Respond

Strategy

The goal is to ensure your energy is going to the right places, and you’re making decisions that are correct for you. To make aligned decisions, wait for your Sacral center (gut feeling) to respond to any kind of signal, situation, or person. This means you are not be designed to take the initiative. You are designed to respond to initiatives you encounter. The response may come in the form of an involuntary sound (ex: ooh!), internal feeling (ex: excitement), or unconscious movement (ex: jumping up). This is how the Sacral center responds to things that will help it produce life-force energy.

What is "Strategy"?

In Human Design, Strategy is the practical approach each energy type uses to navigate life without unnecessary resistance. It’s a how your body and energy are designed to interact with the world around you. Strategy guides the natural flow of energy in your chart and influences everything.

Every energy type has a specific Strategy that helps align them with their true nature and smoothly connect with others. When you follow your Strategy, life flows with less resistance. You’ll feel your type’s “signature” emotion—peace, satisfaction, success, or surprise—because you’re moving in harmony with your design.

Living by your Strategy helps you stop comparing yourself to others. It connects you back to your own inner clarity, the part of you that knows what’s right and wrong for you. Strategy allows your authentic self to emerge and sets the stage for your personal experiment: testing what truly works for YOU instead of following external rules or expectations.

It’s not about trusting outside authorities, it’s about learning to trust yourself.

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