Human Design
A self-inquiry system that combines astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, and the chakra model into a chart (bodygraph) with a type, strategy, and authority.
Human Design was created in 1987 by Alan Robert Krakower, known as Ra Uru Hu, as a synthesis of several older systems: astrological planetary positions, the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and the Hindu chakra model. Using your birth date, time, and place — calculated twice, once for the moment of birth and once for roughly 88 days before it — the system builds a bodygraph: a chart of nine centers connected by channels. Defined (colored-in) centers show the stable part of your nature; undefined centers show where you're sensitive to the people around you. The configuration of centers produces a type (Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, Manifestor, Reflector), each with its own strategy for engaging the world, plus an authority — an inner decision-making mechanism. Unlike astrology, which describes the symbolic context of your birth, Human Design centers on practical experimentation: the system asks you not to take the description on faith, but to test your strategy and authority against your own lived experience over several months.
See also
Authority (Human Design)
The inner decision-making mechanism in a Human Design chart — it shows where a reliable yes or no actually comes from: the body, the emotions, or time.
Profile (Human Design)
A pair of numbers from 1 to 6 in a Human Design chart (for example, 1/3 or 5/2) that describes a person's life role and the way they learn.
Sacral Center
One of the nine energy centers in the Human Design bodygraph, responsible for life-force energy and a body-level yes/no response.
Gates (Human Design)
The 64 "gates" of the bodygraph — themes inherited from the I Ching's hexagrams, activated by birth data and forming the channels between centers.
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