Simple answers to the questions everyone asks in front of their chart. No jargon, no endless theory: real Body Graphs, pictures, and what you need to learn to read your own.
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Human Design for couples: what your composite shows
A compatibility percentage sums up a couple badly. Four forces describe it better, shown on the composite of Harry and Meghan.
Free Human Design test: why there are no questions
No quiz can guess your Type: it is calculated from your birth. Here is what you see for free, without an account.
Generator or Manifesting Generator: the difference
Same Sacral, different wiring: a motor linked to the Throat, and a day that unfolds differently. Check it on your own chart.
Transits: reading today’s sky on your Body Graph
A transit completes a channel for as long as it lasts. Three glances at the sky of the moment, and the sentence that keeps it from becoming a horoscope.
Human Design: tropical or sidereal?
Equinoxes, solstices, mid-season points: the year’s eight turning points fall on the G Center gates. In sidereal, your Body Graph would change.
Where is your rising sign in Human Design?
Not one of the 26 activations, and no link to Type, Authority or Profile: your Ascendant reflects your time and place. Here is where to read it.
Open centres: what you pick up from others
A tense dinner, a deadline that isn’t yours: a white centre takes it in and amplifies it. One click on your chart shows its gates.
Human Design vs astrology: what 15,131 charts show
The modality of your Sun rules out certain centres for your Cross, and no water sign holds a channel. The rest, we measured.
Unknown birth time: what holds, what shifts
Measured on 1,500 births: at noon, your Type is right nearly 9 times out of 10. Your Profile still needs confirming.
Human Design and Kabbalah: the real link
Ten emanations, nine centres. Twenty-two paths, thirty-six channels. None of the numbers match, and that is the interesting part.
I Ching and Human Design: the same 64
Your Body Graph carries 64 gates, the I Ching 64 hexagrams. Same list, same numbers. What carries over, and what does not.
Where to read your star sign on your Body Graph
Your sign sits on the first line of the right-hand column. But 30 divided by 5.625 is not a whole number: some gates straddle two signs.
How to read your Body Graph, in the right order
Six steps, from the foundations up: Type and Strategy, Authority, centres, Profile, channels and gates, and only at the very end the Cross and the Variables. Plus the three traps that catch everyone.
What are the Bases on a Body Graph?
The fifth and last figure of the notation, 18.75 arc seconds wide. Where to switch it on, why we publish no readings of it, and the one thing it is genuinely good for.
What are the Tones on a Body Graph?
The small figure beside each arrow. Six Tones per Colour, the rule that sends an arrow left or right, and why a few minutes on your birth time really matter.
What are the Colours on a Body Graph?
Below the gate and the line, a third level: six Colours per line. Where to display them, what the four arrow Colours say, and how far your birth time will carry you.
The Incarnation Cross: the 4 gates behind your life theme
Sun and Earth, twice over: four gates at the top of your columns. Where to read your cross, how its title breaks down into three pieces, and why there are exactly 192 of them.
Your Profile (2/5, 6/2...): where to read it and how to hear it
Two numbers, two Sun lines, and a trap that turns a 2/5 into a 5/2. Where to find your Profile on any chart, and why there are twelve profiles rather than thirty-six.
How to see your Definition on the Body Graph (and what it changes)
Count the islands of coloured centres and your Definition is right there: Single, Small Split, Wide Split, Triple or Quadruple, with real charts to practise on.
Finding your Authority on the Body Graph: the user manual
The ranking of the seven Authorities and one rule to spot, on your Body Graph, the defined centre that has the last word, with four charts to practise on.
How to recognise your Type just by looking at your Body Graph?
The Throat, the four motors, three questions: the method for reading Type on any chart, with five celebrity charts to train your eye.