In this post, we’re going to be talking about the Human Design Type of the Projector, specifically the Projector Strategy, which is to Wait for the Invitation. 

This Strategy often creates a lot of confusion when a Projector first learns about it.

If you’re a Projector, you make up about 18% of the population and your Strategy is very different than that of Generators, which make up about 70% of the population. 

The Strategy of the Generator is to respond using something called the Sacral Response. It is an energetic intelligence that either rises up the front of the body or collapses inward in the lower belly. 

So, as a Projector, you’ll always be around a lot of generators with a consistent energy source from their defined Sacral center. This is energy that never runs out unless they are saying yes to too many things that aren’t correct for them, which will eventually cause burnout.

Notice If You’re Unknowingly Trying To Be A Generator

As a Projector, you don’t have a consistent source of Sacral energy. So depending on where the planets are in the sky, depending on who you’re around, you’re going to have your energy “turning on” and “turning off” at different times. And the worst thing you can do as a Projector is to drink coffee in order to try to keep up with all the Generators.

Yet unfortunately, that’s a very common thing I see Projectors doing because it’s easy to compare yourself to the 70% of the planet you see running around constantly busy. You may think something is wrong with you because you don’t have the same amount of energy all the time. 

Now, this doesn’t mean you’re not designed to accomplish things and to use energy to get things done. It just means that you’re designed to do it in a little bit of a different way. 

Your “Focused and Absorbing” Aura

Your aura is “focused and absorbing” compared to the Generator aura that is a beacon of energy. Generators send out a beacon, letting people know that they have energy to be utilized.

So people will often sense that energy and ask generators to be a part of their project or to be a part of an initiative. 

Projectors, instead of sending out a beacon, are absorbing information in a very focused way. And if you’re living in alignment with your design, if you’re allowing yourself to rest when you need to rest, and not pushing when you don’t have the energy, your aura is naturally going to be absorbing the information around you as it’s designed to.

This means that, when you’re living your design, you’ll see patterns and inefficiencies in people, situations, society before others do. Your aura is designed to do that. And you can be a great guide for others in that way, because you do see things that others can’t see, especially Generators like myself, who are often running around using all of their energy in ways that aren’t the most efficient.

The Not-Self Theme of Bitterness

Now, generators are also very stubborn. I can speak from experience. I need to be ready to hear the guidance, to hear the wisdom that you see before I can actually receive it. This is where waiting for the invitation comes in. If you don’t wait for the invitation, if you try to force something on someone when there isn’t an either explicit invitation from that person or an implicit invitation from the situation, you’re going to be met with resistance. You’re not going to be received, you’re not going to be recognized, and you’re going to end up feeling bitterness.

Bitterness is your Not-Self Theme. It’s a signal you’re not living your design because you don’t feel seen, understood, and appreciated for the natural genius that is yours. And the only thing that keeps you from being recognized is timing. 

Do I Just Sit On The Couch and Do Nothing?!

Now this is one of the things Projectors struggle with most, wondering “Do I just have to sit back on the couch and do nothing?!”

No, not at all. 

Explicit vs. Implicit Invitations.

There are the explicit invitations. This is when it’s important for you to wait for the other person to feel all the wisdom that you’ve been absorbing into your aura and to notice, when they’re ready to finally change, to look at you and think, “wow, that person knows something that will help me.” Or they may just sense it unconsciously. 

If they don’t know Human Design, they’re not going to think, “Wow, that’s a Projector and they know something” but they’re going to feel unconsciously in your aura, all that you’ve been absorbing and that you have something for them.

Then, they will invite you. And in that moment the receptivity is there. So your wisdom and guidance will be received and you’ll feel recognized.

Now, the key piece here though, is that there are also implicit invitations. 

In Relationships

In other words, situations can also  invite. For example, if you’ve been invited into a romantic relationship and said Yes, then in that relationship, there’s an implicit invitation for you to initiate. For you to say, “Oh, do you want to go to dinner tonight?”

You don’t have to just sit back and wait for the other person to invite you to every date. You have an implicit invitation within a relationship you’ve been invited into. That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to share all the things you see your partner could be doing better. That usually does require an explicit invitation. Because, unlike being invited to dinner, the person has to be able to receive and be ready for that kind of insight.

This is often one of the hardest things for Projectors, because it’s the people you love most that you want to support and know how to support, but it won’t be received if you try to force it on them. They have to be ready to receive it. And it can lead to a lot of that bitterness if you try to tell them something when they’re not ready. It can lead to a lot of tension, a lot of fighting in a relationship that is just unnecessary. The practice as a Projector, which is the hardest thing, is to practice being with all the things you see and know without saying it until the right timing is there.

Now, there are a lot of subtleties, right, depending on the gates and channels you have defined in your chart. But for now, we’re just looking at the Waiting for the Invitation Strategy at a high level.

In Work, Career, and Purpose

Now, let’s talk about Waiting for the Invitation in your work, service, and purpose in the world. 

For example, if you’re an entrepreneur, then there might be a confusion around, “How do I actually start a business? How do I market myself if I have to wait until I’m invited?!”

Well, markets can invite you too. They might not specifically be asking you directly, especially if they aren’t even aware you’re providing that service. 

But a collective need can implicitly invite you. And you’ll need to let people know the service you’re offering so that people know to explicitly invite you into conversation about it. 

You need to build your dance floor.

The Dance Floor Analogy

No one can invite you to dance if you’re not out on the dance floor. You don’t need an explicit invitation to share what you’re up to in the world (building your dance floor), especially if there is an implicit invitation by a “market” that is needing the service or information you’re providing.

Share in conversation. Share on social media. Share what you’re creating. What you’re noticing, focusing on, and absorbing. 

Share what you’re doing. What you’re up to. 

In this way, you’re creating the dance floor and stepping onto it so people know what dance to invite you into. Then, you get to use your Inner Authority to decide if you actually want to dance or not. 

I’ve seen this work for Projector friends of mine who are simply sharing with the world what they’re doing and then allowing the invitations to arrive to them. And the invitations come to them in a unique way that they don’t come to me as a Generator. Invitations come to me for my energy when I’m using it to create and generate.

And that’s the brilliance of the Projector type. Neither type is better than the other. It’s about living how you’re designed to live, living with your unique energy in mind, and how energy flows through your system and not fighting against it. It’s about not trying to be someone you’re not. You can have money and intimacy flow to you with so much more ease when you really allow yourself to surrender into waiting for the invitation. 

It’s a practice and being patient and gentle with yourself as you unwind and unravel any ways you were conditioned to be a Generator, to use a lot of energy and drink coffee to keep up with everyone else. 

In this way, there’s a transition period when you’re adjusting to waiting for the invitations as you’re designed to. It’s important to be really gentle with yourself as you’re supporting yourself in living in a whole different way, the way you’re designed to, a way that you may have been conditioned away from when you were very young. 

So as you create this dance floor, you’re allowing for the people to know what to invite you into. This also works as an employee or if you’re looking for a job. You can let people know the kind of job you’re looking for so people know what to invite you into. And you can apply for jobs via job postings, creating the dance floor once again, and waiting for the invitation to an interview. 

So, there are plenty of opportunities to initiate action as a Projector that is in alignment with your design.

That’s the subtlety here. As long as you are trusting your Authority, you will be guided to what dance floors to create and when. You’ll be guided to when to just focus and absorb. And you’ll be guided to which invitations are correct or incorrect for you.

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