How do I find my Purpose in my Human Design Chart?” is one of the MOST common questions I get about Human Design. In order to answer it, there’s a key distinction that needs to be made.  And that distinction is how you’re defining purpose.

If you’re defining purpose as what you’re here to do, you will definitely not find that in your human design chart. 

If you’re defining purpose as who you’re here to be…. now we’re talking.

Because purpose is NOT what you’re here to DO. 

In fact, I invite you to explore the possibility that you’re not here to do anything in particular. 

When you’re BEING how you’re designed to BE in the world, your DOING will happen THROUGH you…. with more ease and less resistance. The resistance comes from trying to force and figure out your doing with your mind, which fills up the space that your Purpose would emerge into.

Let’s look to nature to better understand this. Specifically, let’s use birds as an example

Birds are BEING birds. They’re not THINKING about flying before they fly. They’re not trying to figure out and plan their route ahead of time. They’re not forcing themselves to fly. 

They’re simply being a bird.  

And flying happens through them.

Because they are birds. That’s what a bird naturally does. That’s what happens through a bird. 

When a bird is birding, flying is what happens. 

So the question I ask myself is, being an Orion, when I’m Orion-ing, what happens through me?

I no longer look for answers. I look for questions. 

I no longer try to find my purpose. I live how I’m designed to live. And I look for it. 

I watch and see what happens THROUGH me as I follow my Strategy and Authority more and more. 

So that’s a question I invite you to ask yourself: When you’re really BEING YOU, when you’re YOU-ing, when you’re you’re being exactly how you’re designed to be in the world, what happens through you?

And don’t try to answer it! Let it be unanswered. 

Let it be the question that guides your day. This will help you shift from trying to find and figure out and force your purpose… to focus on following the wisdom of YOUR BODY (Type, Strategy, Authority, Profile, etc) … and removing resistance that’s in the way of doing that. 

That’s your purpose: to BE YOU.

And THAT is all over your Human Design chart. Because purpose isn’t something you can find in a book or figure out through your mind. It’s not going to be in a course. You’re not going to learn it in a seminar.

You’re not going to learn it from me. 

And you’re NOT going to learn it from Human Design. 

Let Human Design support you in trusting the wisdom of your Body once again to guide you to the people and opportunities that will allow YOU to be YOU and your purpose to emerge naturally. Let yourself be surprised and delighted by what happens THROUGH you. By the impact that emerges through you in collaboration with the others your Strategy and Authority guides you too. 

Let it be easy by doing the harder work of building the capacity of your nervous system to live at the edge of your comfort zone. 

By helping the parts of your mind that are trying to protect you FROM your Purpose, from the unknown, from being you – to relax. Because you were taught by society that it’s not safe to be YOU, to trust yourself, to follow the impulse of your body. Help those parts of you feel safe to trust yourself once again, gently and patiently, taking small steps that your Strategy and Authority guide you to. 

Instead of the big leaps your mind wants to orchestrate with complex plans in a desperate attempt to create something known, help it remember that following the wisdom of your Body into the unknown is safe. Your purpose can’t emerge through your mind’s plans because those plans take up all the space it would emerge into.

So, move through life, from one thing to the next, being guided by the wisdom of your body. 

That’s your purpose. That’s who you’re here to be. 

You’re here to be someone who listens to and follows the wisdom of their body. 

And your Human Design chart gives you the map to how to DRIVE your body around the world in the most efficient way SO that you can be the VEHICLE for your purpose to happen through you. 

So, just one more time, because it’s such a key distinction and the mind usually struggles with it (at least I know my mind does!): Your purpose isn’t something you do. It’s something that happens through you.

Notice any part of you that is trying to figure out what you’re here to do. The mind wants to know. The mind wants to figure it out. The mind wants to have everything planned out. 

But that’s not how purpose works.

Purpose emerges as you’re following your body signals because your body is an antenna. The nervous system is an antenna that is plugged into a higher frequency information field, a higher frequency consciousness field, the subatomic consciousness field. It’s an information field that we’re all swimming in. It’s an ocean of information. 

And your antenna is naturally tuned to the signal of your unique part to play. Human Design is about helping you listen to it. 

The question to ask is: Are your plans suppressing your capacity to listen to your body and follow it?

Or are they supporting you when you’re following the wisdom of your body? 

My Journey from Suppressing to Supporting my Body’s Wisdom with my Mind

For many years, I used my plans and my logic to stay safe and ignore the impulses and the Truth of my heart and my Sacral that wanted to guide me to where I was really designed to go.  It felt too scary and unknown. 

When I started following those impulses of my heart and my Sacral, I was able to use the brilliance of my mind and my logic to help me navigate all the challenges in the unknown path (instead of using the brilliance of my mind to AVOID the path). 

So are you using your mind to pave a new path along the road that your heart is guiding you on? Or are you using your mind to continue to construct walls around your comfort zone that you don’t let yourself leave?

Your Incarnation Cross

Now, there is one aspect of your chart I want to mention, which is the Incarnation Cross. It is your job description in the Human Design system. But again, it’s not something you’re here to do, it’s something you’re here to notice happening through you and in your world as you follow your Strategy and Authority more and more and more. 

And if you haven’t downloaded your FREE Personalized Human Design report yet, you can do that below to find out more about your Type, Strategy, Authority, and Profile… which you can follow to allow YOUR Purpose to emerge through YOU. 

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Orion

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