reflector
Strategy: Wait 27.5 days
Not-Self Theme: Disappointment
Mechanics: No Fixed Definition
Aura: Resistance and Sampling
Questions: Who Am I Today? , Can I Be Myself?
Signature: Surprise
The Reflector in more detail
The Reflector carries an extraordinary Human Design. They make-up just 1% of the worlds’ population and are wholly different from the way the other 99% of human beings operate.
Reflectors have no energy or awareness Centers turned on and activated at birth. Every Center in their design is completely white. As a result, they give off an illusion about themselves that has nothing to do with who they really are.
On the face of it, with all those inactive centers, it would seem that a Reflector is constantly taking in other peoples’ energies and emotions. Without any reliable patterns of their own.
If we were talking about any other type of human being this would indeed be the case. An open inactivated center is always vulnerable to the affects of other people.
But the fundamental difference with a Reflector is the nature of their electromagnetic aura. Our human aura represents the holistic energy field that uniquely surrounds each and every one of us. This aura is our personal electromagnetic signature and tells every living thing around us what we are all about. This aura extends up to 3 meters around the entire circumference of our body. Having an aura also gives us the ability to read and interpret other people’s auras.
The Reflector aura is a ‘resistant’ aura that does two things uniquely. Firstly it samples or ‘tastes’ the auras of the people around it by taking in only a little piece of what it receives. Secondly it reflects back all of what it receives from the other person.
This resistant aura works as a protection mechanism for the Reflector. Protection from being overwhelmed by the emotions and energies of the other people around them.
It is also what makes the Reflector seem like a chameleon to the rest of us. A chameleon that just blends in with whatever is around it. Reflectors become their environment. They do this quite naturally but often feel invisible to others because of it.
Other people will always see aspects of themselves when they meet a Reflector; so Reflectors need to be aware of whom they are in a relationship with.
A Reflector should watch themselves interact with other people to see what negative and positive aspects those people will bring to a relationship.
If the person with the Reflector is positive and happy the Reflector will reflect that. But if they are corrupt or manipulative then they will also reflect that behaviour!
So Reflectors should spend some time becoming aware of what is actually them and what they are reflecting. It will take some practice and it is only over time that they will get to know their real selves.
Reflectors are walking around in a protective auric ‘bubble’ which doesn’t connect deeply at all to other people. And this makes personal relationships more difficult for Reflectors than for the rest of us. The closest any other aura comes to the Reflector is the Manifestor aura.
The Manifestor doesn’t ‘sample’ and ‘reflect’ the auras of other people it ‘repels’ those auras. However, just like the Reflector, the Manifestor aura is designed as a resistant protective shield from the auras of other people.