5/1 Sacral Generator
I’m guessing you’ve just got your Human Design chart and are Googling things to figure out what the heck it means. Am I right?
If so, you’re in the right place. In this short post, I’m going to break down what this series of numbers and strange words mean using everyday language so you can get your Human Design journey off to a great start. Sound good?
Great! Let’s do this 😊
First: Let's look at the numbers (aka your Profile)
5/1 Sacral Generator
The number on your Human Design chart that looks like a fraction is what we call your Profile. If you think of your life as a movie then your Profile is like the character that you play. It tells us some important things about your innate personality.
It shows us how you naturally interact with other people and with life. At least, it shows us one layer of info about these things as other parts of your Human Design chart have more layers that also affect your personality.
Your Profile is made up of two numbers between 1-6 with (strangely) only 12 possible Profiles globally. The Profile we’re looking at in this post is the one in the blog post title. If that’s your Profile then let's look at that now!
As a 5/1 Profile, you have one part of you that is naturally attracting the attention of others and is here to be of service as an impactful visionary leader (that’s your “5”). And you have one totally different part of you that is not at all interested in people but rather wants to dig deep, deep, deep into information (that’s your “1”).
There’s no design fault here. This is exactly the combination you need to do what you came here to do. And they actually work beautifully together when you know how they function.
See your 1st Line part, known as the “Investigator” is driven to research and understand a particular subject area until you know more about that subject than most people on the planet. This part of you is determined to feel strong and secure and confident.
You instinctively know you’ll feel that way when you’ve gathered enough information that you can create a solid foundation out of what you’ve learned and keep building on it over your lifetime.
When you feel like you know enough then your 5th Line part will willingly share what you’ve learned with anyone and everyone who needs to hear it.
In Traditional Human Design, this teaching part of you was called the “Heretic” because of your inbuilt rebellious nature. This part of you refuses to accept the status quo and won’t teach stuff that isn’t genuinely helpful. Instead, your ideas can be heretical, innovative and visionary. You’re designed to see things others cannot see because the 5th Line gets to draw on the wisdom of other lifetimes.
But there are some important practices you need in your toolkit as a 5th Line Heretic in order to serve the collective well without doing your own head in! In short:
1. Communicate clearly what you can and cannot offer,
2. Follow your HD Strategy & Inner Authority - it’s important that you say ‘no’ when you need to and ‘yes’ when you want to,
3. Be sure to provide a practical solution to the problem you’ve been called in to solve,
4. Leave when you’re done - don’t hang around, and
5. Give yourself plenty of time alone to recuperate from the projections and expectations of others.
You can have a powerful impact on the lives of total strangers with this Profile. But like a movie star or a famous musician, you’ll get attention from anyone and everyone from the moment you leave your home until you retreat inside your safe haven again. That’s part of the gig in this life. Learn how to show up and do what needs to be done and leave again as soon as it’s time.
Second: Let's look at the first term (aka your Inner Authority)
5/1 Sacral Generator
The term Inner Authority acknowledges that you have your own innate authority within you. That is, you are designed to be the expert on your own life. It tells us how you’re designed to make your best (that is, most correct and aligned) decisions in your life.
While there are a few factors that influence how each individual person is designed to make decisions, one of the most important ones is the info contained in your Inner Authority.
The one or two words right after the Profile numbers (as shown in this blog post title) is the Inner Authority. If this is yours then let me explain what that means, in a simple way, right now.
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)
5/1 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!”
5/1 Sacral Generator 🗹
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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