What order to read it in
The guide is big, and you don’t need to go through it in a row. The order is: Type → Authority → Centers, and only then Profile, Channels and Gates.
The first two are enough for a year of life. Type answers the question “how do I enter things,” Authority — “what do I make decisions with.” Everything else is interesting detail that changes nothing until the main thing has been mastered. Starting with the Gates is like learning the names of engine parts before you can pull away.
What this guide doesn’t have
Predictions. It doesn’t say what job to do, whom to start a family with or when to get rich — nobody knows that, and pretending that we do would be a deception. It says how your nature works and what follows from it this evening.
There are no diagnoses here either. An “open emotional center” is not anxiety, it’s a description of how you’re built. If something seriously worries you, that’s for a doctor, not for a diagram of nine shapes.
Where the wording comes from
The basis is Human Design as set out by Ra Uru Hu: Types, Authorities, Centers, the 64 Gates from the “Book of Changes.” The Vedic part of the site draws on the “Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra” and B. V. Raman’s “Muhurtha,” numerology — on Cheiro for lucky numbers and on the Pythagorean line in the number meanings: these are different schools, and they say different things about the same digit. Where schools disagree with each other, we say so directly rather than averaging: averaging means getting an answer that isn’t in any book.
Astrology: signs, planets and houses
Astrology has its own guide in three sections. Signs — what a sign means for the Sun, Moon and Ascendant, and the Sun’s dates by year: zodiac signs. Planets — what each one means, how to read it in a sign and in a house, what retrograde means: planets of the natal chart. Houses — what each of the twelve is responsible for, how to read the sign on the cusp, planets in a house and its ruler: houses in astrology. Every page has something to check on yourself.