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February 27, 2023

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By Sarah Regan

mbg Spirituality & Relationships Editor

Sarah Regan is a Spirituality & Relationships Editor, and a registered yoga instructor. She received her bachelor’s in broadcasting and mass communication from SUNY Oswego, and lives in Buffalo, New York.

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February 27, 2023

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Human design is a personality model that recognizes five energy types: Generators, Manifesting Generators, Projectors, Manifestors, and Reflectors. These energy types are determined by “defined” versus “undefined” centers in the body and how they interact with one another—and if you’re curious to learn more about Manifesting Generators in human design, here’s a guide to get you started.

Manifesting Generators are one of the five energy types in the human design system. From a technical lens, a Manifesting Generator is someone who has a defined sacral center and a defined motor center (root, solar plexus, ego/heart, and sacral center) attached to their throat center. 

Manifesting Generator archetypes are multi-passionate, multi-hyphenate individuals, with a ton of varying interests and lots of energy. They’re the second-most common type of energy type in the human design system, representing about 34% of the global population.

Manifesting Generators are also a sub-type of Generators, with the fundamental difference between the two being that Manifesting Generators tend to have deep, multi-faceted desires, while Generators tend to have more pointed focus. Manifesting Generators are “multi-hyphenates” that must manage the variety and evolving intensity of all of their different desires.

Their innate purpose is to inspire, energize, and produce through their unique gifts and work. Their defined sacral center fuels a pure energy that, when aligned with what lights them up, fuels the world’s progress, goals, and achievements. Manifesting Generators lift up those around them with their contagious energy. 

Sound like you? Check your own human design chart to find out for sure.

Manifesting Generators are meant to use their energy by responding to initiations outside of themselves. Ruled by their sacral (the gut) center, Manifesting Generators are designed to use their energy in a binary way by saying “yes” or “no” to what lights them up. This yes-or-no response is how they access their energy.

Of course, as members of society, families, communities, etc., sometimes we have to make concessions. When making concessions or taking action out of alignment with a Manifesting Generators’ own yes or no, it’s important they ask themselves, Even if this is a no for me, am I responding to a higher yes here?

For example, it might be a “no” for a Man-Gen to do the dishes, but the doing the dishes and responding to a higher “yes” of living inside a clean home without stacks of dirty dishes keeps the Manifesting Generator within the scope of their energetic integrity.  

If it’s a beautiful day and a walk outside feels like a total full-body “yes,” the weather was enough to respond to. Or if there was a Manifesting Generator leader of a non-profit, as another example, so much of their energy, mission, and work is responding to an inequity they’re working to rectify.

This energy type will always feel most in tune with their design when their interests are varied and they have their hands in a variety of different activities and experiences. Manifesting Generators shouldn’t be afraid to try new things, or to “date” interests to explore what lights them up.

In deepest alignment and fulfillment, Manifesting Generators will feel the life theme of satisfaction that comes with responding and putting energy towards the most aligned opportunities. 

And when Manifesting Generators are out of alignment, their signature feeling—or what we call their “not-self theme”—is frustration. Frustration can be used as a red-flag to help an individual understand when and where things slip into incongruence. When feeling frustrated, they can ask themselves, Where did I say yes, when I wanted to say no? or vice versa.

• Multi-faceted 
• Multi-hyphenate 
• Passionate 
• Energized
• Creative
• Tenacious (when they are following a “yes”)
• Excitable 

Manifesting Generators are able to hold simultaneous energy for many activities and passions. When in environments or doing activities that light them up, they have a seemingly limitless ability to hone their multitude of talents and put forth their unique work into the world.

This energy cannot be manufactured or forced without consequence of burnout, making it indispensable for Manifesting Generators to find and pursue activities, career trajectories, and communities that are varied enough to keep their attention and interests.

In the hustle of the standard workplace in our current culture, it’s really easy for Manifesting Generators to bypass what their sacral center says lights them up, versus what they believe they should do to appease higher-ups and parties that rely on them.

Because bypassing is so easy, it also becomes easy to get comfortable for Manifesting Generators to pull energy from a place of energetic debt. Creating environments and spaces as a Manifesting Generator where you have the power to truly say no when you mean no—and yes when you mean yes—is crucial to energetic success.

Environments that honor Manifesting Generators’ widely varied skill sets and passions are be a better fit for them than one that asks them to stay in their proverbial lane.

Notice the wide varying list of things that light you up. From activities, to people, to textures, to nourishment, your sacral center will give you a binary, yes/no response. Know that it’s okay to have many interests. Use your strategy of responding towards the things that light you up, and pass on what doesn’t.

Imagine there are two banks, one of energetic abundance, and one of energetic debt. Every time you override your sacral response (say “yes’ when you mean “no,” or “no” when you mean “yes”) you are pulling from the bank of energetic debt. The goal is not to be in debt, or break-even, but to live in abundance. If this means sometimes doing things that don’t light you up for a bigger cause, that’s your choice to make.

When something doesn’t light you up, walk it back to why you’re doing it. Dishes might not light you up, but the responsibility of living in a clean home probably does. Some actions that don’t light you up will serve the bigger picture of what does.