• ✨ Hypothetical sacral questions don’t work, neither do sacral questions that don’t come from the outside ✨

    ByBaffo

    “New Generators in their experiment often look for ways to continue living the life that they think they want, and still honor their Strategy and Inner Authority. This leads to thinking such as: if I hear my response, then it must be ok to do it; and, this is another myth.

    Here’s my example, as I fell into this trap early on in my experiment: I felt like I was living in the wrong place. My job had recently ended, my relationship was long distance, and it felt as if nothing was really moving for me where I was living.

    I had a friend record a tape for me, asking me about moving to several different cities that my mind thought would be good for me. I’m emotional, so I needed to feel my wave through multiple sacral responses; and the tape was a handy way to be asked multiple times. Although I practiced responding, there was no real clarity over time with this method. I couldn’t feel my sacral energy getting engaged, whatsoever, because it was all hypothetical. No one was asking me to move, I wasn’t asked to a project or place. My mind was making up the whole thing…trying to get my life to become what I thought I wanted.

    However, when in real life I was asked to move, and there was a place I was being asked to go, the wave was truly set in motion from my responses. And over time, clarity emerged, and life moved me.

    Only decisions that arrive from outside the aura as a yes/no question that involve other people, places or projects require a decision through the Sacral Center’s response. For 50% of all Generators with Solar Plexus Authority for decisions, the sacral sound response to the Yes/No question initiates the emotional wave; it literally begins the process of the Inner Authority.” -Leela Swann-Herbert

  • There is no choice here. This is pure being.

    ByBaffo
    art by Ryoji Ikeda

    “To be separate and alone is one thing.
    To be separate from others is another.

    The moment the individual leaves the separate aloneness and steps into the collective, they leave the absolute and enter the Maya, the illusion.

    To make contact, to communicate across that separateness requires explanation.

    The collective intelligence begins with Because of. The absolute knows there is no because, there just is, but that is not satisfactory to the collective.

    The collective demands reasons, and the reasons can never be the truth, only one of myriad aspects of the truth.
    The Because of leads to the collective Experience of This and That.

    You are happy because of this or that.
    You are a failure because of this and that and so on.

    The absolute knows that you are what you are.
    No choice despite whatever the reasons may be.” – Ra Uru Hu, From the Book of Letters (aka the White Book)

  • American Third-Worldism

    ByBaffo

    Zohran Mamdani, Islam as Language, American Third-Worldism
    As I see It – Part 2 by Zineb Riboua Oct 30, 2025
    Zohran Mamdani and Strategic Islamophobia | Contending Modernities

    “The man who no longer expects miraculous changes either from a revolution or from an economic plan is not obliged to resign himself to the unjustifiable. It is because he likes individual human beings, participates in communities, and respects the truth, that he refuses to surrender his soul to an abstract ideal of humanity, a tyrannical party, and an absurd scholasticism. . . . If tolerance is born of doubt, let us teach everyone to doubt all the models and utopias, to challenge all the prophets of redemption and the heralds of catastrophe.”
    ― Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals

    American Third-Worldism

    There are many ways to chart the evolution of ideologies. Christopher Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement remains one of the sharpest accounts of how legal and political revolutions create new moral hierarchies. I do not contest his thesis, but I sense something deeper taking shape alongside it.

    Perhaps this resonates more with me because I work in foreign policy, but I am always interested when domestic politics are refracted through international issues. Mamdani’s rhetoric on Israel, Islamophobia, 9/11, and minimizing Hamas’ atrocities does not emerge from the American civil-rights tradition, progressive politics, or constitutional thought. It stems from a decolonial vision of the world.

    Three foundations sustain Third-Worldism and the political style it produces in the United States.

    1. The first is the belief that imperialism is not an episode in Western history but its permanent feature. As Samir Amin argued in Unequal Development and Eurocentrism, capitalism depends on maintaining the periphery in a state of dependency. Anti-imperialism, therefore, becomes by definition anti-Americanism since the United States is cast as the final form of empire, the axis through which global exploitation flows.
    2. The second is that the bourgeois persists. Third-Worldism inherits the Marxist critique of the bourgeoisie and the capitalist class, but extends it to a civilizational and, often, geopolitical scale. The bourgeoisie becomes synonymous with the West, and capitalism becomes closely associated with Western modernity. Within that frame, the Jew is placed at the symbolic center of the system, identified with finance and cosmopolitan life. This produces a subtler form of antisemitism, and anti-Zionism becomes the ethical language through which anti-capitalism is expressed.
    3. The third is the redefinition of the proletariat. For Marx, the proletariat consisted of industrial workers. For the Third-Worldists, there is a global hierarchy, global struggle, global cause, and therefore the proletariat becomes the collective of the world’s oppressed peoples.

    I believe Mamdani draws, consciously or not, from this tradition.

    The Future of Third-Worldism

    Several forces explain why Third-Worldism is resurging today. I want to highlight three of them: Read More “American Third-Worldism”

  • Third-Worldism

    ByBaffo

    Zohran Mamdani, Third-Worldism, and the Algerian Revolution
    Third-World Resentment by Zineb Riboua Oct 28, 2025

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    “We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”
    ― Marcel Proust

    Mamdani’s Third-Worldism

    Zohran Mamdani is routinely labeled a socialist or an Islamist sympathizer. The right brands him a radical. The establishment (whatever that vague term encompasses) casts him as a provocateur, a liar who eats with his hands for clout. But these tags overlook the deeper ideological current animating his worldview. Mamdani, in truth, draws from a very distinct left-wing tradition: Third-Worldism, a postcolonial moral project born in the mid-twentieth century that recast politics as a global uprising against Western hegemony.

    I recognize this tradition viscerally. As a Moroccan, I grew up amid the lingering echoes of decolonization, which continue to mold perceptions of justice and power, albeit less overtly than in the West. I should say that I’m Berber, and I’ve always felt somewhat detached from that way of thinking. From high school onward, Third World rhetoric permeated everyday discourse on climate change, Palestine, or inequality. The issues evolve, but the lens persists, as it’s fundamentally a moral binary logic that divides the powerful from the powerless.

    Mamdani’s speeches evoke that same architecture of thought. His convictions echo the Algerian Revolution’s core belief that the oppressed occupy history’s moral vanguard and that their liberation redeems human dignity. In the United States, a nation without colonies, he adapts this anti-imperial ethos to a society steeped in guilt and redemption narratives. Mamdani repurposes the lexicon of Third-World liberation for American soil, transforming decolonization into a scaffold for moral and political identity.

    In general, the perennial political challenge lies in identifying one’s true adversary. Each era masks its conflicts, and ours is even more difficult given the trickeries of language. Anglo-American conservatives, trained to debate policies and principles, are unprepared for this kind of politics. They face a movement that treats moral certainty as innocence or the pursuit of “real justice” and disarms opposition by framing power as compassion or the pursuit of “real common good”. Wokeism was only the beginning, showing that moral language can sustain ideology more effectively than doctrine or policy. Mamdani represents the next stage. He turns this moral framework into political practice, carrying it beyond culture and identity into economics and foreign affairs.

    Algerian Revolution and Mamdani’s Language

    It is worth examining the language that shaped Zohran Mamdani’s worldview, a language that first crystallized in the late 1950s during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). Thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Jean-Paul Sartre transformed anti-colonial resistance into a moral epic, portraying liberation not only as political emancipation but as the rebirth of the human spirit itself. Read More “Third-Worldism”

  • Reflectors’ auras are sampling

    ByBaffo

    “If you have a Reflector in your life, then I would like to assist you in understanding what you are dealing with. If you are a Reflector, then I would like to help you understand you better. Let’s begin at the beginning. Reflectors are the only beings born with no definition, unlike everybody else. We have activations. What that means is that our auras are different, but not entirely so.

    Manifestors’ auras are closed and insulating. Generators’ auras are open and enveloping. Projectors’ auras are focused and absorbing. But Reflectors’ auras are sampling, which means these auras open and close, and our openness amplifies that experience. Reflectors will never experience definition, only conditioning, as that is our nature.

    This is where the Reflector begins life in the open vastness with no definition, and no hope of ever being defined. Always conditioned, always looking to be like everybody else; always seeking to be filled in. Until a Reflector finds their path, we are lost in the sea of conditioning. And here is the cosmic joke, every Reflector is different from every other Reflector, and yet all seeking the same thing– to find themselves.

    Reflectors have the greatest ally– the Moon. But here’s another of those jokes — only the Personality Moon can show the Reflector our unique way. We’re open, there is not center energy guide for us, it’s the Moon that shows us our way, and in the only way it can– through our personality. Why, you might ask is this so? It’s really quite simple — our personality is what is conscious to us. When we as a Reflector accept the moon as our teacher, we are on the way to finding our path. Reflectors are the student of experience and experience comes to us amplified.

    Conditioning is always amplified so that we can become intimate with experience. Experience reveals how energy gets experienced. Every 28.5 days shows the Reflector what energy feels like, looks like, smells like, tastes like, flows like. Every 28.5 days gives the Reflector a glimpse of what an experience is, and all based on what the Reflector has activated. This is mechanical. Not personal. But the stories are personal. The stories are the Reflectors greatest teacher, because the stories are amplified too.

    You begin to see the beauty of design. The mind takes in all the conditioning and turns that conditioning into stories, and the Reflector is here to see all those stories in their openness. Every time the mind is saying something, it is telling you a story about what has happened, what is going to happen, or what may happen – based upon your conditioning. It does not tell stories about what is actually happening; what is actually happening is experienced only through direct observation. When we can see this phenomenon, we become the guides of observation.

    This is our role, to see how all of the stories make experience personal; to become aware of how these stories are not our actual life. Our work is to become aware that the mind and its stories are not an actual experience; but what they do is provide us with an example of how experience is seen by the mind. Our life as a Reflector is a moment by moment experience of what comes and goes. This takes place when we sacrifice trying to be like everyone else, we gain the gift of understanding of how energy is experienced.

    This is the wisdom the Reflector can bring when they find their path, and when they trust their openness. So for Reflectors, the thing to recognize, that there is no experience you are mechanically designed to hold onto, to have consistently; because experience is your life.” – Dharmen Swann-Herbert

  • “The 4/6 Reflector: A Living Mirror at the Crossroads of Connection and Maturity”

    ByBaffo

    “To live as a 4/6 Reflector is to inhabit the world as both participant and witness.”
    Just like every other human being on planet Earth, this supposed ‘differentiation, or uniqueness, is not, different or unique as this applies to all humans.

    “To feel the pulse of humanity in one’s body and yet know, with an almost aching clarity, that nothing truly belongs to you.”
    I never experienced the pulse of humanity in my body or ever had aching clarity that nothing truly belongs to me, ever.

    “The Reflector aura is sampling, tasting, and reflecting back the energetic quality of the environment.”
    Nope, 15 Reflectors in one environment (been there, done that), will (potentially) all experience, sample and reflect something entirely different(ly), there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of different Reflectors. https://www.mcha.nl/2015/07/29/moonblog-58-4-focusing/

    “And when you overlay that with the 4/6 profile, the heart of the Networker and the vision of the Role Model, you get a being who is designed to cultivate deep relational bonds while slowly maturing into wisdom through cycles of disillusionment, withdrawal, and renewal.”
    Or not. HD is not math, these are not formulas. Nothing is fixed.

    “The 4/6 is already a study in duality. The first number, the 4th line, seeks stability, intimacy, and genuine friendship.”
    Everything is (a study) in duality, and the 4th line seeks nothing, is make belief, wishful thinking.

    “It is the line of the opportunist. Not in a manipulative sense, but in the way life unfolds through people. Everything for the 4th line happens through relationships. There’s a trust in the connective tissue between souls, an instinct for building community. For a Reflector, this relational theme is magnified, because the very nature of a Reflector’s openness means you become the mirror for those you are close to. You feel them, you become them, you reflect them.”
    ah hell no. No-one becomes anything else but them. Feeling, ok, Reflecting ok, becoming, is impossible, physically and mechanically, biologically, nope nope nope.

    “This makes environment and people not just important but existentially defining.”
    make belief and weaponizing HD, this is not as forced/fixed as made out to be. Again, not math, not formulas.

    “The 4/6 Reflector’s wellbeing and clarity depend entirely on the frequency of the world they inhabit.”
    Which clarity are we speaking of, I sure hope not mental clarity, cause besides overrated, clarity is not the deal (or ‘goal’ if you must) it is not a result, and not measurable either.

    “The community must be clean enough, aligned enough, for truth to emerge.”
    hell fuck no, this is placing conditions on Outer Circumstances, this is result oriented thinking (and gibberish), truth can emerge anywhere. Yet this Reflector may pick up on this truth in this unclean unaligned environment, and that Reflector on that one. And besides which kind of clean are we even talking about, and aligned with what exactly?

    “When the environment is healthy, the Reflector’s natural glow is magnetic.”
    absolute horseshit, this is magical wishful thinking and forces the Reflector on monkey tricks needed behaviour, it is ignoring duality (a foundational pilar of Human Design) and ignores the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of different Reflectors, again.

    “Their insights precise, their perspective transformative.”
    same as above

    “When it isn’t, they collapse under the distortion of what they are reflecting, mistaking the pain of others for their own.”
    This is not so dependant on the Outer Circumstances but on the Reflectors own deconditioning in one part, but on duality also, Human Design is not math !! And thus to pretend things are as fixed and strict and structured is complete and utter nonsense, period. Sure the identification with the pain of others is a potential, but this collapse is not (a) given.

    “Then there’s the 6th line. It unfolds in three distinct life stages: the trial-and-error of the first thirty years, the retreat and observation of the midlife plateau, and the embodiment of wisdom after fifty. For the Reflector, this progression is especially poignant.”
    no, this is not (a) given. There are no such rules, Human Design describes a framework of mechanics, but the experience of these mechanical absolutes is not fixed as such. (And I am a 4/6 Reflector after Chiron Return, into HD since about 5 years before my Uranus Opposition)

    “The first stage feels like a raw experiment. Sampling identities, communities, belief systems, endlessly shape-shifting in search of something that feels authentic.”
    Nope not endlessly shape-shifting, this is not a given trajectory of what the experience will look like for all 6th line Reflectors during the first stage.

    “Yet authenticity, for a Reflector, is never static. It’s about alignment in the moment.”
    pfrt horse shit, -it- is not ‘about alignment in the moment’ this is NewAge gibberish, pretending there are things to do (align in the moment) or else, and ‘it’s about’ presented as a ritualistic goal to endeavour, which is simply made up. The passenger witnesses, in the moment, or does not, witness, in the moment. The end.

    “When the 6th line moves onto the roof (around the Saturn return), there’s a pull toward withdrawal. A deep need for distance, reflection, and quiet observation.”
    Not a need, it is not internal, it is not a choice, it is mechanical. It is not psychological !
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  • Maia Mechanics Imaging v3.0.12.0

    ByBaffo

    Hi,

    I had MMI v2.9.9.0 installed, when installing mmi v3.0.12.0 it imported all my v2.9 charts without asking and did not get the 7 day trial version

    Now I updated my licenses to v3 (Penta Professional and Advanced Imaging)

    -when I import a .rave file, nothing gets imported. I have all my charts stored as individual .rave files

    -when importing a .rave file, and I create a new folder during import, this folder does not show up in the chart library (and no chart)
    whereas when trying to import a .rave file again, this new folder does show during the import process but not in the chart library (maybe because the import failed, but why did it then does show up when trying to import again?)

    deleted all automatically imported charts in v3

    -when I import a .mmi file (a backup I made of all charts recently), nothing gets imported.

    I make a new chart (mine) in v3 and save it (no folder)
    -when I then edit it and save it (not even save as), I now have 2 charts with the same name (3 by the time of writing)

    -Control -S does not work, for saving current chart(s), nothing gets saved

    -when opening a saved chart, edit the birth time, and then (file>save) saving it, it keeps showing the current shown chart with a asteriks *, as if not saved. And then again having a second chart, with the same name

    -the information pane divider, keeps popping to the middle when switching charts (multiple open), v2.9 would at least stay fixed once changed to lower, during the whole mmi session regardless which chart was open. But when I switch between charts, it flips back to the same position in the middle, each time, aaaargh.

    – there is no right mouse click options, like there was in v2 to edit, or save to pdf, which is super inconvenient when reverse engineering a chart from a picture or finding someone color/tone layers for someone with unknown birth time, and you have to edit the birth time a lot to go to file > edit and thus way too much mouse movement.

    The other keyboard shortcuts seem to work but are still much slower and more labour intense

    -when printing to pdf, the image quality is super low, the chart images already are low
    but even worse are the Mandala images

    -the regional settings are not correctly implemented
    when making a new chart from scratch it says todays date in my d/m/y format (correctly)
    but when entering my own birthdata (12 september 1969) I have to put in 9/12/1969 instead of 12/9/1969 else I get a 9 december 1969 chart

    -about the jovian website, the other day on the new website, I reset my password, but now it does not recognizes it either, and when asking to reset it again, no email happens (this was when clicking on the ‘sign in’ option during check out for the mmiv3 update)

    That’s a lot!

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    Hi Sjef,

    Thanks for reaching out about the issues you’re experiencing with MMI v3.0.12.0. I understand how frustrating these multiple problems must be.

    For the activation key issues: There was a known issue where some customers accidentally paid the MMI update fee on our testing domain instead of the production site, causing activation keys not to work properly. This has been fixed, and all affected keys now function as expected.

    To access your current activation keys: Visit mmi.jovianarchive.com and log in to copy your activation keys. Remember that edition keys must be entered in the “Upgrade MMI” popup, while extension module keys (Advanced Imaging and DreamRave) go in the “Extension Module” popup – both available from the Help menu.

    Regarding the technical issues you’re experiencing with file imports, chart saving, UI problems, and regional settings – these appear to be software bugs that need direct technical support. Our knowledge base has troubleshooting resources for MMI technical issues.[1]

    For the website password reset issue: Try clearing your browser’s cache and cookies, ensure your browser is up to date, or try a different browser entirely.[2]

    Given the complexity of these technical issues, I’d recommend reaching out to our support team directly at support@jovianarchive.com for comprehensive assistance with the software functionality problems.

    Let us know if that helped or reply to this email:
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    This answer was composed by Jovian Automated Support, Jovian Archive’s AI Agent.

    Hello Sjef,
    Thank you for reaching out to us, I hope you are well.

    A+ for essay writing — very thorough feedback! 😊

    You’re right on all points. As with everyone, you’ll need to wait just a bit — though not in line. The update will become available simultaneously for everyone once they open MMI and select Help > Upgrade MMI from the menu.

    Thank you for taking the time to document everything so clearly — I’ve passed your full report on to our developers. They’re aware of several of these issues (like import inconsistencies, PDF quality, and regional settings) and are already working on improvements.

    We really appreciate your patience and detailed notes — they help us make MMI better for everyone.

    As for your Jovian password, I have reset your password to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    I hope this was helpful, and please let me know if you have any further questions.

    Have a lovely day.

  • Who do you think, you think, you think you are?

    ByBaffo

    To know/understand this part, this separation of Mind, identified Personality, Personality imprint, Personality Crystal, Passenger is paramount to grokking Human Design well, it’s just that so many were never taught this.

    https://www.mcha.nl/2017/09/22/from-what-i-have-observed/

    In most if not all of the surface information Ra hints at it, but it does not become that clear, so I can understand why so many struggle with it, cause they simply wouldn’t know any better, and come from other modalities that talk for instance about how our subconscious (or supra conscious even) is the real you, which you can then access with wild mind writing, and so on.

    Or how somewhere inside is an internal tape player and that you can change the tape. Or, in the next life be/have a different tape player all together 🫥

    In regular speak your ‘personality’ is deemed to be how you are, how you behave naturally, what is your core essence of being and reasoning even. When in HD we know it as ego/mind and running just like any other software program.

    In some modalities this difference is more clear but then that we can train in or out of those, improve this ‘ego’ to ‘self’-made up ideas and morals and rules and social tolerable rituals and even thoughts. And then identify with the progress ‘we’ (think we) made.

    Not easy indeed. Can we maybe play/focus on that with some posts/info/links/downloads? Seems like a clear need.

  • MMI Has Evolved

    ByBaffo

    Hi Baffo,

    Back in 2004, we released Maia Mechanics Imaging (MMI) for Windows. For many years it was the primary tool for chart work in Human Design.

    Over time, as Windows kept evolving, MMI began to run into problems on newer computers. We also discovered that MMI’s data source for UCT time conversion wasn’t being properly maintained, and a switch to a newer, community-driven source was required.

    We put much of our focus into MaiaMechanics.com, our browser-based service that offers all the same features (and more). But MMI has one key strength that many of you still rely on: offline chart creation.

    We’ve heard from long-time users who want to keep MMI alive — so we’ve done exactly that. The application has been completely updated, rebuilt from the foundation framework up. It’s the same MMI you know, now modernized to run smoothly on today’s Windows machines.

    With the launch of the new Jovian Archive on September 22nd, the new MMI will finally be available.

    I’ll share more details (and a look at what’s changed) after we launch. For now, I just wanted to let our MMI community know: it’s coming.

    Stay tuned,

    Loki S. Krakower-Riley
    CEO, Jovian Archive Media

  • MoonBlog 16.2 the cynic

    ByBaffo

    So many people achieve a sense of self worth and identity, in comparison, so through their work circle, the people they know through hobby or activity, the causes they adhere too, or not adhere too at all, whom they invite and not invite for their birthdays, by which car/brand they drive/own, what kind of house, its value, the street or neighbourhood it is in, which tools they prefer over that one, the store they do, or do not shop in, online or In Real Life. It is a form of snobbism and separation/exclusion, mentally, how they separate themselves from ‘them’, how their me, is an ‘us’.

    Even if of course there is no logic to that because of all the different people in this circle versus that one, and they meander into several different ones, since not everyone who lives in a house like theirs, pays the same amount of taxes, or indeed drives the same brand/version of car, and then very different people shop there or vote for him/her.

    Human Design helps you connect with yourself, through your own actions and your own correctness, by your very own observations and those alone. It helps you value and identify yourself, as your very own self, and is not dependant on these others in the same groceries store, or at the same tennis shoe store, anymore.

    It stops measuring and comparing with those ‘happenings’ as a meaning and knowing full well separation is there but of a very different kind, uniqueness does not need any comparison or snobbism, and has no use for self aggrandization thoughts by diminishing others nor does it look up to anything else ever again.

    You get to hold yourself warmly, by how you wash your dishes, make and drink your coffee, all by yourself, for yourself.

    Which you may want to share about with others about. But not to explain yourself, defend yourself, aggrandise yourself. Just you drinking this coffee from that machine with whatever you do or not put in it.

    Just you, by yourself, alone, being your own comfortable Inner Authority (center based or process based). Even in those moments when not that comfortable at all. Just uniquely you.
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