Why Everyone Should Know Their Human Design

And how it changed my life

If you’re reading this and have no idea what Human Design is, oh fuck yes. I’m hoping this impacts you as deeply as it impacted me when a friend told me about it years ago. Human Design is a framework to help you understand your energy, how you make decisions, and your life patterns. It mixes different traditional systems like astrology, the chakras, Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and even quantum physics to build a “map” of your body and how energy flows. This bodygraph will help you move through life with the path of least resistance. How cool is that? It’s literally here to help you make better decisions for yourself, understand your purpose, your relationships, and even your work style.

When you put in your birth date, time, and place, you’ll be shown a bodygraph and then given your Human Design type. There are five types in Human Design:

• Manifestor (9% of the population)

• Generator (36% of the population)

• Manifesting Generator (32% of the population)

• Projector (22% of the population)

• Reflector (1% of the population)

These types describe your aura and how you’re meant to operate. Manifestors initiate things, generators provide sustainable work power, manifesting generators inspire, projectors are help guide, and reflectors are here to reflect back the truth what’s working and what isn’t.

Once you find out your type, then you’ll also find out your:

1. Strategy: How your energy moves naturally - when you follow it, life is easier.

2. Authority: Your unique decision-making style - where your true “yes” and “no” lives within you.

3. Profile: Your role in life - your soul and personality archetype to help you understand how you learn, relate, and your role in this life.

For your strategy, each Human Design type has it’s own and when you use this strategy, you’ll find that opportunities flow much easier:

• Manifestors inform without permission and feel freedom and peace from it.

• Unlike manifestors who inform, generators wait until the world gives them something to respond to then they act. This response gives them deep satisfaction.

• Manifesting Generators are a mix of the two so they respond like a Generator (making sure it’s correct) then inform like a manifestor.

• Projectors wait for an invitation.

• And reflectors need time, waiting a full lunar cycle.

For your authority, this is where you make decision from. Not the brain, but your unique bodily wisdom within. There are 7 main authorities in Human Design:

1. Emotional Authority: You must wait for the emotions to die down to make a neutral decisions that aren’t based off highs and lows.

2. Sacral Authority: A gut response - full yes or no.

3. Splenic Authority: Quiet, instant intuition in the moment.

4. Ego Authority: A strong desire from your heart.

5. Self-Projected Authority: Talking things out to reveal your decisions.

6. Environmental/Mental Authority: You need the right environment and people to talk things out to find clarity.

7. Lunar Authority: Clarity comes when you wait 28 days to go through different lunar gates.

And as for your profile, this is all about your soul and personality. It’s how you relate, how others experience you, and your role in the world. Your profile will have two numbers. The first is your conscious personality and the second is your unconscious pattern (what others see in you).

• Line 1: The Investigator

• Line 2: The Hermit / Natural

• Line 3: The Martyr / Experimenter

• Line 4: The Opportunist / Networker

• Line 5: The Heretic / Problem Solver

• Line 6: The Role Model

There are 12 different profiles. Here are just a couple so you can see them in action:

• 1/3: Investigator-Martyr (Deep-diving, learning through trial and error)

• 2/4: Hermit-Opportunist (Natural talent drawing others in for community)

• 6/2: Role Model-Hermit (Life’s journey to become an inspiring, detached guide)

There are even more pieces to Human Design like centers, gates, and channels, but I’ll let you search that out on your own simply because I think all the information I gave you is enough to really mill over and process through to start.

What I love about Human Design is that it often confirms what you may have already felt inside yourself yet society and conditioning has made you question it. For example, I’m a manifesting generator which means I move fast when I get the urge, I often skip steps, and I abandon things when I no longer feel pulled to them. I’m multi-passionate and can juggle multiple interests. But since we live in a world that says we need to live in a box and be passionate about one specific thing, I’ll often question myself and if I shouldn’t talk about those different passions. I’ve also been told I’m too much or acting too fast, but when I found out about my Human Design, I no longer felt that way. I understood that I’m in alignment when my interests are changing and I’m pivoting when I need to. I’m not too much, I’m just extra curious and passionate.

When I found out about my sacral authority, it made complete sense that my best decisions have come from my gut. And since finding out about my authority, it’s helped me make decisions when I’ve felt a little lost - if it’s not a hell yes, it’s a hell no. Now I trust my gut more than ever and know that it’s leading me in the right direction.

And my profile was one of the greatest confirmations. I’m a 1/3 profile - The Investigator & Experimenter. I build security through learning and knowledge, and learn through trial and error. I make mistakes, build resilience, and that helps me gain wisdom. When I looked more into 1/3 profiles, they can appear stubborn and self-centered as they dive inward to prove things to themselves. But this internal study helps lead to personal growth and mastery over time. And that’s really what I’ve been doing for years and years when it comes to my health, fitness, beauty, self-growth, and business.

With society and our upbringings, we are conditioned to learn a certain, see ourselves a certain way, go through life a certain way. But I’m sure you’ve felt resistance at certain times, whether that was feeling misunderstood, angry, guilty, frustration, bitterness. All of these feelings are signs that you are not living in alignment. And learning about Human Design helped me start living in alignment with what was true to me instead of pushing against it. And because of that, I feel so much more at ease. And when I’m not at ease, I can look back at my Human Design and where something is not in alignment and become aware of it much quicker. It’s given me a blueprint of how to move forward quicker and easier.

If you want to learn more about Human Design, I really love this website and I have gone back to it probably 100 times. There are even people who can read your bodygraph and give you even more insight. This is something I did after my daughter was born - I found out her Human Design and I had someone compare both of ours to see how I could best support her when it comes to how she learns, expresses, her day-to-day needs, and even helping guide her with her gifts and her struggles. It’s been really insightful since she is a Projector so we operate pretty differently.

Human Design has changed my life for the better and continues to do so. And that’s why I’m sharing this post - I’m hoping it does the same for you. I’m hoping it gives you insight into who you are, how you operate, and even your purpose while you are here. Because that’s the goal, right? To live a fulfilled, purposeful life. It is for me!