Perceptual Attunement: Seeing Correctly Through your Aligned Human Design Viewpoint

Radical Transformations using the Human Design System

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A Human Design Chart Reading Is Not About Mirror Gates

Do you know your Human Design Mirror Gates?

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Above is a fascinating image of deeper underlying mechanics we term "Mirror Gates" that is helpful in our understanding as Analysts (which you can learn about in Semester 1 of our Professional Analyst Training).

Fascinating as it is, this and other mechanical structures are not necessary to explain to your clients in an Overview or even a Foundational Chart Reading.

True, the information and technical detail in a Human Analysis are very important. But a chart reading isn’t about the information and technical detail in totality.

It is possible to have every piece of information ever delivered about a Human Design chart 100% memorized and still not be able to deliver a quality Foundational reading.

The Human Design System is logical, organized, and integrated.

While the mind will make it confusing, complicated, and fragmented...

Especially when the chart reader is not deconditioned nor educated correctly.

Which leaves their client walking away confused, not empowered, and either doubting the system, the reader, or worse, doubting themselves.

I remember being approached for partnership by a self-proclaimed professional Analyst who did not have any certifications to speak of, yet created their own Analyst Training program. This young person reached out to me over four years ago with flattering words about my HD work, sharing how much they admired my success and wanted to collaborate with me. They then (without being asked, or asking) promoted their training program and their readings in my Human Design Facebook group by sharing a Soundcloud link to a sample "career reading."As a professional BG5 Career and Business teacher and IHDS Professional Teacher, I was curious about their offering to train Analysts, so I listened.

Their sample reading was not effective in terms of giving the client a good picture of their career. The story told about the bodygraph was a disjointed collection of mechanics (though accurate in theory) about the gates and how they functioned, what they did, and all kinds of facts not necessarily applicable in context were included.

A Person is not a Gate nor a Line nor a Color

The reading itself was not especially specific to the human that the chart was being read for, in that though the words used may have been technically accurate, they were not woven together in the depth and breadth of the holistic analysis that we teachers are taught by Ra to train our students to explain the graph.

I know it takes a long time to gain proficiency translating the bodygraph in ways applicable and practical to the individual. Reading the chart is an art that is a sacred duty between the reader and their client. The poetry of keynoting is a calling, a passion, a purpose, and all of us refine our abilities over time.

Ra wanted people to wait 7 years to start analyzing charts professionally, but he settled on half that time and made it a requirement for teachers instead. It takes a full 7 years for your cells to decondition from the not-self purpose (your mind's false stories that drive your actions). This is why it takes a long time and a lot of training to meet the requirements to become a professional teacher.

A lot of the deeper HD realms are revealing but distorting when you get too "mind-y" about it. The most common mistake I see is people taking one aspect of the chart, going on and on about that one aspect, and talking in "snippets of Ra" without putting everything into the holistic context of that person's design.

Here's an example.

Recently, a student shared in my class about feeling disempowered when somebody told her "you are not here to lead, ever" because of her psychological Motivation being Innocence.

When the student questioned the reader, because that statement didn't feel good to her, she was told: "no, never."

This student's design had a multitude of consistent leadership gates in a Defined Throat, giving her Influence and Oversight, both consistent Leadership Traits. And she had a Public Relationship strength, a primary leadership channel within a small group that is designed to be recognized for her ability to represent and speak for the group's direction and identity. She can, in fact, hold a leadership role if her Authority says yes.

Remember, we are not just one aspect (in this case, the color) of a gate. We are a holistic Being with a multiplicity of layering, including current cycles that show the whole picture of what we are currently living out, depending on our age.

So as you perhaps dive deeper into the Human Design System, I want to remind you of what the most important thing is.

Stay on the Chart's Surface

If you could only tell someone ONE thing about their Design, what aspect would you choose?

Personally, I would give them their Authority.

Strategy is useless without Authority.

The strategy gives the mind something to do while you wait for deconditioning to kick in enough to shift the cells back to their more natural, you could say, or innocent state of Being. 

Yes, Profile is always fun, like a magic trick. Definitely speak to them according to the Public Role they play in their life's work. However...

Everything about living rightly to align to your design hinges around Being Your Own Authority.

If someone is new to Human Design, remember not to get lost in the woods of details that do not matter to them yet. 

(Overwhelming them with too much information, too soon is a classic mistake I too have made).

Learn to weave your client's Authority in and out of the Analysis, to bring them back home to themselves. The deeper layers are there to be uncovered within by them through the Authoritative process of their own experience.

Take appropriate phrases that lead them to discover the channels of their strengths in truth, couch those life-force and life-giving phrases to resonate with key aspects of who they are, and layer those truths at the beginning, middle, and end for them to experiment with.

People remember things if you repeat them often enough in different ways.

Repetition is the mother of all Learning, as Ra would say.

Remember FIRST, to ask yourself as you look at a chart:

What CAN the energy (life-force) do?

If you haven't given your client a solid HD Foundation in their specific Authority, the reading is just "mind candy" that may be utterly fascinating, but not as practical, useful, impactful, or helpful as it could be.

To deliver an effective analysis, the key takeaway must always be how they can trust themselves. Encourage and teach them how they can be their own Authority, remember that. Don't supplant their innate call towards alignment with your theoretical learning of one aspect they may have, because when anything is taken out of context with the rest of their design, it is inaccurate.

Remember, everyone has everything in the Bodygraph either consistent (defined) or flexible (undefined). We all have seeds of potential planted places that you cannot see when you are looking at a human design birth chart. That natal design is not the whole picture of a life story. That natal design is a frozen moment in time, showing us what is reliable and trustworthy to make decisions from. It also shows us what is designed to be learned and lived in this life, to become wise about through experience.

Please consider that when you position yourself as the person who knows better than them (because you may be further along in your studies) and give ultimatums "No, you are NEVER here to lead" you take away their power of Authority. Give your client their Authority, give them their power back. This is their Experiment.

What I love about teaching these Analyst Professional Training courses is that we are embarking on a profound educational journey into all the various layers and aspects of YOU over quite a long time, and you cannot help but come to a profound personal awareness when you study the layers of this system.

What I love most is watching my students transform and blossom as their own Authority, with is a process both magical and mysteriously beautiful, making each of us the hero in our own journeys through life.

Professional HD courses as laid out by Ra are very effective at revealing to you how you have made and will continue to make life hard, full of resistance and difficult.

Because the not-self looks to others for confirmation, approval, validation, and acceptance, we are all lost to that tendency unless we wake up to our own sovereignty.

To make it very simple, just remember: each person is their own Authority on and for themselves.

How they can be their own Authority in the way they are here to live in Truth is the most important thing to get across in a chart Analysis.

Warmly,

Laveena

PS. As an IHDS/BG5 Teacher dedicated to developing HD Professionals,  I value empowering fellow HD lovers who want to be successful in making a career out of helping others know themselves. If you have taken courses already but wish to sharpen your professional skills, we have a 70% discount for repeating any IHDS professional training course with us. 

Just email office@humandesignlifecoaching.com with the name of your prior IHDS teacher to request to Audit (repeat) the class of your choosing. Professional Certification classes like Analyst and Guide Training include regular study groups to practice the poetry of keynoting, ask questions and discuss in a community of your peers.

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Awakening Human Design Analysts

The Professional Phone is Ringing. Will you answer the Call?

IHDS Human Design Analyst Teacher Laveena Archers

One of the most profound tools for awakening awareness, the poignant language Ra gave us in the Rave I'Ching is "part haiku, part dictionary."

The Rave I'Ching describes the 64 Hexagrams (Gates) and describes each of the six lines for each Gate. In the Rave I-Ching, Ra has given us names of the Incarnation Crosses, our Life's Work, and the highest expression of purpose. 

Newcomers tend to over-identify with details and forget we can never take one Gate or Live in isolation. 

Our job as analysts is to decipher the elements in context to a being's quantum intelligence. 

Over-analyzing one specific Line of a chart is tricky. We need to continually come back to the surface's frequency because the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One Gate plus one Gate in a channel is not only about the gate description or even the lines therein. It now encompasses a unique life force frequency in context to the entire Design. 

Remember the Personality is a third of what you are, the Design is a third of what you are, and the Quantum of the two is more than the sum of the parts (one plus one equals three). We need to always bring our analysis of a chart home to the context of the Quantum.

When you put too much focus on just a part of the chart and don't look at that part without bringing it back to the whole, your analysis might not help someone as much as giving them all of the valuable information that can lead them to develop their self-awareness. 

When in Doubt, Zoom Out

Feeling stuck? I like to say, "When in doubt, zoom out."

Remember to keep in mind the Type, Strategy, Authority, defined centers/channels/gates when you look at a line. 

Look at the big picture and do your best to practice describing what you see in context.

I notice the way they teach us to do this at IHDS leads to horrendous run-on sentences. What to do? It is what it is. At some point, you get good at pausing, breathing, touching in with your client's receptivity and presence to the information you are conveying to them. 

In an analysis...
Ask Yes/No Questions of Generators. Invite the Projector's Seeing of Others. Inform of thier Impact, to Impact Manifestors. Initiate the Reflector to their Objectivity.

Genetic Continuity

When you study enough Human Design, you come across the term "genetic continuity." Besides all lines of similar values relating to each other, the pieces of every chart you encounter seem to have a recurring theme or pattern. 

The genetic continuity related to the Type/Strategy/Authority/Profile/Cross is a breathtaking symphony of keynotes that speaks to the nature of a person's Being and what they are learning or where they are nurtured. 

This theme you see is consistent breathing in or out of the Being's expression and living of their life. You come across paradox and complexities that are to be brought into a contextual relationship to the whole.

The Rave I-Ching is a kind of poetry. It takes time to "grok" the lines. The "This" and "That" is a generality of two extreme polarities in most cases. You are very specific, and so are your clients.

On his deathbed, Confucious said he wished he could have more time to learn from the Book of Changes: "Give me a few more years so that I can devote fifty years to study Change, and I may be free from great mistakes." The Ancient Chinese Book of Changes can take a lifetime to understand. 

Similarly, the Rave I-Ching lines take time, and they can make more sense when applied in context with the entire chart. Here are my Type recommendations to learn these Lines. 

  • If you're a Generator, would you like to start with your own lines, to map and meditate on over time?

  • If you are a Projector, I suggest you read the lines of the people you know best or spend the most time observing in aura.

  • Manifestors need to understand their Impact.

  • Reflectors, can you study the lunar Transits?

In my Professional Analyst Training classes, we offer you a 64 digital set of flashcards as seen below. You can print them out and laminate for study purposes.

Image by Naraya Fox

On every Flashcard, you will see the "chop" or image for the Hexagram, with a colored drop shadow to help you remember the elements that create the Hexagram. We've started with the I-Ching name and the Gate description, along with the Center it is in, and the keynoting Ra gave us for each Line. These are intended to help you remember what the nature of each Line is about for each Gate.  You don't have to memorize all of it right away. It is helpful to get into the practice of speaking this language and seeing what magic it holds for both you and your clients.

When you read the Rave I-Ching Lines, for most, there are two sets of definitions. One sounds positive (Exaltation), and one seems negative (Detriment). These are two sides of the same coin. It is the "this" and the "that" of the Line. Some people think of it as the light and the dark. I like to label it as Ease and Challenge. Who doesn't like a good challenge? Ra liked the Detriments. He thought of them as very honest. The collective tends to see the Detriments as "bad" or "wrong" and the Exaltation as "good" or "right." Remember, Human Design is not about these things. It's about accepting everything in alignment and watching as the Observer.

We all get to experience the This and the That. When we follow our Strategy and Authority, we may experience more ease. When we are acting from the "not-self," we may encounter more of the challenge. Yet, those challenges are there for a reason. Certain people will influence you to express the challenge, which colors the nature of your relationships with them. No choice. 

Ra said he wrote the Rave I-Ching for the "not-self" because you tend to vacillate between the extremes when you are misaligned with your true nature. The not-self thinks in very black and white thinking, without any shades of grey. When you begin to live life uniquely, you become aware of the widespread rainbow of colors rather than just this and that. Ra said we could all write our own Rave I-Ching at some point because we are, each of us, very, very unique. 

Do you recognize yourself or others in each of these areas when you read your lines? What can you learn from accepting the nature of your Being, your Seeing, your living, breathing ALIVENESS?

Often when placed into context, the Line's name says it all, and you don't have to read the entire description of the Lines to your client. Speak from grokking, in context, and you can convey the meaning with so much for than words. The tone of your voice, the keynote names you choose to emphasize, the pauses in sentences, and inflection can give substance to the way you string together your words. Even if someone doesn't "get" it right away (and many won't), you're speaking the language that can unlock their genetic potential, and the keynotes take time to work their magic.

I can still remember how strongly the words "You're here to Mutate the System" rang in my ears from the first professional Analyst reading I got from Kumud. Did I know then what that meant? Heck no! In the last couple of years, I have seen how my teaching way changes, morphs, and mutates as my Design's embodiment deepens. A Manifestor makes an Impact. A Projector takes that Impact and softens it for use with their Others. No wonder I not only took Ra's recommendations of learning from fellow Projectors like Darshana and Becky, but I also gravitated to listen to Ra, Genoa, Alok and Lynette over the years!

Some lines are a learning process, and some lines speak to the quality of you. 

Hexagram Line Speak

  1. The 1st line description for each Gate will give you the foundation of that Hexagram.

  2. The 2nd line description for each Gate will provide you with the natural projection of that Hexagram.

  3. The 3rd line description for each Gate will give you the material way of that Hexagram.

  4. The 4th line description for each Gate will provide you with the externalization of that Hexagram.

  5. The 5th line description for each Gate will give you what others project upon that Hexagram is.

  6. The 6th line description for each Gate will provide you with the transitional nature of that Hexagram.

In some cases of Line descriptions, there are one-sentence line introductions in blue. This is not the case for all lines. When there is a blue description, it means that this is what you are learning about over your lifetime. Like how 6th Lines have a maturity process, so do the Line descriptions in blue. If there is no blue description, then it is a given. Blue lines are not a given, they are to be learned.

In the Rave I'Ching book, you will see a planet glyph associated with the lines listed next to them.

Because the planets are in a particular position in the sky at the moment of birth and they will activate the Hexagram and a line within that Hexagram when you are born.

When planets activate certain lines, they "fix" that Line either in detriment or Exaltation. The up pointed pyramid notes this or the down pointed pyramid-shaped triangle you will see on your chart and all the Line descriptive pages in the Complete Rave I-Ching.

Some things Ra has said over the years touch me very deeply. This audio clip is one of them. Awareness is everything in Human Design. 

The longer I have experimented, the easier it is to allow communication to flow without self-censoring or holding back because of the mind's fears.

Live your Design, and the Awareness you can communicate becomes richer, deeper, and more rainbow-like, shining like the sparkling dew in a garden of roses.

The more Unique your perspective, the more profound your Awareness, the more YOU you become.

Giving this gift of seeing to our clients, students, friends and family, when asked for, is one of the sweetest things I have experienced.

It is my desire that you too give this gift to yourself, and to the world.

Namaste, beloveds.

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Happy Human Design Holidays!


Dear Fellow Human Designers,

Our entire HumanDesignLifeCoaching.com and HumanDesign.Live team wishes you all the very best this holiday season, however is correct for you to celebrate it!

In these times of change, there is one constant - your design. It is through our resilience and determination to grow and develop, as well as our resolve to support each other in this most radical (to the outside world) experiment of living our designs.

This year has seen a number of shifts within your awareness if you were observant and dedicated to living the truth of your human design. 

Each of you is making the world a brighter place through this important personal and professional work that you do. 

Thank you for joining us in our mission to focus on the most important thing there is - authenticity with Self. In doing so, we raise global consciousness through our own personal experience and dedication to honoring our individual processes. In supporting each other to do the same, we have created a very special community here over the last year, and I'm so grateful for your contributions.

I know for me personally, dramatic changes have been afoot and I’m delighted to have adventures in learning Human Design with others who are as passionate about living their individual Truth as I am about collaborating with them to discover it.

Now more than ever, we are thankful to have such an incredible community supporting and celebrating one another. It's been so delightful to see you connect and engage with us and each other.

Here's to an authentic and fulfilling 2022!

Love Yourself!

Warmest regards,

Laveena Archers

The Third Radical Transformation: Perspective aka View

Human Design System Lunar Nodes and Our Life's Direction, Path and Seeing

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The third transformation is an extraordinary one. It’s called Perspective.

Perhaps one of the most insightful aspects about this knowledge is the ability to see exactly how the unique mind works, both as Not-Self and in terms of its potential as differentiated awareness. This is revealed through the study of Rave Psychology, and specifically the Personality node and its Perspective, or View.

It is through Perspective that the mind establishes how it’s going to conceptualize. Every human being has a unique way of looking at the world. A unique way that is correct for you, precisely correct for you.

When you’re looking at the world through your particular perspective, only then are you providing the mind and Personality with the foundation to conceptualize in the way it was intended.

We’re Here to See

It’s only then that you begin to see, and we’re here to do something very special with that seeing. We can only get to it uniquely, but the moment that we achieve it is the moment we turn around and do what we do best: communicate.

The magic of awareness communicated, the beauty of what we call “outer authority.” We‘re here to filter the consciousness field, to filter it as purely as we can, and share it.
 

Ra Uru Hu, Founder of the Human Design System

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Inner Authority: Material Willpower

Ego Authority: The Will To Do Something 

"Ego authority is very limited in the way it can occur because of the hierarchy of the authorities. In order for the ego to be the authority the chart CANNOT have a defined solar plexus, or a defined sacral, or a defined spleen. This means that there are only 2 channels that can activate the ego as authority: The 45-21 channel and the 51-25 channel. 

Ego authority is the authority of the will, of willpower. The ego center is essentially a 'me' energy. This is not to be confused with the 'self' of the G center. This is rooted in possession. Possession of things and of place. Who‘s first? Me. Who‘s in charge? Me. Who owns this house? Me. 

Two Channels 

There are two channels that create ego authority are the 45-21 and 51-25. This first channel is a manifested channel, and therefore anyone with 45-21 ego authority will be a manifestor. Of course, this is provided the sacral, spleen and solar plexus are not defined. The second channel is a projected channel and as long as the G center is not connected to the throat (which would make them an ego manifestor) people with the 51-25 only are ego authority projectors. 

45-21 Material People 

The dynamics of the 45-21 energy are straightforward. It is the focus of 'me‘ on material plane and the control that comes with that. This channel is called the Money Channel but it‘s not simply about money. It‘s about all of the elements of holding the community together in a particular order. This involves education and where one sits in any given status based organization. 

In terms of authority, it means that such a person has to have the willpower to support their decision, to bring their will energy into play. There can‘t be any waffling about it. This person has to be able to forcefully say, with heartfelt conviction, 'This is for me. I will do it.' This is, after all, a manifesting channel. They have to have the complete conviction that they can control the endeavor, whatever it is. 

The ego authority, if the person decides to get a Ph.D. for example, they must have the full force of their will over an extended period of time. To do that, they must begin with a strong sense of will towards the goal. There must be a clear goal and utter conviction that they can reach the goal." 

- Excerpt from IHDS - Cartography 4 -  Authority (p.16)

In recent articles and discussions on the HumanDesign.Live network, the topic of Free Will vs No Choice has come up frequently. I'm also encountering it these days in interaction between people who have the Ego of the Heart center as their Inner Authority and those who have an Undefined Heart center altogether. Telling people with this Inner Authority that Free Will is an illusion and that therefore they should give up on imposing their willpower and manifesting their control is unlikely to lead to any success. They have no choice but to establish material control by making a commitment to a goal. It seems to me that for them, this illusion of Free Will isn't going anywhere.

The revelation of the Heart center was one of the most liberating insights Human Design brought to me when I first began studying the system. I was in an environment where a lot of new age spirituality was going on all over the place. I had sat in sanghas and participated in various group healing modalities where people came together to address 'the problem' of the ego, its perceived selfishness and tendency towards 'separation'. And the leaders of these circles had constructed a whole detailed logical process of step by step trying to eliminate it.

Defined Ego Center the Human Design System

To learn there was such a thing as a Defined and an Undefined Heart center, and that there was a significant distinction to be made between correct and healthy Ego and an amplified Not-Self distortion was absolutely mind-blowing to me. I have a fully open Heart center and I had been so seduced by these practices of demonizing the ego and habitually trying to shatter the ego of others at the slightest manifestation. Looking back now, it was terribly misguided and plain unaware. And I have a suspicion that a Free Will vs No Choice conversation could head in that direction too if we aren't careful.

The struggle of inconsistent Willpower that most of humanity experiences sets us up for envy and jealousy in the Not-Self. Those of us with the Heart center undefined see the Materialists who can consistently manifest their will on the material plane, who can assert their 'me' above anything else in their life, and then there's the instant temptation to condemn those beings because when 'we' try to do that things go sideways. 

The paradox to see is that the Ego serves its Tribe, that the 'me' of the Materialist is a function of its place in the hierarchy, inevitably supporting the community in its material wellbeing in one way or another. Their Willpower comes back around full circle. While in the Not-Self that 'me' becomes a self-serving menace in its blind disregard for others. 

When introducing newcomers to Human Design, this is often a very humbling conversation to have with people who have Defined Egos, listening to the abuse they have faced from people overreacting to them for no good reason (and it is particularly painful when these people are Projectors). People who try to break the ego of the other in the attempt to prove themselves superior (spiritually or otherwise). And if they can't then they suddenly fall into a black hole of their own insecurities, ironically looking toward the Defined Ego for some external validation of their worth.

This dynamic is a radical misunderstanding of how things work, and it is a blindness to who people really are. The correct Ego is an incredibly beautiful thing. I thank my lucky stars for the Defined Egos that have supported me and stood up for me throughout my life. I now enjoy watching the egoic masks emerge in order to face social challenges. It is deeply impressive to me to witness someone consistently putting their heart forward to maintain their own integrity, or on behalf of whatever or whomever they represent.

At first it can be a bitter pill for the Not-Self to swallow; to sit in the presence of a Defined Ego and come to terms with the fact that this other being has what you will never have and being put in one's place in this way. Yet, once accepted this becomes very sweet. You were never meant to compete with them.

Once you can be who you are and the other can be who they are, your awareness can be free to witness the beauty of their process of proving what they're here to prove, seeing how the Ego is applied to that end. It's no longer about 'oh I wish I could do / have that'. 

Once you've accepted your place, the hierarchy stops being a problem and the superiority/inferiority complex can start to dissolve. Nourishing resources can begin to flow downstream to you, and from you to others, in the way that is just right.

Enjoy your movie,

Hagen

Living Your Human Design Isn't Always Easy


Living Your Design Isn't Always Easy

During a profound shattering it may seem like you're never going to come out on the other side. Each of us have layers and layers of past conditioning that is neutralized, as cellular transformation is realized.

In my HD experiment I've been experiencing an ongoing Shattering, mutating in pulses throughout the last few years and would like to share it with you all. This transformation is centered around my Undefined Splenic Center (survival recognition function) and completely Open Heart Center (willpower function).

My Story

For years, on and off for decades, I actively avoided looking at my face in the mirror. It was too triggering for me to me to endure, spiraling me into unhealthy excesses to avoid feeling. I would go days without seeing my reflection. Most of the time only taking momentary glances to make sure that I was semi presentable to the outside world. At various points throughout my life, I’ve encountered others telling me how pretty they thought I was. They often confessed wishing they could go without makeup too. I just didn’t see what they saw and was skeptical of their complements. They never knew the truth of why I hardly wore any.

I don’t remember what my face even looked like before the scar was there. I was such a small child when the incident occurred that left that gash above the corner of my lip. But I remember the moment it happened, reliving the horror in my dreams and, often, while I was awake. The terror, the lack of security, unable to defend myself as I cowered in fear. I still feel the aftershocks when my emotional wave is low.

My mind taunting me with a persistent, lingering false belief that I wasn’t worth protecting.

That I wasn’t worth it, or anything.

Tainted Self-Love

That voice in the back of my mind has tainted my entire life since. Destroying any hope that I would actually find happiness within, always looking outside myself to fill a void. Neediness encompassed most of my decisions and actions. Proving I was “good enough” was a norm. Always looking for someone or something that would allow me to grasp a “love that would fix it all.”

I dulled my senses just to be able to look in the mirror and “doll” myself up. At times I abandoned my natural gifts to conform to what others thought I should be. Trying to prove that I was good enough for them. Holding onto things that weren’t good for me because I wanted to be ‘loved’.

At the time, I didn’t know a better way.

I do now.

Now don’t get me wrong, I tried. I’ve not just been sitting on my hands for decades. Starting when I was 7, I began my quest to self-heal. By the time I was 13, I could comprehend more complex ideas and started intense research in the fields of healing, self-help and psychology.

I’ve studied so many systems. Shadow-hunted the hell out of my deep-rooted fears and unhealthy conditioning. Sat through countless hours of meditation and self-hypnosis in an attempt to unlock self-love. I’m far from that terrified little girl I was 36 years ago, and yet I was still triggered by the memory, especially when it came to embracing my self-worth.

My Worth is Not Determined by the Actions of Others

And now, years into my Human Design experiment, I confidently say that when I look in a mirror, I LOVE what I see. All of it. Even the messy bits. And sure, the memories are still there, but the pain. The pain has gone.

I didn’t get to this point alone. I have the best entourage a gal could ever dream up. A wolf pack of the most empowering humans that are deep into their own HD experiments. Including a mentor who is not afraid to share the messiness of her past to help us forge ahead through the trenches.

As a Projector, this is exactly what I need. I learn about myself through learning about others. Each of us radically living our own experiments while empowering, sharing, and supporting each other.

The other day, I looked into the mirror and declared, “I love you.” It wasn't the first time that I had reflected those words back at myself, but this time it felt different.

I Felt Cool, Calm & Emotionally Clear

While gazing lovingly at myself, a Flaming Lips song stole the scene. It’s been one of my favorites since I was a teen and completely encompasses what self-love feels like to me.

I’d like to share the lyrics and their official video with you.

 

“When You Smile” by The Flaming Lips

It’s like I never had to see it in your eyes or feel it I could tell

When you smile.

It’s like I didn’t need to say anything or do much, I could tell

When you smile

All of the subatomic pieces come together and

Unfold themselves in a second...

Every single molecule is right, when

All of the subatomic pieces come together and unfold

Themselves in a second.

written under the Cosmic Influence of

ⵙ 43.5 ⴲ 23.5

I originally published this article with no expectations on HumanDesign.LIVE, the safe space that was lovingly created by Laveena for our Fractal to learn from sourced based material and support each other as we continue on with our personal Human Design Experiment.

I would say that I am surprised by the number of responses I have received when I shared my story, but with my design, I often draw in those who need someone to listen to what they're going through. Each message has been rich with stories of similar experiences. 

One of the greatest joys I have uncovered with Human Design is the ability to not only more clearly see myself, but also see others and where their struggles may come from.

Thank you to all of you that have trusted me with your personal stories. I adore your courage to share.

Sometimes it helps to be able to share what you’re going through with someone who just plain gets it.


I invite you to reach out to me if you are looking for support for your own Human Design Experiment and deconditioning process.

The Mysterious Difference which Makes a Difference

This article is a response to a question from the humandesign.live community: 

“As a 6/2 MG with emotional authority, waiting is extremely difficult… Almost painfully difficult. If one is in a difficult place in life and has the urge to make a change, but there is no change to make, what should they do?” 

– Joshua French

Human Design Sacral Center - Life Resource of the Generator

In one of my recent articles '幽玄, Melancholy, Waiting, Art and Noticing', I connected certain Japanese aesthetic principles to our experiences of Waiting and Melancholy, using artistic work by Andrew Wyeth to convey the simple profundity of waiting for correct enlivenment to emerge on its own.

Of course, being a Non-Sacral Projector, I write from a point of view that asks us to value non-productivity and patience. Not only as a safeguard against rash mental decision-making, but also in the awareness of being careful with the energy we have. 

Life is not a simple formula of energy availability and its general application. The energy any one of us carries is specific. It isn’t to be used for just anything because someone out there thinks we should. It’s there to be used for what we love. Our context is what enlivens our spirit and enriches the world in turn. And in order for our forms to function they need a healthy balance of activity and rest, no matter what Type we’re talking about.

This balance is naturally something you can only find yourself. Nobody else can know when enough is enough for you. 

Others can only observe your signposts and what you’re broadcasting. At best they can tell when you’re approaching or have passed your healthy limits and ask you some good questions to help you orient yourself according to your Type, Strategy and Authority.

Neither can your mind tell when enough is enough - until it has surrendered to the body. Only then might it be sensible enough to recognize when it is time to stop after registering the body’s intelligent cues. Learning the language of your own biology is one of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself, which takes a significant amount of time and feedback – especially if most of your defined Channels are unconscious.

Having said all of this, consider then the perspective of a 34/20 Triple Split Manifesting Generator with all Centers below the Ajna defined according to a DLL PLR Variable - including a fixed ‘sports’ Channel between the Root and the Spleen.

Don’t worry if the sentence above still reads like an alien language or total gibberish to you. What I’m saying is that we’re looking at a person whose body needs to be actively moving and physically exercising to be healthy. Someone who is designed to be busy with a tremendous amount of energy building up that is ready to engage. Someone with an energy resource that must be depleted in a fulfilling manner every day.

It isn’t necessarily the best advice to tell this kind of Design to ‘stop doing’, dressed up with beautiful Zen poetry or Taoist philosophy. It may be a tempting avenue in order to prevent Not-Self chaos. After all, for the Emotional Wave there is no Truth in the Now. But recommending they get into a habit of ‘non-doing’ may equally lead to aggravation.

The Way of The Generator

“Sacral Beings Have to Work. The Sacral is about work. It’s why I call Generators slaves; they’re workers. Sacral beings have to have work. They have to be able to use their energy. They have to use their energy effectively. They have to live through their work. 

Everything about Sacral beings is about work. Think about the horror of life when you do not work the work that’s for you. Think about the horror of life of being busy working at something that you don’t like and don’t enjoy, and it’s not for you; it’s a horror. 

Because everything about a Sacral being is about the beauty that’s possible for them in doing what feels correct for them to do. That they use their energy properly, that they use their energy efficiently. It’s about work. Are You Ready? 

I have a joke, a trick, that I did for years when I was doing readings. A person would sit down beside me and sort of try to get comfortable. And before I would turn on the recording machinery, I would say, “Are you ready?” Most of the people that come to me are designed to respond in one way or another. When I met the Voice, the first thing the Voice said to me: “Are you ready to work?” 

- So, are you ready?”

 – Ra Uru Hu (The Way of the Generator)

It’s important that the Generator works, and that the Sacral energy is used in a regenerative manner. This doesn’t mean it can’t be correct for you to have a meditation and stillness practice – it depends on your Design, follow S&A, you know the drill - but one thing is for sure: the Sacral energy must be used to the point of satisfaction.

So let’s make an essential distinction here between waiting and doing nothing. The concept of 無為 ‘Wú Wéi’, popularly referred to as ‘non-doing’, is a Taoist term. To provide some continuity with my last article, I can invoke Alan Watts here for translation: ‘Wú Wéi’ basically means ‘not to force anything’. It is to act in accordance with the flow of nature. Not resisting it, nor trying to push it in a certain direction we think it ‘should’ go.

The dilemma is the mind’s fearful tendency of forcing life down a conditioned pathway.

“ … in the end, you have to see that the greatest enemy you have is your mind, because your mind hates your Sacral. It hates it. “How dare you, you grunting, groaning thing have control over my life. Here I am with my vocabulary, my education, and my wonderful knowledge, and here is this, “uh-uh” telling me what to do.” The mind wins most of the time because that’s the way you’ve been conditioned. You’ve been conditioned to believe that what you think is what is correct for you, and that what you think is how you’re supposed to live your life. And it’s all a lie—your mind isn’t going to accept that lie until your Sacral is living your life for you, and not your mind. 

And your mind will be in there screaming; it doesn’t stop. It’s not like your mind is going to surrender to your Sacral and say, “Oh, isn’t it nice to be awake!” It doesn’t do that. It says, “You’re being an idiot, look at the rest of the planet. They’re all running around like crazy; you should be doing that, too.” Because that’s the mind. Your greatest battle is with the mind.” 

– Ra Uru Hu (The Way of the Generator)

And so when we bring our mental decision-making to a halt in order to ‘Wait to Respond’, ‘Wait for Recognition and an Invitation’, etc., it can be disorienting at first. We can look to the 5th Gate for understanding the nature of this Waiting game a bit better:


Gate 5: Waiting – Fixed Patterns: Fundamental attunement to natural rhythms. Waiting as an active state of awareness. 

 Ra would say it is like a pregnancy.


This is not about doing nothing. It is about not betraying natural rhythms through forced mental initiative. The mind’s burden of decision-making is then transmuted into simple active awareness - our witnessing presence to that which is unfolding.

In my previous article I used the term ‘dwelling in nature’, and this is what I was referring to. If we could imagine for a moment a forest hermit dwelling in the natural landscape, immersed in the natural rhythms of the elements, flora and wildlife. No longer attached to ‘the world’, and yet in their attunement still waiting for ‘it’ - waiting for the call.


Dwelling in the form principle, there's this obvious mystery at work:

What’s the next response gonna be?

Which environmental input will evoke my body to respond?


It’s such a mysterious thing that everything we’re conscious of at any given moment is happening on its own. We don’t ‘do’ any of our sense perceptions. The filtering of that information is all done for us, and we can just enjoy the outcome. This kind of active awareness is not the same as 7 centred hypervigilance. There is the allowance for the unknown to remain unknown for as long as it likes, and at the same time there is curiosity about what is being revealed.

What am I noticing in this moment?  

What are my senses bringing to awareness?

Where might my eyes want to go of their own accord, moment by moment, if I don’t force them down the same old tracks?

Love is our context for life and work. 

And yes, to anyone else reading, I know Ra’s descriptions can sometimes be heavy to digest, especially in times of pain.

In your case, Joshua, as a 6/2 with the alienating change of scenery Saturn has recently brought to your life, while it's vital not to skip over any shadows, joining Ra in experiencing the mind as an enemy may not be the most supportive perspective either.

The mind may not be a friend at this point – and friends in general may seem hard to come by in a polarized and distracted environment. But there’s no energy to waste on battling the mind in isolation. Storms of the mind pass on their own eventually.

 “..If one is in a difficult place in life and has the urge to make a change, but there is no change to make, what should they do?”

In our brief conversation you recognized the pain was coming from your gut relative to your current working environment. In BG5 career coaching we emphasize environment as being a vital point of intervention. It is your environment that determines the nature of the information you receive. In the ‘wrong’ environment, there may be nothing satisfying for you to respond to.

Scientist and anthropologist Gregory Bateson coined an amazing definition for information: ‘a difference which makes a difference’. 

So much is changed by noticing differently. We fall into places and people according to where our eyes go and what they pay attention to. We can align to different information simply by turning our head (or not even that). We could be miserable in the shadows and just and inch to the left find ourselves basking in the sun. 

The mind is great at imagining mountainous obstacles where the tiniest detail could make all the necessary difference. In times of pain and total overhaul of what we value, renewed appreciation for the small can shift our realities around.

Unconditioned Beauty

Bateson called beauty ‘the pattern that connects’, and I think that’s quite on point. Not only is Gate 5 the Gate of Waiting, it is also the Gate of Fixed Patterns, with which we connect into the wondrous world of plant life. It reflects the fractal patterning of nature that connects the microcosmically small to the macrocosmically vast. The Channel of Rhythm 5/15 is shared by all biological life and defines the aura of the biosphere as a whole.

One tiny moment of glimpsing unconditioned beauty is an information imprint that can scale up fractally across your life. It’s like that brief instant where you decide not to react and catch your breath instead of engaging in someone else’s drama. It can change the course of the rest of your day - and beyond.

In such moments, you may remember the difference between right and wrong, correctness and incorrectness, at a level the mind may not immediately grasp - but the body does. This isn't any conditioned idea of what is beautiful, but a deep impression of beauty in which the external world reflects your unique nature back to you.

Unconditioned beauty and love go hand in hand, and they are the hallmarks of our unique trajectory. This is the magic of the G Center and its Magnetic Monopole, the Center of the Higher Self, Transcendent Love, Direction and Creative Self-Expression. It is all already there.

Now, to answer your question, Joshua, I cannot tell you what should be done - that would be disempowering to you. I’d say this is a crucial time for you to discover for yourself who you really are and where your source of power and authority really originates from.

However, where is the unconditioned beauty showing up? As you wait for the next response, as your body processes the hope and pain of your emotional wave, how do your senses bring beauty to your active awareness? 

And perhaps - has the time come to change your job?

Strength to you in your transition to the roof, brother.

Hagen

A Fresh Start - Coming Back to Your Senses

Thoughts from a 2/5 Splenic Projector in the Human Design Experiment


The great thing about being Splenic is that any moment you can just start over.

I’ve been ‘in the experiment’ with Strategy and Authority for a number of years, and this morning I let go of my imagined linear track towards the 7 year deconditioning marker. I just started over with a beginner’s mind. No answers, only questions and curiosity.

What does it really mean to follow my Splenic awareness moment by moment as a Projector? 

I was recently interviewed by Jelena Legcevic to provide some insight into questions like this for newcomers to Human Design. And I had a thing or two to say about it. But having had some time to ponder all of that, I’m considering that the question is more powerful than the answer.

I recall some things I wrote in my original introduction to this network, which more or less includes one of the most alive questions I have today:

How can I live more closely to the contact surface of awareness with its body and the environment - here and now?

Metaphorically speaking, in front of me I can see a fork in the road. Paying more attention to the simple signals of the senses and how the external world is contacting me, or getting predominantly absorbed in the wonder of my defined Head and Ajna, and whatever the mind thinks it knows or hypothesizes.

I can’t get rid of that mind, but perhaps my attention can be much more anchored in the sensory world than it currently is.

Much of my habitual attunement to the body signals have reinforced a way of sensing inside the body. But I think the real place for me to be is at that contact surface with the environment - the exterior world. Primarily noticing the external, then recognizing how the inner speaks about that sensory world and its qualities, rather than first digging into the inner sensations in order to get a perspective on the outer.

But I reckon that I still often get caught in a mental trap where the mind insists on being the interpreter of sensory data, moving from physicality to symbolic meaning and back, rather than simply from physical signal to responsive impulse.

Having a mind that is incredibly loud acoustically and visually, it presents a major psychic hurdle. Reinforced habits that keep my attention stuck on the mental plane, such as episodes of triggering memory flashes, leaving me dangling desperately in the unresolvable questions of my undefined Centers.

It’s a curious thing that there is this assumption floating around that we can somehow ‘remember’ our true self, our authentic individuality. Perhaps you experience something similar in your process that prevents you from staying present to the body’s life. This sudden overwhelm that opens Pandora's Box and out comes a flood of memories and past conditioning, pressuring you to find some kind of anchor in the truth of who you are amidst the confusion. Then the mind interacts with the memory and creates an endless loop of overthinking, pretending it is trying to see something new that finally resolves the 'issue'. And in the meantime you go back to some routine coping habit rooted in a Not-Self strategy.

If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not alone!

To at least open up a pathway out of this, in order to have a fresh start and not get spellbound by these psychic episodes of mental resistance to transformation, we can take a look at some particular mechanics for insight:

The Memory Circuit

If you look at the image above you can see something straight away: memory is not about the Empowered Knowing of Individuality.

For those of you who want to study this in greater depth, you can find resources on this as part of Ra's Rave Anatomy Courses.

Without going into too much depth on the memory circuit in this short article, I just want to point out one obvious thing: there are no Individual Channels that are part of the memory circuit. 

So this leads us to a crucial insight: whenever you have memory flashes in which you’re seeking to find your individual truth in order to overcome life's oppression – you won’t. It isn’t mechanically possible. Yet in the hypnosis of that experience, the bait is that if you just dig deep enough, you can figure it out. At least, this is what keeps me endlessly tunnelling down the rabbit hole – dissociating away from my sensory contact with the external world. And it's this external environment that I invite you to bring yourself back to. 

A fresh start in your experiment is all about gently coming back to your senses in the present. The simplicity of how the outer landscape is contacting your various sense organs here and now. After all, the intelligence of your Authority is rooted in your sense perception.

Sense perception is part of the substructure beneath the level of the Line, called Tone. You can learn more about this by finding relevant material online, and you can also be guided into how it works for you by Laveena in one of her Radical Transformation Clinics. 

The mind may find this boring, addicted to the intensity of turning life into a problem to solve and coming up with many stimulating strategic ideas and revelations, but this boredom can be a refuge for your self-recovery that eventually opens up into the simple pleasure of being.

Reattuning to the external world, its simple physical features and many qualities - in whatever way they are available to you without forcing anything. Without seeking the next sensory orgasm for the mind to get high on, but simply dwelling in the contact with the environment, allowing your attention to freely wander and trace the textures of the landscape with ease and curiosity.

Letting your eyes go where they want to go for a while, and just noticing what it’s like to be where you are. 

How are your senses letting you know that you’re in this place, here and now? 

What does that knowing smell like? Does it have a flavor? A color or texture? A warmth? What else?

And while you’re here, you might as well notice how your body is enjoying that for a while.



Soft snowy vibes amidst misty mountains,

Hagen

We Now Accept Cryptocurrency!

Are you into Crypto?

Last summer I began using crypto to move money, and to invest earnings from my Human Design work into the blockchain world.

It began slowly at first, a little here, a little there, whenever I could, dollar cost averaging into the cryptocurrency market. Then last November I did my first trade successfully and truly got on board, feeling comfortable enough to let my online tribe know that this was the direction I was going personally.

This experience reminds me of my early days in HD, years before Pluto moved into the Gate of Mystery. HD wasn't nearly as popular as it is now! Those of us with strong 5th lines tend to recognize the new trends coming before others do. My 5/1 husband knew about HD a few years before I did, and his embrace of crypto is what lead me in this direction as well.

As a 3/5 Cross of Contagion, I'm always trying new things and seeing what doesn't work and what does. I'm not scared of making a fool out of myself by experimenting with weird and wacky or out-of-the-norm things. More and more, crypto is going mainstream and I feel comfortable with buying, holding, and using it.

In this article, I'd like to share an announcement that...

We Now Accept Crypto!

A couple of weeks ago I got to pay one of my team members in crypto, and it felt awesome.

Right now, when I accept digital fiat dollars from a client, I pay a processing fee from Stripe or Paypal, depending on what they choose at checkout on one site (this site only accepts Stripe). Getting the remainder to the bank takes about 5 days unless I want to pay a fee. Then, to get the money from the bank to my team/teachers, I have to pay another fee, and then they have to wait to get it to their bank accounts. When there is an alternative like crypto, this process is really inefficient, expensive and S L O W comparatively.

With crypto, money takes seconds, not days, and costs pennies, not dollars to send.

Yes, there are challenges, but together we can learn, share, and grow. I feel it is time to let go of the old, and embrace the new.

Not into Crypto yet? Here's the online blockchain exchange I personally recommend thanks to a recommendation by Rok Sivante (thanks, Rok!):

Nexo Blockchain company

It is free for any Nexo member to send payments to any other Nexo member (that is my personal invitation link to you, so you can join and get started with $25 of BTC in your account).

I use Nexo because they offer security, convenience, and excellent interest rates on fiat and crypto savings, which is currently 4% minimum, up to 17% for AVAX and DOT right now until the end of this month. Also for borrowing cash or stablecoins, it is between 13.9% and 6.9% (I just laughed out loud, because I had to add the word stablecoin to my personal dictionary because it didn't recognize it).

There's a convenient exchange right on the platform to buy, sell and swap between 100 different crypto and fiat pairs, with 21 solid crypto offerings.*

We also get a governance vote as community members. The app is simple and easy to use, with built-in news.

And, they have been the most responsive to emails asking for the help needed in learning the ropes of this nascent asset class. When compared to any of the dozens of crypto exchanges/wallets/trading platforms I've tried over the year since last summer, they shine the most. With INSTANT credit lines based on your account value and not your credit score, and low fees, high interest-bearing savings, great security, and being insured, I feel comfortable recommending them.

Did you know that you actually don't own your money in a bank?

What is Nexo?

Earn $25 in Bitcoin

"Nexo is the world’s most advanced, regulated digital assets institution offering instant crypto loans, daily earning on assets, exchange, and the only blockchain company to provide its services in 40+ fiat currencies and in more than 200 jurisdictions.

Nexo gives digital asset holders the best of both worlds - instant access to cash and high-yielding interest on idle assets. Not limited to that but also sophisticated trading and OTC capabilities.

The company’s mission is to maximize the value and utility of cryptocurrencies and this translates into $30+ billion processed for 2+ million users across the globe.

Nexo’s instant lending platform combines seamless user experience with military-grade security with 256-bit encryption and 375 000 000 USD insurance. Clients' assets are stored and protected in individually assigned multi-signature wallets in cold storage with Ledger Vault and the only qualified, audited, Goldman Sachs-backed custodian - BitGo.

BitGo is Cryptocurrency Security Standard Level 3 as well as SOC 2 compliant.

To learn more about security, please visit: https://nexo.io/security" From Nexo.io

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I'm game if you are. So, if you would like to pay for any classes or services with crypto, I'm happy to accept stablecoins.

Simply send your request to office (at) humandesignlifecoaching (dot) com with the name of the service or class you’d like and the coin you'd like to use.

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