Being a Human Design Manifestor in a Generators world…
I began my journey with Human Design back in March 2020, after discovering I was a Human Design Manifestor type. It was the midst of lockdown part 1, oh those were the days. I was propped up on my kitchen worktop trying to pretend like the world around us wasn’t just falling apart, and I joined Holly Huslers Sound Sisters. It was a group where each week we’d meet on zoom for a sound bath together, and Holly would use different coaches and leaders to run workshops to keep us busy.
I felt like I’d found my little community (my 4 line was thrilled).
Holly announced one week that with_livy was coming to hold a Human Design workshop. We all needed to download our chart and check out what type we were. I downloaded my chart, made a note that I was a Manifestor, and headed to the workshop for 8pm as instructed.
The next hour flew and my mind was blown.
During the session, I was the only Manifestor on the call. On reflection, that shouldn’t be suprising. Manifestors make up around 8% of the population, so within a group of 20 you’re unlikely to have more than one or two.
What Livy started to talk about was how a Manifestor was (I’m going to paraphase, it was 3 years ago…):
A born leader
Designed to trail blaze and initiate, then rest
Need to get used to having impactful energy
Understand just your energy alone will be triggering
“Ask for forgiveness rather than permission”
And I felt SEEN.
For years. Since I entered into the schooling system really, I knew I wasn’t born to just fit in. To fit in felt claustrophobic. It felt boring. I’d do things purposefully to NOT fit in infact. Dress differently, seek out different bands, do a sport no-one else was doing… anything so I could not fit in. It felt just flat and dull. I didn’t want to fit in. To the point where friendships came and went. I was what I’d describe as a lone wolf. I always have wonderful friends but I never felt like I needed them. Or anyone else for that matter. My poor parents…
My buzz word was always FREEDOM. In whatever I did, I was chasing freedom, I was chasing peace, I was chasing fluidity.
And during that workshop and the years afterwards I realised that what I was chasing was to return to my true essence. To the energy my soul came with. To be a manifestor.
Now being a Manifestor in a world full of generator types (70% of the population are generator types - Generators or Manifesting Generators), is hard. You’re expected to fulfil a 9-5, work until you retire, have a few happier years, then depart. A lovely little path through life, which suits many people. It never felt aligned for me, even as a child.
For fellow Manifestors out there, I’m going to share a few lessons and ‘aha’ moments from my journey of deconditioning. I hope it helps you to recognise the same in yourself. At this point I should also mention I’m a 1/4 profile (Omniscient teacher), with an ego strategy. I’ll do another post about those, because both profile parts are also quite rare, confirming why I felt very different from my peers, colleagues and friends. But for now, I’ll unpick my main findings of being a human design manifestor.
Three lessons from being a Human Design Manifestor
Keep people in the loop with what you’re doing. I can’t stress this one enough. The strategy of a Manifestor is to ‘inform.’ I spend many years NOT doing this… and wondered why I met so much resistence to my ideas. The most ‘stand out’ memory for me was when I was 16. I’d started college and was determined I was going to do Fashion Design, something I loved. But, about 6 weeks into the course, I noticed my interest had dipped and I just wasn’t feeling it. My heart wasn’t in it (ego authority). I craved more structure and information (I now know that’s my 1 line), and so enrolled myself into sixth form instead. I’d enrolled myself, figured out my transport, and was ready to start my new sixth form. I THEN remembered, I should probably tell my parents about this… well, you can imagine the reaction. The reason I didn’t tell them was because I didn’t want them to persuade me otherwise. I knew what I was doing, as a Manifestor you’ll know that feeling. But, I needed to use my strategy to lessen the blow. I should have kept them in the loop from start to finish and give them more time to get onboard with it. Oops!
You’ll be the one in the family to put up with the least ‘bull’ and try and set the examples. I had a grandparent growing up that I would guess, on reflection, was a narcassist. Their energy was all about taking down other people whilst trying to build themselves up. I got on well with this grandparent, until the age of about 8 when I started to really find my voice, and would often put her in her place, or stand up for my parent in the situation. This wasn’t taken well. Over the years, myself and my grandparent grew further and further apart until it was a chore to go once a year. I couldn’t get on board with the way they treated my parent, and I couldn’t trust myself to not speak up and make things worse in the family, so, I just cut them off. No one else in the family did, and there was an underlying expectation that you should just treat elders with respect regardless. Despite the terrible way one of my parents was treated, they would still look after and care for that grandparent. On reflection, I believe my repelling aura of being a Manifestor was really keeping me away. I was saving myself years of deconditioning down the line. Trust your intuition and listen to your aura - it’s both magnetic and repelling, and the people you’re repelling or triggering are the ones to stay away from for you.
You’re not designed to keep going and going. This was the real ‘click’ point for me after the first time I discovered the bare principles of being a Manifestor. I was working a 9-5, mainly online, with not much opportunity to satisfy my one line. I would look around at the end of working events and working days and wonder how people could be still working. Or if we were at an event, how people had the energy to go to the pub afterwards. It was quite frankly shocking to me, ha! I now know, I need more rest than others. I can get things done quickly especially with a defined ego, but after that burst I need to rest. If I fill that rest time with more ‘jobs’ to do, I get pretty angry pretty quickly, at the most random things. So, TAKE REGULAR BREAKS. Go for walks. Grab a coffee and take a breather. Don’t expect yourself to fit the mould. You’re born to do things differently.
This is just scratching the surface of my life as a Manifestor. I talk a little more about it on my Instagram here. But, I hope it gives you some confidence if you’re a fellow Manifestor that nope, you won’t fit in and yep, you probably are a bit of a lone wolf, because that’s how you’re designed. Now embrace it!
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Hello, I’m Becky The Humble Warrior, a 1/4 Ego Manifestor on a mission to make life a bit simpler than we currently make it. As I write this in 2024, I’m 5 years into my own personal experiment and now sharing my findings, readings and guiding with Human Design to my community audience (hello 4 line!). You can find me most days on Instagram @becky_thw. And if you want a reading, you can find Soul Path, Human Design or Year Ahead readings here. Becky x
