EPISODE #21: Human Design 101: Understanding Your Chart & Explaining HD to Beginners

In this episode, Leah dives into understanding your Human Design Chart and How to Explain Human Design to Beginners. This is the perfect episode for someone asking you - "what is human design??" and you don't know how to explain it! She discusses all of the following:

04:42 What is Human Design?

06:04 How to use Human Design and what it helps us with

09:03 What Human Design Is and Isn't

15:55 Overview of the Human Design Energy Types

30:34 Overview of Human Design Authorities

39:08 Overview of Human Design Profiles

44:41 How to Explain Human Design to someone new

49:01 BTS of my upcoming reader training: Human Design Mastery

Leah, 5/1 Sacral Generator, gives a basic rundown of the world of human design. She explains each of the key pieces, like energy type, profile, strategy, authority, and more!! If you are a beginner in the human design world or you want to know how you can explain human design to others, this episode is for you!

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

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Welcome to another episode of The Design Of You, where we talk about all things human design and Spirituality and all the good stuff. I am so excited for this episode. I feel like I say that every time. I'm so excited. but I am, because I have been breaking down all sorts of pieces and parts of the human design system and.

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There's tons more to come. We've got an episode coming up on gates. We have one coming up on channels. We have one coming up on incarnation cross. We have episodes planned for getting into the deeper layers like digestion and environment and perspective and motivation. And all the things, but what I really wanted to do was record a human design 101 episode.

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And this episode is going to serve someone who is very new to the system. If you're not new, it might still be good to hang around and to hear a little bit of how I kind of break down the human design 101 or just the basics for someone who is new. But I wanted to have this episode as someone who is like, I have no idea what human design is.

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I don't know how to work with this. And this can be an episode that you can either send to a friend or you can reference if you are talking about human design and you want a way to speak about it, which I know lots of you are interested in because I had sent a survey out months ago, , for someone to win a free reading with me.

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And, and I asked you guys a bunch of questions around what content you want to see, what you want to hear about. And so many of you said to me, How do I talk about human design? How do I share about this system? And it's something that comes up in my life all the time with my friends and family asking me, what do you do?

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I have no idea how to explain what human design is, what you do, how you use this. And I thought this was the perfect episode to kind of encompass a lot of what we've been talking about because we really have covered the basics. And again, to serve as something that you can either. listen to and use when you're trying to figure out how to talk about human design or to send to a friend and so on and so forth.

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First things first, if you are listening and you do not have your chart pulled up, I highly recommend that you go and get your chart down in the show notes below. You can click a link and it will take you to look up your chart. There's two links. There's a decode your design and a get your human design, your full chart, get your full chart for this.

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And if you want to decode your design after a later. Totally go ahead and do that. That's just a fun little way to learn a little bit about your chart without having to, you know, really know all the, all the things at first, but I highly recommend you guys getting your full chart. Once you have that pulled up, that will kind of prepare you to dive into this episode.

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So with our human design charts, there is lots of things. I'm sure if you've pulled up your chart and looked at it, there's lots of layers or shapes and numbers and symbols and colors and all sorts of things. And just the things that you need to know today. Those systems that you can study it and observe it forever and still feel like there's more to unpack.

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And if you're like me, you will love that. and if not, then, you know, maybe you just kind of want the basics and this is what this episode will be a, , really good resource for you then. okay. So. After you pull up your chart, I want you guys to just look at the column that's next to it. Just disregard the shapes and things like that for now.

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What really matters is that you know what your energy type is, your strategy, your authority, your signature theme, your not self theme, and your. definition, profile, and then centers, which is not going to be listed, but I will kind of talk about that at some point towards the end. But having this list in front of you will just help you be able to move through this episode a little bit easier.

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and then that will give you all the little tools and pieces of how to work with your human design. Those pieces and parts, let's just talk about what human design is. So human design is a self awareness system and a tool that helps you understand how your energy operates. It can provide insights into our unique personality traits, which is called your profile, your decision making process, which is called your strategy and authority, and how we interact with the world around us, which is basically where we get our energy type and so on.

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And so forth with the different layers of the chart, which we'll get into. You can think of human design as a manual. For yourself. So like any electronic device that you own, there is a manual that comes with it, that tells you, you know, how to plug it in, how to get it to work, what each button means. And so you can kind of think of human design as a manual for you and how you can best operate with, you know, yourself and your energy and you know, where your lights are, where your intuition is.

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And so by understanding our human design, we can gain clarity on our life's purpose, how to make decisions that feel right for us. how we can honor our energy in a way that leads to fulfillment and authenticity. We can discover our strengths, our challenges, and just truly the most genuine way for how to navigate life in a personalized roadmap sort of way.

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And so with human design, we really get a greater self awareness and then we get into alignment and alignment is just basically. This all encompassing term that says, okay, you were in alignment, you were working with your energy and everything is happening because you were on this path that you were meant to walk.

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And as you're on this path, the right opportunities show up, the right people show up and there's less friction. I always imagine it as like a road. And so say we were on our lane and, and I always kind of in my head, I think about when Z and I moved across the country. Like we were on these, I remember we were going through like Texas, like the, the top part of Texas and we're like going through just the middle of nowhere.

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There were literally not cobwebs. It was like, I was going to call them cobwebs, but, why can't I think of what they're called? Hold on. Let me Google this. It's that was going to bug me if I didn't look it up. I'm a line one in human design. So even we'll talk about what that means, but I like to know my facts.

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So that was important for me to look up because I was like cobwebs that are just floating around. But anywho, what I'm trying to describe is like, I, a lot of times I think about alignment as being on this road, this really long path. It's like, you can't see what's in front of you. And you know, you're just kind of driving along and trying to follow your GPS.

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And I find that human design is kind of like that in GPS, it says, Hey, turn left, turn right? Yes, no. But really what happens is we're on this path and this road is meant for us to find all the things that are meant for us, find all the people and the opportunities. And so a lot of times we get pulled off track, right?

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Like Someone comes and gets into our road and they, they bump us around and they cause traffic. Or sometimes we don't listen to our intuition and we say no. And we all of a sudden get pulled off track and now we're on someone else's road. And so it's important for us to always kind of get back into our lane.

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It's kind of like also related to that term where people are like, stay in your lane. Yeah. Stay in your lane, get into your path of alignment and trust that when you're there, everything else. going to kind of come through in the most beautiful way. So that's how I picture it in my mind. When I think about alignment, I literally do think about this like country road, not even a country road, like this two lane highway, middle of nowhere and tumbleweeds around, just like you're on your path.

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And then all of a sudden you're going to make it to your destination, your city, and the thing that's meant for you. So. Okay. So that's what human design helps us get into is alignment. And so I like to also break down what human design is. So again, it's a self awareness tool. So like any tool in our toolbox, whether it's acupuncture, going to see a therapist, maybe it's your celery juice in the morning, or maybe it's your coffee, or maybe it's going for a walk.

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We all have kind of like our tools in our life where we're like, I don't feel great. I need to go. Take a shower or, you know, I need to go pump some iron or I need to go see my chiropractor, whatever that is for you. This is another tool in your toolbox where you're like, Hey, I feel like I'm not in touch with my intuition and I need to get back to that place.

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And I would like to get there and I'm just not sure how. So https: otter. ai You can get into your human design and you can go, oh, that's right. This is where my intuition is. This is how I work with my energy. This is how I make decisions in accordance to what's going to work best for my energy that I, that I was born with, that I came to this world with.

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And so it's a tool that can empower and expand us. It's a method that gives us permission to be ourselves. I think that human design is meant to be relatable and helpful and practical, which is a big part of my mission. it's here to help us find less friction in our lives and our relationships, our wellbeing, our success and happiness.

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And it's meant to be experimented with and embodied. We're going to talk about what human design isn't, but to give you a little spoiler alert, human design isn't a belief system. I find that so many people like hear a little bit about human design and they're like, Oh my gosh. It's just like, You know, crazy belief system.

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It's a Scientology cults like thing. And in a lot of ways I can see why people say that, but if you actually haven't taken the time to understand the system, you're, if you do take the time to understand the system, I should say is that you will figure out that that's so far from the truth. so that said human design is meant to be experimented with a lot of the times when I'm telling you information about human design, I'm not giving you anything that new.

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I'm really telling you things that you already know innately inside of you. And I'm also just asking you, like, can you play with that? Can you challenge your growth edges a little bit? Can you work with your energy a little bit more? And that's kind of the whole point. So, and it's also meant to be embodied.

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Human design is also a modality that brings us more understanding and insight into our relationships. And it's a system that returns the power to us by removing conditioning that has gotten us away from, you know, really just who we are. And what human design isn't, so it's not a religion, of course so you can be a Christian and Buddhist.

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You can be Jewish and still like human design. You can be any religion and still be in the human design. It's not a call. there is a guy that channeled this system. he had this whole experience and then he started sharing about it. A lot of people are uncomfortable with the fact that it was like a white male that.

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Brought this thing into the world and that's definitely uncomfortable for even someone like me. Like I definitely identify as someone who is quite a bit of a feminist and a lot of ways. but it's, it's like this whole idea is not that we're meant to follow his word and whatever he said, because that's not.

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Whatever he wanted. Every time that if you listen, his name is Rah Ru. When he talks about the system, if you listen to any of his like audios, he passed in 2011. So, you can't access any, anything from him. That's a newer than that. But, basically he always talks about, you know, I just want people to.

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With this. Don't take my word for it. Go try it. Go see if this works for you. And that's what I like to tell people too. I'm like, don't, it, it wasn't this cult following. No one was meant to bow down to his every word. It's just meant to be like, Hey, the system that came through this guy, he wanted to share about it.

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He wanted to explain what was happening. When he like started to hear all these things and pick up on this information. And then when he started to put the pieces and parts together later on, it's like, wow, this thing is really valid and very useful. And so that's the point, yeah. It doesn't, again, it's not something that, can predict your future or can tell you the future.

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That's a huge misconception I hear all the time. Human design is not predictive. So I can't look at a chart and know who your perfect partner is, if you're, what your dream career is, you know, what's going to happen to you in the next month. So on and so forth. It's more like this is how your energy works.

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And I want you to be empowered with the tools of how you can make decisions to then figure out what works for you based on just listening to that. And I find once we're there, then we can fall into the right, you know, partners and careers and perhaps money and whatever else that a lot of people want to know about in the future.

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so that said, it's not here to tell you what your career should be. It's not meant to be disempowering. I feel like there's lots of human design teachers out there that make human design so disempowering. They'll be like, Oh my God, you have the. You know, you've got this channel of judgment and you also have like all of these detriments and things like that.

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And no, those are just things to lean into to see how they work, and we'll kind of break some of that down in a little bit, not meant to be overwhelming and unreachable, although I know it is. So I could tread water saying that because it for sure is overwhelming. If you're trying to, you know, master the system in one day, there needs.

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To be lots of, you know, like learning again. I said earlier, you could literally be studying the system forever and still not know everything about it because it's so experimental and, and, and it's such an embodiment. And so it's fun to be played with. It's not here to be memorized. This is not meant to get you in your head either.

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This is, you know, spirituality. A lot of times it's like, how can we be one with the universe and love and spirit? And I find that a lot of times These systems like human design or astrology or even like Enneagram or some of these other systems, a lot of times will get really, , stuck on, is this something that I have to memorize and I have to fit myself into?

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And no, that's not the point. It's about what makes you feel like in love with your life and closer to your spirit and your intuition. And God, if that's what you believe in universe, whatever you believe in, whatever it is, nomination, or even if you don't believe in anything, just like, how can you feel more true to yourself?

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All that? We're all saying the same thing, just in different ways. and so it's not also meant to be the end all be all. Like if you like human design, I invite you to like dabble your feet and you know, get your feet wet, get your hands dirty, get into it. But if you are not into human design, then. That's totally great too.

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I don't care. I am not here to convince anyone to be involved in the system or not, or to learn about it. But if you're excited about it, if you're curious, then like this is the perfect episode for you to learn a little bit more, dive in and just get all the good stuff. So. A lot of what human design can help us with is the following.

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So it can help us understand how our energy functions, how we bring in aligned opportunities, how to follow your unique intuition, how to know if you're in alignment or out of alignment, how you flow and work with others, how your personality operates. I already mentioned that, how you get inspired and taken ideas, how your mind operates, how you express yourself and your voice, how you lean into your identity, how you get motivated and feel validated.

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How much fuel you have to work, how your instincts show up, how you process emotions, how you handle pressure, how your gifts can show up your life theme and purpose, how you take in food and information, your strongest sense, your ideal environment, the way that you observe the world and how that can lean into your manifestation process, what your perspective mostly is and how you are motivated.

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By the way, what I just described was basically the entire outline of my human design guidebooks, which if you're new, that's a really great place to start. Basically, it's a 95 plus page PDF guide to your entire human design. And that's literally the outline that I just read. But that is what human design can help us with.

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So, okay, you have your chart pulled up. I'm excited for you again, just kind of have that list there and we're going to move through each of the most important parts. So the most fundamental piece of the human design system is something called your energy type. It is the most fundamental aspect. It serves as the manual for best utilizing your energy and various parts of your life, including relationships, partnerships, teams, families, work, et cetera.

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Your energy type reveals your innate strengths and your potential weaknesses. And. Each of the five energy types. So there's five has its own unique way of interacting with and navigating the world and understanding it is crucial because it helps you tap into your full potential and live a fulfilling and aligned life.

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And so the five energy types are generators, manifesting generators, projectors, manifestors, and reflectors. So you have your chart you'll see next to energy type. It'll say what that is. If you are a generator, you're 35 to 38 percent of the population. If you're a manifesting generator, you're. 32 to 35 percent of the population.

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If you're a projector, you're 20 to 24 percent of the population. If you are a manifester, you're 3 to 5 percent of the population. And if you are a reflector, you are less than 1 percent of the population. And the names make sense. So generators, they generate a lot of energy manifesting generators can pave their own way and manifest and generate energy.

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Projectors project onto people. Manifesters can pave their own way and manifest their desires easily. Reflectors reflect energy back to others. That's my little, like, cheat sheet of how I remember each of the energy types, so I like to share that because I feel like it's very useful. So basically our energy type can tell us what our unique energetic gifts are, how our energy feels to others through our aura, how to strategically work with our energy, which is called our strategy.

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It can also tell us our signature theme, which is a sign you're in alignment with your energy. And you're not self neem, which is a sign you are out of alignment with your energy. Just go through each of the types really briefly. So generators are again, the kind of most, most people are generators or manifesting generators, and these are the life forces generators are people who have this fuel inside of them to sustain work.

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They're called generators. Cause they're like a, like a generator motor. When you, when the power goes out, you plug in a generator. Those of you that live in the northern hemisphere are, are familiar with what that means. but these are our builders and creators. They're meant to do things that they love to do and use all of that beautiful energy on stuff that lights them up and that feels good for them.

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And so their biggest lesson is to figure out what lights them up. And rather than just doing things that they should do, because that actually depletes that life force. And lots of times when I work with generators that are like, I feel drained or I'm exhausted. I'm like, Oh, you're not using your life force correctly, which is very common.

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Generators have this energy field that's very open and expansive. It can feel like it's wrapping around people and objects in their environment. And so when they do what ignites their soul, it creates more energy for everyone because of that. And generators, they should definitely wait for opportunities to come to them.

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So their strategy is called wait to respond. And so when they wait for opportunities to come to them. Then they can respond to those opportunities based on their gut instinct, rather than initiating things, pushing things, forcing things, or making decisions based on their mind's desire. This is how they can work with their energy.

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So the gut is a big part of being a generator and a manifesting generator too, and we're going to talk about them in a moment, but they have a really strong gut feeling. Some generators have instant access to that gut and some do not. And we'll talk about that when we get to authority. But when a generator is in alignment, they are feeling satisfaction and fulfillment.

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When a generator is out of alignment, they feel frustration. Their gift is to create and lift up the energy of the world. Their aura is open and enveloping feels like a warm embrace. Their strategy is to wait to respond and their signature theme. Or the sign that they're in alignment is satisfaction and the sign that they're out of alignment is frustration.

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Now we move to manifesting generators. Manifesting generators are the multi passionate beings like manifestors. They have this drive and we'll talk about manifestors. We haven't got to that yet. but then like generators, they also have this ability to accomplish. They're known for their ability to bring things to life very quickly and efficiently.

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And when they follow their curiosities and do what lights them up, they uplift the energy around them. The biggest lesson for a manifesting generator is to not fit in a box or find their one thing and to continue to be super multi hyphenate, multi passionate. They have very big magnetic energy and they often are able to draw people in and opportunities towards them very effortlessly.

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Like generators, they should wait to respond to people's situations and experiences that come their way. And once they've made a decision using their authority, which we'll get into, they are encouraged, but not required to inform others about their intentions. When a manifesting generator is in alignment, they feel satisfaction and sometimes even peace when they're out of alignment, they feel frustration and sometimes even anger.

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So to wrap that up, the gift of a manifesting generator is to master multiple passions and reinvent themselves along the way. They have a big and enveloping aura. Their strategy is to wait to respond and inform. And then their signature theme is satisfaction, sometimes peace, and they're not self theme is frustration.

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And sometimes anger. Now we move to projectors projectors are again, about 22 percent of the population. These are our seers, our guides and our masters of systems and processes. Their energy is focused on guiding and direct. Projecting others because it observes and absorbs everything. Their biggest lesson is to lean into rest rather than trying to push themselves too hard.

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And it is also important for them to focus on what interests them and trust that people will see their gifts. Projectors have a focused and penetrating aura, allowing them to deeply see and understand other's needs and motivations. And they are designed to wait for recognition and invitations before taking action so they can mentor and direct others effectively.

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So their strategy is to wait for an invitation and recognition. Which gets confusing, but it just means like you have to wait for people to invite in that beautiful energy that you have in that perspective. Otherwise it's not going to land and people are going to think that you are projecting onto them.

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When a projector is in alignment, they feel a deep sense of success and accomplishment. When they're out of alignment, they feel very bitter that no one can see them and no one's paying attention to them. And so it's so important for them to work with their energy. projectors also need a lot more rest.

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Then any of the other types.that's just because they feel the energy levels of other people and they don't have that like motor in them. Like they don't have that generator motor, like the generators and manifesting generators do same goes with manifestors and reflectors. And we'll get into that, but they are, it's important for them to just.

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so the gift of a projector is to guide and bring efficiency to the world. Their aura is focused and absorbing their strategy is to wait for an invitation or recognition. Their signature theme is success and they're not self theme is bitterness. Okay, so now we move into manifestors. So manifestors are the impactful trailblazers that can create a burst of ideas they must see through.

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They are the only type that can initiate action rather than wait. So we've talked about generators, manifesting generators, theirs is to wait to respond. and then manifestors have the, also can inform people. Projectors is wait for an invitation and we'll get to reflectors. There's this to wait a lunar cycle, or I like to say wait to be included.

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but manifestors is just. to inform. They don't kind of wait for anything because that is because they're manifestors. They can manifest their desires easily. They can pave the way they are like these leaders that can just go, and so their biggest lesson though, is to learn to let people in on their plans by informing others of where they're going.

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And they must also learn to embrace their bold energy and be unapologetic about who they are. Where they're going and what excites them because manifestos, it's so silly. They always have this thing where they like, don't want to tell people. They just want to get to where they want to go as fast as possible.

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They don't want to let people in. And that's actually like the opposite of what they should do. They shouldn't let people in inform them of where they're going and, not to get people to stop them, not to even like, if you tell someone and they're like, Oh, you shouldn't do that. No, like, don't listen to them.

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Trust your own inner authority and your intuition. Bye. It's important for them to inform people because they actually can get to where they want to go faster because people on board with them will support them in building their dreams and their visions, like generators who are the builders and projectors might help them like maybe understand things a little bit different, maybe see it from a different perspective, and then reflectors might just mirror their energy back to them so they can understand themselves.

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That's like a little bit about how all the types work together. yeah. But, so, going back to the manifestors, so they have a protector, protective aura, it's formerly called closed and repelling, but I don't really like that, I like to reframe it into something more, empowering, so protective always felt good for me, and I learned that from other human design guides as well, but it's just because it naturally sifts through people, people that are for them or not, like the manifestors have huge energy, so they walk into a room and it's like, oh, that person has huge energy, and so when people are for them, then, They have this way of, attracting them.

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And then when people aren't, then, you know, they kind of get out of their way. So when they're in alignment with their energy, and their strategy and authority, they feel peace. That's their signature theme. When they're out of alignment, they feel a sense of anger. So to go back to kind of wrap this all up, the gift of a manifestor is to bring new ideas and ways of doing things to the world.

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Their aura is protective. Their strategy is to inform and initiate their signature theme is peace and they're not self is anger. And then finally we wrap up. with reflectors. Reflectors are gentle, rare observers who can mirror and reflect the energy of everyone and everything around them. They are sensitive and resilient.

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They make us feel seen or confronted. They're cosmic beings affected by the cycles of the moon, as well as their environments. Their biggest lesson is to embrace their unique energy and perspective rather than getting lost in who everyone else is. And they have a unique aura that can be described as.

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Sampling and reflective, kind of like a clear mirror., they're encouraged to wait for invitations or opportunities to be included in order to make decisions and navigate life in a way that aligns with their unique energy type. So when they're operating in alignment, they feel surprised, like, like delighted and surprised by what's happening.

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Leading them to growth and transformation. And then when they're out of alignment, they feel disappointed and just disappointed by the world and everything around them. So to wrap that up reflectors, their gift is to express themselves in a multitude of ways. Their aura is sampling and reflective. Their strategy is to wait to be included and invited and their signature theme.

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The sound that they're in alignment is surprise. The sign that they're out of alignment is disappointment energy type. If you were listening, you're like, okay, that sounds like me, or I know someone who's like that. So. Your strategy, which I mentioned is the most important piece of working with your energy.

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So strategy is how you strategically work with your energy type. So if you're a generator, a manifesting generator, it's to wait to respond. So again, instead of forcing things and pushing things, just go living your life, doing everything that lights you up, whatever feels good for you. And then trusting that by doing that, Everything that's meant for you is going to come to you and it's just up to you to know if this is a yes or no.

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So instead of being like i'm going to create this massive thing or i'm going to do this huge thing Opportunities are going to fall into your lap now I know that that's counterintuitive because everyone's like, you know, we're we're always told just do it, you know Follow like what like do whatever lights you up and and like do do do instead of be and Here's the thing, if you have an idea or a business plan, you can execute and get excited and go after something.

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But as long as your gut feels really good about it and you're lit up and that it feels like the, it's coming to you and there's things, there's doors opening, that's something that can be an alignment for you. But if you're meeting lots of friction, resistance, and frustration, which is the sign that a generator and a manifesting generator is out of alignment.

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That's a sign that you need to stop what you're doing and just like take a break and know that like, if it's meant for you, it's going to come back. Okay. and now we move to projectors. So projectors, their strategy is to wait for an invitation or wait for Recognition. And I mentioned a little bit about this, but how they work with their energy is by, you know, just devising systems, like being the projectors that they are seeing things absorb absorbing things, creating new processes, and then trusting that like, by just focusing on that, that people are going to see what they have going on now.

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This is a misconception with projectors is they oftentimes will think like okay I need an invitation for everything to start a business to be in a relationship to get a new job and it's not true It's just when you are working with other people. It's important that they really truly see you So it's about being seen more than anything and the invitation piece can get confusing But it's like who who invites in your perspective who wants to be around you?

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You know who really sees you who do you think pays attention to? Who you are at your core and There's being around those people and like allowing yourself to like create relationships that are supportive in that way rather than being like, okay, I'm so bitter because no one understands my perspective and I'm trying to tell everyone how I see it and I'm not getting anywhere.

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That's when a projector gets into that. sort of bitterness piece because they, and they start to project onto people. So that's how they can work with their energy for manifestors. There's just to have open communication to inform people about where you're going and to not get worried about if they like you or if you, if they're going to stop you just like inform and then just keep doing you and keep going.

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and then for a reflector, it's. to, I call it wait for wait to be included or invited. It's actually to wait for a lunar cycle formally, but here's why I reframe that because it's not supportive for everyone to have a full 28 day lunar cycle, AKA like a month basically to make a decision and to work with their energy.

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But why they say that as because reflectors do really well with. Sampling their environment. It's really important for them to feel into things. So if there's a decision for them or they have, you know, something coming up, how they can work with their energy is by assessing, okay, how do I feel and where, what environments and what people make me feel best.

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And does this make me feel good? Does this thing make me feel right? And so it can be important for them to wait for someone to kind of prompt them to include them, to invite them very similar to the projector, like invite in there. Bye. Sort of energy. And then for them to assess, okay, is this right for me?

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And give themselves that space. And we'll talk about this when we get to authority as well. So that is the strategy. That's how you strategically work with your energy. But you know, something that we just missed through all of that is, okay, but how do you know if something's a yes or no, what is my intuition saying?

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You're telling me how to work with my energy, but like, I'm still confused. And that's because the cornerstone of human design is something called strategy and authority. It's the bread and butter, but it's basically around like, okay, how can you work with your energy? How can you work with your authority?

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And, and like, how can you, how can you work with your energy and understand your intuition? That's basically what we're saying. Your authority is your intuition and decision making tool. So each authority we're going to get into very briefly. Authority is, again, your decision making tool. It's called authority because it has the power.

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It's the governing energy that you're here to trust in your body. And there's seven different authorities. So you can be emotional authority, which is 53 percent of the population. Got feelings authority, which is also called sacral authority. That's 33 percent of the population. Instinctual authority, which is oftentimes called splenic or tune into your intuition authority, which is only about how many?

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Yeah, it's about 9 percent of the population. There's voice authority, which is. 2. 5 percent of the population. This one is also called self projected sounding board. Talk it out. G center authority, giving you guys a different words. Then there is willpower authority, which is 1 percent of the population.

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This is also oftentimes called ego authority or heart or will authority. And then there is environmental or just mental authority. That's less than half. or not less than half, 0. 5 percent of the population. So less than 1%. And then finally lunar cycles authority, which is just reflectors, which is about 1 percent of the population.

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So basically each of these comes from the, the shapes in your chart. And one of these is like your governing intuitive body. You have emotional authority. This is someone who is designed to give themselves a lot of time before making a decision because they constantly ride a wave of emotions. And because of this, the most crucial thing for them is to not make a decision when their emotions are at a higher, a low, and instead to wait for emotional neutrality or clarity.

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So even if they know right away, it's important for them to still feel through things by. Sleeping on it, giving it a couple hours, and they need to love a decision over time versus in the moment. Is the Sacral Gut Feelings Authority. This is someone who is, first of all, this will only be generators or manifesting generators.

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but this is someone who's literally like just designed to trust their gut. When something's a yes, it feels expansive, immediate, light. full bodied, exciting. When something's a no for this person, it can feel uncomfortable, depleted and restrictive their body contracts and they may feel tense and unsure and notice their stomach turn.

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And it can be helpful for anyone with this authority to ask themselves yes or no questions to see how their gut responds. The next one instinctual authority. This one is someone who is designed to make decisions almost immediately based on their body's intuitive instincts. They can appear as like a whisper, a ping of random voice, a tingle and epiphany, a butterfly, even a taste or a smell.

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When something is a yes for these people, it's like resonant feels like a nervous excitement, a butterfly, and even like a revelation. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I just know I'm meant to do this or I'm not meant to do this when it's a no, it can actually like feel like a lack of safety without explanation and easiness, icky, something just feels wrong.

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And so with this one, it's very important to act quickly because this authority works very spontaneously and very quickly. And it also leaves. Just as quickly with voice authority. This is someone who is designed to use their voice to make decisions because it carries the answers, talking decisions out with trustful confidence and listening to what they speak out loud to themselves, to bring them clarity to a decision is so important.

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It's also about getting advice and more about processing out loud and having a sounding board. So it's crucial that whatever these people decide to do that their decisions feel like authentic and genuine to their energy. And so they may hear that through their voice. A no will sound like. Their voice will sound confused or over rationalizing.

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It can feel inauthentic. And then willpower authority. This is someone who is designed to use their heart and will to guide their decision making process. So their will or heart show up through motivation or a pull or will to do something. Things that are a yes. We'll pull them. They'll feel like their heart is in it.

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They'll be like, I want to do this. They may say that I have, I want, I will. When something's a no, it's going to feel like wanting to procrastinate immediately. A lack of motivation. They'll feel turned off. They may start pondering ways to procrastinate., And then we move to environmental authority. So this is also called mental authority.

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This is someone who is designed to make decisions through processing in different spaces or around other people rather than spontaneously. Timing is really their best friend. So talking things out with different people and feeling a decision in other spaces helps them see what can come up and they can access different parts of themselves.

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Like voice at authority. This one is also really important to use your voice because you may. See how your voice is kind of coming through things and a yes will feel resonant through time while a no will just not and then lunar authority is actually similar to the one we just talked about as well, but these are people that are also designed to make decisions through process versus spontaneously, especially for big decisions.

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It's important for them to give themselves that 28 day full lunar cycle, but why reframe it a lot of times is, like when we were talking about the strategy piece is because sometimes it's like, you know, obviously not every decision is going to be every decision isn't going to allow for 28 days, right?

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Like sometimes we got things that are just happening in the world. So while waiting, people here, it's, these are just reflectors. It's healthy for them to put themselves in different spaces or groups of people to feel into the decision. Talking it out is also helpful and basically how they evolve and move through a decision over a lunar cycle will help clarify what they need to do next.

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So those are all of the authorities. And so you work with that with your strategy. So it's like, okay, so if you, if I'm designed to wait to respond to something, so this is for generators, it's important for you to go, okay, like something just came up in my world. How do I respond to that? Okay. Let me tune into my authority.

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It would either be gut or emotional. And if you are a manifesting generator, it would be the same thing. But then also once you've decided it can be helpful for you to inform people. If you're a projector, same goes, if you have an invitation or someone kind of like invites you in, or, or maybe you're evaluating your relationships and who sees you, it's important for you to go, okay.

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What? Okay, there's an invitation that just came up. I can either accept or deny this and I need to tune into my authority to see if this is like a right thing for me or not. If I feel seen here, you don't have to accept every invitation. Just about like, do you feel recognized truly deeply in this place now?

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Manifesters theirs is to inform people, but before they inform, it's really important for them to go back into their authority because they get these lots of creative ideas. And so it's important for them to go. Is this an idea I want to assess? Okay. Yes or no. Based on what their authority was telling them, if that came through again, their, their emotions, or it came through their spleens, their instincts, or it came through their, So on and so forth.

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It's so important for them to decide. Okay, like this feels like right for me So I'm gonna go after it now. I just need to inform people They actually kind of work in reverse where there's this authority then strategy so is this right for me based on my intuition aka authority and then can I go and Then, let me inform people, whereas everyone else it's like, okay, wait for something and then listen to your authority.

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So then finally for reflectors, there's this, okay, someone is inviting me in or like they're wanting me to be included. And now I'm just going to give myself some time to feel into this, 28 days of it's a long, longer, , if you can give yourself a longer time to. process the decision. And if not, like, just keep feeling into it and planting yourself in different spaces to see if it feels resonant for you or not.

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So that is the cornerstone of human design. When you work with your strategy and authority, it equals your signature theme. So strategy plus authority equals signature theme. Signature theme is basically the sign you're in alignment for generators. It is satisfaction for manifesting generators. It's satisfaction in peace for projectors.

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It's success. For manifestors, it is peace and for reflectors, it is surprise. And every time you're not using your strategy and authority. So working against your energy, maybe using your mind to control your decisions. None of these are mental decisions, right? I mean, I mentioned environmental, which can be called mental, but that's why it's reframed as environmental because it has nothing to do with your mind.

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So that being said, every time you do that, you're going to fall into your not self theme. So strategy plus authority equals signature theme strategy minus authority or authority minus strategy or anything in between or conditioning, which is a big part of human design, which is basically like, where are we feeling energy from other people?

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That's. Not yours. You will feel your not self-esteem. So for generators it's frustration for manifesting generators, it's frustration and anger. For projectors, it is bitterness. For manifestors, it is anger, and for reflectors it's disappointment. Okay? I have a whole episode of dedicated to strategy and authority, by the way, and I basically just gave you guys kind of that in a faster format.

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But now we move into a few other pieces. So there's definition, which is around how you flow and work with other people. So definition will either be subjective. It will be independent, collaborative, synthesizing, or objective. And so these basically just give insight into how your energy is flowing in your chart and how you can work with other people.

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I'm not going to get into all of them, but that's something for you to explore. and then the most. Important other piece is profile. So profile is your personality archetype. Profile is literally like the role that you're meant to play in this lifetime. It can explain your personality traits, behavioral patterns, your life experiences.

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It's made up of two numbers that are actually called lines. And the first number refers to how you see yourself. And the second number refers to how other people see you. See you. So I mentioned I have a one line. I'm a five one. So I have a one in my profile and I have a five in my profile and we're going to go through what each of those lines mean.

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So if you have a one in your profile, you are an investigator, researcher, knowledge seeker. If you have a two in your profile, you are a hermit, introvert, innately a talented person. If you have a line three or just a three in your profile, you are called the martyr. You're an adventure. You're a thrill seeker.

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You love exploring. experience. line four is the opportunist, outgoing networker, super friendly. A line five is the heretic hero, saint, savior, helper, protagonist. And then the line six is the role model wise stage Oracle and mentor. And so each of our profiles are kind of made up of these numbers. So, there's 12 different profile combinations.

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So a 1/3 is the researcher of truth. The 1/4 is the omniscient teacher. The 2/4 is the introverted extrovert. By the way, these are my names that I call them. The 2/5 is a reluctant hero. The 3/5 is the experienced hero. The 3/6 is the philosophical adventure. The 4/1 is the genius friend.

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The 4/6 is the influencer. The 5/1 is the unique savior. The 5/2 is the self motivated hero. The 6/2 is a talented role model. And the 6/3 is the thrill seeking sage. Now each of the profiles, again, will give you insight into your. unique sort of, , just sort of like your, your personality type.

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And so a lot of times like you could be a generator and have a generator in your life and be nothing like them, and so you may, maybe you're more like a projector and that's because maybe you have similar personality types. Now there's no really compatibility of, you know, who's better with who, what relationships flow better.

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That's not a thing in human design. People love to make that a thing, but it's actually just not. Can start to get a little bit deeper now into our charts is then my understanding our centers. So centers are basically the shapes in your chart and they will either be colored in or not colored in, but they represent,energy themes.

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So emotions, willpower, mind, et cetera. And they are how we navigate life in a consistent or inconsistent way. If your chart is. If you have a center that's colored in, that means it's defined and that's consistent in you. And if you have one that's undefined or open, that means that you don't have it consistently in you and understanding our centers is how we can understand, okay, where do we take an energy or conditioning?

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What are our greatest lessons? What do we have that's reliable within us and what informs our decisions? And, , so there's nine different centers. There's the root, the emotional center, the sacral, the spleen, the heart, the identity, the throat. The mind and the head, we're not going to get into each one because I think that we could be here forever, guys.

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Like, I mean, I have a whole course dedicated to this, but what I want this episode to be is that this is the one on one of human design. So to wrap all of this up, the human design one on one starts with, okay, first, what is human design, which we covered. Two, look up your chart and look up your energy type, which we covered.

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Then find your strategy and your authority, which we covered. Then figure out what is your signature and not self name, which we covered. And then also lean into your definition, your profile, and your, centers. Now there's other layers and pieces. So there's a whole layer on channels, which gets into your greatest gifts and then gates, which are gifts that you have, within your chart in different ways.

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Incarnation cross, which speaks to our energetic purpose or life theme. And this is a fun layer to get into if you want to understand like how your energy is just being used through some of your strongest gifts and how that like affects your life. And then there's even deeper layers that get into digestion, environment, our strongest sense, how we see the world, what motivates us and so much more.

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And really what you need to know is that. Again, human design is a self awareness tool. And the most actionable piece for you to work with is your strategy and authority and understanding your energy and just start there. And you'll start to see the magic of all these other things show up. So you'll start to see, a lot of deconditioning, which is basically like things that were meant for you kind of getting out of your way, but in the best way possible.

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And also you're going to start to see, your gifts really shine. So something called channels, which we didn't cover today, but that's. One of the more,fun pieces to dive into and we are in a future episode. So stay tuned for an episode coming later this month to talk about the 36 channels or the strongest gifts that people carry and so much more.

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And also there's this whole layer that gets into what's conscious to you and what's not conscious to you. But this is really just the foundation and what you need to know to understand your types. So now if you're on Instagram and follow my account or several hundreds of other human design reader accounts, you can start to see, okay, like that's, that's me.

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I'm a generator. Oh my gosh, that's me. I'm a, I'm a two, four profile. And that's what she's talking about, or I have a two in my profile. So that's what it means when she says like align this where I have an undefined throat, and that's what that means. So the, these are kind of the foundations of what you need to have within human design.

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Now the last thing that I wanna share is how do you talk about human design to someone who is not familiar with it? How do you explain it? And if, if you haven't already, send this episode to them. But also, I'm gonna give you guys like a little template because I think that that is kind of just important to have.

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So the first thing you wanna do, so step one. When you're explaining human design to someone who hasn't heard of it, is to one, explain that it's a self awareness tool that helps you understand how your energy operates. It provides insight into our unique personality traits, decision making processes, and how we interact with the world around us.

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Then tell them how they can use it. So you can give the example I gave earlier. So think of it as a user manual for yourself. Just like. Any electronic device comes with a manual that explains its functions and how to use it effectively. Human design provides a manual for understanding your own inner workings.

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It helps you discover your strengths, challenges in the most authentic way for you to navigate life and then tell them what to learn. So through human design, you'll learn your energy type, which is like your energetic blueprint and reveals how you're naturally wired to engage with the world, whether as a generator, manifestor.

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Projector reflector or manifesting generator, and then you'll explore your decision making strategy, which guides you on how to make choices that align with your unique energy. For example, some people are designed to wait and respond to opportunities while others are meant to inform and initiate action and then share what else it covers.

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If that feels good. So you can even go, you can share that even goes as deep as to understanding how to find your intuition, what natural gifts you have, your personality traits, where you're prone to taking in energy from other people, your life's purpose, how you best digest food, how you work best, what environments you thrive in and the way your mind operates and so much more, and then tell them why that's useful.

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So by understanding your human design, you can gain clarity on. Life's purpose, how to make decisions that feel right for you, how to honor your energy in a way that leads to fulfillment and authenticity. It's like having a personalized roadmap that helps you navigate through the complexities of life with a greater awareness and alignment.

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And if they're into the more, I hate to say the word woo. I'm trying to get away from that, but if they're into the more like. Ancient scientific ness of the system and I didn't cover this in the beginning, but human design is based on science and, , it's based on science and ancient system. So the Kabbalah tree of life, astrology, quantum physics, genetics,, 64 code on genetic body and basic science.

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And I'm forgetting one, The Chinese yi chang, I think I mentioned that actually, I'm not sure, but so it's based on all of these ancient systems that are intertwined and there's a whole science around how human design came to be, that's been validated through the science around something called neutrinos.

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I have a whole episode dedicated to that. If you want to listen and kind of get your, get your understanding fully. And that way, when you do explain it, you can also add that if you want, but I find that, you know, you don't need to get into those pieces and parts if you don't want to, just explaining how this tool can be useful is where people just.

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That's where that's all they want. People, people want to be the best versions of themselves. They want to be helped. They want to understand how they operate. And so getting into the weeds of everything else can be supportive sometimes, but also some people are just like curious like me, because I'm a one line.

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So I like to know that stuff. So you may find that someone's like, how did this come to be? And all these things. So go listen to that episode. I'll link it in the show notes again down below., but that is a human design one Oh one. If you have any questions or thoughts, I'd love to hear from you. So you can send me a DM.

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You can send me an email. I am in my DMs pretty often and I'm in my email every day. So those are probably the two best places., and I also have a blog and some other things that we're building out and there's episodes on lots of these pieces in more detail too. So check out those. And,, if this felt fun for you to learn more about human design in this format, I'd love for you to leave me a review down below.

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Goodbye.