Since I have been experimenting with Human Design I have been asked on a few occasions what does it feel like to be a Manifestor. That's a hard question to answer. It just feels like me. According to Human Design my aura is closed and repelling. When I first learned that I was a bit disturbed. That isn't how I saw myself. (I love people deeply) None the less my aura type is not necessarily how I see myself but how the world sees me or receives my energy. With a little soul searching I could look back and see patterns that supported that being true and it confirmed and affirmed a lot of my experiences that previously really perplexed me. Knowing my strategy and authority has been very powerful in decreasing the resistance I experience from others and it has depersonalized how I am received for me in a way that has been very healing.
How does it feel to be a Manifestor? Well, the closest analogy I could come up with is the guy or gal that pulls or drives the first float in a parade. Nobody really sees him. He isn't riding on the float waving at the crowd. He isn't dressed up in any costume. He has a very specific job as he needs to get the parade started but only his vehicle or the float is visible. There are a lot of conclusions that could be drawn about him based on what his vehicle communicates but very few of them would be accurate because no one is inside with him. His job takes a lot of focus and awareness and he can't afford to get distracted by much. He is there to get things started. The rest is up to the other parade participants. I do not drive in a car that pulls a float, nor have I ever driven one, but I do initiate people, (channel 25-51), that are seeking a deeper experience of themselves, into that journey. My role, as I see it, is to introduce you to the unique individual you are, help you recognize your potential and empower you to be the best version of yourself you can be via Human Design and other healing modalities I practice! I do understand that this journey isn't for everyone and I am not for everyone. I am OK with that. #humandesign #humandesignmanifestor #healing Much love to you! April
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Tuesday February 2nd 2021 the Sun moves into Gate 13. In Human Design Gate 13 is called the GATE OF THE LISTENER. In the I-Ching this hexagram is called THE FELLOWSHIP OF MAN. If you have this gate defined in your BodyGraph people will often feel compelled to tell you their most private secrets. People will naturally share their experiences with you because you genuinely enjoy hearing their stories. You are perceived as a caring, trustworthy confidante. This week the Sun will be activating the energy of this gate to flow to all of us. You may find yourself in the position of "holding space" for another. Or perhaps someone will do that for you. What does it mean to "hold space" for another person? It means being physically, mentally, and emotionally present for someone. It means putting your focus on someone to support them as they feel their feelings. An important aspect of holding space for another is managing judgment and emotions while you are present. It sounds fairly simple but it is very natural to want to exchange ideas as opposed to being a silent support. Holding space is to accept and allow someone's truth. Holding space means to put your needs and opinions aside and allow someone to just be. That does not mean that your needs or opinions are irrelevant. It just isn't the time to share them while holding space for another. If you are the individual needing another to listen in this way it can be helpful to inform them of your need. It isn't always obvious to others. When expectations are clearly defined in relationships the outcome of such conversations can be very harmonious. Here is a little of Richard Rudd has to say about what he calls Gene Key 13: Shadow- Discord Gift – Discernment Siddhi – Empathy “Discernment. It’s about discerning the voice of the heart from the voice of the mind. Not that the mind is wrong, but that if it comes before the heart, we’ll again have Discord. We have to discern the heart first, then bring in the mind.” – Richard Rudd, 64 Ways Each year the sun moves counterclockwise around the gates of the mandala (like the sun moves through the astrological signs), spending approximately 6 days in each gate. As the sun (or any other celestial body) moves through a gate it **“activates”**the energy of that gate. This means that the energy is released to “flow” to us. The sun is considered the most dominant and important transit to be aware of.) **Human Design is a synthesis of ancient and modern sciences; proven to be a valuable tool for human understanding. Human Design is a cutting-edge personality assessment tool that shows you your unique decision making strategy, your special gifts and talents, where you carry your pain and potential for healing and wisdom. You can get your free chart here https://www.geneticmatrix.com/free-foundation-chart/ April Novoa is a certified Human Design Specialist. To get started living your design book an appointment with April by visiting humandesignsimplified.weebly.com , calling 404-808-690 or emailing her at [email protected] April will need 3 days to complete your report. Please keep this in mind when scheduling your appointment. Appointments are conducted on Zoom or at the House of Light on Thursdays. When you book your appointment a zoom link will be sent to you. Tomorrow, Wednesday January 27th the Sun moves into Gate 19. In Human Design this gate is known as the Gate of Wanting. In the I Ching this gate is known as the Gate of Approach. This is an energy that wants and needs community.
This year has made me very aware of the importance of human connection. We are so tribal. Connection is just as important to maintaining good health as eating well or exercise. Infants that are not able to bond with their primary caregiver in the first 5 years of life can develop serious emotional and physical illnesses and in some cases not survive. We are born with a need to love and to be loved from the very beginning. This energy is very sensitive. A lot of individuals with this gate activated in their BodyGraph could be termed "highly sensitive". This energy is highly sensitive in every way. Sensitive to touch, energy, feelings and to other people's needs. When this energy is channeled properly, and in it's highest expression, these individuals are a gift to the world. Sensitivity has generally been looked down upon in our culture. This is so unfortunate because vulnerability takes a great deal of courage. Personally, I believe to be "real" and vulnerable in a world that devalues and even mocks sensitivity is one of the bravest things one can do! "Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." - Lao Tzu This is what Richard Rudd has to say about this gate he calls Gene Key 19.... Gene Key 19 SHADOW-CO-DEPENDENCE GIFT – SENSITIVITY SIDDHI – SACRIFICE “We all do and say things that hurt others, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. Sensitivity is an art we all need to learn. When we’ve learned it, we feel so strong, so connected to life, but we also feel so permeable and soft.” – Richard Rudd, 64 Ways Each year the sun moves counterclockwise around the gates of the mandala (like the sun moves through the astrological signs), spending approximately 6 days in each gate. As the sun (or any other celestial body) moves through a gate it **“activates”**the energy of that gate. This means that the energy is released to “flow” to us. The sun is considered the most dominant and important transit to be aware of.) **Human Design is a synthesis of ancient and modern sciences; proven to be a valuable tool for human understanding. Human Design is a cutting-edge personality assessment tool that shows you your unique decision making strategy, your special gifts and talents, where you carry your pain and potential for healing and wisdom. You can get your free chart here https://www.geneticmatrix.com/free-foundation-chart/ April Novoa is a certified Human Design Specialist. To get started living your design book an appointment with April by visiting humandesignsimplified.weebly.com , calling 404-808-690 or emailing her at [email protected] April will need 3 days to complete your report. Please keep this in mind when scheduling your appointment. Appointments are conducted on Zoom or at the House of Light on Thursdays. When you book your appointment a zoom link will be sent to you. A "people pleaser" is a person that has an emotional need to please others, often at the expense or his or her own needs or desires. Living as a people pleaser can leave a person feeling drained in virtually every way. Self neglect, in time, can have some very unpleasant side effects. Codependents are people pleasers but Codependency is a more extreme version of people pleasing. As a recovering People Pleaser I had wondered if there were certain factors or even elements in the Human Design BodyGraph that made a person more susceptible to people pleasing. The most likely candidate, albeit it a bit of a generalization, is conditioning. Conditioning are layers of expectations, pressures, and fears that are put on us from the time we are born. These can come from our families, society and planetary cycles. Conditioning can also come from our genetics! If you have grown up in an environment that encouraged or even rewarded people pleasing it's possible that those behaviors are either unconsciously or consciously being expressed. I would say more likely unconsciously as awareness itself can begin a process of healing and recovery. There are a few places in the BodyGraph that can make a person more likely to seek to please others at their own expense. One I'd like to mention is the open solar plexus. The solar plexus in your BodyGraph is the center shaped like a triangle on the right, outermost part of your BodyGraph. It will either be open or undefined, or colored brown. If it is open or undefined that means that the energy there is inconsistent and you will likely take in the emotion of others and amplify that energy in your body. You will likely be empathic or even an 'empath'. In other words you will feel the feelings of others and experience those feelings much more intensely. You could be extremely uncomfortable with unpleasant emotion and may try and please the other person in an effort to not feel what they are feeling amplified in your being. Again, if this is going on, it's likely you will not be immediately aware of this dynamic. People pleasing in this instance is simply a reaction to attempt to equalize the 'out of kilter' energy that you are feeling . Next I want to bring up a Human Design Type that pretty much every resource I checked into referred to as a potential people pleaser. The Manifestor. Yes, the Human Design type some people are intimidated by. Does that surprise you that they can become people pleasers? Manifestor children can really confuse care givers. They have a closed and repelling aura so they are difficult to read and therefore not readily trusted. They are bold, often fearless and they move fast and an unaware parent can be really hard on them in an effort to protect them or just gain a sense of control. Unfortunately sometimes this escalates to the point that this child's natural initiating urges are repressed. It's painful to be controlled and even more painful to feel like you are not trustworthy. Ultimately a desire to find trust, acceptance or approval in a parent or authority can turn them into, you guessed it, a world class people pleaser. I really believe knowing your child's type is so important. It's really a game changer and I do wish that I had known more about my children's aura type earlier! While I am certain there are a multitude of other factors that can contribute to people pleasing these are just a few to consider. Becoming free of people pleasing tendencies can be challenging but it is doable. I find that the more I work on having healthy boundaries, care for myself and address my needs FIRST the more there is of me to genuinely give to those that are in need. Tomorrow, Friday January 22nd the Sun moves into Gate 41. Gate 41 marks the start of the Human Design New Year. In Human Design this gate is known as The Gate of Fantasy or Imagination.
This energy is best utilized when we ANTICIPATE what it is that are we desiring becoming a reality. Do a little dreaming. Ponder the possibilities. Don't act yet! That is coming. Through imagining one can draw opportunities and situations to themselves to respond to. This gate reminds me of when I was engaged to be married 32 years ago. We were two college kids with very little money and the idea of paying for a wedding seemed pretty daunting at the time. None the less I would, like most brides to be, read all the bridal magazines and spend hours daydreaming about our wedding. At some point I stopped listening to the negative voices in my head lecturing me about lack and I turned my attention toward the desired outcome. There wasn't money at that time to accomplish our dreams but with the passage of time, somehow, we had enough and it all turned out beautifully. I had to wait though. However I do believe I was drawing the resources needed to reach our goals simply by focusing on what I wanted, rather than what I didn't. This coming week make sure to take time to visualize your dreams. Imagine what you would like to see happen in your life, in the lives of the ones you love and in our world. You may not realize it but just by focusing on it you are energetically drawing it to you. Don't focus on what you do not see or do not want. That will not be helpful to you. Also be sure to share your dreams only with those that you know will support you and are of a similar mindset or vibration. Here is a little of what Richard Rudd has to say about what he calls Gene Key 41: Gene Key 41 Fantasy – Siddhi (Highest expression of this energy) Anticipation – Gift (Gateway to the Siddhi) Emanation- Shadow (Lowest expression of this energy) “The Shadow frequency is really marked by feedback loops that keep us in states of suffering. We get stuck in a certain pattern of doing things, and it goes on feeding the same behavior. Anticipation looks for the breakout, senses the time and place for a breakout, and can therefore provide completely new experiences, entirely new cycles for people.” – Richard Rudd, 64 Ways (When looking at a Human Design chart, that includes the mandala, one can see the 64 I’Ching hexagrams in the outer circle, the corresponding 64 gate numbers inside that, the 12 astrological signs inside that, and the Human Design BodyGraph in the middle. The 64 gate energies of Human Design represent the archetypes of our experiences and expressions as human beings. They are the foundational aspects of who we are and how we interact. Each year the sun moves counterclockwise around the gates of the mandala (like the sun moves through the astrological signs), spending approximately 6 days in each gate. As the sun (or any other celestial body) moves through a gate it **“activates”**the energy of that gate. This means that the energy is released to “flow” to us. The sun is considered the most dominant and important transit to be aware of.) **Human Design is a synthesis of ancient and modern sciences; proven to be a valuable tool for human understanding. Human Design is a cutting-edge personality assessment tool that shows you your unique decision making strategy, your special gifts and talents, where you carry your pain and potential for healing and wisdom. You can get your free chart here https://www.geneticmatrix.com/free-foundation-chart/ April Novoa is a certified Human Design Specialist. To get started living your design book an appointment with April by visiting humandesignsimplified.weebly.com , calling 404-808-690 or emailing her at [email protected] April will need 3 days to complete your report. Please keep this in mind when scheduling your appointment. Appointments are conducted on Zoom or at the House of Light on Thursdays. When you book your appointment a zoom link will be sent to you. My parents have always joked that I am little bit like Dustin Hofmann's character in Little Big Man. The movie came out in 1970. (It was hilarious but there are probably a few things that might be a bit triggering to some folks so I just want to give you a heads up about that if you are inclined to watch it.) Dustin's character tries on quite a few "life roles" throughout the movie that tells the story of his life in his own words. There was his childhood on the frontier. He then had a period being raised by a Native American tribe. Then he was a Gunslinger. Then he became religious. Then he denounced religion and became a scout for General Custer. That doesn't go well (as we know) and was quite discouraging so he became a recluse and then finally returns to the Cheyenne people. He decides he wants to die but that doesn't work out either so he sticks around and ultimately becomes the old man telling his story about living in a world that at this point no longer exists. He is a person that has seen it and done it all! Like Dustin's character, I have had a lot of phases, so to speak. None so dramatic but I have tried many things, have had many experiences and "failure" as well success. I was raised in a world that put a premium on finding "the thing" and sticking with it. Unfortunately for me that was never in the cards. I am not shaped that way. I will never have the gold watch after 50 years at a company somewhere and I will never retire from a corporation after years of service. I have never stuck with a job, a career, a religion or a clothing style. I am fiercely independent and an avid explorer. I think my husband has likely been married to several women....all with my face. (I have kept him for 32 years by the way) For me everything changes, all the time. When I learn a truth, there is another. I learn something new, I get bored or I come to the end of whatever it is I am learning and experimenting with and I move one. I integrate what worked and discard what didn't. I carried a lot of shame about this most of my life. I compared my myself to all the people who found "the thing." There never has been "a thing" for me. There have been many things and I know, now, there will be more. When I met Human Design the shame and comparison stopped. What I found out about myself, and people like me, blew my socks off! My life's trajectory and the paths I have taken were no mistake. They were data. Data is always a good thing. It's helpful and the world needs it. In Karen Curry Parker's book Understanding Human Design The New Science of Astrology: Discover Who You Really Are, where she is discussing Line 3's, I have underlined these words: "You have never made a mistake in your life. Everything that you have tried that didn't work out was a crucial step in you mastering what does work." I will say, now in my my 50's, the experimentation has slowed a bit. None the less, it is a big part of who I am and it's not something I am going to stop to fit society's definition of what is correct or acceptable. For me learning is thrilling. I am a forever student! However, in Human Design I think I have found something that will likely keep me busy exploring for the rest of my days. Blessings! April Greetings! I am happy that you have come to check out my page. Thank you so much!
Please keep in mind that I am of a certain age that none of this comes natural to me. I still know how to use a rotary phone and a typewriter! One of my favorite gifts I received as a kid was a walkman. I really thought I was something walking home from school listening to music. Boy, have things changed! My site will evolve as my knowledge does. So you will probably see a lot added and some things disappear as I figure this out. Thankfully I never mind a challenge! Human Design has been a game changer for me. It has given me tools to navigate my life in a way that is a lot more peaceful and skillful and it has helped me not only to understand myself but others as well. My hope is that if you decide to enter "the experiment" of Human Design that it will be helpful to you too! My Type is that of a Manifestor. I carry a Profile of a 3/5 which is a Martyr Heretic. Saturday January 16th the Sun moves into Gate 60. In Human Design this is called The Gate of Limitation. Sounds a little ominous at first glance but I really pondered this and I have some different thoughts about it. When we are stopped or limited we are forced to be still. I can remember many instances in my own life when I felt stuck or limited in some way. Initially I felt very frustrated, angry even. In retrospect those times of "limitation" were periods in my life that produced the most growth in my spiritual life. It's easy to identify that much later on than when we are in the midst of "limitation". When I look at this picture I see that the "vehicle" is limited. It's not moving. It's not accomplishing anything. But what about the Passenger? Maybe the Passenger is enamored with the beautiful cosmos above them? Or perhaps the Passenger is finding a moment of quiet to go within, meditate or even rest? Or maybe they are simply planning a way out of their situation. Who knows? I guess it's all how we choose to perceive it. And maybe, just maybe, that is what this gate is teaching us. This coming week consider accepting the "Limitation" as a vehicle for transformation in your life. Innovation comes from accepting the reality of the obstacle and charting a NEW way around or through it. I enjoy what Richard Rudd says about what he calls the 60th Gene Key.... Gene Key 60 LIMITATION – REALISM – JUSTICE “This 60th Gene Key is one of the deepest transmissions of the Gene Keys. Itʼs not easy to penetrate and understand. It will take some time as we contemplate it. The Shadow here is Limitation. We hear that word and perhaps think, oh no, I donʼt want to be limited. But we are and always will be until we’re dead! Even then, who knows! Limitation is not the enemy.” – Richard Rudd, 64 (When looking at a Human Design chart, that includes the mandala, one can see the 64 I’Ching hexagrams in the outer circle, the corresponding 64 gate numbers inside that, the 12 astrological signs inside that, and the Human Design BodyGraph in the middle. The 64 gate energies of Human Design represent the archetypes of our experiences and expressions as human beings. They are the foundational aspects of who we are and how we interact. Each year the sun moves counterclockwise around the gates of the mandala (like the sun moves through the astrological signs), spending approximately 6 days in each gate. As the sun (or any other celestial body) moves through a gate it **“activates”**the energy of that gate. This means that the energy is released to “flow” to us. The sun is considered the most dominant and important transit to be aware of.) **Human Design is a synthesis of ancient and modern sciences; proven to be a valuable tool for human understanding. Human Design is a cutting-edge personality assessment tool that shows you your unique decision making strategy, your special gifts and talents, where you carry your pain and potential for healing and wisdom. You can get your free chart here https://www.geneticmatrix.com/free-foundation-chart/ April Novoa is a certified Human Design Specialist. To get started living your design book and appointment with April by visiting this link https://aprilnovoa.massagetherapy.com/hours-and-scheduling, choose 'Basic Human Design Report'. April will need 3 days to complete your report. Please keep this in mind when scheduling your appointment. Appointments are conducted on Zoom or at the House of Light on Thursdays. When you book your appointment a zoom link will be sent to you. |
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