Human Design Variable - Practical Transformation

What is Variable according to Human Design?

Variable is an advanced area of the Human Design System which offers you an in-depth look at your cognitive design and uniqueness. It provides you with a clear, practical map for the transformation of your awareness and therefore how you experience your life. It is a key to “enlightenment.”

”Variable addresses what Strategy and Authority cannot: correctness in the realms of mind and awareness. It guides us in aligning the mind to its natural intelligence, rather than attempting to align it with the Not-Self. This alignment makes possible a deeper harmony with our Design, greater peace of mind and, ultimately, connects us to our potential and our journey of transformation.” JovianArchive.com

Type organizes humans into four Aura frequencies that each share a particular approach to life. This “Strategy” enables us to live with less resistance and provides a base for our unique Authority. Variable is a calculation that organizes us into one of the 16 Variable families, pointing out the nature of our awareness patterns and the evolution of our consciousness.

”Awareness is a physical practice of a mechanical process. Type is to Form what Variable is to Awareness.” Dr. Andrea Reikl-Wolf, Geneticist and Differentiation Degree teacher at the International Human Design School.

Variable reveals the four areas of transformation potential for all nine-centered beings. Variable points you to the way you are designed to operate optimally and how you are designed to take in information and experience awareness.

Do you know if you are designed to have an Active or Passive brain, and are you designed to be the Observed or the Observer in your environment? Is your Mind designed to function Strategically or Receptively, and is your awareness Focused or Peripheral?

Do you have an active brain, which needs regular nourishment and more food, or a passive brain, which needs less?

“There is no greater revolution in this knowledge than the understanding, beyond Inner Authority, that there is such a thing as Leftness and Rightness when it comes to the brain/mind system and how it operates. It is the most important knowledge we have for the transformation of our consciousness.” 

~ Ra Uru Hu

Variable is found at a very deep level of your genetic makeup. When you operate correctly, you have the potential to be able to live out the possibility of your full uniqueness and the expression of your Type's signature (peace, satisfaction, success, surprise) when accurately aligned to what is correct for you.

How is my Human Design Variable determined?

Your Variable calculation is derived from a combination of both your Personality and Design Sun and Earth as well as your North and South Nodes of the Moon.

Detailed through Jovian Archive’s Human Design software (Maia Mechanics Advanced Imaging) and free to find out when you use Jovian Archive’s online Human Design chart service, Variable comes from a deeper level than the surface of the Human Design bodygraph. Beneath the hexagram lines, there are three values named Color, Tone, and Base. Tone is the inner frequency of the neutrino’s movement through your Personality and Design crystals; and this inner architecture of what we call the crystals of consciousness is what determines your Variable.

Tone describes important aspects of your unique genetic makeup, determining how your physical and psychological comprehension functions.

Why should I find out my Human Design Variable?

Variable is to Awareness what Type is to Form; a tool for transformation. It is knowledge that can truly make a difference in not only your Human Design experiment, but also your life experience.

As a 9-Centered Being, you are a uniquely individual consciousness with the potential to be specifically differentiated according to your unique Human Design. As humans, we are designed to have a very particular way in which our intelligence expresses itself. I like to think of it as the way each of us can experience how our superpower shines when we are operating correctly. In Human Design, we call this unique intelligence potential Cognition.

Tone is the foundation of how our cognition is structured. Cognition is the result of your unique perceptions: cognition is your subjective process of knowing through sensing, experiencing, thinking, and understanding. The central theme of the way our evolution functions is that everything alive is designed to interact with cognition - learning, remembering, and using knowledge - to ensure survival.

The development of our unique cognitive potential is unlocked through the catalyst of Strategy and Authority. But walking through the door and continuing down the path takes a strong commitment to your experiment, and Variable can truly help here. Following this information through to full understanding of how it applies to you can transform your awareness at a level that is beyond anything you can think of from the homogenized perception that most of the world experiences.

Most of us are highly conditioned to see the world the way the majority sees and judges it. Homogenized consciousness comes from your thoughts; intelligence and awareness expressed out of the deeply conditioned openness in your design.

These keys are valuable tools for transformation of awareness that can make a tremendous difference in your process. They can also give you practical clues that help you to support the optimal functioning of your physical system, including your brain, which in turn can support the optimal functioning of your mind.

Meeting your Human Design Variables

Design Sun/Earth

At a physical level, Variable describes whether your brain is designed to be Active or Passive. Active brains are very busy and need more food to sustain a higher level of strategic mental activity. So, knowing that your brain is Active and that you need regular meals to maintain optimal brain functioning can be very healthy for you so that you plan ahead and don't skip meals. You are designed to deal with heat more easily than the Passive Brain people.

Personality Sun/Earth

At a psychological level, Variable describes whether you have a Strategic or Receptive mind. Our society primarily values the strategic functioning of mind and those of us with Receptive minds invariably wound up feeling less than capable when we were unable to excel or fit in, a process that begins early on at school and continues to affect us throughout our lives.

Knowing how you are designed to take in information allows you to take advantage of your optimal functioning, giving you the gift of understanding so that you can relax and trust your capacity to move through life correctly.

Nodes of the Moon

Your Personality and Design Nodes establish the framework for your form's true potential for awareness to be developed and experienced.

Design Nodes

Variable describes whether you are designed to be the Observer or the Observed. When you delve into the Tone itself (the Four Transformations) here is where you can discover what environment is most healthy for you to live, work and play in.

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Optimal longevity, well-being and the likelihood of expressing the fullest potential of your unique purpose are highly prized benefits of operating correctly in your appropriate environment that result in a most efficient mental awareness and a better quality of life.

Personality Nodes

Variable also points us to the way we are designed to ‘SEE’ correctly - how we take in information in our environment. This way of seeing sets the whole foundation for how we deal with the world - in either a Focused or a Peripheral way.

When you are operating correctly in your environment, truly being able to see as yourself gives you the opportunity to offer your authentic outer authority to others.

Four Arrows, 16 Unique Combinations

The primary benefit of Human Design is discovering how you are designed to make correct decisions. Your self-understanding can be considerably deepened by understanding each of your Variables. These vital keys help guide your way as you walk down the path of awareness so that you have the potential to come into contact with the highest level of consciousness and cognitive functioning possible from your system.

Ra recorded a video series on the 16 Variables each one consisting of a group of people with those particular configurations. As a consummate 5/1 Profile, Ra gave the foundation of Variable in each video, including an overview of the evolutionary movement of our species from the all-Left to the all-Right and the human cognitive architecture.

Ra also covered the differences between Right and Left, and the specifics of each Variable’s four transformations. We invite you to discover the practical information you need, particular to your unique Variable configuration, so that you can take advantage of this information and experience the benefits it can bring. Watch your video now.

Have you seen the benefits of knowing your Variable? Please share your experiences, comments and questions about Variable with our Human Design community. We welcome your feedback and input. Your contributions develop an awareness of the possibilities of what Human Design can do for us all to raise our level of consciousness and support each other on our journey of discovering our uniqueness and living the lives we were born for.

By Certified Analyst Laveena Archers, Differentiation Degree Practitioner and Variable Teacher.
A version of this article was originally published in 2015 on JovianArchive.com

How to Work Best as a Manifesting Generator (BG5 Career Type: Express Builder)

How To Access Your Natural Power as an Express Builder

This BG5 article is the first in a Career Type series written by invitation for the BG5 Business Institute. My intention is to help you comprehend your unique career type. I recommend you subcribe to notifications so you don't miss the complete series designed to improve your communication with colleagues, clients, co-workers and bosses. Empowering your inter-relational skills—by adjusting to the way each person needs to be interacted with according to his or her nature—yields optimum results in the workplace.

In this article, we are focusing on the Express Builder, a sub-type of Builder, one of the most vital and abundant of the four basic career types. Not sure what type you are? Click here to get a free BG5 sample report and discover yours now!

Knowing your career type gives you a straightforward tool for decision-making. Career type is a core component of how to make choices you trust and use your precious energy in the right way, aligned with your natural strengths, talents, and gifts.

It's vital to your well-being and overall work-life balance to operate in alignment with your physical capabilities. There are two types of Builders: Express Builders and Classic Builders.

Below we’ll hear from Express Builders with different optimal ways of making decisions so you can get various perspectives on what it’s like to be an Express Builder.

How to Avoid Express Builder Career Type Pitfalls

Constant frustration leads to career dissatisfaction and reduced efficiency at work and in business 

If you're an Express Builder, do you end up wasting your time and energy "spinning your wheels" and feeling stuck despite working hard? Are you feeling like you are running fast but getting nowhere. Are you profoundly frustrated, even angry or unsatisfied with how you spend your days?

The reason for this discomfort and dissatisfaction comes down to using your energy resources incorrectly. Your BG5 career type gives you a decision-making strategy that tells you how to utilize your energy most healthfully. As an Express Builder, you use your power most effectively when you provide the strength to move things along quickly, to build and create in response to what your life asks you to do.

You can only “go, go, go!” speedily and healthfully if you’re doing something that feels meaningful and satisfying to you personally. What you do helps you discover who you are - for yourself. So if you do things for others that is not in response, for whatever reason, you are eventually going to end up with challenges. Saying yes to everything a particular person asks for because of whatever role they play in your life, and subjugating your own needs for the sake of external validation (their approval) is just one example of how you can be led off track.

Are you following your Gut Responses?

Ignoring your body’s responses and slaving away at something you don't enjoy can quickly burn out your generative energy, and even if you do manifest something, it won’t feel deeply rewarding or satisfying. You could force yourself to “go, go, go” in unhealthy ways by doing things that you don’t enjoy. Do you find that your career isn’t entirely satisfying or as materially successful as it could be? If you're doing things that you’re not designed to do, saying yes because of outside forces and having a hard time saying no, or you’re preoccupied with doing a lot of "busy work" that is not personally rewarding, likely it's because you're not following your gut responses. If you have the additional strategy of Wait for Clarity, you need to feel out your responses over a period of time.

Can you recognize that your satisfaction depends on doing the work you love and loving the work that you do? Your life's work is vitally important to your overall health and your overall well-being. If you are not doing what you like to do and loving what you do, your health eventually will suffer.

How to Know the BG5 Express Builder Career Type

Express Builders are designed to express pure, consistent power, a generative vitality in answer to what life asks of them. Their response can be a guttural sound or a sensation that emanates from the core of their being, and if their Energy Resource Function is connected to the Communication and Action Function, then articulation and response can be lightning-fast! Express Builders can "skip steps" in response, providing significant energy to quickly move projects along to successful completion.

If you're an Express Builder, you are built to enjoy an effective process of getting things done that you enjoy doing, things your body responds to with speed and energy. You find meaning and reward in using your life-force in alignment with your passions.

As an Express Builder, you’re part of 35% of a group of people (Builders) gifted with a natural built-in generative vitality that knows through response what it has the energy to do quickly. Your career type allows you to “go, go, go” —like an Energizer bunny sped up in fast forward!

Your outlet is your passion, your creative life-force in response, the work that you enjoy doing or the activities in which you can “lose yourself” in order to discover who you are for yourself. Following your passions in response is a source of powerful regenerative energy for you.

Plugging into this outlet daily until it’s time to wind down for bed is healthy for you. Then get into a comfortable relaxed position with your feet up and continue to work on whatever it is you enjoy until you “run out of juice.” This helps you to sleep soundly and revitalizes you for another day of satisfyingly expending your energy in alignment with your purpose.

Avoid Career Burnout - Do Only What You Love!

No matter what Career Type you are, there are grave consequences in not using your energy correctly. Not using your energy successfully leads to issues like chronic overwhelm, depression, stress-related ailments, exhaustion, burnout and overall unhappiness.

 

How Express Builders Best Use Energy for Maximum Results

Unfortunately, we face a grave problem in our workplaces. Many people slave away at jobs they hate - trapped in their own minds’ justifications for why they "have to" do the work they do and why they are unable to choose to do what they love to do. Read this article for how BG5 solves the issue of Employee Engagement.

How can you as an Express Builder use your power correctly?

The QUALITY of how you use your energy is important. Your gut tells you, moment to moment, what it has the energy to do. If you have the Emotional Intelligence Function defined then you need to Respond with your gut in right timing. Observe yourself in “the flow” and watch correct actions arise and move through you.

Key to Manifesting Generator Decision-Making: Wait to Respond to Life As it Comes to You

As an Express Builder, that natural source of generative energy is designed to be entirely used up by the end of every day with activities you enjoy. You are intended to be able to “go, go, go” only in response to what life asks of you (as it moves towards you first) - not what your mind thinks you "have to do,” “should do,” or “are supposed to do."

The energy with which you commit yourself to a project or endeavor flavors the entire experience. If you’re following your gut response to use your power in a practical, productive way, in a way that brings you an internal feeling of satisfaction, then you can build a meaningful life.

How to Comprehend an Express Builder's "Response-ability"

Each Express Builder has a unique purpose he or she is here to fulfill. Their strength can be tapped into for their personal satisfaction through following their gut response in action from moment, to moment, no matter what fears or reasons their mind might use to persuade them to not follow their body’s innate intelligence.

What does the Express Builder's response feel like? Here are some answers from Express Builders in their own words:

“For me, I get a pull towards the things that are a yes response or a push away from the things that are a no. I do also hear an inner ‘uh huh’ for yesses. For ‘no’ I hear nothing. I find that when something is very correct for me, I just can’t take my attention off of it - much like my experience in learning and applying BG5.” Rob Thomas, Express Builder, Follow Your Gut decision-making authority

 

“I have a two part process because my decision-making strategy includes waiting for emotional clarity. So although I may sense something is correct for me by the excitement around it, the clarity is not there immediately. I will continue to receive inner nudges that inspire me to reassess or take action once the timing is right. Trusting the process is key for me since it occurs over time.” Melissa Jean, Express Builder with Wait for Clarity decision-making authority

 

“What I have witnessed is my response is quick. There is not always a gutteral noise but there is a movement towards something or not. It is fast. It happens without thought for sure…. Of course, while in conversation, I hear the sacral noises, I nod or shake my head and the sacral also loves to giggle...however, when it comes to decisions, for me, it is usually a body movement.” Leann Wolff, Express Builder, Follow Your Gut decision-making authority

 

“I totally align with the description of my Energy Resource response being a ‘feeling of being drawn and pulled toward something’ – as in ‘I am compelled and could do no other’. My energy force takes over.... My choice point is, do I move forward in the zone feeling present, engaged and satisfied? Or do I unconsciously ride my so-not-present emotional wave, totally barricaded in my intellect, feeling absolutely frustrated – as are the people around me. ” Tuck Self, Express Builder, Wait For Clarity decision-making authority

Two Helpful Express Builder Keys for Maximum Satisfaction

All of us broadcast our energy in unique ways. Each one of us has a simple signpost that will immediately let us know if we are delivering static, or producing clear communication.

How do you know if you’re on the right track or not? How do you know if you’re off track? When it comes to using your energy correctly, owning your uniqueness, communication and what you’re broadcasting, an essential guidepost for each Career Type helps us know when we’re on-track and when something’s off.

Express Builder On-track: Satisfaction

What Does Career Satisfaction Feel like to you?

How do you know if you’re transmitting static or clear communication? The simple answer is if it feels right, you’re on-track. Each Career Type has a signpost of how that consistently shows up. For you as an Express Builder, we call this Satisfaction.

From the Express Builder’s perspective:

“I would describe it as being ‘in flow.’ You know what I mean? We have all felt this in one way or another. Things just ‘seem’ to go right and you hope and wish it never ends. I find what brings me satisfaction is getting things done. Moving things forward. Ever felt the satisfaction of marking the line through the ‘to-do’ item? Yes! Feels great right?” Rob Thomas, Express Builder, Follow Your Gut decision-making strategy
 

“For me it is a very upbeat energy that leads me to singing or humming while I am engaged with the activities. It is like a natural flow that I am enjoying, moving from one thing to the next with ease. Shining the light on others and supporting them definitely elicits satisfaction from within me.” Melissa Jean, Express Builder, Wait for Clarity decision-making strategy
 

“Satisfaction feels like a big sigh of relief...It just feels yummy. My energy is working and happy. There is zero tension in the muscular, fascia, or organs. There is just a relaxed state.” Leann Wolff, Express Builder, Follow Your Gut decision-making strategy
 

“I end up in what feels like ‘the zone.’ I am present, relaxed, focused and indeed, SATISFIED. Satisfaction also brings a sense of completion with the person, experience or circumstance. In this completion, I trust the lesson received from the response, and ‘throw’ the experience away.” Tuck Self, Express Builder, Wait for Clarity decision-making strategy

Express Builder Off-track: Frustration

Are you Frustrated in your Career or at Work?

If it feels terrible; you get frustrated to the point of anger where you want to just give up and quit (or another example: imagine the sensation of trying to move through hip-deep mud - and you hate being dirty!), you’re off-track. One of the gifts of knowing your Career Type is owning the signpost of being off-track. Frustration is like the bumps in the middle or the sides of a road that warn you it’s time to course-correct. If not, your career and, eventually, your health is in jeopardy!

From the Express Builder’s perspective:

“Unfortunately I really identify with this one as a result of not having this information for the first 44 years of my life. Most of my life I have been going out ‘to make it happen.’ This NEVER worked for me. I have attached myself to every outcome which has caused me frustration almost every time because no-thing shows up in the way or on the timeline that my mind wants it to. Being in sales we are ordered to go out and make it happen - no wonder the planet despises salespeople!” Rob Thomas, Express Builder
 

“Frustration is very familiar to me, it is definitely the red flag that grabs my attention. I have come to recognize this as the reminder to let go, breathe and relax. Whatever was pushing me to act a certain way no longer has a hold and I allow peace to wash over me. I care more about feeling good than whatever I was attempting to do. Once I am aligned, other possibilities open up.” Melissa Jean, Express Builder
 

“Frustration is so not fun!! If I am doing something I did not respond ‘yes’ to...the not-self mind just jumps right on it and really gets me stirred up. I hate everything and everyone and it is not a pretty sight. It is mentally exhausting. My body, however, is only exhausted when I am in Satisfaction...which is healthy because I know I have used my body to build correctly.” Leann Wolff, Express Builder
 

“Frustration shows up in my Energy Resource response as a gut tension. Literally my gut tightens. From this point, I’ll either retreat into my head, barricading myself in my intellect. Or, I’ll unconsciously react from my Emotional (Un)intelligence and lose myself as I’m carried off on my emotional wave. What transpires in my inner and outer world at this point reflects chaos, confusion, ‘pisstivity’ and frustration!” Tuck Self, Express Builder

 

Questions to Contemplate:
Express Builder Career Satisfaction

Manifesting Generator/Express Builder Self-Discovery

Do you have a few minutes for a Self-Discovery exercise? Get your phone and put it on a 10 minute timer. If you have difficulty alone, doing this exercise with a friend or co-worker who knows you may help. Ask them to ask you the questions below, and modify the questions to what they know of you to ask you yes/no questions about your interests and your life. If you have Wait for Clarity as a decision-making strategy, try doing this again but spaced out over a week or two to see how your responses change.

1) What are you most passionate about doing?

2) What is it that you could do all day without feeling frustrated/angry?

3) What are the activities where you felt so satisfied that you would get right back up the next day with joy to do it some more?

4) Can you imagine living your life in this way?

Did you discover anything new about yourself? Would you like to share with us what you found most meaningful below?

The Art of Being - Human Design Generators and Manifesting Generators

There is a very simple art to being a Human Design Generator, also known as a Builder in the BG5 Career and Business language.

WAIT TO RESPOND

Simple? Yes. Easy? Well....

Unless raised from birth correctly
(as yourself), perhaps not.

If you are a Generator (the life-force of our planet, built to create and sustain humanity), your aura has the perfect and unique power to respond from your Sacral Center. 

You are here to respond to what life asks of you. You bring the vitality and aliveness that keeps our world running!

Waiting to make a decision from your sacral (and waiting further for emotional clarity if you have the solar plexus defined) is your key to finding the true satisfaction that life has to offer you.

No matter what Aura Type you are, there are grave consequences in not using your energy correctly. 

Not using your energy successfully leads to health issues, burnout, depression, overwhelm, stress, exhaustion, and unhappiness. How can you use your power correctly? 

My mom is a Generator (with Manifesting potential, to be more precise). I dedicate this article on her behalf to all of you Mothers out there, Generator or not.

This article is part of a new group of learning "Units" in our Facebook Group on the Pure Generator/Classic Builder.

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Over 70% of the humans on our planet are Generators (check out the statistics here). As the dominant Type, they stand alone as the only kind of people whose power comes from their ability to make decisions from a center that responds through sounds.

We truly live in a generated, Generator world.

The nature of the Generator is that they are sacral beings. You can read more about the Sacral Center in this article. The Generator is the kind of human that is here to respond to what life brings to it. Through decision making in honor of the form, from the sacral center, following that gut response, the perfection of the Generator is realized.

The sacral center is the center of life - the core of our reproductive capacity, generating our energy for life and work. It is the Generator that creates and maintains the civilization we see around us. As the great builders, with the capacity to sustain work, they find fulfillment in activities they enjoy which bring them satisfaction. Our lives depend on the reproductive, fertile power of sacral beings. To quote Ra, "It is all in the hands of the Generator."

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The glory and power of the Generator is in their ability to respond to life. Not to be chasing after things, but to wait to respond to life as it comes to them, to respect what the sacral draws to it, and honor what it has the energy to respond to.

The dilemma of the "not-self" or deeply conditioned Generator is that they do not use their generative capacity correctly. Incorrect energy usage (for example, trying to manifest what the mind thinks it wants without waiting for the sacral to respond) results in the dysfunction of that sacral center, experienced as frustration. Frustration is the not-self theme of a Generator - who through the not-self conditioning tries to manifest in this world without waiting and ends up quitting from sheer frustration.

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Generators are designed to take in life in an extraordinary way.The Generator has an open, welcoming aura that wraps around everything it draws to it. It is an embracing aura. If you are a Generator, do you want to understand where your true power lies? It's time you understood the mechanical functioning of your sacral-being auric truth; the depth of your openness to life allows you to hone in on what is correct for you to respond to.

So how do you "be" a Generator? Many Generators feel "stuck" in jobs, relationships, or lives they hate, simply because they've been deeply conditioned. Billions of Generators have no idea about their true potential nor experienced the satisfaction of what it means to be themselves.

Their glorious sacral centers have been shut down so many times by outside forces. From childhood, others told them to use their words or their minds instead of the guttural tones that naturally arise from their powerful sacral motor.

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The Art of Being that the Generator is here to perfect is to wait to Respond to life. Responding - waiting for that unmistakable response of your sacral center - honors the deep inner knowing of that sacral center of when and what it can find satisfaction in doing.

If you are a Generator, make decisions ONLY in response. Everything in life that is correct for you as a Generator is only going to come to you as something you respond to.

The beauty of the Generator is that you can tune into your sacral voice, your sacral sounds that have the power to respond to life. No other form has such a mechanism.

A note to "Manifesting Generators" - you are not a separate Aura Type of your own, and your built-in innovative power needs to be released in response. It can be very frustrating and create a lot of anger if you initiate manifestation without the benefit of waiting for a response.  

Many MG's have manifesting potential - it can be satisfying to do so in response and alignment with your personal Authority. As your Aura functions the same as a pure Generator, your strategy for correct alignment of decision-making is the same.

All Generators have an open aura - enveloping, embracing other beings in an auric bear hug. Generators, you are open to auric contact, and in that openness you are taking in everything and grabbing it. Is is right for you? Follow your gut response - and be patient, giving it time, if you are emotional!

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Remember, the Aura IS you. How you function in the world is based upon this one essential quality that you cannot control - the way your Aura operates.

If you are a Generator, your aura has the perfect and unique power to respond from the sacral center. You are here to respond. Waiting to make a decision from your sacral (and waiting further for emotional clarity if you have the solar plexus defined) is your key to finding the true satisfaction that life has to offer you.

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Like all of the Arts, the key to perfecting is to practice. And as a Generator, waiting to respond is the Strategy that protects you from the dysfunction of your sacral center, the powerful feeling of frustration that can leave you feeling incredibly stuck and wanting to quit.

Would you like to learn more about yourself as a Generator? A great resource I love and use every day is myBodyGraph.com. You can sign up for a free account that shares helpful information particular to your chart, including audios about your Type and Authority.

(written for and published originally on JovianArchive.com, revised and updated here)

Human Design System Angles - Personal Destiny, Fixed Fate, Trans-personal Karma

Discover The Theme of Your Role on the Grand Theater of Life

A young girl is rummaging through old trunks with her mother, pulling out uniforms and dresses, scarves and hats, shoes and jewelry. Giggling and trying on different clothes, they pose and pretend, joyfully playing dress up and delighting at the instant transformation that donning different garments can bring. Gazing at their reflections in the mirror brings instant recognition and energy of the characters they are pretending to be.

Clothes can make a tremendous difference when it comes to playing a role. We all have mythological costumes that we were born to wear, and we grow into our roles over time. The longer we operate according to our authentic nature, the more easily and gracefully we wear our costumes.

Understanding your Human Design Profile and the Angle it belongs to allows you to look in the mirror and “see” what costume you are wearing so you can get clearer on the role you’re here to play.

The Truth About Behavior

Do some of your behaviors (or others’ behaviors) confuse you or make you uncomfortable?

Would you like to see how understanding the role you’re here to play can not only help you alleviate anxiety, worry, and depression but also live a truly fulfilled life?

Struggling with aspects of your behavior that you don’t like (or that other people don’t like) doesn’t have to cause suffering.

Can you imagine no longer suffering feelings of emptiness or pointlessness when going through the motions of daily living? Do you recognize that there must be more to life?

Only the not-self suffers in its existence, carrying around the burden of constantly trying to control life and others, and change or fix itself.

Human Design brings an enormous wealth of information, much of which can help you understand the mechanics behind the madness of “normal” life. A big part of waking up is coming to terms with the roles we’re here to play. 

Studying your Human Design can increase your self-awareness, and help you yield to the inherent intelligence of your form so you can discover what it means to live life awake.

(Prefer to watch Human Design videos instead of reading to learn? Scroll down to the three videos I created for Jovian Archive's You Tube channel!)

Where To Find Your Profile In A Human Design Chart

Your Profile is something that you are going to resonate with on the Personality side (calculations in black on the right side of your bodygraph). The first of the two numbers comes from the line values of the Personality Sun and Earth Gates (that are at opposite positions in the wheel and always the same line). This number represents themes of your conscious attributes, the behaviors, and way of viewing the world that you personally identify with and are here to live out in this life. Using our costume analogy, these are your everyday clothes that you are completely comfortable in and think of as part of you.

However, an equally important and more mysterious part of you is waiting to be discovered. Your Design Sun & Earth Gates are in red on the left side of your bodygraph, and the line values there are where we get the second number in your Profile. This represents your unconscious behaviors, hidden to your conscious awareness. Think of this number as garments other people see you wearing that you’re usually completely oblivious to (until they tell you what they see, or until you discover your Human Design). This is one reason you may be confused and feel uncomfortable about how your body behaves, or why others see you so very differently from the way you perceive yourself.

Both of the numbers in your Profile combined represent key aspects of you. For you to wake up to your true nature, understanding, accepting, and honoring both is an important part of your process. You have a very specific frequency that can be mapped out in your Human Design Chart. The calculations of your Personality and Design Sun/Earth represent seventy percent of the imprinted and consistent energy of your being. Again, this is where we find your Profile. Everything else in the chart describes the nuances and subtleties of you. While Centers and Channels may be defined temporarily by Transits or other beings, your Profile energy is consistent throughout your life.

You don’t have to learn how to improve anything about yourself to live out your purpose. All it takes to find fulfillment is being your true self. Sometimes, through discovering what you’re not, you can find out what is you. For many of us, who we’re not is everything we’ve been thinking we need to be or trying desperately to become all our lives.

This article aims to help you learn important aspects about the Angles that are not yours as well as about the Angle that is. Knowing your Angle is key in seeing and accepting yourself and your path in life. Understanding how we interact with others and the importance they have in our lives helps us see how we’re each essential parts of the whole.

Human Design System Angles

There are three angles that make up the 12 Human Design Profiles. Each Angle carries a particular geometry or theme of movement in this lifetime.

Every one of us has a Profile. We incarnates on one of three Angles: the Right Angle, the Left Angle, and the Juxtaposition. Your Profile belongs to one of these Angles, which shows you how you play your unique purpose in your life.

Your Profile describes your role—your “costume”—the costume you were born to wear and grow into over time. The more you decondition and are moved correctly to action, the more you embody the mythology of the unique role you’re here to play.

As with everything in Human Design, this is not about any person or any Angle being better than the other. They are simply very different. Right and Left angles are complete polarities of each other while the Juxtaposition is the bridge connecting the two together.

Destiny, Fate, and Karma are words that many people use interchangeably in everyday conversation. In the Human Design System, words are used as very specific symbols of frequency representations - we call these words Keynotes. When combined into formulas, we can decipher your bodygraph to help you understand particular thematics in your life - why you are the way you are (and you're beautiful and perfect just as you are! 

Let’s discover whether you’re on a path of Personal Destiny, Fixed Fate, or Transpersonal Karma!

The Right Angle Profile - Personal Destiny
Research, Innocence, and Truth
1/3, 1/4, 2/4, 2/5, 3/5, 3/6, 4/6

As you can see, seven of the twelve Profiles come into the world on a Right Angle with a Personal Destiny to fulfill. Your geometry limits the importance of your interaction with others.

The Right Angles are the research and development department of the Hexagrams; an essential aspect of the whole of humanity. This is where the beauty of what life can be is lived out in all its possibilities.

If you are a right angle, you’re gifted with the ability to explore new areas of life without prejudice; you’re here to discover and live out your uniquely personal destiny. Fresh and new, you were born an innocent, open vessel built to be fully absorbed in your process. Right angles often have to deal with difficult situations when it comes to their family life. Your life provides the experimental material the totality needs to experience for all of us to learn and grow.

Your personal destiny fulfilled can transform the whole nature of being. You are here to awaken to and live out your truth; the truth of your uniqueness, the truth of these times you are living. Living as yourself, you experience the beautiful potential of what it is to be you—the actuality of your life substantiating the essence of your truth.

Juxtaposition - Fixed Fate
Communication, The Bridge
4/1

Only one Human Design Profile is born with a Fixed Fate in life to fulfill. This means the quality of your movement in space is not designed to be altered; it is uniquely your own.

Your process is one of bridging two very different kinds of geometry, the Personal Destiny and the Transpersonal Karma. You weave the Right Angle and the Left Angle together, following a very specific path through life that you’re perfectly designed to walk.

As a 4th Line Personality, you have a strong theme of Brotherhood/Sisterhood in your life. Your success, and humanity’s success in evolving, depend on two things: You’re here to investigate a foundation of information, so make sure you’re standing on the solid ground of a secure knowledge base. Then use your innate ability to externalize that knowledge to influence your close network of people.

Investing your time and energy in opportunities via relationships with the correct others is key for you, as they’ll reward you in return. You’re here to figure out how to reach out to those others and influence people with the knowledge you’ve gained through your investigations. In this way, you fulfill your Fixed Fate.

The Left Angle Profile - Transpersonal Karma
Marketing and Role Models of the Hexagram
5/1, 5/2, 6/1, 6/2

Four of the twelve profiles come into this world on a Left Angle, with a Transpersonal Karma to fulfill.

Left Angles have the potential to alter other people’s movement through life as well as have their own movement altered through interactions with others.

As a Left Angle, every person you meet has not only a karmic connection but also value for you. Your interaction has a familiarity, and you as a Left Angle are here to play a role in that person’s life. Whether it be simply giving directions, a casual conversation, a just-in-time rescue or a life-altering transformation of others’ lives, as a Left Angle you have karma to play out that requires interaction with others to fulfill your purpose.

Your life’s possibilities and potentials arise from connections with others from the moment you’re born. As a Left Angle, correct decision-making is imperative when it comes to who belongs in your life, and paying attention to the right beings brings special rewards to your process. The great mystery of what it means to be a Left Angle person is that seemingly inconsequential encounters can make an enormous difference to your whole life.

Left Angles are each here to transmit the truth that the Right Angle has discovered in their unique ways.The 5th line Personalities universalize what is practical (standing on its soapbox dispensing its heresy) while the 6th Line verifies and exemplifies it as a Role Model bringing it to the next hexagram in the chain as the line of Transition. As a Left Angle, you bear the responsibility of transforming the discoveries of the Right Angle into knowledge that can be of value to others.

Live your Uniqueness

The real value in Human Design lies in its ability to illuminate practical decision-making strategies and empower you as your own Authority, enabling you to surrender to your form as you embrace your unique journey.

The fulfillment of your purpose comes through your particular geometry—the Angle of your Profile, in alignment with your Cross within the Quarter of the Wheel you were born in and down through the specifics of your individual hexagrams and the colors, tones, and bases beneath. You’ve been given a very specific “job description,” and Human Design helps you understand, love, and accept the part that only you can play on the grand stage of Life.

Growing into the role you’re here to play takes making decisions from a place of authenticity. Living your purpose requires a process of trusting your decisions and moving through life in a way that surrenders to your form principle—the only thing you can depend on to navigate correctly.

In Human Design, we invite you to enter into the experiment of following your Strategy and Authority, which bypasses the conditioning of mind and allows you to witness yourself starring in your life movie. If you haven’t already done so, we invite you to join our Human Design System Facebook Tribe.

Becoming familiar with your Angle and Profile can help you feel more at home in your skin, accept your nature, and stop struggling against the current as you move through life.

Did you learn something new about yourself in this article or videos (below)? Feel free to share your discoveries or ask questions!

Welcome to this 3-part video presentation on Profiles & Angles. Newcomers to Human Design will want to start with this video. If you are already familiar with this system, how it can benefit you, as well as how hexagrams are numbered and how to find your Profile in your Human Design Chart, you may want to skip ahead to the next video.

Truth About Behaviors - #2

The second part in our Human Design Profiles and Angles Introductory Video series explains our house metaphor for understanding the Lines, giving a basic overview of the themes associated with each, briefly touching on the resonant and harmonic relationships between lines.

(A version of this article was published on Jovian Archive in 2015)

Discovering Your Human Design Costume in Life's Grand Theater - Profiles & Angles

Profiles & Angles

3-Part Video Series: "The Truth About Behavior" Discovering Your Role in the Fulfillment of Your Purpose

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Truth About Behaviors - #1

Welcome to this 3-part video presentation on Profiles & Angles. Newcomers to Human Design will want to start with this video. If you are already familiar with this system, how it can benefit you, as well as how hexagrams are numbered and how to find your Profile in your Human Design Chart, you may want to skip ahead to the next video.

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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.

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Truth About Behaviors - #3

The third part in our Human Design Profiles and Angles Introductory Video series gives the general themes for each of the 12 Profiles as well as sharing more about the distinctions between each the three Angles - Personal Destiny, Fixed Fate and Transpersonal Karma.

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 Discover Everyone's Role, Costume, and Behavior.

• The key to understanding Roles and Behaviors

• From one of the most accurate systems on the planet

• Know yourself and understand others

• Finally accept and recognize people for who they are

Are you puzzled about why others act they way they do, or curious about why you interact with the world in certain ways?

Do you find yourself criticized for your behavior—or feeling bad about it?

Have you ever been accused, for example, of being too self-absorbed, reclusive, or overly friendly and told that you should be different?

"Profiles & Angles are key to understanding your true purpose."

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"As a 3/5 learning about my Profile I finally got things about myself that I'd heard others complain about or that I'd been banging my head against the wall about for years. After getting over the initial Martyr reaction (why me?!) I began to fall in love with the beauty of my authentic Self. Understanding my Profile helped to dispel the near lifelong feeling I’d had that there was something terribly wrong with me.

I bought the entire Profile series a few years ago to help me with my understanding of others and it has been a tremendous resource for me as a Human Design Guide and as a Professional Analyst student. I highly recommend this knowledge to anyone who is seriously studying Human Design and wants to deepen their grasp of the system." 
Andrea Abay-Abay

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Welcome to Human Design - What if You Were Your Own Authority?

Excerpt of the latest Human Design Living Your Awakening Program - Inspiration for beginning or continuing your Human Design Experiment.

Feelings Recognized "Frustration" An Emotional Energy Projector Q & A

Why Am I Frustrated?

Everyone, regardless of Type, is subject to experiencing frustration in life, despite the fact that Frustration is the keynote of a Generator Aura/Builder Career Type who is out of alignment with their highest purpose and off-track. This is because all of us have a Sacral Center, even if it is not consistently designed to respond. 

If you find yourself frustrated more often than not, you're likely attempting to "push the river" and do too much without letting life ask for what it wants from you.

In other words, attempting to:

Initiate new directions, new courses of action, new relationships and create any kind of new endeavor, form new community structures or businesses, and do everything yourself, instead of learning how to work interdependently with others correctly and ask for help, is a recipe for deep frustration. Sacral defined or not!

Undefined Sacral Center (Energy Resource Function)

Emotional Projector Example Chart - Not-Self Frustration

Frustration is a keynote of the Sacral Center's life force energy out of alignment with it's purpose for being.

"No manifestation! I think that my frustration lies here."

Likely you are frustrated because your fear of missing out due to these not-self behaviors:

• Consciously driven by a tendency to say yes before you've been asked or waited for emotional clarity (Hexagram 29 "The Abyss" the Gate of Perseverance, Commitment)
   
• Obeying your need to be friendly/friends with someone you like to bond with them, yet in the not-self behavior you do this without them inviting you into an intimate connection or you jump into it too soon (Hexagram 59 "Dispersion" the Gate of Sexuality)
   
• Unconsciously needing to be realistic in your capacities to care and nurture, and perhaps resenting that you may sap the resources of others because you have a non-self need to able to consistently generate/manifest all on your own (Hexagram 27 "Nourishment" the Gate of Caring)
   

How to Make Better Choices:

Where you are designed to be successful and operate from is that Emotional Authority, rather than attempting to Generate (go-go-go) or Manifest (initiate to make things happen). 

When you are clearly recognized and invited for your: 

• Transmission of what the tribe needs to be sold on in order for everyone to have what they need to survive and keep their promises (Channel 44-26 "Surrender," the design of a Transmitter)
   
• Negotiation abilities to facilitate win/win bargains that build the communal structures our tribes are built upon (Channel 37-40 "Community," the design of a Part Seeking a Whole) 

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Once you have had time to feel through your recognition of what the needs of your tribe are and sensing the emotions of what it is to be YOU.

YOU, the supportive guide of your tribe who is here to be wise about how to break down barriers to achieve unity within your network, guiding their progress with your provocative heresy you unconsciously value and passionately emote when needed.

YOU, here to be called out and of value for your network of friends (2/4 Profile).

So only use your energy where/when your peeps need your support so that all needs are fairly met. In alignment with your emotions over time.

Avoid frustration by relaxing into your chameleon-like self and allow the feelings to rise and fall, waiting for that beautiful synchronistic moment when you feel the settled-ness, the space between the emotional movement where there is no fear.

Only clarity that these are the people, YOUR people, who value you for you, who honor and respect your time, energy and advice, who give YOU what you need in return for the value you bring to them.

Now it's Your Turn, Human Designers:

Why Do Projectors Get Frustrated?

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

Let's continue our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph with your Sacral Center, the engine of life. When defined, the red square in the lower middle of your bodygraph automatically establishes your Aura as that of a Generator; responsible for setting the life-force frequency on Earth. As the only center that defines a Type, differentiates us sexually into male and female, and expresses itself in primal sounds creating a frequency; the Sacral is highly complex, impactful and mysterious.

Your Sacral Center is the motor that empowers your survival (and our species) through reproduction and caring for your young, perpetuating humankind. Generating our life-force, the vital energy for work, sex, and fertility; persistence, availability, and respond-ability are significant themes of your Sacral. Generating the potential of life within a fixed cycle, generation and degeneration of power/energy/life centers here. Your Sacral Center's associated biology is your reproductive organs (ovaries/testes) and its generating capacity peaks around age 18 for men and early thirties for women.

Generators: the key to an authentic life is surrendering in the moment to the response of your Sacral's guidance (or if you are emotional, allow its responses to refine your emotional clarity over time). Definition of this life-generating center means you have a very special, unique ability. You can learn to tune into what your Sacral says you have the energy to do. Listen to the expressive sounds it produces (or words and even movement towards or away from something if defined to your throat) in response to being asked yes/no questions. Following your Sacral's response by waiting to respond to life allows you to move forward when your innate intelligence knows it can get fulfillment (satisfaction) from doing; reducing frustration or feeling "stuck".

In order to grasp the immense significance of a defined Sacral, knowing about how the Generator Aura functions can be quite helpful. 

As you read about the gates below, have your Human Design Chart handy to take special note of the ones you have consistently defined. If your Sacral is defined, those gates you have activated are the very specific ways you are designed to respond to life. If your Sacral is undefined, the gates waiting to be activated are the themes of the Sacral that you are programmed to be receptive to learning about the powerful life force that generates our world.

Sacral Center Gates

There are nine different ways your Sacral is designed to generate and respond to life. What combination, if any, of the gates below, do you have consistently (if a Generator) or irregularly (if not a Generator) activated?

Sacral to Throat/Spleen/G
The Gate of Power

Generating an intense field of enormous power to fuel life itself, Gate 34 "The Power of the Great" empowers your ability to keep yourself alive.

As the most complex of all Sacral Gates, it reaches out to connect with three different Centers and is the only one to connect directly to the Throat Center, fueling existentialism. The power to individuate (Gate 10), to enhance individual survival (Gate 57) and to be present in the now (Gate 20) are all generated by the Sacral. If you have this gate activated, never underestimate the great power it displays and the powerful force that it can be used for, to serve the common good.

Sacral to Root Gates - Establishing the Format

You may remember from when we covered the Root Center, the term "Format energies." Here are the gates that establish the patterns, pulses and cycles generated by the Sacral Center that are fueled by the Root.

The Gate of Energy for Detail

The determined power to maintain focus and concentrate, establishing and perfecting a pattern by focusing on the details is generated by Gate 9, "The Taming Power of the Small." If you have this Gate activated, repetition of the logical processes one step at a time while focusing on the details generates the development of skills and cultivates talent, patterns that can be shared with the collective.

The Gate of Ordering

Profoundly empowering mutation and establishing order, Gate 3, "Difficulty at the Beginning," generates direct mutation through reproduction and example. This gate carries your ancestral information and determines what genetic material you inherit, as well as your gender. If you have this gate defined, this melancholic frequency is also responsible for generating your individual creative pulse that through expression, empowers mutation in others by being an example.

The Gate of Growth

The power to maximize the development of your full potential by expanding beginnings through completion of a cycle, Gate 42, "Increase" produces endings. The generated frequency of experiential processes conditions all of us to the cyclical nature of life and brings about eventual death. If you have this gate defined, the power to mature through the completion of cycles is your growth potential to share with the collective.

Genetic Role Gates - Supporting the Tribe

Generating the power to create and nurture humanity, these two gates pointing at the Solar Plexus and Splenic Centers are part of the Defense Circuit. Defining your genetic role and providing essential energy for supporting your Tribe by ensuring humanity's future, these are two of six Role Gates that we have in the Human Design Bodygraph. Role Gates provide major "keynotes" (descriptive words) that clue us in to how we are designed to operate in life. For an in-depth look at this phenomenon, please see "The 36 Roles" by Ra Uru Hu.

Sacral to Solar Plexus
The Gate of Sexuality

Defining your genetic role in intimacy with others, Gate 59, "Dispersion" generates the dynamic sexual power locking you into the mating dance with fertility as its main function. If you have this gate defined, you have a fixed way of breaking down barriers in order to attract the right mate and obtain union. It can have a different meaning when connecting with people who are not lovers; projects and careers can also benefit from the power of this deep need for connection and support of the Tribe.

Line 1 - Preemptive strikeLine 4 - Brotherhood / Sisterhood

Line 2 - ShynessLine 5 - Casanova / Femme Fatale

Line 3 - OpennessLine 6 - One night stand

Sacral to Splenic
The Gate of Caring

Defining your genetic role in interactions, Gate 27 "Nourishment" generates the power to care for, nurture and protect others, ensuring survival. As the gate of Compassion, this gate generates the power to nourish, and the drive to seek to be cared for. If you have this gate defined, you have a fixed way of caring for others and can be impressively altruistic (or not) in supporting your Tribe.

Line 1 - SelfishnessLine 4 - Generosity

Line 2 - Self-sufficiencyLine 5 - Executor

Line 3 - GreedLine 6 - Wariness

Sacral to G

Creating the physical energy to empower the Self, these gates produce immense vitality that is ready to respond to life in alignment with their formats' thematics of energy flow. The powerhouse of the Collective and Individual circuits, these gates generate life-force for the "Tantric" channels here between your Sacral and G Center, powering the entire power column that runs from Sacral to Throat Center.

The Gate of Fixed Rhythms

Generating the energy to attune to your flow comes from Gate 5, "Waiting" which binds all life together in a daily rhythm. If you have this gate, it is important for you to harmonize with your logical patterns of activity by making a habit out of the ones that work for you, thereby ensuring your energy flows correctly.

The Gate of Power Skills

Generating the energy to empower your individual direction, Gate 14, "Possession in Great Measure" is a most powerful, fertile Sacral gate. If you have this gate defined, this mutative energy is a force that pulses with knowing when and how to accumulate and retain the power fueling your individuality and life's direction. Mutation comes as a spark of energy that fuels your direction in life.

The Gate of Saying Yes (Perseverance)

Generating the energy to commit to an experience entirely for pure discovery potential, Gate 29, "The Abysmal" empowers the determination of the Self with the fuel to persevere despite circumstances. If you have this gate defined, its imperative that you say yes in alignment with your Strategy and Authority. Waiting and watching through the cycles of life for the moment when moving forward is truly correct for you allows you to commit to a process of discovery that you can complete.

If your Sacral is defined, you have a need to exhaust your energy every day by doing only those things responded to by this center - things you love to do - which brings you physical satisfaction. When you force yourself to do things your sacral hasn't responded to, degeneration of your life-force can be the result. And unless you drop off to sleep exhausted (Manifesting Generators can get in bed early keep up activities until tired) your body won't get the deep rest needed for your powerful life-generating motor to rejuvenate.

Your Sacral motor generates an Aura frequency that emits "enveloping" energy which pulls people into its field and embraces life through response or not. When you initiate action without waiting for a Sacral response, frustration from attempting to reverse your Sacral's normal flow of energy can be the result. Remember to wait to respond - wait for the mechanism of your Sacral to guide you to do the correct things in life using your generative energy.

The Undefined or Open Sacral Center

If your Sacral is undefined, your gates above describe life-force thematics that activate when encountering transits or other people. You can tend to amplify the Sacral energy of others and not know when enough is enough, falling prey to work and sex addictions. You are designed to work in spurts, cultivating wisdom about life-force energy and how best to utilize it.

If you have a completely open Sacral (no dormant gate potentials), you have a flexibility in magnifying the intense buzz of energy, which brings possible confusion about what to use your life-force for. You may scatter your energy by doing many unsuitable and unnecessarily prolonged activities until you drop from pure exhaustion, which is detrimental to your health.

Though you may not have consistent access to humanity's powerful generative strength, your Strategy and Authority can guide you to cultivate wisdom here in expressing your potential gift of wisely spending the energy you do have.

Manifestors, Projectors, and Reflectors, your sensitivity to amplification of the intense Sacral conditioning field can help you learn to cultivate vital wisdom. This enlightenment has to do with who is correct to have present in your life; how to balance activities with rest; and discerning when and on what activities precious life-force energy is truly worth spending. It is paramount that you establish healthy boundaries around work and sex and spend alone time before bed to clear your sacral of the generative frequency. Get into a horizontal position to rest before you are tired and ease yourself into sleep. Experiment with sleeping alone (outside of aura contact with another human or mammal) especially if you are often exhausted or have trouble sleeping, as you can amplify other's fatigue as well and Sacral buzz.

Questions for Inquiry: Have you noticed you can be vulnerable to amplifying the sacral energy of others and the conditioning response (not knowing when to rest, when "enough is enough") that brings you? What examples of the thoughts below, which may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind, do you recognize in you?

I need to keep working. I should get this done before I take a break.
If I don't say yes I might miss out. Someone has to do it.
I should keep going - where's my coffee/chocolate?
There's too much to do; I can't take a nap/lie down now; I have to this first.
I can take care of you; let me do that for you.
I need to have sex; who can I have sex with? What do you mean, what boundaries?
It's not enough; it's never enough.

Generator or not, you are an integral part of the whole of humanity. Born with an incredible potential to differentiate into the unique being that only you can be, you are a holographic fractal piece of the vast puzzle comprising the totality. You "fit in" without needing to try. Experiment wit your Strategy and Authority to uncover the phenomenal YOU that only you can be. Learning how to use your energy best to contribute wisely to the Maia transforms your awareness and our world.

Human Design helps you to see the illusion we live in and wake up to a deeper and deeper realization of your true nature. Would you like to share any of your Sacral Center epiphanies or feedback with the Human Design Community? You’re invited to ask questions as well.

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

Let's continue our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph with your purely existential Splenic Center, governing the primal awareness fundamental to your survival. Call it intuition or gut instinct, the spontaneous knowing here is worthy of respect. The Splenic Center is home to your immune system, health, values, and well-being, ensuring the intelligence to protect yourself. Your Splenic Center enables your survival through an alertness to fears that are designed to keep you safe.

Our oldest awareness center (the Ajna and Solar Plexus being the other two) the Splenic Center is also quietest, operating in the now moment. The triangle pointing inward at the lower left of your bodygraph is just the Splenic Center's location in your bodygraph. It is not representative of the location of the actual spleen in your body.

Your Splenic Center's associated biology is a network of immune system tissues and organs throughout your body - like your T-cells, lymphatic system, and spleen. Your Immune System is where everything that's applicable to your existential existence gets investigated and cleaned out to protect you.

Your Splenic Center is your authority if you have it defined but do not have the Sacral, or Solar Plexus defined. Your authority "speaks" once in the moment of decision and does not provide a why. As opposed to your mind's pressurized internal rationalizing, logical formulas or abstract realizations that repeat themselves. Trust your intuition, instinct or judgment, designed to ensure you get what is correct for you so that you can adapt and thrive in alignment with living out your true nature.

As you read about the gates below, have your bodygraph handy to take special note of the ones imprinted in your Human Design. If your Splenic Center is defined, those gates you have activated are the very specific ways you are designed to experience fears that can keep you safe to ensure your survival. If your Splenic Center is undefined, the gates waiting to be activated are themes you are genetically programmed to be receptive to when activated by transits or people in your environment.

Splenic Center Streams of Awareness

Mirroring the streams in the Solar Plexus, the Splenic Center has three distinct streams of awareness that move through it, fueled by the adrenalized pressures from the Root Center. These streams are Tribal (instinct), Individual (intuition), and Collective (taste). Similar to how the 6th gate is the source of all wave frequencies; the 50th Gate is a gate of fusion, the root of the six awareness frequencies of the Splenic Center.

Hexagram 50 - The Gate of Values

The laws and values of the tribe are defined via Gate 50, "The Cauldron," which brings the awareness to be responsible for the preservation of others and the potential to be responsible. Fear of taking on responsibility or taking on too much responsibility due to fear is a possibility with this gate activated.

The Tribal Instinctive Awareness Stream (Smell)

Tribal ambition fuels the stream of awareness moving through the Splenic Center from gate 54 in the Root to gate 26 in the Heart Center. This stream details the shrewd functioning of your instinct to support the survival, transformation and material success of your Tribe.

Hexagram 32 - The Gate of Continuity

Gate 32, "Duration," brings an awareness of whether or not success is a potential and a recognition of talent to take advantage of and nurture its power to eliminate the fear of failure. You can smell failure coming and carry an instinctive recognition that change endures. Your deep cellular memory, conservative nature and potential to recognize who can and what should be transformed supports the material success of your tribe.

Hexagram 44 - The Gate of Alertness

Gate 44, "Coming  to Meet," carries the pure instinctive memory of what is necessary to bring your tribe material success. You can smell the potential of others; recognizing the right timing to interact with the right other in the right way to manipulate people for the benefit of your tribe. Fear of the past can have you concerned about what could happen should prior events catch up with you.

Individual Intuitive Awareness Stream (Acoustic)

The energy to struggle for purpose drives the deeply intuitive stream of awareness moving through the Splenic Center from gate 38 in the Root to the Throat Center's gate 20. This stream carries an acoustic intelligence designed to keep you safe in the now. It's chemistry carries a mutative pulse of either the deep melancholy or immense creativity that is inherent in all individual circuitry in your bodygraph. The fear of time outside of the present moment (what does not exist in the now) is what troubles you if you carry this individual circuitry.

Hexagram 28 - The Gate of the Game Player

Gate 28, "Preponderance of the Great," brings knowing in the now whether it is valuable to struggle for a purpose; to find value in life beyond just surviving. This ongoing process of change and evolution operates from the awareness potential of listening so that you can stubbornly take the best possible risks. Fear of whether life has value unless you take risks, or not taking risks out of fear can preoccupy you. Without purpose, life's challenges can bring you a deep melancholy and are always a struggle.

Hexagram 57 - The Gate of Intuitive Clarity

Gate  57, "The  Gentle" is a complex gate in that connects to three different centers; the Sacral, G and Throat Centers. The gate of Intuitive clarity can literally 'hear' the truth in the Now. This potentially penetrating awareness is essential to staying alive and safe; listening to your instinctual hunches can alleviate the fear of tomorrow.

Collective Awareness Stream of Taste

Vitality drives the pressurized stream of awareness moving through the Splenic Center from gate 58 in the Root to the Throat Center's gate 16. This logical stream is concerned with understanding and perfection of patterns over time, challenging what doesn't work and sharing the recognition of what has and can in the future.

Hexagram 18 - The Gate of Correction

Gate 18, "Work on what has been Spoilt" is a gate of learning, carrying the awareness potential to challenge authority and perfect what is vital, via concentration. This gate is fueled by the drive for perfection and is here to challenge patterns. There is a possible fear of authority here; of being judged by others or even self-judgment.

Hexagram 48 - The Gate of Depth

Gate  48, "The Well" brings the possibility of the depth of knowledge, and a deep frustration if one is unable to share that depth through experimentation or expression. This gate brings the awareness of a potential solution, and also fear that you don't have enough depth or are seeking depth to resolve the fear of inadequacy.

As with all gates, remember that everything is a duality, and there is always the opposite possible in any gate.

When defined, the potential of your Splenic Center is to bring you a spontaneous intuition, instinct and a sense of judgment that can reliably give you a sense of security. If you have a defined Splenic Center, this fundamental security in your nature can cause you to not pay much attention to your health unless there's a problem. The present moment is all that the Splenic Center knows. What is not safe in one moment, may be okay at another time. The key is to listen to your Splenic "hits" or sometimes referred to as "gut instinct" in alignment with your Strategy and Authority when facing or recovering from any illness.

The Undefined or Open Splenic Center

If your Splenic Center is undefined, your gates above are awareness themes you are designed to be receptive to experiencing when activated by transits or other people. Honor and learn from these energies; you are designed to be sensitive to the well-being of those around you,

You are sensitive to foreign substances, your health and how your body feels. Your potential wisdom lies in learning about who is healthy, as well as which food and health remedies are for you (holistic medicine often suffices) and what doesn't.

You may experience an inherent insecurity in not knowing whether you can survive, so having an undefined spleen can create adaptive strategies when you're not living your true nature. Holding onto behaviors, people, places or things you think make you feel good but aren't in your best interests to keep in your life can be a challenge.  When defined by a transit or other people, you could feel pressured to make spontaneous decisions and let go of things that are good for you. Unless it's life-threatening, never make an impulsive move.

In addition to the above characteristics; if you have a completely open Splenic Center (no dormant gate potentials), you are open to being aware of all the ways this body consciousness can show up in life.  You may not know what to be afraid of, so be mindful of following your Strategy and Authority to protect yourself.

If you can discern the difference between your Splenic energy and recognize (not identify with) the energy of others, your potential wisdom is a spontaneous, intuitive awareness that knows who and what is healthy.

Whatever your Splenic definition, you are not at a disadvantage so long as you are operating correctly; following your Strategy and Authority provides you with the all the protection you need.

Questions for Inquiry:

Have you noticed you can be vulnerable to amplifying the fear energy of others and the conditioning response that brings you? Not being able to let go of things that aren't good for you, or not knowing what to fear are typical patterns. What examples of the thoughts below, which may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind, do you recognize in you?

I'm not going to try because I might fail.

I can't do that I'm scared/afraid/fearful.

I can't do that because I don't have enough depth, or I feel inadequate.  

I'm  afraid of what is going to happen/the future/criticism.

I can't take that on, I'm afraid of the responsibility.

If in a relationship that is not good for you:

I can't say that it might upset him/her, and they'll leave me.

I can help them change, perhaps therapy could help.

Things will get better, we need to stay together for the children's sake.

No matter the configuration of your definition, you are perfectly designed. Your imprinted fears are there to keep you safe, and develop awareness, not to hold you back. Following your Strategy and Authority can transform your awareness, which is the key for you to live out your true nature.

Living your Human Design helps you to see the illusion you live in and wake up to a deeper and deeper realization of your true nature. Would you like to share any of your Splenic Center epiphanies or feedback here with the Human Design Community? You’re invited to ask questions as well.

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

Let's continue our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph with what is at the very core of your being, playing a central role to your identity in life - your G Center.

As the Center that provides your unique direction so that you can experience correct love in life, it is also the location of your magnetic monopole. Your monopole pulls the illusion of you together as a being separate from the totality, as well as drawing you along your path in life (or “trajectory in space” as Ra would put it).

Your higher self is here, attracting beauty and love to you. When you surrender to living your design, you can experience the bliss of oneness without looking for love outside of yourself.

Your G center is positioned right beneath your sternum energetically. Imagine the pain of losing a loved one -heartbreak- where you feel it? That's your G Center, which biologically, governs your liver and blood. It is imperative to respect and love yourself enough to be correct with the use of alcohol, as this particular substance can damage your liver and, therefore, affect your sense of self and ability to love.

Undoubtedly the most extraordinary Center you have regardless of definition or lack thereof, your G Center is home to eight gates that divide the wheel of your Human Design Mandala into eight equal parts. If you take a look at each of those hexagrams of your G Center, you'll notice that they establish the foundation of the hexagram for the following seven gates. In other words, you can see in the wheel how the eight sections of the mandala share the same lower trigram.

Not only is your G the only Center that touches all quarters of the wheel, it also has all the gates of two crucial Incarnation Crosses within it. These are the Cross of the Vessel of Love and the Cross of the Sphinx, which is how we'll look at the G Center gates later in this article.

When your G is defined, you have a fixed and reliable identity, and you have the ability to love yourself and others without feeling dependent on them. Depending on your definition, you may try to lead or direct others incorrectly to follow your direction (imposing your direction on them) if you don't follow your Strategy and Authority. Alternatively, rejecting your personal direction can lead to loss of self-love and fulfilling your unique potential. Being able to see clearly when it’s time to follow your own path and letting others follow theirs can relieve you from the suffering that comes from trying to hold on or change the things you cannot control.

G Center Authority (Self-Projected Authority) must be honored if you have that yellow diamond defined but do not have your Solar Plexus, Sacral, Splenic and Heart Centers defined. Your G either empowers or shares your self-identity when defined to your Throat Center. To make decisions, wait to be recognized and invited first. Then, it is essential that you pay attention to what you say when you talk things over with another person that you trust. Find a good listener (perhaps invite another Projector like yourself), who you can request to reflect back what they heard come out of your mouth to help you to recognize your truth. Observe and honor what you find yourself saying with your unique voice (see article on the Throat Center) as this is your authentic energy being expressed. Be sure to pay no attention to your mind's manipulation or distortions of how it wants or thinks how things should be.

The most critical aspect to know about your G center if it is undefined within your Human Design bodygraph is that place is incredibly important to you. If you are not in the correct place, you cannot thrive. You cannot be correct in relationships, career or family if you are in the wrong place - even if you are with the correct people. Things just won’t work out. So following your Strategy and Authority is key for your life to unfold correctly, and not fixating on finding direction and love. Making your decisions about where to go using your unique inner guidance system can be an incredibly life-affirming and life-changing benefit that Human Design can bring you.

As you read about the G Center gates below, have your bodygraph handy to take special note of the ones imprinted in your Human Design. If your G Center is defined, those gates you have activated are the very specific ways you are designed to consistently experience your identity, direction and sense of transpersonal love.

If your G Center is undefined, the gates waiting to be activated are themes you are genetically programmed to experience when your G Center is activated by transits or people in your environment. Remember, this energy is not consistent and cannot be relied upon to make decisions, but provides a consistency in the lessons to be learned when you go to school in the world of love and direction.

As always, remember that Human Design is a dualistic system; the "this and that" of it all means that every gate can express as it’s opposite as well.

Gates of Love (Cross of the Vessel of Love)

The Gate of the Spirit of the Self

This first, original Love of Gate 25 "Universal Love" is not loving the universe but being loving in the universe; having a place to be loving towards what everything is. The archetype of the Priest/Priestess represents this non-personal love. Initiated into being, it is a romantic, individual, unrequited love for the great unknowable force. If you have this gate defined, you can be very loving, not necessarily loving of the other specifically. Your quality of loving sees everything deserving to be treated lovingly because, through loving, you experience your unique form of transcendent love. This love is often mutative and melancholic; as well as innocent notwithstanding the circumstances.

The Gate of Extremes

The Love of Humanity is characterized by Gate 15, "Modesty," a very specific transpersonal quality of love with the potential to care about humanity. This love of being human and humanity has a collective vision of how human beings are supposed to behave. When operating personally in the not-self world it can cause atrocities to organize society in the name of love for humanity. A politician characterizes this gate; sharing their logical moral standards, rules, and schooling so that humanity has the potential to be more loving to each other.

The Gate of the Determination of the Self

Carrying the determination to follow through, Gate 46, "Pushing Upward" is the Love of the Body. Your body is a magical temple and accepting its perfection comes with the territory when you live as yourself - then you naturally love yourself. If you have this transcendent gate defined, you are looking to discover the beauty of everybody's form. Massage therapists often have this gate defined, to share with others this wonderful love of the body. Remember this is a transpersonal kind of love.

The Gate of the Behavior of the Self

The love of being alive as yourself is the theme of Gate 10, "Treading" which is the gate of behavior. As the most self-absorbed, individual and melancholic aspect of the bodygraph, this is both transcendent and mundane loving of the world as it is, as what can be considered both good and bad. Surrendering to acceptance of everything and everyone, and grokking here that we are not in control of it is where you wake up. The underlying code of behavior of the self in humans are used as the Profile names in Human Design. These are:

Gates of Direction (Cross of the Sphinx)

Hexagram 1 - The Gate of Self-Expression

At the core of empowering our present direction in life, Gate 1, “The Creative” individually pulses with a mutative spark that needs to be expressed and requires correct timing that you have no control over. If you have this gate defined, your self-expression can shine forth with the yang energy to manifest creativity without limits and has the potential to attract society. Like all individual circuitry, melancholy (the happy and sad cycle of your chemistry) here can inspire your muse, and knowing can come for you through patience, objectivity and being yourself.

Hexagram 13 - The Gate of The Listener

One of the two Collective Role Gates, Gate 13 "The Fellowship of Man," is about having a past perspective, directing by looking back to accumulate and remember past experience to be advantageous for society. If you have this gate defined, a strong theme in you is listening to others' pasts (often, their secrets) shared with you in order to gather and learn from experiences. Lessons are only learned completely when that particular experiential process is finished and are shared. You can provide an empathetic ear when others recognize you as trustworthy, enabling their learning and memory by sharing. Gate 13's are collectors of reflections of the past, storing experiences that, when recognized and invited, can inspire humanity's perspective.

If you take your Personality Profile number and match it to the line in this gate, you can find your limited perspective role (aka the mask we wear when taking others in) which is:

Line 1 Empathy

Line 2 Bigotry

Line 3 Pessimism

Line 4 Fatigue

Line 5 Savior

Line 6 Optimist

Hexagram 7 - The Gate of the Role of the Self in Interaction

As the other Collective Role Gate, Gate 7 "The Army," is about having a future perspective, directing by looking to forward, and is home to the six ways humans are designed to lead with influence and foresight. If you have this gate defined, your role of leadership is recognized by others according to the variation of the line you carry. It is important for humanity to establish secure, logical patterns for the future, which need to be tested and experimented with in order to find what works, and tested further to ensure reliability and security.

If you take your Personality Profile number and match it to the line in this gate, you can find your projected attitude role which is:

Line 1 Authoritarian

Line 2 Democrat

Line 3 Anarchist

Line 4 Abdicator

Line 5 General

Line 6 Administrator

Hexagram 2 - The Gate of the Direction of the Self

The home of the Magnetic Monopole, Gate 2 "The Receptive" is the origin of your direction in life, enabling individual vision. The functioning of your Monopole is two-fold; holding the illusion of our separateness (what we call love) together, as well as pulling us along our path in life. This is the only gate that gives us our direction in life, which is fundamentally mutative in nature and has the perspective of the movement in the now at it's core. If you have this gate defined, look to see what line it is as there you may find your theme of receptivity that determines the primal root of action through which your response is designed to originate. These are the core origins of direction in life:

Line 1 Intuition

Line 2 Genius

Line 3 Patience

Line 4 Discretion

Line 5 Intelligent application

Line 6 Fixation (fixated on a higher knowing)

If your G Center is defined, your identity clearly shines and is sharply defined compared to someone with an undefined G. It is important to recognize that your path is your own, and you and you alone can walk that path. Despite what you may think, you have no control over where life takes you, so allow others to go their way even if it means forging on alone. Following your Strategy and Authority to enter or leave things correctly can help you resist conditioning or the expectations of others.

Undefined or Open G Center

If you have an Undefined G Center, you can be considered a consummate chameleon and make a remarkably talented actor; trying on other identities is natural to you. Likely you've already felt how important the right environment is to your well being, as you are sensitive to places and people. Making sure that you are comfortable in your surroundings can make all the difference in your life, so be clear about following your Strategy and Authority when deciding on things. Trying to find direction and love is a "not-self" theme you'll likely recognize.

From where to go out to eat, where to sit at school/work, to where and what direction to park your car or place your bed, place is everything to you. Watch as you decondition how you become ever more attuned to and relaxed in your correct environment. You are a collector of correct places - finding them makes all the difference between thriving and merely surviving.

Also, if you have an Open G (with no gates defined in that white diamond), not knowing what to be is a strong theme when you are not operating correctly. More than most, it is very important for you never to give authority to anyone else - the moment that you do that, you are deeply conditioned, and you cannot live out your unique potential.

The depth of conditioning, when your G Center is open or undefined, can be quite troublesome when operating as not-self, especially with regards to career and relationships. Always questioning whether you are on the right path or with the right person can undermine your sense of identity and self. Constant upheaval in your life due to continually changing directions and chasing after what (or who) your mind thinks it should have can cause instability that leaves you and others confused about who you are.

It can be destabilizing to initiate change regularly (and out of your design unless you are an aware Manifestor who considers carefully their impact and chooses the correct moment to initiate) considering the big picture. If you allow yourself the possibility of letting go of your need for direction and love, you can encounter the correct love and direction for you if you follow your Strategy and Authority. Gradually you can begin to rest in your undefined sense of self by making decisions correctly, with less fretting about where to go, what to be or who to love.

Questions for Inquiry: Have you noticed you tend to question your relationship or your direction in life? Do you morph yourself by looking for direction in others and love from others? Making decisions from a place of searching for these things can make you feel lost and unsure about your identity. What examples of the thoughts below, which may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind, do you recognize in you?

Who am I supposed to be? What am I supposed to do with my life?
Where can I find my soul-mate? Who are they and how can I find them?
Why don't I know who I am or where I am supposed to go?
Who do I need to ask or
where do I need to go to find where I belong?
Should I do this or that for a career? What is my correct path?
I need a relationship (love) to know myself; maybe if I go to this (event/place) I can find “the one.”

No matter the configuration of your G Center, you are perfectly designed exactly as you are. Remember everyone has everything present and functioning in the bodygraph. You have certain areas that are strongly energized and fixed while others are open to experiencing the myriad possibilities and potentials that you can learn from and hopefully grow wise about over time.

You were born unique. Following your Strategy and Authority is the key to releasing the mind's conditioning and control over your life, which expands your awareness, eventually transforming your physical body’s chemistry and your experiences.

Living your Human Design helps you to move through life with more grace and less suffering. Would you like to share any of your G Center epiphanies or feedback with the Human Design Community below? You’re invited to ask questions as well.

Quarters and Godheads of the Human Design Mandala

Discover Your Human Design System Godhead
within the Rave Mandala

Human Design System Article by Laveena Archers

Laveena Archers, Human Design System Teacher

Would you like to take a moment to be inspired by the breathtaking beauty of the Human Design System Hexagrams that is the Rave Mandala? And in the process, discover the thematic of your personal Life Purpose fulfillment?

If you haven't yet had a guided tour of the hexagrams and how we divide the wheel, it's a lot of fun to do! Let’s take a preliminary exploration together. First I'll demonstrate my personal discovery, guide you through the structure of the wheel, then invite you to find your Godhead, okay?

I remember what is still a wondrous moment in my decade+ of contemplating Human Design's Rave Mandala. It came during a class with Alokanand Diaz Del Rio, when he explained how, when you are not awake or aware, you are conditioned to live out the dead myth of your Godhead.

My Godhead is called Kali. She is known as the Destroyer of false Devotion. Kali is the goddess of time and brings the death of the ego, the illusory self-centered view of reality that, should you have a personal perspective like myself, you may be deeply identified with. I certainly was.

Gate 30 is also known as the Gate of Desire.

My Personality Sun is in gate 30 "Clinging Fire" The Gate of Feeling "Freedom recognized as an illusion and limitation accepted as a fate." Ra Uru Hu

Kali's homogenized image of a destructive force was no stranger in my life. Before Human Design's virus took hold and gave me some semblance of patience, my emotional nature was so volatile and uncontrollable that I regularly (at least monthly) lashed out when my feelings reached a boiling point. Pity the poor person who happened to be standing nearby! Spontaneous emotional decision-making left a trail of physical and emotional destruction in my wake. From physical items to relationships, the bitterness of false promises and broken dreams weighed me down to the point of suicidal ideation during low waves from all the not-self suffering and "poor me, why me" of my Martyr mind. 

My conscious process in this life is fueled by the desire to imagine a new experience, and the Channel of Recognition, with its focused energy to recognize feelings, is my way of consciously witnessing the wild ride of this life's journey.

I share an energy that is contagious and through meeting the Fates regularly, my mind is here to learn to discern truly what doesn't work and universalize it for the benefit of others. This is how I fulfill my Life's Purpose as an "Innocent Instrument of Fate who can step in and Change the Fate of others through Experience, Discovery and Learning" as a Cross of Contagion 1. The one stands for the Quarter of Initiation, which is the first Quarter in the Wheel.

“True angels/godheads (as "frequencies of awareness") are technically all androgynous to some degree. Even when we see all Yang (unbroken) or Yin (broken) lines in a hexagram, every binary must ultimately bow to the union of opposites, which is why the first (all yang) and second (all yin) hexagrams split the wheel as a polarity.” Elad Sky

"We didn't invent these forces. We are genetically imprinted by them... " Ra Uru Hu

Let's see if I can help you to grasp the hexagram wheel structure and begin to understand what it says about the theme of your fulfillment in life.

I'd like to draw your attention to the outer ring of the wheel, to the 64 hexagrams. Look to the top right, and you will find hexagram 1 (right above the blue M looking Astrological symbol for Scorpio in the image below).

Notice there are six solid lines—six Yang lines. Now, let your eyes follow the movement of the hexagrams counterclockwise halfway around the wheel until you reach Hexagram 2.

The Rave Mandala

Notice the Hexagram "chops"—six yin lines, a precise polarity of Gate 1’s six Yang lines. Did you keep an eye on the bottom or 1st line as you moved around the wheel? If not take a glance now. Come back to Gate 2, and continue your counterclockwise discovery of the movement of the Hexagram chops as you reach 1 again.

Did you notice in the first half of your visual journey that the foundation of all the hexagrams was Yang (solid lines)?

And in the second half, their foundation was all Yin (broken lines)? 

You just discovered how the wheel is divided in half, a basic polarity of the mandala structure.

You may also have noticed that the polarity pattern of Gates 1 and 2 continues. The perfect opposition in the wheel is maintained throughout the entire Rave Mandala. If you are familiar with the G Center gates from taking a Living Your Design Program or your personal studies, you know that the G Center is home to two critical Incarnation Crosses. These crosses are the Sphinx (direction gates, which Hexagrams 1 and 2 are part of) and the Vessel of Love (our transcendent love gates). Here are the eight gates representing the eight houses of the I-Ching, dividing the 64 hexagrams of the wheel into eight equal portions.

Human Design System Rave I-Ching Gates 1 and 2

When we activate the gates of these two crosses, we see their arms symmetrically reaching out to the borders of the Rave Mandala. This is the G Center (see image below with all the gates colored in to show their position in the Human Design Mandala). The G Center's physiology is the Liver and blood. It delineates the function of our physical Identity, our sense of Direction in life and our experience of Transcendent Love.

Our G Center molds or defines our identity within the pattern of the totality, giving us our place within it and our connection to it. Gate 2 is the location of the Magnetic Monopole, which holds the Personality and Design Crystal together in the illusion of separation from the totality. Your G Center is the home of your Higher Self.

We can divide the 64 gates of the wheel not only into half and eighths as we have seen but into quarters (as well as 16ths, which is where we discover the archetypal themes of the Godhead).

Each Quarter of the wheel is determined by grouping the hexagrams according to their foundations.

In thinking of each of us as a cell in a larger organism, you gain a sense of how we are all here to fulfill a unique role, a unique purpose, working together correctly. Your purpose is revealed through your Incarnation Cross; your costume described by your profile lines of those four gates. The theme of your incarnation cross comes from the Quarter where your Personality (Conscious) Sun shines.

Crosses of the Vessel of Love and the Sphinx

Each of the Sphinx gates (1, 2, 7, 13) in the wheel set the foundation for the 16 hexagrams in the Quarter. Every Quarter ends with a gate of the Cross of the Four Ways (24, 33, 44, 19)—these are the doors that close each Quarter. Midway between each Sphinx and Four Ways is a Transcendent Love gate which set the frequency of how we are empowered to be love through sharing our being with others within that Quarter.

Image via Human Design Canada

So in keeping with my personal example, in the quarter of Initiation, we have purpose fulfilled through the Mind.

This Quarter begins with Gate 13, giving us our shared experiential direction as humans, through the role of listening to the secrets of the past.

13 The Fellowship of Man - The Gate of the Listener
Universal ideas and values in an ordered framework which inspires humanistic cooperation.

The Quarter of Initiation's Transcendent love is shown by Gate 25, giving us our way of being empowered in the universe, innocently, unconditionally loving through others that great unknowable force that we are all a part of.

25 Innocence - The Gate of the Spirit of the Self
The perfection of action through uncontrived and spontaneous nature.

The Quarter of Initiation is closed through Gate 24, the first mutative, empowering Way., designed to take the pressure of wanting to understand the Mysteries of life and help us conceptualize and know them. Is it possible to know the unknowable?

24 Return, The Gate of Rationalization
The natural and spontaneous process of transformation and renewal.

The Rave Mandala: Quarter by Quarter

Every hexagram in a Quarter shares the same bottom two hexagram chops—in other words, all hexagrams in a Quarter have the same first two lines. This foundation determines the thematic that links the hexagrams in a Quarter together and shows us the theme of how our conscious purpose in this life is meant to be fulfilled.

Here are the foundation hexagram chops establishing the foundation of each Quarter:

The Four Quarters

YANG/YIN

In the Quarter of Initiation (Gates 13-24), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Mind. The foundation here is set by the Gate of the Listener, “the Fellowship of Man”—Yang (spirit) pushing upward into Yin (form). When we activate all the gates of this Quarter we see that the only definition in the bodygraph would be the Channel of Initiation. Those whose Personality Sun is in the Quarter of Initiation are here to wake up first. They are initiated through the development of Mind, and, in turn, initiate others according to the nature of their particular Cross and Profile.

YIN/YIN

In the Quarter of Civilization (Gates 2-33), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Form—through manifesting. The foundation here is set by the most Yin hexagram of all, the Gate of the Direction of the Self, “the Receptive”—therefore it is Yin over Yin. When we activate all the gates of this Quarter we see that there would be no definition in the bodygraph and that all 11 Throat gates are present. This is the world of manifestation, where mind is concretized into form.

YIN/YANG

In the Quarter of Duality (Gates 7-44), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Bonding. The foundation here is set by the Gate of the Role of the Self in Interaction, “the Army”—the Yin/Yang. When we activate all of the gates in this Quarter we see that this forms three channels bringing definition to the bodygraph, creating the only pure emotional Generator through the Channel of Mating, along with the Channel of Discovery and the Channel of Abstraction. This is the world of fertility and bonding—your relationships with others.

YANG/YANG

In the Quarter of Mutation (Gates 1-19), we have the theme of Purpose fulfilled through Transformation. The foundation here is set by the Gate of the Expression of the Self “the Creative”—of course, Yang/Yang. When we activate all the gates in this Quarter we have only one definition, the pure Generator with the Channel of Exploration. This is the world where anything can happen—it’s about the process of living (like the rest of the wheel is) but here it is also about the process of transformation and accepting death.

Now that you have discovered the Quarters, it’s time to break them down into the 16 Faces of the “Godhead”. There are four Faces per Quarter—four distinct nuances of each Godhead. These names put a face to the thematics shaping humanity. There have been many names for these faces in different cultures over the eons. The 16 archetypal themes inherited from our 7-Centered ancestors impart their qualities to the four respective gates within each Godhead. Note every Godhead’s hexagrams share the same first four lines.

The 16 Faces of the Godhead - Free Introduction by Ra Uru Hu

Quarter by Quarter is a Human Design home-study program created by Ra Uru Hu. In contemplating the mandala, Ra noticed that the mandala structure was evenly split into 16 archetypal themes that he labeled the Godheads - each Godhead’s four gates are very closely biologically related to each other.

Filled with history and stories, this program enriches your understanding of Gates from the broader perspective of their relationships to the Quarter and Godhead they belong to, as well as their relationship to each other. Ra takes you on a journey through the wheel in a logical progression beginning with the Quarter of Initiation.

Click here to download to the introductory audio to this program, the first whole lecture, absolutely free. Or you can play it right now (but there are illustrations in the download).

What's Your Human Design Godhead?

Below, look for the gate of your Personality Sun to find your Godhead and its theme. This archetype is what keeps you from recognizing how deeply conditioned your perceptions are about your life. Where you can get into trouble is taking the conditioning to its distortion and thinking that your Godhead is THE God.

Human Design Mandala Quarter of Initiation - purpose fulfilled through mind

Click image to read more about the Quarter of Initiation

Kali—The Destroyer of False Devotion Gates: 13-The Listener, 49-Principles, 30-Feelings, 55-Spirit

Mitra—The Evolution of Consciousness Gates: 37-Friendship, 63-Doubt, 22-Openness, 36-Crisis

Michael—The Angelical Mind Gates: 25-Spirit of the Self, 17-Opinion, 21-Hunter/Huntress, 51-Shock

Janus—The Fertility of Mind Gates: 42-Growth, 3-Ordering, 27-Caring, 24-Rationalization

Click image to read more about the Quarter of Civilization

Human Design Mandala Quarter of Civilization - purpose fulfilled through form

Maia—The Mother Goddess Gates: 2-The Direction of the Self, 23-Assimilation 8-Contribution, 20-The Now

Lakshmi—Goddess of Beauty and Good Fortune Gates: 16-Skills, 35-Change, 45-The Gatherer, 12-Caution

Parvati - Goddess of Domestic Bliss Gates: 15-Extremes, 52-Stillness, 39-Provocation, 53-Beginnings

Ma'at—Goddess of Truth, Justice and Cosmic Harmony Gates: 62-Details, 56-Stimulation, 31-Leading, 33-Privacy

Human Design Mandala Quarter of Duality - Purpose fulfilled through Bonding

Thoth - God of Wisdom, Writing and Time Gates: 7-Role of the Self in Interaction, 4-Formulization, 29-Perseverance, 59-Sexuality

Harmonia - Goddess of the Family Bond Gates: 40-Aloneness, 64-Confusion, 47-Realization, 6-Friction

Christ Consciousness Field - “Love Thy Neighbor” Gates: 46-Determination of the Self, 18-Correction, 48-Depth, 57-Intuitive Clarity

Minerva - Virgin Goddess of Warfare, Arts and Crafts Gates: 44-Alertness, 28-The Game Player, 50-Values, 32-Continuity

Click the image to read more about the Quarter of Mutation

Human Design Mandala Quarter of Mutation - purpose fulfilled through transformation

Hades - God of the Underworld Gates: 1-Self-Expression, 43-Insight, 14-Power Skills, 34-Power

Prometheus - Thief of Fire and Benefactor of Humanity Gates: 9-Taming Power of the Small, 5-Fixed Rhythms, 26-The Egoist, 11- Ideas

Vishnu - God of Monotheism Gates: 10-Behavior of the Self, 58-Vitality, 38-The Fighter, 54-Drive

The Keepers of the Wheel - Guardians of the Wheel - The Hidden Gods (from themselves) Gates: 60-Limitation, 61-Inspiration, 41-Contraction, 19-Wanting

Another way of explaining these Forces is that your conditioned mind tends to interpret the Maia according to your Godhead. When in a "not-self" state, making decisions from your conditioned mind, you can end up living out the homogenized, dead myths of your Godhead, rather than shining with the uniqueness of your authentic and differentiated holistic self.

Following Strategy and Authority keeps you from getting trapped in your Mind’s illusion derived from the conditioning forces streaming through your individual Godhead. Have you seen this at work in your life? How has it shown up for you? Please comment below.

Are you ready to dare to differentiate into the unique being you are here to be?

Join the tribe, let's journey together!

Originally written for, home of the Human Design System, Jovian Archive under the name Andrea Abay-Abay. Updated and republished with permission.

A study group from mid-2018 to walk us through the thematics around the wheel: 

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Journey through the Centers of the Human Design BodyGraph - The Solar Plexus Center

Let's continue our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph with your mutating Solar Plexus Center. If colored in (defined), the Solar Plexus is automatically your Authority for decision-making. Neither a simple nor easy Authority, definition of this emotional center calls for discipline and patience. Waiting out deep uncertainties and emotional inconsistencies until you are as clear as possible (when there is no emotional charge around a decision) before moving forward is correct for you.

Your emotional system is home to the delights of feelings, sensitivity, desires, passion, romance, the drive for sex, food and spirit consciousness. This potent center produces a biochemical fluctuation of emotion over time, which can affect the functioning of its associated biology; your nervous system, lungs, kidneys, pancreas and prostate gland.

Your Solar Plexus is a truly powerful motor (your Root, Sacral, and Ego Centers are also motors) often causing a constant rising and falling of emotions. Operating in a wave frequency determined by the channels linking to nearby centers, you see and feel from the perspective of where you are on the emotional "wave". Ranging from the highest of hopes (where everything looks rosy) to the deepest pain imaginable (where nothing looks good) means experiencing, accepting and transcending emotions takes time.

Your Solar Plexus is the only center in your bodygraph operating as both a motor and a so-called awareness center (the Ajna and Splenic being your other awareness centers). It is an emerging awareness, dominated by its motor function; undergoing a several thousand-year transformation culminating in 2027. Our Solar Plexus Center is developing the awareness of experiencing ourselves as a single entity or "oneness". 

Whether your Solar Plexus Center has consistent energy present (defined) or not (undefined), its activated gates can bring emotional uncertainty or nervousness - fears regarding personal interactions. Following your Strategy and Authority while learning the mechanics of your Solar Plexus and honoring your body's constantly changing chemistry can bring about an invaluable understanding. This understanding allows you to come to accept the feelings, needs and desires of both yourself and others with compassion.

And this compassion is crucial. With half of humanity deciding rashly in very high or low moments while the rest amplify emotional energy and over-react or develop adaptive strategies in the attempt to avoid pain, emotions color our world.

Spontaneous emotional decisions bear a heavy price. The complex interaction between a defined and undefined Solar Plexus can cause a powerfully distorted emotional wave, often medicated and misunderstood, with the risk of developing manipulative or passive-aggressive behaviors.

Your Strategy and Authority aligns you to develop a healthy relationship with emotions, presenting opportunities to experience the full range of feelings life has to offer. Society continues the myth that we need to be happy all the time and when we are not, something is wrong, or wrong with us.

Whether you have a defined Solar Plexus or not, the depth of emotions you feel are beautiful when allowed, experienced, and released. The key is not to identify with these emotions, nor judge them as good or bad, right or wrong. These waves are an expression of bodygraph mechanics, a potential expression of awareness, and they are nothing to be ashamed of.

As you read about the gates below, have your Human Design Chart handy to take special note of the ones you have defined.

The Source of the Solar Plexus' Waves of Emotions

Three distinctly different emotional wave patterns (Tribal, Individual, and Collective) are established by Gate 6 via the Solar Plexus center's Tribal (support) relationship with the Sacral Center through the Channel of Mating. Depending on the definition at play in relationship to the experiences that you are processing, you may feel one or any combination of these emotional streams from the gates below.

The Gate of Friction

The enormous power of the motor that generates six different wave frequencies of the Solar Plexus lies in Gate 6, "Conflict." If defined, this gate dominates your aura and others because the power of this motor stimulates growth or decay, depending on the resonance of those it comes into contact with. Gate 6 contains our biological law that life needs friction or there's no reproduction. Governing our emotional PH, Gate 6 fuses sensitivity to needs, passion and moods, desire and feelings, generating a wave causing you to be discriminating emotionally and sexually.

With Gate 6 defined, your emotional wave feels very stable, and you are here to learn about the flood of emotions the Solar Plexus brings. This energy is described as the hope to pain wave defining the fear of intimacy, experienced as nervousness about being open to others and awareness of whether to bond or not.

Streams of Potential Awareness rooted in Gate 6

Remaining gates of the Solar Plexus resonate to the nature of its wave rooted in the 6th gate and described in the potential awareness streams below. All waves have two ends of the spectrum. The deeply painful side experienced felt as an oft-called negative emotion, and the elated or positive end of the spectrum felt as emotions considered to be pleasurable. Utilize the wave over time to recognize it's true potential; which happens when you use the full spectrum of the wave as an indicator for clarity in decision-making. Decisions made from a place of clarity puts a very different vibration out into the world than when you are in a state of pain or chaos.

Tribal Awareness

Tribal needs drive the stream of awareness moving through the Solar Plexus center from gate 19 in the Root to gate 40 in the Heart Center, a wave that causes us to bind and stick together. Definition in this Tribal stream creates a "ratchet" wave: a slow buildup of tension. There is a back and forth escalating progression or cranking up of the emotions over time until the point where tension releases - where there is either clarity or explosion.

The Gate of Principals

A ratchet wave that accepts or rejects principals based on the needs of the Tribe defines via Gate 49, "Revolution." This gate establishes who gets what and who to obey in regards to resources. Nervousness about rejection, unpredictability and consequences along with fear of nature characterize this gate. The awareness of what, when and how to get and make food available and what is needed or not to support the tribe can potentially be found in people with Gate 49 activated.

The Gate of Friendship

A ratchet wave based on the bargain regarding resources and principals of the Tribe defines via Gate 37, "The Family." This deeply social gate of friendship and family; of affection, touching and hugging, has a price - whatever the bargain is in regards to resources. Nervousness about possibly having to take on traditional roles in life or even fear of tradition is found here. The awareness of who will and who won't provide what the Tribe needs can potentially be found in people with Gate 37 activated.

Individual Awareness

Individual passion drives the deeply mutative stream of awareness moving through the Solar Plexus Center from gate 39 in the Root to the Throat Center's gate 12, a wave that causes you to be moody or not. Healthy emotional definition in this stream is on a consistently even plane most of the time, with "spikes" of emotion shooting up or down, affecting the level of the even plane of emotions.

Melancholy beats in people with this wave; between the pulses of emotion is when mutation happens. Knowing when to be alone with your creative inspiration, and that with this wave, you just don't know until you know, can help to ease the melancholic spikes.

The Gate of Spirit

Of enormous importance to humanity as a whole and the individual who carries it, the strongly mutative Gate 55, "Abundance" is the most volatile of all emotional gates. Showing the highest and deepest levels of emotion or the intense lack of emotion is possible because of this gate's intense frequency pulse. When activated, it can cause deep and personal moodiness, causing a nervousness arising from not knowing what or who to be passionate about, and a fear of emptiness.

The awareness potential of provocation (am I being provoked or not, and do I like it?) and the mood to eat lies within this gate. With this gate activated is important not to make love, work or especially eat unless you are in the mood in order to protect your health and avoid suffering in your spike wave.

The Gate of Openness

The 22nd Gate, "Grace" pulses with a special empowerment- the power to pay attention, and gets others to pay attention to you. If you have this deeply mutative gate activated, there's the possibility you can provoke openness to being social.

Uncertainty that anyone will listen or that there is something worthwhile to listen to, and the fear of silence lies within this gate. The awareness possibility is the openness to eating; when you're in the mood, speaking to people while you are eating is very good for individuals.

Collective Awareness

Desire drives the pressurized stream of awareness moving through the Solar Plexus Center from gate 41 in the Root to the Throat Center's gate 35; a stream also known as the human experiential way. This way is not about the expected results that so many make it out it be - it is about the experiences themselves.

Chemistry in this stream creates an emotional wave that turns on, rising to high peaks, then off; often crashing with unmet expectations. This Abstract or Crash wave is simply a fact of life as we know it because things never turn out how or become what you think they are going to be.

When you are operating correctly, the crash wave is acceptable because it's the journey that is the story, not the goal, because the goal doesn't exist - the goal is an illusion of your mind's expectations. It is especially important if you have this wave frequency to be correct so that your experiences can be learned from and shared. Note that sexuality is a fundamental drive for this stream.

Human Design System Solar Plexus Collective Awareness

The Gate of the Feelings

Also known as the Gate of the Fates, Gate 30, "The Clinging Fire" creates a powerful crash wave fueled by emotional desires to feel things deeply. Longing for an experience fueled by fantasies of what the experience may bring define in this gate. Its potential is the awareness to recognize a feeling or not, and the capacity to recognize the feeling to eat or drink.

Fear of the Fates and anxiety about what may or may not happen lies within this gate. With this gate activated, to remember to enter into things with clarity and only for the experience, releasing expectations, and surrendering to your fate. When you operate correctly, you "no longer suffer at the hands of the fates - they become your allies."

The Gate of Crisis

Creating an emotional crash wave like nothing else, the most powerful emotional energy releaser we have is Gate 36, "The Darkening of the Light." Driven to turn inexperience into experience, a readiness for sharing and growing through profound emotional challenges along with the emotional power to penetrate the surface of new experiences characterizes those with this gate. When this gate is activated you must have the new experience; and with inexperience comes a crisis, large or small, as mistakes just happen when you've never tried something before.

Nervousness nervousness about one's sexual or emotional adequacy and fears of inadequacy lie in this gate. The awareness possibility is the "hunger wave of hope and pain". The key to remember about having this gate is that this desire for new experiences is strictly impersonal, and you are here to share experiences with the right people correctly.

Defined Solar Plexus - Emotional Authority

If your Solar Plexus is defined, the emotional frequencies of your defined gates above are hardwired into how you consistently experience your life.

Remember to wait out your waves of emotions for decision-making as you have your unique time-frequency. It is not about explaining or controlling your emotions. Release your emotions when and how it feels correct for you; otherwise chaos ensues.

When you repress or stuff your emotions (as many of us are trained to do when raised by unemotional parents) they can cause all kinds of physical problems. Remember to BREATHE and allow the emotion to be felt. In this simple act, you honor who you are as an emotional being, and allow your connection to spirit to be open.

There is "no truth in the now" for you as an emotional being - you are designed to explore and feel things more than others, taking in experiences deeply over time. You simply cannot be in a hurry to make decisions, as you are here to come to profound decisions.

A good rule is to always at least "sleep on it." Be hard to get when it comes to committing your energy to experiences. Correct decisions come from a sense of emotional (not mental) clarity over time.

What matters is your awareness and cultivation of what it feels like to operate correctly. Learning the lessons and experiencing what patience brings allows you to revel in the rewards of being emotional.

What are the rewards? A depth of perception over time which gives a richness and a complexity to life that brings pleasure to us as physical creatures and makes us wonderfully HUMAN.

Questions for Inquiry:

How do your emotions affect your decision-making process?

Do you recognize the emotional wave(s) in your life that are yours?

Do you know the importance of being alone when low in your wave, especially when living with those who have an undefined Solar Plexus?

The Undefined or Open Solar Plexus Center

If your Solar Plexus is undefined, your gates above describe ways you are designed to experience emotions when encountering transits or other people.

If you are completely open (no dormant gates) emotionally, you have a flexibility in experiencing emotional energy, which may cause confusion about how to interpret what you are feeling. You may not know what or who to desire, when sensitivity or passion is appropriate, or how to recognize and deal with other's moods or needs. You can experience emotions in their purity.

Undefined or Open, keep in mind that you can magnify emotions and that you absolutely need to spend alone time every day to release the emotional conditioning you receive from others. In any case, it is paramount to remember: never make emotional decisions. You are not designed to carry the burden of blame or shame that emotional decisions can bring.

Because of the amplification of emotion you can experience, emotional confrontation can be dreadful! Use your Strategy and Authority to guide you in confrontations which are correct for you.

Your potential gift is developing wisdom about the full range of emotions possible, knowing how to enjoy feelings and how to let them flow through you without attachment.

Questions for Inquiry: Have you noticed you can be vulnerable to amplifying emotions of others and the conditioning response (avoiding confrontation or truth) that brings you? What examples of the thoughts below, which may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind, do you recognize in you?

I don't want to go there (or say that) because I don't want to deal with the confrontation.
I can't say that because it might upset that person or hurt someone's feelings.
I'll say it like this to soften the blow.
I'm going to be really nice and smile a lot, so they like me.
There is no point in going there because I might be rejected and disappointed.
I'm afraid it won't work out so why bother; it's not worth it.

Solar Plexus defined or not, you are not the waves of emotions you experience. You are "the passenger in the vehicle" riding those waves, observing them and the full range of changing perspectives emotions bring. Learning how to surf your emotional highs and lows without trying to change them allows you to get to know what is "normal" for you as you experiment with your Strategy and Authority. With time, you can watch as your awareness shifts to include deep inner tranquility no matter the emotional weather patterns expressed on the surface of your or anyone else's illusion of reality.

Human Design can guide you through the illusions created by the conditioned mind. Would you like to share any of your Solar Plexus Center epiphanies or feedback with me? You’re invited to ask questions as well. 

By Laveena Lovick

A version of this article was originally written for JovianArchive.com. Reposted with permission. 

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

Let's continue our Journey through the Centers of the Human Design Bodygraph with your extraordinary Root Center. This center carries a profound initiating quality that fuels the pressure driving your physical life processes. Responsible for energizing your body through your adrenal system, your Root Center initiates being, providing the powerful energy that demands we live a physical life and evolve.

Your Root Center is both a pressure center and a motor - as opposed to the only other source of pressure, your Head Center. We humans live in a 'pressure sandwich', amplified if you have these centers undefined. Note that neither center has direct access to your Throat Center, and your Root is the only motor in your bodygraph without direct access to expression and manifestation.

Originating energy for nine channels leading to the nearby Sacral, Splenic, and Solar Plexus Centers, your Root creates the frequencies through which you biologically operate, producing hormones that get and keep you moving through life.

Whether your Root Center has consistent energy present (defined) or not (undefined), these gates describe the mechanics of the nine essential ways our bodies operate. If your Root Center defines by connecting to a nearby center, you have a particular, fixed way of dealing with stress according to your unique genetic imprinting via the Neutrinos. If your Root Center is undefined, your way of dealing with stress is flexible, and you may tend to amplify pressure, continually rushing to get rid of it.

Either way, following your Strategy and Authority aligns you to the perfection of your Root's process and can help you keep your balance despite the stresses in your world. Take a look at your bodygraph as you read the gates below and take special note of the gates you have defined - these are pressures in you that must be fulfilled, and can only be fulfilled when you are operating correctly.

The Root Center and its Relationships

Root Center Gates to Sacral Center

The relationship between your Root and Sacral Center is perhaps one of the most extraordinary that exists within your bodygraph. The root center is the essence of all of our genetic possibilities, which emerge through the Sacral. The potential of what generated life can be is sourced from your Root Center, making up the frequencies of our world.

Pressures from your Root Center meeting the immense power of your Sacral Center are given a special name; the format energies. Originating these three distinctly unique frequencies, your Root pressures various elements of the bodygraph with a basic structure of operation. These formats are the main energy source for our Collective and Individual knowing processes in life.

The Gate of Beginnings

Root pressure to begin or start new things defines via Gate 53, “Development.” This gate formats energy into a cyclical frequency of experiential beginnings, middles, and ends. Bringing the pressure to complete, this is the most stressful of all gates. Depression can occur when you don't have freedom to begin a process so that you can complete it.

The Gate of Acceptance

The pulsation of 'there or not' pressure to mutate and to transcend limitation defines via Gate 60, “Limitation.” This gate formats all Individual circuitry in your bodygraph - the Knowing and Centering Circuits - through a restrained fuel quality that pulses an energy frequency carrying the possibility of mutation and melancholy; a mechanical moodiness of both happy and sad. When you feel limited and there's nothing new to know depression can hit.

The Gate of Inaction

The pressure to focus your energy and concentrate defines via Gate 52 - “Keeping Still / Mountain.” This gate formats all logical circuitry in your bodygraph - the Understanding Circuit of the Collective - into a logical, detailed and organized, fixed pattern frequency through a passive fuel quality that is not about stress, but about tension. When you don't have the right thing to focus on, depression can be the result.

Any conscious or unconscious definition in these format channels, whether a gate or channel, deeply influences the way your design operates. This energy frequency can also influence the people that come into aura contact with you.

Root Center Gates to Splenic Center

Between your Root Center and Splenic Center are three channels that initiate existential awareness, survival consciousness and the joy of being alive. Your Root Center fuels the Splenic Center with enormous energy for logical judgmentalism, individual intuition, and tribal instinct to maintain your physical well-being.

The Gate of Vitality

The pressure to correct and perfect life, to make things better defines via Gate 58, "The Joyous," the Gate of Vitality. This life force focused on providing logical energy for experimentation is essentially the love of life, fueling our awareness of recognizing patterns that need perfecting or not, and the fear of self-judgement or the judgment of others. It is a highly specialized energy dedicated to a logical experimentation and sharing to ensure a safe future for humanity.

The Gate of the Fighter

The pulsing pressure to find or struggle for purpose in life comes from your Root Center through Gate 38, "Opposition." This individual, mutative energy to struggle for purpose fuels the fear of purposelessness in life or that life has no purpose unless you take risks. This inherent energy of struggle for individual integrity and purpose empowers you to lock in on the one risk worth fighting for and developing your intuitive processes.

The Gate of Drive 

The pressure to achieve, to rise up, to transform comes through Gate 54, "The Marrying Maiden." Laden with incredible potential, this powerful tribal energy brings the drive to succeed, fueling instinctive awareness of what can be transformed or not and the fear of failure. This gate brings the realization that true spirituality is lived out on the mundane plane.

These gates originating from your Root Center are of enormous importance to your well-being, providing pressure to grasp the beauty of your process and fueling the survival-based fears of the Splenic Center. Those with definition between these two centers especially need regular physical activity in order to stay healthy.

Root Center Gates to Solar Plexus

Pressuring the most important mutation in our history, your Root Center brings the energy that fuels emotional awareness and relational intelligence expressed in your Solar Plexus. With definition of these channels, you experience a fixed way of dealing with tribal relationships, individual emotional stress and collective desire to share new experiences.

The Gate of Wanting

Pressure to be sensitive to basic needs comes through Gate 19, "Approach," the Gate of Wanting. Driving us have the necessary resources, Gate 19 pressures us with accepting or rejecting principles based on whether it supports the continuity of the tribe, and fuels nervousness about rejection, unpredictability, and consequences. Providing the powerful energy for supporting having enough resources, this gate recognizes everything is interrelated.

The Gate of Provocation 

Pressure find the passion, spirit in life and to emote comes through Gate 39, "Obstruction." This strongly individual, mutative frequency provokes out of uncertainty, certainty in Spirit. Gate 39's energy pulses fuel personal melancholy, as well as nervousness from not knowing what or who to be passionate about. Once linked to the correct spirit, this gate fuels the potential to emote, bringing mutation to manifestation and bringing out the individual spirit.

The Gate of Contraction 

Pressure to feel and desire a new experience comes through Gate 41, "Decrease." This collective, abstract energy drives the wave of emotions from hope to pain, locking in the desire for one experience at a time, pressuring nervousness about what might or might not happen. Pushing us into a life experience that is nothing but cycles, our human experiential process begins here and fuels our evolutionary process in sequences.

When your Root Center is defined, you can put pressure on those with undefined roots, especially if your mind is dictating your life. You can become obsessive, improperly initiating, meeting resistance that brings stress you aren't designed to handle which can undermine your health. Follow your Strategy and Authority to move forward in life grounded in the correct frequency of your Root.

Question for Inquiry: Do you recognize the pressures in your life that are yours? What about the pressures that are not yours?

The Undefined or Open Root Center 

If you have an undefined or open Root Center, you have the flexibility of dealing with stress in many different ways. However, transits and other people can activate your root, immensely pressurizing you, which tends to amplify and distort this powerful energy. This can show up as hyperactivity (especially in children), an uncontrollable restlessness and inability to focus.

When you have a totally open root center, you can experience the full range of pressure - from deep stillness to intense hyperactivity. Letting pressure pass through you that is not your own is important. Nature is an especially helpful place of renewal and peace for you.

The key for either undefined or open is to move forward in alignment with your Strategy and Authority; either taking a deep breath and moving away from stress if it is uncomfortable, or taking a deep breath and taking advantage of the pressure in order to get things done quickly if needed, or in the appropriate timing - allowing yourself to enjoy the process. Practice getting familiar with the pressures you have defined in you and recognize where the stresses in your environment are coming from.

Questions for Inquiry: What examples of the thoughts that may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind - what we call “Not-Self” talk - do you recognize in you? Can you match the questions with the gate it might be coming from?

I have to achieve something big in my life.
What is my purpose?
What pattern can I experiment with or use my energy for?
I’m depressed because I feel limited. How can I get past this limitation?
I’m depressed because I need something to focus on. What should I focus on?
I’m depressed because nothing new is happening; I’m tired of the same old thing.
I need to start something new.
I need to be needed. Who needs me? Where can I go to be needed?
What is my passion? Who am I passionate about?
I want to initiate a new experience. I want to feel something new.
I need to get this done quickly, I can’t waste any time.

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Whether your Root Center is defined or undefined, honoring your Strategy to deal with the correct pressures, and using your Authority to move on those pressures, is key to avoiding resistance. Moving forward from a place of stillness, clarity of purpose and joy for living through following your Strategy and Authority encourages proper initiation of your flow of energy. Human Design can lead you to what truly fulfills and differentiates you into your unique potential.

Would you like to share any of your Root Center epiphanies or feedback with me? You’re invited to ask questions as well.

By Laveena Lovick

A version of this article was written for JovianArchive.com.

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

Let’s begin with the most remarkable center in the Human Design BodyGraph. Your Throat is the world of form, as the center of Expression, Action, and Metamorphosis. Communication is crucial to expressing who you are and what you have to contribute to the world. What you think, feel and know, as well as what you’ve seen or heard is all communicated through your Throat Center.

Your Throat Center is the portal responsible for the energy in your bodygraph manifesting - as communication or action. Energies of eleven different channels from the six centers that directly connect to the Throat each have a unique voice. The pressures that come from the Head and the Root flow through these six centers to the Throat to share, empower and support humanity.

Whether your Throat is defined or undefined in your Human Design Chart effective communication and action is built upon correct timing. The condition of your relationships depends upon knowing what and when it is appropriate to say and do. Making your situation, and unique perspective known to others through your individual Strategy and Authority protects you from resistance and ensures your fulfillment in life.

Incorrect speech and behavior can affect you by compromising the health and well-being of the biology associated with your Throat Center - your thyroid system and metabolism function.

Your Human Designed Voice

Each of the gates of your Throat Center has a particular voice. By knowing your Throat Center activations, you can recognize when you are speaking with your reliable energy and when you are speaking from conditioning.

Conditioning received through the openness in your Design can influence you to speak or behave in ways that are not in alignment with who you are. Are you ready to become aware of the forces at work in your Design, and the pressures that society and the not-self put upon you?

Your ability to differentiate into who you were designed to be is dependent upon you living out the definition of your Human Design.

If you have a defined Throat Center, you'll have a consistent and reliable way of communicating and acting, or doing things. However, you can speak and act too readily or inappropriately, talk too much and consequently lack impact.

Notice what channels define your Throat. You are designed to speak from the center connected to it - this is where your authentic voice can be depended upon to communicate reliably. The key for you is to use your definition when speaking. Knowing the authentic voice(s) of your Throat center helps you recognize when you are speaking or manifesting from your truth.

The Heart or Ego Center can will things, and speaks with a voice that says, “I have” through Gate 45, The Gate of the Gatherer.

The Identity or G Center says, “I lead” through Gate 31, The Gate of Leading. As well as, “I can make a contribution” through Gate 8, The Gate of Self-Expression. Or “I remember” through Gate 33, The Gate of Privacy.

The Splenic Center says, “I am” and “I am now” through Gate 20, The Gate of the Now. Or “I experiment (identify)” through Gate 16, The Gate of Skills.

The Sacral Center can also say “I am” through Gate 20, The Gate of the Now. Or can speak through inarticulate, audible sounds heard like "uh-huh" for yes, "uhn-uhn" for no and ”hmmm” for I don’t know.

The Ajna Center says, “I think,“ through Gate 62, The Gate of Detail. As well as, “I know" through Gate 23, The Gate of Assimilation. Or “I believe” through Gate 56, The Gate of Stimulation.

The Solar Plexus Center says, “I experience (feel)” through Gate 35 The Gate of Change; or “I know I can try (act)” through Gate 12, The Gate of Caution.

For all of the voices above, there is always the possibility of it’s opposite expressing as well. When your Throat Center is defined, you can seem overwhelming to others because of your fixed way of expression, especially if your mind is dictating your life. Follow your Strategy and Authority to move forward with life without resistance and learn to speak when appropriate.

Question for Inquiry:
Do you recognize the voices that are authentically yours?

The Undefined or Open Throat Center

If your Throat Center is undefined, you may feel pressured to talk, act or manifest to get noticed. Trying to attract attention is the Not-Self theme or way of dealing with the amplification of energy that happens with an undefined Throat Center.

As the energy hub that communicates messages coming from these centers, your Throat Center transmutes and directs how that energy manifests in your life. This energy can be misused if directed by the mind, as opposed to your true authority.

Strategy and Authority protect you whether you have a defined or undefined Throat center. Engaging in conversation correctly leads to effective communication and management of energy. Engaging in conversation incorrectly can lead to miscommunication, discomfort, embarrassment, waste of energy, and puts pressure on your thyroid system.

When you are not in alignment with your true nature, your mind may try to figure out not only how you can attract attention, but can also be preoccupied with what you are going to become.

If your Throat Center is not just undefined but completely open (without any gate activations) you may also not have any idea what to say or what to do. Saying the wrong thing at the wrong time can be challenging and you may find your words ignored.

Questions for Inquiry:
What examples of the thoughts that may come up on behalf of your deeply conditioned mind - what we call “Not-Self” talk - do you recognize in you?

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“Where can I get the attention I want?
Does anyone notice me? I’ll say this so I can be noticed.
If I start/interrupt this conversation, then I will get attention.
Silence makes me uncomfortable, I need to say something, anything.
What should I say/do?
I want to/should manifest this (thing/job/situation).
What or who will I become in life?”

If you have an undefined or open Throat Center, you have the flexibility of speaking with many different voices depending on the configuration of your dormant gates and the energies of the people you are with or the current Transits.

The key is to only speak when others initiate conversation with you. Practice getting comfortable with silence in the meantime. Waiting to be asked or invited into the conversation and following your Authority encourages proper timing and flow of energy.

When you have an undefined or open Throat Center, your potential gift is to develop the wisdom of recognizing who is speaking and acting authentically, and who is not.

Whether your Throat Center is defined or undefined, honoring your Strategy to find correct timing, and using your Authority to manifest words and deeds, is key to avoiding resistance. Experimenting with your Human Design Strategy and Authority can lead you to that which truly fulfills you and helps you differentiate into your unique potential.

Would you like to share any of your Throat Center epiphanies or feedback with me? You’re invited to ask questions as well.

By Laveena Lovick

A version of this article was written for JovianArchive.com.

How to Change Your Fate with Human Design

In a sentence: simply commit to your Human Design experiment.

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Introduction to the Human Design BodyGraph - Centers

Ready to begin a Mystical Journey through the Mechanics of your Being?

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.

You are welcome in our Facebook group for conversations and live study group webinars with optional webcam and group chat.

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?

The video above gives a solid introduction to what Human Design is and what it can do for you. Leaning how to Live Your Design is an important first step in experimentation with the Human Design System. In my Foundational chart analysis we can uncover all the key elements of your Human Design chart, including where you are vulnerable to potential conditioning.

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Laveena Lovick, Human Design Analyst, Teacher and BG5 Career & Business Consultant

Centers are the primary focus of the Living Your Design Awakening Program taught by Certified LYD Guides like myself around the globe. It is the only spiritual program in the Human Design Educational system designed for everyone who is interested in experiencing the benefits that Human Design can bring.

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a version of this article originally published by JovianArchive.com as Andrea Abay-Abay. Republished with permission.

Observing the Shadows of Not-Self Generosity

Have you been indulging in Not-Self generosity?

"What exactly do you mean by that?" you may be wondering.

The "Not-Self" can be seen as your shadow-state. Like a shadow may be yours, yet is not you, so too are the adaptive strategies derived from the white areas of your Human Design. Conditioning happens here, and these are places where your mind can cause you to make decisions that are not in alignment with your true nature.

"Not-Self" has a sinister sound to it when you don't know what it means. Sometimes people get confused and think that anything coming from the openness is bad—as if the openness is not part of the totality of you.

You cannot separate yourself from your openness. This receptivity is an integral part of you. It is where you experience life, where experiences nourish you. Here is where you can learn, grow, and develop wisdom. Here is where you have the flexibility to experience life in many ways, and ever learn to master making money in these places, depending on your overall design.

Boy, am I familiar with the suffering (bitterness and resentment, for me) that comes from Not-Self decision-making! As a 3/5, Emotional Projector, overdoing it in many areas of life with awareness now, is how I have learned my deepest lessons.

For example, let’s take my undefined Heart's Not-Self generosity:

Pic credit: Aunt Sarah Draws

• Saying I would when I wasn't quite clear that I could, then not being able to keep a promise and ending up feeling like crap.

• Thinking I have to go above and beyond what is needed, constantly overcompensating to prove my value.

• Not stopping at the specified time for a session, for example, even if I was tired and it was enough.

• Not being satisfied with a good enough piece of writing, but spending ridiculous hours stressing over perfectionism.

• I remember in school—if I couldn't do a homework project perfectly to my liking, I wouldn't even turn it in and preferred an F to getting a B!

• Settling for whatever (or whoever) came my way, expecting less than I know I deserve in relationships and business because my mind didn't believe I was worthy of anything more and was afraid that if I asked, I would either be turned down or miss out on an awesome opportunity.

From mothers to service professionals to athletes to people working in the corporate world, approximately 65% of all humans are dealing with this Undefined Heart Center conditioning in their lives. How much of an effect does the open Heart have on the professional landscape where so many of us are trying to prove ourselves all the time? Stomach ulcers, gall bladder issues, heart conditions, and immune system malfunctioning are symptoms of misusing your willpower, whether you have it defined or open.

Thanks to discovering Human Design, I recognized mentally that the Not-Self adaptive strategies of my mind had a firm hold on my life, yet still, I was powerless to stop them from influencing me. However, in the course of my five years of experimentation, the decisions have slowly stopped coming from a place of Not-Self automatic reflex. I began to recognize what it felt like when decisions started coming from what my Solar Plexus was telling me, once I got invited to the big things in life (for a Projector, this is critical).

I know I can't help undergoing my trial and error process of making personal mistakes, as a 3rd line Personality. In the first year of my experiment, the overwhelming realization of it all hit me like a ton of bricks. The magnitude of the apparent difficulty of getting to live out my true nature discouraged me. The Not-Self cry, "why me?!" of my 3rd-line Martyr Personality was in full effect.

Though it has gotten easier over the years, there are still a lot of adaptive strategies of the "Not-Self" going on over here in my life movie and of the people I've seen come to me. Read on to discover how Not-Self generosity has shown up in my life, and perhaps you can recognize it in yours.

Here's a little keynoting along with my experience of my undefined Centers, and the Not-Self generosities I recognized:

Head Center: Inspiration

Not-Self Themes: Occupied with questions that don't matter
I recognized that discovering inner truth and what is truly inspiring through collaboration with others in relationships is what I'm driven consciously to learn (Personality Moon in 61.3 Interdependence)
Not-Self generosity: Trying to provide answers to other people's questions without being invited first
BG5 Signpost: Losing Focus
If it were completely open: Not knowing what is interesting

Ajna Center: Conceptualization

Not-Self Themes: Pretending that I am mentally certain
I recognized early on that my completely open Ajna simply can't get enough of the concepts in Human Design. Is this something that works, that I can finally be confident about? Through my experimentation and repeated feedback over the years from others; so far, so good.
Not-Self generosity: Doing things like taking in other's concepts in conversation and pretending to be confident about what's going on without first being positive that I am and that the concepts are right for me.
BG5 Signpost: Conceptually defensive
My Signpost as it is completely open: Not knowing what to think

Heart Center: Willpower

Not-Self Themes: Trying to prove/improve myself
I recognize that my undefined ego dances between wanting to be in control and feeling out of control. I tend towards withdrawing from the material path (Personality Venus in 21.3 Powerlessness) with a lifelong habit of endless education, because I love to learn new things as someone born in the Quarter of Initiation, with my purpose fulfilled through Mind. I walk a fine line here, though, because that little center longs for continuous self-improvement and loves certifications that show I've accomplished something that proves my value.
Not-Self generosity: Doing things for others just to prove something I think I want to be (a good person, smart enough, and worthy, for example).
BG5 Signpost: Overcompensating
If it were completely open: Not knowing what is worthy

Sacral Center: Power of Fertility

Not-Self Theme: Not knowing when enough is enough
I recognize that my undefined sacral center is a HUGE source of conditioning and Not-Self generosity. With eight dormant potentials, this has been one of my hardest challenges. Thankfully, I can say I'm getting over the workaholic addiction, not thanks to my mind, though. My body got to the point where it no longer tolerated overwork. No longer can I push through the fatigue or pain of overworking myself, no matter what my mind wants to prove. This body does not want to sit at the computer for hours on end anymore! It won't.
Not-Self generosity: Doing things (work/sex/play) without boundaries around my time and without honoring my body's fatigue levels
BG5 Signpost: Over-Zealousness
If it were completely open: Not knowing what to use energy for

Splenic Center: Body Consciousness

Not-Self Theme: Holding on to what isn't good for me
I recognize my mind rigidly holds on to people, places, and things long after they are no longer right for me. Knowing who/where/what is healthy for me and worth holding on to is something I'm here to learn to be wise about.
Not-Self generosity: Doing things that help me hold on to who/where/what, even when it is time to let go of them because they no longer serve my highest good.
BG5 Signpost: Lack of flexibility
If it were completely open: Not knowing what to fear

Here are the other Centers:

Throat Center: Communication and Manifestation

Not-Self Theme: Trying to attract attention
Not-Self generosity: Doing things to communicate or manifest
BG5 Signpost: Trying to be the Star
If it's completely open: Not knowing what to say

G Center: Love, Identity, and Direction

Not-Self Theme: Trying to find direction and love
Not-Self generosity: Doing things in alignment with others' direction or for their love
BG5 Signpost: Role confusion/Lack of direction
If it's completely open: Not knowing what to be

Solar Plexus Center: Emotional / Spirit Consciousness

Not-Self Theme: Avoiding confrontation and truth
Not-Self generosity: Playing nice (and not standing up for your truth when it's time to do so as not to disturb others)
BG5 Signpost: Touchy and nervous
If it's completely open: Not knowing what to feel

Root Center: Physical Adrenalized Pressure

Not-Self Theme: Always in a hurry to be free of the pressure
Not-Self generosity: Getting things done super fast though it may be stressful for you and others around you
BG5 Signpost: In too much of a hurry
If it's completely open: Not knowing when to hurry

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In a split definition (two areas of colored in Centers disconnected from each other) like mine, the Not-Self strategies have a focus in the bridging areas between my two areas of Definition. In my case, the channel of Transitoriness (Gates 36-35) or being a "Jack of all Trades" is one way I have been keen on bringing my Definitions together.

With a wide-split definition like mine, in relationships, my conscious psychology will tend to see the problem with the other person, never with myself.

I had a hilarious yet tragic flash of insight while team-teaching Rave Cartography with Darshana Deborah Mathews today. The Channel of Transitoriness is the strength of the Experiencer in BG5, and the Channel of Sexual Talent in the Not-Self. 

I recognized that I left my first husband (1995-2003) because I was dissatisfied with the repeating redundancy of experiences - wanting new experiences other than the same-old routines. Though it was amazing to work on the dive-boat and take people on underwater adventures, I desired new adventures he wasn't willing to go on with me.

I recognized that I left my second husband (2003-2010) because I was dissatisfied with our sex life - I have a rich imagination and again, wanting new experiences led me away from intimacy with him into adventures that he wasn't willing to do with me either.

Both times, my mind found "fault" with them, not myself and I broke those bonds to seek out new ones.

Now through my Human Design education, I know I'm here to be a specialist at advising others using my recognition of feelings and imagination, not the one having all the experiences at the spontaneous invitation of another. I know now that rather than trying to be all things to all people and do everything myself, that I can't do it alone. Now I am content to wait for everything in its right timing, through the recognition and invitation of others, along with my emotional clarity.

Those whispers of the Not-Self mind that are always wondering and worrying, scheming and planning are now drowned out by the clarity of my emotions. No matter how loud my mind gets inside, I know to wait for the invitation and to move forward when I feel clarity. And I know that even if things appear to go "wrong" or I've made a mistake, I've gained valuable experience that brings wisdom to my process and for others to draw from.

Nowadays the Not-Self machinations of my mind are sometimes quite funny, and they are easier to recognize with detachment and not act on. I know I'm helpless to go through the Deconditioning process just like everyone else.

My mind became obsessed with looking at and trying to figure out other people through this new Human Design lens right away, and now years later I still feel awe knowing how much more there is to know. I know it's not about taking more and more classes—which I still can't get enough of yet! It's about putting that knowledge into practice, taking it to the streets, where the rubber meets the road, and using it—not only in my life but other people's lives as well. This is one reason why I run regular study groups open to all my students and clients.

As a 3/5 Emotional Projector, slowly I've come to recognize how my body "Talks" to me, and gradually I have learned to listen, and obey. When I don't, I get exhausted and sick, generally "trying to keep up" with the busy work-work-work frequency that values accomplishment in the external world.

The summer of 2017 semester I experienced this, plunging myself into an exhausted state, between playing the single mom role, puppy-dog momma and running my business. Through the help of a dozen Bodytalk sessions, 5 months of Soltec Lounge use and Non-VIolent Communication education, I discovered what is alive in me. In deep transformative moments over the years, I have experienced intense breakthroughs in being able to see with my personal perspective, and really being aware when I am being skewed to power. 

Imagine finally being able to connect the patterns of your life's lessons and accept every single thing that has happened to you and every single mistake you ever thought you made.

These recognitions of what life has taught me has lead to a profound shift in my awareness and direction. I took a break from my assistant teaching and marketing position at the BG5 Business Institute to become their Digital Marketing Consultant instead. That break gave me time to learn how I wanted to support my clients and students' in our journey together in the name of Daring to Differentiate, and encourage more children and parents using Human Design.

Laveena Lovick

Hopefully, me sharing my story with these centers can help empower you in your own experiment. How do we end the suffering caused by Not-Self generosity? Through practicing with our Strategy and Authority in decision-making. Yes, easier said than done. Yet it is so worth the effort, my friends. Discovering what you are truly designed to takes time and trust in life's process.

I hope your experiment is helping bring your shadows to light so that you can find the wisdom potential. I hope that you find the freedom from suffering from the Not-Self mind controlling your life. Thank goodness for Human Design to help guide our decisions!

by Laveena Lovick 

An earlier version of this article was published as the Tribulations of Not-Self Generosity on JovianArchive.

Bernie Sanders' Human Design - Warrior of the "Wa"

An apparent underdog in the battle for the past U.S. presidency in which Donald Trump emerged the victor, Bernie Sanders was a competitor in the major fight for the Democratic nomination ahead. Sanders has a highly rare Human Design—that of a pure Ego Projector. Bernie Sanders is a United States Senator from Vermont.

(Please note that Sander’s birthtime is not precise, so this is a general article that does not go deep into specifics of his design as I have in other articles, like this on of Donald Trump).

In the career language of BG5, the business aspect of Human Design Analysis, Bernie Sanders is a natural leader as an Advisor Type. Projector leadership is very different from the leadership style of the Manifestor with their Impact. The Projector's power lies in their unique energetic functioning, which provides a laser-like focus, aware perspective, and ability to guide other people or processes to higher efficiency or effectiveness.

"Leadership is not about you. It's about others." Sim Sitkin, a top leadership professor and faculty director of Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics.

This is one of the reasons why any Projector (aka Advisor Career Type), not just those with Projected Leadership Channels (10-20 individually, 7-31, 1-8, 13-33 in small groups and 51-25 in large groups) is a natural-born leader. Leadership is something you get better and better at by learning about what makes others tick and how to best interact with and motivate them.

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Like all Advisors, Sanders is here to help others experience success. His energetic presence is designed to penetrate and absorb information to know how to advise people. He has a focused presence that gets to the core of the person he is with, asking the right questions at the right time to get them to the heart of the matter.

Advisors can become exhausted from too much energetic contact with others, or from over-working and trying to get out there and make things happen. Their decision-making strategy is to engage with what and who correctly recognizes and invites them first, rather than initiating. Since his Heart/Ego Center is defined with everything below open, Bernie can make sound decisions that he can trust when his expression of willpower is followed when he is invited to do so by others.

There are two kinds of Ego Authority - Manifested or Projected. Less than 1 in 200 people have Ego Projected authority. Sanders's authority is Ego Projected because the energy of his Ego does not reach the Throat in his Human Design.. Only 35% of the population have a defined ego like Bernie, able to make correct promises and keep them consistently. Very few people have this center as their Authority—just .49% have Ego Authority. 

Bernie Sanders’s Competitiveness

““I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can’t guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.” ~ Bernie Sanders”

Bernie's Ego and Identity Center connect through the channel of Initiation—"a Design of needing to be First." This channel is the only one in the Human Design bodygraph that Bernie has defined, so what he can trust is an invitation to initiate when his willpower agrees to it. People with this channel are very powerful forces for other people. Bernie's key to success requires that he wait to be recognized and invited to bring the competitive edge for others.

I am currently about the enter the final semester of the OC16 Large Business Certification courses at the BG5 Career and Business institute. In this course, we learn about all the channels that feed into the ones which organize a group of 16 people. Organizing Channels of a group of 16 people (the trans-auric form known as a Wa) are critical to understand how a corporation can be engineered for success.

This channel, 25-51 is an important part of a large business, which guides the business to have a competitive leadership in the marketplace. A fantastic example of this channel at work (and another successful Projector) is the first woman Social Media Billionaire: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, nicknamed by Time Magazine "The Mogul" and the first woman Social Media Billionaire: Sheryl Sandberg. She was was the first woman named to the company’s board of directors. Sandberg founded the nonprofits Lean In and Option B. Though I do not have her exact time, I do know she has mental definition; if she were born early in the day, she would be a mental Projector, strength of Efficiency (43-23). This channel is required to structure mental conceptualization of inspirational awareness and inner truth into brilliant insights that are translated into knowing, and empower the direction of a large group of people because it is part of the power base feeding into the OC16 Channel 2-14.

Due to the trajectory of Sheryl's life (what she has been recognized for and how she is successful) it is likely that she was born late in the day, adding this definition to her design. A late birth-time makes her a willpower decision maker, with the large business role and strength of competitiveness. This strength links the heart center (51) to the identity center (25), and is known as the channel of Initiation, a design of needing to be first.

In large groupings of people, this channel holds leadership power in an organization that is critical to maintain competitiveness and relevancy in a swiftly changing world.

You don't get to a place of possibly being the next President without some competitiveness, and this is where Bernie's life force is consistent.
In fact, his Channel of Initiation is one of only six that are organizing forces in a Wa (a group of 16 people). Group dynamics like Penta and Wa are homogenizing influences that program our survival.

As an individual, Bernie's conscious driving force (Moon in gate 51.5—Symmetry) is competitiveness with an instinctive ability to tackle and adapt to ‘the unknown’: "The ability to respond to disorder and shock through recognition and adaptation." He brings courage to stand up and shock others with unexpected actions or the robust strength of his warrior spirit. In the Wa, this energy provides the willpower for competition, which handles challenges to expand our horizons and allow breakthroughs in experience.

Bernie's unconscious South Node is in gate 25.1 Selflessness. This gate brings the shaman/priest energy of the Spirit of the Self, Innocence; "the perfection of action through uncontrived and spontaneous nature." Bernie's unconscious imprinting leads him to fulfill his purpose in a large organization to provide it with the capacity for a competitive spirit.

Together, these two gates comprise Bernie's channel of Initiation, which is about his ability to initiate others when recognized and invited, using his willpower.

Being initiated into action gives Bernie the opportunity to discover the essence of his warrior spirit. People with Bernie's definition are the ones who stand up for and defend the leader of the Wa—the person with channel 21-45. Can Bernie maintain his fighting spirit for himself and our country as an active leader (with the 45th gate as his unconscious Sun and conscious Jupiter) if he is in a large group with another 21-45 in the room?

Bernie Sanders’s Life Purpose as a Left Angle Cross of Dominion

Because he was born in the Quarter of Duality, Bernie's purpose is fulfilled through the bonds he creates with others. As a 5/1 Profile, Bernie has a Left Angle Cross. He has the potential to alter other people’s movement through life as well as have his movement changed through interactions with others.

Every person Bernie meets as a Left Angle has not only a karmic connection but also value for him that requires interaction and bonding to fulfill his purpose. His 5th-line Personality is here to bring others success by universalizing what is practical. Bernie bears the responsibility of transforming the discoveries of the Right Angle profiles into knowledge that can be of value to others.

Positions of authority and power are a natural fit for Bernie as a Projector on the Left Angle Cross of Dominion. Bernie Sander’s conscious Sun is in Gate 64, line 5—Promise. This gate is his personality expression: "Before Completion—The Gate of Confusion: Transition, like birth, requires a determined strength for the passage through."

His heresy about our history has had a substantial effect on our view of society. Bernie has an ability to educate and advise us with his values and keep his promises. His unconscious Sun is in gate 45, line 1—Canvassing: "The ability to promote and develop gathering together through the education of the uncommitted. The material direction lies in education."

Bernie is here to educate others and express his individual uniqueness as a conscious General/Savior/Heretic/Messenger (5th-line personality) who has a solid foundation (1st-line body) in the world of politics—his area of chosen expertise since his school days more than 50 years ago. Life has brought him the people and experiences he needs to master the political system. System mastery is what all Projectors are here for.

Because he does not have consistent access to generating or manifesting energy, Bernie needs to partner with people who will do the work while he guides the process. If Bernie becomes President, it would be wise of him to ensure that he is using his individual willpower energy to his advantage by focusing on interactions outside of a small group in important meetings—one person at a time is where his real power lies. 

A version of this article originally appeared on JovianArchive.com published under the name of Andrea Abay-Abay in 2016. Updated and republished with permission.

Human Design System Basic Concepts: Kinds of Chart Definition

One of the most important things to understand about why connections (and relationships of all kinds) happen and last between us is that some of us function more independently than others by nature. Connection possibilities depend on the particular configuration of your Human Design bodygraph definition.

Definition is what is consistent and reliable within us; it is what creates our Type and determines our Strategy and Authority. Definition in the bodygraph shows us a schematic of the way energy flows within us. It also determines the way we operate, how we interact with and what we look for in others.

It's part of one of the most interesting human phenomena: the connections that happen when people meet. Using the Human Design System as a framework, you can see the mechanics behind those connections. Why and how we connect can be very complex and deep, but the truth is right there on the surface of the bodygraph for anyone to see.

Here is a basic overview of the Five Kinds of Definition you'll encounter in a Human Design Bodygraph, with links to free audios by Ra Uru Hu discussing each. Would you like to listen to Ra’s introduction to Human Design Definition here, then read and listen to an explanation of yours below?

Split Definition - Approximately 45.89% 

"You complete me." Introducing your significant other as your "other half" is a sentiment that almost half the people on this planet deeply resonate with. 

As a basic Split Definition, you have two separate areas of definition in your Human Design chart that are disconnected from each other. You are choicelessly drawn to people who bring the aspects that connect your areas of definition. The quality of your life depends on your bond with the right other. When you find a person with the right bridging gate(s), you experience a sense of wholeness. But just because you feel that way when you are with certain people doesn't mean they are correct for you.

Here's the conditioning simple Splits need to be aware of:

It's possible to be blinded by bridges if you are a basic Split Definition. You could spend all your time and energy looking for what you think you need (if just one gate would bridge your split) to be whole.

What you feel is “missing” that would bridge the two parts of you is what can become where you focus all your attention and your decision-making upon. 

If it takes two gates or a channel to bridge your split, then those themes become what you think the other needs or is the other person’s problem, in order for you to experience what you think you need in life.

Now we see how blame can enter the picture here and skew your perspective of your life.

More rarely, when it takes more than a channel to bridge your split, now you think the missing elements in your design are what the world is missing, and that's why you don't have what you need in life or feel whole.

Focusing on the qualities of any Gate(s) or Channels that would bridge your Split is attractive to your mind, and this is where a basic Split's centralized "Not-Self" purpose is.

“What is the Not-Self?” In a Split Definition, not only do you have open Center Not-Self thematics at work, but because of the dual areas of energy dynamics you were imprinted with, your mind is seduced by decision-making strategies based upon those aspects that bridge your split. Fixating on that openness will never bring you the fulfillment you are looking for, as your mind will come up with strategies for coping with the unreliability of that energy and try to “fix” it through decisions or bonds with others. But there's nothing missing, wrong or broken within you—though it may feel that way sometimes. 

Because of this inherent drive for wholeness, basic splits are responsible for the phenomenon of monogamy and pair-bonding. Entering into the right bond correctly—with awareness—using your Strategy and Authority to make decisions as yourself, you discover the beauty of a truly fulfilling relationship.

Single Definition - Approximately 41.95%

"When I'm done, I'm done." These were words from a Single Definition woman during a recent Living Your Design Awakening Program when discussing relationships. 

Single Definition means that all the defined Centers in your Design are dependably communicating in specific ways from the time of your birth until you leave this plane. Life-force energy flows continuously through your defined Channels to the Centers, consistently determining your authentic nature.  

Single Definition gives you a consistent and reliable sense of wholeness within without the drive for someone "to complete you". Unlike other kinds of definition, yours depends on nothing outside of itself to bring parts of you together. Your operating system doesn't need outside energy to process incoming information. You are designed to operate more independently than Splits and are self-contained.

Because you have no built mechanism that looks for and creates an illusion of wholeness, like basic Splits do, making a relationship successful can be a challenge as it is easier for you to simply walk away (while a Split would be more likely to want to work on the relationship and stay together). 

All the undefined or open Centers are where your mind is susceptible to conditioning. The conditioning in these white centers is where you are likely to get sidetracked from making decisions correctly as yourself. Follow your Strategy and Authority to discover the magic of your uniqueness.

Triple Split - Approximately 10.18%

It's all about movement for a Triple-Split, because of the fact that no single bridge, person or singular moment brings you the same sense of wholeness. As a Triple-Split, you have three different parts in your Design disconnected to each other and may involve two, or commonly all three of the Awareness Centers in your Bodygraph, all of which operate on different time frequencies. Because each of your areas of definition are highly specialized, and can be brought together with a variety of different bridges, you are a complex being with extraordinary potential for assimilation and integration of information through movement and over time. 

As a Triple-Split, you have more in common with Single Definitions in that the open centers hold the thematics of conditioning that can lead you away from your truth. Unlike the basic Split definition, when you are in a relationship with someone who brings all the aspects of you together through bridging areas of their split, it is not at all the same feeling for you. You can tend to feel trapped if you are bridged the same way all the time, so it is important for you to get out into the public aura on a daily basis. Not necessarily to socialize, or even for a very long period, but to make use of the way you can be bridged in the diversity found among groups of people. Sampling the broad spectrum of ways you could be brought together and synthesizing the different parts of you in this way is an important aspect to understand as it is what makes you so unique. Being locked into the same way you can be brought together all the time is not particularly healthy nor does it feel comfortable for you.

You can be impatient and act without waiting for all aspects of you to be connected with integration of relevant data. Through awareness of and experimentation with your Strategy, Authority and unique way of synthesizing information, you can find fulfillment of your unique purpose in life.

No Definition - Approximately 1.41%

People with no definition—no defined Channels and therefore, Centers—are a very unique Auric Type. These are Lunar beings, tied deeply into the movement of the moon through their Human Design charts.

Reflectors are discussed in these free audios by Ra; Reflector Strategy, Reflector Not-Self Theme, Reflector Children.

Quadruple Split - Approximately 0.57%

"The only Definition that is, without question, Polygamists". Ra Uru Hu, the Four Views

You can see how very rare Quadruple Splits are; still this accounts for approximately 1 in 200 people on the planet. Quadruple Splits they are very fixed beings because so much is defined in their bodygraph. What's so interesting is that if you are a Quadruple split, you appear differently to different people, because of the aspects of you that emerge depending on what the other bridges within you.

You are looking for two specific bridging areas - two different kinds of fixed bonds. 

Like the basic Split definition, conditioning potential for you is strongly focused on the bridging gates between your Splits. What you need are consistent bridges that come from two or three others, because of the many ways your four elements could come together and the fact that if one person brings all those bridges you need, it locks you in a pattern that feels uncomfortable to you. 

The general public aura does not benefit you like it does the Triple Split; what you are looking for are tight bonds with the right others that allow all of the expressions of you to emerge. Through Strategy and Authority, you find the correct bonds that allow you your unique expression of fulfillment in this life.

“Whenever you’re dealing with a split definition you have to recognize that the moment that you move from single definition to split definition to triple split definition to quadruple split definition, everything slows down.  You cannot expect a triple split to operate at the same speed as a single definition. A single definition integrates information completely the moment it receives it. A split definition does not.

In other words, it can receive information but those two sets of information as they operate through their design don’t have a relationship to each other.  You’re always waiting for the bridge. If you’ve got a triple split you can see that a triple split definition can’t just come to a conclusion. If you’re emotional and you’re a triple split, that’s an ideal.  It takes you forever to come to a decision anyway, so you might as well enjoy being emotional and take advantage of waiting out your wave. “ Ra Uru Hu

“Everything about the possibility of who you are is determined by your relationships. Everything… And if you’re lost in the psychology of what your split brings to you, you’re blind to see those forces that are correct for you in this life.”

— Ra Uru Hu

Openness has the potential for Wisdom

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Human Design helps you become aware of what those qualities that bridge your split or the centers that condition your mind away from your authentic nature, which is what you are here to be wise about in your life. Single and Triples, know the signposts of your undefined centers. Split and Quadruples, study the bridges between your definition so that you are aware of when you get trapped in making decisions that focus on what you are not here to be.

Remember the openness is where you are flexible and able to experience the full range of possible experiences. Openness is where we "go to school" in life. The open centers and bridges between your definitions don't define you, and can never be consistent or reliable. Conditioning here that you base decisions on leads you away from your authentic nature. Experimenting with your Strategy and Authority is what protects you mechanically from the allure of the openness in your design. 

As a Human Design Analyst, Living Your Design Guide, Rave ABCs and Cartography Teacher as well as BG5 Consultant, one of the most rewarding and fulfilling things I’ve found in life is to truly see and understand how people operate. The realizations in my own life as well as the positive feedback from the people who reach out to me for advice has everything to do with the commitment and passion I have for this System and the time I spend immersed with it.

This information was synthesized from my training, including self-study from Jovian's Definition videos and the two chapters on definition from the Four Views e-book helped me tremendously in understanding the mechanics of how different kinds of definitions function, and I know they can do the same for you. 

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*Further statistics can be found on the Rave Statistics page. A version of this article originally appeared on JovianArchive.com