Human Design without birth time: Here are 3 tips to help you narrow things down.
Updated April 2, 2024
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Don’t worry! Your birth time can be recovered. And even if it’s not, you can still explore many aspects of your chart.
Human Design Without Birth Time
Human Design is gaining massive popularity as it offers profound insights into your unique gifts, potential, and life mission.
Typically, generating an accurate Human Design chart requires your exact birth time. It was within that moment (as well as exactly three months before) that you were imprinted with the celestial information that determines your unique energetic blueprint.
But what if you don’t have this information?
Don’t worry — I got you!
Here are the 3 need-to-know tips to help uncover your Human Design without a birth time.
Related Post: How to Read Your Human Design Chart
Get your free personalized Human Design chart here.
Human Design Without Birth Time Tip #1
Birth Time Rectification
This involves investigating the correlation between personality traits, skills, life events, and astrological placement in order to narrow down your birth time.
There are two options for birth time rectification:
The Free Option
Go to this astrology website.
This free (as of the time of writing) questionnaire resembles a personality test. However, it uses the information you provide to align your details with every possible birth time and shares the exact results.
Voila!
The Paid Option
Do a web search for an astrologer specializing in birth time rectification. And work together to determine your birth time.
Human Design Without Birth Time Tip #2
Gather Information
Speak to Relatives
Even narrowing down the time to morning or evening can make your journey to discovering your Human Design chart so much simpler.
If you’re in touch with older relatives, ask them to recall the details of the moment they found out you were born.
Was it morning, mid-day, or night? Typically, they’ll remember if you were born in the middle of the night or during the day.
Once you find out that info, skip to Tip #3 below.
Contact a Government Records Office
Contact your state or province’s Office of Vital Records (aka Bureau of Vital Statistics) that manages birth documents.
Human Design Without Birth Time Tip #3
Generate Multiple Charts
Get your free chart here.
If You Have No Idea of Your Birth Time
I was curious about my dad’s Human Design but didn’t have his birth time (he transitioned into the light a few years ago). So I pulled charts every 3 hours on his birth date to see what changed.
Surprisingly, there were very few differences throughout the day and his energy type remained the same.
To do this for yourself, you’ll need to pull a chart for every 2-3 hours of the day (it’s best to print them out and lay them on the floor) and see where things change up, then look up the differences and determine which aspects resonate the most.
Here’s an example so you can see what this process looks like.
Here we see:
- the Manifestor Energy Type and Consicous Sun Gate remain the same throughout the day (two key aspects!)
- the authority changes once (Splenic vs Emotional)
- the centers changed twice (the Ajna is defined in the morning and the Emotional Solar Plexus is defined in the evening)
- the profile changes late afternoon from 4/6 to 4/1 and then 5/1 later in the evening
- the incarnation cross changes later in the evening
- the Moon gates (motivating energy and emotions) changed several times and the Mercury gates (communication style) changed a few times
- the variables and arrows changed often (these pertain to your learning style, the way you view the world, your digestion, and your preferred environment)
If you complete this exercise and want to understand what the changes mean for you, head over to my How To Read Your Human Design Chart article to learn about the aspects and their specific characteristics. Then decide what resonates most with you. (If you’re looking into the Gates, keep in mind that each has a shadow and a gift — if you don’t resonate with the gift, you may resonate with the shadow).
If you want me to do the work for you and discuss the findings, book a Birth Time Clarity Consult.
If You Know Your Birth Hour
If you know the hour but not the minute, generate your chart for every 15-minute interval (i.e., 10:00am, 10:15am, 10:30am, 10:45am) and see if the time changes result in chart differences.
If they do, head over to my How To Read Your Human Design Chart article to learn about their specific characteristics. Then determine what rings true for you.
What if Your Human Design Birth Time is Still Unknown?
While only knowing your birth date (without the time) can limit some aspects of your chart, others may be consistent throughout the day.
Your Energy Type may not even change during the 24 hours and there’s a massive amount of information you can gain from simply knowing that.
And keep in mind that no matter what aspects of your chart are activated, you experience all the flavors of the chart from the ever-cycling sun, moon, and planets (transits) and from sampling the energy of others.
I’m a big advocate of learning about each Gate — as every one of them holds wisdom that can help you better understand your humanness.
Do You Need Your Birth Time for a Human Design Reading?
Not necessarily. But the depth of the reading you receive will depend on how significantly your chart changes throughout the day.
If you’d like to explore those changes and narrow down your chart, I offer Birth Time Clarity Consults.
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