The 3 Types of Profile Compatibility

RESONANCE, HARMONY, AND DISSONANCE

It can be so fun to look up the profiles of your partner, family, friends, and colleagues, to get a deeper understanding of how the energy of your relationships work, and give you tools to work through any challenges that may arise. This is never meant to limit you in any way, but to empower you to nurture the relationships in your life with intention and clarity.

As always, we recommend that you check with your Strategy and Authority when entering into any type of relationship. Even if you have a harmonious or resonant profile with someone, your Authority might be telling you it isn’t for you, and that’s okay. Your Authority will always guide you to what and whom is meant for you.

So let’s discuss profiles for a moment. If you’re new to human design,  your profile is a very important part of your human design. It's like the costume that your purpose wears. It's the role that you play on the stage of life. In so many ways, your profile is how people experience you way more than your energetic type, and many people resonate with their profile more than they resonate with their human design type. Your profile tells you a lot about how you're meant to learn from other people, and how you externalize and teach other people. 

If you don’t know your profile, you can generate your human design chart for free here. Once you generate your chart, you can look at all of the written categories on your chart. Next to Profile, you'll see two numbers there. These two numbers create your Profile.

THE 3 TYPES OF PROFILE COMPATIBILITY

There are 3 types of Profile compatibility. Keep in mind that each of these is neither good nor bad. It is simply meant to be used as information to help you navigate your relationships with the best intentions.

PROFILE RESONANCE

This is the most  common type of profile compatibility. If your profile has the same numbers as someone else, you will automatically feel a close-knit, friendship connection that is really powerful, no matter their type. 

For example, if you’re a 2/4 Projector and you meet a 2/4 Generator, you will feel a powerful resonance with each other, even though you have different energetic types. You might even feel more of a resonance with them than with another Projector, because you operate in the world in the same way.

You can also have profile resonance if another person has just one similar profile line to yours. For example, if you’re 5/1 and you meet a 3/5, you’ll also feel a strong resonance based on your shared 5 lines. From our experience, we can still feel this connection deeply. If we meet someone with a 1/4 Profile for example, our 4 lines automatically connect and it feels so warm and cozy.

This type of connection will feel very easy, like a natural friendship. The downside of this type of Profile compatibility is that you are so similar that it feels so cozy and comfortable, but you might not always be contributing to growing each other, and you may sometimes feel stagnant. In that case, you may have to go experience life around other people to gain new momentum and inspiration.

HARMONIOUS CONNECTION

The harmonious profile lines are: 1 and 4,  2 and 5, 3 and 6.  The diagram below shows the 6 lines of the hexagram. These 6 lines are organized in two groups, an upper and lower trigram, and are where the Profile numbers come from. 

1 and 4 are harmonious because they are the two foundational lines/bottom lines of the lower and upper trigram, while 2 and 5 are both the middle lines in the upper and lower trigram, and 3 and 6 are the top lines.

If you have a 1/4 Profile for example, you already have this type of harmonious energy within you. You can also create a harmonious connection with another person. For example if you are a 2/4, and you meet someone with a 5 in their Profile, their 5 line will be harmonious with your 2 line. Or if you are a 2/4 and you meet someone with a 1 in their Profile, their 1 line will be harmonious with your 4 line.

These numbers compliment each other and feel very harmonious, even if you both move through life differently, or you operate in a different way than that person does. You still have a deep understanding of each other, AND you are able to expand each other and contribute to each other’s growth. However, because of the harmonious connection you feel, there may be times when you feel stagnant, and you may have to go experience life around other people to gain new momentum and inspiration.

DISSONANT CONNECTION

A dissonant connection means you don’t have the same lines in your profile as the other person does, and it includes all other numbers that are not harmonious lines. Here is a breakdown of all the dissonant connections:

1 and 2, 3, 5, 6

2 and  1, 3, 4, 6

3 and 1, 2, 4, 5

5 and 1, 3, 4, 6

6 and 1, 2, 4, 5

This means you’ll approach life in very different ways, and sometimes it can feel like, I just don’t get you at first. But learning to appreciate your differences can help you to grow and expand, and get unstuck. Remember, this is not a good thing or a bad thing. This is meant to help you to understand how to work with these different energies and ways of operating through life when you are together.

For example, if you are a 2/4, you will really love learning things that come easy to you. However, this could keep you stuck and stagnant at times if you are not willing to try new things that may not come as naturally to you. If you have a partner that is a 6/3 or a 3/6, this means they love to learn through trial and error. They enjoy trying new things and exploring. This type of connection could be really expansive for you, as it brings fresh energy into your life and helps you to venture out. But you would need to practice patience when allowing the other person to explore, because it is so dissonant from how your 2 line works. Just knowing this information will set you free because it doesn't feel natural to allow someone with a dissonant line to just be, and to learn or teach in a different way than you. This awareness can completely change how you operate in your relationships.

It can be easy to fall into the trap of comparing your relationships to other relationships and wondering if you should operate in a certain way, but the truth is your profiles are already resonating on a specific frequency and bringing a certain flavor to your relationships. And as we love to remind you, if you used your Strategy and Authority to enter into the relationship, then this connection is meant for you, and it’s about bringing a deeper awareness and understanding of your connection to the relationship.

PRINTED PERSONALIZED CHARTS

If you want to learn more about your human design Profile, check out our Personalized Human Design Chart Booklet! This booklet not only provides you with your chart, it also contains tools and guidance that are tailored specifically for you to help you start de-conditioning from what society has told you that you had to do (or who you had to be) and help you hold space in your daily life with the new awareness and insight you have learned. You can also explore our Digital Charts!

We hope this has been helpful to you as you explore your profile compatibility with the people closest to you. Let us know in the comments!