Here is a brief look at a celebrity’s Human Design chart, focused mainly on Incarnation Cross and Defined 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.

Edgar Cayce “The Sleeping Prophet”

[Because Edgar is such a fascinating character, I’m giving more background details than usual.]

BACKGROUND

Edgar Cayce is probably the most well known psychic and medical clairvoyant of modern times. For 40 years of his life, he provided answers to specific questions (particularly for health, diagnosis and treatment issues) as well information on a wide range of topics while in a sleep-like trance state.

He grew up in a large family on a farm, displayed some unusual psychic abilities as a child, and left school after 8^th grade for odd jobs to help the family’s finances.

At age 23, he went into partnership with his father to sell insurance but came down with such severe and persistent laryngitis that he didn’t work for nearly a year, during which he took up photography as an occupation that wouldn’t require much talking.

A traveling stage hypnotist/entertainer heard about Edgar’s condition and offered to help. While Edgar was hypnotized on stage,  his voice allegedly returned but disappeared again when he was awakened. A local hypnotist then took on the challenge of helping Edgar restore his voice through a series of hypnotic trances. While in trance, Edgar was able to describe both the cause of his own ailment and its cure.

Edgar was eventually persuaded to offer his trance healings to the public, but only on condition that the readings were free. He discovered that the inquiring person did not have to be present. With only a name and location, Edgar could diagnose the person’s condition (physical and mental) and provide a remedy. News of the accuracy and effectiveness of his trance information spread, and people all over the world began to seek his help.

Throughout his life, Edgar was devoutly religious. He attended church, taught Sunday school, and read the bible annually.  He had a very tough time personally when his readings began revealing information about astrology, reincarnation, and occult knowledge (even information about the lost civilization of Atlantis!), which directly conflicted with his religious beliefs.

He and his family moved to Virginia Beach in 1925, where he continued his free readings, established the Cayce Hospital, and eventually created the nonprofit Association for Research and Enlightenment, which still exists today. In his commitment to help as many people as he could, he took on doing increasing numbers of readings per day, and ended up exhausting himself. He died of a stroke at age 67.

EDGAR’S CHART

While Edgar did not have some of the Gate energies typically found in people with the ability to channel higher consciousness, his chart clearly reflects his spiritual nature and deep commitment to helping people.

For simplicity, we’ll look primarily at his Incarnation Cross and his Defined Channels.

HIS INCARNATION CROSS: CROSS OF THE VESSEL OF LOVE

The Incarnation Cross is a person’s “story” or life path. The Cross of the Vessel of Love is a beautiful path of innocence and unconditional love.

This Cross is composed of the Love of the Spirit (Gate 25), Love of the Flesh (Gate 46), Love of the Self (Gate 10), and Love of Humanity (Gate 15). See a theme here? People with this Cross are givers of unconditional love, and it confuses and pains them deeply to see war, strife, illness, etc. around them. They don’t understand why we can’t all just get along and love and nurture each other! Edgar was an exemplary expression of this energy.

HIS DEFINED CHANNELS

A Defined Channel (colored red, black, red/black checkered, or any combination) is a complete energy in a Chart which connects and defines the two Energy Centers at either end of the Channel.  A Channel always consists of two Gate energies. If one of the Gates is white, then the Channel is not Defined. Defined Channels exert a powerful influence and represent significant themes in a person’s life.  Gates and Channels each have various descriptive names and several meanings.

63-4 Channel of Logic – This is the energy for critical thinking, which begins with questioning (including doubt and suspicion) and the seeking of answers. Edgar spent a lifetime allowing answers to flow through him to people who were seeking those answers. Though his readings defied logic and attracted much skepticism and suspicion, he transcended the naysayers (and his own doubts and reluctance) with the consistent accuracy and tremendous value of the answers he channeled.

29-46 Channel of Discovery – This Channel includes the energy for committing to relationships and work (Gate 29) and appreciation for the body as the temple of the soul (Gate 46). Edgar was so committed to helping people with his unusual gift that he devoted his entire life to it, supported himself and his family primarily from donations for his free readings, and endured the weight of a troubled conscience regarding the blasphemous “information” that came through him. His personal focus was always on the diagnostic readings and remedies, as he deeply wanted to provide relief and healing to those afflicted with mental and physical ailments.

5-15 Channel of Rhythm – This Channel combines rhythm (Gate 5) with the Love of Humanity and diversity (Gate 15). Edgar definitely had a rhythm and ritual for his readings–always lying down, eyes closed, hands folded over stomach, and guided by a hypnotist or facilitator. He accepted everyone, turning away no one, for his readings which he insisted on giving away for free.

OTHER KEY INFORMATION FROM HIS CHART

Edgar’s Open Throat gave him an unlimited capacity to communicate which made it easy for him to allow a channeled source of information to flow through and be expressed verbally by him. It also explains why his voice suffered when he was using it incorrectly (for him) to try to sell insurance.

The other significant energy worth mentioning in his chart is the Gate 25 which appears in his conscious Sun position–the most influential position in the chart. This energy is the Love of Spirit and represents unconditional love and a willingness to transcend the ego in order to connect with Source….something he did nearly every day of his adult life as he submitted himself to a trance state, motivated by his love of people and his deep desire to help as many of them as he could.

While much more could be explained from his Human Design chart, the key points above are enough to show how the life he led was clearly aligned with his inherent Design.

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A Projector client was holding herself back from pursuing a new career in an area of energy work that interests her, because she was concerned that it might be “just another lark.”

During her Reading I explained that with her Gate 35 (lower right corner of Throat Center), which is the energy of the “Jack of All Trades,” and her Open Identity Center, she is DESIGNED to have lots of skills, lots of experiences, and lots of directions in her life.

She now understands that as long as she:

1. follows her Projector Strategy (waits to be invited or asked)
2. doesn’t expect this to be the “last” career she’ll ever have, AND
3. only pursues it if it truly feels good to her

then there’s no reason for her to hold back!

Knowing this not only helped her relax her fears about following her interest, it also helped her feel MUCH better about having held 40 different jobs in her 49-year work history! There was/is nothing “wrong” with her—she’s just designed to have many different experiences, all of which become resources as she moves forward to her next new experience!

TOPICS DISCUSSED

-Our major topic was:  The Fears of the Spleen. We discussed each Gate energy coming off the Spleen including the high expression, low expression, and potential fear associated with each Gate.

-The key understanding to take away is that those Spleen-based fears are usually unfounded and can keep us stuck and not moving forward for days, months, years, decades. But when we push through them, they disappear quickly…and we’re left wondering why we waited so long!

-Manifesting Generator talked about seeing childhood issues and traumas in a different light; focusing on lessons from those experiences that are empowering; recognizing what happened to you usually wasn’t about you….it was about THEM and not a valid basis for you feeling “less than.”

-Projector talked about learning to not force things to happen….it usually doesn’t work anyway!

TRANSIT INFO

-Gate 24 is transiting through the sun until Thu. 5/3 ~3:00am ET, bringing the energy for justifying and rationalizing. Good time to look at where you rationalize in an empowering way, and where it might be disempowering. What do you justify in yourself and/or and others? Is that moving you closer to your goals and your Authentic Self, or further away?

-Gate 2 will transit through the sun from Thu. 5/3 ~3:00am ET until Tue. 5/8 ~10:30pm ET, bringing the energy for soul-based direction-giving, and the management and allocation of resources. This Gate ushers in the 2nd quarter of the Human Design year, a time of nurturing and supporting the seeds planted (figuratively and literally) in the 1st quarter that are just beginning to sprout and push their little heads up through the dirt, seeking sun, water and nourishment.  Gate 2 teaches us to surrender to our soul’s urgings. It’s a good time to check in with the clarity of your direction in life, and seek further clarity if needed.

-Gate 23 will transit through the sun from Tue. 5/8 ~10:30pm ET, until Mon. 5/14 ~6:15pm ET, bringing mutative (transformational) ideas…but they are only correct when recognized or invited from you. The lesson here is to WAIT FOR THE RIGHT TIMING to share your ideas. Hold your vision, exercise patience, and wait…the right ideas will come and the right people will show up to hear them.

-Gate 8 will transit through the sun from Mon. 5/14 ~6:15pm ET, until Sun. 5/20 ~2:30pm ET, bringing the energy for making a BIG contribution to the world. This is a powerfully mutative and projected energy, so it needs to be asked/invited/called out of you.  So again, timing is crucial. You also may feel pressure to find or make your unique contribution, if you haven’t found it yet or are not living it yet. Good time to put your dreams and creative ideas into words, and wait for the right person and right time to share them. This is similar to Gate 23 energy…and another opportunity to re-visit and tweak your goals and big ideas.

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Pure Generators, approximately 37% of the world’s population, are the majority of our world’s work force. While they share many characteristics with Manifesting Generators and some refer to the two as one Type, here we will look specifically at only the Pure Generators (your Human Design chart will show “Generator” as your Type), which I’ll refer to a Generators from now on.

Generators have two primary focuses in life:  work and family/mating. So they are usually immersed in relationships all their lives. It is possible for a Generator to have primarily Individual energy, in which case they might not feel they fit in with their family and friends and they may prefer to be alone much of the time. But their work force and life force energy is strong and consistent.

They are born to “respond” to everything around them, which they do quite naturally. But often those responses are unconscious.

Human Design shows Generators that they have an amazing internal guidance system—their Sacral Energy Center—that responds to everything around them. It’s the red square on your Chart, and only Generators and Manifesting Generators have it. All other Types have a white (“Open”) Sacral Center.

          About This Series

Human Design gives us deeply insightful knowledge about the nature of WHO we are and HOW we behave as human beings.

Your personal Human Design chart (you can get your free Human Design chart here) helps you understand the energy dynamics and personality characteristics of YOU.

Human Design also helps you understand the other people around you and the nature of YOUR relationship with them.

This makes possible the achievement of supportive, fulfilling,
and constructive relationships in every area of your life.
And in every relationship in your life!

Wouldn’t THAT be something!

This series of articles about “Human Design TYPES in Relationships” will help you move forward along this most noble and worthy path. 

Today’s article explores how the GENERATOR TYPE interacts with OTHER TYPES.

          Quick Refresher on Human Design TYPES

There are five TYPES of people in Human Design. Type is determined by which Energy Centers (geometrical shapes on your Human Design Chart) are colored in and how they are connected to each other. In other words, your Type reflects your personal energy configuration. Type is usually indicated in writing on a Chart.

Each TYPE has a Role to play in life and has a particular decision-making and action-taking Strategy that is the best and most correct way for that TYPE to operate in life.

Here is a very brief description of the TYPES and their Roles and Strategies

Manifestor – approximately 8% of the population
Role: to initiate action from ideas
Strategy: inform everyone in your “impact field” before you take action

Generator – approximately 37% of the population
Role:  to find the right work and the right partner in life
Strategy:  wait to respond with your Sacral energy before you take action

Manifesting Generator – approximately 33% of the population
Role:  to find the right work and the right partner in life (and to find the fastest way to do things)
Strategy:  wait to respond with your Sacral energy then inform everyone in your “impact field” before you take action

Projector – approximately 21% of the population
Role:  to manage, guide and direct the energies of others
Strategy:  wait to be invited into life’s big decisions (love, marriage, career, where you live), and wait to be asked or recognized before sharing your wisdom

Reflector – less than 1% of the population
Role:  to reflect the health of our communities back to us
Strategy:  wait 29 days (full lunar cycle) for clarity before you take action

          The GENERATOR in the World and in Relationships

Generators who use their inherent energy correctly and follow the inner guidance of their Sacral response are a powerful force that benefits the world, and they are magnificent to behold!

When their Sacral response had guided them to the “right” work for them, they have nearly inexhaustible energy to do that work. And their natural penchant for achieving mastery drives them to persist in improving their skills.

Because of their sustainable work force and life force energy, they tend to be steady partners in relationships although their specific personality characteristics will be affected by the many other energies in their Human Design Chart.

They are the energizer bunnies who can hold down a job, raise a family, get involved in the PTA or other activities, maybe do volunteer work, stay physically active, and pursue various interests. Not all Generators do all of these things….but they could!

Some famous Generators are: Albert Einstein, Dalai Lama, Elvis Presley, Bill Clinton, Meryl Streep, George Harrison, Madonna, James Dean, Judy Garland, Oprah Winfrey, Meg Ryan, Greta Garbo.

         If You Are a GENERATOR . . .

If you’re not waiting for life to “come to you” and then responding to it so you know if you should pursue something or not, you are going to experience frustration.

It’s likely that you’ve been going in a lot of wrong directions until now, trying to “just go do it” like we’re taught by our society. Problem is….that’s just not correct for you. Hence, the wrong directions, and the frustration.

Sadly, our closest relationships often bear the brunt of this frustration. When you recognize and follow your inner guidance, you’ll have less frustration spilling over onto others. And recognizing that the frustration you feel is just energy can also help you minimize its impact on others.

Your brain will often work hard to try and figure out the right answers for you, but that is NOT where YOU want to be making your decisions and choices. That’s what your Sacral Center is for.

However, frustration IS part of your personal learning curve, so you won’t be avoiding it entirely. But if you learn to wait for things to show up so you can respond to them, AND you learn to honor and follow your responses, you’ll be making choices in alignment with your energetic structure and your inner Authentic Self, and you’ll minimize frustration and maximize joy and fulfillment.

You also need to be active enough during your day to be physically tired when you go to bed. It’s as if you wake up each morning with a full tank of gas, and you need to use it all before you sleep. Then you wake up with a new full tank the next day and do it all again. If you’re not sleeping well, try getting more physical activity. This is especially true for Generator children, many of whom are incorrectly diagnosed with ADD or ADHD.

          If You Love a GENERATOR …

Understand that it is correct for them to wait for their inner guidance before they take action. If you happen to be a Manifestor or Manifesting Generator, this may be uncomfortable and/or frustrating to you.

Allow the Generator to wait for things to respond to, and allow them to honor and follow their responses….even if their responses “appear” to not be logical.

The most respectful—and helpful—way that you can interact with a Generator is to ask them Yes/No questions. This allows them a clear opportunity for their Sacral Center to respond and give them guidance.

Don’t take their frustration personally. Recognize that it’s part of their process, and when you support them in being true to their Generator nature you’ll help them minimize that frustration.

And, if you are a non-energy being (a Manifestor, Projector, or Reflector), don’t try to keep up with the Generator in your life. You will wear down and burn out.  Let them keep going while you take care of yourself and manage your energy. Once this energy difference in your relationship is truly understood and respected, you’ll both be happier.

I welcome you to share below any success stories you have had as a Generator or as someone in relationship with a Generator. Your generosity in sharing for the benefit of everyone is appreciated!

Here is a brief look at a celebrity couple’s Human Design charts and composite chart, focused mainly on their Types, Centers and Profiles. These are just a few of many aspects and layers of a chart. Our purpose here is to give you a quick glimpse, through Human Design, into this couple’s relationship dynamics. (Co-written with Karen Flaherty)

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt TOGETHER

Angelina Jolie
Birth info:  Wednesday, June 4, 1975 at 9:09am in Los Angeles, CA

As promised, in this article we look at Angelina Jolie’s and Brad Pitt’s Human Design charts together to see what we can learn about the nature of their relationship.

We previously wrote an article about each member of this famous couple. You can read about Angelina and see her chart here.

You can read about Brad and see his chart here.

The most striking aspects when looking at their two individual charts are their dramatic differences, so let’s start there.

TYPES

Angelina is the busiest version (with her 34/20 Channel) of the Manifesting Generator—which is already the busiest and most energetic of all five Human Design Types.  By contrast, Brad is a Projector, which means

he does not have sustainable energy. He needs breaks, naps, and alone time (away from Angelina and all their children) to discharge the Sacral energy he picks up from them and to restore the energetic integrity of his own body’s system. He is NOT the “energizer bunny” … but she IS!

CENTERS

Angelina has six Defined Centers (of nine) and only three Open Centers, which means she puts out (broadcasts) a lot more energy than she takes in.

She is emotional, has inherent will power, and has a motorized Throat Center enabling her to speak and be heard, and to have an easier time making things happen in the world.

Brad has only two Defined Centers and seven Open Centers, which means he takes in and amplifies a LOT more energy than he puts out into the world. He is deeply affected by people and events around him and needs to “manage” his energy to not be overwhelmed and unduly influenced by others.

Brad is Open emotionally, so he takes in Angelina’s Defined emotional waves and amplifies them. He might appear at times to be more emotional than she is, but those aren’t really his emotions and passions. When left completely alone, he would be rather even-keeled emotionally!

Brad does not have inherent will power. He takes in and amplifies Angelina’s will power, so for short bursts he can have super will power. But her sustainable Defined Will Power will always win in the end.

Brad also has an Open Throat Center which can make it challenging for him to be heard (literally and figuratively) and tough for him to get anything going in his world.

It’s not energetically correct for a Projector to initiate something directly from an idea and “make it happen.” Projectors function best when invited into opportunities and projects, and Brad’s mega-status as movie icon and sex symbol has certainly opened doors and garnered him plenty of invitations!

He may have had good fortune (helped no doubt by his good looks) and lead a more charmed life than most Projectors. But that doesn’t change his energetic configuration as an Open Throat Projector, which demands that he wait for the right timing to speak his wisdom, or else it won’t be heard or it won’t have the desired effect.

PROFILES

Angelina is a 3/5 Profile—a natural and eternal experimenter who draws people to her but also draws their projected expectations of her. When she doesn’t wait to “respond” with her Sacral energy and wait through her emotional wave for clarity, she’ll have trouble fulfilling the expectations heaped upon her.  Unconscious 5^th lines like Angelina can sometimes be rather secretive to protect themselves from unwanted and unfair expectations.

Brad is a 4/6 Profile—a powerful networker and “people person”—and at 48 (he’ll be 49 in 2012) he is nearly “off the roof” as an unconscious 6^th line. For the last 8 years or so while “on the roof” he’s been focused on his career and family and not been as “experimental” as he was in his youth.  In the next few years he’ll fully emerge as the Role Model he is destined to become.

COMPOSITE CHART

Below is a COMPOSITE CHART showing their two individual charts superimposed on each other.

Brad’s conscious (black) and unconscious (red) Gate energies are shown on the left, and Angelina’s are on the right.

All of Brad’s Gates show up on the composite as GREEN, and all of Angelina’s show as BLUE. Where they have the same Gate energy, it shows as checkered green and blue.

COMPATIBILITIES

We see from the composite that together they bring Definition to the Ajna Center through an “electromagnetic” combination of his Gate 11 (ideas) and her Gate 56 (storytelling).  Electromagnetics are usually fun and “juicy” points of attraction between two people. She is attracted to his ideas, and he’s drawn to her ability to articulate ideas through stories.

There are many other compatibilities in their composite chart, but this seems like a good place to close this article.

We’ll leave you with one magnificent example of their positive relationship dynamics. With Brad’s Incarnation Cross – which is the mythology of one’s life – in the Cross of Eden, he is always moved by the less fortunate. While Angelina was already involved with a number of causes prior to their relationship, since 2005 they have started, funded and been intimately involved in a number of new philanthropies, as well as starting the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. Together, they seem to be on a mission to save the world!

WOULD YOU LIKE MORE?

There is far more that could be said about this famous couple and their composite chart. If you’d like to learn more about them through a continuation of this relationship article, please let me know by commenting below. And feel free to suggest other famous people and/or couples for us to look at in future articles!

It’s correct for you to go to bed tired at night, and you typically wake up refreshed and ready for a new day the next morning. It’s like you start each day with a full tank of gas and you need to burn up that fuel so you’re on ‘empty’ by day’s end.

If you’re a Generator or Manifesting Generator and you’re not sleeping well, you may not be getting enough physical activity. You have ‘fuel’ left to burn and it keeps you up at night. Try getting more exercise or any type of physical activity during the day and see if that helps.

By the way, this is also true for Generator and Manifesting Generator CHILDREN. Many kids diagnosed with ADD and ADHD these days are simply Generators or Manifesting Generators who are not getting enough exercise!

You have an instinctive resistance when it feels like someone is trying to manage or control you without your request or permission. Even if what they are saying is brilliant and exactly what you need to hear, you won’t listen if it feels pushed at you.

Chances are…. that person is a Projector. They mean well, they’re just not using their energy correctly.

Understanding the dynamics of this situation can help you:

• Hear—and benefit from—what’s being offered (if you’re the recipient)

• Learn the correct approach and timing (if you’re the Projector)

          Introducing This Series

Human Design gives us deeply insightful knowledge about the nature of WHO we are and HOW we behave as human beings.

Your personal Human Design chart (you can get your free Human Design chart here) helps you understand the energy dynamics and personality characteristics of YOU.

Human Design also helps you understand the other people around you and the nature of YOUR relationship with them.

This makes possible the achievement of supportive, fulfilling,
and constructive relationships in every area of your life.
And in every relationship in your life!

Wouldn’t THAT be something!

This series of articles about “Human Design TYPES in Relationships” will help you move forward along this most noble and worthy path. 

Today’s article explores how the PROJECTOR TYPE interacts with OTHER TYPES.

          Quick Refresher on Human Design TYPES

There are five TYPES of people in Human Design. Type is determined by which Energy Centers (geometrical shapes on your Human Design Chart) are colored in and how they are connected to each other. In other words, your Type reflects your personal energy configuration. Type is usually indicated in writing on a Chart.

Each TYPE has a Role to play in life and has a particular decision-making and action-taking Strategy that is the best and most correct way for that TYPE to operate in life.

Here is a very brief description of the TYPES and their Roles and Strategies:

Manifestor – approximately 8% of the population

• Role: to initiate action from ideas

• Strategy: inform everyone in your “impact field” before you take action

Generator – approximately 37% of the population

• Role:  to find the right work and the right partner in life

• Strategy:  wait to respond with your Sacral energy before you take action

Manifesting Generator – approximately 33% of the population

• Role:  to find the right work and the right partner in life (and to find the fastest way to do things)

• Strategy:  wait to respond with your Sacral energy then inform everyone in your “impact field” before you take action

Projector – approximately 21% of the population

• Role:  to manage, guide and direct the energies of others

• Strategy:  wait to be invited into life’s big decisions (love, marriage, career, where you live), and wait to be asked or recognized before sharing your wisdom

Reflector – less than 1% of the population

• Role:  to reflect the health of our communities back to us

• Strategy:  wait 29 days (full lunar cycle) for clarity before you take action

          THE PROJECTOR in Relationships

While the natural role (and instinct) of the Projector is to “manage, guide and direct others,” the Projector can only do so effectively when those others want to be managed, guided and directed!

As discussed at the beginning of this article, most people don’t like to be given advice or told what to do if they haven’t first asked for that advice or guidance.

Projectors who are not using their energy—and their inherent wisdom—correctly are often perceived as:

• Pushy
• Bossy
• Nosy
• Annoying or irritating
• Bitter
• Or, they are simply ignored and literally not heard when they speak.

Projectors who are using their energy CORRECTLY are respected and sought-after for their knowledge, talent, and guidance.

Some famous Projectors are:  President Obama, Carl Sagan, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Streisand, Liz Taylor, Lance Armstrong, Abraham Lincoln, and Leonardo da Vinci.

The truth is that Projectors need more attention and energy from other people than any of the other Types.

          What’s a PROJECTOR To Do?

The BEST approach for a Projector is to wait to be asked or invited to share their advice, opinion, feedback, guidance, or direction.

When someone asks, they indicate that they want the guidance and inherent wisdom of that Projector (even if that person is completely unaware that they are asking a Projector—that person is unconsciously reacting to the Projector’s energetic configuration). That person will then hear and appreciate the value of the Projector’s input, because they were open to receiving it.

The NEXT BEST approach for the Projector is to at least wait for some recognition and an opening to speak into. Make eye contact and wait to sense an opportunity to speak without barging into a conversation or seeming pushy or overbearing.

Whenever using this NEXT BEST approach, the most effective way for a Projector to begin is to say something like:

• I have some experience that may be helpful to you, would it be all right if I share it with you?
• I have some insights about that, may I tell you about them?
• Perhaps I could be of help, would you mind if I try?

Please vary the question to suit your circumstances and personality, but I’m sure you get the gist from these examples. Notice that each one is a Yes/No question requiring that the other person either gives you permission to speak or does not.  With their Yes response, you have a clear opening/invitation.

Projectors are of course welcome to speak without waiting for any of this, and see what happens. Human Design advocates that you listen to your own inner authority, not someone else (like me) telling you what to do. But it’s likely you’ll find that things simply work better when you have been invited or recognized first.

          What Should OTHERS Do Regarding Projectors?

When you are the recipient of a Projector’s incorrect use of their energy and wisdom, it is easy to feel irritated, turned off, and even repelled. This is normal. Even Projectors can feel turned off and repelled by other Projectors!

However, you then miss the wisdom and advice that may very well benefit you.

Now that you understand a little about Projectors, the best thing YOU can do is:

• Recognize that their intention is to be helpful
• Recognize that they are inherently wise and usually have valuable input
• Recognize that they are simply not using their energy correctly
• Don’t take it personally
• If you’re so inclined, give them some attention and energy and invite them share their ideas with you
• If you just want to get away from them, get out of their aura for a while and then ask for their opinion or guidance the next time you see them—before they offer it.

I welcome you to share below any success stories you have had as a Projector or as someone in relationship with a Projector.

The place to begin when exploring the emotional dynamics of our relationships is to first understand ourselves. Our last article encouraged you to examine your personal Human Design chart and determine if you have a “Defined Emotional Center” or an “Open Emotional Center.”  (Click here to read that article if you haven’t yet, as you’ll need its information for the rest of this article.)

The Emotional Center (called the Solar Plexus in Human Design) governs the ups and downs of the wave-like patterns in our emotional energy. Those who have a Defined Emotional Center (it’s colored in) experience and broadcast emotional waves. Those who have an Open Emotional Center (it’s white) take in and amplify the emotional waves of those broadcasting the waves.

That information alone can explain so much about your experiences in life and the dynamics of your past and present relationships!

          How Our Energies Affect Our Relationships

In any type of relationship, two people’s energies always influence each other. The details of this can be seen by looking at their Human Design charts and creating a “composite” chart that blends their two charts together (which can be done manually or with special software).

The Open energies (white geometrical “Centers”) in our charts create predictable issues and behavior patterns that can be addressed and managed through awareness—both individually and in our relationships.

The bottom line is….any relationship can work—with the correct understanding of the energetic dynamics….and a little patience!

Now, let’s look at the specific role of powerful Emotional Energy in our personal relationships.

          Emotions in Relationships Can Be Passionate and Volatile

Although emotions are just one piece in the bigger puzzle of our personal relationships, they are undoubtedly the most dramatic (pun intended)!

The passions and creativity of our emotionally defined partners bring richness, depth, romance and juiciness to our relationships. However, these same partners can seem moody, depressed, edgy or even listless at times.

How can you best cope with emotional energy, whether it’s your own or your partner’s?

Here is a quick training for managing the Emotional Energy within our relationships—whether the other person is your spouse, lover, child, parent, sibling, friend, business partner, boss or coworker.

           When One Person is Emotionally Open and
                       the Other is Emotionally Defined

This is perhaps the most challenging combination—especially without awareness of the energy dynamics at work. But this also has the yummiest potential for romance and passion (or for a dynamic bond, if platonic).

The person with the Defined Emotional Center will experience emotional highs and lows in a cyclical wave-like pattern. Some people will have short waves (a few days) that aren’t very high or very low. Some will have dramatic highs and lows. Some have medium length waves (weeks or months) and some have long waves of a year or more. Each emotionally defined person is different and will have their unique wave, though the basic nature of their wave will be shown in their chart.

The person with the Open Emotional Center will take in and amplify the other person’s emotional wave. This person does not have consistent emotional energy of their own. When left alone and completely out of other people’s auras, this person will be relatively even-keel emotionally.

But this person’s openness will cause them to feel their partner’s emotions more intensely than their partner feels them! People with an Open Emotional Center are truly empathic…they take in and feel other people’s feelings.

This dynamic can lead to much misunderstanding between the two people and, potentially, much emotional pain for the Open Emotional Center person.

The best way to manage this dynamic is to understand each other’s design and be respectful of each person’s needs and tendencies.

• Allow the Emotionally Defined person to have their ups and downs, and don’t take it personally.
• Support the Emotionally Open person in “being a screen, not a sponge” which they can do by letting the emotionally energy flow through them without holding on to it.
•  Encourage the Emotionally Open person to speak their truth and handle conflict in a direct and healthy manner—rather than allowing their predictable pattern of always trying to keep everyone happy.
• When emotional energy escalates between them, the Emotionally Open person needs to get out of the aura of the Emotionally Defined person and release that emotional energy. It’s best to leave the room, go for a walk, and just be alone. Then they can come back together and work out the issue without the emotional ‘charge.’

          When Both People Are Emotionally Open

This combination is relatively easy to manage. Both will usually be mostly even-keel emotionally….unless they are taking in, amplifying, and acting out the emotional energy of Emotionally Defined people around them!

For their personal as well as relationship health, both people must learn to “be a screen, not a sponge” which they can do by letting emotionally energy flow through them without holding on to it.

When they’ve mastered that they will be able to speak their truth and handle conflict in a direct and healthy manner, without fear of emotional reactions from those around them.

If there is a spark of negative emotional energy that does escalate between these two emotionally open people, the best approach is to “break auric space” (get out of each other’s aura) and come back together only after they have discharged that emotional energy.

           When Both People Are Emotionally Defined

This combination is also relatively easy to manage. Each person experiences their own unique emotional wave—sometimes up and sometimes down. These cycles are normal and natural for them. When they learn to embrace this cyclical process and not try to “figure out” or “fix” themselves when low on their wave, they will be easier to be around.

The key to making this combination work is mutual respect for wherever each person is on his or her emotional wave, and accepting occasional moodiness as part of the package.

           A Vision for What is Possible in Relationships

It is through our relationships that we know ourselves best. Our openness (white connecting lines and white Centers) and our definition (colored connecting lines and Centers) are most intensely experienced through our interactions with others. The incomplete channels in our Charts (called hanging Gates) are most felt when we connect with others who complete those channels.

Some people are designed to be closely bonded in relationships, and others not so much.

But every person is capable of healthy and fulfilling relationships when they understand their own Human Design and respect that others are different.

Human Design gives us the tools to know how to honor each other as Who We Are—our Authentic Selves, and to know how to love each other better.

Collectively, our growing awareness and consciousness—about ourselves and about our relationships—can serve to uplift all of humanity.

You are invited to share your awareness of and experiences with your own Emotional Center, whether Defined or Open and how it plays out in your relationships, in the comment box below!

Brad Pitt

Birth info:  Wednesday, December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, OK

Background

Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, with humble beginnings, Brad Pitt has been the heartthrob of women worldwide for almost 30 years. He grew up in Missouri and attended the University of Missouri where he majored in journalism and acted in several fraternity shows. Just weeks before graduation he left for Los Angeles, ready to take on any job while breaking into the acting field. His first major film role was in Thelma and Louise in 1991, playing the young hitchhiker they meet in their travels which helped to solidify his role as a new sex symbol. Before that he was in soap operas and sitcoms on television, including Dallas, and since then has appeared in over thirty movies, garnering multiple Oscar and Golden Globe nominations and one Golden Globe award thus far. This year, he was nominated for his roles as both actor and producer in Moneyball.

His Chart

The only theme or channel in Brad’s chart is the Channel of Struggle, which is the 28-38. This is an Individual Channel which means Brad is here to be different and not to ‘fit in.” He marches to his own beat and with his romantic partner, Angelina Jolie, he has found his Individual match. This is the channel of one who goes his own way, no matter what the path brings. While his “struggles” by general standards may have been mild, they were undoubtedly unique. Can you imagine being this much of an Individual and having been named “the Sexiest Man Alive” not once but twice – in 1995 and 2000? It probably wasn’t even on Brad’s radar when he left Missouri in 1986.

However, in looking at the entire chart, Brad’s other gates are fairly evenly distributed between the Individual, Tribal and Collective circuits. So, for example, his Individual gates include traits such as Struggle (28), and “Knowing what’s worth Fighting for” (38) as a theme in his life, but also Shock (51), Provocation (39), and making a Creative Contribution to the World through self-expression (1). Some of those gates may explain his penchant for playing tricks on colleagues with George Clooney.

Tribally, he has the gates for Ambition (54), Principles (and revolution!) (49), the Treasurer (21), and the Warrior/Peacemaker (6), and so makes a wonderful father, romantic partner, and business partner.  Finally, as someone who has contributed mightily to the overall collective of humanity, he has the gates for Crisis (36), Correction (18), the Listener (13), and Ideas (11). Overall, it makes his outlook and persona balanced as well as unique.

As a 4/6 Profile – the Opportunistic/Role Model – Brad Pitt could be the poster child for this profile. He has jumped at many opportunities but also been quite astute at passing on the ones that don’t seem right, as any Opportunist would. As a Role Model in his early days prior to 30 years old, he was living as the Experiential Learner (or Martyr), trying many things to see what worked and what didn’t work. Between 30 and 50 years old (he’s now 48), he’s been in a bit of retreat mode, or as we call it “on the roof”. He’ll be moving into his Role Model phase in the next year or so, and we can expect to see much more of Brad as a leading man, producer, family man and philanthropist.

With so many Open Centers (7 out of 9), he takes in (and amplifies!) others on many levels, making it relatively easy for him to identify with and BE each role he has played on screen. As a box office megastar, this Projector now has the luxury of many offers and invitations coming his way easily, but he probably struggled to get noticed and land jobs when he was first starting. As he steps into his full Role Model phase in a few years, it would be a natural progression for him as a Projector to dabble in some sort of directing capacity as his career continues to evolve.

He may or may not be consciously aware that it is stimulating but also at times exhausting for him as a very open Projector to be around Angelina’s defined Sacral energy (she’s a Manifesting Generator—read about her chart here) consistently, as well as the natural chaos of having so many young children around. At times we can see the strain on his face, and we only hope he learns to manage his energy well and to get the alone time that so much energetic openness plus his Gate 40 demand.

Here is a brief look at a celebrity’s Human Design chart, focused mainly on that person’s defined channels. Channels are just one of many aspects and layers of a chart. Our purpose here is just to give you a quick glimpse, through Human Design, into this person’s energy dynamics. This is not a full review of a chart. (Article co-written with Karen Flaherty)

As an actress, humanitarian, mother of six and romantic partner of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie lives the life of the Manifesting Generator who can make a mere mortal’s head spin.  She effortlessly seems to combine her unending activities, her talent, her beauty, and her articulate and compassionate wit and will to achieve her goals.

As a 3/5 profile – the Martyr/Heretic — she has experienced quite a lot during her 36 years on the planet but also thumbed her nose at many of her naysayers. She has lived on both coasts and traveled the world; acted in dozens of films—winning awards after years of “practice”; and had turbulent relationships with her father and first two husbands. She has “tried on” many different looks, personas, tattoos and relationships. As the Heretic with an intention or philosophy to universalize, she is taking a stand as a young humanitarian on behalf of a number of causes around the world. She and Brad describe their breakfast table as a “mini United Nations”, and they like it that way. A recent 60 Minutes interview portrayed Angelina as a woman on a mission as she was completing her directorial/writing debut film, “In the Land of Blood and Honey”.  True to her chart, she was described as compassionate (Gate 50), in control (Gate 21), a gifted storyteller (Gate 56), charismatic (Gate 20), focused (Gate 9) and content (Gate 58) with all that has led her to this juncture.

The themes in Angelina’s life are illustrated beautifully in her defined channels – Charisma, Judgment, Transitoriness and Money:

1. The 34-20 is the Channel of Charisma. Enough said! This channel with its direct line from the Sacral to the Throat gives Angelina the sustainable energy and ability to multi-task that she needs to write a movie, hold a baby on her hip, make dinner, and converse with Brad or her agent – all at the same time! As long as she’s busy doing what she loves, she’ll never run out of steam.
2. The 18-58 is the Channel of Judgment. This channel may as well have the sub-title “humanitarian” for Angelina. It is all about improving and correcting anything that may not seem quite right in order to bring people closer to the joy of life.
3. The 35-36 is the Channel of Transitoriness. The Gate 35 is sometimes called the “Jack of All Trades” and this energy loves to rack up lots of varied experiences. The Gate 36, called “Crisis”, sometimes shows up as someone who won’t tolerate boredom and so creates “crises” to keep herself amused. Angelina seems to run from one project, adventure or country to the next in rapid succession, most likely to keep any possible boredom at a distance.
4. The 45-21 is the Channel of Money. This combination of the Gate of the Queen (45) and the Gate of the Treasurer (21) leads to an innate confidence that is both regal and in control. Angelina is here to make money through the power of her will and her presence – and she has done quite well in that role – commanding some of the highest acting salaries in Hollywood.

While these themes sound busy just by reading them, they pale in comparison to the way they’ve actually played out in her life. Angelina has packed a lot of artistic success, philanthropic contribution, and maternal care for her adopted and biological children into her first 36 years. It will be interesting to see what else this powerful Manifesting Generator has in store for her public and private lives in the future.