The twelve Human Design profiles pair two of the six lines of a hexagram, 1/3, 4/6 and so on, to describe a characteristic way of moving through life. The lines are taken from I Ching hexagram structure, in which each hexagram has six lines read from the bottom upward. A profile is calculated from the positions of the Sun and Earth at birth and at a point some weeks before it.
Facts
Overview
- Entries in the Atlas
- 12
Origins
- Origin Period
- 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. 1
Status
- Standing as a Comparative Category
- A 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
Sources
- Über den Tellerrand, ein Blick ins Human Design System (HDS) Petra Stute, Virineya Würgler and Johnny Würgler, 2021, on the 1987 origin and composition of the Human Design System
- Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik unter dem Aspekt des Barnum-Effekts Katharina Freistetter, 2013, empirical test against the NEO PI-R; Barnum-effect finding
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The Twelve Profiles
The twelve Human Design profiles pair two of the six lines of a hexagram (written as 1/3, 4/6, 5/1 and so on), to describe a characteristic way of moving through life. The first number, from the conscious Sun's line, and the second, from the unconscious design Sun's line, combine into a profile such as the "Investigator/Martyr" or the "Heretic/Role Model".
The lines are taken from the structure of the I Ching hexagram, in which each hexagram has six lines read from bottom to top, each with its own character; Human Design gives the six lines fixed meanings and pairs them into the twelve profiles.
Line pairs and life theme
The profile adds a layer of life-narrative to the Human Design chart, over and above the type and centres: it describes the general arc and manner of a person's engagement with the world, in the language of the two lines. The atlas describes the profiles as part of the modern system, noting their derivation from the hexagram lines.
The atlas gives each profile its two lines and its theme. The I Ching hexagrams and lines the profiles derive from, and the wider Human Design chart, are treated in their own categories, within Modern Synthesis Systems.
Enter a year to compare these entries as the atlas records them at that moment. Leave it empty for the present. A year before the common era is entered with a minus sign, so 44 BCE is minus 44.