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What is Human Design?
Human Design is a personal awareness system that analyzes human nature with today's scientific data, and ancient wisdom together. It analyzes the potential scientific data and energetic traces related to your own nature. As a result of this analysis, it gives you a potential user manual containing advices about your own nature. Thus, you can understand not only where you are stuck, your karmic tests, or what or whom you are attracted to, but also your strengths, how you are d

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Aug 233 min read


Human Design Glossary
Aura Your aura is the energy field surrounding your body. Your abilities reside here. Normally, it's about two arm's lengths wide. For example, when someone is within arm's length, your auras are in communication. Everyone's and everything's aura is constantly interacting with each other. Through this, and with planetary movements, you might be able to borrow certain abilities to advance your potential. Also, for example, when you see someone and think, "Something doesn't qui

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Aug 223 min read


Human Design Energy Types
In Human Design knowledge, energy types are the most fundamental information. You can build all other abilities and tips upon this foundation. Even if you forget everything else later, knowing your energy type, strategy, and authority provides enough cues to act in daily life, and the rest of your chart will activate automatically. In short, if you are designed to be a violin, trying to be a drum might lead you to difficult experiences in your life. So, if you are a violin, p

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Aug 213 min read


Human Design & Authorities (Decision-Making)
In Human Design, we call decision-making mechanisms "Authorities." Human Design says that around the 18th century, we underwent an evolution, moving from a 7-centered to a 9-centered beings, and our decision-making mechanisms have now shifted to bodily sensations. Until then, we made mental decisions based on survival instincts, but now the mind exists solely for understanding and sharing knowledge. Authorities provide the key to finding our way through various feelings. The

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Aug 205 min read


Human Design - Profiles
In Human Design, profiles show your role in this life, the costume you wear, your approach to things. How you see yourself, how do others see you, what kind of behavior do people expect from you, or how are they attracted to you? We can see these information in a bodygraph with profiles. Profiles, this can be a little bit detailed, comes from the 10th gate and consist of pairwise combinations of 6 lines. One comes from the conscious side, that is how you see yourself, your mi

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Aug 194 min read


Incarnation Cross & Gates - Human Design
In Human Design, the incarnation cross shows the main theme in your life. It shows the main theme that permeates everything you do, like the flavor of your cooking. It's the "en-carne," the main theme you've embodied. It consists of the four most dominant gates in your body map, as shown below: Personality (sun and earth) and Design (sun and earth). The combination of these four energies forms the incarnation cross. For example, in the example below, the incarnation cross is

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Aug 188 min read
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