1/4 Sacral Generator
In Human Design it’s very common to refer to yourself by a series of numbers and words that help people understand something about who you are.
This phrase (as you can see in the title) has three parts:
* Your “Profile” (the numbers that talk to your character),
* Your “Inner Authority” (how you’re designed to make decisions), and
* Your “Type” (how your aura or energy field influences your day-to-day behaviour).
Together these three things tell us quite a lot about you and are a really good starting point for your journey into Human Design. In this post, I'm going to break each part down for you so you can start to make sense of this jargon and do something useful with it!
First: Let's look at the numbers (aka your Profile)
1/4 Sacral Generator
There are two important numbers that are usually shown in the text section of your Human Design chart next to the word Profile. In HD circles it's quite common to introduce yourself to others by telling them what these two numbers are as it helps people understand who you are and how you operate.
There are 12 possible Profiles and they're all made up of two different numbers between 1 and 6. Once you understand what they mean you'll realise it tells you a lot about the character you've been playing in this incarnation.
So, without further ado let me talk you through what the Profile below tells us about you.
As a 1/4 Profile, you are sort of like one part introvert, one part extrovert. These terms aren’t perfect but they point us in the right direction when trying to understand your unique self.
Your 1st Line (the “1”) is driven to investigate things (hence the name) that you find interesting or important to understand. This part of you feels a lot of fear and dives deeply into things as it looks for the bottom, for something solid to stand on. See, on some level, your mind knows that if you can just find a secure base you’ll feel better, safer, calmer.
In contrast, the 4th Line part of you (the “4” in your Profile) knows that whatever you find in your time investigating you are going to want to share with other people. But not just any people, your people, the people in your network.
The “Opportunist” in you intuitively knows that your opportunities come to you through your existing network. Thus you are someone who is very committed to building and maintaining a network of relationships with people who like you and want to know you.
They want to hear from you. They want to be connected to you. And they want to open doors for you to give you access to new opportunities to share your influential message with others.
Second: Let's look at the first term (aka your Inner Authority)
1/4 Sacral Generator
Everyone has a way to make decisions in their life that will lead to the best outcomes. Contrary to popular belief, we're not all designed to do this the same way.
Some people were born to make fast decisions, others to make them more slowly. Some people need to talk out the possible options and for others that will just confuse them.
No single way is better or worse than any other. They all have their place and what you were born with is exactly what you needed to live out your potential.
In Human Design, your Inner Authority is one of the biggest puzzle pieces for how you specifically can make the best decisions in this life. Keep reading to get to know your innate decision-making process better.
A simple translation of Sacral Inner Authority is “trust your gut”.
When an opportunity presents itself, notice right away how it feels in your gut.
Does it feel warm and expansive? Do you find yourself saying any version of ‘yes’ or nodding your head?
Or do you feel like shrinking away from the person or the opportunity as your body cries out (internally or externally) “noooooooo”?
Either way, you have your decision.
Third: Let's look at the last term (aka your Type)
1/4 Sacral Generator
The third and final part of that shorthand label we use for your Human Design is what we call “Type”. Type refers to how your aura (or energy field) relates to others and the world around you.
It can show you a huge amount about how to make any and all relationships work better and is often the first thing people will ask you if they know anything about Human Design.
There are five Types in Human Design (though many teachers choose to split the world’s population into four Types instead of five. At this point in my Human Design journey, having heard endless arguments from both sides of the fence, I’ve come to the conclusion that neither is perfect and I simply choose to focus on what’s useful).
Each Type group is here to do something a bit (or a lot!) different from the other Types. And that’s perfect because we can’t all do the same thing. After all, how boring would that be?!
If you are a Generator, then you are here to find and do work you love. What are you going to pour your energy into? Is it building something, or raising children, or running a company, or something entirely different?
There is something you are here to do that you’ll love doing soooo much you would do it for free. If that’s not your reality right now, your number one job is to find that thing.
Ask yourself: What’s the one thing that just the thought of doing it lights you up so much that you can’t believe people get paid to do it. That’s your thing to do in this life, or at least, at this point in your life.
Note: You’ll find this thing by responding to opportunities as they come to you. Forget about taking your ideas and trying to make them happen. That will only lead to more frustration.
Instead, know that life will bring you your ideal “work” and you’ll know it’s right for you because your whole body will go “yes, yes, yes! That’s my thing!”
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And that's it! In one short blog post, you've now had a basic introduction to your Profile, Inner Authority and Type, and I even snuck in some info about your Human Design Strategy 😉
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Every word in this post was written by Caroline Southwell.
While AI is useful for many things it's still not very good at explaining the depth and nuance of Human Design. Instead, human beings who have been learning about and experimenting with the Human Design system for 10+ years are much better teachers of this content.
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