Our Unique Genetic Design – Why It’s Important To Understand It

Do you know what your genetic design is? It’s a collective positive and negative expression of your genes. This comes from your family line, containing your unique potentials for growth and success, and your shadows too.

The Shadows Of The Collective Gene Pool

If you are on the path of personal development, professional skill growth, or even some aspects of spirituality, you may have bumped into Human Design.

Most people look at their chart, learn their Human Design Type, maybe even check out their profile, and that’s it.

“Huh, it’s basically like Myers Briggs but with astrology too”.

That’s often the response I get initially from clients.

Or perhaps clients struggle with the sheer amount of information on their chart and lose interest.

That’s one of the reasons I don’t show clients their charts at first until they’ve had an energetic sense of it. It’s just too much information.

Swimming In the Shadowy, Collective Ocean Of The Not-Self

One reason we can be resistant to working with Human Design is that it points out not only what we are but also what we are not.

What we are is a product of our unique genetic design, defined centers and channels, profile, cognition, and so on.

What we are not is our habitual mode of genetic expression, which may not be innate. By that, I mean the collective Shadow Self, more commonly known as the ‘Not-Self’.

The Shadow or Not-Self is the part of us (and the collective) that: –

• has us think our way through things because that’s how everyone else does it.
• Tells us to follow our heart or willfulness without knowing if that is even correct for our unique genetic design.
• Makes us follow reason to make decisions, even though the human mind is the least useful place to make decisions in isolation!
• Pushes us forward into generic expressions of Self that may not be a match for our healthy genetic expression.

What’s Wrong With Being A Part Of Humanity?

Of course, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with leaving your Shadows alone. Why look – if your life is successful and you are truly happy.

For all you know, you have been operating from your Human Design all along. That would mean that your genetic expression is a healthy, happy one.

Unless…

• You are often unhappy with the thoughts in your head.
• You have followed your heart, so far it hasn’t worked well for you.
• Despite angsting over decisions and taking great care making them, things don’t work out. So many of your decisions seem to lead to dead ends later on. Perhaps you don’t resonate with your original intention for the decision in the first place.
• You feel like a number, not a name, and stifle your creativity or individual expression for fear of risking all: house, family, culture, and social status.

If any of the above situations are happening, then you may be getting swept along by the shadowy intentions and deep oceanic currents of our group gene pool.

What Does The Group Gene Pool Want?

We are here to survive, of course, and ideally reproduce as far as the gene pool is concerned. And also…

The Collective Gene Pool Wants Us To Mate

Our genes would like us to mate with a partner who has opposing and attractive genes — to multiply all the possible expressions of a human that can be made.

Some of this happens through the magic of ‘chemistry’, which is often opposing DNA codons resonating with each other when we meet a prospective partner.

Resonating codons can be read from the perspective of Human Design because they complete energetic channels between two individuals.

So, if you are in an intimate relationship or having trouble with your mother-in-law and don’t know why, you can find out with a Human Design Relationship Reading!

The Gene Collective Wants Us To Survive

In order to survive, it’s important to be conditioned socially and culturally and fit in.

We might not survive if we are abandoned before we grow up.

We might not be able to share in the abundance of our family group if we have been cast out for not conforming.

The Pressure To Give In To The Currents Of The Collective

The collective gene pool would rather we didn’t swim against the reproductive tide.

So, there are lots of calls on our energy to swim downriver and not try and make for the shore or the upward currents.

This is just fine if everything suits you, but what if you are on the path of personal evolution? How does the Shadow or Not-Self serve you then?

Identifying Your Design AND Your Shadow Is Exactly The Point

Walking the path of awakening isn’t easy. The Shadow and Not-Self are real and create blocks to make it difficult for you.

If you stray outside of group genetic patterning, the world can be a scary place.

You suddenly become a unique individual who is suddenly able to express your Design — your skills, talents, and abilities — in ways that are completely unusual as far as the collective is concerned.

Why Discover My Evolved Unique Expression, Anyway?

What Success Potentials are hidden in your genetic design?

You could be Copernicus, the father of astronomy — who kept most of his findings until his deathbed because of his fear of reprisal by the Catholic Church at the time.

You could be Jane Austen. She decided to align herself with feminist ideals and write about them. This was in an age when unmarried women were reviled and called spinsters.

Or you could be Tik Tok star Paul Russell, who, tired of Excel spreadsheet work in his tech job, started playing with hooks and riffs, creating a whole new career through the creation of a song (Lil Boo Thang).

I know these are all very different examples, but that is my point!

Who can you finally be if you free yourself from the collective Shadow?

Something to think about next time you hear someone mention Human Design.