What is a Human Design Chart?

In short, it is a personal development system that can help you gain more insights in why you do what you do. I like to use this metaphor when I am talking to my coaching clients.

What is your manual to your type of vehicle

Image that we are all on sailing on the ocean of life. The waves go up and down. Sometimes you have to navigate through a storm. Sometimes you feel like you are drifting on this big open water and don’t have a set course. You just float and other boats are determining how you should steer your ship and preset your course for you.

Imagine now that you have a manual for your sailing boat. You read the manual and understand how the different components of you ship work. Perhaps you have a very powerful engine (Sacral center) but you’ve been overloading the engine so that it cannot work properly and it burned out. Or you don’t have a start motor and you instead have these very big sails that keep you soaring the wind (non energy types without the Sacral center defined). If you know how to operate hoisting the sails at the right time that you can give your boat the wings it needs.

All the elements and machines on your boat have a specific quality and benefit. Based on what is there on your ship you can determine what your specific type of boat is. You also know now what kind of ship types there are on the sea and how to cooperate with them.

We are all on the ocean of life hitting wave after wave

There is also a lot if information about the core qualities (gates & channels) that are build into your ship. You van gain temporary access to other qualities that get activated if your boat is connected to another ship (electromagnetic channels in connection to others). And sometimes the weather pattern gives you some extra temporary access to certain features on your boot (transit of the planet that activate gates in your chart).

In the manual there is also something written about how you can adjust your course by steering your ship and get the know-how about how to navigate the seas. This would translate to your strategie en op basis hierop en autoriteit from the Human Design System.

Competing in the Tall Ship Competition
Heineken Race of the Classics

As a student I sailed twice from Amsterdam to the UK on the historic sailing two-mast logger and I knew nothing when I stepped on the ship. But since it was a tall ship race it really was very handy that we learned at once how the ship was run in optimal condition for us to compete in the competition.

Learning by doing works just fine of course. After one day on the sea we already had some sense of what to do. 

Tall ship racing Heineken Race of the Classics 2025 Team Breda
My happy 22 old self after winning a leg of the race

And so it works with your life as well. In the end you will figure things out what your core qualities are and how to live your life with satisfaction, peace and acknowledgement for your work. You might have made a lot of mistakes and wasted a lot of time getting angry and frustrated with it, but eventually you will learn how to navigate life.

But if I would say that there is a way to get an “operating manual of your ship” based on the time, place & date of your birth? And that reading and understanding that manual would give you insights in how to steer your ship on the sea of life with much more ease and flow?

Wouldn’t you want to get your hands on that manual? Well, the good news is…You can get it for free via this form.

Your Human Design chart might be abracadabra for you the first time you see it.

I mean it is a manual of life, but it kind of looks like a treasure map. No worries, I can provide knowledge and context to what you see. You can learn all about the Human Design system yourself. You can read books, blogs and follow courses. You can listen to podcasts and watch Youtube videos about it. You can even follow years of education in it, like I am currently doing.

Are you drifting without course or do you follow your strategy and authority

But if you want a shorter route and don’t want to spend the time learning about all the elements of you chart and only focus on what is important and relevant for your partical “Ship”. Well, that is why you can know order your personal ebook that I will tailor make for you based on your Human Design chart. I created this product for my coaching clients because I know that oral information doesn’t stick as good as a written digital reference that you can read in pieces whenever you want.

Happy sailing folks!