The Human Design System: I’m obsessed and I want you to be too
The Human Design System is one of my go-to self-exploration tools! Probably number two, following journaling.
You can download a PDF version of this article, here.
The Human Design System is my JAM! I have been experimenting with it since 2020, and I am still in awe of its existence. Watching the information from the system in your everyday life feels like Magick!
For that reason — I want to offer myself as a resource when it comes to the Human Design System.
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I am inspired to spend a couple of days or weeks laying the foundation of Human Design, in what I hope to be, digestible articles. Since this platform is a place people can search, I give thanks that this information will be readily available for anyone looking to get into Human Design, now and in the future.
With that… Welcome to your EXPERIMENT through the System of Human Design. I am Guide and Fellow Experimenter Charliie and I’m excited you’re here.
FYI, I am a 1/3 Splenic (Energy) Projector with a Right Angle Cross of Unexpected. More information about my chart will likely come up during our time together.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Human Design is a system to experiment with, so let’s get into it!
Regardless of where you are in that experiment — I want to cheer you on and geek out about Human Design with you — Shall we begin?
This article is the Introduction, next, I will do a tour of the Bodygraph Chart, and following that, we’ll head into the foundational stuff that will support you in beginning the experiment (Type, Strategy, & Authority), and we’ll go from there.
LET’S GO!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
What is Human Design?
My Experience
How does Human Design Work?
Where did this system come from?
Getting Started
How to get your Human Design Chart
Resources
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Many people who are interested in Human Design are on a journey of healing, self-discovery, and remembrance. They are Truth Seekers in a sense. Curious souls.
They want to know and understand this earthly experience a bit deeper or question what they’ve been told.
When I came across Human Design (the second time), it felt like an answer to my prayers. God/Spirit had revealed to me that I was too dependent on how this world worked, and I had been praying and meditating, wondering what that meant. And also, I wondered what other options I had.
Enter THE HUMAN DESIGN SYSTEM.
What is Human Design?
The Human Design System is a self-exploration tool. It can be perceived as similar to a “Soul Manual.”
It reveals a guide for how your inner guidance operates and provides you with simple tools for making aligned decisions that will allow you to enhance your life experience.
It is a tool that gives insight into how you can live in energetic alignment with your unique MAKEUP. It can help you understand how you are designed to engage with the world and show you where you are uniquely open to influence and conditioning from your environment.
I view Human Design as a tool that helps expand our awareness. It is information we receive and witness.
Human Design invites you to participate in a potential life-transforming living experiment and provides you with the practical tools and information needed to live life as yourself.
What is beautiful about this system is that people connect with it in their own way. They gain support, encouragement, and guidance from it through different lenses.
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If you are new to Human Design and want to embark on the journey, I want to encourage you not to feel pressured. There is a lot of information available through the system, however, you don’t need to absorb all of it at once.
This is a system where you take in the information and go out into the world and witness it expressed. And this is what I believe helps us change our lives and remember ourselves.
It is this awareness that provides access to clarity, new choices, more possibilities, and different paths.
I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT — Human Design is not meant to tell you who you are, it often affirms what you already intuitively know to be true about yourself.
From my lens, Human Design speaks to the potential of our expression. It speaks to the potential of our design, and what our natural inclination is… but I urge you… keep in mind our nurturing, as that will influence our expression.
Additionally, I view energy, and the Human Design guidance around our energy, on a spectrum; the light and density of a frequency.
Whether it’s the light or shadow of an Energy Center, Gate, or Profile Line; they are all speaking to the spectrum of that energy; and its potential. We can express ourselves anywhere within the range of it.
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MY EXPERIENCE
The Human Design System has become a resource and tool that I refer to often, and continue to grow with. For me, the system is great at providing me the language to explain how energy works, as it relates to our human experience. It also helps me to support others as they remember how to connect with the energy in and around them.
My lens with Human Design is to focus on the energy. How it expresses, what it can create, and how it impacts everything we are a part of.
Ever noticed that when you’re around certain people, you’re like a “different person” — maybe more open, more playful — very much at ease.
And around others, you may be quiet, more reserved, and focused.
These are the kinds of things I look for within composition charts; how might two individuals be influencing one another’s expression at any given interaction?
When I notice that someone is very grounded and inflexible in who they say they are, what they believe, and how they express themselves– I imagine that their Human Design Chart has some prominent definition. The nature of who they are is strong. It’s ACTIVE.
What I am witnessing is their inner world, shining out.
When I came across Human Design, this second time around, it was a couple of days after I got a message from God/Spirit that “I was too dependent on how I was told the world works.”
When I generated my chart and delved into the system more…. I believe I understood what God/Spirit was saying:
Just because that’s the way it’s been done, does not mean it’s for you.
You, and everyone around you, are all uniquely designed with and for a purpose..
Find security within yourself.
Finding security within myself was a message I had received from God in 2017, so I knew that was important for me in this lifetime. I had a fear of poverty… of homelessness… of not having “security.” And this meant that part of my journey home to Self — included transmuting that energy.
The other aspect was defining success, importance, security, and purpose, according to me.
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The Human Design System has been supporting me in remembering my soul’s essence, enhancing my ability to read and interpret energy, and supporting me in helping others transform their life and experience.
It’s a good time over here!
How does Human Design work?
I am so fascinated by energy. Before Human Design, I was really intrigued by astrology but for some reason had difficulty connecting it all. From the start, Human Design made so much sense to me. And through it, I understand astrology more. interesting things.
As I read the information from the system, I could see the energy playing out in my “mind’s eye.” I could witness it expressed when looking at the charts. It spoke clearly to me.
I’ve been able to interpret energy for as long as I can remember but there were times when I had trouble expressing what I was feeling and seeing. Working with the Human Design System has helped me change that. It has provided me with language to bring awareness to what is.
BUT NO… PLEASE MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. HOW DOES THE BODYGRAPH INTEL WORK…
Here is what I read about how it all works, and it resonates with what I have seen (in my mind’s eye)…
The basic principle of Human Design is rooted in what science knows as Neutrinos.
These are particles so tiny that they are nearly weightless yet emit vital information.
Roughly 3 trillion Neutrinos pass through every square inch of Earth per second. Our Sun produces about 70 percent of all Neutrinos that travel through our Solar System with the remaining 30 percent from other stars in our Galaxy and Jupiter.
Neutrinos have microscopic mass, which is information that can pass through objects without leaving an impression but instead transmitting valuable information about your surroundings, for every atom has its Neutrino that transmits these messages to one another. This information provides us with the knowledge to understand our nature, potential, and forms of interaction.
The nature of your Human Design is impacted by the Planets becauseNeutrinos carry information from the Planets to you. Stars are constantly beaming Neutrinos. which pass through the Planets to then imprint your body. The continual movement of the Sun and Planets means that the Neutrino information passing through you at the moment of your birth is always unique, never to be repeated.
There are two moments in time when Planets in the Solar System codify the Neutrino information — at the time of your birth (Conscious Personality) and approximately 88 days before your birth (Unconscious Design). Every Planet, depending on where it is in your design, gives its flavor to your nature.
Did you feel that?
It’s the wording there that shifted things for me and supported my theory that we are all being influenced energetically constantly. Messages are being transmitted all around us, and by bringing awareness to these processes, we can gain a better understanding and guidance for our journey.
And think about this… keeping the above in mind… think of the daily, weekly, and yearly transitions that take place within the cosmos, those too have an influence; may not be “fixed,” but it’s happening.
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Where did this system come from?
From the moment we gain awareness of something a ripple effect begins without any other action being taken. Have you noticed that?!
The entire Human Design System was channeled by Robert Alan Krakower, from January 3–11, 1987, during a mystical experience in Ibiza, Spain. A voice told him that this system was crucial to helping people on the planet make vital shifts in consciousness for the evolution of mankind. Krakower emerged from this experience as a changed man, and soon after changed his name to Ra Uru Hu.
Ra was told that while he was one of few people who consciously received the information about Human Design, the energy of the system was transmitted to all of us, and it belongs to all of Humanity.
In 1992 he published a book called The Human Design System.
Human Design encompasses many different systems — Eastern and Western Astrology Chinese I-Ching, the Chakra system in yogic traditions, Kabbalah from Jewish mysticism, and Quantum Physics (Neutrinos: How things happen at an atomic level), and Genetics (Gene Keys).
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GETTING STARTED
To begin your Human Design experimentation, the first step is obtaining your Human Design chart. You can generate it for free here.
The heart and soul of the Human Design System lie in the potential awakening that is available to you through actually living your unique design.
Human Design invites you to education and experimentation, that centers you. It is the life-transforming experiment of living as yourself and claiming your uniqueness. It is a guide for moving out of your mind, and into connection with the body consciousness.
I recommend you start with the three main parts: Type, Strategy, and Authority (more on this in the coming days).
These three aspects are the core of your makeup and get you on the path to experimenting with your design.
The idea is that by following your Type and Strategy, and using your Authority — you will be aligned to connect with the correct people, environments, and aligned opportunities — and by doing that, you’ll naturally awaken to being in your purpose.
HOW TO GET YOUR HUMAN DESIGN CHART
Your Human Design chart is based on your birth details — birth date, location, and the exact time you were born. You will need this information to generate an accurate chart.
Once you have that information, you can enter it into can take it into an online tool that will generate a free chart for you. There are several free online resources to do this with. But to get you started, you can go here.
Learning to comprehend the information in the Bodygraph will likely require patience as you self-study. Please don’t get discouraged and overwhelmed, everyone’s journey with the system will be unique.
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Over the coming days/weeks, I will be sharing more information about Human Design, as a way to share my voice on the system and help make the information available to more people.
I love this system. I utilize it in my practice and enjoy remembrance through it.
Feel free to share any questions you have. Maybe they will inspire some future posts.
Until next time…
Let’s get some conversation going in the comments:
Generate your chart. What is your Aura Type, and are you familiar with the Human Design system?
Resources:
Bunnel, L. & Ra Uru Hu. 2011. The Definitive Book of Human Design: The Science of Differentiation. HDC Publishing
The Journal of Human Design: Bringing Your Human Design to Life by Rana Abaki