“It’s like you walk into a house and you can smell something is baking in the oven. And you’re wondering, what is that smell – I know that smell… and you’re trying to place it. And really it’s not just one ingredient baking but a variety of them mixed together.”

That’s the analogy my teacher used when I was studying the art of face reading two years ago (yes, I have eclectic interests!).

We already know so much when we take in another person. It’s just that the information is not in language. It’s a different form of knowing. Something we sense on a level beyond words.

And the different qualities we pick up in a person aren’t arranged neatly in a row. They’re mixed together, playing off each other, like ingredients in a cake.

What I found I was missing most with face reading was the vocabulary for describing what I was sensing.

I loved spending time in that world of pure energy but had no way of translating my experience into something that would be useful to others.

Shortly after this time, I discovered the body of wisdom called Human Design. It was like the universe (ok, ok, Hashem) had heard my confusion and laid out the next stepping stone for me in my curriculum.

Suddenly, I had a language for the qualities and energies I wanted so much to understand.

I couldn’t believe this knowledge existed and am still amazed as I go deeper and deeper into my research.

I was not prepared for what I was learning to be so practical, for it to have such a profound impact on my experience of life, bringing me greater calm, direction, and inner self-love.

Slowly, I set off on a journey of working out which parts of this wisdom are correct for me to engage with as a Torah-centered Jew and declining everything else.

It’s my opinion that most of the information is “kosher”, but some interpretations of the wisdom has undoubtedly been touched by human bias.

As such, I think I want to call my individual practice of this system “Divine Design”. The energetic body our soul inhabits in this lifetime has been precisely designed for us to fulfill our unique purpose.

This would be a faith-based approach to Human Design that speaks to the underlying truth that we didn’t all come here by chance, but we’ve been created in Divine Wisdom.