There's a Big Difference in Knowing Your Design and Actually Living?It.

So, I was on a call today for a masterclass I am participating in where we were discussing how to create content that aligned with your own design.?

This masterclass, lead by the brilliant Vickie Dickson (another Level 4 Quantum Human Design specialist, and someone that if you don’t know of her work, you really should), and I had some interesting insights drop in that I wanted to take a moment to unpack.?

For starters, I was reminded that even though I teach and leverage Human Design with my clients, that sometimes I get stuck in my own design.?

It’s challenging sometimes to “see the forest for the trees.”

And, while I am pretty intuitive about the nuances in someone else’s chart, I can get a bit blinded when looking at my own, especially in light of the recent life transition I am experiencing.?

You see, I have a 6/2 profile and am moving through the shift from my second phase into my third phase of my Line 6.?

Now, before I share what all has been showing up for me as a result of this transition, let me take a step back and offer some general understanding around what I’m talking about, and about Human Design.?

What Is Human?Design?

Human Design in the mapping of how you are wired and how you operate. It’s an energetic blueprint that shows how you were designed to be in the world, how you use energy, and how you interact with others.?

Essentially, it’s a system or tool to help you understand yourself better, where you can assess how you are here to operate from a place of ease, alignment, and efficiency.?

Each of us has a design unique to us.

Inside the chart, there is a lot of information. In fact, there are over 1,000 points of information that can illuminate insights specific to you.?

Everything from how you work, rest, and play best. To how you interact with the world and others. To how you show up and what energy you bring into spaces versus energy you absorb from others.?

It highlights where you are conditioned, or have taken in imprinting from others, your environments, and the stories you’ve been told.

You can identify how you are design to eat, learn, and communicate. In addition, you can access information on where you are susceptible to imposter syndrome and burnout.?

Everything on how you operate is mapped in your chart.?

Key Aspects of a?Chart

Inside the chart, there are layers to the information that it provides. I am going to address what I call the five foundational pieces here so that I can draw a full analogy on the experience I had this morning.?

For the sake of this article, I am going to keep my definitions brief. I have done many other pieces with a more in-depth of what Human Design is.?

Here are the five foundational aspects I believe everyone should start with when first exploring Human Design, and what we often need to come back to after jumping down too many rabbit holes and exploring all the nuances.

So, again?… for today, let’s keep this simple and high-level:

• Type: there are 5 archetypes that identify the “role” we’re here to play.? - Manifestors: here to initiate - Generators: here to master learning; do the meaningful work? - Manifesting Generators: hybrid of Manifestor + Generator - Projectors: here to guide us to tap into greater potential - Reflectors: here to mirror back the health and wellbeing of humanity
• Strategy: how we make decisions that are right / correct for us - Manifestors: need to inform, then initiate - Generators: need to wait to respond - Manifesting Generators: need to wait to respond, inform, then initiate - Projectors: need to wait to be recognized and for the invitation - Reflectors: need to wait a full lunar cycle or more (lunar authority)
• Authority: use with Strategy to make decisions that are correct for us - Emotional: no power in the now; make decisions over time (wave) - Sacral (Pure): power in the now; guttural sound (“uh huh” or “nah uh” - Splenic: whisper in the now of what feels good; only hits once - Self Projected (No / Mental): need to talk out decisions in safe spaces - Ego: wait for external signs or cues to confirm
• Profile: the personality or “flavor” of who we are in the role we play?—?for this definition, I will discuss the six lines that makes up the profiles.

• Centers: how you use energy depending on openness or definition?—?for this component, understand that there are nine centers from which we either broadcast energy or absorb and amplify energy from others and the planets. The openness in our chart (those centers that are white) are where we tend to be prone to more conditioning and burnout.?

In understanding the basics of these five foundational elements, we can begin to see how we each operate for a unique design.?

When we operate from a place of alignment with these components, we bring greater ease, peace, joy, abundance, and opportunities to us.?

Back to My?Epiphany

Getting back to my experience this morning?… as a 6/2 Emotional Manifesting Generator (see how I brought the core elements together?), I am undergoing one of my major life transitions in my design.

I am shifting from the second phase of my Line 6, where I have been what’s called “on the roof” integrating the lessons from my first phase.?

Now, as my Chiron returned (a major milestone for Line 6 profiles) last year, I am beginning the “descent” to “come off the roof” and drop into the full embodiment of the wisdom I have integrated.

As such, it’s a bit of a wonky time, to be honest. The word used in our discussion this morning was “angst” and I have to say that hit.?

I actually cannot think of a better word to describe the past year, and, particularly the past few months. There has been this feeling of being pulled into two different directions.

With that, there has been much to release, unpack, and allow myself to just sit with. It’s a bit ironic (or not) that this year happens to be a Cycle 9 in numerology with the energy for completions and releasing what no longer serves us. Wow, do I feel this.

In contrast, I personally am in a Cycle 1 which carries the energy of new beginnings. So, there is this turbulent, wobbly dance between knowing what to complete and release in order to create spaciousness for the new.

And, for me, this is extra as my Incarnation Cross (or overall theme and purpose for what I am here to do in my role as a 6/2 Emotional Manifesting Generator) is that of Cycles.?

So, I am in constant dance between knowing what to start and what needs to be brought to completion in everything I do.?

Add to that a layer of the big themes in my chart that are fully being activated as I “come off the roof” and drop into deeper embodiment.?

The themes of detachment (both to outcomes and to how my clients step into their potential), along with that of codependency (allowing myself to honor my sensitivity without carrying people), and control having been kicking my ass as of late.?

For when we undergo major life transitions, regardless of how we are designed, we often find ourselves coming face-to-face with the themes that seem to be on repeat over and over and over again in our life.?

Chiron, known as the wounded healer, amplifies these lessons, especially for a Line 6 when they move from the second phase to their third phase.?

The effect of this for me has been this weird juxtaposition of wanting to show up, do meaningful work, and honor the leadership energy I carry to help others?… and, needing to rest, be still, and allow myself to just be.

A challenge I assure you is not always an easy thing for a Manifesting Generator with a lot of power and energy in their chart (like me).?

So, when I say angst is the word that encapsulates how I have been feeling?… I really cannot think of a better word.

The Aha Moment that Dropped?In

So, as I was engaged in the masterclass this morning, I decided to pose a question at the end when we were given space for some Q&A.?

For one thing I have found, as a I mentioned before, I cannot not always see in my own chart what I can see and interpret in others.?

Again, the forest for the trees?…

When I asked my question, in the specific context of being a 6/2 Emotional Manifesting Generator undergoing this transition and curious how to align how I build content in synergy with what I am experiencing, I was gently remind to come back to my own response.

Meaning, to listen to my defined Sacral and wait for the response to the things that light me and guide me into how I take action.?

My energy is either fully on or it’s not. I don’t have an in-between state.

When I listen to my Sacral, and wait to make big decisions over time (waiting out at least one full emotional wave), I then am guiding to know when the timing is right to take inspired, aligned action.

This translate into how I best create and share content.

When the timing is right, all my “switches” go off (I have a lot of format and power energy in my chart) and I am all in, getting four months worth of work done in a few hours.?

When my switches are “off”?… it’s like trying to climb uphill with a 70-lb. pack on my back through quicksand. Nothing happens and I end up wildly frustrated and irritated. It’s doesn’t work to try and push through, either.

As I sat with that realization to come back to my Strategy and Authority (which is always the first answer when you feel stuck or confused), I had a flash or aha that also hit me:

There is a big difference in knowing your chart and actually living it.?

And, even for those of us who study this system, share our experiences and contemplations with others, and read other people’s charts, we can forget to drop in and live by our design.

It requires presence and intention as we have been conditioned to make decisions from our minds, using logic and reasoning from a place of analytical thinking, when we actually need to be making decisions from what intuitively guides through our designed response.

Most of the things that are truly right or correct for us will not be logical.

When we find that we are shoulding and shaming all over ourselves to do things the ways others are doing them, especially the mainstream, we often take ourselves out of alignment, as a result.?

My Strategy and Authority is my guide to creating greater alignment in how I make decisions, in magnetizing my superpowers to draw the right people and opportunities to me, and even in creating my content.?

Add to that, my Profile and the superpowers of my defined Centers, and I am able to create magic in the messaging and content I create.?

It becomes a natural source of attraction for me.

Sometimes, I need to be reminded of that myself.?

I am curious, what has been your experience in learning what your design is, and then actually integrating that wisdom and living from your design?

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