Part of the Human Design Atlas
The Foundations of Human Design
The rest of the atlas describes the parts of a chart. These pages describe the system itself: the diagram it is drawn on, the wheel it is calculated from, the four older traditions and the modern science it draws on, the story of how it arrived in 1987, and a glossary of every term you will meet. Read them in order and the rest of the Knowledge Base becomes easy to follow.
All 15 Foundations
What Is Human Design
A map of how you are built to make decisions and meet the world, calculated from your birth time and offered as an experiment rather than a belief.
Human Design is a system for understanding how you, specifically, are built to operate.
Read the full page →The BodyGraph
The diagram at the heart of Human Design, with nine Centers, 36 Channels and 64 Gates, and how to read what is coloured in and what is left white.
The BodyGraph is the picture you get when you generate a Human Design chart.
Read the full page →The Rave Mandala
The wheel that Human Design charts are calculated from, with the zodiac on the inside, the 64 hexagrams on the outside, and the BodyGraph in the middle.
The Rave Mandala is the wheel behind every Human Design chart.
Read the full page →Personality and Design
The black and red columns on a chart, why Human Design runs two calculations, and what the conscious and unconscious sides of you each contribute.
Every Human Design chart carries two columns of planetary data.
Read the full page →The I Ching in Human Design
How the 64 hexagrams of the Chinese Book of Changes became the 64 Gates, and why their six-line structure matters more than their ancient text.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the oldest books in the world: a Chinese text built around 64 figures called hexagrams, each a stack of six lines that are either solid or broken.
Read the full page →Astrology in Human Design
What Human Design takes from Western astrology, what it leaves behind, and why a Human Design chart and a birth chart give different answers from the same birth time.
Human Design and Western astrology start from the same raw material: the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and lunar Nodes at the moment of birth, measured on a 360 degree wheel divided into twelve signs.
Read the full page →The Kabbalah Tree of Life
The Jewish mystical diagram of connected spheres that gave Human Design the idea of Channels, the pathways carrying energy between the Centers.
The Tree of Life is the central diagram of the Kabbalah, the mystical tradition within Judaism whose key text is the Zohar.
Read the full page →The Chakra System and the Nine Centers
How the seven chakras of Hindu tradition became the nine Centers of the BodyGraph, and what Human Design means when it says we changed in 1781.
The chakra system comes from the Hindu and yogic traditions of India.
Read the full page →Neutrinos and the Imprint
The particle stream that Human Design says carries the imprint at birth, and how physics has since caught up with what Ra described in 1987.
Neutrinos are among the most common particles in the universe.
Read the full page →Crystals of Consciousness and the Magnetic Monopole
The passenger, the vehicle and the driver: Human Design's account of the three parts that make up a person and why the mind is meant to ride, not steer.
Underneath the chart, Human Design carries a story about what a person is made of.
Read the full page →The Nine-Centered Being
Human Design's account of a change in the human form dated to 1781, why it says the mind was built for an older kind of human, and what 2027 is about.
Human Design teaches that the kind of human being alive today is not quite the kind that was alive three hundred years ago.
Read the full page →Circuitry
How the 36 Channels group into circuits and three circuit families, Individual, Collective and Tribal, and what each family says about the way you connect with people.
Look at a BodyGraph with all 36 Channels drawn in and it resembles a circuit board.
Read the full page →The Experiment of Strategy and Authority
Why Human Design calls itself an experiment, what deconditioning means, and what the not-self themes are telling you when they show up.
Everything else in the Knowledge Base describes your mechanics.
Read the full page →Ra Uru Hu and the Origin of Human Design
Who Ra Uru Hu was, what happened on Ibiza in January 1987, and how the system went from an eight-day encounter to a worldwide body of teaching.
Human Design has a single founder and a precise birthday.
Read the full page →Human Design Glossary
Every term you will meet in a Human Design chart or reading, explained in a sentence or two and linked to its full page.
Human Design has its own vocabulary, and a first chart can feel like reading a language you half know.
Read the full page →Created by Peter Low, Human Design Practitioner. Part of the Human Design atlas.