I spent my weekend dancing ecstatically with the amazing one and only Gabrielle Roth, founder of the popular 5rhythms dance. So I have had an utterly shamanic tranced out weekend of mineral water and the vibrant energy of the stars dancing through my bones and flesh.

The seminar was in Devon and driving there from Kent in my red stallion (Mazda RX8, double Wankel rotary engine, zoom zoom!) I had grabbed some CDs at random including Ra's 1998 talk on the Design of Plants.

I have heard this CD before but this time it tingled me deeply. Look. If Ra is correct on this, and this is EMPIRICAL, this is his spelling out of HOW to validate all this "then he says no human need ever be ill. An end to disease. Um, is anyone listening out there? Has anyone lost time, or comfort, or even lost a loved one, through illness? And we could end all that illness, now?

There are complex matters before we reach that ultimate goal, notably the resolution of cancer through plants and gate 15 in ways Ra only hints at briefly. But as to boosting your general well being, feeling personal power, and having behaviour flow from sound psychic identity, all you need is something Ra has at home, specific or in fact any plants germinated specially to complement your design chart.

A central key to human wellbeing is the design of plants. We can engineer living allies through timing their "birth" or germination to have particular gates activated, and then save on divorce bills and all the usual troubles of a human or animal relationship by simply watering the plant and touching the aura to activate those missing gates in your design.

For me it all starts with Gate 10 but I just like to re-structure and simplify everything so that you can almost touch it with your hands. So here I go.

The earth tilts on its axis as it goes around the sun. Imagine you cut lengthways through the tilt of the earth on Christmas day with a cosmic knife that cuts the orbit and all the stars in their constellations into two equal halves. The night sky and all the stars in it would split like a vast melon across the cusp when Sagittarius meets Capricorn "the Winter Solstice, more jovially known and celebrated as Christmas Day (approximately). And that cut would extend all the way across the earth's orbit and the night sky to the cusp where Gemini meets Cancer "the midsummer solstice.

If you print out any bodygraph chart with all the zodiac signs and hexagrams and then cut with scissors straight up the middle you have the same result, for gate 10 is at the top and gate 15 at the bottom of the wheel in the standard chart.

The solstices are nothing more nor less than our longest and shortest days, and they define the extremes of summer and winter because the earth tilts on THAT axis, this is the most physical fact of our orbit. And yes these always were sacred days and life, for many years here life was plants only, seems to resonate from that 10-15 axis of behaviour and rhythm, extending it in various life forms.

The winter solstice is Gate 10, the gate of behaviour. And for me this originates the identity and behaviour of plants. Gate 10, is unusual because it connects not to one but to three other gates "34, 57, and 20. This crossroads (also called the "integration" channels), is about survival of life on earth, and plants have just four gates - 34, 57, 10, and the primal rhythm or extremes of life, gate 15 (the summer solstice for sun in your personality chart). Insects animals and humans complete the plants by joining the 15 to the 5, by controlling or fixing their cycles, literally by farming plants, fertilising pollinating eating gardening uprootingand so on. This is a symbiosis "plants give us life and survival "food, oxygen, and so on.

Plants also give us health but because there are 64 gates in the zodiac wheel, and plants only have 4 of those gates in their design (10, 34, 57, 15), most plants are passive, undefined, unable to affect us as people do. But when a plant is "germinated" at a time when a planet is in those gates, the plant has an active design just as we do. Very few plants naturally have any activated gates, but there is one supreme possibility "the rare plant germinated to have three complete channels and so three energy centres "form, identity, and survival.

But as humans, we are destined and as Ra puts it "cosmically called "to engineer, to fix the plants (with our gate 5). We can deliberately germinate plants to have and give us forms of power (gate 34), health and well-being (gate 57), and specific behaviours (gate 10) or rhythms (gate 15). Now these are words and plants have real qualities that these words are too clumsy to express. Gate 10 determines behaviour "so various plants alter our behaviour. Plants obviously can speed us up or slow or even shut down cellular activity (15). Plants give us health as medicines and so on (gate 57). And then there are literally what Ra calls Power Plants (34)- more on that in a moment. But Ra insists plants are living "conscious "beings and we only need to touch them, as we water them, and we are altered by their aura. We do not need to kill them and then reduce them to ashes of that life force, we only need to touch them and they feel us and we feel them. This is a man who lived in a tree for a year, of course, with almost no human contact.

Ra himself always married women with gate 34, because they powered him up and centred him, fitting his particular circuits. Finally he saved on the divorce bills by germinating plants to supply him with the power and centering of gate 34. I might have paraphrased that a little clumsily, Ra speaks with a heavy irony that seems brutal in text.

My idea as I drove down to Devon last Friday was that we could have DIY group rituals, maybe at the top of the Eiffel tower or somewhere, to germinate plants together at the moment when they have all three gates 57 34 and 10. Because that makes a deep combination of power to be yourself and survive, with better health, hearing, and intuition, and improved behaviour and psychic well being. I feel you must geminate your own plants and then nurture them to be your own living allies, there is no alternative. In fact that took me nearly three years to figure out the empirical verification of Human Design and especially the newer developpments MUST be DIY, and the role of the internet in all that.

Then I realised the Eiffel tower is romantic but more ideal still is through the forum classroom, and Gennaro might be able to find a way to predict and publish these times when all three (or even all four ) plant gates are activated.

Next we need experts to guide us, what is this germinating? What is this word, what do we actually do? Is there preparation before, do we need many plants to be sure one will burst forth a shoot, is there darkness, or light? And Ra also said the germination must be above ground, what are the parameters so that we each put together a starter kit and take responsibility to test this empirically for ourselves.

We need the individuality and courage to pick our own plants, and not do the obvious and just grow marijuana. Which is illegal, boys and girls, (I wonder what plant Ra germinated!) no, what plants should a beginner germinate, should we start with beansprouts to get used to it? We need experts and we also need the simplicity to turn up with our babies online in the forum and say, well, this time I am growing nettles, and you are growing dahlias. And we might discuss why, for example, your aunt was fond of nettles. Some people like to chat. I feel we migh be watching seeds sprout shoots from preparations days or even weeks before, it may be rather hit and miss, I have no idea? Tell us, if you can.

Through the forum classroom we can broadcast the correct start and finish of the window of triple germination. And meanwhile gasp and titter about how silly we all feel doing this, and swap photos of our latest hairstyles etc. Or you want some egg head who can bore us with theory? How statistically these triple channel plants would join many people's splits and be a Good Thing for almost anyone to touch and care for. Ra would make it great fun, especially as I feel his heart is more with plants and animals than people sometimes So he might join us personally, for this would be an important step in his quiet vision of plants and people in harmony.

The Forum would be ideal to guide us to germinate correctly across this planet, from Manaus to Siem Reap and Arkansa to Pratts Bottom and Nether Wallop.

Anyway, I am a generator, and something specific stimulated me to actually post this, something that shocked me because the moments when plants have all three complete channels activated must be quite rare. But you know what?

Take a look at the chart of the moment I finished the dance seminar and thought about all this again Totnes England at about 20h on Sunday 9 October 2005. The moon in 10.6, the role model, Sun in 57.2 cleansing, and Venus in 34.2 Momentum. Co-incidence?

Juxtaposition!

As Isadora Duncan once put it, if I could explain it, I would not have to dance it...