Human Design knowledge base
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What is Human DesignHuman Design is a self-knowledge system that builds a diagram — the bodygraph — from your date, time and place of birth. It describes how you make decisions, spend your energy and relate to others, and invites you to test all of it against your own experience.How to read a bodygraph: a step-by-step guideA bodygraph can feel overwhelming, but it reads best in a set order: type and strategy first, then authority, profile and definition, and only then individual channels and gates.Why an exact birth time mattersMost of a chart stays the same throughout a day, but some parts change within hours or even minutes. An error of an hour or two can change lines and the profile, and sometimes even type and authority.How many types are there in Human Design: four or fiveRa Uru Hu described four types: Manifestor, Generator, Projector and Reflector. The Manifesting Generator was a kind of Generator. Today most schools and calculators show it separately — which is why sources give both four and five types.
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Basics4 articlesWhere to start: what Human Design is, how to read a bodygraph, why the birth time matters and how many types there really are.Open →Types and strategies5 articlesThe five types, their strategies, Not-self signals and Signatures.Open →Type compatibility15 articlesHow different types get on together: the strength of each of the fifteen pairs (all five types, Manifesting Generators included), what can be hard and how to live together.Open →Authorities19 articlesYour inner compass for making decisions.Open →Profiles and lines72 articlesSix lines and twelve profiles — the role you play in life.Open →Centers12 articlesThe nine centers of the bodygraph: defined and undefined.Open →Definition6 articlesHow the defined centers connect: single, split, triple and quadruple split definition, and bridging.Open →Channels36 articlesThirty-six channels that connect the centers.Open →Circuits7 articlesThe pathways energy flows through the channels: the Integration Channel and the Individual, Collective and Tribal circuit groups.Open →Gates64 articlesSixty-four gates — the energies that make up a chart.Open →Gate lines384 articles384 lines: how each gate shows up on six levels, from foundation to role model.Open →Incarnation Crosses132 articlesThe life theme in a chart: 192 crosses, three angles and the four quarters of the wheel.Open →Variables32 articlesThe four arrows around the head of the bodygraph: Determination, Environment, Perspective and Motivation.Open →Lunar Nodes4 articlesThe North and South Nodes: the scene of your life, its two halves and the cycles of the nodes in transit.Open →Transits4 articlesThe current position of the planets — the “weather” that switches on gates and channels for everyone each day.Open →Sidereal bodygraph1 articleThe same chart in the zodiac of the fixed stars: how it differs from the classic one and how to read it.Open →