"The Heart Center is deeply complex. We are going to look at ego conditioning. Now, if you look at the illustration here, we have a lot of material to cover, so let’s start down here with this word, because this word is enormously important: The threat of not proving one’s worth to one self or others. The threat; think about that.
You have an open ego; you have an open Heart Center. What is sitting there, the way in which the automatic defense mechanism of any open center, in this case the ego, the Heart Center, that the way in which the foundation is going to be established in the mind for the decision making process is that it’s going to be rooted in threat: The threat of not proving oneself. So, one of the things to think about what the Heart Center brings is that it’s the only center, in a sense, that says there are deep consequences for not following this decision. Deep, deep consequences. It’s a threat.
In the Heart Center we have our warrior capacity, we have our soldiers, and we have our savage. Every human being has a savage inside of them. You can find that savage living inside the Heart Center. It’s there. This threat of not proving one’s worth to oneself or others. You see, because it is a threat, the Holy Grail is to have the will and the skill to be able to go out there and prove one’s worth to oneself, and to others. And the cruel joke: based on what exactly?
What are the consequences of not proving one’s worth? A defined ego is not concerned with such things. It learns very early in life that if it can’t keep its word it will get punished; it’s just the way it is. There is this underlying threat that is part of the way in which the whole Heart Center functions. Think about the 40/37 and the bargain—the threat—there is an underlying threat in any agreement. Always: “If you don’t, if you aren’t, if you don’t follow the letter of this, if you do not demonstrate that you are loyal, if you do not”…well, threat.
And the 21? They’ll threaten you to your face. It is the control mechanism. “You do as I say, or you will be ostracized. You will be turned away; you will not be protected.” Threat. Most people, when they think about the Heart Center in Human Design, and I’m talking about those that are educated, this is not a word that comes to mind. But this is what it’s really all about. It’s a threat.
Let’s take a look at the way in which this works. First of all, trying to prove one’s worthiness—we all know that this is the whole thing about the undefined Heart Center to begin with. These are beings that basically consider themselves to be less worthy than others. My mantra to them all the time is, “You’ve got nothing to prove. You’re not designed to prove.” Only beings like me with very powerful ego centers spend their whole damn lives proving. I can tell you that it’s a burden. Years and years and years and years of teaching Human Design to prove that it is valid; this ongoing prove it, prove it, prove it. We still have things we have to prove. I’m always talking about having to prove it. But I’m an ego being. It is my nature. It is inherent in my will power to do so.
But if you have an open Heart Center you cannot go around trying to prove anything. There is nothing to prove. But, of course, wow, does that take awareness if you have an open Heart Center. Does it ever take awareness as an open Heart Center the oldest remedy I gave open Hearts was: Never make a promise. Don’t do it, because you’re going to break it. Maybe you don’t break this one, but you break the next one. The moment that you break the promise is the moment you break your own heart. You just do. It proves again how unworthy you are.
Think about Rave Psychology and understanding the deep impact. When you look at a client and a client has an undefined Heart Center they have real problems. Because one of the ways in which they make decisions is based on being unworthy. Think about that. Before you even start to say yes to anything, you’re starting from a foundation that says, “I am unworthy. These people think I can do this thing; well, I have to. This person thinks I can be their lover. I have to prove myself, or else.” Or else—the threat, it’s always there. They’re scared to death of that threat that’s there."
~Ra Uru Hu
Thanks Koen and Oleksandr
Unrelated, it’s just the first picture I came to in my phone. 🙃
I spent months trying to remember what this painting was called (have now forgotten again lol), so I couldn’t find it by regular search.
Grok found it in just a couple of prompts. What a relief for my open head 🤓
@Carizma22 3/5 splenic P, has said yes to sharing this 😍
I love it when I get to be privy to an ‘experiment progress report’ from one of our Locals members.
Wanna celebrate with me? 🥳🤩🙌🏽
This next one is a tale of Carole’s undefined solar plexus adventures, originally posted in a Projector fb group.
Cool witnessing Carole! 🤗
Thread gist in comments (screenshots) and a somewhat messy screen grab video of the video recommended in one of the OP comments she received included below (above?🤓)
And there’s a short video of @BeyondBeautiful and me first talking about “avoiding confront and truth” which includes a story I often have told about John and the very first real time glimpse I saw this undefined solar plexus dealie irl. Can find.
Blew my mind.
I know there are several splenic Authority folks in here, maybe you have stories to share too?
"Some ideas take decades"
This is pretty inspiring. She reckons she's finally finished her apprenticeship at 70 💜
Fun add-on HD irl example - this was shared in Vanessa's group on FB, The Art of Being You by another appreciative group member (thank you Kathrin 🤗), and I first watched it a few hours ago.
I immediately thought what a great share it would be in here 🤩 but it landed pretty quickly on my 'roundtooit list.
Maybe to get shared here, maybe not. Tbh, the hold up was that I didn't really want to share a FB link in here, so I was looking (investigating) around to see if it was on another platform.
Hadn't found it yet.
Then it turns out that @NaimR wasn't able to view it from Canada (someone is blocking it for Canada ? wha?) and she said as much on the thread in Vanessa's group.
And you know what kicks in?
My Design (19/49 and Markets internal in particular), which had me heading this way anyway - at some point ... maybe... but I always get a little boost of focus from ...
There were three roller coasters 🎢 we had on or radar for the last hour before the rides closed.
Wasn’t to be, but we did find this nice place to sit and wait out the deluge that started right after we grabbed a great smoked BBQ supper.
And ooh it cooled everything off perfectly. And gave us some rest before we found our way back to the car (which was parked on the very first row of priority parking 🥳)
Ahhhh nothing to do, so much nothing to do 🥳🥰🍿
This is a post and audio from @BeyondBeautiful - Valerie Montgomery, Self Projected Projector
"I wanted to make this breakfast and found myself rushing.
Now, you might be interested to know I have Alternating Determination, which means I need to do things “One Thing At A Time,” which turns out to be the title of the song I made up to shift the energy of starting to make this breakfast.
I also have an Undefined Root, so it always feels like I need to get rid of the pressure. Also known as feeling rushed to do things.
It would have been lovely to have my cat fix my breakfast, and I had the time, so..
Also being Self Projected my authority comes out through my speaking, or in this case, singing."
Great awareness and share, thank you Valerie! 💜Not sure that's the right title for this, but it's what came out so I'm rolling with it.
This story began in a FB group. Where many of my stories do.
I can't actually remember the thread or how we ended up in messenger, but the reason we did was because 5/1 Projector with Gate 1 on an undefined G center ... had music of hers to share but hasn't been able to share it so far.
Am still waiting to see if the rest of the story gets shared with me.
So she asked me what sort of music I liked and did I want something more abstract (I think it was) or a vocal cover. I chose vocal cover and she picked this one.
I felt it to my core.
Not sure if part of that was related to some of what she'd already (not intentionally) told me ... 5th line folks can take a lot of patience to draw out - that's been my experience so far anyway.
Some feel interesting enough to spend the energy on :) That's true here.
A kind of sidenote to this is that both my Uranus Opposition (40ish yo) and Chiron (50ish yo) charts carry a 3/5 and it feels like, though I'm not a 5th line - I do sort of get ...
This is quite the eloquent telling of what I find to be a universal truth. 💕
Am not familiar with the writer - yet 🙂
Thanks for the share Kathrin Marx
“Let me say this as plainly as I can.
At the deepest level of who you are, there is no frantic project of trying to fix your life. No endless chase for happiness. No constant negotiation with reality to make it finally work for you.
That whole drama, the striving, the searching, the needing it all to come together, that’s happening on the surface. It’s learned, conditioned, inherited. Underneath that, something far more unsettling is true: nothing is missing.
What you are at your core is not scrambling for peace, freedom, or contentment. It isn’t trying to secure them, improve them, or hold onto them. There is a basic, unagitated presence that doesn’t need to be completed. No fear to manage. No disturbance to resolve. Just a kind of quiet, unadvertised okayness that doesn’t depend on circumstances cooperating.
Call it God, call it ultimate...
Discovering what is and is not you can be so very cool and relieving. ☺️
Below is a story from Ra that’s possible with any white center we may have - for me it’s always been my open head that was the gateway to this understanding.
Once I could see how much of what was going on in my head simply wasn’t mine 😅 … phew, talk about freedom 👀
Mind you, it wasn’t instant freedom - there were a lot of habits both internally and from the outside that I got to watch for months… even now it can be a thing, but freedom from the pressure to make everyone else’s concerns mine too??
Worth the watching FOR SURE 👍🏽
Now here’s Ra -
"Had it not been for the logic of Human Design I never would have told anybody anything.
It would have been my private moment of madness and I would have gone about my business of staying wild and enjoying it.
Because that’s my design.
And what changed all of that was watching the movement and the programming of the planets.
I had my experience at the beginning of January, from 3rd – 11th January 1987 –
And in the Program, in...
For my 6th grade graduation (1979-ish I think 🤔), we learned a few songs to sing so we could perform them as a class for our families who came to our program to celebrate with us.
The only song I remember (and remember all the words to - I found myself spontaneously singing it in the car just the other day) is “The Greatest Love of All” originally recorded by George Benson in 1977 and ultimately became universalized (ha! I typed that and then had to check - seems she was a 4/6 sacral MG) by Whitney Houston in 1985.
This is George Benson singing it -
Talk about programming :)
"It is a profound teaching, that Love begins within oneself, in the true aloneness of the illusion of form: that universal Love can only be found in the Now, in surrender to the life that happens: that there can be no love in or for Humanity until its actions are correct; and finally that it is our form, our bodies that need to be honored as vehicles of consciousness and that...
Yesterday, @mellijae shared a graphic from 64Keys and it reminded me that there's a hashtag in here for #theplanets
Here's a direct search link -
https://planetandrea.locals.com/?search=%23theplanets
If you're interested in planetary placements in your chart - those 11 posts are a great place to begin. :)
by Richard Rudd
"There is one big key to understanding Projectors, and it can only be found by looking at the bigger picture.
We know that statistically, Projectors make up 21% of the population. That means that for every five people, more or less, there is one Projector.
Those are interesting numbers, especially when they are considered within the context of how Gene Pools operate.
There is a mysterious circuit within the Bodygraph that is curiously known as the WA. The WA holds the secret to the choreography of all human gene pools.
One day, when these aspects of Human Design are explored in more depth, we will be able to see how groupings of individual designs come together in the same way as cells bind together to create the organs within our bodies.
For those who baulk at the idea that we have no choice, this is frightening stuff.
The WA shows how different human designs are collectively organised and herded together to perform certain functions within the greater body of humanity.
Imagine then, that humanity is a body like your own body. There are only 4 types of cells, each with their own sub-programming.
At one extreme, you have a small amount of ‘rogue’ cells, independent bodies that are designed to operate outside the loop of the mainframe programming. Ironically however, these manifestor cells are just as dependent upon the whole as any other type. They are simply programmed to appear independent.
At the other extreme, you have a tiny percentage of early-warning cells – these unusual cells have no programming of their own but are designed to take accurate readings of any cellular environment they move through.
In every sub-culture you will find a few of these cells reflecting the health of the local environment. Their role is to warn the overall intelligence of the body of any potential disruptions to the organism. They are called reflector cells.
The bulk of the cellular life of the body (91%) is made up of the two most common kinds of cell – generator cells and projector cells.
These 2 types are designed to interlock with each other. The generator cells collectively create the life of the organism. They are pure energy cells buzzing day and night, maintaining and building the whole.
Projector cells are unique. They have no propulsion of their own, so they drift around on the endless energy currents created by the generator cells.
You might imagine how easy it would be for a projector cell to feel that it had no purpose within the body.
However, each projector cell actually has a very specific purpose (some have more than one), but that purpose can only be realised when certain energy cells (generators) dock in with the projector cell to receive instructions.
Since the projector has no propulsion, it is powerless to initiate this process, but has to allow the generator cells to recognise them and dock in within their own timing. This recognition process takes place through a coded lock and key programme built into these 2 types at birth.
In other words, every projector holds multiple keys that fit an enormous array of locks. When a key does not fit a lock it is very obvious!
Through the knowledge of the WA, we know that the basic genetic unit is 5. These human groupings of mainly generators and projectors are also known as ‘Pentas’.
The nuclear family is a family of five.
Statistically, that is four generators and one projector. As an archetype, the role of this fifth projector is to maintain the stability of the 4 generators.
Right, this next part is where it gets spooky, so hang on to your seats and try and stay with me!…
Just as this fifth projector draws together the 4 generators to form a penta, this penta then takes on a life of its own. It also seeks something greater to dock into, and this is known as an OC16.
Pentas (groups of 5 human beings) seek out another projector, known as an alpha. Alpha projectors naturally dock together with three pentas, making 16 people (including the alpha).
The moment you have 16 people together, you actually have the foundation of an entire gene pool, which then continues to grow exponentially.
Right. I am going to stop there. Whether you were able to follow any of that or not, I am trying to make a point – which is that if you are a projector, you are genetically coded to have others (specifically generators) recognise you and approach you.
This is the foundation of the success of humanity as a species. The projector’s role is pivotal for life to be coherently organised.
But there is a great irony to it all for the projector – which is that there is nothing for them to do until they are recognised.
Every projector knows when the key fits. Every cell in their body lights up.
They also know when it only ‘sort of’ fits.
Those are the critical moments for projectors. If the fit is not perfect, they have to smile sweetly and turn away.
So how long does a projector have to wait? Well, forever.
There is a deep secret for projectors going through their deconditioning – that is, waiting itself transforms the cells.
The relief of not trying to make keys fit when they do not want to fit, releases a huge pressure from the projector’s life.
But it is also clear from my own experience of observing projectors that they are not always able to immediately throw away keys that do not fit.
Sometimes those keys may provide their livelihood, and they have to hold on to them until they find the correct keys to replace them. That takes courage – to wait knowing something is wrong and you are powerless to change it.
I have a vast admiration for any projector going through their deconditioning, and I have also learned that I can never move forward in life without the presence of projectors in key roles around me.
Projectors, if you cannot be patient, there is no hope for any of us…"
This is a little outside of my 'care' zone, but can see the things we've trusted faltering.
I think Human Design is here to offer people awareness to be able to weather what would otherwise feel like impossibly stormy times.
Lucky us 🤗
Also, what a cool picture Chaitanya found 😍
- A
"The knowledge was given so that human beings could be equipped to live in an age in which there was nothing they could trust.
This is what the Cross of Planning has brought us. It’s brought us an age of, within reason, trust.
That the trains will run on time, that the electricity will be there, that all of those things will work, that our children will have teachers in their schools, that the garbage will be picked up and on and on and on.
All the things that the Cross of Planning has brought us, the institutionalization of science and the spreading of all kinds of technologies that enhance the potential for the increase in human population, the increase in the potential of the gene pool, the increase in the potential for the unusual, the mutative.
Human Design is not about the time of the Cross of Planning. Human Design knows the plan. It’s not about that at all. It's about bringing the possibility of the richness of life to the next generation.
If the stellar family teaches us anything it’s that even the gods, even the remotest forces in the stream are concerned about the generations and the movement of information.
There are certain stars in the sky that could not exist until other stars had died. The fact that human beings and certain brain functions, elements in our brain, that can only exist after the death of stars, we are so deeply connected to them. We live very close to one. That is our shelter and our light."
- Ra Uru Hu
