How to "Align" With Your Human Design

Part Three of the Alignment Series

My favorite biblical scholar (wait, doesn’t everyone have one of those?), Dan McClellan, often makes a comparison of what “truth” means in the Hebrew Bible versus the Christian Bible.

He says, and I’m totally paraphrasing, that the Christian Bible teaches that “the truth” is “a thing” that exists in the world on a spectrum. Something is either the full truth, close to the truth, or not the truth at all.

This keeps people searching for an illusive thing that doesn’t actually exist.

But in the Hebrew Bible, the truth is taught “as a path.” There, truth isn’t a thing that we seek and find, it is a thing that we walk in relationship with, discovering, exploring, and that changes as we change.

Similarly, in the Tao tradition known as Wu Wei, the state of flow is something we perpetually surrender to. It is not something we find, it is something we dance with.

And even in traditions like Catholicism, the concept of “sin” is something we are always prone to. It’s why confession, sacraments, and ritual exist. To bring one back to the path.

We forget and remember. And we forget again.

But this life is a circle.

It’s coming back around.

It’s coming back again.

Trevor Hall, Kala, Bowl of Light

Like purpose and truth, alignment is not a single thing that you must seek and find or you’re fucked. Its a path you walk in relationship with. Its a dance between your ego, your soul, and life itself.

And it unpeel itself in layers. The dance does not end. Because the dance is the point.

That is exactly why the thing that feels like complete and total alignment today feels like the worst thing ever three years from now.

The dance does not end. Because the dance is the point.

As it is in Human Design.

The Dance of Aligning With Your Human Design

I’m not sure where people got the idea that we should be reconciling our lives to our Human Design chart. As if the chart is this mighty powerful “thing” and that once we make our lives perfectly match these mysterious shapes, letters, colors, and numbers, all will be well.

But the chart is not mighty and powerful. It is ink on a piece of paper or pixels on a screen.

The might, power, and magic come from YOU walking with it. Dancing with it.

Or in traditional Human Design speak, experimenting with it.

And, from my perspective, there should never, ever, ever be an expectation that it is all going to unfold exactly as the mysterious shapes, letters, colors, and numbers say.

Parts will resonate. Parts won’t. You’ll fuck around and find out.

Different parts will click. While these other parts still don’t.

There might even be parts that never resonate at all. And then there will be parts that sneak up on you and change your entire self concept in an instant. Sparks of knowing that shift you so deeply, that the only way forward is to move differently through the world.

And, so, you just keep on walking with it. Applying what resonates and letting go of the rest. Trusting that your soul (aka magnetic monopole) is in charge and is always pulling you towards the things that are “meant” for you.

How could it be any other way?

Resonance: The Greatest Human Design Experiment

If you are one of my Human Design Map clients, you already know that I do not teach that you should learn your Human Design in a certain order. I do not believe that starting with strategy and authority are the best method. Instead, I teach you to begin with what resonates.

But resonance isn’t the same thing as something feeling positive, affirming, or validating. When we resonate with something, it means that thing vibrates at a frequency that also exists within us. And that won’t always feel good.

And while I would never say that you should begin your Human Design experiments with the parts of your chart that feel terrifying, I also won’t pretend that your terror isn’t a signal to pay attention to. It’s still resonance. It still means that that part of your chart holds some sort of wisdom about the direction you are moving in your life.

Will your exploration land you in the exact configuration that match the shapes, letters, and numbers? Maybe not. But it will take you to a place worthy of your attention, exploration, and experimentation.

All of the places that resonate are.

On a practical level, I recommend beginning with the low hanging fruit.

The low hanging fruit are the parts of your chart that resonate is such a way that you could easily make changes, with no inner drama, and you know it would make your life better in some way.

Low hanging fruit is going to be different for everyone. What feels easy and natural for me might feel terrifying to you. And vice versa.

For example, when I learned about my 5/2 profile, it gave me that precious instant clarity. The moment I heard the term “double projection field”, my entire life made sense. As a shadow-worker, I’d long been working with the concept of psychological projection (different than projector type projection!) and I had already been unpacking it in my life.

So, my low hanging fruit was beginning to assume that anything anyone ever said about me was psychological projection. This experiment lead me down a path of deep wisdom around my egos attachments to being the hero and how critical it is for me to stand clearly in what is mine to own. And, probably even more importantly, the deep truth that just because something is psychological projection, doesn’t mean it isn’t also true.

All of that peeled back in layers. And continues to do so.

That’s how walking the path of alignment works, though.

As you make resonant changes in your life, and you start understanding the alchemy that is happening under the surface, and your capacity to experiment with the scarier parts expands.

In the beginning, no part of me was willing to say that my ego loves being the hero. Or even the victim and the villain.

And now, its just something I have embraced, through resonance, honesty, and experimentation. Most importantly, I understand how to work with those parts of my ego in masterful ways. I know how to walk that part of the path.

But, I’ve also let go of the traditional Human Design idea that as a 5/2, I will “never” be seen for who I am. Because, again through resonance, honesty, and experimentation, I’ve learned that that simply is not a truth that applies to this part of my path.

I’m also not afraid of the curveballs that will eventually head my way.

Because I know, deep in my bones that the dance does not end. With every fiber of my being, I know that the dance is the point.

So, whether you start with the low hanging fruit or the fruit at the tippy top of the tree, resonance is a key indicator of steps on your path of alignment. Its how you know what dance moves to make.

Find what resonates. Experiment. Change your life.

Repeat when a new path becomes clear.

For now, unless you have questions of parts you want me to explain more clearly or deeply, that is a wrap on the alignment series.

So, let me know if you have questions. And if not, I’d love to hear…

What parts of your chart resonate (aka vibrate with a part of you, even if it doesn’t necessarily feel good)? What experiments have lead you to unexpected discoveries? And what has changed over time?

magic unfolds when you walk with it.