Human design through my senses

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If you read The Tale of Genji by the Japanese lady Murasaki Shikibu, you’ll find among its characters perfumer-alchemists, who concoct scents based on an individual’s aura and destiny.

When I sense a Human Design bodygraph in my 1:1 sessions, I feel like one of those perfumer-alchemists — distilling the energetic essence of others, the fragrance of their mechanics, and the subtle scent of their aura.

Human Design is the system of differentiation that has transformed my life in ways I didn’t even know I needed, until the system found me.

It is a synthesis of ancient and modern sciences that guides you to live authentically. It shows you your uniqueness, your gifts, skills, and potential. It reveals how you are designed to engage with the world, where you are most open to external influence, and the inner authority you carry to make aligned decisions.

More than anything, Human Design is here to remind you of your potential to co-create your life.

I was initiated into this system in 2017, and since then, I have never looked back.

As a Projector (one of the energy types within Human Design), studying the system in depth has been part of my process, but the real transformation came when I softened enough to let its transmissions sink into my body and allowed myself the chance to truly live my design.

When my whole being began to contemplate the codes within me — as a meditative practice and embodied experiment rather than just a mental exercise — everything started to shift. I continue this dance every day, because Human Design is not a final destination; it is a living experiment, one we choose to engage with moment by moment.

I believe all the tools and systems that find us are not meant to give us an endpoint, but to guide us deeper into resting within ourselves, moving, and creating from that place of alignment and fluidity.

One of my dreams in this lifetime is to become a perfumer-alchemist (a role I feel I have lived in another time). I often imagine the Human Design bodygraph as part of my own alchemist dictionary, translated into fragrance:

The Energetic Essence: the Human Design bodygraph as a whole. It reveals our unique differentiated essence, weaving together the self and the not-self, our lessons, opportunities, and pathways of growth. It tells the story of who we are becoming as we live our design. When I had my first Human Design session, I felt deeply seen. As I continue to live and play with my energetics and mechanics, I connect more deeply with my sensitivity, my openness, my mystical nature, and my magical essence. This, for me, is my energetic essence.

The Fragrance of Your Mechanics: your Type and its Signature. There are four main energy types in Human Design (Projectors, Manifestors, Reflectors, Generators / Manifesting Generators), and each has its own Signature — success, peace, surprise, or satisfaction — that blossoms when we live in alignment. When we forget this fragrance, resistance appears in the form of bitterness, anger, disappointment, or frustration. Remembering your fragrance is remembering yourself.

The Energetic Scent: your Aura. Our aura speaks before we say a word. I like to imagine this subtle communication as a unique scent emanating from us, perceived by others in silence. Each type has its own aura mechanics, and sometimes, when meeting someone, I play with the idea of “listening” to their aura and imagining it as a fragrance. We are always transmitting, even in silence, simply through the presence of our energy.

Now that you’ve received a glimpse of what Human Design is, if you feel a spark of excitement, a sense of recognition, or the pull of curiosity, perhaps it is your invitation to begin your own journey. You can dive deeper into this experiment within my 1:1 sessions.