Using Human Design Mode on the Map

ELA Map reads your birth data two ways. Astro mode draws planetary lines; HD mode draws the same globe through Human Design — the I Ching gates and channels of your bodygraph, mapped onto the world.

Switching modes

• Desktop — the Astro / HD tabs in the top bar.
• Mobile — the Astro / HD pill (also in the avatar hub's lens toggle).

Entering HD mode is free. The advanced HD layers — crossings, channels, gates, zenith points, and the HD heatmap — are individually gated, so you can look around before deciding.

What changes

The lines are no longer planets on angles. They become gate lines — where the gates of your defined design run active across the map. A quick vocabulary primer:

• Gate — one of 64 I Ching-based themes in your design.
• Channel — two connected gates forming a defined circuit between centers.
• Defined — a gate or channel that's consistently switched on in your chart.

The Expression Field

HD mode can shade the map with the Expression Field — a wash showing where your defined design runs strongest. It's an amplification map: where the world turns up what's already yours. It's the HD counterpart to the astro heatmap, and its lens lives on the bottom filter rail.

The bodygraph panel

Open the Human Design panel to see your bodygraph alongside the map, with Gates and Channels toggles and a list of your defined channels. It's the reference for reading which lines on the map belong to which part of your design.

Relationships & timing

HD cartography also supports comparison and time-based work:

• Synastry — overlay a second person's design to see how two charts meet on the map.
• Composite — a single blended design for the pair.
• Transit — where the current sky activates your open gates.

These build on the same mode; see Synastry & Composite for the two-chart flow.

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Go deeper: the Human Design Astrocartography pillar. Related: Reading the Map.