Human Design Themes – Emotional Anchors For Growth and Development

In Human Design, each of the five types has a theme that relates to either helpful or unhelpful emotional states.  This article lists these five themes, connects them to the emotional states, and examines Manifestor Anger and Peace in more depth.

What is a Human Design Theme?

If you have looked at your Human Design Chart already, then you may have noticed part of the chart called your Theme.

And if you don’t have your Human Design Chart yet – why not?  Ask me for your chart and short free report.  This will help you to find out which of the 5 Types you are and get started.

There’s lots to learn about Human Design, and it can certainly end up becoming a rabbit hole of information if you are not careful.

However, some parts of your chart are worth looking into at the beginning of your Human Design Journey.

The originator of Human Design, Ra Uru Hu, used to call the connection with Human Design a ‘7-year download’.  So, take your time.

Where to begin?

There are a few aspects of your chart that are most helpful to begin with, other than learning your Type.

These are: –

• Your Incarnation Cross (I call this Life Purpose).  Mine is the Life Purpose of Eden.
• Your Profile, or Personality.  (Mine is 4/6, in case anyone is asking.)  This can cover several life areas.  To begin with, think about it as a guide to how a person can evolve, grow, and even lead others.
• Human Design Strategy, your best approach to interact with the world (mine is to inform and initiate). This means I’m more likely to achieve my desired goals by telling other people what I’m going to do before I do it.
• Human Design Authority – one helpful way to understand your Authority is to consider it as a lens for helping you get more clarity around decision-making.

Human Design Themes Matched With Your Human Design Type

The 5 Human Design Types and their individual Themes are: –

Manifestor – Peace or Anger.

Manifesting Generator – Satisfaction or Frustration, which may then turn into Anger.

Generator – Satisfaction or Frustration.

Projector – Success or Bitterness.

Reflector – Surprise or Disappointment

For your individual Human Design Type, these themes represent the emotional states —either helpful or unhelpful —that you are most likely to experience as you navigate the ups and downs of life.

We are all awash with emotions all the time. Emotions that we like, and emotions that are hard to handle. It’s the nature of being human.

Identifying emotions that can potentially block our forward progress can be enormously empowering.

Even just hearing about the Theme for our Human Design Type can start to get our wheels turning.

How Themes Relate to our Emotions and the Not-Self

The Not-Self is seen as your Shadow in Human Design, or the expression of you that is conditioned, socialized by society, or simply out of alignment with who you truly are.

When you are aligned with your emotional theme as a Projector (Success/Bitterness), for example, you are more likely to get positive ‘feels’ around succeeding at something. 

Projector Types are more likely to feel bitter and even express bitterness when they don’t get the success they would like.

There is no wrong or right here, by the way. It’s not better to experience a ‘positive’ emotion than one that is perceived as ‘negative’.

What’s most helpful is to begin to understand our emotions as guides to something. Then we can begin to interpret why we are feeling them in the first place.

Manifestor Peace and Anger

As a Manifestor, with the Theme of Peace or Anger, I love feeling at peace.  I love peaceful days, time spent creatively, and I often organize my day for a peaceful flow.

I get angry at interruptions to my creativity, feeling blocked from manifesting an idea or project. This anger may seem irrational to others, but it makes perfect sense to me. 

This is because Manifestors are designed to create and bring through new ideas that are useful to everyone else in the collective.  So let us get on with it, already!

How to Understand and Work with your Human Design Theme?

Your Human Design Theme, also known as your Signature Theme, is an excellent emotional touchstone.  As you contemplate it and consider it in your daily life, you may discover: –

• How your Not-Self Theme signature is blocking you.  For example, if I’m angry, I can’t create; it stops the flow.
• How your aligned emotional signature (the more fun one) can help you to grow.
• How often do you experience each signature so that you can consciously shift states if you are in Not-Self mode?

Human Design Resources on this Site

If you’d like to learn more about Human Design, the best way is to begin with your own Design!

Feel free to message me at the client portal and ask for a chart>>

You can also see this page for more about Human Design Readings to learn more about how they can help you.

In the meantime, I wish you Peace, Success, Surprise, or Satisfaction, whichever is your Theme.