Projector
Projectors make up about 20% of the world’s population and are considered as non-energy types meaning;
- they don’t have a defined Sacral Centre and
- there’s no motor connection to the Throat Centre.
In other words, they don’t have a built-in potential for generating or manifesting. It doesn’t mean they can’t make things happen, though. It just means they need to leverage their strategy and their authority and work really well to leverage the energy of those around them.
STRATEGY
WAIT TO BE INVITED
The Projector strategy is the way your energy type can maximize the way you attract opportunities and synchronicities.
It means making decisions with your own authority, and not based on the authority of others.
WHAT THIS MEANS
Wait to be invited is a Projector’s Strategy. Stop initiating or trying to invite others like a Manifestor. Your aura naturally magnetizes others, drawing them to ask questions or invite you to share, guide, or participate. It’s through these invitations that you receive recognition, success, and conserve your energy.
Invitations can come from external sources, which are the easiest to recognize, but they can also manifest in more subtle ways—such as body language, unspoken cues, or an inner pull that gives you a clear sense that your presence or guidance is being sought.
HONE YOUR CRAFT, LIVE YOUR ART
What can you do while you’re waiting for an invitation? Practice the state of R.A.W. Relaxed. Alert. Waiting. Do what you enjoy doing! Waiting doesn’t mean doing nothing while hoping and praying someone will recognize and invite you. There’s a space in between invitations… and in that space, engage in what lights you up, being mindful NOT to initiate or to invite.
QUESTIONS TO ASK
Would I recognize an invitation if it came to me?
What does an “energetic invitation” feel like?
Do I recognize my own gifts?
Am I doing my best to put myself into “clean and clear” environments?
Do I have ways to slough off the excess energies I’ve taken on before I go to sleep?
TO BE AWARE OF
Invitations come from silence. You might get tired of waiting or fearful that no one will recognize or invite you. The temptation will be to initiate or invite others just to be free of the pressure of waiting, just to fill the void. Another temptation is to give unsolicited advice. Be diligent and focus on creating for you. In the space of waiting to be recognized and invited, your magnetic and penetrating aura will pull others in. If you choose to initiate rather than to wait, you may face rejection, resistance or not be seen at all.
Practice being Relaxed. Alert. Waiting. Be R.A.W.
SIGNATURE
SUCCESS
Your signature is what your energy was naturally designed to experience, and it is probably what you crave the most out of life.
WHAT THIS MEANS
When recognized for their gifts of guidance and invited into joining, leading or sharing these gifts, Projectors feel on top of the world and experience success.
Success… it’s worth the wait!
HONE YOUR CRAFT, LIVE YOUR ART
Waiting to be recognized and invited to lead, join in or share is the key to a Projector’s success in life, love and creation. In the space in-between invitations, that R.A.W. state, remember to engage in activities that light you up. Here your powerful penetrating and focussing aura can engage in meaningful conversations and creations until that next invitation shows up!
QUESTIONS TO ASK
Am I engaging authentically as “me” in my work and life?
Am I trying too hard to live as a Generator? Always working and hardly resting?
Am I initiating and inviting like a Manifesor? Or am I waiting to be invited?
TO BE AWARE OF
Part of living with success rather than bitterness is getting to know how you use your energy. Remember to work in small increments and rest in-between. A Projector typically doesn’t have direct access to the Sacral Motor, so has to be very aware of the energy that does come its way, and use it wisely. Sleeping alone in your own aura can be very healthy for you and create a successful night’s sleep!.
NOT-SELF THEME
BITTERNESS
Each energy type has a different emotion that tends to surface when they are misaligned from their design. This emotion is called the not-self theme.
WHAT THIS MEANS
Bitterness is the signpost that lets you know you’ve likely initiated something without an invitation. Bitterness can also come when you haven’t been recognized to share your gifts or advice.
HONE YOUR CRAFT, LIVE YOUR ART
Invitations and recognition come from silence. Projectors can easily get caught in the trap of giving unsolicited advice to others. Why? First of all, they have a gift for penetrating the depths of others and they can see energetically what others can’t. And secondly, they’re under so much pressure to be recognized and invited, that they give advice just to relieve that pressure. To hone your craft, practice silence. Start paying attention to energetic invitations. Start waiting to be invited to share your gifts.
QUESTIONS TO ASK
Am I giving advice because I was invited? Or just to break up the waiting period?
Can this person hear what I’m about to say?
Was I invited and/or recognized to contribute here?
TO BE AWARE OF
Resist the urge to jump in and give unsolicited advice. Wait for the invitation. Wait to be recognized. Once you’re invited, tune in even deeper to decide if this request will create more or less. Being correctly invited and recognized to share, to speak, to lead creates success. Bitterness is a sign that you haven’t been waiting to be invited or recognized to share.
AUTHORITY
Mental Projector Authority
Outer Authority
Mental Projectors are defined by any combination of a defined Head, Anja and Throat Centre, but have no definition below the Throat.
WHAT THIS MEANS
Since Mental Projectors are the archetype of Outer Authority, it means they provide valuable information and guidance to others. They have no inner authority so they rely on the environment and use others as a sounding board so that by hearing themselves talk, they can tune in to what they know.
HONE YOUR CRAFT, LIVE YOUR ART
Learning to understand how others impact them can be an invaluable tool for Mental Projectors. Through studying other people’s designs, they can begin to deepen their own self-understanding. Paying attention to how environments affect them will open a door to greater success in all areas. Work in short bursts, then rest. Stop trying to work 12 hours in a row like a Generator. Learn to leverage your environment and the energies around you to use energy wisely.
QUESTIONS TO ASK
When faced with a decision, ask yourself:
Who can I talk with about this?
How do my environments affect me?
TO BE AWARE OF
Be mindful of how their sharp, agile minds may try to take the lead as their Authority. Their mind is not their authority. When faced with a decision, it’s crucial that they ensure their environment is energetically clear, and they have several trusted people to discuss their options with.
They are deeply attuned to their surroundings, absorbing the fluctuating energies of others through their undefined centers. As a result, they often pick up on the energies of those around them. Learning to differentiate what belongs to them and what doesn’t is an essential skill.
Resist the urge to push yourself like a Generator, working long, continuous hours. You’re designed to work in short bursts of energy, followed by rest.
AUTHORITY
ENERGY PROJECTORS
Have either Ego Projected or Emotional Authority
Energy Projectors have one or more motors defined, in any combination of Root, Ego or Solar Plexus, except the Sacral.
WHAT THIS MEANS
This type of Projector especially needs to pay close attention to the guidance of their Authority, being on high alert to those who invite them in just to fill a position or to get a job done. The kinds of Authority the Energy Projectors have can be either Ego Projected or Emotional. More on that in our Human Design readings and/or Immersion programs, if you have this as your Authority.
HONE YOUR CRAFT, LIVE YOUR ART
Even though these type of Projectors are under huge pressure (more than any other Projector Types) to discharge built up energy from the defined motors, it’s crucial for them to expend it by doing something they enjoy or have been properly recognized and invited to do. Daily physical movement can be a great outlet for this pressure to release from the body.
QUESTIONS TO ASK
What do I enjoy doing?
Do I recognize when I’m being recognized and/or invited?
Am I listening to and following my Strategy and Authority?
TO BE AWARE OF
Be cautious of the temptation to take action merely to relieve pressure, or to unknowingly commit to a project or job where you end up working as a laborer instead of guiding the process toward greater success. Resist the urge to operate like a Generator, pushing through long, hard hours. You’re designed to work in short bursts—2 to 3 hours—followed by rest.
AUTHORITY
Classic PROJECTORS
It’s how you know if a decision is correct for you or not.
Classic Projector’s definition lies below the Throat Centre but never includes a defined motor centre. A Self-Projected Projector or a Splenic Projector are two kinds of Classic projectors.
WHAT THIS MEANS
Without motor definition in their design, they can taste test the fuel from the motors of others and discern whether or not these people are correct for them. This ability gives them the potential to be more objective and selective about the invitations that come their way. Projectors, for example, take in, experience and magnify the creative life force energy of a defined Sacral centre. This can be exciting, but it can also compromise their health if the frequencies attached to that energy are toxic to them.
HONE YOUR CRAFT, LIVE YOUR ART
Practice asking the questions below to gain clarity on the energetics of your environments and the people around you. Learn techniques to slough off the energies that you’ve picked up in your day before you go to bed. Sleeping alone is more healthy for you. Do your best to let go of toxic/non-nurturing energies in your life. Work in short periods then rest, then work, etc.
QUESTIONS TO ASK
Does this person, house, job, environment “taste” good to me?
Does the energy (of this person or environment) empower me or enslave me?
TO BE AWARE OF
Classic Projectors need to become aware of the purity of the energy emanating from those they accept into their lives… and only accept those who contribute to their health and well-being.
Resist the urge to be a Generator, working hard and long hours. You’re designed to work in short bursts, then rest.