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A Way to Use Human Design
The ultimate goal for knowing your Human Design is to have a better life, NOT to be knowledgeable about your Human Design chart.
Human Design is an incredible awareness tool that helps us move with life (instead of fighting against our nature). This awareness prompts us to let go of our resistance as we allow life to flow through us.
There is no stopping the information you can consume in Human Design, but if you aren’t internalizing it and using it to relax into who you are, you aren’t maximizing what Human Design can do for you.
To get the most out of Human Design, use your understanding as a layer in your spiritual and personal development. In my own life, I was able to take my insights from Human Design and use them to eradicate limiting beliefs and ultimately that is what I am here to facilitate for you. Nothing else has made it so clear for me to take the leap into trusting myself.
Designing Your Environment to Work for YOU
Creating a supportive environment is essential to both your productivity AND your wellbeing.
We feel successful when we’re happy and supported.
As you set up a space that feels supportive (or evaluate your current #wfhsetup) consider where you work, what you need to do in this space, what supplies you need, and how you want to feel so that you are setting up a supportive and functional workspace.
Where? The first order of business is establishing your home base. If you’re designing a space to support you, start by taking note of where you find yourself throughout the day: do you have an office space but conduct your day from your kitchen table, bedroom, or couch?
Note where you work and where you like to work - are these the same places or different?
Embrace where you like to be and work with your habits. Too often we work against our natural inclinations instead of embracing our natural rhythms.
Learning to trust your aura when you’re a control freak
The wisdom of 2020 for me has been all about trust.
As a Projector, my aura strategy is to wait for the invitation. The way I learned to trust my aura was through hindsight.
If I force my will without an invitation, it’s pretty inevitable that things will get real dicey.
As an impatient control freak and (recovering) perfectionist learning to let go of my conditioning that puts pressure on me to do all the things, all the time has been a herculean task, but extremely rewarding as I lean into trusting that I don’t have to do it all.
So this summer, when I was feeling particularly bitter (because all my action wasn’t immediately paying off in the ways I wanted it to), I decided I had one option I hadn’t tried: FULL SURRENDER INTO MY STRATEGY.
Understanding the Sacral Center - do I know when enough is enough? perfectionism, burn out, performing life, and arbitrary goals
Do you know why I love Human Design? It has built-in signposts that we can use to evaluate if we’re balanced and in our authenticity.
The not-self themes of the energy centers and aura types are incredible tools to evaluate our wellbeing.
We don’t need to learn everything there is in our charts, we just need to understand some key elements. One of those crucial elements - especially in our culture of productivity and more is more? THE SACRAL CENTER!!
When we’re out of balance in the sacral center - or swept up in someone else’s sacral energy - we can massively overdo things.
GATHER ROUND DEAR ONES BECAUSE IF YOU LOVE TO GO OVERBOARD AND YOU DON’T KNOW WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - THEN YOU’VE BEEN SEDUCED BY SACRAL ENERGY!
How Human Design has completely changed my life
It wasn’t until I found Human Design that I was able to put all the pieces together of self-care, self-love, and self-trust. Human Design gave me the framework and the understanding of WHY these things were important. I was meditating, I was working out, I was eating healthily, but my mind was trapped in a lack mindset that was bringing me a F#ckton of suffering.
PROJECTORS: HERE TO KNOW THE OTHER
The Projector aura is here to know the other. It’s what we’re designed to do while here in these earthly bodies.
If you are a Projector, understanding how your aura works is critical intel for your health and wellbeing. Why? Projectors operate so differently from the other energy types. Finding out you are a Projector is usually a watershed moment in your personal timeline.
The Projector aura is shaped like a knife. Extending outward from your heart, it reaches out to the other. This energetic shape gives Projectors their ability to see. Our aura cuts through the other auras to see directly to the heart of whoever is in our direct path.
This makes us powerful, but as they say, with great power comes great responsibility. And just like a knife, it cuts both ways. We can get ourselves into a lot of trouble if we don’t learn how to properly utilize our auras. As a Projector, there should be an oath to protect our aura like a doctor takes the Hippocratic oath. First, do no harm.
SAFETY FIRST.
New Moon in Virgo + Setting intentions + inviting in the spirit of play into your world
I love the new moon for setting intentions. Even though we can set intentions whenever we want, I find that having the backdrop of the moon's energy is like an extra blessing we can use to supercharge our magic. It always feels like a special time to pause and connect within.
DEFINING SURRENDER AND EXPLORING LIFE AS IMPROV
Zibby: Have you ever thought of that?
Jesse: Thought what?
Zibby: How everything in life is basically improvised. There’s no script, we’re just makin’ this up as we go.
Jesse: That’s true.
Liberal Arts*(Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Radnor)
How does your higher self communicate truths to you? Mine sends me messages through little scenes from obscure movies like this one. As I watched the scene unfold, I was struck. What if life is one big improv show?
COME WITH ME ON THIS JOURNEY INTO MY CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTO MY LESSON FROM THE UNIVERSE ON SURRENDER.
Shifting success to work for you: Navigating the world with an open heart center and swimming against the tide of a productivity at any cost culture.
In Human Design, wisdom doesn’t come from the defined energy, but from the white spaces in our charts.
Ra Uru Hu (channeler of the Human Design System) said it best when he said the white space is where we go to school.
Receiving a Human Design Reading
When choosing a reader, find someone who resonates with you. Having your Human Design chart read is a deeply personal experience and each reader will interpret your chart with their own lens.
When I read a Human Design Chart here’s my approach:
I see every person as an individual blend of energy - this personal energy creates the fuel for the talents and gifts that are meant to be divinely expressed through you.
When I read your chart, I read it as a whole picture - I see the messages the universe is here to express through you - the places where you have the potential for genius and the places where you are meant to impact the world.
Human Design 101: Why Should I learn my Human Design?
Knowing your Human Design can help you use your energy effectively and efficiently as you navigate through life and find out what it means to really be you.
The essence of Human Design is understanding how your aura works. The magic is you innately know how to live your design!
When we’re learning and investigating our Human Design we’re really asking these two questions:
HUMAN DESIGN 101: WHAT IS THE NOT-SELF?
PERHAPS YOU’VE WORKED TOWARD A GOAL ONLY TO FIND IT WASN’T SO SATISFYING ONCE ACHIEVED?
Or just had that overwhelming feeling that you aren’t living YOUR life?
LIKELY YOU’RE WORKING OUT OF YOUR NOT-SELF.
THE NOT-SELF IS EXACTLY WHAT IS SOUNDS LIKE, IT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE LET OUR CONDITIONING TAKE OVER AND DRIVE OUR LIFE FORWARD INSTEAD OF ALLOWING OUR NATURAL AUTHORITY TO MAKE DECISIONS.
WE ALL HAVE A UNIQUE WAY OF MAKING DECISIONS AS OUR AUTHENTIC SELVES.
Human Design 101: Introduction to Strategy and Authority
KNOWING + USING YOUR STRATEGY AND AUTHORITY IS ESSENTIAL TO YOUR HUMAN DESIGN FOUNDATION - These are the keys 🔑 to unlock your path!
Each energy type has its own strategy and your authority is based on your chart, determined by which energy centers you have defined*.
So, imagine your strategy as the way to filter your environment - it allows you to engage with life in an energy-efficient manner, and then your authority kicks in, alerting you to the correct opportunities.
HUMAN DESIGN 101: INTRODUCTION TO ENERGY TYPE
When we start with Human Design, typically we start with our energy type. There are 5 different energy types and each type represents a different aura. Learn a quick primer on each energy type…
Human Design 101: How to find your Human Design Chart
HOW TO GET STARTED WITH HUMAN DESIGN
The essential elements in your Human Design are energy type, strategy, and authority. To find yours, you’ll need to get your Human Design chart.
To create your own bodygraph, you’ll need 3 crucial details…
Human Design 101: what is deconditioning?
Deconditioning is the process that begins when we choose to live out own unique Human Design - it’s the work that happens once we decide to find out what it means to deep dive into our own authenticity.
Until we wake up to our programming, we’re living out someone else’s ideas and expectations.
We live life on auto-pilot, not on purpose of course, but because we’ve been programmed by our families, our schools, our jobs, and by society at large. (in human design, this is called conditioning)
We don’t realize how often we’re operating on information that was fed to us by someone else. AND OF COURSE, WE DON’T EASILY SEE THIS, BECAUSE WE’RE ALL RUNNING ON SOMEONE ELSE’S PROGRAMMING.
PERMISSION GRANTED: YOU ARE YOUR OWN CAPTAIN
Every day we have the choice - do we take control, turn on autopilot, or let someone else steer?
It's easy to follow a script, using society norms as benchmarks to telegraph to the world that we're OK (or to beat ourselves up and tell ourselves WE'RE NOT OK).
If the safety of benchmarks feels good to you, then carry on. But if there’s something inside of you telling you there’s more for you - KEEP GOING.
Aligning with your design begins in the body
Human design is heart work and a spiritual journey - but it goes hand in hand with loving yourself and loving your body.
It’s a divine commitment to yourself. Choosing to live our design frees us to embrace ourselves as celestial beings in physical form.
Carl Sagan said it best, “we are made of star stuff.”
You and I and all of us are star beings here on earth.
Receive this information, allow it to transform the way you see yourself, allow this divine knowledge to open yourself to living fully in this human experience.
We start with the body.
Resistance can be a sacred message from the universe
Sometimes we’re forging forward, spending our precious energy on the wrong pursuit because we’re seeking validation externally instead of aligning ourselves with our own navigation 🧭 system.
And our bodies continue to be a witness to our true identity and our true purpose regardless if we’re listening, they always are talking to us, nudging us along our own sacred path. We just have to stop and listen.
It can be scary to take the call or feel those uncomfortable feelings, but growth requires them. Bravery requires them. YOUR DIVINE LIFE REQUIRES THEM. When we bury that signal - we keep ourselves in situations that aren’t right and we’re robbing ourselves of finding a better path.
How does Human Design factor into our current political climate?
In a world swirling with “fake news,” clickbait journalism, and a self-serving American government that only cares about the deepest pockets, we must learn to find our own authority and take back our power.