What is Human Design?

A treasure map...

When something comes at me three times from three different directions, I pay attention. That’s how Human Design arrived for me, mentioned in passing by three completely separate people, in three completely unrelated conversations, within the space of what felt like a few weeks. I notice these things.

I thought it was totally woo nonsense when I first looked into it. But I couldn’t deny that it was uncannily accurate. And no matter how many times I tried to put it down, it kept coming back into my life.

So. What actually is it?

Human Design is a system that maps out how your energy works, how you make decisions, how you best interact with the world, where you’re designed to thrive and where you’ve probably been pushing against yourself for years. It was synthesised in 1987 by a man called Ra Uru Hu, and it draws from four ancient wisdom traditions: the I Ching, the Kabbalah, the Hindu-Brahmin Chakra system, and Western Astrology. It also incorporates quantum physics, specifically the neutrino, a subatomic particle that passes through everything, including us, carrying information from the planets.

I realise I’m entranced by stardust - that from which we are all made.

To get your Human Design chart, you need your date, time and place of birth. From these, a bodygraph is calculated, a nine-centred diagram that shows which energy centres in your body are consistently active (defined), which are more open and receptive to the world around you (undefined), and how these centres connect through channels. It looks like this (though yours will look different).

There’s something about this chart that lights me up. It looks beautiful to me. And the chart acts as a treasure map, giving up its secrets bit by bit and taking us back home to ourselves.

But here’s the bit I care about, after years of working with it.

It’s about the living of it, far more than the intellectual knowing.

Your Human Design type, whether you’re a Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, Manifestor or Reflector, tells you something fundamental about how your energy moves and what your relationship with the world wants to be. Your profile tells you something about your life’s flavour and purpose. Your strategy and authority tell you how to make decisions in a way that will feel right in your body, rather than just your head.

This last part was huge for me - I had always struggled with knowing where to focus and which direction to head in next.

Most of us make decisions from our heads. Human Design says: what if your body already knows?

I’ve spent years watching people have the experience of having their chart read and saying, oh! Of course! That sound of recognition. Of being seen. Of permission, finally, to be exactly as they already are.

That’s what Human Design is, for me. Something that holds your particular blueprint and says: here, this is how you’re wired, this is how the light that we all are shines through you.

There are three ways to explore your Human Design with me.

1. Get your free Human Design chart here and I’ll send you a brief description of your energy type to get you started.

2. Become a paid subscriber of Soil & Stardust. Behind the paywall I am sharing what it means to align with my own Human Design and how you can do the same with yours. You’ll also be gifted my Navigating Midlife by Design Masterclass.

3. Alternatively, if you want to jump straight to it, book a private reading with me. All you need is your time, date and place of birth.

I look forward to joining you on your own Human Design journey.

Nic x