And then there is all the white space in the centres, the channels and gates where no planet activated it at your birth or 88 days before your birth. However, this doesn’t mean that that’s how you have always experienced your life because Definition is only a part of the story. When you are using that energy correctly for you, frustration, bitterness, anger and disappointment can reduce and you eventually meet less resistance in life. Energy seeks expression in the world as speech or action, so what you wish to do with your life, your purpose, where you find joy, satisfaction, success and peace can be interpreted by looking at where your energy flows naturally. It is what defines the energy that you have consistently at your disposal and we can be quite specific about the personal characteristics, preferences, skills, traits, attributes and qualities you demonstrate. Someone with a lot of tribal circuitry activated is going to be interested in using their energy to help their family or local community survive, thrive and succeed materially through mutual support as a basis for spiritual or personal development.ĭefinition is where you come home to yourself. Individual channels have energy for empowerment and mutation Collective which is the energy for sharing what we’ve learned and understand from our experiences and Tribal which is the energy for preservation, ensuring survival, reproduction, nurturing, and bargains. Channels are organised into Circuits of which there are 3 main types. Each of the Channels has a theme to it which is drawn from the Gates at either end Gates are really I’Ching hexagrams within your body. (In the case of identical twins, their differences can be seen in the deeper realms of the chart which are too complex to go into here.)īy seeing where energy flows between Centres we can begin to build up a picture of who you are. Your energy flows consistently and in a fixed pattern between two such connected centres.Įach Centre represents a different characterisation of energy, so the Sacral is the powerful life-force energy for creation and action whereas the Head is the pressure to resolve questions and work out life’s conundrums at the mental level.Įach Centre has as many sub-themes to its energy expression as there are Gates activated within it, so a person with just one Gate defined in their Throat has a fixed way of speaking, whereas someone who has 4 or more Gates activated there has a wider range of expression.īeginning to sound complex? Well, yes, and rightly so because we are complex beings, and with these 9 energy Centres and their Channel interconnections we can begin to see how unlikely it is for any two people to have exactly the same Human Design chart. Anywhere where you have colour in your chart is defined, consistently switched on energy. When this kind of connection through a Channel happens, the Centres (shapes representing the energy centres or chakras) become coloured which is called Definition. This can be half red, half black, all red, all black or black and red striped. When two Gates which are at opposite ends of a line are activated, they connect to form a Channel. Some of these are activated by a planet and produce what are called Gates shown in your bodygraph as a highlighted number with a red or black line emerging from it towards another centre. There are 64 hexagrams in the I’Ching and 64 numbers distributed through the 9 energy centres in your bodygraph. This is generated from your date of birth and produces two separate maps of the planetary stations, one from 88 days before your birth which is shown in red, and one from the actual date of your birth, shown in black.Įach planetary position mapped in this way is then encoded into your bodygraph using the I’Ching. This is a schematic diagram of your energy centres (like chakras) and their various interconnections based on the Kabbalah (Tree of Life).
In a Human Design reading we will be working from your bodygraph or chart.