A major aspect of Human Design that I found challenging to understand when I got into my experiment was the Incarnation Cross. It was difficult to find much information about it other than a short paragraph that was vague and generalized.  

With this being the Science of Differentiation, it didn’t make sense that all of the explanations for the Incarnation Cross didn’t take into account someone’s Type, Profile, Definition or Variable Configuration. 

I only started to make sense of my Incarnation Cross after I had been following my Strategy and Authority for at least a year.  As I started to live more as my authentic self and remove the layers of conditioning that I had put on throughout the years, my true self started to emerge. 

I began to witness how my Cross of Cycles was writing the script of my life and how the 4 gates that make up my cross are central themes in that storyline.  

One of the biggest...

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...