How I Found My Career Path
Back in the summer of 1965, during that incredible 12-year Uranus/Pluto conjunction I’ve referenced before, I had a very unusual experience. This was before I learned about Human Design and Projectors. My first wife and I were living in a shack in Williams, AZ, near the Grand Canyon. It was owned by a man named John, who was mentoring me at that time. He was a very smart guy with uncanny instincts.
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Recognition for Projectors
Those six words were, “You’d make a great systems analyst”. At that time, I had no idea what a systems analyst was. Absolutely none. And then he just walked away. Neither one of us ever brought it up again. We never talked about it.
At that time, I was just beginning my transition out of being a hippie into somebody more capable on the material plane, where I was seriously lacking any money-making skills. For those in Human Design, I am a Projector Type, 4/6 Profile.
I was in the very early stages of transitioning out of a 3rd-line life into a 4th-line life, and the Uranus-Pluto conjunction was beginning to dissipate.
Some weeks later, my wife and I moved back to La Jolla, CA, where I made more progress in becoming financially competent. But I couldn’t close the deal as I had 3rd-line stuff yet to deal with.
Then my wife gave birth to a beautiful daughter at home on the kitchen table, under the care of a midwife. While being filmed, there were a dozen friends around the table chanting Om and singing Hare Krishna. It was intense. She was quite a good sport about it – no screaming, just focused breathing.
3rd Lining to My Saturn Return
So, after two wonderful years back in La Jolla, we moved to the Big Island of Hawaii. Plane tickets and buying a panel truck when we got there really depleted our cash reserves, so our housing choices were very limited. A lot of hippies were living in deserted, broken-down old wooden houses. So, I spent some days tramping around in jungles on hillsides until I found one. I was able to talk the owner into letting us stay there. That was a chore. The conversation went like this:
“I need a place for myself, my wife, and my 9-month-old daughter to live. Will you rent me the old shack you own on the adjacent property?”
“No.”
“Please, I really need it”.
“No.”
“But I really, really need it”.
Now, the thing is, I had no recognition or invitation.
But I persisted, and we went back and forth for about 10 minutes. You see, I KNEW I was going to rent it before I even got to the owner’s house. Call it initiation or manifestation (a strategy not designed for Projectors) or good old-fashioned persistence, I got that shack.
And was it ever a shack! No water, no electricity, drafty old walls, no glass in the windows, no toilet – just a two-seater outhouse. A Coleman stove and lantern for cooking and light. It was just a step or two up from the Garden of Eden, and we loved it. We soon made friends with others living in a very similar fashion, and life there was good, very good.
The Serpent appeared in the Garden in the form of Susie.
A lovely young woman, Susie, a friend of ours from California, showed up with her daughter, who was about the same age as ours. She was staying in a rather nice hotel on the Hilo side of the Big Island.
Susie spent the day with us and then invited us to drive to Hilo to join her for dinner at a nice restaurant. I was shocked – a single mother with a 1-year-old infant to care for made enough money to take us to dinner. Suddenly, like Adam and Eve, who ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we saw the difference between good and evil. Or at least the difference between comfort and the constant drone of mosquitoes while sitting in the outhouse. There we were under attack from every female mosquito within a hundred yards. Being in the jungle, there were a lot of them.
I remembered what John had said about me making a great systems analyst.
About a month later (5 months after we arrived in paradise), we moved back to the mainland. I was trying to figure out what I could do as I didn’t really have any skills. Well, I had great people skills, but no skills that could make me a decent living.
So I did some research and learned what a systems analyst was and found a school that enabled me to get an AS degree in it. I got that degree, then got a job, and I loved doing – I absolutely loved it. John had been right, I was really good at it, and I had a career for several years that more than paid the bills. Systems analysis is actually a perfect career path for Projectors.
The point of the story is to illustrate what I meant when I said in my post on Instagram that the recognition might come a couple of years before something special shows up in your life that you want to take advantage of.
How I Met My Soul Mate
Now here’s an example of something that happened just a few days before something special turned up. I had gotten divorced not long after our return to La Jolla a year and a half earlier. My ex-wife and our daughter were living in Boston.
It probably sounds kind of cheesy to say, but I wanted to find my soul mate – that one person, that one really special person. But I had no clue how to do that whatsoever. I tried looking in a couple of bars, and that didn’t get me anywhere. And I found nothing when I went back to university.
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Invitations for Projectors
Then one day, there showed up in my mail, snail mail back then, a formal invitation (yum, yum – no ambiguity there). In retrospect, I learned that invitations were another crucial part of decision-making for Projectors. It was an invitation to attend a wedding reception for a young woman named Debbie, whom I had spent very little time with. Maybe 5 or 6 years earlier, I was part-owner of a big acid rock ballroom in San Diego. We brought down all the famous San Francisco bands during the summer of ’68. She and her sister kind of hung out a bit socially in our house, where all kinds of action with the band members was always happening. But I didn’t really know her as the age difference was too big. I ignored the invitation’s RSVP.
Then a few days later, there was a knock on my door, and when I answered it, there was Debbie. She was now a young woman with her younger sister. I invited them in, and she told me how much I had meant to her years before and what an important person I had been in her life. I had no recollection of that kind of relationship, but, you know, I wasn’t going to disabuse her of the notion. She had brought along her younger sister to sort of validate her position that she was serious about wanting me to come to her reception.
Now for Projectors, this was being recognized and invited in spades!
I wasn’t wild about the invitation, but jeeze, I couldn’t disappoint her. I could tell it meant that much. So I said yes, and I went to that wedding reception.
The bride being 5 or 6 years younger than I meant I didn’t know anyone there. I felt a bit like I was loitering as I walked out of the back door of the kitchen into the patio, where most of the people were congregated. Being one step above the patio, I was kind of looking over the heads of everybody.
Love At First Sight
And there on the far side of the patio, I caught a look at the back of a head, then a quick glimpse of a face. Then, another glimpse, and l tell you straight, I do not exaggerate a whit when I say it was just like I had been suddenly shot with Cupid’s arrow. With no hesitation and all the confidence of a mythic hero, I made my way through all those people across the patio to that young woman. I went up to her right shoulder, and very gently caressed the side of her hair and said to her, “You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.”
Well, we had a whirlwind romance and engagement and were living together within three weeks. I had found what I was looking for so unexpectedly, and as soon as I saw her, I knew I was going to marry her. No question about it, I was going to initiate it and bring it to pass. I didn’t know anything about Human Design; I just knew I was going to marry her. And I did, and we’re still together.
Three years or two days between recognition and deed because it was the RIGHT SPECIAL SOMETHING FOR MY LIFE JOURNEY.
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About Kip Winsett, Top Rated Human Design Expert in San Diego, California
I have been a licensed Human Design analyst since 2000, after training in Taos, New Mexico with Zeno and Martin Grassinger, followed by extensive study in San Diego with Chetan Parkyn.
In 2004 I was contracted to write the “Basic” course for the only Human Design school in the US approved by Ra Uru Hu at the time. All of my material was reviewed and approved by Ra.
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