Divinity Atlas

Sacred Correspondences
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme

Switch Atlas

The Inner World

The Civil World

The Natural World

Categories

Gene Keys

Citation Formats

General Reference

APA Style

BibTeX

The sixty-four Gene Keys map onto the hexagrams of the I Ching, giving each a triad of a shadow, a gift and a siddhi, a progression from a constrained expression to a liberated one. The system was set out by Richard Rudd in The Gene Keys (2009), building on Human Design, whose numbering it shares. It is a contemporary work rather than a traditional one.

Learn More
The Sixty-Four Keys

The sixty-four Gene Keys map onto the hexagrams of the I Ching, giving each a triad of a shadow, a gift and a siddhi, a progression from a constrained, fearful expression (the shadow), through a liberated and creative one (the gift), to a transcendent one (the siddhi). The system is presented as a contemplative path of working with each key to move from shadow to gift to siddhi.

The Gene Keys were set out by Richard Rudd in his book The Gene Keys (2009), building directly on Human Design, the same sixty-four hexagram-based keys, but reframing them as a tool of inner transformation rather than a chart of energetic mechanics.

From Human Design to contemplation

The Gene Keys share Human Design's foundation in the sixty-four I Ching hexagrams and grew directly out of it, but where Human Design maps a fixed chart, the Gene Keys offer a reflective progression through the three levels of each key. The atlas treats it as a contemporary system built on Human Design, describing its terms without endorsing its claims.

The atlas gives each Gene Key its shadow, gift and siddhi. The I Ching hexagrams the keys map onto, and the Human Design system they build on, are treated in their own categories, within Modern Synthesis Systems.

Cross-Tradition Connections

Entries in This Category

From Addiction to Silence, Gene Keys
From Agitation to Awakening, Gene Keys
From Arrogance to Humility, Gene Keys
From Chaos to Innocence, Gene Keys
From Co Dependence to Sacrifice, Gene Keys
From Complexity to Quintessence, Gene Keys
From Compromise to Bounteousness, Gene Keys
From Conflict to Peace, Gene Keys
From Confusion to Illumination, Gene Keys
From Constriction to Universal Love, Gene Keys
From Control to Valour, Gene Keys
From Corruption to Harmony, Gene Keys
From Deafness to Epiphany, Gene Keys
From Desire to Rapture, Gene Keys
From Discord to Empathy, Gene Keys
From Dishonesty to Transparency, Gene Keys
From Dishonour to Grace, Gene Keys
From Dislocation to Unity, Gene Keys
From Dissatisfaction to Bliss, Gene Keys
From Distraction to Intoxication, Gene Keys
From Division to Virtue, Gene Keys
From Dominance to Communion, Gene Keys
From Doubt to Truth, Gene Keys
From Dullness to Florescence, Gene Keys
From Entropy to Beauty, Gene Keys
From Exhaustion to Divine Will, Gene Keys
From Expectation to Celebration, Gene Keys
From Failure to Veneration, Gene Keys
From Fantasy to Emanation, Gene Keys
From Force to Majesty, Gene Keys
From Forgetting to Revelation, Gene Keys
From Greed to Ascension, Gene Keys
From Half Heartedness to Devotion, Gene Keys
From Hunger to Boundlessness, Gene Keys
From Immaturity to Superabundance, Gene Keys
From Impatience to Timelessness, Gene Keys
From Inadequacy to Wisdom, Gene Keys
From Indifference to Mastery, Gene Keys
From Inertia to Invincibility, Gene Keys
From Intellect to Impeccability, Gene Keys
From Interference to Synarchy, Gene Keys
From Intolerance to Forgiveness, Gene Keys
From Judgement to Perfection, Gene Keys
From Limitation to Justice, Gene Keys
From Mediocrity to Exquisiteness, Gene Keys
From Obscurity to Light, Gene Keys
From Opinion to Omniscience, Gene Keys
From Oppression to Transfiguration, Gene Keys
From Pride to Invisibility, Gene Keys
From Provocation to Liberation, Gene Keys
From Psychosis to Sanctity, Gene Keys
From Purposelessness to Immortality, Gene Keys
From Reaction to Rebirth, Gene Keys
From Self Obsession to Being, Gene Keys
From Selfishness to Selflessness, Gene Keys
From Seriousness to Ecstasy, Gene Keys
From Stress to Stillness, Gene Keys
From Struggle to Honour, Gene Keys
From Superficiality to Presence, Gene Keys
From Turbulence to Compassion, Gene Keys
From Unease to Clarity, Gene Keys
From Vanity to Purity, Gene Keys
From Victimisation to Freedom, Gene Keys
From Weakness to Tenderness, Gene Keys
Sources
Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose
Richard Rudd, Gene Keys Publishing, 2009The shadow, gift and siddhi triad structure and the mapping of the sixty four Gene Keys onto the I Ching hexagramsView the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.