Focus on Human Design Foundations: Type, Strategy, Authority and Profiles

If you’re still here and reading – fantastic! Not much more on this post – keep going. Alternatively, bookmark and come back to it when you’re trying to make sense of something specific.

The final foundational piece of this puzzle honestly deserves its own space, so I will keep this relatively brief.

Once you’ve begun to understand more about your Energy type and strategy, and how to use the intuitive hack of your inner Authority, you’ll find great wisdom and learning in getting to grips with your Profile lines.

They’re the numbers pictured here that look like a fraction.


Each of the 64 gates in Human Design has an archetypal theme.

How each of those themes is expressed depends on many aspects, but the profile lines is the first one you need to know about.

Understanding your Profile lines (we’re focusing on the 2 main ones right now) can:

Help you make sense of a heap of stuff to do with the way you learn, absorb information and engage with others. All depending on which lines you have.

As I’ve expressed, there is much more to say on this subject so I’ll save the insights for another post. But for now here is a list of each of the different profile combinations (there are 12) – I wonder which resonate the most with you? Update – you can find that by clicking right here

Here are the names of each of the 6 Profile lines, with the Quantum language first. Followed by their varying combinations:

For me, it was really through seeing these names that I began to notice how the traditional language made me feel, versus the higher frequency language used in Quantum Human Design.

  1. Resource (Investigator)
  2. Responder (Hermit) 
  3. Explorer (Martyr) 
  4. Stabiliser (Opportunist)
  5. Visionary Leader (Heretic)
  6. Adept (Role Model)

1/3  Resource (Investigator)/Explorer (Martyr) 

1/4 Resource (Investigator)/Stabiliser (Opportunist)

2/4 Responder (Hermit)/Stabiliser (Opportunist)

2/5 Responder (Hermit)/Visionary Leader (Heretic)

3/5 Explorer (Martyr)/Visionary Leader (Heretic)

3/6 Explorer (Martyr)/Adept (Role Model)

4/1 Stabiliser (Opportunist)/Resource (Investigator)

4/6 Stabiliser (Opportunist)/Adept (Role Model)

5/1 Visionary Leader (Heretic)/Resource (Investigator)

5/2 Visionary Leader (Heretic)/Responder (Hermit)

6/2 Responder (Hermit)/Adept (Role Model)

6/3 Adept (Role Model)/Explorer (Martyr) 

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