October 14, 2025 • 39 mins
In this episode, we continue our two part conversation on the Generator type by exploring the difference between Generators and Manifesting Generators and how both are here to transform life through work that they love. Kelsey also dives into how the Sacral response serves as the body’s innate guidance system and how Generators are designed to know themselves through what they respond to and create.
This conversation invites Generators to awaken to their true power, which doesn't happen through force or initiation, but rather through surrender to response, trust in timing, and deep satisfaction in the creative process.
What's Discussed in this Episode:
- The distinction between mental awareness and bodily knowing
- How undefined centers can distract the Generator from their true response
- Understanding the Generator’s signature of satisfaction and the not-self theme of frustration
- The regenerative power of satisfaction and how it fuels creation
- Difference between Generators and Manifesting Generators
- Societal and historical conditioning of Generators under systems of oppression and productivity
- Reclaiming sovereignty, autonomy, and interdependence through living in response
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Do mgs have something incommon with manifestors? Fuck yes.
Yeah. And I really think that,like a sort of dogmatic reactionary
approach to trying to correctthat MGs are not a fifth aura type
has in some instancesrepressed a conversation around that
which MGs and manifestorsabsolutely have in common. And it's
just mechanically, objectivelytrue that MGs and manifestors both
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have this mechanic of motor tothroat definition. And so there's
things that manifestinggenerators and manifestors have in
common with their experiencebecause of that Motor to throat definition
Motor to throat definition isthe mechanics for initiation. So
manifesting generators doinitiate, as do manifestors, but
the initiation happens inresponse, not out of nowhere, not
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from within a closed aura.Response happens from an open aura,
feeling what's outside of itand responding to what's outside
of it. And so the initiationhappens underneath the umbrella of
response for the MG.
Welcome to the Living Your Desig Podcast. I'm your experimentor,
Kelsey Rose Tortorice. Thispodcast is an audio only release
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I hope that it helps youremember and come home to yourself.
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This episode of the LivingYour Desig podcast is part two of
my lecture on the generatortype. Check out the previous episode
for the first half.
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Now I've said multiple timesalready, the sacral is the primary
intelligence of the body. Andyet the sacral is not an awareness
center, right? Some peoplehave splenic authority, some people
have solar plexus authority.Those are awareness centers. So there's
a level of awareness, ofunderstanding, of clarity that exists
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in those centers that thesacral does not. If you're a generator,
you either have sacral oremotional authority, regardless of
which one you have. Understandthat this response mechanism has
nothing to do with awareness,which means you will not be aware
of why you're responding tosomething or not responding. And
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so it's a deep leap of faithto trust that faucet, to trust that
energy or not, the presence ofenergy or not the sacral, yes or
no. And again, you do not havea consistent sense of awareness in
the moment of why that yes orno is present and where it will or
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won't lead you. You just knowwhether you have the energy for it
or not, whether you have theresponse or not. For sacral authority
generators, this would meanyou're undefined in the emotional
center, but you're defined inthe sacral. Everything is about the
sacral for you. That gutresponse governs your strategy and
your authority, and strategyand authority are it for, for the
human design experiment,they're the main thing that you are
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playing with, that you areobserving, that you are surrendering
to. And your awareness hasabsolutely nothing to do with that
primary intelligence in thesacral, that is both your strategy
and your authority foremotional authority generators, which
would mean you have both thesacral and the solar plexus. Defined
strategy is still all aboutthe sacral. That gut response aligns
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you to your timing, yourcircumstances, and your satisfaction.
However, you also have a layerof emotional energy and emotional
awareness because the solarplexus is both an energy and awareness
center, a motor and awarenesscenter, and that layer of emotional
energy and awarenessultimately transcends or maybe carries
the sacral response. I'm. Ihaven't landed on language that feels
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good or fully encompassing tome for what that is for the emotional
generator to have this gutresponse, this sacral response, governing
their strategy. But then thisadditional emotional wave of energy
and an emotional awarenessthat comes through riding that wave
for the generator, theemotional generator, there's just
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this added layer that makesthings a bit more complex for the
emotional generator. But theadded layer of emotional energy and
emotional awareness, it doesnot negate the black and white nature
of the sacral response or not.It just adds a layer of depth, a
layer of nuance complexity,and it adds a Necessity for more
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time, in many cases for theemotional generator. And we're going
to talk more about this whenwe look at emotional authority in
the next unit. So something toconsider for all generators. Sacral
is not an awareness center.And yet its response is the primary
intelligence of your body.Consider the voices of your undefined
centers. So take a moment,even right now, maybe to pause and
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think through this. Even justone, maybe two. Think about when
we went through the undefinedcenters, and they're not self voices.
Which ones really stuck out toyou? What do you remember in this
moment as being the sort ofnarrative or voice of not self in
one or more of your undefinedcenters? How do those narratives,
how do those voices of notself tend to distract you from your
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sacral response? Whether thatmeans pushing you to try to force
energy somewhere where thereisn't energy, or just distracting
you from the things that yourbody is actually really magnifying
you towards wanting you to useenergy for. Turned on about right?
It's turned on. Sacral issexual energy. It's literally you
are turned on. The faucet isturned on. Like it's not a metaphor.
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That's what's happening. Sowhat is satisfaction? Again, the
sexual peace is not ametaphor. It's a part of the function
of the sacral center. Sexualenergy isn't the only function of
the sacral center. It'screative energy, it's life force
energy. But satisfaction isessentially using your energy, using
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that sexual creative lifeforce energy in ways that feel good
to completion. That issatisfaction. Satisfaction is the
generator signature. And onthe other side of that is the generator
not self theme of frustration.The body knows what will bring satisfaction.
Generators are designed toenjoy being busy doing what they
love. And I have an asteriskon they here because you're designed
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to enjoy being busy doing whatyour sacral loves, not what you are
aware that you love, not that,not what you think you think you
think you love, which ispotentially deeply conditioned by
your not self. You're designedto enjoy being busy doing what you
love based on that sacralcenter. And through awareness, through
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experimentation, throughdeconditioning, you will become aware
of what you love. But in manycases, there can be quite a process
of departure from the thingsthat you thought you thought you
thought you thought you wantedto do that were actually rooted deeply
in not self. If you actuallylove it, it feels deeply satisfying.
Satisfaction is the feeling ofexpending your sacral energy in the
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ways that your body findspleasure in. It is through the satisfying
expenditure of energy that thegenerative property of the sacral
center operates. So again, thebody knows what will bring satisfaction
and it communicates that toyou through your sacral response
and also just through thesensation of satisfaction or not,
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if you're frustrated, thatwasn't what your body wanted to do.
Pretty simple. However, themind has its own ideas and will perpetually
attempt to hijack the sacrallife force for purposes otherwise
other than what will bring thebody satisfaction. And this mental
hijacking happens through thenarratives of the not self and the
openness. This mentalhijacking leads to frustration. Frustration
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is the feeling of sacralenergy resisting being used for purposes
other than what it organicallyhas response for. Frustration is
also the feeling of a sacralresponse or creation or outlet being
repressed. So again, just restand recovery isn't going to be generative
for the generator. Yes, restis part of it. I'm not saying that
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the generator should not rest.Rest is a crucial part of the functionality
of the sacral, a nonnegotiable part of the functionality
of the sacral. And so isenergy expenditure in satisfying
ways. So I've witnessed whatseem and feel in my body through
my amplification process to beunhealthy sacrals that are having,
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you know, chronic healthissues in this long period of rest.
And perhaps it began from aburnout place of this first piece
of sacral energy being usedfor purposes other than what it has
response for. But oftentimesthat develops into sacral energies
that's not being used. Ormaybe the burnout never even happened.
And there's for some othermind reason or a trauma reason, been
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a repression of sacral energygoing where it wants to go. So maybe
there never even was aburnout. And in fact that defined
sacral just has not had theoutlet because it has been repressed
due to trauma, due to harm,due to fear, whatever it is. And
then that sacral is not goingto be healthy, it's not going to
be in a generative state, it'sgoing to be frustrated. Frustration
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is also the feeling of pushingbeyond the point of satisfied completion
in your energy expenditure. Somaybe you do already love your job,
you love your trade, you loveyour business, you love whatever
it is you do. But yourundefined ego, or your undefined
AJNA or your undefined root,or any undefined center hijacks you
into pushing yourselfconsistently way beyond the actual
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bandwidth that you have thatday or that week or that month. And
you're gonna, you're gonnaland in frustration in that regard
as well. And all of the aboveI've already said this is also going
to diminish the sacral'sability to be regenerative. So a
moment for manifestinggenerators here. Literally everything
we've talked about up to thispoint fully applies to the manifesting
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generator to the same degreethat it does to the pure or non manifesting
generator. So let's remembermechanically what a manifesting generator
is. Manifesting generators aregenerators, AKA sacral beings who
operate naturally in response,who also have the mechanics for initiation,
which is motor to throatdefinition. And you'll see this presented
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and spoken to in lots ofdifferent ways. Some people have
very strong opinions about thefollowing. Let me give a little background
before I get into how I seeit. So there's four aura types, not
five. There are some peoplewho, from my vantage point, often
tend to be people who haven'tlike, really actually studied human
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design, who say that there arefive aura types and that manifesting
generators are a fifth auratype. That's not always true. There
are people who have likereally done the study and understand
the mechanics and still saythat there are five aura types. But
that's not what's been taught.That's not how I understand it from
a mechanical perspective. Butthen there's other people who react
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to that, who in a, who getvery, in my opinion, unnecessarily
angry and defensive about thatand are so intent on saying that
there's only four aura typesand manifesting generators are generators,
that they end up, from what Isee, kind of refusing to acknowledge
that there are things thatmanifesting generators have in common
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with manifestors by way ofhaving that shared mechanic of the
motorized throat. And so, youknow, especially mangens, you need
to experiment with this andexplore this in your own accord.
But here's how I see it, whichis based in mechanical absolutes.
Are MGs a fifth aura type? No,because they have an open and enveloping
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aura based on sacraldefinition. And again, that sacral
definition, that sacral motoris so powerful that it has such a
massive effect on the aura asa whole. And this is also how RA
and IHDS International HumanDesign School sees it. RMG is a hybrid.
Some people will say they're ahybrid type. That one feels like
maybe semantics, becausetechnically they do have the mechanic
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of sacral definition and themechanic of motor to throat definition.
However, to me, that doesn'tquite feel right. Because when we're
talking about aura type, we'retalking about the aura Shape and
functionality. And the lack ofsacral definition in the manifestor
is. It's just as big of a partof the manifestor aura mechanics
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as the motor to throatdefinition. So manifestors have a
closed and repelling aura,which is not at all like the aura
of the sacral being, includingthe manifesting generator. So personally
I don't really vibe with thethem being a hybrid way of looking
at it, but it doesn't feel asmechanically off to me as the fifth
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aura type. But do MGs havesomething in common with manifestors?
Fuck yes. Yeah. And I reallythink that like a sort of dogmatic
reactionary approach to tryingto correct that MGs are not a fifth
aura type has in someinstances repressed a conversation
around that which MGs andmanifestors absolutely have in common.
And it's just mechanically,objectively true that MGs and manifestors
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both have this mechanic ofmotor to throat definition. And so
there's things thatmanifesting generators and manifestors
have in common with theirexperience because of that motor
to throat definition. Motor tothroat definition is the mechanics
for initiation. So manifestinggenerators do initiate, as do manifestors,
but the initiation happens inresponse, not out of nowhere, not
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from within a closed auraresponse happens from an open aura,
feeling what's outside of itand responding to what's outside
of it. And so the initiationhappens underneath the umbrella of
response for the MG. Do MGshave a closed aura? Not at all. Not
at all. And this is kind ofwhy I'm like not so into the hybrid
version. Because I've watchedMGs really fresh to human design
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think that aspects of themanifestor closed and repelling aura
have something to do withthem. And that's just not true at
all. That sacral definitioncreates the energy emanating out
the open and enveloping aura.So again, it's just not, it's mechanically
Objectively true that MGs donot have a closed aura. Do MGs impact?
I believe so, because we talkabout impact via the throat center
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a lot and we talk about impactvia manifestors a lot. And in my
experience, both fromunderstanding mechanics, but also
observing the manifestinggenerators in my life, observing
their impact on me. Like amotorized throat is powered up throat.
It's a power, it's poweredwords, powered expression. And that
power is what creates impact.And so I personally do believe that
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MGs impact in a mechanicallysimilar way to manifestors impacting.
But the MG Manny impact hitsdifferent because impact comes coming
from a powered up throat withan open aura is a very different
feeling of impact than impactcoming through a motorized throat
with a closed aura. The closedaura itself is extremely impacting.
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It pushes energy out of itsway. And so yes, there's impact from
the MG through the motorizedthroat, but it's a different, I don't
want to say lesser, but it'san impact on a center's level, not
an aura level. Here's a rawquote from the definitive book of
human design. Manifestinggenerator is not a separate type,
but rather a variation of thegenerator type. It's a subtle distinction
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that lies in their auricfrequency. MGs are designed to follow
the generator strategy torespond. So what's the same between
MGs and non manifestinggenerators, Manifesting generators
and pure generators. What'sthe same? What's different? So here's
what's the same. These aregenerating types of this is a generating
type, one type with avariation energy is generated and
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regenerated. Within that typethere is consistent energy to be
available for responding tolife. These types respond. Neither
type is here to initiate fromnothing. Generators respond, Manifesting
generators respond. Andsometimes that response for a manifesting
generator includes initiationunder the umbrella of the response.
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Mgs and pure GS have an openand enveloping aura that naturally
wants to be available for lifeand response, deal with themes of
satisfaction and frustration,have a consistent non negotiable
fixed life force, and areconditioned to initiate, but are
designed to respond. Everyonewho's not a manifester is conditioned
to initiate, includingmanifesting generators. What's different
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between a pure generator and amanifesting generator is that initiation
can happen immediately inresponse. So oftentimes manifesting
generators move faster versusthe slow burn of the pure generator.
You'll hear language instudying manifesting generators.
People use studying andteaching about MGs. People use words
like shortcuts and pivots. Isort of see it, visualize it as like
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a lot of like zigzags likemanifesting generators because they
get the response and theirbody can provide them with this immediate
ability to begin in response.They might begin something over here
and then get a response andbegin something over here. So there
might be like open endedthings. The completion might be a
little more scattered. Theremight be less completion for manifesting
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generators versus for the puregenerator. The response happens and
there's just like this slowturn towards the response and then
it's just moving in thatdirection, moving in that direction
until there's another responsewhich is similar to the manifesting
generator. But the manifestinggenerator might have extra twists
and turns. And shortcuts.There's like a, an efficiency that
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shows up for the manifestinggenerator because it's response,
initiate, response, initiate,initiating in response. And mangens,
you're conditioned to initiatefrom nowhere, but you're designed
to initiate in response. Sosome things that I tend to talk about
with manifesting generators orobserve in manifesting generators
is then no one can really keepup with the manifesting generator
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because you can respond andwithin your response you can initiate.
And there's no other type thatcan show up as consistently as you
can or initiate in response.So the initiations that happen through
manifesting generators andmanifestors are different, have a
different kinds of impact. Butfor the manifestor that initiation
happens and then there's nosacral life force to fuel it in continuation.
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So with the Manifesto, there'slike this slow gestating period inside
the closed aura. And then themanifester initiates and things change.
But then the manifester can'tcarry it. It retreats back to its
closed aura. It recovers, itrests for long periods of time often,
and then is gestating, isrelaxing and gestating until that
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next initiation comes. So thedefault state for the manifestor
is rest, except for when thoseurges for initiation come. And that's
not true for the manifestinggenerator. The default state is still
to be in response, to bemoving. And initiation is something
that happens out there in theactive, available for life playing
field within that responsemode. So yeah, no one can really
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keep up with the MG. And I'veseen some, some conditioning around
that in MGs around feelinglike they need to kind of slow down
their role because they moveat a pace that is faster than most
people around them. RA taughtabout how that kind of obsession
with efficiency and shortcutsfor MG and pivoting, while it is
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mechanically correct in theirnature, it also can lead the manifesting
generator to frustrationbecause maybe they aren't completing.
And completing is a part ofwhat brings satisfaction. And so,
yeah, just something toexperiment there with. For MGs, there's
probably a really specific wayof moving in your body that feels
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like correct initiation andresponse. And I could easily see
there being conditioning foran MG that's trying to. Your conditioning
tries to slow you down. Andthat's frustrating. But I could also
see all this narrative oflike, energies are fast, they pivot,
there's shortcuts. Like, Icould also see MGs who might naturally
be a bit more slow or maybealready are pretty deconditioned
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and very in tune with thatinitiating and Response I could see
this, like, narrative andrhetoric about MGs are fast and use
shortcuts and pivot,conditioning MGs to try to do more
or pivot more. Right. So allof this is like we're looking at
it through the arena of themind. And it's your body that actually
knows which aspects of theseare true for you and when and how.
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MGs, your words have power andimpact. You literally have a motor
fueling and energizing thelanguage coming out of your throat.
And in your deconditioningprocess, mgs, your mind is going
to tell you that you caninitiate outside of response because
you're an mg. So this is why Itend to be pretty solidly in my position.
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I feel weird saying thislanguage because it feels like Ajna
stuff. And maybe there is alittle bit there. But just as a teacher
and from what I've observed, Itend to stay pretty solidly within.
Like, you're not a hybrid. Youonly initiate in response. Because
I've seen and I've heard MGstalk about this too. Like earlier
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on in the deconditioningprocess, MGs will permiss their minds
to continue to run the show,and they'll use this manifesting
part of what they think itmeans to have that mechanic to override
sacral response. Well, I caninitiate because I'm an mg. Yeah,
you can initiate in response.But notice if that's leading you
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to frustration, you might wantto back out of that a little bit
and focus more on the sacralpiece and watch how the initiation
piece organically happens whenyou're in tune with that response
and not forcing an initiation.Now, this piece, I'm kind of adding
everything we've talked aboutto this point is like very standard
language for learning aboutthe mechanics of the aura type. The
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aura shape, open andenveloping, the strategy for the
generator waiting to respond,the theme, satisfaction, frustration,
those are all like your basicstandard ABCs of aura type. But I'm
adding this idea and we'll doit for all four aura types. I very
much see a fundamentalprerogative in the different types
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of vehicles for what it isthat body, that form is doing. And
so just saying this to say Idon't want, I like to be clear about
this is like standard sourcematerial. This is conventionally
what's taught, which has beeneverything up to this point, of course,
with my own flavor and spin onit. But this piece, this slide that
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we'll go over for each type isnot. This is like a Kelsey addendum
I see the fundamentalprerogative of the generator vehicle
as being to carry life force.Generators are the carriers of life
force as well as thecustodians of life force energy.
And I personally really vibewith this idea like there is a sacred
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nature to the role of all ofus. But with the generators specifically
we are talking about in yourown body, you are carrying life life
force and you are the parent,the custodian, the nurturer, the
keeper, the caretaker of thatlife force. You are responsible for
that fragment of life forcewithin you. Famous quote from Rao.
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Wake up generators, wake upthe world he talked about. It doesn't
matter how many manifestorsyou wake up, it doesn't matter how
many aware projectors andreflectors you have. Generators are
the majority and are thereasons that we either have satisfaction
or frustration on a planetarylevel. They are the source of the
life force, however clear ordiluted and distorted. An observation
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I've made around generators isthat 70% of the population is generators.
They say about 70% of theEarth's surface is water. And I think
it might be closer to 60, butfor the sake of my comparison here,
about 70%, somewhere between60 and 70% of the human body is water
as well. So thinking of likewater is life, water is why we have
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life on the planet. The ratioof water to everything else in the
weight of the human body, theratio of water to land on the surface
of the earth is the sameroughly as the ratio of generators
to every human body on theplanet. So generators are the water
are the life, the reason wehave life, the reason the world keeps
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spirit and a reminder of themeaning of the word sacral right
of or relating to sacred ritesor symbols. So literally the life
force within the generator issacred. And your role, your. Your
fundamental role within yourbody, within your life, is to be
the custodian of the sacredresource of life force that is within
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you. The generator builds,creates and sustains and maintains
life generators. What you arehere to utilize your precious and
sacred generative resources onis unique to you and your sacral
center. Your sacral response,your sacral resourceness, it's predisposed.
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Like your mind is not incharge of what you have life force
energy for or not. Your mindis here to be the passenger witnessing
the process of this life forcebeing expended through you. There's
a theme with generators aboutselfishness. Generators will compromise
the well being of the lifeforce within their own body to try
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to avoid seeming selfish or tooverextend themselves. Trying to
caretake others throughassumptions, conditioned assumptions
of what's actually needed forthem. When the actual generator role
is so pure and simple, reallyat its root, it's to be the custodian
of the life within you, of thesacred life force within you, to
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honor its well being, to keepit lovingly, consciously, and to
trust your own sacralindicator of where that energy wants
to go and from a conditionedhomogenized place. That will feel
selfish, but it's actually theleast selfish thing you could do
for the planet is to tend tothe sacral energy within you and
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to find your satisfaction, toallow for your satisfaction. Because
all the rest of us areamplifying either your satisfaction
or your frustration. Somethoughts on relating with generators
Here's a raw quote that Ithink says it all quite nicely. It's
helpful for the other threetypes to understand that once a generator
has committed to a task or adirection, they cannot quickly change
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gears. This piece might be alittle bit different for MGs. To
a manifestor, the generatorfeels slow and ponderous. Manifestors
like we operate on, I want todo this, I'm doing this right. That's
what an initiation is for. Amanifestor and to a projector offering
guidance may feel like thegenerator is not listening, but only
by being asked again so thatthey can respond, so that they can
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feel their sacral's response.Are generators able to disconnect
from where they are in themoment and reconnect to something
different when asked so thatthey can respond. There is a clear,
more straightforward andproductive exchange between types
so the other types and alsogenerators to other generators, learn
to ask generators good yes orno questions. This makes all the
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difference. My partner is asacral generator and I've really
learned how much easier it isfor him to be in tune with his own
body's wisdom. When I pose yesor no questions rather than like
open ended questions. Andgenerators don't only respond to
questions, right? I can tellmy partner what I'm doing and he
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can respond to that. He alsodoesn't need me. I think I have a
slide on that. Like generatorscan respond to a song, can respond
to a flower, can respond to atext message, can respond to an email.
Like it's not just humaninteraction that generators respond
to. Although that's plenty ofit. It's literally life outside of
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you. Everything that is lifeoutside of you is something for your
sacral to respond to. However,if I'm in process having an exchange
with a generator, particularlymy partner, the generator that I
See every day because I'mmostly I'm at home every day. If
you go out into the world youencounter many generators a day.
But I mostly don't go out intothe world. So I have this one generator
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that I engage with every dayand I've noticed how much more supportive
I can be for him by posingthings in yes or no rather than open
ended questions. So instead ofwhat do you want for dinner? I'll
approach it in yes or noquestions. Do you feel like cooking
tonight? Do you want to eat athome tonight? Do you have energy
to cook together or do youwant to get takeout? If we're getting
takeout, do you want to gettacos? You know like give a yes or
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no thing and allow for thatresponse. And he does that even with
himself. Like when he at thebeginning of the day is making a
list, he does a brain dump ofeverything, but then he goes through
item by item to see if there'sa response, right? So giving the
sacral something yes or no torespond to another generator quote
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as we start to to wind downhere. Generators are born to work
and to love the work they do,completely exhausting their creative
energy every day. This RAquote continues. The other three
types are looking outward. Themanifestor is focused on impacting
the projector on knowing abouthow other types use their energy
resources and the reflector onunderstanding the environment. Generators
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however aren't focused onknowing themselves and understanding
their own process. Again, veryself absorbed type by nature and
that is what is correct and issimultaneously the most responsible
and least selfish thing thatthe generator could do is to focus
on knowing your own life forceso that you can be a loving, caring,
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conscientious, aware,attendant to it, keeper of it, custodian
and carrier of it. Generatorsfind their life through their work
through understanding how theyrespond to using their daily supply
of energy. The right workactually transforms their life and
slows down the degenerativeprocess of their body. There's these
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phrases and these questionsthat go with each of the types and
I'll read them all right nowjust for the sake of comparison and
full picture context.Generators are here to know themselves.
Projectors are here to knowthe other. Manifestors are here to
know their impact. Reflectorsare here to know differentiation.
So there's these corequestions that are like the existential
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and most important questionfor each aura type to have in their
awareness. And so forgenerators that question is who am
I? Generators are here to knowthemselves. Who am I? Based on where
my life force where thissacred life force that I am the custodian
of wants to go and doesn'twant to go based on how my life force
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experiences satisfactionthrough my work projectors. Question
is, who are they? Manifestors?What is my impact? Reflectors. Who
is different? While we're kindof on this route of empowering the
Generator to be selfish, toact on their own accord, another
flavor of empowerment for theGenerator is to not conflate waiting
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to respond with doing nothingor with being at the mercy of others.
Timing. I did kind of mentionthis a couple slides ago. Your timing
is perfectly orchestrated, andyour response is your personal metronome.
So you are not dependent onsomeone else's timing or on anything
outside of you other than inways that are exactly correct for
you. So it's not codependent,it's actually interdependent for
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the Generator to respond. Andthat is when it is the case that
you're responding to anotherperson, that's not the only thing
you can respond to. Butunderstand that, like, your timing
is perfect, your body's timinghappens in response and is perfect.
And that sacral response isthe metronome to your perfectly orchestrated
timing. Another raw quotehere. It's impossible for generators
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to do nothing because they areconstantly busy generating. If they
are doing the work they love,or if they retreat from a growling
dog, or smile when a birdsings, or hum along with a tune,
or enter a conversation whenprompted, they are living in response.
Generators are designed towait, trusting that life will come
to them. They simply respondfrom the moment they get out of bed
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in the morning until they fallback into bed at night. So waiting
and responding, waiting torespond, these are not things you
have to do. Generators. Thisis just what you are. This is just
how you already operate. Soexperimenting with your strategy
of response, seeing if itbrings you more satisfaction and
less frustration, that's justa process of surrendering to what
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your body is already doing andreleasing the emphasis that you might
put in your awareness on themind's tendency to resist that or
try to negotiate or fight withit. Coming back to this idea of like,
healing from oppression andexploitative systems evolving in
another direction. We'removing as a culture, we're moving
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as a species from a period oftime where work and labor and productivity
was all happening underoppression, exploitation, power over
under systems, colonialism,late stage capitalism. We're moving
towards personal sovereignty,autonomy and interdependence. In
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the definitive book of HumanDesign, it says generators now have
the tools at their disposal tolive the role of the Builder, awake
and aware, free of oppressionand with full knowledge of their
incredible sacred sacralpotential. They can know exactly
what they are here to do andlove doing it in cooperative and
mutually beneficial ways withthe other types rather than accepting
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a power under position andallowing their life force to be exploited.
We'll leave it on this note.Our final raw quote on the Generator
type A revolution ofgenerators living completely through
response could change thefrequency on the planet from frustration
to satisfaction. This is whythe Generator's mystical path and
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contribution to humanity is towake up their sacral and to live
surrendered to its subjective truth.
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Do mgs have something incommon with manifestors? Fuck yes.
Yeah. And I really think that,like a sort of dogmatic reactionary
approach to trying to correctthat MGs are not a fifth aura type
has in some instancesrepressed a conversation around that
which MGs and manifestorsabsolutely have in common. And it's
just mechanically, objectivelytrue that MGs and manifestors both
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have this mechanic of motor tothroat definition. And so there's
things that manifestinggenerators and manifestors have in
common with their experiencebecause of that Motor to throat definition
Motor to throat definition isthe mechanics for initiation. So
manifesting generators doinitiate, as do manifestors, but
the initiation happens inresponse, not out of nowhere, not
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from within a closed aura.Response happens from an open aura,
feeling what's outside of itand responding to what's outside
of it. And so the initiationhappens underneath the umbrella of
response for the MG.
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This episode of the LivingYour Desig podcast is part two of
my lecture on the generatortype. Check out the previous episode
for the first half.
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Now I've said multiple timesalready, the sacral is the primary
intelligence of the body. Andyet the sacral is not an awareness
center, right? Some peoplehave splenic authority, some people
have solar plexus authority.Those are awareness centers. So there's
a level of awareness, ofunderstanding, of clarity that exists
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in those centers that thesacral does not. If you're a generator,
you either have sacral oremotional authority, regardless of
which one you have. Understandthat this response mechanism has
nothing to do with awareness,which means you will not be aware
of why you're responding tosomething or not responding. And
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so it's a deep leap of faithto trust that faucet, to trust that
energy or not, the presence ofenergy or not the sacral, yes or
no. And again, you do not havea consistent sense of awareness in
the moment of why that yes orno is present and where it will or
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won't lead you. You just knowwhether you have the energy for it
or not, whether you have theresponse or not. For sacral authority
generators, this would meanyou're undefined in the emotional
center, but you're defined inthe sacral. Everything is about the
sacral for you. That gutresponse governs your strategy and
your authority, and strategyand authority are it for, for the
human design experiment,they're the main thing that you are
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playing with, that you areobserving, that you are surrendering
to. And your awareness hasabsolutely nothing to do with that
primary intelligence in thesacral, that is both your strategy
and your authority foremotional authority generators, which
would mean you have both thesacral and the solar plexus. Defined
strategy is still all aboutthe sacral. That gut response aligns
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you to your timing, yourcircumstances, and your satisfaction.
However, you also have a layerof emotional energy and emotional
awareness because the solarplexus is both an energy and awareness
center, a motor and awarenesscenter, and that layer of emotional
energy and awarenessultimately transcends or maybe carries
the sacral response. I'm. Ihaven't landed on language that feels
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good or fully encompassing tome for what that is for the emotional
generator to have this gutresponse, this sacral response, governing
their strategy. But then thisadditional emotional wave of energy
and an emotional awarenessthat comes through riding that wave
for the generator, theemotional generator, there's just
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this added layer that makesthings a bit more complex for the
emotional generator. But theadded layer of emotional energy and
emotional awareness, it doesnot negate the black and white nature
of the sacral response or not.It just adds a layer of depth, a
layer of nuance complexity,and it adds a Necessity for more
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time, in many cases for theemotional generator. And we're going
to talk more about this whenwe look at emotional authority in
the next unit. So something toconsider for all generators. Sacral
is not an awareness center.And yet its response is the primary
intelligence of your body.Consider the voices of your undefined
centers. So take a moment,even right now, maybe to pause and
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think through this. Even justone, maybe two. Think about when
we went through the undefinedcenters, and they're not self voices.
Which ones really stuck out toyou? What do you remember in this
moment as being the sort ofnarrative or voice of not self in
one or more of your undefinedcenters? How do those narratives,
how do those voices of notself tend to distract you from your
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sacral response? Whether thatmeans pushing you to try to force
energy somewhere where thereisn't energy, or just distracting
you from the things that yourbody is actually really magnifying
you towards wanting you to useenergy for. Turned on about right?
It's turned on. Sacral issexual energy. It's literally you
are turned on. The faucet isturned on. Like it's not a metaphor.
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That's what's happening. Sowhat is satisfaction? Again, the
sexual peace is not ametaphor. It's a part of the function
of the sacral center. Sexualenergy isn't the only function of
the sacral center. It'screative energy, it's life force
energy. But satisfaction isessentially using your energy, using
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that sexual creative lifeforce energy in ways that feel good
to completion. That issatisfaction. Satisfaction is the
generator signature. And onthe other side of that is the generator
not self theme of frustration.The body knows what will bring satisfaction.
Generators are designed toenjoy being busy doing what they
love. And I have an asteriskon they here because you're designed
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to enjoy being busy doing whatyour sacral loves, not what you are
aware that you love, not that,not what you think you think you
think you love, which ispotentially deeply conditioned by
your not self. You're designedto enjoy being busy doing what you
love based on that sacralcenter. And through awareness, through
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experimentation, throughdeconditioning, you will become aware
of what you love. But in manycases, there can be quite a process
of departure from the thingsthat you thought you thought you
thought you thought you wantedto do that were actually rooted deeply
in not self. If you actuallylove it, it feels deeply satisfying.
Satisfaction is the feeling ofexpending your sacral energy in the
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ways that your body findspleasure in. It is through the satisfying
expenditure of energy that thegenerative property of the sacral
center operates. So again, thebody knows what will bring satisfaction
and it communicates that toyou through your sacral response
and also just through thesensation of satisfaction or not,
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if you're frustrated, thatwasn't what your body wanted to do.
Pretty simple. However, themind has its own ideas and will perpetually
attempt to hijack the sacrallife force for purposes otherwise
other than what will bring thebody satisfaction. And this mental
hijacking happens through thenarratives of the not self and the
openness. This mentalhijacking leads to frustration. Frustration
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is the feeling of sacralenergy resisting being used for purposes
other than what it organicallyhas response for. Frustration is
also the feeling of a sacralresponse or creation or outlet being
repressed. So again, just restand recovery isn't going to be generative
for the generator. Yes, restis part of it. I'm not saying that
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the generator should not rest.Rest is a crucial part of the functionality
of the sacral, a nonnegotiable part of the functionality
of the sacral. And so isenergy expenditure in satisfying
ways. So I've witnessed whatseem and feel in my body through
my amplification process to beunhealthy sacrals that are having,
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you know, chronic healthissues in this long period of rest.
And perhaps it began from aburnout place of this first piece
of sacral energy being usedfor purposes other than what it has
response for. But oftentimesthat develops into sacral energies
that's not being used. Ormaybe the burnout never even happened.
And there's for some othermind reason or a trauma reason, been
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a repression of sacral energygoing where it wants to go. So maybe
there never even was aburnout. And in fact that defined
sacral just has not had theoutlet because it has been repressed
due to trauma, due to harm,due to fear, whatever it is. And
then that sacral is not goingto be healthy, it's not going to
be in a generative state, it'sgoing to be frustrated. Frustration
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is also the feeling of pushingbeyond the point of satisfied completion
in your energy expenditure. Somaybe you do already love your job,
you love your trade, you loveyour business, you love whatever
it is you do. But yourundefined ego, or your undefined
AJNA or your undefined root,or any undefined center hijacks you
into pushing yourselfconsistently way beyond the actual
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bandwidth that you have thatday or that week or that month. And
you're gonna, you're gonnaland in frustration in that regard
as well. And all of the aboveI've already said this is also going
to diminish the sacral'sability to be regenerative. So a
moment for manifestinggenerators here. Literally everything
we've talked about up to thispoint fully applies to the manifesting
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generator to the same degreethat it does to the pure or non manifesting
generator. So let's remembermechanically what a manifesting generator
is. Manifesting generators aregenerators, AKA sacral beings who
operate naturally in response,who also have the mechanics for initiation,
which is motor to throatdefinition. And you'll see this presented
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and spoken to in lots ofdifferent ways. Some people have
very strong opinions about thefollowing. Let me give a little background
before I get into how I seeit. So there's four aura types, not
five. There are some peoplewho, from my vantage point, often
tend to be people who haven'tlike, really actually studied human
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design, who say that there arefive aura types and that manifesting
generators are a fifth auratype. That's not always true. There
are people who have likereally done the study and understand
the mechanics and still saythat there are five aura types. But
that's not what's been taught.That's not how I understand it from
a mechanical perspective. Butthen there's other people who react
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to that, who in a, who getvery, in my opinion, unnecessarily
angry and defensive about thatand are so intent on saying that
there's only four aura typesand manifesting generators are generators,
that they end up, from what Isee, kind of refusing to acknowledge
that there are things thatmanifesting generators have in common
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with manifestors by way ofhaving that shared mechanic of the
motorized throat. And so, youknow, especially mangens, you need
to experiment with this andexplore this in your own accord.
But here's how I see it, whichis based in mechanical absolutes.
Are MGs a fifth aura type? No,because they have an open and enveloping
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aura based on sacraldefinition. And again, that sacral
definition, that sacral motoris so powerful that it has such a
massive effect on the aura asa whole. And this is also how RA
and IHDS International HumanDesign School sees it. RMG is a hybrid.
Some people will say they're ahybrid type. That one feels like
maybe semantics, becausetechnically they do have the mechanic
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of sacral definition and themechanic of motor to throat definition.
However, to me, that doesn'tquite feel right. Because when we're
talking about aura type, we'retalking about the aura Shape and
functionality. And the lack ofsacral definition in the manifestor
is. It's just as big of a partof the manifestor aura mechanics
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as the motor to throatdefinition. So manifestors have a
closed and repelling aura,which is not at all like the aura
of the sacral being, includingthe manifesting generator. So personally
I don't really vibe with thethem being a hybrid way of looking
at it, but it doesn't feel asmechanically off to me as the fifth
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aura type. But do MGs havesomething in common with manifestors?
Fuck yes. Yeah. And I reallythink that like a sort of dogmatic
reactionary approach to tryingto correct that MGs are not a fifth
aura type has in someinstances repressed a conversation
around that which MGs andmanifestors absolutely have in common.
And it's just mechanically,objectively true that MGs and manifestors
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both have this mechanic ofmotor to throat definition. And so
there's things thatmanifesting generators and manifestors
have in common with theirexperience because of that motor
to throat definition. Motor tothroat definition is the mechanics
for initiation. So manifestinggenerators do initiate, as do manifestors,
but the initiation happens inresponse, not out of nowhere, not
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from within a closed auraresponse happens from an open aura,
feeling what's outside of itand responding to what's outside
of it. And so the initiationhappens underneath the umbrella of
response for the MG. Do MGshave a closed aura? Not at all. Not
at all. And this is kind ofwhy I'm like not so into the hybrid
version. Because I've watchedMGs really fresh to human design
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think that aspects of themanifestor closed and repelling aura
have something to do withthem. And that's just not true at
all. That sacral definitioncreates the energy emanating out
the open and enveloping aura.So again, it's just not, it's mechanically
Objectively true that MGs donot have a closed aura. Do MGs impact?
I believe so, because we talkabout impact via the throat center
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a lot and we talk about impactvia manifestors a lot. And in my
experience, both fromunderstanding mechanics, but also
observing the manifestinggenerators in my life, observing
their impact on me. Like amotorized throat is powered up throat.
It's a power, it's poweredwords, powered expression. And that
power is what creates impact.And so I personally do believe that
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MGs impact in a mechanicallysimilar way to manifestors impacting.
But the MG Manny impact hitsdifferent because impact comes coming
from a powered up throat withan open aura is a very different
feeling of impact than impactcoming through a motorized throat
with a closed aura. The closedaura itself is extremely impacting.
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It pushes energy out of itsway. And so yes, there's impact from
the MG through the motorizedthroat, but it's a different, I don't
want to say lesser, but it'san impact on a center's level, not
an aura level. Here's a rawquote from the definitive book of
human design. Manifestinggenerator is not a separate type,
but rather a variation of thegenerator type. It's a subtle distinction
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that lies in their auricfrequency. MGs are designed to follow
the generator strategy torespond. So what's the same between
MGs and non manifestinggenerators, Manifesting generators
and pure generators. What'sthe same? What's different? So here's
what's the same. These aregenerating types of this is a generating
type, one type with avariation energy is generated and
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regenerated. Within that typethere is consistent energy to be
available for responding tolife. These types respond. Neither
type is here to initiate fromnothing. Generators respond, Manifesting
generators respond. Andsometimes that response for a manifesting
generator includes initiationunder the umbrella of the response.
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Mgs and pure GS have an openand enveloping aura that naturally
wants to be available for lifeand response, deal with themes of
satisfaction and frustration,have a consistent non negotiable
fixed life force, and areconditioned to initiate, but are
designed to respond. Everyonewho's not a manifester is conditioned
to initiate, includingmanifesting generators. What's different
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between a pure generator and amanifesting generator is that initiation
can happen immediately inresponse. So oftentimes manifesting
generators move faster versusthe slow burn of the pure generator.
You'll hear language instudying manifesting generators.
People use studying andteaching about MGs. People use words
like shortcuts and pivots. Isort of see it, visualize it as like
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a lot of like zigzags likemanifesting generators because they
get the response and theirbody can provide them with this immediate
ability to begin in response.They might begin something over here
and then get a response andbegin something over here. So there
might be like open endedthings. The completion might be a
little more scattered. Theremight be less completion for manifesting
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generators versus for the puregenerator. The response happens and
there's just like this slowturn towards the response and then
it's just moving in thatdirection, moving in that direction
until there's another responsewhich is similar to the manifesting
generator. But the manifestinggenerator might have extra twists
and turns. And shortcuts.There's like a, an efficiency that
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shows up for the manifestinggenerator because it's response,
initiate, response, initiate,initiating in response. And mangens,
you're conditioned to initiatefrom nowhere, but you're designed
to initiate in response. Sosome things that I tend to talk about
with manifesting generators orobserve in manifesting generators
is then no one can really keepup with the manifesting generator
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because you can respond andwithin your response you can initiate.
And there's no other type thatcan show up as consistently as you
can or initiate in response.So the initiations that happen through
manifesting generators andmanifestors are different, have a
different kinds of impact. Butfor the manifestor that initiation
happens and then there's nosacral life force to fuel it in continuation.
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So with the Manifesto, there'slike this slow gestating period inside
the closed aura. And then themanifester initiates and things change.
But then the manifester can'tcarry it. It retreats back to its
closed aura. It recovers, itrests for long periods of time often,
and then is gestating, isrelaxing and gestating until that
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next initiation comes. So thedefault state for the manifestor
is rest, except for when thoseurges for initiation come. And that's
not true for the manifestinggenerator. The default state is still
to be in response, to bemoving. And initiation is something
that happens out there in theactive, available for life playing
field within that responsemode. So yeah, no one can really
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keep up with the MG. And I'veseen some, some conditioning around
that in MGs around feelinglike they need to kind of slow down
their role because they moveat a pace that is faster than most
people around them. RA taughtabout how that kind of obsession
with efficiency and shortcutsfor MG and pivoting, while it is
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mechanically correct in theirnature, it also can lead the manifesting
generator to frustrationbecause maybe they aren't completing.
And completing is a part ofwhat brings satisfaction. And so,
yeah, just something toexperiment there with. For MGs, there's
probably a really specific wayof moving in your body that feels
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like correct initiation andresponse. And I could easily see
there being conditioning foran MG that's trying to. Your conditioning
tries to slow you down. Andthat's frustrating. But I could also
see all this narrative oflike, energies are fast, they pivot,
there's shortcuts. Like, Icould also see MGs who might naturally
be a bit more slow or maybealready are pretty deconditioned
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and very in tune with thatinitiating and Response I could see
this, like, narrative andrhetoric about MGs are fast and use
shortcuts and pivot,conditioning MGs to try to do more
or pivot more. Right. So allof this is like we're looking at
it through the arena of themind. And it's your body that actually
knows which aspects of theseare true for you and when and how.
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MGs, your words have power andimpact. You literally have a motor
fueling and energizing thelanguage coming out of your throat.
And in your deconditioningprocess, mgs, your mind is going
to tell you that you caninitiate outside of response because
you're an mg. So this is why Itend to be pretty solidly in my position.
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I feel weird saying thislanguage because it feels like Ajna
stuff. And maybe there is alittle bit there. But just as a teacher
and from what I've observed, Itend to stay pretty solidly within.
Like, you're not a hybrid. Youonly initiate in response. Because
I've seen and I've heard MGstalk about this too. Like earlier
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on in the deconditioningprocess, MGs will permiss their minds
to continue to run the show,and they'll use this manifesting
part of what they think itmeans to have that mechanic to override
sacral response. Well, I caninitiate because I'm an mg. Yeah,
you can initiate in response.But notice if that's leading you
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to frustration, you might wantto back out of that a little bit
and focus more on the sacralpiece and watch how the initiation
piece organically happens whenyou're in tune with that response
and not forcing an initiation.Now, this piece, I'm kind of adding
everything we've talked aboutto this point is like very standard
language for learning aboutthe mechanics of the aura type. The
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aura shape, open andenveloping, the strategy for the
generator waiting to respond,the theme, satisfaction, frustration,
those are all like your basicstandard ABCs of aura type. But I'm
adding this idea and we'll doit for all four aura types. I very
much see a fundamentalprerogative in the different types
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of vehicles for what it isthat body, that form is doing. And
so just saying this to say Idon't want, I like to be clear about
this is like standard sourcematerial. This is conventionally
what's taught, which has beeneverything up to this point, of course,
with my own flavor and spin onit. But this piece, this slide that
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we'll go over for each type isnot. This is like a Kelsey addendum
I see the fundamentalprerogative of the generator vehicle
as being to carry life force.Generators are the carriers of life
force as well as thecustodians of life force energy.
And I personally really vibewith this idea like there is a sacred
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nature to the role of all ofus. But with the generators specifically
we are talking about in yourown body, you are carrying life life
force and you are the parent,the custodian, the nurturer, the
keeper, the caretaker of thatlife force. You are responsible for
that fragment of life forcewithin you. Famous quote from Rao.
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Wake up generators, wake upthe world he talked about. It doesn't
matter how many manifestorsyou wake up, it doesn't matter how
many aware projectors andreflectors you have. Generators are
the majority and are thereasons that we either have satisfaction
or frustration on a planetarylevel. They are the source of the
life force, however clear ordiluted and distorted. An observation
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I've made around generators isthat 70% of the population is generators.
They say about 70% of theEarth's surface is water. And I think
it might be closer to 60, butfor the sake of my comparison here,
about 70%, somewhere between60 and 70% of the human body is water
as well. So thinking of likewater is life, water is why we have
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life on the planet. The ratioof water to everything else in the
weight of the human body, theratio of water to land on the surface
of the earth is the sameroughly as the ratio of generators
to every human body on theplanet. So generators are the water
are the life, the reason wehave life, the reason the world keeps
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spirit and a reminder of themeaning of the word sacral right
of or relating to sacred ritesor symbols. So literally the life
force within the generator issacred. And your role, your. Your
fundamental role within yourbody, within your life, is to be
the custodian of the sacredresource of life force that is within
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you. The generator builds,creates and sustains and maintains
life generators. What you arehere to utilize your precious and
sacred generative resources onis unique to you and your sacral
center. Your sacral response,your sacral resourceness, it's predisposed.
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Like your mind is not incharge of what you have life force
energy for or not. Your mindis here to be the passenger witnessing
the process of this life forcebeing expended through you. There's
a theme with generators aboutselfishness. Generators will compromise
the well being of the lifeforce within their own body to try
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to avoid seeming selfish or tooverextend themselves. Trying to
caretake others throughassumptions, conditioned assumptions
of what's actually needed forthem. When the actual generator role
is so pure and simple, reallyat its root, it's to be the custodian
of the life within you, of thesacred life force within you, to
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honor its well being, to keepit lovingly, consciously, and to
trust your own sacralindicator of where that energy wants
to go and from a conditionedhomogenized place. That will feel
selfish, but it's actually theleast selfish thing you could do
for the planet is to tend tothe sacral energy within you and
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to find your satisfaction, toallow for your satisfaction. Because
all the rest of us areamplifying either your satisfaction
or your frustration. Somethoughts on relating with generators
Here's a raw quote that Ithink says it all quite nicely. It's
helpful for the other threetypes to understand that once a generator
has committed to a task or adirection, they cannot quickly change
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gears. This piece might be alittle bit different for MGs. To
a manifestor, the generatorfeels slow and ponderous. Manifestors
like we operate on, I want todo this, I'm doing this right. That's
what an initiation is for. Amanifestor and to a projector offering
guidance may feel like thegenerator is not listening, but only
by being asked again so thatthey can respond, so that they can
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feel their sacral's response.Are generators able to disconnect
from where they are in themoment and reconnect to something
different when asked so thatthey can respond. There is a clear,
more straightforward andproductive exchange between types
so the other types and alsogenerators to other generators, learn
to ask generators good yes orno questions. This makes all the
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difference. My partner is asacral generator and I've really
learned how much easier it isfor him to be in tune with his own
body's wisdom. When I pose yesor no questions rather than like
open ended questions. Andgenerators don't only respond to
questions, right? I can tellmy partner what I'm doing and he
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can respond to that. He alsodoesn't need me. I think I have a
slide on that. Like generatorscan respond to a song, can respond
to a flower, can respond to atext message, can respond to an email.
Like it's not just humaninteraction that generators respond
to. Although that's plenty ofit. It's literally life outside of
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you. Everything that is lifeoutside of you is something for your
sacral to respond to. However,if I'm in process having an exchange
with a generator, particularlymy partner, the generator that I
See every day because I'mmostly I'm at home every day. If
you go out into the world youencounter many generators a day.
But I mostly don't go out intothe world. So I have this one generator
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that I engage with every dayand I've noticed how much more supportive
I can be for him by posingthings in yes or no rather than open
ended questions. So instead ofwhat do you want for dinner? I'll
approach it in yes or noquestions. Do you feel like cooking
tonight? Do you want to eat athome tonight? Do you have energy
to cook together or do youwant to get takeout? If we're getting
takeout, do you want to gettacos? You know like give a yes or
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no thing and allow for thatresponse. And he does that even with
himself. Like when he at thebeginning of the day is making a
list, he does a brain dump ofeverything, but then he goes through
item by item to see if there'sa response, right? So giving the
sacral something yes or no torespond to another generator quote
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as we start to to wind downhere. Generators are born to work
and to love the work they do,completely exhausting their creative
energy every day. This RAquote continues. The other three
types are looking outward. Themanifestor is focused on impacting
the projector on knowing abouthow other types use their energy
resources and the reflector onunderstanding the environment. Generators
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however aren't focused onknowing themselves and understanding
their own process. Again, veryself absorbed type by nature and
that is what is correct and issimultaneously the most responsible
and least selfish thing thatthe generator could do is to focus
on knowing your own life forceso that you can be a loving, caring,
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conscientious, aware,attendant to it, keeper of it, custodian
and carrier of it. Generatorsfind their life through their work
through understanding how theyrespond to using their daily supply
of energy. The right workactually transforms their life and
slows down the degenerativeprocess of their body. There's these
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phrases and these questionsthat go with each of the types and
I'll read them all right nowjust for the sake of comparison and
full picture context.Generators are here to know themselves.
Projectors are here to knowthe other. Manifestors are here to
know their impact. Reflectorsare here to know differentiation.
So there's these corequestions that are like the existential
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and most important questionfor each aura type to have in their
awareness. And so forgenerators that question is who am
I? Generators are here to knowthemselves. Who am I? Based on where
my life force where thissacred life force that I am the custodian
of wants to go and doesn'twant to go based on how my life force
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experiences satisfactionthrough my work projectors. Question
is, who are they? Manifestors?What is my impact? Reflectors. Who
is different? While we're kindof on this route of empowering the
Generator to be selfish, toact on their own accord, another
flavor of empowerment for theGenerator is to not conflate waiting
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to respond with doing nothingor with being at the mercy of others.
Timing. I did kind of mentionthis a couple slides ago. Your timing
is perfectly orchestrated, andyour response is your personal metronome.
So you are not dependent onsomeone else's timing or on anything
outside of you other than inways that are exactly correct for
you. So it's not codependent,it's actually interdependent for
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the Generator to respond. Andthat is when it is the case that
you're responding to anotherperson, that's not the only thing
you can respond to. Butunderstand that, like, your timing
is perfect, your body's timinghappens in response and is perfect.
And that sacral response isthe metronome to your perfectly orchestrated
timing. Another raw quotehere. It's impossible for generators
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to do nothing because they areconstantly busy generating. If they
are doing the work they love,or if they retreat from a growling
dog, or smile when a birdsings, or hum along with a tune,
or enter a conversation whenprompted, they are living in response.
Generators are designed towait, trusting that life will come
to them. They simply respondfrom the moment they get out of bed
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in the morning until they fallback into bed at night. So waiting
and responding, waiting torespond, these are not things you
have to do. Generators. Thisis just what you are. This is just
how you already operate. Soexperimenting with your strategy
of response, seeing if itbrings you more satisfaction and
less frustration, that's justa process of surrendering to what
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your body is already doing andreleasing the emphasis that you might
put in your awareness on themind's tendency to resist that or
try to negotiate or fight withit. Coming back to this idea of like,
healing from oppression andexploitative systems evolving in
another direction. We'removing as a culture, we're moving
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as a species from a period oftime where work and labor and productivity
was all happening underoppression, exploitation, power over
under systems, colonialism,late stage capitalism. We're moving
towards personal sovereignty,autonomy and interdependence. In
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the definitive book of HumanDesign, it says generators now have
the tools at their disposal tolive the role of the Builder, awake
and aware, free of oppressionand with full knowledge of their
incredible sacred sacralpotential. They can know exactly
what they are here to do andlove doing it in cooperative and
mutually beneficial ways withthe other types rather than accepting
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a power under position andallowing their life force to be exploited.
We'll leave it on this note.Our final raw quote on the Generator
type A revolution ofgenerators living completely through
response could change thefrequency on the planet from frustration
to satisfaction. This is whythe Generator's mystical path and
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contribution to humanity is towake up their sacral and to live
surrendered to its subjective truth.
Thanks for listening to theLiving Your Desig podcast. Stay
tuned for the rest of thecurriculum. New batches of episodes
are released every Tuesday.For immediate complete access to
the full course and to exploreother perks like learning and community,
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extracurricular, astrology andhuman design workshops, and meeting
with me face to face, go topatreon.com/KelseyRoseTort. you can
also listen to me on my otherpodcasts, the Maia Games and Conversations
with the Zodiac, and find meon Instagram @kelseyrosetort.
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