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Human Design Explained: The Basics You Need to Know

Hello and welcome! I’m Mary Clavieres, host of Find Yourself, Change Your Life. In this episode, I’m excited to give you a foundational look at a topic that’s been pivotal for both me and my clients: human design. As someone who is obsessed with the mind-body connection (plus a former engineer) I know how powerful it can be to find concrete tools that reconnect us to our true nature. Today, I want to offer you exactly that, with Human Design explained in a way that’s both relatable and easy to understand.

What Is Human Design, Really?

Let’s start with the most important piece: what is human design? With human design explained simply, it’s a tool, a map, that helps you understand how your energy is meant to work in the world. Human design weaves together several systems: Western astrology, the chakra system, the Chinese I Ching, and more. I like to think of it as your energetic blueprint. It shows you the unique way your mind and body operate, and most importantly, how you can tap back into YOU.

The beautiful thing is that we all come into the world as ourselves, but over time, family, school, and society condition us to act in certain ways. Human design explained through this lens is an invitation back to the self, a real process of “deconditioning” so you can discover what works best for you.

Human Design Explained – Grab Your Free Chart and Follow Along

If you want to follow along while we break down human design explained, you can grab your free chart here. You’ll need your birth date, exact birth time, and place of birth.

This will allow you to follow along with your own chart, but if you need to come back and get your chart later, that’s ok too.

Three Key Concepts in Human Design

To have human design explained clearly, there are three main areas to focus on:

Energy Type: This tells you how your energy works.

Strategy: This is how your energy type is meant to move through and interact with the world.

Authority: Also known as your decision-making style, this is how your body best makes aligned decisions (spoiler: it’s not all in your head!).

Remember, human design is not a set of rules. It’s about self-discovery, taking what resonates, and leaving the rest.

Human Design Types Explained

Here’s where we dive into human design explained at the most tangible level - the five types. Each has a unique way of moving and interacting with the world:

1. Generator

Generators are meant to be in flow with the world around them and have consistent access to energy to get them through the day. They wake up recharged every day, ready to follow what lights them up. Human design explained for generators is simple: when you do what lights you up, your energy flows; when you don’t, life feels heavy. Your strategy is to respond to what shows up in the world around you.

2. Manifesting Generator

Manifesting Generators have that same generator battery pack, but with a twist. Your energy toggles between responding and initiating. Sometimes you’re here to respond, other times to initiate something new. For Manifesting Generators it’s all about being present and tuning in so you know when it’s time to switch gears.

3. Manifestor

Manifestors are here to spark new things. For Manifestors, it’s important to know that you don’t have that endless energy battery. Instead, you work best in bursts as you pay attention to your energy. You are meant to initiate new things and inform others what you’re doing. This is not for permission, it’s to keep them informed. It’s supportive for you to have the people in your life inform you as well.

4. Projector

Projectors are also non-energy beings. They don’t have consistent access to energy. They energy is here to guide others, not to be caught in an endless loop of “doing”. Before a projector can guide, it is important for them to wait for an invitation and have recognition from the person they are guiding. This recognition is a felt sense in the body. This flow protects your energy and helps your wisdom land.

5. Reflector

Reflectors are the rarest type, acting as clear mirrors of everyone and everything around them. With no defined centers, being a reflector means caring deeply for your environment, taking plenty of alone time to clear your energy, and making decisions on a lunar cycle.

Are You In Alignment? Red Flags and Green Lights

Human design explained isn’t just about understanding your type—it’s also about noticing when you’re in or out of alignment:

Generators: Satisfaction (in), Frustration (out)

Manifesting Generators: Satisfaction or Peace (in), Frustration/Anger (out)

Manifestors: Peace (in), Anger (out)

Projectors: Success (in), Bitterness (out)

Reflectors: Joy (in), Disappointment (out)

Checking in with these feelings is a quick way to get your compass back on track.

Final Thoughts

My hope is that you found human design explained here in a way that opens new doors for your own journey. This system is meant to support you, spark curiosity, and get you out of your head and into your body. If you’re curious, go grab your chart, see what comes up for you, and experiment with what feels right.

If this resonated with you or you want to hear more about human design in future episodes, reach out! I love hearing your feedback. Thank you for being here, for exploring yourself, and for caring about your mind-body connection. I appreciate you so much.

If you’d like to connect further about your unique human design blueprint, you’re invited to learn more and book a reading here.

Questions? Please feel free to reach out on LinkedIn or Instagram. I'm also on Voxer at @MaryClavieres.

Thank you so much for being here, for listening, and for taking these steps on your own journey. Until next week!

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