The library
Human Design, in plain English.
Human Design is a framework for self-reflection that combines a few older systems into one map of how your energy works. This is our independent, plain-English library of its building blocks, written in our own words, for exploring your own chart. Nothing here is a prediction or advice; it’s a set of prompts for getting to know yourself.
The 5 Types
How your energy is built to engage the world, and the one strategy that keeps you out of resistance.
ExploreThe 7 Authorities
Your reliable decision-making mechanism: where your dependable yes and no actually live.
ExploreThe 12 Profiles
The two-number pattern that describes how you learn and how others tend to meet you.
ExploreThe 9 Centers
The nine shapes of the bodygraph: which are defined (steady) and which are open (where you take in the world).
ExploreThe 36 Channels
How the gates connect across centers: the wiring that defines your type and definition.
ExploreThe 64 Gates
The smallest pieces of the chart: each a specific flavor of energy, drawn from a hexagram of the I Ching.
ExploreStart with your own chart
The three things a chart names first. If you already know yours, go straight to it.
The 7 authorities
The 12 profiles
- 1/3: Investigator / Martyr
- 1/4: Investigator / Opportunist
- 2/4: Hermit / Opportunist
- 2/5: Hermit / Heretic
- 3/5: Martyr / Heretic
- 3/6: Martyr / Role Model
- 4/6: Opportunist / Role Model
- 4/1: Opportunist / Investigator
- 5/1: Heretic / Investigator
- 5/2: Heretic / Hermit
- 6/2: Role Model / Hermit
- 6/3: Role Model / Martyr
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