camac
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Howdy,

I had an online reading with Ed on Friday, March 19 and was very impressed with the online format which had Generro following along annotating my chart while Ed provided the reading. My very initial reaction was one of slight disappointment at the level of the reading as it seemed very basic and I had been exploring my chart for at least 6 weeks and had been studying the introductory package materials for a month. I thought I already had a reasonably good grasp of the areas that he covered in the first 15 to 20 minutes or so. This is partly just my conditioning speaking, the current planetary alignment acting through my design (if I am starting to get the hang of this yet), as well as my design itself just jumping to conclusions and trying to make sense of everything now rather than waiting - my dynamic between patience and impatience.

I received the recording of the reading on the following day and listened to it again after sketching out some questions that I wanted to ask Ed. As I listened again, I discovered that some of my questions were already answered and that I had not really been in my more effective receptive role when Ed initially spoke online. Just to give you the flavour of my design, I am a 4/6 Projector (mental) with only Ajna and Throat centers defined and only at the design/unconscious level with 43 (Sun) and 23 (moon) defined. other gates are 4, 56, 35, 45, 31, 1, 13, 46, 26, 34, 5, 29, 50, 49, 32, 60.

After listening to the complete reading, I recognized that I still had lots to learn from it and in spite of my desire to advance rapidly in my understanding of Human Design and especially my own design, it was/is still going to take lots of time to digest and observe the material in action.

I did phone Ed with some questions to see if I was at least moving in the right direction with my attempts to analyze the interactions between friends, family, and coworkers and my design - and to talk about myself (just being my design) - as well as the effects of the planetary alignment on my design as Ed had correctly pointed out that the time around mid March was likely to be a time of crises for me. He was very patient with me and let me have my say and reminded me that I am a reflector at the conscious level so that I need to use a comparable strategy for making major decisions in my life, by allowing the moon cycle to pass so as to get a sense of what is right for me.

Overall Ed's style ws very appropriate for me as I have a scattering of exposure to a wide range of terms from philosophy and various religions and especially the I Ching which was the link into Human Design for me.

Thanks Ed for the very valuable reading. I will be returning to it probably quite frequently in the next while and I am sure I will hear more each time.

Thanks to Generro for handling all the technical details, proving the annotation during the reading, and providing such quick turnaround for the recording.

Craig

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Craig

4/6 Mental Projector right angle cross of (long winded) Explanation


camac
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Conscious Reflector/Unconscious Projector

Hi Linda,
When I had my reading and afterward when I talked to Ed a bit, he pointed out that I only have a channel defined at the unconscious level and so at a conscious level I am more like a reflector. I do not have any inner authority and need to give decisions time in order to get a sense of whether or not something is right for me. Just recently I had an opportunity to test this as I had a 30th high school reunion to consider attending. When I first heard about the reunion, I had just recently been getting lots of information about Human Design and it was springtime and so I was very exuberant (also partly some conditioning from officemates perhaps) and excited about going. I decided to give it some time and see how I felt later about it before I committed myself. Also I knew that I was not part of the "in" crowd at high school and so most memories have a lot of discomfort associated with them. As the weeks went by, I found that I had a number of different reactions surface. I went from my initial enthusiasm and inclination to promote Human Design to anyone that I talk to through a major sense of sadness tinged with bitterness (complete with crying bouts) as I remembered many of what I considered to be missed and lost opportunities through an analytical phase where I wrote down some of my expectations and hopes and objectives for attending the reunion and then through to a final phase where I looked back at the whole cycle of thoughts and feelings with a sense of resolution and understanding of realistic versus unrealistic expectations and the decision that I would go to one of the events. I basically expect to still be an outcast and probably only talk to a couple of people and then leave after an hour or two when I get saturated and overwhelmed by all the noise and my lack of connectedness to the overall group.

Note that I am undergoing deconditioning and it is difficult for me to say just where I am in the process as I have only had conscious access to my type and strategy for a few months. I have been living on my own for the last 6 years, have been working at a company that I was invited to work for for the last 4 years and the only friend I spend any significant amount of time with invited me to be a friend about 8 years ago. I am recognized for what I do at work and my friend enjoys having conversations with me. In these regards I am feeling that they are accepting my true self and are not just looking for aspects of themselves projected back at them. :wink: at least that is how I see it at this time. Some of the other experiences that I have been going through recently lead me to believe that I am noticing the effects of living according to my type and strategy. But... I have been known to be delusional before.

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Craig

4/6 Mental Projector right angle cross of (long winded) Explanation


funnyone
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Hi, what makes you a reflector at the conscious level? Just curious. Thanks, Linda

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