The Human Design System came as a revelation January 3-11, 1987. It was received whole and in detail by Canadian-born Ra Uru Hu from what he calls a "Voice." After this intense experience of 8 days and nights, Ra thought either he was mad, or the Human Design System was true. After spending three years to test the system, he proved to himself that it was true. Since 1992, he has been teaching Human Design to students from all over the world.

We learned Human Design from Ra. We were introduced to the system by a Swiss friend of ours, and later we hosted Ra in the US. It's been three and a half years that I have been using Human Design and my experience with it has been very exciting and eye-opening.

Happiness has a lot to do with accepting who you are, both your light and its shadows. Acceptance requires knowledge of who you are, without confusion about what is really you and what is conditioned. One of the very basic tenets in Human Design is that most of us live what we are not. Because it is always changing, conditioning affects us and we identify with it more than we do with the fixed, unchanging pattern.

Since the arrival of the Human Design System, we have a wonderfully clear and graphic tool to know who we are as humans in the world. It shows that we each have a unique Design, a basic wiring that determines the way we encounter and understand life. That Design can be seen in an individual Rave chart.

The colored parts of the Body Graph of your chart represent that basic wiring, �burned in� at your birth. It remains the same throughout your life, it doesn't change, is fixed, and therefore you can rely on it. It is the static aspect of your Design, the set of tools you are given to deal with life. No choice.

The moving and changing aspects of your life, on the other hand, are occurring in the white parts of your Design. Here is where you experience, learn, gather knowledge, grow, mature. This is where you're getting influenced and conditioned, where you have to deal with the outside world and have no choice but to make a bunch of choices. And all that is constantly moving, forever changing. You cannot rely on it. However, with the tool of Human Design, you can observe and be aware of it with unprecedented ease and clarity.

Those changing and conditioning influences come from two sides: from people (and also animals, plants, things) you encounter and from the Neutrino stream from the stars, altered by the planets orbiting the Sun. If you know a person's Design, you'll know that wherever there's color in their Design and not in yours, you are being conditioned in their presence, and vice versa. Needless to say that it is a great tool in relationships. With ease you see the electro-magnetic spark, or where you have companionship, or dominance, or have to compromise.

Since the Neutrino stream conditioned by the planets reaches everybody everywhere all the time, the planetary influence is collective. However, depending on the individual Design, everybody experiences that influence differently. To keep track of what the planets do uniquely to you, you need to check their positions at a given time in an ephemeris and see where they are in relation to your Design.

There is much to discover with Human Design. It is an instrument to unveil the mechanics of being and it has the power to ultimately force one into acceptance.