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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).

Mercury Sign / Education

  • Fire Signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius): These signs might thrive in dynamic and competitive learning environments, enjoying challenges and hands-on activities.
  • Earth Signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn): Individuals with these signs may prefer practical and structured learning methods. They appreciate tangible outcomes. Real-world applications are highly valued.
  • Air Signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius): Those influenced by air signs excel in intellectually stimulating environments. They enjoy discussions and debates. Appreciating diverse perspectives.
  • Water Signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces): People with water signs may be more intuitive. They are emotionally connected learners. These individuals benefit from a supportive and nurturing educational setting.

Practical Uses for Astrology

  1. Self-Awareness: Gain insight into your personalities, strengths, weaknesses, talents and behavioral patterns.
  2. Personal Growth: By highlighting areas for potential growth through reflecting on the challenges and opportunities indicated in a natal chart.
  3. Understanding Relationships: Astrology often explores how different signs interact, which can help people gain insights into their relationships with friends, family, and romantic partners. Understanding astrological compatibility can foster empathy and awareness of others’ needs and communication styles.
  4. Life Cycles and Timing: Astrology emphasizes cycles and phases, such as planetary transits and progressions, which can offer perspectives on timing in life.
  5. Connection to the Divine: Astrology often fosters a sense of connection to something larger than oneself. This can provide comfort and a sense of purpose, as well as a belief in a greater power or meaning to life’s experiences.

12 Houses in Astrology

1. The First House (House of Self)

  • Sign: Aries
  • Keywords: Identity, physical appearance, first impressions, how others see you.

2. The Second House (House of Possessions)

  • Sign: Taurus
  • Keywords: Material possessions, finances, self-worth, values.

3. The Third House (House of Communication)

  • Sign: Gemini
  • Keywords: Communication, learning, siblings, short trips.

4. The Fourth House (House of Home and Family)

  • Sign: Cancer
  • Keywords: Home, family, roots, childhood.

5. The Fifth House (House of Creativity and Pleasure)

  • Sign: Leo
  • Keywords: Creativity, children, romance, self-expression.

6. The Sixth House (House of Health and Service)

  • Sign: Virgo
  • Keywords: Health, daily routines, service, work.

7. The Seventh House (House of Partnerships)

  • Sign: Libra
  • Keywords: Partnerships, marriage, relationships, contracts.

8. The Eighth House (House of Transformation)

  • Sign: Scorpio
  • Keywords: Death, transformation, shared resources, intimacy.

9. The Ninth House (House of Philosophy and Higher Learning)

  • Sign: Sagittarius
  • Keywords: Travel, philosophy, higher education, spirituality.

10. The Tenth House (House of Career and Public Life)

  • Sign: Capricorn
  • Keywords: Career, public image, authority, achievement.

11. The Eleventh House (House of Friendships and Community)

  • Sign: Aquarius
  • Keywords: Friendships, groups, social causes, technology.

12. The Twelfth House (House of the Subconscious)

  • Sign: Pisces
  • Keywords: Secrets, subconscious, spirituality, isolation.