02. What is Human Design?

Kelsey: 00:00:00

I'm your experimenter, Kelsey Rose Torricci. 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 in to my archives and ongoing live teachings, including how to access the original LYD course complete with videos and slides, stay tuned to the podcast or check out patreon.com/kelseyrosetorte. Thank you for tuning in to 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.

This is unit one. And in unit one, we're gonna be covering three main components of a sort of very broad bird's eye view overview. The first of those components is we'll be tackling the question, what even is human design? We'll take a quick look at the scope of living your design or LYD this course in relationship to all of human design, just to sort of set the expectation around the extent to which we'll be going into the basics and what is and is not covered within this foundational course. And then we'll spend most of unit one doing a very broad intro level orientation to some of the main concepts and main premises, principles, and language utilized within the human design system.

Much of what we talk about in this third section, the human design main concepts and lingo, is stuff that we're gonna be constantly circling back to and revisiting as we come into the practical, components of the system that make up the the content within LYD. So all of the things we talk about in this main concepts and lingo section, we're gonna be coming back to to layer and to deepen into our understanding of and to integrate pretty much all the way throughout as we orient to, type in the body graph and centers and strategy and authority and all of those basics. So beginning with this first question, what even is human design? For as many people as there are who interface with human design, there are going to be that many definitions of human design because each of us is gonna have a different relationship to it based on our own awareness, based on our own subjective reality and based on our own experience. But here is, experiment.

I meant to say based on our own experiment, but here is a, attempt at some of my definitions of human design based on my work within it thus far, as well as based on. Some of these are based on, things that I just wanna specifically point out from having watched numerous people begin to engage with human design and having having introduced numerous people to human design myself. So this page is a mix, I suppose, of sort of definitions as well as, proactive reorientations, one way to say it. Okay. So human design is a complex and intricate mechanical system that combines elements of astrology, the Hindu Brahman chakra system, the I Ching, the Kabbalah, and quantum physics.

Complex and intricate, so far beyond the scope of what we're gonna be looking at in LYD. We'll look a little bit at where human design is pulling from each of these ancient systems, specifically today. We'll look at astrology, within this unit. I mean, we'll look at astrology a little bit. We'll orient to the chakra system, and there'll be a little bit of a mention of the I Ching.

Ra received this knowledge in: 1987

was channeled or received in: 1987

life after that experience in: 1987

I know in my own experience, there was absolutely a phase where I was first experimenting with human design, where I had to filter what outer authorities were saying about whether human design was problematic or not, or, whether it was a I have to put problematic in quotes. Right? Because the idea of problematic is a homogenized idea. And so it was my own human design experiment myself that really allowed me to start to take in those external authorities perspectives on what was okay or right. Or not about human designs origins and filter them through my own sense of resonance and my own experience and my own emotional, in my case, authority.

Over time, I've come to see that all of the questions and orientations that I might have to this piece, exist in my undefined head in Ajna and aren't necessarily there to to provide any concrete meaning. I don't need a conclusion. My experiment has verified for me that I can work with human design because it works for me because it continues to be a self verifiable way for me to, tap into my own inner inner authority, regardless of exactly where it came from. So that was maybe a little extra, but I know that a lot of people find me who come from backgrounds of the social justice realm and anti capitalism, decolonialism. And so I I just wanna put it there that it is not something I necessarily personally feel compelled to return to and really hammer out, but that it is something that I have thought about, plenty and filtered through my own authority plenty, and it is something that I have been in conversation about and that there are conversations about within the human design space.

So what is human design? On a practical level? It is a self verifiable or deniable experiment. It is not meant to be a set of rules or something that you're supposed to believe in at all. It's simply, a system with which each of us is able to experiment with and come to our own terms, often our own changing, shifting terms with what it is for us and how we interface with it through our own experimentation.

So you'll hear people who work with human design often referring to it as being in the experiment. I'll say a little bit more about that, in a couple slides as well. Sometimes human design is referred to as the science of differentiation. I have this very common and comprehensive sort of intro book on human design called the definitive book of human design, subtitled, the science of differentiation. It's it's not a set of rules.

Like I said, although, much of what we'll talk about in living your design is the binary of form or body and mind, or sometimes I'll refer to it as ego mime. And the ego mind loves to distort things and turn them into dogma and use whatever it can get a hold of to fortify its orientation towards right wrong, good, bad, and separation and othering. And so you absolutely will find likely within yourself and all around you orientations towards human design that are dogmatic, that do start to engage with aspects within the system and within the experiment as rules and shoulds and right and wrongs. And when the ego mind does grasp the knowledge in this way, not only does it become dogma, but it can very easily become a weapon to be used in the direction of yourself or others or community or collective. I really see it as, the potential to really human design has this potential to really liberate a person.

And when it is engaged with from the ego mind level, rather than becoming a liberatory tool, it will instead just become the new costume for your mind to imprison you through this dogma, through these rules. And when you're operating in that way, you will operate in that way towards others as well. I guess I am sort of offering it as a warning, but not to scare you just to sort of set up that what I see outside of myself. And also at times within myself is that the ego mind really fucking loves to grasp anything we feed it and use it as fodder to continue to perpetuate its binary dogmatic way of being. And so I just want to inoculate you, I suppose, to the likely potential that even within your hopefully very liberating experience of experimenting with human design, There may be moments where you realize that aspects of how your mind has engaged with and related to the material and to the system has actually become a new mental prison or become a new rule.

And so even within the overall experimentation that of human design that can offer liberation, there will likely be moments where you come up against your mind and then have to sort of reckon with how your mind has utilized the system, turned it into a new costume for old dogmatic black and white patterns, and you'll have to work through those and massage through those. So, yeah, just bringing this up as inoculation, which inoculation is a term I learned when I was a union organizer. I guess I'm going to go here because I use this word a lot and I realized recently that not everybody knows about it in the context that I know it. It's also apparently a word used in the vaccination realm. Because when we vaccinate, when we take vaccines, we're inoculating our body to the I always regret getting into scientific metaphors because I never remember I never know exactly what it is.

We're, making our bodies immune to whatever virus that that's an inoculation process with the vaccine. So by telling you the idea here is that by telling you that it's likely your mind's gonna come in and try to convince you that this is a belief system, that it is dogma, that there is a way to do your design right and wrong. Hopefully then when you start to see your mind doing that, you won't be so pulled into it. You'll be able to go, oh, that's what's happening here. I don't have to attach to that.

I can just let it go. It's a part of this process of sitting back into passenger awareness where the mind is just watching what's happening. It's a part of the process of deconditioning from a mind led life and moving into a form led life. So much more on that to come, but it does feel to me at this moment in time, like a worthy mention as we're just overviewing what human design is and how we interface with it. I'm kind of in line with that whole, tangent I just went on.

I wanna point out that human design is not based on capitalistic or colonial frameworks of labor or dominion. Most of us at the time of I don't even most feels like an understatement if I'm being completely honest. It feels to me like this is a safe thing to state universally, because we live in this moment in time where, globalization and capitalization is touching every single culture in some way, shape or form. And most of us have been brought up in capitalism and colonialism to a very large degree. So all of us, when we begin to interface with human design are so deeply conditioned by capitalism, by colonial frameworks of labor and dominion over power over that.

It is very difficult for our mind to take in the information of human design in a way that isn't attempting to fit into this, these capitalistic and colonial frameworks of labor and dominion. For instance, type, which we'll, we'll look at a little bit in unit two, just a little bit, is not at all a hierarchical structure. You'll hear people say things like manifestors were the old leaders, projectors are the new leaders, generators are the life force, or sometimes people say the workforce. And it's so easy to hate that if you're a generator and you're understanding leadership and life force workforce based on capitalistic or colonial frameworks of labor or dominion. It's also very easy if you are a manifestor or a projector to completely distort your understanding of your auric function as a manifestor or a projector, based on hierarchical capitalistic or colonial colonial frameworks when you're told you're the initiator as a manifestor or you're the new leader as a projector.

So I just wanna, I'm gonna, again, this is something I'm gonna constantly be weaving in throughout LYD and our work together. And I want to inoculate you to it now that there will probably be moments where you're taking in aspects of human design, where things butt up against something within you that is in that something within you might be your own compensation for having been brought up and raised and living in this world, this capitalistic world, this colonial world, this hierarchical world. And this last piece tends to be especially important when people are interfacing directly with Ra's work, RA's language, RA's voice. I would say that when I introduce human design, I feel pretty confident that it's not I don't make it easy for us to to immediately look to our capitalistic conditioning and our hierarchical colonial white supremacist or supremacist in general, ways of thinking. To me, human design is such a clearly anarchistic system.

It is all about autonomy. It is all about differentiation. It is all about letting go of the power that the homogenization of capitalism and colonialism has on us to come into an autonomous interdependent reality and way of relating with ourselves and each other in the world. So when I introduce human design, I don't tend to think that there's too much of, worry for this piece, for falling into this piece. But oftentimes people come to me from having taken in human design elsewhere, where the way that it was presented either was, you know, used in a dogmatic way, like the second to last bullet point that did sort of support these capitalistic or colonial frameworks or not necessarily being used or expressed that way, but, people received it in that way because that's how our, our conditioned minds are wired to receive and to compartmentalize information.

So just putting it out there that this is another piece of how I often talk about and think about human design is that it is antithetical to this way of being and seeing the world. And I believe wholeheartedly that it is organically that. Right? I once taught a class called human design something like human design for anti capitalist or something like that. And right at the top of that class, me and my co teacher, Kat Fitzgerald, talked about how we're not teaching this class because human design itself is an inherently capitalistic or colonial thing.

No. It's not. It's inherently not those things. It's inherently differentiated. It's inherently dehomogenizing.

It's inherently anarchistic. And, because it has come into the world, into a capitalist colonial world, there are gonna be so many expressions of it that either carry that capitalistic colonial distortion or are stated in a way where the mind just makes it that, even though that's not the expression. So just wanna be really clear on that. It's not that. It's I'm not it's not like I'm a special anti capitalist human design teacher.

That's not the case. But that is a pretty huge component of how I use human design is as a challenge to these things. And I think that that that's the essence of human design. That's how it's meant to be used. But I have found in my own work that being very clear about this can be important.

Okay. That was a little extra. Moving on. So what is human design to me? Everything on the previous slide was also that, but just speaking from a bit more of my personal experience, Human Design is a powerful, clear, definitive tool for deconditioning a lifetime of homogenized programming.

nsitory time. So here we are,: 2023

I know it's not that, old world, whatever. I know I can't do what I've been doing. I know I can't approach life, work, planning, relationships how I have been, but I don't know what. And I personally have really come to see this period of time that we're in as this transitory, period, but we don't really know where we're going. We just know we're not going back to where we've been.

And so for me, enter human design. I don't need to know where I'm going because human design shows me how to root into my body in every present moment and how to allow my body as my, as the representative of nature within the ecosystem. That is me, how to allow my body as that nature representative to lead the way rather than my mind, which can only interpret and strategize based on conditioning up of my life up until now, based on the external authorities that have taught me and shaped my reality up until now. So I really see human design, the human design experiment as the alternative to just continuing to, to live within the parameters and the conditioned realities of a world and a reality that personally I have left behind to a very large extent. Human design is an awareness practice with the potential to guide a being back into their innate and completely unique knowing, a knowing that cannot and will never ever be entirely externally validated.

Human design is practical more so than astrology. And I say that as somebody who comes to human design from astrology and somebody who still utilizes both very much so. I, at this point in time, don't anticipate that I will ever abandon astrology. It is the basis for my understanding of human design and my work with each system has informed and shaped and added nuance to how I work with the other system. And I will say that when I found human design, it really did feel like there was a void that I had been conscious of in my astrological practice for myself and with clients.

There had been like a wall that I felt like I had, there had been something missing that I may not have articulated super clearly, but that I felt really clearly. And when I found human design, it really felt like it was filling that void. It was filling in this missing piece in terms of a practical application of these ideas of differentiation and frequency and subjective experience that I think both astrology and human design offer. I will say at this point in time that human design does work with transits and cycles, but in a way that feels maybe honestly less practical than at least at this point for me, the way that astrological cycles and transits feel. But that could be largely because I am still more literate in cycles and transits as explored through the astrological lens.

But I guess what I'm trying to get at is there are things that each system does that in my experience up to this point, the other one doesn't hold a candle to for that thing. And, in terms of just, like, trusting the body, getting out of the mind, and deconditioning from homogenization and attuning to the self, astrology offers a sort of abstract orientation to that, but human design offers an extremely practical one, which, again, is sort of the entire basis of LYD. Human design is autonomous. It's unconcerned with morality, so we're not talking about, shoulds. We're not talking about rules or dogma.

Once again, it is all about autonomy. It actually challenges the concepts of morality, in my experience. I see human design as being energy work, a process of energetic attunement. I S I see this to an extent with astrology as well, that like just seeing our natal chart, seeing our body graph and human design can immediately be this energetic attunement because you're looking at your frequency mapped out. You're looking at the, especially in human design, the absolute of your form mapped out.

And then as you work with human design, as you work with your strategy and your authority, as you get to know your not self theme and the voices of not self in your undefined centers, you get to know the extremely unique flavor of conditioning that you've taken on. And thus you get to put some distance between, put some awareness onto that extremely unique and differentiated experience of conditioning as it pertains to you. And as that awareness grows, as you detach from your not self conditioning, you be you become a clearer embodiment of the uniqueness that is your frequency. And so this very much is energy work. It's a clearing away of the Maya that you identify with.

It's a clearing away of the energetic conditioning that has come into your system and gotten stuck there because you didn't know it wasn't you. And all of this begins with a mental level conceptualization. Everything you're taking in today, hopefully there will be energetic attunement. Right? I mentioned even just looking at your body graph can be an energetic attunement, But these concepts in terms of grounding into them in a way that you understand practically, grounding into the ideas of center definition or center openness, of your strategy to respond as a generator or to wait for invitations as a projector of the lunar cycle, if you're a reflector, and of initiating, if you're a manifestor, these are all physical things, but your physical somatic orientation to them, your ability to register sensationally in your body, what these things are and how they operate within you organically will grow with your awareness, which comes to some extent through this mental orientation, this mental conceptualization.

But the mental conceptualization alone is not the purpose of human design, is not the human design experiment. With time, experimentation, and awareness, human design can seep into your energetic and somatic orientation and offers this potential for cellular transformation. You're changing your actual cells through this deconditioning process. And this deconditioning process is an ongoing spiralic process. Although it is, common in human design for us to refer to the first seven years of your experiment as your first seven year deconditioning cycle.

We'll talk a little bit more about that, I think, in unit two. So a couple other things I just wanna point out about how I relate to and orient to human design, and some of this is universal to an extent, but a lot of this, I can feel my own frequency, my own design influencing how I am transmitting human design to you, especially in these words. And so I want to, I guess, just honor that too. And note that as well, that each of us is a unique vessel for consciousness, for spirit, for frequency, and that includes how each of us is transmitting the knowledge that is human design. It came through raw in a very specific way.

And as each of us integrates to it, attunes to that knowledge, it will come through each of us specific to our orientation, specific to our frequency as well. And so as I talk about my own design many times throughout this, course, you'll be able to feel more and more into how my expression of it you can see in aspects of my design as well. So, you know, this was true from the very first definitions that I started bringing you. These these are all coming through my vessel, but just noting that I'm getting even more potentially specific to how this vessel for consciousness or into human design as we go here. Human design can help us attune to a possible interdependent future by empowering us as individuals to become these clearer vessels for the part of the collective puzzle that is ours to embody.

It can help us to rewrite the script on what it means to be responsible for oneself as an individual and for our role within the collective consciousness. This connects again to this idea that human design actually sort of challenges morality it's unconcerned with and sort of challenges morality. It's about your unique, autonomous, subjective orientation to your life and how that plugs into all these other ways that different people, as these different vessels are orienting to their unique, subjective, autonomous orientation to life. So responsibility becomes a questionable word when working within this framework, because our orientation towards responsibility is very conditioned and very homogenized and working with human design, living your design, being in your own human design experiment will likely completely transform your sense of what it means for you to be a responsible vessel for consciousness. And the way that human design reorients us to responsibility, to relationality in a way that makes interdependence more possible is by showing us in mechanical absolutes, which aspects of ourselves and our experiences are the truth of our form and which aspects are our conditioning that distorts the truth of our individuality.

This is what I mean when I say here that human design is practical more so than astrology, because it gives us so clearly a picture and an understanding of this is me. This is the truth of me that is fixed and will always be me. This is how my body moves through the world, and everything that's not that is just a part of my conditioning or my movie, not bad, but not me, and not the thing meant to guide and move me, and not the thing meant to orient me to my subjective truth and my unique expression. I wanna point out here, I'm gonna burst a bit of your bubble perhaps or of your ego mind's bubble. Human design is not a self help tool.

It's not, it's not a heal fast, get rich fast. It's not a make your life better according to condition metrics of good and success. There are moments when we first find human design, where it just feels like this huge relief because here's this truth that some part of you always knew was you and all the ways that you've learned that you were bad or inadequate or wrong or not enough or too much are confronted and challenged right away when you begin to engage with your design. And there is such an empowerment and such a relief in that. And in my experience, as liberating as that is, I would absolutely not call it easy.

I would not say that it has made my life easier. So I wanna point that out here. Living your design equals constant surrender. Living your design means being in constant surrender to the form principle to passenger consciousness, and we'll name what those two things are down the line for anyone who's not heard about them either. To be very clear, I will say Human Design has not made my life easier according to how my mind thought or sometimes still thinks my life should be or who my mind thinks I should be.

Instead, human design has shown me the limitations of my form and how to find the most freedom, alignment, and peace while living with this form in this body. And for those of you who are, astrologically literate or who have somewhat of an understanding of what the Saturn return is, I like to point out when I teach this piece that meeting human design for me was a part of my Saturn return. I found human design during my Saturn return, and I feel like this phrasing really, shows the experience of the Saturn return. Saturn is about reckoning, and specifically at the Saturn return. Saturn, Saturn is about reckoning with like the physical form and the physical reality.

And that's one facet of, of Saturn and specifically the Saturn return can really be about having to come to terms with the limitations of your life. As someone kind of crosses that rite of passage from youth into adulthood, it's reckoning with the limitations of my physical form. I will never in this life be able to generate, consistently. I will always be a man manifestor, not a generator. I will never live outside of this closed aura that is my manifestor aura.

I will never be playing the character role of anything other than the five two. I will always have my emotional wave, my emotional authority to reckon with. And, that's just an unchangeable thing. That's a mechanical absolute. And so in acknowledging that and seeing it and surrendering to it, I can minimize my previous orientation towards constantly trying to struggle with and change those unchangeable things.

And I can allow for myself to live in alignment with that and thus experience my peace, which is my signature as a manifestor. But having the system does not give me any access to changing the absolutes of my form and the limitation of my form. All right. So getting into the scope of LYD, living your design, what we're looking at in LYD really is just the tip of the iceberg of human design. I do tend to put more into LYD than is traditionally meant to be included in this course, because it's just sort of my teaching style as a fifth line.

I like to bring in a lot. But what is covered specifically in LYD always, what your LYD certification that you will receive through this course shows you, shows that you know and have studied is the body graph, definition and conditioning, the nine centers, the four types, the strategy and themes that go with those four types, and the basics of working with authority. I will also include an LYD because they feel fundamental, to my experiment. And I want to share them with students at this entry level course. I will include profile.

I will also include the very basics of the red versus the black definition. So your unconscious versus your conscious. We'll talk a little bit about that even in this unit. And at the very end of LYD, I'll bring in a little bit about split definition. So single definition, split definition, triple splits, quad splits, wide splits, small splits.

We'll talk just a little bit about that. But things that aren't gonna be covered at all in LYD, but that are also very cool, and and and really contextualize your design and your differentiation as well. Are your actual experiment well, we are covering your actual experiment, but I listed that there to show your actual experiment is what's really going to, attune you into root you into the substance. What's underneath the tip of the iceberg that can't be done in a, a course alone or in a presentation alone, or from a teacher alone. You have to take the information and experiment with it for yourself.

See what it means for you experience the potential of the deconditioning on a cellular level in your body that comes from your experiment, not from taking a course. This course does not cover anything below that, including circuitry, which is like it covers channels and gates and lines circuitry, but there's, six main circuit groups in human design that we can also hyphenate it to three main circuit groups being individual, tribal, and collective. I might reference those at certain points, but they are not a part of the content covered in this curriculum. We don't cover channels in this curriculum. We don't cover gates and lines, except that I will show you, in unit two what they are, but we're not actually learning about them.

We won't be covering incarnation crosses. We won't be going much into personality versus design. We are not covering variable or substructure. We're not gonna look at connection charts. We're not gonna talk about penta and wa.

We're not talking about transits or global cycles. And these were just sort of the elements of my own human design study and ex and experimentation, that I work with up to this point about three and a half years in to my experiment. There's so much more that I have hardly or not even touched on myself that's not even included there. So just kind of pointing out the scope. And then also taking a look at LYD, in the scope of LYD with the International Human Design School, I just wanna orient you to what these things are because most people who find me do not find me through IHDS.

But I want to tell you what it is because this course that I'm teaching, Living Your Design, is something that it was created, and is regulated through IHDS. So I just took this screenshot from IHDS's homepage. Excuse me. The International Human Design School, they call themselves the official gateway to education and empowerment in human design, and this is their little blurb on their website. So in their words, this is what the IHDS is.

of the human design system in: 1987

So now that you have a, basic understanding of what IHDS is, I I remember when I was going through my, foundational courses, I was very confused about how it fit into the greater scheme of human design education through IHDS. So I just wanna give you that as well as a sort of bird's eye overview of scope at the onset here. So when you hear about the foundational courses through IHDS, what is being referred to as living your design, LYD, which is this one, and then there's two additional, foundational courses, Rave ABCs and Rave Cartography, which I have also taken, and they cover profile. They cover circuitry channels, gates, and that's really it. And then they don't cover, like, variable or substructure for those of you who know what that is.

All of that stuff comes in, professional analyst training. So once if somebody is going the IHDS route, once you take those three foundational courses, then all these other ones to the right become available to you. I have only done one of these, so you can go into professional analyst training, which I don't know why it's referred to as PTL, but that's how we tend to refer to it. PTL. And there's levels one through four of PTL and some of them are multiple semesters.

So for those who wanna be certified analysts of the human design system, you're looking at years long education through multi semester four multi semester PTL courses. I have not embarked on that. I may, at some point, I'm unclear on that as of now. And then there is LYD guide certification, which I have taken, which is what certifies me to teach living your design. You can also do advanced teacher training, which would certify you to teach rave ABCs and rave cartography, which I have not done.

You can do BG five, which is business analyst. It's learning to apply human design in a business or or corporate or team setting, and rave cosmology, which I am definitely interested in taking, but haven't taken in full yet at least and more. So this is kind of how IHDS is set up. I am not necessarily like a a f I guess I'm an affiliate with IHDS, but I don't work within or for IHDS. Other than that I have taken LYD guide certification.

So I'm certified to teach living your design, which means that for anybody who wants to go through IHDS courses, this course covers the the first of the three foundational courses that would then open you, make you eligible to take the rest. Now I'm including this very neutrally. There are people you may have already found, you may find in the future if you engage with human design people online or in real life, they're sometimes people position it as a debate between IHDS or non IHDS learning. Some people will, like, position it as IHDS or source material versus pop human design. All of this is mental shit.

Okay. So I'm just orienting you to how the mind, does all this compartmentalization and that sometimes comes out within the human design community as, like, battles and fights. I honestly feel quite neutral about it. I'm glad that I did my three foundational courses. But when I decided to do my three foundational courses, it was after, like, six years of mostly self study within astrology.

And for me personally, in my personal experience, when I started to take formal astrological training, I was seeing how much it was really just filling in a few minute holes, but mostly was teaching me stuff I already knew. And so that's the history with which I showed up to human design with, and I didn't wanna repeat that. I didn't wanna learn it all on my own and then have to go all the way back and spend all this money and time just to fill in holes. I just personally thought, I wanna just learn this in a linear way as it's been designed to learn. So I know I'm getting what I wanna get, what I need to get to build that foundation.

I don't think that's the only way. I don't think that's the best way. I think there are, I there are issues that I, as a student and a teacher and someone who has been a a student and a teacher and someone who's been oriented to how do we learn? How do we integrate? How do we build curriculum?

How do we process these things out? Pretty much my whole life. This is my orientation to the world is through learning and teaching. There are issues I have both with not doing it this way, issues or concerns, and with doing it this way, because IHDS isn't the most accessible financially. It it's difficult to me to it's difficult for me to understand how we can take such a differentiated system that's all about chipping away at homogenization and homogenize it in terms of how we present it.

And, like, certifications seem a little bit contradictory to me to all of that as well. So I really see IHDS as it makes sense that it exists in this transitory period where we're moving away from seven centered ways of being in learning and moving into nine centered ways. IHDS is pretty seven centered. But I also think and I know that doesn't mean something to everyone yet. Don't worry.

We'll get there. But I do also think that IHDS has a lot to offer in terms of, you know, guidance and mentorship and, and really building your own human design knowledge and awareness from the ground up in a supported space because not everything out there on Instagram or YouTube or elsewhere. I don't know if there's human design TikTok. There probably is, is the best teaching tool, you know? So just presenting information for y'all to filter through your own awareness and your own authority as needed.

And kind of on that same note, I'm sharing I maybe didn't need to include this, but whatever. That this is funny to me. I received this image in an email not that long ago, and it was like, here, you can use this on your social media. It felt very silly and weird to me. Again, sort of in line with what I was saying about the whole certification stuff feels funny to me, but I I do want you all to know that I am a certified professional.

I am an HDS certified professional. You can look on HDS and find me listed there as someone who's certified to guide you through LYD. I'm bringing that up, I guess, just to kind of place myself within the structure for you as I already did, but also because, there are people online who have decided that I'm not because I sometimes advocate for, I was saying some people will position, professional human design, like against what they perceive to be problematic pop human design. And because I have challenged that orientation, there are, there are some people in the human design online space that have decided and, announced to their followers that I am not not even a human design professional. So I just wanna point out I am a human design professional, according to the certification system that I don't personally buy into all that much.

And to kind of go continue on that trajectory, I want to share with you my own human design lineage. How has human design made its way to me who have been my teachers? So earlier, I mentioned Ra received this knowledge from the voice. That's how he always refers to it. The voice, he had an eight day experience with the voice that told him to get this book, get this book, go get this concept, put it all out on your bed, turn to this page, put it together like this.

And what he got when he received this from the voice was this complex and intricate system of which we are looking at the tip of the iceberg for. And he proceeded to spend the rest of his life taking everything that he received and finding practical ways to teach it and compartmentalize it. Thus type, thus profile, thus IHDS, all these teaching tools. As you get to know human design, as you engage with Ra, maybe as you listen to him talk about his experience with human design being its messenger and his experience with the voice, you will come to your own understanding of what exactly was happening when he had that experience with the voice. There are some people who think that it's not okay to say he channeled it or downloaded it because at one point Ra referred to his experience with the voice as the system being forced into his cells involuntarily.

To me that doesn't have to mean it wasn't channeled. It wasn't downloaded. So you can come to your own sort of understanding about what that experience was. But the way I see it, the voice or God or source or divine knowing, whatever you want to call it, gave the human design system to Ra Uruhu, who was a five one splenic manifestor. Ra taught many people.

So this little family tree is not obviously all inclusive. This these are just the points that include me in my human design lineage. But one of Ra's, initial students, early on students, original students was Alakanand Diaz, who's a one three emotional manifestor who has been my teacher for the last, like, year and a half, I think. Alak and Ra were extremely close. Alak and Ra, at one point, were besties as far as I understand.

And Alok has been living his design and living within the system for over a quarter of a century at this point. Two of Alok's students are John Cole and Amy Lee, who together have been doing their teaching work through the human design collective. They have a podcast and a school of that name. John is a two four ego projector and Amy is a five one mental projector and they were my first teachers. So I did my three foundational courses, LYD, Rave ABCs, and Rave Cartography with Amy Lee and John Cole, who did their primary education with Alakanon Diaz, who learned human design through Ra'uru.

After I did those three foundational courses with Amy and John, I actually took with Amy and John, they audited it because they were already guides, but Amy and John were my classmates in my LYD certification course that I took with Alok, and I have since continued to study with Alok in other capacities through other courses of his and one on one. So I've received the transmission of human design through Ra, through Alok, through Amy and John initially, and then also more directly through Alok through raw. And, I don't know why I have this twice, I guess. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Okay. So I I'm saying here that I do also learn directly from raw in terms of I take in what is often referred to as source material. So I listened to raw lectures. There's some free ones on jovianarchive.com. There's some free things on YouTube.

There's a mega folder that sometimes you can find going around that has a bunch of, human design material that you otherwise have to pay for. I've paid for courses. Sporadically throughout my own human design education and experiment, I have taken in a lot of Ra's original teachings. So I have a little dotted line from him because it's obviously not been any formal study, but I do study source material and learn directly from Ra. And dash line may be controversial, but in my personal intuitive understanding of what it was that Ra received, that's something that we also all have access to.

We all have access to God source divinity. And so my own human design experiment is also colored by touched by gains nuance from my own direct relationship to source, to divinity, to divine knowing. So I learned from source material, rot, and I also have my own intuitive connection to source as do you. So there's a pictorial depiction of my human design lineage. Hey, LYD podcast listeners.

I'm chiming in with a little addendum to this episode because I wanted to correct something I shared about IHDS and the way that living your design fits into the international human design school's, set of classes. But I also wanted to share a little bit extra info to go along with that correction about how I'm offering LYD, moving forward. So the only thing I wanna correct is that I called it a certification, and it's actually not a certification. There's no certification for living your design, but it is a prerequisite for future courses. So for anybody who is in fact interested in taking some of the more advanced human design classes that IHDS offers, and that includes Rave ABCs, Rave Cartography, the LYD guide training, all the all the things I mentioned all the way through professional analyst training, you do need to start with living your design.

And because I am a certified living your design guide through IHDS, students who participate in my LYD curriculum qualify. There's no certification, but you qualify if you take that course with me to take the rest of the classes. However, since I'm now offering my LYD through the podcast, I'm that's not gonna qualify you. Right? Just listening to a podcast isn't gonna qualify for you though through the eyes of IHDS.

So I just wanted to clarify, that if you want to formally study with me in a way that does qualify you for those future classes through IHDS, those more advanced classes, then the way to do that would be to join as a patron on my tier, the altar, which is where I work in a more concentrated, intimate, personal way with a limited amount of live students at a time. So if you haven't already, check out patreon.com/kelseyrosetort, and you can sign up for the altar tier. And being a part of the alter for six months will give you access to live calls with me. And as long as you make a good amount of those, as long as I get to know you and get to speak with you a bit in that smaller group setting, then I'll be able to confirm for IHDS that you studied LYD with me. Then that tier, there's access to one on one experimentorship with me as well.

So even if you can't make the live calls, but you were to add on experimentorship, that would be another way to to meet that prerequisite. So, yeah, basically, I need to know you and know that you've taken in the material, get to know you and your design a bit, and have had the opportunity to talk to you and hear how you're assimilating the information. Joining at the altar is how to do that. K. Cool.

Thanks. Happy experimenting. Bye. Thanks for listening to the Living Your Design podcast. Stay tuned for the rest of the curriculum.

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