The Disempowerment and Empowerment of Human Design Projectors
This photo was taken in winter of 2021 when I was a little over a year into my Human Design experiment. During this time the second wave of people had just left and I really felt like all I had was me - so that had to be enough. It was time to realize I could depend on myself and that I truly did not need anyone else.
But oooh did I long for a stable 9-5 salary, a committed romantic relationship where I felt chosen, and everything I had been conditioned to think I needed outside of myself in order to be worthy and enough. (Open ego conditioning thinking you aren’t inherently worthy and you need to achieve certain things to be considered enough and worthy.)
I had no idea I would eventually get everything I thought I wanted in that photo, and longed for. Only to realize it wasn’t at all what I wanted. Which caused me to then let it all go, along with the belief of who I thought I was and how I wanted my life to look.
I let go of the relationship I thought would be so safe and the job that made me feel like I’d finally made it financially and professionally - because none of those things outside of me truly mattered if I wasn’t allowed to be myself, if I wasn’t actually seen for me.
Throughout my journey I’ve discovered that me being seen for me and allowed to be my true self is the only thing that truly matters to me. And if I’m not able to be seen for me, or if I’m not “allowed” to be me - then there’s nothing to do. It’s not correct for me.
During the winter of 2021 I was feeling very scared and detached from everything that had been holding me down. Yet, I also felt more empowered than I ever had. I had started to say no, draw boundaries, and I had begun to see who actually valued me and saw me - and who just wanted my projector focus to make them feel good even if I felt used, breadcrumbed, and taken advantage of.
At that time, I didn’t know more people had yet to leave (well I had a feeling more would). But I decided to completely rebuild my core and foundation from the ground up. No longer would I self-abandon, make myself small, or allow people who required those things from me to have access to me.
At the time of that photo, I was scared sh*tless, but I’d seen by then that every time I fell into the unknown I always emerged a more empowered and aware version of myself.
I had started to realize human design was working, living according to my design was shifting my entire life for the better. My self confidence was increasing and my external world was beginning to show that too.
So even though I was going through a very painful experience, I had a feeling I was right where I was supposed to be. And in the process, I learned how to choose myself and see that I was already inherently worthy so I didn’t need to settle for people who didn’t see me as inherently worthy and expected me to prove my worthiness.
The disempowerment of human design projectors
When Ra began teaching what would become the Human Design system, he focused on generators since they are the life force of the world. And it was easiest to wake up a generator. Just teach them to listen to their sacral; they start experimenting in minutes, and off they go.
In his own words, he began to realize he was short-changing projectors because it was much harder and took longer for projectors to wake up.
“All the projector were so far away from their potential. They were whiny, self-deprecating, and always in a victim mentality because they just couldn’t keep up and no one listened to them.”
And they were all addicted to any sacral energy they could get and would put up with anything for a hit of energy. Plus they were so conditioned to need the other's energy to keep up in this world that most weren't willing to let go of the people who weren't good for them.
Energy projectors especially, (projectors with a defined ego, solar plexus, or root) because they can keep up for a bit, they will relentlessly pretend to be an energy type only to run up against wall after wall and then hate themselves for not being able to keep up.
Projectors were all so far from what they were here to do. Wasting their time and value waiting for moments when they said the right thing, and they got a nice little pat on the back.
And the first step of waking up a projector isn’t an easy one. It requires honoring your strategy and authority and sometimes, oftentimes, letting go of the people and situations that disempower the projector.
It can be terrifying to say no and set boundaries to others - especially those who have energy that the projector is conditioned to think they need so the projector can keep up in the world.
But a projector can't get their life if the people closest to them keep them small, or refuse to allow the projector to be empowered, and don’t support their authority or boundaries.
“Projectos are afraid that what they want doesn’t exist, so they take second, third, fourth best... They need to put up their hand and say no, I’ll only plug in where I want to plug in because I won’t miss anything.
And then you begin to see your power because they won’t go away. When you say no, they will never go away.
When you send them away you begin to see who you are, that you are valuable, and you need to be treated according to your worth.”
What does an incorrect relationship look like for a projector?
Someone who is incorrect for a projector won’t honor the projector's boundaries, expects them to self-abandon, and doesn’t actually see them.
Everyone loves attention, and projectors are the only type that can give the other undivided attention which can feel sooo good to the other. The projector aura penetrates into their aura and absorbs them, we are here to see the other.
Because of that, people can have their claws into a projector. They’ll try to control them with breadcrumbs of recognition in exchange for the projector's undivided attention. So when the projector tries to set boundaries there can be tension, and it can be uncomfortable.
“Projectors aren’t here to be alone, they are here to guide others.
They can see the mess the planet is in and it’s because projectors aren’t doing their job because they’re lost in the other.
It’s the irony of being a projector. You can only focus on the other, and the danger is getting lost in the other.
The answer is that the other needs to be correct. Nobody needs to be more rigid about who they allow into their life than the projector.”
When someone is incorrect for a projector, they'll treat the projector how they found them and then treat them like less and less until they find just how little the projector requires in exchange for their undivided attention.
Because projectors are here for the other we can think how other people treat us determines our worth. But that is so far from the truth. If someone doesn’t value you, if they fight your boundaries, if they try to make you feel insignificant then they simply do not see you and value what you see which means nooothing about you. They’re just not correct for you and that doesn’t need to be personal.
No need to force it, and thereby force yourself to take in that conditioning which is telling you you’re unworthy and insignificant.
Ra taught projectors that if you wouldn't eat someone - don't put your aura into them.
“Incorrect people are poisonous for projectors. Projectors will absorb that energy which pulls them further away from themselves and take in all that conditioning and believe it is them. The low self-worth, the projections, the not-selves, the frustration, the anger.”
Projectors are the newest type to incarnate
Projectors didn't start incarnating until 1781 when the human species shifted from being seven centers (like the 7 chakras) into 9 centers. This was our last biological evolutionary mutation, and we're gearing up for another one in 2027, where the solar plexus and individual circuitry will mutate again.
Can you feel that things are changing? The world can’t sustain us at the rate we’re going. Humanity is shifting from an age of the collective, of building societies, of tribal loyalty, of capitalism and building exceeding wealthy, to the age of the empowered individual. It’s shifting to something much different. All projectors are here to help guide the world during this transition, by first empowering themselves.
The newest evolutionary being, here only to absorb the energy around them, and through mastering systems (the projector mind is meant to master systems and can hold an incredible amount of information) they can absorb the energy around them when it's stuck and get it flowing again. Projector guidance is going to keep getting more and more valuable to the other as our society changes and people are looking for new directions to go and ways to survive.
That is what the projector is here for, and what they can specifically see and guide is in their chart. It’s in the wisdom of their open centers which they only get through deconditioning their not-self, and in the wisdom of their definition - once they begin trusting it and allowing it to guide them through life.
How to Empower a Human Design Projector
Projectors are the most vulnerable of all types; we absorb everything and everyone - including their incorrectness and not-self. Projectors need to have the strongest boundaries, and they need a lot of time alone to dump out everyone else's energy so they can see clearly. Alone time is essential for a projector to be and stay empowered.
“For Projectors to be correct, the people in their life need to be correct for the projector and see the value in what they see. Or the projector will constantly be pulled away from themselves, and when they can’t see the value of what they see - they become eager beavers who will do anything for recognition and pretend to be an energy type. And that always, always, always leads to bitterness and burnout. Because it’s not what we’re here for.”
Ra may have originally started teaching "No Fault Living" for generators, but he turned it into the Human Design system so projectors (who are here to master systems) could learn it, become empowered, and begin taking their place in the world - and fulfill the whole reason we came here. To be of service (to guide, not work) to the other - but not just any other. The other who is correct for us, recognizes us, and allows us to do what we need to remain true to ourselves.
And it is only when the projector has the correct people in their lives, the correct 2-10 people (doesn't matter how many, just matters that they're correct for them) that they begin to find success and flow.
Through having the correct people in their lives that ask for the projector’s guidance and who recognize the projector’s gifts, the projector will experience success through successfully guiding the other.
And then, them being a non-energy type won’t be a problem anymore because they're here doing what they're meant to be doing, they’re recognized for it, and then suddenly, life begins to flow.
Are you a projector and wanting support as you begin to draw boundaries, find out who you are, and get your life so you can stop pretending to be your not-self? I have a monthly membership where you can get a 60 minute reading and then have access to me via voice notes/messaging for 30 days as you begin to experiment with your design. You can ask me questions, and I can guide you in your life through the lens of your human design chart. Projectors also get a 10% discount for my monthly membership.
