Something Is Off

Most people arrive at this material the same way. Not because they went looking for an energy system, but because something has been bothering them for years and they have run out of places to put it.

Sometimes it shows up as a private sense of wrongness. Everyone else seems to have received an instruction manual you never got. The advice that works for them does not work for you. Push harder. Set a goal and drive at it. Decide what you want and go make it happen. You try, and it costs you more than it seems to cost anyone else, and the results are thin.

Sometimes it shows up the other way around, as a suspicion about the world rather than about yourself. The way things are arranged does not seem to fit the people living in it. The institutions creak. The advice is confident and it does not land.

Both of those are the same observation from two angles, and this book is about the mechanics underneath it.

What this book claims

Human Design says the mismatch is real, that it is not evidence of a flaw in you, and that it has a specific cause: the human being changed structure recently, and most of the world’s operating instructions were written for the earlier model.

That is a strong claim. Hold it up against your own experience as you read; that is the only useful way to read anything like this.

The short version is this. For roughly ninety thousand years the human being ran on a seven-centered structure. That structure is the one preserved in the classical chakra system, and it built nearly everything we still credit ourselves for. Then, according to Ra Uru Hu’s research, that structure gave way. Since 1781 human beings have been born with a nine-centered design. We are the transitional form between the two, which is a specific and slightly awkward position to be standing in.

You are running nine-centered hardware. A great deal of the software still loaded on it was written for seven-centered people.

What this book is not

It is not a personality system. Nothing here is going to tell you that you are a particular kind of person, or sort you into a category that explains your life.

It is not a set of rules to obey. The centerpiece of Human Design is an experiment you run on yourself, over time, and check against your own results. If you take it as instruction rather than experiment you have already lost the part that makes it worth anything.

It is also not a promise that understanding this will fix your circumstances. What it offers is a different place to make decisions from, and a way to see what has been making them for you.

How to read it

You do not need a chart to read this. The book is written so it holds together on its own.

You will get more out of it with one, and yours is free: pull it up at free chart and keep it open. From Chapter Four onward, the material starts pointing at things you can find on your own graph, and looking at the actual picture while you read makes the difference between a nice idea and something you recognize.

Eight chapters. Read them in order the first time. They build.

Ra called our kind Homo sapiens in transitus. The next chapter is about what we are transitioning from, because the seven-centered being was a real being, and knowing what it was is what makes the rest of this legible.