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.
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