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By Chetan Parkyn
What are we doing here?
No one seems to be able to remember where we came from, why we came here to planet Earth, or even what it is we are fulfilling here. It is all a great mystery, unique to each of us and yet, over the millennia, there have been myriad efforts to clarify our presence here. Religions, meditations, yogas and philosophies have been invented, and systems have come into being including, Astrology, I-Ching, Runes, Tarot, and many others that have been employed by some of the most intelligent hearts and minds to help us discover more about ourselves. No one really knows where these systems have come from or exactly why they work, except that each one can show something of the truth about life on Earth. Why do we even want to know? Perhaps the answer is related to the fact that we are, after all, not Human Doings, but Human Beings. Being is the question, how to be?
My story is told
From the moment the shadow reader started speaking until well after he finished, I was transported into the experience of another realm. It was as though I was quietly watching the description of sounds and images, which were spoken out and kept
flashing through my consciousness. The shadow reader related details of my current and other lives, which, before that moment, I would have never imagined possible to relate. There were details of past lives, present life and future lives whose threads I could barely grasp, and yet I knew them to be accurate in their description. When the reading finished, he looked up with a twinkle in his eye and asked if I had any questions; I was almost struck dumb. What was it he had just related to me? How could he have known every detail of my life? I asked him where the system came from and he told me it had been passed down from father to son for almost 5000 years. Then he asked me if I wanted to come and study with him, for he saw that I had the knack to read. Goodness knows why, but I declined. Never mind, he told me, it was perfectly all right, because sooner or later I would have to read it, or a system like it that would come into my life. His advice to me was to practice with any reading system to get comfortable with the idea of informing people about themselves. It would become a life's work. Later that week, I was approached by a psychic palm reader and asked if I would like him to indicate to me a few things about reading a person's face and hands. In the space of ten minutes he showed me many signs to look for, and then told me that the only real way to learn was to go practice. And so it started. For 15 years I read the hands and faces of anyone who would show them to me, in photos, in person, gesturing on TV, it did not matter. At the same time I studied astrology, the I-Ching, Tarot, Numerology and everything else, trying to find out what this system was that the shadow reader had talked about. In 1993, it appeared in my life. It was called the
Human Design
These four esoteric systems are woven together to produce a chart for all known things, living and inanimate on Earth. Humans have the most complex design chart and inanimate objects the least complex. Working with the date, place and time of birth, an astrological chart is drawn up, which relates the place of birth to the placements of the planets of our solar system, relative to the stars in the Universe all around us. Unlike astrology, which divides the sky into 12 compartments, or signs of the zodiac, Human Design further divides the sky into 64 equal compartments. The 64 relates to two things: the hexagrams of the I-Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes, in which there are 64 hexagrams each containing 6 lines, and the human genetic code, in which it was found that there are 64 genetic codons revolving around 6 amino acids. In Human Design, star placement is equated to genes; planetary placement relative to the stars is equated to activation within the genes.
The Human Design chart of Ralph Nader, showing his unique genetic imprint around the outside of the wheel
energetically to do this, the rest of us being designed to wait until the 'offer' to do something is perceived clearly. Knowing whether we are designed 'to do', 'to manifest', or 'to wait for a response or an invitation' saves us untold grief and disappointment and gives us the key to managing our lives with ease. While most of us are flexible and able to work with others in a cooperative way, others of us are designed to go their own way without role models, to literally 'go where no one has gone before.' This difference can be clearly seen in Design. All of us are open to being 'conditioned' in how we live our lives by the people around us; conditioned to engage in life from 'their' point of view rather than our own. We are actually here to live our own life, and a Human Design reading makes it abundantly clear what is consistent in us and what comes and goes with the influences of people around us. Therefore, we can avoid hurt, frustration and disappointment and live the life we were meant to have. Charts can be overlapped to see clearly what goes on in a relationship, be it one that is romantic, parental or business in nature. Additionally, a medical team is collecting data on health issues corresponding to the presence or absence of certain hexagrams within the body graph. Their preliminary results are quite astounding, and have the possibility of making diagnosis and treatment much more simple and effective.