Human Design Transmission
Volume 31, number 5
September 22, 2024

- Notables Database
- 2025 Pocket Ephemeris
- Ephemeris by the Second
- Q&A: Decision Making

Notables Database

The designs of the famous and infamous have always been an important and intriguing part of Human Design research. Ra used the charts of Marilyn Monroe, Bill Gates, Bill & Hillary Clinton, Einstein and Hitler in his initial 1993 Basic and Advanced trainings in Taos.

He had bad black & white photocopies of hand-drawn color charts, and so I stayed up at night and made a digital version of the body graph, which allowed me to manually turn on or off the activations and create individual body graphs that were clean and easy to read. Taking them into the desktop program, I could then make the printable charts for the students. They were black and white at that time. It would still be a few years until we could afford color printing.

In March 1996 we released a volume of 55 charts of “Famous Raves,” followed by volume II a year later. The charts were still made by hand with the aid of my desktop program.

Soon we had collected hundreds of designs and with one of the revisions of our website in the early 2000s, we made them available for free online as pdfs. By the 2010s, that collection offered access to more than 1000 designs.

When I started to seriously work on Auracle in 2019, I neglected the collection, but used those designs to test out Auracle’s functionality over the next few years, slowly expanding it along the way. Now that Auracle is public, it contains over 2200 designs of notable people and I’m happy to announce that the entire collection is now available publicly, free of charge.

The Notables database operates through Auracle’s interface, but it doesn’t allow to add or alter anything, and so you’ll find a lot of buttons that a greyed out and not operable (so that you know what you’re missing without an Auracle subscription). Nevertheless, it’s a great resource, allowing you to see over 2200 individual designs with their data source and short biographical notes for most. You can print charts, view circuitry, returns and oppositions and also some saved composites and transits.

In addition, they are grouped in Albums, which collect designs by cause of fame (actors, writers, fashion, serial killers, nazis, philosophers, musicians, etc.) as well as some design traits (channel 34-20, or 51-25, virgin Ji, virgin Throat, etc.). This is an invaluable resource and a work in progress. You are invited to participate and suggest further individuals, albums or additions to the notes. At some point, I’d like to trust somebody to curate, maintain and expand the collection, but so far this remains my job.

Quick start:
1. Go to https://notables.auracle.com.
2. Start typing the name you are looking for.
3. Confirm with <enter> or <tab> when it appears in the Find box.

For assistance and more details, see the manual at https://manual.auracle.com/notables.html

2025 Pocket Ephemeris

Now available.
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booklet, 32 pages

$14, includes shipping worldwide

The booklet ships as a US Post First Class letter.
If you order more than one, each will arrive in its own envelope, sometimes a day or two apart.

In the US, the letter usually arrives within about a week. Abroad we estimate up to 3 weeks.

Ephemeris by the Second

When using the Zen Human Design Ephemeris, I always wished that the data for the slow planets weren't spread so far apart, as it doesn't provide an easy overview. This is so because of the table format, where a planetary position is checked at a given time in the day (in the Zen Human Design Ephemeris every twelve hours, at noon and midnight). This works well for the quicker planets, but the slow planets require lots of page flipping.

With Auracle I finally have a tool to calculate exact dates and times of gate, line and direction changes and this has resulted in a new ephemeris series, The Zen Human Design Ephemeris by the Second, which on a single double page shows about 7 years of Uranus, or 10 years of Pluto, for example, down to the second.

Now available in five volumes for the social and transpersonal planets, each covering 500 years, from 1701 to 2200.

	Jupiter 1701-2200 softcover, 6x8", 480 pages $21, plus shipping
	Saturn 1701-2200 softcover, 6x8", 268 pages $18, plus shipping
	Uranus 1701-2200 softcover, 6x8", 148 pages $16, plus shipping
	Neptune 1701-2200 softcover, 6x8", 106 pages $15, plus shipping
	Pluto 1701-2200 softcover, 6x8", 90 pages $14, plus shipping
	Bundle of all 5 volumes $80, plus shipping
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Q&A

Answers to select questions from readers, clients and students.

Decision Making

"Did Ra leave the two modes for the energy types? And did he say nothing about how to make decisions the first years?”

Assuming with “energy types” you mean the modes to do and to wait, those were present right from the start. The fact that Ra couldn’t understand them and therefore fumbled to teach them was a deciding factor in his invention of the "4 types" and their “strategies” a few years later (and another few years later, the 5th type and the many sub-types), which obliterated the two modes until I started issuing reminders about a decade ago.

“Decision making” is one of the Jovian myths with which it tries to make itself relevant and marketable, suggesting that you are in control if you were just "living your design." It’s another aspect of the glorification of doing, the bane of the west, and now the world.

In the dozens of lectures and classes I attended between 1993 and 2000, I never heard him talk about decision making. This emerged much later from his “strategies,” which, if you think about it, are nothing but advice on how to do, based on the assumption that designs to wait couldn’t possibly want anything else in life than doing, that they are just waiting to do. Ra’s blinders. The superior doer advising the poor waiter how to do. Ignorance begets arrogance. As I keep saying, a design to do is unable to understand a design to wait. His advice is absurd and damaging.

I’m not saying that designs to wait understand themselves. Two hundred years of “strive means life” conditioning has left most of them just as deluded. Just do it! Make it happen! Achieve! Make decisions! You have somewhere to go! Purpose! Destiny! Success! Jovianism is not helping.

If Human Design is any helpful in bettering humanity, it will humble doing and return waiting to its natural place. Life is a marvelous gift, not a problem to solve.

Zen. Chopping wood. Fetching water.

Love

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