What Is The Human Design System?
Imagine if you added Astrology, the Tree of Life, your Chakras and the I Ching together to create a unique map of your personal energy field.
That’s what the Human Design System does.
Have you noticed how global we’ve become? Global economics, global politics, global communities.
Thanks to the crew of Apollo 8, we got our first glimpses of what the Earth looks like from space back on Christmas Eve 1968. It’s taken us another 40 years to gradually realise we all share one home.
At the same time we heard about an intriguing new idea called The Gaia Hypothesis. James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis stuck out their scientific necks and declared the possibility that our planet and all her creatures were part of one living system.
Earth had became a different kind of home.
Global Being
Becoming global is a big shift. It wasn’t too long ago that people spent their entire lives within 50 miles of their birth place and rarely ever laid eyes on any more than 150 people at most.
The steam engine, the telephone, television, air travel and the internet have completely changed the landscape of our lives. I’ve never actually met more than half of my best friends, although we talk on Skype and chat on Facebook every day.
This global shift requires an evolution in our idea of what it means to be human. The old rules and structures are breaking under the strain, as we move past the old cultural, political, religious and economic frameworks.
Where To From Here?
Whats the effect of this global life we’re living? It’s shifting our DNA, changing our brainwave patterns, and evolving us beyond what we can imagine. We think differently, we act differently. We feel different. Who are we becoming?
Our shift to global is happening hand in hand with another massive shift. We’re not only becoming global, we’re going fractal, quantum, chaotic. We’re moving beyond the old mechanistic ways of being and becoming increasingly aware that we live in a chaotic quantum world where nothing is definite, and we are always approaching infinity. The limits of the old linear and mechanistic lifeview are dissolving as we are propelled into a whole new dimension of being human.
Meet The Evolving You
Imagine if you added Astrology, the Tree of Life, your Chakras and the I Ching together to create a map of your personal unique energy field. That’s what the Human Design System does. These four ancient teachings bring together the spiritual wisdom from all over the globe, synthesising them into one chart.
The Human Design BodyGraph chart also connects us to quantum realities, as it helps us align with quantum reality, to open dimensional doorways in our own lives. On a practical level, it does this through showing simple shifts you can make in your responses to life. As you experiment with these simple life shifts, a deep sense of recognition of self begins to arise, and a new view of life emerges.
Your personal Human Design BodyGraph chart is unique. It represents the evolving global you, the person you are becoming.

The Human Design BodyGraph
Before we add your personal activations in, the BodyGraph looks a bit like this.
The underlying structure is created by combining:
- the chakras
- the tree of life
In Human Design, we call the chakras CENTRES, and the tree of life pathways between the Centres are called CHANNELS.
There’s nothing of you there yet. But we’re getting to you!
The next thing we add to the BodyGraph is the I Ching hexagrams. Each of the 64 hexagrams has their own special position.
In Human Design, we call the hexagrams GATES. Each channel is made up of two gates, one at each end.
It’s those three layers that create the underlying structure of the Human Design Bodygraph chart – the Chakras, the Tree of Life and the I Ching hexagrams. Or as well call the, the Centres, Channels and Gates.
And then finally, we add the planets. We use the same birth details that an astrologer would use. It’s when the planets are placed in the BodyGraph that we begin to see how unique you truly are!
Each time a planet activates a gate we color that gate either red or black (there’s a reason for that, but you can learn about that a bit later).
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This is the Human Design BodyGraph chart of John Lennon with all the planets included.We’ve just created a unique personal chart for John Lennon by synthesizing four ancient wisdoms! | ![]() |
What Can I Learn From My Human Design Chart?
There is literally a lifetime’s contemplation and personal growth contained within that one chart. Here’s a few things you could consider.
- Which I Ching hexagrams are important in my chart?
- Which Chakra is my Natal Sun in?
- What’s activated (what’s colored) and what isn’t? What effect does that have in my life?
There are also some very important but quite simple ideas contained within your chart that can change your life. Unlike traditional spiritual teachings, these ideas are unique to you. By looking at your particular combination of planets, gates, channels and centres, we can create a set of ‘life experiments’ that can shift who you believe yourself to be!
Your reading is absolutely stunning, brilliant really, awe inspiring in its reach and depth, with invaluable insights and guidance.
Imagine if you felt completely confident in every decision you made.
When we look at your Human Design we explore the natural ways to activate your uniqueness and connection to universal consciousness. It provides you with keys to coherence and integration, where your inner self is at peace and that is reflected back to you by your outer life.
I’m not talking about some generic idea of believing that you are always in the right place at the right time. I’m talking about the confidence that comes from an absolute knowing in every layer of your being that you are making the right choices for yourself – day after day after day…
In my years of working with people to help them re-discover their true selves I’ve learnt something very interesting – most people are guessing about what’s right and wrong for them in life. Not some of the time but pretty much all the time. Which means most of us are creating our lives from what we THINK is right.
WOW … this was extraordinary !! I feel like I have a road map now that makes complete sense. KB, USA
Where did the Human Design System come from?
In 1987 a man by the name of Ra Uru Hu was on retreat at Ibiza in Spain, when he spontaneously went into a trance state and began receiving astonishing information which has become known as The Human Design System.
In 1992, he gradually began to experiment with, and then teach, the system in Europe and the US. In 2003 I began working with the Human Design System in Australia and over the years I have had the opportunity to assist people from all over the world to discover an entirely new answer to the question – Who Am I?.
How does Human Design work?
You simply give me the same details you would give to an astrologer – your time, place and date of birth – then I create your personal Human Design chart, which gives an infinite amount of information about how you were designed to be in this life. You can download a free chart right now.
The Human Design chart is a synthesis of four ancient esoteric wisdoms – the Chakra System, Astrology, the I Ching and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. In bringing each of these systems of wisdom together, we discover an entirely new way of understanding the human life.
The I-Ching, a 5000 year old Chinese book of wisdom, has an extraordinary similarity to human DNA. The Human Design System is an instruction manual written for your genetic coding. Your Human Design chart shows your unique pathway to heal and evolve your DNA.
Human Design will not only give you useful information about yourself, it’s power lies in the practical and deeply transformative life experiments that it reveals. These strategies are like a personal guidebook to your life, they are different for each individual, just as each person’s DNA is unique
Experimenting with these simple strategies gently creates a sense of recognition and understanding at the level of global being. Evolve on Purpose. Love Your Design!
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