Having the weekly message of Illuminations has guided my life in many ways and for many who know me, they chuckle at how I set my schedule according to the energies of the week as read by Liana and using my Human Design chart on a daily basis.

Human Design changes the way you live your life. Once you begin living from your Type, Strategy and Authority, the most noticeable change you will experience is making correct decisions.

Human Design’s basis comes from Nuclear Physics and Genetics and then combines with elements from the ancient systems of Astrology, the I Ching, the Chakra energy centers and the Kabbalah. It is a logical and empirical system that you are able to use in your life every day.

When you look at your human design chart for the first time, it may look a bit overwhelming and like many looking at their chart for the first time, they have no idea what is what. Once you know your type (Generator/Manifesting Generator, Projector, Manifestor or Reflector), begin to understand your strategy and authority, then you can begin to look at open and closed centers, gates and channels and your profile.

From the moment you know you are becoming a parent, so many questions start going through your mind.  What will they be like? Will I know what to do? Do you know how wonderful a parenting manual would be?

The beautiful thing is, a Human Design chart has all the information you need whether you are an infant or an adult in your 50’s.  The beauty of having a chart for your children is that you can teach and encourage them from a very young age to live according to their true nature and how to navigate life with ease that most of us have never known.

In Human Design, our Throat Center relates to the Thyroid and Parathyroid glands that control the making of thyroid hormones, which regulate our body’s metabolism.  Following conception, the Throat Center becomes the energetic foundation of the fetus, and ultimately affects how every other center is formed and functions throughout our entire lifetime.

In the past few weeks we have looked at all the different Human Design types and their characteristics, strategy and authority and how open and closed centers affect our lives.

To create a Human Design Chart you only need to provide your birth date, time and place.  Your birth date is used to calculate your Astrological Chart that is then converted into the Human Design Body Graph (64 Gates).  The Body Graph also gives us the information to understand our Type (Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, Manifestor or Reflector).  Type explains a Strategy and operates in all layers of consciousness changing with you and that leads to recognizing inner authority, and profiles. 

Open centers in Human Design is all about the potential for achieving wisdom.  It gives us the opportunity of observing and understanding what is mine vs. theirs.  With an open center, learning to surrender, let go of attachment, to allow the open centers to be our guide, a filter if you will instead of us always ‘thinking’ we need to act, is the greatest gift. 

In Human Design, once you gain an understanding of your type, strategy and authority and have started to experiment living with them, the next step is to really settle in to what each of your centers does and the differences between having an open/undefined center and a closed/defined center.  When a center is closed/defined (colored in your chart), it means that the function related to that center is activated, steady and consistently available at all times.  When a center is open/undefined (white in your chart), it means that the function related to the center is inconsistent; not always available and only becomes activated when another person (who has the center defined/closed) comes into your awareness or when a transiting planet completes a definition.  When this happens, the undefined center is temporarily defined.

In Human Design there are nine energy centers – Head, Ajna, Throat, G/Self, Heart/Ego, Spleen, Solar Plexus, Sacral and Root compared to the seven Hindu Charkras or the ten Sephiroth of the Tree of Life that a majority of us are familiar with.  In Human Design these 9 centers have very specific functions.  When you look at the Bodygraph (chart) you will see them as geometric shapes (triangles and squares), within the triangle below.

Human Design is not another system teaching or showing you how to use your mind to make decisions.  If we are all honest, our minds do not make very good decisions.  In Human Design once we settle in and begin taking in the information we realize that how we choose to make decisions will either lead us to freedom or into more uncertainty or even misery.  It truly is our decisions that lead us into whichever type of life we choose.

Generators, Manifesting Generators, Projectors, Manifestors and Reflectors have been the focus of my blog writing the past few weeks.  It is important to know your type as each one plays a critical role in our world. 

Living with Sacral energy, which 70% of the population does is an amazing thing for Generators and Manifesting Generators. The sacral energy provides Generators with the life force of humanity. If everyone was living according to their design, Manifestors would get things started, Generators lend their energy to get everything accomplished, Projectors guide the process and Reflectors let us know how everyone is doing.

After reading my recent series on Projectors, I had a few messages and phone calls from friends saying, I am sure I am a Projector.  I have responded in each case, wouldn’t be my guess in knowing you. Each of them continued to share why they believed they were a projector.  To each of them I said, I feel you are a Generator, you are a Generator and to the last one, I feel you are Manifestor. 

Have you ever considered how powerful it is when you are able to speak your truth?  I ask, only because a client said to me yesterday, you use that term, “speak your truth”, a lot and I kept ‘thinking’ I knew what you meant, but lately, I am not sure if I am or not.  After pondering for a moment how best to answer, I said, speaking our truth should be one of the most natural things we do, but unfortunately, that is not the case. 

Recently, a client who I have been seen twice, said, “What do you mean, get out of my head?”  She just sat there looking bewildered and confused.  For the past two sessions, every other statement begins with, “I think this, or I think that.”  As soon as I hear that, I immediately know she is stuck in the mental plane, living totally from her mind. 

Diving into figuring out who I was and what I was here for a little over two years ago has taken me down many different roads.  When it first began, I was so open to anything and everything and found myself going in circles.  For me, this seemed quite normal.  Going in circles is an apt description of what my life looked like.