In Buddhism, there’s a story about Mara and his disciples seeing a man whose face was full of light, beaming in a moment of awakening and wonder. Now, Mara’s role is to create disharmony and deception, so it surprised those disciples to see Mara walk on with no interest in creating chaos and illusion for this man who normally would be an ideal target. Curious, they asked Mara what it was that held that man so rapturously.

“Mara replied, “A piece of Truth.”

“Doesn’t this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, o evil one?” his attendants asked.

“No,” Mara replied. “Right after this they usually make a belief out of it.”

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1435016.Stories_of_the_Spirit_Stories_of_the_Heart, Christina Feldman & Jack Kornfield

From the first moment I read this story, it felt like the most accurate way to describe, pretty much, all human existence, and all human suffering. Think about your own experience of having a realization, awareness, or insight and feeling expansively filled with its energy. But, realizations come in a pulse. And, they disappear in the same way. It’s natural to want to try to hold on to them.

My Human Design realization

About 30 years after having been struck by this story, I was introduced to Human Design. And this instructive tale was, and continues to be, a part of my lens in approaching it. Yes, there have been ‘aha’ moments that inspired sensations of wonder and awe. And yes, the system itself is taught by transmitting the details and the ideas about what they mean.

Even so, it isn’t meant, and doesn’t need, to become a dogmatic belief system.

Each one of us gets to make a choice about how to move forward after the realization emerges. And, each one of us chooses if and how to experiment with what the canon offers.

For me, the most important aspects of this system are the ones that can be directly experimented with and the results that can be observed. I can appreciate that there is what Ra called the “gray courses” and even the mythology of how the system came to be, but I don’t have a lot of interest in studying or sharing it. And Ra, himself, advised that you not believe what anyone tells you about HD. Experiment for yourself.

Your experimentation isn’t even primarily about the bits and bobs of HD. Ultimately, the greatest gift is in its role as a place to learn to listen to your body. To love your body for what it has consistent and inconsistent energy for. And, to learn how to not sacrifice your body in service of a conditioned mental intelligence’s whims.

So, when you discover something luminous about your own truth in Human Design’s explanations, absolutely immerse yourself in the wonder of that moment. Then, release any mental attachments that offer to build a reliable — read “rigid” — framework with which to preserve that wonder. Don’t do Mara’s job for him.

Fearing that another moment of that rich awakening may not come will naturally trigger a desire to capture it. Allowing the awakening to have its own life, rather than being held captive within an unyielding mental framework, does mean that the rapture will pass. Celebrating that you’ve chosen to be carried along by the currents of Life allows you to release that Now in readiness for the next.

This will be the path throughout your entire deconditioning odyssey. There will be moments of blissful awakening accompanied by your conditioned not-self mind’s offers to help lock that awakening down. Both of these experiences are the gift of learning HD and experimenting with your specific design.

It’s in the movement between them that you’ll find your True Self.

Disappointment... Hurt feelings... Betrayal... Unworthiness...

Metaphorically speaking, experiences like these can feel like you’ve tripped over some unseen object and been knocked painfully to the ground. You may feel like you’ve had the wind knocked out of you, feel bruised or, maybe even have broken a metaphorical bone or two.

And it can be very easy to assume that the source of the stumble was whoever’s on the other side of those feelings. After all, they sure looked like they’re the culprit. The words came out of their mouths or the actions were done by them. So, of course, the resulting pain must be because of them.

This is why it may surprise you to hear that the secret to avoiding these painful tumbles is not what you’d expect. Because what you might have been told is that you need good... or better... boundaries. Rules about your behavior that are designed to protect you made by you in response to past painful experiences.

By nature, boundaries need to be rigid, apply to many situations, and give you a sense of certainty. And, they’ll be based on a collection of evidence, combined with what you believe you ‘should’ do. Well, the truth is boundaries do more to restrict than to protect you because they simply can’t shield you from the true source of your vulnerability.

Know Who You Are

Now, this isn’t to say that others can’t do or say hurtful things. They absolutely can, and sadly, sometimes do. It isn’t to say that your hurt, disappointment, betrayal, or unworthiness aren’t real feelings because they are.

What I’m saying is similar to the insight that Morpheus offered to Neo in the movie, The Matrix.

In the film, Neo doesn’t understand who he is. It’s this lack of clarity that makes him susceptible to being injured. But once he knows the truth of his identity, he effortlessly responds to whatever assaults come his way.

The same is true for you.

When you know who you are and understand the true source of your vulnerability, your tumbles and stumbles simply won’t have the power to throw you down to the ground.

In Human Design, this source of vulnerability is called Openness, although, it’s more accurate to think of it as receptivity. I also like the word, permeability. It’s where you’re designed to soak up the energies of Life and where you’re here to become wise.

Picture This

Imagine that everyone is born with the same size house and each person has the same number of rooms, doors, and hallways. Some of those rooms have furniture already built in. And some of those rooms are empty. Now, everyone you’ve ever met has offered to give you furniture to fill your empty rooms. On top of that, they’re all certain they know which furniture is best for you. And so they donate pieces to you whether you want them or not.

Unfortunately, these pieces of furniture are often ugly. They nearly always have sharp edges and pointy corners. They’re bulky and ill-fitting. Placed in inconvenient spots, they may block a particular view or even the door, making it unpleasant to get into or out of that room.

They are your Inner Clutter.

In Human Design, all that Inner Clutter is called Not-Self Conditioning.

And despite how it feels, it’s neither good nor bad. And you’re neither good nor bad for having been vulnerable to it. So, depending on how much Openness you have in your design. it’s completely normal to have accepted the furniture that others were so insistent on giving you.

Everyone has Inner Clutter. And everyone trips over it. That’s because you were never given the light of consciousness. And this means you’ll walk around these rooms in the dark. So, you frequently bump into the furniture, stubbing toes and bruising shins.. In the worst cases, you could be seriously injured, like a broken ankle, wrist, or limb and potentially even a serious blow to the head.

Now, because you can’t see the furniture in the darkness, you’ll be confused about why it hurts to go in there. So, you might try to avoid them as much as possible. But, these rooms are part of you and one way or another, you’ll find yourself in them. And it doesn’t help to learn how to do a better job of walking in the dark.

What you most need to learn is how to turn on the lights.

Fortunately, you can illuminate your way by learning about your Openness. Suddenly, you’ll see the furniture with all its sharp, pointy ugliness. It will explain why it had hurt so much to be in those rooms within yourself. And in doing so, you come heart-to-heart with yourself for having accepted the donations that weren’t helpful or healthy for you.

You become free of judging, blaming, or shaming yourself for not being better at preventing that furniture from taking up space inside of you. You can even become free of judging, blaming, or shaming others for insisting that you accept the furniture. Eventually, you’ll understand that they themselves had been pressured to accept that furniture from others.. And because they had no way of knowing it wasn’t correct for them, they had no way of knowing that it wasn’t correct for you.

You Have Arrived

You arrive at a space within yourself where you simply get to decide whether you want to...

• Keep the furniture...

• Put it out on the sidewalk with a FREE sign on it...

• Or, take it to the backyard and set it on fire.

Whatever you choose, you get to redesign that room so that when you do spend time there, you get to enjoy it to the fullest.

And finally...

Stop tripping over your inner clutter.

Discover Your Design

Your Human Design chart provides observable and tangible insights into what motivates you and how you can correctly access and apply your energy.

Discovering your unique and specific traits and strengths through your Human Design chart makes it possible to:

• Erase self-doubt

• Silence your inner critic

• Make decisions that feel good

• Become more resilient

• Stop people-pleasing

• Understand your relationships better

• Experience more vitality and ease

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Although each of the Human Design Types has a role in the cosmic drama of life, only Projectors are said to be on the ascendancy.

What does this mean?

Well, it won’t look like what you’ve been conditioned to believe by the world.

This ascendancy isn’t manifesting the directing, commanding energy of the Manifestor. It isn’t generating the busy, building energy of the Generator. Instead, the way Projectors lead is quite revolutionary.

Projector leadership can be understood through the phrase, ‘power versus force.’ Now, there can be confusion about these two ways of engaging with the world.

Power

Radiates… Influences… Emanates… Regenerates

Force

Controls… Manipulates… Is forced… Uses up energy

In the world we’ve grown up in, force has been and is seen as essential to leadership and accomplishment. And that isn’t to say that Manifestors and Generators are acting in correctness if they employ Force. It’s that incorrect use of their energy has been reinforced by an overarching view that doing is the most important way to be.

However, now, everything is changing. The Global background frequency will no longer provide the same support with the force of the Collective or the Tribe. Instead, the energetic fabric of the Universe will now be designed to support power — particularly individual empowerment.

In February of 2027, the Global Cycle shifts from the Cross of Planning to the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix. When it does, the background energetic frequency shifts to supporting Individuality and Empowerment rather than collective hierarchies and tribal support. Most of what you’ll read about this change focuses on the differences between these two crosses. It’s helpful to also know that each cycle has a second cross and right now, that’s the Cross of Maya which is shifting to the Cross of Penetration.

How To Read The Global Cycles

Below are illustrations of how the two crosses of each era interact. Our current era, named the Cross of Planning, consists of gates 37, 40, 9, and 16. You can see those numbers located in the inner part of the diagram at the west, east, north and south positions. The Cross of Maya consists of gates 61, 62, 32, 42. Those numbers are located at the northwest, southeast, northeast, and southwest points of the inner part of the diagram.

Highlighted in yellow in the mandala are Gates 25, 46, 10, and 15 which make up the Cross of the Vessel of Love, and Gates 13, 7, 1, and 2 which make up the Cross of the Sphinx. These eight gates are all located in the G Center of the Human Design Bodygraph. They form the Locks for which the transiting era’s gates become the Keys. The Locks never change. Each cycle gate is a Key that fits into a Lock. The Keys change approximately every 400 years.

So a Global Cycle isn’t just some kind of abstract. It’s why these Locks and Keys mean so much, because we carry them within our bodies. It works within all of humanity, within all of life. We all have the Cycle of Planning in every cell right now, and it conditions everything that is going on. — Jovian Archive

There are more layers of insight into what each of the G Center gates holds and delivers to us that explain why it’s the center tuned to and embodying the energies of the current era. The good news is, there’s no need to deep dive into that learning to receive the wisdom of what the changing era energy offers. If you have questions, leave them in the comments or send me a message. I’m happy to connect with you.

1615 — 2026

Cross of Planning & Cross of Maya

Cross of Planning: Gates 37, 40, 9, 16

Cross of Maya: Gates 61, 62, 32, 42

2027 — 2438

Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix & Cross of Penetration

Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix: Gates 55, 59, 34, 20

Cross of Penetration: Gates 54, 53, 57, 51

When most people talk about this shift, you’ll find that they focus on the Keys to the Locks associated with the Cross of the Vessel of Love. This is why you’ll see or hear it named as the era of the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix. I’ve found it helpful to be given a more expansive view of the landscape by also looking at the Cross of Penetration’s influence.

Each of the eight Locks serves a function and asks a specific Core Question answered by the gates of the era’s crosses. While the four gates forming the Locks of the Cross of the Vessel of Love have important questions and influence, it’s empowering to know that the Cross of the Sphinx G Center gates play an equal role. Here you can see the Lock gates, Core Questions, the upcoming 2027 Key gates, and the energetic themes those keys bring.

When you read the Core Questions, that tells you the quality of influence that particular Key will have during that era.

What Does This Mean For Projectors?

This new energy field that we will all live in and be influenced by has a strong essence of individuality and personal empowerment. And even Projectors without Individual circuitry are designed to focus in on the individual, penetrating and absorbing their energetic information. As advisors who can guide, Projectors guide best one-on-one. That doesn’t mean a Projector can’t be good with groups. It means that this powerful laser-like perception is made to see into one person at a time.

It’s a natural fit for Projectors to lead others to successful expression of individuality and empowerment. Specifically, for the Generator majority, Projectors will be essential for guiding them in using their abundant energy for building once the Cross of Planning and Cross of Maya tribal and collective energies fade.

My sense is that the most vital way to move into this new era as a Projector is to learn, live, and love your design and all that it carries. We’ve all been conditioned to believe that we’re here to measure ourselves by how much we get done and how much energy we have.

Begin by asking yourself: “What awareness did I experience today?” Assess the success of your day and yourself through this radically different lens. Notice when you spend your energy trying to hack the energy of others or of your openness. Consider giving yourself a “doing” fast.

When we truly understand the nature of our Projector design and its innate access to power, we can stop using force which is good for our body, mind, and spirit. And that is good for everyone.

Personal Note: When I first started looking at this framework, I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Fortunately, over time as I learned from a variety of teachers, my awareness expanded enough to receive and comprehend, not just the details, but the overarching story it was trying to tell. If you’re interested in a resource that unpacks this in a digestible and coherent way, check out Human Design Collective’s 2027: Finding Our Way In The New Era self-paced course. It’s the work of Amy Lee and John Cole, two Projectors and highly gifted HD analysts.

As a Projector and an Awareness Type, with an aura designed to take in and read life rather than generate energy to power through it, I invite you to take a look at your own relationship to the assumption that all growth is good. What does it look like when we ask ourselves how to make choices that support life-affirming growth? A place to start is by differentiating between the busyness of putting out energy versus having life draw our energy out of us, into the world.

A helpful distinction here: the way the world normally defines growth — accomplishment, impact, production — is the least helpful measure for us. And the least true.

For example, last summer I planted a patch of green beans. I wanted to prove to myself I was a good gardener. And the beans came — more of them, faster, than I had energy to keep up with. I hadn’t asked myself whether I wanted or needed them all. I’d only asked whether this was something I could do.

Does being an Awareness Type, a Projector, really have anything to do with growing some veg?

This simple story offers a birds eye view of how it’s necessary to be willing to set down the belief that our greatest value comes through making a particular impact, or through producing or building. In other words, creating growth.

Relinquishing this notion doesn’t come easy in a material world of things. We have bodies that require food, shelter, and clothing. We have people in our lives who may rely on us to produce, or to generate a sustainable way for their bodies to be cared for.

Ultimately, it’s awareness that makes the difference. Maybe you can’t stop physically showing up for the things material life appears to require of you. But showing up doesn’t mean you have to behave like an Energy Type to do it — pushing, forcing, producing on force alone. It means meeting that necessity through your own Strategy and Authority, even while the doing itself continues. And maybe you can give yourself the gift of being seen — if only by yourself.

You’re an Awareness Type living in a material world. The majority believes what matters most is the doing, producing, generating, and impacting — but that belief is mistaken. It leaves out the essential contribution that beginning with awareness provides. And it isn’t just the Generators and Manifestors who’ve overlooked and undervalued the role of the Awareness Types. We Projectors and Reflectors have been trained to gloss over it, too.

And make no mistake, there are times when doing is correct for an Awareness Type — for instance, when you have motors defined. Energy will take the form that each of those motors has. Emotional energy will move in a wave through the Solar Plexus. The Root will give you that adrenalized push and pressure, but it will burn off like the booster on a rocket. The Ego will only offer willpower for the length of time it wants to. And yet the conditioned mind, having seen that you’re capable of producing energy, when those particular sources have run their course, will then want you to push.

That’s the conditioned mind’s relationship with energy — go until it runs out, then push through as if it’s still there.

I’ve discovered that the mistake wasn’t in growing those beans. The mistake was in doing it before I let my awareness lead. If I hadn’t been so eager to be the best gardener — at least as judged in my own mind — I would have let my awareness ask questions like: how many plants are correct for my space, my resources, my material needs? I would have let my awareness open the door to only the energy that was just right for me, for my life. I would have ridden on a current that carried me exactly to where I was meant to be and for how long I was meant to be there. I would have felt successful.

This is when life-affirming growth is possible. In a world of material and energetic demands, living in alignment with your True Self creates the conditions for all your needs to be met. This quote from Ra points in that direction, and asks you to be willing to set down the hardwired belief that life, and growth, is something you muscle your way through:

“If you live out your Type, you’re going to have the material abundance you need. Because remember — the moment you stop being in control of your life, your life is perfectly financed.”

And I’m not telling you to start with the end in mind here. Don’t look at the destination of having your life perfectly financed because that’s taking your awareness away from where it’s meant to be. Focus on living out your Type — and for Projectors, that requires four things.

One, find your stillness.

There is a place within you where your aura is completely still, like a silent pond poised and waiting.

Two, discern correctness.

That stillness lets you discern which ripples on your pond are for you and which ones are not. Your Motivation Color provides the standard for assessment.

Three, recognize the container.

Now that you’ve discerned a correctness, you’re in the space of recognition of what the invitation holds. This is where your gift comes alive and moves into the space created.

Four, accept the invitation.

You’re free to accept the invitation and feel your auric gifts drawn out from you with complete ease on your part.

And while this process is unfolding, your stillness is still there, poised and waiting so that new ripples can be discerned. Because every invitation is time bound, and that stillness and discernment are what you need to tell you if, and mainly when, it’s changed.

This is the experience of Success — the quiet, internal recognition and sense of ease because you were seen correctly, invited correctly, and that what you did came through you rather than the conditioned mind’s push to prove something.

This isn’t the opposite of growth. It’s a relationship with growth that won’t overrun you and drain your energy. In fact, it will ensure that the energy that comes your way enlivens and feeds you. Your material abundance will be the exact size, shape, and proportion to perfectly finance your life.

This is what growth is for an Awareness Type: not striving toward success, but recognizing it — again and again — as the natural result of staying true to your own design.

Before anything else, let me set the scene because it could be easy to misread this: what I’m about to say is not about whether being an Awareness Type is better or worse than being an Energy Type. It’s about seeing differently. There’s no higher or lower here, no better set of eyes — only a difference in how we’re each built with a different priority, and what that priority is for.

Here’s the difference, as I see it.

Both energy and awareness live in every one of us. No type is missing either. What differs is which one is sovereign — which one leads, and which one serves.

For an Energy Type — a Generator or a Manifestor — energy is the primary orientation. Awareness is present, sometimes considerable, but it’s here to move in service of the energy: how to spend it, where to aim it, what to build with it. For an Awareness Type — a Projector, and a Reflector — it runs the other way. Awareness is the primary orientation. We have access to energy, sometimes plenty of it, but it’s meant to be expended in service of the awareness.

We Projectors are often called “non-energy beings.” I’ve always found that an unfriendly, unhelpful term — but in this particular context, it gives us a useful lens. It doesn’t mean we have no energy. Some of us have defined motors and reliable access to the energy they provide; the difference is that a Projector’s energy is constrained by the mode of the motor. Energy isn’t what we’re oriented to. Awareness is.

What the raven sees

A while ago, I learned something delightful. A favorite bird of mine, the raven, sees a little further than we do¹ — past the violet at the edge of our vision, to the near-ultraviolet just beyond it. Right there, where our own sight diminishes, a thin band of the world is alive for the raven and filtered out for us. It’s a layer at the very edge of light that human eyes block.²

And I thought: yes. That’s something like what it’s like to be an Awareness Type.

The raven is designed not only to perceive light in the near-ultraviolet range; its eye structure also lets it receive it. That’s the part that made me say, ‘ That’s us. ‘ Awareness Types have a subtle but profound difference in how they take in the world. And Projectors specifically are built to see and perceive the world and others around them.

In a world populated by Energy Types, this subtlety of perception is easy to overlook because its value doesn’t show up as an equivalent amount of doing. Like the raven, Projectors may take joy in the patterns and hues we see everywhere we look, while those built differently don’t understand what all the fuss is about.

Especially if what the majority values is your ability to generate and manifest.

The standard we were measured by

The world largely runs on generated and manifested reality because most of its people are Energy Types, oriented to the doing that everyone can perceive. So, naturally, the assumption was made that the blatantly visible, materially measurable was the most important aspect of reality. There was no need to be curious about the thin band at the edge. And so we — the Awareness Types — never learned to trust our own perception. We were conditioned to look away from the very thing we were born to see.

This conditioning landed like a one-two punch to a Projector’s confidence and self-trust.

First, we felt compelled to abandon our seeing. Told again and again, directly and indirectly, that what we saw wasn’t real or wasn’t important — we turned away, doubted it, called ourselves, at best, misguided; at worst, broken. We blinkered our awareness of our gift in hopes of fitting in with the flock.

And second, we were handed the majority’s way of being and were told to live by it. Spend energy. Produce. Keep up. Push through. The world told us to run our whole lives from an orientation that was never ours. So we did push through. We expended energy we didn’t have, forcing ourselves to be as productive and active as expected. And when we failed, we were judged for not having enough energy, for not trying hard enough, for not believing it enough. No wonder we so often ended up both unseen and worn out. Those are two different wounds, and the same conditioning made them both.

When measured by an Energy Type whose entire being craves the expenditure of energy, an Awareness Type looks like a drab bird, indeed.

Energy in service of awareness

The difference is real and emerges through lived experience. Here’s a story of a time I directed my awareness and followed the energy.

Today I did some mending. I didn’t mean to, I knew a large item was there and needed it. Even though it had been in my room for a week or so, this morning, my awareness wouldn’t let me simply glance at it and move on. So I sat and threaded a needle. Next thing I know, I’ve mended that large item as well as three other smaller items. Then, I brought my awareness to the computer and reconnected with projects that made me happy. (Which is aligned with my Self-Projected Authority.)

My awareness turned toward a short video that had been waiting and then toward something I’d been feeling about wanting to write more personally, and each of those noticings led me to the next thing. Even now, it’s my awareness of what this metaphor does, the way it lights something up, that’s giving me the energy to sit here and be present to it.

Every bit of energy I spent today moved in service of my awareness. And here’s the tell: I’m not depleted. I followed my Strategy and Authority, the energy went where the seeing pointed, and it left me more enlivened, not less.

I know the other way intimately, because I lived it for decades before Human Design. Then, the doing came first. It always started with a clearly defined checklist of goals and timelines, with my awareness dragged along behind. My mind checked in with my awareness only when justification or evidence was needed. And no matter how many things I ticked off my list, a Sisyphean sense of infinite futility burdened me. Because every day there was a brand-new list. And those cheerful checkmarks stopped feeling good. At one point, I started writing the list in pencil so I could erase the items once they were done. I needed to feel like there was an end in sight and that one day, I’d have a clean slate.

Today, I didn’t have a to-do list, and mending stuff wasn’t a boulder to be pushed up a hill. It was a space of time in which I was present to the fabrics, threads, and needle of what quite effortlessly drew my awareness.

The other orientation

Now, if you’re a Generator or a Manifestor, I celebrate your innate energetic exuberance.

That’s because my sense of how it is for an Energy Type begins with the call that energy is here, and it wants to be spent. That’s the starting pull, the point of the day. A Generator can wake up, pour out energy from morning to night, and go to bed feeling spent to the last drop — and as long as the spending follows their Strategy and Authority, it doesn’t harm them. It satisfies them. A Manifestor hears the call from within that wants to emerge through whatever energy they have connected to the Throat Center. And again, following Strategy and Authority allows them to spend their energetic currency in a way that brings them peace. In both instances, their awareness serves to spend, shape, and aim it well.

Ours runs the other direction. For us, the call is awareness is here, and it wants to be met. Strategy and Authority still shape what meeting it correctly looks like — but the orientation begins in the seeing, and the energy follows.

And it isn’t two sealed worlds. Many Energy Types carry a projected channel, and feel a flicker of what we live inside — even if they don’t dwell there. It plays in their background while energy plays in their foreground. For us, it’s the reverse.

Writing the standard

The deepest shift we can make as Projectors is to realize that we’ve been breathing Energy Type air and couldn’t quite put our finger on why we so often found ourselves short of breath. We were never given a standard for measuring our days or ourselves by how much awareness we experienced. No one told us what a healthy, fully alive Awareness Type even looks like — because the people writing the standards weren’t attuned to the band it runs in the same way. A Manifestor and a Generator may have eyes that can see near-ultraviolet, but they’ve got filters that keep much of it out. Not because they’re lacking but because they’re here for something else.

Like the ravens, we’re here to see and perceive that subtle, yet profoundly beautiful part of the spectrum of light. When correctly recognized and invited, we’re here to let others know what we see. And, we’re here to love that we can.

I saw that too

This is why it matters so much when we find each other. When one Projector describes the thing they saw — I caught that pattern coming off of him; I knew that room wasn’t correct; I saw what no one else seemed to see — and another Projector says, yes. I saw that too. It’s real. You’re not crazy — something gets mended that the world spent years eroding. Two ravens at the edge of the field, telling each other that what they see is really there.

Because it is. That seeing is rich, and gorgeous, and an extraordinary gift — not only to have, but to bring to the world. And it becomes fully yours the moment you love your own nature enough that you stop needing the approval of people who’ll never have these eyes to confirm what you see.

You were never broken. You were never lacking in energy; how it’s meant to work for you was simply misunderstood. You were made to see a layer of the world that others were never made to see — and it was always, always real.

1. https://corvidresearch.blog/2020/12/02/crow-curiosities-can-crows-see-uv/

2. https://www.livescience.com/health/can-humans-see-ultraviolet-light

When you first come to Human Design, the sheer volume of information, and the directions it can take you, can feel overwhelming. In order to demystify this complex and expansive system of knowledge, I invite you to imagine the different ways to explore the ocean.

To get started, you might view it from the deck of the boat. You look out over the sea — the waves and light moving on the water, the horizon shifting and swaying, and every so often a dolphin or a whale breaching, revealing the existence of wonders below. From this vantage point you learn about the major aspects of Human Design, like Type and Strategy. For us Projectors, we’re told that we’re focused and absorbing and our Strategy is to wait for recognition and invitation. This description appears to tell the story, although from the deck view perspective, you can’t yet imagine what lies beneath.

Something about it might not feel quite right. It may leave you with quiet, or loud, nagging doubts. “Am I really supposed to wait for someone, anyone, to see me, value me, and invite me?” At this level, the Human Design prescription for Projectors can create confusion, doubt, or simply unanswered questions. However, just as with the actual ocean, the surface isn’t wrong. It’s just the beginning. It’s the point of entry to an extraordinary undersea world offering a variety of depths to explore.

Your next level of Human Design learning is akin to snorkeling. You’re exploring the space where the air and sea meet. Swimming close enough to enjoy the wonders of a coral reef, you come face to face with an astonishing interconnectedness. You’re discovering that this ecosystem holds more than your spot on the boat’s deck could have ever shown you. This is where aspects like Profile, Centers, Authority, and Definition live. These elements add color and nuance to that fairly generalized knowledge of your Type. This added complexity doesn’t address that earlier question about whether and how, as a Projector, you’re here at the mercy of the whims of the other. In order to satisfy that open question, you’ll need to dive deeper.

This is where you learn to scuba. This depth of exploration takes specific equipment and the training to use it. These depths aren’t reserved for the gifted; they’re reached through correct education and, even more importantly, through experiencing the cellular awakening that’s referred to as deconditioning. As Awareness Types, Projectors have a unique capacity for perception and a natural curiosity and interest in mastering systems. Understanding the difference between the various depths and how to best outfit yourself as you enter them provides an essential key to experiencing the Projector Signature Theme of Success.

Finally, with sufficient cellular awakening supported by fluency in the system itself, you can more comfortably enter the greatest depths, where the water is quiet and dark and a truly astonishing web of life is found. You’ve become a deep-sea diver, possessing the understanding that the expanses and depths of learning and embodiment are endless.

None of these is better than the others. They’re depths, not grades of accomplishment. There are mornings when the deck is exactly where you want to be, and the dolphins are more than enough. But if you’ve been standing at the rail feeling the pull of the water — if the words used to describe your design have an unappealing taste, and something in you keeps asking to go under — that pull is worth trusting.

Projectors Rising is a place for appreciating all the depths, but we’ll focus most on demystifying what the surface view and some of the snorkel treks have made you believe is the full story. I don’t contradict traditional Human Design knowledge as transmitted by Ra Uru Hu, the International Human Design School, or Jovian Archive. My design has allowed me to see into the most empowering perspectives that have lain hidden within it. I look forward to diving together.

“One day, Projectors will understand best how to get this knowledge to everyone.” — Ra Uru Hu