Your Human Design chart has a lot of incredible information in it. Yet, when you look at it for the first time, it can be challenging to interpret. And I want you to know how to holistically interpret your chart. 

Your Human Design chart is the map to how energy moves through your body. It’s an instruction manual for your body. 

In your chart, you’ll discover how you’re uniquely designed to make decisions. You’ll remember how to trust yourself again, creating distance from the confusion of the mind and all the inner voices and critics you’ve picked up along your journey. You’ll connect back to a knowing deep in your bones and be guided to exactly how to connect back to that knowing.

Each body is uniquely designed for a specific purpose, just like each car is designed for a specific purpose. If your body is a luxury sedan designed for paved roads but you’re driving it off-road like it’s a Jeep, this is going to cause unnecessary stress and challenge for you. 

Once you know how to interpret your map and operate YOUR vehicle, you’ll be driving on the roads you’re designed to drive on, carpooling with the people you’re designed to carpool with, and driving to the opportunities you’re designed to drive to. 

And then, everything becomes easier. 

When you first look at your chart, it will look something like this:

This is my chart. (You can generate your own chart with a 19-Page report here). I recommend you do that so you can look at your chart and follow along as you go through this blog post. 

Each of the 9 shapes are called centers. These are significant energy centers in your body and each has a particular role to play in how you move through the world. This is similar to how each part of a car (engine, transmission, breaks, shocks, etc.) plays its own part in how your car operates. 

AND all the parts work together in sync to move the car through the world. The same is true for how the centers move your body through the world. 

Here’s an excerpt from the19-page report that explains the centers:

So, in my chart, you can see that I have SIX Defined Centers and THREE Open Centers:

How many defined centers do you have?

How many open centers do you have?

If you haven’t already, take a moment to generate your chart now and note those 2 numbers down. 

The Open Centers I have are the Solar Plexus, the Ego, and the Head centers. The open centers are places where you can become a great guide for others since you don’t have one consistent way of operating in these areas of life. You can sample many ways and learn what works and what doesn’t. In my chart: 

• Solar Plexus; without a consistent energy flow to and from my Solar Plexus, I can experience my emotions as unpredictable. This isn’t a problem or something to fix. It’s just something for me to be aware of. I may avoid conflict or sharing uncomfortable Truths in order to avoid emotional conflict. And I also will feel and amplify others’ emotions through my open center. So it’s important for me to choose the right moments to share and to not compare myself to others or judge my emotional unpredictability. This unpredictability allows me to feel a wide range of emotional experiences and learn how to navigate them powerfully, making me a great guide in these areas. 

• Ego: without consistent energy flow to and from the Ego Center, I can experience money and the material world as unpredictable. If I’m not careful, I may judge myself and think I’m not “good” at navigating money and the material world. I may try hard to prove myself and try to force things with willpower. Instead, I can allow many different ways of making money in my life and I can learn from them and become a great guide

• Head: without consistent energy flow to and from the Head Center, I can get lost in other people’s thoughts or inspiration. I may feel a lot of pressure to figure things out. Instead, I can allow myself to be in the unknown and let my own inspiration emerge from it. 

What themes do you see in the areas of life of your Open Centers? Where are you comparing yourself to others because of inconsistency that you may think is a problem, when it’s really a gift?

The centers I have defined are the Root, Sacral, Spleen, G, Throat, and Ajna. 

If you examine your chart, you’ll see that all of your defined centers are connected to another center through a defined channel. These colored-in channels define the energy flow between those 2 centers, creating consistent ways of operating that you can count on in those areas of life.

There are 36 channels in your chart, some defined (colored-in) and some not (partially colored-in or completely white). These channels govern the flow of energy between your centers. If a channel is defined, that means there is one consistent way that energy flows between those two centers.

In my chart:

You can see I have 6 defined channels connecting my:

1. Root Center (drive / motivation) to my Splenic Center (intuition / health)
   • • Interpretation: I have a consistent drive and intuition that will operate in predictable ways I can count on through channel 38-28. It also means that I’ll instinctually be able to know where to direct my drive and motivation if I learn to listen and trust this consistent energy. And it’s important I have a healthy outlet for my drive. 

2. Sacral Center (life force / energy) to my Splenic Center (intuition / health)

• • Interpretation: I have a consistent amount of energy I can always count on. And, through channel 27-50, I’ll have an instinctual ability to know how to use that energy, with whom, and in what ways. 

3. Sacral Center (life force / energy) to my G Center (identity / direction)

• • Interpretation: Through 34-10, I’ll have a consistent ability to sense my direction in life and if I direct my energy in that direction, life will align to me more and more. 

4. G Center (identity / direction) to my Throat Center (expression / manifestation)

• • Interpretation: Through 10-20, my identity is very tied to my expression. It’s important I express myself in the present moment without overthinking from a place of truly loving who I am. This allows me to express in full power. 

5. Sacral Center (life force / energy) to my Throat Center (expression / manifestation)

• • Interpretation: Through 34-20, my Sacral energy is connected directly to my expression and manifestation. This means it’s important for me to allow my energy to guide my action, expression, and manifestation, trusting where my energy guides me to go and not go.

6. Throat Center (expression / manifestation) to my Ajna Center (conceptualization)

• • Interpretation: Connecting my mind to my expression, 43-23 is a channel of expressing insights I get at the correct moments.

What channels are defined in your chart? What centers are they connecting and what can you interpret about that? And how do you see this consistent energy show up in your life? Where are you blocking it from flowing?

Now, it’s important to note that each channel has specific properties and understanding the way your unique combination of channels works together is where you’ll deeply be able to start living your design. That level of detail requires a reading, where we’ll also explore the conditioning of open centers and much more. If you’re interested, you can book a 2-hour reading here with this discount code to get 15% off: HD333. 

In the meantime, starting to understand the pieces of your chart through this post and your free report is a great first step to living as you’re designed to live.

On the next page of your report, you’ll see your Chart Properties:

Now, one of the first things you’re going to want to look for is your Type. 

My type is a Manifesting Generator but it could be one of 5 types:

• Manifesting Generator (about 36% of population)
• Generator (about 36% of population)
• Projector (about 18% of population)
• Manifestor (about 8% of population)
• Reflector (about 2% of population)

If you’re a generator or a manifesting generator, that means you have the sacral center defined: 

This means you have a consistent flow of energy that you can count on and wake up with every morning. You’re designed to follow your Strategy: To Respond. That means you’re designed to follow the wisdom of this life force energy as it guides you to the opportunities that are correct for you and away from the opportunities that are incorrect. 

If you’re too busy following what your mind thinks you should be doing, then you’ll not be able to hear what your Sacral is trying to tell you. The Sacral Response is a subtle, energetic experience that either feels like energy jumping up your body towards an experience or contracting in. this expansion or contraction originates around 3 fingers below your belly button. You can read all about the Sacral Response in this post. 

If you’re a Manifestor, you won’t have the Sacral Center defined but you will have one of the other 3 motor centers defined and connected to your Throat:

The Ego Center is the motor of willpower. The Solar Plexus is the motor of emotions. The Root is the motor of drive. Each motivates behavior in a different way. And when connected to the throat, they motivate behavior in a very direct way, leading to the possibility for fast manifestation. 

It’s important that Manifestors follow their Strategy: To Inform. They are the only Type that is designed to initiate action. Generators are here to respond based on their life force. Projectors to wait for the invitation. And Reflectors to wait a full lunar cycle. 

But Manifestors kick things off. And, if you’re a manifestor, you likely have lots of big, creative, visionary ideas. It’s important you inform people about what you’re planning to do before initiating action. This isn’t because you need permission. It’s because you don’t always know the great impact you’ll have on those around you and how your actions will affect them. By informing them ahead of time, you remove resistance AND potentially get them enrolled in your mission. 

Even though you do have consistent Motor energy through one of the 3 other motor centers, just know that without a defined Sacral Center, you still need to allow yourself to rest when you realize the energy isn’t there. Manifestors often act in spurts. And if you try to force action when it isn’t there, you’ll end up efforting much more than needed.

If you’re a Projector, you also won’t have the Sacral Center defined. And you won’t have a Motor Center connected directly to the throat. So, this means, you’re here to observe and witness the world. You’re here to be a student of life force and to see how people use it effectively and ineffectively. Your chart may look something like this: 

This makes you a great and important guide for Generators. However, generators are very protective over their life force and being told how to use it. That’s why your Strategy is to Wait for the Invitation. If a Generator isn’t ready to receive your insights, you’ll end up feeling Bitter and not recognized. 

This doesn’t mean to sit back on the couch and not take any action. This means to let people know what you’re up to and then to wait for invitations. THEN, to decide which action to take based on your Authority, which we will get to in another post. 

While the Generator’s aura is like a Beacon, pulsing and welcoming others to use it for their projects (or at least to request its use), the aura of a Projector is focused and absorbing, naturally taking in the world around you and gaining insight and wisdom. And if you’re living your design, people will feel this and will naturally invite you to use your gifts and talents with them or to share your genius. 

However, if you’re comparing yourself to all the Generators around you and drinking coffee to stay as busy as them, you’ll exhaust yourself and you won’t be absorbing the world and the people in it in the way they’ll naturally feel it and be drawn to invite you. 

If you’re a Reflector, all of your centers will be Open (white), meaning you are here to reflect the entire world in a way, represented by whoever you’re with. It’s important you put yourself in the right environments where you can give yourself at least a month to make major decisions. You have a much bigger vantage point than most people. You can learn more about your design when you download your free report below. 

We’ll be going into Authority in more detail in another post BUT you can find out about your Authority right now and how to effectively utilize it by downloading your Free Report below as well. 

The goal of this post was to help you more deeply understand what you’re looking at when you look at your chart and help you understand the underlying mechanics of how energy flows through your body, leading you to be a particular Type with a particular Aura. So, instead of trying to memorize your Type, you can begin to understand YOUR unique energy flow.

I hope you found it helpful. Please download your report to dive more deeply into  your unique design, including your Authority and Profile. I created it because I saw a hole in the market where there really wasn’t a simple explanation of a chart that you could take and apply to your life immediately, unless you paid for it. And that’s what this report does. It gives you actionable information that you can use immediately to start changing your life and living your design. 

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