The New Science of Astrology: Discover Who You Really Are
By Dr Karen Parker
Your Personal Blueprint for Living Authentically!
Human Design Charts
Created in the late 1900s by visionary teacher Ra Uru Hu, Human Design has emerged as the “modern evolution of Astrology” and represents where “ancient wisdom meets contemporary understanding.” By combining your exact birth information—date, time, and place—Human Design generates a unique personal chart that reveals distinctive character qualities and life directions based on this cosmic alignment.
A Human Design chart provides remarkably precise insights into your authentic self, offering guidance and wisdom for navigating life’s obstacles with greater ease. Historically, these charts required specialized practitioners to decode their complex symbolism and translate the information into accessible language. This barrier to understanding existed for decades—until this breakthrough book arrived.
About This Book:

In Understanding Human Design: The New Science of Astrology: Discovering Who You Really Are, author Dr. Karen Curry Parker demystifies the often overwhelming Human Design chart using clear, straightforward explanations. In it, you’ll explore every aspect of Human Design, starting with fundamental chart components and progressing to the more sophisticated revelations the system provides, all presented in an engaging and digestible format.
You’ll discover how each line, connection, and symbol corresponds to specific personality characteristics that can profoundly impact your daily experience, with an expert mentor guiding your journey. Your individual Human Design chart illuminates your natural gifts, areas for growth, and most crucially, your untapped possibilities.
[Image of a chart, flush right] Your personal Human Design Chart can reveal your strengths, your weaknesses, and perhaps most importantly, your potential. Your chart will help you anticipate recurring patterns that may emerge in your life journey, and welcome the opportunity for personal growth as you discover your unique Human Design approach.
With Dr. Parker’s expertise and wisdom from this book as your companion, you’ll discover a roadmap for transcending these challenges by simply following the guidance embedded within your Human Design blueprint—your personal “instruction manual” for living.
Who Should Read This Book
This book is perfect for anyone who feels like traditional approaches to success and personal growth haven’t quite worked for them. If you’ve tried following conventional wisdom about career advancement, relationships, or life goals but still feel frustrated, exhausted, or unfulfilled, Human Design might offer the missing piece of your puzzle.
You’ll especially benefit from this book if you’re someone who suspects you might be wired differently from others—perhaps you’re not motivated by the same things that drive your peers, or you find yourself energized by different activities than what society typically promotes.
Whether you’re a spiritual seeker looking to understand yourself on a deeper level, a professional feeling burned out in the wrong career, or simply someone curious about what makes you uniquely you, this book provides practical tools for authentic living.
The book is also valuable for those interested in improving their relationships by understanding how different people are designed to operate. Parents, managers, coaches, and anyone who works closely with others will gain insights into why people respond differently to the same situations and how to honor those differences.
This book provides a solid foundation in the principles of Human Design and the Human Design chart, making it an ideal starting point for those new to the system or with some prior knowledge who wish to deepen their understanding of how all the elements work together to create their unique energetic blueprint.
What You’ll Learn From This Book
This comprehensive guide takes you step-by-step through understanding your personal Human Design chart, which serves as your “energetic blueprint.” You’ll discover your unique energy type—whether you’re a Manifestor, Manifesting Generator, Generator, Projector, or Reflector—and learn how each type is designed to make decisions and create success in their own distinctive way.
The book teaches you to read your own chart by exploring the nine energy centers (similar to chakras) and understanding which ones are defined (consistent) versus open (variable) in your design. You’ll learn about the sixty-four gates that correspond to I Ching hexagrams and how they create channels of energy that shape your personality traits and life themes.
More practically, you’ll gain tools for recognizing when you’re operating authentically versus when you’re being influenced by societal conditioning that doesn’t fit your design. The book offers strategies for working with your natural energy patterns rather than against them, enabling you to make decisions based on your inner authority rather than external pressure.
By the end, you’ll understand how to create wealth, health, and relationships in ways that align with your true nature, potentially transforming areas of your life where you’ve struggled by trying to fit into approaches that weren’t designed for your unique energetic makeup.
About the Author, Dr. Karen Parker

Karen Curry Parker, PhD, is an international Amazon best-selling author of multiple books on personal transformation, spirituality, and Human Design. She is the creator of the Quantum Human Design and the Quantum Alignment System. With over 30 years of experience speaking, coaching, training, and podcasting on these and other topics, she positively impacts lives daily worldwide.
Karen’s core mission is to help people reconnect with their natural creativity, manifest their desires effectively, and consciously use the frequency of language and narrative to craft a life that best serves themselves and adds more love and joy to the world.
With Quantum Human Design and the Quantum Alignment System, she has created certification pathways for both new and experienced coaches to integrate this transformative system into their business practices.
She has featured guests on her award-winning podcast, including Kyle Cease, Gregg Braden, Paul Selig, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and Dr. Gerald (Jerry) Pollack.
Karen is an eloquent speaker, well-versed in numerous leading-edge subjects related to humanity’s development and future. She teaches audiences engagingly and is adept at employing her sense of gentle humor to increase understanding and retention.

Karen holds a Ph.D. in Integrative Medicine from Hawaii, and is working on multiple new books. She is a faculty member at The Shift Network and Omega Institute. Karen has been featured on Bloomberg, Businessweek, CBS, and ABC, as well as various radio shows and telesummits.
Book Details: Understanding Human Design
The New Science of Astrology: Discover Who You Really Are
By Dr. Karen Parker
Publisher: Hierophant Publishing
Available in Paperback and Kindle
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Basics of Human Design
1. Navigating Your Chart
Part Two: Types, Centers, and Profiles
2. The Five Personality Types
3. The Nine Centers
4. The Lines and Profiles
Part Three: Gates, Circuits, and Channels
5. The Gates
6. The Major Circuits
7. The Individual Subcircuits
8. The Tribal Subcircuits
9. The Collective Subcircuits
Part Four: Putting It All Together
10. The Sum of Your Parts
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Human Design Book Overview Understanding Human Design – Get Your Free Human Design Chart and Start Your Journey.
Get your FREE Human Design Chart to check it out. Use your best guess to start with, and then you may want to find a Quantum Human Design Specialist to help you find the right time for you.
Remember that we all have ALL of the chart. If the Gate is colored in or defined, it’s part of your Soul Curriculum. If it’s white or undefined, it means you learn about this Gate through relationships with others or through the Transits.
At its core, Human Design is a unique system that offers profound insights into your inner self and how you interact with the world around you. Your Human Design chart is a valuable tool that can help you understand your true nature, discover your strengths and weaknesses, and unlock your full potential.
By downloading and reviewing your unique Human Design Chart you are embarking on a journey of self-discovery that will empower you to make conscious choices in all aspects of your life. Your chart is an Energy Blueprint of your unique energy configuration and contains valuable information about your personality traits, your natural talents, and your life purpose. With this knowledge, you’ll navigate life’s challenges with greater ease and clarity.
Human Design is a deeply empowering system that encourages us to embrace our true selves, rewrite our personal narrative, and live in alignment with our inner wisdom. When we align with our authentic nature, we tap into a wellspring of creativity, joy, and fulfillment that flows effortlessly through us.
There’s More – How To Learn More About Human Design
If you are trying to learn and apply Human Design to your life circumstances, but traditional Human Design rings a little off-key, you don’t quite connect with it, or it feels heavy as you read it. We invite you to explore training options with Quantum Human Design, internationally respected and time-tested training courses.
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Curious about the difference between Human Design and Quantum Human Design? Karen Curry Parker explains it in this video: