Ra Uru Hu on Being A Human Design Teacher
Ra Uru Hu on Being A Human Design Teacher
Laveena Archers
Join us on a journey with the world's first Human Design Teacher, speaking to third-generation Human Design Teachers to help them to pass this precise tool in navigating the dynamic tides of an ever-changing world.
The fascinating intricacies of the Human Design system allow an in-depth understanding of life's pulsating rhythm and our inherent programming's interplay with it. We stand at the threshold of an era, a pivotal crossroads between an epoch that sparked in the early 1960s and a new one poised to emerge after 2027. This era, filled with answers, unravels all sorts of mysteries, scientific or otherwise. It's also witnessing a 'new age' flourishing characterized by a resurgence of profound interest in myriad systems, regardless of their definition.
It's a moment of awakening, where people realize that no system or teacher possesses absolute truth, but that Truth is an individual knowing that expresses individually. This truth manifests in the physical wellness realm, where universal solutions are commonly applied, and in the mental conditioning realm, where functioning is often confined to strict parameters. Gazing at the expansive spiritual landscape of our era, we witness countless paths, each carrying its intrigue. However, intrigue doesn't necessarily lead to personal transformation. Often, these paths diverge from one's inherent nature, leading to dissonance in one's life.
When introducing the Design system initially, Ra Uru Hu's teaching as the original Messenger and Founder of the Human Design System struck a chord with many due to its uncanny accuracy.
The Human Design system operates as a Maya's absolute - a fascinating proclamation. Despite living in a realm of illusion, this system explains the workings of that illusion. People who have explored various methods, whether health-based, psychological, or new age, affirm that the specificity of Human Design sets it apart. This system doesn't generalize; instead, it hinges on differentiation. It's essentially the science of differentiation, aligning individuals with their unique nature rather than their generalized, conditioned one.
Let's clarify here that this doesn't imply that other systems are flawed, faulty, or deficient. The emphasis lies in their connection to the Homo Sapien, representing a seven-chakra being, the old Homo Sapien model. Human Design acknowledges a significant mutation in 1781. This transition marked the evolution from a seven-centered being to a nine-centered being, as shown in the Homo Sapien in Transitus bodygraph used in Human Design.
Homo Sapien in Transitus
"The thing to understand about this marker is that it's those beings born after 1781 who are the mutated ones. These are the ones who are nine-centered beings, us, a transitional form. You can see that here, Homo Sapiens in Transitus. We are a transitional form. We are not something that is intended to be permanent. We’re not here to evolve into something else. We are a transition between a past, this past from 1781, to a future that is beyond 2027, which has to do with an evolutionary transition.
The thing to grasp is that beings who were born in the 1760s or the 1770s were seven-centered beings who lived deep into the 19th century, into the 1860s, 70s, and 80s. If you look back over the history of humanity, the 85,000 years that Homo Sapiens ruled, and you add those who trickled into this zone, you have to understand that just about everything we grasp, every religion that we have, every philosophy we have, just about every fundamental understanding we have is based on an extinct—and I say that with as much force as I can—an extinct form, the seven-centered being." Ra Uru Hu, NINE-CENTERED AWAKENING A Free Digital Book for Newcomers
No matter the depth of engagement with the system, whether it's a surface skim or a profound dive, the incredible accuracy of Human Design remains constant. This system, created for and about us, naturally achieves a level of precision unmatched by others.
Learning the official Human Design System from Ra Uru Hu and authorized schools and teachers offers invaluable insight into our existence's nature and our place within it. This knowledge transcends outdated constructs and provides a pathway to understanding the body, where our true power lies.
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How to Make Correct Decisions: Human Design System Emotional Solar Plexus Authority
Emotional Authority
If you see the inward pointing triangle on the lower right-hand side of your bodygraph colored in, you know that you are an Emotionally defined being because of your consistently defined (energized) Solar Plexus.
In the video below is an excerpt of a class on Solar Plexus as the Authority in the Human Design System chart.
Imagine you are a body of water - a tranquil lake.
Small decisions are like small pebbles thrown into you; it doesn't take long for your waters to grow still again so that you can see clearly and make a decision from that place of clarity.
Now imagine someone is backing up a huge dump truck to roll a boulder toward you, the lake. Boom! The boulder crashes into the lake, throwing out huge waves and shaking the earth. This time it takes a much longer time for the waters to become clear, with ripples bouncing back from the shore and mud being stirred up. Large decisions (like romantic relationships or big career moves) can take far more time to get clear on.
However, your emotional waters are never completely still - because your chemistry creates waves on its own. As an emotionally defined being, you are more like an ocean, with varying kinds of waves depending on what kind of definition you have. Because of the motor function of the Solar Plexus, you can never get a completely clear picture of decisions. When you're feeling good, everything looks better. When you're feeling bad, everything looks worse. You can only reach a sense of clarity over time as the waters - your emotional waves - keep on moving.
The Most Important thing to Know if Your Solar Plexus is Defined!
If you have the Solar Plexus defined, the most important thing for you to learn is patience, to avoid premature action that your mind or others condition you to take. The capacity to accept what is, to endure nervousness and upsets or elation without acting from the high point of either emotional extreme is of the utmost importance for you to learn.
Patience allows you to experience the "wave" or swing of moods and emotions generated by the Solar Plexus, and practice allows you to make your decisions from a place of clear waters - a place of calm.
Types of Emotional Authority
Did you know there are three kinds of Emotional Authority (different wave frequencies of emotions) caused by the Source wave that generates them? They are the Tribal Racheting, Individual Spike and Collective Crash Waves. Also, there are three Types of Emotional Authority - Manifested, Generated and Projected. Here are some Emotional Authority chart examples below.
Manifested Emotional Authority, Frida Kahlo example chart
FRIDA KHALO (Click link to add to your free Human Design chart Library!)
Frida Kahlo was an Emotional Manifestor with the Individual Spike wave (39-55 Projected and 22-12 Manifested).
Pure Emotional Generator, Richard Branson example chart
RICHARD BRANSON (Click link to add to your free Human Design chart Library)
Richard Branson is a Pure Emotional Generator with the 59-6 Source Wave, which is stable and stalls.
BARACK OBAMA (Click link to add to your free Human Design chart Library!)
Barack Obama is an Emotional Projector with the Abstract Crash wave, which builds with expectations and then crashes.
The Benefits of Patience in Decision-Making
Regardless of the kind of Emotional Authority you have, (Manifested, Generated or Projected) you need time to experience emotional clarity throughout the depth and breadth of your emotional wave. Wait for zero emotional turbulence on decisions before you move forward on anything, as there is no absolute truth in the now for you.
As an emotional being, you are here to know things deeply, experience a full range of emotional experiences. You are here to move forward when you are clear about your impact (Manifestor), response (Generator) or recognitions after having been invited (Projector).
Truth reveals itself as a sense of clarity over time as you experience the myriad of perspectives from riding your emotional wave.
You might also enjoy this article on the Solar Plexus if you’re new to Human Design! Excerpt:
Defined Solar Plexus - Emotional Authority
“If your Solar Plexus is defined, the emotional frequencies of your defined gates above are hardwired into how you consistently experience your life.
Remember to wait out your waves of emotions for decision-making as you have your unique time-frequency. It is not about explaining or controlling your emotions. Release your emotions when and how it feels correct for you; otherwise chaos ensues.
When you repress or stuff your emotions (as many of us are trained to do when raised by unemotional parents) they can cause all kinds of physical problems. Remember to BREATHE and allow the emotion to be felt. In this simple act, you honor who you are as an emotional being, and allow your connection to spirit to be open.
There is "no truth in the now" for you as an emotional being - you are designed to explore and feel things more than others, taking in experiences deeply over time. You simply cannot be in a hurry to make decisions, as you are here to come to profound decisions.
A good rule is to always at least "sleep on it." Be hard to get when it comes to committing your energy to experiences. Correct decisions come from a sense of emotional (not mental) clarity over time.
What matters is your awareness and cultivation of what it feels like to operate correctly. Learning the lessons and experiencing what patience brings allows you to revel in the rewards of being emotional.
What are the rewards? A depth of perception over time which gives a richness and a complexity to life that brings pleasure to us as physical creatures and makes us wonderfully HUMAN.” Laveena Lovick
Here is a private video documenting an emotional crisis I was having earlier this year (2018) in which I was experiencing another “shattering” of my mind’s conditioned reality. One of my esteemed mentor of Human Design is Alokanand Diaz Del Rio, a highly experienced Analyst and Teacher, 1/3 Emotional Manifestor on the Cross of Consciousness. If you’re having a difficult time, I hope it helps you as much as his words helped me.
In our next Authority Article, we will continue with the topic of Sacral Authority.
A portion of this article was written for Jovian Archive, home of the Human Design System, under the birthname Andrea Abay-Abay in 2015, text and images reused with permission.
How to Make Correct Decisions: Human Design System Authority Hierarchy
How to Decide Correctly for You - original article by Andrea Abay-Abay, republished under new name of Laveena Lovick with permission from JovianArchive.com
The Human Design Bodygraph has an Authority Heirarchy
In this article series, “How to Make Correct Decisions Using Your Human Design,” I would like to educate you by presenting the different kinds of Authority in order of hierarchy.
In this first article, let’s cover a bit of a background on where Type and Strategy came from. We’ll also touch on why Mind is never your personal Authority.
When Ra received this knowledge, “the Voice” did not give him Aura Type, Strategy and Authority as we know it today. Ra received the raw substance of Human Design, which he then synthesized through his thousands of readings and teaching his students about how this illusion that we live in functions. Through teaching it as the authority and creator, he structured the Mechanics of the Maia into the "Human Design System, the Science of Differentiation" that we have today.
Entering the place and date of your birth (including the exact time) at “myBodyGraph.com” allows you to create a free account to discover your Human Design. You'll be able to access various graphical views of your Bodygraph, along with written descriptions and audio recordings.
Ra Uru Hu’s Message that he created was Type, Strategy and Authority. It is his legacy to the world that anyone can experiment with for free.
You'll hear Ra Uru Hu, the founder of the Human Design System, explain your Strategy as to when to make decisions, and what your Authority is according to the hierarchy - your way of choosing correctly. Making decisions you trust are as simple as aligning to your inborn nature. Learning all about this complex system is unnecessary to operate correctly; all you need to do is KNOW YOURSELF and experiment with living your design to discover how well it works for you.
Discovered this handy graph on Facebook! Thanks to Mark Germain for creating - Human Design Aura Type Chart Determination
Decision-Making is Navigation through Life
Moving through life and being yourself is about making decisions correctly - deciding what to do in a way that is authentic to the being you truly are. Making decisions authentically as yourself requires that you honor your personal authority. Human Design offers everyone a simple way of helping you discover how you can reliably make the right choices as and for yourself - by being your own Authority.
Strategy and Authority represent the surface of this complex body of knowledge in a way that anyone coming to Design can easily experiment with the System. It doesn't take a lot of effort to verify whether Human Design works for you. Simply experiment with making decisions according to your Strategy and Authority, which can lead you to living a fulfilled life.
Here are the possible Authorities of the Human Design System Manifestor Type
One of the most stunning accuracies provided by the Human Design System is the signature of Type. Signature is the essence of your spirit translated into form in this life. By discriminating what combination of energies in the Rave Bodygraph resulted in which frequencies, Ra associated with each of the Types a special "Keynote" that represents the way they experience fulfillment. Making decisions correctly leads you to the "signature" of your Aura Type - Peace for the Manifestor, Satisfaction for the Generator, Success for the Projector and Surprise for the Reflector. Each of these Types are broad categorizations that have sub-Types - all unified through their expression of Signature - their goal in this life.
Mind is Never Your Authority
Here are the possible Authorities of the Human Design System Generator Types
Not-self conditioning causes your mind to become the false authority. Your deeply conditioned mind attempts to be your authority because it is subject to the adaptive strategies taken on to protect the openness within you. Adaptive strategies such as avoiding confrontation and truth result in not being able to live as yourself.
Mind acts as a spokesperson for the openness in your chart - specifically your undefined centers, as well as bridging gates between areas of your definition if you are a simple split. You can’t turn off your mind’s pratering, but you can watch the interaction between the mind and the Centers to facilitate awareness.
When you are new to your experiment, you'll notice your mind second guesses your Authority, which is a clue as to what to ignore or not believe. Your mind can never know what is right or what is wrong when it comes to making decisions about yourself, because of conditioning. You can't believe anything your mind says about you!
These are the Human Design System’s Centers which never are your personal authority
Like snowflakes, all of us have an exquisitely unique design. Life Force Energy flows through the channels within us all from the Pressure Centers at the Head and Root, to be expressed at the Throat, our Center for communication and manifestation. Like Mind, all three of those Centers are also never an Authority in your life.
Strategy provides the Solution as to When to Decide
The Human Design BodyGraph provides a map of the template for what it is to be human. The kind of energy that is consistently present and active within you determines the holistic frequency of your Aura, which is you. The Aura Types may be only four in number, but there are endless variations of these four found in the world.
All Types are given a simple Strategy for decision making that allows each to bypass the conditioning of their mind and access their Authority. In this article series, we'll cover all Four Aura Types along with their Strategies and possible Authorities. We'll also provide example charts that you can click on to save to your free myBodyGraph Chart Library for your reference.
Here are the possible Authorities of the Human Design System Projector Types
Unique Frequencies of Authority
Separated into two kinds of Personal Authority, here is the hierarchy of the Human Design System’s "Inner Authority" and "Outer Authority."
Inner Authorities:
Solar Plexus
Sacral
Spleen
Heart
G
Outer Authorities (aka No Direct Inner Authority):
Environment (always the Mental Projector Type)
Lunar (always Reflector Type)
Here are the possible Authorities of the Human Design System Reflector Type
Common Human Design Authorities
The Solar Plexus (Emotional Center), Sacral and Splenic Authority Centers are the ones that show up most often in the world, with about half of our population being Emotionally defined.
Often you will see Human Design charts that have one, two or all three of these Centers defined. Once in a while, you'll see a bodygraph with none of them defined. We will cover these and more in future installments of “How to Make Correct Decisions.”
Why Mind is Never Your Authority
The voice inside of your head about yourself and others is NEVER your personal authority. It cannot be, for it is too tainted by conditioning and is not authentic to you. Please watch the video above for the science behind this concept.
I hope you enjoyed this basic introduction to Human Design Authorities. Please share and comment with any questions.
Portions of this article were originally published on JovianArchive.com, reused with permission.
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)
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
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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
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Kali—The Destroyer of False Devotion Gates: 13-The Listener, 49-Principles, 30-Feelings, 55-Spirit
Mitra—The Evolution of Consciousness Gates: 37-Friendship, 63-Doubt, 22-Openness, 36-Crisis
Michael—The Angelical Mind Gates: 25-Spirit of the Self, 17-Opinion, 21-Hunter/Huntress, 51-Shock
Janus—The Fertility of Mind Gates: 42-Growth, 3-Ordering, 27-Caring, 24-Rationalization
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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.
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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:
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Introduction to the Human Design BodyGraph - Centers
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Who you are is written in both pen and pencil.
Penned is your genetic imprint, the definition in your Human Design chart. Definition is how we map out the expression of your DNA.
That part of you written in pencil? That's conditioning. Sometimes it’s not only hard to erase the layers and layers of deeply grooved lines carved into the paper…it’s impossible. Through Human Design, you come to see the beauty of the whole picture, as it is, and that there is nothing to do but be the perfection of you.
Your Strategy and Authority allows you to find true fulfillment - as the witness in the vehicle (body), watching the pencil lines morph to nourish and enhance the masterpiece that is you.
There is an incredible impact the Human Design language has when taken in deeply and contemplated over time.
Think of it like de-programming and re-programming to bring you back into alignment with your being.
This language helps to unlock our human potential via epigenetics, bringing to the surface of our awareness certain truths about ourselves.
Everything is moving, and everything is vibrating. We are all unique combinations of frequency patterns. When you are operating incorrectly, your frequency pattern is dysfunctional.
Human Design is a very precise combination of word frequencies given to and synthesized by Ra Uru Hu in a highly mystical way. Ra's words can penetrate your form and initiate you into a new perspective for a Mystical experience in and of itself.
I hope to inspire you to explore your own Center characteristics by delivering a series of articles in the mystical yet practical language Ra gave us for Human Design.
In Human Design, “Centers” are what we call the geometric shapes located inside the Rave BodyGraph. Nine Centers are responsible for specific functions in our lives and are each associated with particular biological functions of our physical form.
Similar to, but not the same as, the Hindu-Brahmin Chakra System, Human Design Centers are hubs of energy, where information is both received, emitted and transmuted.
Understanding the role and theme of each individual Center, as well as the signposts of how they function correctly or influence behaviors when they are operating incorrectly, can help you tremendously in living out your potential in this life.
Designed to take you on a journey of self-discovery through each of the Centers of the BodyGraph, our progressive exploration through the Centers will delve into the concepts and describe the key terminology associated with each.
I hope this series of articles with videos will give you not only an overview of how Centers function, but also a comprehensive look at key concepts that can help you understand their purpose and power. Each article will also contain further resources that can be of benefit to your journey of deconditioning and the awareness of what is really going on in your world.
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As we progress through the realms of the Human Design BodyGraph, I invite you to contemplate the Center we are highlighting. Consider its characteristics from your personal perspective.
If the center carries consistent definition in you, do you recognize this energy as a part of your true nature?
Is that top triangle colored in yellow at the top of your human design chart?
If the center is open or undefined, do you recognize your mind’s behavior in the commonly experienced “Not-Self” strategies?
Is that top triangle white at the top of your human design chart?
An open center in your BodyGraph is one of the primary receptors of "conditioning" - or outside influences taken into your being. This receptor impacts your mind's decision-making process and creates what the Human Design System calls the Not-Self. The Not-Self leads you to make decisions based on strategies derived from the conditioning rather than your true self.
Conditioning is neither bad nor good - it simply is a fact of life you cannot avoid nor would you want to. Openness is where we live and learn about life, it shows us how we are nurtured by the world and where we are here to be flexible.
If you are unaware of the way you are deeply conditioned through your open centers, it can overwhelm who you are. It can take away the possibility of you living out your true potential.
However, when you are operating correctly, and your mind is no longer making your life's decisions, open centers can be an incredible source of wisdom over time.
When you are not operating in alignment with your Human Design, you may experience resistance. Resistance shows up in the form of the Not-Self Theme according to your Type:
- Anger as a Manifestor
- Frustration as a Generator
(sometimes colored with anger for the Manifesting Generators) - Bitterness or even Resentment as a Projector
- Deep disappointment as a Reflector
Understanding your conditioning is the first step to leading a life as yourself.
Are you ready to understand why you are experiencing resistance, confusion and pain?
Are you ready to transform to embrace a life filled with peace, satisfaction, success and surprise (delight at the changes life brings) instead?
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a version of this article originally published by JovianArchive.com as Andrea Abay-Abay. Republished with permission.
Secrets of being a "Non-Sacral" Projector, Manifestor or Reflector
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Being Authentic in the Generator's World
If you are a Manifestor (Innovator Career Type), Projector (Advisor Career Type) or Reflector (Evaluator Career Type), do you find yourself tired more often than not?
As one of the approximately 33% of humans who are non-Sacral, If you are chronically tired or often exhausted, this Human Design article might be one of the most important you ever read. Suspend your judgment if you are new to Human Design... experiment and see for yourself.
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The primary thing non-Sacral Beings have in common is the lack of definition in the Sacral Center. However, the similarity stops there. Non-Sacral beings can be as different as night and day—indeed, 1% of the population are Lunar beings, the Reflectors. They are here to be the evaluators of who is different, and they experience life very differently compared to the rest of us who are what Ra termed "Solar beings."
We Projectors, Manifestors and Reflectors, we non-Sacral beings, have a tendency to be addicted to the Generator's yummy sacral energy. What happens when we identify with this live-force and amplify it for long periods of time is we end up living not as ourselves, but as false super-Generators, and end up burned-out. If you're a non-Sacral, do you recognize this?
Imagine a really hard-working, overzealous super-worker who never knows when to quit when it comes to work, play, and sex. Perhaps slaving after others, thinking we need to do something ourselves or it won't be done right.
We non-Sacrals just never know when enough is enough. We can be ignorant of (when we are younger) or distraught about our inability to keep up sustained activity without severe detriment to our health. Chronic levels of energy depletion, fatigue, physical and mental exhaustion, burnout, and frequent illnesses are often the results. Lack of self-esteem because we can't keep up with the pace of the world (this is especially true for the non-energy Types, Projectors and Reflectors).
We live in a homogenized world inundated with messages such as "You can do anything you put your mind to," and "Nothing worth having comes easy" with varying beliefs exalting the virtues of hard work. However, this world does not know that some of us are simply not built to be vitalized by work or find it energizing, even when we may truly enjoy what we do.
The Work/Life Balance Myth
There's a flawed assumption in our western society that "work" is draining and non-work is automatically restorative. It's not true.
Can you remember a time in your life when you became so completely absorbed in and energized by a task that it just didn't feel like work?
Can you remember a time when you came back from the holiday and felt like you needed to recover from your vacation before going back to work?
Doing what you love for work and play, as well as intelligently managing your energy is good advice no matter your Type. However, it is essential for non-Sacral beings to manage their time and precious energy in a way that supports their body that is vastly different from a Generator’s.
It can be a real eye-opener to stop the running on the treadmill of "keeping up with the Joneses," to take stock of your life and allow yourself to enter into anything only according to your Strategy and Authority, rather than what your mind thinks you should do.
What I found personally is that it took a long time to let go of from the guilt-ridden feeling I had that I needed to work really hard to prove my value as a person.
What you may find as you begin to enter into more things that are in alignment with your true essence is your life becomes more vitalizing to you instead of draining. Rather than being dragged down by resistance that comes when you are operating from the mind, there is a vibrancy, a sense of clarity and purpose that emanates from your being. You become more at ease in your skin. The decisions you make lead to the perfect balance of restorative or depleting activities for you. You begin to live your true purpose.
No Manifestor, Projector, or Reflector has a mechanism for knowing when to quit. When deeply conditioned, we can ignore our body’s warning signs and “keep on keeping on” until we simply, physically, literally just can't go on anymore. This is one of the most dangerous things you can do as far as your health is concerned if you are non-Sacral. You need to create boundaries around business and mating, even things you do for fun. Implement healthy habits and use protective techniques that honor the inconsistency of your energy. You're not here to labor hard, but rather, to learn to be wise about work and the efficient use of energy.
Work Tips for Non-Sacrals
Delegating and outsourcing are wise practices for a non-Sacral. Remember that you are not the one to be doing, doing, doing and going, going, going all the time. An objection that may come up is—"but someone needs to do all these things! If not me, then who?" My answer to this is that you may have to change your mind about how your live should be lived. Are you ready for a real change in perspective, and therefore, your experience of life? Here's the secret: You've got to learn let go of believing what your mind is saying inside your head about yourself to be the end-all-be-all of Truth for you.
It’s helpful to learn to manage your energy more efficiently through following Strategy and Authority rather than initiating from the dictates of your mind. You mind is here to measure and be of value to others, NOT to make decisions for you about your life. Learn the values of planning and prioritizing, as well as refraining from over-committing—which can happen when you don’t know when enough is enough.
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Accept that things get done when they get done—and it’s all ok. Mastering the discipline of following your Strategy and Authority provides correct timing and discernment.
Each non-Sacral is here for a very particular purpose according to their unique design. Manifestors are here to initiate and inform and have impact. Projectors are here to know others, advise and guide the process. Reflectors are here to be barometers of the health of their community and let us know how everything is going.
No matter how enjoyable or vitalizing you may find your work or play, you are not designed to sustain consistent effort or output of energy over the long term without adequate periods of rest (generally more than what sacral beings require). What works best for non-Sacrals is living a lifestyle that provides a unique balance. What you do to support yourself materially needs to allow you the flexibility of controlling when and how you work, and compensates you according to the value you bring to the table. Caring for your body and respecting its limitations are critical to your health and well-being as a non-Sacral Type.
Though everyone can be prone to overwork and fatigue through over commitment, non-Sacrals need to pay special attention to get regular and possibly prolonged periods of rest to avoid burnout. All Types find different kinds of activities assist their recovery. Participate in the activities that renew your energy, rather than add additional stress or drain you.
Dispelling the Energy Vampire Myth
Ra would often joke about us as “parasites,” saying that Generators are the Life-Force of the planet and that without them, life would perish. A common misunderstanding of the mechanics that arises among newcomers (which can happen when words or phrases can be taken out of context and spread) is that non-Sacrals are energy vampires.
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When you look at a Human Design bodygraph, you can see the juxtaposition of the neutrino imprinting (which is colored in) with your receptivity (which is white). The white areas are where you are receptive to conditioning—you amplify that energy. Just as giving someone a hug doesn't drain the love out of them, but creates more feelings of love, so too do our undefined centers amplify the energy of the beings we are around. Just as a non-emotional being amplifies the emotional energy of the defined Solar Plexus being, we non-Sacrals do not drain Sacral beings of energy but rather, magnify it.
Frequency Distortion
When you turn speakers up very loud, the sound becomes distorted; so too can that sacral energy get distorted within you if you are amplifying sacral energy beyond your capacity to handle it. It can then be draining to others who are experiencing your frequency in a way that is not in alignment with your true nature.
We all put into others the frequency of our Aura; our definition is what we are broadcasting. ANY person can be "off" in frequency, and taking that in can be very uncomfortable where you are open. This can be why you feel drained rather than energized when you are around other people, or if you are in their presence for too long.
Just as you as a non-Sacrals is not designed to work hard for extended periods, neither are you designed to be exposed to the power of the Sacral amplified in your system 24/7. A Generator’s powerful energy can “fry your circuits” if you don’t give yourself breaks from it.
To know when enough is enough, follow your body by using Strategy and Authority in decision-making. Living your design allows the body's innate knowing to guide you. This is preferable to using the deeply conditioned mind which leads you off our true path and often into dangerous territory. Switching to following the body is a difference in frequency you can FEEL in your form. Fatigue, burnout, and exhaustion are frequent body signposts when you do not manage your personal energy resources wisely. You aren't designed for the Generator lifestyle.
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Sleep Alone
One of the more controversial (to newcomers) yet highly recommended and valuable practices the Human Design System has to offer is sleeping in your own Aura. Experiment with distancing yourself from the Aura of others at a set bedtime. Not only will this allow your system the break that it needs to discharge the energy of others, but it will allow you space and time to wind down and ease yourself into sleep.
You may find that this break gives you time for your system to settle and to clean out your Aura.
Your body can more fully recharge and rejuvenate when you are not revved up by being around others. Your sleep time is when you are most vulnerable to conditioning. Give yourself the gift of space to go to sleep alone—see how it works to improve your energy levels over time.
Strategy and Authority
Are you ready for a change in your life? Would you like to try something really different and see if it works? Follow Strategy and Authority to establish healthy boundaries around the themes of the Sacral; particularly in work, play, and sex. Rather than being always available for these things, be very discerning in using your inconsistent energy. Following Strategy and Authority are the only ways to protect you from falling into the trap of the mind and living out the homogenization of the conditioned world.
When you trust in your design, you'll get the most fulfilling life—the career, friends, experiences, places to live and lovers that are exactly right for you. Trust the process of watching rather than attempting to control your life movie. Experience your differentiation—the life you were born for, that only your authentic self can live.
A version of this article appeared originally on JovianArchive.com under the name Andrea Abay-Abay, updated and republished with permission.
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