Eastern astrology has a different interpretation and way of dividing the sky. In Vedic astrology, which originates in India, they use a system of mapping the sky known as Sidereal. This system moves every year in how and where the planets are, which acknowledges something known as the Precession of the Equinoxes. Without going off the deep end, essentially, the zodiac, where the equinoxes occur within it, and the constellations shift 1* every 72 years. This might not make a big difference in a lifetime, but over thousands of years, the whole "sky moves." These long-term calculations are one of the basis of the prophecies that are unfolding and set to unfold over a large period of time now. All three systems, human design, astrology, and the gene keys, are aware of how this clock is moving, and you'll find different wisdom and predictions surrounding each. 

Vedic / Eastern Astrology: precession of the equinoxes 

The centers in the Human Design chart originate with the seven chakra system. The Hindu-Brahmin System is the origin of the wisdom of both the energy centers and their correspondence to our anatomy in our Human Design chart. As new planetary discoveries and activations occurred, they unlocked new chart evolutions. Namely, in 1781, with the discovery of Uranus we became nine centered beings. This is the current state of the Human Design chart, although the body graph is set to evolve again starting in 2027.

THE HINDU CHAKRA SYSTEM: THE CENTERS

The I Ching is estimated to be over 5,000 years old. It originates in China, and its wisdom has been passed down even before it was recorded and written, through dynasties. The I Ching is a complex system on its own that corresponds with the dual forces in the universe and nature. Those two forces then create 64 expressions, which each hold their own wisdom and coding about how nature works. There are many interpretations and translations of the I Ching, but the first into English happened in the late 1800s. The I Ching is known as the book of changes; its correspondences and mystical nature includes its connections to the basis of both computer code and our DNA. This is where the connections to both amino acids come from in the Human Design and Gene Keys charts.

THE I CHING: THE 64 GATES

Western astrology is based on a tropical sky map. This means it does not move like the Vedic system does, so overtime, as you look at the sky, where the planets are, correspond differently to Western calculations or maps of the zodiac. Nonetheless, the Western origins of astrology, namely through the Greeks, the Egyptians, through European and Arabic development, and the Humanistic movement are what are used for the planetary definitions / references in human design. Each tradition of astrology, both Western and Eastern, has many schools of thought, origin, calculation, practice, and technique. I have found that there are often uses in many of these schools, depending, and take an open minded approach to how I use and embrace them, if they are resonant for me. One thing to note is I believe astrology is much more ancient than its 5,000 years we prescribe to it. Both from its engravings in Egypt, and its documentation with the Babylonians, I believe it is a system that was inherited and passed down, and that it started before them.

Western Astrology: planetary placements and interpretations 

The components and sacred wisdom that compose the four chart systems, and that I also turn to for deeper wisdom include:

The Jewish Kabbalah and its wisdom is an area of development for me, and I am at the beginning of my journey with its teachings. Its correspondence in the Human Design system is with the Tree of Life, and its 22 pathways, which correspond to or inspire the 32 channels in the Human Design body graph. The Kabbalah is a deeply mystical and complex teaching, and is not for the uninitiated.

KABBALAH: THE CHANNELS

One of the major early predictions of Human Design was how our charts, and therefore ourselves, are encoded at birth. This is through the conditioning and filtering of subatomic particles known as neutrinos. Neutrinos were first postulated in 1930 and detected in the 1950s, but the proof / confirmation that they are the smallest particles to carry mass only came in 1998, after the human design revelation in 1987. Neutrinos travel at practically the speed of light. There are almost a 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through us and our bodies every second, carrying information from the sun, other planets, and cosmic elements and information in space. This is how our charts "encode" into our being at the time we are born.

SUBATOMIC + PARTICLE PHYSICS:
THE SCIENCE OF NEUTRINOS