The PRISM Curriculum

The operator’s degree in Human Design.

Seven tracks. Fifty-plus lessons. Built in proper order from foundations to mastery, written for operators and families who want to actually use the framework — not memorize the vocabulary. Free where it makes the framework accessible. Paid where it gets personalized. The whole thing is worth the subscription on its own.

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Start with Lesson 1 →Compute your chart first

Why we publish this

Human Design has been gatekept for forty years.

Behind expensive readings, $5,000–$15,000 certification programs, and esoteric vocabulary that loses most readers in the first paragraph. Most people who could benefit from the framework never get past the jargon.

We think that’s a problem. So we’ve built the curriculum we wished existed when we first encountered the framework — properly ordered, plain language, no spiritual hand-waving, with the practical “apply this week” layer that produces actual life change.

Every lesson is free, forever. All seven tracks. All chapters. Indexable, searchable, no paywall. PRISM’s paid tiers unlock the multi-chart features — Compare, Family, Teams, Practitioner — not the curriculum. The education stays public.

For the desk

Want all of this in one bound, edited, printable companion? The Source Codes Handbook is a $49 one-time purchase — same material, edited for print, designed for the kind of study that happens with a page open on a desk. Pre-orders open now.

The seven tracks.

in order

Track 1

Foundations

What Human Design is and how to read a chart.

Start here. By the end of this track you can pick up any chart and read the structural essentials — type, authority, profile, defined and open centers, channels — without reaching for a glossary.

Everyone. Free, public, no chart required.

9 of 9 live

Track 2

Self mastery

Read your own chart in depth.

Move from understanding the framework to inhabiting it. Strategy and signature as a daily practice. Defined and open centers as your strengths and your laboratory. Profile, channels, gates, and incarnation cross — your chart end-to-end.

After Foundations. Personalized — uses your computed chart.

8 of 8 live

Track 3

Decisions

How clarity actually arrives in your design.

The single highest-leverage track. Each authority has a different mechanic and a different timescale. Most decision regret traces to using the wrong system for your design. Includes the interactive Decision Log — track decisions through your authority and watch the pattern emerge.

After Self mastery. Includes interactive decision log.

7 of 7 live

Track 4

Deconditioning

Recognize what isn't yours.

Open centers absorb conditioning. The Not-Self is the long-running pattern of operating from imported energy as if it were your own. Per-center protocols, the seven-year cycle, and the practical work of returning to your own design.

After Decisions. Long-arc work.

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Track 5

Business & career

Operate as a CEO, COO, or founder.

Type at work. Authority in negotiations. Profile as career path. Defined and open centers as professional strengths and edges. Reading the team composite. Hiring through an HD lens — decision-support, never determinative.

Operators, founders, team leads.

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Track 6

Relationships

Read the people you live with.

Composite charts. Partners, children, parents, siblings. Household as a single chart. Communication protocols by chart. The structural reasons specific friction is happening — and the next move that actually fits your design pairing.

Couples, parents, anyone in a household.

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Track 7

Advanced

The deep architecture of the chart.

Lines in detail (the 6 archetypes per gate). The planets and what they activate. Daily and seasonal transits. The 12 channels of love. The four Variables — PHS, Determination, Cognition, Environment, Perspective — and the four Arrows.

Practitioners and serious students.

7 of 7 live

A note on the framework.

Human Design is an interpretive framework synthesized by Ra Uru Hu in 1987, drawing on astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah, the Hindu chakra system, and quantum physics metaphor. It is not a science. It is a model — and like any model, the only meaningful test is whether using it produces better decisions than not using it.

We treat the framework as decision-support, never determinative. Nothing here is medical, therapeutic, or diagnostic. The recommendations are useful starting points, not verdicts. Try them for a season and measure the shift yourself.