What is Human Design?
The user manual for your life.
You know how toys and games come with instructions?
Human Design gives you an instruction manual for how your energy, decisions, and gifts work best. So life feels easier. And more you.
Imagine you're a high-tech machine powered by a unique kind of energy. That energy drives how you move, decide, connect, and contribute. Everyone’s built a little differently—but we’re all part of the same system, working together.
Human Design is based on your birthday, time, and place. Kind of like astrology, but deeper and more specific. Let me break it down and guide you.
This tool is good for:
How to use your energy to avoid burnout
Knowing how your energy works can help you stay far away from burnout.How to tune into your unique intuition
We all have intuition—it just speaks in different languages. Maybe it whispers as a sensation, a subtle knowing, a gut feeling, or an inner voice.How to communicate authentically
Understanding your communication style can help you speak in a way that’s magnetic—so people feel you, hear you, and connect more. It can lead to more engagement, sales, and joy in how you create.What is your soul’s purpose?
Craft a vision that builds on your natural strengths. You have superpowers. Human Design helps you name them. You just have to color in the lines.
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Energy Types
There are 5 energy types. Each one works differently—kind of like how some video game characters have unique powers.
Your energy type powers your “hardware.” Some people act like engines towards action. Some are sparks to light the engine with insight. Some are tracks to guide the journey. Some are maps to remind us where we are.
When you understand how your energy runs, you can build habits, systems, and teams that help you use it efficiently—without burnout or constant doubt. This is how you get into flow. It starts with following your strategy.
The 5 Energy Types:
Generators (37% of people) – The Engines
You’ve got a strong motor that loves to do. When something lights you up, you’ve got endless energy to build, create, and help. You’re the steady power behind a lot of what gets done—but only when it feels right to you.
Manifestors (9%) – The Sparks
You start things. You’re the initial jolt of energy that gets others moving. You don’t need permission—you’re here to spark ideas, take bold action, and lead the way.
Manifesting Generators (33%) – The Spark + Engine Combo
You move fast, jump around, and make things happen. You like to skip steps, follow your curiosity, and course-correct in real time. That’s not chaos—that’s brilliance.
Projectors (20%) – The Tracks
You’re a guide. You see the big picture and know how others can use their energy better. You’re not here to hustle—you’re here to direct the flow.
Reflectors (1%) – The Maps
You’re a living mirror. You reflect the health of your environment and the people in it. You change depending on who you’re around. You’re rare and magical—like a compass for the collective.
When we understand how our energy works—and how others’ energy works—we stop trying to be like everyone else. We start being more us. And that’s what makes the whole system work better.
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Now on to how to use your energy well!
Strategy
So, how do you use your energy well? You follow your strategy. Each energy type has a different one, and it helps make life smoother.
Your strategy is how you’re designed to interact with the world. It’s how you’re meant to play the game of life.
Generators: Respond to what shows up.
Manifestors: Inform others before you act.
Manifesting Generators: Respond, but fast and in your own way.
Projectors: Wait to be invited or recognized before sharing your insight.
Reflectors: Wait a full moon cycle (28 days) for big decisions.
It’s kind of like knowing when to press start on the game—not too early, not too late. Following your Strategy creates flow and ease in your life. Not following your strategy may lead to feelings of anger, frustration, bitterness, disappointment.
By looking how our own energy runs we can best build systems, habits, teams that help use our energy more efficiently. Without burning out or second-guessing. When we are in a state of flow. We end up having a more consistent resource of energy. We do this by following our strategy.
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Authority
This is how you make the best decisions for you.
Everyone has a different kind of internal compass, your authority. It’s your instinct. Your inner yes or no.
Listening to your intuition means tuning into your specific inner guidance system. Trusting your intuition gives you the authority, empowering you to follow your path. Even if it goes against conventional wisdom or societal norms. Your intuition knows what’s right for you and leads you to decisions that resonate with your true nature.
Try going through your day noticing where in your body you feel your intuition. Identify what the conditions are when your intuition is louder.
The 7 Types of Intuitive Signals:
Emotional: Feel everything. Ride your emotional wave before deciding. Wait until you’re calm and clear—not at a high or a low.
Sacral: Listen for gut sounds or body responses: “uh-huh” = yes, “uh-uh” = no. You feel it viscerally when something lights you up.
Splenic: Instant knowing. A quiet voice or body sensation tells you what’s right immediately. Trust your first instinct.
Heart (Ego): Your desires matter. If your heart is pulling you, follow it—even if others don’t get it.
Self-Projected: You talk things out—not for advice, but to hear yourself. Clarity comes through your voice.
Sounding Board (Mental): Your environment matters. You need to talk it out with the right people in the right spaces to hear your truth.
Lunar: You move in cycles. Wait a full 28 days before making big decisions. Your clarity comes through time and rhythm.
Profile is your Role
Your profile is like your role in the story. Think of it like your character in a game—it shapes how you learn, grow, and interact with the world.
It’s made of two numbers (like 4/6 or 1/3). One is how you see yourself. The other is how the world sees you.
It’s your outfit and your mission on the team.
1 – The Investigator
“I need to read the manual before I press play.”
You crave deep knowledge and safety through learning.
2 – The Hermit
“Leave me alone, I’m mastering something new.”
You’re naturally gifted and need solo time to recharge.
3 – The Experimenter
“Oops, that didn’t work—let’s try again.”
You learn through trial and error, and your wisdom comes from what didn’t work.
4 – The Networker
“My people are my power.”
Your connections open doors. You thrive through community and trust.
5 – The Heretic
You’re seen as a fixer, a solver, a teacher. Others project expectations onto you, and you need space to be yourself.
6 – The Role Model
You grow in phases: first by trying, then observing, and eventually teaching. You get wiser with time.
The Visuals of Human Design
There are 9 Centers (similar to chakras). These are your body’s control panels.
Centers are like the main control panels in your body. They each handle something important, like your thoughts, feelings, voice, or energy. Some of your centers are always on (defined), and some are open to the world around you (undefined).
Defined Centers (filled in): Consistent energy and expression in that area.
ex: A defined Throat Center = steady voice and clear expression.
Undefined Centers (empty): You take in energy from others and reflect it back—like a solar panel. Undefined centers can be superpowers, but also areas where you’re more vulnerable to outside influence.
ex: An undefined Throat Center = chameleon voice, changes based on who’s around. Can be magical for speaking to many types of people. Often we can sell from our open centers because we reflect outward.
Gates are our Teachers
Gates are your natural talents and life lessons. Think of them like your soul’s curriculum.
Some gates are gifts you’ve already mastered. Others are areas you’re learning through.
Your soul insists on what your ego resists.
A gate might show up as a superpower you’re here to share.
Or as a challenge that, once understood, becomes part of your purpose.
Even empty gates can teach you discernment, how to sense what's yours vs what's someone else’s.
Channels
Channels are the lines that connect the gates. They move energy from one center to another.
Think of them like wiring. If a channel is defined, it means you have a consistent theme or skill—like storytelling, pattern-seeing, or creativity.
These are your energetic highways. They make you you.
Channels are like the wires that connect different parts of your machine, giving you unique talents or ways of thinking. When two energy centers are connected by a channel, it means you have that gift or skill all the time.
Each channel gives you an activated theme—like being great at storytelling, seeing patterns others don’t, or helping people feel seen. Think of channels as the superhighways of energy that run between your chakras. When both gates on either side are defined, they form a complete circuit—a consistent energetic talent or way of being.
For example if you have a channel connecting your head and your throat? You’re probably great at turning ideas into words. Or a connector between your heart and spleen? You might stand up for what’s right, even when it’s risky.
If only one side (gate) is defined, it’s like having half a plug. You may feel a pull toward completing it, often through connection with others who carry the other half. That’s where relationships can feel powerful—we complete each other’s circuits.
Definition
Definition is like your internal wiring system. It shows which parts of your brain-body system are always connected and “online.”
Some people have strong Wi-Fi in just one area (Single Definition), others have to send a signal across different zones that work at their own pace (Split Definition), and some have to connect with others to fully light up.
Definition is how your system talks to itself.
Simple Breakdown:
Single Definition: All my parts talk to each other fast—like one strong Wi-Fi signal.
Split Definition: I’ve got two routers, and they need help connecting sometimes.
Triple/Quad Split: I’ve got more rooms with their own routers. People help me sync it all together.
Incarnation Cross is your Soul’s Purpose
Your unique theme in life. Envisioning your Soul's Purpose is a recipe of your top 4 gifts, the big WHY behind your existence. It’s not like a job title. It’s more like an energetic theme in your life that naturally expresses when you're living your truth. If you look back at your past, you might see some of the same patterns or themes occurring. These are the themes your life is here to embody and express, both consciously and unconsciously. I like to think of it as your unique soulful flavor that you add to everything.
When you follow your design, your path unfolds effortlessly. It feels like you aren’t chasing your purpose; you actually become it.
Soul Purpose = Your 4 Most Powerful Gifts
GIFT 1: Your Greatest Gift
This is the brightest spotlight in your chart — what you’re here to radiate and express most naturally. You probably already know this about yourself. When you live in alignment with this energy, life flows, and people are drawn to you for this exact flavor of magic.GIFT 2: What Grounds You on Your Journey
The bottom right gate will speak to what will ground you and what you’re meant to receive as you pursue your purpose.GIFT 3: Your Embodied Genius
It’s the root system for your shine. When you nurture this, it supports your growth and helps you stay steady and nourished in your purpose.GIFT 4: Your Foundation & Ancestral Memory
This one operates under the surface — it’s the energy that naturally pours through you without needing to think about it. People often recognize it before you do. It’s tied to your body, lineage, and how your purpose lives through your instincts and reactions.
Human Design as a Life Manual
Human Design doesn’t put you in a box—it shows you the shape of the box you were already in… and gives you the tools to decorate it, move with it, and maybe even punch a few holes in it so your light shines through.
It’s not about changing who you are. It’s about remembering how you work best. So instead of trying to hustle your way into someone else’s path, you can trust your own pace, your own process, and your own brilliance.
With Human Design, you can:
Make decisions that feel good in your body
Save your energy for things that truly matter to you
Understand how you best collaborate with others
Craft a life that’s deeply aligned with who you really are
TLDR;
You were born with a user manual. Human Design helps you read it. Telling you:
What kind of energy you run on (Type)
How to move through life smoothly (Strategy)
How to make aligned choices (Authority)
What your role is in the world (Profile)
What gifts you carry (Gates + Channels)
How you’re uniquely wired to feel, think, and express (Centers)
Start with your Type, Strategy, and Authority. Once you practice those, the rest starts clicking into place like puzzle pieces.
And if you’re ever unsure? Just come back to this: You’re not here to be like everyone else. You’re here to be deeply, unapologetically you.
Curious for to know more about you. Book a Session, a 1:1 analysis, to learn how to integrate this knowledge into action. Uncover your soul’s purpose, tune into your unique intuition, and speak authentically.
Human Design bring together many esoteric systems and analysis of humanity into 1 unifying blueprint. Combining Astrology, Kabbalah, Numerology, I'Ching, Myers-Briggs, Chakras, and Quantum Physics.
The Human Design System
- Ra Uru Hu 1992