👁️‍🗨️ What's Your Type?

Hello YOU!

You may think you don’t have a type. But everyone does.

In Human Design your Type is one of the most important aspects of your energetic signature. Knowing a bit about it can help you better navigate both your inner and outer worlds.

There’s only four HD Types—Generators, Projectors, Manifestors & Reflectors.

Each one has a specific energetic aura and particular way they walk through the world.

Since Generators comprise 70(ish)% of the population, it’s quite likely that you or people you love have this big, enveloping aura that pulls people and things toward you. Generator types are here to respond to life through their distinct embodied wisdom. This energy is here to work, build and create. As long as the work you are doing lights you up, you’ll be continually generating life force energy. Generators usually like to be busy, but learning to focus your abundant energy on things that matter to YOU can be a challenge. You might be a Generator if you often experience the feeling of Frustration. It’s what comes up in you when you’re using your energy in ways that don’t light you up.

Not sure of you type? Get your HD BodyGraph here.

Projector types have a completely different sort of energetic signature. Where a Generator’s aura is enveloping, Projector auras are absorbing, focused and penetrating. When you’re with a Projector you might feel like the only other person on earth. This deep-seeing energy is here to truly recognize the gifts and talents of others and guide their energy. This is a beautiful energy that often helps others feel understood and motivated, but it needs to be invited. If Projectors offer their help, wisdom and guidance without being asked for it, they will likely find that it falls on deaf ears—or worse, gets rejected entirely. You might be a Projector if you often experience the feeling of Bitterness. It’s what comes up in you when you’re using your energy in ways that don’t feel recognized and appreciated.

Think you may know a Projector? Find out here.

The Manifestor aura is said to be closed and repelling, but I don’t love that language. Just 9(ish)% of the population, Manifestors are here to initiate, catalyze and make an impact. They have a pulsing, creative energy that when it’s on it’s ON. They need the freedom to make stuff happen when the urge hits, so they don’t want anyone to get into their way. Their energetic aura acts like a bit of a force field clearing their path and keeping people from interfering with their process. You might be a Manifestor if you hate being penned in and experience feelings of Anger in its many forms. It’s what comes up in you when your freedom seems compromised or when you are using your energy in ways that don’t feel impactful.

The final energetic type is the lovely and mysterious Reflector. At just 1(ish)% of the population they are often considered the unicorns of Human Design. Though relatively rare, they have an outsized workload on behalf of humanity. They are here to be our collective mirrors—literally reflecting us back to ourselves. Their aura is a sampling energy that takes in bits of all the energies in its environment and processes them through its own, singular frequency. For this reason, it is very important for Reflectors to be in environments that feel safe and healthy. You might be a Reflector if you often experience feelings of Disappointment with others and the collective. It’s what comes up in you when you are using your energy in ways that don’t surprise and delight you.

Are you a unicorn? Find out here.

Hopefully all of this knowledge is interesting, but you might be wondering how you actually USE it. How does knowing your Type help you navigate these unstable, in-between times?

Good question. At the very highest level, knowing your type brings awareness. It is only in awareness that we have the capacity to change. I like how Shoshana Zuboff puts it:

Once you know that you are a Generator here to respond to what’s naturally attracted into your life, you might decide to slow down, relax a bit and allow things to present themselves to you.

If you find out you’re a Projector, you might experiment with waiting to share your deep insights until others feel truly open and ready to receive them.

Learning you’re a Manifestor might help you to learn to inform others before your inspired burst of creativity impacts their lives irrevocably.

Discovering that you are a Reflector might verify that sense you’ve always had that being in healthy environments and around the right people is key to your wellness.

Knowing just this tiny bit about your energetic aura can powerfully shift how you move through the world. And, given that just about everything in the outside world is changing at the moment, this is the perfect time to better understand our inside worlds.

No matter your Type, I’m happy you’re part of my world. If you know people who might also be curious about how Human Design can help them navigate these unprecedented times, please share this newsletter with them.

Go be the YOUest!

PS: I have a few tools in the shop to help you better understand your design—a printable journal that helps you work with the 64 archetypal energies we experience each trip around the sun and a little short course in March to help you really understand your design so you can Become the YOUest. I’m also using HD to help build out a model for the future of healthcare at The Coherence Lab.

PPS: If you have questions about your Type or other HD curiosities, always feel free to send them my way.