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Your Free Human Design Chart — and How to Read It

New to Human Design, or just need your numbers? You’re in the right place. In about two minutes you’ll have your free chart — and below, in plain English, you’ll learn to read the six things it’s built on.

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    What you’ll need

    Three details about your birth:

    • Date of birth
    • Exact time of birth — even 30 minutes can change parts of your chart. Not sure? Check a birth certificate or ask family.
    • Place of birth (city)
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    Get your free chart

    Open the free chart calculator →

    Opens in a new tab. Enter your birth details, generate your chart, then come back here.

    Prefer a different tool? Any reputable Human Design calculator gives you the same six values.

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    Copy down these six things

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    Type Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, Manifestor, or Reflector
    2
    Strategy The one move that keeps your type out of resistance
    3
    Inner Authority Where your reliable yes/no lives
    4
    Profile Two numbers, e.g. 1/3 or 5/2
    5
    Defined centers The coloured / filled shapes
    6
    Open centers The white / empty shapes

    Tip: the most common mix-up is the centers. Coloured = Defined. White = Open. That’s the whole rule.

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    What now?

    • Have the workbook? Head to Step 0 and fill in your six values — everything after reads off them.
    • Just exploring? Keep reading — here’s what each of the six actually means. ↓

The six, briefly

What each one means

A plain-English first look. Not the deep dive — that’s what the workbook is for.

Type

How your energy is built to engage the world. The single most useful thing to know about your design.

Strategy

The one move that keeps your type out of resistance — respond, wait for the invitation, inform…

Authority

Where your reliable “yes / no” actually lives in the body — almost never the mind.

Profile

The two numbers that describe how you learn and how others tend to meet you.

Defined centers

Your consistent, dependable energy.

Open centers

Where you take in and amplify the world — your wisdom, and where you’ve most likely been living someone else’s patterns.

This is the surface. Decode Your Design walks you through yours, page by page, with space to write and a 7-day experiment. → See the workbook

Questions

Common questions

Is the chart really free?

Yes. The calculator we point to generates your full chart at no cost.

Do I need my exact birth time?

It matters — even 30 minutes can shift parts of the chart. If you truly don’t have it, you can still get your type and a rough chart; just treat the time-sensitive parts as approximate.

What if I don’t know my birth time?

Check your birth certificate or ask family. Some people also order birth records. For a first look, generate the chart anyway.

What’s the difference between defined and open centers?

Defined = the coloured / filled shapes (steady, reliable energy). Open = the white / empty shapes (where you absorb and amplify the world).

Which calculator should I use?

Any reputable one works. We recommend the official Jovian Archive calculator — it’s free, needs no sign-up, and comes from the source of the system.

I have my chart — what do I do with it?

That’s exactly what the Decode Your Design workbook is for: reading your chart and testing it in real life.

Ready to actually decode yours?

Read your chart, page by page, with space to write and a 7-day experiment.

Decode Your Design — $19