Appreciating my Human Design Mandala

My Human Design Mandala:  Quad Right 4/6 Manifesting Generator w/ Emotional Authority

I'm 6 months into my Human Design experiment. [NOTE:  Correction:  Just over 7 months!  Time flies] I'm drawn to exploring various models that map uniqueness in human experience.  Human Design is one of the more intriguing and compelling models I've encountered in my journey into deep understanding of authenticity.  It resonates with me.  I feel a hum in the depths of my being when I engage with Human Design... and that's actually an integral part of my experiment... following what Human Design founder Ra Uru Hu calls Strategy and Inner Authority.

I'm not feeling a need to explain these concepts here at the moment.  I'm just reflecting on the way that the Human Design charts are often displayed as mandalas ringed with the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching.  This seems so harmonious with the 30 Day Mandala Challenge I've embarked on at this time.

I am simply feeling the rightness of this mandala exploration in the depths of my being.  As a Manifesting Generator with an Emotional Inner Authority my Human Design strategy is to Wait to Respond.  I experience that as being alert to what is arising in my field of awareness and being alert to the responses I feel in the depths of my sacral center.  When I get a visceral confirmation, which for me shows up as a humming or a solidifying of the core of my sacral center, then I know I'm onto something that may indeed have merit for me.  Because I have an emotional inner authority, my next step is to wait further... to allow myself to move through the emotional turbulence to assess what is in fact deeply appropriate for me to attend to, to act on, to live fully.

When my friend Jyoti mentioned on Facebook in May that she thought I might find Human Design interesting and valuable, I had an immediate sense of YES YES YES deep in my belly.  That yes continued to deepen over time, so I knew that it was right for me.  I have been following this practice of checking in with my gut and riding the variations over time for many years.  My introduction to Human Design served to reinforce what I've already been engaging... but with even more vigor and commitment.

I'm appreciating the unfolding process of deepening into authenticity... in all the ways I engage that process.  Today I am deeply appreciating the Human Design clarity... the simplicity of the process and the rich complexities.  I'm grateful to everyone who has stepped up to share their knowledge, wisdom, insights, enthusiasm, and practices regarding Human Design.  I look forward to deepening my exploration going forward.  I'll share more as I move into new areas of exploration.

Intitita and I co-create a mandala

Intitita Father Sun Mandala:  Day 8

I'm relishing the freedom to understand and create from a place that is not the province of the mind.  I'm experiencing mandala as a process of recognizing what is already being co-created before the mind steps in and attempts to apply structure and definition.  This image of the sun, taken while I was on a journey opening to Unknown Blessings through the western part of North America in September of this year, informed me of how the sun, the atmosphere, my camera, and I all came together to create a mandala of considerable power without any additional manipulation being necessary other than a counterclockwise rotation of the image, which seemed to make the vibrancy of the sun's rays more vivid, and a frame to hold the images with colors drawn from the sun's illumination.

I'm deeply appreciative of this mandala creating experience.  I'm finding myself mobilized to engage the photography in new ways and to invite myself into a more immediate relationship with the images.  I'm inviting my body to explore the terrain of the image files in a vibrant burst of oh.. yeah.

During the entire Unknown Blessings tour in September, I was vividly aware that Intitita, Father Sun, was present with me, sharing warmth and light, illuminating my journey.  As we move toward this powerful Winter Solstice with a full Lunar Eclipse, it's great to be able to meditate on this image of the sun from around the time of the Autumnal Equinox.  All part of my stepping into closer connection with the Pampamesayok, the Daykeeper Lineage... and fully embracing the nature of my total oneness with All That Is.

I am grateful for the reminder to be completely self referencing as I approach each day in harmony with the deepest part of my being... the place where I know myself to be part of everything....

Mandala Creation

Fire Ring Mandala:  Day 7 of 30 Day Mandala Challenge

A Facebook Friend (FBF) alerted me to a 30 Day Mandala Making Challenge on FB.  It sparked something in me.  I dove in.  I'm noticing that the group on FB isn't at all active, but the existence of the challenge and the fact that someone notified me about it and my deepest self went "YEAH!" is good enough for me.  Today is Day 7.  I'm finding myself creating images that are arising from some of the photography I've been doing this past year.  And I'm playing around with photoshop... expanding my familiarity with the program's capabilities.