Bhan Tug Human Design PDF

Table of Contents
Introduction to Human Design

What is Human Design?
Ra Uru Hu – the first Student
The Design of Humans
The Consciousness Crystals and the Monopole
The Human Design Graph
The Mandala Wheel
The Flow of Information in Human Design
Conception and Death
The Crystal Bundles and the Incarnation Process
Human Conception
Death and the Bardo Stages
The Nine Energy Centres
Definition
Single Definition (41% of population)
Split Definition (45%)
Double-Split Definition (12%)
Triple-Split Definition (1%)
The Four Motors
Physical Attributes
Interaction Type
The Lines and Roles
The six Lines
The 1/3 Role
The 1/4 Role
The 2/4 Role
The 2/5 Role
The 3/5 Role
The 3/6 Role
The 4/6 Role
The 4/1 Role
The 5/1 Role
The 5/2 Role
The 6/2 Role
The 6/3 Role
Below the Line
Base Orientation
Colour & Tone
Tone
Colour
Colour Transference & Distraction
Digestive, Body & Brain System Overview
The Nodes of the Moon
The Linknodes
The Personality Nodes
The Nodes are the glue
The Design Primenode
The Design (North) Linknode
The Personality Primenode
The Personality (South) Linknode
Colour Resonance
Lunar & Planetary (Magic) Square
Linknodes
Personality Resonance
Mars
Venus
The Diamond rules the seven-centred being
Uranus (sidetrack)
Neptune (misinformation)
Design Resonance
The Circuits
Collective Circuit
Collective Logical Circuit
Collective Abstract Circuit
Communal Circuit
Communal Willpower Circuit
Communal Defence Circuit
Individualistic Circuit Group
Individualistic Knowing Circuit
Individualistic Centring Circuit
Self-survival Channels
The Channels
63–4 Logic / A design of mental ease mixed with doubt
17–62 Acceptance / A design of an organisational being
31–7 The Alpha / A design of leadership, for good or bad
15–5 Rhythm / A design of being in the flow
9–52 Concentration / A design of determination
18–58 Judgement / A design of insatiability
16–48 The Wavelength / A design of talent
64–47 Abstraction / A design of mental activity and clarity
11–56 Curiosity / A design of a searcher
35–36 Transitoriness / A design of being a “Jack of all trades”
30–41 Recognition / A design of focused energy (feelings)
42–53 Maturation / A design of balanced development (cyclic)
46–29 Discovery / A design of succeeding where others fail
33–13 The Prodigal / A design of a witness
61–24 Awareness / A design of a thinker
43–23 Structuring / A design of individuality
8–1 Inspiration / A design of a creative role model
2–14 The Beat / A design of being keeper of the keys
3–60 Mutation / A design of energy that fluctuates and initiates
28–38 Struggle / A design of stubbornness
55–39 Emoting / A design of moodiness
20–57 The Brain Wave / A design of penetrating awareness
12–22 Openness / A design of a social being
10–34 Exploration / A design of following one’s convictions
25–51 Initiation / A design of needing to be first
32–54 Transformation / A design of being driven (ambition)
26–44 Surrender / A design of a transmitter
40–37 Community / A design of being a part seeking a whole
49–19 Synthesis / A design of sensitivity
21–45 Money / A design of the materialist
59–6 Mating / A design focused on reproduction
27–50 Preservation / A design of custodianship
20–10 Awakening / A design of commitment to higher principles
20–34 Charisma / A design where thoughts must become deeds
34–57 Power / A design of an archetype
10–57 Perfected Form / A design for survival
The Sun, Planets, Moon, Nodes and what they tell us
The Cross of Life
The Sun
The Earth
The Moon
Mercury
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
The Gates of the Rave I-Ching
The Design of Sleep
The Architecture of Life
The Inanimate
The Cell
Plant
Insect
Bird, Reptile, Fish
Mammal
About the author
Steve Rhodes
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Bhan Tugh: The Key to Happiness, Health & Relationships
The Prophecy of Ra Uru Hu

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The amazing thing about water drops is

that they always take the path of least resistance
For humans it’s the exact opposite

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Introduction to Human Design

What is Human Design?
H
uman Design is a science that had its beginnings in 1987 when a Canadian had a mystical encounter
where he received information about the design of all living forms on Earth and a way to read the
evolutionary Program. The essence of the message was that the human body began a dramatic
mutation in 1781 that will be complete in 2027. There is a new form of (Rave) intelligence emerging
in our bodies that is vastly different from the one we know. Our bodies and lives function differently
than those born before 1781. The previous form had been around for more than 100,000 years and is
what is widely known as Homo sapiens. It was a form that was guided by strategic thought (to
conquer our fear for survival), which in turn created the world of winners and losers that we
inherited.
The new bodies after 1781 are called Uranian bodies and their purpose and way of life is no
longer the same. We are no longer here to just fight and worry about our survival, letting our lives and
thoughts be ruled by this. Now, it’s also about experiencing life and evolving our established
civilisations.
Our bodies house a dual consciousness. One is called Design and the other Personality. Personality is
the one you associate closer with, because it’s responsible for mind and your thinking. Yet, many of us
are not aware that there is another intelligence present, responsible for the physical body and its
material life. While Human Design brings together some of the fundamental laws about how the new
Uranian body operates, it’s Bhan Tugh that opens the door for a new way of life, offering an
understanding of what this all means in daily life. It’s about freeing yourself from the clutches of the
era of Homo Sapiens. We are no longer that. Their outdated principles don’t work for us. It’s like
teaching a coffee machine to fly. It can’t. In this book we won’t talk about Bhan Tugh, but focus on the
basic laws of Human Design. I recommend you have the Bhan Tugh book as well, and ideally read it
first. The focus of this book is how to read a Human Design Graph and provide answers to where
some of the things in Bhan Tugh originated from. It’s an extension, and therefore you won’t be able to
make sense of this book without Bhan Tugh.
Ra Uru Hu – the first Student
T
he basic laws of Human Design had first been given in the form of a revelation to a Canadian named
Robert Alan Krakower, who started to call himself Ra after he disappeared in 1983. He left behind
his old life, work and family, who eventually declared him dead. In Canada, he had owned a media
company that produced some of the first rock ‘n roll videos as well as television commercials and
fashion programs.
After his disappearance, he ended up on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza where – after years of
living wild with no money – he had a life-changing encounter in January 1987 with what he called the
Voice.
For eight nights and days, the Voice taught him the design of all forms, even new forms that will
emerge in the future. From inanimate objects to humans to – what one day will be – the almost eternal
form of the Eron. In essence, he had been given the entire history of our universe from its very
beginning to approximately the next two billion years, which according to the Voice, will be the birth
of it into something we do not know.
The universe is an unborn living entity, the Voice told him. In these eight days, Ra did not sleep, eat
or drink, while his dog Barley Barker was lying under his desk, not breathing. Although Ra referred
to whatever it was that had taught him as “the Voice”, he said that the event was both acoustic and
visual. It was also the most painful and frightening experience in his life. It was the Voice that gave
Ra the title, Uru Hu.
It was clear that there were many things he was not told about, and he could often tell that there had
been difficulty in getting certain concepts down to his level.
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The Design of Humans

The Consciousness Crystals and the Monopole
All humans possess a Design Crystal, a Personality Crystal and a Magnetic Monopole.
T
he two Consciousness Crystals are tiny in size. They are slightly bigger than a neutrino, which is an
incredibly small particle to begin with. We call them “Crystals” in order to understand their
characteristics and principles.
They are not really Crystals. But it helps to understand the shattering, the filtering and the Fractal
aspects. They are what science understands as dark matter, and it’s through them that we filter
information, that we filter consciousness out of the neutrino ocean. Every Crystal is unique in shape
and, therefore, must filter information in a unique way. Through that filtering, it actually produces
more information. It’s a two-way process. We receive information and we also send out information
that has been altered by going through our Crystals. This is how the consciousness program that
governs the universe writes itself. It’s a never-ending cycle. So, when people think that there’s this
great intelligence at work and that there must have been some superior mind, it’s not true. We are it
and it is us. And it’s evolving. We are the co-creators of the consciousness-field. We do it all the
time, and for 14 billion years now, even when we sleep.
At the time of our conception, the Design Crystal began to build our body in our mother’s womb until
88 degrees to the Sun (in astrological terms) before the time of our birth, which is the equivalent of
approximately three months. At this time, the form was ready to accept the second Crystal, the
Personality Crystal, us.
The Personality Crystal is what some might call our “soul”, the eternal part of us that incarnates over
and over again in form. It is what you “think” is you.
When a Personality Crystal is out of form (not incarnated), it resides within the Earth’s atmosphere
anywhere from half a centimetre above ground to the end of the physical atmosphere of this planet.
Personality Crystals reside in bundles when out of form. There are many Crystal bundles around the
Earth, and some of these bundles are so massive in size in terms of Crystal numbers that it’s not even
possible to imagine such a number. What’s interesting to know is that most of these Crystals never
incarnate in form. We, the ones who do incarnate into human form, are only a small minority of these
Personality Crystals. Kind of specialists.
So when we look at the human incarnation process, first we have the Design Crystal that builds our
body for approximately two-thirds of the human pregnancy before the neocortex is developed enough
and ready to accept the Personality Crystal. The Personality is something that the ancient Eastern
teachings used to call the witnesser. This arrival of the Personality is where the illusion starts. This
is where your life starts. It’s also when the form becomes conscious.
Homo sapiens, which existed for over 100,000 years, was the first species that was conscious of its
own existence, the first being that actually had a mind. There was no one there to be conscious of the
illusion, of existence, of the universe, before that. Not even Neanderthals. The mind allows you to see
existence relative to yourself, but we tend to abuse it to control our lives out of fear for survival,
which is not what it is intended to be used for, at least not for the Uranian body.
Finally, we have the Magnetic Monopole, which is here to attract people and situations for us
throughout our life. It is the “driver”. It sits in the G-Centre, which is one of nine Energy Centres that
a human form possesses. It holds us together in the illusion of our separateness. It holds together the
two Crystals, and arrived with the Design Crystal at conception.
Initially, the Monopole was embedded into the Design Crystal. They both came from the single
Design Crystal bundle that resides inside the Earth near its core. It’s the Monopole that structures
existence and holds together the illusion of what we think is us and our body. It holds together our
Personality and Design Crystals in the illusion of being separate from everything else. It’s the vanity
of humans making them think they are in control of their lives, that they are the driver. They are not.
It’s an illusion. We are here for the ride.
Our Design Crystal – when it’s incarnated and in form – sits in the Ajna Centre. The Personality
Crystal sits in the Head Centre, slightly outside the body, which explains why the triangle in the
Graph that represents the Head-Centre pierces through the shape of the human body.
The Human Design Graph
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body with nine Energy Centres is called Uranian body. On the other hand, the human (Saturnian) body,
which existed until 1781, had seven Energy Centres. From 2027 onwards, we will see the emergence
of a species (parallel to ours) that will have a Uranian body, like we do, but is no longer human at all.
This will be the “true” Rave. That’s the actual purpose of us: to give birth to the Rave. We are not
Rave. We are humans inside a Rave-like body. You could say we have almost a Rave body with a
different internal wiring. A “human” wiring.
Evolution came up with a very clever solution to make the emergence of the next species possible.
It created a form that can house two species. The nine-centred Uranian body can house humans and
Raves. Eventually, after tens of thousands of years, it will evolve into a form with 11 Energy Centres,
and humans will disappear, like Neanderthals did. This process will be cut short though, because life
on Earth will probably end in approximately 1,300 years. You can read about this in The Prophecy of
Ra Uru Hu. But we are already at the threshold that marks the end of humans. We have already been
robbed of the true human body and have to come to terms with living inside something that is not for
us. We have to learn to adapt to the world of Raves.
First, you have to go to bhantugh.com to create a Graph. All you need is a precise date and time of
birth to do this.
The Graph is the result of two calculations, based around two specific points in time. The calculation
on the right is for the Personality Crystal and is based on your actual birth time. The calculation to the
left is about the Design Crystal and derived from the time when the Sun was 88° earlier in the zodiac
(approximately 3 months before). At these two different points in time, we look at the positions of 13
objects. They are: the Sun, the Earth, the Moon, the North and South nodes and eight other planets.
In the two columns, you can see where the objects were in the Mandala wheel at these two
moments. The Mandala Wheel represents a zodiac divided into 64 Hexagrams, beginning with Gate
17, 3.875° into Aries. Although it looks like the Hexagrams align at four points in the wheel with the
star signs, they are slightly off by 0.125°. The Hexagrams are assigned to 64 Gates in the Graph. If
you have a full Channel (both Gates active = both activated in the Mandala Wheel), it means the
Energy Centres on both ends of that Channel will be active, too.
The number after the dot, after the Gate number, is called Line. Lines give every Gate an additional
flavour. It’s a more subtle way of looking at the Gates. If you look at the Mandala Wheel, you see that
every Hexagram is subdivided into six Lines. The Sun needs approximately 365 days to make a full
circle around the Wheel, Pluto 248 years.
Luckily we have computers and clever software to make all these complicated calculations for us.
The positions of the planets and objects we need come from data that NASA has made available. It
gives us the position of all the 13 objects in the zodiac we need for a certain point in Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC). UTC is similar to GMT. The only reason you have to input your birth location
at bhantugh.com is to find out the UTC when you were born. Your country might have had daylight
savings time or not back then. We also need to know the time difference to UTC, so the software
searches the history of all time zone records and rules. The actual location of your birth doesn’t
matter. We only need it to find out the UTC at your place at that time, because we only know the
position of the planets in UTC from NASA.
The positions of the 13 “objects” (although the nodes are not a physical object, but only a position in
the sky) determine the energetic “wiring” of your body for the duration of your life, as it never
changes. They are responsible for the psychological and genetic imprint in the physical body.
The Design Crystal and Personality Crystal have two different tasks in life. The Design is responsible
for the physical body, its health and material wellbeing. The Personality is responsible for mind and
communication. Both work together to fulfil your life purpose, which is not a choice you make, but
rather the result of being alive. In order to understand your life, and that it’s not the result of choices,
you have to understand what neutrinos are and what their purpose is. The Prophecy of Ra Uru Hu
(Story of the Consciousness Crystals) has some interesting concepts to help with this, but we will talk
a bit about them in one of the next chapters.
The Mandala Wheel
T
he ancient Chinese philosopher Shao Yung already used the circular arrangement of the 64
Hexagrams, and the Kabbalist Marguerite de Surany had the them allocated to the zodiac, but
probably not in the same way as Ra Uru Hu.
The zodiac represents the plane (ecliptic) on which all planets move around the Sun, seen from
Earth. When you look at the planets, Sun and Moon, they seem to move around the ecliptic, with the
Sun taking a full year to return to the same position. The zodiac is divided into 12 star signs (each
30°), which represent the “backdrop” in the sky and is the star constellation that can be seen behind a
planet at a certain time, as seen from Earth. The zodiac begins at 0° Aries. The planets, moon and the
Sun move counterclockwise around the zodiac, the nodes of the Moon in the opposite direction
(clockwise). Since we watch the position of the objects in our Solar System relative to Earth (which
itself rotates around the Sun), they can appear to move backwards at certain times, which is called
retrograde movement (except for the Sun, which always moves forward). When an object is moving
retrograde, it passes a point in the zodiac at least three times. For cycle charts in Human Design (for
example Chiron/Saturn/nodal return) we use the first time it hits that point in the Wheel.
The Mandala Wheel is divided into 64 Hexagrams. Every Hexagram is assigned a specific
position in the zodiac. You then calculate the positions of the planets both at the time of your birth
(Personality) and the time when the Sun was 88° earlier (Design). You then insert all the objects at
their correct position in the Mandala Wheel. Now, you can see what Hexagrams (Gates) are active in
your Graph.
One Gate alone doesn’t do much. It’s a mere possibility for a full Channel. Only when we have
both sides (Gates) of a Channel defined, we get an active Channel. The moment you have an active
Channel, you also have a defined Energy Centre on both ends of the Channel, you have a supply of
energy.
Every Channel has a certain characteristic, determined by the quality of the Gates and Lines. This
is very fixed way of expression in your design that is available throughout your life. But it’s not up to
you and your mind to use them at will. This is not how things actually work. Decisions are an illusion.
At least in the way that we think they work. Decisions are made before we notice them (at the Tone
and Colour level). What we notice is when the Monopole puts a decision into action with the help of
Channels. Channels are the tools the Monopole has available to get something done after it picks up
the Colour information when neutrinos exit the Crystals.
What’s important to understand is that you not only have the Channels of your design available, but
also additional Channels that the daily transit field and the auric connection with other people bring.
You look where the 13 objects are at the moment (which Gates) and add them to your Graph. This is
actually what’s available to the Monopole in the moment. It’s what you have to be prepared for how a
person could react if the Monopole wants. If someone has a self-survival Channel in their birth
design, you always have to be ready that such a person can act very selfishly when their survival is
threatened. But not just that. They have a possibility to put themselves first without any guilt if
necessary. If somebody has only Channels from the Community Circuit, it means they have to look for
an agreement with the community and need its support in order to get a result. They also take
promises and the concept of “one hand washes the other” quite seriously.
How your mind and body works is actually the flow of information, or the result of action and
reaction.
The Flow of Information in Human Design
I
t all begins with a neutrino going through a Consciousness Crystal. What are neutrinos? The are
incredibly tiny particles that have mass and travel almost at the speed of light. They go through
everything: planets, humans, even a wall of lead, several light years thick (if such a thing would
exist). But because neutrinos have mass, they also exchange information with the object they go
through. Their oscillation changes.
Neutrinos get produced in stars and it’s our Sun that provides us with 70% of the neutrinos on
Earth. About 65 billion solar neutrinos per second pass through every square centimetre
perpendicular to the direction of the Sun. Neutrinos are carriers of information. They carry
information throughout the universe. They connect everything. They don’t connect everything
randomly, but there is a special order – or you might call it hierarchy – in which information must
flow in the universe. This is the how all the Crystals communicate with each other. They constantly
receive and send information with the help of neutrinos going through them. We also call this
hierarchy Fractal lines and it has to do with how the two Crystals out of which the universe came into
existence (the Bhan and the Tugh) shattered. If you were able to put all the pieces back together
before the shattering at the Big Bang, you would see lines of fracture. And it’s along these lines, that
information flows. Everything in life happens along these fracture lines, that we also call Fractal
Lines in Human Design.
Philosophically speaking, you could call the neutrinos the ocean of consciousness in the universe.
But neutrinos and the information they carry is only half of the story. The Crystals act like a decoder.
It’s not just decoding though. It’s more like adding unique information to the neutrino when it goes
through, It’s why we call them Consciousness Crystals. They are actually the creators of the
consciousness program. The stars only produce the medium to carry consciousness.
Every Crystal in the universe is unique in its shattering and quality. No two crystals filter a
neutrino in the same way. The actual information your Magnetic Monopole receives, which you could
call the blueprint of life, comes out of two components: the neutrino and your Crystals. These Crystals
interpret the neutrino in a very specific way. They will also only listen to the correct information that
is meant for them – information that has been going through other Crystals before. The Crystals that
were close to ours before the shattering at the Big Bang are the important ones. The closer they were
to us, the more important their message is for us. The most important people that you will meet in your
life, no matter if they are people giving you something or people that you pass things on to, are the
ones carrying Crystals that were close to you before the shattering – people who are on your Fractal
Line.
When you look at the illustrations with the two Crystals, you can see that a Crystal has five sides.
These five sides represent in Human Design what we call Bases. This is where everything begins.
When you look at your Sun/Earth in your design, you will notice that your Design and Personality
Crystals have a certain Base. It’s the number 1-5 in the square boxes next to the Sun/Earth symbols. It
means your Crystal is a specialist and will only listen to one kind of information that comes along. It’s
like tuning into a certain radio frequency. The Base never changes for a Crystal as long as it exists,
which can be as long as the universe exists. So it’s the Base that determines which kind of information
is let into the Crystal, or you could say: the Crystal listens only to neutrinos coming in from one side.
Once the neutrino is inside the Crystal, we enter the realm of Tone. Tone in Human Design
represents awareness. It’s about looking at things on the outside with a “running commentary” from
the Awareness Centre that Tone is pointing to. It’s through Tone that things on the outside get evaluated
first, so Colour can then later use the information to determine the direction accordingly to fulfil the
evolutionary plan.
In a Graph, we see nine Centres. All nine of them are Energy Centres, which means they can
supply Channels with a certain kind of Energy so they can become active and do something. This
mechanism is about putting things out into the world. It’s about acting.
Only three of these Centres have awareness. We call them Awareness Centres. They are the
Instinct, Ajna and Emotional Centres. They represent three different ways of evaluating “outside”
information, and when you look at the Tone in your Sun/Earth and nodes, you know which Awareness
Centre your body is paying attention to for it to make a decision. But Tone is not concerned about
direction. It’s just collecting the information and giving it a first evaluation.
When the neutrino exits the Crystal, it emits a frequency we call Colour. This is the result of a
decision. So how did the body actually make a decision? The neutrino enters the correct Base, and the
Tone gives feedback about outside events. Finally, when the neutrino exits the Crystal we get to the
result of the decision process.
This process is very different from the illusion of the decision-making process that the mind
knows. Mind thinks a decision is picking one out of many options. This is never the case in reality.
There is only action and reaction. It’s a sequence of events and in the end you have a result. It’s like
processing data with a computer. At one point you will have a result. This is Colour.
But making a decision and putting it into action are two different things and the outcome is not always
what was intended. This phenomenon is called Colour Transference in Human Design. It means that
somewhere in between the Colour emitted from the Crystal and what the Monopole is picking up, a
“interference” can take place. Colour can transfer three Colours up or down. Which means Colour 1
would transfer into a 4, and Colour 6 into a 3, to give an example. You can also look at Colour like an
orientation, kind of like pointing out the way for the Monopole, which will use the Channels to get
going into a certain direction. So if Colour Transference takes place you will not get the “correct”
place in your life. All your Channels that you have active will then be used to chase the “wrong”
things. Colour Transference is a blind spot in your design. It’s something you assume is perfect for
you, yet it isn’t at all.
In a nutshell, you could say that Colour from the Personality Sun/Earth holds the key for a person’s
happiness. It’s the reason “why” they are doing things. It’s their underlying motivation for everything,
but it’s also an orientation.
The Lines in the Sun/Earth tell you “what” a person is here to do, what kind of job they have in this
life.
And finally the Channels and their Circuits will tell you “how” they are going to do it, in what
way.
Of course, then we have various other things that are important. But they are secondary to the three
things above. For example, “Type” will tell us in what way we are supposed to interact with other
people. It’s an additional quality to the Lines in the Roles. It makes a difference if the same job
description of the Roles is used in combination with a Supporter or an Initiator. The Colour of the
Design nodes will tell you in what kind of environment you are most likely to succeed, because this is
a part to help fulfil your purpose. The Colour of your Design Sun/Earth tells you how your body
wants to eat, how it wants to take in information and a lot about the physical qualities of the body
itself. Channels and Type are really just very small aspects of a very complex set of data that we get
from Human Design. But you have to approach all of this with a great deal of humility. No matter how
much we think we know, it will never be enough to let our mind and its limited understanding of
Human Design govern our lives. You don’t need to understand life in order to live it. On the contrary.
You can waste life-times trying to understand and failing to live it. Mind is just a component of the
whole experience. It’s very much overrated today in terms of providing you with useful information in
order to make any meaningful, sound and safe decisions for you. It can’t really protect you and it can
be a great burden if you don’t free yourself from outdated concepts that were imposed on you from
small on - concepts you think are now part of your nature, but have nothing to do with truth. At least
not with your truth.
We are all different, even on a genetic level. Therefore, nobody really knows what works for you.
As long as you trust other people to make your decisions, you won’t be able to find your true place
and calling in life. Human Design gives you an insight into the mechanics of the human body and life.
Bhan Tugh offers a helping hand to free you from concepts that keep you enslaved to a false idea of
truth and a false idea of who you are.
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Conception and Death

The Crystal Bundles and the Incarnation Process
T
he Design Crystals that we humans, all other forms and all cells carry come from one single bundle
residing in the centre of the Earth, near its core.
On the other hand, the Personality Crystals form a sheath around the Earth’s atmosphere where they
reside when not in form. The Personality Crystals form many bundles, not just one. For example, there
is the Christ bundle, the Buddha bundle, and so on. In the beginning, there were only 16 bundles,
according to the 16 Faces, but now there is an enormous number of them. You have to imagine a layer
of Crystals that encircles the whole Earth. These bundles move through the atmosphere and can also
move through rooms. All neutrinos have to go through these Consciousness Crystals first before they
reach life on Earth. If you could look at Earth from a great distance and you could see these Crystals,
you would not see the Earth. All you would see is that the Earth is literally encased in – what appears
to be – a Crystal sphere. You would see one big Crystal.
The information that Ra received in his encounter came from the Design Crystal bundle that, as we
already heard, usually resides in the centre of the Earth. He experienced it in the limitation of what it
is to be human. His human form invented the Voice. There is no way to explain some things other than
in ways we can handle them. We describe things in the way we can, and we identify them in the best
way in which we can, whatever they really might be. You can call a bundle a ghost, a demon, a spirit
or an angel, but in reality it’s part of the consciousness field of the totality.
Human Conception
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t your conception, a Design Crystal was called from the bundle at the Earth’s core and started to build
your vehicle. At the moment of orgasm, the sperm carrying the Design Crystal, guided by its
embedded Magnetic Monopole, finds and enters the egg in your mother’s Sacral Centre via the
Channel of Reproduction (59–6). Fertilisation will take place depending on whether this Channel is
defined during the following 72 hour period. That can happen either through the right person stepping
into the mother’s Aura or by the transit of planets – unless she has the whole Channel in her own
design. Most people probably get pregnant when they go down to the supermarket or café without
knowing.
When your body was ready to receive the Personality Crystal – which was three months before
your birth, when the neocortex was enough developed – the Magnetic Monopole called it into the
vehicle, offered it a seat and it left a particular Personality Crystal bundle in the Earth’s atmosphere.
It will return to the same bundle after death and the completed Bardo stages.
Your Personality Crystal has been doing this over and over again, hundreds and hundreds of times,
experiencing the different levels of form development. This path of experimentation, the suffering of
humanity, and all the pain of going in and out and not remembering, going in and out, and again not
remembering, all that, is to serve a greater purpose of the potential of a form that truly can house
consciousness. It is a consciousness that we ourselves are not even capable of glimpsing.
Death and the Bardo Stages
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hen you are dying, the Design Crystal moves from your Ajna Centre down through the centre Channels
into your G-Centre. There, it re-unites with the Magnetic Monopole and together they then exit your
body – down via the centre Channels through your Sacral, and finally out through the Root Centre.
This is the moment of your physical death.
Your Personality Crystal still sits on top of your body in the Head Centre when that happens. It is
not yet released. There are still small pockets of oxygen in your brain that allow you to have self-
reflected consciousness. The corpse still serves the Personality Crystal in order to complete its
process. There is still activity in the brain.
Every human is supposed to go through three Bardo stages (trinary) after the moment of physical
death, to fully complete its incarnation. This process takes up to 72 hours after which the Personality
Crystal finally gets picked up from its Personality Crystal bundle.
For this reason, it’s important to leave the body undisturbed for at least 72 hours. That means: no
burial, no cremation, no removal of organs, not putting it under ground and no autopsy. Death does not
liberate the Personality Crystal from the body. Don’t put the body under the ground before 72 hours
have passed! Personality Crystals can’t penetrate the Earth.
While the Crystal is waiting to get picked up, it has to go through three different Bardo stages.
If the Bardo stages can’t be completed, the Crystal will most likely not return to the original
bundle and will end up as part of “rogue” bundles, moving around the Earth’s surface and unable to
make it back to the 16 original bundles. The Crystal will then “hang around” and will never be able to
incarnate as human again. That is why today we have so many more than the initial 16 bundles from
where we incarnated from. There are all these new rogue bundles of Crystals that couldn’t make it
back to their original bundles.
It explains why the 16 Faces, the gods, are losing their powers. They act as kind of a Centre for these
16 original bundles, but now they are overwhelmingly outnumbered by the mutative bundles that have
formed over particularly the last 500 years because of the population explosion. There are an
enormous number of Personality Crystals that have been depleted from the original 16. The gods have
lost their power. If you look at all the religions on Earth, the only ones that have managed to survive
are the ones oriented on the Centre, monotheism. They are no longer paying attention to the 16 Faces,
who have lost so much power and which ultimately will lead us to the closing of a door. The quality
of information we receive is retarding. It’s the ending of the Cycle of the Cross of Planning. In 2006,
we have entered an age where innovation is going to die. In a sense, Sirius is bringing this, and Sirius
is gone as we know. It’s like a temple that’s built on four pillars. You can knock out one pillar and for
a certain amount of time that temple will try to find its balance, but at some point it will just collapse.
You want to know what the demons, the aliens, the ghosts and the angels really are? They are those
rogue Crystals bundles of ‘stuck’ Crystals. They are the ones that couldn’t make it back to the original
16.
The six Bardo Stages
1 Time
2 Surrender
3 Chaos
4 Passage
5 Reunion
6 Vision
1–3 is a personal experience; 4–6 is transpersonal. Most people only remember the transpersonal
when brought back from death. The tunnel, the light, or meeting Uncle Harry.
Decarnation is a sequential trinary process. The sequence is determined by the geometry of the Moon
at death through resonance.
The potential Bardo Trinaries
Time/Surrender/Chaos
Surrender/Chaos/Passage
Chaos/Passage/Reunion
Passage/Reunion/Vision
Reunion/Vision/Time
Vision/Time/Surrender
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The Nine Energy Centres

Since 1781, humans possess nine Energy Centres
Head Centre (Inspiration)

Ajna Centre (Thinking)
Throat Centre (Manifestation)
G Centre (Love and Identity)
Willpower Centre (Motor)
Sacral Centre (Life-force – Motor)
Solar Plex (Emotions – Motor)
Splenic Centre (Instinct)
Root Centre (Pressure – Motor)
Definition
A
Centre is a source of energy, similar to a power plant. If a Centre is filled in a Graph, it means energy
is always available throughout your whole life. The truth is, it doesn’t really matter if someone has
lots of defined Centres or none at all. Transits and other people will always define the Centres you
need. It just changes the method about how to get to a result. If you don’t have the energy to complete
a certain job, you need other people to help you. Initiators and Independent Workers, for example,
always have enough energy available to do certain things without any outside help (they have a Motor
going to the throat). But when I say that having less defined Centres is no disadvantage, we have a
different story when it comes to the psychology of your mind! It doesn’t agree. Your mind can only do
one thing very well and that is to compare. When something isn’t reliable and not always available, it
thinks there is a problem and wants to fix it. Or it might compare you to somebody else, noticing that
you lack willpower or maybe the capacity to solve a logical problem.
We call this phenomenon “conditioning of the open Centres” in Human Design. Your mind thinks it’s
better to have defined Centres than open ones and begins to develop a strategy of thinking about ways
to deal with a handicap that’s not even real. When you start acting like this, you get into trouble and
meet resistance in the world, because it’s not natural or necessary. It’s the psychology of your
conditioned mind that gives you bad advice. It thinks a problem needs to be overcome, but in truth life
is telling you not to go this way most of the time.
When you look at the Centres in a person’s Graph, you don’t really have to pay much attention to the
defined ones. They don’t cause much trouble because your mind doesn’t see a reason to interfere. It’s
the open Centres you have to watch out for, because people have a tendency to develop unhealthy
habits in these places. Human Design used to call them “not-self strategies”.
This might be the time to tell you something essential in Human Design: you don’t have to do
anything or learn Human Design in order to become yourself. You were born like this. The design you
see in front of you is you. There is no path you have to walk to get there. You don’t have to “find”
yourself. You only have to get out of the way, with fake concepts that you have acquired over time, to
be yourself again. So it’s more a technique of letting go of false things that your mind is telling you,
which get into the way of a reality that is just you. If you have a mind that is confused and thinks life is
a problem, that you have a problem, that you are not good enough, or whatever you think your
shortcomings are, you distort everything in your being and you will do things that are not good for
you. The energy will be released from the Centres into your Channels to get involved with things you
shouldn’t. The only way out is to stop interfering with a mind that is afraid and so conditioned by
these ideas that an open Centre is a problem. In the Bhan Tugh book, all the themes and strategies of
the open Centres are described in detail.
There is another phenomenon that can bother the mind and cause a great deal of disruption. It’s what
we call “Definition”. When somebody has a Single Definition, it means all the Centres in a Graph are
connected together. If you have a Split Definition, a group of Centres and Channels are separate
(disconnected) from another group of Centres and Channels. Mind again thinks this is a “problem”
and might create unhealthy interference. But remember: only a mind that is worried about life will do
that. If you know you can trust life, open Centres and “Splits” have no power over you. This is why I
recommend to attend courses on the Bhan Tugh Academy, where we deal with the life cycles of the
lunar nodes. It can prove to you that certain things happen in your lives, no matter what. The ‘good’
times will come at certain times, and so will the ‘bad’. Nothing can change that, so you might as well
stop interfering with your mind, because it will make you “unhappy” for no reason and create a lot of
unnecessary resistance in your life.
Single Definition (41% of population)
S
ingle Definition means that all your defined Centres are connected together via defined Channels. All
these Centres can communicate with each other without interruption. They are less dependent on other
people because they have no Splits to bridge, and can process things quickly (Other people activate
Gates and Channels by stepping into your Aura, as do transits of planets).
Split Definition (45%)
H
ere we can see two groups of defined Centres that are split off from each other. People with a Split
can get hooked on people who join their Split with the missing Gate(s) by being in their Auras. If you
look at the illustration, that would be someone carrying either Gate 16 or 15. This can be unhealthy if
you enter into such a relationship incorrectly. A Split Definition needs more time to process things in
order to find opportunities to get linked up either by transits or other people.
The bridges that they need to connect their Split tend to become the deepest conditioning forces in
their lives and they’re all looking for that bridging so they can have the illusion of being whole. Their
wholeness could become a kind of clinging to whoever is providing the bridges.
The not-self believes that every time they fill one of those harmonic gates that link the Split,
suddenly everything is right. It’s not because the other person is right, but finally they have something
consistently that they thought they didn’t have. Remember the joke – because it’s a black joke. Look at
a Split Definition and the single missing Gate that will join the Split, and you will see that this is the
centre of that being’s life. It just is. It creates the decision-making strategy of their minds.
When it’s a single Gate that makes the bridge, you always have this inner sense that this is
something you lack, that it’s your fault, and that you have to do better. Basically, you are blaming
yourself. But when it’s a broad Split, where several Gates are required to bridge Splits, you will
blame everybody else for why things are not working in your life as you think they should. Depending
on the design, this can lead to all kinds of psychological problems, conditioning, and interference of
the mind into things that are not its responsibility.
Double-Split Definition (12%)
T
his means we have three areas that are cut off from each other. Such people need even more time to
process things. Public places are always good for Split persons, because they hook them up without
being dependent on one specific person. It can distort their decisions and lead to conditioning by
becoming addicted to such people. But when you’re dealing with a Double-Split Definition, the
moment they have these three different areas, in fact, they do not have an interest in being whole.
Actually, they can easily feel trapped by another human being. The way in which the Double-Split
finds its wholeness is simply through the mundane movement of its life.
They need to be out in the physical world, they really need to be mobile in their life. They need to
integrate in their life process. They need to live a great deal of their life in an open and public realm.
The moment they do that, there is this transformation that takes place in them. It is a process that’s
fascinating.
The whole key is that if you’re operating according to your Type and out of your own authority as a
Double-Split, what you’re doing is perfecting your geometry. It is that very geometry, that movement
through the geometry, which is the only process that’s really healthy. The Double-Split is here to
experience its diverse potential. For example, they are not comfortable with a partner who hooks
them all up. You take a Simple-Split Definition and you give them their partner, that’s it. Everything is
fine unless there are problems in the relationship that arise. But the moment you take a Double-Split
and put them into a relationship that makes them whole, this is not heaven. No Double-Split is looking
for a prince or princess charming. The concept of it is frightening, because the moment that it’s there,
it is very uncomfortable.
The Double-Split is not here to find its wholeness. It’s here to experience its diverse potential.
They’re often much better off when only two of their three aspects are actually linked by somebody
who is fixed in their lives. It’s a lot easier for them.
Triple-Split Definition (1%)
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hese are rare. They are fixed beings because of their many definitions, yet incredibly fragile at the
same time, because there are four elements in them that do not always communicate with each other.
They can have many voices in them speaking at once, and not always in harmony.
No Definition (1%)
P
eople with no Definition are called Drifters by their Type. They have no defined Centres at all.
The Four Motors
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our Energy Centres in the Graph are known as Motors. They have more energy available than the
other Centres and they are what “drives” a Circuit.
The Root
The Sacral
The Willpower
The Solar Plex
It’s the “wiring” of these four Motors in the Graph that tells you what Type (Initiator, Worker, etc.) a
design is.
Physical Attributes
Head Centre Pineal gland
Ajna Centre Anterior / posterior pituitary glands
Throat Centre Thyroid, parathyroid
G Centre Liver, blood
Willpower Centre Stomach, heart, gall bladder, thymus
gland
Sacral Centre Ovaries, testes
Solar Plex Kidney, prostate, pancreas, colon,
solar plexus neuron network, nervous
system, lungs
Splenic Centre Lymphatic system, immune system,
spleen, B-cells
Root Centre Adrenal glands
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Interaction Type
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T
he human form comes in four distinctive Types. They have their own “rules of engagement” about how
to interact with other people. You can find a detailed description of all four Types in the Bhan Tugh
book. Here we only focus on how to identify them in a Graph.
Worker (70%)
Strategy: Wait for opportunities
A theme of frustration or satisfaction
Surrender control of your life
[Defined Sacral (Life-Force) Centre]
Initiator (9%)
Strategy: Inform before acting
A theme of anger or peace
Take control of your life
[Open Sacral Centre, but Motor connected to Throat Centre]
Supporter (20%)
Strategy: Wait for the invitation
A theme of bitterness or success
Surrender to the other
[Open Sacral Centre, no Motor connected to Throat Centre]
Drifter (1%)
Strategy: Don’t be too judgemental
A theme of disappointment or surprise
Surrender to your own existence
[No defined Centre, No defined Channel]
The Worker can be further divided into:
Independent Worker (35%)

[In addition: Motor connected to Throat Centre]
Team Worker (35%)

[No Motor to Throat Centre]
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The Lines and Roles

The 12 Roles
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n Human Design, we have 12 Roles. They consist of two numbers. The first number refers to the
Personality Sun/Earth Line and the second to the Design Sun/Earth Line.
Right Angle Cross – Personal Destiny

1/3 Protector/Warrior (14.6% of population)
1/4 Protector/Opportunist (2%)
2/4 Discoverer/Opportunist (14.6%)
2/5 Discoverer/Distributor (2%)
3/5 Warrior/Distributor (14.6%)
3/6 Warrior/Perfectionist (2%)
4/6 Opportunist/Perfectionist (14.6%)
Juxtaposition Cross – Fixed Destiny

4/1 Opportunist/Protector (2%)
Left Angle Cross – Impersonal Destiny

5/1 Distributor/Protector (14.6%)
5/2 Distributor/Discoverer (2%)
6/2 Perfectionist/Discoverer (14.6%)
6/3 Perfectionist/Warrior (2%)
B
ecause the calculations of Design and Personality are 88 degrees apart and not 90 degrees, we never
have the same Lines in both the Design and Personality. If we did, we wouldn’t be alive. The Lines in
the Roles shift similar to the DNA helix, like a spiral.
A right angle Cross refers to the angle between the Hexagrams of the Personality Sun/Earth to the
Design Sun/Earth. That means if you just count the Hexagrams, you will see the Hexagrams in the
Mandala Wheel form a right angle. It also means that these Roles, which are the majority, have no
transpersonal karma. They have no “karma” with anyone else. They will get to their personal destiny
independent of anybody else.
Every human being carries two Roles (Lines). One is the Role of the Personality and the other the
Role of the Design. The Role is also what other people see in you. You carry this in your DNA as a
frequency that others pick up. If you understand your Lines and Roles, you know why people come to
you and what the broad outline of your job is in the world. With this information your mind can relax
and settle into where life has to go. You never have to “do” anything with any information that Human
Design or Bhan Tugh gives you. It only helps to understand the journey. You can find a detailed
description of the 6 Lines in the Bhan Tugh book. For example, Role 1/3 means the Personality
Sun/Earth is in Line 1 and the Design Sun/Earth in Line 3. The Sun/Earth makes up 70% of our
characteristics, although it is the nodes that tell the story of our lives.
The six Lines
T
o understand Roles, you first have to know what a Line is. Every Hexagram can be divided into six
Lines and, as we know, there are 64 Hexagrams in the Mandala Wheel. And with that, I don’t just
mean the six yin and yang lines of a Hexagram. I mean when you look at the big circle in the Wheel
with the Hexagram numbers, you see that every segment within one Hexagram or Gate number is
divided into six smaller ones. Six Lines make up the space for one Hexagram number. Hexagram and
Line together define a precise position on the Mandala Wheel for every planet that you have in your
chart. Every Line then can be further divided into six Colours. Every Colour into six Tones and every
Tone into five Bases. That means there are 1,080 variations of one Gate or Hexagram possible.
So next time you see the same Gate in another human being, don’t assume it is the same. It also
means you need a very precise birth time to get down to, let’s say, Tone level of a design. A few
minutes can make a big difference.
You can divide a Hexagram into the Lower and
Upper Trigram
T
he lower Trigram is internally based. It’s focused and absorbed in its own process. These Lines are
all self-absorbed. Lines 4, 5, and 6 – the upper Trigram – are looking across the Channel, towards the
other. The lower Trigram is not even aware of the other and does not have the same communication
skills as the upper Trigram, which is here to externalise and to work with the other. The upper
Trigram is totally aware of the other. They work with what the lower Trigram has built, and try to get
it outwards to people.
There is a relationship of harmony between the Lines of the upper and lower Trigrams. There is a
harmony between Line 1 and Line 4, a harmony between Line 2 and Line 5, and one between Line 3
and Line 6, similar to music when notes are an octave higher.
The 6 Line is not really Part of the Hexagram
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he 6 Line of any Hexagram is rather special. It’s not quite part of the Hexagram. Lines 1 to 3 are jobs
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that are working in a self-absorbed manner, and 4-5 are working with the other. Hexagrams are not
something abstract or intellectual. They represent the chemical package of the DNA codons that
encode the amino acids in our cellular structure. Line 1 is the basis. Line 5 is the culmination, the
projection. The Line 6 is different. It’s not about one’s self and it doesn’t serve the other anymore. It’s
neither this nor that. That’s why it represents truth and the perfection, because it’s free of serving
oneself or the other, free of bending truth to serve a result. It has to be objective. It is responsible for
the completion of a process, the completion of the hexagram. It gives the final “blessing”. It is
responsible for the 5 “departments” to work smoothly. But it’s also looking for the next thing that’s
coming, although this is more true for the 6/3 than the other Roles carrying a 6. And the next thing is
the 1. This way you have an infinite spiral, always going around, like the DNA helix.
The 1/3 Role
Protector/Warrior
Right Angle
Behavioural identity: Investigator
Projected attitude: Authoritarian
Limited perspective: Empathy
Aspired-to role: Creativity
Bonding strategy: Pursuer/Pursued
Security strategy: Self-Provider/Coveter
Nature: Martyr
Type: Anarchist
Memory: Pessimism
Direction: Sustainment
Sexuality: Bonds made and broken
Humanity: Bonds made and broken
The 1/4 Role
Protector/Opportunist
Right Angle
Behavioural identity: Investigator
Projected attitude: Authoritarian
Limited perspective: Empathy
Aspired-to role: Creativity
Bonding strategy: Pursuer/Pursued
Security strategy: Self-Provider/Coveter
Nature: Opportunist
Type: Abdicator
Memory: Fatigue
Direction: Aloneness
Sexuality: Confidante or not
Humanity: Benefactor/Dependant
The 2/4 Role
Discoverer/Opportunist
Right Angle
Behavioural identity: Hermit
Projected attitude: Democrat
Limited perspective: Bigotry
Aspired-to role: Harmony
Bonding strategy: Shyness/Boldness
Security strategy: Nourisher/Depleter
Nature: Opportunist
Type: Abdicator
Memory: Fatigue
Direction: Aloneness
Sexuality: Confidante or not
Humanity: Benefactor/Dependant
The 2/5 Role
Discoverer/Distributor
Right Angle
Behavioural identity: Hermit
Projected attitude: Democrat
Limited perspective: Bigotry
Aspired-to role: Harmony
Bonding strategy: Shyness/Boldness
Security strategy: Nourisher/Depleter
Nature: Heretic
Type: General
Memory: Saviour
Direction: Attractiveness
Sexuality: Seducer/Seduced
Humanity: Distributor/Hoarder
The 3/5 Role
Warrior/Distributor
Right Angle
Behavioural identity: Martyr
Projected attitude: Anarchist
Limited perspective: Pessimism
Aspired-to role: Sustainment
Bonding strategy: Bonds made and broken
Security strategy: Bonds made and broken
Nature: Heretic
Type: General
Memory: Saviour
Direction: Attractiveness
Sexuality: Seducer/Seduced
Humanity: Distributor/Hoarder
The 3/6 Role
Warrior/Perfectionist
Right Angle
Behavioural identity: Martyr
Projected attitude: Anarchist
Limited perspective: Pessimism
Aspired-to role: Sustainment
Bonding strategy: Bonds made and broken
Security strategy: Bonds made and broken
Nature: Role Model

Type: Administrator
Memory: Optimist
Direction: Objectivity
Sexuality: Soul Mate or not
Humanity: Trust or not
The 4/6 Role
Opportunist/Perfectionist
Right Angle
Behavioural identity: Opportunist
Projected attitude: Abdicator
Limited perspective: Fatigue
Aspired-to role: Aloneness
Bonding strategy: Confidante or not
Security strategy: Benefactor/Dependant
Nature: Role Model

Type: Administrator
Memory: Optimist
Direction: Objectivity
Sexuality: Soul Mate or not
Humanity: Trust or not
The 4/1 Role
Opportunist/Protector
Juxtaposition
Behavioural identity: Opportunist
Projected attitude: Abdicator
Limited perspective: Fatigue
Aspired-to role: Aloneness
Bonding strategy: Confidante or not
Security strategy: Benefactor/Dependant
Nature: Investigator
Type: Authoritarian
Memory: Empathy
Direction: Creativity
Sexuality: Pursuer/Pursued
Humanity: Self-Provider/Coveter
The 5/1 Role
Distributor/Protector
Left Angle
Behavioural identity: Heretic
Projected attitude: General
Limited perspective: Saviour
Aspired-to role: Attractiveness
Bonding strategy: Seducer/Seduced
Security strategy: Distributor/Hoarder
Nature: Investigator
Type: Authoritarian
Memory: Empathy
Direction: Creativity
Sexuality: Pursuer/Pursued
Humanity: Self-Provider/Coveter
The 5/2 Role
Distributor/Discoverer
Left Angle
Behavioural identity: Heretic
Projected attitude: General
Limited perspective: Saviour
Aspired-to role: Attractiveness
Bonding strategy: Seducer/Seduced
Security strategy: Distributor/Hoarder
Nature: Hermit
Type: Democrat
Memory: Bigotry
Direction: Harmony
Sexuality: Shyness/Boldness
Humanity: Nourisher/Depleter
The 6/2 Role
Perfectionist/Discoverer
Left Angle
Behavioural identity: Role Model
Projected attitude: Administrator
Limited perspective: Optimist
Aspired-to role: Objectivity
Bonding strategy: Soul mate or not
Security strategy: Trust or not
Nature: Hermit
Type: Democrat
Memory: Bigotry
Direction: Harmony
Sexuality: Shyness/Boldness
Humanity: Nourisher/Depleter
The 6/3 Role
Perfectionist/Warrior
Left Angle
Behavioural identity: Role Model
Projected attitude: Administrator
Limited perspective: Optimist
Aspired-to role: Objectivity
Bonding strategy: Soul mate or not
Security strategy: Trust or not
Nature: Martyr
Type: Anarchist
Memory: Pessimism
Direction: Sustainment
Sexuality: Bonds made and broken
Humanity: Bonds made and broken
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Below the Line

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t is such a tragedy to see how human beings are suffering on the material plane. Seven-centred beings
mastered the material plane with such ease. But it’s become very difficult for nine-centred beings,
because they are not equipped in the same way. This is not what we’re here for. We’re not here to
enslave all the mammals. We’re not here to kill each other. We’re not here for all that stuff.
The nine-centred form is a natural survival machine. We’re not here to be concerned so we can
experience awareness – with our vehicles in automatic pilot. It’s the beauty of our journey. Don’t be
concerned. Every time you see with awareness, you grow. Everything about this knowledge,
especially in this chapter, is about making sure that we have all the right signposts. Because once you
see them, you give your mind exactly the reference points it needs to discover itself. You are finally
able to see the process undistorted, to simply watch the perfection of the form at work, to enjoy this
ride and the entertainment until the end.
Each level of the substructure (Base, Tone, Colour) provides us with a mechanical key. As we
explore deeper and deeper, all it does is illustrate the nuances of the mechanics. Below the line,
underneath the “surface”, you really get to see the mechanism that drives it all. On the Design side,
everything is about surrendering to the form, surrendering to its correct nourishment, both internally
and externally. On the Personality side, it’s about surrendering to watching.
Any human being is able to awaken because the mechanics say so. You can look deeply into
anyone’s mechanics and see that if they are oriented correctly, then their life will unfold as it should.
Period. Yet, it’s not so easy to be able to distinguish what the signposts are. This is the value of the
knowledge at this level. And any analysis that you do here has to begin with the nodes, because this is
the foundation for the life itself.
Many have a misunderstanding about what it means to experience real awareness, as if one has to
be disconnected or detached. But that’s not the case at all. As a matter of fact, you’re actually more
absorbed in your life. It’s just simply in a very different way. You’re absorbed in the experience of
that life. You’re not absorbed in trying to handle the vagaries of life itself. You’re not “managing” that
life, trying to change it into something you “think” it should be instead. That is ultimately the
difference. It is “non-interference”.
False Authority
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here is no unique perception if mind is also the authority running your life. You end up forced to lie,
forced to prevaricate, forced to tell half-truths. Because the moment that your mind becomes
responsible for your life, you know you’re in situations where you want to control what’s going on
and therefore you’re going to control what you say. You get a kind of “internal censorship” that
literally distorts the life process.
The mind is here to be the great commentator. It’s about watching and communicating. This is our
entertainment after all. We are stuck with each other. It’s amazing that certain couples, for example,
don’t communicate. Communication is something that is so profound, and understanding the other is
something that is so important. If we are going to be organised, there have to be lines of
communication. Because without them, there is no organisation. These lines of communication have
their origins deep under the surface of the illusion that is our life. It all begins with Base orientation.
Base Orientation
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ase orientation, first and foremost, is about maintaining the Maya. It isn’t personal. There’s no
question that orientation and positioning are very important. But Base does not have the same
personal value as Colour and Tone, because its basic underlying purpose is maintaining the viability
of the Maya.
We are still overwhelmed by the vast majority of humanity stuck in the “not-self”. The whole basis of
connectivity for them is still the genetic imperative and there is no way that they can get beyond that.
At bhantugh.com, you see this as “Attraction” on the Relationship page.
If you’re only operating through the genetic imperative, there is no way to recognise the
companionship or the potential benefit of a relationship with someone who is connected to you in
other ways. The genetic imperative simply gets in the way and blinds you.
There is no dualism at the Base level. Each and every one of us carries a continuum of Bases that can
only operate through a singularity. Base is just the encounter of the neutrino with a Crystal. Later with
Tone, you’re looking at everything that is the infrastructure of the Crystal and the way in which the
uniqueness of the Crystal is intended to ultimately manifest on the surface. The great value of Base
orientation and Variable is our ability to see how we are organised in large groupings. In the
shattering (at the Big Bang), there were two ways in which Crystals emerged. We see the inversion of
the 3-5 system (see Base illustrations) when you compare Design and Personality Crystals. The
duality of the Maya emerged out of these two formulas. This is the whole key. The deeper you go into
understanding the Base construct, the more you begin to orient towards seeing the two different
founding formulas and how everything else emerged. We live in a binary. This is the core, the root,
the Base in our language of the whole binary program.
The Bases of our Personalities never change through any incarnation. It’s through the dimension of all
the Bases that the illusion of the Maya emerges. One also sees the limitation of certain Bases. They
can never directly reach any Base that is diagonal. Movement (1) can’t connect directly to Evolution
(2). Diagonals are something of a blind-spot. Here, you get an insight into the flow of Fractals and
how Personality Crystals connect. These positions are carried throughout every level of life. For
example, you see how the mind is cut off from individuality. We find it through our design or our
being. When you look at the position of your Base, it will tell you a lot about yourself and how you
connect to others.
The five glyphs represent each of these Bases. The first thing to understand is that they’re
dimensional. This is a very special kind of way in which each and every one of us are instruments of
the totality in how the Maya functions. We are the projectors through which the light of the Maya
passes. The neutrino ocean passes through, and out comes the world and the universe that we live in.
It’s not something that is there “outside”. It is something that we all carry. One of the most
extraordinary things about this simple formula is that everything operates out of it, from the very root
of genetic life all the way to the most sophisticated constructs. Everything carries it because it is
carried by the Consciousness Crystals. They break up the neutrino ocean into a filter of these
dimensional fields in such a way that the “construct” emerges out of it. We make up the world we live
in. We are the instruments of the Maya. We’re not just simply in the Maya. We are the Maya. We make
the Maya. We breathe Maya. It’s in every cell. Every cell has a Design Crystal. You can’t count how
many cells there are on this planet. It is beyond imagination. And every single one of them filters the
neutrino ocean in a specific way. You see this with the Personality construct. The way in which it
filters the ocean is different from the design. The laws are different. The rules are different.
As an intellectual, it’s great to be able to go deep and have all these nice answers, but it doesn’t help
you live a better life. It doesn’t help you live your life as yourself. It’s just interesting within the
context of a new knowledge. Your life is ruled by how you navigate and who the navigator is. As long
as the navigator is the Personality alone, you really have trouble. Because you can see in the whole
construct, in the way in which it is designed and how the process evolved, that the passenger
(Personality) is not a part of the navigation. Through the alignment between the nodes (if you are
correct), you finally have the ability to properly navigate the nuance of the current you’re flowing in.
But the Personality cannot take responsibility for it. It cannot control it. It cannot direct it. It cannot
stop it.
With your Base, you see a certain orientation towards others, but no possibility of a connection to
some when the Base is diagonally opposed. You literally get to see how the underlying connectivity is
there for everyone. What happens in the Graph is the potential for some kind of perception of it,
because we are “surface beings” (things that happen at the Line or Gate level). Yet, the vast majority
of humanity gets lost in “surface” connectivity. The Base is there before everything. This is where the
rubber hits the road. This is where the neutrino hits the Crystal. The Base literally is before
everything. The connectivity patterns are pre-established. They are inherent in the way in which this
Base binary construct operates.
Think about the principle of what Base is: this illustration of how the moving neutrino hits the Crystal.
It is that place of impact at the Crystal, the frequency that is established between the neutrino and the
Crystal. It is frequency that we refer to as Base. If the neutrino stream has nothing to go through, it is
simply an ocean of static data, in fact worthless data, because only through the Crystals, does the
neutrino carry actual information. A neutrino is just a medium to transfer data. It’s this enormous data
stream. What turns the data stream into Maya is when the neutrino meets the Base. No Base, no Maya.
The Personality Crystal that you’re endowed with has been in existence since the beginning. For 14
billion years, it has been a consistent element, processing neutrinos through the same Base.
Incarnating Personality Crystals get to ride in a variety of different vehicles. But the Personality
Crystal remains consistent. This is an orientation that never changes and implies many things about the
nature of beings that are necessary around your life.
The Base of the Design Crystal is important. It is the master orientation for the vehicle in its life and
as such takes on important values. When we move away from the actual Crystals themselves so that
we’re dealing with the Bases in resonance, we see what part of us gets aligned to the world around us
and gets to meet that world around us. It’s important that we have the right orientation in our
movement that resonates to a specific positioning. This is the Cross of Life. It establishes our
presence in the world. It gives us the illusion of our form. It places us in a specific position. It gives
us a certain way in which we both approach and look at the other, and the way in which we
conceptualise. Underneath all of that is an orientation towards a specific affiliation, a specific
connection. But this is not the kind of connection that has the genetic power we’re used to on the
surface, when looking at the Graph where you see that you have a hanging Gate and a powerful
influence that could be there (attraction).
All of this is deeply significant. It brings to the foreground what has been a mystical, esoteric or
spiritual premise for a very long time: that there is a unifying principle that binds all of us. If you’re
looking for the principle of God that binds all of us, you will find the principle, but it is called Base.
This is the binding principle of the Maya.
You can look at the Base of your nodes to see how you connect to other Personalities or Designs
(Sun/Earth). With Bases, we have no harmony or resonance as with Colour. The best connection or
line of communication exists when the Base of your Personality Linknode is the same as the Base of
the other person’s Personality Sun/Earth. Of course, you could also see how the other person
connects to you by looking at the Base in their nodes and your Sun/Earth. All of this is more or less an
intellectual game, because most people don’t have precise enough birth data for Base analysis. Again,
you’re not supposed to “do” anything with any of this. All of it “happens”.
Every Base orientation, except the ones in the centre (5 for Personality and 3 for Design), has a
diagonal Base that it can’t reach directly. For example, on the Personality side, Base 1 can’t reach
Base 2, because Base 5 is in the way. There is no direct connection possible. But you can have some
kind of connection along the sides of the Base pyramid. A Base 1 can connect to Base 4 and Base 3.
When Base 2 and Base 4 meet, they create civilisation. A Base that is in the centre (Personality 5 and
Design 3) can connect to all the other numbers, but the other numbers can’t really connect well to
them. For every upside there is always a downside, right? The 5 and 3 are kind of looking out from a
window to all the other numbers, but the others can’t really see in, as if the windows had a film on
one side.
Take, for example, a politician. Let’s say this politician has the 2 as his Personality Base orientation.
We know right away that he has one perfect audience and three who can understand him. He also has
a group with Base 1 who don’t know what the hell he is talking about. This is one of the things to
understand about Fractal lines, that whole history of geometry. Fractal lines are very important.
Somebody who is on your Fractal isn’t necessarily someone who is going to be your teacher, your
student, your friend, your lover or your relative. It could be a stranger. It could be your enemy. It
could be something you overhear from someone. It could be all kinds of things. Because what the
Fractal represents is a clear line of communication.
Your Personality and my Personality may have a Fractal relationship with each other, but it doesn’t
mean our vehicles, our lives, are going to bring us together. Life is very complex!
Colour & Tone
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hen we come to Tone and Colour, we leave the illusion of the quantum of Design and Personality (the
Maya) behind. Here, we look at the components that make up our individual existence. A Gate is
divided into six Lines, a Line into six Colours, and one Colour into six Tones. When a neutrino passes
through the Design or Personality Crystal, it emits a Colour frequency, which is captured by the
Magnetic Monopole. If the Personality wants to control the life of the body (which is the task of the
Design), the Colour frequency won’t be correctly captured by the Monopole and a phenomenon takes
place that we call Colour Transference. It means that your determination or motivation becomes
distorted by transferring three Colours (up or down), which in turn leads to incorrect decisions, and a
not-self life and thinking. You could also call it lack of awareness.
Tone is about your cognition. It shows how you take in information from the physical world. There
are two sides of cognition: the Design side (body) with its six physical senses and the Personality
side with its six forms of mental cognition. Colour is about your determination (Design) or motivation
(Personality). And correct motivation is your key to happiness, which I explore further in the Bhan
Tugh book. If you want to know “why” people are doing things, look no further than their Personality
Colour in the Sun/Earth.
We have no conscious access to Tone or Colour. Yet, it’s at the Tone and Colour levels where all
decisions are made. We live in the illusion that it’s our mind that makes decisions, which is not true.
Decisions are made at an unconscious level in the body and the mind simply latches onto its result.
When you have a mind that lusts after control, you upset this process in your body that then causes
Colour Transference and leads to decisions that are not healthy for you.
By decoding our Tones and Colour, we get an idea about what our body and mind are looking for
and, as a broad thematic, where they want to go. But it’s not that we have any influence on the
decisions themselves. It’s all about the level of interference we can cause or not. We are only able to
align our thinking to that of a correct passenger within the body, therefore enabling the vehicle to live
out its correct trajectory through life. When the Magnetic Monopole captures the Colour frequency, it
gets translated into the illusion of our life and into the Graph via our defined Channels and Energy
Centres. This also includes daily transits and people activating Channels through auric connections.
The Colour information that has been captured by the Monopole opens our Energy Centres like
floodgates to our Channels and we can see and feel how the decisions begin to emerge in the Maya.
Any Channels below the throat emerge as “acting” and any Channels above as “thinking” and
“communicating”. A Channel usually carries the possibility of two polarities. That’s how decisions
are expressed. For example, in case of the 35–36, it means either feeling the desire to enter into an
experience, or no desire at all. Whatever it is, it originates out of Tone and Colour and the correct
capturing by the Monopole.
The neutrinos and the Bhan Crystals represent the intelligence of the universe, the consciousness
that’s available. You could also call it the divine building plan, the architect. The universe is a living
entity and everything is about building it. What Tone and Colour do is bring the building plan into the
realm of atomic form. When a neutrino passes through the Design Crystal, it tells the body, based on
the senses (Tone), what to do and what “decisions” to make to fulfil the plan by releasing the correct
energies through the Channels in the Graph. Tone gives you an idea where your body is looking to
receive information in the Maya in order to make decisions. The neutrino and the Crystals, on the
other hand, have the information for how the Design and Personality should react, accordingly, to
build what’s required. Based on Colour, we get the correct release of energy in the body, which is the
manifestation of a decision that’s been made, hidden from our conscious mind.
If your Sun/Earth Tone is 5 (electromagnetic feeling) on the Design side, you have a body that is
always paying attention to the emotional aspect of whatever it’s taking in. It’s a refined and relatively
new method of receiving information. The oldest one would be Tone 1 (smell). Tone 1–3 have been
around in the human body for over 100,000 years, but Tone 4–6 only since 1781. Since then, some of
us carry an intelligence that builds on emotions. It’s no longer logic and fear, which are looking for
patterns to make the future secure, that is making decisions alone. It’s a feeling emerging through
experiences that can show the correct way. It’s a decision that offers no logical explanation. It’s what
we call Rave-like intelligence compared to the human-like intelligence that Tone 1–3 provide. I talk
in great detail in the Bhan Tugh book about all the various Tones, Colours and differences between
human-like and Rave-like characteristics.
It’s through Tone and Colour that we can see how the body likes to take in nutrition, how it likes to
learn, and to what kind of environment it is drawn to. We also see what kind of mind you have and
what you are supposed to see. As I said before, there is nothing to “do” with Tone and Colour
information. You can’t change any of that. But you can change the attitude of your Personality and your
thinking, because that’s the job of your Personality. It’s responsible for mind. Tone and Colour help
you understand what the Crystals want to do, so your thinking stops interfering, for example, with the
Design’s job of looking after the body. If you want to control the body, you distort the decision-
making process and your Colour transfers. In simple words: you are distracted, suffer from blind
spots and lose your awareness.
Tone never transfers, only Colour does. When this happens, you start eating incorrectly and want to
live in a place that isn’t for you; a place where you won’t meet the right people and opportunities, and
where you can get physically sick. On top of that, you will have a mind and a thinking process that are
not yours, where you could be outright dumb. You will see and think about things that have no value to
you or others. First, the body needs to be healthy and in the right place. Only then can you have the
chance for a healthy mind and a cognition that has any kind of value. It takes at least seven years of
cellular and mental deconditioning to get to that place.
In the Graph, we have four important areas for Tone:
Internal
Personality Sun/Earth Mind
Design Sun/Earth Brain/Memory/Body
External
Personality Nodes View
Design Nodes Life
Any of these four areas are either human-like “H” (Tone 1-3) or Rave-like “R” (Tone 4-6). They are
called Variables. We have 16 possible combinations of Rave and human aspects (see Variable table).
Before 1781, nobody had any Rave Variables. By 2027, the development of the Solar Plex
intelligence (Rave) will be complete and people with human Personalities might struggle unless they
accept a less-strategic outlook on life. People with Rave Variables struggled in the past, especially
right after 1781, because the world (and evolution) wasn’t ready for Rave-like beings. But as 2027
approaches, the more their time will come. From 2027 onwards, the evolutionary Program will give
the new emerging true Rave species (don’t confuse them with Rave-like humans) its full support and
will kind of turn its back on humanity. People with Rave Variables will struggle less, and people with
human Variables will need people with Rave Variables to guide them in such a world, because their
strategies won’t seem to work as they did in the past. The Rave brain/mind carries information that no
human version has inside of it. They have access to information about where life needs to go and how
humanity can still survive.
The lower left and upper right quadrant of the Variable table (when you divide the whole table in four
groups) are the editors, the critics, the adjusters and the commenters – the ones free of this
evolutionary drive and who are not specifically part of it.
The top left and bottom right quadrants are part of the evolutionary flow to Rave intelligence and a
new way of life. What we see is progress (top left & bottom right) colliding with tradition (lower
left), with the upper right acting as a bridge. It’s only people from the “flow” group who could have a
Rave child (new species coming into the world after 2027). Another requirement to have Rave babies
is for both parents to be born after the discovery of Sedna (14th November 2003). There are more
criteria, too. In The Prophecy of Ra Uru Hu, we learned the Camel incarnated on Earth from 1936-
1941 and only people born at that time carry the mutation (which gets passed onto children and
grandchildren). Of course, the obvious one is that a “real” Rave has to be born as “quad-Rave” in the
Variable table. Based on all this, you get a sense of the relative low birth numbers of actual Raves
after 2027 compared to humans.
The “story line” (nodes) in the Variable square (bottom row of the four Variables) shows how
people fractally align. Even those who are “out of the flow”, free from the evolutionary movement,
participate. They have a way to participate. Because their life stories will be similar to the life
stories of these other three means they’re going to relate. It means they’re going to interact. If you look
at matching shades of gray in the Variable table illustration with the 16 combinations of Rave/human,
you see one level of a Fractal connection. There are, of course, many more, For example, another one
would come out of Base Orientation. But most of them are hidden from us in Human Design.
Tone
Tone (triangle) in the Design Sun/Earth tells us which sense the physical body is using in order to
make decisions about the internal process. Tone in the Design nodes tells us about the sense the
physical body is using in order to make decisions concerning its correct environment and the people
in it. A detailed description is available in the Bhan Tugh book.
Active (human-like):
Tone 1 - Smell (Spleen)
Tone 2 - Taste (Spleen)
Tone 3 - Outer Vision (Ajna)
Passive (Rave-like):
Tone 4 - Inner Vision (Ajna)
Tone 5 - Electromagnetic Fields (Solar Plex)
Tone 6 - Psychic Touch (Solar Plex)
Tone in the Personality Sun/Earth and nodes is about mental cognition. It’s a movement towards
“knowing”. But first, the veils need to drop. It’s about reaching “surrendered witnessing”.
Tone 1 - Certainty
Tone 2 - Uncertainty
Tone 3 - Action
Tone 4 - Meditation
Tone 5 - Judgment
Tone 6 - Acceptance
Colour
In the same four places within the Graph, as we looked earlier for Tone, we find four important areas
for Colour (hexagon):
Internal
Personality Sun/Earth Six Minds/Motivations
Design Sun/Earth Six Diets/Study Methods
External
Personality Nodes Six Views/Perspectives
Design Nodes Six Environments
When somebody’s motivation is concerned about the body and its life (which is the Design’s job and
not the Personality’s), then the Colour transfers three Colours up/down. It is basically an unhealthy
distraction, disguising itself as being the correct path.
Here is an example for the mind (motivation):
1 - Fear —> 4 - Need (Master)

2 - Hope —> 5 - Guilt (Manipulator)
3 - Desire —> 6 - Innocence (Observer)
4 - Need —> 1 - Fear (Group Person)
5 - Guilt —> 2 - Hope (Believer)
6 - Innocence —> 3 - Desire (Leader)
Six Diets (Design Sun/Earth):
Conditions:
Colour 1 - One at a time Consecutive/Alternating
Colour 2 - Very selective Open/Closed
Colour 3 - Outer Stimulating Hot/Cold
Circumstances:
Colour 4 - Inner Stimulation Calm/Agitated
Colour 5 - Sound Loud/Quiet
Colour 6 - Light Day/Night
Six Environments (Design Nodes):
Shelter:
Colour 1 - closed/open Caves
Colour 2 - internal/external Markets
Colour 3 - humid/dry Kitchens
View:
Colour 4 - active/passive Mountains
Colour 5 - focused/diffused Valleys
Colour 6 - day/night Borders
Six Minds/Motivations (Personality Sun/Earth):
Egocentric:
Colour 1 - Fear Group Person / Loner
Colour 2 - Hope Believer / Nonbeliever
Colour 3 - Desire Leader / Follower
Transpersonal:
Colour 4 - Need Master / Novice
Colour 5 - Guilt Manipulator / Manipulated
Colour 6 - Innocence Observer / Observed
Six Views (Personality Nodes):
Building civilisation:
Colour 1 - Priorities (blind spot: People)
Colour 2 - Possibilities (blind spot: Probabilities)
Colour 3 - Trouble (blind spot: Potential)
Maintaining civilisation:
Colour 4 - People (blind spot: Priorities)
Colour 5 - Probabilities (blind spot: Possibilities)
Colour 6 - Potential (blind spot: Trouble)
Colour Transference & Distraction
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hen the Personality interferes with the responsibilities of the Design (making decisions that concern
your physical mundane life or ignoring your Interaction Type), the Magnetic Monopole can’t capture
Colour information correctly and the decision-making process is distorted. The main cause for this is
that Colour shifts 3 places up/down. Tone never transfers. Even when Colour shifts, Tone remains the
same. Mind always needs a little bit of Transference, because it must compare two things. It can’t be
“fixed” on the Personality side. For the body (Design side), it’s not necessary and therefore not
present if the mind is acting with full awareness.
You have to understand something about your View (perspective). You always need to have an
imbalance between what is your correct View and what is the blind spot. The blind spot never goes
away. It’s there as a reference point. It’s useful for measuring. But it can never become more than just
a reference point.
The moment you notice that, it becomes one of the keys of a developing passenger consciousness.
Noticing Transference is one of those great signposts in the way you’re thinking about things. The way
you think about things is a combination of the influence of your perspective on your conceptualising,
plus other goodies of the not-self mind.
Transference is something that’s very important. Imagine a see-saw on a playground. Your
perspective is intended to operate in a slightly unbalanced way with the blind spot never getting the
upper hand, but it needs to be there.
The same goes for the mind (motivation). The mind only operates out of a binary. It only measures,
and to do that it needs at least two things. It needs a reference point to compare one with another. In
order for it to recognise the correct motivation, it also needs to see the Transference. Transference
will never go away on the Personality side, because you are dealing with mind.
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The Nodes of the Moon
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verything about the nodes is about the transpersonal. This is what makes them so different from the
Sun/Earth. The Sun/Earth gives you this unique Role as a patina over the mechanism. The nodes are
about the connection with the rest of the world. Not only that, but where to connect, how to connect,
and the style of the connection. They show your journey through life and the “neighbourhoods” you
are passing through.
The nodes are about life on Earth. The Sun/Earth is about the character that you play, and the Role
that you act out (your Incarnation Cross). But the Role is dependent on where you are in relationship
to the other, because everything ultimately is about the other. We are not here alone.
The nodes represent our movement from birth to death. Regardless of your state, whether you’re
awake or deeply homogenised, your nodal trajectory is something that’s alive.
The nodes are so different from everything else that we look at in Human Design mechanics.
Everything in mechanics is rooted in the Sun, the Earth, the planetary objects, and the Moon – rooted
in the filtering of those objects. The movement of those objects is very specific. With the nodes you
come to something that is totally different. It is really the opposite of everything else that is there,
particularly in its relationship to the Sun/Earth. These are not objects. They are “positions” and they
operate in a totally different way because their general movement is retrograde. With the nodes,
we’re dealing with something that is special because this is where we are designed to take in trans-
solar information that in essence links us to the totality itself.
Many think the real mystical trip is discovering your Cross of Life, your Incarnation Cross, the
Role, its purpose and all of that. But in fact, the most deeply mystical aspect of your Cross of Life
isn’t the costume that we’re given (which we see through the Sun/Earth), but your connection to the
totality.
The nodes align us to what we are here to be attracted to and the Magnetic Monopole holds us
together in the illusion of our separateness. In the Graph, there are three elements of the form
principle: the Personality Crystal (directly related to the Personality Sun/Earth), the Design Crystal
(directly connected to the Design Sun/Earth) and the Magnetic Monopole, which operates through the
nodes. It’s through the agency of the Monopole and its relationship to the nodes that we’re able to pull
these “two stories” together and become one. We become a synthesised holistic frequency.
The nodes are very odd because they are the only element where the Design side and the
Personality side are linked to each other. There is no other place where they are linked to each other.
The nodes function in such a way that one on each side is designed to connect to the other side. And
these two are called the Linknodes. This is what holds us together in the illusion of our separateness.
It is what gives us our direction. Everything about incarnating into form is incarnating onto a nodal
track. It makes the nodes so deeply mysterious. Their very movement aligns them to the cosmos, to the
greater outer cycles. In many ways, it holds together the whole possibility of what it is to be us, the
potential of living fully the nine-centred possibility. To be a nine-centred being and to be complete
and whole is the top of the evolutionary chain for now.
You can point to the nodes and you can say: that’s why there is existence. In doing so, you point to
the Magnetic Monopole. That’s what gives existence its potential. It gives the form, with its marriage
to the Personality Crystal, its potential. The greatest struggle that we have right now is the
Personality’s full acceptance of its place within the juxtaposed, holistic life. It’s so difficult for the
Personality (who you think you are) to stop being so vain about “this is your life”, about being able to
let go and surrender. It’s so difficult for the Personality to surrender to the concept of no choice and to
acknowledge the importance of the form intelligence. For the vast majority of humanity, this is not
something they are able to do or will ever do. They’re never going to be able to fully embrace what it
is to be in these forms, because their minds will never be ready to surrender to helplessness. They are
still so deeply caught up in the trap of what the homogenised human-like world delivers and what they
are ready to swallow.
The nodes have a relationship that is outside of the personal body and personal life. They are the
continuity to the greater movement in the totality that’s been there since the beginning. The nodes are
profoundly important in understanding how we are orchestrated in this incredible movement that we
are all part of.
The Design nodes represent, in essence, the potential for a quality physical life, which means slower
deterioration of all the things associated with the Saturnian body rather than the Uranian. After all,
this knowledge and its emergence are all part and parcel of the emergence of the nine-centred being
and nine-centred life span, which is Uranian – approximately 84 years. If you’re not living your
process correctly to get the advantages of the Uranian body, then you might end up with dilemmas like
Alzheimer’s where the mind doesn’t seem to have any purpose.
The Primenode (Design Southnode) is the node that is related in terms of its Base orientation to the
Base orientation of the Sun/Earth. The Design Northnode, on the other hand, has a specific
relationship to the Personality. Here we have this crossing-over in terms of the Base orientation
because when it is different in the nodes. They have a different function. One is called a Primenode
and the other is called a Linknode. They serve different purposes.
When you look at the Base orientation of the Design Northnode and the Personality Southnode, you
see that the orientation doesn’t really fit with the rest of the Base orientation layout on the same side.
What you notice is that the Design Northnode has the Base orientation from the Personality side, and
the Personality Southnode has an orientation from the Design side. You notice in some people’s
designs that the numbers in the corners of the Base symbol are not in the same place. Here you see
that this is the place where the Personality and Design link across. These two nodes belong to the
other side, or you could simply say that they link to the other side.
But first it is the Primenode that links the essential information together and puts it in place. The
Design Primenode aligns the brain system to its world. The nodes establish what life must be. The
only way in which the Primenode and the Sun/Earth are going to be able to fulfil their particular
potential is if there is a holistic correctness. Think about the illusion of all this. It is all a frequency. It
is nothing but a frequency held together by the agency of the Magnetic Monopole. But the Magnetic
Monopole doesn’t control the frequency. It holds the illusion together, and the illusion of being held
together has a frequency.
The Linknodes
The Linknodes are magic. It’s all about the potential to communicate and demonstrate true awareness.
Basically, we are a binary creature. There are two things that are absolutely important for us. One is
that our vehicle operates correctly and, on the other side, that our mind gives up trying to control life.
The moment you look at the Linknodes, you see that these are all mechanisms. When we meet another
person, different elements of this are going to resonate to that person.
With the Linknodes you’re looking at the “sheriffs”, the “Monopole’s enforcement group”. They’re
just locking together what binds you to your life. On one side, it’s what is binding your Personality to
the body that you have, and on the other side it is the body preparing for the perfection of the
Personality.
The Design Northnode and the Personality Southnode (Linknodes) are holistic elements. In other
words, they are special elements that bind the vehicle to the potential of its Personality or vice a
versa, bind the potential of the Personality to the direction of the vehicle.
You can always tell when those relationships are shaky. They obviously can’t break – not until you
die – but the overall frequency of a human being is the thing that always matters. We are always
determined by the holistic frequencies. It’s why accepting your design and who you truly are is so
important. Through this you begin refining your frequency. You begin to tune the vehicle itself.
Remember, it’s not something that the Monopole can control. All it can do is use its power to hold us
together in the illusion, but it can’t determine the frequency of the illusion.
Through the Linknodes, the Design says to the Personality: “We are this kind of body so you’re going
to have to work that way.” And the Personality says to the Design: “I need to live out this so you’re
going to have to accommodate that.” This is the place where they communicate with each other. This
is the only place where we’re held together. In essence, this is where everything flows. This gives us
our cognitive potential.
Only if both Linknodes support and tolerate each other can one be a holistic being.
The Linknode is particularly interested in its orientation to certain kinds of Personalities, whereas the
Primenode is completely involved in the personal: what place and what position is best for us.
You’re actually getting to the social dynamic. They have two very different functions in that sense.
The Linknode is going to have an interest in certain Personalities and this is only something that may
work out if the Primenode is properly aligning the system first.
Human Design is about holistic healing. It is about healing the whole being. The thing to recognise
about this whole being is that it is not a component, it is a juxtaposed illusion. It has a frequency,
otherwise it would not be perceived. What we teach in Human Design is that this holistic vehicle can
have the right frequency. That’s what it’s all about, that’s what “correctness” actually is. When this
vehicle has the correct frequency, it means that the Monopole’s attraction frequency is actually able to
attract what is the pure frequency being released through the Crystal. That means not just simply the
thematic that is there in terms of the Colour (which is just an agency for releasing the frequency), but
the Tonal cognition that’s underneath supporting it. When the frequency of the vehicle is not correct,
the attraction frequency of the Monopole results in harmonisation. Harmonisation sounds like
something pleasant, but in fact it means you are attracted by things that have no value and are not
correct for you. It’s a shift of Colour three steps up or down. The release frequency that comes out of
Colour is always pure, but how it is captured is dependent on the illusion, because the illusion is the
life. Here, distraction happens and in Human Design we call this shift Colour Transference.
With the internal of the Personality (Sun/Earth), we’re looking at the potential of the mind – the
passenger’s conceptualising and the passenger’s way of organising a thought, as an example. The
bedrock of the Personality is in the internal Sun/Earth. It also holds the key to the idea of one’s path to
happiness. We are motivated by what makes us happy or unhappy. It’s what gives us a reason to “get
going”.
It is through the Linknode that the vehicle presents itself as being available and useful to its passenger.
It is the Linknode of the Personality that opens up the potential to be able to accept the demands of the
form, and the demands of the physical plane.
Not only do we have this opposition between the nodes, the fundamental duality that’s there, but
they have a different job relative to their orientation. The Linknode aligns the perspective to the
environment. The Linknode links Design and Personality. The Linknode is also interested in its
orientation to certain kinds of Personalities.
The Primenode is related, in terms of its Base orientation, to the way in which the Sun/Earth
operates. It determines the Personality and aligns your internal side with life. It aligns the brain
system to your life and its world.
The two Linknodes are the key to well-being in life, the key to the unfolding of the story line. This
is where the foundation of the story line is. They show how we are held together. It is really
remarkable what “linkage” brings. It brings the wholeness in the sense that it aligns Personality and
Design to what is a juxtaposed function. They are here to serve each other.
When you look at your Linknodes, you’re actually connecting to the essence of your identity,
regardless of whether that’s a defined identity or not. The real identity of a being is caught up in its
linkage. This is where you actually find your identity. Yes, the G Centre represents certain formulas,
but the reality is that somebody with an undefined G Centre is not somebody without an identity, just
somebody with inconsistent definition to the G Centre.
If the Linknodes form a Channel, your sense of wholeness is not determined by the other. It also means
you always have the mental strength to overcome any kind of difficulties.
The Sun/Earth is your Role, your character, but the nodes establish what your life must be and how
you connect to the other. The Personality Northnode is what’s going to establish the perspective or the
way in which it is going to see. In other words really, what it’s going to look at and recognise.
The Personality Nodes
The Personality nodes represent what the view or the perspective of the mind is going to be focused
on. In other words, what its style is going to bring to a particular perspective. Of course, that
particular perspective is something that is an essential ingredient for the development of that mind.
There’s something else to keep in mind: that this is a nine-centred vehicle. But the Personality isn’t
necessarily yet a nine-centred Personality. It’s still very much connected to its seven-centred history.
So it’s a struggle to get to the ability to be able to operate at its highest level, a new potential that is
embodied here in the nine-centred form. It is the form principle (of the nine-centred vehicle) that
needs to be respected now as the foundation for a process. In other words, we must trust the
intelligence of the nine-centred vehicle despite the remnants of an antiquated Personality.
So when we’re looking at the Personality and any aspect of it, one has to understand that this is the
last and most difficult task in the transformation of humankind. The real struggle ultimately is the
mental struggle.
Although this is all deeply intellectually stimulating, it is so important to remember that we live on the
“surface”, the illusion of the Maya, out of the juxtaposed Crystals, held together by the Monopole.
The fact that, for example, you can know somebody’s orientation, cognition, view, place and dietary
regimen – the explanation in and of itself is not and cannot ever be the point. The point is life, the
holistic life, the illusionary life. This is the point.
It’s why this knowledge is so deeply rooted in the “surface”. It’s on the surface that intelligent
people are stupid, because the surface is what it’s all about. And their surface is usually built on
transferred Colour. I don’t care how smart you are. There are lots of smart people in the world who
are really dumb. It’s what the “not-self” is. It is something that we need to remind ourselves of over
and over again (and anybody else interested in this knowledge): the point is to make decisions as
yourself. It’s why this is here in the world. It’s not here in the world so that a few can be educated in
an extraordinary way. It’s here to make life easier for human beings. It’s here to transform this process
and the “suffering” that is here on this plane by teaching simple things anyone can grasp and, through
it, transform their life. But “transforming your life” doesn’t mean “getting the life you want”! It’s the
surface (the illusion that’s created through the Monopole) where all this takes place. It doesn’t make
any difference what your Base orientation is if you don’t have correctness as the guide of your life.
Understanding is just a nice bonus. It’s your life that matters. And it’s the Design that needs to be
given its due from the Personality with its mind. The Personality must understand it’s not the centre of
the universe, that everything is connected and it can only find its place.
The real handicap is that the Personality still has not adapted to the concept of just being the
passenger in the Uranian body, to this nine-centred vehicle, this brand-new construct.
Again, it’s why it’s so important to begin this process of waking up the Personality and getting it
out of its seven-centred blues and getting it into a nine-centred groove. Something has to hold these
things, the Personality and the Design together that are so different from each other. Anybody who’s
entered into the process of Human Design comes to grips very quickly with the struggle between mind
and form consciousness. That’s why there are Linknodes. They’re the glue. They lock it together.
Through the relationship of the Northnode and the Southnode, a connectivity exists that arises out of
the potential of the Base orientation.
All this begins to show you there is a Fractal geometry operating at a very deep level that is related to
the relationship between Design Crystals and Personality Crystals. This is a Fractal relationship that
is ultimately expressed in the Base orientation. But you see there is a relationship that must exist for
the Personality to have that specific Design Crystal call it in. Again, that’s the work of the Magnetic
Monopole. It’s one of those places – the longer you work in Human Design – where the Monopole
becomes literally the centre of everything. It is literally holding all of it together. It is what makes it
all happen. It is the thing that is so fascinating. And of course, it is the Monopole with the Design
Crystal in the fetus that calls in the Personality Crystal. This is a Fractal line. This is a line of
geometry, a resonating frequency pulling it in. It’s the Monopole that gives us our dual consciousness.
It’s at the core of everything. What we need to understand is the way in which it is expressed. The
Monopole expresses itself specifically through the Linknodes; their relationship to the Moon and their
relationship to the functions that are there. And it all begins in that special relationship that exists
between those nodes rooted in the Base orientation.
The Nodes are the glue
The nodes are the glue that holds us together. It is the Primenode that holds the brain system to the
physical life. It is the Linknode that aligns the vehicle, not simply to the physical life, but to the
potential of Personality and self-reflected consciousness. This is the glue that holds us together. You
can see the function and the relationship to the Monopole. It’s the Monopole that has an attraction
frequency and holds everything together in the illusion of its separateness. It is the Monopole that is
expressing its power through the Linknodes and their ability to be the expression of it.
You have to see the Gates of all the nodes as signposts. If you can’t see them in your life, you are not
operating correctly.
The Design Primenode
The Primenode is always influencing the brain system, but the nodes are also all about your
relationship to the other. It’s something to grasp about the influence of other human beings on your
brain system.
The Primenode is aligning the brain system and the way in which the potential of the brain system
integrates into the life itself. In other words, what it does is that it orients the brain system to the life.
It’s not the brain system dictating what the life is going to be. What’s designed to run the show is our
capacity to resonate to what is good for us, which is something you cannot do unless you’re operating
correctly. The brain system has to align itself not simply to the way of life, but as we well know, to
the nature and the quality of the environment. This is a deep key in being able to have the brain system
correctly function.
It is the nodes from the Design side that are going to establish whether your brain system is going
to correctly function. It isn’t about what your natural potential is in that brain. Think about that. You
feed that brain the right nutrition and you get it already. But if it’s not aligned to the life, the brain
system isn’t associated with what is right for its potential.
The Design (North) Linknode

The Design Linknode is the bridge to the mind. It is the bridge to the Personality. In other words, it is
the way in which the Personality gets aligned to its vehicle, because this is where the vehicle is
designed to be open to the Personality system, only through the Linknode. Its concern is
accommodating the Personality, literally. It has to make room for the Personality and the construct. It
also is the way in which this person’s physical life is going to influence the Personality and the way
it’s going to influence the Personality, if it’s correct.
The Personality Primenode
When you get to the Primenode of the Personality, it is simply going to express a perspective for
conceptualising, because the Personality operates very differently. Here you have something that’s
very fixed. This is what the brain system has to adapt to. This is what the brain system has to align
itself to. With the Personality, the most important thing you get to see is what determines the
relationship between the node itself and the Personality consciousness. In other words, what is going
to bring together the potential of perspective and the potential of conceptualising. That becomes the
function of what is the Primenode. It is this Primenode that is going to link to the conceptualising
system. The Primenode is determining the Personality view, which is blinded by the harmonic Colour.
What you’re looking at is feeding your conceptualising.
The Personality (South) Linknode
The Personality Southnode is where the Personality is open to the body. Here in this Personality
Linknode is the possibility of being able to accept what is the Design’s authority over the vehicle.
The Personality Linknode is about the orientation to the other. It’s a message for the body and the
Design side that you have to do whatever that Gate is about and the body better be ready for it. It’s
something that’s important for the Personality and it’s telling the body through the Linknode.
Colour Resonance
Everything below the line level generally operates through resonance.
Same Colour = Resonance

Colour 3 up/down = Blind Spot/Distraction (Transference)
Everything else = no influence (neutral)
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e’re here to connect to the minds of others. The form principle (Design) has its own way of doing
things. But mind is not about the form principle. We are surrendered to the form principle. It’s not
why the Personality Crystal is here. It is here to connect to other Personality Crystals. You can almost
see that mystically in the concept of the shattering of the Crystals. Those Crystals that were in essence
one, that were divided by fault lines, we call Fractals. There is, if I can anthropomorphise, a longing
for Crystals to meet Crystals. The way in which this “movie” has evolved is that the only way we can
make contact with another Crystal is through the medium of passenger consciousness. There isn’t any
other way. The only way that we can recognise the passenger consciousness in another vehicle is
through the quality of our awareness and expression of mind. It’s what we’re here for.
The best way to look at Colour is that it’s the perfection before the bullshit. Colour is the exit
frequency from the Crystal. It’s pure, it’s perfect. It’s carrying all the right information. Then you hit
the Line level. You then get into the holistic world, holistic frequency, and the not-self. You get into
the possibility of everything being distorted. If the Monopole can’t properly capture the frequency,
you get Transference, distraction and blind spots. The absolute magic of Colour is lost. When you
connect to somebody at the Colour level, you’re connecting below the surface with them. There is
something very special about that because it’s very pure. If Colour could talk and say what goal it
would want, it would want you to have awareness so that your unique truth could be expressed, so
that the pureness of the Colour can move through and be delivered by a differentiated role.
The Monopole operates within a quantum illusion. The illusion has its frequency. It’s why Human
Design is so important. A mind that does not want to control life out of fear, desire (or whatever your
motivation is) can change this frequency. If you are living the “not-self”, then the Monopole’s
attraction frequency only attracts Transference, pulling you off course in life. The Colour might be a
perfect 3 and the Monopole grabs a 6, because the frequency is incorrect. But the moment you have a
mind and Personality that knows its place, the 3 that gets released is the 3 that gets captured. And of
course this begins the alignment of the whole frequency and the being.
From the moment you’re operating correctly, out of the special relationship that exists between the
nodes (because of their Base orientation), not only do you align your internal (the brain system), but
you also align yourself to what is the correct geometry or the correct positioning – the correct
alignment in the movement. It automatically translates through the Linknodes so that the perspective of
mind is altered before the passenger conceptually is ready to grasp the change.
When the dietary regimen is not correct, we get to see the homogenisation of the vehicle and in that
we get to see that its frequency is altered. In other words, the potential cognitive frequency that it has,
for example, is dampened down, is homogenised and distorted.
When you begin to operate correctly as yourself, when you begin to operate according to your
design, one of the things that changes is the very quality of your aura. One of the aspects on the Design
side in the Lunar & Planetary Square is the vertical potential to be able to initiate the aura itself and
to put the aura out. All of this is related to physically where you are. The tendency is that we bring
our frequency with us.
Our body does not remain constant when it is in auric contact with others. In other words, our
physical form adapts to the environment and it adapts to whoever we meet, whoever enters into our
auric field. All of this goes back to looking at the Design nodes. They establish a proper frequency for
being able to embrace the other.
You begin to see that the Monopole doesn’t just hold us together in the relationship of what is the
Moon to the nodes; this shaping of the body in a relationship to the positioning of the body. Here we
see the Monopole at work. The word is “glue”. You glue things together and you hold things together
with glue. That’s what I think the Linknodes are. They’re kind of gluing agents. They hold things
together, they hold us together. They are the key to maintaining a relationship between the Personality
and the Design. This is really what the story is. But they’re not born for each other. They’re not made
for each other. A Personality does not choose its vehicle. This is some bizarre New Age fantasy. It
doesn’t choose anything. And they are not similar.
“Resonance doesn’t resonate to resonance”. In other words, you never look at or directly compare
two individual’s Sun/Earth or both of their Lunar Squares. Instead, we resonate through our Lunar &
Planetary Square and the nodes to the other Personality (Sun/Earth). We resonate to the only thing that
actually gives off its own frequency, the Crystals themselves (Sun/Earth). We resonate to the
Personality Crystal as a Personality consciousness. Basically, you look at your Lunar & Planetary
Square Colours and see if the Colour of another person (Sun/Earth) resonates with things in your
square. You can also look if the other resonates with your nodes and is therefore a major part of your
perspective.
You can see that where you do have Transference/distraction in your design, fundamentally you get
blind spots, things that you really don’t see. The danger of Transference is that you think you do see
and that you do have valuable information. Transference, when it happens, disguises itself as correct
resonance. It looks and feels the same. This is why it can be so deceptive and dangerous. We all know
from conversations with friends those moments where a being is described to you and you just didn’t
see it. You just didn’t because you don’t have the design to see them that way.
Resonance is everything when it comes to being able to fulfil the potential of your life. It’s the other
side of the genetic imperative. It’s the other side of being conditioned. It is this attraction to what is
good for you. It is the perfection of our process. Ultimately, when you see Base orientation you’re
looking at an alignment that aligns you to those who are fractally going to be receptive to you or to
whom you are going to be receptive.
Everything about the experiment in Human Design is this shift to the body’s side. But it’s not just
about that. If you only treat a child coming into the world according to its design, you’re not raising it
as a nine-centred being, because a nine-centred being has a certain way of life. It’s a way of life that
has yet to develop, obviously. We’re still very young in terms of this knowledge.
As you go deeper into the Link and Primenodes and the way in which they operate, it opens up certain
signposts so you begin to see how well you’re aligning yourself. In other words, you see how well
your own alignment is going, both in terms of the brain system and the way you can measure that.
What’s fascinating is how each element in the substructure has a different, very profound quality of
magic. The Bases say: this is what holds us together in the illusion of our separateness. Tone says: the
illusion is going to look like this. Then you get to Colour and you see that life brings a lot of
Transference and Distraction. It is a movement of frequency in which Colour is the core of the
frequency “dilemma” that leads back to the Monopole.
Let’s begin with the Personality Primenode. What we know about the Primenode is that it has no
relationship to the other (Design) side. In other words, it’s not the Linknode. Its responsibility is not a
relationship to the body. Its responsibility is a relationship to the conceptualising capacity. The
Primenode determines the Personality view. Whatever any of the six basic views may be, they are
going to live themselves out through the frame of the Gate of the Primenode.
The analytical value of the Linknode is its relationship to the body, which is a totally different
thing. The Linknode aligns the perspective to the environment.
The Lunar & Planetary Square is where the experiential phenomena takes place and feeds the
perspective. These values, the resonances, become part of the mapping.
We resonate to things and people through Colour and Tone, but we live it out through the Lines.
You’ve lived these Lines all your life. Yet, you’ve lived them conditioned as if you were constantly
being instructed about how you could live out that role, how to express it. You lived your Lines by
being incorrectly motivated and through resonating to the wrong things and people. The great struggle
is with mind. Mind’s a bitch. Mind just doesn’t want to let you go. It’s so easy for mind to be
distorted by conditioning. It’s what everybody grew up with, it’s what everybody was conditioned to.
The future is about the quality of communion and the nature of communion. We’re here to express the
highest levels of cognitive potential. It is what we’re here to share. It is more important than sharing
our reproductive potential, which is going to diminish anyway because the odds against it being
productive for us are going to get slimmer and slimmer. The Solar Plex mutation leads to Rave, and
that’s not us and never will be. They will communicate differently. But the completion of our process
is here with the potential of awareness for the Personality. It’s in the Throat. This is what we are
about. There is nothing more inspiring than somebody’s genuine awareness and communication.
The only thing you can do for the mind is to give it signposts. What you can do to the body is much
easier. You just treat it correctly. If you do that, it will instantly respond. But the mind is different.
You have to keep on showing it things as you keep on pointing it towards watching. That’s how it
develops. It’s how you develop the first level of seeing.
We have the mundane level of seeing, looking out through your eyes. But there is a second level of
seeing: seeing the seer. The stage that you have to get to in order to begin opening up true
consciousness is that you’ve got to see your Personality. You’ve got to watch it.
Lunar & Planetary (Magic) Square

Most of what we think about in terms of our true uniqueness is established in the Lunar & Planetary
Square. The basic dynamic about how we experience life and the way in which we resonate to the
outside world really determines the way in which our uniqueness manifests.
We operate through Colour resonance. You have nine Gates that define your experience in the world.
All the world is a stage and the Rave I Ching is the script. They are just script-lines. But those nine
lines that you add up, start stringing them together because this will be an enlightening experience.
Take the nine lines you have and string them together with their keynotes, and work one by one
laterally. You will see what you’re designed to resonate to. You’re being given the whole script. It’s
what you bring to it. This is the beauty of what it is to be a great actor or actress. You get to see the
lines. You get to see how you are scripted to have an experience. Remember, this is not so much the
script of what you’re going to say in the sense of a script being given to an actor. This is the
background to the script that says you’re going to be interested in this and you’re going to be
interested in that; you’re going to like this and you’re going to want to talk about that. This is what
gives the lines their richness. It is the character, after all, that’s being developed here, the experiential
character. When you read your nine lines, you’re reading all that. That’s the director talking to you,
saying you have to bring a little of this to it. It’s all there. It’s a wonderful exploration.
The only thing that’s about you alone is the Sun/Earth. The moment you step into the Lunar &
Planetary Square, you step into the way in which you are being shaped for the world around you, and
the way in which you are being shaped for your perfection. It establishes the platform for your
presence to be such that the expression of your mind is something that resonates in others.
It’s what we’re here for. It is what the nine-centred being is all about. We are here to perfect our
form and through that able to finally give out to the world the beauty and the essence we carry. It’s
different, obviously, in each of us. It’s differentiated in each of us. You see that the dominant theme of
this vehicle is that it’s designed truly to set the basic course through life. Without a correct vehicle,
you are nothing. There is nowhere to go. Yet, that course can be so distorted, a being whose very
presence can be a disturbance in the world.
The Sun/Earth and the nodes just set up the movie. They say: “Okay, this is who you are. This is
the life you’re in. Here’s your story line, go for it.”
But the Lunar & Planetary Square says: “Yeah, very nice, but everything is about us and the other.
It’s always about us and the other. And if we cannot enrich the lives of the other, then we are poorer.”
We are here to enrich the lives of others with our awareness, with our unique truth, with the beauty
of what it is to be us in relationship to the other. This “presence” is a calling card. You don’t want to
go near people who are “unhealthy”. You don’t like it, and unhealthiness in all various ways in which
that can be experienced. We don’t like the dysfunctional aura, we don’t like going near a form that
doesn’t feel correct. We don’t like the sound in a voice that is disturbed. We don’t like any of those
things. If the presence is not correct, then you never get to have the allies in this life that you deserve.
When you have allies who are ready, it’s such a beautiful thing.
The Magic Square is where we experientially live our life. Everything else is interpretation. If you
want to be able to express your beauty, it doesn’t matter whether you understand a damn word about
Human Design. What matters is that you’re living correctly, you’re making decisions correctly.
Because ultimately, as you go through the cleansing process, and if you’re fortunate enough that it’s
correct for you to enter into your correct nutrition and environment, then you’re going to have these
opportunities to be able to see the transformation that takes place in your vehicle. Once you begin to
resonate to what is good for you, it becomes the theme for the way in which your form principle is
going to operate.
It is the Moon that acts as a conduit for the experiential phenomena to be moved into the control
system, into the story line, into the way in which both brain and mind are going to organise the
experience that they take in. No matter what the Moon’s relationship is to the nodes or the Sun/Earth
(I mean that relationship of resonance), it doesn’t make a difference. The Moon’s value always has to
be considered because it has the interpretive function.
The Moon literally grounds us to, and in, our story line. It gives us “gravitas”. It gives us the
ability to really live out the essence of what we are. It’s the Moon that’s holding the vehicle together,
that is giving the vehicle its solidity. On the Design side, it’s form. It’s the Moon that’s holding the
vehicle together, in a sense. It is the Moon that is giving the vehicle its solidity.
When we go over to the Personality, we see the Moon has an enormous influence over the way in
which we experience the world around us.
How Mars works is very important in terms of whether the other being is going to be mutated by you.
It’s really something special to think about. When you’re looking at your own Design Lunar &
Planetary Square, one of the fascinating places to go to is to your Mars. If you’re operating correctly
– and again that could be something like your dietary regimen or being connected environmentally to
what is correct for you – the moment that those aspects of body perfection are at work you become a
mutative force. Not simply within yourself, but in the way in which your form principle impacts the
other.
Mutating the other is important for all of us, because it is this very capacity of Mars that will break
down barriers in the other.
Your Design node is telling you what is the only way for you to be healthy in your life. This is the
most important thing to understand about your “story”. Your brain can be healthy. But it doesn’t mean
your life is healthy.
What happens here in the beginning of this process is that everything is going to get linked through
Mars. Mars becomes the central force. If you’re breathing in the truth and you’re exhaling the poisons,
you know that your temperature is correct. Or when your temperature is correct, you’re inhaling
correctly and exhaling correctly.
The Monopole has an incredible relationship to both the Moon and Uranus through the nodes. Uranus
represents movement, whereas the Moon represents gravity. Movement isn’t just about running around
or doing these kinds of things. It is about progress in the sense of movement through things, the
movement towards, for example, the spirit that is here.
It all goes back to the core of what the knowledge is. It goes back to understanding that Human Design
is first about the form principle. It’s about understanding that we nine-centred beings are here to be
healthy. Seven-centred beings were not here to be healthy. Every single disease that is still in the
world is a by-product of the seven-centred being. We’re here to be healthy in the same way that we’re
not here to be afraid. We’re here to be aware. We’re here to be healthy and to live out the fullness of
the Uranian life.
Take the example of somebody who has no direct Colour resonances in the mundane but in the
transcendent. The assumption might be: “Oh wow, isn’t that really terrific! Here’s somebody who’s
got this deep transcendent capacity.”
But recognise something: they have a real problem in seeing the world. These are the kinds of
Personalities who don’t really want to look at the world around them. They don’t think that the world
around them is going to present them with what is essential for them.
The seven-centred being had no purpose. That’s why they had to have gods and religions and
philosophies. They had to have all this stuff that gave them a sense of what they could be all about.
But they had no personal purpose. We have personal purpose. We are here to find our purpose.
What you see with Neptune is that when one is really correct, it is no longer the blind spot, it
becomes the limitation. In other words, so far, no further. There is only so far you can go in the way in
which you can see. Whenever you’re looking at the Neptunian value that’s here on the mundane, these
are areas where you need to tread lightly. The being that is correct is not going to put a lot of pressure
on themselves to trust this. Everybody’s got a Neptune blind spot. Everybody’s got a Neptunian
limitation.
Neptune plays a deeply distorting role when it comes to the Personality. It’s magnificent in the
body. It’s where it’s at its best, where its wateriness is the essence of what we are. We’re creatures
who emerged out of the sea. Neptune is in its glory in the body and the moment that you drag it over to
the Personality side as an imprint, it really leads to dilemmas. None of us are perfect in the sense that
we all carry with us elements of dysfunction, which is part of our differentiation. Neptune is always
pointing at those things that you cannot trust completely in terms of the way in which you see it.
It is Venus that establishes the way we are going to relate to the other. Basically, what this establishes
is discrimination. It is Venus that will decide who to experience as opposed to who it doesn’t want to
experience. If Venus doesn’t resonate with the nodes but resonates with the Sun/Earth, it means it
bypasses the seeing and goes straight to the conceptualising. In other words, when this person begins
to articulate that, when they begin to express that, they’re not going to be able to associate it with
actual phenomena, because they’re not actually getting that experience.
The mundane is a very fascinating place because it really shows you the limitation of somebody in
their day-to-day relationship with the world around them. The standard is the foundation. The
foundation is there to establish the way in which one, as a Base, looks out at the world around them
and experiences the world around them. This standard is the way in which this being is designed on
the mundane plane, the way they’re designed to experience the world around them. There is no good
or bad. When a human being is correct, it is all exactly the way it’s supposed to be. It can be
beautiful. It can become fiction. It can become a Personality that wants to philosophise, wants to
hypothesise, all of those various things that are possible, but it doesn’t mean that any of it is grounded
in what they actually see.
If you don’t establish the rules on the mundane plane, then you cannot communicate efficiently.
Everything about dealing with the other and experiencing the other is all about setting up the potential
of correct awareness, otherwise nothing of true value is going to be expressed here. This is where
“outer authority” is developed. On the other hand, everything about the diagonal is about
experientially being able to look at things that are not conditioned by fear. The mundane is all about
looking at things that are conditioned by fear. We look at the mundane world in order to be able to
protect ourselves, in order to be able to find our security on this plane. Here in the diagonal are those
things that can take us beyond that in different ways.
Uranus takes you out of the box. It’s a sidetrack, but it’s a sidetrack that can be so incredible to life.
With most human beings, they go along and they’re never out of the box. They never see out of the box
and they never think out of the box. They are very limited in the way they function and how they look
at the world. Most of these beings are not deeply connected to their experiential potential because
they’re so deeply homogenised and caught up in the brain trap.
Saturn’s constraint can become a platform for awareness. It gives you a hard time in an obvious way
if you’re not correct. Saturn is really a punisher if you’re not correct. It can make your life miserable
if you’re not correct and carries with it that power.
Pluto is a great teacher, because it says if you can get its story then you really have something. It’s a
journey. Pluto always offers this extraordinary journey towards one’s unique truth, whatever that
happens to be.
The Moon is your focus and is always specifically operating in relationship to the nodes and to how
your perspective is going to operate. The Moon is going to bring all of what is in the planetary square
into focus, especially the diagonal aspects.
Linknodes
This is the relationship that is there between the vehicle itself and the Personality – how the
Personality aligns itself, or where the Personality is linked to the body. Now of course, it’s not just
the Personality. It is a very finite aspect of the Personality. What we know about the Personality nodes
is that we’re dealing with a particular view.
How different we are from our seven-centred ancestors. The nine-centred vehicle (because we
have this potential to bypass the dependency on mind to be able to run our lives) opens up this
incredible potential for the mind to learn. Yet, there is no learning when the mind is simply occupied
with the rudimentary processes of staying alive on the material plane. The moment that mind is
occupied with all of the mundane of the material plane, its capacity to learn is incredibly reduced.
The Design Linknode connects over to the Personality. This is the way in which the perception (the
experience of taking in the world) is interpreted through the vehicle. In other words, this is the way in
which the vehicle itself is going to support that.
Take a look at your Linknodes and the way in which they resonate in their connection to either the
Design or Personality side. You’re going to get the keys that create the harmony within yourself in
which the vehicle and the Personality finally have a relationship that operates correctly.
The story line (Primenode) has no connection with the other side. But the Linknode is about your
cognitive potential.
The nodes take over from ages 30 to 50 (Saturn to Chiron). Before the age of 30, all that matters is
being raised according to your correct nutrition, Type, and other design aspects, but not your nodal
aspects. It’s at the age of 30 that the nodes begin to take over and create a “story line”. From 30 to the
Uranus opposition, they establish the right place and environment through the two Southnodes on the
Design side. From then until your Chiron return, it’s about developing your perspective and “outer
authority” (true awareness that can be communicated) through your two Northnodes on the Personality
side. A good method of interpreting the Gates of the nodes is by using the Primenodes as the adverb
and the Linknodes as the adjective that describe your road through your mid-life. The Linknode is a
supporting description.
Everything about the nine-centred being that’s correct by the time it gets to the Chiron is to emerge as
a differentiated uniqueness. There is literally no way of describing that. You can experience it, if
you’re fortunate enough that it comes into your existence. But you can’t describe it beforehand,
because awareness at the Chiron is intended to take over. When awareness takes over, one transcends
the rules and the standard. One transcends it all and goes beyond it. It no longer matters. It’s no
longer the point, because this is a passenger liberated from the mundane mind.
We put enormous pressure on our children to succeed at a very early age. Not only to succeed, but to
have a sense of where they want to go and what they want to be. It’s not just the parents doing that. It’s
the whole way the community and its institutions are operating. We’re pushing children through
training facilities, academic facilities, whatever you want to call them, and all of that cranking them
towards something that is going to allow them to maintain a certain level of material success in their
life. All of this is deeply self-centred. It’s what we inherited, after all; this deep seven-centredness
that permeates the world we live in, all of that was about getting things done quickly. They were
living, after all, in a Saturnian body. Back then, you’d better get your stuff done early because chances
were you weren’t going to survive for very long. There still is this headlong rush to define oneself in
this life so that by the time you’re 12 or 13 years old, there’s already this nascent plan that’s based on
all the conditioning you’ve received pointing you either happily, or not, towards some kind of future.
All of this pressure is horrendous, because maturity for the nine-centred being begins at 30. Only
when you get to your Saturn return can you actually begin to establish what your story really is. This
is where it begins. The story doesn’t begin until you’re in the correct environment.
It says something about what it is to be a child as a nine-centred being. You’re a child until Saturn.
If we think about that logically, we don’t want to put the burden and the responsibility of what your
life is going to be all about on a child. It is an unfair burden.
Whenever you’re looking at the nodes and the Lunar & Planetary Square, it’s always essential to
remember that this is a resonance mechanism. Its about the resonance between the Lunar & Planetary
Square and how it relates to the nodes or the Sun/Earth, how it relates to the environment, your
nutrition, people, your conceptualising, perspective and other things.
By looking at Colour resonance/Transference between the Sun/Earth and the nodes, we get to see that
the environment and the well-being in the environment is something that is deeply connected to the
dietary regimen. It’s going to make certain aspects of this more effective and more specific.
The Moon always has an influence, regardless of resonance. It is a bridge to the nodes.
Transference (Colour three up/down) is a secondary influence, and so is Colour to Tone to a lesser
degree, or Colour to Line to an even lesser degree. Resonance to Tone is significant because it
changes the cognitive process, even though we give priority to Colour/Colour resonance.
Personality Resonance
If we’re looking at the Magic Square as horizontals, we have the voice (expression), the heart (what
drives it), and the mind (how it is intellectualised).
We also see them separated into their two mathematical divisions, and the way the Magic Square is
broken down. Obviously, we have the verticals and horizontals, but we also have the mundane and
the transcendent. The mundane is the diamond configuration of Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune.
This is how the perception operates in taking in the mundane level of things. Here we have what is the
potential of an exalted perception. Sometimes words are really misleading. The assumption is that
one is better than the other because something called mundane is somehow lesser in its potential. It
really isn’t so. Strike that from your dualistic prejudice book. Exalted isn’t better than mundane.
They’re different because they have different functions. The mundane aspect is about dealing with the
world as it is. In other words, being grounded in taking in the experience of what’s there and what’s
there to be taken in.
The diagonal (transcendent) is something else. It is the way in which one can move beyond that
experience in the now and turn it into something else. In other words, it’s a place of elaboration,
fantasy, imagination or creativity.
We don’t process everything we take in. You have to look at what your Lunar & Planetary Square is
resonating to in the other person’s Colour (Sun/Earth). But what you’re going to take in (through
resonance from the world around you) isn’t necessarily what you’re going to deliver to your mind to
think about it. No matter what you’re taking in through the experience field, you’re always filtering it
down, leaving many things out. You don’t get anything from those beings who you don’t really
resonate to, and ultimately in the “not-self”, the mind is going to say: “Boy, they’re not for me.”
Neptune is a force that, even though it is in the mundane, is going to probe and discover those things
that are misleading. This works one of two ways. You either become a victim of it, or you become the
master of it. It’s one or the other. The not-self is always the victim of it.
The Moon takes whatever is accented in its zone and it focuses it, in its way, by delivering the
experience to the nodes.
Through the nodes, we have connections that move across to the Sun/Earths. Through them everything
about the database information gets integrated, but everything gets integrated to the nodal perspective.
If we look at the role of the Moon, it is to be a focus that aligns this to the direction and the form that
the nodes are going to take.
Through the nodes, we see how we are designed to be aligned to others. Seventy percent of our
programming is solar. Most of the rest of the neutrino programming is coming through the nodes. Yes,
the neutrinos are filtered by the planets, and yes, the planets are the triggers that bring activations. But
in fact, what they bring is a nuance to a framework that is already established. It is the nuances that
bring us the differentiation, therefore we need to see the planetary aspects relative to their
significance in defining the uniqueness. But also remember that they are always going to be
secondary. Because no planetary aspect, regardless of its position, can ever control the general nature
of the way in which that being is being constructed here. Of course it’s not simply that the Moon has a
special relationship to the nodes. We know the Moon has a special relationship to the Sun/Earth, too.
The aspects that colour us are determined by the outside world when they turn on and turn off. Think
of the lunar and planetary square as buttons that get pressed.
Everything about us in terms of our planetary aspects is all designed to resonate to the other. And they
resonate to the Personality and Design configuration of the other. Fundamentally, Design to Design
and Personality to Personality, although there is a crossover in that. It has to do with the nodes
themselves. What’s important is to see that the display of resonance and the transit field are not
attributes, they are a tendency. In other words, planets don’t have Colours. They are not
Consciousness Crystals. It doesn’t work that way. This is a position that they are sensitive to, the
frequency of that position. So, everything about the planets in how they operate is from a resonance
field that is coming from the other. Our relationship to every other human being colours (no pun
intended) the way in which we act. It’s really interesting to see the nuances, because when you begin
to map this out in relationships and friends you begin to see something that you could only see in
planetary fixings before (through exaltation/detriment in Gates).
The Moon is a player in integrating all attributes into a correct positioning of the vehicle or the
perspective (Design/Personality nodes). It is going to shed its specific light on the way all the other
attributes are going to operate.
Through resonance, the mind gathers experiential knowledge. All of this represents the way in which
the experience of life is taken in. Then the experience of life is processed within the cognitive
potential and it becomes the possibility of conceptualised outer authority ultimately.
The verticals (Alpha, Beta, Gamma) are the way we take in the experience. What that means is that
there is a unique relationship, as an example, between Moon, Venus and Saturn.
We have three ways in which we take in. We take in to develop a foundation (alpha). Here we see the
basic things we need to grasp in order to live in the world. What is the constraint that is there in the
world? What can you get away with and what can you not? What is the moral field of that plane?
What are the standards of relating to the other? What is the focus? Not everything in a vertical is able
to be activated at any given time. Not all of these are activations within the context of the Graph. They
may be in an open centre.
Beta is the development of our outer authority, which is the communication of our correct
awareness. The experiential input for the mind is broken up into different priorities. We have the
priority of the foundation which is basically not what you think about. It’s not the thing that gets to be
conceptualised, but it’s the thing that makes it possible for you to be able to take in the experiences
correctly and develop your outer authority. There are certain things we respond to. There are certain
things we resonate to that bring out the potential of the development of this outer authority in us.
Gamma is about learning, which is very different than outer authority. Outer authority isn’t learning,
but it’s specific to what you’re here to deliver in your outer authority. Of course, in order for you to
see that, you have to see the fully costumed Role with all the goodies that go with it to see it realised.
This learning, all of this, is about the other, the transpersonal planets, these outer forces. Here you can
see that these outer forces in the vertical are aligned to each other. Basically, this is what you learn
about others in the world. You learn to get sidetracked, you learn to get confused, and every once in a
while you get a little bit of truth.
The experience is taken in, now it’s time to take the experience out through the horizontals. We have
three horizontal themes: voice, heart and mind. The voice is where there is most pressure to get
things out. When I say “out”, remember everything about this construct is that it operates through
resonance. It resonates to things. We’re talking about a mental thing. It is the way in which the
resonating experience gets translated to the nodes. In other words, the nodes establish what the
perspective is: the place, the environment, the perspective. Then the experience fills it. Here is this
section of the experiential resonating force. This is what is trying to get the manager of perspective to
pass along to conceptualising as to what needs to be said.
The heart is the intangible. You can associate it with feeling, but it’s difficult to place that within the
context of the classic way of looking at the mind. It is what provides the underlying intensity, or not,
to the way anything that is going to be verbalised will be verbalised. This is about creating a certain
mental state that sort of is the condition of the Personality itself. It isn’t something that needs to be
expressed, though it tends to be revealed.
Then you have the mind, the last of the three rows. Here you can see what the mind “chews” on,
which it never expresses directly. The heart horizontal and the mind horizontal bring depth to the
voice, but it’s not like they are heard.
For the mind the rules are rarely clear (unless you have a very special kind of mind). With the
example of rules it means how Jupiter is going to resonate to the outside world based on its Colour. In
other words, is there resonance between Jupiter directly and the nodes? If so, it will immediately
bypass the Moon. Is there resonance directly to the Sun/Earth? If so, it will also bypass the Moon.
Yes, there is a natural relationship of the Moon to the nodes. But do they resonate? Because if they
don’t resonate, the experiential information goes through in a different way. Everyone in their design
is focused on trying to get things out through that Moon. Yet, you have two forces that don’t need it.
For many human beings, how their perception operates is dominated by one of these two: either
dominated by the way the world is laid out – the outer authority through the Jupitarian quality – or the
misinformation/disinformation mind. These become mental problems.
Then there are those people who have resonance from either rules or misinformation. A direct
resonance of these to either the nodal or the Sun/Earth configuration immediately establishes a certain
level of confusion in the way perception operates. As a matter of fact, given the example that there
could be direct resonance to the Sun/Earth, this might entirely bypass the perspective. The mind is
conceptualising the information of rules without it being based on any real perspective or without it
being based on any real experience.
The same thing is true for misinformation. If this is in direct resonance, then you know right away
that one is resonating to something that is taking you in another direction. There are two ways of
dealing with this. You’re either dealing with not-self in which misinformation becomes a deep
rooting for how the not-self mind is going to see things, or it’s going to be a real gift in terms of being
an aspect that makes your differentiated ultimate outer authority so special.
Mars
When you begin to operate correctly, the frequency of Mars changes, and it starts becoming the
organiser and key of your mutation to differentiation, to be different. It is the key to mutate the way in
which you experience life, the way in which you take in the world. It’s in the sense of Mars being the
young energy – this refreshing new start, like starting over.
The experience is going to be just an ordinary thing when we’re dealing with verticals or laterals
only. But the moment that the frequency of Mars changes us, the diagonal comes alive. As long as a
human being is not correct within the formulas that we know, there is no way these diagonals even
exist. Their frequency is just not there and Mars does not play out its role. Basically, the way in
which the Magic Square operates is according to its fundamental (in/out) prana only. This is the way
in which the experiential phenomenon is taken in: the breathing in of the experience, the taking out of
the experience, and ultimately going through the Moon and the focus.
In this basic program, Mars is part of the horizontal and the vertical. There is no diagonal in this,
even though the potential of the diagonal is there. But again, this is dependent on the frequency of the
Mars. In this case we’re looking at the Personality, where our Mars is of enormous value. It governs
the way in which our mutation can take place – in other words, the transformation of a being into its
differentiated fulfilment. Here is a key to it. The mechanism of this whole process in bringing
mutation to the surface, changing through experience the nature of the being. Certainly at this level,
changing the way in which perception operates, in other words, mutating the perception. It changes
how we see ourselves. It changes how we look at the world around us. It changes what we need.
With the mutation of Mars, you discover your “I am” through your Saturn. The constraint of the “I
am,” the truth of what you see and what you judge. The sidetrack becomes the created expression of
what our outer authority can actually produce. The moment we change this frequency and the moment
that we engage the diagonal is the moment that every single aspect in our system is being aligned.
We have all been conditioned from birth through food conditioning and psychological conditioning.
All of it is rooted in maintaining a seven-centred rooted ignorance and no real emergence of nine-
centred beings. These diagonals are what this is all about. This is the mutative driving force that is
able to change the way we operate in the world, how ultimately we see the world through our
experience.
The horizontals and verticals of the Magic Square are the domain of the “ordinary” mind. Ordinary in
the sense that, yes, it can be very intelligent, IQ-wise, for example. It can be smart in the way of its
life. But this is not where awareness is. This is the “ordinary” experiential mind. There is something
hidden inside of it, because it’s not operating here. It does not exist in the ordinary mind.
There are two kinds of maps. There is an experiential map which is the foundation for existence –
the experiential information necessary to provide the mind with the conceptualising directions so that
it can grasp the world that it’s in and ultimately give it its outer authority. This is the ordinary mind,
the non-transcendent mind, the non-aware mind. This is about the intelligence necessary to be able to
exist on this plane, but also driven by fear. It is basic, necessary information. The people on this
planet who you think are smart all belong here, because they never get what’s hidden inside.
And then we are looking at the transcendent, experiential potential. The transcendent, experiential
potential is locked to the Base orientation. This is the material of outer authority. The other stuff is
just “background”. The moment you move from being smart to being aware, this becomes the way in
which you see. This is how you experience at this level. It’s a change of frequency. Think about the
Lunar & Planetary Square as a music box and it plays a music that is a mundane lullaby. All of a
sudden when you’re aware, you realise there’s something else there. You hear something else. You
see something else. You know something else.
The Lunar & Planetary Square is how we take in the experience and it’s taken into the head centre.
It’s stored in the deep grey areas of the brain. It comes back in different ways depending on the basic
circuitry in the Graph. How it’s going to come out depends on whether your mind/brain system is
Rave-like or human-like, but this is the way it works.
The way it goes in (what is going in to be stored) is what is received from this. It has nothing to do
with the Sun/Earth or nodes. It has nothing to do with the Variables. None of them have anything to do
with the experience. They deal with the experiential information, hone it, bring it to a perspective and
bring it to a conceptualisation. But without the Lunar & Planetary Square nothing is going on. We
experience life through the Magic Square through resonance. Resonance is the “nice” side of the
genetic story. Instead of being attracted genetically to what isn’t good for you, here is the possibility
to be attracted to what is good for you. It is this attraction that brings in the experience of the world
that gets stored.
The way you experience, obviously, is everything. It’s not about the Sun, Earth and nodes. This is just
a movie playing. The nodes set the stage for you, they open up the panorama that you look at. The
Sun/Earth then puts on the costume and does a big dance on its Cross. All of that is very nice and
good, but you must have something to chew on. You must have experience. And yes, you indeed have
a unique way of taking in experience. It’s through the Magic Square. The Colour of the nodes is going
to be responsible for the perspective, the View, the frame through which the experience will be seen.
What happens to you when you become aware is that there are so many things that drift away and no
longer attract you. You don’t resonate to them anymore. Even though there’s a force there that can
condition that resonance, you don’t resonate to it. You’re only going to resonate to what is there in the
Martian diagonal, because this is what your awareness is based on. It means in essence moving away
from the mundane, limiting what you resonate to. There’s a difference here from the nine possibilities
of resonance rooted in the Magic Square and the five that emerge in the diagonal. It means four of the
ways in which you have been experiencing your life disappear. The potential in all of this knowledge
is to have signposts. No longer resonating to those four aspects is a signpost that you’re already
resonating at the awareness level. Venus will rob you of your opportunity to be aware. Mercury,
Jupiter, and Neptune are out to get you. Everything has this side and that side. Yes, they will do their
job, because that’s the job they do. What happens when you take away the standard is that you take
away all the damn rules. You take away the misinformation and suddenly you have awareness.
So look at them in your chart. Because here you can see what pulls you to the mundane plane in the
way your mind works – all those rules, all those old things that have been set in stone, all those
habitual ways in which we have communicated and all the bullshit that you paid attention to. It
doesn’t mean that Venus and Mercury are bad. It’s about when you’re aware that you don’t resonate to
them anymore. You end up experiencing life differently. You experience it without rules. As long as
you’re operating in those horizontals and verticals, as long as you have that diamond sitting there in
control, there is no way that the diagonal can emerge.
Mercury is controlling your voice, Venus and Neptune are controlling your heart, and Jupiter is
controlling your mind. If you experience life through them, then you’re experiencing it on the mundane
plane. Although there may be intelligence in that, it’s no longer something to be rewarded. It’s no
longer enough to be smart. The world is filled with smart evil people, smart good people, and they’re
all lost. They think they’re so smart. They’re locked to it, which means they’re also locked out of
awareness.
If you’re a nine-centred being who is raised correctly, from the time you have your Saturn return until
the time you have your Chiron is when this process of resonating correctly to experience gets
perfected. It doesn’t get perfected overnight. It takes 20 years. Twenty years of moving more and more
into the diagonal and moving further and further away from the diamond that is trying to call you back
to the ordinary level of awareness. In a sense it’s creating a kind of “super distraction” pulling you
away from those things you’re intended to resonate to as a higher awareness. Venus, Mercury, Jupiter
and Neptune will be dragging you to other things that are going to lock you in at the surface level, not
allowing you the benefits of awareness.
Venus
Venus is the most dominate force on the mundane plane, in terms of mundane consciousness. It is very
much the goddess that rules our interrelationship on this plane and the way in which we relate to the
other – the way we are going to see the values in the nature of life. It sets a standard in terms of what
you don’t like to see. Venus is what is going to set the basic standard in how you’re going to
experience things. It sets a structure. It is a kind of morality structure, if you will. With the diamond
(Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune), you’re looking at a survival mechanism with all its fears and
insecurities. It’s why the basic square is what you’re intended to work with for your first 30 years,
where you build your basic intelligence. But once it’s been grasped and you’ve been raised according
to your dietary regimen, once you’ve been raised according to your design and you operate correctly,
that’s when you leave that behind. You just don’t resonate to it any more.
It doesn’t matter, by the way, whether Mars is exalted or in detriment. Detriments are not a bad
thing. They are more interesting than exaltations. Only when you’re aware do you appreciate them.
Because they’re wonderful.
The Diamond rules the seven-centred being
If you want to see nine-centred awakening, it’s right in front of you. It is the dropping of the resonating
“concerns” that you see in the diamond about how you navigate in the mundane world. Those
concerns are only elements that drive the not-self mind and they fade away as you begin resonating to
the diagonal. Then you’re resonating to the very foundation of your true outer authority. The sidetrack
is no longer a sidetrack, but it’s your sidetrack. Truth is no longer the common truth, it’s your truth.
It’s your “I am”. Your constraint is no longer based on anyone else controlling you. It’s your mutation,
nobody else’s. It is your focus. It’s all about you, nothing else. It’s an extraordinary mutation. It is
simply this refinement.
As you move further and further away from the fear for your own survival, at all the little levels
that bother you at the mental plane, you move further away from the seduction of the diamond to keep
you locked to mundane intelligence. You begin this refinement of moving and resonating to what is
your potential for unique awareness. It’s how you experience the world. It’s only here within the
diagonal that you get your unique specific way in which you’re intended to resonate, your truth to find
it, your way, your track, your life, your focus out of the mundane. Totally alone, totally pure. This is
what’s intended to feed your mind.
Everything about the way we experience the world is in the square. We also know that the way in
which this operates is through resonances – both to the outside in terms of the way it resonates to the
experiential phenomena, and to the inside in the way it resonates to either the nodes or Sun/Earth.
If someone’s nodes and Sun/Earth don’t resonate to anything in the Lunar & Planetary Square, it
doesn’t mean one has a problem. It means that in terms of the way in which their differentiation is
going to operate, they need to have zero connection to their own life process. Nothing is based on
what they’re going through. Everything is just based on what they’re seeing, because they’re not
resonating to it. Not only that, but the way they’ll see is the resonance they have to what they see out
there and becomes their vicarious experience. The Personality is so different than the body. It needs
to understand, to know, and to make sense of. The Personality needs to grasp things. The deeper it
grasps, the more empowered is its process.
But, if something doesn’t resonate, it doesn’t fit into the View – if it doesn’t fit into the View and it
doesn’t fit into the conceptualising – then it’s simply something that’s out there and the mind doesn’t
pay any attention to it, because it is not in its thought process. Even when it’s noticing it – maybe
noticing that one is suddenly volatile or somebody is suddenly emotional – it’s not that this person
doesn’t notice. They don’t think about it. Not at all. And you know why? Because they are designed
like that.
We’re not here to have a mind that tries to figure out what this should be and that should be and
the other thing should be. That’s the not-self. When it comes to the way in which the Personality is
intended to operate, it is to take advantage of what works for it and to hone its perspective with
exactly the right experience. This takes deep surrender. Hands in the air!
Uranus (sidetrack)
If you’re “not-self”, if you’re caught in the homogenised Program, look at wherever Uranus is.
Understand that wherever it is, whatever Gate it is in, it is going to catch you experientially. It’s going
to sidetrack you. In some cases it will be minor. In other cases it will be major, but you’re going to be
sidetracked. Everything about Uranus is that there is ultimately a track for you. Sidetracked, not in the
not-self sense of being “distracted”, but sidetracked in the sense that it takes you on a totally different
track. That’s the potential. In the diagonal, it literally represents that other track. But in the vertical
it’s part of learning.
Neptune (misinformation)
Misinformation is a wonderful thing because it’s not disinformation. It’s not a plot. It is about what
you’re not supposed to be looking at. If you’re not looking at it, then you’re going to experience what
you need to experience. Now, that’s not an easy thing. The nature of Neptune making it so
extraordinary is that when it sits on a Gate, there is no way you are ever going to find out what’s
going on here. You will see evidence of what it is, but you will never get to the essence of it, because
you can’t get through. You’re not supposed to.
Base orientation is an amazing thing. Literally, you are looking at those forces that are precisely the
right forces. Base orientation always points you in that direction, to the Base orientation of the other,
that is going to be correct, that is going to align to you. In other words, basically it is refining the
frequency. The moment that frequency is refined, it is literally expressed through the way in which
Mars operates. The moment the frequency is right, the moment the Base orientation is right, is the
moment the whole mundane process fades away. This is the moment Mars empowers the diagonal
and unifies it in this process. With everything operating in a kind of “T” that then goes to the Moon,
regardless of the fact that it is a “movement” field. This is the synthetic centre of what is a Base field.
Every human being has a very specific Base orientation. It’s through Base orientation at the higher
level that one is energised in the way that is correct. This is all about experiencing through a
perfected resonance, a resonance to what is there according to the alignment of the Base orientation.
Design Resonance
Our inner well-being is presented by the quality of the aura that we put out. This is our “calling card”
to the world and the beings around us. Whatever is wrong with a human being is carried in their aura
and everybody who comes into contact with their aura takes it in deeply.
Everything that can be carried in the aura can be heard in the voice. Now, it doesn’t mean that you
or the other consciously hears that. But this incredible relationship between the aura and the voice is
really something that is deeply fascinating, because the aura is something that is almost invisible.
Most beings are obviously “not-self”. So, for example, when you’re looking at the theme of presence
there are going to be issues that will arise in these four areas of the diamond shape of the Design
which will be visible. For example, you’re going to see beings who are either under- or over-
hydrated; complexions that range from being sickly to being damaged; voices in which there are all
kinds of fundamental weaknesses in the voice itself; and auras that give off terrible frequencies. All
of those things become self-evident the moment you look at it.
Most human beings do not give off their presence. They are not present. There is only a
conditioned body there. It’s not their body. It’s why those bodies get sick. It’s why those bodies have
so many problems. It’s why the relationships that they have are not fulfilling. It’s really something to
see that most human beings are walking around with a presence that’s not them, and it’s kind of
horrifying.
The duality that we deal with, in terms of our genetic purpose, points us in two different directions.
One points us according to the genetic imperative, the biological imperative to reproduce. You cannot
separate the biological imperative to reproduce from what it is to be us. On the other side is the
beauty of understanding that we are not just prisoners of our genes. There is also this incredible
potential that lies within our genetic purpose, the genetic possibility of resonating to what is good for
us. If you’re operating correctly, what you resonate to on the attraction level (the genetic imperative,
the openness) isn’t necessarily bad. But also, what we see with resonance is that resonance itself isn’t
something that’s going to be a constructive aspect until a being is holistically correct.
The Moon is a key ingredient in the way in which the experiential information is related. In this case
of the Design, the experiential information isn’t being related to the Personality mind, but translated to
the brain itself, and with that to the entire body.
What is resonance? We know the Magic Square inherently has no properties. What I mean is that
everything about the way in which it operates lies in its experiential relationship to the world around
it. This is what turns it on or not. What I want you to grasp about the nature of our vehicles (our
bodies) is that they are selectively resonating to the physical experience around them. Of course, what
that means is various aspects of our form principle are on-and-off-switches. Anything that is going to
resonate will have a physical impact.
So think about Neptune resonating. Here we see something that is called Lateral Reactivity and a
theme of Liquid and of Hydration. When Neptune is resonating at the hydration level, the temperature
level and the complexion of a being is going to change. It’s quite something to grasp.
The aura is so significant. There are two values of well-being or zones in this holistic life. You have
the internal and you have the external. The external, if I can put it crudely, means that 50% of your
well-being is dependent on the environment and who you’re with. Because who you’re with in any
given situation is going to alter the way in which your body works.
The Personality is who you think you are. It goes back to basic Human Design. The Magic Square on
the Personality side is how your perspective frames the experience (however the experience comes
in) and it gets conceptualised. This is what you’re connected to. This is your trip.
Design resonance isn’t about you. It’s about the other and about the Program, which is one of the
main instruments to homogenise the world of human form. It does that by bringing the same impact to
the Magic Squares of all of those human beings on the Design side.
Obviously, without a “correct” body on the Design side you’re not going to be able to have that
opportunity to resonate to what is good for you. There are some people who may be totally boring
intellectually, psychologically or whatever the case may be, who can be absolutely delicious for your
body. It is something to grasp about the other in our lives that if we stay with our minds, we never
truly get to recognise all those possible others. We have our prejudices. It’s what mind is about. It
gets stuck in thinking that these are the only kinds of people who one can connect to. The thing to
understand is that this can be devastating for your body. The only way your natural resonance field is
going arise is out of embracing your true nature, free from fears and overcontrol in terms of where
your life is going. It basically arises out of taking away all that heavy decision-making from the mind,
and only then will you begin to resonate to what is correct for you.
The advantages of the correct environment are extraordinary in terms of the ways we interact with
others and the durability we have in our life process. The correct environment has to do with quality
of life and longevity. Those are things that are very important to us, particularly to us as nine-centred
beings. Longevity wasn’t a big story for the seven-centred being. They lived fast and hard. But we
have a different form principle. In order for us to be able to fulfil our potential, we need 84 years
(Uranus cycle). This is what we’re being programmed for. The Chiron return is now our time of
flowering, a door that opens when somebody is in their 50’s. To the seven-centred being this would
have been absurd.
Of course you can help yourself on the internal side. You can prepare your brain for the best
possible activity, for example with correct nutrition. But it is your relationship to the other that is
going to determine your physical well-being. It’s who is in your aura. It’s always going to be that way
for you. One of the most difficult things about trying live your truth is that you have to deal with all the
rituals of the past and get rid of them and be able to start fresh with everything in your life. That’s an
enormous leap to take.
We do not have a body that’s fixed in any way, any more than we have an experiential perception that
is fixed in any way. We have a fixed brain and a fixed way in which we perceive and conceptualise.
But there is nothing fixed in the way in which we experience. That means that your body can go from
being marvellous to useless. It’s just a matter of the environment and who is in it.
The Moon always has an influence because it’s connected to the nodes. It may not be the dominant
influence. That will depend on the resonances. There are some people who seem more “solid” than
others. The difference between feeling solid or fragile, as an example, is rooted in the gravity that’s
here. It’s not something that’s nature, it’s what you resonate to or not. So many things about your body
and the way it works (your assumption about your body and the way it works is that there is some
kind of consistency) is a great joke. It is something that is operating through on-and-off switches all
the time.
By the way, you have to understand something about hydration. There is a tendency, for example, for
some people to get into trends about the liquids they drink, or how much liquid they drink. They are
told to drink a zillion ounces of water a day, and all this stuff. It is incredibly dangerous. This theme
of hydration is a way in which we are able to harmonise with the world around us or not. Of course,
one of the things about the weakness we have in the vast majority of humanity is the tendency to be
attracted, rather than resonate to, what isn’t going to lead to good hydration. Only resonance brings
out the correct hydration. The other thing is that the water level in your body, the quality of the water
level in your body, is something that the other notices. It’s something rather fascinating to think about.
Complexion is kind of obvious. It’s about the overall quality of your skin, the skin tone, and for
example the way the skin is wrapped on the muscle and bone – the physical shell. But hydration is
something else. To see somebody who is over-hydrated or somebody who is severely dehydrated
gives you an idea of how much fluctuation there is in the way in which the basic vitality of the body is
demonstrated.
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The Circuits
Overview
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ll the Channels in a Graph are part of a Circuit. Every Circuit has a specific way of operating and has
its own keynote. It takes a number of Channels to fulfil the theme of a Circuit, which means one
Channel is only an aspect of a larger theme that it serves. Before you start looking at a Channel, it
always helps to understand the bigger theme of the Circuit that it belongs to, since the Channel is only
a nuance of it and must be seen in context.
Also, take into account that any Channel in a Circuit can be either conscious (Personality) or
unconscious (Design). If it’s conscious, you are aware of whatever this Channel and Circuit can do,
but if it’s unconscious you seem to have no control over it. It just comes out of you and can even
embarrass your Personality at times as the Personality usually wants to control things. But because
things just “surprise” you from the unconscious side, they are also kind of innocent. They are pure.
We have three main Circuits and, in addition, a few Channels that don’t belong to any Circuit:
Communal Circuit (Willpower & Defence sub-Circuit)

Collective Circuit (Logic & Abstract sub-Circuit)
Individualistic Circuit (Knowing & Centring sub-Circuit)
Collective Circuit
Keynote: Sharing
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he Collective Circuit group is impersonal. It is about establishing something in general, as opposed to
what it could mean for one specific individual. When you deal with specific individuals, you are
always dealing with the Communal Circuit. The saying it is good for society yet, must come from the
Collective Circuit.
Any activation you have in this Circuit means you have the obligation to share it with others, with
the collective. It consists of two sub-Circuits: Logic and Experience. The Logic Circuit is always
looking into the future, while the Experience is looking into the past. Logic is looking at patterns that
work and is trying to apply them in the future. The Experiential process is trying to process
experiences from the past and only has the experience itself to show for. It can say: “I did it and I can
tell you about it.” There is no other reward and – in a world dominated by logic – it is underrated.
Yet, it is a great art to be able to condense the past in such a way that it can be shared in the now and
illuminate the future.
If you have an unconscious Channel, you will always share without seeming to having any control
over it. If you are a Worker you only share in response, if you are a Supporter you need to be invited
to share. If you don’t, you will meet resistance and rejection. And please understand that sharing for
the Collective person is a one-way street. A person with Collective Channels is sharing its own
process, but not necessarily interested in other people and all their stories.
Keynote: Sharing
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ogic is always looking for a pattern so it can move into the future securely and without fear. It’s
centred around the Spleen, which is all about intelligence and awareness, and finding a pattern that is
better than the previous one. It’s always looking for improvement. The Collective does not create
anything new. That’s what the Individualistic Circuit does. The Collective is the process of perfecting
something that already exists in the world. The original inventor was probably someone from the
Individualistic group, but the Collective Logic perfected it and made it known throughout the world.
Logic always fights for energy to express itself as it has no access to a Motor from the Throat.
Therefore, it establishes its patterns through struggle.

9–52 Concentration / A design of determination, focus
Keynote: Sharing
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he Experience Circuit is always looking into the past, consolidating it, understanding the experience,
and learning from it. It is only interested in the experience itself when entering into it, whereas Logic
asks: “What will it bring for us when we do it?” The Experiential can only reply: “I don’t know if
there will be any benefit for us, but someone has to do it and I am the one who can tell you about it
later.” The Experience Circuit is the force of evolution itself. Without the Experiential process, we
would not evolve as human beings in the way that we have. It is our journey through all the
possibilities of life and sharing these with others. It is the most “human” of all Circuitry. It doesn’t
have the same awareness like the Spleen, so there is neither stability nor security here.

35–36 Transitoriness / A design of being a “Jack of all Trades”
30–41 Recognition / A design of focused energy
42–53 Maturation / A design of balanced development, cyclic
Communal Circuit
Keynote: Support
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he Collective person will share with you, but it is not necessarily personal. The Individualistic
person will do its own thing and it might empower you, but they are probably too busy doing their
own thing to care either way. But when you get to the Communal Circuit, it gets very “sticky”. The
Tribe is not concerned about sharing with you and it doesn’t care if you are empowered as an
individual. What they care about is what kind of support the relationship has. It is the Tribe that says:
“If you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.” For Communal Circuitry, the keynote is the word
support. And for support to happen you need to get close enough to “smell” them. It’s all about
personal bargains made or not. “My wife supports me,” could only be said by a Communal person.
An Individualistic person would find this statement suffocating, but for a Communal person it works.
The Tribe is the most intimate of the Circuits in terms of senses like body odours, touch, and taste.
For example, the family recipe that is handed down as a form of family identity, or the handshake to
seal a deal, or the blood bond between best friends, or remarks about the guy from out of town who
smells funny. This is all within the Communal realm. But the most important thing to remember is that
it is about making deals that guarantee support. “I’ll clean the house and feed the children if you go
out and work to make the family money.” Without this kind of deal-making, we would not survive as a
species.
There are two parts to the Communal Circuit group: the Willpower Circuit, which is about building
the community and making money for the community, and the Defence Circuit, which is in general
about making children and raising them.
Keynote: Support
32–54 Transformation / A design of being driven (Ambition)
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ehind the image of family and community, the Willpower Circuit is really all business. It is the
business of making and maintaining families and communities, and distributing and spending money.
If you look at the Channels, you’ll see they are all ruled by the Willpower. There is no Sacral here, so
there is no generative quality. The Sacral Centre is the prerequisite for existence. However, if it were
not for Communal Circuitry, we would not be able to look after ourselves. This whole Circuit is an
Initiator. Thus the theme of the Willpower Circuit is to manifest, to go out there and be busy so that
you later can come home and rest.
Because there is no Sacral, the two streams that go from the Root all the way to the Willpower Centre
are projected streams (54–32, 44–26 and 19–49, 37–40). The Willpower Circuit Channels are
desperate to be recognised, because they are Supporter Channels (no connection to the Sacral and no
connection to Throat). They are waiting to be recognised so they can be in control of the
manifestation. One of the unusual things about the Willpower Circuit is that it only has one connection
to the Throat (45–21). Therefore, it only has one possibility to manifest, only one voice. If you look at
the other Circuits, they have their outlet to the Throat, but they also have more than one Channel. So,
what is this one Channel? It is the 45–21, the Channel of the materialist. It’s all about making the right
deals that will guarantee the right kind of support and that, in turn, will make enough money to feed,
clothe, build and entertain the community, family or tribe. It’s the voice that always communicates in
terms of We have… or We don’t have…. They always talk about having enough or not enough.
Support is a two-way street. Nothing is free. Nothing comes without a price. The Collective might
share with you and not expect anything except someone who is willing to receive the sharing. But if a
Communal person gives you something, you better have something to give in return or you are in
trouble. This is called the deal, the bargain. The deal can be sealed in many forms. It can be cultural,
as in bringing presents to a birthday party. It can be shaking hands with the signing of a contract or
kissing at a marriage ceremony. But once the deal has been sealed, the Tribe expects both parties to
keep their end up, or else the support falls apart.
Capitalistic or Social
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hen looking at the Channels, keep in the back of your mind their flavour. To the left of the Willpower
and Root Centres, you will see the capitalistic side, to the right of them the social side. Channel 54–
32 is all about ambition and 44–26 is all about selling. They represent capitalism, making money for
the Tribe or making money off the Tribe; getting ahead financially in the world. On the other side, you
have the Channel 19–49, which is about being sensitive to the needs of the Tribe, both physical but
also spiritual, and also the 37–40, which is about creating and nurturing a community, the social
elements. This time it is not so much about making money, but about creating the social framework of
the Tribe.
Together, you have on one side the ability to make the money that can support the Tribe and on the
other the ability to create the social framework that holds the Tribe together.
The capitalists say: “Let’s have a free market and whoever can transmit better will get richer, and
hopefully everybody will transmit a little bit and will be fine.”
On the other side, the socialistic elements say: “Yeah, that’s all good, but if we don’t have social
services, if we don’t have welfare, those people who can’t transmit are going to do really badly.”
Don’t forget, all Communal Willpower Channels have to be recognised by the Tribe in order to work
(projected Channels). On one side, we have “Let’s gather!” and on the other, “What are we going to
do with what we’ve gathered?”
Keynote: Support
59–6 Mating / A design focused on reproduction (intimacy)
27–50 Preservation / A design of custodianship (caring)
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his is a minor Circuit of the Communal Circuit group. In the Willpower Circuit, you saw everything
about making money and building the larger community structure through making deals and gathering
support. But none of that is of any use without children, so everything about the defence Circuit is
about making children. It is about bringing them into the world and looking after them. You can see
how it is protected within the Tribe if you look at the Graph. It’s surrounded by all these Communal
Channels like a wall. The Sacral Centre is in the Centre of this minor Circuit, which is another reason
the Sacral Centre is such a key player in the creation of life. It is the sexual Centre that creates life,
but it is also the driving force that sustains life. On one side, you have the 59–6 where conception
occurs and on the other side, you have the 27–50 where caring for the child is carried out. One thing
is very clear: a person with any of these Channels is a Worker and everything must come out of a
response or that person could end up having children with the wrong person or caring for the wrong
community, which is frustrating and could leave that person feeling drained.
The Not-Self and the Tribe
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f you are your “not-self”, you will be hooked into so many things that are not good for you like blame,
shame and guilt. No Channel is pretty in the hands of the not-self. For example, the 27–50 theme of
caring can be one of the most ruthless and abusive energies if it is distorted. The themes of support
are underlying bedrock themes and if you enter into relationships as yourself then your particular
Tribe will operate correctly within the constraints of what it is to be Communal.
It is important to think about this within the context of the Defence Circuit. So much suffering happens
within the family Communal unit due to parents not living their design. The parents may suffer from
this, but it is the children who often end up damaged. Without the proper support in the Communal
arrangement due to the parents not living their design and not entering into things correctly, the
dynamics of the 59–6 and 27–50 will not work and the children will not be raised in the right way.
Individualistic Circuit Group
Keynote: Empowerment
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he Individualistic Circuit group has two sub-Circuits within it: Knowing and Centring. The Knowing
Circuit is much larger than the Centring Circuit, which only has two Channels. With Individualistic
Circuitry, we come to a mutative process. The Individualistic Circuit represents the way in which
individuality can survive and mutate into new forms in the world without being ostracised from the
rest of the totality. The Individualistic Circuit group involves every Centre in the Graph, which is
very unique. For example, the Collective Circuit does not have the Willpower and the Communal
Circuit does not have the Head, Ajna or G-Centre. This tells us that only the Individualist is whole.
The Collective process is not whole without the Tribe and vice versa. None of the Individualistic
Channels are social, compared to the Collective or Communal that are very social. The only Channel
with any kind of social skills in the Individualistic Circuit is the 12–22.
To be an Individualist is to be an example, and because all Individuality is rooted in the
Individualistic mutative format of the Channel 3–60, being an example is a mutative force. Mutation is
a word that lies at the heart of Human Design. It is about being oneself, about being unique. All the
Individualistic Channels carry the frequency of mutation. This is the universal law that constantly and
unpredictably brings change into the world. This is why one single individual can change the world.
Someone with Individualistic Channels is potentially a freak and outsider, because they can bring
mutation. They are here to be unusual. They do not easily fit into society. They always seem kind of
strange, because what they have to offer can be new and unfamiliar. They always fail the expectations
of their parents because they are different. It is difficult for the Individualist to translate its existential,
inner knowing into the capacity to be able to empower others with that knowing. Everyone who
carries Individuality in their design has a lifelong task of learning how to explain themselves. It is
through this power of explanation that the Individualist leaves the realm of being the stranger, the
outsider or the freak, and enters into the realm of being a guide that can be of value to others.
“Knowing” is enormously important to our mutative growth as a whole. Without mutation, we have a
dead-end street. Without mutation, we have no evolution.
Any Channel in this Circuit is going to carry with it an ability to empower others. But the
empowerment comes from just being themselves. The Individualistic process is a personal one. It is
not concerned about the other. The only way the other benefits is indirectly. It is not like the
Collective, sharing with the other. An Individualist might never even know or care that they have
empowered someone else. They empower others by being the result of an Individualistic Channel.
They don’t share the Channel with anyone. Individuality is selfish, but still can be an advantage to
others. This is not: “Hi, let me share my life with you...” This is: “What the hell do you want? I’m
busy! If you want to hang around and get a buzz out of it, okay. But stay out of my life and let me do
my thing.”
Individualistic Channels can be moody and melancholic. That’s the nature of mutation and
essential for it. Out of that melancholy can come great creativity. This process is extremely difficult
for the mind to understand and it will always try to find a reason for your melancholy or moodiness.
Don’t fight it. It’s part of your process. Embrace it. Out of it, beautiful things can mutate.
3–60 Mutation / A design of energy which fluctuates and initiates
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ou can think of the contrast between the Collective and the Individualist as hikers on a trail. The
Collective Circuit group has thirty hikers all hiking together, sharing their experiences together as they
go. The Individualistic Circuit is one hiker, not sharing at all. He’s just doing his thing. Solo trekking.
But somehow he is walking along the same hiking trail as the Collective group. If the Collective sees
the Individualist, they can be empowered by his Individualistic path. The mutation will happen with
the Individualist. He or she is the one who will find a new trail that the Collective will then use.
You can’t predict the life of an Individualist. Order and chaos always follow each other. This Circuit
is the source of creativity, but creativity is something that happens spontaneously. It’s like mutation.
One moment it wasn’t there and then it is there. But you never know when it is going to happen. These
people have to let go of trying to control the creative forces. They can’t. There is nothing they can do
about it. It happens when it happens.
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his is about finding one’s own centre through exploration of the self and initiation into new ways.
What is interesting about the Centring Circuit is that there are no awareness Centres present (Spleen,
Ajna, Solar Plex). Neither is there a Throat nor emotions nor an adrenaline system. What we have
here is a pure Worker. Being centred is not something you do or think about. Being centred is a
response to life. It is the ultimate Buddha state of being. To love yourself does not require awareness.
Keynote: Individuation – The Descent into Form
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eings with these Channels are survival mechanisms. They represent the most complex connective
field in Human Design. All the other Channels are created by a single connection between two
Centres and two Gates. But in this case, it is the only Channel system that operates through four Gates.
There are several different ways in which those four Gates interconnect with each other, giving rise to
the possibility of six Channels. Of these six Channels, two (the 20–57, Channel of the Brainwave,
and the 34–10, Channel of Exploration) belong to the Individualistic Circuit. The remaining four
Channels are known as the Self-survival Channels, and do not belong to any Circuitry.
It is through Circuits that we connect to each other, but the Self-survival Channels are absolutely
individual and separate from other people. The Self-survival Channel system is a pure survival
mechanism. It is rooted in the Splenic survival of the self. People with Definition in this Channel
system are only concerned with their own process of self-empowerment. This is not a Channel system
that is concerned about whether others are being empowered or supported, and it isn’t concerned
about sharing. There aren’t any social Channels in the Self-survival Channels. You could call them the
“bastard-brothers” of the Individualistic Circuit. But you also have to see the beauty in them. These
Channels make sure that on a genetic level the survival of the human race is always guaranteed. These
people are wild, they are pure and they are here to love themselves. Obviously, they are kind of self-
centred bastards, but they are here to love themselves. Without people like that, there is no self-love
in the world.
Someone with any of these Channels always needs to be self-sufficient, needs to have their own bank
account, their own car, and their own life. They like to pay for their own dinner. This is not about
sharing. If you want to break someone with Self-survival Channels, make them dependent on
somebody else. It’s a sad thing. They come together with others as self-sufficient beings and if they
enter into things correctly, they will find the right people who will accept and love them for who they
are.
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The Channels
Keynote: Sharing

Projected
This is a logical Channel and it’s about sharing your logical mental process. You are designed to
think logically and to be at ease in dealing with the mental patterns in life. You are here to share your
doubts and solutions, but only to share them with people who invite you, who recognise your
abilities. Your scientific and sceptical mind needs to be recognised or you will meet resistance. It’s
about learning something about the resolution of doubt through formula, about the possibility of
dealing with doubt in a fixed way to come up with a fixed theory.

Projected
These people are great organisers through being able to see logical patterns. They are visual, but if
they don’t wait to be recognised, people find them boring and they can get bad eyesight in their right
eye. They have great managerial gifts, sought by many organisations. They are mental think-tanks with
an eye for the detail, always looking for ways into how organisation can be established in a pattern.
This Channel is not about questioning things, but acting on them, looking how they need to be
expressed.

Projected
This is one out of three ways that Logic can express itself, in this case the G-Centre connected to
the Throat. The G-Centre is the Centre of identity. You are here to express your identity. And this
identity is going to have influence on people. This is the archetypical Channel of Leadership of the
collective; to lead it in to the future through logical recognition of what the way must be. If you look at
the Lines, you can see how you are going to lead: authoritarian, democrat, anarchist, opportunist,
general or administrator. You are here to share your logical guidance. Not only do you recognise the
way, but your leadership must be recognised first also. You can’t push it upon anybody. You need to
get elected. So the people who come to you and recognise your logical leadership abilities are real
allies for you, because they give you something to respond to, or for you to inform them, depending on
your Type. You might know the way into the future, but you can only lead and fulfil the purpose of this
Channel if you find the support of the collective through recognition first. In other words, if you are
able to garner the necessary support.

Generated
This Channel is about your rhythm. It is the foundation of all biological life. It’s the only Channel
the design of a single cell has. You need to be very clear with yourself and others that you have your
own internal rhythm. This rhythm is a logical rhythm and through your strong magnetic presence, you
pull the collective into this deep being in the flow with life through sharing. Everything you do and
what defines you comes out of a natural response with life. People with this Channel are actually
responsible for creating the very pattern and flow of life on this Planet. These people have their own
timing, their own rhythm and you can’t be mad at them if they arrive late or early. You can’t change
them, but they have the power to influence you with their rhythm. Through their sharing, everyone else
can experience what it means to be in perfect flow with life, which is the requirement for self-love
and love of the other. But they don’t initiate their rhythm and pattern. This is a generated Channel and
out their response emerges a natural pattern, a natural rhythm. If you don’t operate out of your Type
and own authority, you pull others into an incorrect flow. You must see how important it is to be
correct as well as your social responsibility to give others, through you magnetism, something
valuable.
9–52 Concentration / A design of determination

Generated
This is a powerful Channel because it’s a Format Channel (Root to Sacral). It’s the Channel of
Focus, of concentration. It drives the whole Logic Circuit through determination to stay focused on
the detail. It’s also about sharing your focus and logical determination with other people by bringing
this ability to the collective. If you don’t wait to respond, you’ll get involved with the wrong people.
You are going to focus on the wrong things and you will get frustrated. There’s nothing more
depressing for you if you initiate things and if you don’t have the right things to focus on.

Projected
The Channel of Judgement is rooted in logic. Through its intelligence, it knows what works and it
knows what doesn’t. It is constantly looking for a way to improve the pattern and loves to challenge
things in life. Everything in this Channel is about the energy and insatiability to perfect the pattern.
The first thing to recognise for such a person is that unless they’ve been invited to do so, they will
meet nothing but resistance and rejection from others, which in turn will make them feel bitter about
what they think are valid points. Their search for perfection is only suited for the collective, but most
of them waste their gift through trivial pursuits that have no value and by challenging and criticising
their own family and friends. They can end up with all kinds of problems in their relationships,
especially by not following their Type and own authority. Don’t offer your criticism unless asked, or
you will end up being full of bitterness by not getting the rewards for your gift.

Projected
This Channel gives the collective access to the depths and skills to promote mastery. Mastery
comes from repetitive experiments while striving for perfection. Logic is the only stream that does not
have access to a Motor and that’s why talent has to struggle. That’s why for the Abstract, it’s also
much easier to get hurt when jumping into an experience and harder for logic to find the finance to
come up with ways to make the experience safer. This Channel is about repeating a pattern over and
over with depth and skill, and by doing so, looking for an improvement. These people can show great
talent earned by hard work and commitment through practising over and over, eventually sharing their
skills with the other. It’s also the verbal expression of talent. Their talent needs to be recognised and
they can’t force it on anybody without meeting rejection.
Keynote: Sharing

Projected
This is the busiest of all the mental Channels. It’s always active and constantly moving. It’s about
mental pictures and thoughts that can be confusing, emerging from the past. The same thing can be
viewed over and over again, but never in the same way. It’s not dissimilar to the emotional wave,
because mental clarity, too, comes only after time. It’s about processing things from the past in new
and creative ways in order to share with others. It’s a Collective Channel. It needs to be shared. But
only with people who recognise that gift in you. Don’t waste it with others. Your mind can be of value
to others and confusing to yourself at the same time. Whatever it is, never use it to resolve your own
issues by making decisions. You are good at telling stories that can have real value to others when
they invite you to it, stories about things in the past that became clear to you.

Projected
For this person, it is always more about searching than actually finding. It’s about being driven to
search, out of curiosity. Searching for the perfection of the human way. The journey of the search itself
is the goal. It’s an abstract mental process about the past that needs to be shared with others. People
with this Channel are excellent storytellers, good with words and have an endless curiosity for new
ideas. They only have to learn that those ideas are usually not for themselves, but for others who
recognise this talent in them and invite them to share it when they wait. It can’t be about any goal that
can be attained for themselves apart for the constant search itself.
35–36 Transitoriness / A design of being a “Jack of all trades”

Manifested
A person with this Channel has a deep desire for adventure, constantly seeking new experiences in
life. They can have a life that is rich in experience and a constant roller coaster, but at the same time,
they pay a terrible price of suffering by entering into these experiences incorrectly by ignoring their
Type and own authority. If they are a Worker, they usually ignore their Worker response, because they
have this strong energy supply from the most powerful Motor in the body, the Solar Plex. They think
they somehow have a right for manifestation and can be the classic bull in a china shop. Everyone
with this Channel is emotional and, therefore, must be emotionally clear before entering into any
experience. The Independent-Worker who does not wait to respond, rushing into new adventures
driven by the mind’s desire, leaves behind a field of devastation, not only in their own lives, but by
what’s distributed to others. They can be quite a force, both in a good or bad way, always depending
whether they are correct. The most important thing for them to learn is that they have to wait and also
let other people wait. Without it they, have no power.
People with this Channel seem not to be able to stay with anything, and someone with Logic
Circuitry always wonders why. Logic can be a pain in the neck for Abstract people with their why are
you doing this? Can you make any money from it? But the only motivation for this Channel is to look
for emotional satisfaction. They are not Logic. They are here for the experience itself. Unfortunately,
emotional satisfaction can never be attained. We are dealing with a wave that crashes always in the
end. Once that happens, they are ready to go to the next thing, which doesn’t mean they should ever go
actively looking for anything. When they enter into things correctly, even when the experience comes
to an end through a crash, it will be satisfactory. It will feel good to leave it behind and move on. It’s
society that makes a problem out of nothing and gives these people a trip of guilt. Someone has to do
all these things and then tell us about them. That’s this person’s job. To inform us about the experience
after it ended. To share it with us, to look back at it. Nothing more and nothing less. The stories they
have when they get older can fill many wonderful evenings, but apart from entertainment they have
enormous value for humanity. After all, it’s what we call experience. Parents can be hard on these
children because they don’t seem to stay with things long enough to get anything out of it. We need to
tell them that that’s what they are here for. There is nothing wrong with it. It’s not about an
achievement. It’s about the journey itself. Experience is a tough teacher. It always gives the test before
presenting the lesson. The only way to survive is by entering into it correctly.
30–41 Recognition / A design of focused energy (feelings)

Projected
These people have a strong desire for experiences driven by emotions. But it’s not for them to
make their dreams come true. This Channel gives rise to the imagination of what could be. It’s the
beginning, the root of the human experiential way, that ends with the 35–36 and the fulfilment. It’s all
about human experience. Evolution through experience. And because it’s a Collective Channel their
feelings must be shared with others, who invite them to do so and recognise their gift for inspiration.
But in any case, they need to be emotionally clear before they do so to have anything of value. It’s
never about fulfilling these desires for themselves. Desire is simply a focus within a range of
feelings. It’s about dreaming, enjoying these dreams and sharing them. And sometimes, because
emotions are a wave, it feels like desire can only bring pain. Again, the journey itself is the goal.
There is no destination. It’s a build-up of pressure in your emotions from the Root going to the Solar
Plex to create a new beginning for an experience.
42–53 Maturation / A design of balanced development (cyclic)

Generated
This is a powerful Channel because it goes from the Root to the Sacral. It’s what we call Format
energy. This is the Channel of beginnings, middles and ends. It’s all about cycles. The 53 is the drive
to start things, adrenal pressure from the Root, and the 42 is the energy to finish things. Both together
form a cycle. And because it’s Abstract and not logical, it isn’t a step-by-step process. It’s more
about collecting experiences than focusing on facts. It’s important that you only enter into something
new out of a response to your Sacral. Once you commit yourself to a new experience, you have the
genetic imperative to complete the cycle. It might last a day or it might last years. But everything that
starts must also end, and it’s out of the experience itself that these people learn. These people share
and bring cycles of life to the collective. Whatever these people start, they must finish. You can see
why it is so important for them to enter into things correctly. Maturation happens through response to
existential involvement in experience for this person. You can’t go looking for it. Nothing is truly
gained for the Abstract until the now becomes history. That’s what makes things difficult for the
Abstract Circuit. The now is only the material, it isn’t the answer. It doesn’t exist yet. They are
designed to find the answer only in retrospect. This Channel provides us with the energy to go through
the cycle of experience.

Generated
This Channel is all about committing yourself to an experience through your Sacral response as a
Worker by following your true authority. It’s a commitment for something you don’t really want to stay
in, but only go through. It’s the only true existential Channel. With this, you live totally in the
experience itself. By doing so, you will find you are always at the right place at the right time. It’s the
Channel of being lucky. You are here to lose yourself in the experience, without knowing the value of
it in the moment. You can only succeed where others fail if you are totally committed to your Sacral
response without any mental considerations. And sometimes, it’s about failing where others succeed.
It doesn’t matter. The true value of your experience can only be seen when you look back much later
and, by doing so, share it with others. But don’t share with anyone. Only share with those who are
correct for you. Only share out of a response. The past will always be your teacher. Your only
teacher.

Projected
At the end of any process, the end of the day, maybe the end of your job, the end of a relationship,
the end of whatever you went through, take some time out to reflect on that event. Only the reflection
gives the whole Abstract process its value. It codifies our history. The conclusions and the
experiences that will come to you, and the insights and ideas that you’ll get through reflection are
valuable. Not only are they valuable to you, but you must share those with other people and they will
appreciate that. This Channel recognises the essence of the Abstract process. The archetype of this
Channel is the prodigal, the child who leaves home, who abandons the security and expectation of
conformity and goes out into the world. They are usually the black sheep and, by the way they leave,
not many think they will ever return. But far down the road, much later, after many experiences, they
do return home. What they bring back are reflections on the world, which become essential
knowledge for the continuing growth of their family. It’s all about recognising the value of experience
and articulating it. The voice of the 33 Gate remembers or doesn’t remember. It reveals or doesn’t.
As a life-force, this Channel demands recognition. Without it, there is nothing to share. There is this
deep capacity to be able to recognise things out of the experience, but also the possibility to be able
to articulate it. It’s because of you and your wisdom that future generations can benefit from our
experiences and don’t have to make the same mistakes again. People with this Channel are often
sought out as leaders because of this, but this kind of leadership has to come out of an invitation as
well. It needs to be recognised, in the same way they themselves recognise things. They can’t go
looking for it.
It’s one thing for Logic to postulate what a solution can be, but Abstract just goes through the
experience, finding out through it. They live the solution and confirm it. It might kill them, but then
somebody can tell future generations about the dangers of it.

Projected
We are dealing with a mental Individualistic stream that has the potential to be mutative but also
melancholic. Compared to the Collective Abstract and Logic Channels which are visual, the
Individualistic Channels are deeply acoustic. These people can really hear things in their heads.
Individuality is about bringing something new into the world. This is the Channel of the thinker. It’s
also what the outside world sometimes sees as madness, which is rooted in the melancholy that this
Channel carries. It’s not about exploration or trying things. It’s only about thinking. There is no
change, and that’s why there is melancholy. Sometimes, it’s thinking the same things over and over
again, things that are basically acoustic, until there is mutation. It’s not something this person does on
purpose. The thinking is just a force. Only in these rare times of mutation can it have the potential to
bring something new on the mental direction for humanity, but until then, it’s a very mundane Channel.

Projected
This person is here to structure and express their radical and new ways of thinking so they can be
understood in the world. They really have the gift to bring something new. This Channel can also be
deeply melancholic unless mutation happens, unless something new emerges. It’s beyond your control
so you have to surrender to the creative forces. It’s best to wait until your potential to express
yourself is recognised before you share it if you want it to be of any benefit. You are not here to be
concerned about others anyway. It’s all about your own process, but when you live correctly, by
waiting for recognition, you have the potential to empower people by expressing your mental process.
These people can be good writers or speakers in a new and different way.

Projected
This is the Channel of Inspiration. Only when you learn to be yourself will you get the recognition
you deserve. You are here to bring something new into the world and it can take a while until
creativity shows up. Creativity does not work on a timetable. There can be bouts of melancholy, but
also sparks of genius. Don’t wait for it. Just be yourself and by doing so you become a role model for
others. A kind of leader who leads by being an example. There is no need to explain yourself to
others. People kind of find it cool that you are doing your thing and that’s inspiring. It’s all about
finding your own unique way. This Channel has a deep need to demonstrate its creativity and a lot of
artists and musicians have this Channel. You can only empower others and get the respect you deserve
by waiting for your gift to be recognised.
Generated
You’ve got your own individual strong sense of direction that can open new doors for yourself and
humanity. That’s why you are called the keeper of keys. You’ve got the keys and you open doors. Your
direction is a creative force, bringing something new that can be inspiring for others, but it will only
work if anything you do comes out of a response to life. In order to find your direction, you have to
completely surrender to your Sacral Centre. You will go on a path that no one else has walked before
and it takes courage going into the unknown. But only out of that courage can your rewards come in
life. Out of courage and a correct response.
3–60 Mutation / A design of energy that fluctuates and initiates

Generated
This Channel is the source of any mutation in life. It’s a powerful Channel, because it’s a Format
Channel (Root to Sacral). Wherever you are in the world, there is always a chance to bring something
new. If you go looking for it, you will pay a price. You have no control over mutation. One moment it
isn’t there, and then it is. It’s a fluctuating energy and it works correctly only if you respond to life.
You don’t want to mutate into something that isn’t right for you. You can be deeply melancholic, but
also very creative. The mind does not like a Channel like this because it cannot control it. It doesn’t
like to wait for anything. But mutation doesn’t follow any rules or any patterns. It might not happen for
a very long time and it might happen the next second. Let go of the fantasy that you are in control of it
and you will do a lot better in life.

Projected
If something isn’t a struggle, it isn’t worth doing for you at all. To struggle is, for you, the
necessary ingredient to get creative. Out of it, you find new ways that can empower other people,
although they are rarely your concern as you are so deeply involved in your own personal struggle.
Think of all the people who struggled to get on top of Mount Everest. They must have discovered all
kinds of new things. Moments of deep melancholy followed by pure bliss. To fight against
overwhelming odds is something that inspires your creativity, but also others. Yet, you can’t struggle
for anything unless whatever you do is recognised first. If your mind runs the show, you will always
struggle for the wrong thing, and you will pay a price with your health.

Projected
You are here to surrender yourself totally to your emotions, going with both ends of the wave – the
ups and the downs, the highs and the lows. If you stop looking for only one side of the spectrum and
wait to be emotionally clear before making any decisions in your life, you will find great creativity in
that process. You can be moody, but that is what’s necessary for you. It’s not a problem unless you are
correct and don’t let your mind react to it. For example, people with your Channel can be good
musicians. The Individualistic Circuit is deeply acoustic as well as creative. Since this is a projected
Channel, your work needs to be recognised or invited in order to have impact. Don’t be afraid to be
different, and don’t let anyone give you a bad trip by telling you to control your emotions. On the
contrary, immerse yourself as deeply as you can in your emotions, and out of that may come something
inspiring. Don’t make any decisions until you are clear and not at the extreme end of a spectrum.

Projected
This is the Spleen to the Throat Channel. So, it’s a spontaneous expression of your awareness, of
your intelligence in the moment. It says “I am aware now. I know now.” You are here to bring
something new into the world. This is the Channel of the Brain Wave, expressing yourself in the now.
Because it is a mutative Channel, you never know when this moment of acute awareness will come.
This is an Individualistic Channel and you are not here to be concerned about anyone else unless you
are invited to share your process and insights. So don’t just blurt it out or you will meet rejection.
You are not afraid of the unknown in life, as you have intuition. As long as you follow your Type and
true authority, they will always protect you.

Manifested
The Individualistic Circuit is, in general, not concerned about the other. It goes its own way and
brings something new into the world. The only Individualistic Channel with social capability is this
Channel of a social being. It’s about being social or not. Never be social if you are not in the mood.
You are here to be passionate, but don’t act unless you are emotionally clear. You are here to be an
inspiration for others, but your life will be a lot easier if you inform others about what you are about
to do or you will meet restrictions. Someone with this Channel can be the singer who really touches
an audience with his or her deeply emotional performance. But in general, don’t do anything if you
are not in the mood.

Generated
It’s all about self-discovery and following your own convictions. Everything you do must come out
of a total response in your Sacral. If you don’t, you can’t find your correct identity and self-love. If
you can’t love yourself, you can’t live out your purpose and vice-versa. It must never be about
imposing your own convictions on others. You need to wait for things to come to you in order to
discover your true-self and the beauty of it. You are someone who appreciates beautiful things in
general. But in order to see clearly, you must find your own beauty first by taking away the power of
your mind to run your life. Once you do, you can be inspiring and empowering to others by expressing
that beauty you found, and by just being who you are like a beautiful flower that can bring joy to
people just by looking at it.

Projected
You enjoy competition. But most of the time you are competing with yourself. You can be
concerned about being the best and must prove it, usually not to the other but yourself. Yet, you should
not worry so much about being the best, but being different. You are here to be fearless when leaping
into the unknown and into new areas, worrying about the consequences later. You can be a deep
initiating force in others, inspiring them to do things they thought they could never do. But you must
learn to wait until others recognise that talent in you in order to meet the right people and to have any
true impact.
Keynote: Support
32–54 Transformation / A design of being driven (ambition)

Projected
You are designed to be deeply ambitious. You can smell money. You can also smell a rat, and
smell a deal that does or doesn’t work. Be in tune with your instinct. But you can only have your
ambitions fulfilled through support of the people around you. It’s not about you going to look for them.
Rather, it’s waiting to get recognised. This is the young son who goes and gets a degree as a doctor,
and the family is all working to pay for the college tuition. In turn, he is going to make money and
support his parents when they are older. That’s what this Channel is all about. It’s about fulfilling your
ambitions and having the support of the tribe, but also looking after them later. You are not going to
have your ambitions fulfilled until you have a good support network. You are not here to go out and
do it alone. For you, everything is about hard work that can lead to material success. You have a nose
for whether the energy invested into something is worth the material rewards later.

Projected
You are here to really transmit and sell a message, product or truth. You have a wonderful instinct
to achieve this goal by adapting to any situation. You also like to be efficient, getting the maximum
result with the least possible effort. You like to find ways to get paid more by doing less, but that’s
just one of many examples. What you really have to understand is that whatever you want to sell or
get out, it is only possible for you by being invited to do so, by being recognised. People have to find
you, rather than you looking for them. If you ignore this, they will shut the door in your face.

Projected
This Channel is about the utilisation of support in the community. If we were all capitalistic, there
wouldn’t be any community. People with this have a deep sense for what the community is about. It’s
all about making the right bonds and bargains. This Channel also stands for the marriage contract. If
you have the 40–37 and you are not in a community, there is something wrong. It’s actual close,
physical touch that matters. You need to be in a real community, and it needs to be the right
community. So how do you know? You must wait for emotional clarity before making decisions.
Follow your Type and then you get exactly the right community that’s for you. Only then you’ll be able
to flourish. Without a community, you are nothing. It’s important for you to be in a community that you
like, as only through that can you live out your purpose. You could say finding that community is part
of your purpose.
People like you also bring a community wherever they go. They are a walking community. If you
don’t live your design, you are not going to find the right community, and you will struggle in life. It’s
important for you to be recognised by a community that sees you for who you are. This will come
through invitation, and you need to wait for that. Your Aura does the talking. Don’t go looking for it.
Once you are in that community, you are really going to be in your element. You are a part seeking a
whole. You can walk into a room and there’s a group of people hanging out, minding their own
business, and all of a sudden they become a community. There’s glue that you carry with you. Again,
you are going to have to live your Type. Otherwise, you could create the wrong kind of community
around you and then you’re kind of stuck with them.

Projected
You are synthesising the emotional needs of the tribe through sensitivity and coming to a
conclusion through that. “I’m sensitive to the fact that you need that, and I’m going to support you” or
“I’m insensitive that you need this and you don’t get my support.” Basically, you are designed to be
deeply sensitive emotionally. Sometimes you are going to be too sensitive. Sometimes you are not
going to be sensitive enough, which is exactly what you are about, being sensitive or not. But one
thing is for sure: you are deeply sensitive. You have to realise that if you are not waiting out your
emotional wave, then you are going to be over-sensitive, which distorts your decisions. In order for
these people to stay out of trouble, they need to wait and be clear emotionally before making a
decision. This Channel is about recognising what the tribe needs, how it needs it, and how to allocate
it. It’s all about balancing your own needs with those around you, while standing by your principles.
It’s also important for you to physically touch people. Now, whether you want to hug them or hit them
depends on your mood. You have a deep sensitivity to the way your environment works. Depending
on your mood, this can be also insensitivity, which is okay too if you entered into it correctly.

Manifested
It’s the main voice of the Willpower Centre. It’s the only voice the tribe has. It communicates with
the outside in terms of what they have or don’t have. These people can also be good educators,
because they are the voice of the tribe. It’s important to look at how this Channel plays out in a
design. It’s a manifesting Channel, but also look at what Type you are. You’ve got the design of the
materialist, that’s why you express yourself in the world in terms of what you have and what you
don’t have. First of all, it’s important for you to feel you have enough, because if you don’t, you are
not one of those people who can survive on nothing. When I say nothing, that’s a relative term. You
need to feel like you have enough in your life. If you are walking around saying, “I don’t have” all the
time, you are not going to be fully integrated in who you are.
You’re designed to have. You are designed to feel that you have. These people can feel crippled if
they don’t have all the comforts in life. All the Communal Willpower energies (socialist and
capitalist) manifest themselves in this Channel. Someone like you is Willpower-centred and probably
loves talking about yourself, which can lead to problems if you ignore your Type. You prefer working
alone within a community and are, in general, a driven person.
Keynote: Support
59–6 Mating / A design focused on reproduction

Generated
Also the Channel of intimacy and creativity. This can be the Channel of two people coming
together and making a business, being intimate and creative in that business, or it can be the Channel
of somebody who gets up on stage as an actor and makes you feel in touch with what they are doing.
There’s always a deep intimacy here. In an archetypal way, it’s of course about making babies and
breaking down barriers, if you think about the sperm braking down the barriers of the egg. This
Channel breaks down barriers. You are somebody who is capable of being intimate with people
quickly. You have a powerful and penetrating Aura. You can walk into a room and all of a sudden the
whole energy of the room becomes more intimate, too. Through that, new things and ideas can be born
and brought into the world. You must understand that you need to be clear emotionally, otherwise you
are going to be intimate with the wrong people. It’s also a deeply sexual Channel, but it’s more than
that. It’s about intimacy through touch.
It can be intimacy with the guy who’s selling groceries to you. It’s basically the ability to break
down barriers in general. If you are not emotionally clear, you will have the wrong kind of intimacy,
which, for example, can result in a baby with somebody who’s not correct for you, or a business you
started that will fail. Live your design and you get intimacy that’s right for you. You can’t force
intimacy upon other people. That would be like rape. It always has to come out of a response. The
right intimacy takes time. If you get intimate spontaneously, you are going to get yourself into trouble.
Many people with this Channel have unhealthy one-night stands, or even worse, children with the
wrong partner. To be physically healthy, someone with this Channel needs to have those people in
their life who they can regularly hug. It is not about affection, sexuality, desire or passion. It’s
important to physically touch people, to have physical intimacy. If you meet somebody, even a
stranger, the best thing you can do is touch them. It has an enormous effect on them. But remember:
never go looking for intimacy. You are here to wait to respond only.
27–50 Preservation / A design of custodianship

Generated
So on the other side (59–6), you’ve made your babies and now you are going to care for them.
First, what you have to do is to make sure that you are cared for. You can’t spend your whole life
running around caring for other people unless you are cared for yourself. The moment you live your
design, you are going to be cared for, too. You have a naturally trustworthy Aura. You are designed to
find people with the right values and care for them. Likewise, you are designed to have the right
values and find people who care for you. The only way you are going to have that in a healthy way is
by living your design and following your Type. You can’t force caring upon someone. You always
must wait to respond. Your instinct will tell you who to care for. But if you are emotionally defined,
you still have to wait to be clear before listening to your instinct.
Never listen to your mind. Because you love to care for others, it will always make you feel guilty,
which can lead to ignoring your correct response as a Worker. You don’t need to find a mental reason
whether you care or don’t care for someone. The most difficult thing for you to learn is to say no
when your Sacral response tells you. There exists no guilt or morality in life. There can only be what
it means to be correct for you. Correct out of your own response and true authority. Nothing else. You
are not here to care for everybody, only for some. But first of all, you must care for yourself. You also
carry the deep mutative capacity to take charge, to be the custodian, the one who sets the laws for the
tribe and community.
Keynote: Individuation – The Descent into Form

Projected
You are someone who is here for yourself. It’s a selfish process, but it’s the only way for you to
discover who you are and the only way that works is by going out and living it out in the world. You
are not someone who can be concerned about the other. If your true authority tells you to do
something, you must do it. You are here for yourself only. Since this is a Projected Channel, your self-
expression must be invited first, or you meet resistance. By acting accordingly to your Type, you will
find the people who love your way of living out who you are, who will invite you to do so. You are
the source of the expression of self-love. Without people like you, we wouldn’t have self-love in the
world. People like you also guarantee the survival of our species by making sure that you, yourself,
survive.
This Channel is about the G Centre being spontaneously awake in the now through the Throat
Centre. The G Centre is basically saying: “I am myself now. This is me.” You discover yourself
constantly. This is the Channel of Awakening. You’re really someone who discovers yourself on an
on-going basis. You need to be in an environment where you are allowed to discover yourself and be
free in that sense. This can be the Channel of the father who disappears. “See you later, everyone! I’m
gone! I’m out of here!” And he’s gone and never comes back. Without that Channel, we wouldn’t be
awake. Everyone with this Channel is here to explore what it needs to be awake as a human being.
They need to be focused on themselves and they need to be in an environment where they can do that.

Manifesting-Generated
The reason this Channel is charismatic is because here we have the Sacral Centre that is constantly
generating life, directly connected to the Throat. These people are constantly expressing the very
source of life. That’s charismatic. It’s attractive. This is the basis of what life is all about. These
people are busy being alive. Now, whether they can enjoy their life or not depends if they live their
design. These people are too busy for life! That’s the tragedy if they are not “correct”. If they do
follow it though, they are busy living who they are and there’s nothing sexier than that. The sad joke
for most people, the not-self, is that half of the time they have no idea of what they are doing. They are
running around like idiots, busy for the wrong things, and turning into a super-slave for others. The
stereotype is the artist who is charismatic but is being controlled by a manager somewhere in the back
room. What’s important is that they need to busy for something that’s good for them.
They shouldn’t be busy for somebody else. Whatever they are busy doing needs to be satisfying
and fulfilling for them only, otherwise they will be the mules or workhorses, running around working
for other people and being deeply frustrated. You are here to be busy and you are here to be busy for
yourself only. Instead, you might always be busy for others and resentful, or busy for yourself and
guilty. No need for that! Live according to your design and you will find people who are okay with
you doing your own thing. It’s not about empowering anybody else. It is only about empowering
yourself. The world needs people like you! It may sound selfish, but it isn’t. If you don’t love what
you are doing, you are not going to love yourself. You need to be busy out of love for life, which
means doing something that is fulfilling for you. Who cares if anybody else likes it?
Because it’s such a powerful Channel, these people don’t like to wait to respond. They want to be
Initiators. As long as they don’t learn to live free of Transference, they will run out of energy halfway
through their projects and fail. Always. They will be busy for nothing, which will be frustrating. It’s a
selfish Channel that can’t be concerned about the other. If everybody complains that they can’t get
hold of you because you are always busy, that is their problem, and not yours.

Generated
If you think about African mythology, you have archetypes, people who represent something more
than what they are. If you wait to respond and be who you are, you are going to be an archetype, an
archetype of what it means to be alive as a human being, of being just you. It doesn’t mean that it is
going to help or inspire anybody, but it’s going to be awesome for you. Live your true design and you
will have a clarity as far as what your purpose is in this world, as an archetype of being alive. If you
respond correctly, you will do what you have to do. You are what you are and you can’t help it.
There’s nothing you can do about it! Live according to your Type and you are going to like that. Not
only will you like it, but it will surprise you to find people who even love you for being yourself. You
have an acute awareness and instinct about where life wants to take you in a moment-to-moment
process. You must be ready for anything that can happen any day, so don’t plan ahead. You are
helpless in it and it’s all about going with it. It’s all about your own process and being who you are,
discovering it out of a response. Never let your mind tell you who you are or should be and you will
be fine.

Generated
This Channel represents an awareness from the Splenic Centre up to the G-Centre. So it’s an
awareness of yourself, but it’s also an awareness of beauty and right behaviour in general, not just
your own. A lot of interior designers, set-designers, and architects have this Channel. They are
constantly aware of form. They see how things must be, to be correct in an aesthetic sense. If you have
this Channel, you have the Channel of the Perfected Form and it’s also the design for survival. It’s
about having the intelligence or awareness for perfected form. You are not going to smear yourself
with blood and run through a jungle with tigers. It’s just not something you are going to do. It’s not
correct behaviour. It wouldn’t be about staying alive.
You are designed to have an awareness of the correct behaviour in your life to survive. You really
understand that. You are not here to worry about anybody else’s survival, by the way. Now, of course,
if you survive and you survive well, you might have something that you could pass on to your wife
and children. But that’s not what it’s about for you. You are not here to make compromises for other
people’s wellbeing unless your true authority tells you. You are here to survive for your own well-
being only. If you don’t do that, you are not going to love yourself. You actually bring self-love into
the world, which is a beautiful thing. So whatever your idea of survival is, correct form and
behaviour, that’s what it should be. If you live your design, you will find the people in your life who
are okay with your selfish process, people who might even find it inspiring.
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The Sun, Planets, Moon, Nodes and what they

tell us
The Cross of Life
The nature of the Sun/Earth and the South/North-Node is referred to as the Cross of Life in Human
Design analysis.
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ou have the Sun above and the Earth below. You have the Southnode in your past and the Northnode in
your future. It is a metaphorical cross, not a true cross.
We live in a Solar Cell, or what scientists call the Solar System. The Solar System is made up of a
star that we call the Sun, and planets and moons revolve around that Sun. This is our Solar Cell. It’s a
cell. It’s a self-enclosed living entity. What makes this Solar Cell liveable is the nature of the Sun.
The Sun is providing us not only with energy like heat and radiation, but also a steady neutrino
stream. Seventy percent of the information we receive from the Program, we receive from the Sun.
So, the Sun is a key in our Solar Cell. Seventy percent of what we are, consciously and
unconsciously, is in the position of our Sun. And 70% of what you turn into the grounding in your life,
what is transformed into your form, is your Earth. This is the other side.
The Sun
The Sun represents the father, the Earth the mother.
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his is the fundamental yin and yang of our Solar Cell. This is the electromagnetic field of our Solar
Cell. This interplay between light and darkness, between energy and matter, between the father and
the mother, between the yang and the yin. So, that means when you are looking at somebody’s chart
and you are looking at the position of the Earth or Sun, you are talking about a lot of what they are as
core material. If you look first of all to the Design Sun, what you see is our biogenetic inheritance.
The Sun and the Earth on the Design side always represent the genetic themes, inherited directly from
father and mother.
The Design Sun is the theme you inherited from your father. The Design Earth is the theme you
inherited from your mother. This is not a specific gene, but is a genetic theme.
As you move through the rest of the chart on your Design side, what you see is basically your
inheritance from your grandparents. These are the genes that always jump a generation. In terms of
genetics every single child has a closer genetic profile to its grandparent than it does to its parent.
This is simply a fact. There is also this famous, wonderful joke that says grandparents and
grandchildren love each other because they have an enemy in common.
When you look at your Design Sun, you represent an aspect of the genetic pool that goes back through
your father’s line to his mother and father, and their mother and father, all the way back. If you could
imagine a pyramid, you are at the top of the pyramid with your Design Sun and underneath that Design
Sun are all of your father’s ancestors. Underneath the Design Earth are all of your mother’s ancestors.
Finally, here you are at the end of the gene pool and this is what you’re here to manifest as your
aspect of the gene pool in this life.
Imagine when your Sun is laying dormant, meaning that the Centre in your chart where your Sun is is
undefined. You wake up in the morning and the Sun is locked up in your house and the shutters have
been closed. You wake up in darkness. Think about what an incredible seduction it is to have
somebody come along, and hook up your undefined Centre and open up those shutters. All of a
sudden, all that light of yours comes streaming out. You think that person is wonderful! They are
letting your sunlight out. You can become deeply dependant on those human beings, because they
allow your Sun to shine.
In simple terms, there are people whose Sun always shines. And there are people whose Sun only
shines intermittently, inconsistently. People who activate your dormant Sun are important people in
your life. You have to be very clear about these people. You can’t just get hooked on them because
they open up that sunlight. Because so will the person in the supermarket standing beside you. So will
the person on the bus sitting beside you, the person in the theatre watching with you. In other words,
there are many ways for someone with a dormant Sun to get it activated and get that light out. But you
have to know that. This is one of the most deeply conditioning factors for people, and it becomes a
trap. Because the moment these people pull away, they leave you in darkness. You can become deeply
dependent on them, and it becomes a trap. Everybody with a dormant Sun should understand that. Be
clear about who’s opening those shutters for you, who’s allowing your Sun to shine. In this case, it
means that your light it not something that you can trust. That’s not easy. Because you cannot feel
comfortable with your light until you recognise who’s allowing it to come out, which means you have
to be wise, both mentally and in your ego, to be able to differentiate.
Design is about where things are, whether they connect to something and whether they get somewhere.
It’s the whole secret. It’s all it is. If it means that somebody is going to colour in that line in order for
your sunlight to come out, you better make sure what kind of person is colouring in that line. It’s
essential to know that. It’s essential to know who you can trust and what you can rely on in yourself.
It’s essential to recognise there is no handicap in having a dormant Sun, there is only a handicap in
being ignorant of it. To have a proper education is a blessing in this life. And it’s not the kind of junk
that we’ve been stuffing into people’s minds for the last 250 years. Because we’ve been in this
process ever since we have had an Uranian cycle, a process where we have had to baby-sit people.
The Uranian cycle has provided us with more efficient ways in which we could live together, and
also live longer together. You can’t put all these young people on the street. It would be like Morocco
with 55% unemployment. What the hell are they going to do? So, you keep them in institutions. You
baby-sit them.
The Earth
The Earth represents where you get your grounding and stability. Of course, if you come from
astrology, the first recognition is, there is no Earth.
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ne of the things to recognise about design is that it balances out the masculine and feminine, and
shows it as a yin-yang system. Almost everything feminine ended up on the shoulders of the Moon and
Venus in astrology. It’s important to understand that so many of the attributes given to the Moon in
astrology belong to the Earth, the mother. The Moon is the eldest daughter, Venus is the second
daughter. The Sun is the father, Mercury is the eldest son, and Mars is the youngest son. This is the
inner planet structure. This is the yin-yang in proportion. And without the father and mother together,
there are no offspring.
It doesn’t matter what the light is, the Earth is there to ground it. Always remember that the Sun and
the Earth are opposite to each other, which means if you look at the Wheel in design, you’ll see that
every Hexagram that’s opposite is a mirror. They are an exact mirror of each other. Recognise the
magic of the Wheel.
The sunlight or energy of the Sun has to be translated by the Earth. When you take the light to the
Earth, it gets converted to chlorophyll and out comes a plant. You have to understand that there is a
relationship between energy and matter in an ongoing way. Everything that comes from sunlight has to
be grounded in matter. When you are looking at the Earth symbols in a chart, what you are looking at
is the unconscious and conscious grounding, and stability in your life. Now, if you are stable and
grounded, your life is always going to be much more fun, much more reliable. Because it is where
your Earth is that you have the ability to translate the energy information of the Sun.
It’s so important for you to understand that this knowledge is here for you, so that you realise there is
no such thing as personal karma. It doesn’t exist. All of our karmas are intertwined, endlessly
intertwined with each other. Nothing happens without it. Because this is what it is for us. It’s this
endless giving up of our individual Aura to the Aura of others and the Program that we are in. Where
you go in this life is dependent on who is travelling with you. It’s deeply important. Our process is to
understand mechanics, so that we can see who our companion is on the road. We are here to help
fulfil each other.
The Gates that are dormant are important for you to look at and to recognise that here is your
conditioned life. The undefined Centres with active Gates, these dormant Gates, are your conditioned
life. All those dormant Gates are locked up in rooms. And you are always waiting for who is going to
provide the key. The thing to recognise is: there’s nothing wrong with having them locked up in a
room. There is nothing wrong with waiting for the person to bring the key. Except that there are many
people who have that key. And you have to differentiate between who is really a value for you in your
interaction with them.
The Moon
Where ever the moon is, this is what drives you and what moves you. You can have unconscious
and conscious drives.
The Nodes
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hen you come to the nodes of the Moon, you come to the division of the chart. The nodes of the Moon
are rooted in a Uranian cycle. The Uranian cycle says that sometime between the age of 38 and 44 we
have our mid-life point. This divides the life into a theoretical half. When I say theoretical, it’s
because there is no guarantee that you are going to live 84 years. So, sometime between the age of 38
and 44, Uranus has gone to a position that’s opposite where it was when you were born.
The Southnode and the Northnode represent a Prana in life. Your Southnode is breathing in. As you
get closer to your mid-life point you have shorter and shorter breaths. And then you get to your mid-
life point and you start breathing out. This is the Prana of life.
You don’t have to be clear until you start breathing out, because while you are breathing in you are
processing. It takes longer. It’s okay that it takes longer because we live longer, and we are
processing a lot.
The nodes represent a neighbourhood. They are physical. It’s like the background in a scene in a film,
and the background tells you everything, actually. The background frames what to expect. In other
words, the nodes are painting the environment in the background of your experience. It is a set. It’s
even better to understand that this set is not just physical buildings, but the people who live there. If
you want to make a movie, and you want to show a street where your character is going to go down
that street to somebody’s house, it’s not enough that you simply have the street there, and you have
some parked cars. What you must stick into that background are people, but they’re just decoration.
Yet, they’re decoration that add to the quality of the environment. For example, if the decoration looks
like a gang of young hoodlums who are out to find a victim, you’re going to feel different about that
environment, no matter what the neighbourhood looks like. In other words, what the nodes really
bring you is much larger because it is a transpersonal imprint. It is coming from beyond what is the
Solar Cell structure. So, what we have is an environment that is more than just the physical
environment. It’s the people who give the environment its quality.
The Southnodes represent the theme of their trajectory for the first half of life, the theme of their
trajectory of their movement through space. The Northnode represents the trajectory for the second
half of their life. Both conscious and unconscious. One of the things to see clearly is that with the
environment brought by the nodes, it is not there to either bring punishment or reward. It simply sets
the stage.
So obviously, when you are looking at somebody’s chart, you have to see whether they are in their
Southnode or Northnode phase. When somebody is in their Southnode phase, those Southnodes are a
dominant theme in the chart, an overall dominant theme of direction. When you go into your
Northnode phase, those same Southnode Gates have a function like any other Gate and are nothing
special anymore. They just do whatever they do, and your Northnode becomes the dominant theme for
the rest of your life in terms of your direction.
Design is always about seeing where something is in the movement of energy, and it tells you
everything. Is it functioning? Is it dormant? Is it Sacral? Is it Throat? Everything about design is
always looking at how the matrix works, how the energy pattern works, because that tells you
everything you need to know.
The love of humanity is not about loving your neighbour. It is about being yourself. This generates
love in the world.
Mercury
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t’s the planet closest to the Sun. It’s a communicator for the Sun. In your chart, it shows what must be
communicated as a theme in your life. You have conscious and unconscious communication.
Venus
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enus represents the number five. It represents Friday. In Saudi Arabia on a Friday, you might get a
public beheading. In Mayan history, all ceremonial sacrifices and rituals took place the moment that
Venus appeared in the sky. She was called the Eye. Only when the Eye appeared in the sky was it the
time for sacrifice. That Venus is different from the Roman version. The Romans and Greeks were a
sexist and male-dominated society where women did not have any power, which isn’t to say Venus
doesn’t have anything to do with aesthetics or relationships. In design terms, Venus represents your
morality, and Jupiter establishes the law. Venus establishes the common morality, the natural law.
Venus represents where right and wrong is going to be a theme for you in life.
Mars
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he best way to understand Mars is to imagine a 12-year-old child. Mars is full of piss and vinegar. It
also can be delightfully innocent, superbly enthusiastic, and it can be cruel as hell. It represents
immaturity in your design. Wherever you see Mars in your design, you are seeing an immature energy.
It’s not about good or bad. There is no morality. It’s about seeing what it is there for. Don’t see it as a
negative. Look at it as the immaturity in you, and what it is saying to you. You are not going to make
this mature. So, don’t rely on this aspect of your nature, because it’s immature. Accept what you are
and see how beautiful it is, instead of judging of what you think you see.
Jupiter
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bout 4% of the neutrinos we receive, we get from Jupiter. It is important information we receive from
it. Jupiter is the Logos and represents a place in the hierarchy in the Solar Cell that’s at the top of the
game. It’s important, as it represents the law for us. Every Astrologer knows that a Jupiter-Venus
conjunction can be beautiful, because that’s when the morality and law are one. Jupiter looks down
from the mountaintop at the people and their morality, and establishes the law. It tries to make it
concrete. When you look at your design and Jupiter, you see where your law is. Your Personality is
never going to be satisfied until that law is satisfied, too.
Saturn
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f you break the law in your design, Saturn is the judge. Saturn is a beautiful planet, because Saturn is
the only planet that isn’t going to purposefully fool you. All the others will. Saturn is going to tell you
exactly what you need to know. If you break your own law, it’s not Jupiter that punishes you, it’s
Saturn that punishes you in the place of judgement. So wherever Saturn is in your design, this is the
place where you can be tried and judged, or left alone. Saturn will never reward you, but it can leave
you alone. The reward always means that Saturn will leave you alone.
Uranus
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uman Design is a Uranian system. It’s actually the first Uranian system. According to the Voice, in
1781 when Uranus was discovered, we went from being a seven-Chakra system to a nine-Centre
system. Up to the discovery of Uranus, all life-patterns had been restricted to the Saturnian cycle of
29.6 years, which meant that by the time you reached puberty at 12 or 13 you were married and you
worked. Biologically, for hundreds of thousands of years, we had been ready to assume the adult
place in society at the age of 15, completely prepared and having gone though the Prana of the first
half of our life.
All of a sudden, since 1781, we have a cycle that’s 84 years, not 29.6. That’s a big difference. The
moment that this cycle arrived was the moment we began to have proper sewage systems and
advances in science. All of a sudden, we ended up with a vast population expansion because people
lived longer than they ever lived. Along with Uranus came the stimulation for the whole scientific
world. Out of that came the science that allowed us to have a proportionate life to this new half-life
point. We now have a half-life point that comes between the age of 38 and 44. That’s a half cycle of
Uranus. I tell everybody who is not yet at that point: relax! Only if you don’t know what you’re doing
by the time you’re 50, then you’ve really missed the boat. But you’ve got time because we have a new
Prana. All of us are living in a Prana in which the first half of a Uranian cycle is a breathing in
process that’s deeply complex. We are not village people anymore. We are in a global community. We
are no longer restricted in the information accessed or limited in our cultural perspective. We have a
lot to process in this first 40 years. Yet, there is still this old pressure that says: “By the time you’re
21, you know, you can take care of yourself. You better figure it out! You better know what you’re
going to do! You better know what career you are going to have! You better be ready to buy that house
and pay for that mortgage!” Good luck! Because that’s not what it’s all about.
It now takes us 40 years, on average, to reach a level of maturity that allows us to properly deal with
this life. And it’s important to see the enormous pressure that’s on so many people at their Saturn
return and at their Saturn opposition. The Saturn opposition is at 15. It is one of these things to
recognise that this age is one of the deepest crisis times in all of humanity, and with that you have an
enormous number of suicides around it. This is the moment that a human being has all the potential to
be a full productive adult and is not permitted to be so by our society. We continue to make them be
children. We keep them in school until they are 25 or 30. We do everything in our power to deny them
the respect of being unique human beings. They are under enormous pressure. Because even though
they know deep inside of them at 15 that they have every right to go out into the world and do their
thing, they are not allowed. A difficult point. The next one is at 30.
At the age of 30, there is this sense that one has committed oneself to a life. And, of course, what
happens is that you get to 40 and you realise you didn’t want it. So one of the things to see clearly
when you are looking at somebody’s chart and they are in their Southnode phase is that they have a
long time before they have to be concerned about whether they have done the right thing. It takes a
long time. We are here to accumulate a lot of experience.
Uranus represents unusualness. Wherever you see it in a chart, there is an unusual quality that’s at
work. Because Uranus is so much a part of what our design is now, this position of Uranus also
represents the part of us that resonates to the future.
Neptune
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irst of all, Neptune is not masculine, but feminine. Neptune brings the only opportunity that any planet
can give you in your Program and in the transiting Program for spiritual experience. Neptune
represents the veiling, or the dropping down of the veil.
Wherever you see Neptune in your design, recognise something very basic: don’t pay any attention to
it. None. Leave it alone. Forget that it’s even there. Don’t care about it. This is Pandora’s Box. If you
try to lift one veil, you are only going to get another, and another, and another one. This leads to
delusion, and it could lead to all kinds of confusion, alcoholism, and drug abuse.
The veil of Neptune. If you do not try to unveil it, you have an opportunity to receive it’s magic. But
the moment you try to get in there, it’s over. If you have Neptune in a Gate and it’s part of a defined
Channel, it is veiling the whole Channel. Which means that you shouldn’t pay any attention to that
Channel. Leave it alone and watch it’s magic.
Pluto
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call Pluto Grandma. So, obviously, Pluto is not male. It’s closer to Durga, if you know this name. Very
savage and vicious. The incredibly powerful Earth-mother. The whole thing to recognise about the
keynote for Pluto is that wherever you see Pluto in the chart, you see that person’s truth.
Let’s say you go to your mother when you are a kid and you ask: “How was I made?” She sort of
chews on that, and asks you to take out the laundry or the garbage, to get you out of the house. You get
out of your house, get on your bicycle and go to grandma’s. “Grandma how was I made?” Oh,
Grandma is going to tell you! That’s what they do.
Grandma is going to tell you the truth and the truth isn’t necessarily pleasant. That’s what Pluto is for.
So wherever you see Pluto in your chart, you have to recognise that this is your truth.
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The Gates of the Rave I-Ching

The Gate of Self- The Creative
1 Expression Creation as a primal force. The energy potential to
manifest inspiration without limitation.
The Gate of Higher The Receptive
2 Knowing Receptivity as the primal base through that any
response is determined. The root of action.
Difficulty at the Beginning
3 The Gate of Ordering The fundamental Challenge of initiation is to transcend
confusion and establish order.
The Gate of Youthful Folly

4 Formulisation The energy to beguile and succeed despite ignorance.
Freedom from retribution.
The Gate of Fixed Waiting
5 Rhythms The fundamental attunement to natural rhythms.
Waiting as an active state of awareness.
Conflict
6 The Gate of Friction The fundamental design component of progress. The
law that growth cannot exist without friction.
The Gate of the Role The Army
7 of the Self The point of convergence. By design, the need for
leadership to guide and order society.
The Gate of Holding Together
8 Contribution The basic worth realised in contributing individual
efforts to group goals.
The Taming Power of the Small
9 The Gate of Focus Potential can be fulfilled through detailed attention to
all pertinent aspects.
The Gate of the Treading
10 Behaviour of the Self The underlying code of behaviour that ensures
successful interaction despite circumstances.
Peace
11 The Gate of Ideas A harmonic condition in the individual or society that
permits assessment before renewed action.
Standstill
12 The Gate of Caution The quality of restraint and the importance of
meditation and inaction in confronting temptation.
The Gate of the The Fellowship of Man
13 Listener Universal ideas and values in an ordered framework
that inspires humanistic cooperation.
The Gate of Power Possession in Great Measure
14 Skills The accumulation and retention of power through
skilled interaction, coupling grace with control.
The Gate of Modesty
15 Extremes The quality of behaviour that expresses the proper
balance between extremes.
Enthusiasm
16 The Gate of Skills The great art of enriching life by harmonic channelling
of energy.
Following
17 The Gate of Opinions The ancient law that those who wish to rule must
know how to serve.
The Gate of Work on what has been Spoilt

The vigilance and determination to uphold and defend
18 Correction basic and fundamental human rights.
Approach
19 The Gate of Wanting That all things are interrelated is apparent and
manifested through the action of approach.
Contemplation
20 The Gate of the Now Recognitionunderstanding
and awareness in the now that transforms
into right action.
The Gate of the Biting Through
21 Hunter/Huntress The justified and necessary use of power in
overcoming deliberate and persistent interference.
The Gate of Grace
22 Openness A quality of behaviour best suited in handling
mundane and trivial situations.
The Gate of Splitting Apart
23 Assimilation Amorality. The awareness and understanding that
leads to the acceptance of diversity.
The Gate of Returning
24 Rationalising The natural and spontaneous process of
transformation and renewal.
Innocence
25 The Gate of the Spirit
of the Self The perfection of action through uncontrived and
spontaneous nature.
The Gate of the The Taming Power of the Great
26 Egoist The maximisation of the power of memory applied to
the nurturing of continuity.
Nourishment
27 The Gate of Caring The enhancement of the quality and the substance of
all activities through caring.
The Gate of the
28 Game Player
Preponderance of the Great
The transitoriness of power and influence.
The Gate of Saying The Abysmal

29 Yes The deep within the deep. Persistence despite
difficulties has its inevitable rewards.
The Gate of The Clinging Fire
30 Recognition of Freedom recognised as an illusion and limitation
accepted as a fate.
Feelings
Influence
31 The Gate of Leading The law of friction, whether active or passive, that
engenders transference and thus influence.
The Gate of
32 Continuity
Duration
The only thing that endures is change.
Retreat
33 The Gate of Privacy Active withdrawal and the transformation of a weak
position into a strength.
The Power of the Great
34 The Gate of Power Power is only great when its display or use serves the
common good.
Progress
35 The Gate of Change By design, progress cannot exist in a vacuum and is
dependent on interaction.
The Darkening of the Light
36 The Gate of Crisis The rule of cycles in which decline is a natural but not
enduring stage.
The Gate of The Family
37 Friendship The manifestation macro- and micro-cosmically of the
organic nature of communities.
The Gate of the Opposition
38 Fighter The ability to preserve individual integrity through
opposition to detrimental forces.
The Gate of the Obstruction
39 Provocateur The value of obstruction in provoking analysis,
assessment and reevaluation.
The Gate of Deliverance

40 Aloneness
The point of transition between struggle and
liberation.
The Gate of Decrease

41 Contraction The limitation of resources that maximises
development of potential.
Increase
42 The Gate of Growth The expansion of the resources that maximises the
development of full potential.
Breakthrough
43 The Gate of Insight In order for achievement to be maintained a new order
must be fairly established.
The Gate of Coming to Meet
44 Alertness The success of any interaction is based on the absence
of any preconditions.
The Gate of the Gathering Together
45 Gatherer The natural and generally beneficial attraction of like
forces.
The Gate of the Pushing Upward
46 Determination of the Good fortune that may be perceived as the result of
serendipity but derives from effort and dedication.
Self
The Gate of Oppression
47 Realising A restrictive and adverse state as a result of internal
weakness or external strength or both.
The Well
48 The Gate of Depth The necessary and qualitative foundation that is a
prerequisite to establish the common good.
The Gate of Revolution
49 Principles Ideally the transformation of forms based on the
highest principles and not simply for power.
The Cauldron
50 The Gate of Values The value of historical continuity whose traditional
values serve and enrich the present and the future.
The Arousing
51 The Gate of Shock The ability to respond to disorder and shock through
recognition and adaption.
Keeping Still (Mountain)
52 The Gate of Inaction Temporary and self-imposed inaction for the benefit
of assessment.
The Gate of Development

53 Beginnings Development as a structured progression that is both
steadfast and enduring.
The Marrying Maiden
54 The Gate of Ambition Interactionmystical
in its mundane social context but also one’s
and cosmic relationships.
55 The Gate of Spirit Abundance

Abundance is strictly a question of spirit.
The Gate of The Wanderer

56 Stimulation Stability through movement. The perpetuation of
continuity through the linking of short term activity.
57 The Gate of Intuitive

Insight
The Gentle
The extraordinary power of clarity.
The Gate of
58 Aliveness
The Joyous
Stimulation is the key to joy.
59 The Gate of Sexuality Dispersion

The ability to break down barriers to achieve union.
The Gate of Limitation

60 Acceptance The acceptance of limitation is the first step in
transcendence.
Inner Truth
61 The Gate of Mystery The awareness of universal underlying principles.
Preponderance of the Small

62 The Gate of Detail Caution, patience and detail produce excellence out of
limitation.
63 The Gate of Doubt After Completion

In the spiral of life, all ends are beginnings.
The Gate of Before Completion

64 Confusion Transition, like birth, requires a determined strength
for the passage through.
.
The Design of Sleep

The Night Forces of Conditioning
W
e spend a third of our lives asleep, and it’s asleep that we receive the deepest programming and
conditioning. What we experience when we sleep is never personal. It’s only the work of the
Program. Information comes in, which later slowly bubbles to the surface in form of the collective
unconscious. There is no point in looking for a reason why you dream certain things or what certain
symbols mean. It’s not about this. Sleep is a way to be impersonally programmed, a time when the
Personality is not involved at all. We are reduced to a mammalian level of competence. Our
Personality on the dream plane functions similar to what’s going on in a sleeping dog or cat. One has
to be careful not to personalise the dream state. It is only information that we receive.
The calculations for the sleep-chart are similar to that of the mammalian design. It’s a juxtaposition of
the solar and the lunar. The father and his eldest daughter. The mother is eternal. She isn’t part of this.
For the mammalian calculation, we have the solar imprint at the moment of birth, which gives us the
Personality, and then we go back 88 degrees of the movement of the Moon (which is approximately
seven days) for the Design. Every night when we go to sleep, the Moon brings an intensity to the
unconscious, a deep lunar drive that is moving us. We are fuelled, pumped up, and prepared for the
next day. We are being organised for the future. This is what the Program is doing.
The Design Crystals for the human form provide us with a very sophisticated environment, the goal
which is to achieve cognition in the form of self-reflected consciousness. Therefore, the Personality
in a human needs much longer to accustom itself to its environment compared to the Personalty of a
mammal, which doesn’t have that much to do in that department– simply because it’s cut off from
what we would refer to as having a neocortex.
Similar to the design we have when we are awake, we have one when we sleep. The most common
design of a dreamer is the Drifter. The Program wants noninterference from the Personality and for
this it’s the best suited design. Workers are only about 18%.
We have three programming forces at work when we sleep:
• The Light Field

• The Earth Plane
• The Demon Realm
The Light Field receives its programming from the Personality Crystal bundles that surround the
Earth. They represent the primary forces of the Godheads (16 Faces). Only when we are asleep are
our Personalities truly touched by the 16 Godheads, who – by the way – are never in agreement with
each other. They represent all kinds of perspectives and agendas that will be played with by the mind.
None of them are absolutes. But it’s a very sly way of influencing our Personalities, because it’s not
like we can remember any of it when we wake up later.
Every religion on Earth is based on the Light Field and its five themes. First, they bring you the
promise of joy, they condition you with it and layer it with darkness, they attune you to the
homogenised fears, they give you these glimpses of what’s coming, and finally, you wake up and think
you have to do all kinds of things.
The Demon Realm gets its programming from the Design crystal bundle within the Earth, a single
crystal, uniform in its presentation. It has its own agenda: the manipulation of our form, our bodies.
This is not about “indulging” the Personality. This is all about the form. It’s a very powerful energy
that we feel after we wake up in our vehicles in order to deal with the day ahead. It’s an energy-
programming in a sense. Most importantly, the Demon Realm tries to maintain the well-being of our
bodies, and despite its “name reputation”, is responsible in keeping us relatively healthy. Without that
sleep, the rejuvenating or replenishing imprint isn’t going to be there.
The Demon Realm is dominated, inspired, and conditioned by food. If you are somebody who has
only Light Field activations, then food is not going to influence the quality of your dream. But if you
have Gates from the Demon Realm, then what you eat is going to influence your dreaming. If you have
a child with strong Demon Realm activations, you can tell right away if you are giving them the right
food by how disturbed their dream life is. The Demon Realm may be frightening, but it is ameliorated
by a proper diet. Still, this realm is the heart and soul of the regenerative sleep.
The Earth Plane is the most fascinating of all. You could also say it’s the darkest, which you’d think
would be associated with the name “Demon Realm”. The Earth Plane is also called the astral plane.
Here, we are affected by that part of humanity awake on the other side of the planet. The neutrino
field that is penetrating them in their waking moments affects us at night in our sleep. It’s through them
that we are homogenised at a level you can’t imagine. The chaotic not-self world with all its rage,
fears, and anxieties – the deep problems that go with every Type not functioning correctly - influences
you with all this anger, frustration, bitterness and disappointment. There is a darkness to the Earth
Plane because of all the suffering, pain, and dilemmas that take place on the physical plane. It would
be nice if we’d only filter the highest levels of consciousness from some little monastery up in the
Himalayas, but we don’t. Instead, we filter the billions of people who don’t “have”, who “want”,
who cry out when no one is listening. We take in the translation of their world through minds that have
not been trained, from beings that have never been educated. We might not see it, but we dream it.
This is “nightmare land”, things that truly startle.
What we are feeling through the Earth Plane is the discomfort of the Earth. When you wake up as
the not-self, this is what you are carrying inside of you. When you operate from the mental plane,
reacting to this strong force, you don’t have a chance in life to fulfil your unique purpose. The Earth
Plane is basically “recycling” the human consciousness field. In fact, it is not programming. It exists
solely for the purposes of homogenisation. This is were we are taking in a plane that is soaked with
human greed, lust, desire, longing, and yearning, together with all the sex stuff. Yet, the only dreams
that are important are the ones that take place on the Earth Plane. These are the ones that are intended
to be shared, because they have a value for others. What you dream on the Earth Plane is not for
yourself.
Don’t be fooled by the “entertainment” of the dream. It’s only a shimmer that distracts us from what’s
really going on. What you remember of it is not what you get while you are dreaming, but what is
moving through your chemistry and ultimately to your self-reflected consciousness. It’s a powerful
and manipulative force only. It’s not about finding any meaning for the Personality. It is a mechanism.
We are here to watch the movie, and the movie is the Program. We are here to watch it, but not to
interfere with it – with no authority of mind, totally stripped of its power. When you understand this,
you get to cut through all the nonsense and illusion about the dream and the dreamer. Instead, you get
to see the programmer and the programmed. The danger is to become a victim of the Program by
operating without your own correct authority during your waking life. You are not here to be
manipulated by the Program and lose your authority, because that’s the only chance you have to live
out your full potential. When you are awake, you have an opportunity to integrate with the Program or
not. You can have your own authority. But it’s gone in the sleep-design. We are not victims of the
Program, but instruments of it. Yet, if you take the authority away from the mind, you aren’t going to
be deluded anymore. There is only one drama and that is your own. Lifelong entertainment in
watching your movie.
The most interesting thing one notices in the sleep-design is that there is no mind in the dream. Think
about all the stupid things you’ve heard about dreams and dream analysis. Your mind does not
participate. A dream is like a movie, but there is no “watcher”. There is no mind and there is no ego,
no “I”, no identity. You don’t “think” about a dream until you are awake. Yet, you have all these
people running around, wanting to personalise their dreams, instead of interpreting analytically what
they receive. It’s so different.
To understand the mechanics of the “sleeper”, one has to stop interpreting the dream for a moment and
understand what we are dealing with here: a specific programming that wants to bypass the mind. It’s
the reason why we sleep. To be certain you get the correct programming, you have to be your own
authority to determine if you want to sleep in your own aura or not.. You don’t want to take somebody
else’s dream programming that has nothing to do with you, and then end up with all kinds of stuff
running through your system that is unhealthy for you. At the same time, it could be exactly what’s
correct for you.
Gates 19, 12 and 62 are like mystical portals in which dreams from each of the domains can emerge
on the surface. They are also ways in which the dreamer can be specially influenced by the program.
Long-term transits to these Gates have an enormous impact on the sleeping life.
When you get into the Lines, you get into the dreams. The Gates are the archetypal forces, but with the
Lines you get into the subtlety of the dream. It’s about the flow of data. When looking at Colour, you
see the drive behind it. Tone will show you the cognitive roots and the way in which certain aspects
of cognition are imprinted in us at a deep unconscious level. Basically, all of this is the imprinting of
specific genes and codons that then have a responsibility of moving the information along. You really
have to understand how different the quality of the imprint of the Gates and Lines in the sleep-design
is compared to the normal Graph.
The Lines of the sleep-design are:
1 Secrets (Hero/Goat)
2 Possession (White/Black Magician)
3 Turmoil (Martyr/Conqueror)
4 Obsession (Slave/Master)
5 Fantasy (Rebel/Conformist)
6 Vision (Saint/Sinner)
.
The Architecture of Life

The Inanimate
The Cell
Plant
Insect
Bird, Reptile, Fish
Mammal
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About the author
S
teve Rhodes was born in Austria where he spent his childhood and studied mechanical engineering-
management before moving to London. While at university, he won a nationwide search for best
music-newcomer and subsequently got signed to Columbia records as a singer & composer. Various
TV, radio and other media appearances followed. Steve later built his own recording studio and
established himself as a music producer. He also had his own film studio and produced music videos
incorporating early 3D computer animation. In 2003, he was introduced to the Human Design System
and began to study with the founder Ra Uru Hu. He then lived for a few years on the Mediterranean
island of Ibiza where Ra lived. Until 2010, Steve owned one of the leading recording studios in
London (Alpha Centauri Recording), which was used by U2, Kanye West, M.I.A., Depeche Mode and
many others.

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Table of Contents

Introduction to Human Design

Also by Steve Rhodes

Bhan Tugh: The Key to Happiness, Health & Relationships

The Prophecy of Ra Uru Hu

First Edition (rev. 2)

Copyright © 2015 by Steve Rhodes

Steve Rhodes asserts the moral right to be

Editor: Stephanie Sprague

The amazing thing about water drops is

For humans it’s the exact opposite

Introduction to Human Design

The Design of Humans

Conception and Death

The Nine Energy Centres

Head Centre (Inspiration)

The Worker can be further divided into:

Independent Worker (35%)

Team Worker (35%)

The Lines and Roles

Right Angle Cross – Personal Destiny

Juxtaposition Cross – Fixed Destiny

Left Angle Cross – Impersonal Destiny

Nature: Role Model

Nature: Role Model

Below the Line

Here is an example for the mind (motivation):

1 - Fear —> 4 - Need (Master)

Six Environments (Design Nodes):

Six Views (Personality Nodes):

The Personality Nodes

The Nodes are the glue

The Design Primenode

The Design (North) Linknode

The Personality Primenode

The Personality (South) Linknode

Same Colour = Resonance

Lunar & Planetary (Magic) Square

The Diamond rules the seven-centred being

Communal Circuit (Willpower & Defence sub-Circuit)

63–4 Logic / A design of mental ease mixed with doubt

64–47 Abstraction / A design of mental activity and clarity

63–4 Logic / A design of mental ease mixed with doubt

17–62 Acceptance / A design of an organisational being

31–7 The Alpha / A design of leadership, for good or bad

15–5 Rhythm / A design of being in the flow

9–52 Concentration / A design of determination

18–58 Judgement / A design of insatiability

16–48 The Wavelength / A design of talent

64–47 Abstraction / A design of mental activity and clarity

11–56 Curiosity / A design of a searcher

35–36 Transitoriness / A design of being a “Jack of all trades”

30–41 Recognition / A design of focused energy (feelings)

42–53 Maturation / A design of balanced development (cyclic)

46–29 Discovery / A design of succeeding where others fail

33–13 The Prodigal / A design of a witness

61–24 Awareness / A design of a thinker

43–23 Structuring / A design of individuality

8–1 Inspiration / A design of a creative role model

3–60 Mutation / A design of energy that fluctuates and initiates

28–38 Struggle / A design of stubbornness

55–39 Emoting / A design of moodiness

20–57 The Brain Wave / A design of penetrating awareness