For your first chart
After creating a chart from your birth details, start with type, strategy and authority. Read profile and centers next. You do not need to memorize all 64 gates first; choose one theme you can compare with a real event.
If you have a specific question
If two sites give different results, revisit calculation and birth-time guides. Open your own combination to understand the profile's two numbers. For a relationship or work question, choose a practical guide that starts with actual circumstances. The topics below help you navigate between them.
Getting started and your chart
What is Human Design?
Learn about Human Design, the BodyGraph and its relationship to astrology. Understand what a chart shows and the limits of its interpretations.
Read your chart, step by step.
What do BodyGraph colors, type, authority, profile, gate and channel numbers mean? Follow a practical order for reading your first Human Design chart.
Your type follows the centers and their connections.
How are Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, Manifestor and Reflector determined? Compare the types and strategies and explore your own chart.
Read your nine centers through their connections.
Explore the nine centers and the difference between defined, undefined and completely open. Understand what BodyGraph colors do and do not describe.
A gate is not your whole identity.
Explore symbolic themes for all 64 Human Design gates and their relationship to six lines. Learn the difference between an active gate and a defined channel.
Two gates form a connection.
Explore the gate pairs and symbolic themes of all 36 Human Design channels. Learn how complete channels relate to center definition and connected groups.
Understanding connected groups.
How are Single, Split, Triple Split and Quadruple Split definitions calculated? Explore connected groups of defined centers and the limits of interpretation.
Understand how the calculation is made.
Understand Starmora's astronomical calculations, historical time zones, 88° Design moment and verification, including birth-time and line-boundary precision.
The 12 profile guides
1/3 profile: investigation and experimentation
Explore lines 1 and 3 in the 1/3 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
1/4 profile: foundations and trusted relationships
Explore lines 1 and 4 in the 1/4 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
2/4 profile: personal space and close connections
Explore lines 2 and 4 in the 2/4 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
2/5 profile: natural ability and expectations
Explore lines 2 and 5 in the 2/5 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
3/5 profile: from experience to practical solutions
Explore lines 3 and 5 in the 3/5 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
3/6 profile: experimentation and longer observation
Explore lines 3 and 6 in the 3/6 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
4/6 profile: trusted connections and example
Explore lines 4 and 6 in the 4/6 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
4/1 profile: connections and a foundation
Explore lines 4 and 1 in the 4/1 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
5/1 profile: solutions and investigation
Explore lines 5 and 1 in the 5/1 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
5/2 profile: expectations and personal space
Explore lines 5 and 2 in the 5/2 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
6/2 profile: observation and natural ability
Explore lines 6 and 2 in the 6/2 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
6/3 profile: perspective and ongoing experiments
Explore lines 6 and 3 in the 6/3 Human Design profile, how to read them together and an everyday reflection exercise.
Authority guides
Understanding strategy and authority together.
Explore Emotional, Sacral, Splenic, Ego, Self-projected, Environmental and Lunar approaches and how to read them alongside strategy.
Emotional authority
What does emotional authority describe in a Human Design chart? Learn the distinction, an everyday example and common misunderstandings.
Sacral authority
What does sacral authority describe in a Human Design chart? Learn the distinction, an everyday example and common misunderstandings.
Splenic authority
What does splenic authority describe in a Human Design chart? Learn the distinction, an everyday example and common misunderstandings.
Ego Manifested authority
What does ego manifested authority describe in a Human Design chart? Learn the distinction, an everyday example and common misunderstandings.
Ego Projected authority
What does ego projected authority describe in a Human Design chart? Learn the distinction, an everyday example and common misunderstandings.
Self-projected authority
What does self-projected authority describe in a Human Design chart? Learn the distinction, an everyday example and common misunderstandings.
Environmental authority and Mental Projectors
What does environmental authority and mental projectors describe in a Human Design chart? Learn the distinction, an everyday example and common misunderstandings.
Lunar authority and Reflectors
What does lunar authority and reflectors describe in a Human Design chart? Learn the distinction, an everyday example and common misunderstandings.
Everyday questions and reflection
Human Design When Your Birth Time Is Unknown
Is your birth time unknown or approximate? Learn what can change in a Human Design chart, how to compare a time range and how to record uncertainty.
Why Do Human Design Charts Differ?
Seeing different Human Design results on two sites? Check dates, time zones, the Design moment and gate or line boundaries step by step.
Human Design vs Astrology
Are Human Design and a natal chart the same? Compare planets, BodyGraph, the ascendant, centers and the reading order in each system.
Human Design Relationships and Compatibility
How can Human Design be explored in relationships? Compare type, authority, communication and boundaries, and understand the limits of compatibility scores.
Human Design Work and Career Guide
How can you explore Human Design at work? Examples for tasks, team communication, working rhythms and boundaries, plus the limits of choosing a career by type.
A Seven-Day Human Design Reflection Journal
A seven-day plan for exploring your chart in everyday life. Compare type, authority, profile and centers with real events, including examples that do not fit.
Sources and approach
Original Starmora text. Consult these sources for traditional system concepts.