The Uncomfortable Art of Intimacy

Writing from inside the material — on love, patterns, and the slow work of becoming more honestly yourself.

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Human Design, Gene Keys, and astrology as lenses; intimacy as the destination — for the ones who are done with surface.

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No choice

No choice

"No choice, said the Voice." That line appears at the back of Ra Uru Hu's earliest publication, the White Book, from 1995. Most people who encounter Human Design never really stop there. They move past it toward the types, the strategies, the authorities, the profiles...

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The Uncomfortable Art of Intimacy: A Short Story

The Uncomfortable Art of Intimacy: A Short Story

Once upon a time, there was a woman who was born to cause upheaval. Not because she was difficult, though some called her that. Not because she was too much, though many implied it. But because she carried in her very design the frequency of disruption, the kind that...

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Holding emotional intensity

Holding emotional intensity

There is something I keep witnessing in the men around me, and I have been trying to find words for it for a long time.When emotional intensity arrives — real feeling, the kind that has weight and heat and nowhere easy to go — most men I know don’t move through it....

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Daisy/Inanna

Daisy/Inanna

The weary face is the surface.The vibrant eyes are the rest. Most people think my given name is all that I am.But the name is a trickster. Daisy — day’s eye.On the surface, she looks charming, disarming, a little wild, impossible to fully eradicate... although some...

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Message from the Program

Message from the Program

I have a 29° Leo Ascendant in Western astrology — the "anaretic degree," associated with intensity, urgency, and the feeling of being unable to escape what is asked of me.Boy, do I feel that. In Vedic astrology, the same Ascendant lands at 6° Leo (Simha/Magha, Lahiri...

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The gift that keeps on giving

The gift that keeps on giving

There is something remarkable about Human Design.Something I cannot explain.It goes beyond any system and language I know. Today, I shed some tears looking at my charts and how they connect seamlessly with the life that I have been experiencing so far.Ra was truly...

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