What’s On A Chart
The Zen Human Design chart is like a map or a circuit board, revealing most of its information visually.
The Database
The database is the area of dates, times and numbers to the left and below the body graph (the central image) of a chart. It contains the calculations based on someone’s birth data.
The black Personality row displays the planetary positions at date, time and place of birth, indexed into the hexagrams and lines of the I Ching. This is a person’s conscious potential.
The pink Design date displays date and time of the Personality crystal (the “I”) entering the fetus, 88° of the Sun before birth, when the body is ready for consciousness. The planetary positions at that time are also indexed into the hexagrams and lines of the I Ching and displayed in the pink Design row at the bottom. This is someone’s unconscious potential.
The Body Graph
The body graph is the integrative field where the results of the database calculations are made visible. Each of the 64 hexagrams has a place in one of the body graph’s nine centers, called a gate. Pairs of gates connect centers through channels.
The results of the Design calculation are transferred to the body graph by coloring half of the channel pink. The Personality calculations are transferred the same way in black. Personality and Design together result in pink/black stripes.
Centers
The crystals inform nine centers, hubs of cognition, information and energy throughout the body. They are the seven chakras evolved to nine.
Four of the centers are “motors,” energy hubs.
Head Filters cosmic inspiration to managable levels.
Ajna Mental cognition conceptualizes thought.
Throat Assimilation, communication, expression.
Ji Magnetic Monopole. Seat reservation for a life.
Heart Trust, sharing. Motor.
Solar Plexus Emotional energy and cognition. Motor.
Spleen Physical cognition, instinct, immune system.
Sacral Preserving the genes, sexuality. Motor.
Root Driving force of all life processes. Motor.
Channels
Centers interact and exchange information through the 36 channels. Channels are transforming agents, connecting the qualities of the centers involved into a distinct unit through which that information operates.
Gates
At both ends of a channel, at the junctions in the centers, are 64 gates. They correlate with the hexagrams of the Chinese I Ching and the math of the genetic code. When planets transit, they activate the gates in the body graph. The states of the gates at the moment of birth and 88 degrees of the Sun before are the imprint that constitutes an individual human Design.
The 64 hexagrams of the I Ching are the maximum combinations of eight trigrams with each other. They describe the archetypes of experience, the attributes, experiences and pitfalls of human life. For thousands of years, its wisdom and guidance have been used for advice and comfort, warning or assurance. It encourages an approach of mindfulness of the individual, as it relates to family, community, state and God.
Definition
When planets activate gates at both ends of a channel, the entire channel plus the two centers it connects are colored. This is called “definition.” Definitions operate consistently in the life according to the planets, gates, channels and centers involved. Defined gates are underlined in the database.
The white, undefined areas in the body graph are the conditioning field, where people are attracted to and interact with others, learn their life lessons, gain expertise and wisdom, but also where protective defenses are built and habits maintained.
Definition Types
Definitions can be split from each other or connect. There are five possible configurations:
No definition No colored centers.
Single definition One or more channels contiguously defined.
Split definition Two areas of definition separate from each other.
Triple split Three areas of definition.
Quadruple split Four areas of definition.
The Modes
Four of the centers are motors, driving forces. When a motor is defined and connected to the Throat through a contiguous definition, the person has a "design to do.” The energy is always available and can express itself.
If the Throat center is undefined or defined but not connected to a motor, then the person has a "design to wait."
Uranus Opposition
At about age 40, a life shifts from the themes of the South Nodes to the themes of the North Nodes, from inhaling to exhaling. It is often experienced as a time of change and even the “midlife crisis.”
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