Monthly Archives: May 2021

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Human Design Primary Health System (PHS)

As I continue to explore Human Design connections, some important information is arising, information that I feel is relevant to my life path. My most recent exploration has been into the PHS – Primary Health System. This is the part of HD that has long fascinated me because it directs an individual toward their proper environment. When someone is residing within their proper environment, resistance is removed, the body is healed and they are better able to follow their strategy and authority. When I read about these benefits, I wanted them! Wouldn’t you?

So, I will now share what I’ve recently learned about the PHS. I will try and be as detailed as I can, but if you are just beginning to learn about HD, you may be missing foundation information that is needed to understand and apply what I am about to share.

PHS

The top, left arrow on your HD chart (which you can get at GeneticMatrix.com) is where you find the component of the PHS. You will want to go to your Body view rather than the Quantum view that is the default. The Body chart often times indicates you are a different type than your Quantum chart but don’t be concerned if it is. The Body chart is showing what profile type your body is. The Body chart is where the info for the PHS lies.

NOTE: Genetic Matrix has changed the name of the views from “Body” and “Foundation” to “Design” and “Personality”. This is actually more accurate a description and a good edit IMO but could potentially confuse you, so I am noting it here. It also appears you can view the Design chart without a subscription – so it is now free. Yay!

So, my body (design) type is Reflector, which is typical for Projectors.

From here, the focus is on the information listed under Body (Design). It lists the following on my chart:

Brain: Passive
Determinism: Nervous
Cognition: Inner Vision
Environment: Markets – Internal
Environmental Style – Observed

First, focus on Determinism (color) and Cognition (tone).

Before I get into color and tone, I want you to look a the first arrow on my chart below (has a big R with two 4’s underneath). These specifically align with the PHS and what I am about to share with you. Unfortunately, the Genetic Matrix design chart no longer includes the arrows which was just pointed out to me by a reader (thank you!). You can find this information either by getting a one day subscription to Genetic Matrix, by purchasing the Advanced Mia Mechanics Imaging software that can be found here (expensive), purchasing a quick chart via this website for $3.00 or getting a Foundation Reading from a certified HD Analyst (where I got my chart). The option I would suggest is Genetic Matrix but the arrows are not necessary to find your PHS.

Old Genetic Matrix Body/Design chart with arrows
Mia Mechanics Imaging Quick Chart

Determinism = Color = Digestion (of both food and information), tends to be where we hold deep conditioning.

Six types

#1: Appetite – two kinds: Consecutive and Alternating. These people need to eat bland foods. Consecutive peeps need to eat foods one at a time (no eating a bite of fish followed by a bite of potato). This type is the most primitive and restrictive digestion type. Think “caveman” diet. Similarly, when digesting information, you need to take in information little by little and one/or one subject/topic at a time; otherwise you could easily overwhelm yourself

#2: Taste – two kinds: Closed and Open. These people need to eat the same foods over and over again. Eat habitually and with a routine. The Open type tends to do well sharing food with others. Seasonal foods are okay, but the keyword here is “habitual”. If it is information, then these people digest information in the same pattern or way. They have habits and a routine they follow.

#3: Thirst – two kinds Hot and Cold. Hot – eat foods warmer than body temperature. Cold – eat food cooler than body temperature. Can also use Ayurveda. For information, the temperature is key. Too cold for those who are Hot and you will struggle to take in new information. Same goes for those with the Cold type.

#4: Touch – two kinds Calm and Nervous. These people need to prepare for digestion. Calm people need calm to digest. Eating alone is good for them. Nervous people need action to digest – with other people, with TV or radio, while talking/socializing, in public, or moving around (driving, walking, fidgeting). *Nervous is my color/determinism (#4) and I can verify this eating and learning environment works best for me. For example, I use to do my homework while sitting in front of the TV.

#5: Sound – High and Low. All about the amount of noise when digesting (food or info). High need sound (turn on the music). Low need quiet (put in those noise cancelling earbuds). High needs to eat frequently (or study repetitively over a longer time). Low needs to eat less (or cram for that test!). A High person may snack all day. A Low person may eat one time all day.

#6: Light – Direct and Indirect. This is the most sensitive type. Direct peeps need to digest (study/eat) during the daylight hours (not after dark). Indirect peeps need to digest at night (not during the day). *My husband is Indirect and tends to be a nighttime eater. I told him he needs to practice intermittent fasting during the day. He practically does this anyway.

Tone – Cognition – How you connect with the world
Note: Our Authority taps into Tone to help us become aware of what is good/bad for us.

#1: Security – Smell – Splenic (fear/survival oriented). These people need to “smell out” what is correct or incorrect for them. They are good at recognizing and are protective types, they do not like the new/unexpected, they tend to store memories well, they investigate to be aware of threats.

#2: Uncertainty – Taste – Splenic. High awareness of the world, recognize something new the moment it emerges, they like to experiment, they want to “taste life”.

#3: Action – Outer Vision – Ajna (third-eye, intuition). Strategic outer vision, they rely on their physical eyes, where the Not-Self mind comes from, they are fully aware of the world and are taking steps to control it.

#4: Meditation – Inner Vision – Ajna. Theirs is a sensory world. They take in information via their third-eye (intuition). Outer vision may confuse them. Do not rely on outer vision/physical eyes but trust their inner eyes. *This is my cognition/tone and it is very true for me. What I see within is what I go with regardless of what the outer world view is.

#5: Judgment – Feeling – Solar Plexus. Empathy is your super power. These people go on how something feels to them. Feeling is their compass.

#6: Acceptance – Touch – Solar Plexus. These are the touchy feely peeps. They need to touch the world. If uncertain, touch it.

If you go back to my chart and those two 4’s, you can see that my tone/color #’s correspond to those numbers. I am #4 color and #4 tone. 🙂

Environment – Ideal place to work/live

6 Types

1.Caves – Selective or Blending. All about feeling safe and secure in their space. These are very private people. Selective seek to control their environment more than Blending. This doesn’t mean you need to live in an actual cave, but your space may feel or look similar. One entrance/exit, dark or closed off, need to see who comes in, need preparation for visitors. Avoid sleeping/sitting with back to the door.

2. Market – Internal or External. These people thrive in a busy place. External needs to be in an active or busy space such as an office environment with open theme and lots going on. Internal invites people into their own space such as work-from-home, internet business, studio, gallery. *Markets-Internal is my environment and is accurate for me. I work from home now but also use to invite people into my space when I did readings.

3. Kitchen – Wet or Dry. This is a place of production. Can be an actual kitchen, too, but mainly somewhere things are “prepared” or “created”. Wet means tropical or green. Dry means dessert or arid. If you can’t be in a Wet or Dry area, you can put wet or dry plants in your actual kitchen or “creative” space. *My husband is Kitchens-Dry. He is all about production in his life and we live in a semi-arid location now but he use to live in New Mexico (desert).

4. Mountains – Active or Passive. This is all about perspective. These peeps need to see from “above”. Active means be/live in an actual higher elevation (high-rise, second story house). Passive is on a mountain top or plateau, natural setting.

5. Valleys – Narrow or Wide. This person does well lower in elevation (opposite of Mountains). They need to be “in” the thick of things, where the information flows. Narrow means less space around them and Wide means more space around them. It can be in an actual valley or in a space where information is flowing.

6. Shores – Natural or Artificial. Natural need to be around natural bodies of water. Artificial near man-made bodies of water. If you can’t be near either, then being between two kinds of environments will suffice (between city and country for example). Ideally be near water. Work/live near fountain if Artificial. Work/live near lake, ocean, river if Natural.

For Projectors

In general, some Projectors may find they tend to feel better when they eat small meals throughout the day (or night if you are that color)

Projectors may be prone to over-eating because of their tendency to be conditioned via all their open centers.

There is a tendency to not need as much protein (carb lovers). Higher carb diets may work for you.

These are just general guidelines, though. Always follow your Strategy/Authority. Eat what you feel drawn to. Don’t eat what repels you.

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Human Design Connections – Part 2

This post is going to focus more on the connection charts I have done thus far. I will share some of the charts as well as the information I learned along the way.

Connection Charts I have created so far:
Family
Husband
Ex Husband
Children – all three
Mother
Significant people of interest to me

Below is my family chart. Lots of information but the main part I focus on is the aura theme which is Hierarchical Tension. My guess is that this theme indicates that individuals in the family do not have clearly defined roles and so frequently question the roles of other family members and step on one another’s toes in the process. This feels like an accurate theme to me! I find it interesting that our group is missing “future” and “discovery”. I wonder what significance this has?

The next chart is my connection with my husband. The center chart is our combined energy. Below the chart are the connection channels.

Definitions of the connection channels for your reference:

Compromise channel – when one person has an entire channel, and the other person has only one gate. Creates a natural push and pull dynamic. One person will always have the entire channel and will naturally try to pull the person with one gate into their energy.
Dominance channel – when one person has an entire channel and the other person is undefined in that channel. When together, the person with the dominance channel will naturally condition the other person by lending their defined energy.
Friendship channel – the two have the same defined channel(s). This can make this aspect of the other seem uninteresting because it is shared.
Attraction channel – both individuals have half a gate that when together form a complete one (50-50). Together, these two gates activate the third energy of the channel. Attraction channels are literally like a spark that occurs when the two people come together. Attraction channels create an intense magnetism between two people, particularly at first. Source

Our connection theme is: “Not in a relationship anymore”. LOL I am still laughing at this because it feels accurate. My understanding is that we get along best when we put aside our ideas and expectations about our relationship and what a relationship is/means and connect as friends would. When we operate under the idea of being in a romantic relationship problems arise (frequently).

This next chart is the data chart for my connection with my husband. Please go to this link for an explanation of the sections of this chart.

Based upon the data, my husband and I are not a very good match. While we do have a fairly good mind to planet to crystal resonance and our mind base orientation matches up exactly, the view to crystal resonance is not a good indicator. Basically, what we have is not a “soul mate” connection. Our environments also don’t match up well, but this is a minor issue and because I am Markets – Internal, I can pretty much be/live anywhere as long as I don’t feel penned in and can create a space where I can invite others to join me.

In contrast to the above chart, here is another connection data chart that shows a soul mate connection (quite to my surprise). See the two green arrows? This is a GOOD thing. Additionally, the mind base orientation and mind planet to crystal resonance indicate a good connection. The theme is also promising – Have some fun! (not on this chart but the original not shown). Since I have family who I have this theme with, I know how it feels and plays out, and it is a good theme to have.

The reason I am surprised by this chart is, of all the connections charts I created, this is the one for a profile type that typically does not match up with my own (5/1). So, toss out the profile matches list I guess.

I won’t share all the other connection charts because it would make this post way too long. Instead, I will summarize them.

Me and Ex Husband
Theme: Better to be free (lol)
View to crystal – both red (not soul mate connection)
Mind base – both focused
Mind planet to crystal resonance – moon, Venus, Mercury (me)
Environmental – red (not good) He is Kitchens and I am Markets

Me and Mom
Theme: Nowhere to go.
View to crystal – both red
Mind base – both focused
Mind planet to crystal resonance – Mars, Uranus, Mercury (me)
Environmental – red (not good) She is caves and I am Markets

Me and my Daughter
Theme: Have some fun!
View to crystal – both red
Mind base – binary separation (daughter), focused (me)
Mind planet to crystal resonance – Uranus, Venus (me)
Environmental – red (not good) She is Kitchens and I am Markets

Me and my Oldest Son
Theme: Work to do.
View to crystal – one blue, one red (fair)
Mind base – binary (him), focused (me)
Mind planet to crystal resonance – moon, Pluto, Mercury (me)
Environmental – green, we are both Markets-Internal

Me and my Youngest Son
Theme: Have some fun!
View to crystal – both red
Mind base – binary (him), focused (me)
Mind planet to crystal resonance – Jupiter, Saturn, Venus (me)
Environmental – green, he is Markets – External, I am Markets – Internal

Me and Connection R
Theme: Not in a relationship anymore (lol – true!)
View to crystal – one green, one red (half soul mate? lol)
Mind base – both focused
Mind planet to crystal resonance – Saturn, Uranus (me)
Environmental – red (not good) He is Mountains and I am Markets

And finally, just to see how it changed the family aura theme, I did a family chart for me and the kids (minus their dad). This is what the result was:

The theme changed to: Secure at Home. This feels accurate. My husband is frequently away on business trips. When he is gone, the energy shift is dramatic. The tension goes away. Me and the kids get along well and there is a kind of peace that falls over the house. Even my daughter, who tends to be the loudest of the group, is calmer, more interactive and less likely to hide away in her room.

I did do a chart of just the kids and their dad and the theme is also “secure at home”. I’m not surprised. The main difference is that the missing groups goes to three instead of two. With him the missing groups are future, tradition and discovery.

One Month – Want a Chart?

I have one month to play with the Genetic Matrix pro account. If you would like me to create a connection chart for you, let me know. I won’t charge for this service because I am learning and exploring, which to me is reward enough! In order to get a chart, though, I need the following information for each individual: name (initials is fine) birth date, time of birth, birth location (city/state/country).

If you don’t know location and time you can provide an approximate but I can’t guarantee accuracy. What I have found is that if the location is within the same latitude/longitude area (for example, birth city unknown, but state is) then it won’t be an issue. The same goes with time as long as you have an approximate time (for example, born in the late morning but not sure exact time, then putting 10am will likely be sufficient).

Even with the charts I have created, I forgot my mom’s birth time but I had her previous chart so played around with the time until the charts matched. And with one of my connections I did the same because I knew he was a 3/5 Pure Generator from a previous chart (which I don’t have now) and only a certain time of day on his birth date matched that profile type.

Don’t be shy. If you are curious, send me an email via my contact form. The date this offer will end is 5/31/21.

Featured image is my connection chart with my mother. This is the only connection I have (that I know of) where together, all centers are defined. Pretty awesome, IMO.

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Human Design Connections – Part 1

Yesterday I decided to take the plunge and get a one month pro subscription to Genetic Matrix. Genetic Matrix allows you to create charts and the pro subscription gives you all the options to include connection charts, sleep charts, family charts – even pet charts! As you can imagine, I’ve been having a blast because I so enjoy learning new things.

My Human Design

So much information to share! To some of you this will be a bit over your heads (and for me, too!) but it is still fascinating to me, so I wanted to share and provide you with what I have deciphered for myself thus far. I will include my intuitive takes, also, because, for me, I operate via my Knowing and then use the information to validate that Knowing.

From my notes:

Body: 6/2 Reflector

I resonate more with the Reflector profile than Projector because of all my open centers. Turns out I am not wrong and have many qualities of a Reflector.

Environment: Markets – Internal
Someone who loves their work. So, when they find a job they enjoy it feels regenerative. Ideal work is: long-distance without a daily commute, over the internet, varies day-to-day. Needs to move about frequently regardless of where they are.

My considerations regarding environment/work: When I met my current husband I was at my second Body, Mind, Spirit Expo. I gave a lecture on Spirit Guides and was having a very successful weekend. At the time my idea was to do more expos across the state, slowly expanding until I was doing them across the U.S. It never happened because I chose to be with my husband and have a family. I now realize that at the time, I was following my Strategy and Authority, being pulled toward the type of work that suited me best in my ideal environment!

Current job is work-from-home. It is via the internet and gives me the freedom I need; however, it is not work I enjoy so it is not necessarily regenerative.

I am being observed in my environment rather than being the observer.

Environmental Theme: Hardscapes – Urban

Environmental Transference – Valleys – Narrow <—– Not-Self environment, the individual will often feel good here but in reality this environment is detrimental to their well-being. My reaction – I laughed because I was certain my environment was somewhere with lots of open space and thought of where my mom currently lives (in a valley). Of course I would think where my family resides would be good for me. Not so!

Market Environment: The Market theme is all about being selective about who/what is allowed into my life.

External Markets are bustling environments with a lot of people, and exchange of money/commerce, communication, and information. What makes the External Market special is that the individual with this Environment typically heads into the Market with a specific goal in mind – to buy a certain thing, find a certain person, etc. So, an ideal Market Environment would be one where the individual is benefitting from their exchanges with others, but they are very discerning about who they are interacting with to make sure they are getting what they want.

The Internal Market (my environment) is also a space of exchange – goods, information, energy. However, the Internal Market is an indoor or enclosed space that has been created so that the person with this Environment in their chart can invite people into their sacred space to congregate, exchange, and gather. These will be people that all share a common interest or goal. Source

Example Charts

Date of Uranus Opposition – 6 May 2019, 3/5 Emotional Manifesting Generator, Right Angle Cross (RAX) of the Sphinx

You are here to follow your own lead and be in the moment. You are transfixed by the now and your way of doing things. This self absorption is your individual contribution to the world. While it is not your intention to give others direction, you do. By following your heart and doing your own expressive thing, others can find direction through your example and will follow. Do your own thing and make sure it is your passion to your core. Source

Date of Chiron Return – 16 May 2027, 2/4 Emotional Projector, RAX Contagion 2

The energy of your Cross is to be a contributor through your individual effort. Your passion and expression of excitement is contagious and inspires others to follow your lead This energy means it is unlikely you will be the follower of others, at least not all the way. At some point, you will step out on your own to break new ground. When you do, it creates the energy for others to latch on to your ideas and catch the wave.

Sleep type – Reflector, no Earth plane

Example (below): Sleep Connection chart, me and my ex. I slept well with him in general, but every time he moved or made a sound I woke up. I struggled to fall asleep, which is common for me (Projectors have this issue because we have to release all the energy we’ve stored up from the day). I was taking antidepressants most of our relationship so I slept better and more deeply during this time. He also wasn’t home often so we slept apart quite a bit.

Considerations regarding sleep connections – Ex and current husband also Reflectors during sleep, but both have Earth plane. Wondering if this contributes to my difficulty sleeping with them? What my research indicates is that if both have a defined sacral then this would contribute to difficulty sleeping with them. When together, the sacral is highlighted, so perhaps this indicates the “why”.

Below are some more example charts to give you an idea of just how much you can on Genetic Matrix:

Foundation Keyword Chart, Gene Keys Chart, Foundation Chart – Godhead

In Part 2 I will go over specific connection charts to include family and individual relationships with partners (past and present), friends and my children.

Post featured image is my Life Cycle chart which clearly shows the three life stages of the 6/2, Role Model Hermit. The last phase begins at my Chiron Return and you can see that the 2/4 Emotional Projector type is listed. I am currently in the middle section, a 3/5 Emotional Manifesting Generator (gawd, no wonder!). lol See above Uranus Opposition chart for proof.

***I am exploring Human Design and learning through experimentation so the information in this post may not be completely accurate. Please feel free to correct any of my misconceptions if you are more familiar with HD.