Discovering who you are

 

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Allowing yourself to be, practically.

 

One of the beauties of the Human Design System is that there are certain practical aspects to it which can be clearly understood and easily implemented into our daily life. When understood properly, the changes that can be brought through the Human Design System are completely transforming and reassuring in how we will continue to live our lives. Simply put, we now have the opportunity to live our own life from the place of feeling relaxed about everything we encounter.

In the previous article, I wrote of my experiences with systems and what they can provide for us in our journey through life. In this article, I examine a few of the essential things we need to know about ourselves and highlight the incredible benefits derived from the Human Design System.

My personal experience as a reader

During my 21 years of reading for people, I have encountered many who have had readings from other sources prior to their readings with me. Often, I would be challenged with statements indicating that I was required to fulfill or confirm something that the person had been told by another reader. It became apparent to me that some people were 'frozen' in their life, expecting or waiting for something that had been predicted to happen to them. This was a pattern that appeared all too frequently, and which I did my utmost to readjust in my clients' psyches. Yes, some events are certain, but, no, the mind cannot grasp their full significance and need not be weighted by expectation. Destinations are wonderful, but the journey is the point. How you are in your journey through life is what brings the essence to being alive. Human Design shows you how to adore being yourself.

What appears in the chart?

When one sees a Human Design chart, one notices that some of the nine centers, representing various organs or glands within the body, are colored in. When a center is colored in, it indicates that, energetically, it is turned on, running consistently throughout the person's lifetime. It is, in a sense, fixed to operate in a certain way, according to the channels connecting it to other centers.

Each of the nine centers has a specific function and energy pattern, and depending on whether it is consistently "turned on" or not, it determines how a person will access that particular energy in their lifetime.

  • The Head Center relates to the pineal gland and represents the pressure of inspiration
  • The Ajna Center, the pituitary glands, is our place of mental awareness, the thinking center.
  • The Throat, the thyroid and parathyroid glands, is the center of manifestation, articulation and expression.
  • The Self, the Liver, is the center of personal identity, direction and love.
  • The Heart, stomach and thymus is the motivating center of willpower.
  • The Solar Plexus, the kidneys and pancreas is the motivating center of emotions and our potential for emotional clarity.
  • The Spleen, the lymphatic system, represents the intuitive and instinctive awareness center.
  • The Sacral Center, our ovaries and testes, is our motivating center of sexuality and lif force energy.
  • The Root Center, our adrenaline glands is our motivating center, of stress energy.

 

There are three centers of awareness: The Ajna, the Spleen and the Solar Plexus There are four centers of motivational energy: The Heart, the Solar Plexus, the Sacral and the Root.

Consistency and Conditioning

One thing that has to be pointed out is that there is no great advantage in having a center colored in - i.e., "turned on". When a center is "turned on" all the time it simply means that the energy is designed to consistently be moved between two centers in a particular way. When a center is not colored in, or "turned on" in the design, the energies of that center come and go depending on who connects into it from their own design. One can recognize right away in a Human Design chart, from the colored centers, how the energy is designed to move consistently and where, in the white centers, a person is designed to interact with other people to experience all the possible flavors of other energies. One of the great difficulties in life comes from being overly influenced by other people's designs where their consistent (colored-in) makeup becomes a conditioning effect in our own life (in our white centers). A design chart can show immediately where we are prone to taking on other people's ways in the world and where we can naturally allow ourselves to become wise by detaching and viewing the interaction objectively.

Five different Ways and how to appreciate them

Most of us are expected from birth to "go out and make it happen." And almost without exception we are frustrated in that expectation. Yes, this world can be our oyster in which there are pearls to find, but each of us, by design, has our own special way to find our pearls and delights in life.

With design, we see that there are five different ways that a person accesses this world, and if we can accept the way that works for us personally, then we can eliminate anger, frustration, angst, resentment, and all kinds of disappointments associated with expectations which do not result in any kind of fulfillment.

The Manifestor

The model for this world is the person we see as a "mover and shaker," the "doer," the "manifestor." In a Design chart, this is someone who has energetic motivation connected to their throat, the center through which manifestation passes energetically.

Manifestors make up 12% of the world's population and generally incur the wrath and suspicion of everyone else: "Who said they could just do whatever they feel like doing? And I cannot!" Consequently, manifestors find their way blocked almost from birth, and constantly dissipate their power and energy trying to "get people out of their way."

If, as a manifestor, you recognize this as a pattern in your life, there exists a simple solution: "Speak!" Tell the person standing in your way something about your plans. There is a good chance they may feel less 'threatened', if you inform them about what you are going to do. They may get out of your way, and they may even lend their assistance to your plans, because it is fun doing stuff with a manifestor! Of course, informing others might be the last thing a manifestor wants to do, but I can assure you, it is worth the effort!.

Sir Paul McCartney is a manifestor who is well advised to inform people of his plans in order to enjoy their full support.

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Oprah Winfrey is a Generator who must be encouraged to wait for a clear, inner, personal response to whatever the Universe offers her so that she can feel fully engaged in whatever she then does.

People who provide the power source, the life-force energy in this world are those who have their sacral center activated. They are the ones with staying power, the generators, the ones who, if they find themselves doing something they have no interest in pursuing, can only stop their momentum by 'jumping the tracks,' or quitting. Often, generators find themselves involved in projects or committed to someone or something that does not really hold their attention and bring them joy. They are just doing it because it seems like someone has to do it and they are the one with the energy. Of course, they get intensely frustrated, hauling blocks of stone up someone else's pyramid, giving away their power wholesale to whoever asks. The lesson for generators is to know from within themselves to whom and to what to commit themselves.

The greatest lesson for a generator is to learn to respond. Yes, you have the energy to get all kinds of things done in this world, but can you wait for your cue? If you can, then all forms of frustrations are eliminated. Responding from within yourself to whatever Existence sends your way, in the great natural order of things, becomes a joy for all generators.

Oprah Winfrey's Mini-Reading

Oprah Winfrey was born in Koscuisko, Mississippi on January 29th 1954 into a lifetime which will have many chapters and changes for her and all who esteem and love her. She would be the first to admit that her life has not been easy to date but that she continuously gets the reflection from everyone around her that she is one of, if not the wisest person she knows, because of all the experiences she has lived through!

Her wisdom increases as she allows herself to examine both her inward and private nature as well as her outgoing and public side. Often she finds herself committing to things only to find out later that they do not really suit her temperament or timing.

Enormously energetic, canny, empathic and fun to be with, Oprah also slides into bouts of depression and self-doubt for no apparent or rational reason. Whenever she feels 'out of sorts,' it can be viewed as an opportunity to go deeper into her creative view of things. Trying to come up with a reason or 'cure' for her moods will be frustrating in the extreme, rather, seeing the arrival of a mood as an appropriate time to withdraw and recharge her great spirit, is the better path.

One thing which might not be apparent to Oprah is that her mind rarely agrees with how she feels about life and the amazingly sensitive nature that she has. Her mind is really a great gift for others in trying to clarify or rationalize their lives but is not really helpful for her own dilemmas. Her emotional sensitivity and a natural way of making people feel like they 'belong,' launches everyone with whom she interacts into their own search for their spirituality and inner self. But this sensitivity is also what rules her own life and it would have to be said, that if Oprah is 'not in the mood' for something then it will only cause her regret and frustration if she goes through with it.

A brilliant speaker, Oprah is frequently amazed by what people will make of what they hear from her. Certainly, she has nothing to prove to anyone.

As someone who we see in Design has a defined sacral center, she is designed to 'respond' to whatever existence has to offer. Response, for Oprah, requires waiting patiently for a deep inner clarity to arise, for when she finds this clear response, nothing can stand in her way and her successes in this world are assured to have the most enormous impact in every realm of life.

 

The Manifesting-Generator or Generating-Manifestor.

 

There are people born with a Design chart that has an activated sacral center in addition to a connection from a motivation center to the throat. So, on the one hand, they can manifest at leisure, and on the other hand, they are designed to wait until they hear a clear internal response.

If you have this design, I can only encourage you to wait for the generator part of you to respond. These days, life seems to offer more and more choices and possible doorways through which we can take ourselves, so making good decisions to involve yourself in something that really suits you also becomes vitally important. Because anyone with a defined sacral center has a good deal of trouble curbing their momentum once they get started, it is essential to get involved with 'right' things from the outset.

When, as a Manifesting Generator, you hear a clear sacral response and put that response into action energetically, you then become a Manifestor. Consequently, if you have the design of a manifesting generator, you can achieve great things with minimal frustration when you allow the clear sacral response first. But, you may wonder, who has time to wait to hear a response? All I can say from the hundreds of people who have experimented with this knowledge is, it is worth the wait!

Hillary Clinton is a manifesting generator who can find most satisfaction in this life by waiting to respond and then following through with her incredible individual power and abilities.

The Projector

JFK was a projector who when he felt himself recognized and invited would amaze everyone at his amazing guiding, leadership and unifying abilities.

Some of us are not really here to do anything specific at all but, rather, to help guide 'energy types' in a worthwhile use of their energy. Projectors are the 'helms people', the guides. They are limited in the amount of energy they can dispense and, consequently, should allow themselves to rest a good deal between activities. In fact, I always recommend the inclusion of at least one really good armchair in your life, preferably with a footstool! My reasoning is, since you are designed to wait to be called into something or other, why not make yourself comfortable in the meantime? Rest, be comfortable while you wait!

Projectors are designed to guide the use of other people's energy and, consequently, they have to be recognized, energetically for their ability to do so. As a projector, once you are recognized, you have free access to that other person's energy to get things done. Manifesting happens for you in this life through connecting with the people who recognize your abilities. The skill for a projector is in realizing who has recognized your abilities and offered you the right kinds of invitation. Again, you have an inbuilt requirement to wait, and you can worry intensely as to whether anyone will recognize and invite you. Remember the armchair theory.

It has to be stated that waiting for a good invitation is worthwhile so that you can be included in activities and experiences which are wholly related to you in this lifetime. There's nothing quite like getting involved in the 'right' kind of trouble!

The Reflector

For about 1 percent of the world's population there are design charts without any consistent activations, no colored centers in them. There is nothing obviously energetically 'fixed' in the design. They are in free-flow in this lifetime, in among all the people in the world who have 'fixed' agendas, that greater majority who are here to play within certain constraints.

Reflector people are the ones among us who are truly empathic and can become immensely wise when they see and appreciate the continuous shifts in everything around them.... and take it lightly. They are the "priests and priestesses" of old who are in touch with the community and the Universe. The wise ones.

As a Reflector, you will recognize the need to have time alone every day so that you can clear yourself and release the energetic influences of those with whom you have had empathic connection. Often, you will need to take a survey from those around you before making big decisions. You have to allow yourself to be enormously patient so that you can wait to see things from all sides before making a choice. In the end, when you have enough time to see clearly, (this can even take you a month at a time), you can have the most profound view of anyone.

Rosalynn Carter is a Reflector. She is truly one of the wisest of people when she can be allowed enough time and space to review any situation in her life.

Respecting your Design

Let me be clear that there is no such thing as a good design or a bad design. The great beauty of recognizing your design is to see that you are just here to be who you are. It is neither a better thing to be, for example, a manifestor than it is to be a projector, so long as you can recognize how things happen within the scope of your own being. The trick is to know yourself first and then to recognize who is equipped to do some of the things in life for which you are not, to whom you would like to delegate, and from whom you would like an invitation.

Comparison is always useless since, in this whole Universe there are no two grains of sand alike, let alone two people the same on this planet. We each have our own special trajectory through our life and the moment we respect it and can play within it most problems drop away. Your Design reading explains to you succinctly what exists consistently for you in this life. It also will tell you how to make decisions that will always be the right decisions, allowing you to move through your life with ease and confidence.

Next month... Relationships!!!