One of my favorite things is spotting patterns in Human Design that seem to suddenly make something so much clearer to me. It’s like a new level of understanding and knowing has landed in my body.  

This happened recently when I discovered the connection between Determination and Motivation. 

I’ve known for a while that those with harmonic/ bridge Profiles (1/4, 2/5, 3/6, 4/1, 5/2 or 6/3) will always have Innocence Motivation and Appetite (consecutive or alternating) Determination, but I didn’t realize that this same connection can be found with other types of Determination and Motivation. 

Because of the 88 degree angle from the Personality (everything in black on your chart) to the Design (everything in red on your chart), there is a precise calculation that can be used to determine what your Design Sun will be by subtracting 15 gates, 3 lines, 5 colors, 1 tone and 1 base from your Personality Sun. 

For example, my Personality Sun is 54.6.3.3.2 (gate, line, color, tone...