Thanks to a session I had with a new member here (his name is Steve, help me welcome him? hi Steve 🙂👋🏼)
And also thanks to Naim, Oleksander and yes, even FB from whence I swiped this screenshot.
(it was the very first thing I was presented with when I opened the app this morning).
I’ve had a lightbulb moment (aka. recognition perhaps?) about my use and relationship with the word grace.
Now the folks who’ve been here for a longer time already know that, though raised with an underpinning of, let’s call it liberal Methodist understanding of how the world oughta work, and broad morals that we can call “the golden rule”, and some Buddhist understanding we can thank my dad and reading Siddhartha in middle school for … all of these which I think also lean me Libertarian tbh (ooh religion and politics all in one sentence 👀🤭)
I haven’t actually got an organized religious bone in my body. But there is some foundational conditioning there.
And for that I am grateful.
Not for me exactly. Everyone here is the beneficiary of it. And that makes me glad.
But it’s more than that, it’s also my Design. The more I lean into it, the more I can see how I’m wired and how others simply are not.
And how okay that is.
Which is where the word grace happens for me.
Being unreligious, grace is a word that has an almost singular meaning or usefulness in my vocabulary.
It’s a word I said next to never before meeting Human Design and having 1-on-1 sessions with people.
Now I hear myself say it almost every time I’m having a conversation with someone new.
It’s never pre-planned.
And it’s never early on.
But at some point, when enough examples from what we’re able to see in their charts together
(usually it’s ideal to have the chart of someone close to them on hand too, so we can see and point to possible friction and resistance the mechanics bring)
Once there’ve been enough clarity pops and head nods of recognition… enough seeing into actual examples from their own situation and personal history.
And after enough stories of hilarious mis-match and bumbles from chez Goodsaid’s HD lab of experimental entertainment…
THEN this grace word seems to burst forth from me. 🥳
Unplanned and perfectly timed.
I mean honestly, once we see how different we all are - how can we have anything other than grace for one another.
🤷🏻♀️
When I was younger, late teens and early 20’s, I had this impression that I could fix things.
People, their kids, situations, environments …
Then I got older and smarter (?) and now Human Design has given a name to that old stance - it’s called my transference.
I was seeing what was needed, and not the underlying fear (my HD motivation) where my actual magic can happen.
And I see now, that this word grace - which I quite literally have no other use for in my personal lexicon … is a big part of that.
And also how important the timing of the delivery of it is.
Too soon and I’m left proving my point.
But I have nothing to prove.
I get together with people to explore and watch the lightbulbs pop for them 🥹
And so apparently, I wait until it can be used to describe the thing that’s already been revealed.
How cool to see that this morning for the first time 🥰
(Might have to click the image to see the whole thing)
I appreciate you all more than you may already know 🤗
Happy Friday morning to you.😘