Deconditioning from Jovian Human Design

1 Name the overlay

Deconditioning begins with recognition. The Jovian vocabulary — “Type,” “Authority,” “Strategy,” “Profile” — is an appropriation layered onto Human Design from 1997 on, shaped for a market. Start with the master term and see how it was bent.

Authority

Sincere seekers are often attracted to Human Design, but soon start feeling uncomfortable because "something just feels off." That's because most of the major terms of Jovianism are appropriations, taken from disciplines older and more mature than young Human Design, their meaning then slightly altered with Human Design jargon, claiming “synthesis.” From Rave to Mandala to I Ching to Genes to Type to Not-self to Authority and Awareness, it all seductively resembles the original, but just isn't quite it. This creates kind of a parallel, cultish world, slightly offset from reality, amplified through "social media."

If you really know what a mandala actually is, for example, you’ll no doubt also know that the Human Design wheel is a mandala only by a stretch of the imagination and that calling it so is a disservice to both the Human Design wheel and the mandala. It sure sounds sexy, but muddies real understanding of either.

So it is with all these appropriations. They muddy perception by seducing to substitute Ra’s limited perspective for the real thing. Substituting Awareness for cognition makes you think awareness is confined to three centers, but essentially the old yogis differ: Awareness is not only possible in all the chakras, it is necessary for "Kundalini to rise." Thus gets the meaning of “awareness” corrupted and responsibility for it shirked. And so on.

Authority, as Ra and his followers understand it, is just a substitute description of the definition someone has, weighted to fit his hierarchical caste construct. Hence, in their view, I’ve got “splenic projected authority” because my Spleen is defined and it’s valued higher than the also defined Heart in their hierarchy. Zeno had “emotional projected authority” because her Solar Plexus was defined, which again seems to rate higher than her also defined Root, Spleen, Ji, Throat and Ajna centers.

And obviously, we must have had our authorities all along, because definitions are with you from birth to death, they are what you can rely on and never change, your strength, your haven, life’s box of gifts that’s always there for you. But what is familiar and comfortable and doesn’t change isn’t the same as authority.

If that were the case, a baby would have inner authority. A still delightfully innocent toddler certainly already displays reliable traits based on definition, but I’ve never met one with inner authority. On the other hand, I’ve also seen plenty of older people without a trace of it.

Authority is earned, you’re not born with it. It is a product of personal growth, of the practice of awareness, of maturity, of wisdom. Good karma. It is not a given and not everybody earns.

Ra’s misunderstanding then leads to such baffling conclusions as that people without definition “have no inner authority,” which I find to be one of the most ridiculous assertions of the Jovian faith, right up there with the “informing, “being invited” and “responding” scams. In my experience and observation, authority most often is earned exactly in the two thirds of the body graph that remain un-activated and undefined and therefore white, which would give people without definition mechanically the greatest chance at authority.

The white territory of the body graph, what Jovianism so conveniently ignores with its appropriated version of the "not-self,” is where the work of personal growth happens. It’s where your shadows are, your vulnerabilities, your crossed wires, your buttons pushed. It’s where fear and pain and despair lurk. It’s not easy to look at and not easy to be aware of, easier to look away and keep hidden or decorated with deception. Looking requires and forms character.

Authority comes from how you approach your challenges, the uncertain and the unexpected, from your stance in the face of change, from the way you handle your insecurities and upheavals, the mistakes you make and learn from, your integrity, the attention you pay to yourself and the other in relationships, how aware you are of the impact of your definition. Your inner authority is proportional to your maturity, responsibility and awareness.

Love,
Chaitanyo

2 Take apart the “strategies”

Each caste is handed a “strategy.” But what they describe — being invited, responding, deciding — are ordinary human functions, not the property of one group. Measured against actual life, each one dissolves.

Being invited

I'm a Projector, but I don't understand my stategy.

When you write to me and want me to know who you are, please share your birth data and I'll have something real to work with. I don't care that you are a "projector" and what your supposed "strategy" is. This tells me only that you're ill with the Jovian virus. Like all the other "types," it’s just a blinder swindled upon your perception, manipulating you to feel separate and special, yet in cozy good company.

Other than occasionally being invited to a party or a meal, which is nice for everyone reardless of caste, it hardly matters whether “you are invited” or not. Invited by whom? To what? It's just entirely contrived, a useless treadmill. You justifyingly don't understand because it sure doesn't make sense.

Even the saintly notion that you’re “invited by existence” or the “universe” is a farce. Of course you are “invited,” that's why you're here! Everybody is, even the other Jovian castes. Why make the obvious a "strategy" for just one of them?

Without any invitation, without any permission, free of any caste, you are fully capable to live this life!

Responding

Confession: I’m not a “generator,” yet I respond! Frequently, even!
Non-verbal gasp! I must not be “living my design!”

If someone approaches me, I respond, if the window is open and a downpour starts, I respond, if my flip-flops start smelling, I respond, if the bladder signals or the milk boils, I respond. It's not even a question and certainly no "decision making" and I don’t wait to respond, either. It’s a frequent, normal and necessary part of everyday life, just like reflecting and reacting and projecting are and I know that’s the case for every other human being as well. All evidence says that responding is a function of life itself.

It is absurd that the Jovian cult singles out as "strategies" for select castes what in reality are pan-human, pan-life, even biological functions and it’s astonishing how easily people can be hypnotized by mantras such as the “non-verbal Sacral response.” Even Zeno in her online classes still sometimes fell for it. A little effort to question and compare it with actual life shows that response is not at all exclusive to the Sacral, causing the "generator" artifact to evaporate.

So, people with a defined Sacral, who of course naturally respond like everybody else, say, “yeah, it’s true, I belong to this type because I know I respond - this proves it!” while all the other castes are left to suspect themselves of wrong when their nature asks them to respond, which is a classic religious trick to keep the flock dependent: declare the natural a sin and offer absolution in faith.

As for "non-verbal," of course it is, everything below the Throat is. There's no special non-verbalness to the Sacral. Assigning it its own caste is just another of Ra’s sleights-of-hand to make a group feel different and special, yet in cozy company, in effect sowing division and misdirection where none is. Barring malice, it's arbitrary, too. How did the defined Sacral earn its own caste? Why not the defined Heart, or the Ajna, or the Solar Plexus? Or the virgin Ji? They all are just as unique.

The answer is obvious. Uniqueness prevents an efficient caste system, it would get far too diverse to be effectively manipulated. His “types” reduce the glory of the body graph's infinite uniqueness to just a handful of strata, Human Design redefined in his image, comfortably dumbed down for better viral marketability, a seductive mirage, a smoke screen, obscuring by now for decades what matters. Add to that the horrific “authorities” and “strategies” assigned to each caste and I can understand why "Jovianism as a crime against humanity" was one of Zeno’s pet arguments for a little while.

Bear with me. I'm waiting for a time when I can simply shine my expertise in original Human Design, rather than point out what it isn't, but so far there's still a great need for that. Once in a while I can shake someone lose or assure and encourage someone who already sees. With their awareness Human Design may yet survive.

Love,
Chaitanyo

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

3 Drop the label, don’t relabel

The “life themes” are verdicts passed on whole populations. And the exit is never a better caste, nor a new brand of the same system. If you are unhappy with your caste, abandon the caste — do not exchange it for another.

Bitterness

Remarkably, because my design fits their “projector” caste, one of its innate attributes is "bitterness" and it's used by the raves to dismiss what I'm saying.

And it’s not just me, imagine, it’s the “life theme” of everybody on earth who happens to be born with an undefined Sacral and no motor defined to the Throat, excepting those with no definition at all. By my educated guess, that’s close to 40% of entire humanity! They're all condemned to a life of purgatory torturing themselves with bitterness. That's a bogglingly ignorant and hostile assessment of three billion people, but unfortunately a typical symptom of infection with the JOV-97 virus.

Bitterness comes from disappointed expectations, regardless of caste.
Those who practice awareness learn to keep expectations low.

Sidereal "Human Design"

What do you think about sidereal Human Design?

One major, fundamental insight of Human Design is that it’s not the planetary bodies within certain constellations of stars that condition life, but the neutrino stream from the entire universe. The planets are mere interference, the gods playing their games between human and eternity, like Balinese shadow puppets. The entirety of the stream, the pure totality with its god-tainted sections, is refracted through design and personality crystals, which inform all the centers and all their gates. The body graph is a schematic in color and white of this dynamic refraction.

Of course, the stars we can see with the unaided eye contribute to the neutrino stream, but their contribution is minute measured by the invisible output of the universe. In the clearest of night sky we rarely see more than 2500 stars, and they’re all located in the outer fringes of one of the spiral arms of our own Milky Way galaxy. (The farthest, faintest, visible star is a giant bright as 100,000 suns, 4000 light years away, but the Milky Way is 100,000 light years across.) The black between the stars contains infinitely more neutrinos than all the light we see. It’s only with telescopes, from Galileo’s to NASA’s, that we begin to have an idea how full it is.

From this tiny selection visible to antiquity were picked and named the constellations and evolving astrology discovered and assigned certain qualities to them and the interfering gods, the planets. Little did they know that they were assigning these values actually to the sections of the universe behind the stars they saw.

It’s a matter of perspective: Over time the stars in our vicinity slowly shift relative to our position and the cosmic neutrino stream and so the constellations named in antiquity are not in the same place anymore today. That’s called the “precession of the equinox.” However, the eternity that was behind the constellation’s stars in antiquity is still in the same place, it didn't shift along with the stars.

Sidereal astrology's alignment with those close stars is myopic, it can’t see the universe for the stars, it’s fixated on our little corner of the Milky Way. That’s why Vedic astrology nowadays is so uninspired, to say the least. It literally shifted away from truth over the past 2500 years. Western astrology, on the other hand, using tropical calculations, has reached remarkable maturity in recent decades.

“Sidereal Human Design” does not exist. It’s an oxymoron.
If it's Human Design, it's not sidereal.

Given the confusion caused by the Human Caste System, I can understand that some people might be tempted to fall for it, lured by the possibility of a better caste. But that’s an illusion based on an illusion. If you’re unhappy with your caste, you need to abandon the caste, not exchange it for another. Original Human Design, based on tropical calculations and matured by three decades, works very well without castes.

If this wasn’t convincing enough to leave sidereal “Human Design” by the deserved wayside, perhaps this is, from the witness himself: Zeno, who had been interested in astrology for decades prior, did her due diligence on the first day of our first meeting with Ra in 1993 and asked about sidereal calculations for Human Design. His short answer was that the revelation specified tropical calculations. Period.

4 See what Human Design actually is

Cleared of the overlay, the tool describes how you behave; it does not tell you how to. It points at awareness, not at answers.

The New "Original"

Real Human Design doesn’t tell you how to behave. It tells you how you behave.

It’s a tool for awareness, the awareness of your self and how it gets pulled through this, your very life. You have lived your design your entire life, you never had a choice. Heaven or hell and everything in between, you are the expert. Your life experience and measure of awareness reveal what the body graph means, not the other way ‘round. You’re learning to ask the right questions instead of peddling or hankering for answers.

Zen can’t be nailed down and then passed on. It’s an individual process, dynamic, live, ongoing, a commitment, an attitude. The methodology can be taught, but not its results.

Love

5 Practice awareness

The work itself. Awareness is not confined to three centers; it encompasses the whole graph and the whole of a life. Seeing what is, instead of what you want.

Awareness

Awareness is not found in the body graph. It encompasses it. It is the ability to take a step back from yourself and see your play on the stage of life. While being driven by your necessities and desires, for example, you take a step back and witness those necessities and desires, in the present. You don’t judge, you don't interfere, you don’t try to manipulate, you just see, while life is going on. Apart from rare cases of grace, this isn’t automatic, but has to be practiced and can seem hard. But even just realizing that this is actually possible and to commit to practicing is a monumental pivot in a life. And from then on, it’s an upward spiral.

Awareness leads to acceptance.
Acceptance leads to the absence of friction.
Absence of friction is peace.
Peace is love.
Love is freedom.

Love,
Chaitanyo