EP.38 - Your Unique Path: Understanding and Embracing Human Design Profiles
Show Notes
Embarking on a unique journey towards self-discovery and understanding your innate capabilities can lead to a more enriching and fulfilling life. Where does one start on this intriguing journey?
Let’s talk about human design profiles—a robust tool that not only reveals your inherent strengths, your decision-making strategies, and purpose but also showcases your distinctive approach to life. Think of it as your personal roadmap, marking out your unique gifts and charting the course on how best to utilise them.
By understanding the human design profiles, you'll gain the self-awareness and knowledge necessary to make decisions that truly resonate with your authentic self and understand how you interact with the world around you.
I'm here to guide you on this captivating journey of self-discovery. Let's explore the fascinating world of human design profiles together, unravelling your potential and setting the stage for a life lived with authenticity, understanding, and fulfilment.
Here are the key takeaways from this episode:
02:24 - What is human design?
02:51 - The significance of conscious and unconscious lines in defining personality and design
03:39 - Exploring each profile line, starting with the 1-3 and 1-4 profiles
08:12 - Discussion on the 2-4 and 2-5 lines and their implications on relationships and personal development
12:42 - Explanation of the unique characteristics and challenges of the 3-5 and 3-6 profiles
17:20 - The 4-1 and 4-6 profiles and the importance of influence, foundation, understanding, and experiential wisdom for these individuals
22:30 - Deep dive into the 5-1 and 5-2 lines, stressing the importance of recognizing personal gifts and avoiding excessive retreat
24:28 - Analysis of the 6-2 line and the significant transitions it entails, particularly around the age of 30
26:40 - Understanding the final profile, the 6-3 line, with personal insights into this dynamic, experimental experience
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TRANSCRIPT
[00:00:00] So what is human design? It's a mix of astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah, and the chakra system. And human design shows you where and how you can access your body's consciousness, body's intelligence, way beyond the thinking mind, way deeper within the body itself as a decision making tool, which ultimately supports you in living as your true self beyond any conditioning. Human design offers you like a roadmap, like a blueprint that indicates how you are as a unique person and how best to navigate the external world to your highest benefit.
[00:00:45] Hey there. Welcome to the Fearlessly Curious Podcast, your safe space to listen, lean in and learn the diversity of human experiences through the lens of fearless curiosity. When we learn more about each other, we also learn more about ourselves. How? Because when we listen to each other's curiosities and experiences, we relate to that which is in common, and that which sets us apart, gives us something to reflect on. We learn through and with each other. I'm grateful to you, the global community, for your curious questions. The Fearlessly Curious Podcast cannot exist without you.
[00:01:32] Welcome to yet another episode of the Fearlessly Curious Podcast. This week we continue the journey of discovery of one of my favourite life tools called Human Design. Now a quick summary. Human design is an incredibly important tool. It's a powerful tool that I've used for my own personal and spiritual growth and development, and it's one of the main tools I use for all my clients, and I'm fiercely passionate about it.
[00:01:55] It supports reparenting. I get to connect with my inner child and reparent everything that my parents were unable to do with me. And for many of my parents, it gives them an incredible touchstone and anchor from which to parent their children, from which to consciously parent their children so that they're not parenting according to their filters or their personal experiences, but they can be amazing guides for their children based on what their children's needs are.
[00:02:24] So what is human design? Quick summary. It's a mix of astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah, and the chakra system. And human design shows you where and how you can access your body's consciousness, body's intelligence, way beyond the thinking mind, way deeper within the body itself as a decision making tool, which ultimately supports you in living as your true self beyond any conditioning.
[00:02:51] Human design offers you like a roadmap, like a blueprint that indicates how you are as a unique person and how best to navigate the external world to your highest benefit. So my promise is that I would now go through the human design profiles. Now, there are 12 human design profiles, and I'm gonna do my best to run through them.
[00:03:13] In a summary version, without going into too much detail, but just to give you a gist of what the human design profiles mean and what they indicate. So in human design you have a profile which are two numbers. The first number represents your physical body, your conscious side of you. So it's a part of you that you are aware of, and the second number represents your design.
[00:03:38] And this part runs in the unconscious. You’re never really aware that this is running. It's part of who you are. It's built into who you are, therefore part of your design. So two numbers. The first, the physical, the conscious, and the second the design, the unconscious. So let's start with the 1-3. Now, the one line, the conscious, the one is known as the investigator.
[00:04:00] I like to call it the researcher. So the three line and the 1-3, the three exists on the unconscious, on the design side. And the number three represents, I like to call it the scientist. Some people like to call experimenter. So you. Or investigative experimenter. Okay. You basically investigate your own truth through your experiences.
[00:04:26] Both the one and the three line are very much internally focused. So the one is the investigator. Your investigating your internal process through your experiences, which is the three line. So the 1-3s are typically pretty sceptical. They challenge, they question. They're researching, they're gathering data, challenging the status quo.
[00:04:54] You love to explore. Okay? Now the vulnerability of a 1-3 line is that you might err to the side of caution, right? Because through your exploration, perhaps it's a bit radical for you to discover new things. So the one, the investigator has a vulnerability of staying limited within your own beliefs and perhaps might allow yourself even to be controlled by the evidence that you're investigating.
[00:05:22] So the 1-3 line wants to focus on being open and be daring to really experiment with life, to experience as many things as possible. Often the ones where you can feel like you're not really ready, because that three line, that natural experimental of yours is hidden. It's in the unconscious. So, With the awareness that you have that three line in the unconscious, you can give yourself permission to really go where you've never been before.
[00:05:50] Knowing that inbuilt within you is the ability to navigate and be resilient to experience. Let life be your greatest teacher of what truth looks and feels for you. So that's the one through the investigative experiment. Next profile I'd like to go to is the 1-4, so one again, the investigator or the researcher.
[00:06:15] So, and the four line and the unconscious, which is the design side is known as the opportunist and perhaps even the networker. Okay, so 1-4 lines. Basically investigate your passion and align with the right people. Okay, investigator opportunist. Now if we go a little deeper, this combination of the 1-4 is typically quite rare.
[00:06:43] The one line, as we mentioned earlier, brings a depth of knowledge through research, ok, through investigation. And there's a desire to go deep into things, but you are particularly passionate about now being alone, sort of retracting is gonna be very important for you to curate this knowledge that you are investigating.
[00:07:03] However, being in with the people that you respect, the knowledge of will create an environment in which you can share your discoveries. That's where the four line comes in. That's where the opportunist comes in. So lemme. The one line in you is the investigator, right? You're passionate about discovering the knowledge around what you are deeply desirous about discovering and what you're passionate about.
[00:07:29] You need alone time in order to curate this. How we're finding the balance of the alone time with spending time with people who you respect with this knowledge for who you can share this information with is also important. That's where the opportunist is. So it's like a little bit of a social part of you, right?
[00:07:44] So balancing the research with being social. You will become an authority on what you have mastered when you find the correct people to surround yourself with in your network. The four line, the opportunist, being smart about who you choose to spend your time with, not only to share your discoveries with, but also to learn to do your research through the one opportunist onto the next profile.
[00:08:12] The next profile is the 2-4. The 2-4 is the conscious line. Two known as the hermit. And of course we just mentioned the four line in the unconscious, which is the opportunist. Now the 2-4 is kinda like a combination between a bit of the introvert and the extrovert, I would say the hermit and the opportunist. Um, the profile energy behind this, the way I interpret it, is very much about allowing your unique wisdom to be drawn outta you.
[00:08:42] So as an introvert, as a hermit, You have a lot of alone time. You like to be on your own, but there's that opportunist part of you that's that extroverted, that's that social side of you where you're out and about. But rather than sharing what you know, wait for people to kinda pull it outta you. So there's a little bit of a tension, there's a little bit of a conflict between the two for the hermit and the opportunist, or as I like to call it, the introvert and the extrovert.
[00:09:05] And tension is something you're going feel quite whether or not you wanna be alone or you wanna be out networking with. It's important for people with a 2-4 line to bring into your conscious awareness. Very important grounding self-care practices. That means having that alone time and balancing that with social time.
[00:09:29] And that social time is also being selective with the people that you do spend your time with. It's about being selective and curating the environments in which you put yourself to take care of that four opportunist line. So going deep into your internal processes, theit, whether you are alone. Or you are in an environment where you can go deep into eternal processes, finding that balance is gonna be really important.
[00:09:54] Curating a close-knit safe community is gonna be what draws out the wisdom from you, not just for yourself, but for others too. So surrounding yourself with people who truly appreciate and see you as you are, who appreciate your natural gifts is imperative. These gifts and talents are so inherent within you that often you don't even see it yourself.
[00:10:15] So environment and company is gonna be so, so important because it's the people who you trust who's gonna draw this wisdom outta you. That is the 2-4 profile. Ok, moving on, let's go to the 2-5 profile. Now we know the two. The conscious line is the hermit. I like to describe it as the introvert and the five line in the unconscious.
[00:10:38] Okay. I know at least me in in history, I remember the heretics of being the ones who were burnt at the stake. Those were the ones who had vision, who could almost predict the future, but often because of the information that they had, people would literally burn them at the stake. They would hold them to ransom for this incredible wisdom that they had.
[00:10:56] So there's something very delicate to balance with the 2-45 heretic. So if we were to sum up the 2-5, it's almost like your gold nugget. Your gold at the end of the rainbow is being aligned, total alignment, being in total alignment with yourself to share your truth. Okay, so what does that mean? People are gonna come and project what their truth is onto you.
[00:11:24] Ok? So you become the mirror to people of the truth that they need to discover. They come to you. For you to rescue them. They project what they need onto you so you see it right, and you have this deep desire to tell them what it is, but it's very, very important for you decide what you really want to spend your time and energy on.
[00:11:48] That's the two line, that's the hermit. You need to really discern where you wanna put your energy. Where you want to contribute your wisdom to, what you want to say yes to and what you want to say no to, because there is that potential for that heretic line to be burned at the state, for you to be ridiculed, for you to be hated for the very wisdom or information that that person has come to you for, cuz they projected onto you.
[00:12:14] So you have this vision for people, you can see what it is that they need, right? But you need to discern whether or not. It's the right time, the right moment, the right energy, the right person, the right environment to actually share it with them. So how do you tell when is the right time? How do you discern any of these choices that you make on these profile lines is by leaning into your strategy.
[00:12:39] If you wanna learn more about strategy, then you need to go back to earlier episodes on the Fearlessly Curious Careers Podcast, either episode 36 or episode 34. Check that out. What's next is profile line 3-5. Now the three, we mentioned three earlier, now it's on the conscious side. So the three is the investigator, the three is the scientist or the experimenter.
[00:13:03] And the five liners I just mentioned is the heretics in the unconscious, right? So, The 3-5 is the catalyst for change. Many people live kind of vicariously through you because on the front of things you'd love to experiment. You'll literally jump into anything at all. You'll jump into the unknown.
[00:13:21] You have this incredible resilience experience as many things as possible in life and almost be fearless. Many, many celebrities, many famous people have the 3-5 line because you have this boldness about you on the front and on the back end. On the design side, people look up to you. People look to you for the answers for the vision.
[00:13:43] Now, it can be very difficult for you when you have experimented with life, right, and failed after everybody has been holding you up on a pedestal, holding you up. To maintain their expectations of you. Does that sound familiar? I can see why many celebrities have this line, right? So you have this ability to navigate life incredibly.
[00:14:06] People hold you up there. They almost worship you, right? Because you fulfill all their expectations. If you experiment, looks what you've tried in life looks like it's failed, when really it hasn't. The pressure that you feel a failure is more likely to come externally. It's more likely to come from your adoring fans, from the people who are holding you up to your great expectations.
[00:14:25] So your strength is going to be navigating these ups and downs in life by simply embracing the messiness of life no matter what people think. So letting what people think go. Because what they think, first of all isn't like your business, and secondly, what they think of you is a projection of what they think of themselves.
[00:14:47] So with that awareness, you can offer yourself a little bit more grace and compassion. When you have this aligned vision of yourself, then ultimately you are going to magnetise. You're gonna draw the people who are correct for you. When you get into this flow, you very, very possibly going. Attract towards you.
[00:15:07] Very likable and magnetic, other profiles that are aligned to you. Ok, that's the 3-5. Ok. Finally, the 3-6. We're now halfway through the profile lines. Ok. The 3 6 3 is experiential and experimental. You love to experiment. You have to experiment because you have to experience, and the unconscious line is the sixth line, which is the role model, right?
[00:15:30] People look unconscious. People like you. The 3-6, you are what I call taste testers. You have this life long journey of experiential learning and then you go on to share that knowledge with people. That's a six lined role model. Now, the first part of your life as a 3-6 is going to be all about experimenting.
[00:15:54] Okay? So even if you're told, don't touch the fire cuz it's gonna burn you, you're gonna do it anyway because you need to experience it. You need to experiment and experience with it. Now you are gonna keep doing this until you hit what we call the Saturn return, which tends to happen after the age of 30, where you may find a little bit more contrast with yourself, right?
[00:16:13] You are not quite sure whether you wanna continue to experiment or whether you're gonna start to go inward and start to settle down within your own particular passions. Okay? You might be a little bit unsure as you navigate things. You think you've got things under control on the inside. But you may feel like you need a lot of space in that bracket of your life almost to integrate things.
[00:16:36] Okay? And it's okay to ask for more space. You will start to learn to love the chaos of life and appreciate it cause it is your greatest teacher. And that's when the wisdom starts to land. After your thirties, you'll begin to learn to forgive yourself. You'll able to see the great lessons that. Life has gifted you through your incredible resilience and the wisdom that comes from these life experiences.
[00:16:59] And when you do, people are not going to be able to ignore the wisdom that you've gained through your life experience when you share it with them in the later years of your life. That's the 3-6 line. All right. Now we're gonna flip things up. The next profile line is the 4-1. So now we have the opportunity, so I like to call the extrovert on the conscious line with the number one, which is investigator the unconscious.
[00:17:24] So the opportunist investigator tends to have a very strong sense of self. You kind of know who you are, and you have very powerful internal sense. Right and wrong of your own values and your life is very much about sticking to your own truth. You have a very strong internal compass and sharing the findings of your.
[00:17:51] Investigation of life through your design with your close community. That's the four line of the opportunist. So you're kinda just navigating life in your own internal world, and you're gathering this information quietly and then sharing it on the outside with your community. So you may be known for externalising, sending out everything that you've taken in.
[00:18:15] Don't let anybody stop you. So there's a generosity in you when you are in community. And with that kind of quiet, that design unconscious part of you, which is the investigator, it might take longer. It may seem like it takes long for you to make changes in your life. You may be moving at a slower pace and everybody, um, that's actually always fine.
[00:18:37] You're exactly where you are meant to be. Just remember that you're there to share it with people. Okay, that's the 4-1. Let's go. Go to the 4-6 line. So the four again, on the conscious side is the opportunist and the six line, which is in the design and the unconscious side is the role model. Ok.
[00:18:54] People come to you for that great wisdom. So with the four line, which is the opportunist, I like to call it the extrovert. It's the experiences that you have in community with other people that brings you great wisdom. For you to share as a role model. So your whole life is about the external world. Your whole life is about going out and having experiences with people and the world and absorbing yourself in that process of being social, being out there right up until your first 30 years of life, and then like before.
[00:19:27] Right, experimenting with all these experiences as the opportunist. When you hit 30, this tends to peter off again. You kind of retreat, you take stock of the relationships. You start to draw on the wisdom that you've gained from these experiences of social activity, and you're gonna feel a little bit of a push and pull between wanting to be out with people all the time and wanting to integrate this information on your own.
[00:19:49] And that's absolutely fine. You might even experience a little bit fear of rejection as you go through this change. And that's all part of the process. It's very important for you with that conscious four line to seek validation. So those are the four lines. It's important for you to curate a community, curate a group of people whom you trust deeply, and who see you for who you are.
[00:20:13] All right, that's the 4-6. Okay. We're nearly there folks. Nearly there. Four more profiles to go through. So 5-1. Now the five on the conscious line is the heretics, the visionary, the one who can see what other people's needs, what other people needs. The one that people project, what they want onto them.
[00:20:29] That's on the conscious line. And then the one, the investigator or researcher on the unconscious line. So the 5-1 or the heretic investigator. Tends to be the person who wants to be a, you go deep into your knowledge base. Cause you have that unconscious investigator, right? And you wanna give it to everybody.
[00:20:46] You have all this information, all this knowledge, all this. And you have the vision for people, so you just want to give it to everybody, and you love learning and you change projects and challenges. You have this ability to just learn and learn and learn. You're not afraid. You're thetic. You're not afraid, you're fearless, right?
[00:21:03] And with that five lines of heretic heritage, you also extremely magnetic because people project what they need onto you. They are drawn to you to be their hero and heroine. You almost have this seductive nature about you, where you are not doing the seduction consciously, but your very being is seducing people to you.
[00:21:25] They're being seduced to you because you have something to offer them from your knowledge base. Now, because people are projecting onto you, you can feel a lot of pressure, a lot of pressure to show up for other people, and this can set you up for great expectations from other people, which in turn can set you up for massive disappointment.
[00:21:45] So as a result of that, you may have a history of fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of abandonment, cause that might have happened to you in the past. And just know that this has got nothing to do with you. This has got to do with your magnetic nature, your ability to draw around great wisdom that people need through your knowledge base.
[00:22:02] It's all about how they are projecting onto you. Boundaries is gonna be particularly important for you, knowing when to share, when not to share, knowing when to say no. Knowing when not to use up all your social batteries. Use up all your batteries just being there and providing information and wisdom for other people.
[00:22:20] Okay? Focus on what you love. Own who you are unapologetically, and learning how to say no. Staying within your integrity of what your passion, love, and knowledge is. 5-1 line. Then we have the 5-2 line. So the five, again, the heretic, and the two line is the hermit. So I like to call that the introvert.
[00:22:44] Okay, so the 5-2, by nature, you're extremely motivated again, with that five line, you know, you have this vision, right? And, and you are here to share with others what the vision is about them. But with that two line, the hermit line and the quiet side and the design side, It's important for you to discover your own genius, your own particular gifts that you're here to put out in the world.
[00:23:09] So other people want you to be their hero, right? The thing is, you need to discover the hero within you for yourself, and that is, Going to be the tricky part to navigate because you don't see yourself, you don't see your own gifts. You often hide them, and if the world hasn't discovered you yet, then working on or experimenting or playing with your own interests and your own abilities is gonna be really important.
[00:23:42] If you wait for other people to recognize you, it's possible that you're gonna become bitter and frustrated, maybe even angry. Maybe even disappointed. So with the heretic and the hermit, it's important to ask yourself where you are retreating too much, where you are over retreating, where you're separating yourself from people, and where maybe expectations of other people are too high as the heretic.
[00:24:08] Where are you just fulfilling what people need? Rather than having some level of internal focus where you give yourself the opportunity to discover the hero within you. Okay. You need to focus on recognizing yourself while still putting yourself out there. So that's the 5-2 line, and we have two more, the 6-2.
[00:24:29] The six on the conscious side is the role model, and of course we just mentioned the two, which is the hermit. I like to say the introvert, the genius line. So, as we mentioned earlier, the sixth line is all about experimenting and experiencing life right up until you're 30. So incredible resilience, just going ahead and trying different things and bouncing back.
[00:24:49] Not really unknowing what failure is because you just take every experience and swallow and digest the information as feedback. You let life be your teacher right up until you're 30. Trial and error is absolutely your process. And even though that two line of yours and the unconscious like wants retreat, you still keep doing it right up until.
[00:25:14] Now when you hit that 30 year age, that is when that two line might have more space to kick in that hermit line, and you will start to retreat so that you can start integrating all those lessons that life has given you. This is a time of deep healing, okay? From 30 plus onwards for the 6-2 line. It can look and feel like a very tricky, painful chapter in your life to navigate.
[00:25:39] As you integrate the pain and the struggle alongside all the wisdom and the greatness of your life during your experimental years, you will go deep inward, and as you do that, you. Skills and your understanding of self is gonna expand as well. When the right time comes in, your later years, probably from 50 onwards, just by being you, just by embodying and integrating that wisdom, people will start recognizing you for this wisdom, and they're gonna come to you.
[00:26:10] They're gonna draw you out your. Introverted space, introverted process naturally. So don't resist this. I like to say pain is just a word for bread in French, but really for you, pain and struggle in those years, 32, maybe a late forties is part of your process of integrating the great wisdom that people are gonna come and look for you for and pull you outta this hermit state.
[00:26:39] You've got this. Remember, you are made for this. All right, and finally, the last profile line is the 6-3. The six, again, the role model, and the three line is the experimental experience or the experiential. Experimental is the martyr. So, The 6-3 line is like, you have this double whammy, right?
[00:26:59] I'm, I've got the 6-3, double whammy, meaning right up until the, I was in my thirties on both my conscious six line, my foot, six line, and the unconscious, my three line, I had a double whammy of just experiencing life, doing everything possible, and really that's what my life felt like. I've tried everything.
[00:27:17] I've lived such a colourful life. I've never really seen failure the way the world does, and boy, have I had my knocks in life. And no matter how hard I knocked myself, no matter how far I fell, somehow I managed to pick myself up. So my process has been both internal self investigation as well as exome going out in the wall and, and seeing the wall, breathing it, and feeling it.
[00:27:41] Suffering for it and once I hit my thirties, I started to retreat and very honest, because of my unconscious three line, I'm still experimenting. Right when I hit my forties is when I really started to retreat to go in more into my deeper entire process. That's when my personal growth journey began, and I then continued to experiment within my internal process.
[00:28:05] Um, 6-3 lines have a tendency to feel restless cuz we just need to do, we need to try all the time. And that's definitely an energy that I have. I mean, that's really what's given birth to this podcast. Podcast. We're always asking questions. We're always challenging, we're always experimenting, we're always wanting to experience with new ideas, new concepts, new perspectives, new perceptions.
[00:28:28] So, A big part, a big aspect, a big quality that the Sixth three Tree can invite into their lives is compassion. Softness is tenderness is this ability to slow down. Okay. And to acknowledge that life isn't perfect and it's the imperfections of life and experiencing that, which is where the gold is to know that because you have the ability to pick yourself up.
[00:28:56] That is where optimism lives. It's not about where you fall, it's about how you stand up again. And 6-3, your responsibility and your wisdom comes naturally to you. You don't have to do anything. You just need to let yourself live. Your profile lines, the experimental experiencer, the experiential experiment, the dance comes in finding the rhythm and. Flowing with the natural ebbs and flows of being a human. So my friends, that was whirlwind of the profiles of the human design system. I've done my best. If you have any questions, the best thing for you to do is to message me on any one of my social profiles, Instagram, LinkedIn. You can jump on the email, join my email list and message me there.
[00:29:47] Or you can leave a comment on the website. You can leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, wherever you're hearing this podcast. And now of course, I'm also on Instagram threads. So please, please, please, please, please. I know it's been a whirlwind. Save this. Listen to it. I, myself, am experimenting. I'm on year five, I believe in my human design experiment, so I know I'm not about being perfect.
[00:30:10] All I know is I'm doing my best. To find this information, distil it in a way that can be digestible to you. So I'm always learning. I'm learning through you too. If none of this makes sense, let me know. If you want me to go deeper with something, you want me to break things down. If you want me to slow down, let me know.
[00:30:27] I've got that 6-3 line. I'm here to experiment fully and I'm here to deliver this wisdom that lives through me as a role model to you. I'm doing my best to live my human design. So until next time. Until the next human design episode, stay fearlessly curious, my friends.
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