How would you live your life differently if you could tap into your highest self? If you could live in alignment with who you were meant to be, and what you were meant to do here on this earth?
By Leslie K. Hughes
These are loaded questions, and ones that necessitate some serious contemplation before diving into an attempted answer. However, I ask that you keep those questions in mind, while also keeping your mind open as we traverse through the topic of Human Design.
All it takes is one Human Design reading to give you all the information you need to come to clarity about how to live your best life.
WTF is Human Design? If this term sounds foreign to you, don’t worry — it is foreign to many and is something that honestly sounds a bit crazy. However, remember — keep an open mind as I walk you through the concept with the help of Human Design reader, Taylor Grewe.
“Human Design is a tool for helping us understand the most efficient way to use our energy, make decisions, and what our innate gifts are,” says Taylor.
The idea behind Human Design is that at the exact moment you are born, each planet is in a specific position, and those specific positions essentially imprint you with their information. While I admit this sounds “out there,” hear me out. If you’re into quantum physics, this may strike your fancy.
The “imprint” is shown in the form of tiny particles, called neutrinos. Neutrinos are the most abundant particles in the universe and connect everything in the universe together. 70% of the neutrinos in our solar system come from the sun and the other 30% come from other stars and planets.
Thousands of these neutrinos pass through your body every second, and it is said they carry information that flips a switch in your DNA. The Human Design chart is a map of the neutrino imprint on your body from two specific moments: around 88 days before your birth, and at your exact time of birth.
What this information determines is what makes up your BodyGraph: what type of person you are (type), how you should make decisions (strategy), how you use your energy to make decisions (authority), and your conscious and unconscious personality traits (profile).
All these things together guide you on how to be in alignment with your true self.
VM | What info do you need from someone to do a reading?
TG | Birthdate, birth location, and EXACT birth time.
VM | That sounds a lot like astrology. How is this different from astrology or other chart readings?
TG | Human Design is unique in that it draws from multiple spiritual systems including the Hindu chakra system, the Chinese iChing, conventional astrology, and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life to create a blueprint of who you came here to be.
Since it draws from astrology they certainly have similarities, but from my perspective, it is less about predicting your life path and feels more like an actionable tool for helping you to understand yourself and the most easeful way of approaching your life.
“It is less about predicting your life path and feels more like an actionable tool for helping you to understand yourself and the most easeful way of approaching your life.”
VM | How can Human Design help people? What is the intent of this “practice?”
TG | The world conditions us to believe that there are certain ways we have to be and do that may not be who we truly are. Human Design helps people lean into who they inherently are, the things they are naturally good at, and understand how uniquely we are designed.
When we are living out of alignment with our design it causes us to feel exhausted, stuck, bitter, frustrated, disappointed, and disempowered. When we stop doing the things that we’ve been conditioned to do and instead lean into who we naturally are, we open up more flow in our life and get more results with less input – you start using your energy more efficiently.
“Human Design helps people lean into who they inherently are, the things they are naturally good at, and understand how uniquely we are designed.”
VM | What are the different types of HD?
TG | There are 5 Energy Types in Human Design: Projectors, Reflectors, Manifestors, Manifesting Generators, and Generators.
Projectors are here to guide and make things better or more efficient, they have a limited amount of energy per day to use on sharing their gifts and are designed to spend the rest of their time developing those gifts.
Reflectors are the ultimate chameleons, they quite literally BECOME the people they spend time with, it’s crucial that they are conscious of the environments they put themselves in and trust that life is carrying them to exactly where they are supposed to be.
Manifestors are the initiators of the world, they speak things into existence, start movements, and are natural leaders as long as they do not shrink themselves to make others comfortable and understand that they do not have to be for everyone.
Manifesting Generators are a hybrid of Manifestors and Generators, the movers and shakers, multi-hyphenated, multi-interested, multi-talented humans here to follow ALL of their interests and desires and trust that they will all come together and eventually make sense.
Generators are the doers of the world, with access to a consistent source of internal energy, as long as they are following their desires that energy spills over and affects everyone around them making them extremely likable.
VM | Explain how an HD chart works.
TG | There are two things we look at within your chart:
The colored parts of your chart, which are the things that you inherently are and are good at, that we want to help you lean into.
And then, the white parts of your chart which are likely the things you’ve been conditioned to believe, that you’ve been told to be, that are not really who you are.
If you think of your chart as a circuitry board, we want to help you plug your energy into the colored parts of your chart which are where your energy is most effective. This is what creates the ease and flow in your life – you get more results with less input.
[The above chart is my chart — I am a Manifestor. To explain all the numbers would take far too long, but trust me when I say it’s worth getting a reading to find out your own numbers and what they mean.]
VM | Explain the concept of conditioning with HD.
TG | Conditioning is basically the layers and layers that have been placed on us by society, our parents, people we’ve surrounded ourselves with that make us feel like we have to be something other than what comes naturally to us.
HD helps us understand that life is not about BECOMING who we came here to be, it’s about UNBECOMING everything our life has conditioned us to be – peeling back the layers of conditioning allows us to just BE who we are.
“Peeling back the layers of conditioning allows us to just BE who we are.”
VM | How can people integrate HD into their daily lives?
TG | I always tell people that Human Design is not a belief system, it’s a tool. Take what resonates and leave what doesn’t.
The most effective thing you can do is master your Energy Type (how you are designed to use your energy) and Authority (how you are designed to make decisions).
Treat it like an experiment — if living your design creates more ease and flow in your life, amazing!
“Take what resonates, and leave what doesn’t.”
VM | How has HD changed your life?
TG | I was putting so much energy and effort into trying to be something I wasn’t, always frustrated that I could never seem to “make it happen” for myself.
When I found HD I was exhausted, burnt out, and honestly desperate for answers. When I found Human Design I thought, “Hey I’ve got nothing to lose why not just give this living in alignment with my energy type thing a try.”
I realized life doesn’t have to be so hard — we are designed to get where we are going with ease and by using our energy efficiently and effectively. It has created so much more flow in my life and trust in myself.
VM | What do you find to be the most powerful part about HD?
TG | The most powerful part of HD is the permission to be EXACTLY who you are and the understanding that we don’t all do life the same way.
To tap into your highest self and live your best life, schedule a Human Design reading with Taylor today. She is offering a 10% discount if you book your reading via this link.
