High Desert Human Design 2026
High Desert Human Design 2026 · Santa Fe, New Mexico · September 17 to 20, 2026
Hotel Glorieta · Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Spiral of Everything

Six lines, six dimensions. Notice where you are drawn. That is information.
1GroundSelf
Fear to security
From the inherited story to what is true.
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The Spiral · First Turn

It starts here, alone, underneath everything. Before you can change a single thing, you need ground you can actually stand on. The first line investigates. It digs down to the foundation and asks what is real here, underneath what I was handed. Safety comes before transformation. You cannot decondition from a body that feels under threat. So the work of this line is patient. You build enough security inside yourself that the truth becomes touchable.

In the dimension of Self

This is the return to your own authority as the ground you stand on. Not the authority you inherited. Not the voice you were trained to obey. The one that lives in your body and moves through your strategy. The first line in Self is you, coming home to what is true about you, and letting that be the floor you build the rest of your life on.

You are allowed to begin from the bottom. That is where ground is.
2EmbodimentRelationship
Provocation to brilliance
From the fear of provocation to natural brilliance.
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The Spiral · Second Turn

The second line is natural. It carries a gift it never studied for, a talent that was simply always there, so ordinary to the one who holds it that they often cannot see it. What the second line guards against is provocation, being called out, put on the spot, seen before it feels ready. The movement is from that fear of provocation into natural brilliance. You stop bracing. You let the gift be what it already is, in plain view, without performing it and without hiding it.

In the dimension of Relationship

You are seen. Another person calls the gift out of you and names the thing you could not name in yourself. It happens in the field between two people, in the warmth of being witnessed. The second line in Relationship is where you are recognized into your own nature, where someone reflects back the talent you were too close to notice.

The wish to be left alone and the longing to be seen. Both are true.
3ExperimentFamily
Shame to play
From shame to play.
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The Spiral · Third Turn

Now you test it. The third line takes no one's word for anything. It bumps into life, tries the thing, breaks the bond, and learns what does not work by living straight through it. This is learning by experiment. The old ache underneath it is shame, the sense that the failures mean something is wrong with you. The movement is out of that shame and into play. The so-called mistakes become experiments. Nothing here is wasted.

In the dimension of Family

Family is the first place any of us experiment with bonding. It is where connections are made and broken, tested and repaired, where we learn what holds and what does not. The third line in Family is where you discover, through trial, which bonds are genuinely yours to keep and which inherited patterns you are finally ready to set down.

You survive the breaking. Then it becomes play.
4CommuningCommunity
Rejection to alignment
From earning belonging to trusting resonance.
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The Spiral · Fourth Turn

The fourth line belongs. It lives in relationship, in the network, in the warmth of being held by its people. The deconditioning here is quiet and easy to miss; it starts with an open heart. It moves from earning belonging, performing to stay inside the circle, into trusting resonance. You stay, heart open. And when someone turns away, it slowly stops feeling so personal. Rejection becomes information. It is alignment doing its patient work, showing you where you belong through resonance or dissonance with the world around you.

In the dimension of Community

This is the home of the fourth line. Contribution, friendship, the field of the many holding the one. The fourth line in Community is where you practice belonging without abandoning yourself, where you learn that the people who are yours do not require a performance to stay. Where you are most resourceful to the people, and the people are most resourceful to you.

Rejection is alignment. Let it point you home.
5Heresy & LeadershipCollective
Guilt to leadership
From borrowed language to your own voice.
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The Spiral · Fifth Turn

The fifth line carries projection. People see in it what they need to see, and the fifth line learns quickly that projection is information about where the most practical guidance lives; it is never personal. The deconditioning moves from living inside borrowed language, other people's expectations, the roles laid over you, into a voice that is your own. You become the heretic of yourself. You question the very framework that carried you this far. This is where you leave the raft for the shore. The map that got you across the water gets set down, and plain speech replaces the jargon.

In the dimension of Collective

The fifth line speaks to the many. Its home is the collective, the wider field it was born to serve. The movement runs along a spectrum, from the guilt of carrying everyone's projection and trying to be what they need, into the clean, grounded leadership of a voice that belongs to you.

Leave the raft for the shore.
6SovereigntySpirit
Aloof to allow
From knowing yourself to being the thing only you can be.
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The Spiral · Sixth Turn

The sixth line begins inside life. It meets consequence directly and discovers what experience can teach.

Human Design describes 2027 as the beginning of the Solar Plexus mutation, a movement from emotional motor toward a new form of awareness. The sixth-line life has been practicing this movement across its entire arc. Emotional intensity ripens into discernment. Equanimity becomes the capacity to remain present within the wave and let clarity reveal itself in its own time.

Transmission happens through embodiment.

In the dimension of Spirit

Holding the whole hexagram consciously, the sixth line recognizes every line within the larger process. Its influence lives in its choices and the quality of its presence. A new earth takes form through lived frequency.

This is the WisdomKeeper, the one who has walked the arc and returned with spaciousness. The future evolves out loud through the life they live.

The sixth line returns to essence. Its home is Spirit, the widest turn of the Spiral. The movement runs from aloof, watching from the roof, held slightly apart, into allow, coming all the way down, letting itself be lived through. And then the sixth line folds back into the first line of the next dimension, and the whole Spiral turns again, higher.

Being. Come into the world as yourself.

The Days

September 17 · Arrival & Opening
Workshops · long-form immersions
Warming the High Desert: A Warm Data Lab
Cullen Kowalski & Merritt Wuchina
Maravilla 1 · 2:00 – 5:15
CommunityLine 2 · EmbodimentWorkshop
Soft Space is open every day, 9:00 to 12:00 and 2:00 to 5:00. When the room is unfacilitated, the door stays open.
9:00 – 12:15
Opening Ceremonies · The Spiral of Everything & Welcome
Maggie Battista & Brandy Jordan
Plenary · to 12:15
2:00 – 3:30
Projector Only Zoom Space
Cheendana Martin
Online · posted hours
SelfLine 1 · Ground
September 18
Workshops · long-form immersions
Fear Detox: Full Immersion
Nameh Marsin
Maravilla 2 · 9:00 – 12:15
SelfLine 3 · ExperimentWorkshop
From Struggle to Strength
Moniste Gauger
Chamisa · 9:00 – 12:15
SelfLine 3 · ExperimentWorkshop
Deconditioning as Grief Work
Jess Ryan & Steph Hanson
Maravilla 2 · 2:00 – 5:15
SelfLine 1 · GroundWorkshop
Soft Space is open every day, 9:00 to 12:00 and 2:00 to 5:00. When the room is unfacilitated, the door stays open.
9:00 – 10:30
The Psychology of Ra Uru Hu
Jonah Sage Dempcy
Board Room · streaming
CollectiveLine 5 · Heresy & Leadership
Jupiter in Leo: Six Gates for Career Fulfillment
Marla Tseng
Maravilla 1
SelfLine 4 · Communing
Qi Gong Movement Practice for Living Your Design
Orion Ohev
Soft Space
10:40 – 12:10
The 3rd Line Experimenter's Way
Mor Tzivoni
Board Room · streaming
SelfLine 3 · Experiment
Breathe the Bodygraph
Alison Dale
Maravilla 1
SelfLine 6 · Sovereignty
Soft Space Connection
Dr. Karen Parker
Soft Space
2:00 – 3:30
Ungovernable: When Fire Becomes Awareness · Chiron's Return in 2027
Brandy Jordan
Board Room · streaming
SpiritLine 1 · Ground
Exploring the Mechanics of Consciousness
Luisa Lucia
Maravilla 1
SpiritLine 1 · Ground
Planets & Psyche: Sidereal Astrology
Marion Desio
Chamisa
SelfLine 5 · Heresy & Leadership
Human Design + Tea
Sarah, Ashley & Chiara
Soft Space · to 5:15
Projector Only Zoom Space
Cheendana Martin
Online · posted hours
SelfLine 1 · Ground
3:40 – 5:10
Organic Insight: Expressive Body Workshop
Lucretia Konstantine
Board Room · streaming
SelfLine 1 · Ground
Recovery by Design Meeting
Collyn Rayne
Maravilla 1
CommunityLine 4 · Communing
The Unmistakable Voice of Your Authority
Genoa Bliven
Chamisa
SelfLine 6 · Sovereignty
Evening
Open Mic Night
Sunny Venusian
Maravilla 1 · 7:00
CommunityLine 3 · Experiment
HDA Panel Discussion
Human Design America
Board Room · streaming
September 19
Workshops · long-form immersions
Healing the Witch Wound
Dr. Karen Parker
Maravilla 2 · 9:00 – 12:15
CollectiveLine 5 · Heresy & LeadershipWorkshop
Soul Space
Carla Unger
Maravilla 2 · 2:00 – 5:15
SelfLine 2 · EmbodimentWorkshop
The Pluto Interregnum
Daljeet Peterson
Chamisa · 2:00 – 5:15
CollectiveLine 6 · SovereigntyWorkshop
The EmbodieHD Landscape
Jahje Ives
Soft Space · 2:00 – 5:15
SelfLine 3 · ExperimentWorkshop
Field Notes Adventure & Field Trip · Nambe Falls
Krista Bauman
Offsite · all day
CommunityLine 4 · Communing
Soft Space is open every day, 9:00 to 12:00 and 2:00 to 5:00. When the room is unfacilitated, the door stays open.
9:00 – 10:30
Godheads: Building a Vocabulary of Myth
Mike Litven
Board Room · streaming
SpiritLine 6 · Sovereignty
Eight Trigram Art
Lasita Shalev
Maravilla 1
SelfLine 2 · Embodiment
Soft Space Connection
Raelynn Beintker
Soft Space
10:40 – 12:10
The Space Between
Annie Richardson
Board Room · streaming
SelfLine 1 · Ground
Before the Shift: Money, Contracts & the Global Cycle
Dawone Manu
Maravilla 1
CollectiveLine 6 · Sovereignty
Soft Space Connection
Raelynn Beintker
Soft Space
2:00 – 3:30
Projector Hacks: Nine-Center Relating
Monique Sampedro
Board Room · streaming
Parenting Panel
Jackie Klefsaas, Tiffiney Lozano, Annie Richardson & Alison Dale
Maravilla 1
FamilyLine 4 · Communing
3:40 – 5:10
Parenting in the Shift
Angie Grandt
Board Room · streaming
FamilyLine 2 · Embodiment
Midlife in Motion: The Uranus Opposition
Rebekah Anderson
Maravilla 1
SelfLine 4 · Communing
Evening
Rockstar Bingo
Sean Wallbridge
Board Room · 7:00
September 20 · Integration & Closing
Workshops · long-form immersions
“Other-Than-Human” Design
Merritt Wuchina
Maravilla 2 · 9:00 – 12:15
RelationshipLine 3 · ExperimentWorkshop
The Love Story Revolution
Tiffiney Lozano
Chamisa · 9:00 – 12:15
FamilyLine 5 · Heresy & LeadershipWorkshop
Play's 6th Line Love
Fred Landers
Maravilla 1 · 2:00 – 5:15
SpiritLine 6 · SovereigntyWorkshop
Finding Our Light in the Fragments
Kathy Bochonko
Maravilla 2 · 2:00 – 5:15
SpiritLine 6 · SovereigntyWorkshop
Nature / Culture Field Trip
Open to all
Offsite · all day
Soft Space is open every day, 9:00 to 12:00 and 2:00 to 5:00. When the room is unfacilitated, the door stays open.
9:00 – 10:30
Vedic Astrology & the Global Transition
Meher M
Board Room · streaming
SpiritLine 6 · Sovereignty
Sacred Soul Circle
Maggie Battista
Maravilla 1
SpiritLine 6 · Sovereignty
Experimenting with Self / Not-Self
Esther Powers
Soft Space
SelfLine 3 · Experiment
10:40 – 12:10
Designed to Captivate: Find Your Voice
Laura Michelle Wolff
Board Room · streaming
Healing the Scars
Raphael Weisman
Maravilla 1
SelfLine 4 · Communing
Soft Space Connection
Sunny Venusian
Soft Space
2:00 – 3:30
Navigating the Convergence Window
Meghan O'Malley
Board Room · streaming
SelfLine 6 · Sovereignty
Human Design Cartography: Place Is Personal
Jackson Mathey & Alison Dale
Chamisa
RelationshipLine 3 · Experiment
Human Design + Tea
Sarah, Ashley & Chiara
Soft Space · to 5:15
Projector Only Zoom Space
Cheendana Martin
Online · posted hours
SelfLine 1 · Ground
3:40 – 5:10
Community Response: The HD Cult, One Year Later
Jonah Sage Dempcy
Board Room · streaming
CollectiveLine 5 · Heresy & Leadership
The Existential Detective
Marissa Chargualaf
Chamisa
Evening
Closing Ceremonies
Brandy Jordan
Plenary · 5:30

Offerings by Dimension

Enter through the part of your life that is alive right now.
Self
Deconditioning as Grief Work
Jess Ryan & Steph Hanson · Line 1 · Ground
Fri · 2:00 – 5:15 · Maravilla 2
Organic Insight: Expressive Body Workshop
Lucretia Konstantine · Line 1 · Ground
Fri · 3:40 – 5:10 · Board Room
Projector Only Zoom Space
Cheendana Martin · Line 1 · Ground
Thu · 2:00 – 3:30 · Online
The Space Between
Annie Richardson · Line 1 · Ground
Sat · 10:40 – 12:10 · Board Room
Eight Trigram Art
Lasita Shalev · Line 2 · Embodiment
Sat · 9:00 – 10:30 · Maravilla 1
Soul Space
Carla Unger · Line 2 · Embodiment
Sat · 2:00 – 5:15 · Maravilla 2
Experimenting with Self / Not-Self
Esther Powers · Line 3 · Experiment
Sun · 9:00 – 10:30 · Soft Space
Fear Detox: Full Immersion
Nameh Marsin · Line 3 · Experiment
Fri · 9:00 – 12:15 · Maravilla 2
From Struggle to Strength
Moniste Gauger · Line 3 · Experiment
Fri · 9:00 – 12:15 · Chamisa
The 3rd Line Experimenter's Way
Mor Tzivoni · Line 3 · Experiment
Fri · 10:40 – 12:10 · Board Room
The EmbodieHD Landscape
Jahje Ives · Line 3 · Experiment
Sat · 2:00 – 5:15 · Soft Space
Healing the Scars
Raphael Weisman · Line 4 · Communing
Sun · 10:40 – 12:10 · Maravilla 1
Jupiter in Leo: Six Gates for Career Fulfillment
Marla Tseng · Line 4 · Communing
Fri · 9:00 – 10:30 · Maravilla 1
Midlife in Motion: The Uranus Opposition
Rebekah Anderson · Line 4 · Communing
Sat · 3:40 – 5:10 · Maravilla 1
Planets & Psyche: Sidereal Astrology
Marion Desio · Line 5 · Heresy & Leadership
Fri · 2:00 – 3:30 · Chamisa
Breathe the Bodygraph
Alison Dale · Line 6 · Sovereignty
Fri · 10:40 – 12:10 · Maravilla 1
Navigating the Convergence Window
Meghan O'Malley · Line 6 · Sovereignty
Sun · 2:00 – 3:30 · Board Room
The Unmistakable Voice of Your Authority
Genoa Bliven · Line 6 · Sovereignty
Fri · 3:40 – 5:10 · Chamisa
Relationship
The Spiral of Everything
Brandy Jordan · Line 2 · Embodiment
Human Design Cartography: Place Is Personal
Jackson Mathey & Alison Dale · Line 3 · Experiment
Sun · 2:00 – 3:30 · Chamisa
“Other-Than-Human” Design
Merritt Wuchina · Line 3 · Experiment
Sun · 9:00 – 12:15 · Maravilla 2
Family
Parenting in the Shift
Angie Grandt · Line 2 · Embodiment
Sat · 3:40 – 5:10 · Board Room
Parenting Panel
Jackie Klefsaas, Tiffiney Lozano, Annie Richardson & Alison Dale · Line 4 · Communing
Sat · 2:00 – 3:30 · Maravilla 1
The Love Story Revolution
Tiffiney Lozano · Line 5 · Heresy & Leadership
Sun · 9:00 – 12:15 · Chamisa
Community
Warming the High Desert: A Warm Data Lab
Cullen Kowalski & Merritt Wuchina · Line 2 · Embodiment
Thu · 2:00 – 5:15 · Maravilla 1
Open Mic Night
Sunny Venusian · Line 3 · Experiment
Fri · Evening · Maravilla 1
Field Notes Adventure & Field Trip · Nambe Falls
Krista Bauman · Line 4 · Communing
Sat · all day · Offsite
Recovery by Design Meeting
Collyn Rayne · Line 4 · Communing
Fri · 3:40 – 5:10 · Maravilla 1
Collective
Community Response: The HD Cult, One Year Later
Jonah Sage Dempcy · Line 5 · Heresy & Leadership
Sun · 3:40 – 5:10 · Board Room
Healing the Witch Wound
Dr. Karen Parker · Line 5 · Heresy & Leadership
Sat · 9:00 – 12:15 · Maravilla 2
The Psychology of Ra Uru Hu
Jonah Sage Dempcy · Line 5 · Heresy & Leadership
Fri · 9:00 – 10:30 · Board Room
Before the Shift: Money, Contracts & the Global Cycle
Dawone Manu · Line 6 · Sovereignty
Sat · 10:40 – 12:10 · Maravilla 1
The Pluto Interregnum
Daljeet Peterson · Line 6 · Sovereignty
Sat · 2:00 – 5:15 · Chamisa
Spirit
Exploring the Mechanics of Consciousness
Luisa Lucia · Line 1 · Ground
Fri · 2:00 – 3:30 · Maravilla 1
Ungovernable: When Fire Becomes Awareness · Chiron's Return in 2027
Brandy Jordan · Line 1 · Ground
Fri · 2:00 – 3:30 · Board Room
Finding Our Light in the Fragments
Kathy Bochonko · Line 6 · Sovereignty
Sun · 2:00 – 5:15 · Maravilla 2
Godheads: Building a Vocabulary of Myth
Mike Litven · Line 6 · Sovereignty
Sat · 9:00 – 10:30 · Board Room
Play's 6th Line Love
Fred Landers · Line 6 · Sovereignty
Sun · 2:00 – 5:15 · Maravilla 1
Sacred Soul Circle
Maggie Battista · Line 6 · Sovereignty
Sun · 9:00 – 10:30 · Maravilla 1
Vedic Astrology & the Global Transition
Meher M · Line 6 · Sovereignty
Sun · 9:00 – 10:30 · Board Room

A Santa Fe Field Guide

You are at 7,000 feet. Drink water. Wear layers. Say yes to green chile.
Eat · Line One
The Shed
Red chile enchiladas that have converted skeptics since 1953. Expect a wait; it earns it.
Cafe Pasqual's
Beloved corner spot for breakfast and brunch. Organic, colorful, worth arriving early.
La Choza
The Shed's sister near the Railyard. Ask for chile Christmas: red and green together.
Sazón
Chef Fernando Olea's moles. A slower, ceremonial dinner.
Paloma
Modern Mexican on Guadalupe. Bright, fresh, excellent mezcal.
Tia Sofia's
Where the breakfast burrito was born, smothered and unhurried.
Kakawa Chocolate House
Historic drinking-chocolate elixirs. A small cup holds a lot.
Iconik Coffee Roasters
Serious coffee, roomy tables, good for a slow morning.
Rest · Line Two
Ten Thousand Waves
Japanese-style hot baths in the piñon hills above town. Reserve ahead.
Ojo Santa Fe
Spa, gardens, and soaking pools twenty minutes south.
Santa Fe Botanical Garden
High-desert plantings on Museum Hill. Quiet and restorative.
The Plaza
Find a bench. Watch the light change on the Palace of the Governors. This counts as practice.
Walk & Hike · Line Four
Aspen Vista Trail
Golden aspens in mid-September. Bring a jacket; the trailhead is near 10,000 feet.
Atalaya Mountain
The classic in-town summit, about six miles round trip from St. John's College.
Dale Ball Trails
A gentle foothills network minutes from downtown. Choose your own distance.
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks
Cone-shaped formations and a slot canyon an hour southwest. Check access first.
Bandelier National Monument
Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings in Frijoles Canyon. Ladders, canyon walls, deep time.
Canyon Road at golden hour
Half a mile of galleries and adobe. Less a walk, more a slow attunement.
Co-work · Line Five
Co-Fe
Core coworking room on S. Guadalupe. Fast internet, breakout rooms; shares a building with Iconik Coffee Lupe.
CoLab Coworking
Open tables and private spaces, with day passes and short memberships.
Iconik Coffee Roasters
The Cerrillos location is big and full of natural light. Great for a long working morning.
Santa Fe Public Library, Downtown
Free, quiet, and central. Work remotely for an hour between sessions.
Spaces, Riverside Plaza
Serviced coworking and meeting rooms when you want a door that closes.
Spiritually Connect · Line Six
El Santuario de Chimayó
A thirty-minute drive north, the pilgrimage church with its well of holy dirt. Officially Catholic, its message reaches past any one religion.
Loretto Chapel
The Gothic chapel with the Miraculous Staircase, built without nails or visible support. A quiet place to sit.
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
The heart of old Santa Fe. Slip into the Blessed Sacrament Chapel for silence.
San Miguel Chapel
The oldest church in the United States. Small, adobe, and still.
Upaya Zen Center
A Buddhist practice center minutes from town, with free daily meditation and weekly dharma talks open to all.
Cross of the Martyrs
A short climb to an overlook of the whole city. Good for perspective, which is Line Six's whole gift.
Star Dreaming
A twenty-two-acre sacred site south of Santa Fe: open-air stone temples, labyrinths, and medicine wheels built by hand over decades. Visits by appointment.

A Home for Living Wisdom

The Spiral of Everything is the map. This is where it keeps turning after Santa Fe.
The Wisdom Keepers Spiral · A home for living Wisdom · wisdomspiral.com

Teachings and practices held by the people who live them, placed by the dimension of life that is active for you right now. Self, Relationship, Family, Community, Collective, Spirit. You enter through what is alive.

Many of the facilitators you meet this week are building their work there. What opens in these four days has somewhere to keep going.

wisdomspiral.com

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