We're All Moving Through Space in Search of the Right Place
By Gennaro Brooks-Church
Introduction
The Human Design System is based on the premise that if you live your strategy you will get what is correct for your design. But what does "correct for your design"? really mean? Is it like broccoli "“ it's good for you so just eat it. Or is it like those late night exercise commercials "“ only two minutes a day and you become gorgeous, happy and rich.
Read on to find out.
First, let's look at http://www.humandesignonline.com/intro/intro.htm]Strategy
To get what is correct for your design you need to live your strategy. Strategy (Inform, Respond, etc) is a behavior that depends on what Type you are (Manifestor, Generator etc) and is essentially about moving energy.
Without energy exchange we die. The goal in life is to move energy. And not just any energy, but the energy that is right for you - Try moving 2000 volts of electric energy through you and see how long you live.
In terms of energy intake, it varies widely. Humans are glorified vehicles. Some vehicles need gas for energy, others need sunlight, and others need beer. And on the output side, since what goes in must come out, there are just as many variations: some vehicles output gas fumes, some output beautiful music, and others fart. It's all a give and take, an input and an output. Nothing is lost and nothing is gained, it's just moved around.
And for every kind of energy moved there is a specific strategy. The strategy is the key to how the energy comes in and goes out. So think of it in terms of images. With one strategy you are like a well watered flower in the sun or a plump vulture on a carcass. With another strategy the very same situations can get turned on their head: You are a well watered vulture or a flower squashed by a carcass.
The point here is that you can put your own morality to it, but it's just energy stacked in different ways. Life is a vast kaleidoscope of carbon atoms arranged in different formats. That arrangement depends on the strategy that was used to move them.
The Four Strategies by http://www.humandesignonline.com/intro/intro.htm]Type
Strategy is a survival technique used by each Type to move energy. Their strategy is different since their energetic needs are very different.
When we say, "Live your strategy and you get what you are designed to get."? what we are really saying is, "Move the ENERGY correctly and you get what you are designed to get."?
So in terms of the Types, they are all different energy vehicles and therefore a strategy for one will get very different results than for the other. Here is an overview of the four strategies:
Manifestor
For Manifestors the strategy is one of damage control and their keynote is INFORMING.
Manifestors need high octane fuel and tend to consume it in high busts, creating all sorts of explosions that although short lived make a big impression. Their strategy is, like all strategies, a survival technique. Only in this case it might be your survival in question and not theirs. "Get the F;*#k out of my way, I have a live grenade in my hands and I'm about to throw it."?
You see, suave communication isn't a strong point for Manifestors, for the same reason it's hard to wave to a passing fighter jet "“ it's going too fast and fighter jet pilots aren't exactly the waving type. The pilots barely even see you down there as they whiz by. They are self contained like that.
Manifestors move their own energy, not your energy. So there is less exchange between them and others on an energetic level. They communicate with themselves, but there is no real need to communicate with you since they don't need your energy. And all the while you can't help but notice them as they roar by.
So with Manifestors it's a good idea to communicate what energy is being moved where, both on your side and theirs. Otherwise you could have a head on collision on your hands.
Generator and Manifesting Generator
The Generator strategy is about fortune telling. The fortune teller is the sacral center and it only speaks when faced with something to RESPOND to.
If you are a generator, which is most of us, then you have no idea what the hell you are going to do until the time comes to actually do it. And if you think you do know before hand then you've got your head up your ass, which I guess is close to your sacral center geographically. But you've still got your head up your ass.
The truth is that until a Generator comes to the fork in the road and has to decide whether to turn left or right, they have no idea whether the goldmine of energy inside them will be available. They have to sit back and let the response move them. They are like huge sloshing containers of magic juice. But they are only the containers. Where that juice decides to slosh is not their choice.
If there ever was a religious people, it would be the Generators. They are here to be led by their Shepherd, to bow down to the Lord, to let Jesus save them (so to speak). The only variation to what the Vatican might tell them, though, is that they all have their very own Lord right inside and it is called the sacral center. To let God speak through them is to let their sacral response guide them. That is the movement of energy at it's most sublime.
Projector
The Projector strategy is about somehow getting you to INVITE them to partake in some of your energy.
The Projector is the kid who watches you from afar and then says to you, "Sir, you dress funny."?
And when you say to them, "Oh yea, why's that?"? that's their cue to tell you all about this cool clothing store on the other side of town. They in fact were going there and would be more than glad to jump in your car and take you there too. You get a new tie and they get a ride.
Projectors aren't bubbling with energy like the Generator, nor are they shooting through space on rocket fuel like the Manifestor. Projectors are sitting on the sidelines in astronaut suits holding signs like, "Expert Mechanic, Specializing in Mars landings. Will travel."?
They might not have the energy themselves but they have spent their whole lives watching those who do, so it makes them pretty good at finding ways to get access to the energy.
And if they are really good, while they are helping themselves to your energy they'll give you a few tips on how you could use your energy better. Ideally it's a symbiotic relationship like you see in the nature shows where the birds clean the rhinoceros's back in return for food, for example.
Reflector
The Reflector strategy is about letting the energy move through them, a pure REFLECTION of the energy around them.
The Reflector is not here to move their own energy like the Generators and Manifestors, nor are they here to move other people's energy like the Projector. In fact they aren't here to move energy at all. A Reflector who tries to move their own energy is like a dog chasing his tail. It is a closed circuit and energy hates a closed circuit.
The Reflector is here to be part of the energy around them, literally to the point where there is no distinction between whose energy it is. Is it mine, is it yours? Who cares, just give me more wine. They are here to experience the "Oness"? of the universe while buying bread.
It is hard to not talk about Reflectors in these esoteric terms. They are the clown in the circus and the business man in the crowded commuter train. They embody their environment. Their strategy is to let the energy pass right through them without controlling or being controlled.
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The Two Steps to Getting It and What You Actually Get
Now let's look at the two steps required to living your strategy and ultimately getting what you are designed to get:
First step: Know yourself.
Second step: Accept yourself.
These are two very different things and are deeply connected. One cannot happen without the other. But that does not mean they always WILL. You can spend all your life getting to Know yourself and still hate your guts. And you can Accept who you are but if you don't know who that is then your are just fooling yourself (see above: Head Up Ass).
Human Design happens to be a good tool to get to Know yourself, and there are some nice things thrown in to make it real easy to Accept yourself too. If you've bothered to read this far you know that already.
But putting those two steps into action is like trying to have sex with a porcupine. For those of you who have never tried, it is hard! Even with all the cool Human Design tools, it is really hard to Know yourself and even harder to Accept yourself. But like the I-Ching says, Perseverance Furthers, and it does get easier if you keep at it.
The process is like a dance. You learn a bit about yourself, and then you see how it is kind of cool to be like that. Then you learn a little more and so on.
So those are the two steps, and they are absolutely necessary if you want to be able to live your strategy and get what you are designed to get.
What do you get?
Now we have seen what strategy is and how to use it in order to get what you are designed to get. But what is it that you actually get?! Sure it's a flow of energy but what is it concretely. Is it a nicer car? A happier relationship? An easier life? The answer is Yes and"¦ No.
Question: What do you get when you get what you are designed to get?! (You might have to read that twice)
Answer: You get a place.
A Place?!
Yes, a place.
We all have a place in this world. It might have walls, it might be open pasture, it might have sofas, it might be blue, it might be warm. Who the hell knows! I don't, you don't. You can't even imagine what this place looks like because it changes all the time.
This place moves with you as you sit on this planet, which is hurdling through space at 65,000 mph (105,000 kph). That is really fast. At that speed it takes you under two minutes to cross the Atlantic. If that doesn't show you that you have no choice then I don't know what will. But that is a side point.
My main point is if you think you know what is good for you at any moment, in less than an hour you will have moved 65 THOUSAND miles away from that point. Believe me, what is good for you changes constantly. And we are not talking about the benefits of health food versus junk food. We're talking about a universal positioning that ties you into creation!
So how do you deal with this and still pay the electric bill on time?
YOU HAVE TO GIVE UP THE IDEA THAT LIVING YOUR STRATEGY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU GAINING MORE CONTROL OVER YOUR LIFE.
Everything will be OK. Somebody is in control, but it's not your little head. Living your strategy is in fact an acknowledgement that you are not in control and never will be. Through your strategy you find your authority and you make decisions that get you to that Place "“ the Holy Grail that harmonizes you with you "“ but it's more an act of letting the energy flow through you than you doing anything to control it. You (and by "˜you' I mean your mind) have no way of knowing what that correct place is nor do you have control over it. Only by making your strategy boss will you find it.
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Conclusion
If you live your strategy, which involves a real letting go, you get the right place. It's like that nice French saying, "Se sentir bien dans sa peau"? To feel good in your skin.
But what does that mean concretely? Is it a nicer car? A happier relationship? An easier life? The answer is Yes!! If you are a circle and you live your strategy then all these things will be circular holes for you to fit in. Living your strategy will harmonize you with your surroundings.
But will these things actually be nicer? No!! They will just be different variations of the same energy. The "nicer' is a moralistic thing that comes with having a neo-cortex in your head. Mr. Neo-Cortex likes to say things like, "Circle is better than square"?. And maybe that is true at one point in the solar system, but by the time you have finished the sentence you've moved about 500 miles through space and circle may no longer be better than square. You might be passing through a place where the exact opposite is true.
I use this analogy of speed through space only as an example of our absolute ignorance of the larger framework, because I have no idea what the true framework is. Either way, it's big and we are not designed to see its totality. The best we can do is live our strategy and find our place in that framework.
This correct place is where the energy coming in is in harmony with the energy going out. This is a movement and is therefore constantly changing. Living our strategy keeps us in harmony with that flux.
So, if you live your strategy you may get that house you always wanted. But if you are truly living your strategy you'll understand that the house is pretty immaterial. The real benefit of living your strategy is that you get what you are designed to get at each moment, at each breath, forever.
Thanks! Discussion is welcome.
Gennaro.

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Gennaro wrote....Projectors are sitting on the sidelines in astronaut suits holding signs like, “Expert Mechanic, Specializing in Mars landings. Will travel.�
Thank you muchly for that sentence...it explained a lot to me about both myself and someone else in my past who, like myself, is also a projector. And it leads me to be thinking about what sort of sign do I want to hold up here on this forum/website to promote invitations? :?:
I have never really thought before about wangling invitations instead of just waiting around for them.