Remembering Your Soul’s Sovereignty
Reclaiming Your Authority through Human Design
As a Native New Yorker I am a pretty social being who enjoys the company, or at least the proximity of others. I’ve recently come to discover how much this makes sense… through my “Human Design”, I have what is called a “triple split”. This means that to feel whole, calm, and comfortable in my own skin, I need the energy of at least several people around me for some hours every day.
Then… Covid-19… and we didn’t know what was going to happen to the world.
I knew nothing of Human Design at that time, so “we bravely ran away” to the mountains where everything is at least a 15 minutes drive. No longer can I take an elevator and emerge into the energy of no less than 5 people, but instead I drive, weather permitting, to the only Coffee Shop for 20 miles! For a “triple split”, this is s-l-o-w torture.
Fact is, there is much about the City that I’m just as happy without… except the people! Prior to this move, I had no idea how much my sense of self was dependent upon a concentration of community and human energy. I had lived my entire life surrounded by people and didn’t know any other way of being! Knowledge of Human Design (HD) could have helped me make a more authoritative decision.
I use the word “authoritative” here deliberately. When it comes to making decisions, HD depends upon understanding and following our inner “authority” and “strategy”, not our minds! Our minds are for analyzing information, they are incapable of making informed, healthy decisions. This goes entirely against what our present culture is telling us... and how’s that working?
Depending on our HD “type,” decision-making authority corresponds to parts of our physical anatomy. As a Generator type, that authority lives in our “gut”, and it responds to “yes/no” questions.
“The Body Holds the Wisdom, the Mind Listens”
Our “strategy” tells us when to make decisions: for Generator types, it’s key to wait for opportunities to show themselves. We cannot just “ask” and then create those opportunities the way Manifester types can. This can be tough to swallow in our “just do it”, Manifester culture! But when Generators “just do it” we often fall flat on our faces.
I’ll use my “face flattened experience” as an example. When we moved up to the mountains, I was faced with a very real need for a “job”. My husband found me one in a local school as a Director of Technology (sounds impressive, right?). An “opportunity” had presented itself.
“As a Generator type, that authority lives in our “gut”, and it responds to “yes/no” questions.”
From the moment I heard about the job, my gut clenched and shouted, “No!” But I took the virtual interview anyway. (I still didn’t know about Human Design!) That interview was full of red flags (not to mention a tiny salary!)… and yet I went to the in-person interview. More red flags… more of my gut wanting to run, and… I took the job! My story was that, “we needed the money”.
Fast forward 4 years and I’m still there, plugging away at something that never fit me because I made the decision with my mind, rather than my gut. Moreover, I’m still there because (yet another feature of my HD), I am wired to honor my commitments however ill-advised they may have been!
Cautionary tale:
Do not make important decisions with your mind!
Let me serve as an object lesson here. If you need to make some important decisions, knowing your Human Design is a game changer. Who knows where I would be today had I known about this tremendous tool-set?
Over these few years, I’ve been studying Human Design and, simultaneously, I am becoming certified in Clinical Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT, aka, “tapping”). I am evolving a process to explore how your inner Human Design tool-set, alongside the somatic divining rod of EFT, points in the direction your body wants you to go.
Learning to listen to, and understand, what our bodies are telling us is vital! All the answers we seek can be found within if we know where, and how to look.
Please comment below about times you didn’t listen to your gut (or your intuition) and the result was not what you had in mind!
