is in the journey and the destination is NOT under our control. We get what we get, and it's all ok. Really.

Whether you end up living out your uniqueness and purpose in life, or simply reduce the suffering that comes from trying to be what you are not, you have “no choice” to change the design. All in all, your life can be positively impacted when you experiment with your Human Design.

Though, your mind may not like it. Nope, not one bit!

I'm not telling you all this to deter you from experimenting with Human Design or "trying to wake up" though trying really is futile. Yes, I do want to share that no matter how hard you may study or try, it won't help. Again, you get what you get, and it's all okay. You're not in control of any of that, and I hope to explain why in a bit.

I know that if you are new to design, likely your mind is going to compare your design to others. Your mind is very good at measuring - how does your design look or function compared to theirs? How long have they been experimenting with following their design compared to you?

Your conditioned mind likely will have design envy, wishing you had this or that channel, this or that center, this or that gate, this or that profile instead of the one you have. Your mind may immediately ask if there's anything that can be done to change your design, or - this one is common - how you can become a Manifestor (Innovator in BG5 terms) if you weren't born as one.

You're likely going to feel totally overwhelmed at first when you join the social networking groups, wondering what the heck 98% of the conversations are talking about most of the time.

All the while, as you learn about your design, something is whispering deep inside you; "This might be the solution. Human Design just might be the thing that helps me fix what must be wrong with me. Human Design just might help me get control of my life once and for all. Human Design just might help me become the person I always wanted to be."

Prepare for those expectations to be shattered in an unexpected way.

Website after website, you may find that you search the internet like a gold-crazed treasure hunter, looking for details on the Human Design system and reading all the books you can find.

Article after article, audio after audio, video after video, something becomes clearer and clearer the longer you immerse yourself in the words of Ra Uru Hu. The more you expose yourself to his frequency and that of the people you resonate with who share the spark of Human Design with the world, you watch the evidence mount to support one unbelievable concept.

Slowly, this one thing stands out, that when first came upon was laughed at and dismissed immediately... if it didn't turn you off to Human Design completely.

Two small, simple words that no one would believe if they didn't see the evidence day in and day out of the complete and absolute truth:

No Choice.

"No Choice, said the Voice," was the first time I'd seen those words in reply to one of my posts on social media. It flew in the face of something I'd been deeply conditioned to believe. And that was the concept of Free Will and all the related beliefs I'd attached to in the homogenized world.

What do you mean, no choice? I wondered. How on earth could that be possible?

Sometimes, something comes along that makes your whole world turn upside down.

Like when Pythagoras called the earth round when everyone accepted that our world was flat. Or a more recent discovery that light doesn’t always travel at the speed of light. Or when you come to Human Design and discover that we don't have free will. That free will, like everything else here on this plane, does not work the way we think it does and that your personality’s apparent control of your life experience is just an illusion.

When you come to Human Design, you don't tend to experiment with it unless you are committed to making a change. You may do it because you want something... something different. You may feel there must be more to life than suffering, and so you experiment, you observe, you study the world from this new perspective.

Sometimes, you can watch as your whole world seems to be falling apart at the seams (while wondering how it was possible to fall further from grace). How do you know what to trust when everything you'd spent a lifetime giving authority to before wasn't dependable for getting you where you wanted to be?

Life being a journey, not a destination... well, whatever happens, happens. Fate steps in and throws the monkey wrench in your plans. Sometimes things can be so confusing as you decondition that your mind may find it often wishes you had never, ever heard of Human Design. I’m serious! You can’t unlearn this stuff, because now you’re aware of your own mechanics. Oh, how powerful the not-self mind can be, arguing for it’s control over your life!

How can you let go of control of your life? By coming to the cellular realization that you never had it to begin with; that you are not here to be in control of anything outside of you. The realization that who you think you are not in control of anything inside of you, either. That all you as a conscious personality are here to do is... enjoy the ride your body takes you on and watch the movie of your life.

Most of us are trapped in a case of mis-identification with the conditioning of our mind. Ra calls this “gas of the brain” ie farts. Think about it. Like stomach gas, your mind is inconsistent, comes and goes based on what you’re digesting from life, it rumbles and grumbles inside of you, and when it takes action it often stinks!

Let's consider that we are all made up of vibrating matter. Each of us operating like tuning forks, each of us imprinted by the neutrino ocean with a certain Human Design, a "song" if you will. You are an orchestra that plays a symphony designed to be utterly unique.

Ra Uru Hu stated after his encounter with the Voice that the neutrino, a subatomic particle, had mass - that science later proved. The information imprinted within us by these neutrinos tells a detailed story describing the energy that imprinted us at two critical moments, showing up as definition in your Human Design bodygraph.

The definition created by this energy is what you can reliably trust to make decisions in life. Tuning into this energy by experimenting with your strategy and authority is at the core of your discovery of the benefit that Human Design can offer you.

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See, all of us are deeply in the thrall of the "program" - the neutrino ocean flavored by the gates influencing us via the planets that those neutrinos flow through endlessly. Those neutrinos are bombarding our openness with what to feel, what to breathe, what to be.

Helpless in the sea of neutrinos which program us, we behave in ways that we aren't even aware of unless we know our design. We make mistakes and learn what we can dependably trust, that place within or the process it takes for us to rely upon when navigating the constant choices that are presented to us daily.

Yep, I said it. "Choices." And yet, who we think we are, truly has no choice.

Choiceless? You bet we are. Choiceless in the thrall of the transit field, the neutrino program, the illusion of the Maia; choiceless to live your design - either as true self or not-self or some varying combination of the two. We are all filtering the neutrino program, helplessly living and dying on the Stage of Life in the Play of the Program.

The beauty of Human Design is that it gives you a map of the forces at work within you. It offers a way to be true to the unique imprinting bestowed upon you by the program; the energy that is consistently and reliably at work within you determining your uniqueness.

What's the way? Strategy and Authority. It's all about decision-making. There's no need to take this on faith; try it for yourself and see.

Look, maybe you'll be someone like me, a 3rd line Profile, who constantly makes mistakes and falls. Hard. Flat on your face. Like a toddler just learning how to walk without holding onto things - who runs smack into the coffee table and shrieks in pain for the next half hour.

But, you know what? For many people it takes making those dang mistakes, sometimes over and over again, to figure out how to follow Strategy and Authority. To recognize the signposts that are there to guide you along your path. To know when it's best to wait and appreciate your life for what it is - not how your mind thinks it should be.

Sometimes the best lessons learned are "mistakes."

Here, take a deep breath and imagine you're on a loud movie set between takes. I want you to see the film crew, hear the actors talking and feel those hot lights they're all standing underneath. Smell the sweat from too many bodies together in a room. "Quiet on the set!" yells someone and a guy in black comes over in front of the camera. I want you to picture a movie clapper board, with "take three" written in chalk on it. "Miss-takes" that we make are often the best way to learn and are how we eventually get it right. Close your eyes a moment and let that sink in as you let go of trying to avoid mistakes.

Just knowing that we are not in control, that we can't help what we go through or how, can make all the difference in the world.

So what if maybe you won't "wake up" in the "enlightened-guru-sitting on-a-mountaintop-with-no-food-levitating-and-spouting-wise-crap" that people repeat endlessly from those who traveled far and wide to hear for themselves. Following your Strategy and Authority changes your perspective and, therefore, your experience of life and your life itself. Things can be way, way different and more correct for you than they are now. Your life is not about expectations or what you do. It's about experiences and who you be.

You aren't broken. There's nothing wrong with you. And that person you always thought you wanted to be?

Choiceless.

So tell your mind just to give up already. Do yourself and everyone around you a favor - let the body live its life.

Written by Laveena Archers, originally published on JovianArchive.com in May of 2015 as Andrea Abay-Abay

Andrea is a 3/5 Emotional Projector and Jovian's PR & Social Media butterfly. She has the pleasure of writing and creating Human Design System content since 2014.

She’s a certified Human Design Professional Living Your Design Guide Trainer, BG5 Consultant, Human Design Analyst and Foundations Teacher. Laveena spent the majority of her life buried in self-help and self-improvement books and courses, mixed in with a healthy dose of trial-and-error discoveries of what doesn't work. Human Design was something she found that finally worked!

Laveena has a fondness for beauty in nature and expressing creativity. She fills most of her time away from the screen hiking while taking nature pictures, playing with her daughter, and listening to Human Design lectures by Ra Uru Hu.

How to Make Correct Decisions: Human Design System Splenic Authority

How to Make Correct Decisions:
Human Design System Splenic Authority

In this installment of our Authority article series, “How to Make Correct Decisions Using Your Human Design,” we delve into the realms of Splenic Authority.

Approximately 10% of the people on this planet have the Splenic Center as their Authority in life. If you are someone who has a brown triangle colored in on the left side of the bodygraph, but not the triangle on the right or red square in the middle, then this article is especially for you (and the people who want to support your awakening).

In the first of this Human Design Authority article series we introduced the origins of Type and Strategy, why Mind is not your Authority and then we covered the Solar Plexus/Emotional Center as an Authority. If you are emotional, would you like to read that first?

Next we covered the nuances of the three kinds of Sacral Authority. If you are a Generator, would you like to read that article first?

With Splenic Authority, intuition is the guiding force in your life. You likely often find yourself (especially after being involved in some mishap or accident) saying things like, “I just knew that was going to happen!” This is because part of what makes you so very unique is that you have consistent activation of the Splenic Center with its intuitive sense designed to protect you and keep you alive.

With the Splenic Center consistently defined, you can trust your primal instinct for survival and in fact, it is the one thing you naturally can rely upon to navigate through life safely. Every decision you make has the potential to bring you closer to well-being.

When you feel good, your defined Splenic Center imparts a sense of well-being and security to others. You may notice that you attract people into your life who have this center undefined or open.

Ra Uru Hu, Founder of the Human Design System

Splenic Authority automatically denotes that the being in question is either a non-emotional Projector or a non-emotional Manifestor. Ra Uru Hu, founder of the Human Design System, was the latter, and speaks from first-hand experience about what it is like to follow Splenic Authority, here in this video.

The Splenic Center is about Survival

An ancient awareness, the Splenic Center intimately connects us with our primitive mammalian heritage. This center is where we have our deep body-sense concerned with pattern recognition and the awareness of potential dangers.

Can you visualize the heightened awareness of a wild animal, whether predator or prey? Wild animals are completely focused in the now, alert in the moment. Inherent in their nature is the ability to process changes in the environment with lightning speed, relying on reflexes so finely attuned that they act and react to keep themselves alive.

The Splenic Center is so completely different from the mind that it can be difficult to understand what it’s telling you and why. There is no way to figure it out because this survival mechanism awareness filters tremendous amounts of data—layers of information that your conscious mind cannot comprehend on a conscious level.

Learn more details about the Splenic Center here.

Because the Splenic Center is not a motor, its voice is quiet… that still, small voice of intuition that protects you. The chatter of the Ajna is twice as loud, with the Solar Plexus’ emotions being twice as loud as that; these can overwhelm the warnings of your Splenic voice. Because you have an undefined Sacral and Solar Plexus, being around others who have those energies present can cause you to take in and amplify those energies. Without awareness of the dynamics of your unique energy system, your mind can get caught up in thoughts that drown out the instinctual voice of your Splenic Center, conditioning you away from the power you have within you to survive.

Your Splenic Awareness means that your decision-making process is spontaneous but not permanent. Your finely tuned immune system awareness can shift with the changing conditions of your environment and clue you in on what choices are most likely to keep you alive and well. Navigating moment by moment, your Splenic Center helps you avoid dangerous situations. Every single decision you make in your life is a health-related decision—it’s all about being guided towards well-being and away from anything that can harm you.

Splenic Center Streams of Awareness - Learn more in Rave ABC’s

With the Splenic Center as your Authority, you have an innate ability to emanate well-being and are designed to be entirely existential—that is, to live completely in the moment.

As a Splenic Center being, you can depend on your immune system to keep you healthy. However, if you don’t pay attention to your intuition about your health, an inherent sense of consistent well-being can be taken for granted. If you ignore your intuition continually you may end up very ill. If this is your Authority, we recommend you make sure that you allow your system to completely recover before resuming your normal level of activity.

Kinds of Splenic Center Authority in Human Design

The Splenic Center can be the Authority in only two basic Types of beings.

Splenic Manifestors

Splenic Manifestors are people who have the Ego or Root motors defined to the Throat along with or through the Splenic Center, without the Sacral or Solar Plexus defined.

If you can trace your finger from any of those two motor Centers along a colored-in Channel up to the Throat (for example, going through the Splenic Center from the Root or Heart or G Center along the way) then you are looking at the bodygraph of a Splenic Manifestor. These people have consistent energy for Manifestation, along with the deep instinctive intuition to keep themselves alive.

When your Splenic Center is defined to your throat as well as connected to either your Root or Ego (or both), your authority is manifested Splenic Authority. You are designed to pay attention to your intuition, your instincts and pattern recognition awareness of what can give you well-being and keep you healthy.

Example Human Design chart of Manifested Splenic Authority: Vladamir Putin

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Splenic Projectors

Splenic Projectors are people who have the Splenic Center defined without the Sacral or Solar Plexus defined, and without any motors connected to the Throat.

You are designed to be attuned to recognition in the moment, and your intuition, instinct and pattern recognition ability can be trusted to guide you to accept the correct invitations leading you towards well-being.

Sometimes, Projectors can be over eager to accept any invitation—without trusting their Spleen. Be very careful to listen to your hunches and don’t allow your mind to override your Splenic Center, as it can speak repeatedly and much louder than your Authority.

Any time a Projector initiates, they run the risk of making choices that lead to bitterness. If you find yourself in a situation that leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth, instead of experiencing success, ask yourself—did you wait to be recognized and invited, and did you trust your intuition?

Practice trusting your intuition without over-analyzing or rationalizing using your mind. Let go of the mind’s machinations and trust your body. Your body is your life; honoring your personal Authority leads you to live a healthy life.

Example Human Design Chart of Projected Splenic Authority: Brad Pitt

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Trust Your Splenic Knowing, Intuition, Instincts, Pattern Recognition

As a Splenic being, you are here to be deeply present in the now. 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.

In your case, you are a perfectly designed, purely existential being, and can trust your powerful instincts above anything your mind or emotions tell you—no matter how much they try to convince you otherwise. Experiment and see for yourself.

In Human Design, we give you techniques to tap into your personal Authority to navigate correctly and live out your true nature, but it takes dedication and commitment to follow your Strategy of either informing or waiting to be recognized and invited, and honoring your Splenic Authority to make decisions.

Are you ready to discover the authentic fulfillment life has to offer you?

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.

Read this excellent article on the 5 Common Myths of the Generator Type on JovianArchive.com

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.

20 Signs You’re Waking Up to Your True Nature

How do we Decondition a lifetime of behavioral patterns?

Psychological unrest manifests through so many of us in our hurried, western societies as loneliness, not feeing appreciated or loved, stress, anxiety and can lead to the weakening of our physical body. “Most diseases have psychological causes and all lasting diseases have psychological effects.” Dr. David Frawley

As we slumber in the thrall of our mind’s illusions, deconditioning is an important step to "waking up." Contrary to popular belief in an instant enlightenment, waking up is more often a slow, deep, sometimes painful process (to the shadow state of our mis-identification with conditioned mind’s sense of self).

I know that as a Solar Plexus Authority―as a deeply emotional being―my awareness expands and contracts, spiraling and evolving the further and further I surrender to living my design. With time―I am now in my 7th year―I have found this “Human Design Life” wonderfully en-lightening; both in the physical and spiritual sense. My health, vitality and well-being are dramatically improved from 10 years ago.

It takes time to cultivate an awareness of the mental patterns in our lives that we are mis-identified with. Adaptive strategies of our minds that we commonly describe as "Not-Self" require experiential knowledge. When we enter into a study of the Human Design System, we are re-educating ourselves on the nature of Being.

We are learning to make decisions from our form instead of our conditioned behavioral patterns. We are supported in how to identify and see the deeply entrenched illusions our minds have developed in the openness in our charts. Rooted in the “Maia” or illusions our mind creates, these adaptive strategies and behaviors are an attempt from mind to resist and control our lives in an attempt to fix or avoid, protect or resist the painful experiences we keep having when we make decisions from places that are not consistent, reliable or dependable within us.

The encounters we have in these sensitive areas where we are vulnerable to conditioning can be quite challenging - and when experienced without attachment, when experienced without identification, these open places become areas of immense wisdom for others to source from.

Our conscious minds don't have a choice as to when and how we wake up to our true nature, or what that nature is, as it was given to us at birth. Everyone has timing of events and cycles of their lives that were destined from birth. These cycles of learning, experience and discoveries that move us through developmental stages can bring us further along the path of growth that leads us to the fulfillment of our personal destiny, our fixed fate, or our transpersonal karma, whichever life trajectory we happen to be on.

The good news is, there are simple signposts that can tell us that we are on the right track - like the sweetness of success, the satisfaction of following our passions, the peace of innovating and impacting, the delight and surprise in life's journey.

Here are twenty clear signs you're waking up to living authentically and are on the path of finding true fulfillment in living this life as yourself.

Which ones apply to you?

#1. You stop comparing yourself to others

When you recognize that you are utterly individual and beyond compare, you rest in self-love, celebrating your uniqueness. Learn to take each situation as it comes, knowing you are doing the best you can with what you've got. Watch how it becomes easier to ignore the nagging of your conditioned mind berating you for not being as good as anyone else.

#2. You stop trying to change yourself to suit others

When you recognize that you’ve stopped trying to change yourself to please someone else, based on what your mind interprets about what they say or think you should be. You know that feeling deep down that it is not only okay to be who you are, in fact, you can't help but be who you are, adaptive behaviors and all. Surrendering to what is and the joy of the continual unfoldment of your process is part of the journey. There is no perfect, there is continual evolution.

#3. You stop trying so hard to fit in, be popular or well-liked

You notice that you no longer care so much about what other people think of you, you stop worrying so much about trying hard to be liked, fit in, or "be somebody". Perhaps you can even laugh about what your own mind thinks about you, recognizing it's perspective is skewed to only one-third of the picture!

#4 You stop trying to answer everybody else's questions without invitation

You notice that the obsession with finding the answer to your conditioned mind's questions, or others questions, can just be let go of―trying to make sense of your own confusion and doubts relaxes too. You may also find that your life, learning and mother nature become your main source of inspiration instead of mainstream media, which tends to pressurize instead of energize.

#5 You stop trying to convince everyone that you are certain

You notice that your internal state takes on a sense of groundedness, in that you’ve stopped trying so hard to figure everything out. You can breath easy when there’s a question that challenges you, because it’s no longer a big deal to say “I don’t know.” You no longer feel like you have to know all the answers in order to get rid of the chaos in your mind or your life. You don't hide your ideas or opinions because you don't fear being challenged or being considered weird or strange, but you don't give them unless you are invited to do so.

#6 You stop trying so hard to attract attention

You are comfortable with silence and non-doing. You notice that you no longer make the decision to go places where you can get attention, or do things just to get noticed. You don't initiate conversations just because silence makes you uncomfortable. You no longer fret about not being able to manifest things - you trust that manifestation happens as part of the program and that you don't have to TRY so hard to make anything happen.

#7 You stop looking for love or questioning the direction of your life in the lives of others

You feel comfortable in your own skin, and notice you no longer agonize over wondering who you are, where you should go, who you should love or who is going to love you. You don't constantly worry about what you are going to do with your life or try to figure out where you should go. In fact, the word "should" slowly drops from your vocabulary when followed by the words "I" or “You”.

#8 You cease trying to prove yourself, to anyone, including yourself

Because you are comfortable with your own sense of value and self-worth without external validation, you rest in a state of being humble and confident without a need to seek accolades. You notice that you are no longer saying or doing things to try and prove that you are worthy, smart, accomplished, wealthy, pretty, strong, or sexy enough. Rather than trying to improve yourself constantly, you have an inherent feeling of self-worth and do things that make you happy, no longer subjugating your own needs. There is no stressing over the need to work hard at proving your value, for you know you are perfect, just as you are, evolving with divine timing.

#9 You know when to quit (enough is enough, already!) before you burn-out and crash in exhaustion

You notice that you follow your body rather than pushing it beyond it’s limits out of anxiety, fear, stress or any kind of pressure, as you develop a sensitivity to knowing when to quit working, knowing when to say no, when to delegate, when to create boundaries, and when to let others take care of things themselves as the rule rather than the exception. Instead of experiencing the frustration of misused energy or exhaustion from overcommitting your energy, the physical sense of satisfaction with life as it is, is the dominant frequency in your life.

#10 You stop holding on to what (and who) isn't good for you

You notice that you become more comfortable alone, feeling safe and secure without dependency or co-dependency. You aren't afraid to let go of things that aren’t good for you, or move forward because of the possibility of failure or lack of depth, purpose or fear or the future, and you aren't afraid of authority, secure in being your own.

#11 You stop always avoiding confrontation and truth

You’ve stopped leading a secret life hidden from others out of shame, guilt or regret. You notice that you are no longer afraid to upset someone if it means speaking up for yourself and your feelings when it's correct for you to do so. You don't fake smiles or try not to rock the boat or avoid hurting people's feelings if you need to stand up for your needs. Maybe you even go where the pain is without fearing rejection because you know that living a life of lies is no way to live at all. When the emotional pain arises you allow it to move through you and don’t run away from the experience; you breathe and feel, breathe and allow. You know that feeling it heals it.

#12 You cease urgently hurrying mindlessly to get everything done quickly

You notice that you are no longer rushing through things you enjoy, hurrying just to be free of the pressure. You’ve stopped initiating new experiences without proper timing or using your authority. You quit agonizing over how to get over limitations, what you should be passionate about, focus on, start or finish. You let go of trying to start new things until you can move forward in joy. Like the Druids of old, you trust that do without doing and the doing gets done―in right timing.

#13 You've begun to get a sense of and understand your uniqueness

You notice as time goes on, that something inside of you has opened up and relaxed. Being makes far more sense than doing, and breathing and simply observing is a pleasure. Being yourself takes precedence, above all else. You see that aligned Doing arises out of stillness and joy, as a divine Being.

#14. You enjoy watching the movie of your life

You notice that as the layers and layers of conditioning dissipate, the person you were always meant to be breathes in the breath of awareness and awakens to life. You are absorbed fully in the process of living, watching the storyline as your play your part on the grand stage of life..

#15. The way you make decisions changes

You notice that you feel more and more comfortable just being yourself around people who “get” you―there seem to be more of them nowadays! Where before you may have given your authority to others or tried to have authority over others, you now respect yourself and others too much for that to happen ever again. You would never dream of making a decision that wasn't in alignment with your true nature―and when it happens, you laugh at the lesson and share what you learned when correct for you for others on your fractal to learn from too..

#16 You are present, aware, and open to life

You notice you get a lot of compliments in recognition of who you really are. The way your cells function in your body have renewed and are pulsing in alignment with your true nature, resonating with a frequency that allows your body to live its life without resistance. There’s a light inside you now that was always there, no longer dimmed by the suffering and pain of reality, but fed by the joy of living life to the fullest, in every moment and every breath that you take.

#17 Your body feels more vital and alive than you ever have no matter your age

You are drawn to the correct intake of nourishment in the manner that is most beneficial to your body. You are drawn the correct places that nourish your being, furthering the process of deconditioning and differentiating into the unique perfection that you are. You get complements on your glowingness as that light burns brighter with your fire of purpose, and people are drawn to you―both the light and the dark.

#18 You find yourself completely surrendering to your life’s process

You cease believing everything your mind says about yourself, and can laugh at it’s silliness. When it’s scared, you might even talk to it out loud to reassure it’s fears. You instead accept that if you can get your own head out of the way, your body does the right thing with the correct timing. You trust that life brings you what you need, and it’s all okay.

#19 You watch yourself loving and nurturing your whole being

You notice that you now trust in your own process and life, knowing that it will take care of you. Trust becomes the frequency you radiate, knowing that manifestation energy flows through you in partnership with the right timing and the right other, without your mind having to control or manipulate anything or anyone. “FOMO” disappears

#20 You know it is never too early or too late to begin living as yourself

You also notice that it is natural to support others without an agenda when it's correct for you to do so. You remember to take care of yourself first so as to be able to have the energy and resources to help others as yourself. You recognize the gift of being yourself is the biggest gift you can give the world.

Can you relate to any of these signposts above? Some of us will, some of us won’t. Perhaps you just get flashes of signs, here and there. If you don't yet feel more often fulfilled than not, not to worry. There are many reasons for life's struggles. Breathe and Be, you already are who you were meant to be―the distortion of dissatisfaction with what is, is a conditioned mindset that slowly fades as you experiment with Living Your Human Design according to Strategy and Authority.

Do you want to dive deeper into this tool that can help inform your awakening, help you to differentiate and be the person you were born to be?

There's a way to facilitate the deconditioning process. It's called BEING YOURSELF, and until relatively recently, there wasn't a clear, comprehensive map to know how to do that.

Are you ready to really get to "Know Thyself"―paying no attention to the opinion of others about your choices, and making decisions that are correct and according to your authentic nature?

The Human Design System is a powerful tool that informs your awakening process. Millions of people use their Human Design Strategy and Authority to achieve levels of awareness and fulfillment that they never thought possible in all areas of life. Would you like to investigate further and discover your treasures that lie buried under layers and layers of conditioning?

You'll be glad you did. After all, what do you have to lose? A life of conditioned behavioral patterns, misunderstandings and unnecessary suffering? Imagine instead, your life lived with joy, filled with truth, authenticity, vitality and fulfillment. A life of meaning that fulfills your highest purpose in this life. The pleasure of satisfaction, success, peace and surprise in what life has to offer you and us all awaits!

My hope for you is to discover the fulfillment of seeing what it's like to live life as the magnificently unique being that you are designed to be.

Isn't it time you woke up to your authentic nature and lived the life you truly were born to enjoy?

We'd like to invite you to begin your Human Design Journey. The first step is awakening to yourself. As a Living Your Design Guide Trainer, I am trained to guide you through this process in a Living Your Design Awakening Program, joined by fellow professionals and professional students to regularly commune with you in these group experiences. This is a practical, yet spiritual awakening. Would you like to join us and discover yourself?

In Joy,

Laveena Lovick

Written for JovianArchive.com under the name Andrea Abay-Abay in 2015, updated and republished 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 does the Emotional Authority Work?

Here’s my personal perspective in my 7th year of experimentation with living in alignment with my Human Design chart.

5 Practical Reasons To Join Exciting Human Design Classes Now

How many times have you bought a book and not finished it?

Sure, sometimes the book just plain sucks and you got sucked in by the cover.

Here's some startling numbers I want to share with you.

I've read that less than 10% of people who start reading a book ever finish it. I've also seen stats that less than 15% of people who sign up for an online course ever complete those self-paced classes.

What's your experience of these recorded classes on places like Lynda, Udemy, and Coursera?

For some people, especially busy ones, when a course is self-paced, it typically ends up unfinished and forgotten. I know over my lifetime I've easily personally spent thousands of dollars on courses that expired or I just didn't finish for one reason or another.

Let's blame it on Shiny Object Syndrome.

Open Head Center, anyone?

If you're not familiar with Human Design you might not get that joke.

Hey, I know you are busy.

Life gets in the way of our best intentions, and learning is rarely a priority in your to-do list unless you schedule it in and are supported in your commitment to your education.

At Human Design Life, we use a better format for learning than those giant impersonal sites - live online courses. 

When you commit to classes that take place 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.

Not to mention, I personally reach out to you on Facebook Messenger before every class.

The group participation and feeling of camaraderie means you will not only schedule the time for learning, you will participate when it's right for you, and get a whole lot more out of the experience.

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

I’ve been teaching the first official step in the Human Design System educational curriculum, "Living Your Design", for four years now with 125+ 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, school holidays, etc).

I'm one of those open online teachers who offers live webcam option during my classes.

Like the Human Design System, Living Your Design is different and requires personalized experiences provided by live interaction, I feel.

I’m committed to offering Living Your Design as YOUR design - specific to those who are in the 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 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 in the past 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 Zoom and all classes are automatically recorded in case you want to review them again later. Don't want to be on camera or audio? No worries, there's a chat option as well. Plus you get pdf downloads of the slides we use in class.

If finances are an issue, you can’t beat live classroom interaction with real-time Q&A. Payment plans available via Patreon!

I do live screen sharing of charts on the fly. This helps us all learn, and it’s great fun too!

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

1. You're statistically about 75% more likely to finish your course

2. You're going to have the support of meeting other people in Human Design

3. You're going to be able to participate live and get your questions answered as they come up, learning better from the interactive experience

4. You're going to pay a lot less than what you would if you were the only person meeting with me than in a live class, and the live interaction enriches the group experience

5. Live classes like Living Your Design and Rave ABC's count towards higher level certifications if you feel like answering the call to become a Human Design Professional

Here are the upcoming official IHDS courses I'm conducting by request:

Living Your Human Design: A Cellular Transformation

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 pre-requisites, this workshop teaches the most important 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 helps you get aligned to your core essence. 

The Living Your Design Awakening Program can be of tremendous benefit to deepen your understanding of your Strategy and Authority and the pain of the conditioning you have experienced. It can assist you with your own 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 reading is not required, it is encouraged before or during this program. 

Sign-Up Now!
 

Human Design System "Rave ABC's" 

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 be more educated on yourself using this system, the Rave ABC's course is the next step. 

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

In the Rave ABC's we will discuss more of the origins of Human Design. We'll also delve deeper into the basic 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.

Content:
1. Black – Red, Personality and Design
2. Circuits and Circuitry
3. Hexagram Structure

Pre-requisites:
Human Design Foundation Reading
Living Your Design: A Cellular Transformation
 
Required Materials: Rave ABC Student Manual; recommended MMI Software Student Edition

 

Human Design System "Rave Cartography" 

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.

Course Content:
1. Nine Centers
2. The not-self and its nine strategies
3. Definition (Channels by Circuitry)
4. The Types & Authorities
5. Angles and the 12 Profiles
 
Classes include both interactive lectures, and study oriented workshops. 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.

Living Your Design Certification Class

The Living Your Design Guide (LYDG) training is designed to educate, prepare, and certify Living Your Design Guides to support newcomers in the experiment of living their design.

The Living Your Design Guide Training is designed to effectively teach many of the basics of Human Design as it relates to type, strategy, authority and conditioning. This course offers 3 distinct components which provides students/Guides in training with the information and techniques necessary to assist newcomers in starting their 7-year deconditioning process.

In this course, Guides will learn how to assist others in understanding their own personal conditioning by using examples, experiential techniques, discussions and personal experiences. Certified LYD Guides also qualify for Professional listings on the International Human Design School and Jovian Archive websites, and where appropriate, on the Human Design National Organization website of the country where they reside.

Becoming a Human Design Guide is the fastest path to becoming a Human Design Professional so that you can begin helping others doing what you love! There's nothing like being able to meet with people to guide them so accurately and effectively using this system. As I enter my 7th year in this process, I am in awe of where I was when I began, and where I am now - mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically I feel very different than the person I used to be. You know, I look and sound VERY different too!

Most of all, I love myself and my life, even through (and especially because of) the radically differentiating ride of what it is to be me. <3

I LOVE teaching how HD works, and especially I'm discovering that I adore advising on how to implement the knowledge with clients, from the experiences I'm having with students I know this new class it going to be so rewarding and FUN! That leads me to joyously invite you to discover more information about my newest class offering, and Certification as a Living Your Design Guide, which is our industry's equivalent of a Life Coach. Do you want to be a Human Design Life Coach? SIGN UP NOW!

Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph - Head Center

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.

Journey through the Centers of the Human Design BodyGraph - The Ajna Center

The Human Design System's Ajna Center

Our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph takes us to the hub of mental awareness in your life - your Ajna Center. This is our Conceptualization Function in BG5 (career application of the Human Design System) Terms. To read the other Centers, search at the top right of this blog using the magnifying glass icon.

As the Awareness Center that handles the conceptualization function of your mind, you can see that there are no motors (energy) connected to mind - mind is for communication, not action. Here is the location of your design "crystal" the dark matter that holds the genetic imprinting that makes your body what it is. Do you see all the calculations in red on the left side of your Human Design Chart? Your design (form) crystal received this unconscious genetic imprinting at eighty-eight degrees (about 88 or 89 days) of the Sun's movement before you were born.

The Ajna is one of the three Awareness Centers in your bodygraph (Spleen and Solar Plexus being the other two). Ajna awareness is all about mind-consciousness that operates over all time - which is a reason we live with the notion of always having to make mental decisions. This mind-consciousness that can conceptualize about things outside of the present moment is also why we can worry about the future, and regret or obsess about the past, when we use our mind as a personal decision-making tool - which is not it's job.

Our minds can be brilliant at measurement and comparison; we can justify and realize, rationalize and find answers, develop and share opinions, insights and ideas, yes. But when it comes to personal choices it cannot be trusted to be able to process all the relevant data, because it's self-perception is not accurate, whether it is colored in (defined) or undefined (white) in your deisgn.

The Ajna Center is a Mental Awareness Center that has no inner authority for any of us.

Conceptualization Function

Your Ajna Center handles researching, investigation, analyzation, and categorization - all things that have a basis in seeing and hearing the world around you. The Ajna is a critical processing hub for transforming cognitive comprehension into language that can be expressed by the Throat Center.

The biological correspondence of your Ajna Center is your Neocortex - the part of the cerebral cortex in your brain that handles sight and hearing. Your Pituitary Glands, which are endocrine system glands that send out chemical messengers (hormones) to other endocrine glands, are also under the Ajna’s domain.

Your Ajna is an awareness center that processes information in a dualistic manner and is valuable for providing outer authority to others and weighing out situations, but not for making your decisions. Because Mind attempts to control your life based on what it thinks it knows, you experience resistance when you are not following your unique Strategy and Authority.

Human Design System Ajna Gates - Rave I-Ching Hexagrams

How to Develop Witness or "Passenger Consciousness"

Practice observing your mind like a third party by starting off observations of your conceptualizing with "My mind thinks/believes..." rather than “I think....”

This practice can help you tune into the fact that you cannot rely upon what your conditioned mind thinks about your life to make personal decisions.

Cultivating awareness helps you become savvy to the difference of decision-making from Mind versus the correct timing for decision-making via your Strategy and Authority.

Your Ajna is a Mental Awareness Center

If you have a defined Ajna Center, you have a fixed and reliable way of processing and interpreting information; likely you are someone who enjoys researching things. Your mental preferences and inclinations are detailed in the gates and lines imprinted here. For more information on these gates and lines, please see Ra Uru Hu’s Rave I-Ching, available on myBodyGraph as an upgrade to your free online Human Design Software. This text is also available at the back of the Definitive Book of Human Design, available on Amazon.

As you contemplate your Ajna Center gates, illustrated from an awareness perspective, have your bodygraph handy to take special note of the ones imprinted in your Human Design. Ajna Center gates alert us to the conceptual potentials our mind is home to, and can be valuable signposts of awareness. Defined or Undefined, we can all share our unique perspective and experience of life for the benefit of others.

The Mental Anxiety of the Ajna Center

Our Ajna is the home of six different kinds of mental anxieties. These mental fears provide the seed of awareness. When you have a whole channel colored in (defined), your fear has a consistent way of resolving itself. When you do not have the other side of the channel, this gate activation (in a defined center) or dormant potential (in an undefined center) meets up with different ways that the fear can be experienced and resolved (or magnified).

Mental Anxiety Fears of the Ajna Center

If your Ajna Center is undefined, you are someone who does not have a consistent way of conceptualizing, and you take in information like a sponge. When Transits or other people activate your dormant gates, those are very specific themes you are designed to experience when thinking about things.

Remember, the mind is always an outer authority - it is here to provide a differentiated, unique perspective to others. It cannot be trusted about your own personal decisions - because it only knows a third of the story. See the video at the end of this article for an extensive training on why you cannot trust your inner voice when it comes to making decisions about yourself and your life.

Follow your personal decision-making Strategy and Authority to make correct decisions that lead you to your unique purpose and expression of fulfillment.

Defined Ajna Center: Conceptually Consistent

If your Ajna Center is defined, you are here to be conceptually consistent. The unhealthy behavior is that it's possible you may be over-reliant on your mental functioning. You may be prone to thinking along the same lines, ie. repeated thought patterns, or even experience obsessive thinking. Mental anxiety from spending all this energy and effort trying to figure it all out in your head is often the result. You may be conditioned to take action on the mind’s concepts about your personal situation, which invariably leads to resistance.

The effect of your defined Ajna Center on undefined Ajna Center people is that you can pressure others to be certain like you are, or to give up their certainty in the way things are.

Your behavior as someone with a defined Ajna Center when operating correctly is that your Mind operates in a consistent, specific and trustworthy way. You are someone who is not influenced by another’s presence, but has your mental preferences and predispositions. You have a dependable and, correctly limited, fixed way of thinking. You enjoy researching and thinking about information.

Ra Uru Hu was here to be conceptually certain, brilliant, empowering and inspiring.

Undefined or Open Ajna Center

If you have an Undefined Ajna Center, you are fluid and adaptable in your mental processes and have the potential to be highly intelligent. You have an openness and flexibility with regards to conceptualizing, with themes particular to the gate and line activations in your design present.

When operating incorrectly, you may notice that you are uneasy with your uncertainty of thought or the unreliable way your mind conceptualizes. You may tend to compensate by being overly fixed with your opinions, insights, and ideas. You might recognize the behavior of making decisions that try to convince others or yourself that you are smart or certain. Getting things wrong and being exposed publicly for your error or inability can be a huge fear. It is probable that you developed the adaptive strategy of attempting to be intellectually consistent to avoid being humiliated.

Having your mental abilities or functions challenged constantly over your lifetime can be traumatic, and this can lead to adaptive strategies like being rigid in your beliefs and holding onto concepts that do not serve you. Trying to pretend to be certain about things may result in you making conceptually defensive decisions. When making decisions about yourself from your deeply conditioned mind, it leads to experiencing the not-self theme of your Type and mental anxiety.

Also, if you have an Open Ajna (with no gates defined), not knowing what to think is a theme you experience and being overwhelmed by concepts is entirely possible.

Undefined or Open, it is so very important for you to not give into pressure to have an answer. Get comfortable with saying things like “I don’t remember/know. Let me get back to you on that, I need to check my notes to be certain.” Trying to solve personal problems by figuring it out with the mind is dangerous for the undefined or open Ajna; doing that cultivates conditioned behavior and actions that reduce your potential to live out your uniqueness.

When you are operating correctly as someone with an undefined or open Ajna Center, you have an ability to develop wisdom about the variety of mental concepts you encounter in life. Your inconsistent way of thinking doesn’t bother you, and you learn to enjoy having no fixed way of processing thoughts. You are open to all kinds of concepts and ideas, being fluid and adaptable in your mental process. You aren’t concerned about presenting yourself as smart, having all the answers or being consistent mentally. Allowing thoughts to float by without being attached allows you to recognize truly valuable concepts worth pondering.

The wisdom that someone can develop here in the Ajna Center it that they truly know what one can be certain about, and recognize which ideas, insights and opinions are useful, practical or worthy to ponder and share with others.

Questions for Self-Inquiry:

Have you noticed yet how the mind continually tries to make decisions on what it thinks it understands? Have you noticed how your mental dialog relates to your undefined/open centers? Making decisions from the domain of mind can cause obsessive thinking, worrying and regret, often leading 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 to memorize this so I can show I’m smart, certain or right.
I should figure this out; we have to figure this out.
What should I do with my life? I've got to figure out what to do with my life.
Where is my next move?
I am certain that (fill in the blank).
I have to put order to my life.
I have to figure out life because it feels futile.
I have to know the answer.

No matter the configuration of your Ajna Center, you are designed perfectly exactly as you are.

Remember that everyone has everything present and functioning in the bodygraph. Your definition is the map to the uniqueness of you, energized consistently to show up in your life in a specific way. Where you are are open to experiencing the abundance of possibilities and potentials that you can learn from and hopefully grow wise about over time is anywhere undefined in your bodygraph.

You were born unique. Although we are delivering this information to an adult population, Human Design's highest purpose is to give our children a chance to fully differentiate into individuals they were born to be. Raising our children in respect of the beings that they are, rather than conditioning them to be something they are not is the biggest gift you can give them and the world, besides operating correctly as yourself.

Following your Strategy and Authority to experiment with this knowledge can release your mind's conditioning and control over your life, which leads you to discover the uniqueness of your authentic being.

Laveena Archers, IHDS Certified Human Design and BG5 Teacher

Over time, experimentation with Living Your Design and sharing it with your children expands the potentials and the awareness of the totality, but it begins with you. Human Design has the potential to transform your body’s chemistry at a cellular level and bring you to a place of true fulfillment to live out what only you can. Only you can live your life, and the signposts we have given you can Guide your way.

Now that we have journeyed through all the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph, you can take the journey again with the charts of the people close to you to gain an understanding of how they are designed to function. This is particularly helpful for anyone who cares to discover how their loved ones operate correctly, which brings awareness, compassion and acceptance when they are not.

Living your Human Design helps you to life the fulfillment of what it means to be authentically you. Would you like to share any of your Ajna Center epiphanies or feedback with the Human Design Community? You’re invited to ask questions as well.

A version of this article was written for JovianArchive.com in August of 2015

Want to watch this video below to learn more about the Ajna Center? See why you cannot trust your conditioned mind to decide about yourself in this life.