Click the link at the bottom of this page called oshdchar.jpg to see the chart that is discussed here.

Here you see a Rave chart as it looks for an individual. The birthdata is the basis of the calculation. Astrological information gets indexed into hexagrams (from the I Ching) and then transferred to the corresponding gate in one of the nine centers (from the Chakras). Each gate is half of a channel (from the Kabbalah Tree of Life). When planets activate gates at both ends of the channel, the whole channel is colored in, and then, so are the connecting centers. This is called "Definition" and is the key to Design.

If a center is defined, it is always operating in a fixed way, according to the channel, gates and activating planets. Each Design then shows the centers that are defined, therefore, colored in, and those that aren't defined, and so aren't colored in. When a center is undefined, it means it is open to outside influence. Anyone can penetrate, and the experience is limitless. These are areas where you "go to school" or "can become wise."

Osho has four channels defined. The first is "Acceptance," a design of an organizational being. This is a logical mind, a person who has the details to support his opinions, and someone capable always of speaking from the mind.

The next channel he has is called "Perfected Form" a design for survival. This channel is about the perfected behavior in the moment that ensures survival. However, here he has the line of the Martyr, fixed by the Moon. The martyrdom was built into the Design.

He also has the channel called "Initiation," one of the three potentially mystical channels. It is the Will of the spiritual warrior who leaps into the void, and through innocence can land on his feet (or not). Here is the potential to be initiated. He was an initiator.

The last channel defined is called "Judgment," a design of insatiability. This is the constant need to correct and perfect things, fueled by the energy of aliveness. In this channel Osho had the line "Terminal Disease."

Looking at the other centers without definition also tells very much. The Sacral center is the center for sexuality and fertility. Osho had no gates at all in this center (where he could easily read the sexuality in others, and also, what he taught). The second center with only one activation is called the Solar Plexus. This is the center for emotional energy and also for the potential awareness of the spirit. Here, Osho has only one gate, called "Grace."

This was a center where "he could be wise," teaching his disciples about sex and emotions, and developing meditation techniques specific for unlocking the conditioning and repression. The last center undefined in Osho's Design is called the Head center, center for Inspiration. He has one activation, in the gate called "Inner Truth."

Besides the definitions, there are five types of Designs and two modes. In Osho's Design, he has a mental definition that is split from the other channels. This is called "Split Definition." There are three main "bridges" in this chart. Any analyst who looks at this chart would say "he looks for the Hunter/Huntress (gate 21) for the materializing," meaning for food, clothes, housing, other people do the hunting to his rulership. Another keynote is gate of the "Now," the gate called Contemplation (gate 20), and part of the channel of Penetrating awareness.

The third main bridge is called "Fellowship of Man," (gate 13) keynoted, "the listener," part of the channel of the Prodigal, design of a Witness. I consider this channel to be the channel for the Searcher, that at the end, you discover that which you have sought is yourself, coming home to yourself as a witness.

Human Design is a very good tool for anyone interested in how awareness operates. I feel that Osho "saw" Designs of people in the energy of a person, and guided what he said to any given person by what was specific for their Design. He also maintained that to raise children in a Buddhafield, that these kids would have everything available, rather than being unduly affected by only one or two key people. Human Design says the same thing, that taking care of our auras is the main thing. To raise a child with only one or two major conditioning factors (parents), that child will be limited and defined by the environment.

Ra gives another kind of suggestion. He says people should sleep in their own rooms, that being conditioned when we are unconscious (sleeping) is very powerful, and that when we wake up, we aren't ourselves, but rather half of the pair. This is an interesting device for many couples! To know when someone brings out the best in you or the worst in you, to know how to protect yourself and to take care of your aura, means that you can accept what it is to love yourself. Ultimately, this is the only job, to love ourselves.