1. How your energy works
This is your type, and everything else is read through it. There are five: Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, Manifestor and Reflector.
2. The way of moving through life that fits it
This is your strategy, and each type has one. A Generator responds to what turns up. A Projector waits to be invited. A Manifestor tells people what they're about to do. A Reflector takes a month over big decisions.
3. How you decide well
This is your authority. For some people it's a gut response, and for others it's clarity that comes with time. Along with your type, it's what most people find themselves coming back to.
4. The role you tend to play
This is your profile, the two numbers such as 1/3 or 4/6. It describes how you learn and how others tend to see you.
5. What's steadily yours, and what you pick up
The nine shapes are your centers. A colored one is consistent and reliably you. A white one is where you take in what other people carry, and it can feel like your own.
The detail, if you want it
- Channels and gates: the lines between the shapes are channels, 36 of them, each made of two gates. There are 64 gates, and the numbers on your chart are the ones you have active. When both gates of a channel are active, the two centers it joins are colored in, or defined.
- The red and the black: two columns of numbers, with a row for the Sun, the Earth, the Moon, the nodes and each planet. Black comes from the moment you were born, and is usually described as the side of you that you're aware of. Red comes from about 88 days earlier, and is described as the side below your awareness, which others often see first.
- Definition: whether your colored centers all connect or sit in separate groups, described as single, split, triple split or quadruple split.
- Incarnation cross: a theme for your life, taken from the gates of your Sun and Earth on both sides.
Written with AI and reviewed by a person at Stellar Ally AB. Published November 3, 2026.
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