everything in the Universe operates according to Universal Principles, and you are given conscious access to interact directly with those principles, would it not follow that you came with the potential and purpose to direct your own conscious evolution?
If that is true, then how important is it for you to be aware of the soul agreement you made before embarking on this life? Are you living that agreement, or have you been distracted by what everyone else has told you about life and forgotten your own unique purpose?
In fact, have you ever stopped to consider how unique you are and what special qualities you have to offer the world? What is it that comes naturally to you and through you?
Just like the storyline of a book, or the theme music to a movie, there is a unique, consistent, and recognizable undercurrent to your whole lifetime. It is your Life Theme, which is your melody, your part in the symphony of life, and only you can play it.
Knowing and accepting your particular Life Theme is truly transformative. Embodying this awareness gives you reassurance and clarification about your life purpose. It is like when the penny drops, or the lightbulb goes on, and you just “get it.” You will no longer have to deal with the misplaced expectations of others — nor will you have to wonder why others are moved to live in completely different ways than yourself — because you will understand the secret essence that quietly moves each of us through life and how to reach directly into the source of your own fulfillment.
Like the coding in your genetics, your Life Theme is something that resonates within your whole being, on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. When you attune your awareness to your Life Theme, you will find it completely natural to embrace. You will finally understand your life’s purpose and journey, and once you know your own Life Theme, you will be fascinated to learn the themes of everyone in your life. This knowledge expands your appreciation to include the extraordinary tapestry of themes that guide the lives of people around you. There are no “good” themes and no “bad” themes. There are just different parts to play within the main Symphony of Life itself.
HOW TO DETERMINE YOUR LIFE THEME
To locate your Life Theme, a calculation is made to find the exact placement of the Sun relative to the Earth at the moment of your birth (for more on this, see “How Life Themes Come to Be” below). In other words, you just need to know your birth date, birth place, and ideally your birth time.
To make this calculation simple and easy, we’ve done the math for you. With your birth information in hand, go to our website www.humandesignforusall.com. The home page contains a link for a free report, which will be sent to you by email. Alternatively, you can access our smartphone or tablet app or our Life Theme Calculator. (For details, visit www.humandesignforusall.com.)
Your report will include a copy of your entire Human Design Life Chart, which identifies the various “keys” that are your personal codes for living a successful life. These include your “Type,” “Authority,” “Profile,” and “Life Theme.” All four provide essential information and need to be considered together. The Book of Destinies is devoted to describing fully all 192 Life Themes, while Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be discusses the other three. These other three keys are also explained briefly below (and on our website).
Because your Life Theme threads throughout your entire being informing the essential meaning and purpose of your life, it is a vital “key.”
Note that if you do not know your birth time, you can still get an accurate Life Theme. On the website, just enter noon for the day of your birth. In most cases, this will result in the correct Life Theme, which will resonate deeply with you. Then, if you later discover your actual birth time, you can order a second, free Human Design Life Chart and double-check the results.
One way to find out your exact birth time is to order a copy of your “long form” birth certificate. You can get this from the county clerk’s office in the place where you were born. The more common “short form” birth certificate is used for identification purposes and does not include your birth time. Alternatively, hospitals keep records of birth times, and if you know the hospital where you were born, it may be able to provide this.
Parents and close relatives may also remember your birth time, or may have recorded it in a baby book, but don’t rely on mental recollections alone. We have found that mothers do not always recall their child’s birth time accurately.
DECODING YOUR HUMAN DESIGN LIFE CHART
Your free Human Design Life Chart will have a lot of information and look like this example :
Underneath the Life Chart, four sections list your Type, Authority, Profile, and Life Theme. As I say above, the book Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be explains Type, Authority, and Profile (along with other elements) in complete detail. This book is concerned with your Life Theme. The name of your Life Theme includes the theme’s grouping (Personal, Fixed, or Interpersonal), the Sun’s Quarter (in parentheses), the Gate number, and a descriptive aspect according to the Sun’s placement.
In the example above, the name of the Life Theme includes both a descriptive title (“Refinement”) and a grouping (“Interpersonal”). Life Themes have three particular groupings: “Personal,” “Fixed,” and “Interpersonal.” As you will see, each named “Personal” Life Theme has four variations, each named “Interpersonal” Life Theme has two variations, and each named “Fixed” Life Theme appears only once. The number in parentheses (4) relates to the Quarter of the sky in which the Sun is placed. The symbol for the Sun is
Although the other numbers influence your Life Theme, you can ignore them and focus on your Sun in Gate position. To find your Life Theme, locate your Sun in Gate position — 19 in this example — and then your grouping or kind of Life Theme: Personal, Fixed, or Interpersonal. Here’s how this example would appear in the table of contents:
The Interpersonal Life Theme of Refinement (4)
The superscript numbers (from 1 to 6) refer to the particular line placement within each IChing hexagram, or Human Design Gate.
A full description of each line is given in our second book, The Book of Lines: A 21st Century View of the IChing, the Chinese Book of Changes.
THE THREE KINDS OF LIFE THEMES
Each of the sixty-four genetic codons in the human makeup correspond to the sixty-four Sun Gate positions, and each has three kinds of Life Theme: “Personal,” “Fixed,” and “Interpersonal.”
If yours is a Personal Life Theme, you are on a journey of self-discovery; you pursue
