How did I not see this?


I kind feel a little stupid sharing this... Because yah, I should have known it.

Ever have that a-ha moment, and you're like, How did I not see this?

And then you wonder what else you aren't noticing.

The funning thing is that I've been circling this for years, but I never put it together... sorry universe... I guess I just need to be hit over the head with it sometimes.

There’s this concept in Human Design called lived wisdom. It’s the stuff we’ve learned because we had to. Not the natural strengths (those are beautiful too). But the parts we’ve worked for, ached into, figured out in our own way.

And I'm sure you get this concept... so stay with me as I pull the thread.

In the chart, they usually live in the undefined places. The white space. Your defined areas are your innate strengths, and the undefined are our challenges in life. We live through them (and hopefully gain something in the process).

When you've lives a few years (okay decades), these add up. Almost to the point that we don't even realize what is innate or learned.

That's what I like about human design, it's a language that helps me categorize what I sense. Brings some order to my thinking because sometimes it's like a ball of yarn the cat attacked.

So what I'm discovering in these reports is that the core of our offers stem from our lived wisdom, our undefined areas. For some people, it’s a whole center. For others, it’s just one half of a channel.

That’s me. My solar plexus holds Gate 22 of emotional depth, grace, openness. But it’s reaching for something. It aches toward the throat, where Gate 12 would complete the channel (I'm always on the look out for someone with Gate 12 if you know one!).

It’s not just about voice. It’s about being heard.

And because that gate’s undefined in my chart, I didn’t have an automatic way to say what I was feeling. But I did have sketching. And design. And visuals. And slowly, over time, I built ways to express things that didn’t come easily through words. And now I'm translating frequency into words.

That’s lived wisdom.

It’s not always loud. Sometimes it looks like learning Photoshop because you want to say more clearly. Or designing a chat prompt that communicates what your body understands but your language hasn’t caught up to yet.

Sketching, for me, was the main bridge. The way I learned to get what was inside, out. A thousand versions of expression followed... and now I see the thread.

My lived wisdom was built in the ache between what I felt and what I could say.

It’s not my red frequency. That’s something different. Your red frequency is defined. It’s natural. It hums underneath everything, even when you’re not trying.

Mine? Solar plexus. It’s defined. It’s easy. It’s where I start.

But this ache (this 22-12 channel) it’s what I built myself around. It’s the part I’ve come to know most intimately.

I made a video about this. It’s not polished. It’s a story.

But I want you to watch it with a question in mind: What’s the thread that’s been running through your life?

You might kind of know it. Or you might, like me, miss it for years.

But once you see it? You’ll wonder how you ever didn’t.


Spinning yarns,
Tricia Edwards


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