Thank God/dess that we have access to a wealth of wonderful tools, practices, and inspiration to help us to live authentically in very transformative times.
I'm eternally grateful for this, truly, and get a real sense of joy from experimenting with them and sharing what I find particularly helpful with other transformation-agents on the path.
One of the tools, introduced to me by my friend Jodi, is called Human Design, which can give us some insight into our particular blueprint -- very helpful if we want to live authentically and in a way that goes with, rather than against, the currents of Life.
The gist of Human Design is that when we 'live our design', things go a lot more smoothly and we're a whole lot happier. Who doesn't want that?
So I turned to my friend Kim Gould of Love Your Design to do an indepth reading, and found myself pretty amazed by what I learned.According to Human Design, I'm what's known as a Projector (6/2), which means I'm a natural guide to help others find a sense of direction and use their energies well.
Projectors are natural leaders, coaches, or consultants, whether in terms of people, energies, thoughts, or ideas. Because I'm designed to have easier access to the energies of others, and bring information and inspiration through during the course of conversation, it allows me an uncanny knack for seeing what might be most helpful and how energy is best used. So far, so good.
But there's a catch…
As a Projector -- and this one is pretty challenging for most of us -- we must be invited to share our gifts. Despite being designed to offer the gift of insight, direction, and guidance, if we share that without an invitation -- even if we see the need for it clearly -- it falls flat, goes unrecognized, or closes others down.
What we share has to come either from an invitation from someone else, or through inspiration from doing something that has real heart and meaning for us personally, and others respond to it (and extend an invitation to continue…).
So what's the challenge?
Most of us are trained to be initiators, to 'just do it', to be entrepreneurial, to take the proverbial bull by the horns and kick butt. In Human Design, only a small percentage of the population is actually designed to do that. Projectors are joined in this 'need to wait' by what HD calls Generators and Manifesting Generators (a majority of the population who, in their unique ways, get things done and benefit from guidance and direction of Projectors in doing that -- we're natural collaborators).
So most of us spend a lot of time operating against the grain, and thus might experience things being more difficult than they might otherwise be, or get frustrated because needed contributions or efforts just aren't recognized. There is more to HD, since we're all quite unique, but these are a few of the basics.
Needless to say, it's a whole lot more fun to honor our blueprint, receive the invitations, to share our gifts, to have those interactions be delightful and mutually beneficial for everyone, and see wonderful things come of it.
As with anything, it's a journey to come back into authenticity -- we have to drop a whole lot of conditioning so that our beautiful Selves might shine through more effortlessly. Human Design is one of several resources that help us to do that.
Blessings on the Way to Authenticity, from your favorite Projector-Priestess!
Jamie
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