Using Dwarf Planets in the Human Design System
Posted by Kim Gould on March 18, 2012 in Featured | Comments Off
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union adopted the term Dwarf Planet and demoted Pluto. We were sad for Pluto, but we weren’t so much losing a son as gaining a daughter. Or two.
As part of the reclassification, we got Eris, Ceres, Sedna, Haumea and Makemake. Suddenly the number of planets jumped to 13, with a whole lot more likely to follow.
Using the Dwarf Planets in the Human Design System
As I understand it, Western Astrology is the only form of astrology that allows for the introduction of new planets.
In the original Human Design revelation, Western Astrology was given as one of the four essential elements that make up the Human Design synthesis. So it makes sense that as our planetary pantheon increases, so should their reach within the Human Design chart. Whilst respecting the starting place of the standard 13 ‘planets’ in the standard Human Design chart, it makes no sense to limit ourselves to that template when we are all evolving, planetary archetypes included, so rapidly.
In my experience Ceres is particularly powerful in the Human Design chart, and I include it in every reading I do these days. I believe it actually changes definition in the chart. When exploring the influence of other dwarf planets I used the concept of ‘activation’, rather than definition. It seems clear that dwarf planets Haumea, Makemake, Sedna and Eris would have some influence on your design, that they would create some kind of ‘activation’ in the chart. As we become more conscious of these energies, their effect becomes less subtle, more conscious, more accessible.
What is a Dwarf Planet?
Of the five new dwarf planets, four exist out beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt. Ceres is different. She lives in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Pluto sort of returned to his true family in 2006 when he was reclassified as a dwarf planet and became part of the group of planets known variously as Plutinos – because they are like Pluto, Trans Neptunian Objects (TNO’s) – because they cross the orbit of Neptune, and Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO’s) - because they live in the Kuiper Belt way out at the edge of our Solar System. It is possible that there are as many as 200 potential dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt.
In working with the Kuiper Belt objects I find they hold a joy of life and a sense of celebration of humanity as a spiritual force on this planet.
Meet The Dwarf Planets
So far there are five new dwarf planets – Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake. As well, the International Astronomical Union is considering also reclassifying the following: Sedna, Orcus, Quaoar, Varuna, Ixion, Vesta, Pallas, Hygeia, and four others that have impersonal numbers rather than names.
More about using dwarf planets in the Human Design System here.
