What is a Generator?
You’ve pulled your Human Design chart and you’ve discovered that the universal energy and intelligence behind all life has chosen to experience life through the body of you as a Generator. But what does that even mean?
As a Generator, you’re here to do, make and build things in the world of form – if life were one huge garden, you would be building the raised beds, planting the trees, cutting the flowers and mowing the lawn. In short – you are here to work.
In fact, if you’re ever feeling frustrated, instead of asking yourself ‘Am I working too hard?’, you want to be asking yourself ‘Am I working enough?’.
Your job is to bring the formless into the form.
Creating somethings out of nothing.
You’ll notice in your chart that you have a defined, or shaded’ sacral center. This means you have a sustained access to life and work force energy. Unlike non-Generator types that need periods of rest and shorter bursts of activity, you can go and go and go and go, and wake up the next day ready to do it all over again.
Holidays, retirement and ‘days off’ are likely uncomfortable for you – the energy inside you needs to be expended each and every day.
However, this energy is only sustainable in the long-term when you are following your strategy.
Your Strategy: Wait to respond.
This simply means that you're much more likely to create a life you enjoy when you respond to conversations, opportunities or events coming into your word, rather than just initiating projects based on good ideas coming into your head.
That might come as a disappointment to you as we’re so strongly conditioned to believe that being proactive, taking the lead and making shit happen is the pathway to achievement and success.
And because we CAN use our energy in this way, this conditioning, when unquestioned, can mean we burn out – because it was never designed to be used for initiating.
When, and only when you follow your Strategy, which means you have the go-ahead from the world and you are genuinely responding, you can then move into expression.
This is what you were born for.
Developing mastery is your superpower as a Generator. If you are doing what you love, because you have the energy to put into it over and over again, chances are you become very skilled at it, if and this is the kicker, you know how not to quit.
All Generator types have a stair-step learning curve. You bump into something new, it fills you with enthusiasm, your heart responds fully and you’ll find yourself, learning all about it and gaining mastery as you do. Humanity requires this mastery – honour where the heart leads when you on this path.
However, after the initial surge in learning and mastery, all Generators will hit a plateau in their learning. Now, if you don’t understand what’s going on here, when you feel frustrated (which you inevitably will at this stage) and simply quit or stay where you are but feeling hugely stuck.
Is this resonating?
But, and chances are you’ve never realised this before, that frustration is actually just a sign that you’re on the plateau. Instead, if you can see this as a period of renewal, a requirement to regenerate, then the next stair step of learning will arise and your mastery will deepen still further. The sacral is just recharging its battery, if you like, in order to go for another round.
The key is to discern whether it’s time to quit (and it might be) or ride out the plateau.
How to know? Simple – follow your Authority, which you’ll read about in a moment.
All that sacral energy needs an outlet – you need to burn it off every day.
For me, (I’m a Manifesting Generator so have all the Generator characteristics) this was a gamechanger; I realised that I was not moving my body enough to burn off all that energy. I experimented. I increased the speed of my dog walk, I started to get more physical in my garden and upped my swimming to four times a week. And for the first time in over a decade, I started to sleep at night again. My sacral battery was fully discharged every day, and could fully charge again all night long, giving me a steady flow of energy to do what I love to do all the following day.
As a Generator, you need to go to bed when you are physically tired and not before if you want to rest well.
And if that powerful energy doesn’t get discharged, it will keep you up at night and ricochet around inside the body creating problems with your health.
As with everything in this journey you’re now on – inquire and experiment. Where does this make sense for you?
If you have spent your whole life trying to initiate projects (and then wondering why the world is not biting your arm off to enjoy your beautiful creation), possibly burning out from continually pouring your energy into your work that hasn’t been created in response, working in a job that doesn’t light you up just because you can put the hours in, or have quit more times than the average person….
THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU.
You’re a perfect expression of the intelligence behind the universe using this body-mind of yours to create what want to be experienced in this world of form. It can’t be done without you.
When you’re in your flow, you give off an aura of warmth that is so welcoming, others are drawn into your energy and can’t help but feel some of that when they are with you.
You’re a great team player, in fact your action and expression become even easier when you’re around Manifestor or Manifesting Generator types as you can borrow the energy they have to their Throat Center (the power behind their faster creations) in order to express your own voice and mastery into the world.
Your ‘not-self’ as it’s called in Human Design is frustration.
When you feel frustration, it’s either because you’re not doing ‘right work’ or because you’re on a plateau.
Frustration is simply an invitation for you to pause, reflect and notice whether there’s anything to do differently here – or whether you are on a plateau in your mastery.
In contrast, when you’re aligned with your design, satisfaction will be very present in your day-to-day life.
There is no better feeling for a Generator than to have spent a day creating and busy and then going to bed completely physically tired out.
This has long been my favourite quote of all time. Now I have discovered Human Design, I know why. Nothing better describes a Generator type.
““I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations”. ”
Nicola x
Further Resources for Generators
Emotional Generator
If you have both the Sacral and Emotional Solar Plexus defined as in this diagram, head over here to read about your decision making strategy.
Sacral Authority
You have the Sacral defined (that’s what makes you a Generator, and because you don’t have the Emotional Solar Plexus defined, that gives you Sacral Authority.
Read more about how you’re designed to make decisions here.
