What if there was a map that helped guide you in your life?
Your Starter Guide to your unique Human Design BodyGraph
Do you ever wish that someone would just hand you a map that helped guide you in your life? In this post, we’ll talk about Human Design BodyGraph as the map of guidance for your life and three first steps you can take right now to start experimenting with your unique map.
What is the Human Design BodyGraph?
Firstly, if you're unfamiliar with Human Design, it is a self-awareness modality that in itself is a synthesis of various ancient and modern modalities such as the I’Ching, the chakra system, astrology, the Kabbalah Tree of Life, genetics and quantum physics.
Simply put, Human Design gives us access to a map of our unique energetic imprint.
The BodyGraph is that map that reveals our individual imprint. We can also look at it as a circuit board that shows how and where our energy flows, and whether that energy is consistent and reliable or inconsistent and unreliable.
As you’ll see in the image below, the BodyGraph is made up of centers, gates and channels, each with their own energetics. In your individual BodyGraph, some will be coloured in and others will be white. This simply means where we're defined and fixed, and where we're open and receptive.
The BodyGraph can also be used as a tool to help us identify the narratives that are keeping us stuck, but also to validate and acknowledge the journey we’ve had so far, and to highlight our natural way of moving through this life.
How can you get a copy of your unique map?
Firstly, in order to get an accurate copy of your BodyGraph, you will need your exact time of birth, date of birth, and location of birth.
Once you have these details, you can head to any Human Design chart generator, pop in your birth details, and it will magically draw up your unique BodyGraph. The ones I like to use for various reasons are mybodygraph.com and humdes.com/en.
The accurate time of birth is extra important as the calculations are done based on the location of the planets at the exact time of your birth. Some celestial bodies move faster than others which means your BodyGraph can change pretty significantly during a 24-hour window. If you’re unsure of your time of birth, you could ask parents or relatives if that’s accessible, you could also contact the hospital you were born at, or get a copy of your birth certificate. If none of these options are accessible, you could get your birth time rectified by an astrologer who is competent in that technique.
How can the BodyGraph help guide us in life?
Now, that's the fun part.
One of the ways I view Human Design is as a self-awareness tool in a sense that it provides us with a vocabulary that often allows us to explore our self, our narratives, our upbringing, and our patterns on a more deeper level.
The BodyGraph provides us with a map to our individual energetic imprint. It’s a map that shows us how we operate on an energetic level. It’s also a tool that allows us to align to our most authentic decision-making process so that we can move through life with confidence and deep self-trust.
All in all, we can really think of our Human Design BodyGraph as an instruction manual for how our bodies are designed to operate in this life. Human Design is not a system to try to understand intellectually and to tell us who we are here to be, rather it is about awareness, embodiment and experimentation.
Human Design often poses questions such as:
how are we here to be fully embodied in our true nature? Who are we truly here to be? How can we live a more consciously aligned life?
As I mentioned earlier, the BodyGraph can also help us highlight narratives or patterns that might be keeping us stuck or stagnant. One of the ways we can look at these patterns and narratives is through the defined and the undefined centers, as in the ones that are coloured in and the ones that are white, as each of them correlates to specific themes.
And that is something that I love doing with my clients in my 1:1 sessions - to identify where we might be holding onto a story or a pattern that doesn’t even necessarily belong to us, and then start working with it on a somatic level through the conscious connected breathwork. As I said, Human Design is all about awareness and embodiment.
What are the three first steps you can take right now to start experimenting with your unique map?
Once you have your unique BodyGraph, the first three steps I’d encourage you to take is to familiarise yourself with your Type, Strategy, and Authority. In my experience, these can often have the most impact on our day-to-day life in terms of aligning us to our unique energetics. They can also be the areas where we might be most reluctant to surrender to our experimentation and more prone to conditioning.
What is Type?
There are 4 main Types in Human Design, with one sub-Type. These are Manifestors, Projectors, Generators, Reflectors and Manifesting Generators. What Type represents is the unique energetic frequency of our body. We can also refer to it as our aura - our presence. It’s how we engage with the world and how the world engages with us.
It’s also the basis for our individual Strategy and Authority, which I’ll expand on next.
What is Strategy?
Simply put, our Strategy reveals our particular way for approaching the world. It is how we are designed to move through life. Some of us are here to respond, some of us are here to initiate things, whilst others are here to be invited or really take our time when processing things.
When we embrace our Human Design Strategy, we naturally align our body, mind and soul to the way we’re designed to move through life. And when we do that, we inevitably start to live a more authentic life to us. We start to manage our energy in a more efficient way, a way that is not harmful to us or the people around us.
What is Authority?
Our authority is our inner guidance and our desicion-making mechanics. It is the energy that helps us discern and direct ourselves. We can think of it as our inner compass that is here to guide us through life.
And there you have it - your Starter Guide for your Human Design BodyGraph. If you have any questions about any of it, I’ve created a Google Form where you can ask away and I’ll respond.
Journal Prompts to ponder on where you might be going against your natural energy
Once you know your Type, Strategy and Authority, I’d encourage you to sit with these words and really reflect on what they bring up in you. Here are some prompts to help you with that.
Do you move through life in alignment with your Type energy?
How do others receive your energy?
Do you feel a connection to your Strategy?
How may you be moving through this life going against your Strategy?
Do you feel a connection to your Authority?
Can you think of examples from your past when you’ve made a decision based on your inner authority?
Can you think of examples when you’ve acted against your Authority? What happened? How did you feel?