How I got started with Human Design
- Ben Figueiredo
- 3 days ago
- 6 min read
It was at the beginning of 2022 that Human Design made itself known to me. I was listening to an Alfa Vedic podcast about a different topic and the guest mentioned Human Design and it intrigued me, but nothing more.
Then suddenly it started showing up in my life more and more, mostly through what can be termed "PopHD", you know, everything has it's "pop" trendy version. It's usually watered down and sugar coated so as to be easy to swallow and more palpable for the homogenized masses.
Nonetheless, it was all I knew. I was told that this particular account was the leading Human Design expert but it never fully sat right with me. My spleen could smell the bullshit.
Now, please don't get me wrong. I do believe that everything has it's place. I know now that it's just not for me, but it has helped a lot of people get started, including me. But I've realized that I just don't vibe with it and that's ok.
The point is, I held off for a while because of the way it was presented. I wasn't fully sold. Somethings felt off. That is until I started listening to the source. I started listening to lectures of Ra Uru Hu, the founder of the Human Design system, and something resonated so deeply inside me that it felt like something awakened. I knew this was it.
The way he spoke, there was no bullshit. Sure, he exaggerated and spoke with such certainty about it, but he wasn't bullshitting. He wasn't playing around. He wasn't trying to sell me on something just so he could look good or make a buck.
He knew something and he was sharing it with the world.
This Human Design wasn't about "tricks to make your business stand out" or whatever trendy instagram thing you can think of to sell someone. This was about shedding all that bullshit and just living life as you. Learning to love yourself for who YOU are, not what everyone expects you to be.
So after a couple years of wading in the HD kiddie pool, Ra comes along and throws me into the deep end.
Accepting my Type
So this whole time with HD I am being told that "I don't have energy" and that "I have to wait for an invitation" and I'll be honest with you, this didn't sit well with me at first. (and if I'm being real honest I still struggle with it...)
You see I am a Projector, a Non-Sacral being, as they say. Meaning I don't have access to the life-force generating capabilities of the Sacral center. Not on my own at least. And, as a projector, I have more sensitive and vulnerable physical form and am easily exhausted and if not careful can burn out.
While I resonated with other things in my chart, mainly my Profile, being a 1/3 (Investigator/Martyr) I knew this to be true, but I just couldn't get onboard with the whole Projector thing. It really took a minute to sink in. And even though I saw signs of it my life, always getting burnt out after hustling for so long to "make things happen", only to have to take time to recover which would set me back again... The Manifesting-Generator conditioning was soooooooo deep.
It wasn't until mid-2024 that I saw the burn out cycle frequency getting higher and higher that I knew I had to make a change. I knew deep down that if I didn't do something different than I was either going to get really sick or die.
So I committed. I committed to the Human Design experiment, the Projector experiment really. I went all in on finding out what it was like to live like a Projector and not like a Manifesting-Generator.
It hasn't been easy, in face, it's been real fucking hard at times. But it's been the best thing I have ever done. Ra wasn't kidding when he said that deconditioning is hardest for Projectors. It's really in there and the mind does not want to let go.
I am a Splenic Authority so that was my main area of focus when I first started. Practicing tuning in to that body awareness in the now.
I started by just listening to my body. how it felt. what it wanted to do. Trying to not let my mind make decisions. If my body didn't want to get out of bed then I stayed in bed until it did. One can see how this would lead to what most would call "trouble", oh I can hear them now; "But you can't just lay in bed all day" "You have to go to work!" "If I did that I would get fired from my job!"
yeah, you probably would.
Look, I am not saying this is easy. Heck, I am not even recommending it. I told you this isn't the fluffy PopHD you find rampant on Instagram. This is the real, life transforming shit. If you want to live your life, then you live YOUR LIFE. No one else's. Not your boss's not spouse's, not your parent's etc. YOU LIFE. Period.
As I was saying, there I was neck deep in this experiment. Scared shitless that I was going to fuck up my life, in the middle of a divorce, not knowing how I was going to pay rent, everyone everywhere thinking I was a lazy fuck. It was great!
If my body wanted to rest, I rested. I did not go to work. (now I must confess that I was obviously blessed with a "job" that was incredibly flexible and allowed me the freedom I needed for this experiment).
But as I did this, as I allowed my body to lead and made my mind take the passenger seat, I saw how life really started to flow beyond what I could ever imagine happening. I got invitations to gigs that, even when my mind said that wasn't the correct thing, my body said yes and I watched how those opportunities somehow became even better/easier than what I had agreed to in the beginning.
And then just as I was cruising, my mind would creep back in a grab hold of the wheel... "Alright, universe, thanks for getting us back on track now I can take it from here!" And then it would screw it all up again. haha. silly little mind....
Then I would calmly put my mind back in the passenger seat and surrender to the body once again and the body would lead me to such an incredible time of life.
Mind you, when I say incredible, I want you to understand that I don't mean easy. I don't mean unspeakable riches. No, what I mean is that despite what was going on in my life, whether "good" or "bad" I was at peace. I was just watching the movie and excited to see what would happen next.
I went through a period of about 2 months where I pretty much didn't work at all. I had just completed my Emotion Code Certification and I was called to offer a limited amount of free Human Design Mini-Readings. And money came in that way and it also lit me up and gave me energy unlike my other "job" that demanded a lot of physical energy.
During this time, I came up with the term "Edging with the Universe" because that's what it felt like. I was seeing just how close I could get to the edge, aka $0 in the bank account, before it would come through with some more money to add to the ever decreasing stack.
And you know what I found? It never got to zero.
I always had what I needed in the moment. I would get a small amount of money that would get me through the next couple of days. I would have a job come up and I had enough energy for it and it didn't leave me exhausted, that would bring in just the right amount of money. I never went without what I needed.
I mean, I wasn't living like a king by any means. But I really learned a valuable lesson that was reprogramming my relationship with money. I began to see money not as this static thing that one needs to hoard because it doesn't last and there's never enough, but as a dynamic flowing energy that comes and goes where and when it's needed. And that you only have to open yourself up to receiving AND giving it. Letting come AND go.
I started to see that as I align with my true nature, which for me is what we call "Projector" in Human Design, the more I was aligning with my true purpose and the more the Universe would align to provide me what I need to fulfill that purpose.
Along the way, as part of this Projector experiment, and even as I was struggling to pay rent, my spleen, my body awareness led me to diving deep into the Human Design system and provided the finances I needed to pursue the education so that I could help guide others with this amazing map that has been given to us. The map back to our highest self.
So if you'd like a guide to help you understand your HD chart. If you want to experiment and see if it really works, then I would be glad to help. The Foundation Reading is the place to start your journey. This is a 2 hour, intuitive guidance call where we dive deep into your chart and find a the treasures hidden there for you to find.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Love Yourself,
Ben
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