How to Understand Your Family Using the Human Design Penta
Ok, so you’ve learned your Human Design. You’ve dug into your chart and learned the ins and outs of how your unique energy shows up in the world and the impact it has on others. You understand how your energy shifts when you’re around other people and in their auras. You’re into learning about how you can leverage your chart to interact with the world in an empowered way. This sound like you? Great – because I’m about to introduce something completely new to the mix: The Penta.
In Human Design, when three to five people come together in a group, it’s called a Penta. This is an entirely different energy that comes into focus with groups and it’s all about bonding and keeping the group together. This is the energy that holds us together in family groupings and social circles – and it also helps us work together toward a common goal in work environments.
The key thing to understand about the Penta is it is a background program that encourages us to put our individual selves behind and take up a group mentality. You can create Penta charts for families, friends, or co-workers, to reveal what role play as well as the larger themes that are acted out when you’re together.
When in a group setting, the gates and channels between the throat, identity, and sacral centers come into focus. The themes in these centers are all about work and life force energy, the direction of the group, and what actions the group will take. All important pieces of any successful Penta!
If you look at the traditional “nuclear” family, you will see many of the archetypes present in the Penta. The 12 gates involved bring questions of how does the family/group show up in the world? Do they have a nice home? Do they have solid traditions and connection to their parents/grandparents? Do they have resources and plan to use them?
If you have certain gates activated, the answer may be yes to all the above – if not, these could be areas of tension. When speaking about the Penta, Ra, the founder of Human Design, shared that the “gaps” in the chart are problems if we’re always focusing on them as a problem. I’m sure at some point your mother, father, or sibling exclaimed “Why can’t we just go to dinner and have a good time like X family?!” When it comes to comparing your Penta to others, there is so much potential for struggle. Understanding what energy comes through in your group’s chart helps to lessen that pressure to show up in a way that just doesn’t work for everyone involved. Instead, you can see what strengths are apparent in the chart and bond and grow in these areas.
Just like every person is unique, every single family and group is unique as well. The more consciousness we can bring to our group dynamic, the more ease and success we’re likely to have with one another.
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