Whether coming to see me for a Personal Chart Overview, Coaching by Design, or enrolling in one of my Living Your Design offerings, I will require accurate birth data to generate your BodyGraph, including your: BIRTH DATE (month, day, year) BIRTH TIME (accurate birth time in AM or PM, down to the minute if possible) BIRTH LOCATION (city & country) An exact birth time is required to run an accurate chart, as sometimes even a few minutes can dramatically alter the results and provide false information. Ideally, you can gain access to your birth time from a birth certificate, hospital bracelet, or baby book. If you cannot get your birth time from one of those sources but were born at a hospital, you should be able to request it easily enough from the archives department of your birth hospital. Many of my clients have had success with hospital archives but it can take several weeks to obtain the information. If none of the above is possible, I would suggest connecting with an astrologer who specializes in the science of chart rectification.

Although one’s birth data is required to calculate a Human Design BodyGraph, and while the inner ring of the Human Design Mandala is a 360-degree circle displaying the twelve signs of the Western Zodiac, it is not astrology! The Human Design System contains elements of several ancient esoteric systems such as Astrology, the Chinese I ‘Ching, the Hindu-Brahmin Chakras and The Tree of Life from the Zohari Kabbalist tradition and elements of several exoteric contemporary disciplines such as Quantum Mechanics, Astronomy, Genetics and Biochemistry… and yet, it is none of those things… it is a SYNTHESIS - a synthesis that reveals our differentiation as unique human beings as well as the ways in which we are conditioned away from our true nature, providing us with a logical, practical framework to experiment with in order to navigate life with greater ease and fulfillment. The use of two distinct yet juxtaposed sets of data is also something that distinguishes the Human Design System from traditional astrology. Human Design is rooted in the premise that we are a BINARY CONSCIOUSNESS and there are a total of 26 activations considered in one’s overall design. 13 activations are CONSCIOUS, representing the PERSONALITY, derived from one’s actual birth data, and 13 activations are UNCONSCIOUS, representing the FORM, derived from a calculation of 88 degrees of solar arc before the moment of birth, which is equivalent to roughly 3 months before one is born. Though these two sets of data are very different, they are juxtaposed and held together as a quantum for the duration of one’s incarnation. Not only is the contrast of conscious/unconscious considered in Human Design, but also the contrast between what it is we are uniquely configured to broadcast (NATURE - what makes us different) and what it is that we are uniquely configured to take in (NURTURE - how we are homogenized and conditioned, and yet what also represents our deepest wisdom potential). As with astrology, Human Design allows us to track the transits of the planets as they move through the sky. However, with Human Design, transit-tracking is not used for making predictions but rather serves as a tool to help deepen our awareness as to who we are and who we are not, honing our ability to stay in alignment in spite of the “cosmic weather”.

Here’s what Ra Uru Hu himself had to say about that (3-minute clip):