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Human Design and Gene Keys in plain language. What the words mean, what your chart is actually telling you, and how to live with it. Written by the people who build and read these charts every day.
Getting Started
New here? Start with how to read your chart, what the words mean, and how to actually live with this stuff.
- How to Read Your Human Design Chart: A Beginner's WalkthroughNew to your Human Design chart? Read it in the right order: type, strategy, authority, profile, then centers and channels. A plain-English walkthrough of the bodygraph.
Types & Strategy
The five energy types, their strategy, and how each one is built to move through the world.
- What Is a Manifesting Generator? Strategy, Aura, and How to Use Your EnergyManifesting Generators are the fast, multi-passionate Human Design type. Here's the respond-then-inform strategy, why you skip steps, and how to stop forcing yourself to finish like everyone else.
- What Is a Generator in Human Design? Strategy, Aura, and EnergyGenerators are the most common Human Design type. Here's the Sacral engine, the strategy to respond, the satisfaction-versus-frustration signal, and how to use your energy well.
- The Five Human Design Types, ExplainedThe five Human Design types: Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, Manifestor, and Reflector. What each one is, how common it is, and the strategy that fits it.
Authority & Centers
The nine centers and the inner authority that tells you how decisions are actually meant to be made for you.
- Coming soon.
The 12 Profiles
The role you're here to play, read from your conscious and unconscious lines.
- What Is a 1/3 Profile in Human Design? The Investigator-Martyr ExplainedThe 1/3 profile in Human Design is the Investigator-Martyr: a foundation built through study, then learning by trial and error. Here's what the lines mean and how to live it.
Gates & Channels
The 64 gates and 36 channels: the specific wiring that makes your chart yours.
- Coming soon.
Gene Keys
The Shadow, Gift, and Siddhi frequencies and the eleven spheres of the Hologenetic Profile.
- Coming soon.