There are 5 energy Type’s within the Human Design System:
Manifestor
Generator
Manifesting Generator
Projector
Reflector
(Don’t know your Type? Find out here.)
Type is *just* the first aspect of your energy we look at when exploring your Human Design.
What does it mean to be a Manifestor?
You’re a Manifestor if you have your Sacral Centre Undefined (white) on your BodyGraph …
AND:
Your Throat Centre is connected by Defined Channels (directly or indirectly) to one of three of the Motor Centres (Root, Solar Plexus, Heart).
You’re capable of initiating conversations, projects, relationships, businesses … whatever you feel the urge or desire to MANIFEST, independently of other people or the outside world. THIS IS WHY YOU’RE CALLED A MANIFESTOR!
Your Manifestor energy creates a big and powerful aura around you, that helps to get others out of your way so you can get on with manifesting your desires.
Whilst it probably won’t feel natural to you, keeping others in the loop with what you’re doing will reduce the likelihood of encountering resistance from them with manifesting your desires, and give them the opportunity to get on board to help you bring your desires to life if that feels good for both of you.
Your Strategy in life as a Manifestor is to inform.
When you’re free to get on with manifesting your internally derived urges and desires, this will bring you a sense of peace. When you’re hindered from manifesting your desires or you’re not following your urges, you’ll likely feel angry.
Whilst you have powerful energy to initiate action, your Undefined Sacral means you can’t sustainably be “on” all the time. You’re designed to work in powerful surges or bursts, followed by deep rest and replenishment. Honour your energy, and remember to inform others to attract the support you may need to bring a project to completion.
You have the capacity to piggy-back off the Sacral lifeforce energy of those around you, giving you extra steam. This can be helpful, but overdoing it will lead to exhaustion and depletion of your lifeforce energy.
You’re best suited to situations where you have autonomy and freedom; Manifestors aren’t designed to be told what to do.
Your joy and gift to the world is bringing your desires into reality, making stuff happen, impacting others and making your mark on the world.
To summarise …
- You’re here to independently initiate action off the back of your internal urges and desires.
- Keep others informed of what you’re up to.
- Honour your cyclical nature and need to deeply rest.
- Autonomy and freedom are important for your alignment.
- You’re here to manifest your desires and make an impact.
What does it mean to be a Generator?
You’re a Generator if you have your Sacral Centre Defined (coloured in) on your BodyGraph …
AND:
Your Throat Centre is NOT connected by Defined Channels (directly or indirectly) to a Motor Centre (Root, Solar Plexus, Sacral, Heart).
Your Defined Sacral broadcasts its frequency into your environment, creating an open and enveloping aura that attracts life towards you, taking in and responding to everything you encounter.
Your Defined Sacral always responds to what it encounters, either positively or negatively.
Tuning in to your Sacral response is essential for alignment as a Generator. You’re here to honour your Sacral response to what life naturally brings to you.
Your Strategy in life as a Generator is to wait to respond to what life brings you.
A positive Sacral response might be experienced as:
- A sub-vocal sacral sound (e.g. “Uh-huh” or “Mmm”)
- A feeling of expansion, lightness, openness
- Movement forward/towards something
- Nodding your head
- Vocalising (e.g. “Hell yes!”)
A negative Sacral response might be experienced as:
- A sub-vocal sacral sound (e.g. “Uh-uh” or “Urgh” or “Eww”)
- A feeling of contraction, heaviness, closedness
- Movement backwards/away from something
- Shaking your head
- Vocalising (e.g. “Hell no!” or “No way!”)
A positive Sacral response is your evidence that you have Sacral energy to give to whatever you’re responding to, and doing so will GENERATE lifeforce energy, enabling you to sustain the activity for some time and feel a sense of satisfaction. THIS IS WHY YOU’RE CALLED A GENERATOR!
A negative Sacral response is your evidence that you don’t have Sacral energy to give to whatever you’re responding to. If you engage anyway, you’ll deplete and drain your lifeforce energy, and feel immense frustration.
Your joy and gift to the world is to master something that you LOVE doing! The nature of your frequency is to persevere; when the initial enthusiasm of your positive Sacral response wanes, and you perhaps feel a little stuck or in a plateau, you have the energy to persist to a point of breaking through to the next level, brining immense satisfaction.
To summarise:
- You’re here to respond to what life naturally brings into your experience.
- Check in with your Sacral response to ascertain whether you have the lifeforce energy to devote to what you’ve encountered.
- Trust your gut (aka your Sacral response).
- You’re here to master the things that bring you immense joy and satisfaction.
What does it mean to be a Manifesting Generator?
You’re a Manifesting Generator (MG) if you have your Sacral Centre Defined (coloured in) on your BodyGraph …
AND:
Your Throat Centre is connected by Defined Channels (directly or indirectly) to a Motor Centre (Root, Solar Plexus, Sacral, Heart).
Your Defined Sacral broadcasts its frequency into your environment, creating an open and enveloping aura that attracts life towards you, taking in and responding to everything you encounter.
Your Defined Sacral always responds to what it encounters, either positively or negatively.
Tuning in to your Sacral response is essential for alignment as an MG. You’re here to honour your Sacral response to what life naturally brings to you.
Your Strategy in life as an MG is to wait to respond to what life brings you. (More on this ahead.)
A positive Sacral response might be experienced as:
- A sub-vocal sacral sound (e.g. “Uh-huh” or “Mmm”)
- A feeling of expansion, lightness, openness
- Movement forward/towards something
- Nodding your head
- Vocalising (e.g. “Hell yes!”)
A negative Sacral response might be experienced as:
- A sub-vocal sacral sound (e.g. “Uh-uh” or “Urgh” or “Eww”)
- A feeling of contraction, heaviness, closedness
- Movement backwards/away from something
- Shaking your head
- Vocalising (e.g. “Hell no!” or “No way!”)
A positive Sacral response is your evidence that you have Sacral energy to give to whatever you’re responding to, and doing so will GENERATE lifeforce energy, enabling you to sustain the activity for some time and feel a sense of satisfaction. THIS IS WHY YOU’RE CALLED A (MANIFESTING) GENERATOR!
A negative Sacral response is your evidence that you don’t have Sacral energy to give to whatever you’re responding to. If you engage anyway, you’ll deplete and drain your lifeforce energy, and feel immense frustration.
Your joy and gift to the world is to do all the things you LOVE! As an MG, you’ll likely have many different interests, passions, projects or hobbies. This may look like a non-linear trajectory, chopping and changing your mind frequently, or feeling finished with something before you’ve seen it through to completion. Sometimes others find it challenging to keep up with MGs, so will be helpful to keep them informed of what you’re doing.
In addition to your Strategy in life being to wait to respond, it is also to then inform.
To summarise:
- You’re here to respond to what life naturally brings into your experience.
- Check in with your Sacral response to ascertain whether you have the lifeforce energy to devote to what you’ve encountered.
- Trust your gut (aka your Sacral response).
- Keep others informed of what you’re doing.
- You’re here to do the many and varied things that bring you immense joy and satisfaction.
What does it mean to be a Projector?
You’re a Projector if you have Defined Centres on your BodyGraph …
AND: Your Sacral Centre is Undefined (white) …
AND: Your Throat Centre is NOT connected by Defined Channels (directly or indirectly) to a Motor Centre (Root, Solar Plexus, Sacral, Heart).
The configuration of your Projector energy creates a focused and absorbing aura around you, that penetrates into the aura of others, allowing you to “see” deeply into and understand them.
Your aura is a PROJECTION field for others. THIS IS WHY YOU’RE CALLED A PROJECTOR.
Your perspective makes you insightful and capable of guiding others. This is your incredible gift.
People often don’t want unsolicited advice or guidance. Ensuring that others recognise your gifts and are receptive to your guidance before offering it will reduce the likelihood of feeling bitter, and more likely to feel successful. Receptivity might be evident in the form of a literal invitation, or less obvious in the form of acknowledging your gifts.
Your Strategy in life as a Projector is to wait for the invitation.
Your ability to energetically penetrate the aura of others makes them feel very seen and understood. You might see others better than you see yourself, so recognition can be supportive for you.
You also likely have a good understanding of energy flow in general; of how systems and processes work, energy dynamics within groups, and seeing the bigger picture within a situation.
Not all invitations are meant to be accepted; only those that make you feel seen and recognised for your insights and perspectives.
You don’t need to wait for an invitation to do the things that fascinate you and engage your attention; only to share your insights and perspectives with others.
You don’t need to passively wait for an invitation; do your thing, be in the world, let others know what you’re up to, and allow the correct invitations to come to you.
Your Undefined Sacral means you can’t sustainably be “on” all the time. You’re designed to utilise your capacity for incredible focus and efficiency, achieving a lot in a short space of time, followed by rest and replenishment. You’re designed to be less about the doing, and more about the guiding.
You have the capacity to piggy-back off the Sacral lifeforce energy of those around you, giving you extra steam. This can be helpful, but overdoing it will lead to exhaustion and depletion of your lifeforce energy.
Your joy and gift to the world is to follow your fascinations and be recognised for your perspective, observations, insights, and ability to guide, problem solve, and improve.
To summarise …
- You’re here to energetically see into and understand others.
- Wait for recognition and receptivity before offering advice or guidance.
- Honour your need to balance highly efficient output with rest and replenishment.
- You’re here to feel successful as a guide for others.
What does it mean to be a Reflector?
You’re a Reflector if all the Centres on your BodyGraph are Undefined.
Your Undefined Centres all absorb and amplify the energy of others within your environment.
This creates a sampling aura around you, that automatically tastes and tries on the energy of those within your environment, amplifying and REFLECTING it back to them like a mirror. THIS IS WHY YOU’RE CALLED A REFLECTOR!
Your energetic openness makes you susceptible to conditioning and influence by those around you. Awareness and discernment are critical skills for you to develop.
It’s imperative for your wellbeing to curate who & what you allow yourself to be exposed to. Finding the energetically correct environment and community for you is key, otherwise you’ll feel disappointed at the misaligned energy you’re sampling.
Your empathy presents a capacity for deep wisdom through experience, & enables you to develop resilience as your aura learns to resist identifying with the energy it samples.
You experience different forms of body-wisdom activated during interactions with others & by the transit of the moon. To determine what is energetically correct for you, allow time to experience the full spectrum of your body-wisdom throughout the lunar cycle.
Your strategy in life as a Reflector is to wait a lunar cycle.
Waiting a full lunar cycle for every move and decision is not always possible. Changing your mind and course correcting are likely to be a big part of your experience of life, and that’s ok.
Whilst you likely experience an inconsistent sense of self and way of being, your consistency is in the repeating pattern of energy activated by the lunar transit cycle.
Learn to observe the patterns in your energy throughout the lunar cycle.
Your Undefined Sacral means you can’t sustainably be “on” all the time. It’s critical for you to be discerning of where you apply your energy, and to rest and replenish as your body needs.
You have the capacity to piggy-back off the Sacral lifeforce energy of those around you, giving you extra steam. This can be helpful, but overdoing it will lead to exhaustion and depletion of your lifeforce energy.
Solitude and energy clearing are important for your replenishment and wellbeing, so you can come home to yourself without the energetic influence of others.
Your energy type is rare; you’re part of just 1% of the population. Recognise that your experience of life and way of operating is intrinsically different to the vast majority of humanity.
BUT: You’re not alone.
1% of the world = 80 million people!
Your joy and gift to the world is to be at the centre of your community, reflecting it’s energy and being a gauge of it’s wellbeing, igniting a sense of surprise and delight in the uniqueness of the auras you get to sample whilst remaining unattached and unidentified with them.
To summarise:
- You’re here to sample the energy of those around you, reflecting it back to them.
- Wait a lunar cycle when making decisions; check in with the spectrum of your fluctuating body-wisdom.
- You’re a cyclical being who operates in repeating energy patterns.
- Solitude and energy clearing are critical for your wellbeing.
- You’re here to be at the centre of your community as a gauge of its wellbeing.
Learn more!
I’ve created a free Masterclass for you to dive deeper into what it means to be your specific energy Type, and how to align with your Type for more flow and less resistance as you move through and engage with the world. Generate your chart and access your free Masterclass here.