All the terms you need to start reading a Human Design Chart immediately.
HUMAN DESIGN TERMS
🔹 Type
Your energetic design. There are 5 types:
- Generator: Here to respond. Strong sacral energy.
- Manifesting Generator: Here to respond and build.
- Projector: Here to guide and see deeply.
- Manifestor: Here to initiate.
- Reflector: Here to reflect the environment.
🔹 Authority
How you are meant to make decisions:
- Emotional: Wait through waves of emotion.
- Sacral: Feel what lights you up in the moment.
- Splenic: Instant knowing from the body’s intuition.
- Ego, Self-Projected, Lunar, etc
🔹 Strategy
How to interact with life correctly
Manifestors: to inform before action.
Projectors: Must wait for invitation.
Reflectors: Needs a full lunar cycle to decide.
🔹 Centers
There are 9 centers (Chakras)
- Defined (colored in): Consistent energy
- Open (white): Sensitive to external influence, areas of wisdom or conditioning
🔹 Channels
Two gates highlighted together = a channel.
Creates defined centers and expresses a consistent theme or gift.
🔹 Gates
Individual themes or energies at specific points in the chart (from the I’Ching hexagrams).
- Example: Gate 10: Behavior of the Self, love of being
🔹 Profile
Your life role, like an archetypal costume you wear. Example: 4/6 (Opportunist / Role Model).
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