Knowledge base

This is what Bella reads from

When you ask Bella about a gate, a channel or your incarnation cross, she answers from these 880 entries. Not from a general model's memory of Human Design, and not from anyone else's copyrighted material. We wrote them, the structural facts are checked against our own chart engine, and every one is open to correction.

Every entry here is currently an unverified draft. The facts underneath are machine-checked, but the wording has not yet been reviewed by a Human Design professional. We would rather tell you that than let you assume otherwise. Entries verified by a named practitioner will say so.

Lines

384

All 384 gate lines, the specific meaning of each.

Incarnation crosses

192

All 192, built from their four gates.

Gates

64

All 64 gates, where each sits and what it carries.

Channels

36

All 36 channels and the centres they join.

Determination

18

How your body is nourished. PHS.

Environment

18

Where your body belongs. PHS.

Planets

14

What each body carries in a chart.

Profiles

12

The twelve profiles.

Centres

9

The nine centres.

Defined centres

9

What a centre does when it is defined.

Open centres

9

What an open centre takes in and amplifies.

Undefined centres

9

Centres holding gates that do not complete a channel.

Variable arrows

8

The four arrows, left and right.

Authorities

7

How each authority actually makes a decision.

Circuitry

7

The circuits and what each is for.

Colour

6

The Variable layer beneath the line, read differently under each arrow.

Design Sense

6

Cognition: your strongest sense.

Motivation

6

The six motivations. Rave Psychology.

Perspective

6

The six views. Rave Psychology.

Relationships

6

What happens between two charts.

Sense

6

The six ways awareness takes life in.

Definition

5

Single, split and the rest.

Not-self themes

5

The signal that you are off track.

Transits

5

How the moving sky meets your own chart.

Types

5

The five types and how each is designed to operate.

Circuit families

4

Collective, Individual and Tribal, and what each is for.

Fixing State

4

Exalted, detriment, juxtaposed, or not fixed at all.

Signatures

4

What it feels like when a Type is running correctly.

Strategies

4

The decision-making rule attached to each Type.

Cross angles

3

Right Angle, Left Angle and Juxtaposition.

Colour, Tone and Base

3

The substructure beneath a line.

Chart notations

2

Zodiac signs and retrograde: what they are doing on a Human Design chart.

The Moon

2

The lunar cycle a Reflector waits out, read by gate.

Centre states

1

Defined, undefined and open, and why the difference matters.

The Mandala

1

How the 64 gates sit on the zodiac wheel, and why the sign is only a coordinate.