What is your human design, and why would you want to know about it? We are not all created the same way. We are not all here for the same reasons, and this is actually great. However, the world we live in often tries to box us and force us into a certain way of living, and often that is not right based on our design. As you can imagine with cars, if your car is designed to run on gas and you try to plug it in, that is not going to work very well for you. It seems to me these bodies and these minds work the same way.
There is a website called myhumandesign.com that I was just told about by a friend in Alcoholics Anonymous. She is really excited about it, and I went and got my human design yesterday. The purpose of this, for me, is to better understand how I operate, what I need, what I do not need, and to help me enjoy life to its fullest, and to then share that with you. What you do on the My Human Design website is that Jenna Zoe has set it up so you put in the date, time, and year you were born, and then put in the time zone you were born in. Based on this information, she has made a system that tells you various characteristics based on things like astrology and your chi. She has brought several sciences together and put them into a system that, to me, feels pretty accurate.
My type: a manifester and fire starter
This is the output of what your chart will look like. It says that my type is a manifester, a fire starter, that I am here to get something started for other people to join in, and that feels very true to me. I have struggled all my life to follow anybody else, because I know I am here to bring in things that do not exist, and I am a leader. I am a forerunner of consciousness. I am here to help others create things for others that others can enjoy. Knowing this helps me see that I need to put myself in a position where I can just create and share with others. Being a full-time content creator on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, on the Jerry Banfield Show podcast, and on X, where I upload all my videos to all these platforms now, this feels extremely accurate to me. Seeing my human design helped me understand that I am here to share and to manifest, and I need to be giving that out as far and wide as I can so that the most other people can join in.
My authority: emotional, solar plexus
The next part, the authority, says the way you make decisions is emotional, solar plexus, based on how something makes you feel, and that is very accurate too. I picked my wife because I loved, and still love, how I felt when I was with her. Dating was very frustrating to me because my emotions were very clear, usually in the no, this is not right. Or I would think they would be right, and on the other end it was not. I make very emotional decisions. Keeping that in mind means I need to plan my investing strategies accordingly, for example. Because I generate my authority from how something makes me feel, that means I need to play my investing game pretty safe. In my experience, that looks like dollar-cost averaging into Bitcoin and not putting too much into altcoins, because that is where emotional decision-making is set up to make you fail. I share that as what has worked for me, not as financial advice.
My profile: the great life experimenter
The profile it gave me here, the great life experimenter, also feels very accurate. What is nice about this is that I have recently been wondering how my life makes sense. Online, I have had so much repeated success, and it seems that along the way I have often sabotaged it in one way or another, because, well, I like to experiment. I like to learn new things and then teach them, and anything that has gotten in the way of that, I have done whatever I needed to do to move on to something new. I have set up what I am doing now so that I can just do all these experiments and share them out here with you on all these platforms, and that is all I have to do. In the past, I have locked myself into things, like playing video games all the time, or creating online courses, or just doing crypto. I understand now that my real genius is coming up with these experiments, doing them, and then sharing them. My strategy is informing, so I am out there. I like to educate and communicate, and that leaves me feeling like my mission has been accomplished.
My not-self theme: anger, and the sign of peace
If you go down to the not-self theme, it says anger. When you are angry, that is a sign you are not following your design. Again, in the car analogy, you can imagine if you were trying to pull your Tesla into a gas station and shove the gas hose into the Tesla somewhere. If you did that for long enough, you would get angry. Come on, I do not know where to put the gas in this car. The longer you tried to force the Tesla to take gas, the more frustrated you would get. Or the opposite: if you pulled your gas car into a charger, the longer you tried to force your car to charge or refuel in a way it is not designed to do, the more you would get angry.
I am seeing that when anger comes up in my life, that is when I am slipping out of my design, where I am trying to operate in a way that does not work with how I am designed. That is a sign, anger is a sign to me to pay attention to my design, to ask, am I trying to put this charging cable into a gas car right now? What I have found really helps with my anger is to slow down and say, what do I learn from this? I try not to look at my anger as something to be fought or pushed aside, but as a sign that I am off center, or that I have something to learn. If I just adjust something in what I am doing, even if it is only to take a break or ask for help, then I will get out of anger. The sign that I am in my design is peace. When you pull into the gas station, put the gas hose in, and refuel your car, it is like, good, this is operating how it is supposed to. Or you pull your Tesla in and plug it in, and you feel peaceful, like great, everything is operating how it is supposed to operate. I have found this very helpful.
Honoring how you are designed
My friend suggested I look it up, and I am sharing it with you because we do not all work the same. This is why, to me, it is important. I use my emotions to feel what teaching is most appropriate for me, because with what I am sharing, there is a high likelihood it is relevant for you since you are here watching it. But you want to be sensitive to things that are essentially shared for different types of vehicles, your body and mind being a type of vehicle. For example, again with the car analogy, if you ask somebody where you can find a gas station because you have a gas car, and they tell you where to go charge your car, that is not necessarily the advice you need if the gas is not there with it.
This is very relevant in life. There are generally lots of people of similar types and designs. We are all special, but I am sure there is someone who has this exact same profile as me. It is important to honor and learn how I am designed, what I need, and what I do not need, and then that helps us ask for the right advice. For my design, for example, it is very important that I stay sober and do not take any mind-altering substances. While that is most appropriate for me, and I would say for most other people, there are some people for whom it may not be as relevant a piece of advice. That is why I stick to listening to the people I feel good listening to. When I try to follow what they share and I do not have anger arising, when I feel peaceful, that fits. If I feel angry at a suggestion someone is giving me, that is often a sign it is not right. When I feel very peaceful and certain, like this is a good suggestion and I am excited to try it, that is generally a sign that it fits.
What can be challenging is if you are surrounded by a bunch of people who do not know their designs and it is just chaos. That can be an opportunity to go within and see: maybe I need to move, maybe I need to change the people I hang out with, maybe it is time for a change. If you want to go deeper into how I have navigated these kinds of changes, you can follow along with my Life playlist, where I share more of my journey with you.
If this resonates with you, I would love to get to know you better, so come join the Jerry Banfield Family and message me there. I hope this look at human design helps you understand yourself the way it has helped me, and I look forward to sharing more of my experiments with you.