The Rave ABCs program provides each student with the fundamental tools that enable a basic understanding of the rave bodygraph.

Once you have completed this course, you'll be able to look at your own design as well as the designs of the people around you - your lovers, your friends and your family - and be able to interpret their charts and make useful comparisons.

The Rave ABCs course will give you a solid foundation upon which you can further develop your studies in Human Design to the level of a professional analyst.

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The three fundamental aspects to this module are:

A • The Black and the Red of Personality and Design. In section A we will examine the functional difference between the Conscious and Unconscious elements in a chart. That word functional is very important. The difference in the behavior between someone who has an element that is conscious (black) and someone who has the identical element unconscious (red) can be immense – and startling. It’s not enough to simply see that the element is unconscious - we need to understand how it will be lived out differently from having it conscious.

B • Circuits and Circuitry. Section B introduces this vital component of design. When we look at gates and/or channels in a chart, we need to understand the contextual framework in which they appear. Circuits and circuitry are the framework, while the channels and the gates are detailed descriptions of specific ways the framework can express itself. For example a “house” is a framework, while bedroom, kitchen, etc. are specific ways in which “house” is revealed. Every channel and every gate fits into the “floor plan” of the circuit in which it is found. A bungalow and a mansion will both have kitchens, but each ones’ kitchen is constrained in its appearance and even its operation by the floor plan - the foundation - of either the bungalow or the mansion. In this section we will also begin to consider the not-self. The focus here is to see what effect a defined channel can have on a person who doesn’t have that channel defined. This is one of the most extraordinary and important contributions Human Design makes to increasing our understanding of human behavior.

C • Hexagram Structure. Section C brings us into the world of the I Ching in all of its poetic mystery. The Gates are the major components of any channel and the lines are more detailed descriptions of what specific aspect of a Gate a person will tend to express. Here again we will be dealing with a framework. Because the structure of every hexagram consists of 6 lines the position of a line in a hexagram reveals a basic aspect of movement in change. All first lines share a specific quality and all 6th lines share a specific quality that is different from the quality shared by first lines. In this section we will be looking at this genetic continuity and learning how particular combinations of lines in the are responsible for a person’s “profile”. The profile of an individual is rather like a constant general behavioral flavor that suffuses everything a person does.

 

Penetrating the Surface

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The Human Design System is rich, complex and profound, and it offers a wealth of detail. While the ABC course doesn't take us into the very depth and all the details of the system, it will enable you, the student, to penetrate the surface and gain a basic understanding of how a chart works at the surface level.

The goal is to be able to see, via the larger elements in a chart, an integrated view the general organization of the person. So, the process is less one of teasing out a lot of detail, and more one of assembling the large elements into a comprehensive description that will be of practical use when applied and tested.

Special Note: Strategy is Key

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It is a fact that over the course of seven years nearly every cell in the human body is replaced. It is this process that gives humans the plasticity and openness that is necessary to absorb and integrate new information.

This newly developed 3 ½ year program comprises one half of that 7 year cycle of cellular transformation. Why? Because it is at this 3 ½ year point in time that the critical mass of your cells is more of who you really are than the conditioned you. This is the point at which more of the “new” you, at the basic physiological, consists of your experience of life with Human Design than without it.

It must be stressed, however, that simply intellectually understanding the ABCs won't give you an advantage to actually being yourself. There's only one way to do that. To actually awaken, to really have the information become a part of you at the cellular level, you must live your design.

Human Design is empirical knowledge which means that it must be substantiated by you, the individual, and not just intellectually as we might learn arithmetic. It's like learning to ride a bike, you have to actually get on and do the riding. To learn Human Design you'll have to experiment with your strategy and inner authority. So, as you study this knowledge take the time to experiment with it. Try it. Test it. Live it.

 

Course Content: Although the material in this course draws from many peoples' hard work, Kip Winsett deserves special recognition for pulling the bulk of the writing together into its current form.