Yes, Projectors DO Take Everything Personally
It is inherent in the Projector design, so learn to work with it, not against it
Human Design has showed me time and time again that we’re each here to EXPRESS ourselves. If you are a Projector? Underline that, add bold type and print it out full page.
If you were put on earth as a Projector — you have a fascinating path to follow in life. We were not put here to love our work as a Generator does, nor are we here to initiate like a Manifestor, and while we might think we’re similar, we’re also not here to detachedly observe and report like a Reflector.
If there’s anything I know about being a Projector, it’s that we seem to take things the most personally of all the energy types — and the unfortunate(?) truth is, it’s inherent in our design.
If I were to make one of those iconic “hang in there” posters for us, it would read: PROJECTORS, WE HAVE A DOG IN THIS FIGHT!
Projectors are designed to make things personal- In my experience and experiment as a Projector, you cannot pierce an aura without making it personal. Ra notably said in one of his Projector keynotes, that we are the most fucked up energy type — and I’m not here to dispute that at all, in fact when I listened to that keynote I laughed so hard, it made me feel so seen.
Yes, we’ve got the most at stake, but we’ve also perhaps have the most to gain from learning how to harness our individual energy mechanics as Projectors.
I’m here to defend our strange innerworkings and say LET’S GET EVEN WEIRDER AND MORE PERSONAL! Yes, the world can really do a number on us! Absolutely! Everything About the Projector is PERSONAL and we live in a Generator world! Until we learn to work with and nurture our unique mechanics, we’ll continue to get dog-piled on and misunderstood by the greater society.
If you are a Projector — There are 6 major elements that you need to understand in order to properly function in alignment with self:
- The Projector Aura and Energy Type — The WAY your energy operates on the Macro-level, commonly referred to as Aura Mechanics in the Human Design world
- Attention — this is the gift and precious resource that all Projectors are given while in a Projector aura.
- Guiding — the FUNCTION — Projectors serve is to guide the energy of others
- Recognition — Projectors must properly be recognized in order to accept correct invitations
- Invitation — the strategy for Projectors is to wait for the invitation, which means recognition of what is the right invitation opportunity and what is an invitation to turn down
- Being Seen — in order to be recognized and invited, Projectors must allow themselves to be found and seen by others
A NOTE ON THIS LIST — Everything about being a Projector is BOTH a linear and cyclical process. Each of these elements work together and build together to create the Projector experience.
1) PROJECTOR AURA MECHANICS
Let’s set the table — here’s how a Projector is designed to function
Mechanically, the aura of a Projector is a piercing and absorbing 1:1 energetic connection. The aura of a Projector is designed to cut through the other aura. In Human Design literature this process is typically referred to as Penetration.
This process is inherently personal. The aura is designed to work as a 1:1 connection. When the connection is invited, it is a powerful vortex. However, if the connection was not properly set up, it is typically both painful and awkward for the Projector.
What happens when connection is made? After the aura pierces and connects to the other aura, information can be read and the connection is felt by both the Projector that is penetrating and the aura who’s aura is being penetrated. All of the Projector’s attention is focused and funneled into the other person. It is intense, it is deep, it is PENETRATING.
As you can imagine and as you’ve likely experienced as a Projector, things can go wrong, things can be misinterpreted, and the experience of Projector attention and penetration is not the typical experience for most people. In contrast, the aura for Generators is designed to be more impersonal and handle multiple auras at one time.
Projectors must get consent prior to connection (penetration) — that consent comes in the form of recognition and the invitation.
Once the recognition stage has been passed and the invitation has been offered, The Projector then correctly enters the aura of the other. When properly recognized and invited in, the Projector then has access to the information contained within the aura.
The Projector is uniquely skilled in energetic information exchange — while the ability to read the energy information contained within the aura is a powerful skill and innate talent, it comes at a great cost- the partner of the piercing nature is an ABSORBING effect.
When Projectors are reading, they are reading through literal energetic osmosis. The cost of energetic intelligence is energetic residue. Just as we’ve been coached to have safe sex, we must also learn to engage in safe energetic exchange as Projectors.
Why is this the Projector Design?
The Projector is a visionary, a seer, able to bring a new paradigm- but you are not here to convince anyone of this. If you try to convince people, you only push your progress back.
Projectors are the purveyors of the most potent drug on the planet: ATTENTION
2) PROJECTOR ATTENTION
A Projector’s attention is their most potent and powerful asset.
Projectors are designed to pay and give attention unlike any other energy type — it is our form and our function. Our attention must be respected and regarded by the Projector as the most precious asset that it is.
Each energy type has their own energy type gift, for example Generators and Manifesting-Generators carry the life-force energy of the sacral center. Reflectors do not have defined energy centers, so they are able to take an environmental temperature unlike any other aura type, Manifestors have an ability to direct and funnel their energy through the defined manifestation (throat) center, and Projectors? We have attention.
Attention must be trained and focused on one person at a time post recognition and invitation. It is simply respecting the mechanics. If the aura is powerful enough to penetrate, you must consider yourself a powerful tool, like a knife. You must learn to use yourself as a tool. Any tool can become an object or harm if not harnessed correctly. Just as a surgeon needs training, permission, and can only work on one patient at a time, it is the same for a well-trained Projector. Respect your energy, your time, your talents, your gifts.
3) GUIDING — THE PROJECTOR’S ROLE IN SOCIETY
Attention has an end goal — the Projector is here to guide, but in order to properly guide, a Projector must first be correctly RECOGNIZED AND INVITED.
Never Forget — The purpose of this design is to direct and guide. We pierce an aura to direct and guide UPON REQUEST, not by Machiavellian opportunity exploitation. Each type has its own gift to give, but like all the folk lore, all great powers can be used incorrectly and to grave effect. Projectors not only can harm the other by peircing without permission, but they simultaneously harm themselves. If we were to make a parallel to nature, what comes to mind is the eagle death spiral.
4) PROJECTOR RECOGNITION
RECOGNITION IS THE CRITICAL FIRST STEP. IT IS THE FOUNDATION UPON WHICH A HEALTHY INVITATION IS BUILT. Without proper recognition, the invitation cannot be correct. AND NO MATTER HOW GOOD YOUR IDEAS ARE…THIS RECOGNITION ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BE DONE BY FORCE!
5) THE INVITATION
Recognition must precede the invitation, but in order for you as the Projector to correctly follow your authority to suss out the correct recognition and invitation, your nervous system has to be able to not only accept and receive recognition but also hold that recognition.
6) BEING SEEN AS A PROJECTOR
The Invitation and Recognition is a misleading strategy, as it buries the lede. In order to get to a place where you can receive both recognition and invitations, Projectors must first be SEEN.
So, not only does this assume you have a nervous system that can accept and hold attention, but it’s also working on the assumption that you are in your correct energy, knowing what your unique talent and function is.
From my work in the field with my Human Design clients, most Projectors (myself included) are stuck at this point in the process.
Reluctant to escape from the shadows, tentively peeking out from a place of safety as being “seen” in the past has come with negative energetic consequences. Most of us haven’t been trained or taught that we feel things differently because of our individual Projector aura mechanics. Because of this, we’ve suffered emotional, psychological, and physical consquences from accepting the wrong invitations, forcing ourselves to live like Generators, and operating completely from our not-self energy forms.
The terrain for Projectors is a bit like sea turtles making if off the beach. The lauchpad is treacherous, with many opportunities for harm. More reasons to fail than succeed. Making it as a Projector has to have some pretty intense odds.
Projectors seem to have the most fragile energy systems because of the specialised work we are designed to do. Designed to cut into the auras of others, you can think of a Projector almost like an energetic surgeon. As such, we are meant to be discerning with our energy (perhaps even downright stingy with it) so as to use it with precision. We are meant to rest until called into action, taking our most precious resource, attention, and dispersing it as if it were gold. However, the deep conditioning to “keep up” and perform in traditionally understood ways burns out and breaks Projectors. When we ignore our energy limits and override our natural energy resources, we pay dearly.
YES, THIS FEELS CONFRONTING. YES, THIS MIGHT MAKE YOU FEEL DESPAIR, BUT NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TRY TO REWIRE YOUR WORLD, YOU ARE A PROJECTOR AND ENERGY MECHANICS ARE THE ONLY THING NOT PERSONAL ABOUT YOU. YOU WERE BORN A PROJECTOR, YOU WILL DIE A PROJECTOR.
A PROJECTOR MUST LEARN TO BE CORRECTLY RECOGNIZED FIRST TO BE CORRECTLY INVITED TO CONNECT TO ANOTHER AURA. END OF INSTRUCTION.
Since most Projectors are untrained in energy mechanics, being surrounded and raised by Generators (most likely), The Projector can spend an inordinate amount of time confused as to why “the rules” do not seem to apply to them the same way. The world feels personal to you because it is. Use the not self theme of bitterness to alert you to the ways in which you are not being seen, which absolutely includes how you are not seeing yourself.
For the other energy types, they can have limited patience with Projectors, writing them off for being overly sensitive, being difficult, and confusing. It is difficult to understand the personal nature of recognition and invitation, unless that is also your personal energy mechanism.
If you are a Projector, understanding these mechanics is going to make life make a lot more sense.
Learn what your authority is so that you can understand how you own unique guidance system is set up.
As a Projector, I love working with other Projectors — if you’d like to get a reading, reach out and say hello — find me by email at hello@jenigage.com
