Human Design
Transmission 13.02
-- Design
Reconsidered
-- I Ching
Primer
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-- Design
Reconsidered
Over the last seven and a
half years, I completed the deconstruction process of unlearning all the names
and keynotes I’d so arduously memorized when studying with Ra. Just to say, this
wasn’t easy, since the initial interpretation and later adapted interpretations
are catchy, giving a short way to say something memorized rather than knowing
something for yourself.
Of course the limitation of
this is you can’t figure out what the exceptions are, why any given conclusion
or phrase was used and you’re speaking in borrowed language that by definition
is a belief. As many of you know, I had the privilege of talking almost
endlessly with Ra while he stayed with us over those first six and a half years
of introducing him and promoting Human Design. I spent quite some time to as
accurately as possible help students learn the key phrases and basic structures
Ra taught. So I feel somewhat responsible for how this proceeded and continued
after that point when I knew there was a fundamental flaw in the
education.
At that time, January ’99,
while reviewing submitted tapes for approval, it became glaringly obvious that
we had a problem when one diligent student who had created a data base of all
the phrases possible on any given hexagram, center or definition sent in a tape
composed entirely of those phrases, without one original thought or formulation.
I spoke with Ra about it, who brushed it aside suggesting he would take care of
talking with that person. It didn’t matter much to him, but it did highlight for
me that the very starting point of the training we’d developed was profoundly
flawed!
From that moment forward, I
began to shift attention to what clients or students can know for themselves,
away from pat formulas and labels. As the process continued, it became clearer
and clearer what a frightful mess it is for someone to love Human Design and to
assume that how Ra interprets it is the one and only way. We see this in
religions and cults around the world that start with a charismatic leader who is
easily idolized and who then states that he or she is a direct recipient of
instructions and behavior codes for the masses via the popes, cardinals, mullahs
or monks.
In my experience, this
“follow me, I know the way” is a very questionable proposition. All the cross,
profile, type and strategy formulas with their handy names, many of which give
you the “huh?” feeling, got developed after my tenure was over, and so it was
easy for me to question this bombardment of slogans and phrases as action plans
(waiting to be invited is an action plan). I was astonished to hear from people
that as a projector my theme was bitterness, but for generators it was
frustration and manifestors, anger. Wow, what a trip, to make sure people start
off feeling guilty about themselves and then follow this with
instructions for how to act in the world to minimize one’s fault! Just
Wow.
Regardless of type,
everyone experiences these feelings. So of course, those who are suggestible
take those themes on and own them, discounting that as a generator, they maybe
deal with anger, even though they’re not manifestors. For me, all of the
“themes” are human, and everyone gets to find ways to center rather than react.
This does not require a strategy. We don’t need to be told what to do. It is a
question of paying attention, taking responsibility for being reactive, using
the chart to observe the mechanisms.
It was very encouraging for
me to uncover the four elements of the synthesis (Kabbalah, chakras, I Ching and
astrology) as they applied to the revelation of Human Design. My search for this
knowledge was greatly enhanced by reading Hua Ching Ni’s I Ching. This was the
first book where I found the wheel sequence used in Human Design, so I bought it
as a reference, especially because it was published in 1983 and therefore
preceded the date of the revelation. But of course, by the time you understand
the order of the wheel structure, you’ll also realize this is an ancient
formula. It originates with Fu Hsi and his arrangement of the eight trigrams.
The wheel is a logical development from that.
By streamlining the
interaction with a client or newcomer, it became possible to help someone to
directly identify with what they already know, and of course, there’s not much
memorizing, since a practitioner who comes from the point of self knowledge,
shifts the emphasis from learned phrases to having a conversation. When you
don’t know what something means, fish, ask questions, but for heaven’s sake,
don’t tell the person something you learned from someone else! Qualify what you
say to allow the other to edit and help you nuance what it is you’re seeing in a
chart.
So my journey has brought
me to this point in time where the work with Human Design is a joy, free of
clutter. It was not easy deconditioning my brain of the memorized ruts of
someone else’s perception. I spent some time being remorseful that I trained so
many students in that manner. But I learned Human Design like that from Ra, who
I greatly admired and loved. And I understand others who feel admiration and
love for him and his work. Nonetheless, I am enormously relieved to finally come
to my own knowledge and to guide others in their learning of Design free of all
those dreadful names.
At long last, I now will
give a class open to all called Human Design Fundamentals, Sept 30-Oct 2 in Taos
NM. You don’t need any experience, but for those Human Design students who are
interested in my work and are already familiar with authority and strategy, be
advised that this style will not be used.
You can register online for
this class at http://www.humandesignsystem.com/shop/0.htm, send a check to zc
design, or call 505 758-2909 to give a credit card number. Price is $400 +
$25.25 tax or $350 + $22.09 tax when paid by August 31.
Zeno
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-- An I Ching primer with
Annata Black
A one-day I Ching primer
To
naturally be, without interference… taught by Annata Black on
September 29 will precede Zeno’s HD Fundamentals class. Here’s what Annata
writes about it:
“You
are unchanging Truth, the still point at the center of life’s constant change.
The Book of Changes and the Unchanging Truth, the I Ching as translated by Hua
Ching Ni, is the source of this introductory course.
The
intent of the study is threefold: to understand fundamental elements and
principles of the I Ching; to enter the Balanced Way through shifting attention
from the constant oscillations of mental life to the rhythmic movement of your
true nature; and to become a conscious expression of your life’s evolving
potential.
From
the hexagrams of your Human Design chart, principles of the Balanced Way are
unfolded ... your natural being revealed, without
interference.”
The workshop costs $100 +
$6.31 tax.
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zc
design
PO Box 195
Taos NM 87571 USA
505 758-2909
zc@humandesignsystem.com
www.humandesignsystem.com
Since 1993, zc design is
instrumental in introducing and establishing the Human Design System in America
and abroad.
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