3/6 Ego Projector

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!

The 3/6 Profile, also known as the "Martyr/Role Model" goes through three very distinct life stages and the sooner you know this, the better you can navigate each one.

From birth until your Saturn Return (around age 29) you are really in the thick of life. During this time you are designed to have an incredible amount of experiences. Some of them will be good, some of them will be challenging. All of them are there to teach you something valuable you can use to help others in the future.

In the second stage, from 29 (ish) until your Kiron Return (around age 50) you withdraw from the chaos of life a little bit. This is your time to reflect on all the experiences you’ve had, to heal, integrate the lessons and gain a wider perspective.

During this stage, it’s essential that you recognise that none of these were “mistakes” or “failures” (despite what others, or even your own mind, might have to say on the matter). Rather, you simply worked out a lot of things that don’t work on your way to working out what does work.

In the third and final stage, at age 50 (ish) it is time to step back into the world again and lead by example as the role model you were born to become. This is when you get to share with other people the many, many important lessons you learned while navigating the ‘school of hard knocks’.

Your personal experience from your early years combined with the reflection and integration during your 30s and 40s (if done well) will allow you to see how your life experiences apply to just about everyone else.

This is how your hardships become valuable lessons for everyone who looks up to you. In this final stage, you are the example of what’s possible when we courageously experience and process all that life brings us.

If you want to ensure that you become that wise, authentic role model that you were born to be then during your early adult years (if you’re reading this before age 29) try to make peace with the tumultuousness of this time period and know that the intensity of it will end.

If you’re in your 30s or 40s, prioritise healing any pain you might still have associated with so-called “mistakes” or “failures” so that you can see the valuable lessons those experiences brought you. Keep healing and integrating until they no longer sting, until you no longer feel shame, and you can really truly feel at peace with everything you’ve been through.

If you already feel good about “failing forward fast” and “learning by doing” regardless of the mess it might create, then there’s nothing for you to do but keep doing you!

And if your life as a 3/6 ever feels too hard, dive into my suggestions above because they’ll help you make sense of the mess and ultimately make you better at teaching, leading, guiding, mentoring and/or inspiring others when the time comes. Because, after all, that’s what all the mess is for 😉

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.

Ego is one of the terms in Human Design that gets a lot of pushback from newbies but it’s useful once you get how your decision-making process works. This Inner Authority tells us that you’re in the tiny group of people who are designed to make decisions based on what you want.

Let me repeat that in case it seems too obvious: You're designed to make decisions based on what you want.

See, it might seem obvious to you but it’s not the way most of us are designed to make decisions. Also, many societies view the speaking of our desires so clearly to be, well, egotistical. But the only way you know what’s right for you is if you let yourself express what you want and what you don’t want.