Why am I so restless? Who am I and how can I finally become the person I am meant to be in this life? The teachings of Ra Uru Hu are currently spreading at record speed. We spoke to expert Maike Gabriela about human design, a concept that aims to bring us back to ourselves.
Astrology is booming — not just on Instagram or TikTok, but far beyond. For example, when it comes to choosing a partner: I’m not dating you, you’re a cancer! Or when there is another special Zodiac edition of an eye shadow. If everything goes wrong again, it’s because Mercury is retrograde. Yes, astrology has left its mark. However, while the statements of astrology are mostly superficial, open to multiple interpretations and kept general, human design is more precise and individual. The spiritual concept is like a map to your being. A tool to live your own true self, buried deeper and deeper by our external circumstances and conditioning.
We spoke to human design expert Maike Gabriela, who not only answered exciting questions about the “new astrology”, but also gave us an insight into a reading.
BRIGITTE: Human design is experiencing a meteoric rise. But what is actually behind it?
Maike Gabriela: The science of our aura. We have an energetic body that is two arms lengths tall. Everything in our life is matter, that is, everything in our life is energy. When we begin to understand how our energetic body works, we understand why we have resistance in our lives and how we can create flow again. Human design helps with this. It consists of astrology, the ancient wisdom of the I Gins, the mystical side of Judaism – that is the Kabbalah, the chakra system, but also quantum physics and genetics. With birthday, place and time we get the typical body graph. This shows our basic equipment and the basic structure of our personality, which help to understand where our own strengths and talents lie. Rather, human design is a tool to understand how to be happy in life.
It is said that we need Human Design to live our true selves. But why aren’t we ourselves?
I firmly believe that our soul came into the world safe and knows exactly what opportunities are made for us. These are all in some form of iCloud, of which our aura is the password. She is the bridge that brings the things that were made for us into our reality. But what we talk about quite often in human design is conditioning and the process of de-conditioning. We can think of conditioning as a slime that sits on our aura, not allowing our soul to engage with the things that are made for us. Conditioning comes from the fact that when we were little and we showed authenticity that wasn’t accepted by those around us, we might even have been punished. In order to feel safe, we have buried a part of this authentic self deep within us and adapted. The moment we lose parts of this whole, we feel a sense of emptiness. What we miss we try to find through success at work or through intense, toxic relationships, material things, or substances to distract ourselves from what’s really going on with us. Human design can help dig up parts of ourselves and thereby pull our slime from the aura. So the soul can deal with the things that are made for it.
If you open a body graph in Human Design, you will see energy centers that are filled in on one side and empty on the other. What is good and what is bad?
Nothing is good and nothing is bad. Everything is just that you can live out your calling in your life. The closed energy centers are the centers in which you are defined – where you have security. Where you are energetically dominant over others. The energy centers that are open are where we are meant to learn the most lessons in this life. But also where we get the wisest. These are the centers where we accept and reflect the energy from outside. And where it’s normal and ok to have obstacles and overcome them. When we find a defined energy center with which the person does not feel identified, one knows that there is a deeper trauma behind it – which is where I really recommend therapy.
How did your type help you do what you do?
I’m a 3/5, Splenic Projector. That simply means that my authority is the very intuitive spleen authority. For me, Human Design was life changing. Before that I had a sustainable underwear label. Still, I couldn’t make a living from it. I had my newborn baby in my arms and I was so desperate and I thought: Universe, please give me a sign. Why do I do everything everyone tells me I have to do, but I’m about to have my third burnout now at 30? Then in the evening I listened to a podcast in which someone talked about human design. Something about the projector — and my whole life suddenly made sense. It made sense the moment I understood that I operate very differently from the rest of the world. And when I started living that, my life turned around.
In human design there are different types that show how our energy is made. How can the individual types present themselves better in terms of fashion?
The projector will always prefer to wear something that gives him a feeling of comfort. Sneakers, very neutral, simple things. Precisely because the projector also likes to take things slowly and is an energetic type for whom resting and resting is very important.
The Manifesting Generator is represented by Mix & Match. Simply because he has so many interests. I always represent him with different patterns to show that he has a wide variety of interests and ideas.
The generator is always on the go. I prefer to go straight from work to sports. Or from sport to work. He often wears jeans and a t-shirt, gym clothes or leggings — to be able to fully unleash his energy.
The Manifestor often has very strong qualities. He wears high heels, leather, black and strong silhouettes that give power.
The Reflector — it is represented by only one percent of the population! It is associated with the moon and has only open centers. He’ll either have a very clear uniform so he’ll stop worrying or he’ll never be able to make up his mind. Each week, depending on the planet, it will be a different energy type. For them it is very complicated in terms of style.
What do you recommend to someone who wants to start with human design themselves?
We have a book, that’s the source code. This is a 100-page PDF, which is compiled individually for you and your type. A Energetic construction plan that shows where your strengths lie. This is a good place to start! But there is also something that hardly anyone talks about: that is cellular activation, which only happens through verbal activation. That is, the specific words we use in Human Design have a frequency that activates your cells to go into a de-conditioning process. That said, while reading can be super transformative, something really magical happens when you get a reading. So I also recommend: Get a reading.
The reading: My experience report
The Human Design Reading with Maike was scheduled for one hour and it started directly, openly and full of life – and of course the enthusiasm spilled over to me. Discover your own purpose in life? Get the tools to live a happy and authentic life? Yes, please! However, the teaching consists of a lot of information: there is an individual body map that shows which energy centers you are defined in, tunnels — connecting the centers or not, and gates. “From digestion to the strongest sense,” says Maike. And where do you start with so much information? Right, at the beginning! For this lesson, the basics were set first. We started with the energy type, my profile, my authority and ended the reading with my incarnation cross, i.e. how I best transport my energy. And I have to admit: I really felt picked up right away. Peculiarities that I show are actually not that peculiar, but just how I function as a person. And how I will use or live my energy in the future. And one thing is certain: I will now explore my body graph even more deeply.