Many of us are on a constant mission to figure out more about ourselves and how we can and should show up in this world. The Human Design System by Alan Krakower allows us to see ourselves in ways that no other system or theory does.
In 1992 Alan Robert Krakower published The Human Design System after an out of body experience. A vision led him to create The Human Design chart is a combination of I’Ching, the Western Zodiac, Sephirot of the Kabbalah, Chakras and hexagrams.
This chart or figure is a calculation of birthday, time, and location. The Jovian Archive refers to it as, “a blueprint for how you operate and interact with the world.” We can easily access our charts through websites like myBodyGraph.
These charts break down who we are to the core of our essential strategy, into type and authority. There are four types: manifestors, generators, projectors, and reflectors. The authorities are: Solar plexus, sacral, splenic, ego and self.
Each type correlates to how we exchange and play off of the energies around us. These types are associated with our strategy in life. Manifestors are here to inform. Generators are meant to wait to respond. Projectors wait for the invitation and reflectors are meant to bounce off others while remaining aligned.
Not only is our strategy or type a major player in how we show up in this world but what center our authority lays in can have a huge impact on who we are. There are nine centers throughout this chart: head, ajna, throat, g, heart/ ego, sacral, root, spleen and solar plexus.
We typically have one major authority, which aids in making decisions, almost comparable to intuition. These centers are either opened or defined. An open center will remain white in the visual, these are areas that are susceptible to conditioning from your external world if we don’t follow the strategy. The defined areas will be colored, these centers remain consistent.
Thirty-six channels and 64 gates connect all of our centers. This network is the foundation of our energy flow and behavior. Two main colors are used in the visual, black being the conscious and red is the unconscious. The ways our channels vary in color can tell us not only what we know, but how we act.
The centers and channels create the inner workings of the chart. The zodiac wheel layers around although, it is used differently. The outer and final ring displays sixty-four hexagrams of I’Ching. The hexagrams correlate to energies and the 64 codons of our DNA. On each side of the entire graph is two columns. The right represents our personality and conscious areas within our chart. The left shows our design and unconscious.
All of these hubs throughout the chart allow us to view ourselves in a way that separates mind, body, and spirit. These charts are a point of view that shows us what we think, how we got to that thought and what we do about it. The Human Design system is another way to break down who we are and how we can best interact with the energies around us. Figuring out what strategy and authority we possess can all in all aid us in the journey of knowing who we are, how and why.