I love exploring different ways to understand how we can live life authentically aligned with the energy of who we are. One way to do this is to discover the Soul Blueprint or the Energetic Blueprint, and how we are designed to receive vital force energy. Our Soul Blueprint is the key to understanding our innate abilities and talents. it is a Blueprint of how we can create a life that truly resonates with us, increase our manifesting abilities, and create a life of love, joy, happiness, and abundance.
There are various ways to explore our Soul Blueprint identities, strengths, and challenges. Human Design is one of them.
Human Design is one way to further understand your energetic blueprint and unlock abundance. You can follow the link for a free Human Design Blueprint Chart from My Body Graph tailored to your unique information. Human Design Chart.
Human Design helps people enhance their manifesting abilities by aligning with their unique energy and decision-making strategies. By aligning with your unique energetic blueprint, you can enhance your ability to manifest your desires. Understanding how you are designed to interact with the world helps you harness your natural strengths and attract opportunities that align with your true self.
What is Human Design?
Human Design is a blend of ancient and modern concepts designed to provide a detailed roadmap of an individual's identity and how they show up and interact in the world. It incorporates astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, the Chakra system, and quantum physics. Ra Uru Hu developed this model in 1987. Human Design serves as a tool to help people understand their personality, strengths, and potential challenges by understanding their unique energetic design.
Human Design helps to illuminate your life purpose and guide you toward activities and goals that resonate with your true self, bringing fulfillment and direction to your life. By understanding oneself, you can create a more fulfilling life.
· Human Design provides a deep understanding of your unique traits, strengths, and challenges.
· Better understanding of how to make decisions.
· Provides strategies for making decisions that align with your true nature.
· How to increase your Energy and Vitality
· Enhanced Manifestation: Aligning with your unique energetic blueprint enhances your ability to manifest your desires and attract opportunities that align with your true self.
Human Design and Manifesting:
A Harmonious Approach
Manifesting, in essence, is the process of bringing your desires into reality through focused intention, belief, and action. Human Design can enhance your manifesting abilities by clearly understanding your unique energetic makeup and how to align it with your desires.
Practical Steps to Integrate Human Design
into Your Manifesting Practice
Create Your Human Design Chart: Start by generating your Human Design chart, which requires your birth date, time, and location. There are several online tools available for this.
Make your chart here: Human Design Chart.
Read each of the definitions from your chart as you go through this article.
Learn Your Design and Know Your Chart: Understand the key components of your chart—Type, Strategy, Authority, and Centers. Reflect on how these aspects play out in your life.
Align Your Actions: Make decisions and take actions that are in alignment with your Strategy and Authority. Notice how this alignment affects your energy and outcomes.
Focus on Strengths: Identify your defined centers, gates, and channels. Use these strengths consciously in your manifestation practices.
Release Conditioning: Be mindful of the influence of your undefined centers. Work on releasing limiting beliefs and behaviors that stem from external conditioning.
Tailor Manifestation Practices: Adapt your manifestation techniques to suit your Human Design type. For example, practice responding to life’s opportunities if you are a Generator or Manifesting Generator.
Human design helps with manifesting by:
Alignment with True Self: Understanding your Type, Strategy, and Authority helps you make decisions that are in harmony with your true self. When you act in alignment with your design, you reduce resistance and increase the flow of positive energy, making it easier to manifest your desires.
Leveraging Strengths: By recognizing your defined centers, gates, and channels, you can identify and leverage your inherent strengths. Focusing on these strengths allows you to channel your energy more effectively towards your goals.
Overcoming Conditioning: Human Design helps you become aware of the areas where you are susceptible to external conditioning (through undefined centers). By recognizing these influences, you can consciously choose to act from a place of authenticity rather than conditioning, which is crucial for successful manifesting.
Tailored Manifestation Techniques: Each Human Design type has a unique way of manifesting. For instance, Generators and Manifesting Generators thrive when they respond to opportunities rather than initiating them, while Manifestors are designed to initiate and lead. Projectors excel by waiting for invitations and recognizing their unique insights, and Reflectors should embrace a slower decision-making process aligned with the lunar cycle.
The Core Elements of Human Design
As we dive into this concept, keep in mind the core elements of Human Design can be very confusing, so I will try to simplify them. As you read through this blog, it will make it easier to look at your own Human Design Chart to better understand your energetic blueprint design. If you have not created your free chart, you can do so now by clicking here: Human Design Chart
Human Design is built on several elements that are combined to create a detailed map of your unique energetic blueprint. The terminology can be confusing. Take your time and look at the elements that apply to your design. You can always read the rest later.
Understanding your core elements are essential for applying Human Design principles effectively in your life.
There are the 7 main elements in Human Design:
Type, Strategy, Authority, Centers, Profiles, Gates, and Channels. (You can come back to this section later if you like. and skip to your design Type by clicking here.) Below are the definitions.
Type: The overall energy configuration and interaction style (Manifestor, Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, Reflector).
Strategy: The decision-making method for each Type to reduce resistance and live authentically.
Authority: The inner guidance system each person uses to make decisions aligned with their true self (e.g., Emotional, Sacral, Splenic, etc.).
Centers: The nine energy centers in the body graph, each corresponding to different aspects of life and personality (e.g., Head, Ajna, Throat, G, Heart, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Spleen, and Root).
Profile: The combination of two numbers that describe a person's life theme and how they interact with the world (e.g., 1/3, 4/6).
Defined and Undefined Centers: Centers can be either defined (colored in) or undefined (white). Defined centers represent consistent energy and traits, while undefined centers are areas of variability and potential wisdom.
Channels and Gates: Gates are specific energetic traits located within the centers, and channels are the connections between two gates, forming a complete circuit. These represent unique attributes and life themes.
Together, these elements create a detailed and individualized Human Design chart, offering insights into a person's strengths, challenges, and optimal ways of operating in the world.
The Core Element of Human Design- Types
Let’s begin with Type. Look at your chart for your type-Understanding your Type helps align your actions and decisions with your natural energy flow. In Human Design, a "Type" is a classification that gives a basic understanding of a person's energy and how they are meant to interact with the world. There are 4 main types and one sub-type in Human Design. The definitions of the underlying nature ae below. The 4 Types are Manifestors, Generators, Projectors, and Reflectors, with a subtype of Manifesting Generator.
The 4 Types in Human Design
Manifestors: These are the initiators, designed to make things happen and impact others. They are independent and can work alone, often thriving on initiating and leading.
Generators: They have a defined sacral center that gives them sustainable energy. They are the builders and doers, finding satisfaction through responding to opportunities and engaging in work they love.
Manifesting Generators (Sub-type) - A hybrid of Manifestors & Generators, they can initiate like Manifestors and have the sustainable energy of Generators. They are multitaskers who thrive on taking on multiple projects and responding to what excites them.
Projectors: They are guides and advisors, designed to understand others and offer valuable insights. They excel by waiting for invitations to share their wisdom and direction.
Reflectors: They are the mirrors, reflecting the energy of their environment. They have all centers undefined, making them sensitive to their surroundings and providing a unique perspective. They thrive on taking time to make decisions, often following a lunar cycle.
Each “Type” has a specific Role, Strategy, Not-Self Theme, and Signature which serve as guides for navigating life more effectively and authentically.
Role-Life purpose and how to engage with the world. The Role in Human Design refers to the inherent purpose and function of an individual based on their Type. It describes how they are naturally designed to engage with the world and others.
Strategy - the way that you are built to make decisions. Strategy is the recommended way for each Type to make decisions and interact with the world to reduce resistance and increase alignment with their true nature. It helps individuals know when and how to take action:
Signature- the energetic feeling you have when operating in alignment when you are in alignment with your soul signature. Signature is the emotional state or experience that indicates a person is living in alignment with their true nature and making decisions correctly according to their Strategy.
Not-Self Theme-how you feel when you are trying to be anyone else but yourself, i.e., when you are not honoring your design. When you are out of alignment with your energetic signature. The Not-Self Theme is the emotional state or experience that lets a person know they are out of alignment with their true nature and making decisions from their conditioned self rather than their authentic self.
Core Element of Human Design-Your Inner Authority
Authority: Your inner authority guides you in making decisions that are in alignment with your true self:
Emotional Authority: Making decisions based on emotional clarity over time.
Sacral Authority: Immediate gut responses guiding decisions.
Splenic Authority: Intuitive, spontaneous decisions based on instinct.
Ego Authority: Decisions driven by personal willpower and heart desires.
Self-Projected Authority: Decisions made by speaking and hearing your inner truth.
Environmental Authority (Mental Projectors): Making decisions through discussions and reflections with trusted individuals.
Lunar Authority (Reflectors): Making decisions aligned with the lunar cycle for clarity.
Core Element of Human Design-Centers
Centers: There are nine centers in the Human Design chart, each representing different aspects of life and consciousness. Each center can be defined (consistent energy) or undefined (variable energy influenced by external factors).
Head Center: Inspiration and mental pressure.
Ajna Center: Processing information and mental awareness.
Throat Center: Communication and manifestation.
G Center: Identity, direction, and love.
Heart Center: Willpower and ego.
Sacral Center: Life force and sustainable energy.
Solar Plexus Center: Emotions and feelings.
Spleen Center: Intuition and survival instincts.
Root Center: Drive and pressure.
Core Element of Human Design-Profiles
Profiles
Profiles describe your personality's character and how you are designed to interact with others and your environment.
Core Element of Human Design-Gates and Channels
Gates and Channels
These detail specific energies and life themes that influence your experiences and behaviors:
Gates: 64 gates correspond to the hexagrams of the I Ching, each representing specific energies and potentials.
Channels: 36 channels formed by connecting gates, representing the flow of energy between centers and defining key aspects of your personality and life path.
Human Design helps people enhance their manifesting abilities by aligning with their unique energy and decision-making strategies. By knowing their Type (like Generator, Projector, Manifestor, or Reflector), and following their specific Strategy, individuals can navigate life more authentically. For example, Generators manifest best by responding to opportunities, Projectors by waiting for invitations, Manifestors by informing others before acting, and Reflectors by waiting for a lunar cycle before deciding. This alignment reduces resistance and increases positive outcomes, making the manifesting process smoother and more effective.
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Example from the Human Design chart: Manifesting as a Generator:
As a Generator, I create abundance and money by responding to opportunities.
How being a Generator relates to your wealth frequency and your ability to make money…
Your life's purpose as a GENERATOR is to lift the energy of the planet and us all, by generating positive energy within yourself. You have huge stores of energy and you like mastering things and working methodically.
Strategy - To Respond: Instead of searching for what you love to do, and looking for all the ways to make money, you are designed to let go of the searching, and the future seeking, and just be present. You do this well when you are tuned into your body’s intelligence. Through your defined sacral center, your body is connected to divine timing and divine wisdom, and your body guides you with a clear yes or no answer. When you are using your body’s intelligence to pull you to the right direction, to attract in the right opportunities, your body sends you the right places at the right time. And you see incredible results relating to financial flow.
Signature - Satisfaction When the money is flowing in, and you are living your most aligned life, you will feel a sensation of total fulfilment, as if your energy has been used really efficiently. As long as you continue to only focus on what you truly LOVE, and continue to keep responding to what is right in front of you (rather than seek things externally, and going into the future) then you’ll continue to feel these sensations of satisfaction and fulfillment and will see your wealth increase.
Not Self Theme - Frustration Whenever you’re slightly out of alignment, and moving into the lack or scarcity energy, you’ll feel frustration. This is a clear sign telling you that something you’re doing isn’t serving you. It’s usually because you’re future-tripping and trying to force something rather than magnetizing it and responding to it. And when you do what other people want you to do (not what you love) you’ll likely feel the frustration, and feel energetically and financially stuck, limited, and even challenged.
Human Design provides a robust framework for self-understanding and alignment with your true nature. Integrating Human Design principles into your manifestation practice allows you to tap into your unique energetic blueprint. Unlock the power of Human Design to gain deeper insights into your true self and align with your authentic nature. By incorporating Human Design principles into your manifestation practice, you can unleash the potential of your unique energetic blueprint.
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Angela Zaffer, MA, LPCC, CHt
Teacher, Energy Healer, Certified Spiritual Coach, Hypnotherapist, and Licensed Clinical Counselor, Certification in Akashic Records and Level 3 Soul Realignment Practitioner.
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