For those of you who are aren't into Human Design aren't going to know what I'm talking about but, if you feel inclined, you can google Human Design, to know what it is. I love it as it helps me more capable dealing with other people who may otherwise irritate me.

The end of last week and thru the weekend, I worked on some legal crap with my aunt who is a 4/1 Splenic Manifestor. I'm a 3/5 Splenic Projector. I've been told I'm a lot like my aunt, which I wasn't too thrilled to hear. But, I can see now why that is.

Her and I have the same difficult channels and gates. Such as the Judgement and Alpha Channels, along with the Gate of Opinions, Gate of Provoking. We also have the Gate of Struggle and Gate of Depth. After doing a connection chart, we have 4 attraction channels, 2 friendship channels, no dominance channels and 1 compromise channel... the money line.. not sure how that ends up working out... She has the money channel and I have one gate of that channel.

Those what I call difficult channels and gates, I say difficult because they can be difficult as far as other people see it when they don't have that defined. I am the only one in the family who is able to handle my aunt. Us being similar may have something to do with it... or that maybe we have an understanding on how we behave and speak because it comes from the same gates. I'm really just speculating here...

She has a defined will center and mine is open. This means, I may have issues with proving shit to others and also means, I'm to not make promises and also, not knowing the value. Not knowing the value is definitely something I struggle with when trying to price my work. It's not that I don't value myself... it's that I know that with art in particular, it's only as valuable as someone is willing to pay for it. Art in itself is subjective and opinion when it comes to what is good or bad art. Which makes more difficult to figure out what to charge.

I was trying to be aware of how the will center was playing out while we working. I didn't get much. Other than, she pushed past the point of exhaustion when I was like, I'm done... can't go on. Maybe this is her defined will, or maybe not self of not knowing when enough is enough... when together we define the sacral so I could see potential on that knowing when enough is enough getting ignored. I do wonder, if her defined will, being around undefined or open wills, does my open will amplify the need to prove herself? Or does that need to prove oneself only happen with undefined?

One of the things that my family struggles with her is her attitude that time revolves around her. Which I find amusing because, my mom and husband are both 1st lines and also have that attitude that time revolves around them. Yet I'm the self centered one (by design having personal view lol). There was one point in the weekend where I had to run errands and it took longer than she was okay with... both of us stressed out, she called to bitch at me about it... She informed me of her irritation about it, I then informed her I understood but that I had to get this done, so we both have to just deal with it and I would be home soon and was driving so had to go. That was the end of that. She did later apologize, which I was surprised, as she doesn't usually admit wrong doing nor did I feel like it needed an apology. I wonder if that has to do with her strategy, to inform and initiate. My informing back.

Now, onto the right brain vs left brain. Not quite like what you've probably learned about in school. My aunt is right brain, and I'm left. In the beginning I found myself having difficulty understanding what the fuck my aunt was doing when it came to dealing with the legal stuff. Her way of processing that made sense to her, made absolutely no sense to me. So, since I was immediately aware of this, I became more aware of it and made it goal to try to understand.

I noticed that my tendencies to focus on one spot or on one point in this case, messed up her overall picture of the argument. Her overall picture, I felt like important points were being missed. However, in the end she did get them. Halfway thru, I decided to just shut up about my one point lol. Let her do her genius since she was the one writing it. After the fact I could then go back and bring this point or that point to see if important enough to include. That worked well, I could see a positive change in her ability to focus on the argument. Something I need to remember to do when dealing with my husband who is also right brained.

Anyway, this is long enough I think.. I enjoyed both getting to see how others would say I'm like my aunt. I am a little disappointed that I couldn't be more aware the experience working with a manifestor. I don't believe I've met any to be able to the pattern or common theme.

All in all, it was both productive time, exhausting and a fantastic learning experience. Which fulfills my 3rd line nicely.

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