What Is A BodyGraph In Human Design?
Human Design teaches you where to find your body’s consciousness, how to use it as a tool for making decisions, and finally, how to live as your authentic self. It provides a road map—or a manual—that shows how you are designed to live and directs you to live in a way that is consistent with who you are designed to be.
Living in accordance with our design allows us to feel more at ease and accepted for who we are rather than trying to be someone we are not. This knowledge allows us to fulfill our true purpose in life.
To begin to understand your unique Human Design you will need a BodyGraph / Human Design Chart.
When you receive your BodyGraph / Human Design chart, you will see a list of numbers and planetary symbols next to a triangle. This triangle consists of a plethora of lines, geometric forms, colors, and a profile. The BodyGraph is a visual representation of all the elements within your chart. In essence, the BodyGraph is a map of your particular energy configuration.
Preparing To Get Your BodyGraph – What You’ll Need To Know To Order Your Free Human Design Chart
For a Human Design chart to be correct, birth date and time are crucial. In a 24-hour period, there can be up to four gate changes, and occasionally there are even more. Your chart will be incorrect if you don’t know your exact birth time.
It is advised that you receive a Quantum Human Design reading from a Certified Practitioner who can modify your chart to produce the most accurate reading possible if you are unsure about the time you were born.
How Can I Get A BodyGraph – A Human Design Chart?
As opposed to mainstream astrology, where you only need your birth date, you will need to gather some information before you can get your Human Design chart. Some refer to Human Design as the “new” astrology, and in order to start your journey in Human Design you will need your: date of birth, time of birth, and the city, state, and country where you were born.
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The Key Elements Of A BodyGraph / Human Design Chart
Each Human Design chart has three parts: the Bodygraph, the birth chart, and the keynotes.
Type and Strategy
All of us are capable of creating. But, in order for you to work, and create, effectively you need to understand your Human Design type. Your type demonstrates to you how to create in a way that is inspiring, satisfying, dynamic, successful, and thrilling.
The types are Manifestors (Initiators), Generators (Alchemists), Manifesting Generators (Time Benders), Projectors (Orchestrators), and Reflectors (Calibrators). To learn more about the individual types click to read about Human Design Aura Types.
Your strategy comes from your type, and it is probably the most important knowledge offered by your Human Design chart. It gives you key information about how to make the right choices for you, and how to recognize when you are on the right path.
Following your strategy offers you the opportunity to experience the world in a way that is correct for you. Not following your strategy can bring events and experiences into your life that may not be beneficial in the long run. Follow your strategy and you will truly fulfill your personal destiny.
Because learning to follow strategy effectively can take months or years of practice, you can benefit from coaching by a Human Design analyst who can provide you with feedback and encouragement.
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Authority
Although decision-making is tied directly to your strategy, your authority flavors the way you use your strategy. Your defined centers will determine your authority. Not all centers carry authority, so your personal authority will depend on your type and your defined centers.
Authority will also depend on your social conditioning and your level of emotional well-being. When you receive a Human Design reading, you will learn that some of your patterns, and behaviors, are rooted in your mind- from your conditioning– and not by trusting your authority.
When you trust your authority, along with your strategy, you make better decisions for your life.
It’s very important to note that authority does not override your strategy—it just shifts the way you use your strategy so that your decisions and choices are even more in alignment with the overall energy in your chart. We have a great article on Authority here.
Centers
Centers are either open (white) or closed (colored in).
Energy in defined centers is constant and fixed. You will always have access to this energy and this energy affects those around you. Although defined centers come with their own challenges, overall they are far less difficult to handle than the occasionally frightening experiences of open centers. To live out the beauty, and the deep impact of your defined centers, you have to live according to your Human Design strategy.
Open centers are white, undefined, and mutable. The energy in open centers fluctuates and is influenced by your surroundings. Open centers present a challenge because they are greatly affected by your environment and those around you. Developing the ability to work with this energy, rather than resisting its effects, is key.
To learn more about Centers, click on this link.
Channels
When looking at your BodyGraph, notice how the nine centers are connected to one another through many lines. These lines are called channels, and there are thirty-two of them. The channel’s color tells you about an aspect of your personality:
Black channels carry personality traits that you are consciously aware of. Red channels carry personality traits that you are not consciously aware of. Checkered channels represent those particular personality aspects that are in your conscious and unconscious definition.
White channels represent open gates. You will always take in the energy of both gates from the world around you, and its expression through you will depend on your environment.
Click the link for a deeper dive into Human Design Channels
Profiles
Everyone comes into the world with a specific profile and purpose. Profiles tell you about major life themes that you will encounter, and they illustrate how your personality interacts with the world as you move toward fulfilling your purpose.
Your profile can be thought of as an explanation of your conscious and unconscious archetypes and the themes associated with those archetypes. Most people are aware of their unconscious profile, but because it is unconscious they do not have much control over the expression of it.
The twelve profiles are combinations of two gate lines (the conscious line followed by the unconscious line):
1/3 Investigator/Martyr (Resource/Explorer)
1/4 Investigator/Opportunist (Resource/Stabilizer)
2/4 Hermit/Opportunist (Responder/Stabilizer)
2/5 Hermit/Heretic (Responder/Visionary Leader)
3/5 Martyr/Heretic (Explorer/Visionary Leader)
3/6 Martyr/Role Model (Explorer/Adept)
4/6 Opportunist/Role Model (Stabilizer/Adept)
4/1 Opportunist/Investigator (Stabilizer/Resource)
5/1 Heretic/Investigator (Visionary Leader/Resouce)
5/2 Heretic/Hermit (Visionary Leader/Responder)
6/2 Role Model/Hermit (Adept/Responder)
6/3 Role Model/Martyr (Adept/Explorer)
Learn more about your unique Profiles here.
What You Can Learn From Your BodyGraph When You Get Your Free Human Design Chart From FreeHumanDesignChart.com
Many come to Human Design, or natural design, with questions. Will it make me more money? Does it help me lose weight? Does it make my relationships stronger? The answer is yes! Sort of.
The promise in Human Design is different from other promises you’ve heard before. So many means of self-development or improvement are a one size fits all approach. But we are all so different, and Human Design shows us that there are five energy types: the Manifestor, the Manifesting Generator, the Generator, the Projector, and the Reflector.
Each energy type has a different way of creating and making decisions. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t all have the same potential for wealth, health, good relationships, and happiness. It’s just that we are each uniquely designed, and therefore our definitions of wealth, health, good relationships, and happiness will be different for each of us. The more you learn about yourself, the more freedom you’ll have to create a life that is in alignment with what’s right for you.
Resources To Help You Interpret and Understand Your BodyGraph / Human Design Chart
You have your BodyGraph / Human Design chart, and you might just be completely confused. Don’t worry! At first glance, the chart can be overwhelming and foreign. You’ve got numbers, symbols, and this weird person shape in the middle of all of it. Let’s break it down so it is a little easier to understand. You can always book a Quantum Human Design reading and have us do the heavy lifting.
To learn more about Karen Curry Parker and Quantum Human Design please visit our School.
Note: The names in brackets above are the Quantum Human Design (QHD) names for these Types. QHD helps us to reframe the ‘Not Self’ or conditioned self in Human Design to explore the potential of the deconditioned self and to live more in alignment with our inner truth.
Curious about the difference between Human Design and Quantum Human Design? Karen Curry Parker explains it in this video:
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