Human Design 101

Human Design 101

Author: Zach Carlsen | VISIT WEBSITE

Human Design is like having user’s manual to how we best operate in the game of life—not just mentally, but holistically down to the cellular level.  It offers guidance that is personal and unique to our individual decision making process and illustrates how we can best create our lives with intention and alignment, rather than fear, scarcity, and comparison.

It was created in 1987 by Ra Uru Hu on the island of Ibiza and the system itself contains the confluence of today’s science, astrology, the I Ching, western psychology, archetypes, biology and genetics, the Hindu Brahman Chakra System, and elements of the Kabballah as well as others.  It’s really a system made of systems—some cosmic, some data-driven, some personal.  The element that makes Human Design unique among other systems like it is that it relies on our own personal experience and encourages us to treat our lives with curiosity and spaciousness—to play more and to experiment.

Five Key Components to Know About Human Design:

1. Everyone Has a Type: Human Design has five broad Types, each which expresses a unique way of interacting with the world: those who lead, those who build, those who guide, those who mirror, and those who multitask.
2. Each Type Has a Strategy for Making Decisions: Our Strategy is like the roadmap for how we can put ourselves into alignment with our highest timeline. Your Strategy is the one specific approach you can take—each one of us—that will deliver consistently meaningful results.
3. Everyone Has an Authority: From the perspective of Human Design, no one is supposed to make decisions with their head. We’ve all been conditioned to believe that decision making is a mental process (pro/con, 5-year plan, etc.) The brain, mind, and head are here, first and foremost, to be the witnesses of our lives. Beyond that, we are each designed with an Authority, which acts like a micro-brain, which offers each of us the correct way to make decisions in our lives.
4. We Each Have 1 of 12 Profiles: Profile in Human Design is about how you play your character. How are you designed to get things done? Profile offers the strategic details for fulfilling your purpose and understanding your life’s significant themes. It also specifies your personal magnetism by clarifying what others naturally expect from you energetically or unconsciously.  Profile is often what others see in us and want from us.
5. What Is The BodyGraph: The BodyGraph is the core visual representation of our Human Design chart. It maps our unique constellation of channels, gates, energy centers, as well as our conscious and unconscious astrology. It may look like a randomly interconnected circuit of colors, lines, numbers and shapes, but each detail means something specific and unique to your chart.