HOW TO DO YOUR SHADOW ALCHEMY WITH THE GENE KEYS
How to do your Shadow Alchemy with the Gene Keys.
You can use your Human Design chart or your Gene Keys profile and put all your numbers in chronological following and then work through your Gene keys or Human Design gates with all the Shadows - Gifts - Siddhis. Here is the example of my Human Design and then all my gates or Gene Keys listed below & use this part of the Gene Keys website to download and read the Shadow - Gift - Siddhi of each of your gates/ keys:
Gene Key 1
Entropy – Freshness – Beauty
“To launch your life out of the cinders, to reach for the sky, to burn with love for the new. This is the 1st Gift of all – the very ground of human Genius.”
Gene Key 9
Inertia – Determination – Invincibility
“The Dilemma of this Gene Key is Perspective. If we’re looking up at the whole mountain, we’ll feel overwhelmed. If we decide just to look down at our feet, we’ll be captivated. The Taming Power of the Small teaches us to focus on small changes, rather than attempting great things.”
Gene Key 10
Self Obsession – Naturalness – Being
“The more spiritual we become, the more achingly serious we become, and the more we think we know. We have to admit at a certain point, however, that we know nothing, absolutely nothing.”
Gene Key 11
Obscurity – Idealism – Light
“If we have the 11th Gift, or are contemplating it, we can use the beautiful richness of the right brain visions and archetypes in our life to launch it onto a higher level. That is our greatest Gift – to catch others on fire with the Light that burns in our heart. Our Gift is our heart, our love, our devotion.”
Gene Key 15
Dullness – Magnetism – Florescence
“The ultimate modesty is to allow another to believe we’re weak or flawed, just as a means of loving them. This is a deeper meaning of the word Florescence. It means to use any and all behaviour to create illumination.”
Gene Key 19
Co-dependence – Sensitivity – Sacrifice
“We all do and say things that hurt others, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. Sensitivity is an art we all need to learn. When we’ve learned it, we feel so strong, so connected to life, but we also feel so permeable and soft.”
Gene Key 24
Addiction – Invention – Silence
“Whether we feel our suffering as grief, numbness, boredom, angst, frustration, loneliness, or any other deeply uncomfortable state, we like to avoid it, so we find patterns of behaviour that temporarily suspend the discomfort.”
Gene Key 28
Purposelessness – Totality – Immortality
“It’s a great mystical chestnut, this question of the purpose of one’s life. We all, sooner or later, want to know what our purpose is. There are so many people out there selling life purpose! It may appear to an outsider that the Gene Keys and the Prime Gifts are all about Purpose, since they use that language. Yet anyone who’s moving deeper inside these teachings will tell us that wanting to know the purpose of our life is simply a phase.”
Gene Key 29
Half-Heartedness – Commitment – Devotion
“This Gene Key has a certain genius, and it’s a funny kind of genius. It’s about making luck. It’s true. When we aren’t drawn into emotional or desire decisions, then we create the conditions for good fortune.”
Gene key 33
Forgetting – Mindfulness – Revelation
“This Gift can turn the whole of our life into a blaze of presence and peacefulness. Retreat does not have to be something we do after we’ve been in action. The retreat can be in the action itself. That is a Gift from heaven.”
Gene Key 34
Force - Strength - Majesty
"The difference between the Shadow and the Gift is summed up in one of the sweetest pieces of wisdom ever uttered by any human being. This one is from a Chinese sage, Chuang Tzu, obviously an old friend of Yoda.
Take these words in deeply - Easy is Right. Wow, what do you think of that?"
Gene Key 37
Weakness - Equality - Tenderness
"When we look at the world, it doesn't seem that fair. It doesn't seem as though we're equal. Yet the Gene Keys are all about genius. This is where we're equal.
We're equal to the task we're given, but only if we don't cave in."
Gene Key 44
Interference – Teamwork – Synarchy
“Synarchy means we all lead together! It doesn’t mean that we’re all the same. Not at all. It means that our uniqueness has a place within the orchestra, and instead of just playing a nice tune and being oblivious to all those around us, we begin to play in harmony with everyone.”
Gene Key 45
Dominance – Synergy – Communion
“Synergy is a word we often apply to a group dynamic that’s functioning smoothly, that’s buzzing and creative. Once we realise that we no longer need to compete with each other to survive, the next stage is figuring out how to work together. This is a great challenge, and the 45th Gene Key is adept at this.”
Gene Key 50
Corruption – Equilibrium – Harmony
“Everything that happens to us is for our higher benefit. We’re here to learn to live with Equanimity. Even shock has the capacity to lift us with Grace to another level of consciousness. As our equanimity, our Equilibrium becomes truly stable, we become unshakeable. We become truly peaceful. Our life opens up to a higher reality – a Harmony that lies hidden from view, but that’s communicated continuously to us from every cell within our DNA. As this Harmony expands inside us, we begin to function through our higher bodies.”
Gene Key 52
Stress – Restraint – Stillness
“This Gift has a huge impact on the emotional body. It communicates and exudes calmness throughout the aura. There have always been people in the world who remain completely unflustered by external crises – such as emotional turmoil or human conflict and war. There have always been such people among us, and these are the people of the 52nd Gift.”
Gene Key 54
Greed – Aspiration – Ascension
“Our egotism is not a bad thing. We have to see it for what it is. It’s simply fuel. As fuel it has its use, but without awareness we don’t refine that fuel, so we don’t leave the trap of our urge to find fulfilment. The bottom line is that ego isn’t the enemy. It’s the booster rocket that one day will launch us into inner space.”
Gene Key 55
Victimisation – Freedom – Freedom
“We can’t chase Freedom. We can’t run out and sell everything, and drop our dreams and become a monk or hermit drifting about. We have no chance of dropping our dreams. We have to be so patient. Freedom will come on its own, without our doing anything. We have to live as a human, with all the trappings and trimmings, and from within that our Freedom will arise.”
Gene Key 58
Dissatisfaction – Vitality – Bliss
“The ancients named this Gene Key, this Hexagram – The Joyous. But how can we have joy without sadness. Loss is a part of human life. We all lose those we love. How we deal with loss is a deep, deep part of our learning within this Gene Key.”
Take your Human Design gates, numbers in purple or your Gene keys from your profile and start the journey of self exploration and self adventure by diving into transcending the shadow with your gift into your siddhi:
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Let me know if you have any further questions on your journey of transcending the negative ego’s shadow from darkness, into your gift and into the light of the siddhi.
With all my love Martijn
Another Human Design chart, put all gates defined in chronological order and go into the 64 Ways of the Gene keys to list your shadow - gift - higher self = siddhi.
Gene Key 5
Impatience – Patience – Timelessness
“Patience is the way in which the Shadow transforms into the Gift, so it’s fundamental to every aspect of the Gene Keys. It’s the field – the spaciousness – the cauldron – in which dynamic change, the alchemy of life occurs.”
Gene Key 13
Discord – Discernment – Empathy
“Discernment. It’s about discerning the voice of the heart from the voice of the mind. Not that the mind is wrong, but that if it comes before the heart, we’ll again have Discord. We have to discern the heart first, then bring in the mind.”
Gene Key 14
Compromise – Competence – Bounteousness
“To live a life of genius, we have to start believing in ourselves again. We have to get in touch with our hearts and our dreams. We may also feel we’re trapped, if we’ve been living a very compromised life. But we’re never trapped.”
Gene Key 17
Challenging opinion – Far-sightedness – Omniscience
“How can we harm another when we realise that they’re a part of us? How can we harm another when we’re feeling so good? The 17th Siddhi is part of the tradition of sudden awakening. When someone sees through their denial, it shatters them wide open to the core. This is St.Paul on the road to Damascus; this is a thunderbolt.”
Gene Keys 18
Judgment – Integrity – Perfection
“In this 18th Gene Key we’re really talking about mental Judgments. We can think about what our life would be like without our mind making these Judgments, when we’re just sunk into the inherent Perfection of it all. Perfection isn’t a Judgment – it’s a cellular knowing.”
Gene Key 22
Dishonor – Graciousness – Grace
“Graciousness isn’t just politeness or courtesy, although it may contain both of these qualities. It’s a whole cocktail of noble qualities. It’s also very refined and often very subtle. It’s an attitude carried in our aura, and it’s rooted in a deep reverence for all life.”
Gene Key 26
Pride – Artfulness – Invisibility
“This Siddhi of Invisibility creates vast ripples of awakening, which influence all life to thrive, without anyone even seeing us while we do it. That is Divine Pride. Only you and the gods know what you’ve done.”
Gene Key 30
Desire – Lightness – Rapture
“We rise and we fall in life. Sometimes we’re flying and sometimes we’re dragging. We have to see that Desire isn’t ‘unholy’. There is no holy and unholy. That’s what creates heaviness and guilt. Lightness is when we can look at Desire with equanimity.” Read more about “Why we are healing the Male/ Female balance on Earth?” and lust & seduction game here.
Gene Key 35
Hunger – Adventure – Boundlessness
“This Gene Key has driven us with its Hunger. Our deepest Hunger is to fly once again, to sail up into the sky and become one with the Divine, to be a bird in the skies of existence…”
Gene Key 38
Struggle – Perseverance – Honor
“What will we do with each precious day of our life? The 38th Gift tells us: find a fight worth fighting, and pour ourself into that. The human spirit is indomitable. It loves to reach and stretch and break new ground. We won’t be happy in life unless we too reach and stretch and break new ground. No matter who we are.”
Gene Key 45
Dominance – Synergy – Communion
“Synergy is a word we often apply to a group dynamic that’s functioning smoothly, that’s buzzing and creative. Once we realise that we no longer need to compete with each other to survive, the next stage is figuring out how to work together. This is a great challenge, and the 45th Gene Key is adept at this.”
Gene Key 48
Inadequacy – Resourcefulness – Wisdom
“Wisdom lies between the words, behind the concepts. It’s older than the mind. It may be reached through the mind, like sunlight through a prism, but it doesn’t attach itself anywhere. It emerges spontaneously, right from the heart of creation. Wisdom is alive.”
Gene Key 51
Agitation – Initiative – Awakening
“Awakening is really a series of softenings. Our awareness becomes more one-pointed, but our heart and mind become softer and more open. Whenever we’re confronted with harshness, the unexpected, noise, turbulence, the thunder of life, instead of tensing up, we can relax and open, soften and become milder. Mildness is an essential quality needed to allow spiritual initiation.”
Gene Key 53
Immaturity – Expansion – Superabundance
“Expansion comes without effort. It emerges naturally, slowly, quietly. It brings calm rather than excitement. It brings simplicity rather than complexity. It brings perspective rather than ambition. And it all comes through slowing down.”
Gene Key 54
Greed – Aspiration – Ascension
“Our egotism is not a bad thing. We have to see it for what it is. It’s simply fuel. As fuel it has its use, but without awareness we don’t refine that fuel, so we don’t leave the trap of our urge to find fulfilment. The bottom line is that ego isn’t the enemy. It’s the booster rocket that one day will launch us into inner space.”
Gene Key 55
Victimisation – Freedom – Freedom
“We can’t chase Freedom. We can’t run out and sell everything, and drop our dreams and become a monk or hermit drifting about. We have no chance of dropping our dreams. We have to be so patient. Freedom will come on its own, without our doing anything. We have to live as a human, with all the trappings and trimmings, and from within that our Freedom will arise.”
Gene Key 57
Unease – Intuition – Clarity
“Clarity is a new world. With Clarity there is no I. Clarity can’t exist with a sense of identification. To get to the heart of the matter, we must let go of all that we’ve ever known. Our Intuition will take us finally to a precipice in consciousness.”
Gene Key 61
Psychosis – Inspiration – Sanctity
“If we have this Gene Key, our life is a contemplation of death. We must not turn away from this work. It will fill us with life. The answers will come. The memory of the beyond will return in time. We must listen inwardly for the music of life, and let it move us in creative work.”
Gene Key 62
Intellect – Precision – Impeccability
“Many people have been shocked to find that one of the Shadows in the Gene Keys is the Shadow of Intellect. The reason that Intellect is a Shadow is quite simply because it’s rooted in dualism.”
