Discovering Human Design: My Journey to Alignment & Purpose
I owe the powerful knowing of my life purpose to modalities such as astrology, human design, and numerology. Each of them pointed to the same truth — I am here to be a thought-leader and to assist in the rising consciousness of the world. Everywhere I looked, they reflected the same message. At one point, it almost felt like a cosmic joke: every new blueprint I explored would confirm again — you are here to lead. There was no escaping it, no denying my soul’s calling.
I first discovered Human Design in 2018, through a To Be Magnetic podcast episode featuring Jenna Zoe. Naturally curious and utterly obsessed with understanding my soul at the deepest level possible, I calculated my chart (and thought why are there so many different websites for calculators, and what the heck do all these symbols and numbers even mean?!) and found out I was a Projector, one of the less common types.
At the time, Human Design was still quite an emerging system, as it was only first created in the 1980s (you can read more about this in my blog post “What is Human Design?”) and whilst it is now rapidly gaining popularity for its immense accuracy and depth, resources were limited when I began my journey.
In Human Design, I am a 2/4 Emotional Projector. When you first stumble upon this system, your first key takeaway is your energy type (Generator, Manifesting Generator, Manifestor, Projector, or Reflector), and that alone can send you down an exciting rabbit hole. Whilst I am a 2/4 profile, I personally resonate deeply with the 1-line archetype (the Investigator/Researcher), because the first number after the decimal point in many of my gates is a 1, instead of only looking at my conscious and unconscious line placements that make up your profile. This is why I’m naturally wired to deeply research, study, and understand. And that’s exactly what I did — I wanted to know everything about being a Projector. For five years, I immersed myself: podcasts, Instagram accounts, email newsletters, masterclasses — anything I could get my hands on.
The more I learned, the more everything clicked. Being a Projector resonated to my core. If I could choose an animal to embody my nature, it would be a housecat (and coincidentally desired to be one when I was a little girl) — napping most of the day, being independent and free to spend my time how I wanted (most certainly not going to school), soaking in the warm sun, just being. I still enjoy living like a housecat when little pockets of free time allow it, and Sam (baby daddy for those new here) teases me about it often “you’re such a housecat” whilst rolling his eyes at me (meanwhile, his energiser bunny mind and energy being a Manifesting-Generator just does not make sense to me 😂 Why oh why did the Universe make me a single mother to one?! How cruel when I just want to curl up and read my book) 😸
Human Design is an experiment, as stated by the founder Ra Uru Hu. It’s not to be followed religiously, but rather to simply try it out for yourself to see how it fits, how it feels, to witness the shifts it creates. Experiment and play with it. Because it does create immense shifts — between 1:1 readings, working at the MindBodySpirit Festival, working at retreats and creating tonnes of personalised guidebooks, I’ve now interpreted 100+ charts for clients, and every single time, I hear the same response: “How can you know meso deeply and intricately, just from my time of birth?!”
I’m two years into my own Human Design experiment now. I dabbled in it earlier, but I didn’t intentionally start living my energetic blueprint and potential until becoming a certified reader and finally understanding what human design is about. I make every decision based on my design, and as a result my life flows.
Living As A 2/4 Emotional Projector
As a Projector, I honour my limited energy capacity (which isn’t a handicap at all like it can be depicted by other readers or gurus) — I know that my work is deeply valuable and that one of my greatest strengths is implementing systems for efficiency. “Work smarter not harder” is essentially a Projector’s (ideal!) life motto, that I personally swear by. Structure in my own business is paramount so that I’m not always switched on (like a Generator can be), so that I have ‘done the work once’ and can have systems and backends selling and engaging for me. If you’re a Projector or Manifestor and get stuck here thinking it’s inauthentic, my girl you will taste success. Your magic is in creating, in guiding, not doing the heavy lifting, soul crunching, repetitive grunt work. Integrate the masculine support within your business (or someone else’s, I did this for a cruise company I worked for as well as Sam’s business’) so you can enjoy the flow of what does light you up.
For the “wait for the invitation” piece (the Projector’s strategy), I never convince or persuade people to work with me or come into my world. I let my content and messaging speak for me, to attract the right clients, I intentionally put my authentic voice in there to let everyone know who I do and do not want in my world. I’ll happily piss people off (something that was tricky to do for most of my life, with an undefined throat and identity centre) because it clears out those who aren’t aligned for my work. I openly and easily share my gifts with the world, and let those who recognise my magic, magnetise toward me.
Having emotional authority, it’s natural for me to sleep on decisions now. Spontaneity never leads to aligned or desired results 😂 I’m actually quite literally rewarded for honouring my authority, riding the emotional wave of highs and lows, and making a decision from a neutral place. Sam has emotional authority too (and our daughter, yay for a home of very intense feelings! All water moons as well 😂) and he’ll call me out and let me know when I’m becoming heightened (or even too excited) and need wait to let it level out. Even if I get excited and want to buy something, I write it down in a list of ‘things I want to buy’. That takes the edge off, and lets me process if it really is something I desire or need. I also deeply honour that I do have very immense feelings, particularly being a female, and I see the beauty in it and remind others of it too. Being quite regulated these days, there’s no big swing of dysregulation, anger, resentment, PMS, it’s more that I’ll feel really emotional whilst having a tender moment, become teary by something that triggers me (in a helpful, growing way) and not apologise for feeling deeply, I’ll say “ooh, I’m not sure why that upset me so much” and giggle that it’s so intense because I’m just witnessing how big my emotions truly are.
And as a 2/4 profile, it’s been extremely eye opening to recognise that these things that just come so naturally to me, that are an inherent skill or part of what I know or what I do, isn’t actually something that most people are talented at. That it’s my unique skill (quite literally why I created The Empowered Entrepreneur — I realised that I’m so gifted and passionate about creating and designing websites, teaching social content strategy, email marketing, setting up systems for success — it all comes so naturally to me and it would have been selfish of me to keep that skill to myself when so many people are stuck on how to actually bring a business to life) and not everybody finds ease in the things that I do. I also know that I have to leave my god damn house every so often (the hermit does not want to leave their cave) because as a 4, my opportunities all come from in person connections. I’m also brilliant at networking and bringing people together — I’m always the person who’s in a course or program, wondering how we can connect and cultivate a community. My NLP course for example, I was chatting to everyone in the group chat during our training calls, and people were naturally magnetised toward me, curious about what I do and how they can work with me, recognising how passionate and talented I was when it came to human behaviour and psychology. Naturally, I was the one out of 50 of us to create a Facebook group for us all to connect, have an intro post, make a group chat, and scheduled group calls for us to practice live all together and discuss our progress. That is a 4 profile in their element 😌
I know my strengths, my challenges, my unique genius, and my deeper life purpose. Human Design gives you a shortcut to living in flow — how to work most efficiently with your energy, cultivate deeper relationships, attract success, parent with intention, raise children as their most authentic selves, understand your shadows, and lean into and harness your superpowers (for me at it’s simplest level, it’s logic + emotional intelligence, which also attests to being the bridge between science and the stars — something both my clients and my friends will attest to). Human Design literally provides a shortcut and cheat code to alignment, wholeness, and life fulfilment.
I created the Personalised Human Design Guidebook because I was once that woman who desperately wanted to understand herself on a cellular and energetic level, but didn’t know where to begin. I ended up investing thousands of dollars to become a certified Human Design reader — a worthy investment for me as look at what I turned it into, but not necessarily something everyone needs to do in order to experience the life-changing power of this system.
Most Human Design readers offer 1:1 Zoom readings — and while that can be valuable, I personally found that one hour wasn’t nearly enough to cover what I wanted my clients to truly understand and integrate — I had so much more depth and value I wanted to provide, because I truly want to empower everyone I can with knowing their life path, genius, greatest strengths and to understand themselves at a deeper level. That’s why I created a beautifully designed, highly personalised guidebook — something you can refer back to for life. It’s not just information — it’s an anchor and an activation for your soul.
You don’t have to spend years figuring it all out like I did. You don’t have to go in circles trying to piece together your purpose. Within 7-10 days (to allow for my personalised research and creation), you can hold in your hands a guidebook that gives you the clarity, permission, and empowerment you’ve been seeking. This is the exact guidebook I wish I had when I first discovered Human Design — it would have saved me years of trial and error 🤍
If this speaks to your soul, I would be honoured to create one for you:
→ Personalised Human Design Guidebook
→ Parenting By Design Guidebook (baby/child version)
