Episode 400

Hello, and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design. Everyone, I am so happy to be here because this is our 400th episode. So I’m going to do a little bit of a celebration here. I am so, like, proud of what we’ve accomplished with this show. I can’t believe we’ve done 400 episodes and I’ve done so many of them solo. So it’s been a lot of you listening to me. Whether you are a longtime listener, a loyal listener, where you listen to every episode, or if this is your first one, I just want you to know how grateful I am for this show. I’m so grateful for every single person who gave me time in their day and allowed me to, you know, chug along with you in your earbuds. And you gave me the gift of being able to share my gifts through this show. 

I am forever grateful. So thank you. And I just want to say, like, this show has changed my business. We have had 170,000 downloads for this show. I looked it up before we hopped on, and I’m incredibly proud of that. And I’m in awe of the fact that many people wanted to hear from me and cared about what I had to say. And I hope that this show has touched your lives. I hope that it’s helped you live more in alignment with who you are, touch your potential, and start to peel back the layers. That’s really what human design is about. 

And what we try to help you do on this show is to build that aligned and profitable business, but also to really, at the core of everything is trying to help you peel back the layers that are keeping you from your God given potential. And so I wanted, you know, with this milestone episode, I wanted to make sure that we centered this episode around something that I love deeply and that was deeply connected to that mission and that purpose here. So I chose to talk about the magic of the gene keys in this episode because the gene keys are something that is. They are a system that is so near and dear to my heart. They are at the center of everything that I do. I know we talk about human design a lot on here. That is the main thing. 

However, gene keys are just as much a part of my everyday as human design is. And for those of you who don’t know, so I’m going to cover in the episode, I’m going to cover what gene keys are. I’m going to talk to you about how I use them and how I work with them. We’ll talk about the sequences, the main sequences, and I’ll get into just some of the ways that this has shifted things for me and for my clients. So what are the gene keys? First of all, for those of you who don’t know, who aren’t familiar with the gene keys are kind of like a sister program to human design. They are very much connected. Richard Rudd, who created the gene keys, he was a student of RA who was the founder of human design. 

So he was a human design person first and then he got the kind of think he channeled the gene keys, he got some sort of, I calls them transmissions. But the gene keys, there are 64 gene keys and gene keys are synonymous with gates. So there are 64 gates in the human design chart. You’ll see when you look at your chart, there’s all the numbers in all of the different centers. They represent sub themes of the energetic theme of the center. There are 64 of them. The gates are the same. So when you look at your chart and you see gate two in the G center, that’s gene key two. So they are exactly the same. Some people are like, are they different? They are not. 

And I know this can be a little bit mysterious, so that’s why I want to break this down. So they are synonymous. So why did I became a gene keys guide? I am certified as a gene keys guide. The reason that I think gene keys are so powerful is they really represent like the poetry of life and the poetry of our chart. And just the whimsical nature of this human design can be very strategic. I look at them as like human design is kind of the masculine energy behind living in alignment. Because I look at human design, there’s a lot of like, if this, then do that. Here’s how you feel this. If you feel this, then go. If you feel this, then stop. It can be a little bit more mental. 

You can get pushed into your head a little bit, even though it’s not meant to do that. And it can make you feel a little bit like you need to get it right. There’s a right way and there’s a wrong way. I, I think that’s how it’s set up. Of course that’s not how it’s meant to be. But that’s, I think, how people can feel. But I think that the human design, one of the benefits is that it does kind of give you a clear process to follow, which I think is helpful. So if you can get out of feeling like you’re getting it wrong, and you can just experiment with like, okay, I get it. This is how it works. All right? I didn’t get it there, but now I know what to do. I think human design gives us that. 

Where I think human design falls short is in the gates, when they describe the gates. So when Ra described the gates, if you’ve heard him lecture and you’ve heard him talk about them or you’ve seen them, you know, the definitions that he written anywhere, you probably had a similar experience, like I did, where you read a gate or two or three or all of them, and you were like, oh, shit, I’m doomed. Like, this is going to be bad. Because they do sound very negative. His definitions in particular, I think they speak more to the conditioning of them than to the potential. And then you have somebody like Karen Curry Parker, who’s created Quantum human design, and she only talks about the positive side of things. So she had the same reaction to Roz definitions. 

And she’s like, I’m going to write a whole new version. I’m going to write my interpretations of these things, but I’m going to make it sound better. I’m going to make it sound more in alignment with potential. Wonderful intention behind that, but I think that sometimes get missed there too. There were still some things when I read her definitions, I’m thinking about one channel. I think it was in particular, it was either the channel or it was gate 48. And she talked about the shadow and she talked about how people generally who have this channel feel really inadequate. And that was true for me, but she didn’t tell me anything about where else could go. I think that they’re usually incomplete. They’re either erring on this completely positive, or they only highlight the negative. 

And what Richard Rudd does with the Gene Keys is one. I think his contemplations are so rich around all of these gates, all of these keys that are like gates that we are unlocking that open us up to the potential that is us. What are the 64 pieces of potential? And which ones do you have? Which ones do you have? Maybe a lot of that might be a key you want to turn really early on. You want to start working on that gate, because there’s probably some real magic behind that. Gate for you. And the way that he describes them, he gives them a frequency band. So for every gate, he gives the shadow expression, the gift expression, and then what we call the city, which is like the enlightened state for that gate. 

So let’s talk about what this looks like when we are in low expression, when we are living in the gift. And then if we can even touch that, like, enlightened Buddha state of the city. He gives a really rich description behind all three of them for every single gate. And like I said, he’s very poetic in the way that he talks about them. And I think that this lends to the feminine side of exploring your design. So we have the masculine side of, like, the structure and how we do it with human design. And then gene keys come in and they say, well, how can we softly look at this stuff and just sort of swim in all of this possibility and all the ways that these things could go? 

And I think that there is a richness that without the gene keys, I think that it would be difficult to really touch your potential with human design without diving into the gene keys. I think that he’s added something irreplaceable. And, I mean, perhaps I’m biased. Richard Rhett and I actually have the same conscious sun. So this gate 64 is both our life’s work for both of us. So we speak the same language, so to speak. I think that I’m very receptive to his way of approaching this. Because our city state is illumination. We have the ability to illuminate a new path. And I think that is exactly what he’s done with these keys. The explanations that he gives open you up to kind of a new world behind this. 

Rather than just thinking about how it’s operating in your world and whether it’s good or bad, he gives you this kind of mystical depth. Walk through all of your potentials, and it’s beautiful. I think that it’s similar to me as, like, the depth of and the mysticism of, like, astrology. But I think it’s simpler to follow. I think you need to learn astrology. Whereas the gene keys, you could open the gene keys book, you have gate 22 in your conscious sun, can open the gene keys book, open it to 22 and read it and get something from that. With astrology, I think it’s a little bit more intimidating for people that they don’t understand how it all works. And with this, I think it’s a little bit of a simpler path for people to understand. I’m not Saying it’s better. 

I’m just saying it’s simpler. It was simpler for me. So within the gene keys there are three main sequences or paths. There are more. Richard Red has continued to create more paths and they’re wonderful. But the three main ones that I work with are the activation sequence, which is about unlocking your genius. Then there is the Venus sequence, which is about your emotional path and relationships. That is the longest of the paths. It is the most in depth. I think that there is a lot of richness there if you are somebody who had relationship issues or. I think the Venus sequence can be really beautiful for deconditioning work. You want to know where you have deep dark stuff going on and have a greater understanding of it. The Venus sequence is a really beautiful path to walk. And then you have the prosperity sequence. 

This is the pearl sequence. And this is. I use a lot of this. I use the activation sequence and the pearl sequence the most in my authority matrix and in my program. Inside Business by design is mostly those two. But when I’m working with people, I don’t discriminate. I’m not like, oh well, I don’t really use that one. Whatever. Somebody, if I’m coaching someone, if they’re sitting in front of me and they’re talking about a problem, I have their chart up and I’m looking at their chart and if I notice something that is about relationships, I might go look at one of their spheres from one of their gene keys from the Venus sequence. 

And I may or may not share that with them, but it’s how I might come up with the questions that I ask them would be around the energy behind that gate, the over experience. This. What does this mean to you? Can I ask you this? And I’m getting those questions. I’m able to ask people better questions because I understand the intricacies of these gates through the gene keys. So each of the sequences is a distinct path of evolution in these areas. The activation sequence is the first one. That’s the one that kind of activates your genius and the main gifts of your incarnation. Cross. The Venus sequence is going to evolve you really as a human. It’s very human. And then the pearl sequence evolves you in your business, in your prosperity. 

So the reason I became a gene keys guide was because I don’t know how to do this work without it. And I really wanted to have the depth of knowledge and understanding of these if I was going to incorporate it into my business. And plus I find it fun. So I was Happy to do the program. And for me, the way that I work, when I talk about Gates, I’m talking about the gene Keys. And what Gene Keys has done for me is allowed me to read those definitions or to get other people’s perspectives, other experts, perspectives on the different Gates and hear those. And because I understand them through the Gene Keys, those other explanations become a whole lot clearer, become a whole lot richer. And I understand the essence of them so much more because I understand that entire breath. 

We’re not just talking about, you know, the gift or just the shadow. Here’s the reason why this is always going to be a problem for you. That’s how a lot of Ra’s stuff would come across, at least to me. I see it differently now because I understand it more. But in the beginning, when it’s the first thing that you encounter, it’s not welcoming. It doesn’t make you feel great about where you’re going. My conscious sun is the gate of confusion. My unconscious Mars and my Mercury gate are the 29th gate. The gate of the abysmal is what it’s called. They don’t sound encouraging. They sound like a death sentence. And it’s the gene keys that made me see. Oh, okay, I get how I might fall into the shadow, but the gift is still present. 

And that leads me to, I think one of the most profound things I’ve ever heard comes from Richard Redd and the gene Keys. He says, every shadow contains a gift. Oh, my heart, what hope that gave me. And it changed how I looked at personal development. It changed how I looked at this system. So by giving us that frequency band of shadow, gift and city, showing us that our potential can. And this is where I talk about all the time, how I see everything on the chart as a dial that is either turned low to a low frequency or turned all the way up to a GIF or a city. It’s Richard Rudd that gave me the ability to see things that way, rather just feeling like something I would battle forever. And that we have the ability to. 

To touch all of those frequencies. With enough love, compassion, attention, awareness, and contemplation, we can find our magic in those places and we can turn that dial. And that’s how we become the best version of ourselves. That’s how we start to show up more in our gifts than in our shadows. Because it can be very difficult to be self aware of everything, right? So a lot of people will tell you, like, oh, self awareness is important. Self awareness is important. I think self awareness is One of the most important things, self awareness, though, when you’re trying to be aware of everything that you’ve ever read in a book, was it that was an undesirable behavior or something? Self awareness can really turn into self criticism very easily. We become aware of something and we think we’re wrong. 

What Gene Keys taught me was that if I could become aware of very specific things, these are my specific low frequency things, these are my low frequency energies, these are my tendencies. Probably my habits are going to be associated with these. Can I become aware of them? And then if I become aware of them, can I graduate to understanding? Well, what’s the flip side of this? If tails is low frequency, heads is a gift. Okay, same coin. What’s the other side of this? I no longer looked at myself with criticism. I started to look at myself with curiosity. And that’s what we open up inside my containers. And, and that is completely because of the Gene Keys. That is the inspiration behind all of it. So I encourage you to go and dive into your Gene Keys if you buy the Gene Keys books. 

They are very helpful. If you’re looking for help with that is what we do inside of all three tiers of Business by Design. Business by Design is my one year mentorship. We have three tiers to it, depending on how much work you want to do with us. Do you want to do strategic work? Do you want to do mainly energetic work? What do you want that to look like? And every single level has coaching with me. So if you’re interested in the Gene Keys and you want help with it, those are the places that I would go. If you want information on that, we’ll link that up in the show notes for you. 

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