History of Human Design: Ra Uru Hu and Its Roots

Human Design is young. In 1987, on Ibiza, the Canadian Robert Allan Krakower, later known as Ra Uru Hu, described a system that he said he had “received” over eight days. By the time of his death in 2011, he had built it into a teaching with its own school, terminology and training programs.

The articles in this section tell this story matter-of-factly and show what the system is built from: the I Ching with its 64 hexagrams, Western astrology with the zodiac, the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and the chakra system of the Indian tradition. They also cover the neutrino concept with which Ra Uru Hu explained the influence of the planets, and how it can be assessed today.

Human Design sees itself as a system based on experience, not as a science. Knowing its history makes it easier to decide what to take from it for yourself. The best place to test that is your own chart — with the free Human Design chart calculation.

The Neutrino Concept — Idea and Context

Few building blocks of Human Design sound as modern as this one: what is said to imprint you at the moment of birth is not distant “star energies” but neutrinos — real elementary particles that physics actually knows about and measures. That is exactly why it's worth taking a...

Ra Uru Hu and the Origins of Human Design

Every interpretive system has an origin story — and that of Human Design is among the most unusual. It doesn't begin at a university or in an ancient monastery but with a Canadian advertising and media man who leaves his old life behind and ends up on Ibiza. If you want to...

The Four Roots: I Ching, Astrology, Kabbalah, Chakras

If you're seeing a Human Design bodygraph for the first time, you may recognize some familiar elements: geometric centers reminiscent of chakras, numbers taken from the I Ching, planetary symbols like those in a horoscope. That is no accident. Human Design is a synthesis...