Decisions by Design | Edition 12

Demystifying Human Design.

When it comes to making decisions that matter, most of us are taught to “think it through.” But what if clarity doesn’t live in the mind alone? What if there’s a way to navigate life using the intelligence of your entire energetic system?

That’s the invitation of Human Design, a synthesis of modern science and ancient modalities that reveals how your unique energy is designed to move through the world. Think of it as a personal decision-making blueprint, a practical experiment that helps you notice when resistance appears so you can shift from pushing against life to flowing with it.

Entering the Experiment

Human Design isn’t something to believe in. It’s something to live into.
It isn’t a label. It’s a frequency.

The experiment begins when you start engaging your energy through your Strategy (the way you meet the world) and Authority (your inner compass for decision-making). These two elements alone can radically transform how you say "yes" to the right yeses and "no" to the right nos.

Your Unique Energetic Blueprint

Every person is born with one of five Strategies, simple mechanical ways of interacting with life that guide how we engage our energy:

• Manifestors: Inform before you act.

• Generators: Wait to respond.

• Manifesting Generators: Wait to respond, then inform and act.

• Projectors: Wait for recognition and invitation.

• Reflectors: Wait a full lunar cycle before making major decisions.

Each strategy pairs with a specific form of Authority, the inner signal that guides aligned decisions. Whether emotional, sacral, splenic, ego, self-projected, mental, or lunar, your authority is designed to bypass mental over-analysis and reconnect you to a deeper intelligence.

Your Internal Dashboard

When you go against your design, your system lets you know.

Each strategy has a “dashboard light indicator,” a resistance state that acts like an early warning signal:

• Manifestors feel anger instead of peace

• Generators feel frustration instead of satisfaction

• Manifesting Generators feel frustration and anger instead of satisfaction and peace

• Projectors feel bitterness instead of success

• Reflectors feel disappointment instead of surprise

These sensations are not failures. They are signals, invitations to pause, reflect, and realign. Over time, you begin to recognize your own energetic patterns: where you override your truth, push instead of respond, or say yes when your body already said no.

And in that recognition lies choice.

Awakening to Patterns

As you begin to live your design, something subtle but profound happens:
You stop trying to fix everything with your mind.
You start listening to your body’s intelligence.
You begin to trust your own timing.

For Contemplation: 

• Is there an aspect of my life where I am feeling bitter, resentful, frustrated, angry, or disappointed? 

• Have I said "yes" to something outwardly that is a "no" within me? 

• What can shift if I choose to honor my inner signals and trust my design?

This is the essence of the experiment. You redirect the energy once spent in resistance into making decisions with clarity, fully aligned with who you are rather than how you’ve been conditioned to think or act. This is what Decisions by Design is all about: trusting your inner intelligence to lead the way.

Until Next Time,

With Clarity and Care,

Courtney