What Does My Human Design Profile Mean?
How are you doing with your Human Design journey? Are you settling into your personality type? Are you rocking your strategy? Are you waiting gracefully and responding like a pro?
If you’re not sure, you may want to read about your type and strategy in blogs.
But, if you are ready to add an extra layer to your Human Design understanding and practice, let’s talk about Human Design profiles.
What is a Human Design Profile?
If you are new to Human Design, you can find your profile on your Human Design chart. It will look like a fraction (6/2, 3/5, 5/1, etc.).
Your Profile adds dimension, depth, and character to your Human Design type.
It adds pizzazz and spice to your role as a Manifestor, Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, and Reflector.
For example: If your type, strategy, and authority were pizza dough, tomato sauce, and cheese, your Profile would be your choice of toppings.
How do Human Design Profiles work?
There are six profile lines. You need two lines to complete a profile.
There are twelve profiles.
Starting with line one, the profile lines build upon each other. Imagine building a house from the ground up. You start with the foundation, add some floors, divide them into rooms, and top it off with a roof, right? Each layer adds strength, structure, and functionality to the house.
Similarly, the six profile lines create structure within the Human Design family.
Just as each room in a house has a function that contributes to the comfort of its occupants, each profile line contributes to the smooth operation of the family system.
When two profile lines are combined, you get that fraction noted on your chart.
Each profile combination defines how you navigate and relate to the world.
Your Profile is:
Your approach
Your nature
It’s how you “do” your Design Type
The Six Profiles Lines in traditional Human Design Quantum Human Design are noted below:
What does each Profile number mean?
Below is a list of the Profile Lines with a thumbnail definition.
Note that there is a lot more to each profile, but this is a decent beginning.
Find your Profile Line numbers and read them together.
Line 1: Investigator
Learning, learning, and learning some more is like breathing to you. There isn't a research rabbit hole that doesn't appeal to you.
We love that we can count on you to know all the things. Your information and referrals are solid. We trust you.
Challenge:
Over-preparing and not knowing when enough is enough.
Hanging your self-worth on how much you know.
Tip:
Release the need to know it all and live your life.
Do not expect others to have your level of knowledge. They may have a different profile than you do and not care to do deep research.
Line 2: Hermit
Solitude, rest, or active-downtime is your oxygen.
When you are recognized for what you consider your expertise, you are thrilled and ready to demonstrate your natural talents.
Challenge:
Waiting and trusting that people will find you.
Tip:
People will call you to serve in opportunities that are perfect for you. Be patient.
When you are not hermit-ing and waiting, be out and about so people can see you.
Line 3: Martyr
You are attracted to the road less traveled. In fact, you volunteer for challenging life experiences and enjoy learning as you go.
Your “interesting” life adventures provide information that saves everybody time and energy.
You take one for the team and you enjoy the ride.
Challenge:
Your life’s path will be more difficult than it needs to be if you don’t know how to choose your adventures.
Don’t expect everyone to understand why you can’t stick to one thing or one intimate partner.
Tip:
You will never be short of adventures to choose from. So be choosy.
Your life will never be dull so laugh at yourself, a lot.
Line 4: Opportunist
You are joyful, graceful, and friendly. You enjoy having easy-going, fulfilling relationships.
You and your circles of people share ideas, expertise, and opportunities with each other. What would you do without each other?
Challenge:
Hanging on to exhausting or toxic relationships and groups for far too long.
Ending one thing and starting another creates a stressful feeling of being in limbo.
Tip:
The stressful gap between ending and starting new friendships, and relationships becomes graceful waiting when you realize that letting go of the old makes room for the new.
Rest, reflect, rejuvenate, and trust that nourishing relationships are on their way.
Line 5: Heretic
You sparkle. You dazzle. You serve up out-of-the-box solutions and insights for the right people at the right time.
People sense your potential to heal or fix a problem and they are drawn to you.
You are more than capable of rising to the occasion.
Challenge:
Remembering to clarify the deliverables. When you don’t know the specifics of the problem and what is expected of you, you are bound to fail.
Tip:
Don't fall for the flattery.
First, use your strategy to attract the right people.
Next, have real conversations that clarify what you are agreeing to.
Line 6: Role Model
You are committed to being yourself because you have learned that you are fine just the way you are.
You inspire and empower the rest of us to do the same because your life truly is authentic. You are unbothered and at peace.
Challenge:
The road to becoming a wise, empowering, role model can be rocky.
To varying degrees, the transitions from one stage of life to the other may feel disorienting and filled with landmines.
Tip:
After you have some life experience under your belt, your aura will project grace and calm wisdom.
Use your strategy and authority to choose your adventures wisely. They will decrease the degree of stress that comes with life experiences.
So how did you do? Does your profile sound or feel familiar?
If it doesn’t that’s okay. You are fine exactly where you are.
Remember that everything in Human Design is on a spectrum of learning.
Consider the example below:
A Real World 6/2 Profile Conversation:
I recently did a Deep Dive Reading for someone with the 6/2 profile. This makes her a Role Model/Hermit.
As we spoke, she said she didn’t relate to the solitude of her Line 2 Hermit profile because she loves going out and has loads of friends.
Because we were having a conversation, I was able to share much more about her profile.
Case in point, her Line 2 is a part of her “unconscious” Design. This means that how she experiences Line 2 is not always obvious to her. She may need someone else to point it out to her.
For example, she didn’t realize that during our conversation she told me many things that suggested Line 2 Hermit behavior.
• She has had long-term relationships and then taken a year or two off to be single.
• Most recently, she lived alone for two years and has been going to therapy and doing deep personal work. Now she says she is ready to date seriously. There is some Line 6 behavior in here too, but I digress.
• She “deliberately” chooses work projects that last for three months and then “deliberately” takes two months off.
When we started our Human Design reading, she had a normal but limited definition of solitude. Now she knows that solitude and alone time come in different shapes and sizes. It varies from person to person and circumstance to circumstance.
After our conversation, she had examples of how her profile may show up in her life. She knows what to look for as she grows to love her Design.
Conclusion:
There is so much more to your Human Design Profile than noted above. It’s fun to try and identify how you or someone else expresses their Profile.
You have definitions, challenges, and tips for each Profile line. You can mix and match and play with your profile or get the jump on your friends’ or partner’s profile.
You have a real-world example of comparing the profile to your life experience.
Having said all the above, I want to take some of the pressure off.
As important as your Profile is, it is what I consider “nice to know” information. It’s not crucial to getting your Human Design to work. But if you’re ready for it, you now have a starting point.
You don’t have to try to make your profile fit. If you’re breathing, you are already doing it.
Literally, your profile is the way you live your life. You can’t help but be your profile.
How you feel about your profile is another matter entirely. As you learn to love your Design, you will come to adore the spice it adds to your life.
And as always, I recommend that you focus on your type, strategy, and authority.
When you do that, you will automatically align with your profile and everything else in your chart.
One day, out of the blue, you will glimpse your profile out of the corner of your eye and say “Ah ha! There it is.”
However, if you want to understand and identify your profile faster, have an extended conversation with me or another Human Design specialist.
You can book a reading with me when you click here.
Brigitte Knight is a Human Design educator and mentor as well as a Human Design informed counselor. She loves teaching people to use their Designs to improve their relationships.
She helps former Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others manage religious trauma, anxiety, guilt, loneliness, and depression.
Her life’s experience as a Registered Nurse, therapist, ex-Jehovah’s Witness, and Human Design practitioner since 2006 can help you start living your best life.