IT IS CLEAR, that each one of us is offered our share of challenges during our lifetime. There is no such thing as a "perfect" lifetime, unless we choose to see continuously every single aspect of our life as perfect. Every now and again we are given the opportunity to stop and reflect on what it is we are doing in life and what it is we seek to fulfill. Many have considered that marriage and family lead to fulfillment; others have considered that career and business success is their life cause. Some see that life itself is its own fulfillment, independent of specific requirements.

What becomes apparent through an exposure to esoteric devices and in particular to Design, is that life "happens" to us on many levels. The most important thing we can do for ourselves is to be the objective witness of whatever occurs in our life. There is a tendency for us to take our experiences too seriously, to become fixed and dogmatic in our dealings with a fleeting life. We can tell ourselves that Heaven or Hell, or whatever equivalents we choose to believe, is only available to us in an afterlife, after we have behaved within certain moral parameters or trusted in a particular religious icon in this life, and in so doing we tether ourselves to limited possibilities for our life's experience.

Perhaps it is possible for us to experience both Hell and Heaven and their equivalents while we are alive on Earth. Perhaps it is possible for us to consciously move our witnessing experience towards the Heaven end-of-the-scale, and away from the Hell end-of-the-scale. If it is possible to make this conscious choice, it will happen because of our innate acceptance and our loving trust in whatever Existence presents to us in life. Acceptance, love and trust are the essential ingredients for fulfillment in life.

Someone who has grown consciously within the parameters of her own life and inspired others to grow within their lives, is Marianne Williamson, the authoress of "A Return To Love" and other books, and the renowned teacher of "A Course In Miracles," a highly evolved, channeled spiritual perspective. In this article we look at the design chart for Marianne Williamson to discover how she recognized her way to grow consciously.

Marianne Williamson was born on July 8, 1952 in Houston, Texas. She was born into the incarnation called "penetration" in which she consciously and unconsciously reaches into many dimensions of life to experience her truth. People who are born with this incarnation have a natural ability to read into the motivations and inclinations, strengths and weaknesses of other people. Consequently, they must be very clear within themselves that they do not take advantage of what they get to "know" about the other people in their lives.

In Marianne's Design chart, she has her unconscious Earth, associated with the genetic inheritance she received from her mother, conjunct with her conscious and unconscious Neptune in (undefined) Gate 57, which is associated with intuition and the empowerment of her own personal clarity. She also has her conscious (defined) Sun, how she shines in her life, conjunct with her conscious Venus (both defined), symbolizing the relationships one attracts throughout one's lifetime, in Gate 53, associated with entering onto things that bring increasing self-knowledge. It would appear from these aspects of her Design that she would have very powerful and highly significant interactions with the women in her life and most particularly with her mother. She may also have found relationship to be a simple path to self-knowledge. In some ways, Marianne's mother would have challenged/guided her constantly to trust in her own perceptions, particularly in spiritual realms.

The defined centers
Defined Centers (the ones that are colored in on Design charts) represent what is “fixed,” consistent and inherent in our nature, regardless of the interactions we might have with other peoples’ Designs. A defined Sacral Center (the red square Center) brings with it a powerhouse of potential energy that waits to be unleashed into activity at a moment’s notice. A defined Root Center (the brown square Center) brings with it the potential for releasing impulses that in an instant can launch us into action with the pressure to sustain us in our action.
Marianne has a single definition in the channel 53-42, the "Format Channel" that relates to a cyclical progression through life. Marianne will have found that everything in which she has involved herself has had a specific timing of beginnings, middles and endings. This will have applied to learning experiences, hobbies, preferences, avoidances, living situations, projects and all manner of activities in her life including personal relationships,

There are three "Format Channels" in the Design chart, and although physically they appear small on the chart, energetically they rule almost everything that happens in other parts of the chart. The particular "Format Channel" that Marianne has defined in her Design chart relates to a lifetime of commencing, fully living through and terminating all manner of experiences that are available on the Earth plane. Inevitably, the more consciously she enters into experiences, the better the experiences serve her.

Each of the "Format Channels" connects from the Root Center into the Sacral Center, the red square Center, that is also called the "Generator Center." (In design terms Marianne is "a Generator.") Generators have an innate guidance system that is directed from the sacral, life force energy within their being. Their life force energy directs them in response to everything that confronts them. This sacral response can be interpreted in its simplest form as a rising and increasing, or a falling, decreasing sensation that originates in the lower belly. When the energy rises and increases in response to something, it is affirming participation. When the energy falls away, decreases and even shuts down in response to something, it is denying participation. What must be understood by all generators is that this is an energetic response linked to their life force energy; it is not mental, emotional or fear based, it is purely an energetic response. In Marianne's case, a clear sacral response opens the doorway for the beginning of some new cyclical process in her life. When Marianne became clear in her life about trusting her "gut response," the doors of mystery opened, and continue to open wide to receive her.

A clear gut response opens Marianne’s natural ability to align with natural limitations, [Gate 60], attune to helpful allies of all natures, [Gate 54], recognize and enact spiritual solutions to temporal problems, [Gate 39], and open up a resounding "yes!" to following through on whatever beckons her, [Gate 29]. Any Sacral response that Marianne receives is powered by a “push” from her defined Root Center.

The undefined centers
By design, Marianne has seven undefined centers, implying that she is naturally empathic in this lifetime. Empathic people have a great need to keep their auras clean so that they are fresh at all times to attune to every new instance that life brings to them. I often recommend to people who have "open designs" like Marianne has, to make meditation a regular part of their life and also to practice taking physical space away from other people regularly. Empathic people have a sensitivity that needs to be nurtured and nourished. It is not to say that they need to be antisocial but more that they need to be careful about to whom they commit themselves and for how long at a time.

An undefined Spleen Center when it is clear gives Marianne the facility to be able to diagnose wellness in other people and appreciate wellness and watchfulness in herself. An undefined Spleen Center when it is conditioned with the input of other people can make Marianne unnecessarily fearful and constrained in her own life and thus make her feel unable to operate from a sense of personal freedom.

An undefined Emotional Center when it is clear gives Marianne the facility to direct herself and others into and through fulfilling and enriching life experiences. An overwhelmed or conditioned, undefined emotional center can leave Marianne feeling unfulfilled and stuck in dissatisfying experiences and unresolving partnerships.

An undefined and clear Heart Center allows Marianne the great gift of knowing whom to trust with her wishes and directives. An undefined, striving or conditioned Heart Center can render her constantly and unnecessarily trying to prove herself to others.

An undefined and clear Self Center gives Marianne perfect connection to her higher self and a level of guidance that is aligned with the highest integrity that she can make available to other people. An undefined over stimulated or conditioned sense of self can constrain Marianne into distractions, obligations and false trails that take her away from her own journey.

An undefined Throat Center when it is clear gives Marianne access to a great ability as a storyteller who has a tale for everyone to hear. An undefined, overactive or conditioned throat Center will encourage Marianne to speak out in times that are not appropriate for her or her audience, so that her related experiences will not be effective.

An undefined Ajna, mental awareness Center when it is clear gives Marianne the perception to analyze and find mental resolution for almost any problem or situation. An undefined overly stimulated or conditioned mental awareness Center might prompt Marianne to justify anything, right or wrong, and undertake "rescue missions" for people who do not merit her efforts, and end up distracting her own purpose completely.

An open Crown Center which is clear allows Marianne access to a limitless spectra of inspirations. An overwhelmed or conditioned, open Crown Center can become identified with single streams of potential inspirations thus limiting the scope of Marianne's overall perceptions.

In Conclusion
Each person is perfect in their own way. We are born into a world to have our experience of life and to use the particular facilities available to us that are intrinsic to our nature and Design. In the early years of life we are subjected to the auras and environments of families, schools and friends and we either interact from our own intrinsic, “perfect” nature, or we start taking on the “borrowed” or conditioned natures of other people.

At the beginning of the article, I suggested that we might make conscious movement in our lifetime towards the "Heaven end-of-the-scale” and away from the "Hell end-of-the-scale." Such a movement is possible when we embrace our own Perfect nature in its entirety and live according to our Design, and also when we engage with our life from a place of acceptance, Love and Trust.

It is clear that Marianne Williamson found the way to embrace her own nature and engage deeply with her life and whatever Existence has presented to her. Existence does not always like to reveal her plans to us, especially in these times of the resurgence of the power of women, but it is clear that Marianne will be a source of great intelligence and inspiration to many people for many years to come.