There is no longer any doubt that we are living in highly mutative times; we are all becoming aware of the strange developments in the world. From the weather to our societies, we are in a time of massive change where life is evolving. There’s an internal pause, as the mind says, ‘Hmmm, this is unusual.’
I live in a 6th line mutative body, and I’ve lived through multiple mutative times in my life. What I’ve discovered is that mutation is a process of transitions. I’ve found that the art of navigating transitions lies in being aware of the inner stability of the true self, the witness, the passenger riding in the back seat, and looking out the windows. The view out the window can get strange, but within, I’m relaxed, curious, observing the experience.
I’m a triple-spit emotional generator with a 4/6 profile. There’s nothing in my design that felt stable growing up. The emotions fluctuate, and my triple-split has three separate awarenesses that aren’t linked to each other, and each has its own timing. Without a clear sense of strategy and Inner Authority, the urge to move was frequent, and I felt pulled in multiple directions.
Human Design often discusses the 6th line profile as one that lives through distinct phases in life. When it comes to body profiles like mine, those phases are a physical phenomenon. For me, this required finding an equilibrium amidst an ever-changing physical life of my body.
Add in a conditioned 4th line personality built on being a people pleaser. Without this inner sense of stability, my life was filled with fear. The fear of change - or stagnation, the fear of survival - or of missing out. Back and forth between multiple fear binaries.
My mind primarily used my conditioned personality to protect my two open centers – G and Root. Protect against the lack of clear direction, which can lead to vulnerability in loving and bonding too quickly, often with the wrong people and places. Protect against the stress of feeling the need to get ahead through a network that never felt supportive or secure.
This body has carried all of that since childhood. The transitions of life from that sensitive and aggressive, fearful and determined, awkward child felt like life in a maelstrom, trying to navigate a tempestuous sea in a life raft.
Strategy and Inner Authority freed my mind of its role as Director/Protector. Human Design gave me the space to see my conditioning patterns, rather than acting on them. Only then was there enough light and space to see clearly what needed to fall away so that something new could be experienced – the life of my self-driving Leela vehicle. That transitional process took time, but I felt more aligned with my true nature at each step, as the old patterns became clearer and no longer needed.
Our global homogenized world is also undergoing a time when we can see what is no longer needed and what is falling away so that something new can emerge. This transitional process will take time, but with each step, each new mutation offers us the chance to connect with our true nature, as the old patterns become increasingly evident and unnecessary.
Recognizing the patterns of my conditioning, my strategy, and developing awareness of my Inner Authority calmed me down and helped me relax. But, there was still a physical habit of instability – the up/down of my emotional wave, the chaotic nature of my triple-split design. I was still preoccupied by my internal thoughts, an inner agitation that prevented me from being present. I spent most of my time lost in my thoughts, rehearsing, justifying, and resenting – even if, on the surface, I wasn’t acting upon it, my inner life was filled with conditioned patterns of thought.
In 2006, almost seven years into my experiment, and freshly off the roof from my Kiron return, I had my PHS reading with Ra. I was in a state of mutation, living through a transition that felt strange and impossible to navigate. I have both Design and Personality Sun/Earth variables with Right Arrows. Learning to accept the Right variable experience, relax, and not get caught up in the Left Arrow focus on action has been a valuable transition —a personal, mutative process.
When I added my PHS regimen to my daily practice, it naturally began to shift my awareness. I began to recognize what it felt like to have a sense of inner stability. My emotions still fluctuated, and my mind continued to whirl on the triple-split spin cycle, but I had connected with an inner sense of stability. My form began to feel dialed in, in tune with itself. And for me, that shifted everything.
When the form is in alignment through its variable determination, it stabilizes the frequency of the form and allows a unique and differentiated awareness of the body consciousness.
I know what it feels like when my vehicle is in tune with itself, and what it feels like when it is not. When it is not, my emotional wave is nervous, the body is tense, and I feel pressured to move. Over sensitive, everything is too loud, too sharp, too bright. If I tune in to my internal frequency, I naturally slow down and breathe easily, I feel myself. I come back to the stability within.
With this inner stability of Strategy, Inner Authority, and PHS, I have learned to navigate the transitory world as I need to, rather than as I am conditioned to be. When I genuinely have the energy flowing through my vehicle, ‘doing’ becomes effortless and relaxed, in the flow. I feel life deeply. I feel in communion within. Regardless of the circumstances in the world, I’m here, experiencing the present moment, conscious of being in form.
PHS has made a vast difference in my experiment. I don’t know what it will be like for you. For me, it enhances the mutative process, the transition from living a conditioned life to a sense of unshakable inner stability. I can always come home to myself, regardless of what the world is going through.
The world is going through mutative times; a vast transition is taking place. The potential that Human Design offers to each of us is to discover the inner stability that comes from being in touch with our true self. We do not have to get lost in the conditioning field – not avoiding it, either, but as an engaged observer of the experience of being alive, here, now, with an inner sense of stability.
Photos of Leela: 2004 - Five years into my experiment, two years before PHS regimen, and 2024 - Twenty-five years into my experiment, eighteen years of PHS regimen