What is Human Design? And why it is so much richer than other personality tests…
Whether you are familiar with Human Design already, or completely new to it, I do believe you have stumbled on this article for a reason. In my experience Human Design is a system that finds you when you need it. That was certainly my own journey anyway.
With so many of us on a quest for deeper self awareness and understanding, it is no wonder that Human Design appears to be all over social media and is becoming a hugely popular, and well talked about tool in the spiritual world and beyond. But it can also be a little overwhelming when you first discover it, and simply running your chart through a free software doesn’t always give you the clarity you need, in fact it can often leave you a little confused!
My hope is that this article, and the pieces that follow it, will help you get a little more confidence in understanding your own unique way of operating and provide you with some practical ways to implement tangible actions in your own Human Design experiment.
So… what actually is Human Design?
To me, Human Design is a map of your truest self. I see it as a tool of deep remembrance — a beautiful system that holds up a mirror to your innate super powers and gifts, and gently invites you back into relationship with the person you always were, before the world told you who to be.
On a more intellectual level, Human Design is known as the science of differentiation. It honours the fact that we are each uniquely designed to show up and move through the world in our own way. It then gives us a supportive framework for understanding how we actually embody that in this lifetime in our work, relationships and wellbeing.
The system itself is a beautiful weaving together of Quantum Physics, Eastern and Western Astrology, the Chinese I’Ching, the Kabbalah, and the Hindu Chakra System. It is a beautiful tapestry of supportive tools that truly offers a window into our soul.
What makes Human Design unique compared to other personality tests?
One of the things that I love most about Human Design is that unlike tools such as the Myers-Briggs or even something like the Enneagram assessments, it is not based on answering a series of questions about yourself, which can of course be answered differently based on your own lived experience, and even your mood and circumstances from day to day.
Human Design is based entirely on your birth date, time, and location so it cannot be changed or swayed by conditioning. It provides you with a blueprint of who you came to this earth to be. There is no reliance on how you may perceive yourself (which is often influenced by other people’s narratives and cultural expectations) or the way you ‘should’ be. It simply provides a beautiful mirror to what is already present.
The information we discover in Human Design is never truly brand new — on a soul-deep level, we already knew it.
When I get the honour of sharing Human Design with other women, it often prompts a full body sense of relief… a deep sigh and a permission slip… when someone realises that the way of being they have always ‘known’ felt true to them, is actually totally aligned and correct even if it doesn’t look ‘the same’ as others.
It truly is a gift.
Permission to play
Human Design is not prescriptive or predictive and there is no right or wrong way of working with it. It is often referred to as an ‘experiment’ and so the first thing I encourage others to do is to ‘play’ with one or two elements of their design (usually their strategy and authority, or their not-self/signature themes which I will go into in other article) and see how it feels in your life.
This was how I began my own journey with it in 2018, and how I continue to engage with it now. Playing, experimenting, learning through the lived experience of seeing what works and what doesn’t. The results for me were pivotal in both my business and my personal life and I find so many people have a similar experience with it.
So where do you begin?
You can run your chart for free on My Human Design or Human Design Blueprint and let yourself go down the rabbit hole of seeing where it takes you. Alternatively you can book a Human Design Reading with me here to begin exploring the many layers of how you can use Human Design in your sacred business.
Look out for my next post on Human Design where I will share more about how this system found me during one of the tenderest times of my life and how it helped me build a business and life that I never imagined possible!
