“The homogenized world lives in a profound ignorance, a truly profound ignorance, and a profound ignorance that is emboldened by its enormous vanity that it assumes that it is in control of this and that, in control of your own life, in control of destiny, in control of what’s going on; and if not in control, working at it. And not for a moment do you understand that suddenly that day that you have the ability to do this or that, that moment that something comes through to you that brings this or that, the assumption that you are the one responsible, and you’re not, and you don’t know it.
The vast majority of human beings walking around out there do not understand that they are deeply, deeply programmed. You can hear them speak the keynotes. Oh, that was one of my favorite things—watch the talking heads doing the news on TV on any given day, watch the program, see where the activations are, look at the keynotes of the gates and the lines that are there in the program and turn on your TV and listen to them come out of people’s mouths. And in their assumption, in their vanity, in their ignorance it’s these are my thoughts, these are my words, these are my motivations, these are my actions, these are my, my, my, my.
Well, it’s not. The Program behind me, this is the Program. This is the Program sticking its little fingers into everybody, you cannot escape it. You can’t. Oh, there may be that very, very, very rare day that nothing that’s there in the Program really directly impacts you, but it’s rare. You don’t pay any attention to it. You don’t think of yourself as being something that is always conditioned. You don’t. You think of yourself as being in control of your life. You’re not a puppet on a string, are you? Are you?
If you’re not aware of the Program, oh boy, you are. Oh, yes you are. Look at it. You have the sun today in the 6th gate, the gate of Conflict, the gate of Conflict opened up to the possibility of intimacy. So, let’s say that you’re somebody that has the 59th gate and you don’t have the 6. Today you have it. And that means that today is a day where you’re likely to become intimate with somebody that you shouldn’t be intimate with. And you’ll think it’s all so perfect. Oh how wonderful it is, oh how close I feel to this person, yeah, yeah. And you think it’s you. You do.
Human beings have no control because they don’t know what’s going on. The fascinating thing about the nature of mechanics is that mechanics gives you an opportunity to take advantage of what’s going on. You cannot fight the Program. You cannot stop these forces from touching you. You cannot. But you can stop them from twisting your mind. You can stop the Program from dictating what you’re going to say and what you’re going to do and when you’re going to say it and how you’re going to do it and with whom.
This is what Strategy and Authority is. It’s very difficult for most human beings to grasp that the thing that defines their very life is in essence their enemy. Your life is defined by your mind. Everything is defined by mind. This is how we live our lives. We live it through these minds. And yet, for all the power of this mind to define our experience here on this plane it is not equipped to guide us. And it’s a sucker for the Program.
Think about it. Think about what we are like. Think about the mechanism, this binary mechanism and the way in which this binary mechanism operates. We’re stuck in a genetically oriented bio-form. And the way in which that bio-form operates is that it replicates, it reproduces through bonding. And not only does it reproduce through bonding, but the only way in which the reproduction is going to be viable is that if those that are bonding are different.
Oh, isn’t that a trap. And everybody knows it and every culture has learned it. It is why we do not make love to our sisters and brothers, and so forth and so on. And it’s not because of morality. It’s because of genetics. It’s about what happens when you become inbred, what happens when the possibilities of mutation becomes negated and you end up on a dead-end street.
A couple of days ago I talked about the mutation and the power of the hot atomics. This whole reproductive cycle, the more and more possibilities, the more and more differentiation leads to more and more opportunities for mutation. So, by our very genetics we are designed to be attracted to what we are not. You can see it in every design. Look.
Oh yes, here you’re only looking at the Personality, but still as an example, that difference between what is white and what is not. That whiteness, those receptors that pull you, that draw you, that seduce you, that set you on fire that make you think that you have to have it, that you have to be it, that you have to have what is not you, and all to serve the genetics, all to serve the viability of the form.
Look at how successful we are, in numbers, the seven billion of us dominating this plane, always seeking what is different, what is not us and spending our entire lives believing that what we don’t have we lack so that you’re never at peace, you’re never satisfied, you’re never a success, you never get the surprise that is here for everyone.
You get the same mindless, purposeless drudgery of dragging these forms across this plane and trying to survive. We are not creatures that are here to simply work at survival. We’re here to be able to enjoy the benefits of these forms and the opportunities for consciousness that they bring. And yet, until you are able to define who you are, until you are able to understand the forces that impinge on you that deny you the right to be yourself, only then are you going to understand that there is only one thing that stands in your way, you. Because it’s not about any “them” and it’s not about any “it,” it’s just you.
We’re mechanisms, these forms. Operate them correctly and you have the opportunities in this life to be aware. But go blindly and the program is what’s controlling you. The program is defining your life. The program is defining your conflict today, your crisis today because it’s in the air, you can smell it.
The whole planet has the 10/57 today. The whole planet has the benefit of perfected form. The whole planet is going to think that they have exactly the right behavior, so to speak. And so many are going to fall flat on their faces because it’s not them and it’s what they want and they think they have it but it’s not theirs. Oh how easy human beings are manipulated, sheep, after all, sheep to the program.
Think about lines. It’s very difficult for people to understand how deeply they are conditioned, how pervasive conditioning is on this planet. What do we have? Right now we have a 4th line, so it’s a 4th line day. So what’s a 4th line day all about? It’s a day of opportunism; it’s a day of brotherhood/sisterhood. It’s a good day to communicate, to network with others, to make friends with people, that kind of thing. It’s the line of the opportunist.
But the thing about the opportunist is the opportunist says “never leave a lover until you have another lover, never leave a job until you have another job, and don’t leave your house until you have another place to go to.” In other words, one of the things about a 4th line day is that a 4th line day brings a number of consequences if you get trapped in it. In other words, the fact that there is this program there and the program is impacting everyone, that everyone is being pulled towards that as a possibility. So, if you were going to check the phone records today during this 4th line day, you’d see there would be a lot more phones calls than two or three days ago on a 1st line day, as an example, where everybody is being conditioned to be introspective, being conditioned to looking inward.
The other thing about a 4th line day and I don’t mean to say anything personal to any 4th line beings, but it’s a line of influence. And that influence ranges from being able to influence somebody because you do have the ability to communicate with them and have something to communicate with them. The other thing is that you can influence them by giving them a cold or passing along something else, because it’s one of the things about 4th line days. And what it means in world like today on a 4th line day where you have a 4th line theme everywhere, this is the kind of day where something can begin to spread.
I have a young son in public school. This is the kind of day where one kid with a runny nose would give everybody a runny nose because it’s a 4th line day. This is the Program at work. And it’s the Program at work because it meets absolutely no resistance. Think about that. There is no resistance, how can there be? Humanity is not aware of it. Humanity doesn’t understand that they’re in this grid. They don’t know how they connect to it. They don’t know how they’re influenced by it, manipulated by it, pushed by it, moved by it like lemmings going over the edge.
That’s how I know you cannot save them; one person at a time, maybe. But if you’re really going to grasp what Human Design is all about, not in terms of analysis, not in terms of the many things we’ll look at, but in the general sense of this knowledge is to see that it is the mechanics of the maia. And what the mechanics reveal is that we are totally in the thrall of the mechanism. It does not mean that we do not have possibilities within that. This is what knowledge brings. But it also says irrevocably that the maia is what it is and we cannot escape it. It can be very quaint to refer to it all as illusion; I do on occasion.
But it is the illusion that we live, after all. This is our maia. This is our world. The plane in the way in which we see it, experience it. And in order to be able to survive in that illusion, to be able to fulfill your potential in that maia you need to understand the mechanism. Otherwise, you’re lost, because you’re never going to have anything that is going to be able to deal with these forces that impinge on you, that you will always be subject to their whim, always, always.
It’s not up there. It’s all in here. Every gate, every line, it’s either there as an activation or in most cases it’s there as a receptor. The whole Mandala is in here. As a matter of fact, everything is in here. It’s why here is where the story is. The story is how you live your life, not how you allow the program to distort your process, to rob you of the potential of your awareness. And you have to see it, you have to feel it. You have to know it’s real.
It’s not something you can believe from me. It’s something that you have to experiment as I did. I sat there and I watched that moon and felt what it did to me. And one of the easiest things about the Program is that any given day that you look at the Program, don’t just look at it in terms of yourself. Watch your world around you and you will see truly like puppets on a string to a point that you don’t know whether to laugh or cry, that they will all play out the drama of any given day’s Program and every day brings its drama with its nuances that move and slightly shift as we go in this dance around the wheel.
We’re all just taking it in. And you cannot stop it. You cannot. I have an open emotional system; I can never stop the emotional wave from moving through me. It’s not what this knowledge is about. But when I watch the moon impact me emotionally, for the first time in my life I was liberated. It was the first time I actually felt a sense of genuine freedom. As somebody with an undefined emotional system, I was constantly being conditioned by the emotional wave. My whole process was erratic because I was capable of distorting to great highs and great lows all of which led to a lot of chaos.
I ended up as the by-product of that really running away from so many things in this life, not facing them, not dealing with them, just turning my back on them, the avoidance of confrontation and truth that’s part of anyone who has an open Solar Plexus. And in that moment in the survival of the madness of my experience to actually feel the impact of the moon in me, well, I understood something. I understood I wasn’t an emotional being. I understood for the first time that I am a receptor of emotionality, but I was not in and of myself emotional. I didn’t have a problem. I always thought I had a problem.
The Program is so distorting. The Program is always playing around with you. The last two years have had all kinds of activations impacting my emotional system, the Program turning on my emotions. But I know the mechanics. They’re not mine. They belong to this instrument and the way in which this vehicle interacts with others. But it is not something that I am involved with because it’s not something that determines whether I am going to do this or that.
In this BodyGraph up here there are really two options. They’re very clearly laid out. If you honor your Strategy and Authority basically what you’re doing is that you’re operating out of what is fixed in you, what defines you as somebody different from anyone else, what defines you as somebody who has the potential to be able to fulfill their purpose. And then you have the whiteness, the openness. This is where everybody ends up; well, most human beings. Not living out who they are, but living out only the possibility of what they’re not, chasing it, looking for it. And the Program likes to fool them and tell them, hey, you have it.
Think about that person with an open mind, they have an open Ajna Center, they always want to feel certain but they can’t feel certain about anything. And on that day somebody comes up to them and asks them the most important question in their life and on that day it so happens that one of the planets, Mercury, Mars, Venus, whatever, is exactly in the gate that is going to define their Ajna Center so they’re going to have a sense of certainty and they’re going to say, “I’m certain.” And whether that certainty is “yes” or “no,” they’re going to feel certain about it.
It’s not who they are. This is not the way they are intended to make decisions as themselves. They cannot trust that mind; no one can. It is simply something that is not possible. They just can’t. The Program rules. There is nothing to confront it. There is nothing to deflect it. It simply is there. It is the process that we live through.
When I look everyday at the Program and I start my day, I’m looking at my world. I’m looking at this plane. I’m looking at all the things that go on in this plane. There are no surprises in that, truly there are not. These are just vast movements of an ongoing program. It’s a drama; an ongoing drama. Day after day, certain themes are interwoven and conditioned into humanity, and everybody is blind to it.
When this knowledge came into the world, it came into the world to literally break that veil. To be able to stick your head through the sky and look at that and say, okay, there is nothing I can do about that but there is something I can do for myself. That I do not have to live like that, that I am not intended to live like that. And if you’re caught in the Program you’re caught in the fears.
The Program is not modern. It’s an old Program. And it’s rooted in strategic fears. These deep, deep, deep, deep fears is what drives the Program because this is what drives the not-self. Look at those open centers that you have in your design. This is where all the fear is that you dwell on in your life. It is all the basic fears that drive the way your mind works and the way your mind makes decisions. The fear that you cannot be what you’re not. How insane is that?
Human beings so frightened because they think they have to be something that they’re not, that they have to get somewhere where they don’t have to get to. It’s such a madness. This is what drives everyone forward. They’re all driven in this Program by fear—fear of not having or fear of losing. It doesn’t matter. It’s just fears. This world is embedded with fears. This is not what we’re about.
When we look at the societies historically that we have frowned upon, generally speaking, it’s usually those societies in which there is this horrific control over the people. We live in a Program that controls the planet through fear, as any totalitarian regime will do. It controls you through fear. So you have all these human beings running around and they’re all afraid. Scratch any of them and you will smell that fear. And it’s the Program. And it’s the conditioning. And it’s the ignorance…
I like to say it’s for entertainment, because that’s basically what it is. As a passenger consciousness traveling along in one of these forms, indeed we are here to be entertained. It’s stimulating, it’s interesting, it’s different, isn’t it, this journey. And the Program is relentless, day after day, moment after moment. Take a look when you look whether it’s at the Jovian site or in the JAM, take a look at the themes for the day, and take a look at the motivations for the day.
You get to see the true motivation in the JAM and you get to see the not-self motivation in the website. And when you look at the not-self motivation you can tell that for the next four hours the whole planet is going to be motivated by fear or hope or whatever. You look at that, you see it on the page, you look at it, you read it, I want you to think about what that actually means. When you look at those transit images, when you think about what it really means, everybody is getting it and nobody knows, basically, that they’re getting it. Nobody knows that they’re being conditioned by that.
I am here to live out the purpose of this thing; nothing more, nothing less. I am not here to serve the Gods, because it is not service, it is obedience. And I am not here to be obedient to any other authority than my own. When you stand on this plane and you begin to think about the forces of conditioning, the life forces around you, the humans, the Program, what happens to you when you sleep, all kinds of things, the endless, endless, endless, endless, endless conditioning forces all homogenizing the planet. In seeing it and understanding it, how easy it is to stand back and to be free of it. Free of its ability to be able to determine what happens to you because of how you think.
It’s all about the mind. If you experiment with your Strategy and Authority, what you’re doing is giving decision making over to where it belongs and taking it away from where it does not. And the moment that the mind is not making decisions, it cannot be ruled by the Program because it has no power. It doesn’t matter whether the Program makes me emotional or not, I don’t listen to my mind. It doesn’t know what’s going on in my life. This is what my mind is good for, outer authority, the expression of my experiential wisdom, blah, blah, blah, whatever it may be, but not about deciding whether I’m going to sit here and teach you or not.
Everything about this knowledge is about the empowerment of uniqueness, of individuality. It is about learning how to make decisions as yourself, learning how to live as yourself, learning how to be correct in this life. And in living out the purity of what it is to be you, then to get to see what no one else sees, what is there for you to see.
There is a great gift in this journey; I know. The moment that the mind is not in torment, the moment that the mind is not lusting after some solution, the moment that you’re free of that you begin to embrace what it is to be us, nine-centered beings, transitional forms, and capable of extraordinary awareness. It’s a movie. It is, after all.”
-Ra Uru Hu