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.

The Throat Center is the place we articulate, express and manifest from.  It is the most complex of all the centers in our BodyGraph.  It has huge responsibility to handle a lot of intense demands. The Throat Center is all about “what” I want to become in the world.  It is how we show up, how we describe our world, how we explain who we are, what we are doing, how well we live and any other aspect of expression in our life.  All the energy of the BodyGraph flows to this center.  It is like the hub of your body where energy is metabolized and transformed in the body.

There are 11 gates in our Throat Center and they each carry energy that we use to express ourselves, begin to determine which voice(s) most represents our truth and how to use them and add in to our daily life.  When we have a gate activated in our throat center, we have access to a particular form of expression, but in order to use that voice, you need to wait your turn, until you receive your cue.

As an example, if you are a Generator, energetically, you are designed to respond from your sacral area (your lower belly/your gut), to know if something is right for you or not.  If you are a Projector, it is best to wait for an invitation, whether that comes from someone you know, or from an inner recognition of being called to participate.  Using the voice with following the above, or attempting to manifest at any time, will lead to your thyroid being overworked energetically, which will affect your metabolism in some way.

If your throat is defined (colored), you will express views and suggestions for the benefit of yourself and others.  Your Type and Authority give you the understanding to know when to talk or to remain silent.  If undefined (open), you will be able to say things, often clarifying things for others what they cannot express for themselves.  Again, it is important to know your type and authority, so you know when others can hear you, and therefore can act on your world.  If you are constantly talking, you will find that often others are not hearing you, and you end up talking to yourself.  If this is a pattern in your life, slow down and pay attention to your inner guidance of when to talk, an in ways that make connections with others easier and closer in your world.  Questions you might ask with an undefined/open throat are: Am I trying to attract attention?  Am I trying to be a doer? Am I worried about what I am going to manifest or am I acting like a Manifestor? and am I initiating the conversation?

With an undefined (open) throat center, with no gates activated and colored, it is important to recognize that you can teach your voice to make a multitude of different sounds.  You can expand your voice, just be careful not to overdo.  If you are called to speak a lot, it will be helpful to cover your neck in some way for protection.

Here are the 11 gates of the Throat Center and the expressions associated with them.  To see if any of these are playing a role in your chart, look at your Bodygraph and look to see which of the numbers have red, black or a combination.

Gate 23: I know or not

Gate 8: I know I can make a contribution or not

Gate 20: I am now or not

Gate 16: I experiment (identify) or not

Gate 35: I experience (I feel) or not

Gate 45: I have or not

Gate 12: I know I can try or not

Gate 62: I think or not

Gate 56: I believe or not

Gate 31: I lead or not

Gate 33: I remember or not

All of these expressions are just describing tendencies.  If your throat is completely open it means you have limitless potential to express yourself in MANY ways, depending on your circumstances.

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Manifesting generators are about 33% of the population.  They are considered a subset of the Generator, because they also have a defined Sacral but they also have a direct connection from a motor center to the throat, just like a Manifestor.  Many Manifesting Generators believe they are manifestors, forgetting that with that defined sacral, which has sustainable life force energy, they are designed to respond.  So, yes, like the Manifestor, you are able and supposed to initiate and make things happen, but like the Generator you have to wait for something to respond to before taking action.

Most manifesting generators find this difficult to do.

They really have a difficult time with understanding the “responding” – they are not alone, many generators (me for sure) have difficulty too as the deconditioning is vast as for so many of us since childhood we have been programmed to think not feel and constantly be doing, with no real understanding by those around us that is not how we are designed.

In my circle of friends, I have 3 manifesting generators and I enjoy being with all of them.  Sitting back and watching them, has given me so much insight into the processing of a manifesting generator.  Not a one of my friends is someone who goes through all of the step to any project or plan.  They never seem to get stuck, they just fly through to the end.  I have seen them get frustrated, but unlike me where sometimes I hit a plateau and just need to wait to know what to respond to next, their frustration seems to come from no seeing the end result immediately and having to wait for it.  It truly is more that the world is not moving fast enough for them.

Slowing down for them, is difficult.  One of the things we chat about is that most of their friends and others they are with are different types.  We are either generators or projectors.  Often, the slow down is to catch us up.  Sometimes we need the explanation of your vision.  We need the step by step manual.  It has not been easy for my friends to wait for the rest of us to “GET IT.”

If you have a Manifesting Generator in your life, sit back and observe them.  One of my friends is currently writing a program for her employer.  Her biggest obstacle has been the editor sending the project back to her.  I could sense her frustration and asked what was going on.  She explained that the editor keeps wanting her to add all these extra words to the piece and my friend doesn’t think they are necessary.  I started to chuckle which didn’t go over well, at first.  I asked her, is it because for you those extra words are non-essential.  She looked at me, like “DUH,” and said they are.  To her, they are, to anyone reading her program they will not be.  They will be needed very much.  My friend, can do more work in a week than most people do in a month, but someone, normally her assistant will spend a lot of time cleaning up all the little details my friend left out.  To my friend, getting a lot done efficiently and quickly is how she operates and she is even aware there may be some mistakes, but to her those are small and never as important as being efficient and getting stuff done.

Similar to a generator, she can build, her energy will sustain her, but she has no patience for the detail.  She just wants this project done to move on to the next.  I tease her all the time, it is why we get along.  I like the details and have no problem going through the steps and doing a thorough job.  Please know, that doesn’t mean I also do not make mistakes, I do.  Mine are just different than hers. Together thought, the projects are usually done well.

Another way to know a manifesting generator is when you are talking to them, you feel like they are bored or distracted.  You may also feel rushed.  Most of the time they have taken the information in so fast you, the speaker is going fast enough for them.  I have learned to just speak normally, as the manifesting generator, really needs the learning experience of waiting.  It is such a fine balance to carry, to be receptive and active all at the same time.

Like generators, manifesting generators need to learn to use their body for responses before taking action and this takes time and is the key to waiting.  For example, you are sitting at the beach, relaxing listening to music and boom, you have this impulse that you need to return an email.  One of two things happen, you find yourself getting up in response to your mind, or your mind says, “you should send the email” but your body doesn’t move.  Knowing all decisions from the mind take effort, which would be effortless? In case you are not sure, it would be the second as you would need to force yourself to get up.

Here is another example of waiting for the response.  Let’s say your desk needs to be cleaned up.  As your desk is in the main room of your space, you pass by it or see it several times a day and each time your mind says, “you really need organize that desk” but your body resists and the desk does not get cleaned up.  You go off and complete other things your body was directing you too and then, later in the day as you are walking by the desk, you all of a sudden are just cleaning off the desk and it was a breeze.  No inner discussion, no self-talk or beating yourself up.  It was effortless.  You -  let yourself take on the project when your body was ready.  When your body responded.   That is the joy for a Manifesting Generator.  It was effortless, you enjoyed that process and it was satisfying.  All because you waited for the response.

The power of waiting is incredible and causes no resistance.  The things you can accomplish when you wait are unlimited.  Waiting for the response allows you to enter things correctly, use your energy efficiently and not miss those important steps.  Life is then open for you to do more.

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Generators in this world are here to be the true builders and creators of the planet.  They have a tremendous wealth of energy and power and there is nothing more powerful than when a generator learns to wait to respond as that is when the true power comes through.

In this blog on celebrities it is very easy to see when each of them did this.  When they responded correctly they easily attract everyone to them.  When generators have others come to them ask, they will give you all they have.  That is the perfection of the generator.

Robin Williams

As a generator, he had sustainable energy, meaning he could go and go, which was quite obvious when you look at the amount of work he was able to do and the energy he expended with his family, acting, comedy and his charitable interests. 

His chart is interesting to look at in that like all generators he has a defined sacral, which is a motor center.  Of the 9 centers in the body 4 are motors (which are about taking action), and he had all four of them defined (the spleen is not a motor- center on far left), which provided him all the energy he needed to take action.  What is even more interesting though is his throat center is undefined/open (third center down), which is our communication center and the energy needs to get there to manifest and make things happen and all his energy had no means to get there.  His energy is go-go-go but it doesn’t reach the throat, the area that makes things happen, yet he had no outlet to release it for things to just happen. So, this can be challenging.

An example for me is think of your car stuck on ice.  You can give it all the gas you want, but you will just be spinning and going nowhere. It is the inability to go forward, even though your are giving it all the action/power.  Once others recognize you need aid then progress can be made.

That happened for Williams, when he was recognized for his abilities in Mork and Mindy.  Once that happened so many opportunities just flowed into his life and he could wait to respond to what was correct for him.  It may be that before that happened, he experienced many challenges.

Open throat center is rare.  About 1/8 of population.  It can be a gifted mimic who can create characters or voices.  The open throat has an ability to take in throat energy from other people and enlarging it.  It gave him the opportunity to take in the communication style and had an amazing way of expressing it to others through his comedy and characters he created. When you have an undefined throat you also have the ability to speak for others, you can be a mouth piece speaking for others.  See Oprah Winfrey below she has the same open throat center.  The undefined throat does need the attention of others, to get the energy and link up to get the energy to the throat.  It is important for those who with open throats to get attention and be recognized to be able to share their gifts.  This also leaves it difficult for an open throat to know what is enough attention or not.  Think of a class clown.

He also is a 2/5 profile meaning, the 2 (unconscious)part of him the hermit likes his alone time, whereas the 5, the Heretic (conscious), is about using his life experiences to help others makes sense of all their experiences.  He had the ability to be a valuable resource for others.  This profile has a challenge in that the unconscious wants to be alone and the conscious wants to be seen.  It makes sense how being so public could be a bit much for him and so balance would have been important.

Robin Williams

·        TYPE: Generator

·        STRATEGY: To Respond

·        NOT-SELF THEME: Frustration

·        INNER AUTHORITY: Emotional - Solar Plexus

·        PROFILE: 2 / 5

·        DEFINITION: Split Definition

·        INCARNATION CROSS: Right Angle Cross of Laws (56/60 | 3/50)

·        NAME: Robin Williams

·        BIRTH DATE (LOCAL): July 21, 1951, 13:34

 Dali Lama

The Dali Lama, like Robin Williams, is a 4 motors generator.  He is a generator with that sustainable energy that will propel him to do all the things he loves.  He has the energy to go and go and we have seen him do that for many years as he is now over 80 years old. His energy has supported him in his travels, to be able to support his people and his causes.  His chart only has the 4-motor center defined and like Robin Williams, none of that energy gets to his throat. He has a lot of openness where he is taking in a lot of energy from others and amplifying it.  With his open throat, it is common not to always feel heard and we have seen that in not always getting the support for his people, but he has used the gift that is there to modulate and get his message across in a way that has been accepted by others and has kept him going.  He also through that open center has an ability to speak for others and he has done that.  If you can master the open throat you are able to really speak for others.  As his G/Self center is open too, his sense of direction for his life comes from outside of him.  We have seen this in how he asks others for support for his people.  His heart center also known as the ‘will’ center, gives him his willpower, which as we have seen in his life is very evident.  He has the ability to motivate others and like the throat this center is only defined by 1/8 of the population.  His presence has touched many of us in the world.

Having the opportunity to hear him speak live in 2006 in Buffalo, his presence magnified all of us and to this day, remains a memory, I cherish.

He has an interesting channel 37-40, which is all about agreements, being involved in community and peace and harmony.  When you think of what we know of the history of Tibet and its people, he has had many struggles to keep himself peaceful, keep his work and the other people involved peaceful, yet facilitate change for peace and harmony.

His chart shows that he also has the channel 60-3 which is mutation and all about a desire to bring change.  He has worked so hard at this all of his life being a voice and bring change to his people but also all of humanity.

Dali Lama

·        TYPE: Generator

·        STRATEGY: To Respond

·        NOT-SELF THEME: Frustration

·        INNER AUTHORITY: Emotional - Solar Plexus

·        PROFILE: 4 / 6

·        DEFINITION: Split Definition

·        INCARNATION CROSS: Right Angle Cross of Tension (39/38 | 21/48)

·        NAME: Dali Lama

·        BIRTH DATE (LOCAL): July 6, 1935, 04:38

·        BIRTH PLACE: Xining, China

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah is another generator that in knowing anything about her, you are aware she has the sustainable, consistent energy to keep her going in her work and personal life.  She is surely has shown us she can go, and go about areas of her life she is passionate about.

Like Robin Williams and the Dali Lama, she has the open throat center too.  Her gift of being able to communicate in ways that everyone around her can hear is well known.  She has also used her voice to speak for those who are unable or unsure.  She has lent her voice to speak for them, which is a gift of the open throat center. 

Oprah has many energies in her chart that support the path she has chosen to take.  In looking at some of her gates, (the numbers in her chart that are colored or activated) so much of her life path is clearly defined.  Energies that she was gifted with are:

Gate 62: The gate of Details and Facts.  This gate gives her the foundation to know if something is reasonable or unreasonable. 

Gate 43: The gate of Breakthrough that is constantly making available to her the ability to be ready to deliver deep insights that can make a difference in people’s lives.  This gate gives you the ability to have flashes of pure knowing, that others may not always seem to understand.  For her during these times, she really wants to just trust herself.

Gate 56: The gate of the Wanderer which is about traveling, expanding your horizons and discovering fresh new things in your life.  Home for her will be wherever she lays her hat.  It is also a storytelling gate, residing in her throat center, which gives her the ability when speaking to say, “It happened like this” or “You’ll never believe this.”  Her stories come quickly and she is able to weave them into a way of sharing that her audience gets.  This gate also arouses feedback from her audience to challenge their own beliefs.  For her life is about constant stimulation.  She is always searching for new experiences to add to her life story.

Gate 33: The gate of Retreat, the other storytelling gate.  These are reflective, sober and not highly embellished.  These are the authentic stories of her life that she is able to weave into a story everyone can relate too.  Her memory capacity is sharp, similar to having a database in her head and she can overwhelm her publisher or a director of a movie with all of her creative ideas.  A challenge is knowing when to retreat.  If she doesn’t take time to recharge, she could experience exhaustion or near collapse. 

Her chart is filled with other gates that all speak to her abilities and success.  It is obvious that either due to challenges she has faced in her life, or her experiences, that she has learned to use her sacral authority, her ‘gut instincts” and her splenic awareness.  It is also obvious she has found out that waiting to respond before voicing her ideas and stories (open throat), she could share in a way that has been very abundant for her.

 ·        TYPE: Generator

·        STRATEGY: To Respond

·        NOT-SELF THEME: Frustration

·        INNER AUTHORITY: Emotional - Solar Plexus

·        PROFILE: 2 / 4

·        DEFINITION: Triple Split Definition

·        INCARNATION CROSS: Right Angle Cross of The Four Ways (19/33 | 44/24)

·        NAME: Oprah Winfrey

·        BIRTH DATE (LOCAL): Jan 29, 1954, 04:20

Albert Einstein

In looking at his chart, the first thing I noticed was that his head, ajna and throat are all open.  The open head and ajna gave him his intellectual curiosity and his open-mindedness and if he was in school today, this would have given him many difficulties with rote learning.  He needed the space to be able to ‘think outside the box’ as with those centers being open he was constantly taking in information from those around him and turning it over and over. 

He had an amazing ability to learn new things, delve in with a passion and then just move on to something else, once the information was disproven or no longer accurate.  An example of this was his views on religion which he was raised with since childhood, but after reading a science text given to him, his views all change.  That is very common for those with an open head and ajna.  Another trait of the two open centers, is his learning came easily in the areas he was interested in (math/science) and preferred doing them on his own in his own way but had little time for subject matters that did not stimulate him in any way.

His ajna has 3 gates activated that tell a lot about him. 

Gate 11: The gate of Harmony, which is rich in imagination, cultivating ideas to bring about social harmony.  He was forever thinking about new ideas to keep things fresh and revolving.  He easily dropped outdated methods or concepts that no longer seemed relevant.

Gate 17: The gate of Following which gave him a natural inclination to be fair, balanced, and impartial.  He was not afraid of being strongly opinionated, but also had the ability to be a great diplomat or debater.  He loved to have his opinions tested and to encourage fair debate.   He was more interested in his quality of life, being able to envision and follow views of anyone who might show him ways to enhance his life.

Gate 24:  The gate of Returning, which is about rationalization.  He had a propensity to be intense, preoccupied, looking for missing clues or finding understanding.  This gate just cannot stop searching or digging.  It also means, one can become set in their ways and you have to be careful not to get stuck in holding on to old perspectives.  This gate also offers the possibility of potential bursts of insight if you can embrace them.

As you continue through his chart you are able to see that his sacral energy was a great source for birthing new ideas. His creativity was born here and is the type that is healing for our planet, and the growth of humanity.  This is evidenced in one of his channels the 59-6, the channel of Reproduction and Mating.

·        TYPE: Generator

·        STRATEGY: To Respond

·        NOT-SELF THEME: Frustration

·        INNER AUTHORITY: Emotional - Solar Plexus

·        PROFILE: 1 / 4

·        DEFINITION: Split Definition

·        INCARNATION CROSS: Right Angle Cross of Eden (36/6 | 11/12)

·        NAME: Albert Einstein

·        BIRTH DATE (LOCAL): March 14, 1879, 11:30

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A little over 3 years ago, I was introduced to human design and began to learn how it would bring about healing, growth and transformation in my life.  Granted, I had the choice once my design was in my hands to decide if I was going to dive in or put it on the shelf. 

I decided to dive in.

Human Design became a big part of my life.  For the first year, I was not quite sure what that meant, yet as I listened, studied and had sessions with my mentor, it started to become clearer.  To live your human design means to enter into an experiment with your body where you are unlearning as much as you are learning.  The learning has been all about settling in to being a generator and uncovering that lost inner part of me in my sacral center, that is there to give me so much guidance and learning that my mind, has a role in my body, just not the one most of us use it if for. Our mind is not where we make decisions from.   

As generators/manifesting generators make up 70% of the world’s population, there are a lot of us.  We are the world’s work force.  Pure generators make up 37% of the population and manifesting generators 33%.  Both have defined sacral centers, which is what gives us all the energy we need to do all that we do and is where all our decision making happens.  While they have many of the same characteristics, there are specific differences.  Today, we will be looking specifically at Generator.

Finding out you are a generator, like any of the designs is exciting and brings challenges.  The main challenge is that most of us have not been living our design, so as it is explained to us, there will be a lot of uh-uh’s and hmm’s, to that does or does not sound like me to even frustration as you begin to see how far away from your design you are really living.  Yet, if you can just take it all in, realize it is a lot of information to digest and you have choices: you can choose to begin to get back on track today or take more time to let everything settle in and proceed when ready, or just put it back on the shelf and ignore and continue to be frustrated at times in your life.

 The sacral center is the center of life- the core of our reproductive capacity, generator of our energy for our work and all relationships.  Generators create and maintain the world we see around us.  We have been the builders, able to sustain work and then find enjoyment in activities that satisfy us.  With us being 70% of the population, we really do move the world.

As a generator, we have two primary focuses in our lives.  Work and family.

The generator has tremendous energy and as long as you enter into all that you do, correctly, you will have all the energy you need.  For generators, it is all about how we respond.  We are not here to be chasing life, we are her to let life come to us, ask questions to our sacral center and respond.   That is how we live our truth, if we do not live through the response, we will find ourselves frustrated.

Generators are the great workers of the world.  Being satisfied in work, relationships and all you do is, vital and it is not being selfish to switch jobs, end relationship and not settle until you are truly passionate about what you are doing.  Being happy in what you are doing will bring you happiness, joy and complete fulfillment in all areas of your life.

Being a generator myself, the work aspect made so much sense when I heard it.  For more years than I care to count, I would start a job, all excited, and then within a relative short period of time, would become frustrated, lose motivation to even want to quit and ultimately feel stuck.  Then the frustration would set in and a cycle of fighting with myself, sometimes with others I was in relationships with and I would encounter issues at work.  Little did I know that if I would have used my inner authority of sitting and asking my sacral questions, I not only would not have taken many of those jobs, once I saw the pattern of being miserable or stuck, I would have known the decision was made from my mind not my sacral and not correct for me at that time.

So many of us living as generators are living like this.  We live what Human Design calls, the not-self generator, meaning we are not using are generative capacity correctly.  In my case above, I was trying to manifest what the mind thinks it wants (sometimes more money, or better hours, or even less drive time), whereas if I had asked the questions to my sacral center and waited for the response, the uh-uh (yes) or the ut-uh (no) or the mmm or silence (maybe or not yet), I would have saved myself a lot of frustration, a lot of job changes. 

For so many generators it isn’t just our work where we feel “stuck.”  You may feel the same in relationships or other areas of your life that you are just unhappy with or even hate, simply because of how you have been conditioned to live.  Learning to live from our sacral centers is the key to our living an amazing life.  For so many of us from childhood, we have been told by others to use words, to make decisions with our mind, to think before we do something, which is all WRONG.  As a generator, we need to listen and use those guttural tones/sounds that naturally arise from our sacral motor.

As a generator, we are to wait to respond to life.  Waiting until we gain clarity from our sacral center, honors that deep inner part of us that holds all the keys to our life.  If you just remember to ONLY make decision in response, everything in life that is correct for you will begin to come and you will find satisfaction in every facet of your life.