What is Human Design? Sacred Shrines & the Destiny You Chose Before Birth
A living map of ancient ancestral remembrance—expressed through a modern lens
You were there — before there was time. Before bodies. Before breath. You were a frequency, drifting across the void, until a cataclysmic explosion of consciousness shattered the silence and scattered the seeds of destiny across the stars. One of those seeds was you.
Human Design is the living map of that choice you made before birth—where you chose your path, your gifts, your trials, and your timing. It's not a belief system. It’s a remembrance system. And encoded within it are shrines, archetypes, and planetary guides that echo a much older indigenous knowing...
But this wasn’t random.
From that moment of cosmic rupture, a spark — your spark — was launched across dimensions. And in that moment, what some west afrikans call “Ori” — your Higher Self — sat with what some call the Magnetic Monopole, the inner compass that holds your life together like gravity in a dream.
Together, they chose.
Chose your path. Your pain. Your power.
They carved your destiny like a sacred thread into the unseen fabric of space.
And then…
You fell.
You descended, like light into form.
Into a body. Into this life.
And you forgot.
That forgetfulness is why you feel so uncertain now. Why you’re searching.
Why you whisper to yourself in the quiet hours, “Who am I, really? What am I here for?”
Because your life wasn't random.
It was selected.
By you.
By your “Ori.”
And there is a map.
There is a key.
There is a technology—an inheritance, really—that can help you remember.
We call it Human Design.
But to truly feel it, you have to see it for what it actually is:
It’s a temple.
Your “bodygraph” — your Human Design chart — is a divine inner kingdom that exists inside of the temple of your being. A temple with dedicated shrines to dedicated divine powers.
Each “Center” (much like chakras) is a shrine, an energetic chamber where certain mysteries live and express.
Some of your shrines are open-air — receptive to the voices of the world. Others are sealed — consistently broadcasting your own unique tone.
Each “Gate” inside those shrines is a living archetype — a divinity you carry, an intelligence that chose to incarnate through you once you surrender to it and step through the door.
Each “Channel” is a road between the shrines, upon which these divinities travel; and they speak to the ways your energies flow, how your spirit moves, learns, connects, and expresses.
And the Planets?
They are the macrocosm — the great celestial keepers — activating your divinities through specific gifts, trials, and timings inside of you. They don't move at random. They are the divine directors of your destiny.
This system, as vast and precise as it is, is only the most recent child in a lineage of sacred technologies. Long before Human Design arrived in 1987 through the mystical download of Rave Cosmology by the man who became known as Ra Uru Hu, there was a much older, deeper, and more expansive system:
West afrikans call it Fa. Ifa. Afa.
The sacred technology of our African ancestors.
An Oracle where each of those 256 Odu carries 1,680 sacred verses. Over 430,000 potential messages. All encoded in metaphor. Parable. Poetry.
It is not a tool. It is a living being.
It requires reverence, readiness, and often initiation—because it is not for tourists. It is a closed ancestral system, tribal, encoded in blood and spirit.
Human Design, in its great complexity with its 64 Gates, 6 lines, 6 colors, 6 tones, and 5 bases holds a potential 138,240 potential messages.
And I say this as someone who loves Human Design.
Not to diminish it.
But to place it properly in its lineage and express the wisdom from which the knowledge derives.
Ifa is the elder.
Human Design is the grandchild—brilliant, beautiful, and bursting with potential.
And while the grandfather speaks in proverbs, the child speaks in geometry and light.
So maybe you’re not ready to sit on the mat and receive from Ifa just yet.
It all depends on who you are and where you are in your journey.
Maybe you’ve only just now cracked open enough to begin asking, truly asking—
“Who am I?”
“What am I here for?”
“What is my path?”
And that’s why I’m here.
To tell you, gently but firmly:
You were designed.
You were encoded.
You came with instructions.
And the system I work with, this map — this Design — can help you hear the voice of your Ori — your Higher Self again.
It can shock you back to life in the most loving way.
Not to wound you. But to wake you.
Because someone needs your medicine.
Because your gifts are not generic — they are specific, sacred, and chosen.
So let’s not fix you.
Let’s remember you.
Let’s reintroduce you to the shrines you’ve carried within you this whole time.
The divinities that move through your voice, your hands, your intuition, your care.
The natural forces within you that have been whispering, quietly, waiting for you to finally listen.
This modern system of Human Design gives voice to that ancient technology that was once unavailable to the masses.
And it only makes sense, as we currently sit at a crossroads in time, where the resonance of unveiled truth is evident.
Soon there will be no more data to uncover.
No access to the mysteries.
We have less than two years to empower these “shrines” within each of us and allow the divine forces within them to travel their paved roads and do the work of their elders… through us. A work that the world is waiting on.
If you’re ready to take that next step and read your “map,” I offer one-on-one Human Design readings — a guided return to your inner kingdom. You can explore those offerings and book a session directly at egunesin.com. I offer both foundational and relationship-based readings — deep dives into your chart that are both practical and spiritually grounded.
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A gift from my Ori to yours.
The shrines are ready for your sacrifices.
And your re-membering has already begun.
— Egunesin aka Korotha Kofe