Human Design: what is Strategy?
how to use your strategy for more ease and flow in your life
Human Design is a blend of modern science and ancient wisdom, bringing together astrology and quantum physics, chakras, the Kabbalah & and the Chinese I-Ching. It’s the ultimate profiling tool, giving us full permission to be ourselves. It offers a user manual for each of us, showing us how to be who we’re designed to be, how to work with our energy and how to make great decisions that are just right for each of us.
We can find our purpose, our ideal environment & our superpowers on this map. And we can journey through it to heal ourselves, our relationships & our work. If you’d like to find out more, download your free chart here or book a chart reading with me here
Human Design appears to a complex system, but it can be beautifully simply to integrate into your life, so I’m going to demystify it for you here in a series of posts; this one is all about Strategy.
What is Strategy in Human Design?
Strategy is how you are designed to interact with the world, how you’re designed to receive messages from the universe and, used with your Authority, get into alignment so that your energy flow is smooth and flowing.
Often we can find ourselves conditioned from a young age to interact in a way that just does not work for us, so that things feel hard, and we end up acting from fear or hurt, creating unhelpful beliefs about our worth and our safety. This is the ego taking over - it can be useful to have around, but not when it’s in charge!
On the flip side, using your Strategy and Authority (which is your body) to interact and make decisions is a healthy non-ego way to move through the world.
To find out your Strategy before you read on, click below to get your free chart from my website.
The Strategies by Type
Each Type has its own Strategy, it’s useful to know your own as well as those of your family, friends & colleagues or collaborators.
Manifestors: To initiate & inform
You’re here to initiate, that’s your purpose; receiving creative sparks of energy from the universe and acting on them (if your Authority says yes of course), and so your Strategy is not to wait for external clues or invitations, it’s to go ahead without permission from anyone.
My Manifestor clients find this uncomfortable at first because they’ve become used to checking in with someone else and not trusting their own body, and so I suggest that they approach this as an experiment* “I wonder what will happen if I just go ahead and don’t ask or look for external clues?”
*honestly, the whole of human design should be seen as an experiment, because we are all unique and you have to figure out what is right for you!
When you initiate, you inspire others. Others need you!
And although I said you don’t need to ask anyone if you can go ahead, it’s great for you to inform people what you’re doing “hey, here’s what I’m doing” this stops them interfering or worrying and leaves you free to do your thing.
Generators: to respond
Your Strategy is to respond to something external of you. It can be anything; watching a flock of birds, listening to a podcast, talking to friends… and your response might be unrelated. The important thing is that it’s your Sacral that’s doing the responding, not your mind.
When I talk to Generator clients at first they want to resist this waiting to respond, and go ahead with fresh creative urges; we’re often told to “go make things happen” - well, we can, when we’re in response! I promise them that when they do it this way round the results are so much better.
The Sacral response is key for Generators, it is saying either “yes you have the energy” or “no you don’t” - learning to access this response will be life-changing for you. The thing clients notice most is having more time and feeling more relaxed as they’re not ‘trying hard’ in the wrong direction.
You might also have Sacral as your Authority; find out more about that just here.
Manifesting Generators: to respond & inform
Your Strategy is the same as for Generators, waiting to respond with that reliable Sacral.
Plus, you should inform, like the Manifestor. This clears the way for you to move fast! Others might want you to slow down or explain what you’re doing, so the informing (not explaining) is an important part of making it easier for you to go ahead and take your action.
Projectors: wait for the invitation
As a Projector you have so much wisdom to share, and it’s best received when you are invited to share. It will fall flat if you share it without being invited. To get the right invitations you need to feel healthy self-worth, so look within first, where do you need to heal or rest? Or be more playful?
When there are no invitations coming for my Projector clients, I remind them that this is a sign to take time for themselves, not go out seeking, offering solutions or initiating - this is permission to put yourself first.
Reflectors: wait a lunar cycle
What? Yes, as a Reflector your Strategy is to wait a 28 day lunar cycle. With no consistent Centres defined, you need to feel how things are in your body for the whole month as the moon shifts through your chart; this is where you find consistency.
When you first discover this, you’ll probably feel like my Reflector client, resistant, overwhelmed and confused. Here is a place to really lean in and follow the experiment “I wonder how I feel different during the moon cycle?” perhaps logging how your body feels each day about a particular topic and looking for patterns the following month.
I get it, this can feel big. Go steady with it and play around, there’s no right or wrong, and I’m right here if you’d like support figuring this out.
Here are some other ways to learn about human design 🌟 listen to the podcast 🌟 read the archives 🌟 treat yourself to a 1-1 Chart Unpack.
Or you are always so welcome to press reply on an email, or post a comment with questions or tell me if this resonates, I’d love to chat further about my favourite topic with you!
Sending love & courage ✨
Sarah xx
Hey I’m Sarah, human design & confidence coach. I guide women during times of change, helping them to build their foundation self-belief and giving them full permission to be exactly who they’re designed to be, living and working with ease and flow. If this sounds like you, I’m inviting you to book a 1-1 session with me here to get started on our journey together, or take a first step by downloading your free human design chart here.
More in the Human Design Resource Library:
The 64 Gates (coming soon)
Family charts (coming soon)
The 4 Arrows (coming soon)
Definition (coming soon)
