Human Design: How to discover the real you

One guidance Osho offered was that if anyone had really personal questions about themselves, they should visit a ‘shadow reader’ in Bombay (now Mumbai). Of course, I had to do it. This remarkable man met me, smiling, at the door of his apartment. He was clean – shaven, late thirties, wearing a billowing shirt and trousers, and there was a bright twinkle in his eye. In a parking area below his apartment, his son proceeded to measure the length of my shadow, cast into the ground by the sun. Back upstairs, the shadow reader did some calculations, rolled his chair along a huge bookshelf, pulled out one of many identical – looking volumes, turned to a page and started reading in Sanskrit, a classical language of India. Among many things, he predicted that my personal awakening would happen later in life. I would be introduced to a system, would master it and then teach it.

‘System? What system? What is he talking about?’ I thought.

His advice was that I should experiment reading for people to learn the skills of interaction while imparting personal and important information relevant to their lives.

One week later, I met a psychic palmist who gave me a fast – track introduction on how to read hands and faces. And so it was that after some practice makes perfect I began to read palms. It came naturally to me and I loved it. My travels took me to America, Switzerland, Brazil, Holland, Germany and Japan before I settled in Hawaii for the next nine years, reading the stories contained within people’s hands.

Then, in 1993, I heard that a woman friend was organizing classes for a man called Ra Uru Hu who was introducing a system to America called Human Design. I was sent a curious – looking chart in the mail that was supposed to represent my life’s design and it dawned on me that this was the very system the shadow reader had talked about.

Its origins were intriguing. Ra, a Canadian previously known as Alan Krakower, had been a born cynic who had worked as a newspaper advertising salesman and film – maker but had gone through a series of major disappointments which had led to him flying to Europe and catching a bus to Spain. A casual remark by a fellow passenger had directed him to the island of Ibiza. There, an event took place which changed his world.

On the evening of 4 January 1987, he was returning home on foot with his dog, Barley Baker, when he saw a light shining from inside his remote cottage. He knew perfectly well that the lamp had no oil in it, so he wondered what was going on.

As man and dog entered the property, Barley started to growl, then fell prone to the floor. Ra himself described feeling some kind of internal explosion. Within moments, he was standing in a pool of his own perspiration. He then heard a male ‘voice’ insisting he get to work. He was receiving something profound from the Universe. Call it channelling. Call it inspiration. Call it what you will. But he started writing and sketching and continued for eight days and nights. From those writings, Human Design came into being.

As surreal as that story may sound, its inescapable truth can be witnessed in this book, for these are the teachings that Ra brought into the world; a gift from the Universe. It is a system that simply works.

For the next seven years I travelled regularly from Maui to attend classes with Ra, and in the same way that I had learned to read palms, I taught myself to read Human Design life charts. I started giving readings to friends and clients and began to see that the information was both meaningful and empowering. After four years, it was time to articulate all I had learned to a wider audience and I started teaching classes about the system.

One of the people who came to these classes had a profound impact on me, and it felt as if she was opening a whole new magical doorway. Carola was a spiritual astrologer and counsellor, and she could see in her own way how clearly we were connected. Ultimately, she invited me to move to be with her in California and we married. She started using Human Design in her counselling practice and also noticed how it assisted clients to move through certain issues and find clarity about who they were as individuals.

I, too, was well aware of the empowering impact the system could have on people. For many people, it truly was the difference between being lost and then feeling found, granting them permission to be themselves once more.

Human Design isn’t a guarantee for happiness, nor will it remove the challenges and pain of normal life. But I’ve seen how it can change lives. It changed mine. Now I intend it to change yours.

Most of us, at some point, have become frustrated with our lot and whispered self – searching questions such as: Who am I? What am I doing with my life? What is my purpose?

It seems more and more people are engaged in an endless search these days – searching for the perfect career, perfect partner and perfect life. The very word ‘searching’ means looking for something that is lost, lacking or missing, and we fall into the trap of believing that all the answers lie outside ourselves.

Yet the answers already lie on the inside. Those answers are detailed in a design of which the Universe is the architect, a design of the person you were programmed to be, your Human Design. It is a document which represents your blueprint for life – a blueprint of your personality. Once you’ve become acquainted with this information, you will know whether the life you’re living fits with your design.

This is not some ‘New Age’ concept – its accuracy is inescapable and timeless – it is not a philosophy or a belief, it is an actuality rooted in science which speaks its own power. Nor does it require the attraction or manifestation of wishes or desires. There is no asking, visualizing or positive thinking required, because its truth already exists within us.

When I assert that truth, I’m not making some fashionable statement of rhetoric, I quite literally mean the truth is within – like a set of tools within a box set, waiting to be picked up and used to carve out a niche and purpose in life.

Another lady, called Margaret, discovered this truth when she realized her life was out of synch with her Human Design. As she later told me after a reading:

‘I realize that I was being someone else for too long. I see now that everything I was doing was contrary to my Human Design. But the moment my true nature was seen and appreciated, I felt alive again. I’ve used the tools you gave me, and it feels as if this system has provided the key which has unlocked my true self.’

This book, with the assistance of the downloadable software, will reveal your unique design and give you that same key, providing a chart which illustrates all the ingredients that make you who you are:

• It pinpoints your intrinsic nature and what makes you tick.

• It details the sorts of people you ‘click’ with and the kinds of environment which bring out your best.

• It reveals your true self’s underlying nature, preferences, personality traits, strengths, weaknesses, abilities, dynamics and in – built chemistry.

• It reminds you of the needs and feelings you’re either celebrating or resisting.

• It explains how you can make decisions which foster happiness and fulfilment.

Once reacquainted with your ‘design for life’, you will start to feel the ripples across all areas of your existence:

In relationships and friendships, it determines the dynamics between people, allowing you to see where there is synergy, conflict or nothing in common.

In the family and at home, it explains differences between siblings and highlights the practical and emotional interactions between parent and child, husband and wife.

In the workplace, it illustrates to employers or clients the different natural abilities within each person – a vital tool for improving collective productivity.

In the classroom, it shows teachers the capabilities of each pupil and how to bring out the best in each child.

On the social scene, it makes you aware of the magnetisms at play and why you are drawn to certain people and repelled by others.

Relationships with yourself, your partner, friends, parents, siblings, colleagues and bosses are all impacted by the power of this system. And through it we can learn to understand one another on a much deeper level, thus becoming more effective and empathic parents, friends, lovers and colleagues. It is the most logical, freshest and clearest insight into the self that there could ever be.

I can confidently say that you won’t have seen anything like it before, so prepare for an intimate odyssey where the final destination is a true understanding of the person you were designed to be.

Prepare to meet yourself. Prepare to meet the real you.

Chetan Parkyn

Idyllwild, CA

April 2009

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‘After my Human Design reading, I felt recognized on so many levels. I’ve met myself, and it feels right! I can now move forward into the rest of my life with confidence, joy and enthusiasm.’

MM, Colorado, USA

Human Design is ripe for these changing times, encouraging us to meet ourselves head on and be responsible for who we are. It is a system which takes the torch from the hand of astrology and carries it to the next level, providing both an accurate guide for life and a self – assessment device. Human Design is astrology’s natural successor, something old making way for something new. No longer will it be enough for human curiosity to simply ask of others: ‘What is your sign?’ You will want – and need – to know more.

For example, if you are born under the sign of Libra, you’ll already know how different you are from fellow Librans, and yet you have to read the same forecasts. Without an in – depth astrological reading, you are collectively defined with a one – size – fits – all label. But Human Design, through this book, unveils and celebrates your unique individuality.

With that in mind, perhaps a better opening question for future social introductions could be: ‘Forget your sign, what’s your design?’

So, how does it work?

Human Design draws from four ancient wisdom traditions to become a system in its own right which provides a technical – looking design of the person you were born to be. It uses data to determine your exact placement in time and space relative to the solar system and star fields around you at the precise moment of birth. But whereas in astrology the sky is divided into 12 compartments (the signs of the zodiac), Human Design divides it into 64. This correlates to two things: first, the 64 codons of the human genetic code; and second, the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, a tool used by the Chinese to better understand human nature. Each one of these 64 compartments carries a unique meaning, allowing us to see, in depth, which characteristics make up our being.

We are all, in effect, human cells interacting within one giant energy vessel, the Universe, impacted by what is called a neutrino stream. Neutrinos are minute particles that travel near the speed of light, passing through everything. If we, as humans, live in an atmosphere of air, the Universe lives in an atmosphere of neutrinos. These are the very emissions of all the stars in the sky, and our bodies are being bombarded by trillions of them every second of the day. Because neutrinos have mass, they exchange information with everything they pass through, including us. So, at the moment of birth, we are imprinted with neutrino information, which leaves a genetic thumbprint, determining the nature we will carry throughout life.

Imagine the sky above us divided into 64 equal compartments. Within each of these compartments there are star fields ‘breathing out’ neutrinos, trillions at a time, in all directions. These neutrinos pass through the planets, exchanging information as they go. When those same neutrinos pass through us at the exact time of our birth, they leave that planetary – flavoured information embedded within us. It’s as if they gently ‘bump’ our human vehicle as we enter the world, leaving an indelible impression on our beings and shaping how we are going to interact in life.

In 1987, when Human Design was first discovered, neutrinos were merely a theory. But proof arrived in the late 1990s when scientists in Japan and Canada established that neutrino particles change ‘flavours’ and, therefore, must have mass. This discovery, it was said, explained the ‘missing mass’ of the Universe.