Ep. 2: A Tour of Your Human Design Chart

Sandy: Welcome to Human Design Field Notes. This is where we learn human design in a way that's simple, fun, and actually useful in real life. The kind of thing you can try for yourself, talk about with your girlfriends, and before long, you'll want to know everyone's chart. And I'm not just teaching it, I'm testing it too. I'm rebuilding my coaching business using my own human design and I'll be sharing the field notes as I go. The experiments, the insights, the wins, the mistakes, and probably a few things we can all have a good laugh about. Because human design isn't meant to be stared at on a chart. It's meant to be lived. I'm your host, Sandy Connery. Let's see where this takes us. welcome to episode two. Today we are going to take a tour of a human design chart. So I was gonna start with energy types and start describing each of those, but I thought it might be better if we just back up and take a look at what you print out when you get your your human design chart, and like let's just make sense of the sections. So for sure for this one, I would love for you to have it in front of you so you can follow along. I realize I am describ describing something visual on a piece of paper in audio format. So it's gonna be a little bit odd if you don't have that in front of you. So if you need your chart, head over to sandyconnery.com, click on front a free HD chart, download it, print it, and then let's continue with the episode. Okay, so when you get your chart. It looks a little bit crazy in the beginning, honestly. it looks complicated. It looks like a wiring diagram, it looks like a little R2 D2 robot or something, a lot of circuitry, a lot of squares, and a lot of bizarre words. And I just first like high overview, want to talk about the information that's there, and then we're really gonna dive into the actual body graph part. So this in front of you is your map. It is your circuitry, and it really is going to help you understand yourself. And if you print out charts from people in your life, your partner, your children, your you know, coworkers, whatever, it'll help understand your relationship with all of them as well. so it's really like a circuitry of how you're wired and where you really shine and why you struggle in some areas. So basically we can Divide this into three sections. The first section is the middle part, which is the body graph, which looks like a body. So it's typically depicted as a human being kind of sitting cross-legged. And then it has all these squares and diamonds and triangles that are all connected with lines and numbers. That part is your body graph. So when I say look at your body graph, that is that image. The second thing you'll notice is that there are two columns on either side of your body graph. And there is a planetary symbol beside a number. These are your gates or gifts, and we'll talk about that in a minute. And they're assigned to a planet, so you know what planetary energy they're influenced by. That is a deep. We are not probably not going to talk about that. on this podcast, but I just want you to know what those two columns are. It are your it is your gates, your activated gates assigned to a planet. And three, probably the easiest part of the of the body or the human design chart, are all the words on the right hand column. This is where all of your information is so that you do not need to interpret that body graph. They the software that we all use as human design readers, the it you know, you put your information in and it's going to interpret everything for you. so the key kind of elements that you want to know are all down on the right hand column. So the main one being strategy, authority, and so on. So that is there listed. You don't have to know how to read the body graph. But I do want to explain a few things because I think it's helpful for the upcoming episodes that I've got planned. So let's go back to that middle section, which is the body graph. And you can see again that there are these geometric shapes throughout or sort of across this body. There each of those shapes are called energy centers. And in human design, there are nine. And they are noticeably similar to the chakras from the Hindu tantric tradition. and so let me you'll probably recognize them, recognize them if you've done any kind of yoga or training with chakras. So I just want to go through them and name them and feel free on your chart to kind of note the name of each of those shapes, because that does not come out on your human design chart. So Going from the top column right down to the bottom, that top triangle, that is your head energy center. The next one below that is your mind. The square below that is your throat energy center. Below that, the diamond, the big diamond in the middle is the identity center. Below that, you have a square that represents your sacral energy center. Below that is your root. That's the bottom of that center column that is the bottom. energy center. So you'll see how that kind of maps and tracks with the chakras. However, in human design we have a couple extra. So to the left of that column we have a little a triangle that is your spleen or your it which represents your instincts. And on the right hand side of that column we have a small triangle that is your heart energy center or ego. And just slightly below that and to the right we have a bigger triangle which represents your solar plexus or your emotional energy center. So each of these centers, you can tell by the name, relates to a different kind of energy or function in the body. So for example, your throat center is how you express yourself. Your identity center is your sense of self, which makes sense. For now, you only need to know that there are these energy centers. And I'm gonna go through on future podcasts, I'm gonna talk about each of these energy centers in more detail. But basically, you need just to know you need to know that there are nine, these are the names of them. The other thing that's helpful to know about energy centers are the color of them. So if you print, if you look at your body graph on a screen, it'll be Some of the col some of the centers will be colored in and others will be white. If you print it out, it's probably grayscale. So some of them will be gray or colored, and the other ones will be white. And a colored center is called defined, and a white center is undefined. So very simply, defined centers tend to represent energy that is more consistent with more consistent and available to you. Undefined centers are places where you may be open to influence from other people that you're around or the environment that you're in. So, to give you an example, I have a defined throat. And I have a consistent way of expressing myself. It's very easy for me to speak. It's very easy to speak for me to speak my mind. However, if you have an undefined throat energy center, you'll be much more flexible on how you express yourself. And you may feel pressure or may feel influence to speak in a certain way because Of the influence of other people around you. Another example is defined solar plexus versus undefined solar plexus. The solar plexus is your emotional center. If you have a defined emotional center, you own your own emotions. You experience waves of emotion, you know, all day long or sometimes multiple times in a day. You have these like waves of emotions come and go. Well, someone like me who has an undefined solar plexus or emotional center, I am highly sensitive to the emotions of others. You can feel other people's emotions. I know how my husband and my son feel the moment they walk in the door and I'm often like, What's wrong? Like, what happened? So I'm sure some of you can relate to that. And neither, it's important to say that neither is better or good or stronger or weaker. It just is like you can function and be incredibly successful with undefined or defined centers. It's just knowing that is incredibly helpful. you know, to to to know how your energy flows through your body. So we'll unpack that more in later episodes, but for now, if you print out your your chart and you have a colored or gray energy center that is defined. If it is white, it is undefined. Now, if you look inside all of those shapes, the triangles and squares, you'll see a lot of little numbers. And each of those numbers are called gates or also known as gifts. And total in human design, there are 64 different gates. We're not going to go through each of those. but if you look at your chart, you'll see that some of those numbers are in little tiny black circles. Those are your activated gates. Those are your gifts. And again, you don't need at this point to to understand what all those gates mean. You need a a good human design reader to kind of interpret that for you. But for now, just recognize that those numbers represent a gift that you have. Those black activated gates are gifts you currently have. On the body graph, you'll also see lines running through connecting the centers. So that's what kind of looks like wires or make to me it makes it look like a little robot. You these are called channels and it is a full a full connection in a channel is formed between two centers when you have an activated gate in one center and the channel connects to the another center where there is also a matching activated gate that creates a channel between the two centers. So for example, I have a defined mind and I have a defined throat. And those two things are connected by an open and active channel by two active gates. And that makes means that I can speak my mind very easily. There is a lot of energy flowing between my mind and my throat. And it's very easy. That's why I love podcasting. It's very easy for me to speak. So I have a channel between my mind and And my throat. That's just one example. So if you look at your chart, the channels that you have are going to be the colored lines or again the gray lines if it's grayscale. You'll also notice on the right hand sign that all your channels are listed. So that right hand side column, they've pull out all of your gates and they've pulled out all of your full channels. Okay, and again, the column on the right hand side is all the words. So they've done the interpretation for you. Most of you will just go there. When we start talking about energy type, which is what we're going to do tomorrow, you're just gonna look at that chart and it's gonna say energy type or type, and it's gonna say generator, reflector, projector, whatever it may be. And that's really what we wanna know. So I just really want to emphasize that this is a lot and there's a lot of strange jargon in human design. And that's okay. There's lots of layers, there's lots of elements and you do not need to understand the entire thing in order to find benefit benefit from human design. So today I just want you to print your chart, have it, have a physical copy where you can take notes and just get ready for the next episode because we're going to talk about our first energy type, which is generator, which is what I am. So I have lots of good stories and examples to share with you. And that will be the next episode, and we are going to run through all of the different, the five different energy types. That is the fundamental piece of human design. If you are at all familiar with it, you probably do know your energy type. and if you don't know it, just grab your chart, sandyconnery.com, free HD chart. There's a tab. you can download it. And you it's also, I think, helpful to print other people's charts in your lives if you know their birthday, because we will be talking about relationships between the different energy types. Okay. That is your tour of the human design chart. I hope you found that helpful. We'll see you in the next episode where we're going to be talking about generators. If you're ready to start learning your own human design, you can get your free chart at sandyconnery.com. Just click on free HD chart. And if you're enjoying the show, make sure you subscribe, share it with a friend, and follow along. Now go get your chart and let's get you into human design.