The free syllabus

The whole curriculum, with the hours printed on it.

Five levels, named for what you can do at the end of each. Every hour below is measured from the material it points at, every page it points at is already published on this site, and the total cost is nothing.

There is no enrollment and no prerequisite chain, and finishing earns a certificate of completion rather than a credential. If you want a professional credential, that is a separate path and it should be, because a credential is a claim about you that somebody has to stand behind.

  1. 13 h 7 mcore path, all five levels
  2. 460free reference pages behind it
  3. 655articles for going deeper
  4. $0to complete every level
  5. +8 hof video below, optional, on top of the total above
Level 1 · 2 h 6 m

Read your own chart

You can: Run your chart, name your Type, Strategy, Authority and Profile, and say what each one is for.

The entry level covers the four things printed at the top of every bodygraph. Most people who say they "know their Human Design" know these four and stop, which is fine, and this level is deliberately short so that stopping here is a real option.

  1. Calculate your chart 10 min

    Birth date, time and place. Nothing below means much without one.

  2. What Is Human Design 8 min
  3. The Nine-Centered Being, chapters 1 to 3 3 of 8 11 min

    Where the system came from and what changed in 1781.

  4. The five Aura Types all 5 22 min
  5. The seven Inner Authorities all 7 28 min
  6. The twelve Profiles all 12 47 min

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Recordings from the channel covering this level's material. Nothing is requested from YouTube until you press play, and their running times are not counted in the 2 h 6 m above, which is reading and exercises only.

22 more recordings sit on the articles in this level's categories, linked below.

Checkpoint

Nobody grades this and no credential comes out of it. Work down the list; anything you cannot do yet tells you what to re-read.

  • Name your Type and describe its Strategy in one sentence.
  • Name your Authority and say which part of the body it runs through.
  • Read your Profile as two numbers and say what each line contributes.
  • Explain to someone else why Strategy and Authority are an experiment rather than a rule.

Going deeper at this level

Foundations29Types & Strategy51Authority & Decisions13
Level 2 · 3 h 12 m

Know what the chart is made of

You can: Point at any part of a bodygraph and say what it is: which centers are defined, which channels create that definition, and which gates you carry.

This is the mechanical vocabulary, and it is the level most free material skips. Type and Authority are outputs. This level is the machinery that produces them, which is why every later level assumes it.

  1. The Nine-Centered Being, chapters 4 to 6 3 of 8 11 min
  2. The nine Centers all 9 45 min
  3. Single, split, triple and quad definition all 4 18 min
  4. The Channels that define you 6 of 36 23 min

    Your defined channels only. A single-definition chart may have two; a quad split has a dozen.

  5. The Gates your chart activates 24 of 64 1 h 17 m

    Your 26 activations, minus the usual duplicates. The other 40 gates are reference for later.

  6. The seven Circuits all 7 18 min

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Recordings from the channel covering this level's material. Nothing is requested from YouTube until you press play, and their running times are not counted in the 3 h 12 m above, which is reading and exercises only.

28 more recordings sit on the articles in this level's categories, linked below.

Checkpoint

Nobody grades this and no credential comes out of it. Work down the list; anything you cannot do yet tells you what to re-read.

  • Mark which of your nine Centers are defined and which are open, without looking it up.
  • Name the channels that create each piece of your definition.
  • Say which circuit a given channel belongs to and what that circuit is for.
  • Explain why two people with the same Type can have almost nothing else in common.

Going deeper at this level

Centers, Gates & Channels55
Level 3 · 2 h 26 m

Run the experiment

You can: Work your Strategy and Authority as an experiment, recognize conditioning as it happens, and read a daily transit against your own chart.

The reading here is the shortest of any level and the practice is the longest. Ra put seven years on deconditioning, which is a statement about the body replacing its cells, not a course length. Nothing on this page can shorten it.

  1. The Deconditioning Experiment 10 min
  2. The Nine-Centered Being, chapters 7 and 8 2 of 8 7 min
  3. Your subtype 1 of 12 5 min

    The variant of your Type that your Authority produces, such as an emotional Projector.

  4. The thirteen Planets all 13 39 min
  5. Read today’s transit and find it on your own chart 15 min

    The page runs live. Locate the day’s Sun gate among your own activations.

  6. Then watch it for a week 1 h 10 m

    Ten minutes a day. This is the level where the system stops being theory.

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Recordings from the channel covering this level's material. Nothing is requested from YouTube until you press play, and their running times are not counted in the 2 h 26 m above, which is reading and exercises only.

28 more recordings sit on the articles in this level's categories, linked below.

Checkpoint

Nobody grades this and no credential comes out of it. Work down the list; anything you cannot do yet tells you what to re-read.

  • Describe one decision you made through your Authority rather than your mind.
  • Name an open center of yours and one way you have watched it condition you.
  • Read the day’s transit and say which of your gates it touches.
  • Tell the difference between the program running and your own design running.

Going deeper at this level

The Dream Rave Living the Experiment87Transits & The Program40Health & The Body17
Level 4 · 3 h 31 m

Read a chart for someone else

You can: Take a stranger’s birth data and give a structured reading: Type, Authority, Profile, definition and Cross, in an order that holds together.

Reading your own chart is pattern-matching against a life you already know. Reading someone else’s is the first real test, because you have no story to fall back on and the mechanics have to carry it.

  1. Your Incarnation Cross 1 of 192 2 min

    One of 192. Read yours, then read the structure that generates all of them.

  2. Two charts together 3 min
  3. Nineteen worked case studies all 19 1 h 26 m

    Full readings, start to finish, so you can see the order an analyst works in.

  4. Drill twenty charts you did not calculate 2 h

    A real bodygraph with no label on it. Name the Type and Authority, then check yourself against the published analysis.

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Recordings from the channel covering this level's material. Nothing is requested from YouTube until you press play, and their running times are not counted in the 3 h 31 m above, which is reading and exercises only.

31 more recordings sit on the articles in this level's categories, linked below.

Checkpoint

Nobody grades this and no credential comes out of it. Work down the list; anything you cannot do yet tells you what to re-read.

  • Derive Type from the defined centers alone, without reading the label.
  • Give a fifteen-minute reading in a fixed order and finish inside the time.
  • Say what you cannot tell from a chart, out loud, to the person you are reading.
  • Notice when you are describing a personality instead of a mechanic, and stop.

Going deeper at this level

Famous Charts96Relationships & Family30Analyst Training51
Level 5 · 1 h 52 m

Work below the surface

You can: Read the layer under the line: Color, Tone and Base, the four Variable arrows, and the True Profile they produce.

Short to read and slow to absorb. This is the material most free sites never touch and most schools put behind three prerequisites. The hours below cover one pass; nobody gets Variable on one pass, so treat this level as something you return to rather than finish.

  1. Substructure: Color, Tone and Base 7 min
  2. Variable and the four arrows 6 min
  3. Find the four arrows on your own chart 25 min

    Two arrows either side of the head. Name the Transformation each one carries before you read on.

  4. Your True Profile 1 of 72 5 min

    One of 72. Your Profile refined by Color and Motivation.

  5. Read Variable on five charts you already know well 1 h

    Family, or the famous charts you worked in Level 4. Determination and Environment are the two that show up in how someone lives.

  6. The 2027 global cycle change 5 min
  7. The Bardo: death and decarnation 4 min

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Recordings from the channel covering this level's material. Nothing is requested from YouTube until you press play, and their running times are not counted in the 1 h 52 m above, which is reading and exercises only.

48 more recordings sit on the articles in this level's categories, linked below.

Checkpoint

Nobody grades this and no credential comes out of it. Work down the list; anything you cannot do yet tells you what to re-read.

  • Read the four arrows on your own chart and name each Transformation.
  • Say what your Determination and Environment are, and what you have changed because of them.
  • Explain the difference between your Profile and your True Profile.
  • Describe what the 2027 change is, mechanically, without reaching for prophecy.

Going deeper at this level

Profiles & Variable34Cosmology & The Mandala522027 & Global Cycles21Human Design Variants4
How the hours were worked out

The method, so you can check it

Reading time is the word count of the material divided by 180 words a minute, which is slower than the rate on the blog because this is reference reading with a chart open beside you. Exercises carry a fixed estimate instead.

Lookup collections are counted at the size one reader covers, not their full length: you read your own Incarnation Cross, not all 192. Read the reference library end to end and it comes to roughly 25 hours across 460 pages.

When you finish

A certificate of completion

Work the five levels through to the end, with their checkpoints, exercises and the practice drill, and you can ask for a dated Certificate of Completion with a record number anyone can check. It names what you studied and says on its face that it is not a certification and carries no professional credential.

Records are issued by hand and published only if you ask for that in writing.

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If the mind gets loud early on, that is the part of this the curriculum cannot argue you out of: New to the Human Design System? You Should Probably Give Up Now.

What this does not do

  • It does not certify you. Nothing here makes you a Human Design analyst, guide or teacher, and no page on this site will tell you otherwise. If that is what you want, the certification programs exist and they cost money, take cohort time and involve someone assessing your work. The certificate of completion offered above records the curriculum finished, and says on its face that it is not a certification.
  • It is not a substitute for being taught. Reading and a live classroom are different things. A cohort catches the mistake you did not know you were making, and this page cannot.
  • It does not read your chart for you. Every level assumes you have your own bodygraph open. If you would rather someone else did the work, that is what a reading is for.
Level 1 starts here

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