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Reflection of the week… Valuing the enormous potential in a co-seeding between Human Design and Psychotherapy. 

This weekend the Sun/Earth axis is moving into the left angle Cross of Healing and under this neutrino weather, I would like to share with you the design of an extraordinary contributor to the healing of our human spirit, Wilhelm Reich, and share some reflections on the bringing these two worlds together. 

Reich did extraordinary investigations into the nature and function of orgasm, delved deep into the pulse energy of life (channel 3-60) through studying amoebas and extrapolating his investigations on his understanding of our human energetic nature in terms of the contraction/expansion of our cells and our energetic. His work has contributed tremendously to my understanding of the Human Design Bodygraph. 

Reich also put forward an extraordinary and sometimes revolutionary understanding about the stages of childhood development, our potential fixations when we transit them and how such character fixation is ultimately anchored in the muscular armouring of our bodies. Our muscular armouring is the reflection of our mental defences in our physical body and it is very revealing to notice from a Human Design perspective that two people with similar charts can have very different muscular armouring and underlaying character structure. 

‘Character’ is a crucial and important aspect in psychotherapy. It is shaped through the process of adaptation to social environment and educational circumstances. This adaptation is recorded within the muscular structure of our bodies as our response to cognitive, emotional, and behavioural conditioning. As we have a strong survival-oriented tendency to conform to the prevailing social rules and customs of our community and culture, this conformity – or ‘homogenization’ as Ra called it – plays a significant role in the formation of our character.

Character is not an inherent trait but rather a result of continuous interactions with our social environment. This highlights the dynamic nature of human personality and the potential for growth and change through therapeutic interventions. Both nature and nurture, or inherent traits and environmental influences, contribute to shaping an individual's character, and recognizing this duality can lead to a more holistic understanding of human development and behaviour.

Therapists often work with individuals to explore and understand their character traits, patterns, and behaviours. By examining how social conditioning and environmental influences have shaped their character, their clients gain insights into their thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, and this self-awareness can be a crucial aspect of their therapeutic process.

Human Design can offer significant insights into the understanding of character formation through our individual Bodygraphs. It is in our Bodygraphs that we find the energetic architecture of our inherent traits laid out in the definition of our design. It is here, too, that we see the architecture underlying our mental stance in life, laid out in the aspects that stay ‘open’ or ‘white’ in our Bodygraph. It is the combination of these, as well as the environmental conditions and educational circumstances, that ultimately leads to the formation of our character. 

A person’s character can therefore not be detected from their Bodygraph. In the openness of our design, we can pinpoint the energetic architecture of our mental body, but how that mental body, in combination with our essence, crystallizes into a specific character is dependent on environmental factors. Two similar Bodygraphs can result in totally different character formations. 

This is where Human Design and psychot