What Does It Mean To Be A Reflector In Human Design?
Written by a Reflector. Kristen of Sanctuary by Kristen Rice is a 6/2 Reflector.
REFLECTOR HUMAN DESIGN TYPE
Reflectors are the rarest of the Human Design types making up only 1% of the population.
They are the ultimate chameleons—able to be everything and anything they desire. Following what lights them up and excites them at any given moment allows them to feel surprised and delighted by life.
Reflectors are the mirrors of the design types able to see and perceive the world around them and reflect it back to others. The Reflector is a truthteller, showing the other types how well and healthy their environment is at any given time.
The magic and brilliance of Reflectors live in their adaptability and the open-ness within their energy field allowing them to sample, feel, and experience what surrounds them.
With no energy centers or channels defined within their chart, they are electromagnetically open to receiving and experiencing their environments fully. Because of this, Reflectors have keen senses and are able to acclimate easily into their surroundings by mirroring the energy of the spaces they’re in. Reflectors magnify their environments whether it be a city, office, gathering, or home.
The healthy reflector is a curator of the company they keep and the places they spend their time. It's important to invest in people and places that feel elevating and expansive and to create strong boundaries around anything that feels toxic or chronically draining.
Reflectors are meant to thrive off of a healthy community and are at their best when they are being surprised and delighted by sampling the energies of the other types.
Alone time is equally important to pull away from other people to empty out their energetic field and return to their own natural rhythm.
Reflectors do this naturally and are made to sample and return energy. There's an innate protective design in their aura that allows them to let go of energy once removed.
Reflectors were never meant to be just one thing—there aren’t enough labels in the world to describe them. Reflectors are meant to go into what lights them up and excites them. At times, this can e a reflection of what lights up the people around them. It's important for Reflectors to pay attention to what they really love when no one else is around.
For Reflectors, it can be very healing and powerful to understand what they've always known, that they energetically operate differently than everyone else.
The Strength of Reflectors
If others have placed judgement on them, Reflectors might have connected into the ways that they are different from a place of internalized judgement and at worst, shame—believing that their differences are somehow something that is fundamentally "wrong" with them.
The beauty is, that they are sacred and special energy types that have deep wisdom and potential. Connecting into the Reflector aura type, is a healing practice in itself.
Very few in the Human Design focus much attention on the Reflector Aura Type due to the small percentage. They are often mentioned last and with much less detailed information than the other types.
Potentially because in any given month, the Reflector can be activated through the transits to act as a Generator, Manifesting Generator, or Manifestor, or Projector, but even when they are trying on the energy of the other, they are still always a Reflector.
Often, you hear the same information about Reflectors regurgitated that propel some common and misguided misconceptions especially around personal power in relation to their open centers. While they might take on the characteristics of their environments when enmeshed in them, they are built to sample and return.
If they can anchor into what is true for them and find their inner power, they can be in any environment in a way that is powerful and boundaried.
Medicine for Reflectors:
Resist the urge to limit yourself to certain labels and define who you are. Your magic is in your openness and fluidity.
Release the need to be consistent. Some days you will move mountains, some days you won’t move.
Let go of or create healthy boundaries around toxic and unhealthy attachments for your own wellbeing and health. Your physical body can be easily impacted by your surroundings.
Allow yourself time to relax and recover from events with lots of people to help your aura release the energy of others.
A Human Design Reading will decode and decipher the interconnections of your chart’s details—the way your profile, channels, and gates express themselves in addition to the broader foundational elements discussed here.
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THE 5 HUMAN DESIGN ENERGY TYPES
The 5 Energy/Aura Types are the broadest distinctions within Human Design—folding all people into five categories of how they use energy and interact with the world.
The Human Design Energy Type highlights how each type's auric field works in relation to the other types and the outer world at large. For example, some auras push out where others pull in.
Within these five categories, there are many different details that can change how we are expressed within our own lives.
The energy type, strategy, and authority (how to make decisions) are the most basic parts of understanding our human design and can be transformative on their own.
Generators—builders, doers, steadfast finishers, and sacral energy all-stars. Read about Generators here.
Manifesting Generators—multi-passionate hybrid of Generator and Manifestor energy. Read about Manifesting Generators here.
Manifestors—the initiators of life, meant to initiate new directions and lead into new horizons. Read about Manifestors here.
Projectors—the leaders, guides, and innovators who bring a unique point of view. Read about Projectors here.
Reflectors—the seers and mirrors reflecting out the health and wellbeing of any environment. Read about Reflectors here.
Understanding the details, themes, and distinct properties of your chart will help you understand how your energy type specifically works within a broader and more personal context. To get a full, personalized report, custom presentation, and reading book a human design session.
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