Tonal Trajectory (by Ra)

Here when you’re looking at these Colors you’re looking at basic themes. So, let us
take an example. Let’s take the example of the 3rd Color. I happen to have a
Personality that’s 3rd Color and I have a Personality 3rd Tone. If you go over here to
the tonal side you’ll see that this is an active mind. That is, an active mind that is
periodic. This is my infrastructure: active mind focused on the mental plane. All of
you can tell that I seem to have an active mind working on the mental plane. But
nonetheless, this is the construct for me. And the way in which that left Tone fixes is
that I am a 3rd Color—desire, leader/follower—and it fixes to the leader. So in other
words, my tonal trajectory in life is to move from being a follower to a leader. This
is my tonal trajectory.
The overall theme of this is the theme of desire. You begin to lash things together.
Desire, for example, is something that is periodic. It’s quite different, for example,
than hope that is concentrated, or quite different from innocence that is cyclical.
This graph is a wonder. I hope you enjoy it. It really is, because there is so much
information that is here and so much to play with and to think about because there
are these endless relationships. Obviously, our job in all of this is to be able to
distinguish what is that single track.
So, take the example of my case of the trajectory in life that is the follower to
leader. There is no timetable, none whatsoever. So how does it look in the life? I
come into the world as an ego integration being, an ego Manifestor, an ego
Manifestor that doesn’t want to be told anything, an ego Manifestor that will put up
with any kind of punishment simply to be able to do its thing, an ego Manifestor that
wouldn’t follow anything or anyone, you know, the not-self and the way the not-self
works.
I was somebody, who like everybody else, was deeply transferred. I was not
operating out of that theme at all, which means that I totally disconnected from my
architecture. Think about what that means at the tonal level. Here I am. I’m
supposed to have this active, periodic mental focus in my life in terms of my brain
function. And the only that that’s going to work is if I move in my trajectory from
follower to leader. This is the way that I’m going to be able to fulfill my desire,
desire being my motivation.
I’m in transference, so I’m transferred over to observer/observed which has
absolutely nothing to do with what I’m intended to live out as part of the flow of my
architecture. In fact, the moment I’m in transference I no longer have the
advantage of this active periodic mind. I don’t. I get cut off from the architectural
plans. It’s like you have a plan for a house and then the plan blows away in the wind
and you just keep on building because you’ll hope you’ll eventually be able to finish
whatever it might be. And it’s absolutely nothing that is going to be—well, you don’t
want to live there. Let’s put it that way.

No Timetable for the trajectory

What’s so interesting for me is that because timing is such a fascinating thing, I
didn’t become a follower until I met the Voice. I became an instant follower when I
met the Voice, the only time in my life that I was humbled, made small, put in my
place, intellectually. It was an extraordinary thing to be a follower and I’m been a
follower ever since, and being a follower ever since turned me into a leader.

This is the way that it works. But there’s no timetable, there’s no timetable. It
demands correctness. So here I was totally ignoring through transference the only
way in which my tonal architecture was ever going to have a chance to get to the
surface. And yet, the moment that I went through what was my initiation, because
I’m designed in my continuity for initiation, the follower was something that in
essence was very short lived. I was a follower for 8 days, in that sense. Once the
Voice was gone, I was back to being this very alone integration being. That was
something very different.
Suddenly it happened overnight. In other words, it is very clear to me in the way in
which trajectory operates that this movement from one to the other, not only is
there no timetable, but there is no timetable in the sense that the trajectory can be
almost instantaneous. Or it can take a lifetime. Or it can never happen at all. I
could have gone through my entire life—you really can’t play those games because
that’s not what is, but nonetheless, just as a metaphor—I could have gone through
my whole life and never become a follower, because you have to start at your start
point. I could have ignored the whole thing my whole life.
You can then begin to see that most human beings on the planet haven’t even begun
their trajectory. Think about that. They haven’t even started it, because you have
to get into it in order to be able to move across it, if you know what I mean. So,
when we’re looking at this movement of the chain, the way in which the Tone is
going to influence the Color, we end up in the dilemma of the Color itself. In other
words, is the Color going to be stable? Is the motivation going to be stable?
In Transference No Chance to Align Yourself
There was nobody there in my life to say to me, “The moment that you’re being
encouraged to stand back and do nothing, the moment that you feel yourself that
you should do nothing and just stand back when there’s something there to be
done,” you know right away you’re not operating correctly. Nobody ever told me
that. Nobody said to me, “You’re in transference, and instead of trying to be a
leader you’re trying to be an observer and you’re really fucked up because that’s
stupid.” Nobody said that.
This is the point. The point is that the moment that you’re in transference you’ve
got no chance to align yourself; you have no chance for the mind to be able to fulfill
what is its legitimate potential, its legitimate potential. And not what happens when
you enter into the domain of Color and you’ve got all these human beings that are
operating incorrectly and none of this works.

Strategy and Authority is the Essence of Transforming the Life

Every Human Design encounter has to be focused on one thing. It has to be focused
on the decision making that takes place at the deepest, most vulgar mundane level.
At the most basic, basic, basic level of life, this is the key that opens the door. My
experience throughout the whole expansion of the knowledge of Human Design is
that no matter where I go, no matter how profound it gets, no matter how incredible
it gets, nothing replaces Strategy and Authority. Nothing can. It is the essence of
the process. It is the essence of transforming the life.
What we get to see in PHS, as an example, is that we get to see that we can align
the vehicle very correctly very quickly. And that we can protect the aura of the
being by attuning them to what is their environmental determination, so we can
benefit the body. But still, that benefit to the vehicle is not something that can work
without Strategy and Authority. It can’t.

Transference, transference disconnects the surface with the Tone. You can see that
in just looking at the simple mapping of the chain—the line to the Color to the Tone.
The Tone carries the architecture, the line lives out the illusion, but Color, Color, is
the medium. Everything, everything about whether we’re correct or not in the
surface has to do with whether or not our Color motivation or our Color
determination is stable.

So, no matter what kind of approach we’re going to have in terms of being of benefit
to the other, we can never abandon what is the heart and soul of this knowledge,
which is Strategy and Authority. So, the moment that we come over here to
trajectory we have to think about these movements. And remember they can move
either way. That is, you can have your tonal fixing to the right side. Let’s say that
your right side is follower that means that you have to start as a leader and move to
being a follower. That’s a very different process.