Empire State Business

On the Science & Art of Luck 🍀

"The first thing you deal with in the 25th gate is luck. This is a magical word. What the hell is luck? The 46th gate says being lucky is being in the right place at the right time. That‟s the definition of luck.

But when you‟re looking at the 25th gate, when you‟re looking at the Vessel of Love, when you‟re looking at the phenomena of life on the plane—two people are walking down the street, one of them slips on a banana peel and breaks their leg. The other one giggles and keeps on walking. Now, you don‟t have to thank God. As a matter of fact, you won‟t. What you‟ll do is say, “Sh*t, I’m lucky and they’re unlucky,” and this is the beginning of spirituality because at some point there‟s a deep question that suddenly arises: “Why are they luckier than me? Or why am I luckier than them?” And luck is the first step into spirituality.

It‟s a funny thing when you think about it. There is no other explanation for the atheist. You have to have something that replaces God for those situations. It‟s like those contracts you sign where they say, “In the event of an act of God, we‟re not libel.” You can never get rid of that in the contract. You buy a new refrigerator, and it gets hit by lightening, they will not give you another one. They‟re not responsible; this was an act of God. So you‟re out of it. You have to buy another refrigerator.

So, how do you explain it? If it‟s not God, what is it? Oh, I could go on forever and talk about the great replacement for God. It‟s called “it.” Have you ever noticed? It is raining. Now, excuse me, what does that mean? What it? The “it” is raining? How does the “it” rain? We say it is a nice day. What it? How does that work? I don‟t get that. It‟s all it. We do that all the time. We say it is love. We also say it is hate. It‟s good, it‟s bad; it‟s right, it‟s wrong. It; it‟s the “it.” It‟s the funniest pronoun ever. Ulysses S. Grant said human beings were a verb. You want to look for the Gods, they‟re a pronoun. It. It‟s the answer. It‟s all it: it-ness.

And it-ness is the 25th gate. It‟s all it, it, it. I love it. It is us. What it? What does that mean? I don‟t get it. It‟s there all the time. You cannot escape it. You can‟t get away from it. It is everywhere. Now, I know that‟s a real wonderful word game, but please understand something, that‟s the 25th gate. What happened? It happened. I didn‟t do it. It did me. It‟s just it-ness. And with it-ness comes luck. It just shows up as a substitute for God.

So, the first thing to recognize about 25 people is that when you deal with the not- self 25 person, they say very clearly that they‟re not getting the good end of the luck story; bad luck. “I have a lot of bad luck.” 25s are full of bad luck. “Oh, it was bad luck.” What‟s so funny about them is that the luck is part of the “it-ness.” It doesn‟t mean anything. It‟s just bad luck.

It‟s not like they get into a huge, heavy trip about how awful it is to be the victim of luck, it was bad luck, and it‟s the way they write it off. There‟s luck and there‟s bad luck. This is the nature of the world. When you meet a 25, you have to understand that about them. When you go to a 25 priest, the priest says, “Ah, good luck for you.” And if you don‟t come, bad luck for you. It‟s all good luck/bad luck; all of it. That‟s what priests are about right from the beginning.

The 25 is hilarious. It‟s all about luck. Before I woke up—I‟m a 25—I walk around and say, “How lucky.” I still say that. I‟m the luckiest guy in the world. It‟s been so good. It‟s been good to me. I love it. Human beings are so funny. You can‟t take somebody who lives on the plane and say to them that God‟s watching over us. You don‟t that; it won‟t work. They don‟t believe you. But if you say to them, “Look, some of us are luckier than others.” “Oh, that‟s true. “And I can help you to be luckier than others.” That‟s an idea. That‟s the movie…

As a 25, I have never, ever, ever, ever even thought of buying a lottery ticket. And you know why? Because I will lose the first time; I know that. And when I lose the first time, it‟s really going to upset me. It‟s like you don‟t have any luck. I don‟t want the evidence of how little luck I actually have. I‟d like to have those moments where I really think things are going for me…

So, everything about the 25, buried inside of that 25 is that possibility of awakening because of good luck/bad luck. That‟s why I always have that expression: Good luck/bad luck, who knows. This is a great 25 mantra; it‟ll keep you healthy. That way you can always convince yourself that the things that are bad that are happening to you are going to turn out to be positive. That‟s my philosophy in life.

My philosophy in life is that the moment I meet bad luck, my assumption is that I don‟t really see that it‟s really good luck. It works. This is the transcendence out of the game. It‟s like, “Who knows, I don’t know, maybe it is bad luck. I don’t know, but I’m not going to get caught up in, I’ll wait and see. Maybe it turns out to be good luck.” …

If you‟re a 25, you can never escape good luck/bad luck. It doesn‟t matter whether you carry this cross or not. If you have a 25th gate, you‟re never going to escape this equation of good luck/bad luck; it‟s always there. The trap is falling into it. That‟s the trap because we don‟t know. It‟s like saying, “Oh, no Neptune is coming to the...” whatever gate of yours. You don‟t know what that‟s really going to bring. You have no idea. Even if it starts off looking like it may be lousy, you don‟t know.
It‟s very easy for me to say Neptune in the 19 has brought me bad luck. I could easily say that. It has confused my territorial process. It has confused what I really need. It‟s brought bad luck into my life. That‟s a classic 25 interpretation of any environment, of any situation. Always, somewhere inside of 25s, they are dealing with this equation of good luck/bad luck. And the thing they love to avoid is back luck people, and the thing they love to be around are good luck people.

This expression “happy-go-lucky,” it‟s like for the 25 that‟s the whole story; you feel lucky. Now, of course, if you take it to its highest level, you can feel that way with absolutely nothing. You can feel that way regardless of the circumstances because this is what universal love really means. That coming into form was good luck. “How lucky that I get to experience this trip; aren’t I lucky.” In the end, that‟s what it‟s all about—good luck/bad luck, who knows…
You see, I know as a 25 and with the knowledge that I have today, I know that there is good luck and bad luck. It‟s obvious to me. What to do. It‟s clear. There are designs, there‟s a program, there‟s conditioning, there are all of these things. If you‟re not-self, it‟s so easy for you to do the wrong thing, to be incorrect and that‟s going to bring bad luck. It‟s so obvious. But at least I have a language now that‟s not a spiritual resolution to an ancient dilemma. Only the not-self suffers from good luck/bad luck. That‟s the whole point of waking up. You wake up to the true self. You take off all of that “woe-is-me” stuff that the not-self carries and you pierce through that to see the mechanism, and the mechanism liberates you. It just does.

I don‟t care whether or not I physically act out a superstition; I understand its mechanical root. It‟s just this mechanical root, this is what 25s do; it‟s just there. I know that there is no good luck or bad luck for me. I know that. I already got long past that. I‟m into “who knows” phase. It‟s like all this stuff that goes on in my life now. None of it is upsetting to me in the sense that it is bad luck. It‟s like (sound) it‟s been a very, very good learning process. I can see the advantages that come out of the disadvantages. At the moment you get to the point where it‟s not about the good luck or the bad luck, it‟s just about seeing, then all of it becomes so easy.

- Ra Uru Hu, founder of the human design and BG5 systems

"A Projector is never successful for themselves. Quite something to grasp.

Success for them is something that arises out of their gift for what they can do for another. That’s success!

Success for them is being able to guide the energy.

And success, ah that feels good! You know, see, we are ruled by fear. We are ruled by the not-self world and all of its control mechanisms. And the moment that you can stand within yourself and you could be correct within yourself, you will see that the tension of being not-self leaves you. Understand something if you’re projector and there was bitterness in you, your work is not even close to being done. Because the bitterness can just be written “bitterness = not-self”. And it doesn't matter whether there's this much bitterness, whether there is this much bitterness, it’s bitterness. It can move through you, like bad Mexican food. But it cannot stay with you. It's just passing through. That's called success. Changes everything.

If you’re projector, success matters. If you're not a projector success doesn't matter. It's not your movie. It isn't. So, all of you projectors, after getting to the success business, dump the bitterness. Enjoy success. It's easy. It is easy means the thing that I have never understand in human design. I mean it's not like I sent go-go boo-boo, that's giving you all kinds of stuff. I don’t give you stuff, this is mechanics. It's like here's this year and here's this year and they go together and you just follow that. Right? In all these minds are going, what did he really said? What did he really mean? How should I interpret? Respond! What should I do with that? Try it! That’s the whole thing with projectors, I understand the dilemma, I understand what it is. I can see it. It's clear. But after all somebody comes along and says “hey look Guy, you can change your whole life, it is very simple, you just do this.” There’s some reason that you don't want to do this? Is there some reason, that you can explain to me, that I could possibly understand, why you would never do that? Even to find out if it's true or not. Aren’t you curious? And you say “Well… What do you mean? Maybe I should take a course. Are there any books?” That’s so simple!

See! Because you don't believe it. That's the not-self. Because the not-self has heard this over and over and over again, by so many beings, about so many things. They don’t believe it. If you got to swallow virgin birds, would you going to believe? I don't believe it. Not only that, but there's this bizarre vanity! We are more complex than this! What do you mean, you can copy all life-lessons into this two-word mechanic? I’m a special human being. You see, it takes humility! It takes humility, to surrender to the body. The body. We all know that when you make love at some point for everyone not all the time but at some point, there's this letting go. And you're just enveloped in the energy and there is this freedom that is there.

But it's possible all the time. I mean it's possible all the time. It's just disengaging this mind. It's understanding how it cripples you. How it distorts your life. How it destroys the possibility that is there for you. And only because YOU DO NOT TRUST YOUR SELF. You don't have enough trust to take an experiment, that could transform your life. Because you’re afraid. You are afraid you're not going to get what you want and you don't know who you are so how the hell do you know what that person wants! You don't know. You don't know who you are, what you want, where you're going, you don't know any of that. You just got all these homogenized labels that you carry around in your wallet. Gives you a sense of who you think you are. Yeah I work here.

Most human beings think that who they are is the information that the bank store on you, you know? Who you are is not who you are. You see? I look out of the projectors and I think “Hey! excuse me. We don’t have a lot of time. Perhaps you could get involved in this process. It would be really good.”

Anybody, ANYBODY can do this and then you smell the resistance. The power of the not-self. The fear in human beings. I mean, my God, human beings are afraid of everything. I mean they are afraid of everything. The mind is afraid of everything. I mean it so afraid, it's unbelievable. And this fear overwhelms human beings. They're afraid of becoming something different. They're afraid of fixing their lives. And you see in that way, you get no reward. It’s not like you're going to live out your cross. It’s not like you going to get what's correct for you in this life, you won't. And the s*x won't be any good anyway. It won't. You won't have the right partner.

This is the whole thing about decision-making. Again it does not take a rocket scientist to understand that every decision that you make directs your life. I mean every decision is a piece of navigation in your life. Every decision is navigation. Decisions equal navigation. It’s not about whether you are going to lunch or not. It's about understanding of the moment that you make a decision you align yourself to a geometry that if it's correct, always hold something there for you. And if it's not correct, you are going get caught in the rain, get a bad meal and you won't have heat in your room. Whatever the case maybe it is trajectory. Every single decision, every single decision, this is how you navigate this plane. Without resistance, without resistance. This is how you navigate this plane as yourself. You’ve got a pilot inside. The driver. You got a driver, that's going to drive you exactly where you're supposed to go, if you allow it to drive. And then each decision becomes a movement that is correct for you. That means it leads you to the forces that are correct for you in this life.

When you think about all the decisions in a lifetime that you made with your mind. Think about them. The disasters that followed and all the mental work you gotta do to keep up with the disasters and to deal with the consequences. Mind doesn't know what to do with your life. It doesn't care. It doesn't. It has no recognition of this vehicle and looks out. It gets mad at it when it doesn't work well. Gets annoyed when the parts don't function properly. It may be meat, but it's smart meat. Really, really, really smart meat. So, what these vehicles are and their smartness, is about being in the world, on this plane. You see you have to let go of this illusion. That this life belongs to your mind. It doesn't belong to your mind. It belongs to your body. And your mind is just going to have to put up with it. Because it can't do anything about it. Nothing! And at the moment that the mind can actually let go and say okay let's see.

Each decision is the roadway to correctness. Each decision underlines you to what is the correct discernment for you about who you let into your aura! Are you insane? You cannot ever just let beings into your aura. It doesn't work that way. It doesn't. Begin to think about what everybody brings. We all carry stuff, definitions, activations, histories. we carry auras of different power and intensity. And the majority of humanity is not-self. There are times when I see just people, you can see the frequency field around them and I make one of those big kind of “go this way!” I don't even want to bounce off that kind of energy. There are all kinds of beings in this life. There are those that have a chance and the rest they don't. And you see until you begin to understand that your first responsibility is to yourself and after that it is the purity of the environment that you permit around you physically. Physically."

~Ra Uru Hu, founder of the human design and BG5 systems

OPEN CENTERS WITHOUT ACTIVATIONS

"You take EXACTLY what you're given and you amplify it back.

It's quite hard to find information on the completely open centers. But a few days ago I stumbled on this audio file that teaches about exactly that. I wrote out Ra's words almost literally, as in my experience, they're just perfect as they are. Hope you'll enjoy it. I don't think it has ever been written out somewhere before. So in this theme I think it is a real gem."
Jan Groot

Open centers with or without activations:
(From audio file 3.2 head ajna open centers by Ra Uru Hu)

"Think about the open center. And I'm speaking of the entirely open center, because this gives us an opportunity to actually look at open centers. There is not a lot of material available on open centers as a matter of fact.

When you're looking at an open center that has a gate in it, it's already deeply aligned to that center's process. Regardless if that is a dormant or an active gate. Just one gate. Let's look at my emotional center. I only have one active gate in my emotional center, it's dormant. It's the 49th gate. It's unconscious. And even though it's the only gate, even though it's in an open center, even though it's an unconscious gate, I have a fixed emotional theme built into me.

You turn on my emotional system and I will either accept you or reject you, because that's the wave. Emotions for me have always been framed in that context, because it's my only theme. It's how I open up to the emotional wave. I always open up through my 49, always consistent. And if there were other gates and so forth and so on, the moment that you have a gate that's there in any center, it already is deeply part of the generic.

But these centers here, NO activations, there is no thematic. None. So what that means is that the way in which they take in the other and the way in which it's amplified, they have no predetermined way to deal with it. In other words, you take in exactly what you're given and amplify it back. You take EXACTLY what you're given and you amplify it back. So important.

I mean it's what makes these open centers so interesting as fonts for wisdom.

In other words, my open sacral, totally open. What that means for me in essence is that if anyone defines my sacral, I am only amplifying THEM. Nothing else. It's THEM. Nothing else. Just them.

And of course in that, if I'm not identified with that, is extraordinary learning, because it's learning that it's absolutely objective! You take someone with a totally undefined G, same thing! In other words, when they take in someone else's identity, they take in THAT identity! And that's their GIFT! They take it in and they can see it for what it is. In the same way that I can take in the sacral and see it for what it is, without having prejudice!

I mean, when you have a gate, immediately there is a prejudice! You know, immediately there is an angle. Immediately there is a built in theme. And it distorts the way you see the whole! In other words, I don't have the same purity of understanding of the emotional system that's open in me than I do of the sacral.
Because with the emotional system still, even though it's so open, I still have my unconscious theme. And I'm always qualifying what I take in from the emotional plane through that theme, filtered through that theme.

So when you're looking at a centre that is entirely open, it represents at the awakened level a real opportunity for wisdom. Because it's really a perfect teacher for you. But obviously within the context of the Not-Self it's not like that at all as a matter of fact it can feel very very uncomfortable! Swimming is what I call it. People with totally open centers, they end up swimming around in the centers being defined by others. They don't really have anything to latch onto, because they don't have their own theme! I mean they don't! They just sort of float around in it. Kind of. You know, because they can't FIX on it. It makes them quite different in the way in which they amplify it back.

It does not mean that they avoid the strategy. But it does mean that their strategy, their Not-Self strategy, is gonna be determined by the way in which they're influenced. In other words, the Not-Self strategy if you have an open Spleen, is going to be impacted by somebody giving it a theme. Somebody in your life that sticks the 18 there or sticks the 50 in there. And all of a sudden you're gonna frame that strategy of holding onto things that aren't good for you, so you'll hold on to authorities that aren't good to you. Or you're gonna hold on to challenges to authority that aren't good for you. You know, or whatever the theme that it happens to pick up.

You don't really have a discernment. I mean, the Not-Self can really get lost.

The other thing is, because you're dealing with awareness centers, because you are dealing with centers that are fear centers, there is an a fear that can exist here. In other words, it's neither an afraid or not afraid. It's too stupid to know it SHOULD be afraid. I don't mean that to be insulting. You know. It's just like me in my open sacral. I am neither available nor not available. But I'm too stupid to know what availability is!

You know, it just doesn't work!
It's beyond either or.

I mean it's just simply beyond that. It swims around. It doesn't really HOOK! And so there is a real advantage if you're ok. But it's not an advantage if you're lost in a resistance world. And people who are dealing with a lot of resistance, if you have a totally open center, it really becomes the source of your dilemmas. It really does.

And so for someone with the undefined splenic system, it isn't about if holding onto somebody is bad for them or not. They may not even recognise that they're actually holding on to anything! It's not their theme! And they don't have a theme in it!

You know, the moment you've got a spleen and and you've got a gate, you already have a theme for you holding on to bad things.

You know, if you've got the 28th gate, your theme is: I'm holding on, because when I'm through this, I'll find purpose. I'm holding onto this terrible thing, because you see that in the 28.2, you know, shake hands with the devil. I'm holding onto this terrible thing, because it's gonna bring me my purpose. You already have a theme!

But when you have a center that has no activations, there is no theme. So it's a difference.

And again, you know, part of what we're gonna do always, in terms of analysis, and we're gonna see that when we get to the keynoting part of this program, is that we need to have point and counterpoint.
You know, yes, we need to see definition. Yes, we need to see activations. Yes, we need to be able to layer that. But at the same time we also need to be able to see what's not there.

We also have to know the value, the power, the impact of what's not there. So that ultimately, by the time we get down to doing keynoting, we can bring these things into balance.

Here is what's there as a keynote, here is what's not there as a keynote. And so you get to see the juxtaposed forces." - Ra Uru Hu, founder of the human design and BG5 systems

💜 In memory of Jan Groot, fellow human design enthusiast, taken from "Open Centers Without Activations" Facebook group.

ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE- DEEP DIVE

"The solar plex is there for one thing and truly one thing only. To feel. To feel.

When we get to the 6, we get to trouble. I mean, we just simply arrive at the point of real trouble. After all, everything that we are going to deal with, that we will call the solar plex emotional system, it all begins and it’s all rooted in the 6th gate. The 6th gate has enormous potential. In the same way that the 50th gate carries within it all of the root and potential of what we call awareness, that all of the emotional potential, not simply the motor potential of the solar plex system, but the ultimate awareness potential of the solar plex system is all rooted in the 6th gate. One of the things about entering into the pattern is that the very first thing that one has to deal with in the pattern is one is going to have to deal with the emotional environment, and the emotional environment is there from the beginning. It makes everything s*xier. Knowledge, s*x, love, games, boredom. I mean, there’s nothing like an emotional system to be able to turn a dull day into a glorious day. There’s also nothing like an emotional system to turn a glorious day into a horrible day.

However, let’s be positive in this moment. One of the things about the solar plex system is the impact of the solar plex system from the very beginning of human life means something very, very important. And we will only really see historically the crisis when we get to the polarity of the 6, we get to the 36, we get to its opposition, we’ll see what all of that ultimately leads to. But it’s very important to understand something. No matter how much we try to understand, if you’re emotional you can refuse to accept the truth. See, if it was just fu***ng learned, it would have been really easy. And it wasn’t, because they dumped in the emotional system and said, "Aha, here is something you’re really going to have to deal with. It’s going to obscure everything, everything." After all, this is our job. Our job is to be able to have survived, all of you have survived the emotional system of the world long enough to transform it so it stops being such a pain. So from the very beginning, the moment that you have the 6th gate, what you have is the opening of intimacy into the emotional motor. How nice. It’s like, "Come on in here and have some turmoil." Because that’s basically what it was.

Now one of the things to understand about the presence of emotions from the very beginning is that everything that we were going to do for the rest of our history, including up till now, we have done without awareness. We bond without awareness. If human beings could really see the way they were intended to be matched, they’d be deeply surprised. The emotional system has changed the way in which we can look at things because it does create, it does create this kind of fuzzy Neptuneian quality, in which there is no real clarity. And after all, it wasn’t until 1987 and the advent of this knowledge and the receiving of this knowledge that anybody ever understood how the solar plex system actually operated. This is the first generation of human beings that actually have a chance as emotional beings to do something about the emotional system, to finally get to a point of clarity with the emotional system, to finally get to a point of clarity. And this is the cruelty of evolution. The cruelty of evolution is you get to the point where you think you’re supposed to get to and when you get there, nobody thanks you, there’s suddenly a leap and you’ve got to start all over again. By the time humanity figures out what the emotional system is as a totality, we’re not going to be concerned about it anymore because the motor impact is going to disappear and we’ll have to deal with something else. But for all of this round up until now, from the very beginning, we have had to deal with the emotional system and the lack of clarity in the world.

I never forget for even a moment what it is to have this privilege, to be able to spend time talking about such nice exalted little things while the vast majority of the planet is living in hell. If you compress planet earth down to a hundred people, seventy of them can’t read. I mean, think about that, please. Only one of them would have a computer. You see, it takes a long time to make things happen. It takes a long time. Human beings are not patient. It takes a long time. We do not live in a world that’s clear. We live in a world of the not-self. We live in a world of emotional lack of clarity. We live in a world of vast unnecessary violence and degradation. We live in a world in which half of the human beings who are alive today do not have what they need to eat. And here we are, comfy, in our intellectual exercise, looking at the wonders of evolution. Isn’t that sweet?

See, somebody who has a defined emotional system, who spends 7 years in this knowledge and is transformed into somebody who truly lives correctly according to the nature of what they are, oh yes, that’s wonderful, but that doesn’t measure against the totality of ignorance and lack of clarity in the world. It doesn’t measure at all. And it’s not about how anybody can make it different. It has its own timing. It’s not like we should all mourn that and say, "Aw, isn’t that too bad? There’s all those people that are hungry." That’s not the way it is. It’s not about we’ve done anything wrong. It’s not about anything being incorrect. It’s not about man, humankind, being a bad animal. I mean, just because we’re at the top of the food chain doesn’t mean we’re bad. So one of the things to understand about the very beginning of our process is the process begins with, "Yes, go out and do all these things, but we’re going to make sure you’re confused all the way." So you get to see and feel everything. Because more than anything else, the presence of the solar plex is there for one thing and truly one thing only. To feel. To feel. To feel what it is to be informed and to reflect on that feeling. That’s what it’s there for. And it never stands still. It’s the miracle of life. It never stands still. And the feeling never stands still.

Until you understand that, you can never find a point of clarity. As you’ll see as we move along the program, the time will come. People have to click in as things click in. And those who don’t click in get wiped out. Because that’s the way nature works. It just eliminates. It eliminates what isn’t functional. It eliminates what cannot survive. It just eliminates it. All of us in our personal lives, all of humanity with its little vanities, thinking that it’s in charge of everything, walking around carrying the world on your shoulders.

When you look out there in the world, please have empathy with a world that’s ignorant. And recognize that it’s not their fault. They were designed to be ignorant until they stopped being ignorant. I mentioned at the beginning rather mysteriously that sequencing was based on an old Egyptian model. The way in which they used it was that they saw it as a way of understanding the mechanism of the microcosm by seeing or understanding the macrocosm. They divided a lunar month into 62 stages. And one of the things that that represents, and that’s not like I’m suggesting that you spend a lot of time investigating that, it’s just simply to have a context. One of the things that it represented for them was a way of understanding the timing of mechanisms. The timing of mechanisms. As we’ve been going along from the beginning, I’ve been giving you hints of that by saying, "Well, for example, if you have the 5th gate, you’ve got to wait until the 15th,” because then the process is complete. “If you have the 6th gate, you’re waiting for the 59.” Well, think about how far the 6th step is from the 59th step. We’re quite a ways away. Now imagine if you reduce that into a lunar month so that you’re basically talking about a stage, a sequence, two a day, because that’s basically approximately, approximately what you’re looking at. It tells you something about different kinds of experiences."

- Ra Uru Hu, founder of the human design and BG5 systems