Pulling Us In: The Magnetic Monopole’s Role in Human Design

The Magnetic Monopole

In Human Design one of the things we work with is a variety of elements such as personality, design, authority, defined centers, and channels. What brings everything together is the magnetic monopole, which sits in the G Center. It is the larger context in which all of the elements combine to make a unique person.

To think that any human is reducible to simply the various system components apparent in a chart is to overlook what’s really going on. Virtually all of the serious literature produced by people over the millennia makes reference to something else – spirit, soul, the divine, etc. There is a bottom line to be found in all of this. Put simply it is “You are not in charge”.

The Allegory of the Hummingbird

To illustrate, there is a species of hummingbird that lives in Alaska. In late summer they begin a roughly 2000 mile journey that takes them down the Rocky Mountains into Mexico where they spend the winter. In the spring they fly up the California inland coast back to Alaska. Now, hummingbirds have a metabolism that requires them to eat every 2 to 3 minutes or they die. Think about that.

So this is not a flock of birds winging their way on a leisurely journey to the land of winter sun. In order for them to feed that often, there must be a constant source of food along the way. Well, weather patterns can cause the flowers they need to bloom earlier or later from year to year along with that 2000 mile path, yet these hummingbirds unfailingly time their departure in accordance with weather changes that have taken place a thousand miles away.

And they sure don’t think about it or plan it. They don’t teach it to their offspring. They’re not in charge of that migration or what they might encounter along the way. They’re plugged into the world in such a way that they simply go where they must and use what they have to survive the journey. All they really do is utilize the strategies of their design.

The Magnetic Monopole is the Driver

As people we think we are in charge, the personality is convinced that it is, and we do, in fact, make countless decisions that would seem to prove it. But those decisions are small ones. Should I have lasagna or a steak for dinner? In the larger context of our lives though, we can’t simply decide to become famous and rely on it happening. Marry and have perfect children? Of course, you can’t guarantee any of that.

In terms of our life journey, we don’t know where we are going because we are not the driver. The magnetic monopole is the driver because only the monopole holds it all together. Our personality thinks it does, but it is simply along for the ride. Our design, our body, is simply the vehicle. The magnetic monopole is the driver. When the monopole says “It’s time to go here”, off we go, much like the hummingbirds.

Like the hummingbird, we, in a sense, migrate. We move from our past to our future pulled by our monopole which is setting the direction based on its sense of climate, of environment. It takes us wherever it decides that it needs to go when it decides it’s time.

The Magnetic Monopole Knows When and Where We Need to Go

We don’t get to pick where we are going any more than the hummingbird gets to pick its winter destination. Within each of us the monopole, through some ancient and perfect connection with everything else, knows when and where we need to go. It holds us together as well as holding us to our geometry.

Of course, we are much more complex than hummingbirds so we can easily complain, misunderstand, whine, rebel, etc. But make no mistake – it’s to little avail.

Follow Your Strategies and Authority

What we can do is follow our own survival strategies. If your design is that of a hummingbird you’ve got to eat nectar, not some other kind of food. Maybe sometimes you get to pick whether or not you eat nectar from a red flower or a blue one or even a hummingbird feeder, the variations are subtle.

Our strategies and our authority, these are what enable us to undertake the migration successfully because they let the monopole do its job without us getting in the way. The gift of Human Design is that every person can use it to see what strategies they are designed with. Are you a hummingbird? A deer? A beetle? Do you have Sacral authority? Splenic? Emotional? If you follow your design, you will find that when the magnetic monopole impels you toward your future you can trust it.

The Incarnation Cross of the Sphinx and Cross of the Vessel of Love

While setting our direction (as specified in the Cross of the Sphinx in Gates 7, 1, 2, and 13) is the function of the monopole, the property of the monopole is love. Not the love of passion, but the love of being. This love is specified in the Cross of the Vessel of Love in 25-Innocence, 46-Serendipity, 10-Behavior of the self, and 15-Modesty.

When, by living our design, we trust the magnetic monopole to move us, we move in innocence with no personal agenda. We take care of the physical body, knowing that it’s where it’s supposed to be and is equal to the task. We behave as the self that we actually are. We love others because we know that essentially we are all of equal value in this world regardless of the extreme differences that we think we see.

There’s a bit of beauty and magic in this. If you go where you should you can’t help but love existence, and conversely, if you love existence you can’t help but go where you should.

First published in ABC Introduction at HumanDesign.com, Web.Archive.org

Photo by Adam Whitlock

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