Human Design is a system that was first shared with the world through Ra Uru Hu in 1987. It is called the ‘Science of Differentiation’ as it shows how every single one of us is uniquely gifted with talents to share with the world. Synthesising ancient wisdom systems of Western Astrology, The I-Ching, The Kabbalah Tree of Life and The Chakra System with modern quantum physics to help us understand the particular energy we are imprinted with roughly 88 days before our birth and at the time of our birth.
The map of a person’s energy is presented through a BodyGraph Mandala which is a detailed picture showing where we receive consistent and fixed energy through our physical body in our energy centres of which there are nine in Human Design, and it also shows us how the particular flavour of the energy in our centres is expressed through us in the combination of gates and channels present in our design. The BodyGraph is an intricate graphic of colours and shapes that is very intriguing and confusing to make sense of at first, but it holds some fascinating insights into who we are.
I first came across Human Design 7 years ago during my Breathwork training in Italy. One of the trainers was studying Human Design and offered to look up the Aura Types of the participants. He told me that I was a Projector, quite a rare aura type making up 20% of humankind. He also shared general characteristics of Projectors that rang true for me at the time, and I enjoyed having the information. Over the years that followed I brushed with Human Design on and off because of the synergy between the work I was doing and the Human Design system. I later found out that both my daughters were also Projectors much to their delight as the Projector Aura Type is not designed to work ;)
Every time I endeavoured to look a little deeper into the system I became overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information, and much of the language that was used - it was very specific and not what I would describe as readily accessible. But everytime it called me back I delved a little deeper into understanding what some of the terms meant. Words such as ‘Authority’, ‘Strategy’ and ‘Not Self Theme’. Unlocking each part of my particular code helped me see deeper truths in what my design showed about me. Then during lockdown life the calling to look into Human Design came too many times for me to ignore.
It began with my ‘experiment’ with my design. The premise of Human Design is that along with giving us a detailed and very individualised ‘user manual’ to who we are, we are also encouraged to not just hang onto this information at a conceptual level, but to put in to practical application by actually ‘living’ our design in real life experimentation on what it feels like to listen to our spleen, or pay attention to our sacral authority or take the time needed to come to our decision if we are an emotional authority. We can also go deeper and pay attention to how we feel when we come into contact with family members for example so that we can become aware of the conditioning effects of others’ energy on us. It is said that growing up in the energy of others will have an influence on how we experience and express our own energy. The more heavily influenced we are by conditioning the more we will be disconnected from and misaligned in our energy causing us to display the lower level expression of our design - the low or shadow expression. The more we decondition from the effects of external influences and energies the higher and more true or closer we will move to the gift expression of our unique design.
I found it deeply interesting the way these concepts of energy were expressed and how there were parallels in the idea of conditioning energy and the correlations that may exist with trauma.
The more I learned the more interested it became in me seeing more of how I operated in my own design, but the fascination deepened as I looked into my girls’ designs - that really blew my mind!
As the 3 of us are Projectors I could see the parallels between the way we saw life and interacted with the world around us, the little patterns and levels of energy we had which on face value I could have previously attributed to the fact that I raised them. The detail of the information goes too deeply to ignore however.
As I started to learn about their individual authorities in comparison with mine and each other’s I was so intrigued. I have splenic authority which means I have present moment intuitive hits about what feels right and true for me. I have learned over the years that I am to ignore these whispers at my peril; this also means that I will just ‘know’ what is right, right now. Nialah on the other hand needs time to make the correct decisions for her because she has an emotional authority. So for her, the only correct decisions come when she is able to feel her way into what feels correct for her. That vital piece of information changed so much in my understanding of our dynamic. Because I reached my best truth spontaneously, I had expected her to be able to do the same and I would often ask her things off the cuff and not understand why this would fluster her…. The mantra for the emotional authority is - ‘there is no truth in the now’.
When she learned what having an emotional authority meant it was a relief for her, her process was articulated in a way she didn’t know she needed confirmation of in order for it to feel ‘normal’ and accepted. Having her validated also brought me into her world, I could now adapt my style to accommodate her and this helped to smooth our interactions. The things I needed to have her considered input with, I made sure to give her the space and time she needed to work things out.
Nikkie’s authority - ego projected made so many things jump into place it was quite wild! The ego projected authority is driven to make decisions that they have the heart and will to commit to, if they don’t feel it, it’s a no go. This had been translated into Nikkie using language which was expressed as her not ‘caring’ to do the things she didn’t want to. To me that sounded incredibly selfish, and yet it was according to her design and the way energy flows for her, the completely correct and desired way for her to act. Having this insight allowed me to look completely differently at her process and give up the frustration I felt because she was indeed honouring what felt right to her.
I continue to delve more into the magic of HD through my own experiment, my reader studies and the joy of learning my daughter’s designs.
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