Everybody‘s role changes depending on whether they are in a collective situation, an individual situation, or a tribal situation. All the work that I do on expanding the understanding of the Personality is to bring everybody the opportunity to see the mapping of how they operate.

When you see what the archetype is, you will see that every human being is predisposed to differentiate. This is the great law that Human Design presents as a science—that we are all born with both a physical and Personality potential to differentiate, and differentiation is the ultimate goal: to express the purpose of our uniqueness.

It is easy in some ways for the vehicle because it only needs to follow Strategy and Authority. But for the Personality this is quite a process because it requires clear lines of demarcation to be able to see. The way you live out your being is a movement between different roles for different situations. The moment your passenger actually sees that at work, this is one of those surrendering potentials for the passenger.

So often you hear this said about the relationship of adults with their parents; how they would finally like to be able to talk to them, or treat them, or be treated by them. And the moment they get into that environment they just take on that role, it is natural. The tribal role is quite something, it connects viscerally into the vehicle.

It‘s one of the most fascinating things about your body. Your body has a predisposition to align itself to an environment that nurtures its difference. Part of what is your difference is the Personality seeing clearly that you cannot have the same role for every situation. You cannot have the same role as mother as you do as lover.

The moment that you do, the moment you descend into the conditioning of that, you can be pulled away from, or conditioned to believe that your role as this thing or that thing should be different. And that somehow there should be a unified mask that you present to the outside world, and there isn‘t.
It‘s part of our magic.

Ra Uru Hu was the Human Design System’s founder and messenger. Ra dedicated 25 years of his life to the development and teaching of the System around the world until he passed away in 2011.