Well, speaking of basics, this class is focused on keynoting. Keynoting is perhaps the only way you can enter into the analytical world of Design. What I mean by that, and obviously I’m not talking about anything that has to do with professional analysis, it’s about translating in language what you see in the graph. Human Design is nothing but keynotes. And keynotes are in some ways like Haiku. Keynotes are formulas. They are very, very specific formulas and as such, in so many ways, they’re generalizations, so one has to be careful.

The formula for a gate is interesting. And of course, it is valuable to know. Yet, it’s necessary to understand that an overall formula also consists of myriad numbers of formulas, nuanced formulas, the thousand, plus, variations of every gate. But keynoting, when you’re beginning a process in Human Design and you look at a chart, because this is one of the things about Human Design that once you get it, the obvious of it, it’s not just that you’re interested in your chart. You’re interested in looking at a lot of charts. And it’s not simply out of a voyeuristic or whatever there is learning confirmation that takes place in the examination of other people’s charts, people you know.

One of the most important educational tools in Human Design is having the correct data of people who are frequenting your life, those people who are around you that you know, you’ve had experience with over years, that you have to feel for, that you have a sense of, to see them according to their Design, to see what they are, to see what they’re not, to see the not-self at work, to see their vulnerabilities, to see all of those things. And to see them is to confirm the validity of the knowledge. Yet at the same time it’s not enough just to look. When you look you have to be able to see something in the looking, not just simply see that somebody is this Type or that Type. But to be able to find a way to be able to describe first to yourself what something is, and then share it with others.

If one were to imagine a kind of insight into the way in which the wave of Human Design works, in other words, the way in which the information goes out, I would guess as much as half of all the people who meet Design meet Design from somebody who has just met it. One of the things to understand about the way in which this knowledge works is that it works along fractal lines, it works along geometries. You get something and there is always somebody in your life that you want to share that with and tell about that, whatever it may be.

Of course, one of the things that is an enormous advantage is that when you look at a friend of yours and you see their Design, you can actually see something. That seeing something is for you. It’s not that I am encouraging anyone who doesn’t have the training to start telling other people anything other than the most very, very basic things. But that is enough to help them change their life, and to move them towards perhaps somebody who can really give them a professional insight.

In order to explore Design it is actually given to you. And it’s given to you in the keynotes, and there are keynotes for everything. There are keynotes for circuits, for channels, for gates, for lines. There are, in fact, keynotes for everything below—the Colors, the Tones and the Bases—there are keynotes everywhere. There are keynotes that are specific. There are keynotes that are related to streams, there are keynotes that are related to different perspectives of the bodygraph, sexual keynotes, as an example. There are all kinds of keynotes—they’re formulas.

~ Ra Uru Hu