So! I got invited to share HD at a retreat, hosted by Sarah Armide, a woman whose healing work I followed for years back when I was struggling with symptoms of PCOS.
What’s wilder about this story, is her partner is a childhood family friend, Ryan Frace. I have memories of going to pool parties at their house on Del Mar beach, that kind of thing. He was in my brother’s grade, two years older, and we never even had so much of a conversation. But it was a curious thing to follow a woman’s healing work for years, who is from Australia and actively lived in Bali, and then only years later, did I piece together that her partner was Ryan. My mom and his dad talk sometimes weekly, kind of thing.
(Also a fun thing to share about their dynamic — she’s a quad right, he’s a quad left. And from what I’ve observed, their work has taken on this whole spin of masculine vs feminine dynamics to whole new proportions, as a result of them coming together. And it really does make so much sense in its own way. Receptivity or rightness of course being more oriented to the “feminine” way, and strategy or leftness to the “masculine.” Or right, and left brained. All useful, lay person ways to frame things for people.)
So this is the recording of my 2.5 hour talk on intro to HD while at the retreat in Costa Rica. I think I’m gonna find out a way to make it available for those not subscribed to my paid substack, to purchase it as a separate thing on my website.
And I 100% would love to do more of this kind of thing in the future. It’s been a curious thing— that as I’ve moved away from sharing content on Instagram, just because of how my energy seems to be moving away from using that space in any meaningful way anymore… opportunities are coming to share my stuff in person. And what a gift it’s been. And surprisingly, how comfortable I’ve felt!
Sarah, retreat host: … I’ve explored a lot of astrology, a lot of Gene Keys, and there’s a reason I’m bringing in Human Design. … Alignment is where we’re choosing energetic timelines that just have a lot of support behind them — They just work, they’re easy, and this is the process of actually getting out of the mind, and getting deep in the body.
Human Design is actually tracking — as Ash said to me once — the *life* of the body. It’s tracking our aura, it’s tracking how everything inside of you works at its highest… How do we get our aura as sparkly and radiant as possible, so that we can take out the fear, and the force, and the hustle, and we can just flow, and we can stay in our alignment.
… In your perspective, before we go into an introduction of what this is, how does HD support that kind of thing— like what are we doing here, as we’re tracking this?
Me: … It’s different from astrology, in that astrology *is* your personality. It’s describing your ego. —- which, can be really, really helpful. It’s why we can say, ‘Yes, this is who I am —’ It’s why we recognize our astrology as ourself. But there’s another imprint that we get, and that’s our body. And our body, is in a sense, born & ready like 90 days before we’re actually born into the world. And that’s kind of like our true form, in a way. — And that’s our life trajectory, that’s *just gonna happen,* no matter what.
And so, the hardest thing to reconcile about human design, is that we have a trajectory. And that we basically just have to surrender to it.”