Lessons Astrology & Human Design

Astrology is the study of the planets and stars and conducting symbolic meaning about the events unfolding here on Earth from their associated meanings and placement in the sky. One thing astrology is not is astronomy. Some believe the oldest form of astrological texts date back to Mesopotamia around 1800 BC. From there, we see the study branch out around the world—Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, Europe, China, and eventually West.

“As above, so below” is a popular, modern paraphrase from an ancient Hermetic text that many practicing astrologers and occultists live by. The sky above and the planetary connections can shed light on the types of energy we expect to manifest here on Earth.

Did you know that Galileo and Johannes Kepler were actually astrologers? Astronomy and astrology actually used to be one practice and worked in tandem until the 17th century. Once the Age of Reason began, the two practices diverged, solidifying astronomy’s place among the sciences and declaring astrology to be a so-called pseudoscience.

Important to keep in mind is that the planets never make us do anything; they are simply cosmic, magical vessels that carry a specific energetic signature. When various planets align, astrologers are able to pick up on a cluster of events that could occur. There is no one specific transit that guarantees if you’re going to win the lottery or when you might get a promotion, for example. But there are various planetary connections that can signal a period of more luck and blessings entering your life.

Our astrological birth charts are unique, energetic blueprints of our individual lives, so if you’re trying to make predictions based on your monthly horoscope, think again! Astrology takes years of practice to master, and real astrologers will tell you that they’re never done learning.

Human Design is a system that synthesizes Astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah, and the Hindu-Brahmin Chakra systems with current scientific knowledge in the fields of Physics, Astronomy, Genetics, and Biochemistry. Using the time of our birth, Human Design is able to define the forces that influence our bodies and personalities, helping us to understand the cycles, characteristics, and themes that make us who we are.

The Human Design Chart, or Bodygraph, is the map that gives us information about how the body and mind function together, how we experience energy, emotion, awareness, identity, ego, instinct, intuition, and the mind. Among many things, it can also reveal:

• How our gifts and innate abilities are organically expressed;
• Who is attractive to us and why;
• The ways in which we are fixed and consistent, what we can trust in ourselves;
• Where we are open to conditioning and coping strategies that lead to confusion, inner conflict, frustration, bitterness, anger and disappointment;
• Which characteristics are conscious and which are unconscious;
• How to make decisions using a personal navigation system;
• What role and purpose we are here to express.

Most of all, Human Design offers an opportunity to accept and surrender to what is unchangeable in us, so that we come to love, trust and rely on ourselves.

At its best, Human Design can help us to recognize and accept ourselves and each other. It can inspire and further our becoming healthy, self-loving human beings.

A core Human Design motto is “Love Yourself”. All the information found in this rich and complex system can return us to this simple possibility: to love and respect ourselves and let life unfold through us.