Karen Parker - The Human Design Workbook: A Step by Step Guide to Understanding Your Own Chart and How it Can Transform Your Life

Copyright 2022 by Karen Curry Parker

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For my children and grandchildren. My prayer is that we keep healing
the world and evolving ourselves so that we can better build a world of
equitable, just, sustainable, and enduring peace.

Publisher's Note:

Throughout this book, the author discusses a full-color personalized Human
Design Chart. Because this book is printed in black and white, we encourage
you to generate your own full-color, personalized Human Design Chart at
https://humandesignworkbook.com/ for reference as you read.

You were born a storyteller.

Storytelling is such a powerful creative medium that our brains are hardwired to learn about the world through stories from the moment we are born. We learn about values, morality, and motivation from the stories we hear safely tucked in our beds at night or curled up on our parents' laps.

You learn about who you are, your role in life, and what you are here to do from stories. While some of the stories you learned about the world and yourself were true, many of them were not.

As you grew, you began to master the art of telling your own story about who you are and why you are here. You wove together all the things you heard, information from the events you witnessed, and tales from your own experiences to create your personal narrative about yourself and the world.

The stories you tell yourself about your relationships, money, creative fulfillment, lifestyle, health, and even your spiritual connection all influence what you create in your life. The stories you tell about yourself come true and express themselves through your daily experiences in the world.

Your personal narrative sets the tone for your life experiences and for the direction your life takes you. However, this is not just about your own life. You are actually living a story within a bigger storythe story of humanity on planet Earth.

The story of humanity may seem a little suspenseful right now. Scientists are spinning some pretty grim models about the future of our world. Politics on a global level seem divisive and inequitable. We are fighting old, outdated systems that have left many of us feeling disempowered and devoid of hope.

Storytelling might not seem like much of an activist stand to take when it feels like the world is crumbling. However, your power to tell stories is the most radical and active thing you can do to change the world. Your personal story matters and is a vital component to changing the world in which we live.

It may seem that we aren't able to change the current reality, but if we begin to tell a different story and join our empowered stories together with the stories of others, we can begin to weave a template for a different reality. We can program our brains and minds to see new ways of creating. We can focus our awareness and see the elegant solutions needed to change the world. We can use the sensual nature of our creative essence and take the time to step out of the probable to manifest the improbablemiracles that promise to shift the world in which we live. But how exactly do we do that? With Human Design, a system that can help us manifest miracles to change the world.

Human Design is an system of personality typing that is a synthesis of astrology, the Chinese I Ching, the Hindu chakra system, Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah), and quantum physics.

Human Design functions as a sort of personal blueprint (see ), showing each individual exactly how best to manifest their purpose in their lifetime. This system demonstrates the archetypal themes that teach us how to be human beings.

Your Human Design chart, which is generated using your birthday, birth time, and birthplace, is a powerful tool to help you begin the process of taking control of your personal narrative. It essentially functions as a map that tells you who you are, how you experience and process the world, how you best make decisions, and what you need to do to stay in harmony with your authentic self.

Figure 1: The Human Design Blueprint.

Human Design is a cross-cultural, ancient, and modern index of all the traits that make us human. This assemblage of information gives you a systematic way to consciously explore your personal narrative and to change your current story into one of unlimited, empowered, authentic living.

Your Human Design will gift you with a new vocabulary, a new language to interpret a part of yourself that perhaps you've hidden away. Human Design not only gives you a new way of thinking about yourself but also a new way of talking about yourself.

The Aramaic word abracadabra, often associated with stage magic, means I will create as I speak. Human Design is an ancient way of articulating an undeniable truth: Words have power. They can unify people. They transmit. Words are the bridge between the Divine and the human story. They translate the infinite into the finite. Words are the code for your personal story.

In this book, you're going to learn to use this new vocabulary of your authentic self to rewrite your personal story in a systematic way. Each section includes contemplations, journaling processes, and a template to help you craft a personal mission statement about your life.

Your new Human Design vocabulary will help you reconstruct your personal narrative so that it reflects your authentic identity. These new words have the power to change your relationship with money and with your family, friends, and partners, to help you find your right work in the world, to create more well-being in your life, to deepen your spiritual connection, and to heal ancestral memories.

Every element in the Human Design chart represents a potentialan archetype or theme (see ). Your potential can be expressed on a spectrum of possibility. You can either express a high potential or a low potential of all the parts of your chart.

For example, there's the potential of being a hermit. Hermit energy in its low expression can be a fear of connecting with others, causing someone to hide away, deny life, and never fulfill their potential of love and community. Hermit energy in its high expression can be experienced as the need to retreat to restore and replenish one's energy, to hermit oneself as a way of keeping their energy sustainable.