Episode 21

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14th Oct 2025

21. The Generator (Part 2)

In this episode, we continue our two part conversation on the Generator type by exploring the difference between Generators and Manifesting Generators and how both are here to transform life through work that they love. Kelsey also dives into how the Sacral response serves as the body’s innate guidance system and how Generators are designed to know themselves through what they respond to and create.

This conversation invites Generators to awaken to their true power, which doesn't happen through force or initiation, but rather through surrender to response, trust in timing, and deep satisfaction in the creative process.

What's Discussed in this Episode:

  • The distinction between mental awareness and bodily knowing
  • How undefined centers can distract the Generator from their true response
  • Understanding the Generator’s signature of satisfaction and the not-self theme of frustration
  • The regenerative power of satisfaction and how it fuels creation
  • Difference between Generators and Manifesting Generators
  • Societal and historical conditioning of Generators under systems of oppression and productivity
  • Reclaiming sovereignty, autonomy, and interdependence through living in response

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Transcript
Speaker A:

Do mgs have something in common with manifestors? Fuck yes. Yeah.

And I really think that, like a sort of dogmatic reactionary approach to trying to correct that MGs are not a fifth aura type has in some instances repressed a conversation around that which MGs and manifestors absolutely have in common. And it's just mechanically, objectively true that MGs and manifestors both have this mechanic of motor to throat definition.

And so there's things that manifesting generators and manifestors have in common with their experience because of that Motor to throat definition Motor to throat definition is the mechanics for initiation. So manifesting generators do initiate, as do manifestors, but the initiation happens in response, not out of nowhere, not from within a closed aura.

Response happens from an open aura, feeling what's outside of it and responding to what's outside of it. And so the initiation happens underneath the umbrella of response for the MG.

Speaker A:

Welcome to the Living Your Design Podcast. I'm your experimentor, Kelsey Rose Tortorice.

This podcast is an audio only release of the full length in depth Human Design Foundations course I've been teaching over the last several years.

It is a no bullshit, comprehensive, embodied introduction to the human design system that will challenge your ego mind and support you in your process of reuniting with the unique wisdom of your body. In episode one, I speak a bit about the process that led me to releasing this course for free in podcast form, and I offer a few notes that might be useful to contextualize and clarify what you'll hear in this episode and beyond. I recommend giving that short intro episode a listen if you haven't yet.

The LYD podcast is part of a larger living body of work, a growing archive of my teachings about consciousness through the languages of astrology and human design, hosted in an online community space where I stay in orbit with my students, mentees, alumni, peers and collaborators. For more information about how to connect with me and tune into my archives and ongoing live teachings, including how to access the original LYD course, complete with videos and slacks. Stay tuned to the podcast or check out patreon.com/KelseyRoseTort. Thank you for tuning into my transmission of Living Your Design.

It's a deeply personal and somewhat vulnerable share that I feel honored, humbled and excited to release into the world. I hope that it helps you remember and come home to yourself.

Speaker A:

This episode of the Living Your Design podcast is part two of my lecture on the generator type. Check out the previous episode for the first half.

Speaker A:

Now I've said multiple times already, the sacral is the primary intelligence of the body. And yet the sacral is not an awareness center, right? Some people have splenic authority, some people have solar plexus authority.

Those are awareness centers. So there's a level of awareness, of understanding, of clarity that exists in those centers that the sacral does not.

If you're a generator, you either have sacral or emotional authority, regardless of which one you have.

Understand that this response mechanism has nothing to do with awareness, which means you will not be aware of why you're responding to something or not responding. And so it's a deep leap of faith to trust that faucet, to trust that energy or not, the presence of energy or not the sacral, yes or no.

And again, you do not have a consistent sense of awareness in the moment of why that yes or no is present and where it will or won't lead you. You just know whether you have the energy for it or not, whether you have the response or not.

For sacral authority generators, this would mean you're undefined in the emotional center, but you're defined in the sacral. Everything is about the sacral for you.

That gut response governs your strategy and your authority, and strategy and authority are it for, for the human design experiment, they're the main thing that you are playing with, that you are observing, that you are surrendering to.

And your awareness has absolutely nothing to do with that primary intelligence in the sacral, that is both your strategy and your authority for emotional authority generators, which would mean you have both the sacral and the solar plexus. Defined strategy is still all about the sacral. That gut response aligns you to your timing, your circumstances, and your satisfaction.

However, you also have a layer of emotional energy and emotional awareness because the solar plexus is both an energy and awareness center, a motor and awareness center, and that layer of emotional energy and awareness ultimately transcends or maybe carries the sacral response. I'm.

I haven't landed on language that feels good or fully encompassing to me for what that is for the emotional generator to have this gut response, this sacral response, governing their strategy.

But then this additional emotional wave of energy and an emotional awareness that comes through riding that wave for the generator, the emotional generator, there's just this added layer that makes things a bit more complex for the emotional generator. But the added layer of emotional energy and emotional awareness, it does not negate the black and white nature of the sacral response or not.

It just adds a layer of depth, a layer of nuance complexity, and it adds a Necessity for more time, in many cases for the emotional generator. And we're going to talk more about this when we look at emotional authority in the next unit. So something to consider for all generators.

Sacral is not an awareness center. And yet its response is the primary intelligence of your body. Consider the voices of your undefined centers.

So take a moment, even right now, maybe to pause and think through this. Even just one, maybe two. Think about when we went through the undefined centers, and they're not self voices. Which ones really stuck out to you?

What do you remember in this moment as being the sort of narrative or voice of not self in one or more of your undefined centers? How do those narratives, how do those voices of not self tend to distract you from your sacral response?

Whether that means pushing you to try to force energy somewhere where there isn't energy, or just distracting you from the things that your body is actually really magnifying you towards wanting you to use energy for. Turned on about right? It's turned on. Sacral is sexual energy. It's literally you are turned on. The faucet is turned on. Like it's not a metaphor.

That's what's happening. So what is satisfaction? Again, the sexual peace is not a metaphor. It's a part of the function of the sacral center.

Sexual energy isn't the only function of the sacral center. It's creative energy, it's life force energy.

But satisfaction is essentially using your energy, using that sexual creative life force energy in ways that feel good to completion. That is satisfaction. Satisfaction is the generator signature. And on the other side of that is the generator not self theme of frustration.

The body knows what will bring satisfaction. Generators are designed to enjoy being busy doing what they love.

And I have an asterisk on they here because you're designed to enjoy being busy doing what your sacral loves, not what you are aware that you love, not that, not what you think you think you think you love, which is potentially deeply conditioned by your not self. You're designed to enjoy being busy doing what you love based on that sacral center.

And through awareness, through experimentation, through deconditioning, you will become aware of what you love.

But in many cases, there can be quite a process of departure from the things that you thought you thought you thought you thought you wanted to do that were actually rooted deeply in not self. If you actually love it, it feels deeply satisfying.

Satisfaction is the feeling of expending your sacral energy in the ways that your body finds pleasure in. It is through the satisfying expenditure of energy that the generative property of the sacral center operates.

So again, the body knows what will bring satisfaction and it communicates that to you through your sacral response and also just through the sensation of satisfaction or not, if you're frustrated, that wasn't what your body wanted to do. Pretty simple.

However, the mind has its own ideas and will perpetually attempt to hijack the sacral life force for purposes otherwise other than what will bring the body satisfaction. And this mental hijacking happens through the narratives of the not self and the openness. This mental hijacking leads to frustration.

Frustration is the feeling of sacral energy resisting being used for purposes other than what it organically has response for. Frustration is also the feeling of a sacral response or creation or outlet being repressed.

So again, just rest and recovery isn't going to be generative for the generator. Yes, rest is part of it. I'm not saying that the generator should not rest.

Rest is a crucial part of the functionality of the sacral, a non negotiable part of the functionality of the sacral. And so is energy expenditure in satisfying ways.

So I've witnessed what seem and feel in my body through my amplification process to be unhealthy sacrals that are having, you know, chronic health issues in this long period of rest. And perhaps it began from a burnout place of this first piece of sacral energy being used for purposes other than what it has response for.

But oftentimes that develops into sacral energies that's not being used. Or maybe the burnout never even happened.

And there's for some other mind reason or a trauma reason, been a repression of sacral energy going where it wants to go. So maybe there never even was a burnout.

And in fact that defined sacral just has not had the outlet because it has been repressed due to trauma, due to harm, due to fear, whatever it is. And then that sacral is not going to be healthy, it's not going to be in a generative state, it's going to be frustrated.

Frustration is also the feeling of pushing beyond the point of satisfied completion in your energy expenditure. So maybe you do already love your job, you love your trade, you love your business, you love whatever it is you do.

But your undefined ego, or your undefined AJNA or your undefined root, or any undefined center hijacks you into pushing yourself consistently way beyond the actual bandwidth that you have that day or that week or that month. And you're gonna, you're gonna land in frustration in that regard as well.

And all of the above I've already said this is also going to diminish the sacral's ability to be regenerative. So a moment for manifesting generators here.

Literally everything we've talked about up to this point fully applies to the manifesting generator to the same degree that it does to the pure or non manifesting generator. So let's remember mechanically what a manifesting generator is.

Manifesting generators are generators, AKA sacral beings who operate naturally in response, who also have the mechanics for initiation, which is motor to throat definition. And you'll see this presented and spoken to in lots of different ways. Some people have very strong opinions about the following.

Let me give a little background before I get into how I see it. So there's four aura types, not five.

There are some people who, from my vantage point, often tend to be people who haven't like, really actually studied human design, who say that there are five aura types and that manifesting generators are a fifth aura type. That's not always true.

There are people who have like really done the study and understand the mechanics and still say that there are five aura types. But that's not what's been taught. That's not how I understand it from a mechanical perspective.

But then there's other people who react to that, who in a, who get very, in my opinion, unnecessarily angry and defensive about that and are so intent on saying that there's only four aura types and manifesting generators are generators, that they end up, from what I see, kind of refusing to acknowledge that there are things that manifesting generators have in common with manifestors by way of having that shared mechanic of the motorized throat. And so, you know, especially mangens, you need to experiment with this and explore this in your own accord.

But here's how I see it, which is based in mechanical absolutes. Are MGs a fifth aura type? No, because they have an open and enveloping aura based on sacral definition.

And again, that sacral definition, that sacral motor is so powerful that it has such a massive effect on the aura as a whole. And this is also how RA and IHDS International Human Design School sees it. RMG is a hybrid. Some people will say they're a hybrid type.

That one feels like maybe semantics, because technically they do have the mechanic of sacral definition and the mechanic of motor to throat definition. However, to me, that doesn't quite feel right. Because when we're talking about aura type, we're talking about the aura Shape and functionality.

And the lack of sacral definition in the manifestor is. It's just as big of a part of the manifestor aura mechanics as the motor to throat definition.

So manifestors have a closed and repelling aura, which is not at all like the aura of the sacral being, including the manifesting generator.

So personally I don't really vibe with the them being a hybrid way of looking at it, but it doesn't feel as mechanically off to me as the fifth aura type. But do MGs have something in common with manifestors? Fuck yes. Yeah.

And I really think that like a sort of dogmatic reactionary approach to trying to correct that MGs are not a fifth aura type has in some instances repressed a conversation around that which MGs and manifestors absolutely have in common. And it's just mechanically, objectively true that MGs and manifestors both have this mechanic of motor to throat definition.

And so there's things that manifesting generators and manifestors have in common with their experience because of that motor to throat definition. Motor to throat definition is the mechanics for initiation.

So manifesting generators do initiate, as do manifestors, but the initiation happens in response, not out of nowhere, not from within a closed aura response happens from an open aura, feeling what's outside of it and responding to what's outside of it. And so the initiation happens underneath the umbrella of response for the MG. Do MGs have a closed aura? Not at all. Not at all.

And this is kind of why I'm like not so into the hybrid version. Because I've watched MGs really fresh to human design think that aspects of the manifestor closed and repelling aura have something to do with them.

And that's just not true at all. That sacral definition creates the energy emanating out the open and enveloping aura.

So again, it's just not, it's mechanically Objectively true that MGs do not have a closed aura. Do MGs impact? I believe so, because we talk about impact via the throat center a lot and we talk about impact via manifestors a lot.

And in my experience, both from understanding mechanics, but also observing the manifesting generators in my life, observing their impact on me. Like a motorized throat is powered up throat. It's a power, it's powered words, powered expression. And that power is what creates impact.

And so I personally do believe that MGs impact in a mechanically similar way to manifestors impacting.

But the MG Manny impact hits different because impact comes coming from a powered up throat with an open aura is a very different feeling of impact than impact coming through a motorized throat with a closed aura. The closed aura itself is extremely impacting. It pushes energy out of its way.

And so yes, there's impact from the MG through the motorized throat, but it's a different, I don't want to say lesser, but it's an impact on a center's level, not an aura level. Here's a raw quote from the definitive book of human design.

Manifesting generator is not a separate type, but rather a variation of the generator type. It's a subtle distinction that lies in their auric frequency. MGs are designed to follow the generator strategy to respond.

So what's the same between MGs and non manifesting generators, Manifesting generators and pure generators. What's the same? What's different? So here's what's the same.

These are generating types of this is a generating type, one type with a variation energy is generated and regenerated. Within that type there is consistent energy to be available for responding to life. These types respond. Neither type is here to initiate from nothing.

Generators respond, Manifesting generators respond. And sometimes that response for a manifesting generator includes initiation under the umbrella of the response.

Mgs and pure GS have an open and enveloping aura that naturally wants to be available for life and response, deal with themes of satisfaction and frustration, have a consistent non negotiable fixed life force, and are conditioned to initiate, but are designed to respond. Everyone who's not a manifester is conditioned to initiate, including manifesting generators.

What's different between a pure generator and a manifesting generator is that initiation can happen immediately in response. So oftentimes manifesting generators move faster versus the slow burn of the pure generator. You'll hear language in studying manifesting generators.

People use studying and teaching about MGs. People use words like shortcuts and pivots.

I sort of see it, visualize it as like a lot of like zigzags like manifesting generators because they get the response and their body can provide them with this immediate ability to begin in response. They might begin something over here and then get a response and begin something over here. So there might be like open ended things.

The completion might be a little more scattered. There might be less completion for manifesting generators versus for the pure generator.

The response happens and there's just like this slow turn towards the response and then it's just moving in that direction, moving in that direction until there's another response which is similar to the manifesting generator. But the manifesting generator might have extra twists and turns. And shortcuts.

There's like a, an efficiency that shows up for the manifesting generator because it's response, initiate, response, initiate, initiating in response. And mangens, you're conditioned to initiate from nowhere, but you're designed to initiate in response.

So some things that I tend to talk about with manifesting generators or observe in manifesting generators is then no one can really keep up with the manifesting generator because you can respond and within your response you can initiate. And there's no other type that can show up as consistently as you can or initiate in response.

So the initiations that happen through manifesting generators and manifestors are different, have a different kinds of impact. But for the manifestor that initiation happens and then there's no sacral life force to fuel it in continuation.

So with the Manifesto, there's like this slow gestating period inside the closed aura. And then the manifester initiates and things change. But then the manifester can't carry it. It retreats back to its closed aura.

It recovers, it rests for long periods of time often, and then is gestating, is relaxing and gestating until that next initiation comes. So the default state for the manifestor is rest, except for when those urges for initiation come. And that's not true for the manifesting generator.

The default state is still to be in response, to be moving. And initiation is something that happens out there in the active, available for life playing field within that response mode.

So yeah, no one can really keep up with the MG. And I've seen some, some conditioning around that in MGs around feeling like they need to kind of slow down their role because they move at a pace that is faster than most people around them.

RA taught about how that kind of obsession with efficiency and shortcuts for MG and pivoting, while it is mechanically correct in their nature, it also can lead the manifesting generator to frustration because maybe they aren't completing. And completing is a part of what brings satisfaction. And so, yeah, just something to experiment there with.

For MGs, there's probably a really specific way of moving in your body that feels like correct initiation and response. And I could easily see there being conditioning for an MG that's trying to. Your conditioning tries to slow you down. And that's frustrating.

But I could also see all this narrative of like, energies are fast, they pivot, there's shortcuts.

Like, I could also see MGs who might naturally be a bit more slow or maybe already are pretty deconditioned and very in tune with that initiating and Response I could see this, like, narrative and rhetoric about MGs are fast and use shortcuts and pivot, conditioning MGs to try to do more or pivot more. Right. So all of this is like we're looking at it through the arena of the mind.

And it's your body that actually knows which aspects of these are true for you and when and how. MGs, your words have power and impact. You literally have a motor fueling and energizing the language coming out of your throat.

And in your deconditioning process, mgs, your mind is going to tell you that you can initiate outside of response because you're an mg. So this is why I tend to be pretty solidly in my position. I feel weird saying this language because it feels like Ajna stuff.

And maybe there is a little bit there. But just as a teacher and from what I've observed, I tend to stay pretty solidly within. Like, you're not a hybrid. You only initiate in response.

Because I've seen and I've heard MGs talk about this too.

Like earlier on in the deconditioning process, MGs will permiss their minds to continue to run the show, and they'll use this manifesting part of what they think it means to have that mechanic to override sacral response. Well, I can initiate because I'm an mg. Yeah, you can initiate in response.

But notice if that's leading you to frustration, you might want to back out of that a little bit and focus more on the sacral piece and watch how the initiation piece organically happens when you're in tune with that response and not forcing an initiation.

Now, this piece, I'm kind of adding everything we've talked about to this point is like very standard language for learning about the mechanics of the aura type.

The aura shape, open and enveloping, the strategy for the generator waiting to respond, the theme, satisfaction, frustration, those are all like your basic standard ABCs of aura type. But I'm adding this idea and we'll do it for all four aura types.

I very much see a fundamental prerogative in the different types of vehicles for what it is that body, that form is doing. And so just saying this to say I don't want, I like to be clear about this is like standard source material.

This is conventionally what's taught, which has been everything up to this point, of course, with my own flavor and spin on it. But this piece, this slide that we'll go over for each type is not.

This is like a Kelsey addendum I see the fundamental prerogative of the generator vehicle as being to carry life force. Generators are the carriers of life force as well as the custodians of life force energy.

And I personally really vibe with this idea like there is a sacred nature to the role of all of us.

But with the generators specifically we are talking about in your own body, you are carrying life life force and you are the parent, the custodian, the nurturer, the keeper, the caretaker of that life force. You are responsible for that fragment of life force within you. Famous quote from Rao. Wake up generators, wake up the world he talked about.

It doesn't matter how many manifestors you wake up, it doesn't matter how many aware projectors and reflectors you have. Generators are the majority and are the reasons that we either have satisfaction or frustration on a planetary level.

They are the source of the life force, however clear or diluted and distorted. An observation I've made around generators is that 70% of the population is generators. They say about 70% of the Earth's surface is water.

And I think it might be closer to 60, but for the sake of my comparison here, about 70%, somewhere between 60 and 70% of the human body is water as well. So thinking of like water is life, water is why we have life on the planet.

The ratio of water to everything else in the weight of the human body, the ratio of water to land on the surface of the earth is the same roughly as the ratio of generators to every human body on the planet.

So generators are the water are the life, the reason we have life, the reason the world keeps spirit and a reminder of the meaning of the word sacral right of or relating to sacred rites or symbols. So literally the life force within the generator is sacred. And your role, your.

Your fundamental role within your body, within your life, is to be the custodian of the sacred resource of life force that is within you. The generator builds, creates and sustains and maintains life generators.

What you are here to utilize your precious and sacred generative resources on is unique to you and your sacral center. Your sacral response, your sacral resourceness, it's predisposed. Like your mind is not in charge of what you have life force energy for or not.

Your mind is here to be the passenger witnessing the process of this life force being expended through you. There's a theme with generators about selfishness.

Generators will compromise the well being of the life force within their own body to try to avoid seeming selfish or to overextend themselves. Trying to caretake others through assumptions, conditioned assumptions of what's actually needed for them.

When the actual generator role is so pure and simple, really at its root, it's to be the custodian of the life within you, of the sacred life force within you, to honor its well being, to keep it lovingly, consciously, and to trust your own sacral indicator of where that energy wants to go and from a conditioned homogenized place.

That will feel selfish, but it's actually the least selfish thing you could do for the planet is to tend to the sacral energy within you and to find your satisfaction, to allow for your satisfaction. Because all the rest of us are amplifying either your satisfaction or your frustration.

Some thoughts on relating with generators Here's a raw quote that I think says it all quite nicely. It's helpful for the other three types to understand that once a generator has committed to a task or a direction, they cannot quickly change gears.

This piece might be a little bit different for MGs. To a manifestor, the generator feels slow and ponderous. Manifestors like we operate on, I want to do this, I'm doing this right.

That's what an initiation is for.

A manifestor and to a projector offering guidance may feel like the generator is not listening, but only by being asked again so that they can respond, so that they can feel their sacral's response. Are generators able to disconnect from where they are in the moment and reconnect to something different when asked so that they can respond.

There is a clear, more straightforward and productive exchange between types so the other types and also generators to other generators, learn to ask generators good yes or no questions. This makes all the difference.

My partner is a sacral generator and I've really learned how much easier it is for him to be in tune with his own body's wisdom. When I pose yes or no questions rather than like open ended questions. And generators don't only respond to questions, right?

I can tell my partner what I'm doing and he can respond to that. He also doesn't need me. I think I have a slide on that.

Like generators can respond to a song, can respond to a flower, can respond to a text message, can respond to an email. Like it's not just human interaction that generators respond to. Although that's plenty of it. It's literally life outside of you.

Everything that is life outside of you is something for your sacral to respond to.

However, if I'm in process having an exchange with a generator, particularly my partner, the generator that I See every day because I'm mostly I'm at home every day. If you go out into the world you encounter many generators a day. But I mostly don't go out into the world.

So I have this one generator that I engage with every day and I've noticed how much more supportive I can be for him by posing things in yes or no rather than open ended questions. So instead of what do you want for dinner? I'll approach it in yes or no questions. Do you feel like cooking tonight?

Do you want to eat at home tonight? Do you have energy to cook together or do you want to get takeout? If we're getting takeout, do you want to get tacos?

You know like give a yes or no thing and allow for that response. And he does that even with himself.

Like when he at the beginning of the day is making a list, he does a brain dump of everything, but then he goes through item by item to see if there's a response, right? So giving the sacral something yes or no to respond to another generator quote as we start to to wind down here.

Generators are born to work and to love the work they do, completely exhausting their creative energy every day. This RA quote continues. The other three types are looking outward.

The manifestor is focused on impacting the projector on knowing about how other types use their energy resources and the reflector on understanding the environment. Generators however aren't focused on knowing themselves and understanding their own process.

Again, very self absorbed type by nature and that is what is correct and is simultaneously the most responsible and least selfish thing that the generator could do is to focus on knowing your own life force so that you can be a loving, caring, conscientious, aware, attendant to it, keeper of it, custodian and carrier of it. Generators find their life through their work through understanding how they respond to using their daily supply of energy.

The right work actually transforms their life and slows down the degenerative process of their body.

There's these phrases and these questions that go with each of the types and I'll read them all right now just for the sake of comparison and full picture context. Generators are here to know themselves. Projectors are here to know the other. Manifestors are here to know their impact.

Reflectors are here to know differentiation. So there's these core questions that are like the existential and most important question for each aura type to have in their awareness.

And so for generators that question is who am I? Generators are here to know themselves. Who am I?

Based on where my life force where this sacred life force that I am the custodian of wants to go and doesn't want to go based on how my life force experiences satisfaction through my work projectors. Question is, who are they? Manifestors? What is my impact? Reflectors. Who is different?

While we're kind of on this route of empowering the Generator to be selfish, to act on their own accord, another flavor of empowerment for the Generator is to not conflate waiting to respond with doing nothing or with being at the mercy of others. Timing. I did kind of mention this a couple slides ago. Your timing is perfectly orchestrated, and your response is your personal metronome.

So you are not dependent on someone else's timing or on anything outside of you other than in ways that are exactly correct for you. So it's not codependent, it's actually interdependent for the Generator to respond.

And that is when it is the case that you're responding to another person, that's not the only thing you can respond to. But understand that, like, your timing is perfect, your body's timing happens in response and is perfect.

And that sacral response is the metronome to your perfectly orchestrated timing. Another raw quote here. It's impossible for generators to do nothing because they are constantly busy generating.

If they are doing the work they love, or if they retreat from a growling dog, or smile when a bird sings, or hum along with a tune, or enter a conversation when prompted, they are living in response. Generators are designed to wait, trusting that life will come to them.

They simply respond from the moment they get out of bed in the morning until they fall back into bed at night. So waiting and responding, waiting to respond, these are not things you have to do. Generators. This is just what you are.

This is just how you already operate.

So experimenting with your strategy of response, seeing if it brings you more satisfaction and less frustration, that's just a process of surrendering to what your body is already doing and releasing the emphasis that you might put in your awareness on the mind's tendency to resist that or try to negotiate or fight with it. Coming back to this idea of like, healing from oppression and exploitative systems evolving in another direction.

We're moving as a culture, we're moving as a species from a period of time where work and labor and productivity was all happening under oppression, exploitation, power over under systems, colonialism, late stage capitalism. We're moving towards personal sovereignty, autonomy and interdependence.

In the definitive book of Human Design, it says generators now have the tools at their disposal to live the role of the Builder, awake and aware, free of oppression and with full knowledge of their incredible sacred sacral potential.

They can know exactly what they are here to do and love doing it in cooperative and mutually beneficial ways with the other types rather than accepting a power under position and allowing their life force to be exploited. We'll leave it on this note.

Our final raw quote on the Generator type A revolution of generators living completely through response could change the frequency on the planet from frustration to satisfaction. This is why the Generator's mystical path and contribution to humanity is to wake up their sacral and to live surrendered to its subjective truth.

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Living Your Design
Your Comprehensive Introduction to the Human Design System
The LYD podcast is a free, audio-only release of the standard foundational Human Design curriculum as taught by IHDS Certified LYD Guide, Kelsey Rose Tortorice.


This transmission of Human Design fundamentals clarifies the basics, including core principles and mechanics, centers, aura type, strategy, authority, and profile. Kelsey demystifies these concepts so that listeners can understand how every piece is rooted in a clear, cosmic, mechanical system, as well as how they’re all synthesized together for practical, differentiated, embodied application.


Kelsey (5/2 emotional manifestor) is a lover of nuance, a challenger of the binary, an agent for upheaval, and a natural at finding ways to make the complex systems of Astrology & Human Design intuitive, organic, and accessible. People from all points on the novice to seasoned spectrum are drawn to Kelsey's teachings and transmissions on these languages of cosmos and consciousness - less because of what they already know or don’t know and more because they feel a resonance with Kelsey's voice and the potential for impact that their spirit craves.


The LYD podcast is a great place to begin your Human Design studies. It's also a fitting place to fill in the holes from self-study, to challenge the superficial understandings that are especially susceptible to mental distortion, or to revisit these foundations with the intent to integrate them in a more rooted, intuitive, personal, and radically honest way.

About your host

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Kelsey Tortorice

Kelsey is a post-capitalist astrologer, teacher, human design experiMentor, and community initiator. Ruled by a 7th house Jupiter in Gemini, she is a student-teacher of the Maia; seeking to understand and universalize the mechanics of reality within the context of individuality, relationship, cosmos, and consciousness as a whole.

Her frequency facilitates upheaval; disrupting homogenized programming and re-orienting people to their differentiated truth and separateness as a means to arriving to connection & inherent wholeness. With reverence for differentiation and a knack for universalization, Kelsey embraces the simultaneous uniqueness and sameness of each human experience. Their work incorporates various modalities, frameworks, and spiritual teachings in honoring and navigating this apparent contradiction.

Accompanying others on their journeys towards remembering what they Know, Kelsey invites deeper levels of autonomy, authenticity, faith, freedom, and surrender.