Ra Uru Hu (Post 139) The Monopole Begins as a Binary
The Monopole is an extraordinary thing. For me it is the magic, the magic in the middle of all of this. From the very beginning I had a very basic binary description of the Monopole because the Monopole is very much a 2-4-8 thing. The Monopole begins as a binary. It’s interesting when you think about that because it’s a mon-opole. But the way in which the mon-o-pole works is that influences us in two very specific ways.
That is, it holds us together in the illusion of our separateness. Now what does that actually mean? The Design and the Personality are two very different things. They have different dates, they have different data, and they function in totally different ways. There’s an enormous difference between the vehicle and the passenger. And they do not have a natural relationship to each other. The ordeal of the sacred marriage is insight. It’s coming to grips with these two different things being able to exist with each other.
The way in which that is accomplished is that the Magnetic Monopole is a magnetic that only attracts. That is, it is a mon-o-pole. So because of this attraction capacity what the Monopole does is that it grabs onto the Color frequency. This is what makes Color so important. It grabs onto the Color frequency and it pulls from those two frequencies these two things together into the holistic whole that we call a bodygraph which we call a human being. This is the Monopole holding us together in the illusion of our separateness. So that’s its first job.
Its second job is that it’s like the arm of a streetcar in that it connects us to our specific geometry. And that specific geometry emerges out of the quantum. We know that. For example, the difference between being a Right Angle and a Left Angle can only be derived once you bring the two elements together and integrate them into the bodygraph. Only then do you get such a thing as a Profile. Only then do you begin to see trajectory. Only then do these things emerge.
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(Post 140) Differentiation
Of course, the one thing one can say about the unconscious is that one may not have access to the unconscious, but it is us and it is very much a part of our differentiation. As a matter of fact, it is the key to our ability to differentiate. If you do not differentiate in the body there is no differentiation possible from the mind. Again, this is to really understand the dimensional difference between the contribution of the Design and the contribution of the Personality. If the contribution of the Design, if we could put it on a scale, in so many ways it deeply outweighs the contribution of the Personality. I don’t mean to put down self-reflected consciousness and its present level of awareness, but the reality is that all of that is only and can only be a by-product of the vehicle: the body.
This whole thing about mind, yes, it’s wonderful, but it’s only wonderful because brain functions. And if brain doesn’t function, mind isn’t wonderful. It just isn’t. The hardware has to be correct. And when we begin to come to grips with our unconscious, we begin to begin—there are a lot of beginnings there—to fill out the nature of what it is to be us.
When you look at somebody’s Personality, this is who they think they are. And for them, everything you can say about the Personality is a point of identification. In other words, they’ll nod their head, “uh-huh,” or whatever it is. They’ll go along with it, they will be comfortable with it, and they will recognize it. It’s a road; it’s on the surface.
But the Design is something different. One of the most important places of work in doing any analysis is making sure that the impact and the presence of the unconscious is understood. So that for the first time you have a human being, that though they cannot identify consciously with the process of their unconscious, they can identify with the result of their unconscious where it always brings them. So this person says, “Now, I know where these skills of mine come from. And when I was only thinking that I didn’t have this, I was always nervous that when the demands were there for me to show my skills, I wouldn’t be able to. Not only that, now I understand why I’ve always been looking for depth.”
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(Post 141) Logic
I love logic. I love logic because it is the bedrock of what we are as a human being. It is the essence, this 15/5, the Design of a single cell, the essence of life, is a pattern in a flow. This is what life is all about. The thing about logic is when you take in logical truths they resonate very, very deeply in your system, because we are logical systems. And when you reveal to mind the logic of, in fact, what is actually there, consistently there, and the way that it works that mind can take that in, it takes an enormous weight off their shoulders because it brings them confidence in areas where they never had confidence before.
If you look at your own Design and you look at the Design aspects of it, what you’re looking at, if you go back to your first Saturn half cycle, the first 14 or 15 years, all of those places of uncertainty and insecurity had nothing to do with your openness, but had everything to do with your unconscious. I’m a 43/23. I have a purely unconscious mind. All the aspects of my mind are unconscious. There is no Personality up there; none whatsoever, from the Throat up all unconscious. I never trusted my mind.
I can remember as a kid being told—because I was doing very, very poorly in school, I wasn’t there very much. My parents found out and they had me tested. I had this extraordinary IQ. They were telling me how smart I was and I had no idea. Truly, I had no idea. I had no access to my mind. I had no access to depth. I have the 48th gate unconscious, and no way of knowing.
It was always a point of uncertainty for me because there was no way of knowing that it was there, no way of knowing that the intelligence was there, no way of measuring it, no way of working with it. All I could do was watch what came out. It wasn’t until I went through my own process and began to look at my own Design that this weight was taken away. You get the benefit of that. I open up any of these classes that I teach at any time and I have no idea, none whatsoever what I’m going to say. It’s all unconscious.
But I’m no longer insecure with the nature of what it is to be me. This is part of my hardwiring. This is simply the way that it works. The moment I can relax and sit back and say, don’t worry because it isn’t going to do any good, don’t try to figure it out because you can’t. Don’t be concerned, just watch the movie, see what comes out and that’s it, because that’s who you are, this is how it comes out. This is the magic with coming to grips with your own Design, beginning to see these areas not in a sense of anything other than, ok, I can now let go and trust this function.
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(Post 142) Color 5 Motivation: Guilt
But the 5th Color of guilt, people don't even like to say the word. The 5 motivation— conditioner or conditioned—think about the 5th line, think about everything that you understand about conditioning in the Human Design context. Everything about conditioning, the only line that resonates to conditioning, the only line that is a conditioning force is a 5. The universalizing agent is the agent that needs to put out the message. It needs to put that message out. And everything about life is conditioning or deconditioning, because everything in the program is about conditioning and everything in our design is about conditioning, everything.
Look at me. I’m an archetypal 5th line Personality. So what do I do? I condition you to decondition, don’t I? And if I really worked at it, I could make you feel guilty as hell that you're not doing it. What’s the matter with you? Is this too difficult?—that whole trip. I don’t play that card, but I know it so well. This is the way that it works. You can’t universalize without conditioning. You can’t. And everybody is ready to be conditioned. Look at that. It’s how things change. Every hexagram is ready to be conditioned. Every hexagram is ready to be the conditioner.
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(Post 143) Radically Embrace Strategy and Authority
It begins with understanding something. Whatever your authority is, whatever that strategy is relative to your Type, it is something that you must radically, radically embrace, because it takes away the need for the mind to do anything. After all, the great enemy of all of us whether we are Left or Right is the mind making decisions. It‘s the mind trying to control the life. It‘s why it is so incredibly difficult for the strategic minded to just let go and surrender. It‘s mind that gets in the way.
Once you understand that the way in which you navigate on this plane is the only thing that matters to you, nothing else, you do not need to be concerned about what's there, what you've taken in or not taken in, or this or that, or whether it's useful or not useful or anything else, because the moment you liberate yourself from having your mind try to decide anything, you free yourself from the strategic impulses that have been conditioned in you. You can finally let go of it.
If you let go of it, slowly but surely all of that strategic stuff that's been layered across your mind will slowly breakdown and dissolve and disappear, and you can begin to settle into and embrace what you are. You are the receiving ocean. Allow it to come in. There is nothing else to do. And wait and see. And wait and see. And wait and see, because there's nothing else to do.
When you're correct, when your mind is not doing the navigating, then the ocean will be tapped into. And you will see that what comes out of you is really something that is so profound. There is so much that's possible. And again, it will have to do, because this is creative, it has to do with so many things—the basic nature of your design, your incarnation cross, your profile, the kind of definitions you have, all of these things that are part of the knowledge, all of these things that define the nature of your differentiation. And then that ocean becomes the thing that brings the light into your life, and brings the light into the lives of others.
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(Post 144) Healing/Aligning the Brain
Now, for the nine-centered being, my word for healing is alignment. It really is about alignment. For those of you who—I know many of you here are deeply involved in your experiment with PHS—but for those of you who aren't, those of you who are downloading, please recognize how important it is. One of the most important things you‘re going to do after Strategy and Authority is to begin your experiment when it's correct for you. After all, this is not about being homogenized. It‘s about your Strategy and Authority. It is about when things are correct for you.
But when it is correct for you, relative to the Type that you are, the way things that come to you, when it's correct for you to enter into the experiment of dietary regimen, it will be the most significant step you're going to make in your life. It is just an extraordinary thing, because it is going to finally align your system. It is going to take away the Left strategic pressure. After all, this is a holistic being. It‘s not about the Left-brain doesn't have anything to do with the Right-mind; they‘re together in the same vehicle. They‘re intended to operate together in a unique differentiated fashion that leads to the fulfillment of their potential.
But you can only accomplish that when that brain system is aligned to the way it's intended to work with its Right-ness. You can only do that through Primary Health System. You can only do that through PHS. It is only through PHS that ultimately you can realign your brain system to what is correct for you. Remember something about PHS; it is not something to dabble with. It is something that you enter into, and it's there for your life. If it isn‘t there for your life, you are never going to be free of the way in which strategic processes determine who you are and move you further and further away from the essence of what you are here for.
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(Post 145) Begin with Yourself
Until you begin with yourself, the relationships you have with others are always relationships that are always a dilemma. Each day that I do the daily transits, I have this very strange feeling, this recognition that as I speak, the description of the imprint is being lived out in the world blindly. It's almost frightening to think about how homogenized and controlled humanity is. It's spooky.
Most human beings have not in any way come close to mastering their relationship with the whole, with the vast program that is constantly feeding and transforming our consciousness, let alone their capacity to recognize, truly, their relationship with the other and to be able to enter into those relationships correctly. I don't mean to start all this off with a lot of heavy, depressing blah, blah, blah. But I do want to make my point. And I want to make sure that you grasp it.
I have clients all the time who say to me, “Ra, I want an Incarnation Cross reading.” Well, good. I'll give you an Incarnation Cross reading. I'll give you five or six minutes of real Incarnation Cross and I will give you 40 minutes of "here's your dilemma." And when somebody comes to me for a Partnership Analysis, yeah, ok, I'll give you your five or six minutes, unless they're a Projector, but I'm going to tell you your dilemma because that's the point.
Everybody thinks that if they know something about something, they can fix it. This is the vanity of will. It's just not so. All you can do about the nature of your relationships is to begin anew. You begin as yourself. And of course, we know in the reality of the maia this is often deeply difficult. Over the years, the majority of my clients have been women. What do you do with a woman who has some dense male that she has two or three children with and all of that becomes enormously complex, very difficult and often very painful?
It's not so easy for human beings to begin anew. All of this stuff; you have to see that the people who are coming to you are at the bottom rung of the knowledge chain in terms of mechanics. They don't know how things work. They don't know how they work. So when somebody comes to you for a reading, I don't care what reading it is, when they come to you for a reading, it's always the same in the sense that the accent you bring has to be about them. If you're operating correctly, ok, this is what this means and this is what this means and this is what this means. And if you're operating correctly you're going to see. You're going to be able to see it.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 146) To be Awake is to Allow Life to be Life
This is basically what it means to be awake. To be awake is to allow life to be life. It’s not about interfering with it. It’s not about trying to control it or manipulate it. It is simply about witnessing it and witnessing it through your perfection. And this perfection is not difficult to attain. It’s not. It’s about courage and discipline. It is about commitment.
There are two kinds of beings in Human Design. There are those that will hold onto their Strategy and Authority as a way of making their life less burdensome. And that’s a beautiful thing. And it is true for most beings who have entered into the experiment. And then there are those that are radical. There are those that will not be satisfied until they can reach that state where they fulfill their unique purpose.
And to do that begins with the form principle and ends with the mind. To go through the various steps of transformation there are no mysteries here. Truly, there are no mysteries. It is mechanical. There is a methodology for each step. And it is simply a matter of surrendering to that process and allowing that process to become your life. And in doing so the potential that is there for transcendence.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 147) Back Problems
One of the things that's interesting about the nature of the Root is that the Root has no direct access to the Throat. Everything else does, other than the Head Center. So, given the basic structure of the BodyGraph, you can see that we don't have particularly good connections to our Root. That's why most of humanity suffers from back problems. We don't have an easy connection to our base, to the base of the spine, to the Root Center, to the adrenaline system.
We know the by-product of adrenalized stress. We know what happens when that energy fuels something else. You've already seen how profound the Root is in fueling the format process, and providing the pressure for the format energies, and how significant the format energies are in being able to understand design, and understand the way in which we work together in concert. So, the Root is very significant, but because we don't have a natural way of getting to it immediately, we don't see the Root manifest on its own. We never get to see that. We never get to experience that. And so, we don't give respect where respect is due.
The Root Center is essential for us. It is a very, very complex center. It has more gates than the Spleen or the Solar Plex. It's incredibly complex. It has more gates than the Self. It has the same number as the Sacral. Only the Throat is more complex, so this Root Center is really something.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 148) Formal Invitation Brings Out the Best in Any Projected Channel
Now there is a formula like for all other Types, but it’s very, very different for the Projector. We’ve seen, for example, many people confuse the response of the Generator with the invitation of the Projector.
Now invitation simply means that it has to be formal and this is an essential ingredient to be able to bring out the best in any Projected channel. The formal invitation. The embossed engraved invitation. The on-bended-knee invitation. The “let me treat you” invitation. Absolutely essential that it’s formal. It’s not like the Sacral.
When the bird tweets, the Projector isn’t going to go ‘hmm-mm.’ No, they’re not there to respond to that because the bird cannot make a formal invitation as much as it would like to. “Would you like to come up and sit with me in my nest?” or whatever.
So this business of an invitation, because it’s very important, but it gets confused because Projectors think, “Oh my God, do I need a formal invitation for everything in my life?” It gets very heavy for them. The answer is no.
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(Post 149) Manifesting Generator’s Strategy is Easier than the Manifestor
So the manifesting strategy is one thing, but when you come to the Manifesting Generator, it does not have to go and inform anyone of anything, which is really easy if you’re a Manifestor because Manifestors don’t want to ask anybody for help, don’t really want to tell anybody beforehand because they are always afraid that they are going to meet resistance. And so, they end up doing it because damn the consequences. And boy oh boy, do they ever get the resistance. The Manifesting Generator just has to wait to respond and then they can manifest instantaneously.
This is survival and life at its most basic: responding to the environment and instantaneously manifesting as a response to that environment. And out of that root within us, which is integration—Manifesting Generator that is the design of integration—out of that comes the two energy variations: the Manifestor and the Generator. Just as the male came out of the female.
This is part of the way things evolve. So in the beginning, out of this combination grew these two energy fields. It also says something to you about people who are Manifesting Generators and where their mystical connection is to many things. I am not going to get into all of that but it is an interesting thing to think about because they go very far back in terms of the very beginnings of our human experience.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a Manifesting Generator or a Manifestor, you can’t escape anger. There is nothing you can do about that; these are angry people. And this is the only Sacral Manifestor.
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(Post 150) The 2nd Line: The Democrat
If you look at the 2nd line you have the Democrat. I don’t want to confuse this in a sense with democracy because it will be a problem. The Democrat is a way of saying, “Don’t bother me, you look after it.” All 2nd lines are like that—don’t bother me, you look after it. You really have to call them; they have to get the call in order for them to actually want to get involved.
So again, you’re not talking about an overtly externalizing energy. So think about it. If you’re a 1st or 2nd line being in terms of your Personality profile, it’s not like you have to be hard on yourself, that you’re supposed to be out there and influencing people and telling people, and this and that. That you have to be out there sharing, that it’s required of you. That is not the case. It is a matter of you being correct in your own process, and when the time comes, then that’s what you’ll externalize, because it will be correct for you to externalize that.
Each and every one of these lower trigram externalization collective roles are roles that don’t particularly want to have much to do with others. They don’t. Just because it’s social and it is externalization doesn’t mean that any of these particularly enjoy it. And as not-self, it’s a problem. Because most human beings, at least the Personality, is so deeply concerned about its impact on others, particularly its impact in the collective domain, it wants to be able to see that it has a viable and useful life.
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(Post 151) The Earth
I’m deeply attached to the presence of the Earth in Human Design. Very little is known about the nature of the Earth and its impact on us. The Earth is the meeting place; it’s the medium of the neutrino ocean for us. The way that they proved that neutrinos had mass was by watching it go through the world and seeing that it changed. And of course, the Earth is covered with design.
Think about the person with the undefined splenic system who feels so wonderful walking in the forest. They could stay there for the rest of their lives and be elves and fairies. And why? Because the design of plants includes the 10-57-34. And if you’re walking through the forest, you’re going to be stepping on defined Spleens.
Well, it’s true. And if you’re barefoot it’s going to work even better because you’ve got to touch the aura. You have to touch the physical body of a plant to make contact with its aura. And if you’re standing in the forest and you feel terrible with your undefined Spleen, hug a tree. Now, not all trees are going to make you feel good. Not all of them are going to have defined Spleens, just like us, but you’ll find a tree that does, and you’ll recognize it right away. And if you ever wanted to have an experience and a satori about the nature of life, if you’ve got an undefined Spleen, go ahead and try that; it’s wonderful.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 152) The I Ching is a Living, Mathematical Reality
So, the moment you grasp the step-by-step mechanics,—I teach people the mechanics of a hexagram and its lines and it stops there like some kind of abstract concept. And it isn’t. That is why nothing has touched me deeper in my intellectual life than the I Ching because it’s not just a concept. It is a mathematical reality. It is the structure of our genetic code. It is a living process.
One of the most astonishing things in my own work is that in working in the Global Incarnation Index to come, to see how each and every line has a built-in changing mechanism in it. The ancient I Ching, thousands of thousands of years ago, that the changing capacity inherent in the genetic material was already revealed to them. So, it’s not about seeing that this structure of the hexagram and the structure of the lines are some kind of intellectual concept; it isn’t. It is a living reality and has a living reality. We go through these lines every single day of our lives and it’s conditioning us at a deep level.
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(Post 153) Left Ear: Hearing Over Time
So, if you’re putting the telephone all the time to your left ear think about what's actually happening to you because it’s very interesting. This frequency—we know something fundamental about the nature of the emotional system, it’s very straightforward. The emotional system has an incredible law. It really does. It is the perfect law of no truth in the now. So, literally when you're listening out of that left ear, basically what you're getting is that you're getting things that ultimately are not going to be all available in the moment, in the now, that you're listening to them.
For example, you have a conversation with somebody and after the conversation is over you suddenly realize what they said. Or a day later you realize that you didn't get what they said. In other words, there is a delay factor in all of that. So, think about the dilemma for the not-self world and its right-handedness. The not-self world and its right-handedness is never getting precise information in the now, which is quite an interesting thing to think about. So, you're talking to somebody on the telephone, there is this sense within the general perspective that this is an immediacy, yet, if you're listening with your left ear you don't get it all. You wake up the next morning and realize, oh my God, I was fired. You just don't get it.
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(Post 154) The Passenger Needs to Understand How They are Fixed
It goes back to the basics. It goes back to the surface. It goes back to Strategy and Authority and something else. It is this beginning of the work of the passenger to bring the passenger to awakenness that the passenger needs to watch and needs to understand the way in which they are fixed in how they operate. How it is locked in because it is a formula and it is chemistry. And to be able to see that it’s not about why do you keep your mouth shut when you’re listening to somebody and you really want to tell them that they’ve got it wrong, when in fact when you’re going out the door it’s very easy for you to be that Authoritarian. They’re different things. They’re different aspects of the totality that ultimately is your being. We are very, very complex creatures in that way.
It’s like when the passenger finally can surrender the muscles in the face relax. You know that. People who tend to have a certain level of awareness have this appear-ance of looking younger. It’s not because they have some kind of youth formula. They don’t. Their faces are relaxed. It all ends up in the face. The moment that you’re not able to truly live out what is your being, live out your role as complex and dynamic it is, it’s there in the face.
Others see it. As a matter of fact, if you get stuck in being the Authoritarian your face always looks that way. If you get stuck being the Empath your face looks that way. It just does. It’s like those 59 roles where there is that leer on the face that never goes away, even though that person is not a dirty old whatever. It gets stuck there. Human beings are interesting.
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(Post 155) Shelden Lebron’s Joke
Oh, it’s a wonderful joke. One of my students with a great sense of humor, Shelden Lebron, sent it to me a couple of years ago. It’s really worth repeating. There’s a guy who's sitting at his desk at the office and he starts daydreaming, he starts wandering around in his mind. Suddenly the thought comes to him that wouldn’t it just be great that—he can’t stand his job—wouldn’t it be just great if he could quit his job, get all his money together, sell his condo and go to Las Vegas and put all his money on the roulette table on 18 Black and change his life forever.
He starts fantasizing about that, thinking about that. He gets up the next day. It’s the first thing that pops into his mind. Maybe this is my mind telling me something. Maybe this is really what I should do. Maybe this is really a great idea. Maybe I can really prove that I'm worthy, and blah, blah, blah, all that stuff that is there in the conditioning. Of course, there’s a part of him that says that this may be silly, but nonetheless, this thought is there in his head and he’s unhappy and he would really like to do something.
This goes on for days and days and days. Finally, he just figures he's going to follow what his mind is telling him, that obviously it’s there for a reason. So, he takes all of that. He quits his job. He sells his place. He takes all that money. He goes to Las Vegas. He goes up to the roulette table. He puts all the money down on 18 Black, and it comes up 7 Red. And his mind says, “Shit.”
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(Post 156) Enlightenment Lost in the Light
This whole business of four Types and the recognition of how simple that is, 6 billion of us, it’s so important for you to understand that until you or anybody else can live out their Type that there’s no way for them to get access to all the wonderful information they have and that swirls around them.
It’s one of those things that is remarkable for me in my process, in my work over the last 10 or 12 years, I’ve met an enormous number of very intelligent people who were really dumb. It’s not about the level of intelligence that’s out there. There are all kinds. In this room here, there’s all kind of knowledge. There are all kinds of knowledge. It’s not about that. That’s one of the difficult things that intelligent people have when they come to something that is an absolute of the Maia that is a pure mechanic.
You see, you’re so used to having to scrutinize everything intellectually. You’re so used to going through all of the deep, philosophical, conceptual crap that people go through. Because, of course, you keep on looking for an answer in stuff that’s impossible to find an answer in, but you keep looking. And then the moment you find something that’s really fundamental, basic, simple, then you gag. It’s like, “You mean I have to write? That’s it? That’s all I have to do? Don’t I have to read any books? Don’t I have to figure out all of this (blah, blah, blah)?” It’s not about that. It really is mechanical. Just mechanical.
See, this is the true nature of surrender. There’s this whole binary dichotomy that exists around us. We have enlightenment on one side, that’s being lost in the light. Many people have been lost in the light through the whole Piscean Age.
And on the other side, you have being lost in the darkness. You have endarkenment. You have the world of ignorance and evil and all kinds of things.