Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be

by Chetan Parkyn

A Manifestor has one or more of three of the motor centers — Heart, Emotions, or Root — defined and connected to a defined Throat. But the Sacral, the generator center, is not defined.

You are designed not to initiate but to wait.

Your motto is: “Wait, respond, then get going!”

Being a Generator makes you relatively one paced but highly effective, and your momentum is a joy to watch because it is Sacral powered, therefore remarkably enduring. You are the Duracell or Energizer batte...

Waiting for the right projects, opportunities, and people and honoring your gut response are your keys to finding fulfillment. When you chase or initiate without waiting, life can go wrong.

It’s when you attract opportunity or respond after exercising patience that things tend to work out.

sit down, be patient, and master the art of waiting to respond.

View yourself as a magnet and let people and openings seek you out.

the only things that prove fulfilling are those that duly arrive after you have exercised patience — openings or possibilities that arrive at your door or make your phone ring.

Test yourself the next time someone asks you something, but be aware that you might be waiting for an instantaneous gut response and, half a second later, the Mind will get involved. Don’t allow it to distract you. That’s not where your answer lies. Listen to your gut.

The mistake Generators can make is to think too much, allowing the Mind to override the Sacral.

the trouble for the Sacral is that once it is committed, it has to follow through and complete the experience, however inappropriate or ill-fitting.

Generators must be wary of other people seeking to harness their energy, to take advantage of them.

Life is not just about ticking boxes and keeping others happy.

Herein lies the key to a Generator design: only engage with people and activities that resonate; otherwise, you’ll discover the flip side to your type and become the pure couch potato who has given up, exhausted with life and fed up trying.

Manifesting Generators is that they are always restless, fidgeting, tapping their feet, ready to engage with anything at a moment’s notice.

MG children are a potential handful as they grow, struggling to find the balance between their lawless manifesting wants and sustainable generating power.

really do need parental advice on exercising patience in their restlessness. Parents are best advised not to scold them for the chaos they are liable to cause as they flit between this and that.

That moment between response and manifestation means everything for these types. It is the confirmation or rejection.

• Manifestor: “I am; therefore I do.” • Generator: “I respond, then I do.” • Manifesting Generator: “I respond and wait for my moment of truth, then I do.” • Projector: “I am recognized, invited, and available, then I do.” • Reflector: “I am called, I reflect, then I do.”

“Authority” is the ability to take charge of your life. It allows you to trust your decisions, removing hesitancy and installing confidence.

many of us have been wrongly conditioned in how to reach decisions. In our formative years, parents, guardians, or older siblings made them for us — decisions that were “for the best.” Then, as we emerged into the wider world, multiple factors kicked in with media and advertising pressures

the biggest conditioning factor is the belief that we should “think” our way through life.

The Mind has no direct connection to the motor centers of the Heart, Sacral, Self, and Root; it is, therefore, devoid of the power to move us forward.

It might well be an incredible data bank, but it’s lousy at making decisions. In fact, it is incapable of doing so. It is designed to process, not decide.

People also fall into the misleading trap of relying on other people to make decisions for them. This is often seen in subtle pleas like “What would you do if you were in my shoes?” It is an impossible question because another person always has a different makeup and authority. What’s right for them would not be right for you.

the best decisions come via either the Emotions, the Sacral, the Spleen, the Heart, or the Self or, for some people, from outside the Self.

the analogy of a storm-tossed ship in tumultuous seas to describe what it can feel like to be you. Your correct decision making process, therefore, is to find lasting emotional clarity in spite of the storm.

When something is sending you into a tailspin, the easiest option is to make a decision, any decision, just to bring matters to a head or to end the pain. Conversely, if you’re experiencing huge pleasure, you might want to hang on to that feeling

your natural authority demands that you seek emotional clarity before you make decisions.

True and reliable decisions will form in the clarity that arrives when that storm-tossed ship suddenly finds itself at rest in the middle of a still lake.

the more you allow yourself to witness your emotions, the more quickly you’ll begin to find an emotional balance, which, in turn, will foster clarity.

if you act in haste, be prepared to feel that inner frustration and resistance that is your true self’s way of saying: “You got it wrong again!”

Your decision-making process hinges on finding that still point that Buddha calls “the middle way,” “neither this nor that.”

Emotional clarity is when something feels right — the most peaceful, natural thing in the world. It is a clarity that resounds in your very being. Feel it, don’t think it.

seek clarity — crystal clarity to the point of absolute knowing. Allow it to happen.

Patience is your watchword, clarity is your authority, and stability can be carried within you, no matter how wild the emotional waves become.

If you have both the Emotions and Spleen defined, you’ll be aware of instantaneous alerts within you, coming from the Spleen. But wait. Emotions still rule and you must seek emotional clarity.

If the Emotions, Spleen, and Sacral are all defined, your alert senses (from the Spleen) and gut responses (from the Sacral) may well be jumping up and down. But wait. The Emotions still rule and emotional clarity will enable you to determine what feels clear and right.

The most important thing for anyone with Sacral Authority to appreciate is that this inner guidance system is only ever effective when in response. It is not proactive; it is responsive.

A response is patient, relaxed, and measured, whereas a reaction is an unconscious reflex and hasty.

If an Emotional Authority is based on watching the entire movie and experiencing the drama’s ups and downs, the Spleen Authority is all about being decisive in a freeze-frame, snapshot moment.

Out of the three awareness centers, the Spleen is the quietest of them all, almost whispering its decisions.

The Self Authority is quite different from the authorities discussed previously. It provides a subtle inner guidance as delicate as a butterfly’s touch in the way it alerts you, and yet it’s as robust as an ox in its execution. That’s because it’s all about inner knowing.

you have discovered you are a Generator with Emotional Authority, you will know that you must listen to your gut response and then make better decisions in accordance with an emotional clarity. Just using this knowledge could start to change your life.

at either end of a channel there is a number. This number correlates with one of the sixty-four gates that also shape our design, as explored in the next chapter.

if the channel between two centers is colored, it is an active channel, taking qualities from each of the gates it connects to become an entity on its own. It is like a wire in which two “charges” meet in the middle in a rush of color and energy. These are the channels that will have consistent meaning in your life.

If a channel is white or only half colored, it is an inactive channel. This means it has no ...

The color of an active channel is informative on its own: black denotes a conscious trait, pink signals unconscious, and a striped combination means it’s a mixture of both.

a channel has to be completely colored (defined) for it to have a relevance to your design for life.