Human Design Basics

Where to start with Human Design: what the BodyGraph shows, how a chart is built, and which parts actually matter first.

A Human Design chart is calculated twice. Once for the moment of birth: that is the Personality, drawn in black, the part you know and identify with. And once for roughly 88 days before birth: that is the Design, drawn in red, the body and everything others tend to see in you before you do.

Both land in the BodyGraph: nine centers, 36 channels and 64 gates. A colored center is defined, it works the same way all the time. A white center is open, it takes in and amplifies what comes from other people.

Where to start? With your Type and its Strategy, and with your Inner Authority. Everything else is detail around those two.

More in the Knowledge Base

Planets · Centers · The 4 Types · Authorities · Lines · Profiles · Variables · All 64 gates · All 36 channels

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