There are some things that feel really important to me when learning about Human Design. There are some ways that people talk about Human Design that make me cringe and think "oh no! please don't say that to people". And some other things I've learned that I want to scream from the mountaintops! This is a list of most of those things.
1. Human Design does not account for lived experience. Lived experience creates wisdom, it can be really healthy and empowering and it can be deeply harmful and traumatic. There are a lot of elements of human design that can speak to some struggles, but what we do and have done with those struggles is up to us.
2. It is not a labeling system, we get to make choices about what feels true for us and sometimes that changes.
3. No shoulds. You may read a lot of human design info that includes words like ”should”. I do my best to phrase things like “generators most likely” “projectors might” “manifestors may not”, etc. I don’t believe in absolutes and it is one of the ways I want to empower people with human design. Why no shoulds? Refer back to number 1.
4. My goal with using human design as a tool is to empower you to feel and be the most authentic version of yourself. It is not meant to shame you or make you feel bad or wrong for the choices you make.
5. The goal is to tap in to what feels true for you, to experiment or test if needed, take what works and set aside what doesn’t, knowing that at some later point you may feel the truth in something that previously felt like it didn’t fit. And vice versa.
6. We are ever-changing dynamic beings.
7. The human design system is like a blueprint with an electrical schematic - it discusses mechanics of energy. It does not provide all the answers and can’t explain everything you experience. We are complicated beings in a complicated environment.
8. Conundrums are everywhere! Most charts contain a lot of seemingly contradictory info, some more than others. This can be one of the reasons that some elements discussed in a broad way may not ring true.
9. Human Design is not an excuse, a justification or reason for being unkind, selfish, mean-spirited, cruel or otherwise “bad” behavior. Or vice versa, taking something you’ve read about your human design and trying to force yourself to be any certain way that doesn’t feel aligned for you in that moment. It can help guide you to an aligned and authentic place and you get to make choices, how you act and how you communicate your needs.
10. Energy is often felt and cannot be easily translated into words. But we try. It is how we have all agreed to communicate. As you learn more about human design, and begin to feel the energies described, the words as specified by anyone mean less than the energy that is felt.
11. I personally do not feel any difference between the conscious (right side of the chart) or unconscious gates (left side of the chart), in terms of them feeling "unconscious" many people do and like to distinguish.
12. The construction of the system of Human Design was “downloaded” by a human, a flawed human and in some ways, in my opinion, a not very evolved human. Some people seem to treat his words and teaching as gospel. I do not. In fact, many things I’ve read or heard him say I completely disagree with. One of my wise yoga teachers said it's “The teachings, not the teacher”. The wisdom can be truly gained by one’s own interpretation and experience, not through the specific words, but by the essence of the teaching. There are people that dislike human design because of some of the aspects they've read or learned about him.
To me, the system is a combination of ancient teachings that are beyond any single person. It is not about words that are believed but about energy felt and experience that continues to confirm what I read and hear.
