Human Design Types
What are the 5 different human design types?
The Human Design System is a profound and integrative tool that blends ancient wisdom with modern science. Drawing from astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah, the Hindu-Brahmin chakra system, and quantum physics, it reveals a detailed energetic blueprint unique to each individual.
At the heart of this system are the 5 Human Design types: Manifestors, Generators, Projectors, Reflectors, and Manifesting Generators. Each type operates with a distinct aura and strategy, influencing how we engage with the world, make decisions, and experience life.
The gate to alignment
Understanding your Human Design type is the first step toward living in alignment with your authentic self. Each type offers a unique lens through which to view your strengths, challenges, and potential. By learning about these types, we begin to appreciate the incredible diversity in how people are designed to move through life.
This insight not only deepens our self-awareness but also fosters greater compassion and understanding in our relationships with others.
While the Human Design system gives us a unique blueprint of who we are, and different types can have different profiles, digestion, channels, environments & authorities- each of the 5 types has 4 factors in common with anyone else from that type:
Our aura - how others feel our energy
Strategy - how to go about life
Not Self Theme - the emotional beacon to spot un-alignment in life
And a Signature - a positive emotion telling us when we are aligned.
Human Design Generators
What is a generator in Human Design?
As the energetic backbone of humanity (~37%), Generators have an open, enveloping aura that draws life to them. Their gift is in building and sustaining energy—when they’re doing what they love. Their strategy is to respond, allowing life to come to them rather than forcing outcomes. Frustration signals misalignment, while satisfaction shows they’re on the right track. Generators thrive when following their gut and using their energy with purpose. Discover how to align with your sacral power.
Human Design Manifesting Generators
What is a manifesting generator in Human Design?
Fast, efficient, and multi-passionate, MGs blend Manifestor initiation with Generator response. Roughly 33% of people are MGs, with an enveloping yet surprising aura—they often pivot in unexpected ways. Their strategy is to respond, and then inform before taking bold leaps. Like Generators, their not-self theme is frustration, and their signature is satisfaction, but they may also experience anger when their energy is blocked. MGs aren't here to follow linear paths—they're here to explore, skip steps, and innovate. Learn to move in a way that’s true to you.
Human Design Projectors
What is a Projector in Human Design?
Making up about 20% of the population, Projectors are here to guide energy, not generate it. Their focused and absorbing aura lets them deeply see others, but their true power emerges when they are recognized and invited. Their strategy is to wait for the invitation, and their key to alignment is success, while bitterness signals misalignment. Projectors often thrive when they master a system and share their insight with the right audience. Step into your role as a seer and guide.
Human Design Manifestors
What is a Manifestor in Human Design?
Bold, independent, and here to initiate, Manifestors make up about 9% of the population. Their closed, repelling aura protects their energy and clears the path for action. Manifestors aren’t meant to wait—they’re designed to start movements, spark change, and follow their inner urges. Their strategy is to inform before they act—not for permission, but to create harmony. When out of alignment, they feel anger, but when aligned, they radiate peace. Learn how Manifestors lead, create, and carve out their unique role in the world.
Human Design reflectors
What is a Reflector in Human Design?
The rarest type, just 1% of the population, Reflectors have no defined centers and a resistant, sampling aura. They reflect the health and energy of their environment and community. Their strategy is to wait a full lunar cycle before making big decisions, giving time for clarity to emerge. Reflectors feel disappointment when life is out of sync, and surprise when it aligns beautifully. They are here to offer perspective, and their presence can be a powerful mirror for truth. Learn how to live in tune with the cycles of life.
Express Your Design:
How to show love to yourself?
The Human Design Experiment was made to help us live in true alignment with who we are. A big part of that is learning how to love ourselves... Or more- how to SHOW love to ourselves.
Around Valentine's Day I wrote an article for my Manifestor Blog on how to show love to yourself based on your Human Design Type, which I think you might find useful!
Have you seen the TV show LOST?
One of the best ways to understand Human Design types is by looking at real people. Or in this case- Fictional people!
I have written an analysis of the Human Design types of the TV show LOST, and I know it helped many friends of mine see their type "in action"- realizing their key strengths and contributions to the world we live in.
(Basically discover how we are ALL needed!)