Human Design
Transmission vol. 15, #1
12 February 2008
-- Welcome to our new
readers
-- The Shadow of Yourself
-- The Case for Now as the Dawn of the Age of Aquarius
-- Benazir Bhutto
-- Heath Ledger
-- Barack and Hillary
-- The 8th Annual HDP
Symposium
-- You’re Invited!
-- Become an HDP
Member!
-- New Forecast Available
-- Praise for The Course in Human Design v.2
This
is a Leap Year! We get the four extra quarter days this year, so happy birthday
to all you February 29 babies! and Happy Chinese New Year of the Rat. May it
bring us into the beginnings of Peace and a new administration.
--
Welcome to our new readers
In
the last months, many new people have joined our list, have received their free
charts and the Know Thyself brochure. We are glad to see our list growing and
want to personally welcome you and wish you well on your Human Design
adventure.
The
Know Thyself brochure has been designed to aid any person new to Human Design
with an initial legend that gives the base meanings for all the elements on a
chart. The overview data on the bottom of the chart highlights a few general
keys beginning with Definition Type, then Mode and Modes as Types. You'll
also see a section highlighting centers defined and undefined.
So
if you have your chart and the brochure, open to the middle that shows the
centers to get a reference for what your chart tells you. Although there are
many things that can be thrilling to learn, the most basic lesson is the centers
being defined and undefined. This gives you the greatest experiential window
into how you can identify and feel the centers energy as the imprint of the
planets from the moment of your birth. This lesson is so fundamental that
it will continue throughout your study of Human Design.
When
you have your chart and are mystified as to what its value might be,
consider the following basic concept:
--
The Shadow of Yourself
Carl
Jung brought to everyone’s attention the notion of the shadow, that part of
oneself that gets projected onto others and is hard to recognize in oneself.
Each of us has been the beneficiary of someone else’s projections, where it is
just unbelievable that the communication between any two people can be so
horrible! Just as likely, each of us has projected and accused someone else of
starting a disagreement when it might have been our own energy reflecting back
through the other person’s open areas in his or her chart.
For
this one reason alone, everyone on the planet should have their Human Design
chart to see what is being mirrored back that is one’s own energy. The Human
Design chart is unparalleled in its ability to help you distinguish what you
contribute to any given situation or disturbance and also shows how others can
affect you.
What
we reflect when we’re around others depends on where we are open and where we
are defined. Reflecting is an interesting word. In one sense, it means to
contemplate, to consider, but when reflecting is like the light on a windshield
that blinds you from seeing clearly, it can be dangerous. As a Human Design
term, reflecting is what any open (white) center in a chart does – it can
reflect back the quality of conditioning that it receives. It can also blind us,
distort the energy and make us feel reactive or defensive when we don’t grasp
the nature of conditioning.
We
also have lifelong habits of protecting or defending ourselves in those areas
that are white in our charts. White centers show what doesn’t accurately
perceive what’s going on. Magnifying the energy or reacting to the discomfort of
conditioning is very likely. Identifying with the conditioning when it’s
comfortable is also likely.
So
if you have your chart and the brochure, but don’t know where to start, start
with the centers. Look at the centers in your chart that are colored. If you see
color in the Solar Plexus, for example, it means you affect the environment with
your emotional energy. When you are open in the Solar Plexus center (undefined
and therefore not colored), it means you get the lesson to be a good, clear
mirror and get out of the way of being emotionally reactive. Excuse yourself
politely and let the other know you don’t handle emotional energy well.
To
read the full article: www.humandesignsystem.com/archive/articles/Zeno/0007.htm
--
The Case for Now as the Dawn of the Age of Aquarius
The
worldwide economic downturn coincides with Pluto’s transit into Capricorn that
has been forecast by astrologers to bring tumultuous changes in financial
markets, business structures, corporations and political institutions. It
can be viewed as a transformative effect of Pluto in Capricorn now butting up
against the rising mountain of corruption and failure. Pluto is the planet of
destruction, death and rebirth, therefore transformative; Capricorn represents
structures, business and institutions. We see the fault lines cracking in all
kinds of areas in our political world.
In
one way, this can be seen as the time you’ve been expecting since a long while.
It’s been prophesied that in order for the new man to be born, the old man must
die. The old man is the hardened, masculine domination that has its reckoning
with the feminine planet earth. The birth of the new man, the new humanity of
Spirit-consciousness is what the light workers I know have been waiting for.
The
very challenging aspects of the old dying will continue for a long time to come
as Pluto transits Capricorn and certainly through Winter Solstice 2012 (end of
the Mayan calendar). This shakeup, breakup (the old dies) makes it possible to
claim that now is the dawn of the Age of Aquarius, marked by the entrance
of Neptune into the first of the Solar Plexus Aquarius gates, gate 49 (birth of
the new humanity), as of January 23, 2007. (Remember an “age” is about 2,200
years, so the dawn is only the very first glimmers of
light.)
The
Sun and North Node are in Aquarius right now as well. Maybe that’s why I think
about the birth of the new man. The children born now and through 2025 will have
Neptune in the Solar Plexus (Neptune: the most spiritual, planet of oneness,
enlightenment; Solar Plexus: the emerging emotional awareness of our
interconnectedness).
Since
Neptune is the planet of spiritual oneness or dissolution of boundaries, and it
now will transit the Solar Plexus for most of the next 17 years, its entrance
into the Solar Plexus is one step in the evolution of our species, that being
the rise of emotional awareness, the birth of the new humanity. If you’ve been
working on yourself to be more emotionally aware, you might already see it
as your contribution to ushering in the Aquarian Age.
--
Benazir Bhutto
You
can find Benazir Bhutto’s chart and the transit of her death at
www.humandesignsystem.com/charts/celebrities.htm.
A simple
lesson for beginning students is to look at her Definition Type (single
definition) and Mode (to Wait - Projector). The theme for projectors is
recognition, to be seen, to get attention. Her death brought global attention to
who she was, what she stood for, what she contributed to society.
Read
an overview of her chart here: www.humandesignsystem.com/archive/articles/Zeno/0004.htm
In
studying the transit of her death, I realized something that deserves further
research in death charts. As this hasn’t yet been done, I present just this one
for your consideration: The transit chart at death can show you the achievement
and fulfillment of one’s potential or transcendence possible. Looking at that
transit chart suggested to me that Benazir completed her time and martyrdom
was written in the stars. She was meeting her destiny and her place in history,
(herstory).
Benazir’s natal North
Node positions, 41 and 19, both in Aquarius, would be where one looks
at the life trajectory, or destiny. At the time of her death, these two
gates were defined by transiting North Node in 30 and transiting Neptune
in 49, both in Aquarius.
Transiting
Venus also formed a channel definition with natal Venus (14-2), suggestive of
goddess bloodlines.
--
Heath Ledger
Heath
Ledger was another person whose untimely death provided an opportunity to study.
>From the news descriptions, and prior to looking at his chart, my guess was
that Heath had an undefined Spleen center and so couldn’t differentiate what was
healthy for him. I also presumed that he was emotionally defined. My hypothesis
was correct. You can look at his chart and also the transit for the approximate
time of his passing at www.humandesignsystem.com/charts/celebrities.htm.
To
read more about his chart, click here: www.humandesignsystem.com/archive/articles/Zeno/0006.htm
-- Barack
and Hillary
On
the newsmakers charts at www.humandesignsystem.com/charts/celebrities.htm
you’ll also find various current politicians including Barack Obama and Hillary
Clinton, both of whom are affected by the North Node transit to gate 30. Just
for fun, it you haven’t already seen the charts, can you guess if either person
is emotionally defined? John McCain’s chart is also
posted.
-- The 8th
Annual HDP Symposium
HDP,
the Association of Human Design Practitioners, hosts an annual symposium;
this year the theme is “The Birth Imprint.” The dates are revised to be from
April 4-6 for experienced Human Designers, and there will be a one-day tutorial
for new people on April 3, held this year in Taos, NM.
Recently,
I came across a fitting article that describes a legend from the Jewish
tradition. It tells of the angel Lailah who comes just before birth and lightly
touches the upper lip of the yet-to-be-born baby (therefore we have that
depression above our upper lip) to extinguish the light that shines from “one
end of the universe to the other.” This light encompasses the unborn’s own deep
past and his ultimate destiny. (From the article Prebirth, by Thomas
Armstrong, Spirituality & Health, Jan/Feb
2008.)
The task however is to remember and to wake up. This remembrance is
greatly aided by knowing your own chart, those of people close to you, and
understanding the transits. We will explore this powerful transition moment with
a special focus on the three months prior to birth, when the Personality
crystal was resident during the last stage of gestation.
www.humandesignsystem.net/symposium.html
--
You’re
Invited
If you are someone who uses Human
Design in your professional capacity and are interested in coming to the
Symposium, we would like to offer you the opportunity to present a segment in
exchange for participation. Please send a brief description of your work using
Human Design. We'd love to include you in the interest of a core
goal for the Association: to gather together for The Independent
Application of Human Design. HDP was created to give you a place to converse and
share your enthusiasm and discoveries.
-- Become
an HDP Member!
If
you are a student of Human Design System, whether a beginner or an experienced
pro, you belong in HDP, the Association of Human Design Practitioners.
Throughout its eight years, more features and benefits for its members have
continuously been added.
With
the homework for Level I certification now available to all members at no
additional cost, membership becomes an especially
smart move for the people who bought the Course to learn Human Design.
The
new Forecast by Zeno (next paragraph) is available as a bonus for free to HDP
members. Join now:
Go
to www.humandesignsystem.net/membership/join.htm
--
Forecast Now Available
With the most recent forecast, zc
design has opened its new Digital Goods Store. You can now pay and download the
Jan/Feb 2008 forecast for $7.50 here www.humandesignsystem.com/shop/dgs/
Keep checking back for new
titles!
--
The Course in Human Design v.2
Since
the release of The Course in Human Design v.2 last November, the feedback has
been coming in and it has been good. Here’s a testimonial from one
satisfied person:
“...
[I’m sure] you're aware of the new version of the Course in Human Design v.2. I
can personally attest to its excellence -- I'm taking the Level I training
through HDP that uses the new zc course right now. And having studied under the
old Ra material, this is a vast improvement. Zeno and Chaitanyo have eliminated
the memorization (something I NEVER could do), integrated the I Ching and
astrology eloquently and gracefully. I'm following the concepts of the
centers, gates and channels, applying them to my own, family and friends charts.
And I'm finally GETTING it. It's a marvel."
G.
Lorenzo, Jackson WY.
The
Course presents the complete and generic mechanical structure of the
Human Design System, without bias, so that you're able to see for
yourself!
Order
here now: www.humandesignsystem.com/education/1.htm
or
call Zeno at 575 758-2909. Terms available, too!
***
zc design
PO Box 2366
Ranchos de Taos NM
87557
575 758-2909
Since 1993, zc design is instrumental
in introducing, establishing and developing the Human Design System in America
and abroad.
Occasionally we send an e-mail
newsletter to our list. Once in a while there's even a printed issue. We do
share our list with HDP, The Association of Human Design Practitioners, but no
one else.
To be removed from this list, please reply with
"remove" in the subject line.