Here is a brief look at a celebrity’s Human Design chart using just a few of many aspects and layers of a chart. Our purpose here is to give you just a partial glimpse, through Human Design, into this person’s energy dynamics.

Margaret Thatcher

Birth: October 13, 1925 at 9:00 am in Grantham, England
Death:  April 8, 2013 in London, England

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Background

“Margaret Thatcher’s political career has been one of the most remarkable of modern times. Born in October 1925 at Grantham, a small market town in eastern England, she rose to become the first (and for two decades the only) woman to lead a major Western democracy. She won three successive General Elections and served as British Prime Minister for more than eleven years (1979-90), a record unmatched in the twentieth century.”¹

It was a Soviet journalist who named her the “Iron Lady” to depict her uncompromising politics and leadership style. She relished the nickname—showing full recognition of her powerful public image and demonstrating the strategic savvy to perpetuate it.

Born Margaret Roberts, she was raised with strong Conservative political leanings. With a university degree in chemistry, she made two unsuccessful attempts at an elected seat in Parliament when she was 25-26. She married Denis Thatcher in December 1951 (at age 26), and immediately began studying for a degree in law to further her political ambitions. Rather than be discouraged by her defeats, she was hooked and determined to be successful.

Several months after the birth of their twins in 1953, she graduated and qualified as a barrister (the British equivalent of a court room lawyer).

She was elected to Parliament in 1959 as representative of a north London area, which she served continuously until 1992. Her visibility rose dramatically when she was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Science in 1970 by newly elected Prime Minister Edward Heath as he formed his new government.

Building political momentum, she defeated Heath to become Leader of the Conservative Party in 1975 (a title he had held for ten years), and was elected Prime Minister of Great Britain in that nation’s 1979 general election. She held both positions until she stepped down in 1990.

Her remarkable achievements were hardly random luck. She began the process of honing leadership and political skills while still in school at Oxford in 1946 where she was elected president of the student Conservative Association and was noticed by the Conservative Party’s leaders in London. And as you’ll see, she had a Human Design that was made for leadership.

¹ www.margaretthatcher.org/essential/biography.asp

Her Chart

With seven of her nine Energy Centers DEFINED (colored in), Margaret was born to make an impact on people. Since leadership was one of her major character attributes, let’s look at where that showed up in her chart and how her chart configuration supported her powerful expression of leadership.

Profile

Her 5/1 Personality Profile was a significant asset—giving her natural leadership qualities. The “5” attracts people… and their projected expectations. She clearly stepped into the right “projection field” in her chosen political arena where she was able to fulfill the expectations. While she drew sharp criticism for her conservative policies throughout her political reign, she had enough popular and political support to be elected to three consecutive terms as Prime Minister! Continue reading →

Here is a brief look at a celebrity’s Human Design chart using just a few of many aspects and layers of a chart. Our purpose here is to give you just a partial glimpse, through Human Design, into this person’s energy dynamics.

Sandra Bullock

Birth: July 26, 1964 at 3:15 am in Arlington, Virginia

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Background

Actress and comedian Sandra Bullock stepped into stardom in the 1990’s making over 20 feature films that decade alone, including Speed and While You Were Sleeping (a personal favorite of mine), finding a lucrative niche in the romantic comedy genre.

Appearing in another 15 films from 2000-2009, she solidified her position as a serious talent and box office draw. That decade included her very popular films Miss Congeniality, Crash, and The Proposal, culminating with The Blind Side in 2009 for which she won an Oscar and several other Best Actress awards and which finally showcased her dramatic acting talent.

In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of $85 million. In 2010 she was chosen by People Magazine as “Woman of the Year.”

She has two new movies due out later this year and one so far for 2014.

In her “spare time” she runs her own production company and was executive producer of the TV sitcom George Lopez in a deliberate effort to promote Hispanics in the media. She also owns two restaurants, a bakery and floral shop in Austin, Texas!

Is this powerhouse of a woman a Manifesting Generator like Angelina Jolie (profiled in January 2012)? NO! Miss Bullock is one of the rare and beautiful humans known as a Reflector!

Her Chart

As you see from her chart below, Sandra has NO DEFINED CENTERS, which means she is a Reflector Type. Reflectors are here to be a mirror for us and reflect back to us the health and well-being of their community.

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Here is a brief look at a celebrity’s Human Design chart using just a few of many aspects and layers of a chart. Our purpose here is to give you just a partial glimpse, through Human Design, into this person’s energy dynamics.

Walt Disney

Birth: December 5, 1901 at 12:35 am in Chicago, Illinois
Death: December 15, 1966 in Burbank, California

Background

Known the world over as the KING of cartoon animation, family entertainment and magical theme parks, Walt Disney was a creative genius, big-thinking visionary, driven businessman, and shrewd marketer.

Born in Chicago and raised in Kansas by an Irish-Canadian father and German and English mother, he developed his love of drawing and his fascination with trains at an early age, and was even attending classes at the Kansas City Art Institute by age 16. When his family moved back to Chicago, Walt attended high school by day and the Chicago Art Institute by night.

Torn between becoming an actor or a newspaper artist after returning from driving an ambulance for the Red Cross in France during World War I, he landed a job at an art studio creating ads for newspapers, magazines and movie theaters. By 1920, after a failed attempt at creating his own commercial art company, he became interested in animation—a relatively new art form—and decided to become an animator.

He opened his own animation business in Kansas City, hired some employees, and convinced a popular local theater owner to screen his innovative cartoons. But he struggled with managing the money part of the business and had to declare bankruptcy.

Undeterred, he moved to Hollywood, the movie capital of the world, where he and his brother Roy set up their own cartoon studio. They started with live-action/animated short films, but migrated their focus to the animated characters. Just when things were picking up momentum, Continue reading →

Here is a brief look at a celebrity’s Human Design chart using just a few of many aspects and layers of a chart. Our purpose here is to give you just a partial glimpse, through Human Design, into this person’s energy dynamics.

Abraham Lincoln

Birth: February 12, 1809 at 6:54 am in Hodgenville, Kentucky
Death: April 15, 1865 in Washington, DC (assassinated)

Background

Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky to a poor family who moved to southern Indiana in 1816. His mother died in 1818, when Abe was 9, from drinking tainted milk.

The family moved to Illinois in 1830, after which at age 22 Abe went out on his own. He was mostly self-educated, an avid reader and very intelligent. He became a country lawyer, then an Illinois state legislator in the 1830s, and was elected to one-term in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1840s.

After two relationships that did not result in marriage, he married Mary Todd in 1842 after their on-again, off-again courtship of several years. Together they had four children, all boys—only one of whom lived to adulthood.

Abe became known publicly for his opposition to slavery in the late 1850s and was elected President with sweeping support from the northern states in 1860. He was our 16^th U.S. President and was re-elected to a second term in 1864, just one year before his assassination.

He came to power during an extremely turbulent time in U.S. history, and was our steadfast moral compass as he successfully navigated our country through the bloody American Civil War and the highly controversial abolition of slavery.

In two very bold moves he issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and pushed through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in December 1865 that freed all slaves.

It took his rare combination of intellectual and moral leadership, political and military skill, and human compassion to accomplish all of those milestones, reunite our divided country, and begin to modernize our economy.

He was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 while he and his wife watched a play at Ford Theatre in Washington, DC. He died the next day.

His Chart

The first most obvious thing about Abe’s Human Design chart is that 7 of his 9 energy centers are Open (white), all from the Throat down. His only two Defined Centers are the Head and Ajna (the top two centers). By design he was all intellect, and no action! His remarkable achievements were accomplished largely through the actions of others.

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Here is a brief look at a celebrity’s Human Design chart using just a few of many aspects and layers of a chart. Our purpose here is to give you just a partial glimpse, through Human Design, into this person’s energy dynamics.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Birth: Aug. 26, 1910 at 2:25 pm in Skopje, Macedonia
Death:  Sep. 5, 1997 in Calcutta

Background

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
in the Balkan Peninsula of southeastern Europe in the area now known as Macedonia  (created from the former Yugoslavia, and which at her birth was part of the Ottoman Empire) to Albanian parents. She was raised Roman Catholic and by age 12 was already certain she would commit herself to a religious life!  She left home at 18 to become a missionary.

Having learned English at an abbey in Ireland so she could teach school in India, she arrived in India as a novitiate (“novice”, prior to taking vows) in 1929. She took her first vows as a nun in 1931 and chose the name Teresa. Her solemn vows were taken in 1937 while teaching at a convent school in eastern Calcutta, where she served for almost 20 years and was appointed headmistress in 1944.

Although she loved teaching, she was disturbed by the poverty and hunger surrounding her in the city. She began her missionary work with the poor in 1948, adopting Indian citizenship and receiving a few months of basic medical training.

She started a school in Calcutta, committing to serve the “poorest among the poor,” but had no money and resorted to begging for food and supplies her first year. But Indian officials, including the prime minister, noticed her efforts and she began attracting help and support. In 1950 she received Vatican approval to start a new congregation dedicated to caring for the poor and those discarded by society.  It became the Missionaries of Charity and by 1997 had grown to more than 4000 nuns running orphanages, hospices, charity centers and leper houses worldwide.

Her tireless efforts on behalf of the poor, the hungry, and the victims of disasters and wars around the world are legend.  Due to declining health, she stepped down from running the Missionaries of Charity in March 1997 (at age 86), and passed away that September.

By 2007, her main legacy—the Missionaries of Charity—had grown to 450 brothers and 5000 sisters operating 600 missions, schools and shelters in 120 countries.

Throughout her life she received many awards and recognitions, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.  Refusing the ceremonial banquet given to laureates, she asked that the $192,000 instead be given to the poor in India.

Her Chart

Mother Teresa’s Human Design chart explains volumes about this remarkable human being, and also shows the simplicity (and powerful impact) of expressing one’s design.

First, she was a Manifesting Generator—so she had both the sustainable energy and the ability to make things happen that she needed to accomplish the significant impact that this petite woman of meager means had on the world.

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Here is a brief look at a celebrity’s Human Design chart using just a few of many aspects and layers of a chart. Our purpose here is to give you just a partial glimpse, through Human Design, into this person’s energy dynamics.

Steven Spielberg

Born:   Dec. 18, 1946 at 6:16pm in Cincinnati, OH

His Background

Creative, enterprising, and focused on film making even in his early teens, Steven started making 8mm “adventure” movies with friends and filmed train wrecks of his Lionel train set—which he charged admission of 25 cents to see!

At 16 he wrote and directed a 140-minute science fiction film—which was shown at his local theatre—and he made several WWII films based on his father’s war stories.

In his early 20’s (during the late 1960’s), Steven worked at Universal Studios as an unpaid intern where he made his first short film that was theatrically release. This was followed by a stint as their youngest television director, after which he was contracted to direct four TV movies for Universal.

He went on to add screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and movie studio co-founder to his many talents, and has become one of the best-known and most influential Hollywood directors of our time. From a prolific career spanning four decades, his top films include:  Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, and Saving Private Ryan. His more recent works include: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Adventures of Tintin, and War Horse.

He has received many awards and recognitions, including multiple Academy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and being called the greatest film director of all time.  He also had several highest-grossing films and box office records at the time his films came out. He is purported to be worth $3.2 billion.

He married his second wife, Kate Capshaw, in 1991, and they have a blended family of seven children born between 1976 and 1996, including two they adopted together. Plus, he maintains a busy work schedule to this day. He will be 66 in December this year.

His Chart

Just from reading his work history and accomplishments, I might have guessed that Steven was a Manifesting Generator.  I would have been wrong.

Steven is a no-motors Projector! This remarkably busy and productive man has no inherent energy in his chart. May this fact give inspiration and hope to all no-motors Projectors who feel they have no energy for working and perceive life as hard and unfair.

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Here is a brief look at a celebrity’s Human Design chart using just a few of many aspects and layers of a chart. Our purpose here is to give you just a partial glimpse, through Human Design, into this person’s energy dynamics.

Oprah Winfrey

Birthdate: Jan. 29, 1954, 4:30am

Birth Place: Kosciusko, Mississippi

Her Background

Born poor in rural Mississippi and raised in inner city Milwaukee by her single mother, Oprah endured a rough childhood that included repeated sexual abuse.

While living with her father in Tennessee during her high school years, she started working in radio. By age 19 she was co-anchoring the news and was soon moved to daytime talk shows because of her personality. After she significantly boosted the ratings of a Chicago daytime talk show, she started her own production company and her now-famous, multi-award winning, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011.

She is credited with altering the tabloid-style TV talk show genre by developing her signature focus on self-help, book authors, and spirituality. Along the way she also shared with her audience many of her personal struggles—making her very “real” and vulnerable despite her obvious success.

Widely regarded as the most influential woman in the world, she is “ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century” and called the “greatest black philanthropist in American history.”

How did she overcome poverty and adversity to reach this pinnacle of fame and influence….which she generously uses to help others in many ways? How on earth has she accomplished all of that?

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Here is a brief look at a celebrity’s Human Design chart, focused mainly on Incarnation Cross and Defined Gates and Channels. These are just a few of many aspects and layers of a chart. Our purpose here is to give you just a partial glimpse, through Human Design, into this person’s energy dynamics.

Rodney King

Born: April 2, 1965 Sacramento, CA  7:00am
Died: June 17, 2012

Rodney King was a lightening rod for explosive racial tensions and issues of injustice during his life. His recent death,at only 47 years old, brought these major issues—and an opportunity to assess the progress we have and have not made—back into our collective consciousness.  Let’s look at what his Human Design chart tells us about this hapless hero who made such a big impact on our world.

BACKGROUND (and a refresher on the historical impact he had)

On March 3, 1991, Rodney King, then a construction worker, was brutally beaten by several Los Angeles police officers (with several more officers watching) after he led them on a high-speed chase because he wouldn’t pull over for speeding. Drugs and alcohol were found in his system, but not in significant quantities.

The beating incident might have gone unreported and unsubstantiated (his word against theirs) but a nearby resident happened to catch most of it on videotape. The beating, and shots of King’s bloody and bruised face, were subsequently seen on newscasts all over the world.

Even with this irrefutable evidence, a white jury acquitted the officers of any wrongdoing during their trial just over a year later. The officers claimed King had resisted arrest and force was needed—although the videotape clearly showed he was not fighting back.

The local public outcry immediately ignited six days of violent riots in Los Angeles and subsequent widespread unrest and racial tension in cities throughout the US.

King’s famous plea for peace, “Can we all get along?”, occurred during those initial LA riots that resulted in 53 people dead, over 2000 injured, and $1 billion in damage.

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