Christina: Hi, Colette. 

Colette: Hi, Christina. How are you? 

Christina: I’m doing good.

Christina: Thank you again for agreeing to come on and share about human design. 

Christina: I have had my human design chart done. Mani-gen is that the term to call it, or do people just say manifesting generator? I feel like it’s so long.

Colette: Mani-Gen, you’re like in the lingo, in the human design club. 

Christina: Yeah. Right. But you know, I, I actually was inspired by you because I saw some of your posts or stories on Instagram about how you use human design with your children and their personalities, and I was like oh my gosh. I didn’t even think to apply it to other scenarios and things and events that can happen to us in life and how we might interact with others and things like that.

Christina: So, we’ll get into that later. But I wanted to start with what a general overview is for human design for someone who is brand new, has never heard of it, and is like, what the heck is that? What would you say? 

Colette: Yeah, Well, human design is a very comprehensive system for self-awareness.

Colette:  It’s an amazing tool that has been put together with a synthesis of four ancient sciences. So you’ve got astrology, the kabbala, the Chinese ing, and the Hindu brain chakra system with two modern sciences, which is genetics and quantum physics, and together. They make this framework, this blueprint, which is literally a map to yourself.

Colette: So it’s like you’re given an instruction manual of how to be you, and there’s no good or bad in human design. It really is just, Hey, this is how we’re programmed. This is how we are wired to thrive. And it’s through understanding the traits that are in our design that we can best put together how to use them to our advantage.

Colette: Maybe even taking sensitivities into superpowers and using them in the different areas of our life, whether that is just for personal self-understanding, self-awareness or whether that’s to put it through, into our purpose, into what we’re here to do in life, into our businesses, into relationships in our lives.

Colette: Whether that’s with a significant other or whether that’s in our families with our children, we can use it as a tool, as a roadmap for knowing ourselves completely, understanding ourselves, understanding how we work, and then integrating it to apply it to all these different scenarios.

Christina: Fascinating. I had no clue that all of those different, I guess ways, astrology, kabbala, Hindu plus the genetics and quantum physics like I had no idea that it was all involved. So, so fascinating cause a lot of people might. At least for me, I was like, Oh, is this just another form of astrology or like getting a tarot reading or something like that?

Christina: So no, this is mind-blowing, actually. 

Colette: Yeah, it really is. I mean, this system always continues to blow my mind, and I’ve been working with it for over four years, but it is just so comprehensive, and I think that’s the one thing that sets it apart is you can choose to dive in at whichever level, you know, so you can get the foundational information and then you can continually be peeling layers off the onion throughout your life. 

Colette: I’m always going into my tart and figuring out, like the next layer, the next level of understanding and seeing how that shows up in, you know, the next life situation that that presents itself. So it’s a constant practice, and in human design, they say, it takes seven years for our body to really regenerate completely.

Colette: So all of our cells that are continually being regenerated and reforming. That takes seven years, and it’s the same with the deconditioning process. So once we discover human design and we start integrating our designs in our lives, they say it takes seven years for it really to sink in, to that deep layer of understanding.

Colette: Then I think that’s a cycle in itself. It probably takes the next seven years to go into the next level and the next level. So it’s a constant practice, but really it gives us this amazing tool of awareness. And I think the way I describe it with my clients is it just gives us this permission slip to be ourselves, to just be exactly who we are and as we are.

Colette: And it’s amazing how many of us, in childhood, you know, we didn’t get necessarily that validation or support from our parenting for no fault of their own, just the way that we were raised in parenting, the way that they were raised. And so we find this, we come to this work later on in our lives, and we decondition to really like strip off all the stuff that we’re not, or the way that we’ve been, conditioned by others to behave or the beliefs that we’ve inherited, and just throw it all away and understand like, Oh, this is who I am and have that mirror of reflection of really who you are and who you’re designed to be. And then, take that information and use it to thrive in all the different areas of your life.

Christina: Yeah. So what are the different types because that’s really the foundation, right, is to really kind of understand your type, and that’s done by your birth time and place right down to the minute as well. 

Colette: Yep. Your birth time, date, and location. 

Christina: Okay. Okay. 

Colette: Yep, and then you get, like you said, the type, which is the foundation in Human Assign.

Colette: It’s the first thing that we look at, and it really shows how your aura is designed, how that has been programmed to function, cause that really sets everything else in motion. So we wanna understand that first. We’ve got four different unique types, and then the fifth, which is a hybrid. So you have the manifesto generator, the manifesting generator, which you said you are the projector and the reflector.

Christina: Awesome. And so when people just start there. I know you mentioned how every seven years, we go through a change, and we’re essentially a completely new body if you will. Now the human design that never changes though for us, right? That is one rapport that can really never be altered. It’s just who we are through our entire lifes.

Colette: Yeah, exactly. So, that’s programmed at birth and also three months before you’re born in utero. So that stays constant throughout your life but what will happen during the weeks, months, and years is that there’s planets in transit. So the way that those planets change place in the sky Can influence our design in different ways, and so can our relationships with other people.

Colette: So, being in the energy field of someone else, we might pick up some of their energetics, and that might influence our design at the same time, but it will never change. It will always stay the same. 

Christina: Okay. Now, this is really helpful because, essentially, you could go and have your human design. Once you know your human design, it’s not something. We would have to kind of keep pulling or keep generating. Once we know it, we can then start to dive deeper, and like you said, peeling back those layers and really diving deep into that understanding and eventually coming into our fully envisioned self, I guess.

Colette: Totally. Amazing. Yeah. Okay. I mean, it’s a constant practice. 

Christina: Yeah, no, it, it really is. And a discipline I can imagine. 

Colette: Yeah. 

Christina: So, how did you get into human design now? I’ve been following you for a long time now, and so I do know that you work in so many other fields for self-healing and sound healing. I know that you do. I also saw you work at Remedy. Is it? 

Colette: Yeah, Remedy Place. 

Christina: The Remedy Place, yes. Okay. I still actually have to go there. I haven’t been yet, but I told my boyfriend for our anniversary, I was gonna take him to have his first cold plunge there. So, Yes. But I saw that you’re involved there.

Christina: But with human design specifically, how did you get involved with? 

Colette: Yeah, so as you said, I’ve already been in the healing modalities for a long time. So it’s a very natural discovery progression for me. But actually, the interesting fact of my journey, my sister gifted me a series of sessions as a Christmas present, and I did the SE sessions for myself, and they were great and had that validation of who I am and how I am, and I really learned more about my strengths and how I could use them in my business. But it wasn’t until my daughter was about to turn one, I think, and her personality began to emerge that I noticed she’s totally different to me, and she did not need what I needed when I was a child in terms of parenting. 

Colette: She didn’t need the things that, you know, growing up, the things that were important to me for my parents. So I wanted to understand her better, and it was through that it really gave me the incentive to go into the human design on a deep level to try and figure out who she was and what she needed from me as a parent, and how I could best support her in being herself.

Colette: That’s when I became totally obsessed and signed up for all the courses and certifications, bought all the books, followed all the people, and just dived into it head first. But it gave me so much valuable information and help me improve my relationship with my daughter. Mostly like, you know, how I could improve myself as a parent.

Colette: And then now I’ve gone on to have a second child, and they’re so different. So he needs a completely different set of parenting skills or tools or, you know, just to be seen in a different way. Now I can see his design and how that shows up physically. How he is expresses himself, but also what’s there on the paper.

Colette: And, try and find a blend between the two. So that’s really why I got hooked and had the incentive to learn everything that was to know, but since then, I’ve worked with so many parents, and I’ve run courses, and I really do have a passion about working with parents to understand their children and to really help them see their children for who and who they are and all they’re designed to be.

Colette: So that they don’t have to do the years of self-work down the line. They’re supported from day one, but now I am also helping people in their businesses. So, transferring all that information from through the lens of parenting now into the lens of business and how we can show up in the work that we’re doing to really be a best service to the world. Not just these little people, but also, on the biggest scale with others.

Christina: Honestly, that’s the goal. I don’t have children of my own yet. I hope one day to have kids but I think a big fear is knowing if I’m ready, thinking I’m gonna do it wrong, thinking I’m going to mess them up. But now, With this, this is like opening a whole new world for people who are a little bit apprehensive of having kids.

Christina: Because essentially, you could have a roadmap to your child’s needs to be able to really have them live a fulfilled life and give them the things that are going to nurture them based on their own specific personality and human design. That is, I think, a game changer. 

Colette: Totally. I mean, it’s literally, here’s the instruction manual to your child,

Christina: Yeah, exactly. 

Colette: And everyone jokes, you know, we come home from the hospital with these little babies, and they’re like, What do we do with this thing? And then, you know, how about someone was to give you their human design reading and say, here’s exactly what you do and Right. You get to apply that information through your own lens.

Christina: Wow. Wow. I’m just drawn to the floor right there on that. I know that the, for the people listening, the women that I typically work with are going through a divorce, and when you go through divorce, when you’re in that process of healing, you typically replay those events of everything leading up to the divorce, right?

Christina: Everything that happened in your marriage. Where did I go wrong? Where could it have been better? Why did I attract this partner? And so I wanted to know if human design also plays a role in compatibility with who we choose as our partners, and then maybe even telling us who are ideal partner is to where, okay, we can look back and reflect and say, Well, based on my human design, I see now that that person was truly not my soulmate because my human design tells me otherwise.

Christina: Is that accurate? 

Colette: Yeah. There’s so, so much valuable information that we can get from your design alone, as well as maybe the ex-partner’s design. So there are so many ways I wanna answer this question for you but first of all, when we look just individually through seeing your design and having that permission slip to be yourself and seeing how maybe in the relationship that self was compromised, in certain ways through the being with the other person, and we would just look at getting, all of that empowerment back to yourself. 

Colette:  The power that may have been given away in different centers or by different channels in human design or by different gates and really just understanding the individual’s design of, like, okay, well, this is where the power lies and getting that power back because I think often going through a divorce, um, you start questioning ourselves, I do something wrong, or, you know, there’s so many emotions involved that we wanna look at and see what messages are coming up, and really get back to the design of like, okay Let’s say you are a generator, generators are all about the following joy.

Colette: Were you really following your joy in this relationship, or was that potentially being compromised? So we get all that power back into the energy, centers, and into the individual’s design of really how they are showing up as an individual in themselves. Because when we are in our own ORIC field, And we are not influenced by the aura of anyone else.

Colette: We’re operating our sense of self individually and then what happens when we come together with someone else is we come in their ORIC field also, and as a result, a third ORIC field is created. So the two combined come into this sphere together. And that can feel energetically so different than it feels when you are just individually being you.

Colette: And so coming out of a divorce, sometimes there can be that sense of, like, Possibly like that feeling of being lost because the energy feels so different that third work field no longer exists with coming back to the individual and sort of re-finding oneself. So, first of all, I just use this tool to really empower the person, and I’m always looking at human design through the lens of how can we use everything here to your best advantage. 

Colette: Showing up as an individual and navigating through life for yourself, for life, to work for you, and for you to thrive through all these different areas. And then, like you mentioned, that we do often attract people in our life for a reason, and with human design, it’s often energetics. So we’re attracted to someone because they might complete the channel, where we don’t have like the full energy flow all the way to the next energy center, and then when we’re in someone else’s, or it filled within that presence.

Colette: We have that streamlined energy moving. So there’s a reason we’re attracted to them. And, it’s sort of, we’re seeking the opposite almost in that sense of electromagnetics that energy is always looking and seeking out for that other side to complete. And so in the beginning, that can be really attractive because we’re discovering things, through that other person that maybe we don’t possess energetically ourselves, but then after a while, that actually could potentially become annoying to us or unfamiliar with us because it’s different to ourselves and how we operate. But with all relationships, the reason that we are attracted to that person is always for growth.

Colette: So we are learning something about ourselves through the process. Whether it works or whether it doesn’t, we’re growing through it. We’re learning more about ourselves, we’re increasing our wisdom, our life experience, and it’s taking all that knowledge, taking all that information, like you mentioned, replaying through the divorce of why did I choose that person, or why did this happen? Or where did it break down? 

Colette: We are bringing all of that information through for growth. For wisdom to move forward and then the next step in the next direction that really aligns with yourself and aligns with your design and aligns with the goals of where you wanna be in your future. 

Christina: Wow. So much to unpack there, and I like what you said about getting your power back.

Christina: That’s a lot of what my program. It is all about really healing the relationship with yourself is, in my opinion, the only way to get over a divorce because for so much women or for so many women, you are really held down with the shame that comes with getting a divorce. The shame that comes from what society may say is right or wrong. How we may interpret, people are looking at us or treating us differently. I also love when you said about how, when we’re with another person, Their energy can sort of complete something that our human design may have lacked, and how you said it, you can feel excited, and then eventually, over time, it becomes annoying, and I’m like, Oh my gosh, I can totally relate.

[00:20:58] Christina: I can actually see this playing out even in my own previous relationship. I’m like, Wow, I wish I would’ve known that. It makes sense. , So for the women who are going through their own healing journey and healing from trauma. You had mentioned before that for generators. It’s important for them to follow joy.

Christina: Now, is there something for each human design type to follow when they are healing from trauma, specifically?

Christina: Yeah, absolutely. 

Colette: That’s a great question. So each type has a strategy, and it’s the same strategy. Um, whatever the type you are, if that makes sense. So each type has a strategy to follow, and that’s in human design, what we call operating correctly.

Colette: So when we are navigating any life situation, whether that’s decision making or coming through trauma, healing through trauma, what our next steps are that we’re entering into any situation in life, it’s really important that we honor our strategy in human design. So for the manifesto, for example, that would be informing others and initiating.

Colette: So whatever the manifestors coming out, and the wisdom that they have learned through the process. They would then take into informing possibly the people involved in the relationship or informing Maybe if there’s children involved or, let’s say, dividing of assets, the manifestor is really taking charge of initiating those things to happen.

Colette: When we think about the next steps, forward. Maybe coming out of the divorce, where to move into next, the manifestor is really following that strategy of initiating that action. So whatever idea feels right, feels aligned for them, and just putting those steps in motion is taking them in the direction that is right for them in that situation.

Colette: The generator is designed to respond to life, and it’s the same for the manifestor and the generator also. So that doesn’t mean initiating. That doesn’t mean informing.

Colette: What that means is responding to the situation. So let’s say that there’s custody or legal debates, and the generator is responding to what’s going on in that situation. Whether it feels right or whether it feels wrong, whether it feels good, whether it feels bad, whether it feels aligned or unaligned.

Colette: It’s really coming from a place of response from within. And then, likewise, taking the next steps in life, what does it respond to? Does it respond to moving town? Does it respond to going in a different direction, or does it respond to other people who are maybe coming into their life, so they start back dating again, and people are reaching out?

Colette: How are they responding to that will give them the information that they need to take the next steps to move them in the direction that is right for them. Human design is all about having your own self-clarity, your own authority, and your own power. 

Colette: So really, when I’m doing a reading for someone, I’m giving them that information to empower themselves to have the answers.

Colette: Okay? It’s never, I don’t have the answers for you, but I can help you find the place where you have the answer within you for what is right for your next steps. 

Colette: And then we’ve got the projector. The projector’s strategy is to wait for the invite, but what that really means is to wait to be seen and recognized by other.

Colette: So, The projector’s really designed to follow, like, what it’s interested in or what feels good in the moment or what it’s enjoying doing at that time and others will notice and recognize and invite that projector in. So it could look like, going through the divorce, someone might lend out, extend an invitation of why don’t you come and join this awesome girls group with me and you know, we’ll get back out on the town together or, hey, would you like to come on this trip, this vacation with me? 

Colette: It’s someone that’s always recognizing what the person is going through and seeing them for all they are and sort of welcoming them into that next stage, but then the projector gets to choose yes or no if it wants to accept the invite or decline the invite depending on how it feels and what aligns and that’s when look at the next layer, which is authority. 

Colette: Finally, the reflector. The strategy for the reflector is to wait a lunar cycle. So reflectors are really in tune with the celestial planets and particularly with the moon. It needs to ride out each stage of the moon’s transits to get clarity. So the idea might percolate, and the seeds might be planted, but it really needs to go through the full cycle to unearth the wisdom that needs to come through, the insights, the revelations, for it to know those next steps and, really what feels aligned and what feels right in, in navigating that process.

Christina: Wow. Okay. So I have to ask you, just selfishly, now for the manigens are well, is each type in tune with lunar cycles, or is it just the reflector? Like is it, or is it that the reflector is just more magnified in alignment with the lunar cycles? 

Colette: So the moon is always in transit. It’s always moving through each of the 64 gates in human design, which means we are all in sync and connected with that. But particularly the reflector. They are super in tune because they don’t have definition in their body charts, so they are like really susceptible to the movements of the planets. Even more so, it’s like super heightened for them. 

Christina: Okay. Okay. Well, I only asked because I was trying to plan my launch around a lunar cycle, and I was like, Wait, should I just throw it all out the window because I’m not a reflector?

Colette: No, you totally should because the moon will be in a particular gate and whenever you are tapping in into intuitively with when that launch is, it is possibly cause you need the energies of that gate at that moment for the launch. 

Christina: Okay, all right. Awesome. I have like two pages of notes over here, like, just so much good information.

Christina: Thank you so much for this. I have no doubt that this is gonna help so many women, especially as they try to navigate, much like how you were applying it initially with parenting. , navigating through divorce is sort of this unknown. We don’t know what our life is gonna look like without this other person that we built a life with, and it can feel very alone and very scary. I know that this information here is definitely a start to not feeling so alone, having something to look forward to, and a little bit of guidance. Thank you so much for that and for sharing it with us. 

Colette: Yeah, you’re so welcome, and it really is my passion to empower other people, for them to see how amazing they are because we’re all so unique and so individual, and so I’m sure like coming out of a relationship, coming out of that combination of ORIC fields and coming back to yourself and really being built up.

Colette: All of your strengths, all of your traits, all of your assets, and everything that you are here to bring to the world and ignite people in that way as something that I’m super excited to do. 

Christina: Yeah. So for those that are interested, how can people work with you? Is there anything special that you’re offering right now? How can people connect? 

Colette: Yeah, so I’d love for people to find me through my website, which is colettecarlsson.com, and through my Instagram too. Exactly the same, just at Collect Carlson. I’m doing individual sessions. I’m also doing programs right now where people can work with me for two months. And we go through all of your designs. I bring in Hypno breathwork, where we breathe into all of the different centers, all of the different energetic gates, to get further insights and go deep into the subconscious mind.

Colette: To remove any blockages and to really like integrate this information. And then I also have courses that are constantly running throughout the year. So yeah, if you look me up, you’ll see what’s the most recent.

Christina: Awesome. Yeah. I will also be sure to add links to Colette’s social and website in the show notes so you guys can go ahead and click over there and find all of the information.

Christina: Colette, thanks again. 

Colette: Thank you so much, Christina. It’s been such a pleasure talking with you.