The Human Design Type Test.

Each question asks how your energy, work and decisions feel in everyday life. Every answer adds points to one or more of the five Types, and the Type with the most points becomes your result. So the result tells you which Type your own description of yourself sounds most like.

That makes it a good first look and a weak final answer. The test can't see your chart. It only sees how you describe yourself today, and that picture is shaped by habit, mood, your job and what other people have expected of you. A tired Generator can answer like a Projector. A Projector who has spent years pushing can answer like a Generator.

In Human Design, Type isn't a personality score. It's worked out from your birth date, birth time and birth place. The chart takes the positions of the Sun, Moon and planets at the moment you were born, and again at the moment the Sun stood 88 degrees earlier in its path, roughly three months before birth. Each of those positions lands in one of 64 gates.

When the gates at both ends of a channel are active, that channel is defined, and so are the two centers it joins. Your Type depends on which of the nine centers end up defined, and above all on two questions: is the Sacral center defined, and does a motor center (the Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart or Root) connect to the Throat?

• Generator: Sacral defined, no motor connected to the Throat. Steady energy that renews itself on work you respond to.
• Manifesting Generator: Sacral defined and a motor connected to the Throat. Generator energy that moves faster, often on several tracks at once.
• Projector: Sacral undefined, at least one center defined, no motor connected to the Throat. Built to see and guide others, at their best when recognised and invited.
• Manifestor: Sacral undefined, with the Heart, Solar Plexus or Root connected to the Throat. Built to start things and to inform the people they affect.
• Reflector: no centers defined at all. Takes in and reflects the people and places around them, and gives big decisions time.

To see the five side by side, read the guide to the Human Design Types.

A chart gives the same answer every time you run it with the same birth details. A quiz can give a different answer after a hard week. The chart also shows what a quiz can't estimate at all: your Authority, your Profile, which centers are defined or open, and which channels and gates you carry.

So treat your result as a question, not a label. If it fits, check it against your chart. If it doesn't, the chart settles it. The free Human Design chart calculator works out your Type from your birth date, time and place, right in your browser, with no email needed. Don't know your birth time? It can check every hour of your birth day and show you whether your Type changes across it.