
Keynote - Empower
The Individual Circuit group has two Circuits in it: Knowing and Centering. The Knowing Circuit (on the left) is much larger than the Centering Circuit (on the right), which only has two channels. The moment that we come into individual
circuitry, we come to a mutative process. The individual circuit groups represent the one way in which individuality can survive and mutate into new forms in the world without being ostracized from the rest of the totality. The Individual keynote is empowerment.
The Individual Circuit Group involves every center in the bodygraph, which is unique. The Collective Circuit does not have the Ego, and the Tribal Circuit does not have the Head, Ajna nor G-Center. This says a lot about how we work. Only the individual is whole.
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The collective process is not whole without the tribe and vice versa. This is why we have the saying "Transformation has to happen inside before it can happen outside." If you are not healthy inside then you will never be able to make the world healthy because only your integrated inner self has the power to mutate the collective and the tribe.
To be an individual is to be an example, and because all individuality is rooted in the individual mutative format of the 3/60, being an example is a mutative force. Mutation is a word that lies at the heart of Human Design. It is about being oneself, about being unique. All the individual channels carry the sound of mutation. This is the universal law that constantly (and unpredictably) brings change into the world. This is why one individual can change the world.
Everything about individuality is about acoustics. It is about the word. It is about being able to express oneself clearly or not. Individuals (those with individual definition) are potentially freaks and outsiders because they can bring mutation. They are here to be unusual. They do not easily fit in to society.
Because what they have to offer can be new and unfamiliar it is difficult for the individual to translate their existential, inner knowing into the capacity to be able to empower others with that knowing. Everyone who carries individuality in their design has a lifelong task of learning how to explain themselves.
It is through this power of explanation that the individual leaves the realm of being the stranger, the outsider or the freak, and enters into the realm of being a guide that is of value to others. Knowing is enormously important to our mutative growth as a whole. Without the mutation we have a dead end street. Without the mutation we have no evolution.
Any channel in this circuit is going to carry with it an ability to empower others. But the empowerment comes from just being themselves. The individual process is a personal one. It is not like the collective sharing which shares with the other. An individual might never even know or care that they have empowered someone else.
For example, someone with the channel 28-38, the channel of struggle and being stubborn, might struggle with something in their life and eventually succeed due to their sheer stubbornness. It is their personal struggle and their personal success. In fact, others might not even understand it - even more reason not to want to share it with others. But others who see this can be inspired by it nonetheless. Watching this person struggle can empower others to persevere in their own struggles.


