Human Design is the science of differentiation, it is what makes us different. Not what makes us the same. It‘s the receptors that draw us to sameness. We live in a homogenized conditioned world, a world of the not-self. But where differentiation begins it begins in definition because definition leads you directly to the key in this life. It is definition, or in the rare case as in the Reflector, the lack of definition that leads to what is the strategy in the life. And it is the definition that leads to the Strategy and the Authority. It starts with the definition.

This is why when you look at somebody's design, and you see that they're this Type or that Type and there is their Strategy and Authority and this is what can make their life correct, it is rooted back here at the very beginning of the process in the definition itself. This is hardwiring. It is what definition is, hardwiring. And in that lies security, consistency. In a sense it is our perfection. It does not waver. It remains the same with every breath throughout the life. The muscle cell doesn't suddenly decide that it's going to become a heart cell, or whatever.

We are caught in this duality. Human Design is a very, very surface thing. It‘s the mechanics of the maia. Oh yes, it can be very deep, very deep in the sense of how all the knowledge fits together into a holistic whole. But everything about it is what goes on, on the surface, because it's here on the surface that the difference in the life is achieved. And it is achieved through something very, very fundamental. This pointless question about what is the nature of life.

Life is about decision-making. It isn't about anything else. It's never been about anything else. It is about decision-making. You see, we live in a binary. We are always navigating between a ―this and a ―that. And yet when we navigate with our minds truly we are lost, because it is not the key to our navigation. But this is what we do in this life, decision after decision. This is how we steer.

I'm never far away from the metaphysics of understanding our nature, and it begins with something so fundamental and basic to grasp. We are moving. And I don't just mean in the obvious sense that we have a locomotive system as a creature. No, I mean that everything is moving. Everything has always been moving and fast. We are all objects moving in space. And if we are objects that are moving then the trajectory, the angle, the geometry, whatever label you want to place on it, our alignment within that movement is everything.

Human Design is about steering with the driver behind the wheel and not steering with the passenger trying to take control of the wheel. The driver is there in all of us, the magnetic monopole. When you operate according to your Strategy and Authority you align yourself to what is the correct movement. It‘s what it's all about. And in order to get there you start with, and all in fact you will ever need, is to understand the definition, because it's the definition that gives you the key to how to drive in this life. One decision at a time as yourself, not decisions that are conditioned by the receptors.

Ra Uru Hu was the Human Design System’s founder and messenger. Ra dedicated 25 years of his life to the development and teaching of the System around the world until he passed away in 2011.