Creative by Design, Part 3: Aligned Expression With Human Design & Tarot
After exploring how your Human Design Energy Type may shape your inspiration cycles and how your Authority might guide the truth and timing of your creative work, we’ll expand upon your Profile, which informed the most authentic expression of your work.
Read Part 1: Inspiration Cycles + Energy Types
Read Part 2: Truth, Timing, and Inner Authority
Before you start: Get your Human Design Chart (BodyGraph) here or here. You’ll need the exact time you were born for the most accurate chart.
🪷 Your Profile in Human Design: The Authentic Expression of Your Creative Gifts
Your Profile blends two numbers (that embody specific traits and qualities) that describe how you express your creative gifts and how you may best share them with others.
Think of it like your creative archetype, the way you naturally learn, embody, and express what wants to come through you.
Find a short but potent outlet for each of the profile types. Consider these in context with your Type and Authority.
I’ve included Tarot Archetypes from the Major Arcana to help you envision how this profile may be expressed
1/3 - The Researcher–Experimenter
You learn by studying deeply, then testing what you’ve learned in real life. Your creativity grows through curiosity, practice, and the courage to fail forward.
Tarot Archetype: The Magician
1/4 - The Researcher–Connector
Tarot Archetype: Justice
You ground your creative self in truth, clarity, and understanding, then share that insight with others. You build trust by integrating what you’ve learned with what your community needs, creating work that feels both principled and deeply connected.
2/4 - The Natural–Connector
Tarot Archetype: The Empress
You create best when you have space to explore your gifts in solitude, then share them within supportive relationships. Your creative expression blooms when you’re recognized by the right people.
2/5 - The Natural–Visionary
Tarot Archetype: The Star
Your creativity feels effortless when you follow your natural flow and share what feels true. You inspire others by transforming your innate gifts into something meaningful and tangible.
3/5 - The Experimenter–Visionary
Tarot Archetype: The Tower
You learn through trial, error, and resilience, then share what you’ve discovered to help others find their way. Your creative process is brave, authentic, and profoundly transformative.
3/6 – The Experimenter–Sage
Tarot Archetype: Temperance
You gather wisdom through lived experience, reflection, and time. Your creative work matures into embodied wisdom that intuitively guides others.
4/1 – The Connector–Researcher
Tarot Archetype: The Hierophant
You thrive through relationships built on a solid understanding. Your creativity has a lasting influence when it’s shared through trusted networks and time-tested truths.
4/6 – The Connector–Sage
Tarot Archetype: The Emperor
You lead by example, steadiness, and connection. Your creativity deepens as you share what you’ve learned and model your grounded, ever-evolving wisdom.
5/1 – The Visionary–Researcher
Tarot Archetype: The Hanged Man
Suspended between idealism and real-life practicality, your creativity shines when you can allow yourself to exist between the two. Your best creative work turns insight into structure, translating big ideas into something others can use.
5/2 – The Visionary–Natural
Tarot Archetype: The High Priestess
You balance leadership with sacred solitude. Your greatest creative impact comes when you honor your natural rhythm while sharing your big-picture perspective.
6/2 - The Sage–Natural
Tarot Archetype: Strength
You move through creative seasons of experimentation, rest, and embodiment. Your creative work becomes powerful when you let time refine your voice and trust your natural unfolding.
6/3 - The Sage–Experimenter
Tarot Archetype: The World
You’re here to live, learn, and teach through experience. Your creative gifts deepen as you integrate what life teaches you, one experiment at a time.
🌍 Bringing It All Together
As we wrap up our Creative By Design Series, you might be feeling clarity, confusion, or somewhere in between. That’s totally normal! Human Design is an entirely different way to look at how you might use your creative energy, make decisions, and care for yourself. Tarot is a language of symbols — meant to be explored slowly.
Here’s what we covered in Human Design:
Your Type: how your energy moves and how you might create the best
Your Authority: how you know when it’s time to create, share, or rest, and what might be ideal to act on
Your Profile: how your creative gifts may be most authentically expressed
In Human Design + Tarot, the work is less about “becoming” something, but more about unveiling what is already true within us.
Remember: when we embark on our Human Design journey, the wisdom comes from practice—from experimenting, playing, observing, and adjusting. Use this information as a starting point. Apply it to your creative process, see what works for you.
If you found this series helpful and would like to learn more about Human Design and Tarot, feel free to reach out at arianna@ariannasmith.com or explore my services here.
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