Ra Uru Hu (Post 85) Our Vehicle Will Serve Us
The beauty of Human Design is that Human Design gives us a way, a very direct, very mechanical, very correct way in which we can take care of our vehicle first by giving it the authority that it deserves and second by treating it correctly, feeding it correctly, placing it in environments that are nurturing for it. If we worship at this temple and it truly is the only temple worth worshiping at, if we worship at this temple of the vehicle it will serve us. It will serve what it is intended to serve. That is, it is here to serve consciousness. Everything about your body, everything about this vehicle is that it's a platform for consciousness. Everything else is secondary actually and in fact. It is all about the possibility of passenger consciousness.
We have to get beyond the seven-centered trip that we have to pay so much attention to the vehicle; that we have to control our lives though our minds and therefore distort our possibilities for cognition and health. It's a new world. We're different. We‘re not like anything else. We are nine-centered creatures. This is our story. We‘re the ones that carry the—it‘s a clarion call. Wake people up to understanding that you have to look at the world differently, because we cannot look at the world the way historically we‘ve looked at it, at life and at each other. We have to come to a recognition that we are transformed as a species and as such we have to learn new ways. That we have to come to grips with the fact that we are a binary consciousness, that we are different from what preceded us.
This is really the work. When I began it was about trying to get people to see that they could operate as themselves. That‘s always been the basic thrust. But for me having gone through this process so deeply I realize that the first thing is we have to know that we're different. They don't know that. It‘s why they look for old solutions, why they're not ready for nine-centered truth, because they‘re so mired and lost in seven-centered homogenization.
One person at a time, that‘s the only way, one person at a time. Forget about the natural order. Find your correct order. Look at your variable and see that this is where you have to go, not for the whole, but for you. This is the floor plan of your fulfillment, your completion, your perfection as a human being, as a nine-centered human being, Homo sapiens in transitus, that‘s us.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 86) We’re Here to be Cognitive
Remember, if we go back to what Tone is—and for many of you this is not a part of your studies, so you’re getting a generalized introduction to this—what Tone represents is the foundation of why we're here. We’re here to be cognitive. We are here to be aware. And that awareness is built into the cognitive architecture. Now, the work of Human Design through mechanics is to be able to guide somebody to be able to gain access to what is their differentiate potential. What is their differentiated potential at the tonal level, at the Color level, whatever that may be.
But again, please understand the vast majority of humanity—I'm giving you a theoretical presentation here—the vast majority of humanity is simply not-self, period. And all of this becomes very distorted because as you are going to see, by the time we get to the line level, that the line acts as a kind of loose cannon. As long as it’s not supported by what is correct, then the line itself is a very, very broad generalization that carries many, many traps in it. The traps that are the traps that keep the not-self beings and their fear laden minds locked into their mental decision making patterns. It doesn't give them an opportunity, truly, to be liberated.
So, when we’re looking at the Design side, the Design 1st Color gives us another clue about what we're moving towards to the surface. Remember, the surface is built on what's underneath. The line is a construct built out of the potential of what's underneath. So in that continuity lies many messages. And it isn't just that the 1st line is only related in continuity to those 1st lines? after all, each and every one of us will have a different chain.
In the advanced imaging work that we do in Rave Psychology and PHS, we work with chains, that is, Tone Color Line is called the chain. And everybody has different chain configurations. You can be a 6th Tone, 2nd Color, 1st line, there can be all kinds of configurations. So in expressing this continuity this way, don't misunderstand. There are all kinds of elements that are there in the line level that in fact add to what can be very confusing if you're not correct, because you're designed to hone in on what is specifically correct for you.
Out of those 69,120 Bases, one, think about it. Out of those thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of Tones, one—at least four, the particular aspect you’re looking for. Then you begin to see what differentiation really looks like and you being to understand what we’re dealing with. Here is a generalization in order to be able to give you an insight into this construct, what this line is really made of.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 87) Nodal Environment: 3/50
The 50th Gate: Traditional Values
Here you really have a very extraordinary kind of background, because you have a transition between what is ultimately deeply conservative, that’s the 50th gate, and what is fundamentally individual, freaky and mutative, and that’s the 3rd gate. So, we have very different aspects of the way in which this stage is going to operate. It’s particularly significant in the difference between whether one or the other gates is the South Node or the North Node.
Let’s take a look at the 50th gate, The Cauldron. This is the gate of preservation. It is deeply tribal. It is the root of our intelligence system and the value of historical continuity whose traditional values serves and enriches the present and the future. So, for example, when you are born with a South Node 50, then the stage upon which your life opens up on is a stage, in the environment, that is full of beings with traditional values and a community rooted in traditional values. This kind of community, depending on where the community is and what the traditional values happen to be, is very much being caught into tribal continuity. In other words, being caught up in a world in which the value systems refuse to accept the challenge of the outside, the challenge of whatever—modernity, secularism, whatever it happens to be, depending on the quality of those traditional values.
Remember, this is not as if this is the Personality and thus the Profile and what the life is going to be about. This is about the environment upon which the potential of the purpose of the life can be fulfilled. So it’s essential for this being that comes into the world with this configuration to go through this phase of their life, whether it’s the first or second half of their life, where they’re dealing with the power of it in the environment, the traditional tribal values.
The 3rd Gate: Confusion
Now obviously when we go to the other side, when we go to the polarity to the 3rd gate, we get to Difficulty at the Beginning. We get to a Sacral gate that is part of the format energy of the individual process. It’s a pulse. There is both a deep uncertainty and a potential melancholy that is rooted in the 3rd gate, and this is the fundamental challenge of initiation to transcend confusion and establish order. This will lead to two very different kinds of life processes, whether you are going from the 3 to the 50 or the 50 to the 3. If you start your process with the 50 South Node, you start with traditional values as your background, only to discover that the traditional values for whatever reason collapse, and in that collapse is the rising up of confusion, and out of that confusion, the need to establish a new order. In other words, there is the breakdown of whatever the continuity happens to be in the environment, and then the resulting confusion and the attempt to establish a new order.
If you’re coming the other way—that is, if you have a South Node 3rd gate, moving towards the 50th gate as your North Node, then you end up starting your process with confusion all around. In other words, confusion in the environment, a lack of clarity, a lack of certainty, a great deal of discomfort in the environment, because in a world of confusion it is very difficult to operate in a successful way. There you would have in the early part of the life this attempt to try to establish some order out of the confusion. So that’s the environment. Everybody’s trying to find a way, and this would lead into the 50, and this would be a return to traditional values. In other words, that order, the ordering of the confusion would end up being a return, almost a retrograde phenomena of returning to traditional values as the thing that is going to secure one’s future.
You can see that in the rise of fundamentalism in middle-aged beings on this planet. If you’re carrying this kind of configuration, it is a natural thing to reject the confusion as an example of modern society to return to the secure traditional values that were established tribally.
So this is a very interesting environment to work with. Again, remember that the perfection of one’s process, the fulfillment of one’s purpose through one’s Profile, that given this Nodal environment, this is the environment in which that purpose can be fulfilled—not one to be rejected, not one to be denied, but one to be surrendered to correctly as oneself.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 88) The Open Ego Center
The majority of humanity has an open Ego. Think about what that really means. It tells you so much about the incredible pressure that's in humanity to succeed in one way or another. This huge movement of doing better, being better and all of those things come with the undervalued qualities of the open Ego. The open Ego is always trying to prove and improve.
Obviously if you have this open, then actions, whatever actions are going to be decided by the not-self mind are going to be actions that hopefully will try to ensure one's worth. In other words, if it isn't going to bring you improvement, if it isn't going to show others that you're worthy, then you simply don't do it. It's the kind of thing where somebody who likes publicity doesn't do anything of value privately that nobody sees, but needs to do those things in front of people in order to get the attention and get the reaction that they feel the activity is going to bring them.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 89) Two Options
In this BodyGraph up here there are really two options. They're very clearly laid out. If you honor your Strategy and Authority basically what you're doing is that you're operating out of what is fixed in you, what defines you as somebody different from anyone else, what defines you as somebody who has the potential to be able to fulfill their purpose. And then you have the whiteness, the openness. This is where everybody ends up; well, most human beings. Not living out who they are, but living out only the possibility of what they're not, chasing it, looking for it. And the Program likes to fool them and tell them, hey, you have it.
Think about that person with an open mind, they have an open Ajna Center, they always want to feel certain but they can't feel certain about anything. And on that day somebody comes up to them and asks them the most important question in their life and on that day it so happens that one of the planets, Mercury, Mars, Venus, whatever, is exactly in the gate that is going to define their Ajna Center so they're going to have a sense of certainty and they're going to say, "I'm certain." And whether that certainty is "yes" or "no," they're going to feel certain about it.
It's not who they are. This is not the way they are intended to make decisions as themselves. They cannot trust that mind; no one can. It is simply something that is not possible. They just can't. The Program rules. There is nothing to confront it. There is nothing to deflect it. It simply is there. It is the process that we live through.
When I look every day at the Program and I start my day, I'm looking at my world. I'm looking at this plane. I'm looking at all the things that go on in this plane. There are no surprises in that, truly there are not. These are just vast movements of an ongoing program. It's a drama; an ongoing drama. Day after day, certain themes are interwoven and conditioned into humanity, and everybody is blind to it.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 90) The 6th Line Profile: A Kangaroo
I see 6th line in the profile as a kangaroo. The kangaroo is the best example of it, because when a kangaroo is actually born it is a very, very tiny little thing. It looks a little bit like a salamander and it crawls out of its mother’s womb and it crawls up to the pouch. Now of course, it’s not the same time frame, but nonetheless, this is its trial and error period. As a matter of fact, it cannot be helped by the mother. The mother could actually kill it if it tried to help. It has to find its own way. It has to crawl up through the thick hairs on the mother's body and finally eventually get into the pouch. And then it develops in the pouch? what is known as a joey, a little kangaroo that is hanging out of the pouch all the time. And then finally, it gets out of the pouch.
The thing for me that is so clear about this is when you're looking at the human process is that this first, this 30year cycle, for me it’s the 6th line being in a sense not really being here yet. It’s almost like this is prebirth. But of course, I can’t put it in that context, but I want you to grasp it in that sense. In other words, its formation is taking place before the actual formation is there. In other words, it is something that moves very slowly to build up to a point in which there is this possibility.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 91) Humans are Unique and Special
It’s so hard for human beings to grasp that they are unique and special. It’s difficult. And yet, this is where it all is, is this understanding how incredible it is to be able to express what is your unique potential? yours, period. And the thing that gets in the way of that over and over and over again are those beings that there in your life that you indulge, that you empathize with, those beings that condition you negatively day in and day out, those beings that pull you this way and that way, those beings that you allow into your process, the 4s that allows somebody into the network that doesn't belong there. It’s like bringing a cancer into a cell. Slowly but surely it eats it away.
Decision making is everything. If you want to live the magic you have to live it through the body completely. Again, it’s my thing about embracing this knowledge as radically as is possible for you, but the whole business of enhancing the possibility of cognition on Personality side, of enhancing awareness on the Personality side, you have to be deeply disciplined in your respect for the demand of the body before you can really exalt that process, because even in deep awareness that is possible just through this whole experience, that you're doing it within the limitation of a brain that has more possibilities, greater possibilities beyond even what you think is your space, your place.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 92) Healing the Body
So yes, it is about cognition, but it's about the way in which you establish the potential for cognition. Now, what we know about that is that we know a number of things. First of all, you have to be healthy. It's just an interesting thing to think about. The power of brain-mind system is rooted in the well-being of the vehicle itself. And of course, when I say the well-being I‘m talking about its nutrition. That is, the quality of nutrition that the vehicle is taking in is something that is going to be very important to establishing its cognitive potential.
You can see that just in the obvious sense. If you have a physical problem, any physical problem is going to distract you. It simply does. Not only will it distract you, but of course it takes energy away from you, that very distraction. It takes away a potential that is there for you to be able to dedicate what is the cognitive potential in you to really be able to dedicate it fully. It's why the healing of the body is the first thing that Human Design brings. It cannot bring the healing of the mind first, it cannot, it truly cannot. It begins with the body.
Everything about Strategy and Authority, after all this is form knowledge, it begins with a basic understanding that if the body doesn't operate correctly, a lot of other things won't as well. And of course, this operating of the vehicle correctly as we well know this begins with in terms of Design with a mechanical understanding that it is the vehicle that needs to assume authority in the life. In other words, it is the vehicle that needs to take over the responsibility for making decisions. It is only then that the vehicle begins to operate in a way that leads to the potential of its wellbeing.
It was something that was clear to me at the very beginning of my work, was that having to introduce this knowledge to adults who are deeply conditioned it meant that there was going to be a great deal of frustration in terms of being able to heal their vehicles, heal their vehicles in the full sense of being able to return those vehicles to the vitality and potential that was there when they came on this plane. Homogenization is cruel, what it does to the body. Conditioning is something that has profound, life-lasting impacts. It is not an easy thing to correct that. It takes a tremendous amount of work and dedication. And even in that some things are just not fixable. I'm not some kind of: believe in me and you shall be healed. This is science, this is mechanics, and there are things you do to your body when you‘re conditioned that you can never recover from regardless of how dedicated you are.
This knowledge is for children. This knowledge is for beings entering into the world, it really is. I'm deeply appreciative of the fact that I'm privileged to have students who go through this process, who as adults go through this deconditioning process. Yet, at the same time I know the burden that you carry. So much of the knowledge and the way in which I approach the knowledge in this era is to be able to provide support for adults going through the deconditioning process. The wish is that there will be a time when this kind of work isn‘t necessary because human beings are simply raised correctly. This is a totally different kind of sub-genre of this work of having to deal with conditioned adults. So, all of these things have to be seen in perspective.
However, regardless of what the conditioning has done to anyone if they are operating according to their Strategy and Authority, if they go through a seven-year cycle they are aligning themselves to a life that is going to be productive for them. And certainly whatever it is that they have suffered from isn't going to get worse. It's not necessarily going to disappear, but it certainly isn't going to get worse.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 93) The 4 has to be Smart about Who they Pay Attention To
That 4th line is able to take in a great deal as long as it’s secure. Remember, were dealing with the opportunist. Everything about the 4 is about having the cognition to invest. This is the whole thing about them. Every line has its thing that it has to be smart about. The 4 has to be smart about who it pays attention to. This is the key to being a 4. If you’re a 4 and you pay attention to the wrong people, you make an investment over time and you end up getting no return and you end up with a loss. I know it sounds odd to measure it in that way, but that's what 4s are all about. It’s what they have to be about, quid pro quo. And yet they need to have the cognitive skills to recognize where that investment has to go.
You have to see something about the nature of the 4. The 4 is here to be able to see. If you look at them wave-wise you see that the benefactor is part of what their energy is about. They’re here to be able to grasp where there is a need for an investment in the other. It is never free of whatever the intended motivation is going to be, because after all everything that a 4 does is for its own possibility. Now, I don't mean to say that in a mean sense, because I don’t. That is, it is correct for them. They are in fact very beneficial, generally speaking to others, more often beneficial for others than they are for themselves.
It’s one of the deep dilemmas of the not-self 4 doing all this networking and they end up being cut out and everybody else thrives. This is the not-self. It happens to 4s all the time. And of course, it give them a very bad feeling whatever that may be, depending on their type—the anger, the frustration, the bitterness, the disappointed, you name it, that's going to be there. And it's all about investment.
One of the dilemmas of this is the confusion that is there. There is this brotherhood/sisterhood theme of the 4. The 4 has a problem with sex. It always has this kind of thing with sex. It has to be very, very particular because it is built out of certain demands within the relationship before the sexuality is something that really is interesting. And at the same time there has to be a certain coldness, coolness to the way in which the 4 needs to assess the other because they play a role.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 94) The Color Consciousness Field
So I want you to grasp that we are looking at the color consciousness field. It is vast. It is the by-product of all of the neutrinos going through all the crystals of consciousness on this planet and there are so many that it is beyond the imagination to even imagine the number. It is the blades of grass and bees and flies and it goes on and on and on. All the cells of all the living things on this planet are all endowed with crystals of consciousness.
Of course, we know that there is this vast dilemma within the personality of the human being and the dilemma is something that we call transference. And it is because of transference that no one, except those students of mine that I work with on this subject, no one other than that truly has a grasp of what color is. The average newcomer to Human Design who is looking at the front page of Jovian sees the Just Now Chart and the motivation theme for the moment. They see that theme, let’s say it’s a 1st color —fear and they assume that’s what everybody will deal with as a motivational input. In fact, it has nothing to do with that at all.
Human beings are in transference. And because the personality is in transference, everything about the nature of the consciousness field as it moves through humanity is distorted. It is distorted by the not-self mind. It is distorted by the fact that the frequency of the individual is not correct and therefore the harmonic distortion takes place. Rather than the color releasing as a 1, by the time it gets over into the human being, it’s transferred and becomes a 4. If we took all of the consciousness potential of humanity as it is today and we looked at it we would see a consciousness that is in transference and has nothing to do with what the consciousness field is. Nothing; I mean nothing. It’s something to really grasp.
I grew up with a real love of poetry. I can remember going through particularly 18th and early 19th century poetry. How many of these poets—and of course the vast majority of the poetry was in English and most of it originated in England—shared this incredible meditation on the splendor of nature, this perfection, and this inspiration of what nature is. The consciousness field, the way it works through life on the planet with the exclusion of humans, taking humans out of the mix, is that when this neutrino ocean is penetrating the universal crystals that are part of all the life forms on the planet, there is no distortion. There isn’t. None of those forms of life are endowed with a neo-cortex. None of them are confronted with the dilemmas of human personality, none of them. They are unfettered and pure, what we like to call nature.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 95) The 2 Body
What is interesting about that is that vulnerability because it sounds like a negative that’s a body that can be—how shall I put this—tuned or untuned. The 2 body is very interesting. The gift is in the body. It’s not in the Personality. The intelligence is in the Personality when you're dealing with the 2/4 or the 2/5. But that intelligence is in the body when you're dealing with the 2 body. So, the nature of the form, the health of the body, as an example, becomes something that is very, very significant, particularly when you're dealing with the 6/2 because of the mutative pressure on being a 6th line being in the tripartite life process and all of those things that are part of it.
Having the vulnerability, by the way, understanding that means that it’s a double-edged sword, there’s something physically in you to be developed. It has to be developed. That’s your place of this vulnerability. And if it's not developed, this becomes a negative. This is really the way that the physical talent works itself out in the 2 body. So, this is a case where, for example, you have a child that is a 6/2 and they are physically able to play an instrument and show talent or skill in playing that instrument, but how difficult it is to get their Personality to actually commit to being involved in that.
Remember that most human beings are not-self. These are usually the children that are deeply gifted that the parents give up on because the Personalities of the children aren’t interested. Most of you either in your own lives or in your family or the extended groupings that you know well, this is a phenomenon that you see over and over and over again. One of the things about understanding the 2nd line as it applies to the body is the need to be able to find what needs to be physically nourished.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 96) hexagram 3 - difficulty at the beginning
The 3rd gate is an extraordinary gate. It is called Difficulty at the Beginning. In the black book, it says: The fundamental challenge of initiation is to transcend confusion and establish order. If you want a good meditation, think about that for half of your life. This is life itself: to transcend confusion and to establish order. We are so busy establishing order on this planet. This is what we have been doing from the beginning and we are getting faster and faster at hooking up this order throughout the entire global village. The third hexagram speaks for this intrinsic process of life itself. Life itself is to transcend confusion. What this is saying to all of us is that there is nothing wrong with life being confusing. Life is confusion. The longer I live, the more I realize how long you have to live to come to grips with the confusion of life. The confusion is not the enemy This is so important to understand. Confusion is natural before mutation can take place. Out of confusion comes this mutation. Out of this transcendence comes a new order which is not simply a new regulation or a new controlling. It is a new order in the sense that the 3rd gate represents the potential for genetic mutation in life. These are children that come into the world with new genetic combinations.
As we globalize our planet, we also globalize our mating process. We have been mixing genes from all over the planet. All kinds of interrelationships in the 20th century have brought out a whole new mix in the genetic pool. This also represents a new order in genetic material because it is our ongoing responsibility as a species to survive through genetic diversity. The third gate speaks for this process of life. The essence of life is confusing but the purpose of all that is to transcend the confusion and establish the order.
People who come to Human Design always come in a state of confusion. They come in the obvious state of confusion which means they are not being able to make sense out of, understand or know what it is to be themselves and why they live the life that they do. All confusion that we experience as humanity can be transcended and order can be found, but that is a process that we have to go through. I remind students of the Oracle of Delphi. Written over the oracle was this wonderful inscription: 'Know Thyself'. This is the primary function. Life itself is not confusing but being alive in the world as a human is confusing.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 97) Freeing Yourself from Prejudice
Every profile has its style. They have their style, they have their interests. They have their gifts. If you’re going to be demanding of a 2 to be social, you’re being silly. There are all kinds of things that are just obvious you can look at and you can just see and begin to understand that the way in which you deal with another human being, you can free yourself from prejudice.
When I was not-self, I was very prejudiced in the intellectual sense. I had no patience for anyone who couldn't display reasonable intelligence, which by the way, was not a hell of a lot of people. And it led me to look at people in very odd way, obviously. It was arrogant and it cost me a lot as not-self, because that's what those kinds of things do.
What's so fascinating for me about my own experience through this knowledge is how, by seeing the helplessness of life, by understanding how all beings are placed into the these vehicles, that these vehicles all have their construct, and in recognizing all of that, all you can do is show grace. It’s all you can do. I allow other beings—it’s not even I allow because it sounds like I'm permitting it and I'm not, it’s just that I don't interfere with other beings being what they are. Whether that is something that I like or not or this or that, the reality is that this is the way it has to be.
When you understand that somebody carries a 5, you have to catch yourself in your own expectations about what you think you want to see from them. Be careful. And being aware of that, seeing how that works, you’re feeling their seductive power, remember. It’s not your fault. There is no fault in all of this. There never is. There is the 5 and without awareness, not even understanding they’re putting out a frequency that is seductive and is going to bring that projection.
Every time I teach at any level of this knowledge, I'm always struck by the same thing. Without Strategy and Authority, there's nothing in this life. There's nothing but homogenization, confusion, and distortion. Nothing. Because as long as the mind is involved, there's no way out. There isn't. As long as the mind is controlling your life there is absolutely nothing you can do. You’re lost. You’re just lost. And you end up suffering deeply. It’s so simple.