I believe that one of the best things we can do for our own personal growth is to understand who we truly are. Over the years, I’ve dabbled in learning more about Myers Briggs, Enneagrams, and even, astrology in the hopes that it will give me additional insight into who I am. I’ve found them all helpful, but truthfully, more fun than useful. However, I’ve recently been learning about Human Design, and it’s been surprisingly revelatory.
What is Human Design?
According to Human Design expert, Jenna Zoe, human design is a new science and art that explains who you came here to be, what you came here to do and what your highest potential looks like. It’s a map to help you get to where you always felt like you wanted to go explained in a very grounded way. It’s equal parts scientific and measurable, and yet esoteric and spiritual. It brings together principles of The I Ching, astrology, Kabbalah, Hindu-Brahmin chakra system, and quantum physics.
Jenna has an app called MyHumanDesign where like in astrology, you enter in your birth date, time, and location to get your chart. When looking at your chart, especially for the first time, it’s helpful to focus on the two main important things: your energy type and your authority.
Your Energy Type
Your energy type is the starting point of Human Design. It’s an overview of who you are, how you exert energy and exchange it with the world around you. According to Human Design, we were all built to function differently, with different skills and different ways our energy works. When we align with that, rather than do things the way the world tells us we need to do things, we create success and happiness with more ease. It’s also more enjoyable because it’s the way our souls actually crave doing life. Your energy type tells you how you’re built to operate.
There are five energy types and each one has different way of bringing in more opportunities and flow into your life.
The Manifestor (The Fire Starter)
Manifestors are wild, strong, playful creatures born with a strong sense of who they are. Manifestors are initiators and easily get the ball rolling when they live in alignment and can be freely themselves.
The Manifesting Generator (The Multi-Hyphenate)
Manifesting Generators are multi-passionate people. Everything that sparks a passion inside them is trying to get them to follow it and if they do, it leads them right to everything they desire. Their gift to the world is to break out of the boxes we live our lives in and expand our perspective on what’s possible.
The Generator (The Life Force)
A generator’s purpose is to create good energy in the world. Being lit up is their highest calling because when they’re happy and excited, it inspires, fuels, and lifts everyone else around them.
The Projector (The Seer)
A projector has a way of seeings in a way that others can’t. They are here to improve and make things more efficient in a way that only they can do. They have the ability to gain perspective and total clarity and their purpose is to use that to improve and refine the way others do things.
The Reflector (The Shape Shifter)
Reflectors are the most rare type of energy with only 1% of the population being one. Known as the truth tellers, they mirror the energy they see back to the people they’re with.
Your Authority
The second most important thing in Human Design is authority, which explains how you make decisions. I was surprised that to learn that “trust your gut,” for example, doesn’t work for everyone and instead, it’s important to look at what your Authority says about you. The seven types of Authority fall under two categories: inner and outer.
An inner authority is connected to how your body has an innate knowing and wisdom. These authority types are called The Emotional Solar Plexus, Sacral, Spleen, Ego and Self-Projected.
The outer authorities are environmental and lunar. Environmental authority means you gain clarity from your environment and having others as soundings boards. Lunar authority is influenced by the transits and cycles of the moon. Jessica Lock from Whole and Unleashed has a great breakdown of authority types over on her blog, if you’d like to learn more.
Understanding Human Design Can Help you Live in Alignment
Once I downloaded Jenna’s My Human Design app, it felt like a door opening for me. My chart reveals that my energy type is Generator, my authority is Sacral and I rely on my gut intuition. When I am excited about something, I have a full body reaction to it, and that is the Universe’s way of letting me know I am on the right path. Similarly, when I am not excited about something, I have an adverse reaction to it. Reading this may sound simple, but when I read through my chart on the app, it was extra reassurance to trust myself. There were a few deeper things I learned as well that have given me permission to lean into the things that I feel called to do, instead of listening to the outside world on what I should do. As someone doing a complete career overhaul in the last few months, this extra knowledge has been a gentle guide that’s reassured me along the way. Understanding my own chart has helped me live in a way that feels genuinely right and aligned to my own purpose. It’s been an exhilarating and freeing experience.
download your chart
Curious to know what your Human Design says about you? Check out Jenna Zoe’s website to get your personalized chart and download her very in-depth and thorough app to learn more.
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