Your Introduction to the Human Design Multidimensional Matrix

The Multidimensional Human Design Matrix shows how your chart functions across time and consciousness. It reveals aspects of self that can shift Type, Strategy and Authority, and help integrate your ‘not-self’ in surprising new ways.

What is the Multidimensional Human Design Matrix?

We are all accustomed to the look of our Human Design chart – we know our type, our profile and our strategy. But what if this was only part of the story?  What if there was more – much more – to your Human Design than one single chart layer?

The standard Human Design chart, the one we all know and love, represents only a small part of our functioning.  Most of who we are comes from other layers, other dimensions.

Working just from your standard HD chart is a bit like wearing a mask and not knowing what’s behind it.

The Multidimensional Human Design System (MDHD) maps the shifts and changes in your functional consciousness as you move through these dimensions – in deep sleep, when you dream, when you are operating from your highest soul purpose, when you are out partying with your friends. Your Type and auric field shifts and changes in each dimension. And we can see all of this in the charts that make up your Multidimensional Human Design.

How the 32 Human Design Chart Layers Work

There are a total of 32 chart layers in the MDHD system. The standard chart – the chart you are used to thinking of as your only HD chart – is your solar layer – your personality in waking consciousness.  It’s your most recognisable self. It is also the integrative layer for all your multidimensional aspects of self. Every dimensional experience must flow through this layer in order to be integrated into your personality.

Much of what you think of as your ‘not-self’ can be explained by learning more about the layers of your Multidimensional Human Design layers.

And while there are a huge number of new chart layers in your MDHD, this system doesn’t rely on your ‘learning’ each layer in the way you have with your standard HD chart. That’s good news! Many of these chart layers operate under your conscious awareness. They show bio-chemical processes, what you are doing in deep sleep, and how you are processing your dreams.

Taken as a wholistic matrix, we can see the way energy and information flows between the layers.

Solar Layers – How you Relate to your Environment

In your standard HD chart you have two layers – Design and Personality.

In the MDHD system, we have an additional Solar layer, which we calculate by – moving the Sun forward 88 degrees. (The Design layer is calculate by moving the Sun back 88 degrees, so this new layer is like a mirror image of that).

Solar layers are generally outward looking energies which relate to your purpose in life.

Lunar Layers – Your inner Spiritual Experience

As well as these additional Solar layers, there are new Lunar layers. These Lunar layers mirror the structure of the Solar layers.  Rather than moving the Sun 88 degrees, we move the Moon.

Lunar layers tend to be internal, and to connect to dreams, the subconscious and your spiritual purpose.

The Four Worlds in Multidimensional Human Design

Your standard HD chart has 64 gates. It is the main chart in what we call your World of Earth – how you live your day-to-day conscious reality.

There are three more ‘worlds’ in the MDHD system. The World of Archetypes, the World of Mystical Inspiration, and the World of Biological Form.

Each of these Worlds has PORTAL gates that act like a game of snakes and ladders; the energy moves between your chart layers (and your layers of consciousness) via these portal gates.

How Your Type and Profile Shift Across Dimensions

Your Type, Strategy, Authority and Profile can shift and change through your various layers.  

A Projector can have an Ego Manifestor type in their spiritual layer. Which would explain why it’s sooo difficult for you to wait for an invitation! You might be a Generator with lots of definition, but you get overwhelmed easily?  Again, the subtle layers will show you why that’s happening and exactly what you can do about it.

Profile will change as well. I have a 5-1 profile in my standard HD chart, and a 6-2 profile in my spiritual layer. It helps to know that!

Why Explore Beyond Your Standard Human Design Chart?

I often have people describe a feeling that their Human Design doesn’t seem to fit them properly. I remember one Projector telling me that her life was great before she started following her strategy, but not so good afterwards. Opportunities had dried up, she was bored, life felt drained of promise. She thought maybe she was doing the ‘invitation’ thing wrong?

When we looked at her MDHD chart layers, we found 3 Manifestor channels – 45-21, 34-20 and 22-12! . We talked about about how to use all that Manifesting energy and filter it through her Projector self, which is her integrative layer.

It was such a relief to her, to discover that there was nothing wrong with her natural ability to initiate. It was all about how her inner Projector and Manifestor could work most powerfully together!

Where to Go Next

Get your Multidimensional HD chart at taraka.io – just set up your free account and create your chart.

The standard Human Design chart is the beginning of the conversation, not the whole of it.

The Multidimensional Matrix helps coaches recognise what emerges beyond that first chart, bringing greater depth, clarity and confidence to their work with clients.

If you’re ready to explore what becomes possible beyond the single chart, you’ll find the next place to begin below.