The 12 Profiles
Every line combination, explained
Your Profile is the two-line code formed by the line of your Personality Sun (conscious) and the line of your Design Sun (unconscious) — for example 1/3 or 5/1. Only 12 of the 36 possible combinations occur in Human Design. Each one is a distinct life role. This is the complete reference, with a full guide for every profile.
What a profile is
Every gate in the BodyGraph is divided into six lines, mirroring the six lines of an I Ching hexagram. Your profile is read from just two of them: the line of the gate your Personality Sun sits in (the conscious role you recognise), and the line of the gate your Design Sun sits in (the unconscious role others see in you before you do).
The six lines each carry an archetype — 1 the Investigator, 2 the Hermit, 3 the Martyr, 4 the Opportunist, 5 the Heretic, 6 the Role Model. Combined two at a time, they form the twelve profiles below. Profile is the costume your Type and Authority wear through life: it colours how you learn, bond, and move through your Strategy.