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Origin Created in 1987 as a synthesis of four older systems, the I Ching, the chakra teaching, Kabbalah and astrology, and used as an instrument of psychological counselling. The system's components are read from a chart calculated for a birth moment.
Human Design sorts every chart into one of five types (Manifestor, Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector and Reflector), determined by which centres are defined and how. Each type is given a characteristic strategy for making decisions. The types are part of the system Ra Uru Hu formulated in the late 1980s and are a modern construction rather than an inherited one.
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Standing as a Comparative CategoryA modern authored system with no established scientific standing. In the only empirical test located, characterisations produced by Human Design methods could not be validated against the NEO PI-R personality inventory, and assent to them was found to be consistent with the Barnum effect. 2 Origins
Origin PeriodCreated in 1987 as a synthesis of four older systems, the I Ching, the chakra teaching, Kabbalah and astrology, and used as an instrument of psychological counselling. The system's components are read from a chart calculated for a birth moment. 1 Learn More
The Five Types
Human Design sorts every chart into one of five types (Manifestor, Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector and Reflector), determined by which of the nine centres are defined and how they connect. Each type is given a characteristic "strategy" for making decisions and engaging with life: the Generator to respond, the Projector to wait for invitation, the Manifestor to inform, the Reflector to wait a lunar cycle.
The type is the entry point of a Human Design reading, held to describe a person's basic energetic role, how they are "designed" to operate, and the rest of the chart refines it.
A modern synthesis
Human Design was formulated in the late 1980s by Ra Uru Hu (Robert Alan Krakower), who combined the I Ching, astrology, the chakra system and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life into a single chart, the bodygraph. The five types are one of its central features. The atlas presents the system as a contemporary construction with a datable origin, describing its terms without endorsing its claims.
The atlas gives each type its defining condition and its strategy. The nine centres that determine the types, and the channels and gates that connect them, are treated in their own categories, within Modern Synthesis Systems.
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1. Über den Tellerrand, ein Blick ins Human Design System (HDS)
Petra Stute, Virineya Würgler and Johnny Würgler, Springer, Journal für Gynäkologische Endokrinologie/Schweiz 24 (2021), pp. 50-51, 2021on the 1987 origin and composition of the Human Design SystemView the Source 2. Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik unter dem Aspekt des Barnum-Effekts
Katharina Freistetter, Akademiker Verlag, Vienna (University of Vienna diploma thesis in psychology, 2012); ISBN 978-3-639-46969-1, 2013empirical test against the NEO PI-R; Barnum-effect finding
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