Human Design Channels Are Your Gifts to This World
Your defined human design channels play a big role in your human design. But yet I don’t see too many human design experts or authors talking about them. Yes at a high level it makes sense to talk about the main energy types. Which serves as a great introduction to the Human Design System. But did you know your defined channels determine your energy type?
I’m not going to cover the basics of Human Design here. So many wonderful articles exist online. Instead I’m going to discuss the importance of your defined Human Design Channels and why I think they hold the secret to unlocking your unique energetic gifts and your role here on earth.
If you're new to Human Design or want a general refresher I highly recommend this article. It’s an interview with Lynette Hagins a Human Design teacher and reader.
I like Lynatte’s answer in response to the question What is Human Design?
“It’s a logical system that brings together principles of The I Ching, astrology, Kabbalah, Hindu-Brahmin chakra system, and quantum physics. Your Human Design Chart, also called a BodyGraph, is calculated using your birth date, time, and place, to reveal your genetic design” — Lynette Hagins
So what are your channels and how do they determine your energy type?
Below is a picture of my Human Design Body Graph Chart generated at myhumandesign.com. We’ll use this for reference.
Channels are the connection of two gates from separate energy centers. In the Human Design system, there are 9 energy centers: Head, Anja, Throat, G, Heart, Spleen, Sacral, Solar Plexus, and Root. With 64 gates that can combine into 36 different channels. There are over 2 billion combinations possible within the Human Design System. Making your design unique and what you have to offer is rare and extremely valuable.
A gate can be defined two ways. It can be defined based on your personality or your design. Your personality is your conscious way of being whereas your design is your subconscious way of being. This is all determined by the alignment of the planets at birth, this is your personality, and 88 days prior to your birth, your design.
This is a crazy concept to digest. When I first heard it I was like how can I be predetermined. I fought against the rigidity. But it's not a rigid system and the aspects of the gates and channels can manifest in different ways. For example, identical twins will have the same Human Design but their individual experiences will cause the gates to manifest into their lives in different ways.
The rough science behind Human Design is that neutrinos from the planets are constantly bombarding Earth. The position of planets at the time of birth determines which energies are crystalized into your body at birth. The most logical part of my engineering brain struggles with these concepts. But through exploring my own human design I’m amazed at how accurate the system describes aspects of my personality as well as the unconscious patterns playing out in my life.
If you look at my body graph you can see all nine energy centers connected by channels. The numbers in the energy centers are the gate numbers. If the gate is colored in it is a defined gate. If the color is black it is part of your personality. If orange-colored it is part of your design. If both sides of a channel are colored in then you have a defined channel. When you have a defined channel connecting two energy centers then both of these energy centers are defined.
If you look at my chart I have gates 64-47 defined this causes my head and Anja to be defined. Note how my head and Anja are colored in orange. I also have gates 26-44 and 28-38 defined. This causes my heart, spleen, and root to also be defined. This is what causes me to be a Projector energy type. I am not a generator because generators have the Sacral energy center defined. I also do not have a connection from a motor center to my throat. If I did this would cause me to be a Manifestor. Reflectors have no defined centers. I am definitely not one of these.
The defined channels also make up your definition. I am a split definition as shown below. I have two separate defined regions. One is my Head and Anja. The other is my Heart, Spleen, and Root. This means I have two distinct voices within my human design system.
Since my spleen is defined and my sacral and solar plexus centers are not, I end up having splenic authority. So there you have it, my defined channels are what causes me to be a Splenic Projector with a split definition. Since this definition is what makes up the first level of my Aura and how people first perceive me this makes me think my defined channels are a pretty big deal and worth exploring further.
What is special about the channels is that they combine aspects of two gates in a synergistic manner. Oftentimes pressure in one gate causes you to seek answers but when you have the connecting gate also defined you have the ability to process the pressure from the other gate and find answers yourself.
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