Our Stance
Who Originated Human Design?
The origins of Human Design are no secret, but we believe they are worth repeating in the effort of transparency.
The system was channeled by Ra Uru Hu (born Robert Allan Krakower who came from a white upper middle class family in Montreal) in Ibiza in 1987. Human Design is typically described as a synthesis of Astrology, the Chinese I Ching, the Jewish Kabbalah, the Hindu Chakras, and Quantum physics.
STARRYUU’s mission is to democratize information that empowers people to live in alignment with their authenticity. Although human design is a resource that we believe supports people in doing that, we also believe in questioning systems, transparency, and rightfully citing origin sources.
How We Question the Human Design System
STARRYUU is a community space because everyone’s lived experience is important and valid. We believe it’s impossible to question systems and evolve our society without listening to other perspectives or diversifying our research.
We are not experts in Human Design and don’t claim to be. In fact, we strongly maintain that we should not be the only place where you learn about the system. We do not help people learn the system by claiming to be authorities. Instead, we provide baseline* definitions of the system’s various elements, and invite conversation through tools like our Human Design Democratized Workshops, our Social Human Design Dictionary, and our podcast.
We call ourselves the School of Self Interpretation because ask people to make their own interpretations of their own lives and to share their experiences if they want to.
When starting off your learning about Human Design, you’ll likely hear the phrase “experiment” used. This is way to identify that you’re on a journey with the Human Design system. STARRYUU is another resource for your experiment. You may find that other Human Design resources present the system’s information as fact. Here, we present everything tied to your Birth Chart Syllabus as a possibility, asking you to reflect and decide what supports your own journey and what doesn’t. We will never force you to experiment, or believe that what Human Design presents is fact.
Transparency, Continued
I am not an expert in human design nor any of its origin systems. I was not formally trained. Instead, I am self-taught via free and affordable resources that you, too, can find online.
*The basic definitions of each Human Design element that you’ll find across our content are inherently interpretations of the source knowledge as they are a blend between our own summaries of Human Design information we have gleaned from years of self-learning + the universal definitions provided by our Human Design software, called BodyGraph Chart. Our definitions are simply a starting place presented in simplest way possible, leaving room for you to reflect and think for yourself.
Please Note: All Incarnation Cross names are taken straight from the BodyGraph Chart software and are the names by which they are typically described under the Human Design System. We highly encourage you to read our post about Incarnation Crosses here and make your own interpretation as to what yours means for your life. Check out out our IRL + URL Workshops page for an upcoming event on Incarnation Crosses!
Other Human Design resources will likely show other interpretations of each birth chart element when you generate yours. Again, we encourage you to diversify your research. Here, we are dedicated to empowering you to make your own interpretation. These resources may also offer a larger quantity of information tied to your birth chart. We are constantly adding as much information as we can to our chart generation, such as Digestion, Design Sense, and more so check back soon to see what’s been added to your chart, or stay tuned to our newsletter where we will announce!
STARRYUU’s vision is to deepen our understanding of ourselves in order to foster empathy for others and nature, leading to a more peaceful world. In an effort to support this vision, we are committed to supporting the following organizations by resharing their content until we are revenue generating at which point we will donate a portion of our revenue across them:
Jewish Voice for Peace | US Campaign For Palestinian Rights | For The Gworls | Black and Pink | Urban Indian Health Institute | Community Power Collective | The Black School | The Sikh Coalition | Stop AAPI Hate | Farm Sanctuary
Across STARRYUU’s content, you’ll notice a header with introductory information. Here, we summarize the information we’ve already mentioned, and remind you that we are not a replacement for therapy and that you are the expert in your own life.
Properly Citing Sources of Human Design’s Origins
Inside those content introductory headers, we aim to credit the origin traditions that Human Design was based on by linking to free resources where you can learn more about them. Please remember, those resources are a starting place, and you should always diversify your research.
We start all of our Human Design Democratized Workshops with the history of the system, and by acknowledging its origins.
With that, we hope that STARRYUU can be a place where you learn something about yourself, and someone else.
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The human behind STARRYUU, Jackie
Further Reading:
Your Soul Map: Liberation, Human Design, and the BIPOC Experience by Asha D Ramakrishna and Aycee Brown
Cultural Appropriation + Human Design. Let’s talk about this. by Fiona Wong
Human Design Source Material:
Jovian Archive | International Human Design School