You’ve been hearing about human design all over the place + decided to look up your type, and discovered you’re a projector… welcome, sweet seer. I’m so glad you’re here because you’re in the right place. In this post, I candidly share what it means and feels like to be a projector in human design so you can best support yourself (or the projector) in your life! As a 4/6 Emotional Projector, I’m here to share from both my human design expertise and personal experience.
The First A-Ha Moment: Discovering You’re a Projector
I can vividly remember the feeling of validation that washed over me when I was told that I was a projector and introduced to what that meant by a reader. The first ‘a-ha’ moments are real…
- Oh, you mean there’s a reason I keep burning out repeatedly?
- Oh, you mean that there’s a reason why I’ve always felt different and like the ‘black sheep’?
- Oh, I’m naturally meant to lead and guide, like I’ve always longed to?
I felt so seen and understood. Yet, I didn’t fully let the reality of it all seep into how I actually showed up in my life and business. While I could readily adopt some of the practices I learned about (like allowing myself to sleep on big decisions as I have emotional authority), I didn’t fully embrace my projector nature in my business.
For many projectors, the first a-ha moment of feeling, as seen when you find out you’re a projector, rapidly turns into questioning. Can this be real? Can I really work fewer hours, still get everything done, and succeed? How will anything ever happen if I’m always waiting for an invitation?
It’s hard to decondition and disconnect from what we’ve always known, so if you’ve been feeling some resistance or confusion about embodying your true projector nature, keep reading.
What it Really Means to Be a Projector in Human Design
1. Your Life Force Energy is Inconsistent, Not Absent
One of the characterizing elements of what it means to be a Projector is that we have an undefined sacral centre – this means that our access to the get-up-and-go, life force energy is inconsistent and varies each day. But this doesn’t mean projectors are ‘lazy’ or have no energy. It just works differently.
As a Projector, you’ll thrive when you limit your work hours to a few focused daily. Learning to trust this and decondition from the hustle and bustle of our capitalist society takes time and energy – but the more you can do this, the more you’ll see how naturally efficient you are. Then, you can use the time in between to work on self-validating, studying, and resting to truly hone, honour, and integrate your potent gifts. This is why self-employment is a popular choice for many Projectors.
2. Your Aura is Focused, Deeply Seeing Others
You see people incredibly clearly and deeply as a projector, so you’re meant to await an invitation before sharing your insights or guidance with others. But when you are invited to share, your insights will allow people to feel incredibly seen as you can deeply feel the other person’s energy. This can also manifest in interesting ways like complete strangers feeling drawn to open up to you about surprisingly deep things (this is a weekly occurrence in my life).
3. You’re a Born Leader & Guide
Some of the most outstanding leaders in modern history, like Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela, are (were) Projectors. Projectors are known for their ability to see the big picture and offer personalized, insightful guidance on how things could be done more effectively and efficiently.
5 Things to Stop Doing If You’re a Projector
- Stop trying to initiate everything – you’re meant to await aligned invitations to share your deep insights and wisdom
- Stop pushing through fatigue – again, it’s hard to break free from the ingrained conditioning within us to always be productive, but for a Projector, resting before you’re exhausted is productive because it helps you avoid burning out.
- Stop saying YES to everything – instead, allow yourself to save your precious energy for invitations that make you feel truly seen and recognized for what you bring to the table.
- Stop trying to ‘keep up’ – you were never meant to – you operate at a completely different magical pace
- Stop chasing and striving for external validation – and instead put your energy on cultivating an internal validation and self-recognition practice
3 Things to Start Doing If You’re a Projector
- Learn to wait and rest – As a Projector, learning how to rest is incredibly important. This sounds simple, but for many of us striving to keep up with others our whole lives, this is a complex piece of conditioning to break. Projectors are designed to wait for the invitation when interacting and sharing their energy with others. So, learning to wait and rest is essential for a Projector to thrive.
- Look for aligned invitations – An aligned invitation makes you feel seen, recognized, and valued for the skills, insights, and perspectives you offer. You’re not meant to say yes to everything!
- Trust your timing – Projectors have success baked into their design – even though it may feel like it’s taking you ‘longer’ than others, practice trusting in your timing and knowing that success is your signature theme and inevitable for you when you lean into your authority and strategy.
Coming Home To You
I absolutely love being a Projector – but before I knew I was a Projector, I felt like something was wrong with me because I kept burning out repeatedly and wasn’t ‘cut out’ for running my own business because of it. But now that I’ve optimized my entire life and creative business around my human design, I see that WHEN I HONOUR MY PROJECTOR ENERGY, things feel easy, fun, and aligned (in ALL areas of our lives!)
As a Projector, some of the best things to work on are practicing deconditioning the feeling that you have to work more to get where you want to go and cultivating deep self-recognition in your skills and what you offer.
As a Projector myself, I offer a unique insight into what it really means to live as a projector, and it would be my absolute honour to hold space for you in a guided reading.
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