Human Design Generators – Harnessing Your Natural Life Force Energy

What are Human Design Generators, and if you are one, what does that mean for you?

What Are Human Design Generators?

Have you heard of Human Design yet? It’s an energetic measurement system that helps you understand how your Aura works. It does this by categorizing your energy as an Aura Type. The 5 Types are:-

• Human Design Generators (70%)
• Manifesting Generators (33% sub-type of 70% Generators)
• Manifestors (9%)
• Projectors (20%)
• Reflectors (1%)

Generators are the most common type, making up about 70% of the population. There is also a Generator subtype, called Manifesting Generators. MGs comprise about 33% of the 70% Generator group.

Resource on Amazon: Human Design – Discover The Person You Were Born To Be by Chetan Parkyn

How Can We Know Which Aura Type We Are?

It comes down to knowing your date, location, and time of birth. If you’re not sure of the time that you were born, you can have a good astrologer do a practice called ‘chart rectification’ to find out.

As you incarnate, your baby body in utero is imprinted 88 days before birth with certain energetic patterns based on planetary alignments. On your day of birth, a second energetic imprint occurs. The first imprint is your ‘Design‘. The second imprint is your ‘Personality‘.

These two sets of imprints are interpreted through a chart with two columns of data on each side. The left side is the Design side; the right side is the Personality side. This data incorporates Astrology with a Chinese prediction system called the I-Ching.

This chart is for John Lennon, of the Beatles. Notice that the numbers showing in the columns also appear in the red circles in the Chakra map in the center. The chart in the middle is based on the Hindu Chakra system, which represents our body energy through Chakras or energy centers. In Human Design, there are 9 Chakras rather than 7.

Human Design Gates And Chakras

The numbers, which are called Gates, are placed in a specific body location because these ‘Gates’ have been matched with Human Design Codons, discovered during the Human Genome experiment. It’s interesting to note that the human body contains 64 Codons, or chemical signatures, and the ancient I-Ching also contains 64 Gates.

Whether the Chakras are colored in or not relates to your Aura Type within your chart.

I can tell from this chart that John Lennon is a Generator, first of all, because his Sacral Chakra (the one below the belly button) is colored in pink. I can also tell that he’s an Emotional Generator – because his Solar Plexus Chakra is colored brown.

Some Generators have more than two Chakras colored in (called defined) in their chart, but any Generator will always have the Sacral Chakra – that pink one – defined.

You can see from John’s chart that he has a channel (the black and red line) between his Sacral Chakra and his Solar Plexus Chakra. This is why both Chakras are colored in. Channels created defined Chakras. Think of it this way – from this chart we can see that John had a strong connection to his emotions and his emotional awareness, because his Sacral Chakra is driving his energy there.

Would You Like To Know Your Aura Type?

You can message me here for a free Human Design Report. You’ll need to submit your date, time, and location of birth for me to be able to create a chart.

What Makes Human Design Generators Unique?

When I work with clients who find out they are Generators, sometimes there is a little disappointment to begin with. I’ve often heard the phrase “Oh, I’m just a Generator“.

It’s very human of us to want to be special, and one way we have done that in the past is to become part of an exclusive group of some kind. Whether that group is a friend group, an unusual club, or just human cliqueness, we like to think we are all unique.

The irony is, of course, that we are all unique, since our Souls are completely individual. Even if we were born along with another identical twin, we might be genetically identical, but we would be different Souls in two different bodies.

I’d like you, if possible, to drop the thinking that frames you as ‘just’ one of the Human Design Generators.

If you are a Generator or Manifesting Generator, you are part of the largest Aura group Type on the planet. You helped to build this human world.

Generators use their creative energy from the Sacral Chakra in a multitude of ways. You can work hard all day and go to sleep after having emptied your energy tank (the Sacral Chakra). You’ll then wake up refreshed and do another hard day’s work again tomorrow, no problem.

Not all the other Aura Types can do that as well or as easily as you can. And how you respond can change the world. This brings us nicely onwards to the Human Design Generators strategy.

The Generator Strategy: Wait to Respond

Rather than forcing opportunities, Generators thrive by responding to life as it unfolds. Being able to immerse yourself in collective energy – the energy of others – and responding to it is one of your innate gifts for this lifetime.

Being able to gather information, sense it, feel it, think about it, and learn more about it is the first step to responding. Just because you haven’t responded yet doesn’t mean you aren’t taking action. Generators have a gift for noting things and aligning them with what they understand already about a person, situation, or circumstance.

The real power in responding is to find the right moment to do so. Based on your Authority as a Generator, you can learn to become a master at this. So, this brings us onto the two Authorities that Human Design Generators have: the Sacral Authority and the Emotional Authority.

Understanding Your Sacral Or Emotional Authority

Depending on your birth data, you may either be a Pure Generator or an Emotional Generator. Pure Generators have something called the Sacral Authority present in their chart, and Emotional Generators have the Emotional Authority.

Think of it like this. If you are a Pure Generator, you will have an intuitive ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response to your environment, questions asked of you, people around you, even situations and circumstances. You may respond with nodding or head shaking. You’ll maybe even respond out loud.

If you are an Emotional Generator, you will need to take longer to make your decisions, because you need to process your feelings before you decide on something.

There are 6 different Authorities in total – so don’t ever let anyone tell you to be ‘logical’, or that we should only use our brain to decide on something! Find out more about your Human Design Authority first.

Resource Insight Blog Post: A Simple Way To Understand Your Human Design Authority

Signs You’re Living In Or Out Of Alignment With Satisfaction/Frustration

Each Aura Type has a Signature Theme, which can be helpful to know, since you can then key into your Aura Type’s emotions as a guidance tool. Human Design Generators have a Signature Theme of Satisfaction or Frustration.

You are most likely to align with your Signature Theme of Satisfaction and be living in alignment with your Aura Type when you are:-

• feeling energized
• enjoying meaningful work
• experiencing synchronicities
• finishing what matters.

Frustration can be caused by: –

• feeling burned out
• having to work for ‘the man’
• not connecting up the dots, feeling lost
• unable to complete a task even though you’ve had a strong response and want to complete it.

Resource: Insight Post on Human Design Signature Themes

Career and Purpose for Human Design Generators

Generators have been a big part of the Engineering Age, also known as the Piscean Age. If you are a Generator and you are reading this, you help to develop tools and systems for planet Earth, from pottery to keyboards, weaving to soccer games.

This is because one of the ways you can create mastery for yourself is through repetition. You also do better if you can find satisfying work, because it helps you to renew your energy daily. When you experience genuine enjoyment through your projects, hobbies, or career, you’ll feel that deep satisfaction in your core and want to do it all over again.

One of the ways we can drill down into greater success is to learn about the personality sides of our Human Design charts in more depth. Think: Design – unconscious mind, Personality – conscious mind.

A new chart and system I’ve been working with since 2024 is a great support for this. It’s called The Success Codex™, and looks at 10 of your Human Design Personality Gates, plus 3 different Astrological Gates, in a new format.

For anyone, Generator or otherwise, this chart is a great resource. You can read more about it below.

Reading Resource: Success Codex™ Sessions: Career and Business Growth

Common Misconceptions About Generators

As with every Aura Type, there is a human tendency to generalize information we find in our Human Design chart and apply that to every Generator, every Projector, and so on.

The whole point of Human Design is to show us our unique nature. Generators are unique individuals, each in their own right, just like anyone in the other Aura Types.

I’m sure a lot of people would call John Lennon a unique individual – yet he’s in the Human Design Generators group. Other unique Generators include Lady Gaga, Mahatma Gandhi, Kim Kardashian, and Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. As you can see from this list, Generators can be just as varied and unusual as Projectors or Manifestors.

So, don’t fall into the trap of generalizing yourself out of your uniqueness and your individual gifts, just because you come from the largest Aura Type on the planet.

Don’t Let Anyone Generalize Your Gifts

Examples of generalizations you might hear: –

• “Generators should work all the time.”
• “Waiting to respond means doing nothing.”
• “Generators can’t initiate.”
• “More energy means limitless energy.”
• “Generators don’t lead.”

Reframe that thinking this way: –

• Generators have access to consistent energy through the Sacral Chakra.
• Waiting to respond is a superpower when you know how to check in with your gut or emotions through your Authority before committing.
• Generators may not always initiate new ideas, but they are experts at responding to ideas and creating solutions by understanding collective needs.
• You can learn to work on projects or live life in a way that lights you up – and that gives you access to more Sacral energy.
• Generators can be great leaders too – the ability for leadership comes from deeper aspects in your chart, such as channels, not just your Aura Type. You have your entire Soul’s history of past lives to call upon, too.

Human Design Generator vs Manifesting Generator

So what about Human Design Manifesting Generators, that 33% subtype of Human Design Generators – what’s the difference between the Generator Aura Type and the Manifesting Generator Aura Type?

The essential difference is in the vibrational pattern of the defined Chakras – those colored-in shapes on the chart.

You’ve already learned that both Generator types have a defined Sacral Chakra (that pink square). This is called a motor Chakra, because it’s so powerful, and there are 4 motor Chakras in total. Other motor Chakras are: –

• Heart Chakra (the little triangle)
• Solar Plexus/Emotions Chakra – the bigger triangle lower right-hand side
• Root Chakra – the square Chakra at the base of the chart.

Manifesting Generators have channels connecting their Sacral Chakra and one of these three motor centers to their Throat Chakra one way or another. The Throat Chakra is the third square-shaped Chakra down from the top.

The Throat Chakra is seen as the seat of manifestation through the Human Design model, hence the name.

This makes Manifesting Generators quicker to act and respond than Generators. This is because of the extra energy drive they get from Sacral Energy to the Throat. They get this because of the connection to another powerful motor Chakra (Heart, Solar Plexus, Root). Literally, think of a motorboat!

Example: So, imagine a Generator and a Manifesting Generator deciding together on where to go for a walk. The Manifesting Generator responds to the idea and rushes out the door. The Generator looks out the window and sees clouds forming, so they pick up an umbrella on their way out. They walk towards the Manifesting Generator, who is rushing back to the house because it’s raining!

Resource Insight Blog post: Why Human Design Manifestors Have Powerful Throat Chakras

Learn To Trust Your Generator Wisdom

Human Design isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering how your unique energy naturally works, and experimenting with living in greater alignment to your authentic self.

Your innate Generator wisdom enables you to: –

• check in with your gut or emotions before committing
• notice what brings satisfaction
• complete energy-giving projects to create more energy for you
• allow life to present opportunities so that you can choose
• rest when your energy is genuinely depleted – it will come back again.

When Human Design Generators align with their own unique way of responding, the rest of the world has to listen.

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I hope you enjoyed this article about Human Design Generators.

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