Your Authentic Life Path
We are each born into this world with an Incarnation Cross. Your cross illuminates your authentic life path and is found in your Human Design Chart.
But what is it—really—and how can knowing about it help you right now?
If your life was a play or movie, your TYPE would be the role you play; your PROFILE is the personality you bring to the role; and your INCARNATION CROSS is the story line that your character plays out in that role.
Your role in life is your Type: Manifestor, Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, or Reflector, which means you are here to initiate, work, guide, or reflect … depending on your Type.
Your PROFILE is the personality you bring to your role. For example, I am a 5/1 (Heretical Investigator), so part of my ROLE in life is build a strong foundation of knowledge and/or understanding, and then share what I’ve learned with others.
Your INCARNATION CROSS is the story line that the character in their role plays out. My Incarnation Cross is the Left Angle Cross of Cycles. I am designed to take others on cycles of transformation.
So your Incarnation Cross can be thought of as your broad purpose in life, made more specific by your particular Type and Profile, and further refined by the rest of the Channel and Gate energies you carry.
The more you follow your unique design, the better your costume (profile) fits, the more correct your role is and the more likely you’ll follow your unique story line to fulfill your purpose.
If you look at your chart, you should see your Incarnation Cross noted with a prefix of Left Angle, Right Angle or Juxtaposition.
- Left Angle Crosses have transpersonal destinies, or your purpose will be fulfilled through your interaction with others. This could be seen as resolving Karma.
- Right Angle Crosses have personal destinies, or your purpose will be fulfilled by you personally. This could be seen as creating Karma.
- Juxtaposition Crosses have a fixed destiny and a unique geometry in life that is simply moving through with or without the other.
Once you learn your Type and Strategy they should be your primary focus. But understanding your Incarnation Cross is fascinating, and can be very inspiring!
A Human Design Foundation Reading is a pre-requisite for an Incarnation Cross Reading. It’s so very important to understand the foundation of who you are before exploring this fascinating world of Incarnation Crosses. If you have any questions, please contact me.
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.
