Embracing Your Unique Energy Blueprint: Human Design for Women of Color

Understanding Human Design:

Human Design is a holistic system that combines ancient wisdoms including: Astrology, the Chinese I’Ching, the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life, the Hindu chakra system with modern science of quantum physics, epigenetics and biochemistry. It provides us with a profound understanding of our energetic blueprint, revealing the unique gifts, talents, and challenges that shape our lives.

As Women of Color, we carry within us the richness of our cultural heritage, ancestral wisdom, and diverse experiences. Human Design can serve as a powerful tool to honor and integrate these aspects into our lives, unlocking our true potential and creating a more fulfilling, liberatory existence.

Discovering Your Human Design:

To embark on this transformative journey, the first step is discovering your personal Human Design. There are five key components that define your energetic makeup:

Aura Type:

Human Design recognizes five aura types—Manifestor, Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, and Reflector. Your aura type represents how your vibrational energy radiates in and out.  It help you understand how the universe responds to you.

Understanding your aura type can guide you in making decisions aligned with your unique energy, allowing you to thrive in your personal and professional life, and align with the vibration of the universe.

Strategy

Each Human Design aura type has its own strategy for creating the most optimal experience in this lifetime. Your strategy is meant to help you make aligned decisions.

Authority:

Your authority works with your strategy to reveal how you make decisions that are in harmony with your inner wisdom. It can be emotional, sacral, splenic, or any of the six other authorities. By honoring your authority, you can trust your intuition and inner wisdom, making choices that align with your authentic desires.

Centers:

Human Design maps nine energy centers that represent different aspects of our lives, including communication, emotions, work, purpose, processing information, and self-worth. These centers can be defined or undefined, influencing how we interact with the energy of our surroundings and other people. Understanding our centers empowers us to recognize our strengths and potential areas for growth and healing.

Profile:

The profile reflects your personal journey and life purpose. It consists of two numbers that reveal your energetic dynamics and the roles you play in society. Understanding your profile can help you navigate your unique path and bring your gifts to the forefront. It can also help you release unnecessary roles you may be playing in life right now.

Empowering Women of Color through Human Design:

As Women of Color, we often face unique challenges, oppression and societal expectations that limit our self-expression and sense of worth. These factors often deter us from trusting ourselves to make decisions in our best interest. Over time, we are often taught to second-guess ourselves, internalize oppressive systems like white supremacy and patriarchy, and search for external validation from the dominant culture.

Human Design provides us with the tools to reclaim our power:

Embracing Authenticity:

Many of us are taught at a young age to change who we are in orderto fit into social, cultural, and family norms. 

We learn to suppress our emotions (ie. “You’re too sensitive!  You’re too angry. “.). 

We learn to silence our voices (i.e. “You’re too extra.  You’re too loud.  Don’t talk back.”) 

We learn to take up less space (i.e. “Wait your turn.  Ask for permission.  Be more professional.  Be sweet so you can please people.”)

 Messages like these teach us to ignore who we truly are meant to be.  These messages can make us feel like we’re designed wrong and need to change in order to fit in and be accepted.

Human Design encourages us to embrace our true selves, honoring our unique gifts, talents, and passions. It can often be a confirmation for the times in our lives when we were indeed most in algnment, simply by being who we naturally are.

By recognizing and embracing our authentic essence, we can amplify our impact and create positive change in our lives and communities.

Cultivating Self-Compassion:

Understanding our Human Design helps us develop self-compassion and acceptance. Our society values shame-based tactics that force people, specifically Women of Color, to comply with authoritative figures.  Practicing self-compassion can help heal years of shame, judgment and self-judgment.

By recognizing our strengths and challenges through Human Design, we can nurture ourselves, set healthy boundaries, and engage in self-care practices so that release us from self-judgment and past trauma.

Amplifying Collective Wisdom:

Individually, we all have unique gifts and talents that we can offer the collective.  A movement of collective liberation requires a diversity of personalities, roles and contributions.

Human Design shows us how to embody our inner wisdom.  It invites us to tap into the collective wisdom of our ancestors and cultural heritage, which is rooted in connection to spirit, the body and our intuition. It allows us to honor our indigenous roots while integrating new insights and perspectives from modern science, creating a powerful fusion of ancient wisdom and modern knowledge. In other words, if you’re into movements such as Afrofuturism and SolarPunk sustainability, Human Design supports those principles. 

By incorporating your Human Design into your healing journey, you have a tool to release intergenerational trauma on a cellular level.   

Building Supportive Communities:

Human Design brings people together through energetic alignment, fostering supportive communities where we can learn, grow, and inspire one another. There is a special chemistry created when different aura types and energetic gifts come together.

As Women of Color, we can create energetically harmonious relationships, and identify different ways for us to all contribute to the collective through our unique gifts.

Conclusion:

Dear Women of Color, Human Design is a powerful tool that can guide us on a healing journey of self-discovery, liberation, and alignment. By embracing our unique energetic blueprint, we can tap into our true potential, honor our cultural heritage, and create a positive impact in our lives and communities.

Through Human Design, we have the opportunity to embrace authenticity, cultivate self-compassion, amplify collective wisdom, and build supportive communities. It invites us to celebrate our diverse gifts, talents, and experiences while navigating our personal and professional lives with clarity and purpose.

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