Human Design System - Love, Sex and Caring in Relationships
Human Design System - Love, Sex and Caring in Relationships
Do you desire profound keys to how you are designed to successfully, peacefully and surprisingly connect in partnership and love relationships that are satisfying? IHDS Certified Human Design Relationship Analysts like myself can help!
Knowing YOUR way of Loving, Caring and experiencing Sex can offer clues to help you accept the kind of movie you’re in.
Which are you?
Are you more of a chick-flick kinda whirl, or maybe romantic comedy is your thing?
Do you have a “Romeo and Juliet” style of storyline?
Perhaps you’re in a steamy romantic action film?
Maybe the unrequited love and romantic drama is more your style?
Oooh here’s my favorite - the fantasy adventure with some magic on the side?
Or how about a romantic thriller, the kind of damsel in distress show that has you on the edge of your seat?
The funny thing is, although I’m using these homogenized movie dramas to illustrate the point that we all have different ways we’re attuned to love, there are billions of reality shows going on right now, and none of them fit perfectly into those categories above. We are all designed to love, care, and have sex uniquely!
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The more I decondition, the less attractive and real those movies seem, as I’m captivated more by the real-life movie I watch in the people who come to me for advice in their romantic partnerships.
Remember entering into relationships correctly is about Strategy and Authority, not what your mind thinks about any of this stuff. Yes, this is incredibly fascinating. Yet remember to follow your body into alignment. Personally I find great fun in unlocking the mysteries of how we connect, feels like reading those Nancy Drew novels when I was a kid.
In Human Design, there are layers and layers and layers of “keynoting” words or word-phrases that help us understand the function of the 64 Genetic Codes and their 6 different binary ways they show up in humans.
In this article, I’ll introduce the love codes that can give you a general theme of how you love as an introduction and point you to further resources to learn about them. I first learned about these as they were briefly mentioned in my Human Design Foundations classes. You can watch a 30 minute video of me presenting on them here.
THE GENETIC IMPRINTING of LOVE
Ask a physicist, and they’ll tell you love is chemistry.
Ask a romantic, and they’ll tell you it’s a yearning that drives all great fables.
The psychotherapist will tell you there are several kinds of love.
“Love” can be a generic term, for there are so many different nuances to the feelings of love.
One thing we can all agree on: it is impossible to thrive in life without love. Love can seem like an eternal mystery, the idealized myth of fairytales… but when you begin to look at love through the lens of Human Design mechanics, you’ll find that love is all about connectivity.
There are certain hexagrams Gates in the Rave I-Ching that carry the frequency we call love. In Human Design we call these (hexagrams) the “Love Gates.”
Whether you have all the Gates of Love consistently defined in your bodygraph, none of them or something in between, the way you experience those feelings we term love is outlined in these ten gates. If activated in an undefined center, you will be conditioned by that gate anytime it gets defined. If the gate is open (not colored in) then you’re here to experience and can amplify all the ways love can show up in your life. Wisdom is derived here if operating correctly. Rely upon Strategy and Authority to make decisions and the love nurtures you in this life. Make decisions from trying to find or hang onto these themes of love in your life and witness the pain of the mind manifest your not self suffering.
There are two primary themes of love; Transcendent and Mundane. The four Transcendent gates of love are looking for love through the other, and are rather impersonal. Rarely do these gates carry the powerful, intense feelings of love that the Mundane gates do.
The seven everyday, personal, “Mundane” (as Ra called them) gates of love are looking for love with someone, emerging according to the theme of that gate.
There is one gate (10) that carries both Mundane and Transcendent Love themes.
The Transcendent Gates of Love
Photo via JovianArchive.com illustration by MyBodygraph.com
Transcendent gates of love are the extraordinary, non-mundane kind of love associated with the following themes:
Rave I-ching Genetic Code Gate 25
“The Spirit of the Self” Hexagram of Innocence: Human Design Gate 25 - Universal Love
Being loving in the universe; having a place to be loving towards what everything is.
Godhead: Michael - The Angelical Mind
Rave I-ching Genetic Code Gate 15
“Modesty” Hexagram of Extremes: Human Design Gate 15 - Love of Humanity
Loving being human; caring about humanity and having a collective vision of how human beings are supposed to operate.
Godhead: Parvati - The Goddess of Marital Felicity
Rave I-ching Genetic Code Gate 46
“Pushing Upward” Hexagram of the Determination of the Self: Gate 46 - Love of the Body
Loving the body; recognizing the beauty of everybody’s form, understanding the beauty of each body as a unique vessel.
Godhead: Christ “Love Thy Neighbor”
Rave I-ching Genetic Code 10
“Treading” Hexagram of Behavior: Gate 10 - Loving being Alive (Transcendent)
Loving being alive in the world; loving the world as it is, loving one’s-self
Godhead: Vishnu “The Godhead of Monotheism”
“The nature of the real Tantra, the love of humanity and the love of the body, they actually go out—and this is very technical—they actually go out through the 10th gate. That is, the 15 goes through the 10, it’s opposite, and the 46 goes through its 25, it’s opposite. Now this is the vaguest system in our health process. In other words, this is literally the way we breathe and live, okay. And it’s a very important circuit that’s in the body. It’s not a circuit I teach you, because it’s something that’s involved in health and in medical practice to understand this circuit. So when you’re looking at, for example, the love of humanity (gate 15), that the natural outlet of the love of humanity is to go through the 10 and either to be awakened, to find your form, or to follow your convictions. That’s one.On the other side, the love of the body (gate 46) leads to initiation and an entry into communion. In other words, those movements are like this. So you can see what happens is that the individual Tantra fuels our direction and the themes of our direction whereas the Tantra that is collective then goes back into the body itself, goes back down. It’s not looking for the Throat,—goes back down into us. So, for example, the nature of the 15-5 establishes its rhythm to find the perfected form. In other words, to bring that rhythm to a perfected form and in bringing that to a perfected form, the ability to have the energy necessary to struggle in this life. In other words, there’s a whole movement that goes around.
The same thing is true for the love of the body. To initiate the community to the love of the body. To initiate the community to the body as temple which is why we build temples. We build temples because the 46 leads naturally to the 25, it’s opposite which is the priest or the priestess who says we will give them a temple for them. We will create a temple for them. We will create a body. This is the body of faith. You go into a church, you go into a synagogue, you go into a mosque. What you’re going into is the 29-46, going out the 25-51, and down into the 40-37.” Ra Uru Hu
How Your Human Design Charts Connect
Connecting to people who have these gates consistently active in their design, you experience them as naturally loving. It’s just the way they’re hardwired. Their way of searching for a greater love is to be loving - it doesn’t necessarily mean that they love you specifically; the love itself isn’t necessarily in their other.
In a relationship with these people, it can feel like they are looking beyond you for even greater love. This can be a possibly disturbing experience for others to connect to when attempts are made to make their impersonal loving personal… don’t get offended when they don’t love you back. Its just mechanics.
People with these Gates can be very nice to have around despite their love rarely feeling personal. Transcendent love doesn't have to be personal to feel good and give you that sense of joy and possibility of life with the other. These four gates have a transpersonal quality deeply rooted in the G Center.
Again, this love goes beyond simply identifying with another - it’s finding love through someone. Rarely ever felt as strongly as personal love, transcendent love gates make up the Cross of the Vessel of Love.
The Mundane Gates of Love
Mundane Gates of love are looking for love with somebody through the dynamic connection and unique expression particular to each gate. There is nothing more intense than the definitions in composite charts that involve these gates when they bring connections to each other.
Each of these Gates carries with it a demand for personal connectivity. It is through these seven Mundane Gates - 10, 44, 40, 58, 41, 28, 55 - that we get our illusions of personal love
.
Mundane gates of love operate through mundane terminology or keynotes - that is, this is the ordinary, every day, earthbound kind of love that finds love through these gate specific themes with another.
Which of these gates lead you to experiencing love through these unique aspects of love with the other?
Hexagram of Behavior: Gate 10 - Self Love through Others (Mundane)
Finding love of the Self through being loved by others.
Hexagram of Alertness: Gate 44 - Successful Love
Finding love through material success; the love of talent.
Hexagram of Aloneness: Gate 40 - Earning Love
Finding love through work to earn appreciation; the love of work if the work is supported and the work supports the people they love.
Hexagram of Aliveness: Gate 58 - Perfecting Love
Creating out of correction and challenge, perfect love; love that proves the strength of love.
Hexagram of Contraction: Gate 41 - Dreams of Love
Finding love through fantasies and sexual experience.
Hexagram of the Game Player: Gate 28 - Love with Purpose
Finding love through the struggle for purpose.
Hexagram of Spirit: Gate 55 - Eternally Indecisive Love
Mysterious, mystical, emotional Love that doesn't know if it really loves; unrequited love
Layers of Interconnectivity - the Human Design Love Connection
All these ways of connecting are part of our program of learning and evolution. Each and every one of us has multiple layers of connectivity to others. But whether we have a connection through these Transcendent or Mundane gates, we call the emotion we feel through those connections Love. Knowing these gates can help you understand and recognize why situations can be uncomfortable, and free you from repeating unhealthy behavioral patterns.
The Love Gates describe the many themes of love that we can experience with all the people in our lives. Because everything is a duality, these can also be gates of “I don’t love,” or even hate, as well.
Most of us have some of these gates consistently defined within us, and it’s through these gates that we can learn about love from our connection with others by being ourselves.
If you have an activated Love Gate in an open center, when someone comes along with the electromagnetic (the opposite gate completing that channel) you may experience that relationship as “The One” and most likely may feel a stronger sensation of love than the other feels for you.
If you have an activated Love Gate in a defined center, your love for the person who brings the electromagnetic simply isn’t as powerful or compelling. It’s still there, but you don’t have the same response. You’re naturally investigating other connectivities.
The moment that you can be yourself and see the love for what it truly is, you can accept the other for who they are and be with them without trying to change or fix them. Our unique capacity for love develops within us through following our Strategy and Authority; not only for the benefit of others, but also for ourselves.
"If you allow someone to be who they are and they allow you to be who you are, then that's Love. Anything else is torture." Ra Uru Hu
Based on a fundamental transcendent love,
Human Design is a tool that helps everyone
to understand the various kinds of love,
how it works, and ultimately find self-love.
If you’re a mental Projector or the like who really enjoys self-study, I highly recommend “The Love Gates” Human Design System class - an audio program by Ra Uru Hu. Unfortunately the recording is old and not great quality; still if you like listening to Ra it is well worth the cost and the five and a half hours you’ll spend listening to it. It was one of the first programs I bought, even before I joined the Jovian team! (Disclosure: Although I still do work with Jovian, the above link is not an affiliate link nor am I paid to promote their products on my blog. I just like sharing what I’ve found that has been helpful in my experience. Original Love article written under birth name of Andrea Abay-Abay in early 2015 by invitation from JovianArchive.com. Republished here with permission.)
Did you know?
Love is just one of the many ways we are designed to connect with each other. There are also
STREAMS of SEXUALITY
and
STREAMS of CARING
Learn all about how you and your partner are designed to Care, Love, and be Sexuality intimate in relationship…
Who was Human Design System founder, Ra Uru Hu?
My latest keynoting of Ra Uru Hu.
Photo via Ra’s official site: JovianArchive.com
Will Instinctively Innovate
and practically market the details of an
empowering, competitive, creative new system
to initiate others into perfecting their form
using a penetrating awareness of higher principals,
unconsciously impacting with genius efficiency
through the path of individuality,
the authoritative details of what he thinks
as an Independent Clarion
whose purpose is fulfilled through his mind’s message
that has the power to shock the world into a new direction
using the energy potential to manifest inspiration without limitation.
His unusual monkish behavior led to transformation through retreat
that promised deliverance with a resoluteness of leadership
to be first in awakening by establishing answers and solutions as an authority on memory
to bring about Peace.
Creator of the Human Design System
Ra’s BG5 Profit Potential:
As an Instinctive Innovator
and Practical Marketer,
Ra was a detailed authority who provided a system
that helped you to quit doing things for the money,
just quit being disempowered with that old stuff to join the new!
He also promised and sold Inspiration
through establishing relationships that are interdependent,
his core essence being an investigator of occult knowledge
to become an authority on the wisdom of Inner Truth.
Unconsciously Ra was driven to sell the collective a dream of efficiency
through enlightened selfishness
while communicating the acceptance of limitation
that brings about Freedom from pressure and stress.
Valuing Principals which organize others
through potential sensitivity to the needs of his tribe,
he unconsciously sold pleasure through the wisdom of popular discontent.
One of my favorite quotes of Ra.
The brilliance of this man was truly incredible. The deeper I dive into Human Design, including the Rave Psychology, BG5 and OC16 systems he developed, the more in awe I am of my life and my place in it.
Thank you, Ra!
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:
You're statistically about 75% more likely to finish your course
You're going to have the support of meeting other people in Human Design
You're going to be able to participate live and get your questions answered as they come up, learning better from the interactive experience
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
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.
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
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Let's Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph! Here’s the source of mental pressures in your life - your Head Center. As the Center that provides inspiration as well as questions, doubts, and confusion, it is also the location of your personality "crystal," which is made of dark matter. Do you see all the calculations in black on the right side of the bodygraph? The neutrino imprinting you received the moment you left your mother's womb is what you identify with as your personality, and the personality crystal is what received that imprint.
Have you noticed that of all the centers in the bodygraph, only one protrudes outside of the outline of the person? That's because this crystal sits on top of the head - not inside the physical body! When you surrender to being the witness to your life rather than trying to control it, you get to see the beauty of what it is to be you - as yourself. Fulfilling your life purpose brings you the sense of satisfaction, success, peace or surprise in life that you were born to experience.
The biological correspondence of the Head Center is the Pineal gland (aka third eye) which is an endocrine system gland that produces Melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of sleep patterns.
Having just three gates - the least of all the Centers - the Head Center brings an incredible amount of mental pressure that is processed by the Ajna below it to make sense of the doubt, confusion, and inspirations. The Head Center pressures our minds to seek inspiration, to make sense of the past and project into the future for us to see and share the nature of what it is to be us.
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When your Head Center is defined, you have a fixed and reliable way of experiencing the mental pressure, which is detailed in the gates and lines you have defined there. Learn to enjoy your defined mind as a playground of measurement and comparison without making decisions about yourself from this place. You can practice tuning into the correct timing for decision-making using your strategy and honoring your inner authority to discover the uniqueness of your authentic being.
As you read about the Head Center gates below, have your bodygraph handy to take special note of the ones imprinted in your Human Design. If your Head Center is defined, you can be mentally inspiring for other people. The gates you have activated are the very specific ways you consistently experience your inspiration and pressures to resolve doubt and confusion.
If your Head Center is undefined, the gates waiting to be activated are themes you are genetically programmed to experience when your Head Center is defined by transits or people in your environment. Remember, the mind is always an outer authority only - follow your Strategy and Authority to make correct decisions that lead you to your unique purpose and expression of fulfillment.
As always, remember that Human Design is a dualistic system; the "this and that" of it all means that every gate can express as its opposite as well.
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Gate 64 - The Gate of Confusion
Pressure to make sense of the past and to resolve chaos and confusion is shared through Gate 64, “Before Completion,” which is an abstract, collective energy. This pressure of mental activity (or not) is an energy that brings cyclical mental images from the past, all jumbled together. Mental stress comes from trying to make sense of and make decisions from this cyclical energy of mental images of all your past experiences.
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Gate 61 - The Gate of Mystery
Inspiration leads to “Inner Truth” which is a mutative pressure to know something new, to know the unknowable. If you have this gate defined, there’s a pressure within to understand life's mysteries, a spontaneous individual knowing that can be empowering to yourself or others. Like all individual gates, this is an acoustic knowing that has a melancholic chemistry and operates in a pulse.
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Gate 63 - The Gate of Doubt
Gate63, "After Completion," is always being pressured / underpressure to make sense of mental patterns through doubts, and toproject into the future new patterns based on logic. Doubt and suspicion are natural pressures when the pattern does not project successfully into the future. These questions can be deeply stirring, and it takes determination to find the way through your doubts or share your recognition or the question and search for the answer.
If your Head Center is defined, the conditioned behavior possible is that you may turn mental pressure in on yourself, causing deep anxiety, self-doubt or depression. You may try to resolve this pressure by taking action with hasty and inappropriate mental decisions. You can be incapable of remaining patient and miss opportunities for inspiration.
The effect of your defined Head Center on undefined Head Center people is that you can pressure others to act on things that inspire you that may not be correct for them. Conversely, you can also pressure others to give up things that are worthy of inspiration.
Your behavior as someone with a defined Head Center when operating correctly is that you naturally create a mental pressure in the world to grasp and understand things. You are comfortable with the experience of confusion, doubt and clarity as a natural process with its own inner timing and resolution. You can uplift and empower others with your insights and inspiration and be an outer authority for others.
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Undefined or Open Head Center
If you have an Undefined Head Center, your inspiration comes from external conditioning. You have an openness and flexibility in experiencing mental pressure, with themes particular to the gate and line activations present in your design.
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When operating incorrectly, you may notice that you lose focus easily, becoming lost or overwhelmed and make decisions from doubt, confusion or wanting to understand WHY?! If you have an undefined Head Center, ask yourself... am I occupied with thinking about myself, or questions that don’t matter to me? Am I trying to answer everyone else’s questions without invitation?
Trying to release mental pressure through action, or trying to resolve other people's questions by taking on the worries of others may result in you experiencing the not-self theme of your Type.
Also, if you have an Open Head (with no gates defined), not knowing what to focus on, or what is really important to you is a strong theme when you are not operating correctly. It is so very important for you never to give authority to your open head - the moment that you do that, your actions are from a deeply conditioned place, and you cannot live out your unique potential.
When you are operating correctly as someone with an undefined or open Head Center, you have an ability to develop wisdom about the variety of mental pressures you encounter in life. Because you tend to amplify the confusion, doubts, and pressure to know, there is an opportunity to cultivate wisdom through the exploration of ideas and inspiration coming from all directions. Being open to the wonder of the unknown and uncertainty is healthy for you.
When operating correctly (following your strategy and authority), you won’t act on mental pressure or take on the pressure of other people’s need for answers. You can simply enjoy the pressure to know more without becoming identified with it or make decisions from it. Enjoying the questions and trusting that doubts or confusion will become clear (or not) is another signpost. And using your mind as an outer authority for others to draw from, rather than as a decision making tool for yourself, can become second-nature.
The Mechanics of Conditioning In Action
Personally, my undefined Head Center has a Dormant Potential of Gate 61.3 via a Conscious Moon. This is also what is known as a Conditioning Receptor. Anytime my head gets turned on, this fixed gate is how I learn about mental pressure, and my driving force is to want to know the mysteries, to discover what works (through experiencing what doesn't!) when it comes to resolving this individualized internal pressure. When invited, I can use this pressure to help other people know things about their inner truth. It's one of the ways I can make money by providing my perspective when I am invited to collaborate with my clients. From the Rave I-Ching:
3rd line - Interdependence
It is exceedingly difficult for truth to stand alone.
Moon Exalted The ability to establish relationships for the actualization of truths, and through their nurturing and protective power to ensure a stable environment in which they can continue to grow. The pressure to know enhanced through collaboration."
The Harmonic Influencer here is at the other side of the channel, Gate 24. This gate makes my conditioned mind think I have to rationalize every personal decision to deal with and resolve the internal pressure! It can also force me to want to open my mouth and share the rationalizations my mind sees for other people's behavior.
My Not-Self Gates are the Hexagram 63 and Hexagram 64. This is where my mind can see that the other person has a problem and is confused or at ease, doubtful or has clarity.
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Questions for Inquiry:
Have you noticed yet that your mind will continually try and make your decisions? Have you noticed how your mental dialog relates to your undefined/open centers? Making decisions from the pressures of mind won't relieve the pressure for long and can often lead to frustration, bitterness, anger or disappointment. What examples of the thoughts below, which may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind, do you recognize in you?
I need some inspiration.
Maybe if I do this or go there, I’ll find inspiration.
I need to figure out the answer to these questions.
Where can I go to find answers; who has the answers?
I have to understand this; I need to make sense of things.
Am I supposed to be interested in that?
What am I supposed to think about?
No matter the configuration of your Head Center, you are perfectly designed exactly as you are. Remember that everyone has everything present and functioning in the bodygraph. Certain areas are consistently energized and specific in the way they show up in your life, while others are open to experiencing the abundance of possibilities and potentials that you can learn from and hopefully grow wise about over time.
You were born unique. Following your Strategy and Authority is key to releasing your mind's conditioning and control over your life. Over time, this experimentation with Living Your Design expands your awareness, eventually transforming your physical body’s chemistry and your experience of your life.
Living your Human Design helps you to live the fulfillment of what it means to be authentically you. Would you like to share any of your Head Center epiphanies or feedback with the Human Design Community below? You’re invited to ask questions as well.
A version of this article was written for and published by JovianArchive.com in 2015, republished here with permission.
Human Design System Four Transformations: Determination - Environment - Perspective - Motivation
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What are the Four Transformations
of Human Design?
In a previous blog post, we introduced you to Variable, an advanced area of the Human Design System. Like Variable, the Four Transformations are what we recommend people look into once they are consistently following their Strategy and Authority. This four-part process of deep deconditioning is for those who are ready to embark on a journey that can bring along profound change.
I began the Differentiation Degree Program when I moved to Sedona, Arizona. The DD Program is 2+ more years of advanced Human Design studies beyond the 3.5 required to become a Human Design Analyst. For more on this program, and to find certified Analysts that can help guide you personally through these transformations, see the end of this article.
I advise that you look into this aspect of the Human Design System if you have been experimenting with living your design and are whole-heartedly committed to your process with this knowledge. Experiencing the highest levels of differentiation is possible with the dedication of surrendering to living out the beauty and uniqueness of your design - and as always, it begins with the catalyst of following your Strategy and Authority.
Humans all eat, live places, see things and are motivated to take action. As the Science of Differentiation, the Human Design System offers a unique blueprint of how you are designed to do these things in a way that is authentic to the being you are.
Right below the surface of your bodygraph, these Four Transformations are your road-map to achieving difference. Would you like to experience what it's like to live a truly fulfilled life, to see and operate in your own particular, unique way?
The magic of Human Design is that it offers us a user manual that points the way to knowing and loving ourselves. Even better, Human Design helps us learn how to treat our body, the vehicle we ride in through this life, in the correct way. Treating the body the way it was designed to be handled leads to the correct operation of our personality. Then the passenger (who you think you are) watching the movie is able to enjoy the ride, no matter how bumpy it is - because the vehicle was designed to handle the terrain it then encounters.
Different types of cars require different types of fuel, care, and maintenance to operate at their top performance level. Just as our bodies need specific methods of taking in nourishment, both from food and the environment, to operate optimally. And just as specific vehicles provide their passengers different views, with special performance capacities, so too our bodies can have particular ways of seeing and being motivated to action.
Where do the Four Transformations come from?
The Four Transformations by Ra Uru Hu Photo by JovianArchive.com
Beneath the hexagram lines of your Personality and Design Sun and Earth, there are three values named Color, Tone, and Base. Color is the exit frequency of the neutrino’s movement through your Personality and Design crystals, and it is what determines your Primary Health System (PHS).
Human Design System Transformation One:
"Primary Health System - Dietary Regimen"
PHS Dietary Calculations Photo by JovianArchive.com
In Human Design, your Color in your design Sun and Earth is where you can discover your unique way of taking in food optimally for your body, known as your “Determination.”
Radical differentiation begins with supporting your brain system. Want to learn how you are designed to nourish your body with food to maximize the functioning of your brain, and maintain your optimal health and achieve longevity? The first transformation provides the way your bioform is designed to be nourished from the inside out through how you take food into your body to support your unique metabolism and develop your cerebral capacity to its fullest potential.
This is not primarily about what you take into your body. Rather, it is about the conditions and circumstances that support your body being able to extract from the food exactly what nourishment it needs to support its differentiated potential.
Some people could see the benefits in a few days, with others experiencing them within a few weeks or months. As you continue your program of following your PHS over a period of 7 years, the cellular renewal that naturally takes place results in a body (vehicle) that is more relaxed. What also happens is that you, the passenger (your mind) becomes more at ease and comfortable in your own skin. If you consistently follow your PHS, you may discover startling improvements in your well-being and shifts in your perspective.
Possible benefits of following your Primary Health System may include easier or better Digestion of food, improved brain function and strengthened sensory abilities. You may experience physical and emotional detoxification symptoms as you decondition from what isn't you, over time becoming your differentiated self.
The results of PHS supports your consciousness in being grounded in what is really going on around you rather than being caught up in what your Not-Self mind is measuring according to it's conditioned adaptive strategies.
Human Design System Transformation Two:
"Primary Health System - Environment"
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Once you are well on the path of following your Strategy & Authority and PHS in terms of how to nourish your physical body, your change in perception can guide you to discovering the environment you are designed to function in optimally. If you have not yet reached your Saturn Return (28-30 years old) then this information is not necessary. However, when you need to support the healing of your body, being in the correct environment is extremely helpful no matter what age you are. Of course, there is no way to predict what will happen in your unique chemistry, and we encourage you to focus on this as a way to support your differentiation, not as a medical solution.
Often people learn about their Environment and are ready to pack their bags and move! But Environment, like Food, is also about the conditions of how and where to take in nourishment - this nourishment derives from the stimulation you receive from the outside world. Your body is also designed to be nourished from the outside in, which means that certain people do better in high places while others need valleys, shores or more cave-like environments, for example.
As an object moving in space, you encounter resistance - however in your correct environment, you encounter the least possible resistance. Therefore, your longevity, relationships and quality of life are affected in a beneficial way when you are in the right place. You are stimulated by the environment in a healthy way and the social dynamics that are healthiest for you can be found here.
When you have deconditioned enough through following your Strategy, Authority, and PHS, your body can then naturally be attracted to it's correct environment without Mind getting in the way. Your correct environment provides not only nourishment but also protection from incorrect conditioning, which provides a healthier life for your form as you meet people that can help to fulfill your purpose. In your correct environment, you also encounter less resistance in your process.
Going through Radical Transformations doesn't mean that it's a mental trip where you discover you are "Natural Shores" and decide to uproot your whole life and move to Hawaii, for example. Your environment needs to be a place you discover through Strategy and Authority, and a PHS Practitioner or Analyst can give you a comprehensive description of what that could look like for you.
Entering into this depth of Human Design allows you to discover nuances and subtleties about yourself in a way that allows you to develop true discernment about where, what and who is correct for you.
Human Design System - Rave Psychology
Transformation Three:
"Rave Psychology - Perspective (View) and Distraction"
Rave Psychology Perspective in Human Design System image by JovianArchive.com
Once you are in your correct environment, your Perspective points you to the way you are uniquely designed to view the world. It also gives you a counterpoint to your Perspective, called Distraction (false resonance) in Human Design. Knowing how your Perspective and Distraction can show up for you gives you two wonderful signposts that make for fascinating observation of our form and allow us the magic of being the witness of the mechanics of our being at work.
For example, if you have a Color 6, you are designed to see things in a very Personal, almost narcissistic way - but that is what is correct for you. The homogenized world can stigmatize the average person with this kind of view, pressuring you to feel like there is something wrong with you and how you don't see life in the same way others do. It is correct for you not to be conditioned or defined by those you see.
However, Personal View people can be easily distracted to see life the way others do, comparing themselves to others, and developing an interest in Power games. When Distracted by what is not correct for you, it can pull you out of your trip to see in a different way. A certain amount of distraction is healthy when it doesn’t take over your life. The key here is to not get caught up with identifying with the Distraction or follow when it leads you away from fulfilling your unique purpose.
This Perspective/Distraction dynamic gives you the ability to ground your decisions from a view of the world that is correct for you. It’s an amazing gift - especially helpful to feed your personality consciousness. Seeing from your unique Perspective cultivates a precious and life-changing awareness. Your awareness of when you see clearly as yourself, and when you don't, helps to disempower the Not-Self mind's justifications, rationalizations, and therefore decisions that it wants to make in your life.
Human Design System Transformation Four:
"Rave Psychology - Motivation and Transference"
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Once you have discovered the unique way in which you are designed to see the world and know the signposts of when you are distracted, you are ready for the next Transformation. Motivation describes how you are designed to provide your uniqueness to the other when it's correct for you to do so.
What pulls you away from living your uniqueness is called Transference. Like Distraction, Transference is not bad. You have a binary nature, and you need these counterbalances to step into a higher level of consciousness which allows you to separate from the mechanics of your Personality to be the witness. When you are the observer of your life movie, you get to experience the magic of what it means to be you.
Understanding your correct Motivation and its Transference (false resonance) can provide valuable signposts to help you know if you are on track to fulfill your purpose. Like the dynamic between Perspective and Distraction, Transference just happens, and there's nothing wrong with it.
But it is important to know when your motivation is transferred, and that when that is the case, your perspective is distracted - and vice versa. The key here is to cultivate an attunement to the comfort of your vehicle and an awareness of the dynamics in your psychology. When you do this, you can learn to recognize your correct motivation and stop wasting energy when you are in Transference.
For example, when you have a Color 2 motivation, you are someone who is designed to be motivated by Hope. Hope knows when to act or not, when to take responsibility or not, and being able to provide your Hope to others if it's correct for you to do so. However, when you are in Transference, you are forever trying to fix things that are not your responsibility or job to make better. But because you are seeing from the Distracted viewpoint, you don't know what to fix, and your energy is wasted. Depending on your not-self theme, you are then left with a feeling of anger, frustration, bitterness or disappointment.
Human Design System Outer Authority
We as nine-centered human beings are designed to commune with others and share our unique perspective on reality. We are here for each other. We can be of the highest possible service to others when motivated correctly to communicate our Outer Authority if asked, invited, initiated or informing when it's in alignment with our truth.
What we call Outer Authority in Human Design is the ability to provide your authentic perspective derived from the imprinting of your particular design, as an expression of your uniqueness - without the mind's attachment to protecting it's vulnerabilities.
Your creative expression of the perspective of your design is precious and unique beyond compare. When you can give your true Outer Authority to others who resonate to you, you become a resource for them, and it fulfills you in a way that is unique to your design.
It can sound quite complex with all these terms used in unique ways, but fundamentally it's very simple. You treat your vehicle (body) in the way it is designed to be treated, and you get to see how it is uniquely designed to operate optimally and experience being in the world. Depending on what your unique Superpower is (what we call Cognition in Human Design) you may experience changes and enhancements here quickly and over time. The result is more and more of you feeling fulfilled in your life, experiencing the Signature (peace, satisfaction, success or surprise) unique to your Type.
Want to see unprecedented improvements in your life? We encourage you to go Radical if you're ready, and when your Strategy and Authority lead you to a yes, check out the Radical Transformation Clinic info below.
A version of this article was published on JovianArchive.com in July of 2015, republished on my Human Design blog here with permission
Note: Ra's recommendation was that you experiment with your S&A for at least a year before you enter into the Four Transformations, unless you have a Right brain/mind, because this information is critical to helping you align correctly (in that case, with a Left mind especially, you can start right away). Projectors need alignment to these transformations and it helps them especially more than most people. Luckily, when I got my first reading I had already been invited to eat correctly and live in my correct environment (Mountains). And, if you're like me (learning through trial and error) you may discover that if you begin this process earlier than the recommended time frame, that it can intensify the deconditioning experience, so remember to always trust your personal authority process.
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What have you learned about yourself thanks to the Four Transformations?
Journey through the Centers of the Human Design BodyGraph - The Ajna Center
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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.
Human Design Variable - Practical Transformation
What is Variable according to Human Design?
Variable is an advanced area of the Human Design System which offers you an in-depth look at your cognitive design and uniqueness. It provides you with a clear, practical map for the transformation of your awareness and therefore how you experience your life. It is a key to “enlightenment.”
”Variable addresses what Strategy and Authority cannot: correctness in the realms of mind and awareness. It guides us in aligning the mind to its natural intelligence, rather than attempting to align it with the Not-Self. This alignment makes possible a deeper harmony with our Design, greater peace of mind and, ultimately, connects us to our potential and our journey of transformation.” JovianArchive.com
Type organizes humans into four Aura frequencies that each share a particular approach to life. This “Strategy” enables us to live with less resistance and provides a base for our unique Authority. Variable is a calculation that organizes us into one of the 16 Variable families, pointing out the nature of our awareness patterns and the evolution of our consciousness.
”Awareness is a physical practice of a mechanical process. Type is to Form what Variable is to Awareness.” Dr. Andrea Reikl-Wolf, Geneticist and Differentiation Degree teacher at the International Human Design School.
Variable reveals the four areas of transformation potential for all nine-centered beings. Variable points you to the way you are designed to operate optimally and how you are designed to take in information and experience awareness.
Do you know if you are designed to have an Active or Passive brain, and are you designed to be the Observed or the Observer in your environment? Is your Mind designed to function Strategically or Receptively, and is your awareness Focused or Peripheral?
Do you have an active brain, which needs regular nourishment and more food, or a passive brain, which needs less?
“There is no greater revolution in this knowledge than the understanding, beyond Inner Authority, that there is such a thing as Leftness and Rightness when it comes to the brain/mind system and how it operates. It is the most important knowledge we have for the transformation of our consciousness.”
~ Ra Uru Hu
Variable is found at a very deep level of your genetic makeup. When you operate correctly, you have the potential to be able to live out the possibility of your full uniqueness and the expression of your Type's signature (peace, satisfaction, success, surprise) when accurately aligned to what is correct for you.
How is my Human Design Variable determined?
Your Variable calculation is derived from a combination of both your Personality and Design Sun and Earth as well as your North and South Nodes of the Moon.
Detailed through Jovian Archive’s Human Design software (Maia Mechanics Advanced Imaging) and free to find out when you use Jovian Archive’s online Human Design chart service, Variable comes from a deeper level than the surface of the Human Design bodygraph. Beneath the hexagram lines, there are three values named Color, Tone, and Base. Tone is the inner frequency of the neutrino’s movement through your Personality and Design crystals; and this inner architecture of what we call the crystals of consciousness is what determines your Variable.
Tone describes important aspects of your unique genetic makeup, determining how your physical and psychological comprehension functions.
Why should I find out my Human Design Variable?
Variable is to Awareness what Type is to Form; a tool for transformation. It is knowledge that can truly make a difference in not only your Human Design experiment, but also your life experience.
As a 9-Centered Being, you are a uniquely individual consciousness with the potential to be specifically differentiated according to your unique Human Design. As humans, we are designed to have a very particular way in which our intelligence expresses itself. I like to think of it as the way each of us can experience how our superpower shines when we are operating correctly. In Human Design, we call this unique intelligence potential Cognition.
Tone is the foundation of how our cognition is structured. Cognition is the result of your unique perceptions: cognition is your subjective process of knowing through sensing, experiencing, thinking, and understanding. The central theme of the way our evolution functions is that everything alive is designed to interact with cognition - learning, remembering, and using knowledge - to ensure survival.
The development of our unique cognitive potential is unlocked through the catalyst of Strategy and Authority. But walking through the door and continuing down the path takes a strong commitment to your experiment, and Variable can truly help here. Following this information through to full understanding of how it applies to you can transform your awareness at a level that is beyond anything you can think of from the homogenized perception that most of the world experiences.
Most of us are highly conditioned to see the world the way the majority sees and judges it. Homogenized consciousness comes from your thoughts; intelligence and awareness expressed out of the deeply conditioned openness in your design.
These keys are valuable tools for transformation of awareness that can make a tremendous difference in your process. They can also give you practical clues that help you to support the optimal functioning of your physical system, including your brain, which in turn can support the optimal functioning of your mind.
Meeting your Human Design Variables
Design Sun/Earth
At a physical level, Variable describes whether your brain is designed to be Active or Passive. Active brains are very busy and need more food to sustain a higher level of strategic mental activity. So, knowing that your brain is Active and that you need regular meals to maintain optimal brain functioning can be very healthy for you so that you plan ahead and don't skip meals. You are designed to deal with heat more easily than the Passive Brain people.
Personality Sun/Earth
At a psychological level, Variable describes whether you have a Strategic or Receptive mind. Our society primarily values the strategic functioning of mind and those of us with Receptive minds invariably wound up feeling less than capable when we were unable to excel or fit in, a process that begins early on at school and continues to affect us throughout our lives.
Knowing how you are designed to take in information allows you to take advantage of your optimal functioning, giving you the gift of understanding so that you can relax and trust your capacity to move through life correctly.
Nodes of the Moon
Your Personality and Design Nodes establish the framework for your form's true potential for awareness to be developed and experienced.
Design Nodes
Variable describes whether you are designed to be the Observer or the Observed. When you delve into the Tone itself (the Four Transformations) here is where you can discover what environment is most healthy for you to live, work and play in.
Optimal longevity, well-being and the likelihood of expressing the fullest potential of your unique purpose are highly prized benefits of operating correctly in your appropriate environment that result in a most efficient mental awareness and a better quality of life.
Personality Nodes
Variable also points us to the way we are designed to ‘SEE’ correctly - how we take in information in our environment. This way of seeing sets the whole foundation for how we deal with the world - in either a Focused or a Peripheral way.
When you are operating correctly in your environment, truly being able to see as yourself gives you the opportunity to offer your authentic outer authority to others.
Four Arrows, 16 Unique Combinations
The primary benefit of Human Design is discovering how you are designed to make correct decisions. Your self-understanding can be considerably deepened by understanding each of your Variables. These vital keys help guide your way as you walk down the path of awareness so that you have the potential to come into contact with the highest level of consciousness and cognitive functioning possible from your system.
Ra recorded a video series on the 16 Variables each one consisting of a group of people with those particular configurations. As a consummate 5/1 Profile, Ra gave the foundation of Variable in each video, including an overview of the evolutionary movement of our species from the all-Left to the all-Right and the human cognitive architecture.
Ra also covered the differences between Right and Left, and the specifics of each Variable’s four transformations. We invite you to discover the practical information you need, particular to your unique Variable configuration, so that you can take advantage of this information and experience the benefits it can bring. Watch your video now.
Have you seen the benefits of knowing your Variable? Please share your experiences, comments and questions about Variable with our Human Design community. We welcome your feedback and input. Your contributions develop an awareness of the possibilities of what Human Design can do for us all to raise our level of consciousness and support each other on our journey of discovering our uniqueness and living the lives we were born for.
By Certified Analyst Laveena Archers, Differentiation Degree Practitioner and Variable Teacher.
A version of this article was originally published in 2015 on JovianArchive.com
How to Work Best as a Manifesting Generator (BG5 Career Type: Express Builder)
How To Access Your Natural Power as an Express Builder
This BG5 article is the first in a Career Type series written by invitation for the BG5 Business Institute. My intention is to help you comprehend your unique career type. I recommend you subcribe to notifications so you don't miss the complete series designed to improve your communication with colleagues, clients, co-workers and bosses. Empowering your inter-relational skills—by adjusting to the way each person needs to be interacted with according to his or her nature—yields optimum results in the workplace.
In this article, we are focusing on the Express Builder, a sub-type of Builder, one of the most vital and abundant of the four basic career types. Not sure what type you are? Click here to get a free BG5 sample report and discover yours now!
Knowing your career type gives you a straightforward tool for decision-making. Career type is a core component of how to make choices you trust and use your precious energy in the right way, aligned with your natural strengths, talents, and gifts.
It's vital to your well-being and overall work-life balance to operate in alignment with your physical capabilities. There are two types of Builders: Express Builders and Classic Builders.
Below we’ll hear from Express Builders with different optimal ways of making decisions so you can get various perspectives on what it’s like to be an Express Builder.
How to Avoid Express Builder Career Type Pitfalls
Constant frustration leads to career dissatisfaction and reduced efficiency at work and in business
If you're an Express Builder, do you end up wasting your time and energy "spinning your wheels" and feeling stuck despite working hard? Are you feeling like you are running fast but getting nowhere. Are you profoundly frustrated, even angry or unsatisfied with how you spend your days?
The reason for this discomfort and dissatisfaction comes down to using your energy resources incorrectly. Your BG5 career type gives you a decision-making strategy that tells you how to utilize your energy most healthfully. As an Express Builder, you use your power most effectively when you provide the strength to move things along quickly, to build and create in response to what your life asks you to do.
You can only “go, go, go!” speedily and healthfully if you’re doing something that feels meaningful and satisfying to you personally. What you do helps you discover who you are - for yourself. So if you do things for others that is not in response, for whatever reason, you are eventually going to end up with challenges. Saying yes to everything a particular person asks for because of whatever role they play in your life, and subjugating your own needs for the sake of external validation (their approval) is just one example of how you can be led off track.
Are you following your Gut Responses?
Ignoring your body’s responses and slaving away at something you don't enjoy can quickly burn out your generative energy, and even if you do manifest something, it won’t feel deeply rewarding or satisfying. You could force yourself to “go, go, go” in unhealthy ways by doing things that you don’t enjoy. Do you find that your career isn’t entirely satisfying or as materially successful as it could be? If you're doing things that you’re not designed to do, saying yes because of outside forces and having a hard time saying no, or you’re preoccupied with doing a lot of "busy work" that is not personally rewarding, likely it's because you're not following your gut responses. If you have the additional strategy of Wait for Clarity, you need to feel out your responses over a period of time.
Can you recognize that your satisfaction depends on doing the work you love and loving the work that you do? Your life's work is vitally important to your overall health and your overall well-being. If you are not doing what you like to do and loving what you do, your health eventually will suffer.
How to Know the BG5 Express Builder Career Type
Express Builders are designed to express pure, consistent power, a generative vitality in answer to what life asks of them. Their response can be a guttural sound or a sensation that emanates from the core of their being, and if their Energy Resource Function is connected to the Communication and Action Function, then articulation and response can be lightning-fast! Express Builders can "skip steps" in response, providing significant energy to quickly move projects along to successful completion.
If you're an Express Builder, you are built to enjoy an effective process of getting things done that you enjoy doing, things your body responds to with speed and energy. You find meaning and reward in using your life-force in alignment with your passions.
As an Express Builder, you’re part of 35% of a group of people (Builders) gifted with a natural built-in generative vitality that knows through response what it has the energy to do quickly. Your career type allows you to “go, go, go” —like an Energizer bunny sped up in fast forward!
Your outlet is your passion, your creative life-force in response, the work that you enjoy doing or the activities in which you can “lose yourself” in order to discover who you are for yourself. Following your passions in response is a source of powerful regenerative energy for you.
Plugging into this outlet daily until it’s time to wind down for bed is healthy for you. Then get into a comfortable relaxed position with your feet up and continue to work on whatever it is you enjoy until you “run out of juice.” This helps you to sleep soundly and revitalizes you for another day of satisfyingly expending your energy in alignment with your purpose.
Avoid Career Burnout - Do Only What You Love!
No matter what Career Type you are, there are grave consequences in not using your energy correctly. Not using your energy successfully leads to issues like chronic overwhelm, depression, stress-related ailments, exhaustion, burnout and overall unhappiness.
How Express Builders Best Use Energy for Maximum Results
Unfortunately, we face a grave problem in our workplaces. Many people slave away at jobs they hate - trapped in their own minds’ justifications for why they "have to" do the work they do and why they are unable to choose to do what they love to do. Read this article for how BG5 solves the issue of Employee Engagement.
How can you as an Express Builder use your power correctly?
The QUALITY of how you use your energy is important. Your gut tells you, moment to moment, what it has the energy to do. If you have the Emotional Intelligence Function defined then you need to Respond with your gut in right timing. Observe yourself in “the flow” and watch correct actions arise and move through you.
Key to Manifesting Generator Decision-Making: Wait to Respond to Life As it Comes to You
As an Express Builder, that natural source of generative energy is designed to be entirely used up by the end of every day with activities you enjoy. You are intended to be able to “go, go, go” only in response to what life asks of you (as it moves towards you first) - not what your mind thinks you "have to do,” “should do,” or “are supposed to do."
The energy with which you commit yourself to a project or endeavor flavors the entire experience. If you’re following your gut response to use your power in a practical, productive way, in a way that brings you an internal feeling of satisfaction, then you can build a meaningful life.
How to Comprehend an Express Builder's "Response-ability"
Each Express Builder has a unique purpose he or she is here to fulfill. Their strength can be tapped into for their personal satisfaction through following their gut response in action from moment, to moment, no matter what fears or reasons their mind might use to persuade them to not follow their body’s innate intelligence.
What does the Express Builder's response feel like? Here are some answers from Express Builders in their own words:
“For me, I get a pull towards the things that are a yes response or a push away from the things that are a no. I do also hear an inner ‘uh huh’ for yesses. For ‘no’ I hear nothing. I find that when something is very correct for me, I just can’t take my attention off of it - much like my experience in learning and applying BG5.” Rob Thomas, Express Builder, Follow Your Gut decision-making authority
“I have a two part process because my decision-making strategy includes waiting for emotional clarity. So although I may sense something is correct for me by the excitement around it, the clarity is not there immediately. I will continue to receive inner nudges that inspire me to reassess or take action once the timing is right. Trusting the process is key for me since it occurs over time.” Melissa Jean, Express Builder with Wait for Clarity decision-making authority
“What I have witnessed is my response is quick. There is not always a gutteral noise but there is a movement towards something or not. It is fast. It happens without thought for sure…. Of course, while in conversation, I hear the sacral noises, I nod or shake my head and the sacral also loves to giggle...however, when it comes to decisions, for me, it is usually a body movement.” Leann Wolff, Express Builder, Follow Your Gut decision-making authority
“I totally align with the description of my Energy Resource response being a ‘feeling of being drawn and pulled toward something’ – as in ‘I am compelled and could do no other’. My energy force takes over.... My choice point is, do I move forward in the zone feeling present, engaged and satisfied? Or do I unconsciously ride my so-not-present emotional wave, totally barricaded in my intellect, feeling absolutely frustrated – as are the people around me. ” Tuck Self, Express Builder, Wait For Clarity decision-making authority
Two Helpful Express Builder Keys for Maximum Satisfaction
All of us broadcast our energy in unique ways. Each one of us has a simple signpost that will immediately let us know if we are delivering static, or producing clear communication.
How do you know if you’re on the right track or not? How do you know if you’re off track? When it comes to using your energy correctly, owning your uniqueness, communication and what you’re broadcasting, an essential guidepost for each Career Type helps us know when we’re on-track and when something’s off.
Express Builder On-track: Satisfaction
What Does Career Satisfaction Feel like to you?
How do you know if you’re transmitting static or clear communication? The simple answer is if it feels right, you’re on-track. Each Career Type has a signpost of how that consistently shows up. For you as an Express Builder, we call this Satisfaction.
From the Express Builder’s perspective:
“I would describe it as being ‘in flow.’ You know what I mean? We have all felt this in one way or another. Things just ‘seem’ to go right and you hope and wish it never ends. I find what brings me satisfaction is getting things done. Moving things forward. Ever felt the satisfaction of marking the line through the ‘to-do’ item? Yes! Feels great right?” Rob Thomas, Express Builder, Follow Your Gut decision-making strategy
“For me it is a very upbeat energy that leads me to singing or humming while I am engaged with the activities. It is like a natural flow that I am enjoying, moving from one thing to the next with ease. Shining the light on others and supporting them definitely elicits satisfaction from within me.” Melissa Jean, Express Builder, Wait for Clarity decision-making strategy
“Satisfaction feels like a big sigh of relief...It just feels yummy. My energy is working and happy. There is zero tension in the muscular, fascia, or organs. There is just a relaxed state.” Leann Wolff, Express Builder, Follow Your Gut decision-making strategy
“I end up in what feels like ‘the zone.’ I am present, relaxed, focused and indeed, SATISFIED. Satisfaction also brings a sense of completion with the person, experience or circumstance. In this completion, I trust the lesson received from the response, and ‘throw’ the experience away.” Tuck Self, Express Builder, Wait for Clarity decision-making strategy
Express Builder Off-track: Frustration
Are you Frustrated in your Career or at Work?
If it feels terrible; you get frustrated to the point of anger where you want to just give up and quit (or another example: imagine the sensation of trying to move through hip-deep mud - and you hate being dirty!), you’re off-track. One of the gifts of knowing your Career Type is owning the signpost of being off-track. Frustration is like the bumps in the middle or the sides of a road that warn you it’s time to course-correct. If not, your career and, eventually, your health is in jeopardy!
From the Express Builder’s perspective:
“Unfortunately I really identify with this one as a result of not having this information for the first 44 years of my life. Most of my life I have been going out ‘to make it happen.’ This NEVER worked for me. I have attached myself to every outcome which has caused me frustration almost every time because no-thing shows up in the way or on the timeline that my mind wants it to. Being in sales we are ordered to go out and make it happen - no wonder the planet despises salespeople!” Rob Thomas, Express Builder
“Frustration is very familiar to me, it is definitely the red flag that grabs my attention. I have come to recognize this as the reminder to let go, breathe and relax. Whatever was pushing me to act a certain way no longer has a hold and I allow peace to wash over me. I care more about feeling good than whatever I was attempting to do. Once I am aligned, other possibilities open up.” Melissa Jean, Express Builder
“Frustration is so not fun!! If I am doing something I did not respond ‘yes’ to...the not-self mind just jumps right on it and really gets me stirred up. I hate everything and everyone and it is not a pretty sight. It is mentally exhausting. My body, however, is only exhausted when I am in Satisfaction...which is healthy because I know I have used my body to build correctly.” Leann Wolff, Express Builder
“Frustration shows up in my Energy Resource response as a gut tension. Literally my gut tightens. From this point, I’ll either retreat into my head, barricading myself in my intellect. Or, I’ll unconsciously react from my Emotional (Un)intelligence and lose myself as I’m carried off on my emotional wave. What transpires in my inner and outer world at this point reflects chaos, confusion, ‘pisstivity’ and frustration!” Tuck Self, Express Builder
Questions to Contemplate:
Express Builder Career Satisfaction
Manifesting Generator/Express Builder Self-Discovery
Do you have a few minutes for a Self-Discovery exercise? Get your phone and put it on a 10 minute timer. If you have difficulty alone, doing this exercise with a friend or co-worker who knows you may help. Ask them to ask you the questions below, and modify the questions to what they know of you to ask you yes/no questions about your interests and your life. If you have Wait for Clarity as a decision-making strategy, try doing this again but spaced out over a week or two to see how your responses change.
1) What are you most passionate about doing?
2) What is it that you could do all day without feeling frustrated/angry?
3) What are the activities where you felt so satisfied that you would get right back up the next day with joy to do it some more?
4) Can you imagine living your life in this way?
Did you discover anything new about yourself? Would you like to share with us what you found most meaningful below?
The Art of Being - Human Design Generators and Manifesting Generators
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There is a very simple art to being a Human Design Generator, also known as a Builder in the BG5 Career and Business language.
WAIT TO RESPOND
Simple? Yes. Easy? Well....
Unless raised from birth correctly
(as yourself), perhaps not.
If you are a Generator (the life-force of our planet, built to create and sustain humanity), your aura has the perfect and unique power to respond from your Sacral Center.
You are here to respond to what life asks of you. You bring the vitality and aliveness that keeps our world running!
Waiting to make a decision from your sacral (and waiting further for emotional clarity if you have the solar plexus defined) is your key to finding the true satisfaction that life has to offer you.
No matter what Aura Type you are, there are grave consequences in not using your energy correctly.
Not using your energy successfully leads to health issues, burnout, depression, overwhelm, stress, exhaustion, and unhappiness. How can you use your power correctly?
My mom is a Generator (with Manifesting potential, to be more precise). I dedicate this article on her behalf to all of you Mothers out there, Generator or not.
This article is part of a new group of learning "Units" in our Facebook Group on the Pure Generator/Classic Builder.
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Over 70% of the humans on our planet are Generators (check out the statistics here). As the dominant Type, they stand alone as the only kind of people whose power comes from their ability to make decisions from a center that responds through sounds.
We truly live in a generated, Generator world.
The nature of the Generator is that they are sacral beings. You can read more about the Sacral Center in this article. The Generator is the kind of human that is here to respond to what life brings to it. Through decision making in honor of the form, from the sacral center, following that gut response, the perfection of the Generator is realized.
The sacral center is the center of life - the core of our reproductive capacity, generating our energy for life and work. It is the Generator that creates and maintains the civilization we see around us. As the great builders, with the capacity to sustain work, they find fulfillment in activities they enjoy which bring them satisfaction. Our lives depend on the reproductive, fertile power of sacral beings. To quote Ra, "It is all in the hands of the Generator."
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The glory and power of the Generator is in their ability to respond to life. Not to be chasing after things, but to wait to respond to life as it comes to them, to respect what the sacral draws to it, and honor what it has the energy to respond to.
The dilemma of the "not-self" or deeply conditioned Generator is that they do not use their generative capacity correctly. Incorrect energy usage (for example, trying to manifest what the mind thinks it wants without waiting for the sacral to respond) results in the dysfunction of that sacral center, experienced as frustration. Frustration is the not-self theme of a Generator - who through the not-self conditioning tries to manifest in this world without waiting and ends up quitting from sheer frustration.
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Generators are designed to take in life in an extraordinary way.The Generator has an open, welcoming aura that wraps around everything it draws to it. It is an embracing aura. If you are a Generator, do you want to understand where your true power lies? It's time you understood the mechanical functioning of your sacral-being auric truth; the depth of your openness to life allows you to hone in on what is correct for you to respond to.
So how do you "be" a Generator? Many Generators feel "stuck" in jobs, relationships, or lives they hate, simply because they've been deeply conditioned. Billions of Generators have no idea about their true potential nor experienced the satisfaction of what it means to be themselves.
Their glorious sacral centers have been shut down so many times by outside forces. From childhood, others told them to use their words or their minds instead of the guttural tones that naturally arise from their powerful sacral motor.
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The Art of Being that the Generator is here to perfect is to wait to Respond to life. Responding - waiting for that unmistakable response of your sacral center - honors the deep inner knowing of that sacral center of when and what it can find satisfaction in doing.
If you are a Generator, make decisions ONLY in response. Everything in life that is correct for you as a Generator is only going to come to you as something you respond to.
The beauty of the Generator is that you can tune into your sacral voice, your sacral sounds that have the power to respond to life. No other form has such a mechanism.
A note to "Manifesting Generators" - you are not a separate Aura Type of your own, and your built-in innovative power needs to be released in response. It can be very frustrating and create a lot of anger if you initiate manifestation without the benefit of waiting for a response.
Many MG's have manifesting potential - it can be satisfying to do so in response and alignment with your personal Authority. As your Aura functions the same as a pure Generator, your strategy for correct alignment of decision-making is the same.
All Generators have an open aura - enveloping, embracing other beings in an auric bear hug. Generators, you are open to auric contact, and in that openness you are taking in everything and grabbing it. Is is right for you? Follow your gut response - and be patient, giving it time, if you are emotional!
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Remember, the Aura IS you. How you function in the world is based upon this one essential quality that you cannot control - the way your Aura operates.
If you are a Generator, your aura has the perfect and unique power to respond from the sacral center. You are here to respond. Waiting to make a decision from your sacral (and waiting further for emotional clarity if you have the solar plexus defined) is your key to finding the true satisfaction that life has to offer you.
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Like all of the Arts, the key to perfecting is to practice. And as a Generator, waiting to respond is the Strategy that protects you from the dysfunction of your sacral center, the powerful feeling of frustration that can leave you feeling incredibly stuck and wanting to quit.
Would you like to learn more about yourself as a Generator? A great resource I love and use every day is myBodyGraph.com. You can sign up for a free account that shares helpful information particular to your chart, including audios about your Type and Authority.
(written for and published originally on JovianArchive.com, revised and updated here)
Human Design System Angles - Personal Destiny, Fixed Fate, Trans-personal Karma
Discover The Theme of Your Role on the Grand Theater of Life
A young girl is rummaging through old trunks with her mother, pulling out uniforms and dresses, scarves and hats, shoes and jewelry. Giggling and trying on different clothes, they pose and pretend, joyfully playing dress up and delighting at the instant transformation that donning different garments can bring. Gazing at their reflections in the mirror brings instant recognition and energy of the characters they are pretending to be.
Clothes can make a tremendous difference when it comes to playing a role. We all have mythological costumes that we were born to wear, and we grow into our roles over time. The longer we operate according to our authentic nature, the more easily and gracefully we wear our costumes.
Understanding your Human Design Profile and the Angle it belongs to allows you to look in the mirror and “see” what costume you are wearing so you can get clearer on the role you’re here to play.
The Truth About Behavior
Do some of your behaviors (or others’ behaviors) confuse you or make you uncomfortable?
Would you like to see how understanding the role you’re here to play can not only help you alleviate anxiety, worry, and depression but also live a truly fulfilled life?
Struggling with aspects of your behavior that you don’t like (or that other people don’t like) doesn’t have to cause suffering.
Can you imagine no longer suffering feelings of emptiness or pointlessness when going through the motions of daily living? Do you recognize that there must be more to life?
Only the not-self suffers in its existence, carrying around the burden of constantly trying to control life and others, and change or fix itself.
Human Design brings an enormous wealth of information, much of which can help you understand the mechanics behind the madness of “normal” life. A big part of waking up is coming to terms with the roles we’re here to play.
Studying your Human Design can increase your self-awareness, and help you yield to the inherent intelligence of your form so you can discover what it means to live life awake.
(Prefer to watch Human Design videos instead of reading to learn? Scroll down to the three videos I created for Jovian Archive's You Tube channel!)
Where To Find Your Profile In A Human Design Chart
Your Profile is something that you are going to resonate with on the Personality side (calculations in black on the right side of your bodygraph). The first of the two numbers comes from the line values of the Personality Sun and Earth Gates (that are at opposite positions in the wheel and always the same line). This number represents themes of your conscious attributes, the behaviors, and way of viewing the world that you personally identify with and are here to live out in this life. Using our costume analogy, these are your everyday clothes that you are completely comfortable in and think of as part of you.
However, an equally important and more mysterious part of you is waiting to be discovered. Your Design Sun & Earth Gates are in red on the left side of your bodygraph, and the line values there are where we get the second number in your Profile. This represents your unconscious behaviors, hidden to your conscious awareness. Think of this number as garments other people see you wearing that you’re usually completely oblivious to (until they tell you what they see, or until you discover your Human Design). This is one reason you may be confused and feel uncomfortable about how your body behaves, or why others see you so very differently from the way you perceive yourself.
Both of the numbers in your Profile combined represent key aspects of you. For you to wake up to your true nature, understanding, accepting, and honoring both is an important part of your process. You have a very specific frequency that can be mapped out in your Human Design Chart. The calculations of your Personality and Design Sun/Earth represent seventy percent of the imprinted and consistent energy of your being. Again, this is where we find your Profile. Everything else in the chart describes the nuances and subtleties of you. While Centers and Channels may be defined temporarily by Transits or other beings, your Profile energy is consistent throughout your life.
You don’t have to learn how to improve anything about yourself to live out your purpose. All it takes to find fulfillment is being your true self. Sometimes, through discovering what you’re not, you can find out what is you. For many of us, who we’re not is everything we’ve been thinking we need to be or trying desperately to become all our lives.
This article aims to help you learn important aspects about the Angles that are not yours as well as about the Angle that is. Knowing your Angle is key in seeing and accepting yourself and your path in life. Understanding how we interact with others and the importance they have in our lives helps us see how we’re each essential parts of the whole.
Human Design System Angles
There are three angles that make up the 12 Human Design Profiles. Each Angle carries a particular geometry or theme of movement in this lifetime.
Every one of us has a Profile. We incarnates on one of three Angles: the Right Angle, the Left Angle, and the Juxtaposition. Your Profile belongs to one of these Angles, which shows you how you play your unique purpose in your life.
Your Profile describes your role—your “costume”—the costume you were born to wear and grow into over time. The more you decondition and are moved correctly to action, the more you embody the mythology of the unique role you’re here to play.
As with everything in Human Design, this is not about any person or any Angle being better than the other. They are simply very different. Right and Left angles are complete polarities of each other while the Juxtaposition is the bridge connecting the two together.
Destiny, Fate, and Karma are words that many people use interchangeably in everyday conversation. In the Human Design System, words are used as very specific symbols of frequency representations - we call these words Keynotes. When combined into formulas, we can decipher your bodygraph to help you understand particular thematics in your life - why you are the way you are (and you're beautiful and perfect just as you are!
Let’s discover whether you’re on a path of Personal Destiny, Fixed Fate, or Transpersonal Karma!
The Right Angle Profile - Personal Destiny
Research, Innocence, and Truth
1/3, 1/4, 2/4, 2/5, 3/5, 3/6, 4/6
As you can see, seven of the twelve Profiles come into the world on a Right Angle with a Personal Destiny to fulfill. Your geometry limits the importance of your interaction with others.
The Right Angles are the research and development department of the Hexagrams; an essential aspect of the whole of humanity. This is where the beauty of what life can be is lived out in all its possibilities.
If you are a right angle, you’re gifted with the ability to explore new areas of life without prejudice; you’re here to discover and live out your uniquely personal destiny. Fresh and new, you were born an innocent, open vessel built to be fully absorbed in your process. Right angles often have to deal with difficult situations when it comes to their family life. Your life provides the experimental material the totality needs to experience for all of us to learn and grow.
Your personal destiny fulfilled can transform the whole nature of being. You are here to awaken to and live out your truth; the truth of your uniqueness, the truth of these times you are living. Living as yourself, you experience the beautiful potential of what it is to be you—the actuality of your life substantiating the essence of your truth.
Juxtaposition - Fixed Fate
Communication, The Bridge
4/1
Only one Human Design Profile is born with a Fixed Fate in life to fulfill. This means the quality of your movement in space is not designed to be altered; it is uniquely your own.
Your process is one of bridging two very different kinds of geometry, the Personal Destiny and the Transpersonal Karma. You weave the Right Angle and the Left Angle together, following a very specific path through life that you’re perfectly designed to walk.
As a 4th Line Personality, you have a strong theme of Brotherhood/Sisterhood in your life. Your success, and humanity’s success in evolving, depend on two things: You’re here to investigate a foundation of information, so make sure you’re standing on the solid ground of a secure knowledge base. Then use your innate ability to externalize that knowledge to influence your close network of people.
Investing your time and energy in opportunities via relationships with the correct others is key for you, as they’ll reward you in return. You’re here to figure out how to reach out to those others and influence people with the knowledge you’ve gained through your investigations. In this way, you fulfill your Fixed Fate.
The Left Angle Profile - Transpersonal Karma
Marketing and Role Models of the Hexagram
5/1, 5/2, 6/1, 6/2
Four of the twelve profiles come into this world on a Left Angle, with a Transpersonal Karma to fulfill.
Left Angles have the potential to alter other people’s movement through life as well as have their own movement altered through interactions with others.
As a Left Angle, every person you meet has not only a karmic connection but also value for you. Your interaction has a familiarity, and you as a Left Angle are here to play a role in that person’s life. Whether it be simply giving directions, a casual conversation, a just-in-time rescue or a life-altering transformation of others’ lives, as a Left Angle you have karma to play out that requires interaction with others to fulfill your purpose.
Your life’s possibilities and potentials arise from connections with others from the moment you’re born. As a Left Angle, correct decision-making is imperative when it comes to who belongs in your life, and paying attention to the right beings brings special rewards to your process. The great mystery of what it means to be a Left Angle person is that seemingly inconsequential encounters can make an enormous difference to your whole life.
Left Angles are each here to transmit the truth that the Right Angle has discovered in their unique ways.The 5th line Personalities universalize what is practical (standing on its soapbox dispensing its heresy) while the 6th Line verifies and exemplifies it as a Role Model bringing it to the next hexagram in the chain as the line of Transition. As a Left Angle, you bear the responsibility of transforming the discoveries of the Right Angle into knowledge that can be of value to others.
Live your Uniqueness
The real value in Human Design lies in its ability to illuminate practical decision-making strategies and empower you as your own Authority, enabling you to surrender to your form as you embrace your unique journey.
The fulfillment of your purpose comes through your particular geometry—the Angle of your Profile, in alignment with your Cross within the Quarter of the Wheel you were born in and down through the specifics of your individual hexagrams and the colors, tones, and bases beneath. You’ve been given a very specific “job description,” and Human Design helps you understand, love, and accept the part that only you can play on the grand stage of Life.
Growing into the role you’re here to play takes making decisions from a place of authenticity. Living your purpose requires a process of trusting your decisions and moving through life in a way that surrenders to your form principle—the only thing you can depend on to navigate correctly.
In Human Design, we invite you to enter into the experiment of following your Strategy and Authority, which bypasses the conditioning of mind and allows you to witness yourself starring in your life movie. If you haven’t already done so, we invite you to join our Human Design System Facebook Tribe.
Becoming familiar with your Angle and Profile can help you feel more at home in your skin, accept your nature, and stop struggling against the current as you move through life.
Did you learn something new about yourself in this article or videos (below)? Feel free to share your discoveries or ask questions!
Welcome to this 3-part video presentation on Profiles & Angles. Newcomers to Human Design will want to start with this video. If you are already familiar with this system, how it can benefit you, as well as how hexagrams are numbered and how to find your Profile in your Human Design Chart, you may want to skip ahead to the next video.
Truth About Behaviors - #2
The second part in our Human Design Profiles and Angles Introductory Video series explains our house metaphor for understanding the Lines, giving a basic overview of the themes associated with each, briefly touching on the resonant and harmonic relationships between lines.
(A version of this article was published on Jovian Archive in 2015)
Discovering Your Human Design Costume in Life's Grand Theater - Profiles & Angles
Profiles & Angles
3-Part Video Series: "The Truth About Behavior" Discovering Your Role in the Fulfillment of Your Purpose
Truth About Behaviors - #1
Welcome to this 3-part video presentation on Profiles & Angles. Newcomers to Human Design will want to start with this video. If you are already familiar with this system, how it can benefit you, as well as how hexagrams are numbered and how to find your Profile in your Human Design Chart, you may want to skip ahead to the next video.
Truth About Behaviors - #2
The second part in our Human Design Profiles and Angles Introductory Video series explains our house metaphor for understanding the Lines, giving a basic overview of the themes associated with each, briefly touching on the resonant and harmonic relationships between lines.
Truth About Behaviors - #3
The third part in our Human Design Profiles and Angles Introductory Video series gives the general themes for each of the 12 Profiles as well as sharing more about the distinctions between each the three Angles - Personal Destiny, Fixed Fate and Transpersonal Karma.
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Are you puzzled about why others act they way they do, or curious about why you interact with the world in certain ways?
Do you find yourself criticized for your behavior—or feeling bad about it?
Have you ever been accused, for example, of being too self-absorbed, reclusive, or overly friendly and told that you should be different?
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I bought the entire Profile series a few years ago to help me with my understanding of others and it has been a tremendous resource for me as a Human Design Guide and as a Professional Analyst student. I highly recommend this knowledge to anyone who is seriously studying Human Design and wants to deepen their grasp of the system."
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Feelings Recognized "Frustration" An Emotional Energy Projector Q & A
Today's question is an excerpt from a Right Angle Cross of Maya Emotional Projector in a Facebook group posting I felt invited to share on. With my nodes on the 32/42 axis, I get a lot of these people in my Human Design Life Coaching practice
Why Am I Frustrated?
Everyone, regardless of Type, is subject to experiencing frustration in life, despite the fact that Frustration is the keynote of a Generator Aura/Builder Career Type who is out of alignment with their highest purpose and off-track. This is because all of us have a Sacral Center, even if it is not consistently designed to respond.
If you find yourself frustrated more often than not, you're likely attempting to "push the river" and do too much without letting life ask for what it wants from you.
In other words, attempting to:
Initiate new directions, new courses of action, new relationships and create any kind of new endeavor, form new community structures or businesses, and do everything yourself, instead of learning how to work interdependently with others correctly and ask for help, is a recipe for deep frustration. Sacral defined or not!
Undefined Sacral Center (Energy Resource Function)
Emotional Projector Example Chart - Not-Self Frustration
Frustration is a keynote of the Sacral Center's life force energy out of alignment with it's purpose for being.
"No manifestation! I think that my frustration lies here."
Likely you are frustrated because your fear of missing out due to these not-self behaviors:
- Consciously driven by a tendency to say yes before you've been asked or waited for emotional clarity (Hexagram 29 "The Abyss" the Gate of Perseverance, Commitment)
- Obeying your need to be friendly/friends with someone you like to bond with them, yet in the not-self behavior you do this without them inviting you into an intimate connection or you jump into it too soon (Hexagram 59 "Dispersion" the Gate of Sexuality)
- Unconsciously needing to be realistic in your capacities to care and nurture, and perhaps resenting that you may sap the resources of others because you have a non-self need to able to consistently generate/manifest all on your own (Hexagram 27 "Nourishment" the Gate of Caring)
How to Make Better Choices:
Where you are designed to be successful and operate from is that Emotional Authority, rather than attempting to Generate (go-go-go) or Manifest (initiate to make things happen).
When you are clearly recognized and invited for your:
- Transmission of what the tribe needs to be sold on in order for everyone to have what they need to survive and keep their promises (Channel 44-26 "Surrender," the design of a Transmitter)
- Negotiation abilities to facilitate win/win bargains that build the communal structures our tribes are built upon (Channel 37-40 "Community," the design of a Part Seeking a Whole)
AND
Once you have had time to feel through your recognition of what the needs of your tribe are and sensing the emotions of what it is to be YOU.
YOU, the supportive guide of your tribe who is here to be wise about how to break down barriers to achieve unity within your network, guiding their progress with your provocative heresy you unconsciously value and passionately emote when needed.
YOU, here to be called out and of value for your network of friends (2/4 Profile).
So only use your energy where/when your peeps need your support so that all needs are fairly met. In alignment with your emotions over time.
Avoid frustration by relaxing into your chameleon-like self and allow the feelings to rise and fall, waiting for that beautiful synchronistic moment when you feel the settled-ness, the space between the emotional movement where there is no fear.
Only clarity that these are the people, YOUR people, who value you for you, who honor and respect your time, energy and advice, who give YOU what you need in return for the value you bring to them.
Now it's Your Turn, Human Designers:
Why Do Projectors Get Frustrated?
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Journey through the Centers of the Human Design BodyGraph - The Sacral Center
Let's continue our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph with your Sacral Center, the engine of life. When defined, the red square in the lower middle of your bodygraph automatically establishes your Aura as that of a Generator; responsible for setting the life-force frequency on Earth. As the only center that defines a Type, differentiates us sexually into male and female, and expresses itself in primal sounds creating a frequency; the Sacral is highly complex, impactful and mysterious.
Your Sacral Center is the motor that empowers your survival (and our species) through reproduction and caring for your young, perpetuating humankind. Generating our life-force, the vital energy for work, sex, and fertility; persistence, availability, and respond-ability are significant themes of your Sacral. Generating the potential of life within a fixed cycle, generation and degeneration of power/energy/life centers here. Your Sacral Center's associated biology is your reproductive organs (ovaries/testes) and its generating capacity peaks around age 18 for men and early thirties for women.
Generators: the key to an authentic life is surrendering in the moment to the response of your Sacral's guidance (or if you are emotional, allow its responses to refine your emotional clarity over time). Definition of this life-generating center means you have a very special, unique ability. You can learn to tune into what your Sacral says you have the energy to do. Listen to the expressive sounds it produces (or words and even movement towards or away from something if defined to your throat) in response to being asked yes/no questions. Following your Sacral's response by waiting to respond to life allows you to move forward when your innate intelligence knows it can get fulfillment (satisfaction) from doing; reducing frustration or feeling "stuck".
In order to grasp the immense significance of a defined Sacral, knowing about how the Generator Aura functions can be quite helpful.
As you read about the gates below, have your Human Design Chart handy to take special note of the ones you have consistently defined. If your Sacral is defined, those gates you have activated are the very specific ways you are designed to respond to life. If your Sacral is undefined, the gates waiting to be activated are the themes of the Sacral that you are programmed to be receptive to learning about the powerful life force that generates our world.
Sacral Center Gates
There are nine different ways your Sacral is designed to generate and respond to life. What combination, if any, of the gates below, do you have consistently (if a Generator) or irregularly (if not a Generator) activated?
Sacral to Throat/Spleen/G
The Gate of Power
Generating an intense field of enormous power to fuel life itself, Gate 34 "The Power of the Great" empowers your ability to keep yourself alive.
As the most complex of all Sacral Gates, it reaches out to connect with three different Centers and is the only one to connect directly to the Throat Center, fueling existentialism. The power to individuate (Gate 10), to enhance individual survival (Gate 57) and to be present in the now (Gate 20) are all generated by the Sacral. If you have this gate activated, never underestimate the great power it displays and the powerful force that it can be used for, to serve the common good.
Sacral to Root Gates - Establishing the Format
You may remember from when we covered the Root Center, the term "Format energies." Here are the gates that establish the patterns, pulses and cycles generated by the Sacral Center that are fueled by the Root.
The Gate of Energy for Detail
The determined power to maintain focus and concentrate, establishing and perfecting a pattern by focusing on the details is generated by Gate 9, "The Taming Power of the Small." If you have this Gate activated, repetition of the logical processes one step at a time while focusing on the details generates the development of skills and cultivates talent, patterns that can be shared with the collective.
The Gate of Ordering
Profoundly empowering mutation and establishing order, Gate 3, "Difficulty at the Beginning," generates direct mutation through reproduction and example. This gate carries your ancestral information and determines what genetic material you inherit, as well as your gender. If you have this gate defined, this melancholic frequency is also responsible for generating your individual creative pulse that through expression, empowers mutation in others by being an example.
The Gate of Growth
The power to maximize the development of your full potential by expanding beginnings through completion of a cycle, Gate 42, "Increase" produces endings. The generated frequency of experiential processes conditions all of us to the cyclical nature of life and brings about eventual death. If you have this gate defined, the power to mature through the completion of cycles is your growth potential to share with the collective.
Genetic Role Gates - Supporting the Tribe
Generating the power to create and nurture humanity, these two gates pointing at the Solar Plexus and Splenic Centers are part of the Defense Circuit. Defining your genetic role and providing essential energy for supporting your Tribe by ensuring humanity's future, these are two of six Role Gates that we have in the Human Design Bodygraph. Role Gates provide major "keynotes" (descriptive words) that clue us in to how we are designed to operate in life. For an in-depth look at this phenomenon, please see "The 36 Roles" by Ra Uru Hu.
Sacral to Solar Plexus
The Gate of Sexuality
Defining your genetic role in intimacy with others, Gate 59, "Dispersion" generates the dynamic sexual power locking you into the mating dance with fertility as its main function. If you have this gate defined, you have a fixed way of breaking down barriers in order to attract the right mate and obtain union. It can have a different meaning when connecting with people who are not lovers; projects and careers can also benefit from the power of this deep need for connection and support of the Tribe.
Line 1 - Preemptive strikeLine 4 - Brotherhood / Sisterhood
Line 2 - ShynessLine 5 - Casanova / Femme Fatale
Line 3 - OpennessLine 6 - One night stand
Sacral to Splenic
The Gate of Caring
Defining your genetic role in interactions, Gate 27 "Nourishment" generates the power to care for, nurture and protect others, ensuring survival. As the gate of Compassion, this gate generates the power to nourish, and the drive to seek to be cared for. If you have this gate defined, you have a fixed way of caring for others and can be impressively altruistic (or not) in supporting your Tribe.
Line 1 - SelfishnessLine 4 - Generosity
Line 2 - Self-sufficiencyLine 5 - Executor
Line 3 - GreedLine 6 - Wariness
Sacral to G
Creating the physical energy to empower the Self, these gates produce immense vitality that is ready to respond to life in alignment with their formats' thematics of energy flow. The powerhouse of the Collective and Individual circuits, these gates generate life-force for the "Tantric" channels here between your Sacral and G Center, powering the entire power column that runs from Sacral to Throat Center.
The Gate of Fixed Rhythms
Generating the energy to attune to your flow comes from Gate 5, "Waiting" which binds all life together in a daily rhythm. If you have this gate, it is important for you to harmonize with your logical patterns of activity by making a habit out of the ones that work for you, thereby ensuring your energy flows correctly.
The Gate of Power Skills
Generating the energy to empower your individual direction, Gate 14, "Possession in Great Measure" is a most powerful, fertile Sacral gate. If you have this gate defined, this mutative energy is a force that pulses with knowing when and how to accumulate and retain the power fueling your individuality and life's direction. Mutation comes as a spark of energy that fuels your direction in life.
The Gate of Saying Yes (Perseverance)
Generating the energy to commit to an experience entirely for pure discovery potential, Gate 29, "The Abysmal" empowers the determination of the Self with the fuel to persevere despite circumstances. If you have this gate defined, its imperative that you say yes in alignment with your Strategy and Authority. Waiting and watching through the cycles of life for the moment when moving forward is truly correct for you allows you to commit to a process of discovery that you can complete.
If your Sacral is defined, you have a need to exhaust your energy every day by doing only those things responded to by this center - things you love to do - which brings you physical satisfaction. When you force yourself to do things your sacral hasn't responded to, degeneration of your life-force can be the result. And unless you drop off to sleep exhausted (Manifesting Generators can get in bed early keep up activities until tired) your body won't get the deep rest needed for your powerful life-generating motor to rejuvenate.
Your Sacral motor generates an Aura frequency that emits "enveloping" energy which pulls people into its field and embraces life through response or not. When you initiate action without waiting for a Sacral response, frustration from attempting to reverse your Sacral's normal flow of energy can be the result. Remember to wait to respond - wait for the mechanism of your Sacral to guide you to do the correct things in life using your generative energy.
The Undefined or Open Sacral Center
If your Sacral is undefined, your gates above describe life-force thematics that activate when encountering transits or other people. You can tend to amplify the Sacral energy of others and not know when enough is enough, falling prey to work and sex addictions. You are designed to work in spurts, cultivating wisdom about life-force energy and how best to utilize it.
If you have a completely open Sacral (no dormant gate potentials), you have a flexibility in magnifying the intense buzz of energy, which brings possible confusion about what to use your life-force for. You may scatter your energy by doing many unsuitable and unnecessarily prolonged activities until you drop from pure exhaustion, which is detrimental to your health.
Though you may not have consistent access to humanity's powerful generative strength, your Strategy and Authority can guide you to cultivate wisdom here in expressing your potential gift of wisely spending the energy you do have.
Manifestors, Projectors, and Reflectors, your sensitivity to amplification of the intense Sacral conditioning field can help you learn to cultivate vital wisdom. This enlightenment has to do with who is correct to have present in your life; how to balance activities with rest; and discerning when and on what activities precious life-force energy is truly worth spending. It is paramount that you establish healthy boundaries around work and sex and spend alone time before bed to clear your sacral of the generative frequency. Get into a horizontal position to rest before you are tired and ease yourself into sleep. Experiment with sleeping alone (outside of aura contact with another human or mammal) especially if you are often exhausted or have trouble sleeping, as you can amplify other's fatigue as well and Sacral buzz.
Questions for Inquiry: Have you noticed you can be vulnerable to amplifying the sacral energy of others and the conditioning response (not knowing when to rest, when "enough is enough") that brings you? 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 keep working. I should get this done before I take a break.
If I don't say yes I might miss out. Someone has to do it.
I should keep going - where's my coffee/chocolate?
There's too much to do; I can't take a nap/lie down now; I have to this first.
I can take care of you; let me do that for you.
I need to have sex; who can I have sex with? What do you mean, what boundaries?
It's not enough; it's never enough.
Generator or not, you are an integral part of the whole of humanity. Born with an incredible potential to differentiate into the unique being that only you can be, you are a holographic fractal piece of the vast puzzle comprising the totality. You "fit in" without needing to try. Experiment wit your Strategy and Authority to uncover the phenomenal YOU that only you can be. Learning how to use your energy best to contribute wisely to the Maia transforms your awareness and our world.
Human Design helps you to see the illusion we live in and wake up to a deeper and deeper realization of your true nature. Would you like to share any of your Sacral Center epiphanies or feedback with the Human Design Community? You’re invited to ask questions as well.
Journey through the Centers of the Human Design BodyGraph - The Splenic Center
Let's continue our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph with your purely existential Splenic Center, governing the primal awareness fundamental to your survival. Call it intuition or gut instinct, the spontaneous knowing here is worthy of respect. The Splenic Center is home to your immune system, health, values, and well-being, ensuring the intelligence to protect yourself. Your Splenic Center enables your survival through an alertness to fears that are designed to keep you safe.
Our oldest awareness center (the Ajna and Solar Plexus being the other two) the Splenic Center is also quietest, operating in the now moment. The triangle pointing inward at the lower left of your bodygraph is just the Splenic Center's location in your bodygraph. It is not representative of the location of the actual spleen in your body.
Your Splenic Center's associated biology is a network of immune system tissues and organs throughout your body - like your T-cells, lymphatic system, and spleen. Your Immune System is where everything that's applicable to your existential existence gets investigated and cleaned out to protect you.
Your Splenic Center is your authority if you have it defined but do not have the Sacral, or Solar Plexus defined. Your authority "speaks" once in the moment of decision and does not provide a why. As opposed to your mind's pressurized internal rationalizing, logical formulas or abstract realizations that repeat themselves. Trust your intuition, instinct or judgment, designed to ensure you get what is correct for you so that you can adapt and thrive in alignment with living out your true nature.
As you read about the gates below, have your bodygraph handy to take special note of the ones imprinted in your Human Design. If your Splenic Center is defined, those gates you have activated are the very specific ways you are designed to experience fears that can keep you safe to ensure your survival. If your Splenic Center is undefined, the gates waiting to be activated are themes you are genetically programmed to be receptive to when activated by transits or people in your environment.
Splenic Center Streams of Awareness
Mirroring the streams in the Solar Plexus, the Splenic Center has three distinct streams of awareness that move through it, fueled by the adrenalized pressures from the Root Center. These streams are Tribal (instinct), Individual (intuition), and Collective (taste). Similar to how the 6th gate is the source of all wave frequencies; the 50th Gate is a gate of fusion, the root of the six awareness frequencies of the Splenic Center.
Hexagram 50 - The Gate of Values
The laws and values of the tribe are defined via Gate 50, "The Cauldron," which brings the awareness to be responsible for the preservation of others and the potential to be responsible. Fear of taking on responsibility or taking on too much responsibility due to fear is a possibility with this gate activated.
The Tribal Instinctive Awareness Stream (Smell)
Tribal ambition fuels the stream of awareness moving through the Splenic Center from gate 54 in the Root to gate 26 in the Heart Center. This stream details the shrewd functioning of your instinct to support the survival, transformation and material success of your Tribe.
Hexagram 32 - The Gate of Continuity
Gate 32, "Duration," brings an awareness of whether or not success is a potential and a recognition of talent to take advantage of and nurture its power to eliminate the fear of failure. You can smell failure coming and carry an instinctive recognition that change endures. Your deep cellular memory, conservative nature and potential to recognize who can and what should be transformed supports the material success of your tribe.
Hexagram 44 - The Gate of Alertness
Gate 44, "Coming to Meet," carries the pure instinctive memory of what is necessary to bring your tribe material success. You can smell the potential of others; recognizing the right timing to interact with the right other in the right way to manipulate people for the benefit of your tribe. Fear of the past can have you concerned about what could happen should prior events catch up with you.
Individual Intuitive Awareness Stream (Acoustic)
The energy to struggle for purpose drives the deeply intuitive stream of awareness moving through the Splenic Center from gate 38 in the Root to the Throat Center's gate 20. This stream carries an acoustic intelligence designed to keep you safe in the now. It's chemistry carries a mutative pulse of either the deep melancholy or immense creativity that is inherent in all individual circuitry in your bodygraph. The fear of time outside of the present moment (what does not exist in the now) is what troubles you if you carry this individual circuitry.
Hexagram 28 - The Gate of the Game Player
Gate 28, "Preponderance of the Great," brings knowing in the now whether it is valuable to struggle for a purpose; to find value in life beyond just surviving. This ongoing process of change and evolution operates from the awareness potential of listening so that you can stubbornly take the best possible risks. Fear of whether life has value unless you take risks, or not taking risks out of fear can preoccupy you. Without purpose, life's challenges can bring you a deep melancholy and are always a struggle.
Hexagram 57 - The Gate of Intuitive Clarity
Gate 57, "The Gentle" is a complex gate in that connects to three different centers; the Sacral, G and Throat Centers. The gate of Intuitive clarity can literally 'hear' the truth in the Now. This potentially penetrating awareness is essential to staying alive and safe; listening to your instinctual hunches can alleviate the fear of tomorrow.
Collective Awareness Stream of Taste
Vitality drives the pressurized stream of awareness moving through the Splenic Center from gate 58 in the Root to the Throat Center's gate 16. This logical stream is concerned with understanding and perfection of patterns over time, challenging what doesn't work and sharing the recognition of what has and can in the future.
Hexagram 18 - The Gate of Correction
Gate 18, "Work on what has been Spoilt" is a gate of learning, carrying the awareness potential to challenge authority and perfect what is vital, via concentration. This gate is fueled by the drive for perfection and is here to challenge patterns. There is a possible fear of authority here; of being judged by others or even self-judgment.
Hexagram 48 - The Gate of Depth
Gate 48, "The Well" brings the possibility of the depth of knowledge, and a deep frustration if one is unable to share that depth through experimentation or expression. This gate brings the awareness of a potential solution, and also fear that you don't have enough depth or are seeking depth to resolve the fear of inadequacy.
As with all gates, remember that everything is a duality, and there is always the opposite possible in any gate.
When defined, the potential of your Splenic Center is to bring you a spontaneous intuition, instinct and a sense of judgment that can reliably give you a sense of security. If you have a defined Splenic Center, this fundamental security in your nature can cause you to not pay much attention to your health unless there's a problem. The present moment is all that the Splenic Center knows. What is not safe in one moment, may be okay at another time. The key is to listen to your Splenic "hits" or sometimes referred to as "gut instinct" in alignment with your Strategy and Authority when facing or recovering from any illness.
The Undefined or Open Splenic Center
If your Splenic Center is undefined, your gates above are awareness themes you are designed to be receptive to experiencing when activated by transits or other people. Honor and learn from these energies; you are designed to be sensitive to the well-being of those around you,
You are sensitive to foreign substances, your health and how your body feels. Your potential wisdom lies in learning about who is healthy, as well as which food and health remedies are for you (holistic medicine often suffices) and what doesn't.
You may experience an inherent insecurity in not knowing whether you can survive, so having an undefined spleen can create adaptive strategies when you're not living your true nature. Holding onto behaviors, people, places or things you think make you feel good but aren't in your best interests to keep in your life can be a challenge. When defined by a transit or other people, you could feel pressured to make spontaneous decisions and let go of things that are good for you. Unless it's life-threatening, never make an impulsive move.
In addition to the above characteristics; if you have a completely open Splenic Center (no dormant gate potentials), you are open to being aware of all the ways this body consciousness can show up in life. You may not know what to be afraid of, so be mindful of following your Strategy and Authority to protect yourself.
If you can discern the difference between your Splenic energy and recognize (not identify with) the energy of others, your potential wisdom is a spontaneous, intuitive awareness that knows who and what is healthy.
Whatever your Splenic definition, you are not at a disadvantage so long as you are operating correctly; following your Strategy and Authority provides you with the all the protection you need.
Questions for Inquiry:
Have you noticed you can be vulnerable to amplifying the fear energy of others and the conditioning response that brings you? Not being able to let go of things that aren't good for you, or not knowing what to fear are typical patterns. What examples of the thoughts below, which may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind, do you recognize in you?
I'm not going to try because I might fail.
I can't do that I'm scared/afraid/fearful.
I can't do that because I don't have enough depth, or I feel inadequate.
I'm afraid of what is going to happen/the future/criticism.
I can't take that on, I'm afraid of the responsibility.
If in a relationship that is not good for you:
I can't say that it might upset him/her, and they'll leave me.
I can help them change, perhaps therapy could help.
Things will get better, we need to stay together for the children's sake.
No matter the configuration of your definition, you are perfectly designed. Your imprinted fears are there to keep you safe, and develop awareness, not to hold you back. Following your Strategy and Authority can transform your awareness, which is the key for you to live out your true nature.
Living your Human Design helps you to see the illusion you live in and wake up to a deeper and deeper realization of your true nature. Would you like to share any of your Splenic Center epiphanies or feedback here with the Human Design Community? You’re invited to ask questions as well.
Journey through the Centers of the Human Design BodyGraph - The G Center
Let's continue our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph with what is at the very core of your being, playing a central role to your identity in life - your G Center.
As the Center that provides your unique direction so that you can experience correct love in life, it is also the location of your magnetic monopole. Your monopole pulls the illusion of you together as a being separate from the totality, as well as drawing you along your path in life (or “trajectory in space” as Ra would put it).
Your higher self is here, attracting beauty and love to you. When you surrender to living your design, you can experience the bliss of oneness without looking for love outside of yourself.
Your G center is positioned right beneath your sternum energetically. Imagine the pain of losing a loved one -heartbreak- where you feel it? That's your G Center, which biologically, governs your liver and blood. It is imperative to respect and love yourself enough to be correct with the use of alcohol, as this particular substance can damage your liver and, therefore, affect your sense of self and ability to love.
Undoubtedly the most extraordinary Center you have regardless of definition or lack thereof, your G Center is home to eight gates that divide the wheel of your Human Design Mandala into eight equal parts. If you take a look at each of those hexagrams of your G Center, you'll notice that they establish the foundation of the hexagram for the following seven gates. In other words, you can see in the wheel how the eight sections of the mandala share the same lower trigram.
Not only is your G the only Center that touches all quarters of the wheel, it also has all the gates of two crucial Incarnation Crosses within it. These are the Cross of the Vessel of Love and the Cross of the Sphinx, which is how we'll look at the G Center gates later in this article.
When your G is defined, you have a fixed and reliable identity, and you have the ability to love yourself and others without feeling dependent on them. Depending on your definition, you may try to lead or direct others incorrectly to follow your direction (imposing your direction on them) if you don't follow your Strategy and Authority. Alternatively, rejecting your personal direction can lead to loss of self-love and fulfilling your unique potential. Being able to see clearly when it’s time to follow your own path and letting others follow theirs can relieve you from the suffering that comes from trying to hold on or change the things you cannot control.
G Center Authority (Self-Projected Authority) must be honored if you have that yellow diamond defined but do not have your Solar Plexus, Sacral, Splenic and Heart Centers defined. Your G either empowers or shares your self-identity when defined to your Throat Center. To make decisions, wait to be recognized and invited first. Then, it is essential that you pay attention to what you say when you talk things over with another person that you trust. Find a good listener (perhaps invite another Projector like yourself), who you can request to reflect back what they heard come out of your mouth to help you to recognize your truth. Observe and honor what you find yourself saying with your unique voice (see article on the Throat Center) as this is your authentic energy being expressed. Be sure to pay no attention to your mind's manipulation or distortions of how it wants or thinks how things should be.
The most critical aspect to know about your G center if it is undefined within your Human Design bodygraph is that place is incredibly important to you. If you are not in the correct place, you cannot thrive. You cannot be correct in relationships, career or family if you are in the wrong place - even if you are with the correct people. Things just won’t work out. So following your Strategy and Authority is key for your life to unfold correctly, and not fixating on finding direction and love. Making your decisions about where to go using your unique inner guidance system can be an incredibly life-affirming and life-changing benefit that Human Design can bring you.
As you read about the G Center gates below, have your bodygraph handy to take special note of the ones imprinted in your Human Design. If your G Center is defined, those gates you have activated are the very specific ways you are designed to consistently experience your identity, direction and sense of transpersonal love.
If your G Center is undefined, the gates waiting to be activated are themes you are genetically programmed to experience when your G Center is activated by transits or people in your environment. Remember, this energy is not consistent and cannot be relied upon to make decisions, but provides a consistency in the lessons to be learned when you go to school in the world of love and direction.
As always, remember that Human Design is a dualistic system; the "this and that" of it all means that every gate can express as it’s opposite as well.
Gates of Love (Cross of the Vessel of Love)
The Gate of the Spirit of the Self
This first, original Love of Gate 25 "Universal Love" is not loving the universe but being loving in the universe; having a place to be loving towards what everything is. The archetype of the Priest/Priestess represents this non-personal love. Initiated into being, it is a romantic, individual, unrequited love for the great unknowable force. If you have this gate defined, you can be very loving, not necessarily loving of the other specifically. Your quality of loving sees everything deserving to be treated lovingly because, through loving, you experience your unique form of transcendent love. This love is often mutative and melancholic; as well as innocent notwithstanding the circumstances.
The Gate of Extremes
The Love of Humanity is characterized by Gate 15, "Modesty," a very specific transpersonal quality of love with the potential to care about humanity. This love of being human and humanity has a collective vision of how human beings are supposed to behave. When operating personally in the not-self world it can cause atrocities to organize society in the name of love for humanity. A politician characterizes this gate; sharing their logical moral standards, rules, and schooling so that humanity has the potential to be more loving to each other.
The Gate of the Determination of the Self
Carrying the determination to follow through, Gate 46, "Pushing Upward" is the Love of the Body. Your body is a magical temple and accepting its perfection comes with the territory when you live as yourself - then you naturally love yourself. If you have this transcendent gate defined, you are looking to discover the beauty of everybody's form. Massage therapists often have this gate defined, to share with others this wonderful love of the body. Remember this is a transpersonal kind of love.
The Gate of the Behavior of the Self
The love of being alive as yourself is the theme of Gate 10, "Treading" which is the gate of behavior. As the most self-absorbed, individual and melancholic aspect of the bodygraph, this is both transcendent and mundane loving of the world as it is, as what can be considered both good and bad. Surrendering to acceptance of everything and everyone, and grokking here that we are not in control of it is where you wake up. The underlying code of behavior of the self in humans are used as the Profile names in Human Design. These are:
Gates of Direction (Cross of the Sphinx)
Hexagram 1 - The Gate of Self-Expression
At the core of empowering our present direction in life, Gate 1, “The Creative” individually pulses with a mutative spark that needs to be expressed and requires correct timing that you have no control over. If you have this gate defined, your self-expression can shine forth with the yang energy to manifest creativity without limits and has the potential to attract society. Like all individual circuitry, melancholy (the happy and sad cycle of your chemistry) here can inspire your muse, and knowing can come for you through patience, objectivity and being yourself.
Hexagram 13 - The Gate of The Listener
One of the two Collective Role Gates, Gate 13 "The Fellowship of Man," is about having a past perspective, directing by looking back to accumulate and remember past experience to be advantageous for society. If you have this gate defined, a strong theme in you is listening to others' pasts (often, their secrets) shared with you in order to gather and learn from experiences. Lessons are only learned completely when that particular experiential process is finished and are shared. You can provide an empathetic ear when others recognize you as trustworthy, enabling their learning and memory by sharing. Gate 13's are collectors of reflections of the past, storing experiences that, when recognized and invited, can inspire humanity's perspective.
If you take your Personality Profile number and match it to the line in this gate, you can find your limited perspective role (aka the mask we wear when taking others in) which is:
Line 1 Empathy
Line 2 Bigotry
Line 3 Pessimism
Line 4 Fatigue
Line 5 Savior
Line 6 Optimist
Hexagram 7 - The Gate of the Role of the Self in Interaction
As the other Collective Role Gate, Gate 7 "The Army," is about having a future perspective, directing by looking to forward, and is home to the six ways humans are designed to lead with influence and foresight. If you have this gate defined, your role of leadership is recognized by others according to the variation of the line you carry. It is important for humanity to establish secure, logical patterns for the future, which need to be tested and experimented with in order to find what works, and tested further to ensure reliability and security.
If you take your Personality Profile number and match it to the line in this gate, you can find your projected attitude role which is:
Line 1 Authoritarian
Line 2 Democrat
Line 3 Anarchist
Line 4 Abdicator
Line 5 General
Line 6 Administrator
Hexagram 2 - The Gate of the Direction of the Self
The home of the Magnetic Monopole, Gate 2 "The Receptive" is the origin of your direction in life, enabling individual vision. The functioning of your Monopole is two-fold; holding the illusion of our separateness (what we call love) together, as well as pulling us along our path in life. This is the only gate that gives us our direction in life, which is fundamentally mutative in nature and has the perspective of the movement in the now at it's core. If you have this gate defined, look to see what line it is as there you may find your theme of receptivity that determines the primal root of action through which your response is designed to originate. These are the core origins of direction in life:
Line 1 Intuition
Line 2 Genius
Line 3 Patience
Line 4 Discretion
Line 5 Intelligent application
Line 6 Fixation (fixated on a higher knowing)
If your G Center is defined, your identity clearly shines and is sharply defined compared to someone with an undefined G. It is important to recognize that your path is your own, and you and you alone can walk that path. Despite what you may think, you have no control over where life takes you, so allow others to go their way even if it means forging on alone. Following your Strategy and Authority to enter or leave things correctly can help you resist conditioning or the expectations of others.
Undefined or Open G Center
If you have an Undefined G Center, you can be considered a consummate chameleon and make a remarkably talented actor; trying on other identities is natural to you. Likely you've already felt how important the right environment is to your well being, as you are sensitive to places and people. Making sure that you are comfortable in your surroundings can make all the difference in your life, so be clear about following your Strategy and Authority when deciding on things. Trying to find direction and love is a "not-self" theme you'll likely recognize.
From where to go out to eat, where to sit at school/work, to where and what direction to park your car or place your bed, place is everything to you. Watch as you decondition how you become ever more attuned to and relaxed in your correct environment. You are a collector of correct places - finding them makes all the difference between thriving and merely surviving.
Also, if you have an Open G (with no gates defined in that white diamond), not knowing what to be is a strong theme when you are not operating correctly. More than most, it is very important for you never to give authority to anyone else - the moment that you do that, you are deeply conditioned, and you cannot live out your unique potential.
The depth of conditioning, when your G Center is open or undefined, can be quite troublesome when operating as not-self, especially with regards to career and relationships. Always questioning whether you are on the right path or with the right person can undermine your sense of identity and self. Constant upheaval in your life due to continually changing directions and chasing after what (or who) your mind thinks it should have can cause instability that leaves you and others confused about who you are.
It can be destabilizing to initiate change regularly (and out of your design unless you are an aware Manifestor who considers carefully their impact and chooses the correct moment to initiate) considering the big picture. If you allow yourself the possibility of letting go of your need for direction and love, you can encounter the correct love and direction for you if you follow your Strategy and Authority. Gradually you can begin to rest in your undefined sense of self by making decisions correctly, with less fretting about where to go, what to be or who to love.
Questions for Inquiry: Have you noticed you tend to question your relationship or your direction in life? Do you morph yourself by looking for direction in others and love from others? Making decisions from a place of searching for these things can make you feel lost and unsure about your identity. What examples of the thoughts below, which may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind, do you recognize in you?
Who am I supposed to be? What am I supposed to do with my life?
Where can I find my soul-mate? Who are they and how can I find them?
Why don't I know who I am or where I am supposed to go?
Who do I need to ask or
where do I need to go to find where I belong?
Should I do this or that for a career? What is my correct path?
I need a relationship (love) to know myself; maybe if I go to this (event/place) I can find “the one.”
No matter the configuration of your G Center, you are perfectly designed exactly as you are. Remember everyone has everything present and functioning in the bodygraph. You have certain areas that are strongly energized and fixed while others are open to experiencing the myriad 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 the key to releasing the mind's conditioning and control over your life, which expands your awareness, eventually transforming your physical body’s chemistry and your experiences.
Living your Human Design helps you to move through life with more grace and less suffering. Would you like to share any of your G Center epiphanies or feedback with the Human Design Community below? You’re invited to ask questions as well.
Journey through the Centers of the Human Design BodyGraph - The Heart Center
Does your conditioned mind think you have to prove to yourself or others that you are in control, or perhaps that you are powerless, like mine is here to learn about?
Let's continue our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph with the heart of the Tribe - your Ego; aka Heart Center. This center is the only one with a unique circuit encompassing and named after it. With each gate having a different biological correspondence, and with more associations than any other center, this visually simple center is highly complex and quite misunderstood. The heart of the matter is that how you see yourself can be traced to your experience of your Ego.
One of the four motor Centers, yet unlike them all in that it requires periods of work and rest, the Heart Center provides the energy for willpower - the strength to prove our worth. This center gives us the will for financial support on the material plane - our family, communities, businesses, societies, cultures, civilizations. Just as your heart that beats in alternating phases of tension and relaxation, this center needs to operate with correct timing to be healthy.
When your Ego is defined, it's healthy for you to make correct promises that you keep so that you and your tribe can benefit from your willpower to support them. Your Heart is your authority for decision-making if you have it colored in but do not have the Splenic, Sacral, or Solar Plexus defined. If this is the case in your bodygraph, you need to pay attention to what you say automatically (without forethought). Observe and honor what you find yourself saying you will do, not what your mind thinks you need to, have to, or should do.
Ego authority empowers the self when defined to the G Center and supports your tribe when defined to your Throat Center. It is essential that you honor your spontaneous voice in the moment if you want to live out your truth.
When undefined or open in the bodygraph, your Ego center may produce conditioned behavior of willfulness. Trying to be competitive and prove yourself through promises you are not designed to keep is a big red flag or "signpost" of not-self behavior. The deep need of your undefined Ego to appear worthy can cause quite troublesome adaptive strategies; like over-achieving or exaggerated words and actions to create self-importance. Accepting less of something because of a deep feeling of inadequacy, self-deficiency, and worthlessness originating from continually failing to meet expectations can also be the result.
As you read about the Ego gates below, have your bodygraph handy to take special note of the ones imprinted in your Human Design. If your Heart Center is defined, those gates you have activated are the very specific ways you are designed to experience your willpower.
If your Heart Center is undefined, the gates waiting to be activated are themes you are genetically programmed to experience when the Ego is activated by transits or people in your environment. Remember, this energy is not consistent and cannot be relied upon to be there consistently. You do not need to do or say anything to prove something, to anyone.
The Gate of the Hunter/Huntress
Associated with your Heart muscle itself, Gate 21, “Biting Through” is the only gate in the bodygraph that is designed to be in control of circumstances to serve and protect the Tribe. This gate has the most powerful ego and provides the willpower to make sure that the community has what it needs. Everyone who has the 21 defined must be allowed to exercise their power to be in control when it is correct for them. No other gate has more potential to control than this one does.
Any Type with an undefined Heart Center and Gate 21 defined must wait to be offered control. Otherwise, heartbreak (metaphorical and possibly physical heart attack) could occur.
Generators: You can only take control when somebody asks and if you respond to it, or frustration is your result.
Projectors: You must be recognized by the people in your life that you need to be in control, or they are not correct for you and when you try to control them, bitterness ensues.
Manifestors: You have to ask permission before controlling others or anger is your experience.
Reflectors: You will experience disappointment when you don't wait out your lunar cycle process to know if it is correct for you to be in control when initiated.
Gate 26, The Egoist
The Gate of the Egoist
Associated with your T cells and thymus gland of the endocrine system, Gate 26, "The Taming Power of the Great" provides the willpower to be (or say you are!) the best. This Tribal gate brings the support to manipulate instinctive memory that may result in exaggeration or denial; think of the salesperson/marketer.
When you have this gate defined, your ego needs to be massaged and understood by other people to avoid conflict. This understanding has to do with the fact that you only have the power to work when it's correct for you, and that you need your rest.
Gate 51 - The Gate of Shock
The Gate of Shock
Associated with your gallbladder, Gate 51, "The Arousing" brings the great willpower of competitiveness; the energy of needing to be first - and with that, courage or foolishness. As part of Individual circuitry, it also serves the Tribe.
If you have this gate defined, "there is a way" when the pulse of that willpower is there and recognized.
Gate 40 - Aloneness
The Gate of Aloneness
Associated with your stomach, Gate 40, "Deliverance" brings the a strong independence and sense of being alone even when in a group of people. If you have this gate, you want to be pumped up and appreciated for the work that you do. This is the gate of the love of work; being given loyalty when you provide for your tribe doing work you love brings satisfaction to you - provided they keep their end of the bargain.
If your Heart Center is defined, you know your strength better than someone with an undefined Ego, but you could be reluctant to use it. Or you could also become overly competitive or overdo things, which can be the cause of difficulties too. Follow your Strategy and Authority to enter into things correctly.
Open Heart Center
Undefined or Open Heart Center
A whopping 63% of our human population has no willpower consistently defined. If you don't have a red triangle in your bodygraph, you are not here to prove anything to anyone - you are inherently worthy because you are. Not designed to make and keep promises, you can be deeply conditioned to live up to expectations of yourself and others.
The depth of conditioned responses when your Heart Center is undefined packs a most powerful impact when operating as not-self. Low self-esteem can develop from your undefined heart center because of insecurity as to whether you can accomplish something. A debilitating lack of self-worth can develop from years of making promises that you didn't have the willpower to keep.
It can be devastating to carry around the belief that you are not worthy, as this colors the way you see and experience yourself and your world.
Always trying to prove that you can achieve what you say you will do, puts enormous pressure on your heart, stomach, and gall bladder. Heartburn, heart attacks, gallstones, and ulcers are examples of the physical symptoms possible when committing or over-committing to try and demonstrate your worth to yourself or others.
Questions for Inquiry: Have you noticed you can tend to make promises that you’re unable to keep? Making decisions from a place of trying to prove or improve yourself puts tremendous stress on your heart. What examples of the thoughts below, which may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind, do you recognize in you?
I'm not good enough.
I have to say/do this so I can prove I'm worthy.
I have to be in control. I will be courageous.
I need to prove (or improve) myself so that others know I'm smart enough, sexy enough, hard-working enough, loving enough (etc.).
I need to prove I'm a loyal friend (or daughter, son, mother, lover, wife, husband, etc.) by promising I'll do this to show that I'm worthy.
I will fudge the truth a bit (exaggerate) to show others I'm the best, to prove my value.
No matter the configuration of your heart's definition, you are perfectly designed as you are. Definition or lack of it makes no difference in terms of better or worse, good or bad. Remember everyone has everything present in the bodygraph, that this is a circuit board, and everyone is designed differently. We were born unique. Following your Strategy and Authority is the key to deconditioning from the mind's control over what you think and over time, this transformation of your awareness transforms your physical body and your life as well.
Living your Human Design helps you to move through life with more ease and less resistance. Would you like to share any of your Heart Center epiphanies or feedback with our Human Design Community? You’re invited to ask questions as well.
Quarters and Godheads of the Human Design Mandala
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Discover Your Human Design System Godhead
within the Rave Mandala
Human Design System Article by Laveena Archers
Laveena Archers, Human Design System Teacher
Would you like to take a moment to be inspired by the breathtaking beauty of the Human Design System Hexagrams that is the Rave Mandala? And in the process, discover the thematic of your personal Life Purpose fulfillment?
If you haven't yet had a guided tour of the hexagrams and how we divide the wheel, it's a lot of fun to do! Let’s take a preliminary exploration together. First I'll demonstrate my personal discovery, guide you through the structure of the wheel, then invite you to find your Godhead, okay?
I remember what is still a wondrous moment in my decade+ of contemplating Human Design's Rave Mandala. It came during a class with Alokanand Diaz Del Rio, when he explained how, when you are not awake or aware, you are conditioned to live out the dead myth of your Godhead.
My Godhead is called Kali. She is known as the Destroyer of false Devotion. Kali is the goddess of time and brings the death of the ego, the illusory self-centered view of reality that, should you have a personal perspective like myself, you may be deeply identified with. I certainly was.
Gate 30 is also known as the Gate of Desire.
My Personality Sun is in gate 30 "Clinging Fire" The Gate of Feeling "Freedom recognized as an illusion and limitation accepted as a fate." Ra Uru Hu
Kali's homogenized image of a destructive force was no stranger in my life. Before Human Design's virus took hold and gave me some semblance of patience, my emotional nature was so volatile and uncontrollable that I regularly (at least monthly) lashed out when my feelings reached a boiling point. Pity the poor person who happened to be standing nearby! Spontaneous emotional decision-making left a trail of physical and emotional destruction in my wake. From physical items to relationships, the bitterness of false promises and broken dreams weighed me down to the point of suicidal ideation during low waves from all the not-self suffering and "poor me, why me" of my Martyr mind.
My conscious process in this life is fueled by the desire to imagine a new experience, and the Channel of Recognition, with its focused energy to recognize feelings, is my way of consciously witnessing the wild ride of this life's journey.
I share an energy that is contagious and through meeting the Fates regularly, my mind is here to learn to discern truly what doesn't work and universalize it for the benefit of others. This is how I fulfill my Life's Purpose as an "Innocent Instrument of Fate who can step in and Change the Fate of others through Experience, Discovery and Learning" as a Cross of Contagion 1. The one stands for the Quarter of Initiation, which is the first Quarter in the Wheel.
“True angels/godheads (as "frequencies of awareness") are technically all androgynous to some degree. Even when we see all Yang (unbroken) or Yin (broken) lines in a hexagram, every binary must ultimately bow to the union of opposites, which is why the first (all yang) and second (all yin) hexagrams split the wheel as a polarity.” Elad Sky
"We didn't invent these forces. We are genetically imprinted by them... " Ra Uru Hu
Let's see if I can help you to grasp the hexagram wheel structure and begin to understand what it says about the theme of your fulfillment in life.
I'd like to draw your attention to the outer ring of the wheel, to the 64 hexagrams. Look to the top right, and you will find hexagram 1 (right above the blue M looking Astrological symbol for Scorpio in the image below).
Notice there are six solid lines—six Yang lines. Now, let your eyes follow the movement of the hexagrams counterclockwise halfway around the wheel until you reach Hexagram 2.
The Rave Mandala
Notice the Hexagram "chops"—six yin lines, a precise polarity of Gate 1’s six Yang lines. Did you keep an eye on the bottom or 1st line as you moved around the wheel? If not take a glance now. Come back to Gate 2, and continue your counterclockwise discovery of the movement of the Hexagram chops as you reach 1 again.
Did you notice in the first half of your visual journey that the foundation of all the hexagrams was Yang (solid lines)?
And in the second half, their foundation was all Yin (broken lines)?
You just discovered how the wheel is divided in half, a basic polarity of the mandala structure.
You may also have noticed that the polarity pattern of Gates 1 and 2 continues. The perfect opposition in the wheel is maintained throughout the entire Rave Mandala. If you are familiar with the G Center gates from taking a Living Your Design Program or your personal studies, you know that the G Center is home to two critical Incarnation Crosses. These crosses are the Sphinx (direction gates, which Hexagrams 1 and 2 are part of) and the Vessel of Love (our transcendent love gates). Here are the eight gates representing the eight houses of the I-Ching, dividing the 64 hexagrams of the wheel into eight equal portions.
Human Design System Rave I-Ching Gates 1 and 2
When we activate the gates of these two crosses, we see their arms symmetrically reaching out to the borders of the Rave Mandala. This is the G Center (see image below with all the gates colored in to show their position in the Human Design Mandala). The G Center's physiology is the Liver and blood. It delineates the function of our physical Identity, our sense of Direction in life and our experience of Transcendent Love.
Our G Center molds or defines our identity within the pattern of the totality, giving us our place within it and our connection to it. Gate 2 is the location of the Magnetic Monopole, which holds the Personality and Design Crystal together in the illusion of separation from the totality. Your G Center is the home of your Higher Self.
We can divide the 64 gates of the wheel not only into half and eighths as we have seen but into quarters (as well as 16ths, which is where we discover the archetypal themes of the Godhead).
Each Quarter of the wheel is determined by grouping the hexagrams according to their foundations.
In thinking of each of us as a cell in a larger organism, you gain a sense of how we are all here to fulfill a unique role, a unique purpose, working together correctly. Your purpose is revealed through your Incarnation Cross; your costume described by your profile lines of those four gates. The theme of your incarnation cross comes from the Quarter where your Personality (Conscious) Sun shines.
Crosses of the Vessel of Love and the Sphinx
Each of the Sphinx gates (1, 2, 7, 13) in the wheel set the foundation for the 16 hexagrams in the Quarter. Every Quarter ends with a gate of the Cross of the Four Ways (24, 33, 44, 19)—these are the doors that close each Quarter. Midway between each Sphinx and Four Ways is a Transcendent Love gate which set the frequency of how we are empowered to be love through sharing our being with others within that Quarter.
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So in keeping with my personal example, in the quarter of Initiation, we have purpose fulfilled through the Mind.
This Quarter begins with Gate 13, giving us our shared experiential direction as humans, through the role of listening to the secrets of the past.
13 The Fellowship of Man - The Gate of the Listener
Universal ideas and values in an ordered framework which inspires humanistic cooperation.
The Quarter of Initiation's Transcendent love is shown by Gate 25, giving us our way of being empowered in the universe, innocently, unconditionally loving through others that great unknowable force that we are all a part of.
25 Innocence - The Gate of the Spirit of the Self
The perfection of action through uncontrived and spontaneous nature.
The Quarter of Initiation is closed through Gate 24, the first mutative, empowering Way., designed to take the pressure of wanting to understand the Mysteries of life and help us conceptualize and know them. Is it possible to know the unknowable?
24 Return, The Gate of Rationalization
The natural and spontaneous process of transformation and renewal.
The Rave Mandala: Quarter by Quarter
Every hexagram in a Quarter shares the same bottom two hexagram chops—in other words, all hexagrams in a Quarter have the same first two lines. This foundation determines the thematic that links the hexagrams in a Quarter together and shows us the theme of how our conscious purpose in this life is meant to be fulfilled.
Here are the foundation hexagram chops establishing the foundation of each Quarter:
The Four Quarters
YANG/YIN
In the Quarter of Initiation (Gates 13-24), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Mind. The foundation here is set by the Gate of the Listener, “the Fellowship of Man”—Yang (spirit) pushing upward into Yin (form). When we activate all the gates of this Quarter we see that the only definition in the bodygraph would be the Channel of Initiation. Those whose Personality Sun is in the Quarter of Initiation are here to wake up first. They are initiated through the development of Mind, and, in turn, initiate others according to the nature of their particular Cross and Profile.
YIN/YIN
In the Quarter of Civilization (Gates 2-33), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Form—through manifesting. The foundation here is set by the most Yin hexagram of all, the Gate of the Direction of the Self, “the Receptive”—therefore it is Yin over Yin. When we activate all the gates of this Quarter we see that there would be no definition in the bodygraph and that all 11 Throat gates are present. This is the world of manifestation, where mind is concretized into form.
YIN/YANG
In the Quarter of Duality (Gates 7-44), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Bonding. The foundation here is set by the Gate of the Role of the Self in Interaction, “the Army”—the Yin/Yang. When we activate all of the gates in this Quarter we see that this forms three channels bringing definition to the bodygraph, creating the only pure emotional Generator through the Channel of Mating, along with the Channel of Discovery and the Channel of Abstraction. This is the world of fertility and bonding—your relationships with others.
YANG/YANG
In the Quarter of Mutation (Gates 1-19), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Transformation. The foundation here is set by the Gate of the Expression of the Self “the Creative”—of course, Yang/Yang. When we activate all the gates in this Quarter we have only one definition, the pure Generator with the Channel of Exploration. This is the world where anything can happen—it’s about the process of living (like the rest of the wheel is) but here it is also about the process of transformation and accepting death.
Now that you have discovered the Quarters, it’s time to break them down into the 16 Faces of the “Godhead”. There are four Faces per Quarter—four distinct nuances of each Godhead. These names put a face to the thematics shaping humanity. There have been many names for these faces in different cultures over the eons. The 16 archetypal themes inherited from our 7-Centered ancestors impart their qualities to the four respective gates within each Godhead. Note every Godhead’s hexagrams share the same first four lines.
The 16 Faces of the Godhead - Free Introduction by Ra Uru Hu
Quarter by Quarter is a Human Design home-study program created by Ra Uru Hu. In contemplating the mandala, Ra noticed that the mandala structure was evenly split into 16 archetypal themes that he labeled the Godheads - each Godhead’s four gates are very closely biologically related to each other.
Filled with history and stories, this program enriches your understanding of Gates from the broader perspective of their relationships to the Quarter and Godhead they belong to, as well as their relationship to each other. Ra takes you on a journey through the wheel in a logical progression beginning with the Quarter of Initiation.
Click here to download to the introductory audio to this program, the first whole lecture, absolutely free. Or you can play it right now (but there are illustrations in the download).
What's Your Human Design Godhead?
Below, look for the gate of your Personality Sun to find your Godhead and its theme. This archetype is what keeps you from recognizing how deeply conditioned your perceptions are about your life. Where you can get into trouble is taking the conditioning to its distortion and thinking that your Godhead is THE God.
Human Design Mandala Quarter of Initiation - purpose fulfilled through mind
Click image to read more about the Quarter of Initiation
Kali—The Destroyer of False Devotion Gates: 13-The Listener, 49-Principles, 30-Feelings, 55-Spirit
Mitra—The Evolution of Consciousness Gates: 37-Friendship, 63-Doubt, 22-Openness, 36-Crisis
Michael—The Angelical Mind Gates: 25-Spirit of the Self, 17-Opinion, 21-Hunter/Huntress, 51-Shock
Janus—The Fertility of Mind Gates: 42-Growth, 3-Ordering, 27-Caring, 24-Rationalization
Click image to read more about the Quarter of Civilization
Human Design Mandala Quarter of Civilization - purpose fulfilled through form
Maia—The Mother Goddess Gates: 2-The Direction of the Self, 23-Assimilation 8-Contribution, 20-The Now
Lakshmi—Goddess of Beauty and Good Fortune Gates: 16-Skills, 35-Change, 45-The Gatherer, 12-Caution
Parvati - Goddess of Domestic Bliss Gates: 15-Extremes, 52-Stillness, 39-Provocation, 53-Beginnings
Ma'at—Goddess of Truth, Justice and Cosmic Harmony Gates: 62-Details, 56-Stimulation, 31-Leading, 33-Privacy
Human Design Mandala Quarter of Duality - Purpose fulfilled through Bonding
Thoth - God of Wisdom, Writing and Time Gates: 7-Role of the Self in Interaction, 4-Formulization, 29-Perseverance, 59-Sexuality
Harmonia - Goddess of the Family Bond Gates: 40-Aloneness, 64-Confusion, 47-Realization, 6-Friction
Christ Consciousness Field - “Love Thy Neighbor” Gates: 46-Determination of the Self, 18-Correction, 48-Depth, 57-Intuitive Clarity
Minerva - Virgin Goddess of Warfare, Arts and Crafts Gates: 44-Alertness, 28-The Game Player, 50-Values, 32-Continuity
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Human Design Mandala Quarter of Mutation - purpose fulfilled through transformation
Hades - God of the Underworld Gates: 1-Self-Expression, 43-Insight, 14-Power Skills, 34-Power
Prometheus - Thief of Fire and Benefactor of Humanity Gates: 9-Taming Power of the Small, 5-Fixed Rhythms, 26-The Egoist, 11- Ideas
Vishnu - God of Monotheism Gates: 10-Behavior of the Self, 58-Vitality, 38-The Fighter, 54-Drive
The Keepers of the Wheel - Guardians of the Wheel - The Hidden Gods (from themselves) Gates: 60-Limitation, 61-Inspiration, 41-Contraction, 19-Wanting
Another way of explaining these Forces is that your conditioned mind tends to interpret the Maia according to your Godhead. When in a "not-self" state, making decisions from your conditioned mind, you can end up living out the homogenized, dead myths of your Godhead, rather than shining with the uniqueness of your authentic and differentiated holistic self.
Following Strategy and Authority keeps you from getting trapped in your Mind’s illusion derived from the conditioning forces streaming through your individual Godhead. Have you seen this at work in your life? How has it shown up for you? Please comment below.
Are you ready to dare to differentiate into the unique being you are here to be?
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Originally written for, home of the Human Design System, Jovian Archive under the name Andrea Abay-Abay. Updated and republished with permission.
A study group from mid-2018 to walk us through the thematics around the wheel:
Have you taken Living Your Design and Rave ABC’s yet? Then you’re ready for Rave Cartography!
Journey through the Centers of the Human Design BodyGraph - The Solar Plexus Center
Let's continue our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph with your mutating Solar Plexus Center. If colored in (defined), the Solar Plexus is automatically your Authority for decision-making. Neither a simple nor easy Authority, definition of this emotional center calls for discipline and patience. Waiting out deep uncertainties and emotional inconsistencies until you are as clear as possible (when there is no emotional charge around a decision) before moving forward is correct for you.
Your emotional system is home to the delights of feelings, sensitivity, desires, passion, romance, the drive for sex, food and spirit consciousness. This potent center produces a biochemical fluctuation of emotion over time, which can affect the functioning of its associated biology; your nervous system, lungs, kidneys, pancreas and prostate gland.
Your Solar Plexus is a truly powerful motor (your Root, Sacral, and Ego Centers are also motors) often causing a constant rising and falling of emotions. Operating in a wave frequency determined by the channels linking to nearby centers, you see and feel from the perspective of where you are on the emotional "wave". Ranging from the highest of hopes (where everything looks rosy) to the deepest pain imaginable (where nothing looks good) means experiencing, accepting and transcending emotions takes time.
Your Solar Plexus is the only center in your bodygraph operating as both a motor and a so-called awareness center (the Ajna and Splenic being your other awareness centers). It is an emerging awareness, dominated by its motor function; undergoing a several thousand-year transformation culminating in 2027. Our Solar Plexus Center is developing the awareness of experiencing ourselves as a single entity or "oneness".
Whether your Solar Plexus Center has consistent energy present (defined) or not (undefined), its activated gates can bring emotional uncertainty or nervousness - fears regarding personal interactions. Following your Strategy and Authority while learning the mechanics of your Solar Plexus and honoring your body's constantly changing chemistry can bring about an invaluable understanding. This understanding allows you to come to accept the feelings, needs and desires of both yourself and others with compassion.
And this compassion is crucial. With half of humanity deciding rashly in very high or low moments while the rest amplify emotional energy and over-react or develop adaptive strategies in the attempt to avoid pain, emotions color our world.
Spontaneous emotional decisions bear a heavy price. The complex interaction between a defined and undefined Solar Plexus can cause a powerfully distorted emotional wave, often medicated and misunderstood, with the risk of developing manipulative or passive-aggressive behaviors.
Your Strategy and Authority aligns you to develop a healthy relationship with emotions, presenting opportunities to experience the full range of feelings life has to offer. Society continues the myth that we need to be happy all the time and when we are not, something is wrong, or wrong with us.
Whether you have a defined Solar Plexus or not, the depth of emotions you feel are beautiful when allowed, experienced, and released. The key is not to identify with these emotions, nor judge them as good or bad, right or wrong. These waves are an expression of bodygraph mechanics, a potential expression of awareness, and they are nothing to be ashamed of.
As you read about the gates below, have your Human Design Chart handy to take special note of the ones you have defined.
The Source of the Solar Plexus' Waves of Emotions
Three distinctly different emotional wave patterns (Tribal, Individual, and Collective) are established by Gate 6 via the Solar Plexus center's Tribal (support) relationship with the Sacral Center through the Channel of Mating. Depending on the definition at play in relationship to the experiences that you are processing, you may feel one or any combination of these emotional streams from the gates below.
The Gate of Friction
The enormous power of the motor that generates six different wave frequencies of the Solar Plexus lies in Gate 6, "Conflict." If defined, this gate dominates your aura and others because the power of this motor stimulates growth or decay, depending on the resonance of those it comes into contact with. Gate 6 contains our biological law that life needs friction or there's no reproduction. Governing our emotional PH, Gate 6 fuses sensitivity to needs, passion and moods, desire and feelings, generating a wave causing you to be discriminating emotionally and sexually.
With Gate 6 defined, your emotional wave feels very stable, and you are here to learn about the flood of emotions the Solar Plexus brings. This energy is described as the hope to pain wave defining the fear of intimacy, experienced as nervousness about being open to others and awareness of whether to bond or not.
Streams of Potential Awareness rooted in Gate 6
Remaining gates of the Solar Plexus resonate to the nature of its wave rooted in the 6th gate and described in the potential awareness streams below. All waves have two ends of the spectrum. The deeply painful side experienced felt as an oft-called negative emotion, and the elated or positive end of the spectrum felt as emotions considered to be pleasurable. Utilize the wave over time to recognize it's true potential; which happens when you use the full spectrum of the wave as an indicator for clarity in decision-making. Decisions made from a place of clarity puts a very different vibration out into the world than when you are in a state of pain or chaos.
Tribal Awareness
Tribal needs drive the stream of awareness moving through the Solar Plexus center from gate 19 in the Root to gate 40 in the Heart Center, a wave that causes us to bind and stick together. Definition in this Tribal stream creates a "ratchet" wave: a slow buildup of tension. There is a back and forth escalating progression or cranking up of the emotions over time until the point where tension releases - where there is either clarity or explosion.
The Gate of Principals
A ratchet wave that accepts or rejects principals based on the needs of the Tribe defines via Gate 49, "Revolution." This gate establishes who gets what and who to obey in regards to resources. Nervousness about rejection, unpredictability and consequences along with fear of nature characterize this gate. The awareness of what, when and how to get and make food available and what is needed or not to support the tribe can potentially be found in people with Gate 49 activated.
The Gate of Friendship
A ratchet wave based on the bargain regarding resources and principals of the Tribe defines via Gate 37, "The Family." This deeply social gate of friendship and family; of affection, touching and hugging, has a price - whatever the bargain is in regards to resources. Nervousness about possibly having to take on traditional roles in life or even fear of tradition is found here. The awareness of who will and who won't provide what the Tribe needs can potentially be found in people with Gate 37 activated.
Individual Awareness
Individual passion drives the deeply mutative stream of awareness moving through the Solar Plexus Center from gate 39 in the Root to the Throat Center's gate 12, a wave that causes you to be moody or not. Healthy emotional definition in this stream is on a consistently even plane most of the time, with "spikes" of emotion shooting up or down, affecting the level of the even plane of emotions.
Melancholy beats in people with this wave; between the pulses of emotion is when mutation happens. Knowing when to be alone with your creative inspiration, and that with this wave, you just don't know until you know, can help to ease the melancholic spikes.
The Gate of Spirit
Of enormous importance to humanity as a whole and the individual who carries it, the strongly mutative Gate 55, "Abundance" is the most volatile of all emotional gates. Showing the highest and deepest levels of emotion or the intense lack of emotion is possible because of this gate's intense frequency pulse. When activated, it can cause deep and personal moodiness, causing a nervousness arising from not knowing what or who to be passionate about, and a fear of emptiness.
The awareness potential of provocation (am I being provoked or not, and do I like it?) and the mood to eat lies within this gate. With this gate activated is important not to make love, work or especially eat unless you are in the mood in order to protect your health and avoid suffering in your spike wave.
The Gate of Openness
The 22nd Gate, "Grace" pulses with a special empowerment- the power to pay attention, and gets others to pay attention to you. If you have this deeply mutative gate activated, there's the possibility you can provoke openness to being social.
Uncertainty that anyone will listen or that there is something worthwhile to listen to, and the fear of silence lies within this gate. The awareness possibility is the openness to eating; when you're in the mood, speaking to people while you are eating is very good for individuals.
Collective Awareness
Desire drives the pressurized stream of awareness moving through the Solar Plexus Center from gate 41 in the Root to the Throat Center's gate 35; a stream also known as the human experiential way. This way is not about the expected results that so many make it out it be - it is about the experiences themselves.
Chemistry in this stream creates an emotional wave that turns on, rising to high peaks, then off; often crashing with unmet expectations. This Abstract or Crash wave is simply a fact of life as we know it because things never turn out how or become what you think they are going to be.
When you are operating correctly, the crash wave is acceptable because it's the journey that is the story, not the goal, because the goal doesn't exist - the goal is an illusion of your mind's expectations. It is especially important if you have this wave frequency to be correct so that your experiences can be learned from and shared. Note that sexuality is a fundamental drive for this stream.
Human Design System Solar Plexus Collective Awareness
The Gate of the Feelings
Also known as the Gate of the Fates, Gate 30, "The Clinging Fire" creates a powerful crash wave fueled by emotional desires to feel things deeply. Longing for an experience fueled by fantasies of what the experience may bring define in this gate. Its potential is the awareness to recognize a feeling or not, and the capacity to recognize the feeling to eat or drink.
Fear of the Fates and anxiety about what may or may not happen lies within this gate. With this gate activated, to remember to enter into things with clarity and only for the experience, releasing expectations, and surrendering to your fate. When you operate correctly, you "no longer suffer at the hands of the fates - they become your allies."
The Gate of Crisis
Creating an emotional crash wave like nothing else, the most powerful emotional energy releaser we have is Gate 36, "The Darkening of the Light." Driven to turn inexperience into experience, a readiness for sharing and growing through profound emotional challenges along with the emotional power to penetrate the surface of new experiences characterizes those with this gate. When this gate is activated you must have the new experience; and with inexperience comes a crisis, large or small, as mistakes just happen when you've never tried something before.
Nervousness nervousness about one's sexual or emotional adequacy and fears of inadequacy lie in this gate. The awareness possibility is the "hunger wave of hope and pain". The key to remember about having this gate is that this desire for new experiences is strictly impersonal, and you are here to share experiences with the right people correctly.
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.
Questions for Inquiry:
How do your emotions affect your decision-making process?
Do you recognize the emotional wave(s) in your life that are yours?
Do you know the importance of being alone when low in your wave, especially when living with those who have an undefined Solar Plexus?
The Undefined or Open Solar Plexus Center
If your Solar Plexus is undefined, your gates above describe ways you are designed to experience emotions when encountering transits or other people.
If you are completely open (no dormant gates) emotionally, you have a flexibility in experiencing emotional energy, which may cause confusion about how to interpret what you are feeling. You may not know what or who to desire, when sensitivity or passion is appropriate, or how to recognize and deal with other's moods or needs. You can experience emotions in their purity.
Undefined or Open, keep in mind that you can magnify emotions and that you absolutely need to spend alone time every day to release the emotional conditioning you receive from others. In any case, it is paramount to remember: never make emotional decisions. You are not designed to carry the burden of blame or shame that emotional decisions can bring.
Because of the amplification of emotion you can experience, emotional confrontation can be dreadful! Use your Strategy and Authority to guide you in confrontations which are correct for you.
Your potential gift is developing wisdom about the full range of emotions possible, knowing how to enjoy feelings and how to let them flow through you without attachment.
Questions for Inquiry: Have you noticed you can be vulnerable to amplifying emotions of others and the conditioning response (avoiding confrontation or truth) that brings you? What examples of the thoughts below, which may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind, do you recognize in you?
I don't want to go there (or say that) because I don't want to deal with the confrontation.
I can't say that because it might upset that person or hurt someone's feelings.
I'll say it like this to soften the blow.
I'm going to be really nice and smile a lot, so they like me.
There is no point in going there because I might be rejected and disappointed.
I'm afraid it won't work out so why bother; it's not worth it.
Solar Plexus defined or not, you are not the waves of emotions you experience. You are "the passenger in the vehicle" riding those waves, observing them and the full range of changing perspectives emotions bring. Learning how to surf your emotional highs and lows without trying to change them allows you to get to know what is "normal" for you as you experiment with your Strategy and Authority. With time, you can watch as your awareness shifts to include deep inner tranquility no matter the emotional weather patterns expressed on the surface of your or anyone else's illusion of reality.
Human Design can guide you through the illusions created by the conditioned mind. Would you like to share any of your Solar Plexus Center epiphanies or feedback with me? You’re invited to ask questions as well.
By Laveena Lovick
A version of this article was originally written for JovianArchive.com. Reposted with permission.
Journey through the Centers of the Human Design BodyGraph - The Root Center
Let's continue our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph with your extraordinary Root Center. This center carries a profound initiating quality that fuels the pressure driving your physical life processes. Responsible for energizing your body through your adrenal system, your Root Center initiates being, providing the powerful energy that demands we live a physical life and evolve.
Your Root Center is both a pressure center and a motor - as opposed to the only other source of pressure, your Head Center. We humans live in a 'pressure sandwich', amplified if you have these centers undefined. Note that neither center has direct access to your Throat Center, and your Root is the only motor in your bodygraph without direct access to expression and manifestation.
Originating energy for nine channels leading to the nearby Sacral, Splenic, and Solar Plexus Centers, your Root creates the frequencies through which you biologically operate, producing hormones that get and keep you moving through life.
Whether your Root Center has consistent energy present (defined) or not (undefined), these gates describe the mechanics of the nine essential ways our bodies operate. If your Root Center defines by connecting to a nearby center, you have a particular, fixed way of dealing with stress according to your unique genetic imprinting via the Neutrinos. If your Root Center is undefined, your way of dealing with stress is flexible, and you may tend to amplify pressure, continually rushing to get rid of it.
Either way, following your Strategy and Authority aligns you to the perfection of your Root's process and can help you keep your balance despite the stresses in your world. Take a look at your bodygraph as you read the gates below and take special note of the gates you have defined - these are pressures in you that must be fulfilled, and can only be fulfilled when you are operating correctly.
The Root Center and its Relationships
Root Center Gates to Sacral Center
The relationship between your Root and Sacral Center is perhaps one of the most extraordinary that exists within your bodygraph. The root center is the essence of all of our genetic possibilities, which emerge through the Sacral. The potential of what generated life can be is sourced from your Root Center, making up the frequencies of our world.
Pressures from your Root Center meeting the immense power of your Sacral Center are given a special name; the format energies. Originating these three distinctly unique frequencies, your Root pressures various elements of the bodygraph with a basic structure of operation. These formats are the main energy source for our Collective and Individual knowing processes in life.
The Gate of Beginnings
Root pressure to begin or start new things defines via Gate 53, “Development.” This gate formats energy into a cyclical frequency of experiential beginnings, middles, and ends. Bringing the pressure to complete, this is the most stressful of all gates. Depression can occur when you don't have freedom to begin a process so that you can complete it.
The Gate of Acceptance
The pulsation of 'there or not' pressure to mutate and to transcend limitation defines via Gate 60, “Limitation.” This gate formats all Individual circuitry in your bodygraph - the Knowing and Centering Circuits - through a restrained fuel quality that pulses an energy frequency carrying the possibility of mutation and melancholy; a mechanical moodiness of both happy and sad. When you feel limited and there's nothing new to know depression can hit.
The Gate of Inaction
The pressure to focus your energy and concentrate defines via Gate 52 - “Keeping Still / Mountain.” This gate formats all logical circuitry in your bodygraph - the Understanding Circuit of the Collective - into a logical, detailed and organized, fixed pattern frequency through a passive fuel quality that is not about stress, but about tension. When you don't have the right thing to focus on, depression can be the result.
Any conscious or unconscious definition in these format channels, whether a gate or channel, deeply influences the way your design operates. This energy frequency can also influence the people that come into aura contact with you.
Root Center Gates to Splenic Center
Between your Root Center and Splenic Center are three channels that initiate existential awareness, survival consciousness and the joy of being alive. Your Root Center fuels the Splenic Center with enormous energy for logical judgmentalism, individual intuition, and tribal instinct to maintain your physical well-being.
The Gate of Vitality
The pressure to correct and perfect life, to make things better defines via Gate 58, "The Joyous," the Gate of Vitality. This life force focused on providing logical energy for experimentation is essentially the love of life, fueling our awareness of recognizing patterns that need perfecting or not, and the fear of self-judgement or the judgment of others. It is a highly specialized energy dedicated to a logical experimentation and sharing to ensure a safe future for humanity.
The Gate of the Fighter
The pulsing pressure to find or struggle for purpose in life comes from your Root Center through Gate 38, "Opposition." This individual, mutative energy to struggle for purpose fuels the fear of purposelessness in life or that life has no purpose unless you take risks. This inherent energy of struggle for individual integrity and purpose empowers you to lock in on the one risk worth fighting for and developing your intuitive processes.
The Gate of Drive
The pressure to achieve, to rise up, to transform comes through Gate 54, "The Marrying Maiden." Laden with incredible potential, this powerful tribal energy brings the drive to succeed, fueling instinctive awareness of what can be transformed or not and the fear of failure. This gate brings the realization that true spirituality is lived out on the mundane plane.
These gates originating from your Root Center are of enormous importance to your well-being, providing pressure to grasp the beauty of your process and fueling the survival-based fears of the Splenic Center. Those with definition between these two centers especially need regular physical activity in order to stay healthy.
Root Center Gates to Solar Plexus
Pressuring the most important mutation in our history, your Root Center brings the energy that fuels emotional awareness and relational intelligence expressed in your Solar Plexus. With definition of these channels, you experience a fixed way of dealing with tribal relationships, individual emotional stress and collective desire to share new experiences.
The Gate of Wanting
Pressure to be sensitive to basic needs comes through Gate 19, "Approach," the Gate of Wanting. Driving us have the necessary resources, Gate 19 pressures us with accepting or rejecting principles based on whether it supports the continuity of the tribe, and fuels nervousness about rejection, unpredictability, and consequences. Providing the powerful energy for supporting having enough resources, this gate recognizes everything is interrelated.
The Gate of Provocation
Pressure find the passion, spirit in life and to emote comes through Gate 39, "Obstruction." This strongly individual, mutative frequency provokes out of uncertainty, certainty in Spirit. Gate 39's energy pulses fuel personal melancholy, as well as nervousness from not knowing what or who to be passionate about. Once linked to the correct spirit, this gate fuels the potential to emote, bringing mutation to manifestation and bringing out the individual spirit.
The Gate of Contraction
Pressure to feel and desire a new experience comes through Gate 41, "Decrease." This collective, abstract energy drives the wave of emotions from hope to pain, locking in the desire for one experience at a time, pressuring nervousness about what might or might not happen. Pushing us into a life experience that is nothing but cycles, our human experiential process begins here and fuels our evolutionary process in sequences.
When your Root Center is defined, you can put pressure on those with undefined roots, especially if your mind is dictating your life. You can become obsessive, improperly initiating, meeting resistance that brings stress you aren't designed to handle which can undermine your health. Follow your Strategy and Authority to move forward in life grounded in the correct frequency of your Root.
Question for Inquiry: Do you recognize the pressures in your life that are yours? What about the pressures that are not yours?
The Undefined or Open Root Center
If you have an undefined or open Root Center, you have the flexibility of dealing with stress in many different ways. However, transits and other people can activate your root, immensely pressurizing you, which tends to amplify and distort this powerful energy. This can show up as hyperactivity (especially in children), an uncontrollable restlessness and inability to focus.
When you have a totally open root center, you can experience the full range of pressure - from deep stillness to intense hyperactivity. Letting pressure pass through you that is not your own is important. Nature is an especially helpful place of renewal and peace for you.
The key for either undefined or open is to move forward in alignment with your Strategy and Authority; either taking a deep breath and moving away from stress if it is uncomfortable, or taking a deep breath and taking advantage of the pressure in order to get things done quickly if needed, or in the appropriate timing - allowing yourself to enjoy the process. Practice getting familiar with the pressures you have defined in you and recognize where the stresses in your environment are coming from.
Questions for Inquiry: What examples of the thoughts that may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind - what we call “Not-Self” talk - do you recognize in you? Can you match the questions with the gate it might be coming from?
I have to achieve something big in my life.
What is my purpose?
What pattern can I experiment with or use my energy for?
I’m depressed because I feel limited. How can I get past this limitation?
I’m depressed because I need something to focus on. What should I focus on?
I’m depressed because nothing new is happening; I’m tired of the same old thing.
I need to start something new.
I need to be needed. Who needs me? Where can I go to be needed?
What is my passion? Who am I passionate about?
I want to initiate a new experience. I want to feel something new.
I need to get this done quickly, I can’t waste any time.
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Whether your Root Center is defined or undefined, honoring your Strategy to deal with the correct pressures, and using your Authority to move on those pressures, is key to avoiding resistance. Moving forward from a place of stillness, clarity of purpose and joy for living through following your Strategy and Authority encourages proper initiation of your flow of energy. Human Design can lead you to what truly fulfills and differentiates you into your unique potential.
Would you like to share any of your Root Center epiphanies or feedback with me? You’re invited to ask questions as well.
By Laveena Lovick
A version of this article was written for JovianArchive.com.