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Design activations

Also called Design

In Human Design, the prenatal assignments found when the Sun was 88° earlier in longitude, not a fixed 88-day subtraction.

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Word origin · etymology

Ordinary English words with a specialized modern use.

Design names the pre-birth side of the system's chart; activations names its marked placements. This is authored chart vocabulary.

Jovian Archive: Personality and Design ↗Merriam-Webster: design ↗

How we know · epistemology

Prenatal solar-arc convention

The earlier chart is found by solving for an 88° solar-longitude difference. This is a defined computational rule, not a measured developmental threshold; a fixed number of days will not always reproduce its activations.

Jovian Archive: Personality and Design ↗

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  1. Jovian Archive: Personality and Design ↗
  2. Merriam-Webster: design ↗