The Planetary Influences in Human Design
Sun – The expressed you or the outer you and how your light shines out into the world. (Sun & Earth together are approx. 70% of who you are)- Earth – What grounds the sun’s light in your design
- Moon – What drives you
- North Node (destiny) – Your life path trajectory (after age 40)
- South Node (karma) – Your life path trajectory (before age 40)
- Mercury – What you’re here to communicate
- Venus – What you value and your relationships
- Mars – What you must mature through
- Jupiter – Your reward for learning Saturn’s lessons
- Saturn – The great teacher – learn the lesson or it’s bound to show up again
- Uranus – What is unique about you (and the people born around the same time as you)
- Neptune – Your Spiritual “Job” (also the same as others born around the same time)
- Pluto – Expansion and Truth and Transformation over your lifetime. (the contribution of your generation uniquely expressed through you)
I am a Human Design teacher, guide, and survivor whose path to purpose was forged through profound transformation. In 2012, a Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis shattered the life I knew—and became the unexpected beginning of a deeper awakening. What followed was a journey through illness, the unraveling of a long marriage, and the quiet rebuilding of a self I had never fully met. Human Design found me in the midst of that unraveling—during a time of deep searching, blackouts of identity, and a hunger to remember who I really was. What began as a personal tool for survival and self-reclamation soon became a lifelong path. Human Design gave me language for what I had always felt but couldn’t explain. It helped me understand my energy, my wounds, my gifts—and how to live in alignment with my true nature.
Today, I teach Human Design not as a system of labels or rules, but as a living, breathing map back to the Self. My work is rooted in lived experience—because I know what it’s like to lose your way, and what it takes to come home to yourself. I specialize in guiding others through times of transition, awakening, and reinvention—helping them understand the unique blueprint they were born with, so they can navigate life with clarity, self-trust, and deep compassion. My gift lies in transmuting adversity into wisdom—and walking with others as they remember who they truly are.
Ruth Brennan is an IHDS Certified Professional Analyst, Certified BG5 Career & Business Consultant and Certified Teacher of Human Design. She currently lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwestern area of the U.S.
