Love Affair with Light

A love affair with the light. Direct Light. The absolute easiest for me write about. The thing, that after being told I was a projector energy type was the most resonant in my system.

Light and I are in a constant dance. I chase it. I crave it. I am enthralled in its ever evolving nature. The way light touches something and completely changes the reality. The tango it does with the shadows on the wall. The way it keeps time moving in front of my eyes. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t need the light to be right. To be to my taste. All of these things, this relationship I have with light pre-dates my awareness of Human Design. It’s a fascination I have naturally.

I am drawn to the mornings. To the changing of the light - the rising and the setting. I feel most alive in the morning light. And I am naturally less receptive in the dark. These tendencies again, pre-date my awareness of Human Design.

I love that about this system. I love that it manages to reach into my natural tendencies and confirm something I was already gravitating towards as something that is correct for me. Something I already knew was correct for me. My determination is Direct Light. And it makes soo. Much. Sense.

I digest things more easily in the morning, during the day, in the light - food, information. I find my flow in the day. Even though, I had a natural inclination towards the light there were (and who are we kidding, are) times when I fall into the practiced norms that don’t exactly revere this part of my design like they should. This is the part of the experiment that make me trust the process so much more. Playing with things like direct light in my day, confirms just how my system is supposed to function. Free of discomfort. Easily digesting the things around me.

It is abundantly clear to me that I’m lucky (or am I in the right environment, around the right energy using my right determination and cognition to guide). I have found that I can eat most things and digest them. With the exception of a time when I was making dietary choices to align with a certain personality or a certain character in the world (in which I would then convince myself I couldn’t digest certain things) my body doesn’t struggle with digestion. Unless. I eat after dark.

I’ve always sort of known this. But I was never religious in the execution of direct light eating. Oh, husband is getting home a little late, I’ll wait to eat together. Regardless of what the meal was (could be the lightest of light salads) and I would still feel weighed down. It is incredible, the difference in my body when I honour that particular aspect of my design. A natural inclination was great, but a weightlessness when intentionally played with is life giving.

I played with this experiment while on a recent holiday and without a doubt it was confirmed each time. I’m curiously now playing with the type of food I eat at different times of the day. Does it get even more delicious if I lighten my “evening” meal (which I aim to now have at 4pm). Does it feel even more nourishing to eat things grown in the light? What about sitting in the sun while I eat? Do I absorb information better with the sun on my face? Does my work flow more easily when I do it at the sunny outdoor table? All delicious pieces of my experiment.

Determination isn’t necessarily something you’d learn about straight away on your human design journey. It certainly wasn’t in the first reading I got. It’s no where to be mentioned in the definitive book of HD. But to me, it is such a confirmation of the system. And one of the easiest things to experiment with. Can I feed myself (food, information, people) in the right way? And how does that effect the way that I metabolise those things. Does it increase their nutrition in my system and my ability to absorb them in their potency. These are the sorts of questions I live to play with. Because to me, these are the sorts of things that lead to my lightness. My ability to thrive in my life. And by happy byproduct, my ability to perpetuate my possibility view of “how good could it actually get”. Determination feels like a little stepping stone to that pondering.

Determination - the way your vehicle is designed to take in information, food and other nourishment. Determination is part of the Primary Health System which aims to optimise the brains development and capacity.