Your Optimum "Environment": Mars Hunting hOMe, Human Design, + Saturday Serenades
Here’s the next CelestiOwl meditation video for Saturday Serenades - Invoking Bliss: a calming ambient fantasy journey with ethereal vocals sending you to other star systems and the source of your breath. With textured pads, Peruvian and Native American Flutes, echoing chime, this ambient soundscape is ideal for meditation, sleep, yoga, healing, gaming, reading, and writing.
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Mars Retro in Cancer Hunting Home: Human Design Revelations
When it comes to deciding where to live or travel, we often think about practical factors: job opportunities, cost of living, or climate. Understanding your Human Design energy type can illuminate why you might thrive best in bustling cities or feel most aligned in the stillness of rural landscapes or need the open sea or a mountaintop to do your best work and play. As an astrocartographer and Human Design consultant, I love helping clients uncover these hidden dynamics, blending the voices of their planetary patterns with the insights of their unique genetic blueprint.
Here, in my last days in Thailand, I have been witnessing once again just how important one’s Human Design energy type and “Environment” can be to the best travel locations, perma
nent residences, as well as to your ideal work space and productivity cauldron.
This sense of secure and safe home is REALLY up for us with our recent Full Moon in Cancer conjoin Mars, who is hunting home security and roots big time during his retrograde through Feb 23 and his time in Cancer into April. Because this cycle is so moody and moon-y, I will keep releasing some essays about Cancer’s home and emotionally related themes, both astrologically and with Human Design.
Here’s a short video from the beach in Koh Phangan, describing “Shores” and “Markets” vs. “Caves” and why knowing your Environment is key for centeredness, achieving clarity, and living your genetic gifts.
Check out these two short videos about Cave and other Environment types, and about best places for Projectors to live or travel here on the videos page of Destination by Design.
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Human Design energy types—Manifestors, Generators, Projectors, Reflectors, and Manifesting Generators—carry distinct preferences for environments that align with their energetic needs. For example, Generators and Manifesting Generators often thrive in places buzzing with opportunities to respond to life’s invitations. Cities or vibrant towns, where serendipity is around every corner, may energize them. In contrast, Projectors—with their natural inclination to observe and guide—might feel overwhelmed by constant activity. They often find their flow in quiet, intentional spaces, like small towns or serene retreats nestled in nature.
Beyond the type, Human Design environments—caves, markets, kitchens, mountains, valleys, and shores—add another layer of specificity. For instance, a "Market" person might thrive in dynamic spaces like bustling farmer’s markets or co-working hubs, where interaction and exchange are central, while a "Mountains" person could feel most aligned in elevated settings such as high-rise apartments or serene mountain retreats, where they gain clarity and perspective.
Similarly, a "Kitchens" person is drawn to environments of transformation and collaboration, like a creative studio or communal cooking space, where diverse elements come together to create something new. On the other hand, a "Valleys" person finds their flow in ground-level settings where acoustics and connection matter, such as small neighborhoods with tight-knit communities or serene paths where sounds travel naturally and invite reflection.
When planning travel, your Human Design can even influence your preferred style of adventure. Projectors, with their natural ability to observe and guide, may find themselves drawn to travel experiences that allow them to immerse deeply and intentionally in one place—favoring quality over quantity. Manifestors, ever the initiators, may feel most alive when embarking on spontaneous, high-energy trips.
When working with clients then, I consider not only the Locational Astrology influences, but your Human Design energy type and optimum environment to reveal destinations that activate growth, to inspire healing, to attract relationships, and to bring more abundance and creativity.
After 46 countries, I still continue to learn through direct experience how these profound systems can empower our choices for our ideal locations to live and travel. Learn more about your Destinations by Design with the new consultancy here.
Reporting from the field!
Your intrepid vagabond voyager,
VerDarLuz