Lunar & Planetary Color

Lunar & Planetary
Color Analysis
Ra Uru Hu
International Human Design School

LUNAR & PLANETARY COLOR: YEAR 1, SEMESTER 1
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lesson One........................................................................................1
An Introduction to Advanced Imaging..................................................1
Maia Mechanics Advanced Imaging...................................................2
The Graphic Is Divided into Three Segments ......................................4
A Magic Box..................................................................................4
Transference and Resonance Zones ..................................................5
Determination and Motivation..........................................................6
The Moon and Planets: A Selective Resonance....................................6
The Planets Are Designed to Resonate to the Correct Frequency............8
Another Level of Influence We Have Over Others ................................9
A New Value to the Interpretation of Any Line .................................. 11
The Design and Personality Color Value........................................... 12
Look At Yourself and What You Bring Out in Others ........................... 15
Lesson Two...................................................................................... 19
Design Lunar and Planetary Color 1................................................... 19
The Moon and Its Relationship to the Earth...................................... 19
The Moon and the Nodes .............................................................. 21
The Internal and the External ........................................................ 22
The Nodes Align Us to a Certain Geometry Trajectory in Life............... 23
Seeing the Planetary Activations in Perspective ................................ 23
Profile Incarnation Cross Character................................................. 24
The Planets Decorate Us ............................................................... 25
Design Internal and External ......................................................... 27
The Design Nodes: Approach to the Environment.............................. 28
Seeing the Nuances ..................................................................... 29
Goal of Bringing Unique Interpretation to Every Level of the Knowledge30
We are Designed to Align to Specific Forces in Specific Ways .............. 31
Three Grouping Themes ............................................................... 33
The Continuity of Life Flows Through the Nodes................................ 33
Lesson Three.................................................................................... 35
Design Lunar and Planetary Color 2................................................... 35
The Moon ................................................................................... 36
The Brain System, the Positioning and the Shape ............................. 36
The Shape Is Determined By the Moon ........................................... 37
Shape: Color Values and the Moon ................................................. 38
Base Orientation ......................................................................... 40

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The Design North Node Is Aligned to the Personality and the Design
South Node Is Directly Connected to the Brain System ...................... 41
Looking At the Moon in Its Relationship to the Form .......................... 42
The Example: Moon in the 3rd Gate................................................. 43
The Form Is Morphic .................................................................... 44
The Moon Is a Sculpting Agent ...................................................... 44
The Nodes Give Us Life................................................................. 45
The Shape Distorts ...................................................................... 46
The Relationship of the Planets to the Body ..................................... 47
The Science of Differentiation ........................................................ 48
Using This Information ................................................................. 49
Lesson Four ..................................................................................... 51

Personality Lunar Color ................................................................... 51
Design and Personality Are Deeply Different from Each Other ............. 51
The Values of the Planets as They Relate to a Nine-Centered Vehicle ... 52
The Personality Is Still Seven-Centered ........................................... 53
We Are a Temporary Mutated Interregnum ...................................... 55
Personality Color: Motivation ......................................................... 56
Color Operates through Transference.............................................. 56
Motivation .................................................................................. 57
The Range.................................................................................. 57
The Nodes .................................................................................. 58
The Nodes Bring Us to the Other .................................................... 58
The Moon ................................................................................... 59
Personality Moon Keynote: Drive.................................................... 61
Seeing Color in Terms of the Outer Environment .............................. 62
Connecting to the Other ............................................................... 63
How to Get to the Correct Other .................................................... 64
Lesson Five...................................................................................... 65
The Color of Personality Planets........................................................ 65
The Range.................................................................................. 65
The Lunar and Planetary Square .................................................... 66
The Vertical Range....................................................................... 68
The Alpha Vertical: The Foundation/Experiential Range...................... 68
Alpha Vertical Range: Moon, Venus and Saturn ................................ 69
The Basic Values ......................................................................... 72
Human Intelligence is Nurtured in Connectivity ................................ 73
Nothing to Do But Surrender ......................................................... 74
Lateral Ranges and Martial Diagonals.............................................. 75
The Basic Focus: Moon ................................................................. 77
First Relationship: Venus .............................................................. 77
Saturn: A Key for Survival ............................................................ 78

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Mapping the Alpha Vertical Range and the Colors.............................. 79
Mind is Incompetent; Yet, Spectacular Entertainment........................ 80
The Mental System Deeply Manipulated By the Presence of the Other .. 80
Lesson Six ....................................................................................... 81

Beta and Gamma Verticals............................................................... 81
The Foundation Is Nodal ............................................................... 82
Range........................................................................................ 83
Humans Do Not Learn In Isolation.................................................. 85
Vertical Range ............................................................................ 85
The Beta Vertical: Root of Outer Authority ....................................... 88
The Preparation of Conceptualization to Be Put Forward..................... 90
The Gamma Vertical: Learning....................................................... 91
It Doesn’t All Work at the Same Time ............................................. 92
Mastery Is Displayed on the Surface ............................................... 93
The Dilemma of the Personality Trying to Live In a Nine-Centered Vehicle
................................................................................................ 93
The World Is Rooted In Seven-Centered Structures........................... 94
Focus on the Beta Range .............................................................. 94
Lesson Seven ................................................................................... 97

Personality Laterals ........................................................................ 97
Passengers Are Designed to Learn.................................................. 99
The Martial Diagonals................................................................. 100
The Lateral Divisions .................................................................. 102
Taking in the Mental Field of the Other.......................................... 103
Experiencing the Way Your Mind Is Supposed to Be ........................ 104
The Powerful Influence From Others ............................................. 104
The Body Lateral ....................................................................... 105
The Spirit Lateral....................................................................... 106
The Limitation and Conditioning of Others ..................................... 107
Surrendering ............................................................................ 108
Lesson Eight .................................................................................. 111

Squares and Colors 1.................................................................... 111
The Alpha Vertical ..................................................................... 112
The Moon in the 38th Gate........................................................... 112
Venus in the 40th Gate................................................................ 113
Saturn in the 59th Gate............................................................... 113
The Moon in the 2nd Color ........................................................... 114
The Body Lateral ....................................................................... 115
The Moon’s Line: Blue Headings................................................... 115
Resonance: 2nd Color of Hope ...................................................... 116
Left Strategic Mind .................................................................... 117

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Two Kinds of Mind: When Alone or With Others .............................. 118

Venus in the 40.3 ...................................................................... 119
The 6th Color: Innocence............................................................. 120
Saturn in 59.6/3rd Color .............................................................. 121
The Alpha Vertical: The Bedrock Upon Which the Mind Is Going to
Operate ................................................................................... 122
Look at Your Own Alpha Vertical .................................................. 123
Unique Outer Authority............................................................... 124
The New Science of Mind: Rave Psychology ................................... 124
Lesson Nine ................................................................................... 127

Squares and Colors 2.................................................................... 127
The Chart of Jonas Salk .............................................................. 127
The Gamma Vertical is About the Way We Learn Things................... 128
Color Changes Every Four Hours .................................................. 128
Uranus in the 19th Gate .............................................................. 129
Pluto in the 15th Gate ................................................................. 130
Venus in the 9th Gate ................................................................. 130
The Nodes ................................................................................ 131
Outer Authority: The 43rd Gate .................................................... 131
Personality Color Transference..................................................... 132
The 43rd Gate............................................................................ 133
The 15th Gate............................................................................ 133
The Moon ................................................................................. 134
Hanging Gates .......................................................................... 134
The 55th Gate............................................................................ 135
Neptune in the 56th Gate............................................................. 136
The Power of the 3 .................................................................... 136
No Choice ................................................................................ 137
The Not-Self Mind...................................................................... 137
The Impact of the Program ......................................................... 137
Surrender ................................................................................ 138
Lunar and Planetary Color Resonance is Positive............................. 138
The Example of the 43rd Gate ...................................................... 139
We Are Not Alone ...................................................................... 140
Levels of Control ....................................................................... 140
The Depth in Helplessness .......................................................... 141
Examine Your Own Chart ............................................................ 141
Follow the Program.................................................................... 141
Experience the Movement of the Sun/Earth ................................... 142
Lesson Ten .................................................................................... 143

The Transiting Square................................................................... 143
Control ....................................................................................... 143

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Uniqueness............................................................................... 144
The Just Now Chart.................................................................... 145
Understanding the Forces at Work in the World .............................. 146
Undefined Solar Plexus and Root People ........................................ 147
One Can Never Escape the Conditioning of the Program................... 147
The Alpha Vertical: Foundation ....................................................... 148
The Focus: Moon ....................................................................... 148
The Standard: Venus ................................................................. 150
The Constraint: Saturn ............................................................... 150
The Gamma Vertical: Learning ....................................................... 151
The Sidetrack: Uranus................................................................ 151
The Misinformation: Neptune....................................................... 152
The Truth: Pluto ........................................................................ 153
The Beta: Outer Authority ............................................................. 153
The Communication: Mercury ...................................................... 154
The Mutation: Mars.................................................................... 154
The Rules: Jupiter ..................................................................... 155
Not Enough Attention Is Paid to Transits ....................................... 155
Grace Comes With Understanding the Program............................... 156
The Not-Self Mind Is Deeply Controlled ......................................... 157
Strategy and Authority ............................................................... 157
Lesson Eleven ................................................................................ 159

The Color Effect ........................................................................... 159
Consciousness .......................................................................... 159
The Exit Frequency .................................................................... 160
Color ....................................................................................... 161
The Magnetic Monopole .............................................................. 162
The Planetary Square Resonates to Consciousness.......................... 162
The Life Force is a Unique Intelligence .......................................... 163
Undefined Gates........................................................................ 164
We Exist Because Color Exists ..................................................... 165
We Are Filters in the Consciousness Ocean .................................... 166
Changing Your Frequency ........................................................... 166
Color Transmits Cognition ........................................................... 167
Hanging Gates Are Open to the Consciousness Field........................ 168
Questions, Answers, Comments ................................................... 169

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LESSON ONE
An Introduction to Advanced Imaging
Welcome to all of you, those of

you that are here live in the
class and to all of you that are
downloading this. For me this is
a complement to the work of
really what this third year is in
many ways. That is, bringing
together all of the essential
ingredients for a holistic
understanding of anyone's
design. When I began my work
in laying the foundation for color, which actually started in the mid-90s, the process
of introducing the substructure of the line and eventually doing relatively detailed
classes at various events that were held in Ibiza, and then finally obviously getting to
the point of the Jam Player and this environment for teaching, a great deal of work
has been done on color. And in the vast majority of the work and what is generally
understood by the Design general public is that they look at color and its relationship
to the Sun/Earth. Those that are in PHS and Rave Psychology in the third year and
students of the second year are dealing with color in a much deeper dimension. That
is, they’re dealing with color in terms of not simply the Sun/Earth, but they're
dealing with it in terms of the Nodes.
Obviously, there is a lot of information relative to color that has not been part of the
development of this aspect as an analytical tool. And fundamentally Lunar and
Planetary Color Analysis is about introducing the value of the information that's
available through understanding the impact of color and the impact of color in the in
terms of the Moon and the planets.
There's something to grasp. That is, that when we're looking at the substructure of
the line the values that come with color and tone and base are related specifically to
the personality and the design crystal. In other words, to interpret base values for
any analytical purpose, the Cross of Life, that is, the Sun/Earth and the Nodes, is the
only place where the full chain of information has an analytical value. But there is
obviously no crystals involved in terms of any of these planetary aspects, in that
sense. In other words, that is not what we're looking at. One of the things to realize
is that in terms of the Moon and the planets that the base and tone information, that
is, the base and tone markings are literally translations of arc. In other words, their

only value is positional; positional in the sense of being expressed through the way
that we look at the division of any given aspect of arc.
Maia Mechanics Advanced Imaging
In order to put that in perspective for the third year programs in PHS and Rave
Psychology, because of the information level that has been laid as a foundation, it's
possible to take the basic information that we have, the calculable information that
we have, and translate that into another level of visual presentation in order to be
able to present all of the information that is available when looking at somebody's
design. What this is called is Maia Mechanics Advanced Imaging. I am the only one
right now, aside from the developer of it, who is working with it. That is, I have a
calculation beta version that I'm working with. The actual program itself will only be
available to Practitioners and Rave Psychologists and will only be available to them in
the third year of their programs.
It actually is an information base that requires a great deal of training. Everybody

who's participating in this program is part of that kind of training program. However,
the reason that this course was not restricted is that it's very important that there is
this understanding that there is another level of information that exists and that it is
something that isn't about being hidden, if I can put it that way.
Anyway, let’s us get into Maia Mechanics Advanced Imaging. Obviously, there is no
change that takes place within the construct of the bodygraph itself. In other words,
this is simply about laying out graphically, more than anything else. One of the
things I enjoy so much about Human Design is the fact that it is a visual science. In
other words, everything that you need to know you have to be able to see, in that
sense, and it's right there in front of you. It all depends, if I'm standing with a
novice who has never been introduced to Human Design and they’re standing beside
me and were both looking at this map, obviously we get very different levels of
information from it.
My concern about having spent so many years in developing the knowledge of the
substructure of the line was that the graphic presentation that was being used
universally was not something that was of service to that knowledge. I mean, yes
indeed you can look in MMI; you certainly can look and find out what the colors and
tones and bases are. It's not that the information is not there. But, it isn’t presented
in the sense that all the levels of information brought together into one visual,
because of course once you bring all of this information together in one visual you
begin to see things that you could not see before. It's very much what Advanced
Imaging brings to analysis, what is what I refer to as holistic analysis. That is, not
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LESSON ONE: An Introduction to Advanced Imaging
Please keep in mind, and very important to do so, this level of information ultimately
is only going to be of value to those who are already in the process of experimenting
with their design. And it's very important that that is said. That is, this advanced
imaging way of presenting the information package is something that is specifically
there to be used on the design side by PHS Practitioners and on the personality side
by Rave Psychologists to be able to give them the necessary depth to be able to
work with people who are already in the process of correcting their lives.
So, this is this is very advanced in terms of the kind of service that it's intended to
offer and therefore it is very deep. It certainly doesn't mean that if you don't know
any of this that somehow you're handicapped and it's very important to make that
clear. That is, for most human beings the simplest level of bodygraph interpretation
is the one that matters. And it is about the definition or lack of it that leads to a
type and strategy and it leads to an inner authority. This is what the knowledge is
for. But again, it is a science. And Maia Mechanics Advanced Imaging is a direct
result of my work in PHS and Rave Psychology, because we have entered into an
area in which one side is deeply capable of being of service to the well-being of the
other physically, while the other has the extraordinary opportunity of being able to
work with and heal the passenger personality.
As such, this kind of level of information is something that becomes very important,
and to be able to see it visually at once. And of course, this is a great beauty that is
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here. Already, because I've been working with it obviously longer than others, it has
so changed the way in which I synthesize what I see. Now again, it's hard to explain
that because I’m an unconscious being. There's a big difference for me between
looking at this graph in the way it's normally presented with the data running down
the sides, the gate/line data running down sides. My tendency in that kind of
information base is literally to pay almost no attention to that. In other words, my
view is strictly a bodygraph view, in that sense.
And what I notice about the transition to the advanced imaging is that the depth of
information, particularly here, that is, the depth of information that is in the crosses
of life that this brings, and I'm not going to go into this because it's another area of
the knowledge, but it brings in a new formula. That is, a new way of looking at the
basic construct of any being. That is, their brain-mind combination, their
environmental view combination. In other words, you get a new holistic layer for
being able to look the variables that are already there or should be there if you're
familiar with the knowledge in the bodygraph itself. In other words, it brings a whole
new level.
The Graphic Is Divided into Three Segments
You can see by the way in which this graphic is structured that it is actually divided
up into three different segments. And you can see that there are spacings, in that
sense, between these three areas. And obviously what we’re looking at is this
combination of Sun/Earths, we’re looking at the combination of the Nodes, that these
are two separate areas. And then we have the large lunar and planetary block. So,
there is a real division here in the way in which the information is laid out. You'll
notice, for example, that if you were looking at the Sun/Earth that you can see that
the color and the tones are laid out graphically. Now of course, this is a real benefit
in understanding the way in which their system operates, what is their natural
sensory potential and many other things that go along with that. You’ll also notice
that in each of the blocks of the Sun/Earths there is a box, and this box contains the
base and it contains the base in its relative orientation. Again, if you're interested in
base and base orientation this is something that I did in Base Theory.
A Magic Box
So, you're looking at all the detailed information being put out here, the various
levels that are there in the substructure. What you notice here is that when you
come to the planetary information and only the planetary information you see that
there is a new way in which it is structured. First of all, this is a magic box. It is a 3
x 3. The relationships that are there are important relationships no matter what
direction you go in. So, it is simply something to think about. I'm not going to
discussing it now, but will look at the possibilities of all of this. But again, to
recognize that there are all these different variations of the way in which this magic
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You'll notice graphically that the Moon is differentiated. And it is differentiated in the
sense that it is given a very unique positioning and rightfully so as you'll see because
ultimately as we move into this process we are going to begin with looking at the
Moons and how important these Moons are. That it is the Moon that, in essence, is
the controlling agent or the key agent in these planetary blocks.
But before we even look in that direction let's look at the way in which the
information is laid out. You'll see here that the information is laid out in terms of
gate, line and color. Now there is no value to tone and base at a lunar or planetary
level. There is no value other than positional. Obviously, we’re dividing the wheel
up into aspects that we call bases and tone and color and lines and gates instead of
talking about degrees, as an example. So, anything below the color level has no
significance. As a matter of fact, the fact that color has a value is only because of a
phenomenon, not because that there is a natural color, in that sense. Remember
that that is related to the crystals of consciousness and uniquely to the Nodes which
is another subject entirely.
Transference and Resonance Zones
But in terms the planetary values, the first thing to recognize is that color matters,
but it is not derived from the planet itself. If we look at this configuration, and I'm
only playing with the design side here, because it's just easier right now for me to do
that, I don’t make it like I’m prefacing this. If you're looking at these two, that is,
the Sun/Earth combinations and the planetary combinations, there's a theme that
goes with each of them. That is, that this upper area here, this is a transference
zone. And this block below is a resonance zone.
Now, the term transference is something we are well familiar with now. That is, this
is a phenomenon that is rooted in color. And of course transference itself becomes
one of the great dilemmas in the life. That is, to be in transference is literally to be
not-self. And yet, transference operates differently in the way in which it functions,
differently in terms of the design or the personality. As an example to operate
correctly as yourself according to your strategy and your inner authority there is
then no longer any transference. Now, that’s something very important to
understand.
We've got a phenomenon that takes place. In other words, we have the crystal and
we have the neutrino stream that is going through the crystal. This is the base
frequency. Inside is the total frequency. When it leaves you have a frequency that
called color frequency. It’s a frequency. Now, that frequency has to be attracted by
the Magnetic Monopole. Yet, the Magnetic Monopole’s attraction frequency is
determined by the frequency of the life, because it is the monopole that holds us
together in the illusion of our separateness and the illusion of our separateness is a
frequency.
So, if you're not-self then the attraction frequency of you as a being doesn't function
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correctly, that is, that it comes directly across, instead, what we get is a
phenomenon that’s called transference. And basically it's a harmonic reception. In
other words, instead of taking in the 1 frequency you get the taking in of the 4
frequency. And of course, what this does is that it disconnects the being from the
potential of their cognition. This is the magic of tone. This is what we are, in
essence, all about. That is, we are here to express cognition. It is the fundamental
aspect of our architecture. And of course, we cannot express that cognition if that
cognition isn't getting across. That is, it isn't being transferred.
Determination and Motivation
Ok, this is the transference zone rooted in color. Now, what makes a lunar and
planetary analysis different is that this is all about resonance. Now, think about
something for a moment. We have two different names for color. We have a design
name, it's called the determination. And we have a personality name; it's called
motivation. So, one of the things to recognize about color and the way in which
color is going to impact the Moon and the planets is that it's going to impact it
relative to whether it is design or personality. And it's going to impact it accordingly.
In other words, within the physical context it's going to bring determination to the
way in which those planets can express themselves, whatever that activation is, and
whatever line it is, and so forth and so on. And on the other side in terms of the
personality it is going to bring a specific motivation, a specific motivation to an
aspect.
Now, remember it is not inherent. We're not talking about the design crystal or the
personality crystal. We are talking about planetary imprints. And one of things to
recognize about the imprint is—I think it was last semester; I did a lecture on the
consciousness field. It was actually fascinating, for me, that that particular lecture,
to take my attention away from the human and just to have a feel for the depth of
the consciousness field. There is no such thing as a plant or a cell being not-cell or
not-plant, if you know what I mean. They’re limited by their hardware, after all. So,
there is a purity of the way in which consciousness is filtered. Think about it, just
think about the nature around you at any given moment and think about the levels
and layers of life that are there in a garden or in a field. We are talking about
millions upon millions upon millions upon millions upon millions of crystals of
conscious—every blade of grass. The density of the crystal consciousness field is
enormous. And anything that is part of the form principal illusion filters
consciousness. I mean, it filters it.
The Moon and Planets: A Selective Resonance
And everything has a design. It all gets filtered. And basically we move through a
very dense consciousness field. And that dense consciousness field has a color
intensity to it. When you're looking at the Moon or the planets, what you're looking
at is a selective resonance. It isn't always there. And it's very dependent on
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Let me give you an example, the personality Moon here. You can see that there is a
2nd color that's underneath that personality Moon in the 6th line of the 64. Now the
2nd color is the color of hope. And remember that this is a resonance zone, not a
transference zone. This isn't about the actual function. This is simply about
resonating. In other words, like a dangling gate, a hanging gate that is open and
ready to resonate to that other side, to take it in. And it’s something to understand
about the way in which this impacts the Moon and the planets is that they are ready
to resonate when the opportunity or the possibility is there.
What that means in an interpretive sense is that an aspect sometimes lacks

motivation, often may lack motivation. And that aspect may only be motivated at
certain times, because that motivation will come and go. And it adds a fascinating
nuance to looking at those particular planetary aspects, looking at that line and
seeing what happens when there is the potential of motivation and what it might be,
and what the difference is when it's not there. And it can be brought out by
anything. I mean, it can be brought out by anything. It’s all around, in that sense.
And of course, one of the things that we’re going to see is the impact of somebody
else's personality Sun/Earth color, that impact on any particular planet that you have
in your design. Because when they are in your aura, and again remember that when
we’re talking about the Sun/Earth and we’re talking about this color, which is a

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primary color in terms of analytical value, is that when you meet that in the other
that what you get is resonance from certain aspects in your design.
In other words, it leads to a new understanding about, for example, what somebody
can bring out of you as a potential. And not what one might have thought of. And
of course, you end up in a situation where you have a canvas of information, where
for example in this particular case, you've got a 1st color Jupiter determination and
2nd color Neptunian determination and you’ve got a 3rd color Mercury and a 4th color
Pluto and then a 5 Uranus and a 5 Saturn and a 5 Venus, and then there's a 6th
Moon. Basically, all I'm saying is that there is an incredible nuance to the way in
which these activations operate.
And of course, there is going to be significance to various kinds of relationships that

are there. For example, the Mercury and the Mars that are both 3rd color, those
aspects depending on how they emerge in the design, there are so many levels to
this that these aspects are going to be determined in the same way. In other words,
what we are going to see are certain kinds of physical conditions, and these are
going to be the kind of conditions that are going to be beneficial to those aspects
functioning at their best. So, there are many, many layers of the way in which the
color information can be utilized.
The Planets Are Designed to Resonate to the Correct Frequency
Now, obviously what I'm going to do in our program to begin with is that I'm going
to take you through the way in which we use the terminology. In other words, how
do we transfer that terminology, the color value, because again what we're really
looking at is a generic resonance. This is one of the most interesting things about,
at least for me, the tension between what is the transference zone and that
relationship to the resonance zone. Because, of course, what we get to see is that
the main construct of what we are, that is, the Cross of Life, the 70%, all the stuff of
basically what we are, that all of that is constantly subject to transference and the
vast majority of humanity are transferred as a result. And yet, at the planetary level
the planets themselves as activations are designed to resonate to what is the correct
frequency.
This is very interesting. So, while the Sun/Earth and the Nodes are leading the
vehicle down the wrong road to the wrong end, the planets all along are resonating
to what's possible. Now, I’m slightly overstating that, but nonetheless it's just
interesting to see that the planets by their nature are able to bring us a very, very
pure information. And when I look at planetary activations, I'm looking at an
imprint. And of course the color isn't part of the imprint, in that sense. Yet, the
color brings a very special value to the way in which the imprint can operate at a
heightened level at certain times.
In other words, it’s something to recognize about this determination and motivation
and the way in which it's going to operate at the lunar and planetary level is that is
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That’s the other side of the story, showing you that you've got all these different
color variations in a nine block configuration where all six of the different colors are
present. It doesn't matter what the outside personality is that’s coming in, whoever
that happens to be that’s stepping in, and whatever their color happens to be. The
fact is there is going to be something in you at the planetary or lunar level that's
going to resonate.
And you see the complexity in human relationship is something that I think this
information adds a whole new level of understanding the nuances of our
interrelationships and the nuances of the impact of the other. One of the first things
that you learn in basic design analysis is you learn about planetary fixing. That is,
you have a certain line and Jupiter’s exalted in and Saturn is in detriment and what it
means when you meet somebody who happens to have the Saturn in the same gate
or in the harmonic gate, that suddenly you are changed, you're being wired or
moved over to another side. And of course that is going to change the nature of
your relationship. That is, it’s going to change the way in which you feel or sense
yourself in your relationship with the other. And of course, it also is going to
determine the way in which they see you. So that level of fixing is something that is
very significant.
Another Level of Influence We Have Over Others
Well, here's another one. Here's the next level of grasping the influence that we
have over others. And what's interesting about this is that it is not a negative,
because it is not conditioning. That’s the thing that’s so fascinating about it. All it is
doing is bringing out a resonance to heighten what is already there. Nothing’s
changed. It's not like if you have this person's design Moon and it happens to have a
6th color resonance, if a 3rd color personality comes by doesn’t mean this is going
transfer. It’s just not
going to be determined by
it, because it can't be. So
it isn't impacted, in that
sense. It’s something
very interesting.
So, somebody comes

along and they’ve got that
6th personality or
whatever it happens to
be, then what you get is
simply a resonance to
that. That resonance
turns on, if you will, that
heightened determination,
but it doesn't change the
value that is there. It
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interesting to see that within this context, that there is this interesting positive
influence that is there in our relationship with the other.
Now, of course, it doesn't always necessarily mean, because I should be very careful
with my terminology here, that it's always positive. It doesn't. Let's take an
example of the 18th gate, the 18th gate in this person's design. Of course, it's black,
it's personality and if we go over here we can see that this is the Mercury and you
can see that the Mercury is 3rd color, 3rd color motivation. Now of course, there can
be a lot of dilemmas with this. In other words, having this highly motivated may not
necessarily be beneficial. After all, it is a hanging gate and that motivation will lead
to it wanting even more the possibility of the other side, the possibility of whatever.
It may end up being even more motivated to hold onto things that aren’t good for it.
So, even though it isn't a negative conditioning force, or per se a conditioning force,
the fact of the presence of the resonance may, depending on the positioning,
depending on where the activation happens to be, may in fact lead to the triumph of
the not-self.
So, don't misunderstand me when I say that it is an inherently positive thing. I just
mean that it's so different from the transference zone where the moment that you
are in transference you really lose out. That is, you lose out on cognition; you're not
going to be able to live your life as yourself, all of those things. There are
tremendous consequences to being caught in transference. But, resonance isn't like
that. It isn't. But it does bring a shift in let's call it the intensity or the effectiveness
or the impact or the quality of any given lunar or planetary aspect. And again,
remember that they're always shifting.
Now, I have no research at this point to see how the spread works in these double-
nine configurations. That is, is it a common for somebody to have six of the nine in
the same color? What are the kinds of variations that we’re going to see, because
when we get to see extreme variations, obviously there's going to be analytical
significance to that. But, what it is really saying is that this block really is
disconnected from the skeletal frame upon which the life is based. It really is. It's
very different in the way in which it functions. And I think that this is one of the
most fascinating areas that we’re going to be able to look at in this process.
One of the things about the way in which this program is actually laid out is that
when you open up the information box, for example in this case, you can see it here
[image below], you're familiar with this from MMI, you'll notice that it's only listed to
the color level. In the database you get the exact information for calculation
purposes, that is, on the right hand side of where the program is. But in terms of
what the pop-up is, in terms of the information that you're given, this is the only
information legitimately that you can work with in dealing with the interpretation of
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A New Value to the Interpretation of Any Line
Obviously it’s going to bring a new value to the interpretation of any line. Again,
there are two things about this knowledge. One is that it has a specific importance
in the two directions of PHS and Rave Psychology, so this underlying information is
used in relationship to looking at and being able to be of value both therapeutically
and otherwise to a client. At the same time, it's about giving you another kind of
deeper grasp of the way in which these activations, where their natural tendency is.
For example, if you look at the exalted of this line, mental assuredness. That mental
assuredness is something that is always enriched by the on-and-off hopeful
motivation. In other words, this assuredness is also something that resonates, in
that sense, to the deep understanding that there are so many things that one has no
control over, and that there are things that are going to follow relative to you,
whatever their destiny happens to be and that all you can do is watch that and know
what you're watching for.
It is part of what the 2nd color motivation is all about. Now, it doesn't mean it's
always there. And of course it means that there are moments then that often that
mental assuredness can be uncomfortable. I mean, it can be uncomfortable, and not
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that this being with the 64/47 as a definition, this is a constant attempt to make
sense out of things. But making sense out of something is not a fact; it's a process
of distillation at best. And of course to be assured in that kind of process is very,
very difficult. You have to have the right spirit, because you don't really know and
you can't really know. But the hopefulness as a motivation would change the way in
which you would look at the way this person carries this.
Not only that, anybody that has a defined head center is going to have impact on the
other 70% of humanity that doesn't have a defined head center. And that defined
head center brings inspiration. Now, if it brings inspiration that is a hopefully
motivated thing, it's very different than if it's other colors. In other words, a very
nuance, the very value of the line is something that gets to be seen through a filter,
but not consistent filter. Again, that's also what makes it interesting and it will
describe to us, for example, the power of certain planetary activations to determine
who we want in our lives, if you know what I mean. In other words, there are
certain people in this person's life who are going to bring out the resonance. And
that resonance is going to bring a certain comfort to what is a difficult activation.
That is, the abstract process, no matter where you look at it, is under the deepest
pressure and we’re dealing with a defined pressure system.
So, having your activation, having its motivation resonate can often be something
that is very comfortable. As I said, because inherently it is a positive thing, it is
something that we can become very desirous of, in a sense, and yet not be—again,
it's just a planetary activation and it’s one of many planetary activations, and so
forth and so on. It’s just another layer of looking at the way in which we operate,
the way in which we are designed to function mechanically. But, the important thing
to grasp is that bringing the color value to the planetary activation is something that
is intended to be able to provide a much more profound insight into the psychological
needs on the personality side and the environmental balance on the design side.
The Design and Personality Color Value
There are two things that we’re always looking at. This is what it is to be in a duality
and to deal with what is a binary and to understand that we are quantum of a binary.
We are held together in an illusion of separateness. And it is these two aspects of
us, both design and personality, this is what is brought together in this. The fact is
that they operate distinct from each other with different rules, as it were. And the
values are different. The interpretation of the color value on the design side is very
different than the interpretation of the color value on the personality side.
It goes to two very significant aspects, in that sense. On the design side what we
are able to see is the kind of environmental situation, the place, as an example, how
place is going to influence the way in which certain aspects are going to operate.
And that certain aspects are basically going to be relatively dormant in terms of the
value of certain environments over others. This old story about human beings not
living out their potential, and I mean that in the mundane sense where you say to
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One of the things you get to see with lunar and planetary color analysis is that
basically there is all this potential, that is, all those nine different objects and
wherever they are and whatever they happen to be in, but there is only certain
general environments that are going to be really healthy for the being as a whole.
And there is only going to be a very specific direction that the being is going to take
from a design perspective, that that journey along its particular trajectory, which is
going to naturally lead it into specific environments that may or may not be an
advantage for the various planets in the configuration.
In other words, the highlighting or the development of correctness also means a

hierarchical establishment of the values of planets in anyone's design and in that
sense that hierarchy will not be generic, but will be unique depending on what is
correct for them. Now, I know that’s complex. It’s our first day and I'm just laying
out parameters for you, and I will take you step-by-step.
[A written question: Is the resonance activated only by the sun/earth of the other
person, or also by the planets of the other person?]
Ra: It is actually only by the Sun/Earth and there is a nuance that is the Nodes,
Adrian. But fundamentally, it's the Sun/Earth. This is the deepest influence. So of
course, what you get to see is that one of the main factors in us being social—it's
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ingredients in that is this resonance that is there within us, this resonance that’s
there to the personality or to the Sun/Earths of others, to their personality to their
body, whatever the case may be. In other words, this is where we’re really keyed to
the other human being.
And of course, at the mundane level that's what we do get to see. That is, we tend
to be taken in by the general personality presentation and that personality within its
physical construct, that's what we’re taken in by on the surface. And this is the way
in which the planets are moving us. In other words, there is this very, very strong
connection between the planets and the personalities of the others.
So of course, again that goes back to my point of the design trajectory. That is,
when you're operating according to Strategy and Authority you are aligning yourself
to what is your correct movement, the way in which decision by decision you guide
and steer through this life. Now, that isn't just about the fact that there is somehow
some kind of line now that you're following. But, you’re not in a vacuum; you're
operating within a complex illusion. That means that you're moving through what is
a landscape, the landscape relative to your particular life. And of course, when
you're correct the nuances of your movement through that landscape change.
Slowly but surely you're oriented towards environments that are correct for you. Not
just simply oriented towards the environments are correct for you, but oriented to
display certain kinds of fundamental behavior in those environments in order to be
able to integrate with the other.
Everything about us is designed for some level of integration with the other.
Obviously, we are reproductive as bioforms, we need that. And to see that what
happens is that the moment in your correctness you begin to refine what is your
movement and the environment through which you move. And of course, that
environment includes the humans that occupy it, that there is going to be a change
in terms of the quality of influence in your overall construct, the quality of influence
in those planets that benefit from the resonance in those environments and those
planets that don't.
It’s just something that allows us to be able to look at the way in which somebody
operates in a deeper way so that we can actually see the gradient of the importance
and the effectiveness of certain aspects in the design; not all of them. This is one of
those cases where not all aspects are created equal, if you know what I mean. That
is, you're only going to see the shakeout in that when you get to that place where
you really are operating according to your own authority.
And slowly but surely, by mapping the Sun/Earths, both design and personality, that
make up your landscape, in other words, those beings that aurically speaking that
you have contact to, you can then begin to map the way in which your resonance
quotient works. Some aspects of you will resonate in one way to one person, some
to another. There will be commonalities, so that what you'll get to see is that, for
example, the two people that you can resonate with means that the three of you are
more likely to be able to function together. There are all kinds of things that are
built into that in terms of they’re not being a negative sense in the impact. Again,
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bringing a heightened whatever, a heightened determination on the design side, a

heightened motivation on the personality side.
We need to begin a process then of assessing, and I will do this in a very general
way so that I will give you basic keynotes to be able to look at the basic application
of color information, to look at it design-wise and to look at it personality-wise. And
I will distill it down, because it is actually very detailed information. But, I will distill
it down in such a way so that we have keynotes that we can work with for the impact
of this color resonance.
Look At Yourself and What You Bring Out in Others
But what I want you to think about is to begin to look, first of all, at yourself and to
look at what you bring out in others. I think it is the first view that's necessary here.
If you take the example of this being, we've got a 2nd color Sun/Earth, and we've got
a 3rd color design Sun/Earth. So, what we know about this being is that we know
that they bring out hope resonance in the planets of others. And they bring out the
3rd color desire determination, and thirst; they bring out thirst in the others. Now, I
will get into this as we go deeper, but think about it for a moment. If you bring out
the thirst determination in somebody else that's going to lead to certain
consequences, it's going to lead to physical consequences, as well. They, in essence,
can have a dehydrating effect on the other. There are many, many levels of this
that are just fascinating to ponder.
So, the first thing we’re going to need is a toolbox, we’re going to need a toolbox of
keynotes, one of my favorite things in this life, a toolbox of keynotes to begin to
assess what happens in each of these situations. And then to begin to see what it
means relative to the object itself. And as I said, next week we’re going to begin
with the Moon, because the Moon is specifically important in all of this and has a
very different kind of impact, if I can put it that way.
What we're going to look at is the way in which the object itself, its nature and what
its function is, and the functions are different for design and personality, what its
function is a relative to the line, relative to its relationship to the holistic design, and
what, in fact, the resonance value brings, so that we can begin this process of
learning how to deconstruct this information and to be able to bring some analytical
value to it.
The other thing is what makes a fascinating is that there is no generic—it’s just
something I just thought of that would be fantastic for programming. When you do
partnership and automatically the impact of the other person's design Sun/Earth is
automatically registered in the other person's planetary configuration in terms of
highlighting where the resonance is. And of course that will really bring to an
incredible level this deep insight into how we are impacted in our relationship with
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[A written statement: private] That's one of the jokes, Alok. It’s one of the
things that is so fascinating about the planets. Now again, it's not planets that run
the life, unfortunately, they don’t. So, the fact that they are true to their nature,
because there is no transference in planetary activation, the fact is that they are
bound to the organization of the totality that takes place through the cross of lives.
So, in that sense, it doesn't bring a balance, if I can put it that way, to the fact that
the rest is in transference. But, it certainly is an interesting aspect in that.
[A written question: Does resonance in a person who impacts part of our definition
when we meet help somone to stop transferring as easily?]
Ra: No, it doesn't do that either Cathy. Again, this is an introduction and we have a
long way to go and I know that many of you have a lot of knowledge about these
levels and would like to jump to conclusions. Be very careful about that. As I said,
the first thing to appreciate is that I am not doing this with you, because if I was
doing that with you, all of this would be secondary. It really would. And again, you
can see that for those of you have been participants in the practitioner and
psychologist programs, everything that I have done I have never even touched
planetary stuff, it's only available this course for the first time, because it's not the
story. The story is all through this, this is where the story is.
However, Human Design is a science of differentiation. And for me, it's absolutely
essential that the complete mechanics is laid out, and that with every level that is
laid out that there is a way in which the understanding of how that level functions is
transferable, and that the tools are there for anyone who wants to explore the
knowledge in depth. The functionality of this level of the knowledge, as I said, is
very specific. These particular nuances are something that helps us understand the
unique qualities that are there in any person. And to turn that around
therapeutically and to be able to help them with that mechanical understanding, it is
deeply significant on the physical side, but is extraordinary what it can mean on the
personality side, because all this is about healing the mind.
In many ways the planetary information is much more secondary to what is above
than here, because the fact is that the planetary values of the personality, because
again, these are the black of the design and therefore the being has access to them
consciously so they make up part of the landscape of the mind frame that these
aspects actually can have very important value to Rave Psychologists in order to be
able to pinpoint areas of motivation and to understand their relationship to their
particular client. That is, in knowing what aspects can be motivated it means that
one has a way of reaching that mind if you tailor it to those specific aspects.
So, the main frame of the utilization of this knowledge is for those professional
programs. And in fact, as I said the software will only be released to those who are
in those programs. So, I want you to be aware that as I go through this I want to
lay out what is just the foundation here, to lay a foundation of what the values are
and the way in which this can operate without getting into what I will actually be
doing in third year programs, which is integrating all of the information on both the
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We're here to set the foundation for what it is to understand the application of color
to the Moon and the planets. This is the kind of course that once it’s done is always
going to be available for those that need an introductory level into this
understanding so that ultimately, if they go through those programs, it's obviously
an important aspect, an important tool for the work of holistic analysis.
But, you have a lot to think about. And it’s something to begin to look at yourself.
And as I said, begin to see your influence first. Look at those people around you;
look at, to begin with, just the personality aspect of them so you know how you're
impacting them in the place where they are self-aware. Just look at it, and look and
see the Moon and the planets of the personality, what are you actually bringing out
as a resonance. And then look at them and see the context of that resonance in
their relationship with you, wherever that happens to be in their design and you'll
see that this is something that stands out.
Anyway, it's been a delight. To all of you, it’s a treat and I'm glad you're here. And
for all of you, because there are more than twice the present class that is
downloading, I’m glad you’re all participating and hope you enjoy this when you
wake up in the morning; to all of you, again, until next week, bye for now.

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LESSON TWO
Design Lunar and Planetary Color 1
Good morning to all of you that are here live. This is my largest download class as
well, so hello to all of you that are downloading. As you can see from the topic today
we’re going to begin to look at the design side of lunar and planetary color. So,
we’re going to begin this deeper investigation.
The Moon and Its Relationship to the Earth
But, there are some things that I really want to talk about and mostly it is to begin
with to talk about the Moon itself. A simple understanding of the mechanical
relationship between the physical Earth and the Moon leads one to see the Moon in a
very special way, because in essence it is the balancing mechanism for life itself on
this planet, at least life as we know it. The Moon, because of its size and because of
its relatively close proximity to Earth, has a gravitational impact. We know that in
the simplest sense of the tides, as an example. But what the Moon moves, what it
pulls up and down, is not limited into the seas. It affects the very liquid in our

bodies. It affects the liquid that in fact is enclosed in all kinds of forms all across the
physical Earth. It’s as if there is a tidal movement that moves not simply from the
sea, but across everything on land.
To really grasp physically what the Moon does—we have all of this emphasis on the
Sun, as an example, and its relationship obviously to life on this planet—but the fact
is that it is the Moon that establishes the very physical environment in which life
could be, or is, in our sense, possible. It's all something that is the work of the
Moon. For me when I think about the Moon, I think about it as the instrument of the
prana of life. In a sense it gives this dimension that we live in, it gives it its
possibility for life. And it drives the life, and drive is a great word for this.
Unfortunately, it can so easily be confused with other concepts.
This is the mechanism of the prana. It's what holds us up, literally. Creatures like
us who are rather unusual, that is, we’re bipedal. We have adapted a very strange
way of positioning ourselves and the way our locomotion works. None of that would
be possible without the agency of the Moon. It just wouldn't. And without the Moon
or the presence of the Moon, if such an absurdity can be pondered, it would be very
difficult for anything to be tall in any sense. Everything would be really crushed in
that way with the gravitational impact of the planet itself. The Moon is a
counterpoint to the gravitational power of the Earth.
So, if you're looking for a puppeteer that holds the strings, you don't have to look
very far, you can see it shining brightly. We just went through the full Moon; you
can see it shining brightly in the sky. There is the puppeteer with those dangling
strings that's holding everything up. The Moon is fascinating. And we have given it
all kinds of mythological power. We have attributed to it a great deal of power. So
many of the great goddesses, though there are cultures where the Moon is
masculine, so many of the great forces of the way in which the mundane level of life
operates are so closely attributed to the Moon. The Hindu Brahmins as an example
in their conceptualization of reincarnation say that souls go to the Moon and then are
reincarnated. The Moon obviously has a lot of influence over our thought and the
development of our consciousness, all kinds of things.
It is an extraordinary object. It is one that has brought awe and fear. There is this
fascinating film, Apocalypto by Mel Gibson, and it is a fairly good realization of pre-
Columbian culture. It involves Mayan sacrifices and there's this is incredible scene
on one of these temples were one of these rituals is taking place in which the
astrologers being in the know and being part of the power cabal are well aware of
the fact that the Moon is about to be eclipsed. It’s a brilliantly filmed scene. As that
shadow begins to crawl across the face of the Moon, the fear engendered in the
population, this object has such enormous power.
Anyway, I won't go into too deep of a ramble on that, I just wanted to sort of set the
tone of understanding something about the way in which graphically in MMAI the
way in which the lunar and planetary box is established. The fact again, that it is
separated from what is above, it is really its own domain. And the thing to grasp
that this highlighting of the Moon within this nine-part square configuration that this
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the Moon has in that sense over all of this. Now, I’m being very superficial for the
moment, so I'll get into what that really means, but again I want you to see that the
illustration is also very indicative of a special role of both of the Moons. So again,
we’re going to be started by looking at design side.
The Moon and the Nodes
The next thing to keep into consideration is that in order for the life to be correct, it
is here that the potential is established. And what I mean by that is that it is the
agency through the agency of the Nodes, and of course again the correctness is
something that is initiated by Strategy and Authority. It is only through Strategy
and Authority that the design as a whole begins to function correctly. And when the
design as a whole begins to function correctly there is the immediate alignment of
the design Nodes, that is, the alignment to what is the physical direction and the way
in which the vehicle enters into the environment is established here.
Now of course, if we run this across, the Nodes have a very unique relationship to
each other. I’m not going to get into that, just to state it. That is, that they have a
very unique relationship that allows the moment that we have alignment here, we
have the beginnings of the correction of view and perspective on the personality
side. So, because I’m trying to illustrate a point here that if you take the Nodes as
the central component, that this is a central component, that the first thing to
recognize is the significance of the relationship of the Moon and the Nodes. After all,
they are the Nodes of the Moon. And so we have a very important connection that is
here.
What we’ll also see is that through the Nodes we have connections that move across
to the Sun/Earths. So, through the Nodes everything about the database
information gets integrated, but everything gets integrated to the nodal perspective,
if I can put it that way. In other words, if we look at the role of the Moon it is to be
a focus and is to be a focus that aligns this to the direction and the form that the
Nodes are going to take. In other words, that in what will be the continuity of all of
this, the fusion of the aspect information into the general configuration, and of
course what we're going to see is that we are really unique, but that's really what we
want to see.
That is, depending on the way in which it's configured certain aspects function best
in the wrong environments, as an example. So, we're going to see that there are
many, many nuances in the way in which this can all be interpreted. But that is a
long process. It really is one step at a time. But I want you to see very clearly this
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The Internal and the External
Here obviously your view is more refined so you can really focus, and we can focus
together on the relationship that is there. Let's talk about it for a moment and let's
look at it from the perspective of the design Nodes. I’m going to give you some just
very superficial information; just enough so that you have a sense of what you're
really looking at if you're not familiar with this with this information. Whenever
we're looking at the Cross of Life, that is, Sun/Earth and North and south Node, we
actually have a technical term for them. That is, that the Sun/Earth represents
what's called the internal, and the south and North Nodes are expressed as the
external. And it is something that is very significant. That is, when you are looking
at the internal, when you're looking at the Sun/Earth you are in fact looking at the
internal system. In terms of design, you're actually looking at the brain system
itself, and you're looking at the way in which the brain system both receives and
puts out information. But you're looking at the physical brain system; you're not
looking at something on the outside. In other words, this is the personal part. The
personal part is always the Sun/Earth part.
So, if we go back for a moment, here what you're looking at in this internal is the
brain system itself. You’re not looking at mind. If you go over here to the right and
you're looking at the Sun/Earth alone you're looking at the potential of mind. That
is, you're looking at the personality; you're looking at the passenger, in that sense.
So, that's one level. But, the moment you move down to the external, then of
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with the other. And of course it's interesting to think about this in a larger sense.
That is, the Sun/Earth, the Sun produces 70% of the neutrinos we receive. So it is
the Sun literally that dominates the information of what we take in and what we
filter, and that the Nodes represent the portals through which we have a trans-solar
system relationship. In other words, that we’re able to go beyond the influence of
the Sun and to align ourselves to the outside. In other words, again to move away
from the personal to the transpersonal or in the language here, to move away from
the internal and to move to the external.
The Nodes Align Us to a Certain Geometry Trajectory in Life
So, Nodes have a very, very different function. It is a function that is aligning us
specifically to a certain geometry trajectory in life. This particular semester, and
many of you are in that class, in the History of Geometry I am looking at the
relationship in the way in which fractals through bases through Nodes give us our
personal line of movement in things. And of course it is this movement that is
something that is so important. And again, it is the only way that you can really
come to grips with what type leads to. That is, it leads to our ability to be able to
navigate the maya correctly. And I mean that literally in the sense of navigate the
maya. That is, we are moving objects. And the decision making process, your
Strategy and Authority, is your navigational tool, because every decision is in
essence an act of steering along the way as we move in space.
So when movement is understood in this way, one begins to see that it is the very
foundation of everything. And I cannot stress that enough. That is, movement is
something that is a universal principle, and in essence existence itself is the
movement, literally. And one of the things to recognize about the bodygraph is the
moment that you come to the bodygraph there is only one place that establishes this
theme and establishes it clearly. In other words, not only do the Nodes represent
the way our physical vehicle is going to align itself in movement, but that very
alignment in the movement is going to bring us a perspective, a view, that is going
to lay the foundation for the way in which our passenger is going to construct its
concepts, and all of this moves us in a specific direction, towards the specific others.
One of the most extraordinary things about MMAI is the ability to be able to see the
nodal mapping that takes place and to be able to understand how we are designed to
be aligned to others. So, all of this is coming through the function of the Nodes.
And again, we're here to look at the lunar and planetary. But, I want you to see that
in the relationship, this special relationship that the Moon has in its relationship to
the Nodes gives the Moon a very, very special role in terms of the nuances that are
going to be expressed in the general physical character of the being.
Seeing the Planetary Activations in Perspective
We also have to see things in perspective. When I look at planetary activations it is

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imprint, and that that imprint is our pathway to uniqueness. For me any planet that
is an instrument of definition is a planet that has a special value. That a planet that
is activating something that can be, in the holistic analysis of the being, a problem,
like the attraction of the 58, the problems of the open spleen, for me this is not a
planet that carries particular importance. Now, I want to be very careful here. This
is in many ways very advanced information, so, what I'm trying to express here is
that basically when we’re talking about our existence, it is all written above. 70% of
our programming is solar. Most of the rest of the neutrino programming, that is,
pure neutrino programming is coming through the Nodes. Yes indeed, the neutrinos
are filtered by the planets, and yes indeed, the planets are the triggers that bring
activations. But in fact, what they're bringing is a nuance to a framework that is
already established, and it is the nuances that bring us the differentiation.
So we need to see the planetary aspects relative to their significance in defining the
uniqueness, but also remembering something, they are always going to be
secondary in the sense that no planetary aspect regardless of its position can ever
control the general nature of the way in which that being is being constructed here.
This is the third year that I'm involved in all of these programs that have led to this
platform and it's why that only now is there a course that is going to look at color in
these particular objects, because the real story is here. Yes, they are important
relatively. They all have their value relatively and they're all part of the holistic
continuity. I want to be very careful that I don't give you the wrong impression, but
it is important to see the perspective that one needs when one is looking at this.
In other words, it all has to be seen in the way in which it is going to be integrated
into what is the basic dynamic. And it's only when we see how it's integrated into
the basic dynamic that we can begin to see how the aspects are going to play out.
And then we can begin to understand how they bring out specific nuances in the way
in which the character is built that is going to live this particular geometry. And of
course it's not simply that the Moon has a special relationship to the Nodes, we know
that the Moon has a special relationship to the Sun/Earth.
In other words, that there is this multi-layered pathways of connectivity in which the
influence of the planets and their aspects, the way they color what is being
formatted, if I can put it that way, here. Remember what you’re looking at here.
You're looking at the physical body and its brain system and the way in which that
physical body operates, the way in which it digests food, the way in which it
transfers nutrition into valuable information. This is where your physical senses and
their priorities are established. Here is where your main sensory cognition is
established. It's all here in this upper zone here.
Profile Incarnation Cross Character
If you go onto the other side, you have the mind of the passenger, and the mind of
the passenger that is based on the functionality of the brain system. If we go down,
we look at the design Nodes, we get to see that this particular body, this brain
system and this body, that they have an environment that is healthiest for them and

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particularly healthy for them when they are dealing with the other or they are out in
the workplace. And everything about this is that not only does it establish the
environments that are correct for them, but it establishes the style, literally the style
in which they operate in those environments, and that style and the way in which
they operate and the environment that they are moved to along their nodal path
becomes the perspective and the view of the mind system. And it has its unique
perspective and view based on being set up in the right position at the right time, to
be in the right place at the right time.
And of course we are not looking at the unique themes that are there are in the
colors or the tones. We’re not looking at the gates and their lines. This is the
being’s map. It’s all laid out, the whole story. And what we're getting is that we get
to things. We get what we know that is a profile incarnation cross character, and a
profile incarnation cross character that is given a direction and perspective.
So, what's all this? Our characters are not one-dimensional. They're not. We’re
unique. So, we have these nuances of the way in which these thematic characters
are going to operate. And each of them brings a unique capacity to color the nature
of that character, and a unique insight into aspects and the way in which they
function in that world, in that environment, in that connection with the other.
There are so many stories that have been told, books that have been written, on and
on and on. And they're always the same story. We know that. We know the
characters the moment that we meet them, because they are archetypes, and there
are all these characters. And yet, it would be incredibly boring if each of those
characters were dressed the same way, spoke with the same accent, moved with the
same movement, and dealt with things in the same way. We would only need one
story for each archetype, but instead we have thousands.
The Planets Decorate Us
This is the thing to grasp about the planets, is that they decorate us. They take a
model and they give it its unique touch. And of course that unique touch becomes
serious business in the not-self; it really does. It brings with it that coloring of
morality or seriousness. It brings the possibility of a relative truth or not. It has all
these things. And yet, you need to see what it is. Again not to diminish it in any
way; but, to understand that from the perspective of analysis this is really about
understanding nuances, not about looking for some kind of larger answer, because
it’s not here.
You're not going to find in any of these nine activations, regardless of their
positioning, you're not going to find the holistic being, it's not there, it's not the
dominant thing that's going to be there, it can't be, because it's always subject to
the power of what this is. This is the story. It is in its own way a generic. It’s
interesting to think about that. This is a generic, even though you can see how a
nuanced the information is. It's incredibly nuanced information, it’s still a generic.
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interesting, it’s what makes these characters interesting, and it’s what makes us
interesting. What's curious for me is that we're dealing with resonance. This is a
resonating field. There is no true color, there is a position. The position brings a
sensitivity to a frequency. So it's what we call a resonance field. And it is ready to
resonate, and as an example, if we take a look at the Moon is ready to resonate to
the 6. But look at the rest. There are no other 6s. They’re just not there.
Of course, one of the things that were going to see is that we're going to need to
recognize that these aspects that color us, they're determined by the outside world
when they turn on and turn off. And it’s something very different about us. And you
see, what makes us different is not that our generic is somehow so different. What
makes us different is the way in which we morph, the way in which we shift. You
know these beings that sort of shift from one thing to another. You have to think
about the impact of what it is for somebody that meets the 6th color in the other, and
how this is something that's going to resonate and yet nothing else here is going to
resonate. And the way in which that person with a 6th color is going to feel the
influence of this. And again, we're not talking yet about what these themes actually
mean.
This is going to be the main nuance. In other words, they’re going to be the generic
with a very strong taste of Moon. But these other aspects are going to take a
backseat. It’s like spotlighting, that thing they would do with dances for kids that
suddenly they put somebody in the spotlight, and they’re spotlights that work,
suddenly it’s this in the spotlight, or suddenly it’s that in the spotlight.
Everything about this is about the way in which the imprints respond to the outside
world. Remember that they’re imprints. Think about it this way, these are
conditioning elements. Think about that. Any imprint that you have is there
potentially to condition something that doesn't have it. So when we’re looking at
this kind of configuration here what we're looking at are the conditioning imprints
that we have that impact others. It’s one of the things to see about the nuancing of
understanding the planetary variations. This is all about the way in which we are
experienced by the other. And remember, that because it's the design Nodes that
establish what our approach to what territory is going to be, that it is very important
that there can be that alignment to that particular kind of environment and
approach. And of course, what happens in those situations is that certain planets are
going to represent traits that are going to be recognizable in those environments
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Design Internal and External
Okay, let’s take the next step. Now, that's a lot of information; but again, I want to
begin to lay out the parameters here so you can think about just the way that we
look at things, and again to realize the nuances of what we are, because it is really
quite extraordinary. Before we can even begin to look at the Moon per se and to
understand what it means, first of all, to see what the planets bring on the design
side. When we look at design information there are two things that we’re looking
for. When we’re looking at the design internal, what we’re interested in is dietary
regimen.
So basically what we're looking for is what we have in PHS, that is, the ability to see
clearly what are either the conditions or circumstances that are necessary in order
for somebody to able to take into their system what is correct for them. And in so
doing obviously enhance their physical potential, as well as their brain system
potential. So that's what we look at what we're looking at the internal. And in terms
of the external, we’re looking at something else. Again, we are looking at vehicle’s
alignment to a specific environment. And not only a specific environment, but again
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The Design Nodes: Approach to the Environment
So, when we're looking at the planetary activations and we’re looking at color, the
first thing we have to see very clearly is that this cannot be related to in the way
that we related to the Sun/Earth, as an example. In other words, we are not looking
at dietary regimen, and when we bring it to the relationship with the Nodes, that's
the moment that we begin to find an alignment for the planetary information. In
other words, we begin to find the alignment to the two basic principles that we find
in the design Nodes. That is, the environment that is going to be correct for the
being, and the approach to that environment.
Now, in order to discuss approach, all of this is based on being able to recognize the
left-ness or the right-ness that is the result of the tonal positioning. And there is a
fundamental difference between the left body and the right body. The difference
between the left body and the right body is the left body has an active principle and
the right body has a passive principle.
What that means in the internal is the difference between an active and passive
brain system. What it means in the external is the difference between an active or
passive approach in an environment. It also establishes what the quality of the
environment is going to be. So, it is something to be clear about that one of the
most important things that we get to see is that the key is always going to be
understanding the relationship between the tone and the color in order to really see
in the planets, in which planets, in essence, are going to have a resonance to that.
Again, this has to do with the relationship that always exists on the design side that
tone fixes, always fixes color. So if we look, for example, here we can see that if
we're looking at in this configuration we have a 3rd color. And again our Moon is in
the 6th color, just using the Moon is an example now, we have a 3rd color here and a
6th color here, there is no transference in this, by the way, there's no attraction
through transference. Remember that this is just a pure resonance field. The other
thing is that because it is a 2nd tone underneath, this brings the left-ness that you
see in this arrow, which means that this is an active brain system. But more than
that, in terms of the external that were looking at here, this means that this is
about, as an example, an active approach in the environment. In other words, this
is not somebody that’s sitting back in the environment waiting for things to happen,
this is somebody, just as a general term, I don’t want you to get carried away with
this, this is somebody generally that is going to be much more active in the right
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Now, we see that there is a dilemma. In other words, the dilemma is that the Moon
itself and its ability to coordinate all of this, that the Moon itself does not have a
resonance to the nodal color. And you'll also see that Mercury and Mars do. These
are the colors being listed here and their general design keynote being given on the
side. As you'll see, I'm going to be giving you a new set of keynotes. That is,
keynotes that allow you easily to have the attribute of color relative to the Moon and
the planets. But we'll get to that next week when we actually begin our deep
investigation.
Seeing the Nuances
So here you're seeing what happens. In other words, if this being is correct, and this
being is actively out there in their environment, that it’s going to be their Mercury
and Mars aspects that are going to be what people really get from them as a nuance
of their genetic type. In other words, it is going to be particularly that Mercury and
Mars that is going to be interesting. Now, of course, if we go back into this
environment so that we can see the whole platform, you've got the Mars in the 51
and you have the Mercury in the 39. Now, just to give you a taste of this, if this
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they “should,” that their Mercury is going to lead them into being very attracted to
the 55, or any kind of root definition, which is going to speed them up, by the way.
In other words, you can begin to interpret specific values that are going to stand out
in certain situations. And of course what that means, because remember that being
correct, that you're in the right place and that you’re operating correctly as you
should, that that pointing at the conditioning of the other side is something that
becomes essential to benefit this process ultimately for the whole. So it's very
interesting that we're going to be able to read the nuances, and again remember
we’re only looking at the design side, so please don't jump to conclusions, there's
the two sides and the way it is integrated into the bodygraph and the synthesis of it.
But what you're getting to see here is an incredible nuance of a way of being able
to—you know that yourself, you know that anybody that has spent a lot of time with
bodygraphs and your own design, you know that yes there is this is genetic
continuity, there is this holistic me, but there are aspects that are more dominant.
There are; we all know them. And it doesn't matter whether they’re conscious or
unconscious; there are aspects that are obviously more evident in different
situations. It's not like they're all being effective in the same way at the same time.
It's much more nuanced than that. What we’re getting to here is that we're getting
to see the real nuance.
Now, obviously this is not the kind of thing that has immediate practical value in
terms of everybody should know this, blah, blah, blah. It is part of a long-term
process of bringing the complete grasp of the mechanical process to light. Yes, there
are definitely applications of this. It helps us to understand—better than that, it
gives us certain signposts. Once you understand, for example, when you're correct,
what attributes are there that really dominates then in seeing them as a passenger
experiencing them. That's a very rich and important experience. It also begins to
put in perspective how important those particular areas are going to be, and how
significant it is going to be for this person that the journey of discovery, the wisdom
that can be sought out through this experience, that this is one of the most
important things that they're going to do with their life process.
As a matter of fact, in the same way that the 51 is looking for that 25, though not
completing because of course it is part of the definition, but still it is the hanging
gate, that these two, the 25 and the 55, becomes what is going to be the way in
which ultimately this personality is going to be driven to look at things. Again, there
is so much nuanced information that is there that allows us to build, if we if we know
how, these layers until we get to see really the way in which a being the way in
which they're going to operate.
Goal of Bringing Unique Interpretation to Every Level of the Knowledge
So when we're looking here we can see that just the serendipity of this, I think that
was a Just Now configuration that I did, so it’s just a random thing. Then you can
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spread of all of the colors represented out of these nine. Obviously the strongest is
going to be the 5s, and then of course after that comes the 3s that we were just
looking at. In other words, what we're seeing is that these aspects of ours, when it
comes to straightforward analysis, my goal is to be able to bring unique
interpretation to every level of the knowledge.
And of course when we're looking at the planets, if you're doing an analysis, you
basically see them as always being there in the way in which they impact us. You
read the lines of the planets, as an example, and there is this assumption that those
lines are always at work. But what this can begin to show you is that it’s not that
they’re not working, it's that they're not being highlighted. Remember were dealing
with an imprint highlight system, the activations themselves, these are the opposites
of the open receptors. These are highlightings.
So here what you're getting to see is that through resonance we can understand this
relationship with the other. And of course again it leads us back to the Nodes, that
it's through resonance that these various aspects that we have add their accenting to
the way in which either physically we are going to operate, or the way in which
mentally, as we'll see when we eventually get to the personality, the way in which
we construct things, the way we look at things, the way we conceptualize. And it
means that our relationships with the other take on a new significance.
We are Designed to Align to Specific Forces in Specific Ways
One of the most exciting areas of my work right now is in the third-year programs in
working with variable mapping. It is literally a way of beginning to see that we are
designed to align to specific forces in specific ways. And because we are here to
align with specific forces in specific ways, it means that in correctness what we get to
see is that certain aspects of our nature are only for certain people at certain times,
and certain aspects of our nature are for others at other times. In other words, it is
very purely differentiated. We have a certain kind of performance in certain
situations, and a different kind of performance in other situations.
That’s what brings out our unique coloring. It's what makes us interesting as beings.
There is this lack of predictability, because it's not like all those ingredients are
operating in the same way. It isn't, and it becomes fascinating to see that. What
we’re going to begin to look at is what the consequences of alignments are. For
example, in this case where we see that the Moon, which is a translator in that
sense, a focusing point, here's the Moon standing alone, trying to hold onto the light
as it were, and nobody's paying any attention. This is not the natural environment
for the alignment. And yet at the same time the right beings can be met in the
correct environments and they can carry, as an example, a personality 6 and then
this Moon is going to shine in that particular situation. So there are all these
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[A Written Question: does this planetary resonance work outside the Rave
circuitry?]
Ra: Does it work outside of the circuitry? Well, it’s the only way that it works. That
is, when you're looking at it in terms of relationship on the inside, the only resonance
you can look at on the inside, and I think that maybe this will answer the question;
the only resonance you can look at on the inside is looking for, as we've done here,
planetary resonance in relationship to the nodal configuration. That's the only place
that the resonance actually works on the inside. It doesn't work, for example, with
the Sun/Earth. It’s very specific to the Nodes. But everything about us in terms of
our planetary aspects is all designed to resonate to the other, and they resonate to
the personality and design configuration of the other; fundamentally, design to
design, and personality to personality; in other words, fundamentally, but, there is a
crossover in that. So again, I’ll get to that because it has to do with the Nodes
themselves.
What's important is to see that the display of resonance and the transit field, the
display of resonance is not an attribute, it is a tendency. In other words, planets
don't have colors. This is not a crystal of consciousness. It doesn’t work that way.
But this is a position that they are sensitive to, that frequency of that position. So,
everything about the planets in the way in which they operate is from a resonance
field that is coming from the other, everything. So our relationship to every other
human being colors the way in which we act. It's really interesting to see the
nuances, because when you begin to map this out in relationships and friends you
begin to see something that before you could only see in planetary fixings. You
know, you had that that gate of yours and they come along and they fix the exalted
or the detriment.
Here you're seeing something similar to that. But in many ways even more powerful
in that those aspects that are going to be in resonance are going to dominate.
They’re going to dominate as the characteristics of that particular being in that
particular space operating the way in which they do. So, you can end up being in a
situation, as an example, where you look at somebody's life and you look at their
relationship and you see that the person that they were with—and I don’t mean to
frighten any of you—the person that they were with basically was bringing out very,
very limited characteristic, unlimited aspect, if you will, that became the dominant
aspect of the way you are in your relationship with them from that perspective.
And again, please don't jump to conclusions. There’s a long way to go in this and it's
not just design, this is deconstructed. It's not just personality and we're not there
yet. It is a much more complex synthetic view, the holistic view, that is the only
way you can really put all this information together. However, it is important for you
to begin to think about it. The MMI programs that you have, despite the fact that
you don't have this, in the database on the right-hand side you can get all the color
information of all planets, so it is not like it's difficult to see that and to begin to look
at the relationship of your planetary colors to the color of the Nodes.
This is the beginning of a very, very deep nuance in our ability to do analysis. I want
to keep something in mind those of you that are not part of the third-year programs,
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had no time to be able to cover in the actual PHS and Rave Psychology programs,
the History of Geometry and discourse are in many ways very important aspects of
the general knowledge of Advanced Imaging. I want you to realize that the
analytical tools that are going to be discussed in this course are really designed to be
able to provide practitioners and psychologists with the tools necessary to be able to
work with people at a very, very profound level, both in terms of the vehicle and in
terms of the mind. And information that is intended to be holistically integrated into
a very deep understanding of the being.
This is not information that is useful at the mundane level. That is, this is not the
kind of information that's—again, this programming is only available to third-year
candidates of those programs and will never be generally available to the general
design public. It’s not about that. These are professional tools and this is a
professional platform for specific work.
However, I made this course an open course because I feel that there are certain
students in Design who have never taken formal trainings, but have taken a lot of
very advanced courses and obviously do a lot of studying on their own. And it's not
a secret after all, I mean, this is not a cabal, I’m not like that. So, I know that for
some of you this may be very new and very complex information. Yet at the same
time, see it in its perspective and begin to enjoy the ability to be able to see such
levels of differentiation, because in fact this is really what the great gift is here.
Three Grouping Themes
One of the things that I'd like you to notice before we’re off for the day is that I have
retained these three groupings themes; they’re actually a grouping of binaries. The
1st and 2nd color are rigid, and the 3rd and 4th color are energetic, and the 5th and 6th
color are sensitive. Those three are very important indicators of the way in which
the planets resonate. In other words, Mars, for example, in the situation we looked
at, or Mercury, are going to resonate energetically. In other words, there are going
to be values here that we’re going to be able to use.
But the general keynote, as you'll see next week, I will give you a new vocabulary, in
that sense, to be able to simplify our approach to planets and the Moon and color.
And then we can begin our journey of looking at the Moon itself and understanding
how it can and cannot do its job, and what that job is, that is, its position in this
chain and the way in which the information is going to move and be incorporated
into the life.
The Continuity of Life Flows Through the Nodes
The Nodes—I leave you with this image today, because I think it's one of those areas
in which I want to encourage all of you, really, to begin to see that the continuity of
life flows through the Nodes, that the Nodes transcend the personal life, that they
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they really set the foundation for everything, in a sense, that we call our lives. And
they’re enormously important to understand in the intellectual pursuit. And
obviously this is a deeply intellectual program.
There is nothing more profound, at least in my work, than what the Nodes truly
represent, and again to see so clearly that when we speak of the Nodes and the
Moon we’re speaking of a unique and powerful relationship. This is the planets and
the Nodes together, they dress up and live the life, they do. It's a wonder to be able
to see how that costume is woven.
Anyway, to all of you and to those of you downloading I appreciate those of you who
come in the morning, until next time, enjoy your movie. Have a nice weekend and
see you next week; bye for now.

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LESSON THREE
Design Lunar and Planetary Color 2
Okay let's continue our venture into the new. I just want to remind you of our
approach. That is, the way we're going to look at specifically because today and
next week we’re going to concentrate on the Moon to understand its unique
relationship to the Nodes, and through the Nodes, the Nodes’ relationship to the
profile. So, what we have is that the journey through this life, that is, our movement
in space, our whole trajectory in this life, that along that trajectory there are two
things that take place, that is, there are two things that are counterpoints, in a
sense. That is, what the cross brings as a role. That is, what we see in the
Sun/Earths, the characterization, if you will, of the being that's going to ride along
this line.

The Moon
And what we get to see in terms of the Moon is we get to see something rather
fascinating. We're going to be looking at it today on the design side and next week
on the personality side, that on the design side what the Moon does is really quite
fantastic when you think about it. Let’s think about the Moon for a moment. I tried
to express to you how profound the impact of the Moon is on our lives. There is no
life as we know it that could possibly exist here without the agency of the Moon. And
I think one of the most fascinating things about the Moon is that the Moon is pulling
everything up.
I had that wonderful experience in my early years in Ibiza living in a very isolated
valley; a valley that had never seen electricity. It was a very beautiful place. I had
a neighbor and I would notice, because I'm somebody that enjoys the night sky, I
would notice that whenever there was a full Moon I would hear his big pump
operating and he was pumping water. I remember in the experience of that thinking
how clever he was, because obviously at a full Moon there is actually a greater
gravitational counterpoint from the Moon and in essence it's easier to pull the water
up and would be efficient in terms of the amount of energy necessary to be able to
do that, and so forth and so on; my kind of mind, obviously.
I don’t know when that was, maybe a week later or so, he came by, I think he was
bringing me some wood, and I mentioned to him my insight into his life. I said, I
notice, by the way, whenever the Moon is full that you pump up water. He looked at
me with a kind of funny look on his face, because for him it wasn't something that he
thought about, this was his rhythm. But the Moon, the Moon pulls the hairs out of
your head; it's the Moon that allows you to stand up. It's the Moon that holds the
layers of the suspended anatomy that we have and how everything is held together.
For me, it is so clear that when you're looking at the design Moon you're looking at a
very, very special keynote. And that keynote is that it is the design Moon that
shapes us; shape—that’s quite an interesting word, shape. It gives us our form
attributes. Again, we are speaking of the design side. As you'll see, we will have a
different kind of approach when we go over to look at the Moon on the personality
side, because the Moon on the personality side is—anyway, I’ll wait until I get there.
The Brain System, the Positioning and the Shape
But the shaping—this is something that is fascinating. Again, remember that we

have this very special relationship. That is, we have a relationship that is there
between the Moon and the Nodes, this is a natural one, obviously. And again, the
way in which this is all integrated into what is the holistic life. So this is a being that
is going to have here the brain system. When we are looking at the design
Sun/Earth we are looking at what's called the internal and the internal has to do with
the brain system; in other words, the way the physical brain is set up, the way it
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that are going to take place, and so forth and so on. In other words, here you get to
see the brain system itself.
When you change the perspective and you go to the Nodes what you're looking at is
the positioning of the physical vehicle; in other words, where this physical vehicle
should be. But you can see that nothing actually describes the vehicle. This
describes the brain of the vehicle. This describes the positioning of the vehicle and
its approach in that positioning. But the vehicle itself, its shape, this is what we're
looking at in this box below. In other words, these attributes that are there that
build up the illusion of the form.
The Shape Is Determined By the Moon
So we have the brain system, we have the positioning and then we have the shape
itself. Again, this is just an introduction to all of this. But it is something that in
both my PHS and Rave Psychology programs that we will be delving into this in
terms of its relationship to the various approaches. In other words, what in fact
does it mean? In other words, here we can see that there are certain elements
regarding the shape, the attributes of the shape. And yet the shape itself is
determined by the Moon.
Now, it’s not that written in here is the external formula of what the shape will
appear to be, if I can put it that way. In here lies the potential of the correct
dynamic for the development of that correct shape; tongue twisting language. It's
all about the Moon. And it's all about the Moon and the Moon's relationship to the
Nodes, because this is the interface of the positioning of the shape. Where is the
shape positioned, if I can put it that way?
So it leads us into the first steps that we have to take to begin to understand not
simply what the lunar value is, but, also the way in which specifically the Moon
relates to the nodal system, because it's very specific. But to begin with, we need to
have a look at the way in which we are going to approach color, whether it has to do
with the Moon or it has to do with any of the other planets. Basically what we're
looking at is the conditionings, in the language of Design, in the conditions or
circumstances that are going to allow the correct shape to arise, the conditions and
circumstances to allow the right shape to arise.
Now, the right shape or the correct shape is different than the correct brain system.
This is all part of a nuance of the way in which the form operates in the illusion. But,
the operating mechanism is up here, the positioning mechanism is here. Again, I
don't want to be in a position where the values that I'm going to share with you or
the insights that I’m going to share are taken out of proportion. Again, this is a little
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Shape: Color Values and the Moon
But let's begin by looking at what does the color mean? Now remember that we’re
dealing with the theme of resonance. And of course, this is something that is going
to be one of the most interesting aspects that we're going to look at. That is, the
way in which the relationship between the Node, and you’ll notice that it's not plural,
and you’ll see why later, the relationship between the specific design Node and the
Moon, how the color tendencies in their combination, how this is going to produce
different ways in which the shape emerges in that particular position.
Shape is an interesting thing, after all, and there are unifying principles in it. There
are people who have studied all kinds of body types, physical body types. Well, it's
clear to me, at least now looking at the picture, it’s clear to me that there actually
six body types and those six body types in terms of where are they or what are they
is that basically what you're looking at is the values of color in specifically the Moon,
because this is the key to the shaping, but the value of the color as it's applied to the
Moon and to the planets themselves.
In other words, this basically is going to establish the medium for the correct
attributes of the shape. Again, it is a shaping mechanism. And I don't want to get
into the—the risk here is that you'll try to give it a psychological value, and I am
strictly speaking about it in terms of the body. Again, we are a complexity, that is,
we are a binary and in the quantum we become this holistic whole. There's a long
way to go before you can take any of this information right now and use it in any
interpretive way. So be very careful about that, and particularly here in looking on
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In other words, we are looking at this in terms of literally the physical shaping of the
body. And of course, that physical shaping is not simply whether it is tight or flabby,
or this or that. There are endless values in shaping. All of those things are part of
it. I think this is one of the few places where certain kinds of astrological attributions
could really be interesting; in other words, traditional planetary attributions to
various parts of the body, it would be interesting to look at it within this context.
And of course, again understanding the context within the keying of how does color
work at this level.
So first of all, let's think about it in terms of a grid moving upwards and we’re always
starting with the 1 and we're going through this process of, and you’ll pardon my
drawing efficiency freehand here with my mouse, but anyway, if we’re moving
upwards in this process of color, we know that the 1st color is appetite. That is, on
the design side. We have appetite and we have taste and we have thirst and we
have touch and we have sound and we have light. And one of the things to be clear
about all of that is that these are either the conditions, which is the lower colors, or
the circumstances, the upper colors for the proper development of the shape itself.
In other words, if we see the movement of this to the 6 that is here, that is, we've
got a Moon that's in the 3rd gate, 5th line, 6th color, that it is going to resonate to
light. This is going to be its most important shaping factor. Now, what is interesting
is that when we get to see it transferred over to the personality side, we're going to
see that the very same themes become rather than the physical benefit of light that,
as an example, illumination becomes the key. In other words, there are processes
that are there that will drive the personality and its view and will drive it towards
being able to be cognitive through certain processes so that the 3rd color on the
design side represents liquids, the thirst, that on the personality side this is going to
be a desire to really experience things.
In other words, we’re going to see that what we’re looking at in the Moons, because
again it’s so important to remember the significance of the Moon. That is, it is the
gravitational quantum, the relationship between the Moon and the Earth, as an
example, this relationship that shapes us, that gives us our form in the illusion, that
the perfection of this form is determined by a very specific key. And it may be that
this key, which is the resonance of the shape to light, as an example, that this
particular key may not be in harmony with resonance to what happens to be the
particular color, for example, of whether it is the Nodes or whether it is the
Sun/Earth. And of course, what that leads to in terms of the interrelationship
between these elements that are all part of the construct.
It's one of the most interesting things to discover—when you think about weight
problems that the approach has always been through the Moon and the planets.
That's why they never got it right. It is an interesting thing to see that the form is
not always the right form, which is something also interesting to see, I mean, the
not-self all the time, after all. But, what you get to see through the Sun/Earth,
through the brain system, is that you get to see the unique dietary regimen. And of
course, if you're operating according to your Strategy and Authority then you're
being aligned nodally. And if you're being aligned nodally, then slowly you begin to
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Remember, what's interesting about the Moon as an element here is its specific
relationship to the Nodes. Now, the design Nodes represent, one of the things they
represent, is environment. So, one of the things that were going to see about the
shape itself is that the form is going to take its correct shape in an environment
where there is going to be that aspect of light that it can resonate to. There is a lot
of information in here about what is in fact our potential, our physical potential in
relationship socially to the other, our physical potential in that relationship.
Base Orientation
When we are looking at the Nodes and looking at them within the context of this
MMAI, as I pointed out to you the base information, you can see the base
information in these small boxes that are there, the four different configurations.
One of the things to remember about what we discussed last time because it's a very
important ingredient is that the Nodes are different in the way in which base
operates in them. That is, that the Nodes are different because it is in the base
orientation that there is a difference. And you can see that if you look here you'll
see that, the orientation here, you'll see that the North Node that it is a 5 and it is
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The Design North Node Is Aligned to the Personality and the Design South
Node Is Directly Connected to the Brain System
If you look at the 5 over here, which is right beside it, which is the South Node,
you'll see that it is a quadrant in the lower left-hand corner, and that is its
orientation. So even though these are the north and South Node and they’re exactly
opposite each other in the wheel and that they’re exactly opposite each other in color
and tone and ultimately in base in terms of the number, they are different in
orientation. And this difference in orientation is one of the keys in understanding the
holistic nature of this entity in the way in which this is all held together. But it does
mean that the design North Node is different and its difference is that it is aligned to
the personality. And it is only the design South Node that is directly connected to
what is the brain system.
So, here you're seeing the connectivity that is there now and leads outwards on
either end. In other words, the key to holding together, that is, integrating the brain
system and the shape into the place and orientation, is the function of the design
South Node. Now, I'm not in this class going to get into what this Node means. In
other words, it is related to the personality and it is a way in which both sides get to
integrate together, but that is a separate story. For what we are looking at is that
we're looking at the essential relationship that is going to be there between only the
South Node and the Moon, because this is where the essential relationship is. It
does not have anything to do with the North Node.
So, it is one of the first things to see in being able to look at, because again this is
work that is synthetic, being able to do this kind of analysis is not simply a matter of
saying, okay this what the Moon is like, and here's the 3rd gate, 5th line and 6th color.
It really is something else. That is, there is an interrelationship that flows through
all of this; now again, as I said, that’s something that's going to be explored in depth
in terms of PHS. What's important for us to see is that it's not just what that
particular Moon line can be relative to its color, it is what that Moon is going to be as
a player in integrating the attributes of the shape and integrating them into the
correct positioning. It is the Moon that is the player here. And it means that the
Moon is going to shed its light, its specific light on the way all the other attributes are
going to operate despite the fact that they're all the same in the sense that they can
only resonate to what's there.
One of the things that you'll notice right away and need to be able to see is that if
there is nothing within themselves, and again, I speak on the design side because we
have to discount this as an example, that in looking at it if there is no direct
resonance, in other words, for example, if this were a 6th color nodal system there
would be an immediate resonance within the body itself to align its correct shape to
its movement in space. It would make it a lot easier. And of course, what we’re
going to see, at least from the physical perspective, we’re going to see many, many
different kinds of variations, because here there is no such thing as harmony. That
is, there is no transference in this sense. That 3rd color that is there, again the Moon
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that all five other colors bring some quality of dissonance. In other words,
something that is going to not alter where the vehicle is and its approach to what is
the correct environment for it, but literally the way in which its shape is going to
operate, the way in which the form itself, the physical form, the way its attributes
are going to be present in terms of defining how that being is going to be perceived
by the other.
All of this has enormous social significance. Ultimately, it's representing different
kinds of body types. And the fact that the body type may not resonate to the
positioning and place is not a problem. It is a variation, but it is not a problem. The
thing to recognize, of course, is that this is all very theoretical, we're not talking
about—this is an incredible nuance in looking at a human being in their process. In
terms of PHS it is a way to be able to get to deeper and deeper levels of analysis and
to be able to pinpoint very specific things that mechanically once understood that we
can do something about it, that there can be a technique, that there can be a
therapeutic approach that we can take for various kinds of problems. But here what
we want to see is I want to give you the beginning of being able to look at what, in
fact, can we see. What is it that this will actually express?
Looking At the Moon in Its Relationship to the Form
So let's look for a moment. I want to take you away from all that stuff up here for a
second and just take you down here to the nodes and moon; and as I take you down
here, to also take you into where this is in the chart. And again, it is something to
see that what we have is an aspect that is dormant, and again as I reminded you no
matter theoretically what kind of an expression we can give to any particular
element in the database you still cannot do anything with it until you see it within
the relationship it has to the holistic form itself. And in fact, in looking at this
particular Moon already we can see that there are certain dilemmas. In other words,
this is an aspect that isn't always functioning, and it means that if we is assess this
logically, we can deduce from that that the shape of this particular being is not going
to be consistent. The nature of their form, their muscle tone, whatever it may be,
after all, it's all about shaping. The fact of the matter is that it may fluctuate, it may
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So again, I want to make sure that you're very cautious in the way in which you
apply any of this information. Again, it has to be seen at many levels. This course,
as I pointed out, because I don't have time in the other programs to be able to begin
talking about the color element as it impacts us. But again, for me it is still a minor
element. It is a fascinating element in terms of the value of the understanding of it
mechanically and the nuances that it can bring to our understanding and perhaps its
therapeutic value. So I don't want to take it out of proportion, that's my biggest
concern with introducing this information.
The Example: Moon in the 3rd Gate
Again, let’s go back to the Moon. We have the Moon in the 3rd gate and we know
that the 3rd gate is a mutative gate, so we know that we're dealing with a mutative
shape, that is a shape that can change and in that sense the inconsistency is
something that in the continuity works quite nicely with The Difficulty at the
Beginning. We're dealing with the 5th line, the 5th line is the line of victimization and
it says: When actions designed to overcome confusion alienate others. So, one of
the things about this particular being is that their movement in space, the shape that
they take, the form that they take, that this is something that often is going to end
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Again, I'm just dabbling here. It’s one of the ways in which you can look at that.
But let's think about the color for a moment. The color brings in another element.
The color brings in the element literally of physical light. This is a body that is going
to thrive on light. And it's not like tonal color fixings that would create the binary of
daytime and nocturnal. Again, this is a resonating thing and it'll resonate either into
the daylight or the nocturnal depending on what is the influence that is bringing out
the resonance. But, the light, the dark, these aspects, this is what is essential in
that sense to this particular shaping.
The Form Is Morphic
It’s difficult language because it's new. I see the form as Morpheus, as morphic.
That is, I do not see the body as this solid. And I don't mean to go into the physics
in that sense. I'm not talking about that. It’s just that it’s clear to me that it
changes. I stepped on a wasp the other day in my garden and you could watch the
flesh begin to expand and swell as the poison moved through the system. They call
them shape shifters, these people that change their form, but that’s us. The form is
changing every day, the cells are dying all the time and yes, there are broader
aspects of that, fluctuations in body weight and all of these kinds of things.
But, there's something else about understanding this shaping, that this shaping isn't
just the surface costume, if you will. It is the shaping of the muscles, as an
example, the shaping of the organs, the shaping of the spine, the shaping of the
neural pathways, the shaping of the brain and the brain stem. This is where the
density of the illusion of our selfness is. It’s why all the planets are interesting to us,
it’s why the planetary activations—and of course they're part of ultimately what
becomes our definition. And through them we live that out.
Now again, you'll see that when we take it over to the personality side, because after
all, none of this is who we think we are. This is all design. This is purely vehicular,
the way I’m looking at it. So you cannot translate this over to what is the
personality experience, nor what the attributes of the planets are as values in the
personality experience, because they bring a shape to things. I like ice sculpture, ice
sculpture is an incredible thing. I grew up in a cold country and there would be
festivals once year in the winter and I can remember as a kid going to one of these
things and there were these incredible shapes that had been cut out of ice.
The Moon Is a Sculpting Agent
The Moon is a sculpting agent. If we talk about it as a sculptor, it's the Moon that is
sculpting us. Yet, each and every one of the planetary aspects brings an attribute
that brings a highlight to that sculpting. And it is something that to see the art or
the artist in that, because that's where the beauty comes in. I think that many
things about our physical problems ultimately we will be able to associate with
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and the relationship to everything else, all that stuff. But I want you to have a sense
of what is this is on the physical side.
[Written comment: the integration, or not, of Design Moon in the definition of the
chart should then make a big and noticeable difference in the consistency of the
phisical experience. my design moon turns me into a Manifestor]
Ra: Oh, I think it makes a huge difference, Alok, in the consistency. There is no
question that in this particular design it is obvious that the shape of the vehicle is so
dependent on the conditioning forces in its life and none of the conditioning forces, in
fact, brings a beneficial connection. That is, it’s a triple split. The 3 going down to
the 60 will turn it into a quad. So again, it's one of those elements that we have to
see.
But again, my caution from the beginning, that is, it still is a minor element in the
sense that if the vehicle is correct, that is, if the brain system is functioning
correctly, if the vehicle is in the right place, that the limitations of the inconsistency
are not going to damage the long-term vitality of the being, but they will be points of
problems. They will be places of problems.
My hope is that at some point, certainly it’s not going to be done this year, but at
some point through what may be graduate work in things like PHS where we look
specifically deeply into each planet, we begin to understand the way in which it
affects the shape and where its influence is in the shaping itself, because only the
Moon is over all. That's the thing to understand about its role here.
Only the Moon is really the thing that connects the planetary information into the
general shaping that the Moon dictates. I think where you would have a much more
radical dilemma, in that sense, is here in this kind of case where the Moon itself,
rather than a planet, is a dormant gate. It means that there is no flow in that sense
of consistent information between the brain system and the positioning and the form
that's necessary in the environment.
The Nodes Give Us Life
Again think about the Nodes so that we can really grasp this, and I hope I can really
articulate for you. The design Nodes bring you into an environment. You can see
here environmentally, that is, we have some keynotes here—hardscape, kitchen,
wet—I’m not going to go into all of that, but basically this is a specific environment
that relates to what is the right environment for this being. Hardscape relates to
environments that are fundamentally enclosed. That is, this is simply a place where
they can benefit in their social interaction, and remember it's about social
interaction. And it is going to have to be a human place. And kitchen is relative to,
in a social dynamic where there both social and material opportunities are going to
lie. This is much more than what it appears to be in terms of the language, but
again, I don’t want to go into all of that at this point; just to give you the sense that
the Node is setting up an environment that is correct, not correct for interaction. But
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The Sun/Earth is the pure selfishness. That is, the Sun/Earth is only personal. That
is, it is the brain system and ultimately the mind. It’s only, only, only personal. It's
only about us alone within ourselves. The Nodes give us life. They give us life
because not only do they provide the movement, they provide the trajectory and
they align us to movement so that we can integrate with the other. In other words,
to fill the genetic imperative of making more and so forth and so on; and that who
we are in our very nature is defined by where we are and who were with and who is
a part of our lives, and so forth and so on. This is what life is. Life isn't lived alone.
Life is lived in the world and it is the Nodes that bring us that.
So here you have the South Node. It’s going to be the dominant key. And this
South Node is the place that is correct, in that sense. This is the environment that is
correct. The point in all of this is to see that the shape in the environment is a very
important nuance, but it is a nuance, but it's a very important one. It has to do with
illusion. It has to do with aesthetics. It has to do with the way in which we are
seen. The Moon is so great as an example of that light, how much of that light are
you going to see. Is it going to be a full Moon, is going to be no Moon, is it going to
be a crescent Moon. What is really seen and how is it seen? It’s the Moon that's
going to shed the light on this being in its interaction with the other. That's its role;
to give you your shape in the illusion, a shape that is witnessed by the other, seen
by the other. It is your Moonshine.
So, think about it. That is, the brain system is there, so it isn’t going to change the
cognitive potential, it isn’t going to change the quality of the potential of the brain to
be able to establish a cognitive parameter for eventually personality passenger mind
to work. It isn’t going to interfere with that. And in the alignment with the
correctness of the Node Strategy and Authority, the positioning is correct for that
particular brain system.
The Shape Distorts
So, this is the Cross of Life, the Cross of Life is absolutely correct. But then, what
shape is it going to take, because the shape distorts. You know what that's like,
think about it. Think about what it's like when you’re invited to some kind of
gathering and you might know a few people there, but you don't really know the
people that are there. And you arrive. And the interesting thing about entering into
that space is that there are only certain people that you're actually going to look at.
There are only certain people that you're actually going to see. It has to do with
their shape.
Again, I don't want that to sound like that that is specifically about whether one has
a perfectly proportioned body or not, I'm not really talking about all that, though
that's a part of it. The form your body takes—for example, some people show no
tension, even though they may be tense as hell. Some people appear to be
incredibly nervous, even though they're not nervous at all. It's there in the shape.
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the lines the Cross of Life, the Sun/Earths and the Nodes, again, these lines were
written poetically, they really need to be deconstructed.
But the moment that you're looking at the design side and you’re looking at design
lines, again, to understand them from the physical perspective they too would have
to be deconstructed to really grasp what those planets are bringing as an attribute to
the form itself. I mean, here is somebody whose actions will appear confused. It
doesn't mean they are confused. They’re designed to overcome confusion, after all.
But then, if you deconstruct that the way that shape is going to be experienced
ultimately can lead to victimization. It's in the body.
You can always tell somebody who is a submissive type, because you can see it in
the body. You can see aggression in the body, even when somebody has a smile on
their face. You can see it in their shape. This is the thing that’s so beautiful about
taking this adventure of looking at lunar and planetary color, and it's much more
obscure I think for many of you on the design side and will be much more tangible,
in that sense, on the personality side, and rightfully so, that's what we have
conscious access to.
The Relationship of the Planets to the Body
But, for myself I'm particularly intrigued with the relationship of the planets this way
to form. Since I was introduced to all of this esoteric knowledge after my process,
one of the things is that I scour the ancients; I always have—old pseudo-sciences
and all kinds of things. Planetary attributes to organs, planetary attributes to
aspects of our anatomy, the bones and this and that, they’re always something that
I found very interesting. That is, I don't think that any pseudo-science is a lie. I just
think that it is just an aspect outside of a greater synthesis so can never be in an
absolute truth, but I think there is wisdom in all these things. I was very impressed,
many, many years ago when I first began my teaching career in Design I was
introduced to the works of German, Bavarian, Dobereiner, a very sophisticated
astrologer, actually. But his investigation was into planetary relationships to health
and disease, and probably did the deepest research that any astrologer who ever
lived, literally, it was impressive, into those relationships.
Again, astrology from me is one of those aspects outside of synthesis that has its
wisdom and deserves its respect within its own construct, but it can never be an
absolute, and that was his dilemma. But I think in all of these things and this
preamble is basically about as we begin our investigation into the planets I'm going
to taking you both sides, obviously, so we’re going to the design planets and we’ll do
personality planets.
I’m going to bring along some of these old attributes and some of the modern ones
related to specific planets and speculated upon or revealed ideas about what they
relate to within the body. I think it’s something that is essential. It really is
incorporated into basic Human Design, in a sense. If you take, for example, the
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system—the 40 to the stomach and the 21 to the heart and the 51 to the gallbladder
and the 26 to the thymus. So, the relationships are already built in, in that sense,
and I think that at the planetary level, at least on the design side, we can begin to
see that this is the place we can look for the kinds of things that traditional medicine
and traditional genetics seek out. That is, the sources of particular ailments,
diseases, those kinds of things and perhaps being able to see them in this way, a
way to be able to mechanically see how we can do something about it.
The general ailments of the body are not something that are inherent to the Cross of
Life other than in the extreme of brain damage, in that sense, but the inherent
dilemmas are built into the shape. And again, when I say shape, please see that as
a layered process in which the shaping is built from the DNA at the center of the
shell outwards until we get finally to this outside shell. This is all part of the shaping
of this dense illusion that is us. And remember that we are incredibly dense illusion,
in that sense.
So this opens up a whole gateway of exploration, because after all it is not simply a
question of understanding that the design Moon is the key in the shaping, if you will,
and not simply to recognize that the design Moon may or may not be in an
advantageous situation in terms of the way it's integrated into the holistic chart. But
also to see that there are 64 variations gate-wise, and that there's 384 variations
line-wise, and then of course, the added variations for each of the potential color.
The Science of Differentiation
So we are looking at a huge spectrum of interpretable information that brings out

something that is at the core of this knowledge. Human Design is the science of
differentiation, that's what this is. It is about differentiation and it's about
understanding that our forms are deeply differentiated from each other. It is the
nuance that is there in the length of our fingers and the shape of our thighs and the
color of our eyes, it goes on and on and on, all of these nuances that make up the
presentation package that the brain system delivers to a particular place at a
particular time. In essence, it is the costuming, if you will, this sculpting or shaping
of the form.
It leads us to something else; it leads us to the beginning of an understanding that

being correct, without it we are so deeply, deeply disadvantaged. And all this begins
with the design; all of it begins with the Strategy and Authority that is going to
permit us the possibility of a) of deconditioning, and b) of beginning to emerge into
the geometry that is correct for us. Decision-making is navigating so you begin to
navigate correctly, which means that you begin to place yourself in what is the
correct environment. You begin to operate with a cognition that supports your
decision-making process.
And yet until you begin to align your vehicle completely, that is, your dietary
regimen, only then can you begin to work with the details of the form itself, what
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link together. It is a fascinating subject and is a vast study in and of itself. Truly it
is a vast study in and of itself, because I have looked at my own ideas about how I
will approach this information in terms of developing the depth of information
because overview is really not enough in all of this because it all has to be laid out
and it all has to be explored and has to be explored through both disciplines.
Using This Information
I am at this time pondering some kind of postgraduate program to incorporate a

number of factors that will need deepening in terms of being able to explore them
mechanically, because there is so much in this on both sides, and then obviously to
find a way holistically ultimately to be able to bring all of that detail to the surface.
One of the things that we see at this particular point in the knowledge—it's
interesting for me because it is my 21st year that I will complete in January, and of
course obviously that is three cycles—and I see that this is a platform of a whole new
cycle in terms of being able to, now that we have found where the treasure is, that
we can go dig for it, because that's basically the way I see it. That is, now that the
basic principles have been laid out and I will finish all that by the end of the
semester in the courses that I’m doing and the programs that I have, once all this is
laid out then the possibility of being able to use this information and bring to the
surface entirely new perspectives.
And of course, one of the phenomena of the holistic graphing is that the holistic
graphing brings to the surface whole new ways in which we integrate this being into
its relationship with others. It is so interesting for me in the movement of the
knowledge over all of these years, it really is fascinating that my focus was so
deeply, deeply, deeply personal over the first, oh I don’t know, 16 years of my work,
deeply, deeply personal, focused on the personal, focused on your unique authority,
focused on all of that.
And when you get to the deepest levels of the knowledge the first thing you
recognize is that the personal is always going to be secondary to what is the
transpersonal of life. That is, it’s the transpersonal that makes everything happen,
it’s the transpersonal that’s at the bedrock of the maya; this is just it. And how we
are shaped, in that sense, our shape in where we meet the other, that all of that
takes on enormous significance in the way in which this maya operates, in the way in
which we do take the other in or reject the other, who we’re connected to it, and
who we’re not connected to.
One of the things that arises out of Advanced Imaging is that we begin to see that
human beings are grouped in one of 16 different archetypal groupings that is not
something that is visible on the surface. It is something that arises out of the depth
of the information that comes along in the chain. That there is this phenomenon of
the orientation of the bases and that base orientation itself establishes certain
preferences and connections. And all of this is something that is only revealed once
you get down to the detail, come back up to the surface and see groupings and
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The same thing is true here. There is so much to be discovered about the nuances
of the body. Here is the primary work, because this sets everything in motion. But
this is the deep study, the nuances. And of course, in each of them lies a tool, a
mechanical tool that ultimately can prove to be of value.
Well, anyway, we'll see, as I've learned in my 21st year that everything takes time.
I’ve enjoyed that; I hope you did, too. You take care, have a good weekend and
until next time, bye for now.

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LESSON FOUR
Personality Lunar Color
Good morning to all of you and to those of you are downloading. We continue our
journey into looking at the color information as it relates to the Moon and planets.
We’re going to take a look at, obviously we’re looking today on personality side and I
want to begin to talk about the beginnings of how in fact, you look at this
information. It is very complex. That is, there are a lot of different levels of
associations that can take place.
One of the things that we

need to discuss to begin
with in order to put all this
into perspective is in looking
at the basic configuration
that it is so important to
understand the differences
in these areas. And to
really recognize that when
we are looking at color here
that we are looking at a
positive conditioning
receptivity. That's what
resonance is in the context
of the planets, a positive
conditioning receptivity.
Remember that these are
not actual colors. That is,
they’re not the crystal itself.
This is not what we were looking at as an example with the Sun/Earth. What we’re
looking is a positional relationship to a frequency. And it means that the Moon in
this particular context will resonate to the 2nd color. What it means is that we have
to look at the nature of what do we mean by color when we're talking about it on
personality side.
Design and Personality Are Deeply Different from Each Other
The first thing to be very clear about is that when we’re dealing with design and
personality we are dealing with two things that are so deeply different from each

other, they are truly, no matter how much one seems to think that they are related,
they are very, very different from each other. Color is the first level in which you
begin to understand this difference. It’s hidden beneath the line, in that sense. The
moment that you go beneath the line and the moment that you get to color
immediately they are distinguished in their terminology to begin with. The keynote
is always the formula.
When we talk about design color we’re talking about determination. When we’re
talking about personality color we’re talking about motivation. And these are two
very, very different things. So we need to be very careful about the way in which we
understand the application of the information that we call color, that personality
color is a unique and distinct thing, very distinct from what design color happens to
be.
There is something else that comes into all this. What comes into all of this is that
over here on the design side we have our planetary box and over here on the
personality side we have our planetary box. But our ability to be able to understand
the values of the planets over on the design side, we have no background, we don't.
All of the understanding, all of the application of planetary understanding, of
planetary affiliations to the physical body, those planetary affiliations have always
been deduced through personality position. In other words, the underlying
thematics of the values never had anything to do with that. But what we do know
about the information associated with the planets to the personality that this
continues to be deeply accurate, the bedrock of what is astrology, because of course
astrology is very much a personality data orientation. So the values of the planets
relative to the personality, we have a foothold on them. We don't have this foothold
over here.
The Values of the Planets as They Relate to a Nine-Centered Vehicle
And it's one of the interesting aspects of my work, particularly with the third-year
PHS program, to begin to deduce the values of the planets as they relate to a nine-
centered vehicle. This is a seven-centered personality construct in a nine-centered
vehicle. It is one of the most fascinating things to think about. The limitation of the
personality always, it's always a step behind the design, always. The design is there
before the personality is there. The design is always ahead of the game.
And of course if we are truly in a mutated form, that is, since Herschel and Uranus
in 1781, that in fact, the form itself is a nine-centered form. We see that because
this is the construct. So we have a nine-centered form in which we have to discover
new values for the first time. Planetary values that associate specifically to the form
construct and to the nine-centered construct. And it seems clear to me that when
we enter into the nine-centered construct, and again I've been reminding my
students who look at these charts to understand that we are dealing with magic
squares and magic squares are very important. That is, they lead to all kinds of
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centered vehicle, this new mutated vehicle, we know something very clearly about
that.
First of all, this nine-centered vehicle is actually emerging in a plutonium age. One
of the many subjects that I covered over the last several years I focused a lot on
Pluto lectures, particularly the crisis with Pluto being demoted to being a dwarf, the
advent of other dwarf planets like Eris, the discovery of Sedna, the beginning of this
process of establishing a different kind of influential hierarchy or filtering hierarchy of
which Pluto is the lead element of that. And within this new nine-centered vehicle
that Pluto has a very specific and important place in all of that.
So I think for example when I go into the advanced studies of this in PHS that this
connection between the Moon and Pluto, and this connection of Moon and Pluto
through Mars, by the way, because it's also interesting to look at it that way is to see
something very different about the values that are there and to begin to interpret
these planetary values within the context of the new form.
The Personality Is Still Seven-Centered
But the personality is still stuck in the old movie. It's very interesting. The
personality is still seven-centered, and how can I say that. Well, we know. Any
astrologer will tell you that these planetary values that have evolved since Babylon
still apply. Mercury is still is about communication. And it means that when we're
looking at the personality construct we are looking at perhaps for the first time an
essential element of the struggle that exists in this mutated form that is the nine-
centered vehicle. After all, there has to be this transition, this movement, the
Neanderthal, the movement forward, all of this process, and the lagging behind
always of the personality.
So here we have a nine-centered form and we have a seven-centered personality.

And the personality is always behind, anyway. The personality was there when there
were five centers. The personality was there before there were centers. But
anyway, it is something to grasp, because in terms of the ability to be able to
interpret color value, I will show you, because I will only treat—this is a general
introduction—I will talk about the color values on the design side relative to
positioning of the planets with suggestions of what may be there. But at the same
time the actual values is something that has to be deduced through a deeper
understanding of the nine-centered form.
PHS is the—I don’t know, I think it was the other day, for translation purposes
somebody asked me about Primary Health System, whether it was the primary was
associated with the health or was it associated with the system. My response to that
was that it is the system that's primary. This is in a primary system and is the
primary system of the nine-centered being. It’s why everything about being correct
in this age begins with the vehicle because the vehicle is mutated. The personality is
an old story, but the vehicle is new. That is, this is a new model design crystal,
nine-centered vehicle. As such, this opens up a whole new process in here.

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And of course, the nine-centered vehicle is expressed through the infrastructure of

the bodygraph. This is the ground where the nine-centered structure is laid. It’s
just interesting to recognize that we are in new territory. When we look at the
values and the relationship of color to the planetary, the lunar and planetary values
on the personality side, we are on in many ways familiar ground except that we have
a new kind of way of orienting the information.
Where the great mystery is is in coming to grips with what is the significance of the
planetary filtering within the context of the nine-centered vehicle. And what do they
bring to that. This is something that can only be approached theoretically and only
can be seen over time statistically, because that is one of the things that will
emerge, a way of collecting the data in order to begin to understand the nuances of
the impact of a planetary activation, planetary filtering on the nine-centered vehicle.
In this you’re meeting a basic key. That is, there is a great divide; that divide
between this and that. We are a duality; we are caught in the binary. We cannot
escape it. And it is important for us to see that there is not an equal relationship
between these two sides. There isn't. You can see it a number of ways. You can see
the way I traditionally express it, that is, here if you imagine the Magnetic Monopole
that is here. It is the Magnetic Monopole and the design crystal that together the
two of them build this form, they build this form.
One of the areas of fascination is going to be able to track the value of planetary
imprint in the 88° of the preconception, the first 88° of life after fertilization to be
able to tract the input effect on the eventual form in itself. But there's this unique
relationship that is there between the monopole and the design, as well obviously
with its nodal system. This unique relationship establishes the form long before the
personality ever gets into the movie.
So already we have a lack of equality between these two, that this is the primary
relationship here. And you can see it in the sense that if you look at it another way,
you'll see that in the relationship of the monopole through the center of the vehicle
that its first relationship is with the design. That's the primary relationship and after
that comes the personality.
So what we are looking at is that the monopole that is in charge of the capture
frequency that creates the illusional frequency of the holistic whole that its tendency
is lean this way, because this is the nine-centered programming. And this is the
heart and core of the nine-centered being. And then you have this funny thing over
here, stuck, still honoring the same gods, still. Personality consciousness, the
limitation of personality consciousness, it’s an amazing thing. And you get to see it
this way in a way that's really unusual, but it really expresses the essence of our
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We Are a Temporary Mutated Interregnum
I saw an interesting cartoon in El Pais, a Spanish daily newspaper. I think it was

yesterday and it was a drawing of a guinea pig and underneath it says: When will I
get the Nobel? It was very cute. When will we get our Nobel’s; because we are the
great guinea pigs. And I don't mean to say that there is some vast cosmic scientific
hand that is controlling the experiment. That’s not what I mean. But what I do mean
is that we are very much a temporary mutated interregnum.
We emerged with this new vehicle, which means that in understanding the nature of
the planetary values of the nine-centered being that obviously Uranus in this corner
over here is going to have a special value. And the change from the Uranian age
and its mutation away from the Saturnian age that there is a distinct relationship as
we saw in the beginning of this process of seeing the way the square works, the
relationship between the Moon and Pluto. You have this whole construct that gets
established.
All the planetary values that we are going to see over here we’re dealing with the
emergence of this mutation. It’s us. And we are here to integrate what is nine and
seven. Because remember out of the seven-centered being we get what is called
strategic. Out of the nine-centered being comes the potential to be receptive. And
we have all of the attributes of the mutation story that I described that's taking place
in the 55, all the attributes are here in these intrinsic differences fundamental
differences you can see and beginning to understand something. We have a nine-
centered vehicle. But our personality is still hanging onto seven-centered influences.
It’s what's left of the left.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the design that is emerging now, design crystal’s
emerging now, that there is an inherent tendency to right-ness. I don’t mean
they’re right, however that can be expressed. These are the new vehicles and even
though the new nine-centered vehicle may carry somebody who is left-left-left-left,
the vehicle itself is that nine-centered vehicle, which is going to be the bedrock for
the emergence of the receptive rave. And it is the personality that holds onto the
seven-centered traditions. You'll also notice by the way things to ponder. You'll see
that the alignment on this side is different from the alignment on this side. The
positioning—Uranus here for example, Uranus over here is an example. I don’t want
to get into it but it is significant.
This is a whole different process, a very different process, and in so many ways it is
still being dominated by the Saturnian as a link to this old seven-centered process.
Remember it's hard to shake the habit of thousands and thousands of years of
personality masturbation, because that's what it's been. We are the world and we
are it and we make it all happen, and blah, blah, blah. And all of these attributes
and the values that they carry today have not changed. And yet, the vehicle is totally
different. And so the strain on the personality to come to grips with the mutation, to
let go, to surrender, to give authority where authority should be. That is, the nine-
centered vehicle knows how to run the nine-centered life, knows how to navigate in
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Personality Color: Motivation
Color; personality color; motivation—that thing that pushes, drives, moves us—the
personality is helplessly driven. When you think about this term motivation and you
understand that color is so powerful in the way in which it brings cognitive potential
and in which it drives the line, in that sense, pushes it. The mind is always been
pushed. This is what motivation is. Yes, there are nuances of it. There are some
things that seem to be without motivation. That, in and of itself, is an enormous
pressure. Everything about the nature of the personality is that the personality is
being moved. Otherwise, it's flat. And when we're looking at motivation we have to
understand something very, very, very fundamental. I mean, as fundamental as it
gets.
Color Operates through Transference
Color operates through transference. Transference is a harmonic process. It's a

harmonic process in the sense that the 1 and the 4 are harmonics, the 2 and the 5
are harmonics, the 3 and the 6 are harmonics that you have to recognize that the
vast, vast, vast majority of human beings on this planet are not-self. And they are
automatically in transference. Now, what happens when you're in transference is
that you get cut off from the underlying cognition. In other words, you no longer
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mean the smartness you need, I mean the inside information that you need. You
lose that. Not only do you lose that, but you no longer are motivated correctly.
So for example, this chart which is a Just Now from whenever I made it up a couple
of days ago, in this chart you have a 5th color, you know that this person coming into
the world is going to be transferred to the 2nd color. They’re just going to be
transferred to that. That's them. They’re going to be dumb, hopeful people. And I
say dumb, hopeful people because they are not going to have the benefit of the
cognition. And they're going to be motivated to be hopeful. They're going to be
motivated to not really do anything. And they’re designed to be motivated to do
things, to fix things, to correct things; whatever the case may be—themselves,
others.
So it means the very basis upon which their mind operates, regardless of what the
configuration is, that the moment that you have transference of any kind is the
moment that you lose the potential of that mind to be correct and it is the moment
that mind is obviously not-self and that the decision-making process, which is going
to be motivated by the false hope, is going to be a decision-making process that is
rooted in all of its various openness and all of the conditioning factors, and on and on
and on and on and on. And it isn’t going to make a damn bit of difference whether
you can find a value for this thing or the other, because everything about them is
going to be distorted.
Motivation
Color is motivation. Motivation is very powerful thing; each and every one of us is
designed to have a specific and unique motivating force in our lives. And obviously,
a motivation that is pushing us towards whatever the particular expression is or can
be. But ultimately to see that in this diagram everything that you see that black is
who you think you are. All of it is who you think you are; some more consistently
than others, as an example. But this is a basic premise to grasp of the personality,
that all of these activations have an influence on the way in which mind is; the
mind’s is-ness.
The Range
We’ve seen that there are very different values attached to each of these areas. And
one of the things to be clear about is that when we are looking at the Moon and we
are looking at the planets in the personality box, that basically what we are looking
at is the r-a-n-g-e, the range of this particular personality. In other words, the range
is there in the activations. You can see that. Everything about Human Design is
returning you to who you are. And of course, this is about returning you to your
mind so that you can have your true outer authority, because your true outer
authority is rooted in who you think you all are. It is rooted in each and every one of
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But like everything else they don't all operate equally, and they don't operate equally
or they don't necessarily operate in unison for many factors. One factor is how is all
of this information integrated into the graph itself, which is another equation. The
other thing and what is our focus here in this particular course because we're looking
at specifically the color influence in this box is to see that this is rooted in resonance.
And it's not about moving to any serious degree whether there is resonance or not
within its relationship within the whole construct. Yes, there is importance to this
because it does create models and we can see there are all kinds of variations.
The Nodes
But the thing that's really important to see here is that when you're dealing with the
Nodes and you're dealing with the Moon you have one of the most special
relationships that exists in our calculation system. After all, it is the Moon and object
by the very nature of its potential movement that through that we are able to
calculate the positions of the Nodes. And it is through the Nodes that we have our
alignment to the outer whole, to the larger life, to the information feed of the trans-
solar system neutrino ocean, this relationship is a very profound relationship. And
because the Nodes in that sense are—I was about to say superior, I don't really want
to give any—well, it is in a way. That is, it is clear to me that the story of the
personality is written here. But then again, it is the basic plot line that is written
here. The nuances of the storyline are all in here.
So, in that sense, the nodal system that establishes the positioning perspective of
the mind is far superior to the nuances of the range. But again, our job is to see
how it works in here so that we can begin to glimpse these nuances. And something
interesting about our minds, that is, that they’re not stable in their interests or in
their focus, that true mind is not so much influenced in a negative sense, but is
honed, if you will, or refined or focused by the presence of others, because again we
have a resonating system.
Think about it this way. Imagine that each of the aspects that are here in this box
represents certain capabilities of this personality mind. For example the capabilities
that are there in each of these gates relative to the center, relative to the line they’re
in. In other words, each of these represents aspects of design interest for the mind,
design competency for the mind. After all, it is consistent all their life. It's who they
think they are. It is always there. Each and every one of these elements isn’t always
involved in any particular mental process. They may not be necessary for any
particular mental process.
The Nodes Bring Us to the Other
And what's interesting about all of that is that when you see the Moon and its
relationship to the Nodes, the Nodes always bring us to the other. The personality
Nodes are looking out on the world and they’re looking out at the other. Depending
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looking at that it is going to be dependent upon the resonance that is taking place in
their range. In other words, who is interesting? And who is interesting at any given
moment is simply going to be a matter of where is that perspective pointed.
Let's say that that perspective is pointed at somebody that has a 3rd color
personality. Somebody that this person is looking at and they see this person, they
don't have to know them, whatever the case may be, this 3rd color personality, what
does that bring out in this person. The first thing that you see that it brings out is
the Venus. So that person might turn them on, you never know. In other words,
the resonance is going to be, the motivation that's going to be there, desire
motivation, the desire motivation in the 59. This person may be a sucker for
personalities that have a 3rd color.
It also brings out the Mars. It also brings out the Uranus. So the moment this
person is looking at and taking in the 3rd color personality, it is these three aspects
that are going to dominate. In other words, it's these three aspects of their mind
that are going to be stronger because they are going to have that motivation and
this is when the mind gets flooded with desire motivation. Even though that's not
what it is. It is the driving force behind these particular aspects and whatever their
values are going to be.
My purpose in this course is to lay out the relationships for each planet. The
analytical process of this is something that I’m teaching third-year students, or will
be in the process of teaching third-year students. But again, I want you to begin to
have a flavor of this and to begin to see the complexities that are there. But also to
recognize how different our range is, that is, how different the tools that our mind
has that it's going to work with depending on who is in our aura.
Again, it is something to understand about the dilemmas that are inherent in all of
this, and I don’t mean to throw all kinds of spanners into the works. But let's take
the example that I just gave you, somebody who is a 3rd color personality. The
dilemma with this is that they're going to be acting like a 6. This is the frequency
that they are going to be putting off. The communication between the two beings is
not something that is ever really going to be pure. The fact is that the planetary
aspects are going to be resonating to the underlying color, when in fact the being
itself is not connected to that at all. That in and of itself creates certain kinds of
social dilemmas if you ultimately play that out as far as you go.
The Moon
All right, but today I want to specifically talk about the Moon and talk about this
theme that this box represents the tools of mind or its potential areas of interest and
expertise, the things it leans on. Again, I made that comment on today's radio
show, because I had this experience the other night with the Rave Psychology class,
that you go deep, deep down and you come back up to the surface. When you’re at
this level of trying to understand this lunar and planetary box, the only way you can
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the same thing. This is who you are, this is who you can trust, this is what
everything in the knowledge is all about, to get you to that point of being able to
align yourself to what is you. And everything that is here in black is the ingredients
of your outer authority. They’re the power that you have and synthesized they
represent your unique potential of mind.
So we return to our definitions, we return to our activations, but in a new level,

beginning to see them as the instrument of the nuance of our personalities and to
begin to appreciate them that way, and also to begin to see that they don't operate
harmoniously as such. It will depend on not simply the integration in terms of—you
have to see it in the bodygraph,
you have to see the relationships
that are going to be there in the
bodygraph as well as any other
kind of relationship in order to
get to a point where you can
really begin to see how these
things work.
We can see, for example, that

here our Moon in the 57 is deeply
isolated, and it shares that
isolation with the personality
Sun. So obviously, there is a
relationship that exists in this
system between the Moon and
the Sun, but at a very superficial
level, that is, at the gate level. But both of them happen to be in an open splenic
system, which means that it's subject to very deep conditioning and it means that
the power of that conditioning is going to have a very deep influence on the way in
which this mind is going to operate, in the way in which it is going to be focused. So
we do need to see it always within the context of the vehicle itself. It is something
that is essential.
But we have something very deep to think about in terms of the personality Moon
because it is a very impressive force. In my whole introduction to talking about the
Moon in the first place, whenever I think of the Moon, I truly never, never, never go
very far away from the physical reality of what it means to have this single lunar
object, we are unusual as a planet in that we just have the one Moon. How big is it;
it is an enormous Moon relative to the size of our planet. How powerful that is in
terms of its gravitational intercession, that is, the gravitational pull of the Earth on
any object on the Earth and the intercession of the Moon to pull back, as it were, and
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Personality Moon Keynote: Drive
It means that everything about understanding the Moon is to understand how it

literally pulls everything in up into the maya. It is the essence of that and drags it
all along in a motion, in its lunar motion. When I look at the Moon, my keynote for
the Moon, my keynote for the personality Moon, because it is slightly different when
we get to that about the design, but, my keynote for the personality Moon is drive,
the word “drive.” And obviously, drive is deeply, deeply connected to motivation,
and very different in the sense of the relationship between what is the design Moon
and the theme of determination that here on the personality side the intensity of the
pressure on mind is really expressed. The Moon is a great driving force and it is the
force that in this sense drives what the general focus will be. The general focus, the
real tool that is there, and it is this tool that carries with it a lot of power.
Now, of course, the fact is that we’re dealing with the 57th gate and we’re dealing
with intuition and in that sense it is the Moon in its relationship here with Pluto, we
looked at that for a moment, in that relationship, that is, they are both the only 2nd
color so they have a distinct relationship to each other, Pluto up here in the 11th
gate. Again, this is a very recent chart, so it’s a new life in the world. That what
we're looking at in the Moon's position, again I’m not talking about the color itself,
just the position of the Moon that this is going to be the central driving focus.
In other words, one of the richest things is going to happen for this personality is
going to be the byproduct of intuitive interaction, things they learned through
intuition. Now course that's hearing, we know that's hearing, we know that's
acoustic. In other words, this is a mind, as a synthesizing system, the way in which
ultimately the perception is cognitively assembled, that it's going to be very, very
interested in the acoustic information. That's going to be part of its range; it’s going
to be part of the tools it’s going to use in its conceptualizing.
And the of course, you have the resonance underneath. Well, the resonance isn't so
much about what the value is, and that's all about in this case for example knowing
what to listen for, and knowing that what you need to hear is something that you will
hear and you don't have to go looking for it, that is the potential depth of that. But
the real key for us is not the simple interpretation of it.
Again, you really have to grasp that humanity is not-self. This is as theoretical and
idealistic as I can be in the sense of suggesting any of this as generalized knowledge.
It's not. The fact that this course exists is only because this is a science and it has to
be taught. It is going to be something that is going to be part of the toolbox of
those that are trained to go very deep in Design and to be able to use information at
a much more advanced therapeutic level. That is, well-being for the nine-centered
being is something that is really new. And how to bring about well-being for the
nine-centered being is a huge step forward.
But most of the advantages that the knowledge brings aside from its obvious on the
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entered into the process, but have stayed with the process, because this is when
these deeper levels are things that actually can bring about a transformation of the
mental system; this laggard, the pseudo-seven centered personality that has to
catch up with the nine-centered reality. So, none of this stuff is mundane. And in
many ways it can be very obscure because in terms of application it's hard to be able
to see this other than the theoretical until we have really large communities of
people that are correct. Only then are we really going to begin to recognize these
nuances.
Seeing Color in Terms of the Outer Environment
What's really a key here, though, is to see the color in terms of the outer
environment, who’s interesting. It’s something to grasp that if you resonate to
someone's color frequency you’re resonating to the cognitive potential that's there.
You’re resonating and it is specifically for a certain aspect. So that 2nd color,
personality, in somebody else, that resonance is something that is going to highlight
this. It’s going to bring it to the surface.
So these people become important and these people become associated with the
elements that are derived from that thinking, or derived from those attributes. And
of course, it's for these people that these become the instruments of the way in
which the cognitive perception is released as outer authority. So for example, if
you're dealing with a 2nd color personality that happens to be in your line of view that
happens to enter into of your aura, you don't want to use your 3rd color stuff to reach
them or to communicate with them, because it's not going to be successful, because
it's not going to be the resonance.
It’s the thing that’s interesting. That is, different people require different mental
approaches. You know when you're dealing with that 2nd color being—I say, “you
know,” I’m just mechanically speaking—that you've got the tools that you need and
that's what you rely on. Aha, the 2nd color personality coming, let’s go into our
toolbox, what do we need, we need intuition and ideas to deal with these people,
because that’s what it is. We need intuition and ideas.
Not only that, but those people, because of the nature of the resonance bring a
heightened motivation for those aspects so that the intuition and ideas really begin
to bubble and they really begin to bubble in that situation with the influence of that
other being. Now, now one of my things about this is that this is a positive
conditioning force in that all it is doing is bringing up pure resonance. In other
words, your planetary color attributes are not going to be fooled by transference. As
I said to you, if this person is in transference to the 5, it doesn't mean that it's the 5s
here that are going to link in, which means that this person isn't going to feel
comfortable with that 2 communication at all. It will get to them, but it's not where
they're at because they're in transference.
As I reach these very deep areas in this year of closing the circle on the mechanics, I
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individual is always limited by its world, even the individual incorrectness. They may
operate correctly, but they may not be aligned in their correctness to those that are
fractally correct, to those that can best be communicated with, to those that bring
out the best aspects or the most dynamic aspects of their mental process, to those
that will bring out an enriched outer authority, they can simply be corrected in a not-
self vacuum.
Connecting to the Other
And it is so obvious to me as I go deeper and deeper that the depth leads you to the
recognition that the heresy of Human Design only begins with the individual, that the
reorganization and realignment of our communities, our concepts of tribe, of
importance of relationships, of types, of bonds, all of these things are clearly, clearly
marked as old, pseudo-seven centered personality traits. And that we have to begin
to reassess the way in which we connect to the other.
We know what the surface is taught us about connection. The surface says to us
that connection is a genetic imperative, and that's all it is. So on the surface you've
got a hanging gate and quite frankly almost any gate will do on the other end, again,
sort of. It’s on the surface that attraction is defined for us. It is the thing that has
marked us for thousands and thousands of years tied up with sexuality,
reproduction, pair bonding, all the stuff that goes with that surface.
And what that surface does is that it creates artificial or nonfunctional or

dysfunctional groupings, the dysfunctional family penta, the dysfunctional OC 16
WA’s, the dysfunctional tribes, dysfunctional societies and dysfunctional civilizations,
the way we recognize the other, the way we assess the other, the way in which we
judge the value of this being and that being is all rooted to pseudo-seven centered
personality attraction on the surface. And what you see here is that a nuance buried
beneath the line of the other person's personality, their motivation, a motivation that
they may not have any access to, that that fact that that motivation is there is going
to bring out a certain tuning, a certain focusing of your mind.
We're not here to be alone, we’re not. This is the thing to understand and the
knowledge says we don't know who we’re here to be with, because you cannot judge
that on the surface, because the surface is caught in the genetic trap, it just is.
There are other ways to see that we are bound to the other. There are the variables
that align us in body and spirit to other human beings. There is the base orientation
that draws us into the most extraordinary relationship with other human beings.
And yet neither one of these operate in a way in which the surface pays any
attention to it, could not have been seen before, before all the deep study of going
down in the infrastructure.
I'm in my 21st year, and when I watch a process come from the depths and come up
to the surface and present a whole alignment it's so obvious that this is where you
get to see the deep coordinating realities that really hold this whole illusion together
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begins to look at color analysis of the Moon and the planets, you really have to see
how everything about this is about the other. The value attachments are not
complex. But that's not what's significant here. What’s significant is that things turn
on and off, and they don't turn on and off on their own at all. And I don't really
mean on and off, I just mean highlighted or not, I don’t want to confuse that. It’s
the other.
How to Get to the Correct Other
And how do we get to the right other? Over here; we live in a nine-centered maya,
we are nine-centered beings. This is where we find our way; this is how we find
ourselves, our path. And if we are operating correctly, in that sense, and we enter
into the environment that is correct for us, then what is going to happen for us is
that we are going to meet exactly those allies that are correct for the different
aspects of this potential that ultimately is expressed here.
We’ve had a bit of a mystery solved today, this difference between looking at these
two this way, and to begin to sink in for yourself into the nature of what it is to have
these new vehicles and see them that way, to see that this is what's so much of the
dilemma is, this difficulty in being able to integrate this millennium-old personality in
this brand-new form and to begin to see most deeply that everything about life is
established here, because this is what integrates the world. This is what integrates
us and it integrates the world. It's about the other. No matter how important it is
for us to understand that Human Design is here to allow you to establish her own
authority, it allows you to establish your own authority so you can be correct in the
world with others. And that you have an ability within you to be able to discern
which others because you can be correct in this new form.
And out of that you begin to see the emergence of what is your true personality.
Every mind has potentially a deep range, many subjects that it is deeply connected
to. And yet, to see so clearly that if we’re not correct a great mind can be so deeply
wasted, a mind that’s with the wrong beings in which the attributes here simply don't
get drawn out. This person's lover happens to be a 1st color personality—scratch
that, scratch that, scratch that. See, it is complex. This relationship to the other,
it's not what you think, because what you think has been dressed up by the genetic
imperative on the surface. It's hidden underneath, like these aspects themselves,
these hidden lines that connect us all together, that allow us when we have the tools
to be able to see how deeply influential the other is in our lives, and conversely
obviously, how influential we are in theirs. Yeah, to be correct, that's what it's all
about.
Anyway, nice to share that with you this morning; glad I was able to do so. You
have yourselves a good weekend and see you again next week; bye for now.

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LESSON FIVE
The Color of Personality Planets
It is part of my pleasure and my excitement this is semester this year, obviously in

introducing Advanced Imaging and introducing the beginnings of the completion of
the analytical process of Human Design to be able to have a complete holistic
perspective. The reason I begin with this is that when I began in the summer to
schedule my program for this year, I realized that in the PHS and Rave Psychology
programs that I simply would not have enough time to be able to introduce certain
elements.
Ideally, somebody in Rave Psychology and PHS it would be to their great advantage
to participate in the History of Geometry, to participate in this particular program.
And ultimately I do, I make certain aspects of these courses available to them so
that they actually have the information that they need, but certainly I will make
these particular programs available at the beginning of the second semester, and I'll
make them available so that they can be downloaded by a students of those two
programs at some discounted rate. But, anyway, I’ll work it out because it’s very
important. There are a lot of people who are the programs who are also
participating in these classes, but it's the only opportunity that I have to be able to
introduce certain advanced information. And today is one of those days that is very
important because it's the first time that I begin this process of deconstructing the
planetary square.
The Range
When we are in our work of looking at this holistic imaging we have these divisions
that are there. That is, the internal, the Sun/Earth, the external, the nodal
configurations, and then of course we have what we've been looking at, that is, the
lunar and planetary configurations that’s below. It is something to see that this box
that we're looking at, in the language that we are using is that here we have the
mind; that is, the Sun/Earth. When we're looking at the Nodes we have the
perspective or view. And here where we’re looking at the various activations that
are brought to us by the Moon and the planets here we’re looking at the range of this
particular mind.
In other words, those things at that it thinks about because it is those things that
thinks of as itself. In other words, the personality activations that is there. And this
range, in that sense, can be very complex. In other words, looking at this image and

understanding that there is something different here, this is not in any way a random
orientation and it is actually—most people when they look at the new advanced
imaging basically their eye is caught to things like this where you see the tone and
the color and the base orientation, those kinds of things, the variable platform that's
been established.
They recognize, obviously, that this is the planets and you see that there is an extra
number in there. So, obviously this is the additional color information. But this
actual construct is as revolutionary as anything that you're seeing above. And I'm
going to introduce to you today something that really is very complex, and it is
something that we're going to be working with for the next weeks. And today is the
day that basically I introduce the foundation of this, the premise of this, so that you
can begin to grasp this or begin to playing with.
The Lunar and Planetary Square
One of those beautiful things about my work in Human Design is that this is a
science of differentiation and to be able to see the uniqueness of somebody’s mental
system is really extraordinary. And one of the things that is very much part of the
work of Rave Psychology here we are on the personality side and I will begin and
mostly deal with the personality side because it is the easiest to translate to
particularly students who do not participate in these programs. I will touch on the
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planetary square, because it is this configuration that carries with it an enormous

amount of information, insight into the makings of the unique mind.
So the first thing is to begin the process of deconstructing the box itself. One of the
things that we have looked at is the significance of the Moon in all of this. And that
we know that the Moon is a coordinator, a coordinator thematically of the potential of
this range and it is this that aligns the range to the perspective; that is, the
connection of the Moon to the Nodes. Again, I caution you that there are so many
levels of analysis that are possible with the information that I'm about to introduce
that I just don't want you to jump to conclusions, just go along for the ride if you
will.
So we know that the Moon, and of course my moving to that immediately is what is
the Moon's relationship to the Nodes, how does that relationship particularly work,
how is what the orientation here that the Moon brings of this particular range, how is
that going to fit into the perspective, and so forth and so on. There are many
different levels of connectivity and all that is also simply one aspect of what is
ignoring the design on the other side and the holistic presence in the middle and it
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The Vertical Range
So, remember where we are today. We are in deep deconstruction. We're just
looking at the construct itself. The first thing to recognize about any magic square is
that of course there are many ways in which it operates and you can see that the
classic operations of this square, that is, the classic ways in which it operates are
outlined here. The first one that we look at and you will see that this is the primary
one and this is where we're going to put a great deal of our focus today that this is
the vertical range and you can see this vertical range, that is, you can see this
movement here. In other words, this is the vertical movement.
Now, think about this in the context of that we’re thinking about mind and we’re
thinking ultimately about the way the mind thinks. We have vertical thinking and we
have the lateral thinking. We have vertical range, we have lateral range, and the
vertical range is the foundation of the way in which the line system is going to
operate. In other words, these particular aspects ultimately are going to take on a
specific value, an important value and of course bring to us as those that are able to
interpret the surface mechanics to be able to see the influence or lack of influence
that particular aspects have when we integrate them into the graph.
So to begin with, we have the vertical range. And as I said, the vertical range is
something that is the foundation way, or the first basic way that you look at this
square and the way it's going to work. You can see that the—it's too bad Spraggelos
isn’t here, he would really enjoy that I'm using the Greek alphabet, but anyway. You
can see here the alpha-beta-gamma, so that we have an alpha vertical, a beta
vertical, and a gamma vertical. We have these three different vertical systems. It is
the alpha vertical, and that is the one that we’re going to the concentrate on today,
it is the alpha vertical that actually sets the foundation for the basic tools that the
mind will tap into.
The Alpha Vertical: The Foundation/Experiential Range
Think about what range is about. What range is about is that those particular
aspects in your design that are not personality Sun/Earth or North Node, in other
words, they don't haven't have anything to do with the Cross of Life, that those black
aspects that you have, that each and every one of them are tapped into by the mind
when it's processing a particular problem or processing something it's looking at. In
other words, it is, after all, this is what we learn from the very beginning in Design
that the personality is who you think you are, that is, those activations are who you
think you are. What you're looking at in the alpha vertical is you're looking at the
foundation of that that who you think you are, the tools of who you think you are,
that form the basis upon which your mind begins to establish it's processing of any
kind of a concept. In other words, this is the experiential range that it taps into, this
is the foundation.
Now, one of the things that you'll notice here, and again, this is a whole study in and
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something that is really not just simply profound, but very exciting both on the
personality and on the design side. But again, it's a process of looking at things in a
different way. What I'm showing you here in this box—I want to digress for a
moment because I want you to grasp something and I've been talking about it a lot
lately. The two sides of the coin, that is, when we're looking at the design we are
looking at the design of a nine-centered form. That's why it's so important to
understand that Human Design is based on decision-making that is rooted in the
vehicle. It’s rooted in the vehicle because it is a nine-centered vehicle. It is a nine-
centered vehicle that is ready, prepared, and able to make the correct decisions for a
nine-centered life.
But the personality is very different than that. That is, after all the personality is not
the form principal. The personality is simply dragged into the form; it was dragged
into this nine-centered fetus. It was brought in from the outside. And of course, it is
not by its nature nine centered. It isn’t. And if you look at the traditional way in
which the bodygraph is presented to people in Human Design, that is, the basic
bodygraph that everybody sees where planets are lined up on the left and the right,
that is a deeply seven-centered representation of the planetary relationships in
terms of the way in which they impact our vehicle. In other words, what we're
looking at is a nine-centered configuration.
And of course a nine-centered configuration, it’s very nice that it's a nine part magic
square. But in this nine-centered configuration you can see that it does not follow
specific logic. In other words, it is not, for example, moving with the planets in the
direction that they are from the Sun. That would have Mercury being followed by
Venus as an example, the same thing being true here that what follows Mars seems
to be Neptune rather than what it should be which is Jupiter. And again you have
these very different ways in which you see the planets being presented in
relationship to each other.
So, the first thing to look at, in that sense, is this division that is here, the division
that we see in the vertical range, because again the vertical range is the primary
range. The lateral, as we will discover, is that all laterals actually emerge out of
what is the alpha vertical. But I don’t want to go too far ahead and confuse you. So
let's begin here and look at this. From the Human Design perspective, what we're
looking at here that not everybody could see is in fact we are looking at something
that is intrinsic yin as opposed to what we're looking at here in the middle, which is
intrinsically yang; the yin and yang of it, if you will. By the way, from my
perspective I have always since the beginning of my process considered Saturn not
to be a yang force.
Alpha Vertical Range: Moon, Venus and Saturn
But anyway, within this context there is rather than being caught particularly on the
yin of it, to be caught on at the very simple level what does the alpha vertical range
bring? It brings values. It brings discipline. And of course, we have the Moon,
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forces in their relationship to the Moon, that they establish the basic principles upon
which the mind is going to be based and where that particular value system, an
example of the Venus, but where is that?
In other words, when we begin to take that step and begin to move upwards and we
begin to look at the construct we begin to see, for example, that it is going to be
very interesting. And I say interesting because I don’t what you to jump analytical
conclusions. It's going to be very interesting to see the relationship of the Moon and
Venus and Saturn and how they're related in the chart. Now, it so happens that in
this particular configuration, again this is a Just Now configuration that you can see
that all of them are aligned to each other. So, here is the Saturn in the 59 and the
Moon is over here in the 38 and the Venus is over here in the 40 and it's all part of a
continuous definition. And you know that the experience of this is going to form
bedrock of the way in which this mind is going to conceptualize. It’s going to tap into
that for its experiential footing.
When you think about the way in which it works and you think about that this is the
view well, what does a view mean? You need reference points, you need experiential
reference points. So, how you perceive any environment, regardless of the fact that
your eyes are pointed in the right direction and you're taking in the correct view, but
what is your ability to be able to distill what you're seeing, to be able to reference it
against your experience, and to be able to not only that, but understand this is all
continuity, that is, it's all operating together, that in fact that all of this is forming the
foundation of the way in which this view is going to be perceived. So it's going to be
seen within a certain construct.
We all depend on our designs. It's so interesting, I mentioned this in one of the
other classes that we were doing that I find it comical in an ironic way that you go all
the way down into the depths and you get all of this fascinating stuff and you come
back up and the only thing that you can look at is that we are here to live out who
we are and not who we’re not. Every single aspect of your design that is personality
is an aspect that is part of this whole passenger phenomenon.
And we depend on the range that we have, we depend on these activations. We

depend on them in the sense that they lay the foundation for the way in which the
mind is going to conceptualize or not. And not so much how the mind itself
conceptualizes, but the direct relationship of the planetary and lunar system is to the
nodal positioning, the nodal perspective. And the perspective is dependent on our
experience. A baby looking out at a painting, what does it see compared to an adult
looking at the same thing? That is, they have different frameworks of reference, and
because they have different frameworks of reference they are able to conceptualize
about the nature of something in a totally different way.
The thing to recognize about the nature of our minds is that they are deeply, deeply
dependent on these activations because this is the range. And as we're beginning to
see that we have a complexity in terms of, and we well know this, the capability of
mind is really extraordinary. And in being able to work with this lunar and planetary
square and seeing the deconstruction of this you're actually being given a gateway
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resources. In other words, the way the passenger taps into those things that you
think of are you, and what their priorities are. There are very, very different
priorities in each of these in terms of the differences in each of these, for example, in
terms of the vertical range.
And obviously it’s one of the things they we’re going to go through in this program is
that we’re going to take a look at the different ways in which these associations
operate. I want you to imagine now the nuance that this brings into looking at how
different our minds systems are, because this is really something to see. After all,
the numbers are part of the great rolling wheel and each one of them represents
totally different aspects. And that every single one of us is going to have very
different vertical lateral ranges. And what does it mean when we unite with
somebody at whatever level, what happens in those relationships relative to the way
in which the perceptions operate according to the range.
I was talking the other day in class, I don’t know what class that was, somebody
asked me about partnerships and I was talking about how the ideal is sameness. It
is sameness and you can begin to see that if you're dealing with somebody that has
a connectivity to you in terms of the way in which their alpha vertical range
operates, it means that the basis of their mind system is similar to your own. It
doesn't mean it's the same, but it can mean but it's similar.
For example, there are many, many things to wonder about. What happens when
you meet somebody whose personality Moon, for example this person meets
somebody's personality Moon in the 28 or their Venus is in the 37, or their Saturn is
in the 6? Again, my warning because—how shall I phrased this—this is not in any
way immediate, essential or practical, because it cannot be practical until it’s
mastered, and it will be a long time before anybody can master this because it is
enormously complex, and there is the design side on top of it in which the vertical
lateral ranges are very different in the way in which they operate, because of the
fundamental difference between personality and design.
So this is a very, very complex area that is being opened up. Yet at the same time,
like anything else, we start somewhere and it's important to begin this process of
being able to awaken the potential of the nine-centered personality, because of
course this is what this is really all is being able to tap into that potential of that
nine-centered personality. And though, here in the vertical we see in a sense the
basic conservative streams, foundation programs that are established in terms of
what the mind taps into as resource. And of course, we’re going to see situations in
which the alpha vertical maybe entire the undefined, for example, the alpha vertical
in Reflector which again is a nuance because obviously Reflectors are very different,
but nonetheless, to begin to understand the impact of what this means when it gets
translated into the graph itself and into the way in which it materializes in the life.
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The Basic Values
Anyway, we begin with what is the basic construct. That is, the basic values, the
mores, the rules in order for us to be able to function and the basic morality of the
mind. And it's interesting to recognize that it is this basic morality that is both an
instrument of the vertical range, but is also going to be one of the keying pins of
what is going to be one of the lateral ranges. And of course, it’s very interesting to
think about the difference in the way in which mind works. This is the building block
mind, this is the mind that builds one thing on the other and what we're going to see
is that different human beings have different fluidities in terms of access to range
because of the way in which the activations operate within the holistic body graph
itself.
I think what lies in all of this is a new way of understanding intelligence, because it is
a way of seeing limitation. It is a way of understanding that only certain things
function at certain times. And again remembering that as interesting as it is right
now to look at this, to keep in mind that everything that operates within the zone
operates through resonance, which means it is being triggered by outside positive
conditioning forces, or the presence of what are inherent positive conditioning forces
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So, the very activity of all of this is twofold. That is, it could be part of the definition,
as we've seen, for example, the alpha vertical being part of the definition in this
person's design. And yet, at the same time the aspects of is that are actually going
to be motivated so that they really jump out. Because understand something about
what color is doing at the planetary and lunar level. Imagine for a moment that
Cross of Life is the teacher in a classroom and the Moon and the planets are
students. And the Cross of Life teacher asks a question and three hands go up going
me, me, me, me, me, I know, I know, I know or whatever the case may be.
Basically this is what you're always looking at in terms of what the mind uses as a
resource, and the resources in a sense are competing with each other. And what
resources are going to be available to the passenger are the resources that are going
to be heightened by the resonating mutating force.
It's not so much that they bring the actual color value; they do to a minor degree.
What they're really doing is that this is what's jumping out. So something comes in
front of you in your life and all of a sudden you have a memory of something similar
to that that jumps to mind, or have a memory of something totally dissimilar to that
jumps to mind, whatever that happens to be that's your range jumping in, that's
your experiential background. And of course, what jumps in—those kids in the
classroom, they’re kids who are sitting there who have the answer and they don't
raise their hand. And there are kids who think they have the answer and raise their
hands. And then there's the right answer and the hand is up.
Human Intelligence is Nurtured in Connectivity
The whole thing to understand about what happens with this square is that
depending on who the other is; remember that the lunar and planetary square is
connected to your nodal system. This means it is connected to the world. It means
it's connected to the other. It means it is determined by the other. If I did not have
students in my life I would not be very clever. My intelligence has always been
determined by the level of my students. That is the way that it works. It is
something to recognize about intelligence, human intelligence, that human
intelligence is something that is nurtured in connectivity and it's something to see
about the way in which our minds, the way in which they tap into things have no
control over it. That's the most interesting thing. You cannot go to that favorite
place of yours just because it's in the definition and tap into that, because certain
aspects of that are not going to raise their hand.
So again, it goes back to one of the bedrocks of coming into this knowledge, is to
begin to understand that yes, your first responsibility is to yourself. There's no
question about that. Your first responsibility is the correctness of your actions, but
the correctness of your actions ultimately lead to a realignment in terms of the world
that you live in and who you connect to. And who you connect to is no longer just
the obvious of the deep impact of conditioning on people's lives and what it means to
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But to begin to understand that there are levels of conditioning that are so deeply
influential in the way in which we think, in the way in which we process information,
because in fact we are designed as outer authority to be able to communicate
effectively to the other. Not all others, that’s what base orientation teaches us.
Base orientation says that no matter how articulate you are and how impassioned
you are with your particular subject that you cannot reach every one. You cannot.
There are those that simply cannot hear it and it is just the way that it is.
And we have to see that at this level what you're looking at is the manipulation of
the way in which your resource system works. If you're, for example, somebody
who's strategic left minded it can seem frightening and shocking that actually takes
place. If you're right minded it's actually made for you because after all this is nine-
centered configuration and, the first true nine-centered personalities as groups will
probably emerge in the right before they become a real commonality in the left
simply because of the nature of the construct, is that they have to be initiated from
the outside.
It’s something that you really begin to understand. That is, the moment that you
have an encounter with somebody and you're aware of their limitations, their
intellectual whatever limitations without attributing anything negative to that, the
fact is that you have to change your dialog to communicate with them, that you have
to step down the value of the communication. It’s what exactly the Voice did to me,
it was the most humiliating thing I ever went through was to understand how
fundamentally stupid I was compared to this incredible intelligence.
One of the things that you have to see is that the underlying spiritual value of this
knowledge is the freedom to release oneself from mind and mind being in control.
And when you see how any person coming up to you can bring out a specific
highlight in the way in which your mind is going to process its connection to that
person that is really something to grasp. And it is a two-way street, because they're
bringing out the motivation it means that this is something that they will resonate to.
And it means that your outer authority is going to go to influence them. Yet, at the
same time your outer authority, that is, what that perspective outer authority is
going to be, that the experiential background of it, that is, its history, its root is
something that's being manipulated and that certain things are not available to you
in that situation to tap into and other things are.
Nothing to Do But Surrender
At this level you have to see that there is nothing to do but surrender. Truly, there
isn't anything to do but surrender, because it's not like the awake passenger quite
happily submits to their experiential range being triggered by this or that. It sort of
makes the entertainment entertaining, because once you’re detached from having to
control your life you can enjoy the different ways in which your mind can be
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It also means that something that I think is obvious in a sense to most people think
about the nature of relationships is clearly how different we are in the way in which
we relate to different people. I mean, we are very different in the way we relate to
them; we’re very different in the way in which we see them, in the way in which we
process them. And again, to begin to understand what is going on in all of that is
that you do not consistently see people in the same way, you cannot see them in the
same way. As matter of fact, it’s just not possible. Every single one of them
changes the basic configuration of the way in which you're going to look at them and
the way you're going to see them, the way in which your mind is going to relate to
them based on whatever is going to be highlighted.
That's quite something to imagine. Here we are in our vanity assuming that we have
control over this. It’s like me here; I'm in a situation where I am protected from
somebody altering the way in which my outer authority is working as I speak to all of
you. There is nobody here that is in my aura, and as such it is a protection, in a
sense. That is, I'm simply operating through what is the natural tendency that's
there. And we can see that like in this design there's a very strong alpha vertical
that is there and that means that there is a consistency that can be there when that
person is alone. But the moment that they're not, the moment that they are there in
the world with the other, that's the moment that their reference points change.
They just change. They’re going to change depending on whatever the highlighting
happens to be.
Lateral Ranges and Martial Diagonals
So, it's one of those things where we have a fascinating group of information to look
at. As I said, we’re going to look at the vertical ranges and then we're going to look
at the lateral ranges. Obviously, the lateral ranges are really fascinating, because
this is the out-of-the-box thinking, this is a creative experiential line of thinking,
quite different than this as a kind of infrastructure layout. Again, we’re looking at
very, very complex things here in just looking at these two particular variations. And
more than that, we have the martial diagonals, and they're called martial diagonals
obviously because of the keying point of Mars, in fact that Mars is literally in the
center of all of this.
Now, as just sort of a little random note for you—it’s minor Adrian. I will talk about
that, but it is minor. Here looking at Mars in the center it's something to grasp that
this is the center of the range and as the center of the range it is the heart of the
instability of what is the nine-centered vehicle and the nine-centered personality,
because in fact this is a mutated interregnum. That is, the nine-centered vehicle is
simply a transitional form and it is a very, very immature form. And it's fascinating;
again it opens up to so many different interpretations. It has a very, very deep
significance on both sides of the coin. I think in Mars’ entire history I don't think that
it's ever been exalted to this particular point. It is really a key ingredient. And
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Isn’t it interesting that humankind is spending billions of dollars searching for life on
Mars, searching for evidence of life? It is this quality, this immaturity, this new form
of principle that is very much embodied here in the power of Mars in this
configuration. Again, a very complex subject, a fascinating one, and one we’ll get to
eventually in this process is to look at the Martial diagonals and to understand how
dramatic they are. They are, particularly much more so on the design side than on
the personality side, but even on the personality side they’re very important. The
whole mutated mental system, it is here with Mars in the center of this configuration
that the transformation of the visual cortex, the mutation of the visual cortex that
separates the left from the right, that Mars is deeply, deeply associated with that.
Again, I'm learning so many things in this new era of the knowledge and along with
my deep understanding now of the predominant importance of the Nodes of the
Moon that in going through an understanding of this structure, to begin to appreciate
the significance of Mars and what it will mean interpretively in the chart is something
that is very exciting very, very interesting. But let’s stay with where we’re at. I
have a nice little illustration for you.
We also get to see because here's a nice example of that that the connectivity, that
is, the 37 that is there unconsciously in the design and the 6 that is there, I don’t
remember which it was where it was a 9 or the 60, whatever the case may be, of
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emerge. There are analytical values to that. Again, I don’t want to get into the
depth of this, I just want to give you a surface to look at.
The Basic Focus: Moon
What are we looking at here? We are looking at the basic focus. What I mean by
that is what doe the mind focus on when it needs information for concept. For
example, it's looking at something; it doesn't really understand what it sees. Where
does it go? In other words, this is what the Moon brings. The Moon brings the
primary focus. And you can see here that the primary focus in this context is going
to be investigation. It is the line of investigation; this is a fighting Moon, if you will.
This gives you a sense in what focus would be. So what you know is that the
moment that there is a problem, and again I just say problem so that we can look
for a solution, the moment mind has some kind of problem, and again the problem
is rooted in the visual, it's looking at something and it's trying to either place it into
its memory system or try to make sense out of it, whatever the case may be, we
know that the focus, that the primary focus experientially is that it's going to want to
look into things, it is going to want to investigate. This is the detective.
It says right away that if there is consistency in the way in which the Moon is
experienced in the design, as an example, that it's going to be an indication that this
is somebody that takes a long look at things rather than somebody who takes a
short look at things. Just to give you a little taste. This is the resonance. In other
words, this is what it will resonate to; it will resonate to a 2nd color personality. This
is what it resonates to.
And of course, the moment that the resonation is there then you begin to see that
this is going to be a mind that is going to trust that the investigation is going to bring
its results. And this is going to be the basis upon which this who you think you are—
I make up my mind, I take a look at things very carefully and slowly, I do my
investigating, and I have this sense that in the end the answer will appear. Not a
bad basis for the mind to work from as a foundation.
First Relationship: Venus
If we go to, and again, I'm just giving you the surface just so that you begin have a
feel of this. If we going to the next step. And we consider that the Moon is a
coordinating agent and we’ll look at that both in its martial diagonal in terms of its
vertical and its horizontal and of course here in the vertical that the first relationship
is with Venus and with values. One can never ever, ever underestimate the
importance of Venus. Venusian activations, particularly at the personality level
because it is really setting the foundation for the way in which you look at others
within your value system. In other words, what you respect and don't respect, what
you cannot bear, all of these kinds of things, all kinds of things that are wrapped up
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And you can see that when we’re dealing with the alpha vertical that the alpha
vertical is saying that the range has to be based on a proper focus and a proper
focus that has established values and discipline. Now, that is true for everyone.
That's true for everyone's personality. It’s just going to be different in the sense
that you’re alpha vertical range is going to have your planetary objects obviously
activating different gates, lines and colors.
And of course again, you can see the incredible nuances that emerge that this, the
alpha vertical, which sets the foundation for the resource that the perspective needs
in order to make sense of its world, that everybody begins with from the mental
perspective the same fundamental premise. Now of course, not everybody has an
active alpha vertical, and we're going to see that. We’re going to see people that the
Moon and Venus and Saturn may be in split separated from each other, they may be
in undefined centers, all kinds of things that are possible. We’re going to see all
these various variations.
What we’re going to see out of that is that it may not be the vertical range that
determines the way their mind works. They may be horizontal because of the way
their activations work. And rather than having this basis upon which to look at
things, they're going to see things very differently because they’re going to see them
out of the box. They’re going to see them with a different kind of a range, with a
different kind of background. So we get to see all the variations of the different
kinds of mind systems that are going to emerge, because of course everything about
the mind is going to be based on all of these elements of who we think we are.
Saturn: A Key for Survival
And of course, finally in this construct of the alpha vertical we get to Saturn. I was
never an astrologer and I was not somebody that was intrigued by it. Through my
experience, through 21 years in the knowledge because of what I understand planets
do as filtering agents in the neutrino ocean, that I am enormously impressed with
the power of these mechanisms, because they’re mechanisms, to imprint, control our
lives, to imprint our personal unique lives, to be the imprints of the programming
field.
And I don't think that any other force is more challenging in the planetary sense than
Saturn. I think it is clear that Saturn is the safeguard of sanity. And one of the
things about Human Design and Saturn, something that I've taught over all the
years, is that when you're incorrect it's where Saturn is that you pay the price, you
pay the deepest price. It will just punish you. It is something to understand about
the nature of mind is that mind is always trying to avoid being punished. It's a key;
the values are a key. But, it is also very important to understand that Saturn within
this context represents a key for survival. Every decision that you make determines
whether or not you can survive, after all, and how long you’ll survive.
So, this alpha vertical is something that is very profound. But again, one of the
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there is no, oh my goodness they don't have the alpha vertical. Again, please do not
get carried away in any of this. The fact is that we all have different kinds of mind
systems. And what we get is what we get. In other words, the point is not to look
for what is not there, but to embrace fully what it is there and to begin to
understand it.
People who take the Rave Psychology program, in the first year they're taught
something that is very important, it’s called color transference. And color
transference is about the ability of the passenger to be able to recognize when its
personality is being pulled towards transference. One of the things to see about the
whole nature of the passenger is that the passenger has to be attuned to the point
that it begins to recognize how each different being in its life brings out an inherently
different thinking process.
Mapping the Alpha Vertical Range and the Colors
I have students doing all kinds of advanced mapping these days, but one of those
things that is really fascinating to look at is just look at the alpha vertical range, just
that. Look at the person; look at the colors that are there so that you have the hope
and the innocence and the desire. And then look at those people in your life whose
personality Sun/Earth carries either one of these three themes. And then begin to
watch what happens when you're with the 2 person or you're with the 6 person or
you’re with the 3 person, how you are altered in the very way in which your mind is
processing information, because it's like your Nodes are saying, I need a reference
here and it's the other person that is handing you the dictionary and giving you the
reference. You don't get to tap into your own referencing, you don’t.
And of course, that in of itself creates unusual situations; because of course not
everything works according to Hoyle, in terms of “oh, isn’t that nice, everything is
this way and this way and this way.” When you think about the way in which it
works, somebody comes along with a 2 personality and they hit that, and they hit
that, and that's it, if you know what I mean. In other words, there are combinations
that emerge that arise out of that that give you in that particular situation when this
person meets that 2 personality and they’re in conversation, you can see very clearly
that the range is going to be limited to these two things. And that that person is
going to bring stuff. There is going to be this doubt that is inherent in this. And it's
going to bring doubt into the way in which the focus operates.
So, this is a mind that in its research is going to be doubting its investigation or
doubting that it can do with the investigation and may limit its ability to be able to
really communicate successfully with that person with the 2. Oh, it’s beautiful stuff.
This is a whole revolution in beginning to understand how the imprints work relative
to each other, which is something that is so important. How does the underlying
themes as organized through the agency of the Magnetic Monopole through the
Nodes, how does it translate all this, organize all this, it’s really quite fantastic to be
able to actually have the ability to be able to see it and to be able to see how fragile
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many different ways and remain mysterious to us, because in fact that operation is
dictated by so many outside factors, and they are.
Mind is Incompetent; Yet, Spectacular Entertainment
I'm know this so deeply as an integration being and an open sacral being that I'm
always so aware of the other person in my aura. And understanding all of this, it's
like (sound – woof), what that really means, how your whole thinking process is
changed. And of course, this becomes frightening if your mind is running your life.
You have to see that. If mind is making decisions you can see that—anybody who's
in Human Design long enough, is in these kinds of programs for enough years, it is
so obvious that the mind is totally incompetent to run the life. It is totally
incompetent to run a life.
But it can be absolutely spectacular entertainment, because it's never boring. And
you can see why—that conversation that you have with somebody who resonates
this aspect or that aspect of this range or that, whatever the case may be, in that
suddenly you have a whole new way of seeing things. Let's say that basically you’re
vertical person in terms of the way the activation seem to align in your design, and
yet you meet somebody that is going to resonate exactly those aspects that don't
have anything to do with your vertical, in that sense, or with your alpha vertical.
And all of a sudden, you’re with somebody in which you think differently, because
the background that you're using is different, you’re processing differently, you may
find that very exciting. You may also find it very disconcerting or confusing,
obviously it depends on the nature of the being and their level of awareness.
The Mental System Deeply Manipulated By the Presence of the Other
I want you to grasp how deeply manipulated mental system is by the presence of the
other. It's part of the movie. It’s sometimes embarrassing, Joanne, yes, indeed, no
question about it. And here we’re seeing the ultimate in manipulative mechanics.
And it's not negative, please don't misunderstand me. The power of our outer
authority is rooted in the fact that our outer authority is tuned to those who can
receive it. And of course, it's tuned to them because they are actually activating the
range you're using which resonates to them and will allow them to take in the outer
authority in a way that's productive. It's a beautiful system. But of course, you
have to be correct, which is another story.
Anyway, it was a pleasure as always, I love as an Arian doing something for the first
time. It’s always a pleasure and a pleasure to share it with all of you. And until next
time when we take a look at the beta and the gamma, you take care; have a good
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LESSON SIX
Beta and Gamma Verticals
All right, into the breach, as they say. We have a lot of people sleeping in this
morning. Good morning to all of you and to those of you that downloading.
This is where we left off at the beginning of my introduction to you of the

deconstruction of the lunar and planetary square. I shared the last class with the
Rave Psychology group and will do so with this one as well. The thing about these
squares is that they allow us to have a different kind of understanding that is
separate from the typical planetary relationship. And it is something that gives us a
way in which we can really begin to look at this information and apply it to what is in
fact our understanding of the way in which the passenger operates; in other words,
the way in which what we call the mind system, the way in which the mind system
works.
Remembered that when we’re looking at this configuration we really need to see it
within this context, because of course there is, as always, to see the relationships

that are there. When we are looking at the personality side, what are we really
looking at? All those activations in the bodygraph are activations of who you think
you are. So you add up all those activations together and this is what you get. As
matter of fact, this who you think you all are is part of what you can trust in this life.
After all, these activations are imprint. These imprints are the essential ingredients
of what brings out your uniqueness or the potential of your uniqueness in this life.
And we all identify with all the aspects of our personality.
But this is really the first time in the long history now of Human Design that this who
you think you all are can actually be laid out, in a sense. In other words, that it can
be mapped and we can begin to see that each of the aspects that are there that are
colored in in black that they actually have a role within the construct that becomes
who we think we are. We see that in the way in which advanced imaging is
graphically laid out, that it is divided into three units and each of these units
obviously have a specific responsibility in the construct that's going to be who you
think you are.
The Foundation Is Nodal
It begins with understanding that this is the foundation. That is, that the foundation
is nodal. And the foundation is nodal in that it is the bridge, if I can just sort of use
that term loosely. But anyway, it is a bridge between the lunar and planetary square
on one side and the Sun/Earth on the other side. When we’re looking at the Nodes
what we’re looking at is the layout for the way in which the being is going to take in
the experience of the maya. And remember that in this in-taking, the taking in of
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that they don't just established the angle of your view, but more than that they hone
that view in a specific way. They’re looking for something, each Node designed
through what is its cognition and its color, that each Node has a unique way in which
it looks at the world. And I say “it looks at the world,” the way it sets up the being
to look at the world.
This lays the foundation. If there is nothing to see, if there is no receptivity to

stimuli, which the Nodes establish, then there is nothing for the Sun/Earth, which is
the conceptualizing formula, the style of the thinking. It's a style. It’s like profile.
Profile is quite incredible thing. It really is, when you see how clearly that gives you
generic views. And yet at the same time, how obvious it is that profiles are in and of
themselves styles. They are dressed up dramas. And the thing to recognize about
the drama of the Sun/Earth, which has always been given the number one status in
all things, the fact is that the drama is all based on that view, that perspective.
Range
So when we look down to the planetary square, what we're looking at is that were
looking at something that is quite different. When we’re looking at the lunar and
planetary square we’re looking at something very special. That is, in terms of
understanding the nature of mind; in this context, obviously, we’re just at the
personality, that what we’re really looking at is that these aspects of who you think
you are, that each of these aspects are a toolbox, or a reference library based on
different subjects that's available to the mind. That is, it is available based on the
view, and it is available for conceptualizing. This is what the range really is.
And there’s something interesting to understand about intelligence. There have been
many, many, many, many, many attempts at trying to figure out how to measure
intelligence. There have been all kinds of systems developed over the years,
particularly in the last 50, 60, 70 years trying to create these sort of comparative
testing systems that will lead to some kind of point system that will indicate that
somebody is more intelligent than somebody else.
It is very interesting for me to see that we are all given the same potential range.
Because the range is not a question of the planets themselves but what we've been
looking at. The range is about the constructs inherent, for example, in each of the
verticals and what their purpose is in terms of the way in which they serve the
potential of who you think you are, because each of them makes up that potential
ingredient of who you think you are. And each of them can present at any given
moment the main resource necessary for the mind to be able to grasp something.
When I look at the planetary square, what I see is that we are all given a similar
range. So it's not like one mind is designed to have a broader range than another.
Obviously, there is always going to be the nuances within. In other words, the
positioning that's going to be there, the gates, the line, the color, obviously there are
these differences. But what makes the difference between an intelligent mind and
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the not-self is fundamentally a dilemma. It obscures anything that we would really

want to look at. But it is obvious to me that in this configuration that what we can
begin to see is that not every mind has easy access to its own range, that who you
think of as yourself can be very disjointed and disconnected in that sense, an
obvious that we can see in the designs.
It is this range that fascinates me. And what fascinates me most of all is how
malleable our experiential range was designed to be malleable. Adaptable is perhaps
the other side of that so that it doesn't seem like it is purely a negative because it is
not. The thing to remember, the thing to keep in mind about what we're looking at
is that we’re looking at a phenomenon that we haven’t really grasped yet. Let’s be
clear about that. That is the phenomena of the resonance that is involved.
None of these potentials that are there within the range are necessary all the time.
In other words, they're not necessary all the time. They can't be. And the other
thing is that everything about them is that they are here to react to the outside
world, because they operate through resonance and resonance is going to highlight
one over the other, or two over the other, or three over the other, or none, or
whatever the case may be.
In other words, if you're looking at this square and you could imagine that each of
these boxes were a light that goes on and off, that every time you would see this
being meeting another person you would see lights going on and off. Something's
being highlighted, other’s not; and those things being highlighted—let's say that
what is being highlighted is the 2nd color as an influence coming from over here and
it means that the Moon and Uranus in their gates and lines relative to their verticals
that these two are going to form the range that the personality and the earth are
going to work with in terms of conceptualizing, in terms of how they deal with and
think about that person that is doing that, or a question that arises, or a decision
that has to be dealt with or all these things.
Think about it this way. Let's say that you got a problem over here. You want to be
able to solve that problem. And here you are, you’re the all powerful deity of the
Sun/Earth. I think, therefore I am; the Sun/Earth, the hero, and there they are and
they've got this problem that they're looking at over there because their Nodes has
pointed them directly at that problem, this is what they’re looking at. And they want
to, based on their thinking style, find a solution to this problem that they're pointing
at. Now, if it was up to them they would say, well, let me go looking through my
library of range and experience to get what I need in order to be able to
conceptualize this.
But that’s not the way that it works. That’s the whole thing to grasp, that’s not the
way that it works. It doesn't necessarily have that to it. As a matter of fact, you can
see that in terms of the personality Sun/Earth that is a 1st color that when this
person is alone, nobody in their aura, the only thing that is their that is the range
they tap into is going to be the Jupiter because it shares the same color. And you
can see that the Jupiter is a very different story. I mean in this design it’s
disintegrated, because if you see the design complete you can see that the Jupiter in
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splenic system because you have a continuous definition that is here. Again, this is
another level of bringing this up to a synthesis. But again, I'm just trying to give
you a sense of the way in which these things operate.
Humans Do Not Learn In Isolation
In other words, here is this mind and when this mind in essence is at rest, in other
words, one of the most interesting things to understand about the lunar and
planetary range is that it is a range that is there to develop in relationship to the
outside world. It’s why it’s so deeply connected to the nodal system. We're here to
learn from others. Human beings do not learn in isolation, we do not. Everything
about the process of the way in which the intelligence system of a human being is
developed is that it is developed over time, and it’s developed over time in
relationship to other human beings that nurture that intelligence. And everything
about our lunar and planetary square is recognizing that it is something that vibrates
to, resonates to the outside world. And it is the outside world that determines, in
that sense, what will be the active range at any given moment, what the highlights
are going to be that are going to stand up.
Then you can begin to see a number of things. You can begin to see things like the
mind at rest. In other words, the example of mind at rest is when there's nobody
there, you're alone, and the mind is at rest. You can begin to look for the thematics
that are going to be important in terms of the way in which the whole construct of
who you think you are operates. We can see that there is going to be this—the mind
always tapping into what the 26 has to say, because it's going to be an important
element. And because it is the 1st color and because it carries with it a fear, it
means that there is this driving need to dig into things. After all, this is a Sun in 32.
This is a being that’s always going to be afraid of failure, always.
And you can see what happens here is that within this context there are many, many
relationships that begin to emerge. It's not just what the mind at rest
conceptualizing; the view at rest. Again, you’re looking at a different configuration.
Here you're dealing with a 6 and you can see how strong that is, the Mercury-Mars-
Venus combination that is here, all of these carrying the 6th color. And it means
clearly that the nodal perspective is going to really affect these areas within the
range. And that these areas within the range are most attuned to the way in which
the perspective is going to operate. And we have a nuance on the way of looking at
the way in which not simply this being sees itself, but literally the way in which its
mental system, both at rest and in relationship to the other, the way in which it is
designed.
Vertical Range
So, let’s go back to where I began today. I want to continue this journey of looking
at vertical range. It’s something that is very important. Last week what we were
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in mind about the verticals themselves, because I don’t want to get too caught up in
the planets at this point, I want to set the foundation and then we’re going to take a
look how after we've gone through the beta and gamma, next week I’m going to
take a look at how you would actually analyze the color values relative to the
verticals, relative to what the planet is so that we can begin to have a kind of a step-
by-step view of how we approach this information.
Again, the design side is far too complex to introduce here and I will just give you a
taste of it later. But the personality part of it is something that we're going to
explore. So we’re really going have a chance of seeing the way in which some of
these values can be used analytically. Remember that when we’re starting with the
alpha that basically what we're looking with at the alpha range is that this has a
very, very special relationship to the way in which the mind system is operating.
Again, that is something that is really important.
Remember that when we're looking at, just is to reset the frame here, when we're
looking at the vertical basically we’re looking at an internal process. When we’re
looking at the lateral basically we’re looking at an external process. As such the
vertical range is more related to Sun/Earth, whereas the lateral range is more
related to the nodal system. I say more, it doesn't mean—again this is all integrated
into a square so I am just giving you the deconstructed flavors.
So, when we're looking at the vertical range we’re talking about mental style. And
when we're looking at the alpha we're looking at the foundation of that style. In
other words, the foundation of the way in which this mind is going to approach
things. Now, that foundation is based on a number of things. Again, the obvious,
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that are in there, the basic construct of what the mind will work with. But that's just
here, if you know what I mean.
What makes that a value to us just as a general keynote if you know that this is the
foundation of the way in which the mind is, in its purest sense—let me take a step
back a second here to make sure that you get something. What we're looking at is
the possibility of perfected outer authority, because I don’t want to confuse this with
mind and the not-self and all of this because this is all deconstructed. Imagine that
we are looking at an awakened mind, because this is the only way that I can do what
I'm doing now and it makes sense. That is, this is at a highly idealized level. To
recognize that the foundation is one thing and to see though that what makes it
interesting for us is the sub-analytical value that we gain by understanding the
vertical.
In other words, the vertical says, all right, this is the foundation. So what is the
foundation going to be for this being? The mind is rooted in its opposition. It's a
mind you know very well is going love to work. It’s a mind that is going to enjoy
processing things. It is a mind that is going to dig into things that not necessarily
everyone would dig into, a mind that is interested in the intimate, a mind that’s
trying to really see what's going on at that level. These are foundation aspects. And
we get to read them through the gates and the lines.
Obviously, the planets bring their own values, we know that. But what is very
important for us analytically in order to be able to begin to map out the nature of a
particular mind or its range is that we can begin to see the quality of this mind's
range, at least the foundation of that range; we see that through the activations
themselves. But the activations have new meaning now because we can see them
within a new grouping; we can see them with a new context. It’s very important, in
that sense, because it gives us a way of understanding that this is what the mind is
intended to base its processing all.
So let's keep that in mind. This is

what the mind is intended to base its
processing on. So, how is this, what
the mind it needs, the essential range,
we see that it is very much—the
aspects of this vertical, there is the
38, there is the 40th gate, there is the
59th gate, they are all part of the
definition. Not only are they all part of
the definition, but the Sun/Earth in
fact, and again remember as a
vertical, it has a relationship to the
Sun/Earth, that the Sun/Earth is part
of this, that the Sun in the 32 and the
Earth in the 42, so you have this
whole system here and the whole system is defined, and all these aspects are there,
so you know that this mind, that is, who they think of as themselves, that you can
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words, it's very connected to it and obviously connected to it within the context of
the design itself.
Again, I don't want to lead you into jumping to conclusions so I don't want to stay up
there in the analytical side very long. I just want you to have a sense of it and to
see the value in beginning to have a grasp of each of these vertical ranges and
ultimately the laterals as well.
The Beta Vertical: Root of Outer Authority
Let's move on. It's so interesting to begin to have a flavor of how intricate it is, this
information resource and the way in which mind operates. How different the not-self
is from the true potential. The difference is as almost unimaginable in a way.
Anyway, we got to see the foundation, but that's just the foundation. Here what
we're looking at is something else. Here what we are looking at is literally the root
of outer authority. As a matter of fact, if there was a place where you could describe
pure outer authority is in the beta vertical. The beta vertical is outer authority. The
foundation isn’t what is intended to lead to your outer authority. In other words, to
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This is your research information. This is the bedrock of the way in which your style
is developed, that intimate confrontational style that's in there, all this stuff, that
touch of the ego, all the things that we could talk about in terms of the activations
and how they would become the stylistic basis of the way in which the mind
conceptualizes. But this is where the outer authority is developed; these are the
tools, the range that the mind needs to be able to develop not the ability to grasp
something, but the ability to prepare a concept for communication. The very
preparation changes the way in which the concept ultimately will be realized, as the
observer changes the observed, so to speak.
But it is fascinating here to look at this and to see that here is where the outer
authority is intended to be expressed. If we see it within the planetary context of
that, that is keyed to the mercurial communication, the Jupitarian law and
protection. The Mars and maturity, well, it's juicy, let's put it that way. And without
the juice you really don't have the drive to want to express your outer authority. Not
everybody gets to express their outer authority. And if you don't have easy access
between the beta vertical and the mental aspect, the Sun/Earth part of that, you can
have difficulties then in being able to conceptualize in a way that makes it easy for
you to express.
We don't really think about our thinking in that way. That is, we don't really think
about our thinking as being dualistic. We don't really see that it takes one set of
skills to take information in and conceptualize it; it takes another set of skills to take
the conceptualized information and prepare it for communication. They are very,
very different things. It’s a binary after all, like everything else. So, it is one of
those aspects they were going to be able to see.
I started off talking about the measurability of intelligence. You can begin to see
that serendipity karma can deeply impact intelligence. Outer authority is the
readiness of the mind to be able to express itself. Of course, in the not-self it
becomes very important. This vertical in the not-self is enormously important,
because this is what gives them the sense that they're in charge of their life. The
better situated the beta vertical within the context of the design, the greater the
fluidity of the not-self mind to express its decision making.
The beta is a real, in a sense it is trap. It’s that place that gives great power to the
mind. It’s very interesting because the beta vertical has an interesting relationship
to the personality link Node, and it means that in essence it has a connectivity to
others and to wanting to influence others and that other is represented by the design
side, which means that it is inherent in the in the beta vertical that the seed of not-
self mind exists.
This is where the not-self mind becomes an inner authority, not an outer authority;
it's in the beta vertical. And again, this is where the Martian immaturity sort of plays
into the movie, but it's really something to see that it's a great challenge in that
sense. We’re going to be able to at some point be able to measure the level of
personality resistance, that is, the personality’s resistance to giving up its inner
authority. Ultimately, we’re going to be able to measure that through the beta
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relationship. I don't want to take that any further, but nonetheless, it’s something
that is really fascinating.
The Preparation of Conceptualization to Be Put Forward
So here what we're looking at is that we are looking at the place where the mind
likes to be inner authority and is confused, in a sense, of being inner authority, when
in fact it should be preparing outer authority. Again, all of this means this is the
preparation of conceptualization to be put forward. And it can be put forward as
observation, the awakened passenger, or it could be put forward as decision making,
the not-self. And all of this is here in your beta.
You can call it bbbbbad (spoken as stuttering), you know, B for bad, beta, the bad
vertical; I’m just kidding. But nonetheless, sort of, because if you're looking for a
villain of the beast and why not, we’re in our maya drama, this can end up being the
villain. And of course, you can't blame the planets, you can only blame the vertical,
because of course the planets have different roles in different ways.
But anyway, I find it fascinating because for me, understanding the beta vertical
opens up the possibility of—when somebody comes and shows any interest in Human
Design, being able to have a beta vertical measurement—you know this thing—don't
think that I'm up off my rocker, but it's cute anyway—the Star Wars movies, because
I’ve seen them a zillion times with my sons, they have this thing about the special
values necessary in a being in order to have connectivity to what they call the force,
which is sort of universal energy this or that. And they measure mitochondria, which
is actually something that is in the core of every cell. And supposedly, the
mitochondria are actually alien, in that sense, and represent intelligence and intuitive
values, and all of these kinds of things and can be measured.
Well I think, not to stretch a metaphor, but that was fun to lay that one out. Beta
vertical analysis is probably the same thing, in a sense. And again, please don't
misunderstand me because I can just see this being taken out of context. There are
so many things involved in the synthesis of all this information and again I am only
deconstructing. This is a warning, please, I'm only deconstructing. But the fact is
that the beta vertical is, on the personality side, where the style of mind either goes
awake style or not-self style.
In other words it either goes outer authority, or it goes inner authority. And of
course that's something that is obviously deeply interesting to us. And of course,
here is a place where it can be seen. That is, it's there in the beta vertical. And
again, there are many, many nuances in this. There has to be, after all, many
nuances in this. And again, you're going to see that the interpretive journey is one
that begins with gates and lines. It's obviously something that operates out of
resonance. So it's highlighting. We want to be able to see whether it has some kind
of relationship to the way in which, as an example because it's a vertical, its
relationship to the Sun/Earth. There many different things to look at, but it all
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authority. It's in the beta vertical, and so it makes the beta vertical something that
is very special.
I assume in years to come that there will be alpha, beta, and gamma vertical studies
on their own separate from each other because there is so much information in
them. And the same thing is true for all the components, by the way. As I said this
is a very, very bare minimum introduction so that the components of advanced
imaging are recognizable and that you can begin to slowly integrate the information
as you advance in your education in your professional life.
But please recognize that this is opening up whole new fields of study, and this is
something that I think mechanically, because again, my basic approach to Human
Design has always been mechanical and scientific. That is, for me the deconstruction
of any system is so that one can take advantage of the knowledge gained to be able
to develop tools, practical tools—I’m a 5—to be able to develop practical tools.
It's clear to me that each of these verticals once they are examined is going to
provide us with mechanical insights that will give us unique potential to develop
tools. That is, to develop ways in which the beta vertical operates, to take
advantage of the way it operates, to take advantage of that positively, and to see
where the dilemma is that turns the beta vertical away from outer authority to inner
authority. I think there are many things that can be found here. So, it certainly is a
very exciting new area of the knowledge to investigate.
The Gamma Vertical: Learning
This is my favorite vertical on the personality side. I don't mean to dis or show
disrespect to the foundation and the alpha and beta, but I’m a gamma man. This is
learning. And here's the secret, if there ever was a secret to having a way to reach
unique personalities. You have a foundation, which is sort of fixed, in a sense. You
have the beta that would love to just simply take over your life and wants to tell
everybody things, whether it wants to tell them things as outer authority or as an
authority.
But the gamma is a reference to the beauty of the construct of personality crystal.
That the passenger is designed to be a student, that the passenger is the ultimate
student, that it never stops being ready to learn and that it seeks the truth. Not
even truth, because truth in and of itself is beyond the seeking of truth, it is seeking
the thing that quiets the frequency, I guess, I don't know what language to use for
all that.
But anyway, the gamma is the doorway, and it is through the gamma that we learn
in life. It means that it is the gamma that prepares us for the social influence that
the world has on our thinking. And that we have to have a place within us that is
open to the knowledge of the other. It’s interesting that this configuration is one
that goes directly through the three outer planets. And obviously, in that itself,
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obviously because Pluto is in a gate so long you have people who over a three-year
period have Pluto in the same gate, so you have this whole generational field. The
same thing is obviously true for Neptune and Uranus.
So it's interesting that there is an aspect of—I guess that it is in the gamma that is
where the collective archetypes are. This is where the themes of learning are.
Again, what makes it so exciting is that in the moment that you can grasp the value
of the vertical is the moment that you have new tools of interpretation. The fact that
you now know that the gamma vertical are the themes through which the mind is
designed to learn in this life—we’re all designed to learn, we all have a gamma
vertical. But we’re designed to learn very different things depending on the
configuration. And not only different things depended on the configuration, but of
course, the planetary values, the relationship of this to the design itself, how it
operates within the design, and on and on and on, and all the other things that are
part of this very profound synthesis when you get to the surface of holistic analysis.
But I do want you to see the importance of being introduced to the verticals. This is
a way to begin to look at the database in a new way. And again, I love irony; irony
is such a wonderful thing. It really is. You look at our design, from the very
moments that I introduced Human Design I would be sitting there with somebody
and I would be pointing at that chart and I would have my finger going up and down
the line of the personality listings of the planets and their activations. And I've been
going up and down that line and I'm saying this is who you think you are. This is
who you think you are. Then you can really see it. And of course, this becomes
what the whole learning system is about for this being.
And obviously, we are not looking at a fait accompli; we’re not looking at something
that is finished. We're looking at range. We're looking at the library. We are not
looking at the person that's using the library, and the thing that got them to the
library and why they’re looking at that reference work in the first place. Again, you
have to see that this is the range, that there is in the alpha this foundation that is
there, there is in the beta this potential to use the mind and project it outwards and
there is in the gamma the openness to learn through these themes. But that’s
what's going to intrigue the mind. For example, what he likes to read about, study,
all these kinds of things that fill up our mental life.
It Doesn’t All Work at the Same Time
Look at it all. And it doesn’t all work at the same time. It really doesn’t. It just
doesn’t. Things come on; things go off, every single one of us. You come into the
world and this is what you're supposed to focus on, do you get there. Can you get
there? Is that what you really get to take in? Is this expressed as inner or outer
authority? Do you have access to the foundation? All of these things, it goes on and
on and on, all of these relationships that are in here, they’re enormous.
Again, in order to legitimize Human Design, because in fact, this is what this work is
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to demonstrate it and to prove it. The fact that each and every one of these
components, aspects are fascinating or interesting, they're not earthshaking. The
earth shaking part started nearly 21 years ago. That is just the obvious, just the
obvious, the surface, this knowledge, what this knowledge really is. It’s just
Strategy and Authority. It is knowledge designed for idiots, fools, and children. It’s
just Strategy and Authority.
Mastery Is Displayed on the Surface
Down here deep, deep, deep into the minutiae where each of these aspects can be
blown out of proportion, one forgets that Human Design as the mechanics of the
maya, its mastery is displayed on the surface. That is really what it's all about, on
the surface. What to say. It's not to say anything against the wonder of this
journey. As a teacher I've never experienced anything like it, it is extraordinary. And
it is marvelous to see all of these things. But I think that there is always this risk
that finding out about the beta vertical is suddenly an earth shattering experience,
and it isn't. In a sense, you all knew it was coming, after all. This is an absolute,
this science of differentiation; it all has to be there. But the secret will always be on
the surface, the truth will always be the surface, the beauty will always be on the
surface. That’s my little surface sermon.
I was asked, by the way, or somebody mentioned, I think it was you Cathy, about
the word “martial.” It does refer to Mars, by the way. It is my closing note today, to
sort of see the perspective of all of this and to understand the enormous pressure
and responsibility, in a sense, and I put “responsibility” in quotation marks. Mars is
in the center of this construct, that is, the lunar and planetary square. This is a very
exalted position to be. That is, this is at the center of all the activity that is there, all
the potential that is there in the range.
The Dilemma of the Personality Trying to Live In a Nine-Centered Vehicle
There is a great dilemma that we are trying to overcome and that is dealing with a
vehicle that is very modern and very new, the nine-centered vehicle and dealing with
the personality that is trying to live in this nine-centered vehicle. This is really what
the whole story is all about. And to begin to understand the dilemma of is, the
dilemma of the personality living in this form and having to deal with this new form
in the way in which this new form operates. And at the core of the lunar and
planetary configuration on either side, at the core of those is you have the Mars
configuration. And this Mars configuration is really a symbol of mutation,
immaturity; but, immaturity not seen in the context of a bad word, but simply what
it means. That is, it is still very young.
The nine-centered vehicle is a couple hundred years old or so, this is not something
that is ancient and well-worn in and understood; this is a new vehicle and there is a
personality that is struggling to operate within this new vehicle. Everything about
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the vitality to be young, the vitality to be a new form and the vitality to be a new
emerging personality. It is Mars at its very best. As a potential, in that sense, it is
Mars as at its very best. That is, this driving force, this young energy. We have to
see that this is the dilemma they were dealing with. That is, we're dealing with a
new form, we are under a tremendous amount of pressure as personalities, and yet
at the same time we’ve been given a key.
The World Is Rooted In Seven-Centered Structures
Human Design is nine-centered knowledge. There is no other nine-centered

knowledge on the planet. It's the thing that makes this knowledge so interesting
and the work of laying out this science so important, because there are no nine-
centered sciences. Something that becomes clearer and clearer to me every day in
my process now is that the world is rooted in seven-centered structures and
concepts, seven-centered sciences, seven-centered religions, seven-centered
whatever. And that the personality is held to its disadvantage to these constructs.
This is the first nine-centered knowledge. And as such, it opens up new possibilities.
That is, it gives us an advantage that far exceeds the advantage that was never
there for the seven-centered being, at least for those seven-centered beings that
were in a privileged end of the fractal.
When you look at the lateral, by the way, so that you can begin to think about it,
because it's interesting to see as the way in which the laterals and verticals work
together, it is fascinating, and all the formulas that are in that, because there are so
many formulas in all of that. But the lateral is what turns your mind towards the
other. It is really where your receptivity to the other begins on the mental plane.
And it moves away from what is, in essence, the deeply personal of the vertical and
moves you into the transpersonal of the lateral.
Well, as always, it is a pleasure to share this with you.
[A written question: There are three types of neutrinos. Are those related to the
different ranges?]
Ra: No, the three types of neutrinos do not relate to the ranges, though that is an
interesting thought.
Focus on the Beta Range
I want to leave you with something about looking at the beta. I think it’s very
important for you as an experiment for yourself in terms of range just to focus on
the beta range, and to focus on the beta range because you're looking at the
foundation of what's going to be either your not-self inner authority or your true self
other authority. And it gives you a taste of where the focus of your other authority,
where it will have its greatest impact on the outside world, because remember your
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And through looking at the beta you can see what the keys are to the outer authority
that you possess.
Remember, your other authority isn't what is everything that is a part of you is a
passenger in mind; it is what you express as a passenger in mind. And it is here in
the beta that you get to see that the themes that you are best capable of expressing
that will influence the other. So, it's an interesting place to begin your journey in
looking at verticals.
Anyway, I enjoyed having my morning coffee with you. You take care. Have a nice
weekend, by the way, and enjoy it. I’ll see you next week. And do remember, by
the way, time change. For Europeans we change our clocks this Sunday, so next
week the same local time, no change, you just come to class at the same time. For
American students remember you don't change your clocks until November 4th which
is a week from Sunday, so next week please one hour later, so this morning's class,
whatever local time you came in for this one, it's an hour later actually for one week,
which I think for those of you on the West Coast is a real punishment—no harm in
downloading. Anyway, to all of you, do take care; until then, bye for now.

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LESSON SEVEN
Personality Laterals
Okay good morning to all of you and to all of you that are downloading and I hope
now that this is Friday and our bizarre interregnum between the unifying of the time
structure between one side of the Atlantic and the other that that is going to come to
an end today, the times will be a little easier for you for those of you that are in the
States for next week.
As I was mentioning before the class, the lunar and planetary color analysis, we've
been taking this enormous structural journey. After all, color analysis in terms of the
planets and the Moon are significant because of the introduction and a new level of
analytical presentation, that is, Maia Mechanics Advanced Imaging, in order to be
able to talk about color analysis I
couldn’t just simply reference the
planets in the way in which I would
have been able to do if I was
giving you a course on how to use
the planets and interpret them in a
chart.
This is something very different

because we have an entirely
different construct. It’s not that
we've added or taken away planets
and the addition of color isn't
something that's new in the sense
that we always knew it was there.
But what we have been dealing
with is that we've been dealing with the new structure. In other words, we have
been dealing with the dynamic of what this square is really all about. And what we
discovered, at least as we been moving along in our journey, is that it is something
that is indeed deeply complex, deeply complex.
Again, I do not apologize for the fact that very much the best that I can do is
introduce you to the structure because I want to get to the theme. After all, this is
our seventh week together, so it's about time we got to color analysis. So, as we
been moving along I've been introducing to you and several of these classes have
been made available to third-year students in PHS and Rave Psychology, because it's
part of the holistic studies that we do, and in fact, saves me teaching it three times
and wasting everybody's energy.

What we have here is that I've laid out the basics and we have looked at one half of
that, in a sense. We still sort of have to touch on this, and I will do so briefly.
However, what we're going to deal with today, what is going to be our main theme
today is to take a look at the lateral range and basically to complete this process of
looking at this new infrastructure or looking at what I affectionately still like to call a
magic square because for me it is a truly remains so.
Before I get onto the lateral, because I think you're going to find lateral fascinating
because I know I do. I want you to have a sense of what we're looking at in the
broadest sense. That is, here were looking at the way in which ultimately all
thoughts are processed. And we’re looking at the way in which minds work. And
we’re looking at the ways in which we can map, literally map, the basic structure of
the way in which the personality constructs the maya, because that’s what we’re
really looking at. And as such, it is very profound. When I began the Rave
Psychology program a little over two years ago, it was clear to me that that course
was designed to result in the ability to be able to map both the not-self and the true
self within the context of the personality, the passenger, the mind, however we want
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LESSON SEVEN: Personality Laterals
Passengers Are Designed to Learn
I have spent a great deal of time, decades now, thinking about these crystals of
consciousness in the way in which they operate. It's interesting about the
differences between personality and design. It strikes me that the design crystal, if I
can anthropomorphize these crystals for a moment, that the design crystal doesn't
learn. It doesn't seek learning. I guess, without that sounding too bizarre, it just
channels. I guess its purpose is to be a pure filter for the form. It’s what makes the
personality crystal interesting. It’s not the life. It doesn't have the consistency. You
can see that in the way in which on the design side tone fixes color, there is
consistency; tone fixes color. Personality side tone cannot fix color.
The passenger is designed to learn; it’s its only saving grace. I call it learning, I
have to be careful. The ideal of the passenger is a self-reflective observer of
experience and phenomena. And because that is a conceptualizing process, that
what we’re looking at is what we would call learning. That is, a growth out of the
conceptualizing of the experiencing of phenomena.
Passengers are designed to learn. It makes us very interesting creatures. And given
that we are endowed with a design crystal that blesses us with this particular brain
system that we have, which is as fancy an evolutionary gizmo that we've ever seen,
it gives us, through looking at our very nature as a specie you can see that if there
was one thing that defined us, it was our ability to learn from experience and
phenomena.
It is something that is extraordinary in us to the point that we begin to predict

experience and phenomena. It's what makes the passenger interesting. And why is
this significant? Because if you can map specifically the nature of the resource base
of the passenger's consciousness and you can point it out to the passenger, you've
gone very far in liberating that passenger from the ordeal of what it is for the mind
to be trapped in the not-self.
The way in which you awaken the passenger is that the passenger has to be
confronted with the truth. But one of the things that we know is that the truth is not
something that you can just lay on somebody and they go, aha, because when
you're dealing with mind and you're dealing with the not-self and you're dealing with
the layers and layers and layers of inbred resistance that it's about taking it down
piece by piece. I’m not suggesting for a moment that you can take any of this
information that's on the screen in front of you right now and bring awakening into
the life of a being, because you can’t, because the process of awakening the
personality is something that takes years and it goes step-by-step.
And in fact the deepest relationship that it has to this square is to the very theme of
this course, which is color, because it is the first thing that a passenger has to learn.
The first thing that a passenger can do to heal itself is to begin to pay enough
attention that they can recognize an experience, the phenomena of color
transference consciously. And slowly but surely, you can begin to get that passenger
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But most of this is for the science, really. And when the sciences have enough of it,
that is, what we develop out of all of this knowledge, all this that’s here. Particularly
what this means relative to Rave Psychology, what it means to the understanding of
mind. The vertical and lateral are really quite something. And because we can see
them as unique imprints, because each one is in a different gate and line and color
that we can see the way through the holistic bodygraph the way in which a circuitry
is established. A circuitry that integrates certain aspects of the vertical and lateral to
the experiential depth of what the conceptualizing mind will process.
We’re looking at the ability to finally really understand the way in which the mental
system works, and how unique it is, how unique we are, how though each of us are
limited by being within a construct that the ingredients that we have in the construct
are so different. And the way of those ingredients live within the context of the
bodygraph is another story entirely. And that though all of them are there, all of
them are never all on. Some are on, some are off, some are always on, some are
rarely on, and they come on and off in their sequences.
The Martial Diagonals
Before I do the lateral to close out our structure, I want to give a moment to these
very unusual—I love the name though—the martial diagonals. It sounds like a
binary parade route for a victorious army, doesn't it, the martial diagonals. Mars is
exalted, is the best way that I can put it, sort of. Mars has a unique value to the
nine-centered construct. I don't think that it would even have been imaginable for
Mars to have such a position in the seven-centered construct. But here within the
nine-centered vehicle and within this configuration, this lunar and planetary
configuration in this magic square, it is Mars that takes a central position. It is Mars
and Mars alone that actually has physical contact being in the center of this grid, has
physical contact with every single other force that is there, in that sense. It is the
core of all this.
In being the core it means that there is something for us to understand about the
nature of the modern Mars, that is, the post Herschel Uranus 1781 perspective. As a
nine-centered form we are mutated form. We are a transitional form, which is the
most accurate way to describe the nine-centered being. As a transitional form it
means that we are fundamentally mutative. That is, we carry within us the end of
one thing and the beginning of another. We carry within us the residual left over of
the left strategic seven-centered existence, and the emergence of the new right
receptive future that is there for us evolutionarily speaking, all of which is carried
within these particular forms. We all are, in that sense, very different.
And within this context the best way to understand Mars in the middle of the box is
to think about how fast everything seems to be moving. It seems like everything
has been speeding up now for hundreds of years, faster and faster and faster. When
they offered the first train rides in England in the late 18th century, that is, in the
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human beings could handle the speed. The trains went about 14 km an hour.
Things were beginning to speed up. They’ve been speeding up ever since.
The speeding up also means that there's more heat. The heat is there both macro-
and micro-cosmically in the Industrial Revolution, what ultimately today we all do
our Gore and talk about global warming. It is one of those facts—facts, I can't call it
a fact—it is one of those things I state that one of the most obvious differences
between the nine-centered being and the seven-centered being was their body
temperature, that the nine-centered being is hotter.
And this Mars in the center is very much a core of all that, the heating up, the
speeding up, the ingredients of mutation. What the martial diagonals represent is
mutated strains. I'm not going to go into that in this course. I may not touch upon
that until next year, because they are deeply related to genetics, and on the design
side are probably a key to understanding the roots of certain diseases, because these
are very unstable themes, in that sense, they are deeply mutative. It also means
that it is the mutative potential because remember what we're looking at ultimately
is the range of what the mind has as a resource, these are activations in our design,
they’re conscious activations of who you think you are. It is about how that's going
to align.
Think about it this way; let's say that you end up in a design in which these elements
are all related to each other in the bodygraph. Then it's going to bring out a certain
indication, it’s going to be different if those three were linked together, if you know
what I mean. In other words, they were interconnected in the graphing. When you
begin to think all of this together, you begin to see that out of this grid that we have
here we get imprinted. We have certain ways in which things operate, and certain
ways in which they operate in terms of the movement through the bodygraph itself,
obviously certain ways in which they operate because we're dealing with the
resonance theme of the color.
But what I want you to see is that it is a grid that gets hooked up in certain ways.
All the potential is there, it's always there. But is the Moon going to play a part
going this way? Or is the Moon going to play a part going this way? Or is the Moon
going to play a part going this way? In other words, this is an element that’s in
three places. And we know, of course, that the Moon is a coordinating agent.
In other words, by seeing what is actually happening within the context of the
bodygraph is the only way you can begin to see the way in which the range of this
mind is available. What are the themes—not even so much of its available in the
sense of what are the real themes, what is going to dominate. You’re going to see
that in certain designs some people are going to be very lateral, others are going to
be vertical. Literally, we’re going to see everything. But these are different kinds of
ways in which a mind develops its approach.
These are very difficult keynotes to work with, by the way [image below]. They are
the keynotes, but in order to really be able to grasp what the difference is between
the mind lateral or the body lateral or the spirit lateral, that a great deal of
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basic themes, because they are three basic themes, are the three basic themes that
in a sense are inspired by one's relationship to the world. That is, these values that
we see, because they are the personality, because they are who you think you are
this is what you consciously experience. You experience life through your conscious
gates. I don’t know if you think about that, but it is something to recognize, you
experience life through your conscious gates. This is who you think you are.
And of course, when we’re dealing with the construct here, with the magic square
and looking at the way in which it operates, we’ve seen that when we're dealing with
the vertical were dealing with basically the internal process. And when we're dealing
with the lateral, we’re always dealing with the potential of the other. And of course,
that means our experience of the other.
The Lateral Divisions
Let's see if we can take a look at what these can breakdown as. We're talking about
activations that respond, that they resonate. So, the first thing to understand about
the lateral divisions is what you're looking at is a kind of experiential specialization, a
specialization in different areas. So for example, this lateral here always responds to
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gets this going. And when the personality is trying to understand the thinking of
another person, the mind of another person, they're going to tap into this resource if
they have it, because this is the resource that responds to mind in others.
Obviously, it’s very interesting, because it becomes very interesting to see where
that is, where that is the bodygraph, how it functions in the bodygraph, how they
function relative to each other, how strong is the lateral process. The activations are
there. It’s one of those things that is the first thing that ultimately you have to look
at, because again this information is only something that you can begin to grasp
when you can see it holistically. It’s why we’re dealing with a holistic mapping
system, because this is the tools that we use.
Taking in the Mental Field of the Other
So, this resonance to mind doesn't necessarily mean, by the way, that it's resonating
to the mind of that other person, please do not misunderstand that. Its whole
purpose as a lateral is to take in the mental field, to take in the mental field of the
other, to experience the mental field of the other. It isn't about whether that mental
field is what is attractive or not. It is something that resonates. And of course, it
will be limited in what it resonates to.
You can see, for example, that both the Moon and Uranus have the 2nd color, where
the Mercury is the 6th color. And it means that the way in which they are going to—
those are the people that they're going to resonate to. They're going to resonate to
personalities that are going to carry the 2nd color, they’re going to resonate to design
2nd colors, they're going to resonate to a 2nd color and be open to whatever the
mental plane delivers, but that's the limitation.
We all have that experience where you meet somebody or somebody has made a
decision and you end up in a situation where you're thinking about how did they get
to that place of making that decision. It is so interesting to see the way in which
decision making gets only very specific resources. That is, if you're going to be
thinking about somebody else's mind, no matter who you are, no matter what your
design, when your passenger is thinking about somebody else's mind it is trying to
tap into the wisdom in your Moon-Mercury-Uranus. This is where it has the resource
that has paid attention to it.
Now, when I say it's paid attention to it, it doesn't mean that these are mental
aspects, because they are not. And when I say that they pay attention to it, it just
means that they are sensitive to those frequencies that do get stored. And that they
can be tapped into by the personality, by the passenger in its conceptualizing
process. The other thing is that this is not an idle thing, because of course in fact,
the way in which we are positioned in our life, that is, what is in essence our correct
movement in this life, our correct direction in this life according to Strategy and
Authority, that what that brings from the personality Nodes is that that brings our
alignment to a unique perspective and view. Within that unique perspective and
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which they influence the other, those beings are going to be the source of what is
going to be used experientially.
Experiencing the Way Your Mind Is Supposed to Be
Now that actually, is something very important to understand, because it means if

you're not operating correctly, and you're not in the right place, it’s not just a matter
that you're not with the right people and you're not going to get your life, it's worse
than that, if anything could be worse than that, because you never get to experience
the way your mind is supposed to be. You don't, because one of things that you get
to see here clearly in understanding color resonance and in understanding how this
highlights certain aspects and it can only be highlighted by the other, is to see very
clearly that there are certain others that are correct for you in whatever highlighting
takes place, this is to your advantage.
And on the other side there are those beings if you’re not in the right place and
you're not with the right people you don't know how through your own inner
authority to have the discernment to recognize who belongs in your life then you
don't get your brain either. You don't get the potential of your mind. If the only
people you ever meet in your life are idiots, what do you think about the mind of
humankind? It is something to understand about us experientially in relationship to
the rest of the world. Is that everybody influences us; everything influences us. We
are a filtering machine porous as hell. It's why it's so important that you maintain
the strategy of the discipline of the strategy. To be able to maintain your integrity in
all of this conditioning, but to understand that the deepest responsibility you have
once you’re correct within yourself is to recognize that you're not alone. And you are
not wearing a shield. You're not bullet proof.
The Powerful Influence From Others
The first thing and the deepest thing that any other human being does to you is that
they change your mind and your body. We see this in PHS in looking at the design
magic square where, in fact, the body is responding to others always. Somebody
steps into your aura and your body is responding, and I don't just mean the surface,
I mean organs and glands and neurons and all of that being influenced by the person
on the other side, the very liquids in your body being influenced. It’s the same thing
for the personality. It is the same thing for the mind. How powerful that influence
of another person can be. And you see it here in the resonance. You see how you
can be deeply influenced, that you can be moved to the vertical or the lateral or the
“this” or the “that.” This can be highlighted or that can be highlighted, it’s all the
other person.
This is the thing about the Nodes. It’s one of its great reminders. The Nodes say it's
very nice that you alone want to be yourself and consider that you have your own
authority, that’s very easy alone. But you don't and can't do it alone. We're not here
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serious about relationships, because the moment did you get to this level you begin
to understand that the very way in which you're going to process information
mentally is influenced by the people in your life, they’re influencing you. And we
know that, we know that at the surface level of what we teach in Human Design
about openness and conditioning.
This is deeper than that, this isn’t about your openness being conditioned; this is
about you. And it is not negative conditioning. Please do not misunderstand that. It
isn't, but it still conditioning, what gets turned on and what doesn't, and whether it
links up or it doesn't. And this about the other, about being in the right place and
entering into relationships correctly. It’s all frequency. If the frequency is correct, if
you take somebody in correctly, then whatever is going to take place in terms of the
adjustments that the complexity of what you are makes in relationship to the other,
because it is adjustments that it's making, it is ultimately correct for you.
The Body Lateral
We take in enormous amounts of body language information visually, which

represents some of the most important communication we have with the other. One
of the dilemmas, for example, of the autistic child is that they can't read the
emotional signals that people make with their bodies. Our bodies are constantly
delivering information. NLP made a living out of that for years, the body gives off all
kinds of information—the positions that one takes, the way one stands, sits, looks,
moves all of those things. This is what's resonating here. This is body information
for the mind. When I say mind—body information for the personality, I don’t want to
confuse terms here—body information for the passenger.
And of course his body information doesn't necessarily come into us in the same way
that we process the mind information. It's different. It's a different kind of
resource. We don't read bodies, obviously, do we? I mean consciously. We’re
aware of it, you can feel it, and you take in certain cues. You’re processing them,
but it's not like trying to understand what they're thinking about and trying to
concretize that. It's different.
And these signals are enormously important for us. We get so much information the
moment that we look at anyone who is approaching us, so much information. And
you can see that his range is something that is really a creative thinking aspect. The
vertical is very much structural, basics, alpha-beta-gamma, give me the basics, the
basic structure necessary for the conceptualizing processes to take place.
But in the lateral it’s much more creative. It's much more creative because in a
sense it's speculative. It's trying to grasp through resonance the essence of the
other, trying to pick up the signals, trying to figure out the thinking process. These
are creative processes. For me, the body one in a sense is really the most
mysterious, because it operates at so many levels, and operates at levels that we’re
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very, very much attuned to the bodies, the movements around us; very, very slight
variations in movement.
It is amazing how subtle a facial movement, so subtle that if you're not watching and
paying attention you will not see it. And yet, it happens and it delivers a piece of
information. And of course, at the same time, there is a healing mystery in here.
And I don't want to get too carried away with that because I know what happens
when I talk about things like that, but nonetheless. There is this ability to be able to
see physical damage in the other body. I think we all have this, I think it is a
warning system. It's the Mars in the center here.
And of course, Mars being this mutate force in this particular time, but I think that
the real mystery is in the Neptune, because I think in this sense the Neptune really
represents the sensory level that is emerging in the right that is all whole new level
of being able to take in physical information and have that physical information that
you're taking in be a resource. So, I think this whole area, particularly from the
psychology point of view, this lateral particularly is one that needs to be deeply
investigated, because I think it is a very important aspect in the mutation of the way
in which the right mind is emerging.
The Spirit Lateral
When we go down to the in the final lateral, I guess this is the one that—this spirit is
a hard thing to grasp. It really is about resonating, I guess it's to joy, but one has to
be very careful about that. Human beings are addicted to pleasure. It's in our
design after all. It is one of the things that comes with solar plexus baggage. And
we are not simply addicted to pleasure in the sense that in the basic sense of food
and sex which is so much a part of the solar plexus. No, it is something else. It is
about the deep, deep, deep design in us to seek a good life. It is there in us. It
survives in the not-self, though it's a deeply distorted. Still there are many in the
not-self who suffer for those who do not have a good life, a healthy life, a content
life.
In a sense these are the sensor looking into the souls of others, trying to find that
peace, that joy, that élan, that grace. So in many ways this is a very mystical
lateral, in a sense, spiritual, in a sense, religious, perhaps, because it is looking for
that and it resonates to that. It's an interesting aspect in our nature. You can see
as well that these laterals, because of the way in which they’re expressed also have
their own sort of relationships, in that sense. So that you can see that there are
these layers of integration of—it goes back to continuities, because continuities are
always there. It's always there at all levels in all the ways.
What is fascinating for me is the creative aspect of what lateral range is and how
different we are. Again, remember that this isn't the mind. After all remember that
this is the research library, this is the resource library. Here is the life. The life is in
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view and it’s staring at you, whatever the case may be. And as its staring, here is
this conceptualizing style of mind.
This happens to be a 5/1; here is a 5th line personality mind, very, very concerned
about survival and not failing and this and that. And this mind, this style, looking
out at the other, this is the resource it gets to tap into. It's got its view, it has its
ability to conceptualize and this is its resource and it doesn't get all of it, and it may
not get lateral, it may get vertical, it may get martial, it may get a little bit of
everything, you know what I mean.
In other words, the way in which this being is going to experience the other is going
to be through here and the way in this resonates to the other person, and this will be
what the mind will tap into. It’s interesting the way things work, and you don't tap
into it all at all. You know these people where you see that they have a relationship
with somebody, but they have no idea who that person is. You can tell, they have
no idea, they have no idea what’s going on in that person’s head, where that person
is at, where that person is going, you can just see it; but, they don't see it. That's a
lack of lateral mind range. It’s not that they couldn't see it if it was somebody else,
if it was another kind of resonance, in another situation.
And again, you have to understand it is not just the resonance, it is what happens in
the bodygraph and what happens in the bodygraph in the partnership is quite
something. There is this assumption that it's all locked in with us, everything. It's
hard for people to even imagine their aura, let alone anything else. It's hard to
imagine that what you consider to be so intimately your own, your inner thoughts,
the whole basis of the way in which your mind taps into your life and your
experience for its processing, only to see that the mind never gets the full possibility
of doing the research, it never gets to the whole library. Well, maybe there are
situations where does, I guess, maybe that's possible, I don't know. It certainly
depends on configurations.
The Limitation and Conditioning of Others
But the fact is that every person that we meet in our lives bring out in us as we bring
out in them a different set of resources that are used in that relationship. It's all
limitation. It's all conditioning. I shake my head sometimes; I have now been able
to articulate so many levels of control. I am a Manifestor, I'm integration, nothing
more outrageous for me than control systems, and it's nothing but control. And that
all you can do within that is being rigidly within yourself correct; nothing else. It
isn't like you can stop the fact that that person is going to cut off your lateral and
just give you vertical, because that's what you get.
The only thing that’s free is the passenger, which is a great illusion in and of itself.
This is what it means to be awake. What it means to be awake is that your very
thoughts are not you; they’re just what you observe. They're just what happened.
And when they become articulated, that's because they could. But there's no way
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same way. Most of the purity of my own mind is the direct result that I am a
recluse. Even though I’m a family man I spend 22 hours, 23 hours a day alone,
something like that, 22 anyway. Alone in the sense that nobody's in my aura. It is
just the way things work.
One of these things to truly grasp is that there is nothing that you can hold on to as
just plain yours. This is part of the awakening of the passenger, is for the passenger
in the haughtiness of their mental glory to see that it's all a shell game, and is not a
game they control at all, at all, and that they can be limited in any situation mentally
simply by the presence of the wrong configuration stepping into their aura.
Surrendering
It’s quite a thing, the holistic bodygraph. It carries with it so much very pure
mechanical information. It's a gateway to surrender. There are two things that have
driven me in this journey of fleshing out the science of differentiation. One of them
is that it simply deserves it,
that it is seen to be so purely
and absolutely correct in its
logic and in the way in which
it’s structured, the way in
which it operates in reality,
the way in which it’s
experience, all that stuff. But
there is something else.
Every step I take my students

into the depths of mechanics
is hopefully one step more in
their journey to letting go, to
seeing that there is no place
in any of this that you can
hold onto, there isn’t. It's all
controlled, it’s all
programmed, all of it. The only way out is because you can look in. Without the
Voice, without the revelation you’d never be able to look inside. And only when you
look inside do you find the loopholes, this is nature. You look inside, you find a way.
This is what we do. This is what my work is—to trick the program, to slip out from
underneath its control. And not by being anything but in its control, after all, but
being freed in that.
It’s what Strategy and Authority does. It just lets you know right away that there is
just simply a way for your form to follow, let it go, and keep on letting go so that you
can just watch. Begin to see, begin to see this here that we look at, but begin to see
it in the flesh in your life. Can you feel the vertical coming up? Can you watch your
mind shift as the people in your aura and your connection shifts? To be able to see
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pseudo-seven-centered personality trying to hold onto a lost way of consciousness,

the not-self, because it's beautiful to see it.
It’s like the sensation I felt right after my experience. It ended in 1987 and I began
to look at this stuff. I got to feel the Moon in the 19th gate connecting to my only
gate going to emotional system hooking up my emotional system. I got to feel it. It
was the most startling thing I think I've ever experienced. It’s only when the
personality truly has stood back as a passenger that you can begin to watch the way
all this works. And in that is a great beauty, priceless, priceless. How effortless it is
from that perspective.
Anyway, that completes our introduction to the structure of the lunar and planetary
magic square. And it'll give me a chance over the next weeks that we have to go to
our theme and begin to look at the planets themselves, the influence of the color,
and do a little dabbling in vertical and lateral observation. Anyway to all of you, it’s
nice to have my morning coffee with you, nice you are here. Do take care, have
yourself an enjoyable weekend; watch a movie. And until this week, bye for now.

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LESSON EIGHT
Squares and Colors 1
Good morning to all of you and to those of you that are downloading. Finally, after
our long and convoluted journey as we move through looking at the lunar and
planetary magic square that we finally get to the theme of this course, which is color
analysis. And without further ado, let's enter into our little world here and I will
move along.
In this illustration what I’m setting up for you here is that this 2nd color symbol,
imagine that this 2nd color symbol is the personality of a being that is over here that
this person is in the aura of. So, the moment that they come into contact with that
2nd color personality that is the other, there is going to be a resonance impact and
there's going to be a resonance effect. Now, rather than getting involved in the
whole construct I want to keep it relatively simple so we can actually just begin to
look at this thematically and begin to grasp what it is.

This 2nd color is going to be very important. That is, it is going to be very important
in terms of the range, the capacity that is there for the mind to work with; in other
words, the experiential capacity. And it's going to be particularly focused in the
sense that it is going to be attuned to, that is, the resonance is going to be there
from the Moon. And as we know the Moon has a special position within the planetary
square. That is, it is the Moon that acts as a kind of conduit, a framing of the way in
which the experiential range is used by the mind in terms of the way in which it
concretizes its thought process.
The Alpha Vertical
What we know about the range is that range is divided up in different ways
depending on the way in which we’re viewing the square. And I want to begin with
the basic. That is, I want to begin with the alpha vertical. And again in the alpha
vertical what we’re looking at is what the basic experiential foundation for the mind
is. It’s very straightforward. And it also is the most profound of the personality
configurations in a way, that is, in the magic square. Because what it is giving you is
the very basis upon which the mind is structured. In other words, it gives you its
underlying experiential themes.
What’s beautiful about this is that first of all there are three; we know that, that
there is the three. But what we know about this three, the Moon, Venus and Saturn,
remember we talked about each of these as a thematic in terms of the bedrock of
the way the mind works. But the thing is that any one of these three can have any
one of 364 lines associated with it; in words, one of the 64 gates, one of the six lines
and the resonance that is going to be there in the color thematic. In other words, if
you think about this being the foundation of mind, what do I mean by that? Let's
take an example, let's look at the Moon to begin with.
The Moon in the 38th Gate
When we look at the Moon, we see that the Moon is in the 38th gate. Think about
the 38th gate. One of these days I’ll have to do a beginner's course on how to use
the Rave I’Ching. I think that maybe it couldn't stand 11 weeks, but it certainly
could stand two or three, because I think there are a lot of things about the I’Ching
that most people either don't know or have forgotten or don't pay much attention to,
and particularly in the age of the programs where you’re just grabbing the line by
clicking the cursor and you're not seeing the structure within the Rave I’Ching itself.
The way the Rave I’Ching is structured is something that is very important because
there are very different things to look for when you're actually working with the
I’Ching itself.
When you’re dealing, for example, with this theme that we’re looking at it, again
looking at the alpha vertical, we’re looking at the foundation and we’re looking at the
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not talking about the 38th gate and saying, okay, this is the gate of opposition, or
this part of the channel of struggle or whatever, yes, yes, I’m aware of that, but let's
think about it in terms of mind, what is this gate. It's says: The ability to preserve
individual integrity through opposition to detrimental forces.
So, think about the foundation of this mind. It’s no longer about thinking about the
38th gate and the value of that gate relative to the channel of struggle in the way we
would do an ordinary analysis; I’m not talking about that now. I’m talking about
how we interpret the color phenomenon relative to what that particular aspect
means in terms of the way in which the personality operates. I don’t mean to be too
complex, but nonetheless, that is the function. I'm not talking about how we use our
standard 38 knowledge in looking at this situation and talking about this person.
Yes, we know they’re a struggler. We know that they're going to be a struggler. It's
obvious, because we know what that means at that level on the surface.
But again, remember that we have a very special insight that is provided to us here
by being able to look at the lunar and planetary square. What we’re looking at is the
way in which the mind works, and were looking at what the mind is based on. And
we know that the most important thing for this mind is to maintain its individual
integrity and it maintains that by being in opposition to detrimental forces. In other
words, this is a mind that is always through its experience going to be ready to try to
find a way to defend its self; this is not a mind that is going to give up. This is not a
mind that is going to let another mind run it over. It isn't. And I’m not looking at
the line; we’ll get there in a moment, just the theme.
Venus in the 40th Gate
Think about the theme because what you're thinking about is the basis upon which
this mind works. This is a mind that is ready to be opposed to detrimental forces, a
mind that is going to fight to preserve its integrity. That’s what's important to this
being’s mind. You mess with my integrity I go right after you. We have Venus in
the 40, the point of transition between struggle and liberation.
Saturn in the 59th Gate
Now, think about this mind. It is always caught between struggle and liberation. It
is what this mind is all about, this struggle to maintain to preserve its integrity to
fight off the detrimental foes, the ones that say things to it that it doesn't like, and
always caught in that struggle. We’re talking about not the aspect as we would
normally look at it. The 59—the ability to break down barriers to achieve union—
we’re not talking about sex, not here, not within this context. We're talking about
the three things that matter to this mind more than anything else. They are the
foundation upon which this mind is going to operate because these are the primary
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This is a mind that has to break down the barrier. This is a mind that does not take
“no” for an answer. It's always caught in that struggle, busy, busy, busy preserving
its integrity. We’re here at this level with this kind of information to be able to see
something that we can only talk about before. You all know that. Whenever Human
Design is introduced, whenever you talk about the personality and the design, and
you point to the personality calculation, you say, this is who you think you are. And
we’ve been saying that forever—this is who you think you are and this is your
biogenetic inheritance over here and you have no conscious access to it. This is who
you think you are, all of it, who you think you are.
Well, now we know how each of those aspects becomes that “who you think you are”
secondary to what is their obvious function within the grid mechanics itself. In other
words, understanding the deeper, the more profound continuity and contribution that
is made by every imprint, and that we have very, very different minds that emerge,
because the alpha vertical is always a different combination of three gates and lines,
and color, obviously, but basically the three gates and lines.
So you can see how complex the mind foundation actually is. I don't know
statistically what the numbers are, but they must be astronomical, the possibilities
that are here in terms of how many variations of alpha vertical there is. The beauty
of the science of differentiation, to see how the differentiation unfolds, it's
everywhere, obviously, in all of this. The magic square itself sets up statistical
possibilities in the billions and billions and billions of combinations. Anyway, I don’t
want to get lost here.
The Moon in the 2nd Color
So, let’s look at our Moon. We have the Moon in the 38. We know this is the key,
and we know that it is going to be in resonance. Let's think about something in
terms of what we’ve been looking at over these weeks to have a sense of how would
that work. In other words, the Moon is going to the key, the Moon has the 2; the
Moon is going to be in resonance. What else is in resonance? The only other thing
that you would get in that resonance was going to be the Uranus 2nd color in the 63.
Now, one of the things that is interesting is that the way in which laterals, verticals,
diagonals, the way in which they work is not simply the configuration as it stands, in
other words, the various elements, but ultimately those elements have to be seen in
relationship to the holistic design itself in order to understand their relationship to
each other.
As an example, the strongest element in this personality is the alpha vertical. And
it's the strongest element because from that 38 you can then go directly through
definition to the 59 and directly through definition to the 40. In other words, that
these three elements are directly linked to each other, which means that this is a
constant active part of the nature of the being, its authority, so forth and so on, it's
always there. So, the alpha vertical is going to be a very, very strong force, stronger
than most other forces that are going to be there in terms of the way in which the
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So, what we know about this and particularly in this case, again the 42 and the 32
are part of this definition, there is a very direct connection through all of this, a very
direct connection of the alpha vertical in this case to those particular elements. So
we know very clearly that this concern about personal integrity, this struggle to find
liberation, to actually find your truth, this whole process of breaking down barriers,
of not allowing oneself to be overwhelmed by detrimental forces, that this all
becomes the experiential stuff of the mind, and very strong.
The Body Lateral
It's going to be different here, when we're looking at in this configuration. There is
obviously a very powerful relationship between the 38 and the 28. Again, we’re
looking at the body lateral. In looking at that, what we see is that the Uranus is
isolated in the 63. However, because it's a 2, 2nd color, it is very much still a part of
this process. Not as strong as this, because we can see how deeply integrated this is
within the design; however, it is certainly functional. It is much more powerful, as
an example, then what you have in the diagonal.
In other words, in the diagonal and again, you have because of this lower definition,
you have these two aspects, but this is totally isolated. In other words, this diagonal
is not going to function very well. But the vertical and the laterals, you can see in
their relationship to the design itself that they have a relationship to each other. And
in this relationship to each other, this then adds strength to the way in which these
particular aspects are going to influence the way in which the mind is going operate.
All right: The ability to preserve individual integrity. This is the most important thing
for this person. Think about it. This is the beauty of what you get to see. You look
at your personality Moon, look at the gate and read the heading to the gate, and this
will give you an insight, a deep insight into what is this basic platform for you. This
is the key experiential source for the mind. And so, everything having to do with this
person preserving their integrity, they are going to end up being very sensitive,
mentally sensitive. A sensitive personality, very, very concerned about its integrity,
very concerned about it. It’s going to be there in its mind.
The Moon’s Line: Blue Headings
And we begin to see something about the way in which the living personality is going
to unfold. Now, of course, not only do we have this gate and its thematic, but we
have the line itself, and the line in this case is investigation. Now again, the I’Ching;
if you're working with the Rave I’Ching and you look at the lines you will see that
some lines have blue headings. I say blue headings because that they are colored in
in blue. Not all lines have blue headings. If the line has a blue heading it means
that the information of that line is something that develops over time. In other
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When you have a line that does not have a blue heading, it is something that is
immediately present. In other words, it is a set, fixed trait that doesn't evolve.
Whereas, when you're looking at blue headed lines you're looking at aspects that
have an evolutionary tendency or maturing tendency that takes time for them to
fulfill whatever their particular potential happens to be.
For example, in this 4th line of investigation it has a blue heading that says: Analysis
which strengthens opposition. So this is its ongoing mental development process to
get better and better at analyzing, to mature at analyzing. And it is mental
investigation, particularly mental investigation that helps preserve its integrity,
mental investigation that helps defend itself against detrimental forces, investigative
information that allows it to break down the barriers of others, investigative
information that needs to liberation and deliverance.
We’re beginning to catch the flavor of a being. Now, in the continuity of this design,
it’s a 5/1, so it has this investigative unconscious to begin with. And we know from
the overall quality of the personality profile, that what we’re going to have here is
somebody that has a natural gift for investigation, unconscious though it may be.
But what we get to see is that that unconscious gift is backed up by a mind that's
going to depend on investigation, and not because there's an unconscious 1, you
can’t depend on something you don't have conscious access to, but the fact it's going
to depend on investigation through its 38.4 means it is going to be able to take
advantage of a brain system that's designed for investigation, a nice continuity
there.
So we know what this mind is going to be like. It’s going to be touchy. It doesn't
like being personally challenged. It will dig deep and investigate and get the facts in
order to defend itself. This is the kind of person that will not let go in an argument,
because you can see it deep, deep there in their foundation. And that Saturn that's
in the 59—we’ll get there in a moment—that Saturn saying, we will break down a
barrier or we will break you.
In order to be able to demonstrate that the knowledge literally sees every single
mechanical aspect, you have to get down to this level. And when you get down to
this level you begin to see that the way in which we think, the way in which we
formulate, the things that are important for us, all of this stuff is in the box. It’s not
like we can sort of pat ourselves on the back and say, hey look I did that, I think like
this. It's all there.
Resonance: 2nd Color of Hope
What's really interesting is to think about what resonance means. We see, as an

example, just beginning with the 38, we see the importance of this for this mind
system. It's important. This is the basis upon which its stability lies. This is the
underlying thematic of it. And of course, that only becomes a heightened theme
when it's dealing with the 2nd personality, because only then doesn't resonate. And
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The resonance that takes place in these aspects, there's no transference in this, this
is not a negative conditioning, they simply resonate. And they resonate to the
potential of what the color frequency happens to be. In this particular case, the 2nd
color is the color of hope. One of the things about the nature of hope is that most of
us do not understand what hope actually is. That is, most human beings, the vast
majority of human beings who have 2nd color personality, are in transference and
they’re in transference to the 5. Those people that we experience who are hopeful
as personalities, these are 5th colored beings that are transferred to the 2. And of
course, transference eliminates cognition, which means that this is called dumb
hopefulness or blind hopefulness. And it’s blind because it's not connected to any
kind of intelligence that can really guide it. So, it does not know specifically what to
be hopeful about. There is simply a hopefulness.
And of course, the thing to understand about what happens to us in terms of the
planetary resonance is that this is just a pure resonance. In other words, this is
hope and it is pure hope. Now, pure hope is something is very interesting. That is,
within the context of somebody who could be correct as a 2nd color personality. It
does not mean that you're blindly hopeful. It means that you're only hopeful about
those things that in fact will bring you realization. Now, you don't know that they're
going to bring you realization, but because this is pure, that it is not transferred
hope, it knows what to hope for.
So, one of the things to grasp about the nature of this kind of mind is that this is a
deeply, deeply, deeply resilient source. It’s not just resilient in the sense that it's
ready to fight and preserve its “this and that.” It is capable of maintaining its mental
direction despite what all evidence indicates, because that's what hopefulness can
do. You know the hopefulness that you end up with a mind that says I am hopeful, I
will break their barrier. I am hopeful that I will find liberation, I am hopeful that I will
be able to maintain my integrity. And my hope is based on my ability to investigate.
And my investigations are going to bring results. That's a strong personality mind.
Left Strategic Mind
And we know that in this particular case that we are dealing with a left strategic
mind, a strategic mind that is deeply dependent upon its resources. It's interesting
to think about the different kinds of minds. The mind is going to be a reflection of
the beings around you. This is one of the things that you get to see about the deep
influence that is there in our social connection with the other, that in the social
connection with the other that there can be this manipulating unconsciously,
obviously, this manipulating of what's turned on in your system or not. If this were
a 6th color instead of a 2nd color, then this whole emphasis on the Moon and the
keying on the Moon would be very different, because the keying wouldn't be there.
It wouldn’t be there on this mental integrity, and it wouldn't there on preserving it
and fighting the detrimental forces.
Yes, there is a 6 in here, and they are connected to each other, but it is this thematic
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of the resonance. The same thing is true here with the 6 and the same thing is true
here with the 6. And of course, what you would get out of that is a very different
kind of mind, or a very different kind of approach of mind. And of course, you can
imagine situations in which this isn't even impacted. And what kind of mind is it that
doesn't have a reliable vertical in terms of when it connects to others. These are the
kinds of people that when we're they’re with people they get confused in certain
situations and then the moment that there a way they’ve got the answer.
Two Kinds of Mind: When Alone or With Others
The moment that they’re by themselves all of a sudden, they realize, oh and I
should've said, I could have said that, and that's what they meant, because their
vertical isn’t present at that time. When I mean present, I mean that it's
highlighted. This is what the resonance does. We have two kinds of minds, which is
kind of cute when you think about. We have the mind of our aloneness, and that is
the mind that is in an aura protected environment. In other words, true aloneness,
nobody's in your aura. Then the way in which the configuration operates within your
design you're getting a consistent access depended on the way that connectivity
operates. It’s there. The elements, obviously, are all there.
But the moment that you step out into the world is the moment you step out into a
world that is pulling you in different directions, because it's turning on different
aspects. You think that when you come out of your aloneness with your mindset and
you go to meet the other to have a business meeting or a personal discussion or just
chitchat, the assumption is you're taking your mind with you. Well, you’re not,
because the moment that you come into contact with these people is the moment
that whatever their particular color orientation is going to be, they are going to
influence the way in which your mind in the time you're there in their aura, the way
in which your mind collects data.
This is what your definition provides, what your personality provides the mind. It is
a data resource. So, all of these aspects that are here, all of them dealing with the
other, dealing with the connections and the hanging gates being affected and the
splits, and this and that. This is experientially taking in all of that data. And it is this
data being taken in it that is being used by the mind to organize its thoughts in
whatever the conversation or relationship is with the other force. But it's that other
force that's influencing the way in which the mind is going to work.
Let's take the example that they’re with somebody who has a 5 color personality,
absolutely nothing here gets highlighted. And in that sense, this person remains
very much as they were before they stepped into this person’s aura. There is a
consistency into the way in which experientially they will meet the other.
[A written question: Does the color of the (Personality) nodes of the other cause
resonance as well?]
Ra: No, the Nodes are a separate factor relative to this. This is really just about
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personality of the other, and that is the Sun/Earth personality. This is the hook. It’s
70%; it is the true color because after all, only the Sun/Earth has true color.
Nothing else has true color. Only the Sun/Earth has true color, because after all, this
is the crystal itself and this is where the true color actually is.
So, the moment that there is a personality here that would be a 5, right away that
Sun/Earth 5 is not going to change the way this mind works. There may be other
things impacting it, because after all this is invariably going to be not-self and there's
all kinds of things that can impact the way in which this being is going to think, and
so forth and so on, we know all that from the way the not-self influences the mind.
Remember that the only way that I can explain this to you is by hypothesizing that
we have an awake being, so that we can actually see how these things work ideally.
So, it’s something again to understand about our psychology in terms of the way in
which we connect to the other. Again to understand another level in which these
kinds of control mechanisms take place, in the way in which we ourselves are not
necessarily in control of our own thinking process when we’re in the aura of the other
because they are highlighting or impacting the way in which our mind collects data.
And what data becomes important for the mind. The 6 is going to make this so
much more important than the 2s that we’ve been looking at, if you know what I
mean. In other words, that mind is going to have a different value system based on
what is going to be resonating.
It also means that if you have very strong forces in your life that you go back and
forth between, who are constantly changing the way in which your mind system
works it can end up being very confusing for you. And we have that. This is a very
common thing with human beings, not being able to carry over their thinking process
from one conversation with one person to another conversation with another,
because it doesn't work.
Venus in the 40.3
Okay, let's take a look at the next step. Let's go to the Venus, and we go to the
Venus in the 40th gate. And of course again we see this theme of the gate of
deliverance, the point of transition between struggle and liberation. It is something
to understand about the 40th gate, is that the 40th gate works for its freedom. This is
its great driving force. It works for its freedom. So, this is a mind, in a sense, that
is always trying to be free. It's always looking for its way to be free. And it is a
mind that is not afraid to work. In other words, this would be a good mind to train,
a good studying mind. It's not afraid to work. That’s clear, that's part of itself alpha
vertical.
We have the 3rd line. And of course the 3rd line is humility, and it is: A calculated
mode to avoid attracting the attention of negative forces. So, this is not a mind that
is going to show off, even though we've got a very strong ego. It's interesting, if
you think about it. And it's not going to show off not because it doesn't think that
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You can already see that we're beginning to see a continuity between these two
aspects. This is the thing that is so extraordinary about Human Design. You take
any aspects and you put them together because they belong together in somebody's
design, and you will see to have a relationship to each other. They just do. It
doesn't matter what aspects you bring together, this is the great law of
juxtaposition. You bring two things together and they automatically have a
relationship, you just have to be able to see it. But it's there.
We've already seen that this

maintaining the integrity in the
face of detrimental forces is the
key to the lunar focus of this
mind. They're very concerned
about detrimental forces. And
you can see this is a social
being—59.6, 40/37, you’ve got
the 49th gate, you’ve got the
22nd gate, you have aspects of
all of the basic social channels.
This is somebody with their
very collective sharing mind, all
of this social dynamic that is
inherent in this being. And of
course, this is a calculated
mode, and it is a calculated
mode to avoid attracting the attention of negative forces. So you can see what this
mind is about. It’s very calculating. It's investigative, it's calculating, its main
theme is to defend itself. And you can tell with somebody like this who is a 40/37
that boy you’d better not break any bargain with them, because they’re going to
know. And they're going to expect you to have the same integrity.
The 6th Color: Innocence
It’s a 6th color; innocence. And what is so interesting about innocence is that it's so
beautiful in this context, because this really is about humility in the sense that you
do not have to try to be a role model to be a role model. Do you know what I mean?
The innocence is an innocence of self. It’s just an innocence of self. And of course,
for this being their mental concept of themselves is something that is very high.
They are ready to defend themselves at any, any, any, any, any, any moment.
And of course with an open G you can see the irony in all of that. Their 5th line irony
suits them, the irony of defending a self that they don't really know. And of course,
for their mind this is always going to be a dilemma and they’re going to feel that.
It’s going to be part of their psychology—who is this person I am defending. Minds,
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Saturn in 59.6/3rd Color
Let's take a look at Saturn. Saturn has an unusual element in Design. I'm a great
admirer of the power of Saturn. It is quite an extraordinary force. But in Human
Design, Saturn really does have a very specific value. That is, it is the place in which
we are made to pay the price for incorrectness. You’re a Generator and you're
supposed to respond and you initiate, where you're going to feel the pain first is
wherever your Saturns happens to be. This is where it's going to get you. And to
understand Saturn this way is to understand Saturn as one of the great signpost that
we have for our correctness. It is what Saturn is all about. If you're correct, Saturn
does not reward you, not directly anyway, it rewards you indirectly because it
doesn't give you a pain in the ass. If Saturn doesn't bother you, let me tell you
something; that is an enormous compliment.
So, Saturn is a force that one has to pay attention to. And what it means is that in
understanding Saturn this way, you know that this personality pays the price in its
relationships all the time. Whenever it's incorrect, the price gets paid in its intimacy.
It gets paid in its relationship to the other. And that is where it ends up suffering.
And of course, one of the things that we see here with Saturn in the 59, we have
Saturn in the 59.6, and we have Saturn in the 59.6 with the 3rd color. Now, that is
quite a combination, the 59th gate, this gate of intimacy, the ability to break down
barriers to achieve union. And then of course, the 6th line, which is a one-night
stand and the 3rd color that is desire. The tendency based on personality or
circumstances to accept only temporary unions that may be otherwise impossible or
dangerous to continue.
Here is a mind that sees union as potentially dangerous and temporary. It just will, I
mean, it will. And at the same time be driven by the desire to use this to break
down the barrier. And again, this is the whole thing for this mind. That is, if you
can't break down the barrier, then the other is detrimental, that the other is a
negative force, that the other needs to be avoided.
And of course, this breaking down of the barrier at all costs mentally doesn't mean
that that necessarily is going to lead to successful relationships. This being has a
problem with their emotional system. Again, this is one of the things about the
beauty of the bodygraph and circuitry and mechanics, just seeing things. The only
way in which this emotional system is defined is unconsciously. Oh yes, there are
conscious activations and it is a powerful system, but still the entry points are
unconscious. And the three social entry points, the 6, 37 and the 22 are all
unconscious. This is somebody whose answers are unconscious, whose voice of
thinking and believing is unconscious, and the entry points here of the emotional
system are unconscious. This person isn't really in touch with their social dynamic.
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The Alpha Vertical: The Bedrock Upon Which the Mind Is Going to Operate
And from the personality point of view they see everyone as a threat potentially.
They’re a 5. It’s all continuity. It feeds into their paranoia. The detrimental forces,
the negative forces, the ones that have to have their barriers broken down because
they’re dangerous, and this is the way this mind thinks. It's not the complete story,
we’re not looking at its lateral thinking process, we’re not looking at the mental
mutative capacity, but it is the alpha vertical that establishes the bedrock upon
which a mind is going to operate. That is, what is its main experiential resources,
what do you count on experientially to give you the information you need to
construct your concepts.
The beauty of stepping into a whole new level of graphic presentation is that, again,
it brings out another level of potential understanding and depth. Our relationship to
the traditional format for the bodygraph and the database is that in seeing the
planets just simply strung down in their line on either side that we only use that
information to see the planets within the configurative aspect of how they work. In
other words, what is the byproduct of them being there, so that we end up with an
illogical questioning mind. We have all of this definition down here, the struggling
focused intimate community person; this is what we have used that data for. And at
the same time, yes, we have gone deeper and said okay, we have this in the 28 and
that in the 38, but we end up talking about the channel of struggle and what that
channel of struggle means within the context of their life process and within the
context of reading the surface.
But the moment you bring in the magic square or the moment you bring in this
configuration the surface is something that is the obvious. But there are all kinds of
new information that emerges. So, for the first time now, rather than just simply
seeing this planetary database as a way to get into the bodygraph in order to
interpret the bodygraph values, what we’re looking at is insight and information from
the database itself. This is what the difference is.
It was one of those delightful questions that arose in the Jam Player, we use the AI
format. I wanted to just over time let people see this and get them familiar with it.
And because of that we've gotten many, many e-mails from people who obviously
don't take any of the courses or know what this is or have heard about it or
whatever. Some of the questions have been very funny, but my favorite question
was: Does this mean we don't need a bodygraph anymore? I thought that was really
delightful. We can’t get rid of the bodygraph. But what it does is that it opens up
information in the database itself that transcends the way in which we have seen or
have been trained to see the bodygraph itself. In other words, so many other things
now can emerge.
And it's the beauty of this. Again, the basic information about the way in which
aspects work or the why things work the way they do, that to begin to see the
underlying values and what they bring. It is very fascinating, by the way, to study
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incredible for us to be able to look at these various aspects and to see what these
aspects are all about. It's just there.
And I've gone through quite a process myself in the last while looking at my own
alpha vertical. The other evening I was sitting and looking at my alpha vertical and I
tell you I had such a good laugh, deep laugh, because this is what my mind is about.
You really get to see it. I have Saturn in the 7.3, I'm an anarchist. I have Venus in
the 26; it's the line of wisdom in the gate of the now. And I've got my Moon in the
in the 51.2, the ability to respond to disorder and shock through recognition and
adaptation. Well, boy, that’s what my mind had been through. This is its bedrock.
Look at Your Own Alpha Vertical
And for each of you this is a very, very important place to go to, how shall I phrase
that, give yourself a little extra something for self-love, because it’s very beautiful to
see the construct and to begin to investigate it. And don't get carried away, because
it's a lot. Begin with the alpha vertical. Look at your own alpha vertical and look at
the basis upon which your mind operates, what is its experiential values, how are
they all connected to each other. As an example, in my alpha vertical, those three
aspects are all connected in a continuous definition. It makes it very, very powerful
in the way it consistently acts as a resource.
Again, to look at the alpha vertical and to see it in relationship to your design, in
relationship to the graphing, to see it in relationship to what the colors are, to have a
sense of how it reacts to others. But to begin to see in these three elements, the
basic elements that are in terms of what is the foundation for you as a thinking
being. This is your experiential resource. And it is very exciting to begin to look at
that. Next week we’ll take the example of laterals and the way you interpret
laterals, and we’ll finish with diagonals, so that you have a sense for each of them.
But here the alpha vertical is prime. I don’t want to get into now the other verticals.
If you're interested and you want to experiment with that in terms of your own
design and looking at that, go back to the lecture where these verticals were
discussed so that you can begin to play with that. But I would begin only with the
alpha, because it is the basis. And we need to begin to look at it in these ways in
order to be able to get—the lunar and planetary color analysis is here to serve only
two processes. That is, PHS and Rave Psychology. Lunar and planetary analysis on
the personality side is the final key in being able to map the way in which a mind
operates. Lunar and planetary analysis on the design side—I think the core of all of
the nuances of physical health can be found in the framework of the design side, but
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Unique Outer Authority
We are looking at detailed information now, and we’re looking at the detailed
information that finally, in that sense, elaborates on what is the uniqueness, or the
true differentiation of a being. Again, I want you to grasp how complex the unique
mind is, just this single element—there are three verticals, three laterals, two
diagonals, just this single element, how many possible combinations can exist. It is
the thing that has to give the personality courage that has the right to divine outer
authority. The beauty of what is possible through unique authority is eventually to
be able to express unique outer authority. And a unique outer authority that truly,
truly, truly is unique.
And it is this expression of this unique outer authority that we yearn for, for because
this is how we learn. We learn from outer authority. You learn from my outer
authority. This is how we’ve always learned. It is so important to humanity that the
voices of outer authority are clean, are pure, are correct, because that's all we live
with. We live with a world and the not-self in which outer authority and inner
authority is all mental and it's nothing but lies.
And here you get to see the magic because you get to see the deep, deep, deep
uniqueness that is there in terms of the way in which we are designed to be an outer
authority. How beautiful that is. And there isn't any more, just this simple playing
surface. That you see the Moon in the 38 and it doesn't mean anything to you other
than it’s the activation at the other end of the channel, because that's the way it
works for most people. For most people the interest is, all right, this is the channel
of struggle; they may be interested in the lines to a degree. But they're not really
interested in what that unique aspect on its own contributes to who you think you
are. And that's what we’re seeing.
The New Science of Mind: Rave Psychology
This is our ability to be able to exalt the values that we attach to the planets
themselves and to their power in us as in printing agents. It opens up an
extraordinary world for investigation. It will take at least a decade to really begin to
completely rewrite the understanding of the way in which the mechanics of mind
work, to be able to elaborate on every single one of these aspects, to begin to
understand the fact that the magic square is in itself a spiral. And to see that the
way in which the magic square operates has a great deal to do with the way in which
we are genetically imprinted. That the interpretation of each of these aspects as
environments, in other words, the spaces themselves as environments, that all of
this leads to a whole new science of mind, Rave Psychology, which has absolutely
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This is a new science. And so these aspects are really incredibly profound in that
sense. At this point in the process I can only give you a taste of what is here. But
what we are looking at is that we're looking at the exact mechanism upon which
mind is designed to function. Again, it is a very complex story, obviously, because
we have to deal with at the same time the influences of the not-self, and so forth
and so on. But in terms of the pure mechanics of it, the mechanics of it are
revealed. Who you think you are, the aspects of who you think you are, are aspects
that can now be interpreted, those aspects that can be analyzed and they can be
integrated back into the holistic whole.
It’s an end journey for me, if there ever was one, to get to this place. I have been
saying since 1992 when I started my professional work that this is who you think you
are. Well, now it's all there, and it's nice to have this closure, let’s just call it
closure.
Anyway, nice that you're here this morning and as always, it's a treat. It's very
exciting, very rewarding to be able to look at this information and share it with you.
It's Friday; you have yourself an entertaining and enjoyable weekend, and until next
week, you take care, bye for now.

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LESSON NINE
Squares and Colors 2
We have a very intimate class this morning. Hello to all of you that are downloading
and for those of you that are here. We’re going to continue on our journey. The
chart that I'm using, and this class is also going to be made available to the third
year Rave Psychology class, this is a chart that I began working with them and it's
appropriate for what I want to discuss with you and also additional information that’s
a value to them.
The Chart of Jonas Salk
This is the design for Jonas Salk, the man that discovered the cure for polio, and I'm
using him in Rave Psychology in order to explore the nature of the mind. And
obviously we’re working with the construct, the personality side in terms of color. I
want to use this particular opportunity to talk about the way in which what you have
laid out, that is, what is there as a potential range in the lunar and planetary square
that this is something that you have to see also raises not just simply ideas about

the underlying thematics of the way in which, for example, the mind collects and
works with experience, but it also says that there are many attributes of mind that
we have that never successfully get to compete.
In other words, if you think of this box as nine different experiential possibilities, if
we’re just honing in on the various planetary aspects, that those aspects are often in
conflict with each other in trying to get the attention of the conceptualizing head
office, because that's really what it is. This is everybody that’s doing research, but
the decision making process on what aspects of the research is something that is
part of the overall personality style, the style that emerges out of the Sun/Earth
profile, the Sun/Earth cross configuration, the style of conceptualizing, the style of
the mind.
The Gamma Vertical is About the Way We Learn Things
And of course, one of the things that we need to look at is that we need to
understand the relationship, the deep relationship that is there between the color of
the conceptualizing mind and that color and its relationship within the lunar and
planetary square. And of course, what you can see as an example of we look here is
that you can see that the only aspect in which the color is the same, that is, the only
aspect that is really in tune with this, that this is the Neptunian aspect in the in the
gamma vertical and the gamma vertical is all about the way you learn things. It is
going to be this theme of this learning that often is going to dominate over other
things, because there is always, in that sense, a keying to the desire that’s here to
drive this forward, whatever that aspect happens to be.
I want to talk today, though, not just simply about the way in which we are mentally
influenced in terms of how our experiential depth is not something that we naturally
have control over as if we were in charge of the research, because were not. We're
not in charge of what aspects of our range were connected to at any given moment
or which ones are stimulated in any given moment. I think most of you have noticed
that if you go to, for example, the main Jovian website, because it is interesting, it is
different from the Jam Player, and you look at the Just Now configuration on the
front page you will see that it gives the not-self themes of the day.
Color Changes Every Four Hours
If you want to see what the actual color is, as an example, you go to the Jam Player
and in the Jam Player you get what's actually there. And what’s very important
about this is to understand that the transiting Sun/Earth color is something that your
personality range reacts to. It just does, which means that mentally we are tuned to
different frequencies during the course of a day. Color changes approximately every
four hours, that is, approximately every 24 hours you go through the six colors.
There is this cycle that is always going on in terms of the influencing of the program.
And because that cycle is moving 1st color to 6th color, it's obvious that during the
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LESSON NINE: Squares & Colors 2
When we're looking at this being, let's say that right now the transiting color is 1.
The moment that transiting color is 1 is the moment that there is resonance here,
there is resonance here, and there is resonance here. A 1st color theme coming from
the program stimulates in this being a learning process, because these are keys to
what is necessary for the conceptualizing mind, the pre-requisite information that
they have to grasp in their life process.
Uranus in the 19th Gate
Think about the Uranus that I clicked off here. If we’re looking at the gamma
vertical, we know that the gamma vertical is about learning. And the 19th gate, and
again, this is one of these areas that in working with lunar and planetary color it's
very important that you are able to combine the fundamental keynote of the gate
with a specific keynoting of the line. So the fundamental keynote of the 19th gate is
that: All things are interrelated is apparent and manifested through the action of
approach. So what's there to be learned for the mind? The mind has to learn how
all things are interrelated. In other words, this becomes the main learning process
that is heightened in this particular case, in this particular zone, the Uranian zone,
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So, the moment that there is a 1 out there, the Sun/Earth is in the 1st color, which is
going to happen once a day for approximately 4 hours, if you know what I mean, in
other words, it's in the cycle, that every time that comes up this gets stimulated and
this is when this starts taking in and working on that particular learning. In other
words, any phenomenon that's going to be there in the outside world that because of
the underlying thematic of the 1st color, which of course is fear, this is a motivation
to grasp what is going on, to dig into things, to get rid of the fear, in that sense.
Like all the 1s it is about getting to the basics. And of course, this is a basic
motivation, a basic motivation to deal with the uncertainty of life itself. And here
this motivation is to dig into how all things are related to each other, which means
that this conceptualizing mind has a potential of seeing how all things are related,
but it's not particularly connected to it.
Pluto in the 15th Gate
In other words, it's much more interested in learning about the body. It’s the body
things that really attract it because this is where you have this harmonizing of the
motivation underneath. So we are very much impacted in many, many ways in
terms of the way in which ‘who we think we are’ is focused at any given moment. If
we look at the Pluto, as an example, we see that again we’re dealing with a Pluto
with a 1st line. We know this is about learning. The 15 is: The quality of behavior
which expresses the proper balance between extremes. How do you find that, how
you learn that? It's to learn about how to be able to find your proper balance. And
obviously it is related to the spirit. Again, there are many levels of this; I’m just
beginning this process for you to give you a sense of it, that on top of this, on top of
whatever is the fundamental thematic, finding the balance, there is a basic theme to
it as well.
In other words, that 5th line of sensitivity is: The ability to sense when otherwise
balanced behavior must be adjusted—to learn how to find your balance in the
environment itself, an ongoing learning process. And only when this person learns
how to be in the environment are they going to benefit in terms of their spirit. And
that you can see that in his being there is this interesting construct here, the way
this works. And remember we’re dealing with a magic square and all of these things
really apply, so there is this very interesting physical layout in terms of the way in
which this is structured. And again it is one of the things that illustrates—and this is
something that I’m dealing with in the other courses, ultimately, is about the impact
of Mars and the role of Mars in this magic square, which is so important obviously,
because it is so central to.
Venus in the 9th Gate
But again, if we look at the Venus we go back we go back to the alpha vertical. And
in going back to the alpha vertical we’re talking about what is the foundation, that is,
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Potential can be fulfilled through detailed attention to all aspects. And so the
moment that there is that 1st color out there, there is this resonance, because the
fear rises. It just does. We have to learn how to do that, we have to learn how to
see how all things are interrelated. We have to learn how to find our balance in the
environment to get our spirit, because our underlying foundation says we have to dig
into everything to get there. But that doesn't mean that that's the way in which this
personality is going to be conceptualizing. This is going to be there, because it's part
of who they think they are, but it is not going to be able to dominate over this 3rd
color.
We have all kinds of things within us as potentials mentally in this ‘who we think we
are’ in our connectivity to the world around us and the way in which we react to all
that, the way we take in the information. But that information in and of itself,
though it is there, though the mind has access to it, that the way in which it utilizes
that information is relative.
The Nodes
There’s this old joke about people who never use the full potential of their minds,
well, it’s not a joke; it isn’t. It is dependent on circumstances. It is dependent on the
basic style of the mind, what the mind is really going to lean on. And of course, we
know right away that there is a lot of complexity in this in terms of how that all
works, because we have to deal with the perspective of mind to begin with, because
everything about the conceptualizing, everything about the way the Sun/Earth
operates is dependent on what the Nodes see in that sense.
Here is somebody whose view in the world, in other words, what their personality
Nodes point towards, what they are here to see in the world around them, is they're
here to see possibility. That's what they're here to see—the possibility that all things
can interrelated, the possibility that they can find their environment and their
balance in the environment, the possibility that they can fulfill the demands of
digging out all of the detail.
In other words, it becomes an aspect of the relationship to the view. But here again,
is the same dilemma in the sense that this view is much more aligned into the outer
authority that this person is potentially capable of expressing, because if we look at
the beta vertical we’re looking at outer authority; in other words, the way in which
the mind packages its concepts for delivery. It’s interesting to think about it that
way, but that's basically what it is, the keys to getting the outer authority out.
Outer Authority: The 43rd Gate
And obviously here this case where we have this 2nd color view that we're going to
have in terms of the outer authority, outer authority is always going to be in the 43
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a conjunction there, the 43.2 for the Mars, the 43.5 for the Mercury, both of them
2nd color deeply, deeply resonating to each other, resonating to the particular view.
Think about the complexity of mind. We have already seen that, for example, the
main thematic of the learning, that is, the 1st line, which is the majority of these
three, that it does not have a strong influence in terms of the motivation of the
whole. If we look here, it is the expressing of outer authority, that though it has a
strong connection to the perspective, again, it doesn't have a natural relationship to
the color of the delivering personality.
They're not going to have the desire to express their other authority strongly, they’re
not. This outer authority will be pulled out of a person that is in their face with a
personality 2 Sun that pulls this out and this style has to deal with it even though it's
uncomfortable with it. What is this mind naturally attuned to? We know what it's
naturally attuned to in terms of color, two aspects. This is what this particular
character really needs to learn. And this is its fundamental foundation, because this
is always what is going to be in resonance.
Personality Color Transference
Now, there is an irony in this and a deep irony in this. It’s one of the cautions that I
keep on bringing in the examination of material at this level is that I'm describing
this as if we’re dealing with somebody who is actually awake; in other words,
somebody who is not in personality color transference. Personality color
transference isn't something that disappears because you're operating correctly as
yourself. It doesn't. It is the last bastion of the dysfunction of personality.
And it is something to recognize that in most human beings, what is happening is a

kind of real perversity. That is, that what you have here is that you have a
personality that is going to be in transference. And because it's going to be in
transference this is what it's looking for. Now, in this particular case, you can see
that none of that is there. In other words, for most human beings there is real
distortion in the way their mind is working because there is no possibility for the true
thematic of their mind to come through. It doesn't mean as I describe these things,
because you and me, all of us, need to be careful with this.
I'm not suggesting that there is no advantage in the mind in taking advantage of
these thematics, but it's not the way in which they are focused. It is not the way
they look at things. It's not the way in which they are driven to conceptualize them.
It isn't. So it means that there are certain aspects of mind that only arise when one
is connected to the other. One of the things that is so fascinating about
understanding the potential of our minds is that we are designed that on our own
alone that they really have a very, very specific limitation. You can see limitation
here. There is a specific limitation that's there. The view alone is oriented through
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The 43rd Gate
If we look at the 43, and again I'm not integrating this into the bodygraph right now,
but obviously it is a hanging gate in this split off definition in a very, very broad split,
and we have a broad split more than a gate necessary to join the split, you know
that this person always thinks about other people in terms of them being the
problem or them having problems, which is an interesting orientation for somebody
that's going to heal them.
Breakthrough: In order for achievement to be maintained a new order must be fairly

established. Now remember that this is connected to the view and this is what the
outer authority ultimately is all about. It's about establishing a new order, a fair new
order. And basically when this person is most highly tuned to their 2, what they see
is the possibility of some kind of new order. They see it. And this is what they are
here to transmit. Now, the lines are both Dedication and Progression. In other
words, they are very, very detailed if you want to get into that in terms of the way in
which a new structure needs to be put out. So ultimately, this is where this outer
authority, the ability to be able to express the possibility of a new order, because
they see that possibility because of the alignment of the 2s.
The 15th Gate
It also resonates deeply within the foundation of the way in which this mind
operates. In other words, if you look at this establishing of a new order, and it's
interesting that the 15th gate, of course, is a key to life, specifically to cells because
the 15th gate is literally in all living things. And here the 15th gate: The quality of
behavior which expresses the proper balance between extremes. So we come back
to this, and of course we saw it in the Pluto on the other side, this balancing,
everything about this being is about finding a proper balance and in finding a proper
balance establishing a new order.
In other words, that finding a proper balance, you can extrapolate that into trying to
eliminate the extremes, trying to find a fair and proper new order that can then be
the outer authority. But this is all connected to the way in which this being sees. It
sees the need for a new order. It sees the need for balance, and so forth and so on.
But the fact that it sees that doesn't mean that it can conceptualize specifically in
that way. It is part of the background of the way in which it looks at things, and this
becomes the foundation. But the foundation is rooted in: I have to be the leader,
I'm driven by desire and my desire is pointed in certain directions. So, this is the
Cross of the Unexpected, this character, because of the thing you have to see, this is
the character that is going to express out of its experience. But this is what it is
most comfortable with. It’s most comfortable with that underlying experiential
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The Moon
Now, what’s interesting in this case, and of course, this is for much more elaborate
analysis, is that the Moon has an unusual role in all of this in that it is the Moon that
is a coordinator in the relationship to the Nodes and from the Nodes to the
Sun/Earth. And of course, the Moon, having this 3rd color in resonance, this is
something that can be very, very powerful. It is a way of coordinating all of this and
bringing it all together. Now that Moon, that 3rd color, how does that really work in
the sense that—you have to think about the colors as the way we are, from the
personality point of view, what becomes, I guess the most mundane way to describe
it is what suddenly becomes interesting, what suddenly hooks you, what suddenly
are you most driven to pay attention to, because that's really what it is.
And these are obviously very, very different kinds motivations. The point you get to
the 6 and its true nature, it almost seems like it is anti-motivation. In other words,
it almost seems like there is just simply withdrawal in that. So the way in which
each of these elements are going to operate—the gate, the line, where it is within
the context of the box—its quality is always going to be determined by the way in
which it is moved, the way in which it is motivated, because this changes the way in
which it is experienced.
And everything about
this is how who we think
we are, our personality
activations, the way in
which they take in life.
Hanging Gates
Interesting things to
think about, the gate
that you have that’s
hanging takes in more
information than the
gate that's part of a
definition. So, it’s also
something to see within
the context of the magic
square, that when you're looking at the magic square and you’re looking at elements
that may be in a magic square that are part of the definition, they are much more
limited than those aspects of you—remember, it is one of my things about in
teaching about the not-self is understanding that the moment that you get past the
conditioning environment, in other words, how you’re conditioned by your openness,
the moment that you’re operating correctly, Strategy and Authority, you then have a
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The hanging gates have enormous experiential depth. They just do. And a hanging
gate in an open center, like here, as an example, or here, as an example, or here,
these hanging gates in an open center have tremendous experience. Experience of
the different ways the center is activated, experience in the different ways in which
they are met at the other end by the different planets through the different lines
through the different colors, and on and on and on. They have a huge amount of
experiential information.
So it is always interesting to see where it is. Now here is another potential example
of a gate that is very, very experientially open. Yet, at the same time it is part of a
definition. So a hanging gate out of that definition, it gets the best of both worlds.
It's always active, which is very important ultimately to the way in which this mind is
going to work. It's always active. And at the same time it has an experiential
quality of—it's not as rich in experiential depth as the pure openness, but it still has
that potential of tapping into all the possibilities of the various ways in which the root
activated can impact it, and of course, particularly since this is a deeply mutative and
individual channel, the 39/55.
The 55th Gate
The 55 is: Abundance is strictly question of spirit. This is the foundation for this
mind. This is one of those things; it is a very difficult thing. Yet at the same time, it
is the driving force, it is the desire to be at ease in the world. It is the desire to be
able to have your spirit in this life; nothing more important. You can begin to see
this in the way in which this mind is accentuated.
What is so fascinating for me, I’ve been analyzing bodygraphs for 21 years. I never
saw the other side of what these activations were about because I was never
looking, in the sense that what I was teaching people was how to look at the
mechanics in order to be able to benefit somebody, not about looking at a deep
substructure theme in terms of the way in which these aspects of who we think we
are in fact, how each of them has a unique value. And when you start seeing them
within the context of these values as I’m describing them to you, and you add this to
the design itself you have this incredible richness that it brings into understanding
the complexity of somebody's personality, the complexity of their mind.
And yet, a gateway in being able to see how it works and how much we are
dependent on others to stimulate those aspects of our experiential mental process in
order to bring those aspects out, because so often they simply don't naturally come
out. Now, one of the things that is interesting here about the lunar 55 is that we’re
dealing with the 5th line, which is Growth. It’s all about getting to a position of
power. It really is what it's about. It's about the gift of being in a position of power,
how you can change things when you're in power.
In other words, having power is going to be very, very important to this person’s
spirit, very important. And of course, what do they have to learn? They have to
learn how all things are interrelated, they have to learn how to balance the
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did the four corners. All things have relationships to each other. What is significant
here to see is that through continuity you begin to see the dynamic that's driving this
mind and it is a desire-driven mind. We cannot forget that.
Now, this is Jonas Salk, so obviously it is very interesting to think about this mind in
terms of its deep penetrating potential. There is a conjunction between the Moon
and the North Node, both in the 55.5, as you can see. They are one color off from
each other; they’re very, very close to each other. It's very powerful, in that sense.
Neptune in the 56th Gate
But if we look at Neptune, the 56th gate, a fascinating gate: Stability through
movement. The perpetuation of continuity through the linking of short-term activity;
in other words, keeping the body busy. This body is really learning about how to
stay active. Activity for this body is going to be something that's very important.
They have to learn about that. Remember because this is a learning curve for them,
to learn about the body, to learn about the benefits of short-term activity.
However, the line is the 5th line, and it is Attracting Attention: Unusualness,
innovation, sometimes genius as a guarantee of eventually attracting attention and
support. And of course, where is this person going to display their genius and attract
attention and support? It’s the body; through the body. And it's all desire, the
desire to the lead. That's what the 3rd color is all about. And one of the things to
understand about the 3rd color desire is that it's not so much that it is about the mind
saying, I want to be a leader. It’s about being so locked into something that that's
what happens.
The Power of the 3
And this is what the 3 does. The power of the 3 to lock the mind into something,
this is a desire-oriented mind, and it is a very, very powerful 3 mind. If it's going to
find out what's wrong and fix it, this is the mind that’s going to be able to do it. You
look at the lineup of 3s here—3rd tone, 3rd color, and 3rd lines—here is this scientist
trial and error, here's the great trial and error alignment and the desire to break
through.
And of course, we know that because that's their other authority. Their outer
authority really wants to be able to have a breakthrough. This is what it sees as a
possibility, a breakthrough in the body where they could become a leader, a
breakthrough that changes the spirit where they can become a leader. It’s my
generation. I can remember in grade school, in grade 2, I can remember that two of
the kids in our class one day, one-by-one over a period of three weeks they just
never came back. They had polio. And there was this incredible panic. I can
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No Choice
And again, there is no choice in all of these things. It’s just about literally seeing the
way in which slowly but surely understanding how a mental system gets honed for
specific skills to operate in a specific way and ultimately to concretize it in a specific
way. After all, in the end all of this has to come out in different ways, relative to the
nature of the design. You can already tell them what this guy is going to say is
going to be dependent on who connects his throat. And there are so many things
that we can see in the basic design that if you add it to the continuity of what we've
seen with this mind it begins to open up a deep, deep understanding of this being.
And again remembering, we cannot look at this design and see this man as solely
within the purity of the database because they are not-self. The thing that makes
the AI database so extraordinary is that it's for true nine-centered beings. That is,
beings that are living their nine-centered life. It’s only then that you can really begin
to work with data at is level, particularly, for example, from this personality
perspective, all of this knowledge that I'm beginning to elaborate on in terms of the
lunar and planetary activations, is in order to be able to do individual mapping of the
true mind, in order to see how somebody's mind actually operates.
The Not-Self Mind
Again, what we're looking at here is that we're looking at somebody who is not-self.
He was not-self. So these various aspects that are there are going to be driven by
something else, as this was going to be the dominant theme of the mind, the
dominant theme of the not-self mind, the not-self mind seeing that everybody has a
problem, the broad split, the wanting to attract attention, looking for the right
direction, and on and on and on and all of these things. All of this became what was
the major way in which this mind made its decisions.
The Impact of the Program
It still had all this stuff underneath, but its decision making was being controlled by
this. And of course, in that comes various levels of distortion. However, it doesn't
mean that if you're correct that somehow this is a zone that that is untouchable, it
isn’t. That's the thing that's so incredible to understand about our minds. I noticed
this in an odd way, because I have a totally unconscious mind, it is very obvious to
me that from lecture to lecture there is some different place I’m tapping into. If you
know what I mean, it’s hard to describe that. But it’s so obvious to me that I'm not
always coming from the same place when I am lecturing. This is my range, and my
range is impacted by the transiting environment.
I am a Manifestor; I'm very sensitive to the transiting field. My assumption is that

the very lectures that I give are, in that sense, impacted directly by the program. It
is just what happens. And depending on what color is at any given time—I should
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time that I'm doing the class, obviously that is going to have an influence. I'm here
alone in my studio, me and the program, and the program obviously is going to
accent certain values over others. And because I teach regularly, and because it is
not an exact 24-hour rotation, it means that my lectures are happening with a
different color background and it's obviously impacting my range.
Surrender
It’s why surrender is such a wonderful thing, because surrender is really a wonderful
thing. I have a situation in which I'm very similar in some ways to this design in the
sense that I'm a 3-3, that is, I have 3rd tone and 3rd color. And I have absolutely no
3rd colors in my range. It’s just one of those things that are interesting. My range is
mostly 1s and 2s. So, the way in which I'm assembling information or the way in
which I'm expressing information, is being impacted by the program itself, what my
personality has to take advantage of at any given moment in terms of its equipment,
in terms of describing to you whatever it is I’m talking about.
It's fascinating to see that we don't have a mind of our own, that we don't express
what we want to express ever, and that we don't think in a way that is regular and
controlled. We don't. Again, this is why the need for surrender because if you don't
surrender there's a real madness in trying to identify with something that you think
is yourself that you have no control over. You just can’t tap into those areas
sometimes.
There are moments that you sit there and there's something that you're trying to
recall and you just can't recall it and an hour later you can. It depends. Maybe
somebody walked in the room that brings exactly the right resonance that you need
to tap into that particular area where that information is stored, or the transiting of
the program has shifted, or you’ve walked into a crowd and suddenly it's obviously
there because there's all that mix is there. It’s really interesting. It's interesting
that the tradition of teaching was rooted in the teacher being surrounded in an aura
by its students, the master/disciple trip. You can see that in that way the master
benefited from the positive conditioning impact on their range.
Lunar and Planetary Color Resonance is Positive
The interesting thing is that the lunar and planetary color resonance is positive, in
the sense that it is the pure resonance to the motivation. It doesn't resonate to
transference. It resonates to motivation so that you really get a pure essence that is
there. And obviously they are different.
You can see that as an example the 2nd color 43s of the Mercury and Mars, that the
2nd color is about pure hope, hope that a breakthrough can be there, and an outer
authority that expresses hope, the 19.6, the Jupitarian fool on the hill, but
expressing that hope. The resonating 2 to the view; there is hope, there is
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to begin to understand the impact of it, how our minds are always clicking in and out
in a way, we're focused on this experience at this moment. Think about something
like this.
The Example of the 43rd Gate
Let’s take the example of the 43rd gate. One of the things that we have to be able to
see is that the moment that the 23 is present, as an example, this is the moment
that this outer authority, this pure outer authority and its hopeful voice is there to be
expressed. And this is something that is pulled out by the other. This character isn’t
by its nature one to express hopefulness. That's not its nature. Its nature is to be
locked in and driven. This is desire, locked in and driven.
The opportunity to express the outer authority is not something that's naturally
there. We can see that when it's integrated into the bodygraph, it isn’t. It is
dependent on the experience, who you think you are meeting this 23. And the
moment you meet this 23 here is what comes out. And even though this being in
their purest nature, that is, as a character—remember that the Sun/Earth really
represents just the character, the style of mind, the style of the person, the style of
the personality. We know that hopefulness is there in the view. We know this
hopefulness for the possibility of breakthrough, the possibility of all that.
It's only through the other, though, that is hopefulness comes out, that this
personality on its own, and in the continuity you can see it, cannot express it. And
on their own they will not express hopefulness. They won't. They will express their
not-self and whatever their not-self is about. They are not by nature hopeful. They
have a hopeful perspective, but they have a character that's nothing but 3rd line, its
3s, it’s a martyr, it’s tuned to suffering. This is not a hopeful being. If you meet his
character, only the character, the character is stripped of meeting other human
beings, stripped of being in the world alone in a cave, this character is a pessimist.
It is what it is, a pessimist yearning for its purpose.
At the moment that it meets somebody else, this character, yearning for its purpose,
the potential martyr, the pessimist, all of a sudden is talking hopefully. See, this is
how it comes out, the expression of their outer authority, but it comes out through
somebody else, it comes out through who they meet. And it enriches them as a
being, because we don't just see them as this. If we did, we wouldn't particularly
like them. But we get to see many things in them. But most importantly, what we
get from them, the power of their outer authority, is rooted in hope. And it is a pure
hope, not phony, not some 5th color personality in transference.
As I mentioned, the resonance to the nodal 2nd color simply means that it’s inherent
in the view. That is, it's part of the way in which the personality, ultimately, the
character sees the world. But again, it's not who they are as a character. Who they
are a character is 3rd color. So even though they're forced to see those things, they
don't deal with them from the point of view of hopefulness, because that’s not the
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hopefulness does come out as outer authority, when they speak to the other. The
beauty of all that is to begin to understand how the richness of what we are
intellectually is furthered in our social connection to the other.
We Are Not Alone
Everything about the Nodes, which is the bedrock of all this, that is, the alignment of
us to our particular place and moving us along as a form in this space to give us our
direction in this life, that everything about the nature of being is that we are not
alone. We’re not. We have that experience of feral children. That is, you see that in
the result of war zones, children who lose their parents in a war zone who basically,
usually from the age of seven they can survive, and the youngest is sometimes five.
And of course, they have no education, no cultural trappings; they’ve dealt with
severe shock, all those things. Without the embrace of humanity we have no
development, we are beasts. The thing about us is that we have this ability to enrich
each other at the mental plane. And it is in fact, the other that is so important to us
in terms of what aspects of our intellectual potential, our experiential potential, what
aspects of that are brought into play at any given time.
It is really something to grasp that we are many different kinds of minds, in a way.
We are able to respond to incredible nuances of changes that take place in the
program and the people in our environment, that our minds are deeply adaptive.
That is, our experiential personality is deeply adaptive, able to attune to this person
or that person. It's why it’s so easy, for example, for people to be influenced by
somebody when they're in their aura, this influencing that one person has over the
other. It is really taking place at this level, at the color level, at what exactly is
being hit, what button is being pressed, and so forth and so on.
Levels of Control
For me it brings me always to the same place. I teach control. That's what
everything that I see is, is different levels of control, the way in which the mechanics
control the illusion, the way in which we are limited by the nature of the mechanics.
And one of the most beautiful things about what mechanics bring us is that they
bring us a possibility of really finally shedding vanity, the vanity that it is our life and
it our mind and it is our thoughts and so forth and so on, all of these things.
It is clear that this is just a mechanical construct like everything else about the
nature of being. It is simply mechanical. And the construct in and of itself is not
designed to operate by itself. It's designed to be integrative; it's designed to
interact with others. It's designed to be deeply impacted by others, that is, the way
in which human beings even manage to communicate with each other at any level
can basically be attributed to the impact of color resonance. That is, the impacting
on the experiential part of the being and highlighting some aspect as a way in which
they gain access to that other being; in other words, the way in which they can be
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The Depth in Helplessness
We are at a very, very special place in the mechanics where we are looking at the
depth of our helplessness. And then in that helplessness, to begin to recognize the
depth in that helplessness, because the depth is really something; it's quite amazing
what we are, how much information we actually take in, how deep that information
is, how mechanically we are specifically set up in certain ways. It's just the way that
it is, and yet, at the same time to see the beauty of uniqueness. All the boxes stay
in the same place, but the instruments inside change—different gates, and different
information. When you think about all the possibilities of the variations of activations
that can exist in this box, it is absolutely mind-boggling. It's mind-boggling how
unique our mental systems are.
Examine Your Own Chart
And of course, the beauty here is that yes, you can see the mechanic. What is
fascinating is to begin the process of examining, because this is something that the
Rave Psychology students are involved in, just examining their lunar and planetary
square in terms of what those values are and to begin to introduce your passenger to
its basic construct. And look at these people around you, checkout their personality
color, their personality Sun/Earth color, just check it out. And begin to see the way
in which certain people in your life that they hit certain buttons and not others, they
bring out certain experiential aspects in you and not others. And then look at the
way your charts come together. Do those aspects meet? There are all kinds of
fascinating things to look at in this knowledge.
Follow the Program
But the thing I'd like you to watch, because I think that it's the easiest way to track
this phenomena, is simply to follow the program, just check in every four hours,
you’ve got a different color. Look at that color in relationship to what it is your
configuration and just be an observer. That’s what a good passenger is. A good
passenger just watches, and watches with wisdom, because it has what to watch for.
It’s not blind watching. It has what to watch for. And it is so interesting to feel what
happens as your mind is pulled to this or that, and you can feel it, so it's quite
something to experience.
The colors themselves, color is what makes it all possible, and it is the driving force
in life. It really moves our lives. It is the exit frequency of color that that binds us,
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[A written question: So we have to look at the color and the transferred color of
another person to see what gets activated?]
Ra: Don't look at the transferred color of the other person, because again remember
that your lunar and planetary activations are going to resonate to the true color, not
to what that person in fact is displaying, because what they’ll be displaying with their
personality is transference. What is impacting you, and it is why they may, in fact,
impact you in a positive way, yet not be resonant to what you have to say to them,
as an example because they’ll be in transference.
Again, lunar and planetary color, the resonance is always a pure resonance. It does
not resonate to transference. So, if you’re meeting somebody who's a 1 who is
transferred to 4, it isn't going to affect the 4s that you have in your lunar and
planetary square, you’ll be affected by the 1, even though that person isn’t in touch
with their own 1-ness. That’s kind of cute.
Experience the Movement of the Sun/Earth
Anyway, the transit field, because it is interesting. One of the ways in which
awareness is enhanced is by an experiential connection. And everything about who
you think you are is rooted in the way you experience. It is an important thing to
experiment with and to see if you can experience the movement of the Sun/Earth
and feel it shifting the way in which you process your information. It’s quite a thing.
I'm laughing because of course I've experienced this so often now that it is almost
disconcerting. Again, I think that's very powerful because I think it's very important
for the personality to be confronted over and over again with its helplessness,
because that’s something that’s really important.
[A Written Comment: you just said something incredible about the way we
resonate to others natural motivation... even though they are in transference]
Ra: Yes, exactly Alok, that's the thing is so interesting, because of course this is just
resonating to a frequency, it just resonates to the true frequency, it just picks it up.
This is something that’s very special about our activations in that our experiential
activations are not attuned to transference; they’re not fake; a magic box it is.
Okay, folks, it’s always a pleasure to share this with you and until next time, have
yourselves a good weekend; enjoy the movie and bye for now.

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LESSON TEN
The Transiting Square
Welcome to all of you and to those that are downloading. We’re going to take a
very, very interesting journey today, one of the things lately that I've been giving a
great deal of thought to, as a matter of fact. What you're looking at right now is the
imprint right now. That is, this is the Just Now chart for right now. When I was
setting up these illustrations I set up this graph so that it would be for our starting
time in this class so that we’re actually dealing with specifically the energy of the
moment.
Control
I have been going through in all of the various programs that I've been involved with
in teaching over the last number of years I think there is one central theme that has
arisen for me. I think that theme is best expressed through control as a word. That
is, the way in which everything is subject to some kind of controlling mechanism,
and the density of those control mechanisms. And obviously those control
mechanisms that keep a human being locked into their homogenized not-self
process.
I have a very interesting relationship to the program. I guess in a sense it was my

first practical teacher. The Voice gave me all the theoretics, but all of that is kind of
like you have some mad experience; you cannot just assume that all that has some
validity. My way was to create an ephemeris, what was, in fact, the first Rave
Ephemeris that I literally drew for myself in 1987. It was a very limited ephemeris
because it basically was only charting the Moon and the outer planets because I was
curious about—I used the Moon obviously because it's so fast to see if I could sense
connections to myself, to begin to see whether there was any validity in any of it
whatsoever.
It was an astonishing experience for me. I’ve told that story a number of times. I'm
open emotionally and it was the right time of the year. It was January and there
was Sun/Mercury/Venus, because they always travel relatively close together, they
were all moving through gates that were going to activate my open emotional
system. I had this incredible experience of feeling what I had always considered to
be something that arose within me, that for the first time I recognized that it came
from the outside. The idea that the Moon or any other object was capable of making
me emotionally uncomfortable was really startling.

I guess it began a relationship for me with the forces of the solar system or the
imprinting forces of the solar system. One of the beautiful things about Human
Design, at least the way in which we understand it mechanically, is that we can see
very clearly connections that we can have with a specific planet at a specific time.
That connectivity obviously brings about all kinds of consequences, the
consequences of being defined by a transit, the consequences of a center suddenly
being defined, the consequences of the influence of the planet itself in a particular
line where it may bring out exaltation or detriment or in your side bringing out
exultation or detriment.
But for me, it was the beginning of my personal relationship with the planets. That
is, to grasp them not from some kind of preconditioned concept that Mercury is this
because everybody has always said that Mercury is this, instead of experiencing
Mercury. It's quite a thing to experience Mercury as it impacts particularly if you
have a hanging gate and it's going to bring the electromagnetic. It's even more
powerful if you have a hanging gate in an open center and it brings the
electromagnetic. You really get a sense of not just simply learning what it feels like
to have that particular activation take place, which in and of itself is a giant step for
the consciousness, but at the same time to be able to identify the nuance of the
imprinting agent. In other words, to begin grasp what Mercury is for you.
Uniqueness
Uniqueness is not about accepting generalized concepts. I have very, very clear and
distinct understandings of the nature of the planets from my experience. In other
words, the quality that I've learned to recognize when I have to deal with them,
when they bring activation to my design and so forth and so on. It isn't necessarily
the generic thematic of that particular planet. We all have different relationships
with these objects.
One of the most interesting things to look at is to take all the activations of your
personality and look at all lines that are activated on your personality side and look
at the planets that are mentioned, each line with basically its binary planetary
affiliations and add up all those planets that you have in all of those lines that you
have in the personality and see which planet shows up the most. Look at the
hierarchy of what is there for you.
So for example, you may end up in a situation where let's say that you've got eight
lines that have Mars in it. Well, you obviously have a very unusual relationship with
Mars. And that in those particular eight gates any relationship to Mars being in any
of those eight gates, or in any of their harmonic gates, that the Martian impact is
going to be something that you're going to recognize and you have a unique
relationship with that force.
We do have a relationship, a deep relationship, with these imprinting objects. From

the very beginning of my work I encouraged people to use the ephemeris. In this
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a click and you can see what's going on and you can see what's going on relative to
you. The value is that this is where you really get to learn within yourself how these
things work. It's how I got to understand how amplification worked, what it meant
to have an open center turned on, something that you could measure, something
that you could measure through what the influence is of the object because it's not
just simply the object, it’s where the object is, it is the line that the object is in,
there is all this information that we're dealing with every day.
And these are the great teachers. It’s why I spent a dozen years, 13 years doing
neutrino forecasts. It’s why I've made Dharmen’s forecast, which is a superb
forecast, available to the general Design audience, because it is important to make
that connection. I think that it is a way of understanding choicelessness and
helplessness and what it means to live in a program when you can actually feel the
program at work and you can feel the agents of the program at work.
The Just Now Chart
So here, in this particular illustration, we have the energy of the day and there is a
lot of pressure in this kind of activation. You’ve got a very, very busy, busy, busy
energy that is at work and all of these things that can be analyzed. There is
emotionality that is there. Human beings are really going to be cranked up today,
they’re going to be emotional, they’re going to be on the move, there are all these
things are inherent that understand about looking at a transit and sort of speculating
about what that means, then looking at it personally. I'm somebody, for example,
who is integration and I have the 20, the 10 and the 57. I don't have the 34. So the
fact that the Sun has just entered into the 34th gate means that I'm dealing with
sacral energy and I’m dealing with sacral energy that’s conditioning the way in which
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In other words, we all have to see that in the program at any given moment we are
being uniquely moved. That’s the thing that is so interesting. The program reaches
all of us differently. If you’re a 39/55 the fact that the program is bringing the 39/55
isn't such a big event. But, if you have an open root and an open emotional system,
the fact that the program has brought the 39/55 becomes very personal. I’m talking
about the not-self. These are beings that are suddenly going to be very moody, they
can end up being very agitated, they can end up being depressed, they can end up
eating too much, all kinds of things that can go on. And the fact of the matter is that
the not-self always assumes it’s them.
Understanding the Forces at Work in the World
One of the things about understanding the program is not so much that you follow
the program for you. You do when you're learning, because it’s a great way to learn.
It's particularly beautiful for Manifestors and Reflectors because we’re much more
sensitive to the program than Generators and Projectors. Nonetheless, it obviously
influences everyone. It is something that is important not so much about what it's
doing to you, because once you see that and you're operating correctly, it’s no big
deal. You just understand the forces that are at work. How it's important is to
understand what's going on in the world around you. It's the world around you.
When you're looking at this diagram, you're looking at the not-self world. That's
what you see. That's the not-self world right now; that is, that's its highlighting,
that’s its imprinting. That's the world not-self flavor of the moment.
And of course, by seeing that, you can see what's going on. For example, there's all
this activity, but nobody knows how to behave, there’s no 10. There's just this
archetypal busyness. So when you expected somebody to come and see you,
because they had an appointment with you or you were supposed to meet them, or
whatever the case may be, and they don't show up, the first thing you know is that
as not-self they got caught up in their busyness and forgot how to behave because
this is the world around you. Those beings around you today who are going to be
very emotional—about 49.5% of the population has an open solar plexus system, so
you have basically half the planet amplifying the 39/55/49 right now, because the 49
is the hanging gate in the active center, it is an adjectival force adding its power to
the mix. This can be a very, very difficult channel. So there's all this moodiness
around.
The other thing is that what you're looking at is a program that is exclusively defined
as individual. The 20/57/34, the integration and the 39/55, so you have a lot of
selfishness on a day like today, you have a lot of people very deeply absorbed in
their own process ignoring other people which can be very upsetting, and so forth
and so on. In other words, the program is not something that you just sort of nod
your head at and say aha, the Sun is in blah, blah today.
Our dilemma is that we have to live in a world of the not-self and not be drawn into
the not-self drama. And by understanding the nature of the program day-by-day, by
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is the world you have to deal with. Yes, the potential is there to impact you,
obviously. But if you're operating correctly, if you’re making decisions according to
your strategy it is not taking you away from what is correct.
Undefined Solar Plexus and Root People
Yet at the same time, you have to be able to see that this is what the world is
around you and this gives you an opportunity, an opportunity to have grace in what
is a chaotic and dysfunctional world. Not only that, but to be a valued guide for
others. Think about all the people that you know who are unemotional. Everybody
in Design has got their files of friends and relatives. Think about all of them today
that are unemotional. Think about all of them today to have an open root. Now, all
of those people are going to be under emotional pressure.
So, one of them calls you up in a panic; depressed. I think I'm just going to have to
just drop my work, whatever the case may be. The first thing is to see they’re just
following the script and they don't know it and they take it so damn seriously. There
are all kinds of control mechanisms, all kinds of them, but there is nothing more
profound than the program, day-by-day, moment-by-moment. It is so many things.
This particular personality is incarnating right now, after all. It's not just that we are
in a world that is being programmed to act in a specific way, but at the same time
there are human beings being born that are going to be imprinted specifically that
way.
My excitement, my pleasure with the level of mechanical understanding is something

that becomes very special when you take it into another realm. We been looking at
the planetary squares and I’ve kept basically our focus on the verticals, because they
are in that sense, really the foundation of the range of the personality, the
experiential range of the personality. But I think it's time to, just as AI has brought
a whole new level of interpretation, to looking at a human being and understanding
them in the deepest possible way in terms of being able to recognize and distinguish
what is their differentiation, that I think it is also time to just introduce this so that it
can be pondered, because this is really the key in being able to dissect the transiting
field.
One Can Never Escape the Conditioning of the Program
In other words, that the program in its moment-by-moment imprinting of us, in fact,
that moment-by-moment imprinting is really incredible. That is, it is much, much
more devious, if I can put it that way, or malevolent, if I can put it that way, it is
controlling us in ways that are really incredible. It is controlling the way in which
humanity as a whole experiences life. Again, you really have to get this. You can
be alone, but you can never be out of the program. You’re never out of the embrace
of the program; you’re never out of the conditioning of the program. You can’t go
into a lead box and hide, it doesn't work. We are in and of, in and of, in and of this
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And to recognize that the program isn't just saying, okay be busy today. It says
much more. It controls the way in which we think. Now, I’m talking about the not-
self. It deeply impacts the way in which the not-self is going to process its
experience during the day. Think about it this way. When you're looking at the
transit chart, what you're looking is what you are intended, I guess that word will
work, what you are intended to do, what you're intended to experience. In other
words, this ‘who we think we are,’ this personality, this black, when we see within
the context of range we understand that this ‘who you think you are’ that each of
these aspects is an aspect of experiential involvement, that through experienced it
brings the quality of what it experiences as a basis upon which ultimately the mind
can conceptualize.
So, let's think about it in terms of the program. Remember that the program
impacts us at the personality level. We look, for example, at the day-to-day
transiting, at the moment-to-moment transiting through the lens of the personality
and what its influence is going to be on personality consciousness not just on the
physicality of the process. And when you're looking at this imprint of the moment,
because this is also the imprint of an incarnating force, the way in which we are
going to experience the day is being controlled. We're going to experience it in a
certain way.
The Alpha Vertical: Foundation
The Focus: Moon
If we begin with the Alpha vertical [image next page], the Alpha vertical is what the
foundation of the mind is. In other words, what its basic focus is, what its basic
standard is. That is, it’s mores, its value, in this sense, the value for the moment.
And what is there to constrain
it? This becomes three
elements that everybody on
the planet is going to get. If
we go into this design and we
look here, we see that in that
vertical, as an example, we
have the Moon in the 24th
gate, Venus in the 57, Saturn
in the 40, those three
elements. And if we’re
looking at those elements, for
example, the focus—
remember because we're
dealing with the Moon one of
the most interesting things to
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focus. Basically the Moon goes through just over two gates in a day. So it goes
approximately through 13 or 14 lines in a day. So, the focus is constantly shifting.
It's not still.
At this particular moment, the focus, the 24 is: The natural and spontaneous process
of transformation and renewal. So the focus right now is on transformation and
renewal, however that is going to be interpreted. It is the 6th line, it is the gift horse,
it’s: The possibility of being deaf when opportunity knocks. So guess what, that
focus for transformation or renewal may be missed, because they may miss their
opportunity and they may miss their opportunity, you can even see it in the
bodygraph, it’s just a hanging gate.
Now I have the 61, as an example. And I don't have the 24. So in this particular
moment and it is right at the end, as a matter of fact, as I speak it's already left the
24th gate because it was in the 24.6.6 so by now it’s already moved on to the next
gate, which means it’s now in the 2nd gate. It’s here now and the focus has shifted
towards our direction, in that sense, and away from what is the 24, away from this
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The Standard: Venus
If we look at the standard, again, Venus in this particular role and again we see that
Venus is in a place where this is really going to be felt. In other words, not
everybody is going to be able to tune into the focus of the moment. Some of us will.
Anybody who has a defined ajna center, whether they have the 24 or not; someone
like me who has the 61, but there are lots of people that won't have any connection
to that particular focus. So there is a segment of the population that is going to be
walking around without a focus and others that will have a focus. So not everybody
is going to be concerned about transformation and renewal, and not everybody is
going to miss their opportunity.
When we get to the 57 it is a very different story. That is, this is part of the
integrated definition, it is right there and this is about the power of clarity. And this
power of clarity, here we’re dealing with the 1st line and the 1st line is confusion. So
the standard of the day is going to be trying to penetrate through confusion. It’s
what it’s going to be about, trying to find the clarity, trying to penetrate through the
confusion.
And of course, the moment that you have a theme that says it is going try to
penetrate the confusion, you know that there is going to be a lot of confusion, and
there will be. You’ve got a lot of human beings that suddenly are the Energizer
Bunny, they have this sacral all pumped up and juiced up. You’ve got the 20/34 that
can just run, run, run, run.
The Constraint: Saturn
The way the program impacts us is very, very, very sophisticated. It's very
sophisticated. What is the constraint today? Of course, we’re dealing with Saturn.
We can also see the not everybody is going to be caught in the constraint. If you've
got a defined ego, then yes, whether you have the 40 or not, if you're somebody
who is a 40/37 and there's a lot of 40/37, yes, you’re going to feel it. If you’re
somebody who has the 37 meeting that 40 and so forth and so on, but not
everybody, again remember that there are nuances and differences in the way in
which the general program impacts all of us.
So what's the constraint? This 40th gate is: The point of transition between struggle
and liberation. So you're trying to find your way. This is the thing that can hold you
back, struggle can hold you back. And it is the 3rd line and we know the trial and
error of 3rd lines: humility. It's about avoiding attracting the attention of negative
forces. So the real problem of the day is that if you attract negative forces you're in
trouble, you’re going to be in trouble.
See, the program writes the script day-by-day-by-day, moment-by-moment. It is

quite something to grasp. And by the way, it is not the kind of script that is boring
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with over a thousand variations for each box—64 gates, the lines, the colors, all
those variations. I think it’s about 1016, or something. In other words, there are so
many differing nuances to the way in which the program influences us, but the
constructs are the same.
The Gamma Vertical: Learning

Now, if we move to the Gamma vertical, the Gamma vertical is about learning. It’s
an interesting thing to think about. In other words, the program gives us what is
going to be the basic experiential themes, and then it gives us what we're here to
learn at any given moment. Now remember, for the not-self that is not selective
education. This is what you have to, in that context, learn. You have no choice.
This is what is going to be penetrating you, this is what's there: The sidetrack, the
misinformation, and the truth.
The Sidetrack: Uranus
So, let's look at the sidetrack. You can see it up here, the 63rd gate, the gate of
doubt. So you know that doubts are going to get you sidetracked today. And the
moment that you have a doubt, jump into your head, think—sidetrack. And you can
know that, nobody else knows that. They think it’s themselves. They suddenly have
a doubt, and it doesn't
matter what the hell they're
doing, that doubt takes
over. It gets bigger and
bigger, fatter and thicker.
It takes over; it’s their
sidetrack. It’s where they
get pulled off.
Now, it’s part of learning.

But it is not going to be
beneficial, in that sense, it's
just the sidetrack. Now, by
the way it is interesting
because it's a 4th line, which
is the memory line—all ends
are beginning—this 4th line
of memory, detailed
accounting and all of this stuff. This is where you get all sidetracked. Your doubts
about whether what you've done has really been worthwhile and whether you could
have done it differently, and on and on, and get caught up in all that stuff. So many
people—not everyone, again remember. I have the 4, so I have an electromagnetic
with this 63. I had a lot of pressure in that particular moment with the 24 to my 61
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If you have a defined head center, not necessarily the 63rd gate, but if you have a
defined center you’re going to feel that. If you have a 4 pointed to the 63 you’re
going to feel that. Otherwise, you don't get it. It means not everybody gets
sidetracked by doubt today. Not everyone, but oh boy there's going to be those gets
sidetracked by doubt. And remember, the sidetrack can be so many different
things—any of the 64 gates, any of the lines, any of the color underneath. The
program is really good at this stuff.
The Misinformation: Neptune
Misinformation—I like this one. I’m a dualist. There is information and

misinformation, it is this and that. Misinformation is not necessarily a negative, not
if you know what it is. In other words, when you understand what the program is
intended to do, you can take misinformation in stride. It’s actually very interesting
the way in which it tries to get the not-self to mis-grasps things.
Anyway, the misinformation today is going to be in the 49th gate. Now of course, the
49th gate, we know in this case, is very, very powerful. That is, it’s powerful in the
sense that it is part of this emotionalized, under pressure definition coming from
39/55 and so this is an active gate that's operating through the emotional definition
here. Transformation of forms based on the highest principles and not simply for
power. So, this is where you're going to be fooled on a day like today. You’re going
to be fooled because you think that something is based on the highest principles
when in fact it may not be, when in fact, you may be hoodwinked. This is the way
that we learn, in a sense. It's one of our main learning’s. All of us need to be fooled
in life in order to wise up, as it were. It’s not necessarily a negative. Again, it's all
about how you approach it.
The 1st line, though, is the law of necessity: Revolution has no support unless it’s
perceived as necessary. Well, guess where the misinformation is going to be—
people running around saying war is necessary, in order to make it necessary. This
will be the misinformation. They say it’s necessary when in fact it may not be
necessary. Yeah, we’ve got to go to Iraq because they have weapons of mass
destruction. That's a classic misinformation 1st line 49, that's what that looks like.
And again, misinformation can come in many, many different guises. And yet, it is
part of the day. So when you think about us, and you think about what’s going on
as the not-self, the not-self is walking through each day with this vain, vain, vain,
vain little assumption that what they're thinking about, what they're interested in at
any given moment is theirs. What a joke. They are just following the script.
Those people that are going to be impacted by the 63 who are not-self, their doubts
are going to sidetrack them. They just will. Those people with that 49, that are
going to feel that 49, going to be impacted by it, that not-self is going to be fooled.
They’re going to be fooled into thinking something is necessary when it isn't.
They’re going to be fooled that that thing that's necessary is to bring transformation
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and they’re going to be upset because it’s emotional. Everybody is just caught in the
program.
The Truth: Pluto
And then we have Pluto. I do love Pluto, our wonderful dwarf planet, the mother of
the future. Pluto is truth. Truth isn't necessarily something that you can grasp. It
isn't necessarily something that you can see, but it doesn't mean that it's not
present. Here we have Pluto in the 11th gate in an open ajna. If you have a defined
ajna you’re going to feel this. If you have the 56th gate, obviously pointed upwards,
then this is something that is going to strongly impact on you. And we can see that
at least for a while, because again outer planets, because of the length of time that
they stay in any aspect of the square that obviously this is a long-term process, and
again, one that we need to pay attention to. Pluto gives us our opportunities over
long enough to find the truth.
The truth here is in ideas, obviously, in the 11th gate. At least at this time, this is
where the program is saying where the truth is. I don’t know if any of you heard
Alok’s piece on the radio this morning, This or Not, because it’s very funny, but this
is the same thing about the truth, the truth or not, and the truth or not in the
context of the idea and the 6th line idea: The inner balance to accept transition. This
is where the truth is, the inner balance to accept transition.
That means that if you’re operating correctly and there is a change that is presented
in front of you during this transit and you enter into that correctly you’re going to
find some truth in that. You're going to find some truth in the acceptance of that
transition if it's correct. Remember that it doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to
function correctly. It doesn't necessarily mean that this is going to lead to the
recognition of truth in the not-self. But it's where it's possible.
It also means that for the not-self in that situation there is an assumption of truth.
And again, it's going to be based on the limitation of the way in which they process
their concepts. After all, it's not-self and it's going to be rooted in their openness
and all the various things that are part of what not-self conditioning is all about.
So, we have these two aspects. That is, we see that the program very much sets up
an infrastructure for the way in which we're going to experience any given moment.
It also sets up what we are designed in that given moment in that sense to take in
as experiential developmental learning, because remember this is where we really
learn things.
The Beta: Outer Authority

And then finally, the program determines the not-self's outer authority. This is the
spookiest part for me. It is through the beta vertical that human beings become
puppets to the program’s ventriloquist. One of these guys or women that sit there
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That's what the not-self is relative to the program. It's the dummy, it’s the dummy
sitting on the lap and its mouth is going up, flapping, and out of it comes the
program, out of it comes the puppeteer’s voice.
We can see that we have three aspects of this: communication, mutation and rules.
Again, this is what people are going to be expressing. Think about it. If you don't
believe me, watch this box and watch any news broadcast, because this is what
you’re going to get. You’re going to get the homogenized outer authority of the
moment, what is going to be talked about in the moment, what is going to be a
generalized theme in that moment.
The Communication: Mercury
Remember, we’re dealing with this right now. Okay, we have Mercury and Mercury
being communication, that's a no-brainer, but what is there to be communicated in
this. Creation as a primal force. This is what's got to be expressed here and it is
expressed as the energy to attract society. So here is something that is going to be
communicated. That is: the power and drive to stay with the creative process,
eccentricity, all this is about communicating the ability to be able to attract others.
So, it is communication designed to attract others. It’s a great day, for example, if
you're an 8 to try to convince somebody of something. Here is a real ability to an
energy, a communicative outer authority to draw people to you to attract attention.
The Mutation: Mars
If we look at the Mars, Mars is all about mutation. This is a very special role for
Mars. I think very much a nine-centered role for Mars as a mutative force. And
obviously, when we're looking at the 39th gate we’re looking at the gate of
obstruction. This is: The value of obstruction in provoking analysis, assessment and
reevaluation. This is what is going to be expressed as part of outer authority, but
this is what can mutate. In other words, this is where originality, because that's
really what Mars represents in terms of other authority within this context; in other
words, something new something different, but something new something different
simply as another way of expressing a basic theme. That is, the basic theme here of
the importance of provoking people to look into things and reevaluate them.
So, what we’re going to have is a very, very provocative force trying to get the other
to analyze things. And this is going to be the kind of thing where when you're
looking at the communication between people is not going to be that easy. In other
words, everybody's trying to attract, those that are going to be caught up in this,
they’re trying to attract the attention and at the same time trying to provoke others
to dig in within themselves for an answer.
Now, most of this is mundane. Don't think of that as being spiritual. In other words,
there can be a lot of confrontation on a day like today because of this, particularly
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theme of responsibility: The avoidance of confronting obstacles if failure put others

at risk. And so you’re playing around with things. There are a lot of problems that
can arise in relationships. Where you really get to see ultimately is the way it would
operate in the lateral, but that's a subject for another day.
The Rules: Jupiter
And finally, the rules; what is going to be established as a law in the moment that
for the not-self this is what they’re going to end up believing in. The Jupiter is very
much about believing in your own outer authority. Or more crudely, believing in your
own bullshit, because of course from the not-self level that is really what it's all
about. In terms of the transit, the Jupiter is something that can be very, very
distorting. This is where the not-self can really get lost in thinking that its outer
authority is something that is quite pure when in fact it isn't at all.
And again were dealing with ideas and we’re dealing with the harmonic condition and
the individualist society that permits assessment before renewed action. And we’re
dealing with the 2nd line of rigor and this is all about avoiding boredom. So, one of
the things that you'll notice today about the rule of the day is don't be bored. And
the best way not to be bored is to get people's attention, provoke them and see what
happens. There’s going to be an awful lot of people doing that.
Not Enough Attention Is Paid to Transits
When we're looking at the way in which the program operates, I think from this
perspective, and again I wanted to simply introduce this to you so that you begin to
have a much deeper understanding of how insidious the imprinting process of the
program is, how deeply complex it is. Remember my theme as I began all this in
talking about the nature of transit. It is not respected enough. It is not paid enough
attention to. I’m so aware of the fact that people don't grasp how important it is to
understand what is going on.
And again, it's not simply about you. It’s actually minor, because when you are
correct, it’s no big deal. You're always aware of it, I'm aware of certain aspects
because in certain areas where I'm open I'm aware it, the root and the emotions and
the sacral are things that I’m very aware of because they’re open. It doesn’t mean it
does anything to the way in which I operate; I operate according to my Strategy and
Authority.
However, when I look at the program, I prepare myself for the day. I see what's
coming into my life this day. I see that if I have to deal with people, this is what
they’re going to be acting like. And I have to be careful about their
misrepresentation. I have to be careful about their sidetrack. I have to be aware of
where the truth could be for them. I have to understand what their outer authority
is about and for me it's a glance. It’s not about it being a big deal. Once you get
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Grace Comes With Understanding the Program
What that preparation does is that it's not that it allows me, because it’s not what I
do, take advantage of it. It's not so one can be a good black magician. It's about
grace. It is so much easier for me to accept the chaos of the most human
frequencies, not-self frequencies that I deal with, and I have to like any human
being. It allows me the grace to see that their behavior or lack of it, the way in
which they are operating, that all of this is something that they are helplessly
conditioned to. And that I do not know who they really are because that person has
never shown up and I have to have the grace to accept their limitation and deal with
them according to it. But not get trapped in it.
There are so many people today who are going to get trapped in somebody's
emotional outburst. No one handles emotionality worse than somebody who has an
open root and an open emotional center and all of a sudden it gets defined. This is a
very, very powerful channel. And there are so many people that are going to end up
with problems because of that today. And those problems are going to last much
longer than the transit. They will, and there's nobody in their life to say to them,
hey, calm down. What you're feeling right now is going to pass. It's not you. There
is nobody to tell them that, there is nobody to calm them down. There’s nobody to
stop them from blundering through the day and creating all kinds of ripples that they
have to deal with and all that stuff.
The beauty of the program for me is that you get to see what's there. It’s an
energy. It’s just an energy; it’s a presence. This is the presence. This is the not-
self and this is the way, looking at this graphing you have in front of you, you're just
looking at what the general not-self is today. It makes a big difference when you
see it, when you grasp it, and then you understand what you're dealing with in this
life. You can also be of enormous service to others because of it. That friend of
yours that you see them in an absolute frenzy and you sort of put a hand on their
shoulder and say, this will be over in four days. To see people with undefined
sacrals and undefined throats—mostly Projectors or Reflectors—have the 20/34 show
up, wow, that can be so disorienting in terms where it leads you.
And then of course, we have an additional advantage because of the sophistication of

this level graphic display that we can get to the point that we can understand the
underlying themes that are there, those themes that are imprinting the not-self and
are bringing out very, very specific kinds of things. Isn’t it interesting, people talk
about serendipity, the synchronicity of things, one guy over here and one woman
over there on the other side of the planet at the same time come up with the same—
now, you’re never going to think again of that as being odd when you look at this
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The Not-Self Mind Is Deeply Controlled
We are so deeply in the program, deep, deep, deep, deep. After all, when we came
into the world we were the energy of the day or the moment ourselves. We are
imprinted by the program. This is what establishes our differentiation. And when
you see it in the larger context and you begin to understand it in the context of the
transiting program you can see how deeply, deeply controlled the mind of the not-
self humanity is. How deeply controlled it is.
Everything about this knowledge is about differentiation. Everything about the

program is homogenization. This is the great dualistic counterpoint, to differentiate
or to be homogenized. To differentiate is an enormous journey, it is a great
challenge, but it means freedom from the blind obedience to a program that frankly
does not care. It is just a mechanism.
When you arrive at the Jam Player, look at that chart. It is the only public example
of the Just Now being displayed with the full AI configuration for the personality. It
will always give you an opportunity just to ponder for a moment what’s everybody
getting, what is the thought of the day, what is the learning of the day, what is the
blah, blah, blah of the day. And it will change forever the way in which you see
those casual beings you meet any day.
It was the first shock that I had when I first began exploring the program myself. I
suddenly began hearing people speak the keynotes. It was frightening at first. I
was like everybody else; I didn't know how these things work. I couldn't imagine
that human beings were so empty of authority, that everything they expressed from
their deepest inner thoughts to their outer authority was conditioned. It was a
shock. It still is a shock.
At this level it gets really spooky, because you see what you're dealing with, these
people that think that the world can be saved and humanity can be saved and all
that stuff; well, they’ve never seen the program. They’ve never seen its complexity,
its depth; its incredible power over humanity. What makes my work so exciting, I
guess, is that in seeing it you can be freed from it. And you do not have to be a
victim of it. You can help other human beings deal with it. But it doesn't mean that
we’re ever going to be able to change the vast majority of humanity. It's simply not
possible. They’re too deeply controlled.
Strategy and Authority
It’s why Strategy and Authority is the Holy Grail of Human Design, to be able to have
your own authority. You cannot trust this program. You cannot trust it to tell you
what you need to know at any given time, you cannot. What you can trust is your
own uniqueness, because basically what is what it is. Trust in your difference and in
trusting in your difference you can navigate in this deeply homogenized world. And
as you move through this homogenized world, if you see the program for what it is,
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can understand in a way that they cannot, and perhaps in that you can be of service
to them.
Anyway, the program, the transit field, it is quite a force. It’s nice to share it with
you. All of you take care, have yourself a good weekend. Next week, our last week,
our last class; see you then. Bye for now.

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LESSON ELEVEN
The Color Effect
Okay, good morning to all of you and to those that are downloading. This is our last
little adventure together in this semester. It has been a delight, by the way. It’s
been very important information not simply for this particular group, but it’s
information that has been used for the third-year programs in PHS and Rave
Psychology. So, it is been an important contribution to the knowledge and I'm glad
that you're all able to participate in that.
But my theme today is slightly different, because I want to go to the core of all this.
After all, everything about what we've been looking at is that we've been looking at
color. We’ve been talking about color very indirectly because we're looking at the
mechanics, and I don't even think the concept or the recognition of what it means
that our experiential self resonates to color. And so I’m going to take you on a little
bit of a color journey today and talk about it.
Consciousness
For me, as long as I've been in this process all these years one has to deal with
concepts and try to align language to mechanics. The word ‘consciousness’ is quite a
word. We tend to not really know precisely what it is. We tend to talk around it, in
a sense, because in fact, consciousness is something that is everywhere. Self-
reflected consciousness is another story. But consciousness as a field is everywhere.
And it's everywhere, because this is the basic construct of the maya that we live in.
That is, the construct of the maya is the relationship between the neutrino stream,
the vast neutrino ocean of information, and the so-called crystals of consciousness.
This is the fundamental binary of consciousness, the interrelationship between the
subatomic particle and the crystal. This is the story.
The thing about it is that when you're looking at the neutrino stream what you're
looking at is, let's call it a generalized data, it's a generalized data. It’s like the Sun.
If you look at the Sun you think it is yellow, at least that’s our assumption. But of
course, it isn't. You know that we see a rainbow, you know that when you put the
light of the sun through prism, and so forth and so on.
So basically what you're looking at here, if you can think about it that way, this
neutrino beam stream that is moving through, that this is sort of a generalized field
that gets broken up in the prism that is the Crystal. And it is an aspect depending

on the inner structure of the crystal, and that's one of the great mysteries, is the
inner structure of the crystal, is that as it moves through the inner structure it
differentiates, breaks down the generalization into a specific. And then, it exits. By
the way, this is very fast. It's so fast that the human mind cannot grasp its speed,
so try not to think about this in slow motion.
The Exit Frequency
What is fascinating about all of this, what is my fascination is that the way in which
we understand the language that we use in Design in order to be able to understand
an imprint, the base, which is the entry frequency, that is, the meeting of the
neutrino stream and the crystal, the internal architecture that separates it into its
differentiation, which of course is tone and of course the importance of tone in our
lives because it is tone after all that establishes the premise for us of what is possible
in terms of self-reflected consciousness, and then the release.
It is this exit frequency that is really—I was going to say miracle, it's one of those
cute words. Consciousness is nothing at all, isn’t that something. Consciousness
really isn't anything at all. It's not the neutrino. It's not the crystal. The thing that
I love about duality, every ancient mystic knew this, that duality always ends up
being some kind of trinary. Like Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva, the Father, the Son and
the Holy Ghost. You take a binary and you juxtapose them and you get quantum.
You get something else. The neutrino and the crystal are the instruments, the
binary instrument that produce this what—frequency. It's just a frequency.
It isn't the solid neutrino, in that sense. It isn't the crystal. This is the frequency,
the exit frequency. And here in this exit frequency is consciousness. Now isn't that
cute? And it's everywhere. It's not like we have a monopoly on consciousness. The
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every cell, in every insect, in every plant and fish, every bird, every reptile, every
mammal, every human.
Color
And when you think about them in the natural world, if you're lucky enough to have
a garden, well, go look at it, because it's breathing consciousness. It's breathing
consciousness. If you could see the lawn for what it really is, you would see that is
just exhaling consciousness. This is the ocean moving through the crystal plane,
enveloping all of us in a throbbing consciousness field. It’s consciousness. If you
want to bow down to a god, then bow down to color. It’s like, whoa, this is
something. This is consciousness.
What we’re talking about color, we’re really talking about something that is really
incredible. And then you get to the complexity that is us, and right away there is a
problem. There’s always a problem. You've got these wonderful exit frequencies:
consciousness, form consciousness, personality consciousness, it’s pure. There is
never a problem from the point of entry to the point of exit. You are talking about
perfection, absolute perfection. That color frequency that is released, that exit
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The Magnetic Monopole
And then we have the role of the Monopole and its dilemma, because the Monopole
is at the source of all mysteries. It has to hold everything together. This is what
Monopoles do. They hold everything together. Well, it's not so much they hold
everything together. They hold it back from falling apart, something like that.
Anyway, the Monopole has a function and the function is that it has to bring together
these two aspects into a holistic illusion. And yet, it is the one with the holistic
illusion. In other words, that the ability of the Monopole to be able to capture the
exit frequencies is determined by the frequency of the holistic whole. This is where
you get to the mystery of why Human Design works. It works because Strategy and
Authority aligns the frequency so that it can capture perfectly.
And what we know what is the not-self is that because the frequency of whole is
distorted, then what we get is transference. Instead of the perfect 1 we get a 4.
Instead of the perfect 2 we get a 5, instead of the perfect 3 we get a 6, and so forth
and so on. And it's only when this frequency, the frequency of the whole, is correct
that the capture frequency and the exit frequency are aligned. That's when we get
access to our true differentiated pure consciousness. And it is only in this construct
in which consciousness has the potential to become self-reflective.
In other words, that consciousness becomes intelligence, because consciousness

gives birth to intelligence and there are many, many levels of that. We see, for
example, that when we look at the complex forms, the various designs of forms in
terms of whatever, single cell, mammal and so forth and so on, what we see is the
beginning of this potential of bringing together these two forms of consciousness into
a purity, into this holistic whole that then can transform consciousness into
intelligence, and ultimately the triumph of what we are. In other words, a form that
is so sophisticated in terms of its evolutionary development that the potential of
intelligence is rather extraordinary.
We see that in ourselves, we see the millions and millions of years of

experimentation in that in terms of the mammalian principle, our deep ancestors, if
you will. The simpler we were, the more primitive we were, the easier it was for the
capture frequency to be able to bring together the pure consciousness into this
holistic quantum. The more complex we became, the more difficult it became. This
is when the reign of the not-self really began to take hold.
The Planetary Square Resonates to Consciousness
So, color is quite a thing. Think about for a moment what it really means when we
look at the planetary square and we say that it resonates to color. It resonates to
consciousness. When you're looking those aspects of your design understand that
every one of them is designed to resonate to consciousness. And what is so
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that resonance to consciousness is again, this binary seeking out a quantum. That
resonating to the other consciousness can result in an emerging intelligence. It says
a great deal about how we were designed to learn from each other. It is one of the
bedrocks of what outer authority is about, that each and every one of us has
something of value for the other.
But we resonate to consciousness. It’s much more interesting than thinking about
what our Cross of Life is, particularly in the context of the Sun/Earth. That is, here
you're getting what is our particular frequency on the consciousness band. But that
particular frequency isn’t resonating to anything. It is the resonance. But when you
talk about all the other activations one of the most important things, at least for me
from my perspective about the work that we've been doing in this particular course
is to re-energize the spirit with which we approach the planets and to grasp their
impact in a new way, as a matter of fact. Yet, at the same time to be able to give
them their due, they are the imprinting agents. And more than that, what they
represent for us, the Moon and the planets, is that this is what is there in us that is
actually resonating to consciousness. It’s quite something to imagine.
It's not like our personality resonates to consciousness, it doesn't. And the not-self
is self-absorbed in it self-reflected miasma of emptiness and—I don’t want to have to
go into all of that. Isn’t it fascinating? This differentiated personality is into its own
trip. That’s our own authority, it’s correct. But if it was only into its own trip, oh; it's
all that other, all those little bits and pieces that make up the nuances of the whole,
all those other little imprints that are part of the code that is written. It is there that
we resonate to consciousness.
The Life Force is a Unique Intelligence
It’s one of the things to understand about the genetic imperative. Most people relate
to genetic imperative to sex, as an example, sexual attraction to the other person,
being pulled, the deep deconditioning that comes, the electromagnetic connection.
And then at the other side there is this deep conditioning that can be there, that you
can be so deeply impacted and get so locked in on the other side. Well, think about
what's really going on. It’s this deep resonance to the consciousness to get
something else, to get somewhere else, and to get beyond it; it’s what the life force
is, after all. The life force is in intelligence all of its own.
I do this next semester, to finally, at least from my perspective, actually teach what
channels really are. They’re consciousness; they are intelligence. The life force is a
unique intelligence. This is what we get out of this whole color world, this is the
consciousness world. It has its themes—the fear and the hope and the desire—all of
which operating out of the not-self, it’s just blind. The need, the guilt, the
innocence, and I mean blind, dumb, because if you are in transference and if you are
not-self, the resonance in you is all messed up. It is messed up for 70% of what you
are. And the only thing that actually gives you a chance is the consciousness
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It’s like when somebody finds out about Human Design. What attracts them is
almost never their personality, because their personality is always caught in its own
trip. But we are more than just our personality. Our personality ultimately is
dependent, I've shown you that, is dependent on the experiential awareness that
develops out of the lunar and planetary square; it's dependent on it. And it's there
and there alone that there is this nontransferable pure resonance to consciousness.
Undefined Gates
How deep the traps; and also how beautiful. For me, understanding, particularly the
personality, to understand personality activations, excluding the Nodes and the
Sun/Earth, to understand them in this context is to see them not as the dilemmas in
our design, but to see them as one of the great attributes that we have, that there is
where we are potentially open. It’s not like definition is the be-all and the end-all; it
is not. I am deeply grateful at this point in my process to have an open sacral and
root and solar plexus and head center. It is a treasure for me, an endless treasure,
as a matter of fact. It is a treasure chest that has no bottom. It just goes on and on
and on, what one can learn, what one can see.
It is so very, very difficult to see from where you are fixed. Where you are fixed is
the foundation. Some of the most special aspects that are there in your design are
those personality gates that you have that are not defined, that are just hanging
around, that are either lunar or planetary, because they're the ones that are looking
for consciousness.
I was once asked many years ago about where was it in my design that I was going
to have my role. My answer was my Mars, my personality Mars in the 48th gate in
the 2nd line. That hanging gate, in a gate of denial, denial of God and all of that, in a
2nd line that is there to be called. But a personality gate not in definition, which is
rare for me because I have a very dense definition on the personality side, that it
was this personality gate that was the most deeply open to consciousness. Open in
a way that I, a fixed single definition Manifestor, wow, you talk about fixed. I know
and only I know; what to do. But there was the 40, 2nd line. It’s great grace to have
such gates in your design, because they are open to consciousness. They're not just
ready to be victims of conditioning or all that stuff.
The moment that you stand on the correct side of the process is the moment you
begin to see that there are so many aspects of your nature that deserve to be
admired and respected and appreciated. There are some incredible things that one
can begin to see in oneself. But this is an aspect that is very, very important to
think about, it really is. This is the part of you that is not in your own trip. It’s the
part of you where there is a possibility to in meeting and resonating in that sense to
consciousness in the other, the possibility of some emerging intelligence out of that,
it is that emergent intelligence that becomes the experiential awareness that may
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We Exist Because Color Exists
For me, color is really what it's all about. I mean, there is no maya without this.
And what I mean by that is that the way in which the Monopole creates us, if I can
put it that way, is through the agency of color. There is no other way. It’s not
simply that color is consciousness. If you take consciousness, one and
consciousness two, when you juxtapose them you get a holistic being. And if you
can't juxtapose them, you don't have anything, you don't have life. You just have
the inanimate. The fact that we even exist is because color exists. We are nothing
but consciousness. It’s the thing to understand. We are these two frequencies that
are held together, and in being held together form this is maya that we are, that we
live in.
When I talk about illusion, it’s very easy for people to say it's all an illusion and I
don't know what they’re talking about, they really don't. And as much as they can
say it, they don't really see it, don't get it. If you really grasp color, you get to see
that it is nothing but
illusion. There is
nothing concrete in all
of that. There is a
Monopole with two
frequencies. So what
happens? It’s why I
had the word ‘miracle’
on my lips. Wow, look
at what happens.
Take a Monopole, take
two exist frequencies,
stir lightly and you get
yourself a human
being or frog or flower.
And it's all because
color.
This is the medium. I

guess it's what a good
old boy like Lao Tzu would call the Tao. This is the great medium, and it's
everywhere. It's on the ground you walk, it's everywhere, everywhere. Your house
is built of consciousness. Your car is built of consciousness. It’s all consciousness.
It is the work of the neutrinos stream. It is the work of the neutrino and the crystal.
But they, in and of themselves, are nothing. It’s just frequency that comes out. We
never see the stream. You have three trillion neutrinos a second going through
every square, centimeter of your body, we don’t see it. You don’t see the crystals,
and suddenly here is. Here we are. That’s the magic, and it is color.

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We Are Filters in the Consciousness Ocean
And all we do is act as filters, this is what we are. We are filters in the consciousness
ocean. And we are complex filters, obviously. Complex in the sense that we
ourselves are a binary construct, but all we do is filter. It's what I mean when I say
that the passenger has to stand back, that the mind can no longer make decisions.
How important Strategy and Authority is. It's not about what we call it: learn how to
make decisions as yourself,
transform your life, blah,
blah, blah news at eight. It's:
get the frequency right, so
you can be a truly conscious
human being, get the
frequency right. That’s what
we’re talking; become
consciousness.
Yes, sure, you get there; you

get there in the illusion by
changing the frequency of the
vehicle. This is what Strategy
and Authority does. It begins
the process of allowing the
Monopole slowly but surely to
be able to align these aspects together in a potential of perfection. And the very
work of it works through the Nodes because the Monopole operates through the
Nodes, holding us together in this illusion of separateness and moving us along our
line of geometry. I've said that phrase over and over again since my first lecture in
1992. This is the great story. It really is, this is the most beautiful thing for me in
the underlying understanding of all the mechanics that I understand, is this story
right here—what we really are; this is what we are. This is how it works.
Changing Your Frequency
The importance then of grasping what it means to be correct, just to grasp it at its
most basic level, you’re changing your frequency. Everybody who enters into this
process and experiments with their Strategy and Authority recognizes this change in
their frequency, because it does. You begin to eliminate resistance, there are less
and less and less of these forces that distort the frequency of your vehicle. And the
more you are reliant on what is your legitimate inner of authority, the smoother this
frequency becomes.
And of course, that's when we get the most important thing of all. We get access to
the mystery of what goes on in the inside of the crystal. In the teaching of tone,
tone is really something remarkable. After all, it is the inner architecture. Its very
triangle is the base impression of what ultimately gets integrated into a bodygraph.
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the design tone in particular. It is very, very complex in the diversity of the forms
that it can establish; and yet, this tone and all of its wonder, what we call cognition,
this cognitive potential, cognitive in the form sense of being able to develop cognitive
apparatus, and cognitive in the personality sense in the ability of the passenger as
personality to be able to grasp concepts, as an example.
Color Transmits Cognition
Then you think about what color actually does. Its only job is to transmit cognition,
unique cognition, the unique variety of cognition that is established within the tone.
It is this unique cognition that it is designed to bring across. It is what I talk about
when I talk about a differentiated unique human being. And it's always
extraordinary for me to think about it on either the design side or the personality
side to realize that as it leaves, as that infrastructure of cognition, which is a
constant, it's a flow, after all, it is and ocean, that as it’s leaving the crystal it's
always representing the purity of that cognitive potential within consciousness.
How important it is for our frequency to be correct, because if not we are denied
that. We’re just denied it. And we end up being ruled by the program. And we end
up with the world that we have, because that's the result. If you want to meet pure
consciousness go into a field or a forest. Sit down; pure consciousness everywhere,
everywhere, it feels good. Get up out of the field or the forest and go into the town
or the city, and of course consciousness is all distorted, deeply, deeply, deeply
distorted.
It’s why cities without large green areas are really horrendous. There is no pure
consciousness around, because in human beings, the frequency is all off. It’s just off
and we have transferred consciousness, which is very different. It's very distorted
because it lacks underlying cognition. We do not know, we truly do not know, in that
sense, what this really means, because the only people that express this are 4s. It’s
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who are in transference, who have no cognition, who have blind fear, dumb fear, and
insane fear. Like the hope people, we don't know any of these, we know the 5s, we
know Mr. Fix-it.
So when we step into the world, when we step into the not-self world, we step into
the consciousness field that has been distorted and we have a consciousness field
entirely in transference. It's exactly what one would expect given that I talk about
the fact that we live in a not-self program that promotes the so-called not-self. The
program promotes the so-called not-self and the evidence is the fact that we have a
deeply distorted and transferred consciousness field, which means that the general
consciousness field of the planet is basically devoid of cognition.
Hanging Gates Are Open to the Consciousness Field
Color is really something. It's one of the most spectacular aspects of the mechanics
of the knowledge. So it's something to keep in mind when you look at your
planetary aspects, particularly at the personality side, because again, this is
something that is an advantage for your passenger to be aware of. Look at those
personality gates of yours that are not in definition, just look at them and
understand something about them. They’re very important to you. They are the
parts of you that are really open to the consciousness field.
And obviously, if you're not-self it's all lost anyway and it just ends up being blind
attraction to conditioning and all of the things we understand about having hanging
gates and what that leads to. But again, we are a binary in a binary system. This is
a duality. I’ve seen on the other side as well. You have to see that that hanging
gates is an opportunity, is a possibility, is something to learn, something to grasp.
We see that in the planetary square, we see that that's what they're there for.
They’re there to take in the experience; they’re there to provide experiential
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And that those gates in particular, because it's not so in the definition that you have
personality-wise; that's fixed, it's locked in. Those gates that hang, to see their
special-ness, that that is the part of you that is open to the consciousness field in a
very pure way. After all, that's the beauty of the lunar and planetary square is that
they resonate without transference, they resonate purely. It’s quite a thing to think
about.
Anyway, that's as far as I'm going to go with all of this, but as I like to do with the
end of a semester, particularly in a course like this where we won’t be together
again, to just open it up to you if you have any comments or you have any
questions. But again, it is been a very important contribution to the knowledge, this
course and I'm glad you’ve been there.
Questions, Answers, Comments
[Written question: So we live in a TRI-VERSE as a result of the BI-VERSE(s)

juxtaposed?]
Ra: In a tri-verse, (laughter), yes that's true, it's true in that way, though I don't
state it that way. It's hard enough to try to get people to think that we live in a
biverse; but yes, of course. What I call it is a biverse juxtaposed, which is what it
actually is. That is, it's never been anything else. So, it works. I think the best way
to express it would be two verses juxtaposed.
[Written question: Since Mars plays an important role as a mutative force in the
planetary square, would it make sense to have a closer look at its cycle (e.g. Mars
return reading)?]
Ra: Well, it’s an interesting question, Adrian. It certainly makes a lot of sense. I
mentioned in one of the classes. If you take a look at all the lines that you have on
the personality side, look at all your activations on the personality side, only in the
lunar and planetary square and look at the lines and see how many times various
planets are mentioned, whether exalted or detriment, it doesn’t matter whether you
have it or not, and just see. And for example, if Mars is the most common, that is, if
you have more Mars’ showing up in the lines that you have that could be the exalted
or detriment, that is an indication that Mars is going to be a very, very important
force in your process. And yes, given the context of it being mutative, it would be
something to look into.
The Mars return? I looked at all of those planetary returns when I first started my
work. And I discarded them rather quickly. Yes, like anything else, I'm able to
interpret any cycle, literally, through the mechanics, but I don't see the value.
Though, it is something that maybe one day I will revisit the possibility of looking at
that within this context. Again, I think that most returns are unnecessary. I don't
mean to put a spanner in anybody's professional work, but for me the only returns
that really matter is the solar return, the annual return, this is something that is very
important, and I think that the Kiron return is extraordinarily important for nine-
centered beings. Everything else, I think that they're all minor, whether it's Saturn
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For me, the annual return and the Kiron return—if you're a 6th line being it can be
interesting to have your Saturn return done. But then again, I've never found to be
a good idea. Most people that I know who been close to me at that age, I tell them
that I’ll do their Saturn return when they’re 35. I don’t want to do it when they're
right there in their Saturn. I don't think it's healthy for them. But, that's me.
[Written question: what does it mean when it’s the Sun? I mean, of all the lines,
it's the Sun for me that shows up most; and the sun is 70%]
Ra: It's probably why you have a teacher called Ra, Jacques, there’s absolutely no
transference in lunar and planetary square, none whatsoever; it only resonates.
After all, these are not crystals. These are just activations. The color that you see is
just a frequency in their positioning, and that frequency is what's resonating, it is
resonating to the color that actually relates to that frequency, but they have no color
themselves. That is, the lunar and planetary objects have no color themselves.
They resonate to colors. That’s what makes them so special, they have resonance to
consciousness.
[Written question: you have in the past said that it is in the detriment where we
can find our greater strength. is it an influence of limitation in this context to have
the detriment or exaltation in one of these squares?]
Ra: I love detriments. That’s me. I love detriments because I think when you're
not-self your detriments torment you. And I think when you develop an
understanding of them you get to recognize their beauty, and that has been my
experience with my detriments. I have lived how distorting they were for me in my
own process and at the same time I have had the experience of how wonderful they
are. In that sense, I think they give you greater strength.
Exaltations are very different. They really are. That is, an exaltation puts enormous
pressure on the demand for correctness; otherwise, it's just as punishing as the
detriment. I think one of the great failures—and I am somebody I pride myself on
being very, very careful with language; after all, there is so much terminology in
Human Design. And I think if there's any terminology that I blundered with, it is
what I borrowed from astrology, which is the detriment and exaltation terms. I
really should've called it “this and that,” that would've been perfect. But, for me,
because the Rave I’Ching has never been edited, it's never been touched, it’s still
exactly as I wrote it, I just don't feel it's correct to change it, so I leave it as it is.
But for me, exalted and detriment is simply that; it's this and that, it’s nothing else.
[Written question: SO, LP resonate to transference too?]

Ra: No, they do not resonate to transference. If you meet somebody who is a 2 who
is transferred to the 5 your lunar and planetary aspects that do resonate will
resonate to the 2, not to the 5. They will resonate to what that color actually is, not
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That resonance is not to the person, it's to the crystal, remember that. The holistic
frequency can be totally off. That's why, for example, there is a part of you that
even though your mind says, “oh, that person is a jerk,” there's a part of you that
also has, “maybe they’re not, actually.” The beauty, again, of what the lunar and
planetary square is all about, this honing in on consciousness and not being affected
by the transference.
[Written question: so you resonate to less of the frequency?]

Ra: Do you mean do I resonate? I don't quite understand what you mean, Jagruti.
One the things that is clear is that if you're somebody like me on the personality side
is where I have continuous definition, I have very few hanging personality gates, so
I'm very limited in my openness to the consciousness field. It’s very specific in me
where that is possible. Again, this is one of the things that is so fascinating about
looking at it. Obviously I was designed to be very, very—with all my 1s and being
individual and a 43/23, I was not designed to be influenced by a lot of openness to
consciousness, it's obvious. So, there you can see where some people resonate less
than others, in that sense.
Jagruti: It was actually in the context of the exaltation or the detriment. In other
words, my understanding is in the past if you have one of these it's a little bit like a
weighted coin where if you toss it it’s always going to come heads up. And so in
terms of the resonance in this lunar-planetary concept, are we less open to receiving
resonance if it's detrimental or in exaltation?
Ra: No. The only thing that is going to make a difference is whether it's a hanging
gate or not. That's what makes a difference, because it's the hanging gate that is
really the aspect that is going to resonate the most. By the way, it isn't to suggest
that in the activations and definitions don't resonate, they do. But the way they
collect experience is different. In other words, if you’ve got a definition you're
collecting experience in the circuit. It’s very, very different, so it doesn't have the
same kind of impact. It's not first-generation relationship to the consciousness field.
[Written question: since everyone is in transference... what happens to LP

activations when they do not resonate?]
Ra: Well, the resonance brings a certain drive, obviously. We're talking about on the
personality side. So, basically what happens is that they have less influence over the
possible direction of the personality in a way in which makes its decisions. In other
words, one of things that we see is that the Sun/Earth, if we can think about it this
way, is very rigid in the way in which it processes things. It's very dependent on the
Nodes which provide it with its basic perspective.
But in order for the concepts to grow, in order for there to be maturity in the way in
which that the mind is going to process information, it needs to keep on adding
experience. This away all of our minds develop over our lifetimes. That experience
is something that the importance of experience is going to depend on the way in
which the lunar and planetary square operates. If it's not resonating, as an example
or if certain aspects aren't resonating, then the mental construct, the personality,
never gets that as part of the input that could affect the way in which it looks at the

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world or in terms of the not-self the way in which it makes decisions.Those gates of
yours, Alok, hanging out of the sacral, it's so obvious the way these things work.
[Written question: could we say that the LP set goes asleep when Personality is in
transference?]
Ra: It’s not so much that it goes asleep is that it has very, very, very little influence.
We know what happens to somebody in transference, if we take it out of just this
level and we go back into the bodygraph, we know right away that somebody in
transference is being ruled by their not-self strategies and it's those not-self
strategies that act as the experiential advisors rather than their own potential,
because they’re not involved in their own authority, which would allow their
experiential grasp to come to the surface. They have the not-self that is ruling. So,
in that sense the personality system doesn't pay much attention to what's going on
in terms of the lunar and planetary square.
[Written question: So Lunar and Planetary Colors resonates from the color of
sun/earth of the other person? If there is no resonance what then, no good
communication?]
Ra: Well, again, if there is no resonance, it simply means that it's not going to be a
heightened experience. It doesn't mean you're not going to have one. It doesn't
mean you can't learn something in it. It simply means that it's not going to be
strong enough, that it's going to be influential on the way in which you
conceptualize. Again, we're looking at a very, very specific way in which information
works or the way in which we deal with or connect to the other in that sense. But it
just doesn't make it a big deal.
For example, if you resonate to somebody electromagnetically, it is a lot more

attractive than if you don't, even though it still an electromagnetic. Electromagnetics
are electromagnetics; it will do what it does. But it doesn't have the same kind of
intensity that it would have if you’re resonating to the consciousness field on the
other side. So, the mechanics are still there and operating. What we’re dealing with
is different levels of intensity, or highlighting is more like it.
[Written question: so, they are still active in the wholeness of the being]
Ra: Oh, yes, they are still active, absolutely. That’s one of the things about these
kinds of therapies where you have people going back in their lives, hypnotic
therapies where you try to get people to remember things, whatever. There are all
kinds of experiential evidence that is taking in that is ignored by the transferred
personality because of the impact of not-self strategies and all the other things that
affect the conditioning. Depending on what kind of process is used, often these
realizations that they have is what's been stored in their experiential lunar and
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Jagruti: So could we say that those moments when we really lock into somebody it’s
non-transferred electromagnetic?
Ra: Not necessarily. They can be transferred. Remember that the lunar and
planetary objects don't care whether the holistic other is transferred or not. It
makes no difference. They resonate to what is there in the crystal. They’re just
resonating to the crystal.
All right, folks, it’s been a delight. I’m glad I had a chance to close with this
particular lecture. I think that grasping the beauty and the importance of color and
seeing it in relationship to your personality particularly in the way in which the lunar
impersonality square operates is something that's great. So, I’m glad we can do
that. And yes my thanks to all of you. It's been terrific and I genuinely enjoyed it.
And hopefully we'll see each other some other time. Do enjoy your holiday season.
And to all of you, it's my last day of work in the semester, so it's always one of the
things that I enjoy in life, is finishing what you start, so it’s nice to get to the close.
All of you, take care; it’s been a pleasure; bye for now.
~ The End of Year 1, Semester 1 ~

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