Perceptual Attunement: Seeing Correctly Through your Aligned Human Design Viewpoint
Radical Transformations using the Human Design System
Some inspiration from our Radical Transformations, which is also included in Professional Analyst Training Level 1, Year 1.
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A question about the Human Design Nodes and Perspective/Transference
This is a question from a student in one of my Human Design professional certification classes.
"Quick question about the Nodes. I always assumed that once we're aligned, we see through that particular lens all the time. I just wanted to confirm if that was true or if there is a 'now you see it, now you don't' interplay happening? There's always the ebb and flow, coming to know things through contrast. As I'm writing this, I'm suddenly thinking about transference always being part of the cognitive process, which might account for the 'now you don't' counterbalance. My 27.4 South Node is in an undefined center pointed at an open gate 50. So my mind is conditioned to think about and learn about it in that way, which it does all the time. It primes the way I frame every encounter and moment by moment experience. Can I trust this to be natural, or might it be obsessive?"
The magnetic monopole is the agent that holds our personality and design together in an illusion that we are separate from each other. The Design North Node and Personality South Nodes are called "Link Nodes" and connect our design and personality. The Nodes are the windows of your vehicle. When you look out of the vehicle, most of us will see things primarily in two ways: either our perspective or our distraction. That vacillation between the two will always be there.
This information is not about trying to avoid being distracted by your color transference. It's about watching the counterpoint of your view and knowing when the windows are foggy—your distraction—to do your best to observe what happens when you can follow your body vs. when the conditioned mind moves you. When you operate and "see" correctly, out pops your motivation when in alignment for action. This information not about controlling how you see or trying to see things differently. Ra simplified everything down to follow your strategy and authority and to watch the movie because you will see it if you can be aware of it.
Ra teaches that if you are NOT operating correctly (strategy and authority) and the body isn't aligned to the correct determination and environment, your magnetic monopole will not have the right capture frequency. Therefore, your perspective will be distracted. Now, as when riding in a car, you will see the terrain shift. Your attunement to seeing the objects as you ride along the highway of life will ALWAYS be sensitized to seeing your nodal environment gates. Always. Because this is the environment where you can fulfill your purpose.
Nodes are the stage upon which your life is set, your storyline which you carry around with you no matter where you go. This cross of life is the framework for where you be (design) and how you see (personality). When someone has your nodal gates in their design, you are attracted to either seeing them (conscious) or being around them (unconscious). If they have the Sun/Earth in exact lines, you may feel an unexplainable draw to them for you to fulfill your karmic connection with them.
We are on choiceless geometries. Surrender to watching your movie move and just witness, see, be aware. Let the body move you. What I call "Nodal draw" can be applied to all life cycles wherein someone comes into your life, and they are simply part of your life cycle seeing—beyond this class's scope to explain in detail here.
We address this in a Life Cycles Analysis and Cycles Certification. An undefined nodal gate is a strong hook, a conditioning receptor of the undefined center.
What causes Center conditioning?
Decision-making from adaptive mental strategies. Anyone or a transit lights up that center through definition. Example of having gate 27 as a node: Your mind becomes obsessed with gate 50's themes of "responsibility, either avoiding it or taking on too much because of fear." YOU CAN NEVER TRUST YOUR MIND'S MENTAL PROCESS ABOUT YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES. This is because it is never reliable, it is always conditioned by life and who you are with, especially as a Projector.
If all nodes in someone's design are in an undefined state, the ride is much bumpier in that there is not the same consistency in the being's life, and the spirit (auric signature) can be broken. So those of us (I am one of them) who have all undefined nodes are more likely to have real inconsistencies in the path we are walking and the people we walk them with over our lifetimes.
An Introduction to Hexagram Line Substructure: Color
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"Very few people have a connection to this system at a level below the Hexagram line. Below the line is where the science is—the verification of Human Design at its deepest level." Ra Uru Hu
Once you have experimented with your Strategy and Authority for at least 6 months to a year, you may be ready to move deeper into discovering yourself.
Would you like to dive below the Line to discover when you are operating correctly, and when you aren’t?
Color gives you a powerful tool to help you live as yourself, stay healthy, and take your Human Design experiment and the experience of your life to a deeper level.
Why should you care about your Color? The benefits are many. It can make your life easier by helping you understand how best to feed and care for your body, and what qualities of the environments you frequent are most nourishing to you. How do you see the world differently? How are you best motivated to take action?
“Color” describes the neutrino expression from being filtered by your Personality and Design crystals—it is what determines the secret codes to unlock your highest potential in terms of your physical health and psychology.
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The Substructure of the Hexagram Lines
Underneath the level of all hexagram Lines, the Human Design System describes further nuances of each Gate—labeled Color, Tone, and Base. Each Line of every one of your Gates carries has a ‘substructure’—containing one of six Colors, further differentiating those colors to one of six Tones and below that, one of five Bases.
Primary Health System (the Unconscious Design)
1. Dietary Regimen
2. Environment
Health problems seen in the symptoms of a body that isn't functioning at its optimum can be encouraged back into alignment using Strategy and Authority, then looking below the line to the Design Crystal, at the Color level.
Color exiting the Crystal correctly or not can either bring you towards or away from what is right for your body. This leads you to take in the nourishment for your body on the inside or outside that either supports your differentiation or homogenizes you. The ‘transference’ shows what you’ll be attracted to that has the power to homogenize you.
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Rave Psychology (the Conscious Personality)
3. Perspective (View)
4. Motivation
Color transference is called “distraction” when it happens in the Personality Crystal from the nodal perspective, causing distortion in your perception of reality. When it happens from the Sun/Earth level, it's called "transference", and can lead you to be motivated to action incorrectly.
One of the most exciting and fascinating things to witness in your experiment is when you get to that place of actually catching yourself in transference/distraction, because it leads to the passenger being aware of whether actions are correct, and to awareness of the helplessness of being consciousness in form. It’s an alert to the mind that something is “off” that is subtle yet profound, and it’s then that Ra tells us to ask ourselves “Who’s watching?” This brings us in touch with being the witness, the passenger in our bodies, watching the movie of our lives.
Again, first before experimenting with this information: be correct at the surface before moving down below the surface of the line, and you’ll find this depth of the knowledge much richer and more rewarding.
Time to Wake-Up to Yourself
We have the techniques to realize our differentiated uniqueness, to witness life as an awake being. We have the potential to be aware filters of the neutrino field flowing through us. Everyone alive now is here with the possibility of experiencing that neutrino field when it filters through our Crystals as authentic, unique, individuated and empowered inner truth. Experiencing your own self-reflected consciousness in form is quite a thing to witness.
To discover your personal truth, experiment with your Strategy and Authority, and if that leads you to Color, explore the Four Transformations. Find out for yourself what it's like to journey a path that is only yours to tread. You’re not here to be copied: with no footprints to follow, no one to carry you, and leaving no trace, your journey is a grand adventure, and you’re its sole primary witness. We are all of us alone on this journey, waking up individually, one person at a time. Enjoy your movie!
Written for Jovian Archive. Republished with permission.
Note: One of the most important cognitive tools for non-energy types (Projector/Advisor and Reflector/Evaluator) is Motivation, which is derived from Color and is an aspect of Rave Psychology. I highly recommend all Strategic [LEFT ARROW] Personality mind, check out Motivation IF your Authority agrees it’s time to observe your mind objectively. If you have a Passive [RIGHT ARROW] Brain system, it is best to start off experimenting with the 1st of the Four Radical Transformations (Primary Health System, the Determination which is your Dietary Regimen). Here is a quote from Ra about this fascinating subject of Motivation.
"I look at motivation and I see it as the deepest challenge that is there for anyone who is trying to complete this holistic process of transformation and awakening. The personality is always a dilemma. The mind and its deep connection with the vehicle and its desire to maintain its control over the direction of the life, the fears that human beings have, how easy it is for the mind to be able to jump in and start taking control and making decisions in the life. In understanding the purity of the natural world, it’s also there to inspire you. We, too, can return to the purity of that consciousness field, but not at that level obviously, we are different. We are far superior when it comes to the infrastructure mechanism for the potential of mental cognition. We have these tremendous brains. We have an extraordinary possibility of expression through the self-reflected process of mind.
Our dilemma is that mind has never been trained to see. Mind has only been trained to be in control of a runaway vehicle. And of course, the frustration or the anger or the disappointment or the bitterness that comes with being unable to hold onto this runaway vehicle and control it. Oh, how important it is to work with your mind, to exercise your mind, to recognize transference. For you to see clearly what is correct for you, to see what motivation lies underneath and to not allow it to drift. And it requires simply an attentive mind. Well “simply”, it’s a nice way of saying it. It’s quite a thing to get your mind to just stop being concerned about your life, stop insisting on wanting to make decisions.
The longer that I do this, I’ve tried so many ways to explain to people that when you use your strategy, decision making seems so straightforward. And that the mind cannot make the decision, it can’t. If your mind makes the decision you’ve lost your cognition. You do not have the right motivation. You cannot be the being that you’re intended to be. And you can only have that kind of attentiveness of mind when it’s relaxed, when it can kick up its feet in the back seat of the limo, make itself really comfy, have a nice, nice view and watch the movie. And watch the movie driven in the way that it’s correct so that you see with the perspective that is essential to the expression of your unique awareness. It is what we’re here for.
We’re not like the beast on the savanna. Oh yes, I can romanticize the beauty of the natural order, the beauty of the consciousness field in the grasp of the planetary program. But we’re much, much different than that. We are not here to herd and homogenize, to all run blindly in the program together. That’s ok if you’re sheep in the field. There is no other consequence. There is no awakening as a possibility. But for us to follow our motivation is to follow the road to our uniqueness, our unique mind and the beauty of our unique mind.
This is what it’s for. It’s for the seeing. And you see in context, the context that your motivation gives you. And it is that very seeing, what you can grasp from that, that you can express as outer authority, what gives you value to the other. There are so many relationships in a life, but what do you remember? The ones that gave you something, an inspiration, a truth, honesty, love, whatever, but that’s what we remember. It’s what means something to us. We all crave outer authority, unique outer authority, like children in a high school that pray that there will be a teacher that can turn them on, because it’s important for us. We need outer authority. But not just the old homogenized.
This is the time to break away from that, to express unique authority. You can only do that when you are properly motivated, correctly motivated. It is only then that you have access to the cognition underneath. It is only then that you can make intelligent observations, and your intelligence, your gift, your specialization." Ra Uru Hu
(Excerpted from "Color Consciousness: Beyond the Gate" by Ra Uru Hu)
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?