You’ll probably know by now I’ve opened up some chat threads to talk about your Human Design Type so you can come together and chat about your Type, share your experiences and challenges, and ask me questions.
Today I’m opening up the conversation* for the Manifesting Generators! Join in? ⬇️
🟧 Manifesting Generators (MG’s), like Generators, are here to do the work they love and to be lit up. They are also here to shake things up, take shortcuts and find better ways. They are typically multi-passionate, non-linear and fast paced; they can feel “too much” for some people and may have been asked (implicitly or explicitly) to be “less” to make others feel more comfortable. (My MG clients often find that this is one of the most powerful & liberating realisations, helping to clear the way for the deep transformational self-belief work 🙌)
🟧 MG’s, again like the Generators, have access to reliable, consistent energy when they are saying yes “in response” to the right things. The Sacral is the key to knowing what to say yes to. Generators will feel a yes or a no in their sacral telling them what they do or don’t have energy for. And for all their natural speed, MG’s often need to balance this with slowness and patience, especially with an Emotional authority.
🟧 Manifesting Generators need to use up their energy each day and often benefit from pushing their bodies outside their comfort zone (ie getting sweaty!), as well as making sure they wind down fully before bed, mentally and physically (time for some of your gorgeous yoga nidra
*How does this chat-space work?The chat takes place on Substack, on the web or the app if you have it. If you’re reading in your email inbox and you’d like to join in, just click on the ‘comment’ bubble at the bottom of this email - you’ll arrive on substack.com, or the app, where you can chat in the comments with each other and ask me questions!
If you’d rather email me back with your thoughts and questions that’s totally fine too, I’m right here for you 🙏
Yesssss to MG energy and yesssss to the nidra! Gosh I need a whole day to talk about all of your questions. I always ‘knew’ I was an MG but didn’t actually ‘know’ until 2019 when my first daughter was born and I fell down the rabbit hole of HD and finally had permission to be the full spectrum of ME! I’ve spent my life trying to fit into a box and the sigh of relief I felt in my whole body when I remembered that it was OK for me to live outside of a label. I am so curious to know who else is an MG here… I suspect lots of people on Substack are. Love this conversation thank you xxx
I can relate to so much to this. The pressure to fit into some idealised version of myself almost broke me in my 20s and 30s. I had gradually started to accept my 'quirks' and work with them but since learning I was an MG it has made so much more sense to me.
It’s such a relief to know isn’t it? A huge allowance to embrace my pace and my pivots with compassion and grace instead of feeling like I was just ‘fickle’! Xx
I LOVE hearing this Louise! It’s been a gift to share your chart and see you lean in 🌟 we all deserve this. We deserve to feel easeful and weightless in being ourselves 🙏
Yes!! It really is a sigh of relief isn’t it?! I love seeing MG clients really relax as we get into this 🙌 it’s so awesome! I think you’re right, the MG energy does fit for substackers, always so much going on! I resonate a lot with MG energy and surprised I’m not tbh… still, there’s a few gate activation so that hook me up, so I’ll get a frequent hit. plus my mum is an MG, although a very new and previously restrained one, bless her. So much permission granted! Thank you for joining the conversation 🧡xxx
Thank you, I'll start from the start. I haven't thought deeply yet about it but the words manifest and generate feel like things I need to stop doing. Does that make sense? I avoid the word manifest in my work because it's a very loaded word. Are there other ways of expressing MG, other translations? Thank you 😊 🙏
I like Karen Curry Parker’s alternative name of ‘time benders’ because I feel like time is not linear for me when I’m doing what lights me up. But also I like to think of myself as multi faceted… I know what you mean about the language though, a lot of the traditional HD language doesn’t always resonate but there are lots of different ways it’s been interpreted. I also think the beauty of HD is being able to experiment and find whatever words resonate for you. Xxx
Hey lovely 🥰 well as Lauren says, the language used in the HD teachings is a little restrictive, we really do get to make it up for ourselves. The manifesting is simply action taking or communicating, and the generating is creating energy through joyful work. I see you doing both of these beautifully. Does this help? Xx
You’re so welcome, that’s what I’m here for! If I can give everyone I come into contact with even a little more permission to be themselves fully, I’m a very happy human 💚
Thanks so much for the invitation. When I learned about the MG archetype it made so much sense to me and really helped me to feel more at peace with myself. Rather than constantly beating myself up about not sticking to deadlines or jumping from project to project. I'm learning to go with my sacral energy a lot more and do what speaks to me at that moment, not what's on a list.
I’ve really found that the whole ‘eat the frog’ approach to lists doesn’t work for me. If there are things that I ‘have to do’ … because let’s face it we all have stuff that doesn’t light us up in life… I have to have filled up my tank with sacral juiciness before I do the ‘have to’… that way I’ve got energy banked and can make sure I don’t drain myself with essential life tasks. It’s so fun when you start to play. I’m loving this thread to speak to other MGs!!! Xx
Yes! That's exactly it. I have to do the things I want to do first. Otherwise I procrastinate before doing the first "frog" job and end up getting nothing done.
Oh I definitely relate to this too! I don't consider myself a morning person at all so I always thought it was best for me to do things I like to do later in the day when I thought my mood would be better. But I've found that I need to start the day with things I really want to do, in order to be able to do the things that "have" to get done later.
Oh me too! That’s a great sacral hack, for all the generators! I'm like “what will I feel satisfied by?” to get my sacral fired up, then I’m all systems go! I love having a sacral 😂 it’s so good!
Wow, loving reading through the responses here so far! Thank you Sarah for including me!
I found out I was an MG during the pandemic, so probably 2020 or maybe early 2021. Learning about being an MG paired with learning that I'm a Rebel in Gretchen Rubin's 4 Tendencies framework are the 2 things that helped me finally start to understand myself better and accept myself. I felt so lost in my early 20s and was so hard on myself for jumping from university program to university program and not being able to figure out the "one thing" that I wanted to do with my life for a career. Now I have more acceptance for my multi-passionate nature and am far less hard on myself than I used to be!
I think one of the things that is still a work in progress is the strategy to respond. I think I still try to force things more often than I should. And sometimes feel indecisive and get decision fatigue.
Yes to accepting yourself! I remember when we did your interview for the podcast being so impressed by how you’ve leaned into your design!
Being aware of your tendency to force is a great start. It’s an invitation to ask ‘am I forcing something here?’ and then let go… it does become easier as you trust that the right things will come to pass. You just need to create the space for them to happen. Forcing blocks the space / energy…
You’ve got Emo Authority right? So you’ll never be 100% certain… can you let your sacral guide and then check in with your emotional authority as the emo wave goes through its flow… ‘how do I feel about this now… and now… and now?’ over a day or a few days depending how big the decision, until you’re at neutral again, and say 80% sure? Obviously if it changes to a no - or an hmmm - over time it’s a no! If it stays a yes, it’s a yes.
The solar plexus (emotional) is an awareness centre, and specifically about emotional awareness over time. Again, it’s something to experiment with, and get to know how it works for YOU.
Does that help? Happy to voicemail you on insta 🙌🌟
Hmmm can you give me an example scenario and what it would look like to let my sacral guide and then check in with the emotional authority? I think I understand but just want to get clear!
Yes of course, so let’s say you get a potential new client reach out to work with you, and you feel a sacral YES in the discover call. You create a process which has a delay built in for example “Now that we’ve met, let me consider the best route forward and I’ll come back to you later this week” Then, each day, you check in “how do I feel about working with that person now? is it still a YES?” This allows you to consider that potential scenario in all parts of your emotional wave.
The wave is mechanical and underlying, not explainable by what’s going on outside of you. You’ll get to know how long it lasts and the shape of it; sharp or smooth (I actually can’t see your chart just now Cassandra, or I’d tell you this part!)
If your YES changes to a “hmmm” or a “no” at any point in the wave then don’t work with them, maybe offer to refer them to another practitioner instead. If it’s a yes throughout your whole emotional wave, then it’s a YES!
You could apply this to “shall we go on holiday to x?” “shall we move house?” - anything at all really! Start saying “I’ll sleep on it” so people don’t expect an instant decision!
For short term decisions like food, or what to wear, your sacral in the moment is enough! You can’t sleep on all your decisions, you’d be hungry! 😂
Yes, I think this helps! So, my initial gut instinct is my sacral response. But for bigger decisions, I should give myself time for my emotional authority to help me decide? I think I have that right!
For the wave, I don't know much about that part of HD. But I have the 41-30 channel with half of it coloured in on my chart. And the 19-49 channel is completely coloured in with half of the channel being black and the other half grey, if that makes sense. I think those are the channels that lend themselves to my emotional wave.
It's interesting that you say if the yes changes to a "hmmm" then it's really a no. I find that scary, actually! Like maybe the "hmmm" is just my rational brain looking at the pros and cons and maybe if I wait longer, it will come back around to a yes?!
So it’s the full channel that counts in your wave. The 19-49 is small ups and downs followed by a sharp drop, some call it a ‘ratchet’. So the drop can feel like a bit sudden and like you need to explain it , but you don’t, just allow it to be.
The rational brain has a lot to answer for… often it jumps in with logic and that’s when we override the body’s knowing. If we can sink into just using the body, things will just flow! I hear this from clients all the time, when they do the experiment and TRUST their body - it’s powerful stuff. If it’s a no, it’s a no! Or, go ahead and see what happens, that’s where human design is a beautiful experiment - you get the ‘knowledge’ but then you get to figure out what works for YOU.
And often we crave the YES, but we can’t get them until we’ve got space, so if you’re not getting them, declutter everything!
Got it! Thank you for taking the time to explain and share your wisdom! This definitely gives me some food for thought and something to pay attention to going forward.
Yesssss to MG energy and yesssss to the nidra! Gosh I need a whole day to talk about all of your questions. I always ‘knew’ I was an MG but didn’t actually ‘know’ until 2019 when my first daughter was born and I fell down the rabbit hole of HD and finally had permission to be the full spectrum of ME! I’ve spent my life trying to fit into a box and the sigh of relief I felt in my whole body when I remembered that it was OK for me to live outside of a label. I am so curious to know who else is an MG here… I suspect lots of people on Substack are. Love this conversation thank you xxx
I can relate to so much to this. The pressure to fit into some idealised version of myself almost broke me in my 20s and 30s. I had gradually started to accept my 'quirks' and work with them but since learning I was an MG it has made so much more sense to me.
It’s such a relief to know isn’t it? A huge allowance to embrace my pace and my pivots with compassion and grace instead of feeling like I was just ‘fickle’! Xx
It really is. It's honestly felt like a weight being lifted.
I LOVE hearing this Louise! It’s been a gift to share your chart and see you lean in 🌟 we all deserve this. We deserve to feel easeful and weightless in being ourselves 🙏
Yes!! It really is a sigh of relief isn’t it?! I love seeing MG clients really relax as we get into this 🙌 it’s so awesome! I think you’re right, the MG energy does fit for substackers, always so much going on! I resonate a lot with MG energy and surprised I’m not tbh… still, there’s a few gate activation so that hook me up, so I’ll get a frequent hit. plus my mum is an MG, although a very new and previously restrained one, bless her. So much permission granted! Thank you for joining the conversation 🧡xxx
Thank you, I'll start from the start. I haven't thought deeply yet about it but the words manifest and generate feel like things I need to stop doing. Does that make sense? I avoid the word manifest in my work because it's a very loaded word. Are there other ways of expressing MG, other translations? Thank you 😊 🙏
I like Karen Curry Parker’s alternative name of ‘time benders’ because I feel like time is not linear for me when I’m doing what lights me up. But also I like to think of myself as multi faceted… I know what you mean about the language though, a lot of the traditional HD language doesn’t always resonate but there are lots of different ways it’s been interpreted. I also think the beauty of HD is being able to experiment and find whatever words resonate for you. Xxx
Oh that's really good to know. Thanks Lauren. Multi faceted definitely feels appropriate. Time definitely doesn't feel linear when I'm absorbed.
Hey lovely 🥰 well as Lauren says, the language used in the HD teachings is a little restrictive, we really do get to make it up for ourselves. The manifesting is simply action taking or communicating, and the generating is creating energy through joyful work. I see you doing both of these beautifully. Does this help? Xx
That definitely sounds more appealing. Thank you 😊
You’re so welcome, that’s what I’m here for! If I can give everyone I come into contact with even a little more permission to be themselves fully, I’m a very happy human 💚
Thanks so much for the invitation. When I learned about the MG archetype it made so much sense to me and really helped me to feel more at peace with myself. Rather than constantly beating myself up about not sticking to deadlines or jumping from project to project. I'm learning to go with my sacral energy a lot more and do what speaks to me at that moment, not what's on a list.
I’ve really found that the whole ‘eat the frog’ approach to lists doesn’t work for me. If there are things that I ‘have to do’ … because let’s face it we all have stuff that doesn’t light us up in life… I have to have filled up my tank with sacral juiciness before I do the ‘have to’… that way I’ve got energy banked and can make sure I don’t drain myself with essential life tasks. It’s so fun when you start to play. I’m loving this thread to speak to other MGs!!! Xx
Yes! That's exactly it. I have to do the things I want to do first. Otherwise I procrastinate before doing the first "frog" job and end up getting nothing done.
Yesss! Really relate to that and it took me ages to really get that. Xx
Oh I definitely relate to this too! I don't consider myself a morning person at all so I always thought it was best for me to do things I like to do later in the day when I thought my mood would be better. But I've found that I need to start the day with things I really want to do, in order to be able to do the things that "have" to get done later.
This is brilliant awareness Cassandra, a great way to manage your energy. And you do have so much energy in your chart! 🚀
Oh me too! That’s a great sacral hack, for all the generators! I'm like “what will I feel satisfied by?” to get my sacral fired up, then I’m all systems go! I love having a sacral 😂 it’s so good!
Yay!! That sounds like such freedom Louise. What do you think it’s frees you up to do, that you weren’t doing before?
Just checking my charts, and tagging in @Cassandra Bumpus 🙌🌟
Wow, loving reading through the responses here so far! Thank you Sarah for including me!
I found out I was an MG during the pandemic, so probably 2020 or maybe early 2021. Learning about being an MG paired with learning that I'm a Rebel in Gretchen Rubin's 4 Tendencies framework are the 2 things that helped me finally start to understand myself better and accept myself. I felt so lost in my early 20s and was so hard on myself for jumping from university program to university program and not being able to figure out the "one thing" that I wanted to do with my life for a career. Now I have more acceptance for my multi-passionate nature and am far less hard on myself than I used to be!
I think one of the things that is still a work in progress is the strategy to respond. I think I still try to force things more often than I should. And sometimes feel indecisive and get decision fatigue.
Yes to accepting yourself! I remember when we did your interview for the podcast being so impressed by how you’ve leaned into your design!
Being aware of your tendency to force is a great start. It’s an invitation to ask ‘am I forcing something here?’ and then let go… it does become easier as you trust that the right things will come to pass. You just need to create the space for them to happen. Forcing blocks the space / energy…
You’ve got Emo Authority right? So you’ll never be 100% certain… can you let your sacral guide and then check in with your emotional authority as the emo wave goes through its flow… ‘how do I feel about this now… and now… and now?’ over a day or a few days depending how big the decision, until you’re at neutral again, and say 80% sure? Obviously if it changes to a no - or an hmmm - over time it’s a no! If it stays a yes, it’s a yes.
The solar plexus (emotional) is an awareness centre, and specifically about emotional awareness over time. Again, it’s something to experiment with, and get to know how it works for YOU.
Does that help? Happy to voicemail you on insta 🙌🌟
Hmmm can you give me an example scenario and what it would look like to let my sacral guide and then check in with the emotional authority? I think I understand but just want to get clear!
Yes of course, so let’s say you get a potential new client reach out to work with you, and you feel a sacral YES in the discover call. You create a process which has a delay built in for example “Now that we’ve met, let me consider the best route forward and I’ll come back to you later this week” Then, each day, you check in “how do I feel about working with that person now? is it still a YES?” This allows you to consider that potential scenario in all parts of your emotional wave.
The wave is mechanical and underlying, not explainable by what’s going on outside of you. You’ll get to know how long it lasts and the shape of it; sharp or smooth (I actually can’t see your chart just now Cassandra, or I’d tell you this part!)
If your YES changes to a “hmmm” or a “no” at any point in the wave then don’t work with them, maybe offer to refer them to another practitioner instead. If it’s a yes throughout your whole emotional wave, then it’s a YES!
You could apply this to “shall we go on holiday to x?” “shall we move house?” - anything at all really! Start saying “I’ll sleep on it” so people don’t expect an instant decision!
For short term decisions like food, or what to wear, your sacral in the moment is enough! You can’t sleep on all your decisions, you’d be hungry! 😂
Does that help?
Yes, I think this helps! So, my initial gut instinct is my sacral response. But for bigger decisions, I should give myself time for my emotional authority to help me decide? I think I have that right!
For the wave, I don't know much about that part of HD. But I have the 41-30 channel with half of it coloured in on my chart. And the 19-49 channel is completely coloured in with half of the channel being black and the other half grey, if that makes sense. I think those are the channels that lend themselves to my emotional wave.
It's interesting that you say if the yes changes to a "hmmm" then it's really a no. I find that scary, actually! Like maybe the "hmmm" is just my rational brain looking at the pros and cons and maybe if I wait longer, it will come back around to a yes?!
Yep you’ve got it.
So it’s the full channel that counts in your wave. The 19-49 is small ups and downs followed by a sharp drop, some call it a ‘ratchet’. So the drop can feel like a bit sudden and like you need to explain it , but you don’t, just allow it to be.
The rational brain has a lot to answer for… often it jumps in with logic and that’s when we override the body’s knowing. If we can sink into just using the body, things will just flow! I hear this from clients all the time, when they do the experiment and TRUST their body - it’s powerful stuff. If it’s a no, it’s a no! Or, go ahead and see what happens, that’s where human design is a beautiful experiment - you get the ‘knowledge’ but then you get to figure out what works for YOU.
And often we crave the YES, but we can’t get them until we’ve got space, so if you’re not getting them, declutter everything!
Got it! Thank you for taking the time to explain and share your wisdom! This definitely gives me some food for thought and something to pay attention to going forward.