Human Design Transit Update: February 2-7, 2024

This week in Human Design, the sun is in gate 13 and the earth in 7 - two gates that make up part of the Incarnation Cross of the Sphinx. This activation occurs from February 2, 2024 at 10:03am est through February 7, 2024 at 11:10pm est. 

This cross - and the energy of this week - brings strong directional energy, whether showing the path forward for others or finding your own direction.

This week you might experience an updated idea of where you want to go, and it might not be where you thought you were headed next. Unexpected wisdom and guidance might be found in an offhand statement or line in a book. Trust your instincts and stay true to yourself as you consider your next steps in life. 

Both the sun and the earth gate this week are directional in nature, but gate 7 looks forward - “How can we take what we know, organize ourselves, and ensure we are going in the right direction?” And gate 13 is about listening to the past - “How can we take what we have experienced and ensure we don’t go backwards?”

With the energy of this week, we get a comprehensive view of our current situation, and we get to move forward in a clear direction.

Gate 13 (the sun gate this week) is known in Human Design as the Gate of the Listener. And, as the name suggests, if you have Gate 13 defined, you’re a natural listener. You might often find yourself on the receiving end of a story from a stranger, or constantly lending an ear to your friends and loved ones. And we all get to experience what it’s like to have this energy in our chart this week.

The energy of gate 13 orients us towards the reflection of our own and other’s experiences – hearing what’s unsaid, holding the secrets, the untold truths, and the wisdom of our collective experiences. 

With Gate 13 defined, it’s important to remember that timing is everything. The wisdom here matures over time, and you need access to the correct opportunities to share your perspective and wisdom. The right people will always pull out your depth, allowing it to make the impact it’s meant to. 

Gate 7 (the earth gate this week) is known in Human Design as the Gate of the Role of the Self in Interaction. While that might feel like a mouth full at first, it really means what it says! Who you are plays a great role in interacting with and leading others. 

This energy brings the potential to be a strong leader, but only when your role (your identity and direction) is recognized and invited into that place of leadership by your would-be constituents. 

Gate 7 is where the self steps into command; the essence of who you are and your unique direction in life draws others in who recognize the value you can bring and place you in a position of leadership. As you step up and into that role, you direct others simply through speaking your truth. 

With Gate 7 defined in the transits this week, it’s important to remember that you can’t force your way into a leadership position — you must be elected! The most important part of this process is simply embodying and accepting who you are, and the innate value your self brings to the world. 

Can you allow this week to be a directional reset for you? With the forward-looking energy of 7 and the reflective energy of gate 13, both of which are Identity Center gates, it’s a potent time to reconnect to your authentic direction. 

You might think of this week as a big reminder that to be yourself and to find your own way, is the greatest service you can contribute to the world.

Human Design Transit Update: Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2024

This week in Human Design, the sun is in gate 19 and the earth in 33 - two gates that make up part of the Incarnation Cross of Four Ways. This activation occurs from January 27th at 9:05pm est through February 2nd at 10:03am est.

This cross - and the energy of this week - ensures humanity is nourished - physically, spiritually and emotionally. It’s a time to reflect on our past and strive toward the great unknown of our future. 

This week you might need lots of connection with others, followed by periods of deep contemplation and quiet. 

If life for you in recent weeks has been filled with contemplation or solitude, this might be an extroverted week for you — it might be time to get out into the world. And likewise, if life lately has been filled with going and doing, this is the week to slow down, reflect, and integrate.

Gate 19 is known in Human Design as the Gate of Wanting. It brings us the potential to be deeply attuned to meeting our own and others’ needs and desires — emotional and otherwise. 

The energy of this gate provides the pressure and fuel to bring us toward what we need to be emotionally healthy. It’s concerned with the basic needs of the community, and ensuring everyone (including ourselves!) has what they need to survive and thrive.

Gate 19 is where we find the energy for the “marriage contract”; it’s focused on communal and relational needs and finding community who share certain principles so that our basic needs can be met.  

With Gate 19 defined in the transits this week, it’s important to remember that fairness is necessary for healthy relationships and community. And this energy is healthiest when it’s in connection with others — meeting other’s emotional needs and having yours met too. It’s about mutual, communal care.

While the sun is in gate 19, the earth in 33 offers grounding and balancing. 

Gate 33 is known in Human Design as the Gate of Privacy. This gate requires time and space so that it can reflect and make sense of the lessons of the past — eventually expressing them and providing a direction forward that supports the collective. 

The energy of this gate holds and nurtures the end of experiential cycles. It is the calm after a storm of activity and life; it is the return to home, to the retreat in which we integrate all that has occurred.

Gate 33 is where we find the ability to express the wisdom of the collective’s experiences. As you reflect on all sides of an experience, a deep wisdom is gleaned. And when that wisdom is integrated, you can share what you’ve learned through a clear and concise voice. 

With Gate 33 defined in the transits this week, it’s important to remember that you need proper time and space to reflect. Without the ability to withdraw, you (and the collective) may keep repeating cycles or disregard the wisdom that waits for you. 

This week is the perfect time to focus on the needs of the human experience, both the mundane - like food, friends, sex, and shelter, as well as the transcendental - like solitude, reflection, spirituality and God or the universe. 

Take good care of yourself and your people this week!

An Introduction to the Human Design Types

Human Design is a self-discovery system that combines of several different modalities including astrology, the chakra system, the I Ching, Kabbalah, and quantum physics.

Your Human Design chart is called a BodyGraph. You can see mine to the right (or below if you’re on your phone).

If you don’t know your Human Design, look it up on mybodygraph.com. Then read about your type below.

Reflectors

As a Reflector, you are open and receptive. You’re always sampling the energy of the people around you and the environments you’re in, and you’re designed to be a reflection of the world around you.

The nine undefined centers in your chart leave you open for deep wisdom, which you reflect back to the rest of us. You are a reflection (in mind, body, and spirit) of your environment, and you understand people on a deep level. 

Reflectors are often referred to as a “non-energy type”, because all of your centers are undefined and you are powered by the people around you as you take in their energy and release it again. For that reason, it’s so important for you to protect your energy; to empty out the world every day and remove yourself from situations that don’t feel right. 

Projectors

As a Projector, you are a natural guide. You are here to see others clearly, to take in their energy and amplify it back, and to lead the way when invited. You have a zoomed out view of the world that not everybody else has — you can often see the big picture, the whole picture, and provide direction from a more comprehensive place. You are the advice-giver, the deep conversationalist — and often, everyone’s life coach! 

Projectors are often referred to as a “non-energy type”, because your Sacral Center (the home of life force energy and the fuel to work) is undefined. All that means is that you’re not here to do all the doing.

Instead, you’re here to deeply see and understand others, connecting with them, illuminating their inherent goodness, and guiding them when invited.  In fact, knowing other people is often much easier than knowing yourself. 

Manifestors

As a Manifestor, you are here to spark change in the world around you. You can act independently, initiate action, and impact others — and that is your superpower. 

You are the creative genius, the innovator, the self-starter who initiates others into a new direction in life, and the one who doesn’t like to be told what to do. 🤪 When you’re truly living into your Manifestor aura, you may feel like you’re finally living for yourself.

You need the freedom to be in your creative flow, but you’re not necessarily designed to see every idea through to the end. You are the one that gets things started! You’re here to go at your own pace; to initiate and work in big bursts and then make space for deep rest and relaxation. 

Manifesting Generators

As a Manifesting Generator, you are here to create and build according to what energizes you or “lights you up”. When spending time doing what you love, your energy ripples out into the world, uplifting others and energizing them. You are here to show the world a new way of doing things, to be nonlinear in your path, finding efficiencies and making changes as needed along the way.

As a Manifesting Generator, you are here to wait and magnetize opportunities to respond to so you can live a life of deep satisfaction. You’re also meant to redefine what work means and looks like, finding a way to marry work and pleasure.

Your process is often different from others: You can move quickly, be very action-oriented and multifaceted. You are meant to live life outside of the box, and it can take great courage to move through life according to what feels good and right to you, at whatever speed you need to. 

Manifesting Generators are technically a subtype of the Generator type, so at times you’ll see only 4 Human Design types listed. Because MGs make up over 30% of the population, we find it helpful to distinguish between MGs and Generators.

Generators

As a Generator, are here to create and build sustainably according to what energizes you or “lights you up”. When spending time doing what you love, your energy ripples out into the world, uplifting others and energizing them. You are here to become a master at what you do, so it’s vitally important to dedicate the energy you have to things that feel good!

You have a warm and nurturing presence; it’s open and magnetic. And your radiance expands when you say “yes” to what excites you and “no” to what doesn’t.

As a Generator, you are here to wait for and magnetize opportunities to respond to — saying “yes” to what excites you and “no” to what doesn’t! — so you can live a life of deep satisfaction. You’re also meant to redefine what work means and looks like, finding a way to marry work and pleasure.