Human Design maps birth date, time, and place into a BodyGraph — defined and undefined centers, gates, and channels. Coaching rests on strategy (how to meet life) and inner authority (where correct decisions are read in the body). Practitioner frame — not laboratory physics.

Chetan Parkyn First published 2009 - Reprint (2010) · New World Library · ISBN 9781577319412

Key principles

  • BodyGraph notation — Chart from birth data — centers, gates, channels — as a single map of energetic definition versus openness.
  • Five types — Manifestor, Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, Reflector — each with a distinct strategy for engaging opportunity.
  • Inner authority — Sacral response, emotional wave, splenic hit, or self-projected clarity — the body chooses; the mind gathers data.
  • Deconditioning — Name where social hustle or family scripts forced you against design — permission to operate as built.
  • Not a lab test — Synthesizes I Ching, chakra, Kabbalah, and astrology strands — treat quantum metaphors as practitioner language, not peer-reviewed physics.
  • Decision hygiene — Pair strategy + authority with Decision hygiene — mind does not sign before the body speaks.

Core science

No independent RCT stack — operational value is coaching taxonomy (type, strategy, authority) used in IHDS / BG5 schools and business coaching. Mechanism notes live in Human Design; this file is the volume anchor for citation.

Application

Generate a chart once; log strategy and authority experiments in Manual Of Me as recipes — identity labels, not excuses.