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HDHD2026: The Spiral of Everything

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Wrapping Up "Why Human Design" series

I write this blog post after having experienced my first Human Design “event”: I went to the High Desert Human Design Conference in Santa Fe this past weekend, where I had the opportunity to meet close to one hundred other people who are deeply moved by the role Human Design plays in their lives.

What was most striking, however, wasn’t the BodyGraph — although that is a beautiful sight! No, the best part of the conference was seeing all of the creative ways in which each presenter expressed something of themselves through their particular configuration and interpretation of Human Design. I was able to connect and converse with so many new people who could talk endlessly of how Human Design impacted their approach to experiencing the world, how they related to other humans in that world, and how they expressed themselves through their work, devoted to Human Design principles and lessons.

The breakout sessions and long-form workshops were as nuanced and varied as the chart itself. There were presentations on various centers and how they related to topics such as leadership, parenting, and other relationship dynamics. There were experiential opportunities to interpret archetypes in new and interesting ways, based on various gates.

I learned how to use breathwork to get into a meditative state and release pent-up emotions; I was able to imagine them moving through several channels and centers of the BodyGraph and leaking out of the top of my head like black ichor. I learned how to blend my own essential oils for my awareness centers, after first learning how to tap into those awarenesses using somatic movements from various yoga poses. I learned how to distinguish between various astrological methods, such as Western, Vedic, and Sidereal Astrology. I learned how to write, wildly, and to recall so many memories and past stories that help me better develop my authenticity, live my design, and release that which no longer serves me. I participated in a cacao ceremony, honoring the land and the ancestral people with whom we communed, with their permission, to bless the work we were doing. All the while, I was also mingling with others and playing rock star bingo (Human Design–styled, of course) — and there were so many other experiences I could not attend, because it would just be impossible to split myself into pieces and go in multiple directions at once, despite the temptation to do so!

It was a joy and a pleasure to have witnessed the Spiral of Everything, the main theme of the conference. We all came together in an experiment of the Self, growing from tiny seeds up through the earth, stretching and reaching and eventually flowering into better versions of ourselves by the end, now equipped with our own seeds of knowledge to take back home. We communed with one another, giving space and support throughout the experiment, with no preamble and no expectation of further engagement — the kind of drifting in and out of conversation that usually reads as socially awkward, yet here felt completely natural and normal. Which was great for those of us who needed to walk away from the energetic collective, as there was also a need to reflect, meditate, journal, and integrate.

The Spiral of Everything was an embodiment of the six profile lines, from the perspective of both a personal growth pathway and the role that each profile line plays socially. Similarly, the changing cycles of time were a useful comparison, as the prevailing theory is that it takes seven years to fully pass through the initiation into the Human Design experiment. Why seven years, you ask? As the popular saying goes, it takes that long for all of the cells across your entire body to change out; you are a fully different human every seven years. So it is simple to surmise that once you have revolved through all six cycles of change, plus one extra cycle for full transformation, you have fully embraced and embodied the nature of your personal design.

But the number seven is often associated with Divine Order. Across every major religion in the world, from Judaism to Hinduism to Islam and every religion in between, the number seven speaks to enlightenment, divine completeness, and spiritual perfection. In the Torah, Genesis reads that God rested on the seventh day, having completed the work and allowing rest to naturally follow. In the Kabbalah, the seven lower sefirot are traditionally mapped to those same seven days of Creation. In the Quran, there are seven tiers of spiritual realms, or Heavens, as well as seven earths, both symbolizing Divine Order, Creationism, and the concept of Completeness at a Universal level. In Hinduism, there are the seven Chakra Centers; in Buddhism, the myth that the Buddha took seven steps after being born, a correlation to the seven factors of enlightenment. The Rig Veda speaks of seven sacred rivers, while other texts depict seven worlds and seven sages who guide sacred wisdom for all of humanity. Even in the I Ching, the transition of each line back to its starting place takes seven steps — six steps for each line plus the return. Hexagram 24, “Return,” which Human Design knows as Gate 24, names it directly: return comes on the seventh day. Therefore, seven is also symbolically cyclical in a completion-to-initiation pattern across Asia as well.

In full transparency, however, this concept of seven goes back even further — the ancient Babylonians started the trend when they observed the “Seven Wanderers,” the seven most prominent planetary objects visible in the night sky (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). This same numerological pattern was used in religious ceremonies across Mesopotamia to symbolize the Divine Order of a completion cycle. While their calendar was primarily lunar in nature, it was Greek astrologers of the Seleucid era who later built on that Babylonian sky-watching, assigning each planetary body to rule the first hour of each new day; thusly, the names of the week were crafted, only shortly before the Julian calendar we still use today (and “Sun-Day,” “Moon-Day,” and “Saturn-Day” are still the vernacular basis for Sunday, Monday, and Saturday, respectively).

And here is where we can begin to explore the cyclical nature of humanity as a whole, while also embracing all that I have outlined in the previous posts on “Why Human Design?”

Because every body of knowledge points to the same findings. We have traversed the history of consciousness beliefs, studied the interpretations and applications of breathing energy and somatic relevance to how vibrations, waves, and resonance happen within not just humans but in all creatures great and small. We have named these walks of life through Archetypal embodiment (more on that in “POST 4: You are SO Archetypal”), which enables us to effectively story-tell and learn from our own myths and legends in relatable, meaningful ways. And we have detailed the history of Quantum Physics and how it, too, plays a role in our creation, our explanation, and our infinite potential.

Human Design weaves through all of these belief systems, scientific paradigms, and the experience of what a human is: we are BEING. We are continuously in the act of existing, of experimenting, of creating.

We can be conditioned by what our parents wanted for us, carrying centuries of ancestral traumas, or we can change the future. We are all creative, whether we wish to admit it or not. We create constantly, every day!

That just leaves me with one question for you all: WHAT DO WE WANT TO CREATE?