In 2020, in the middle of lockdown, I found Human Design — and then did something that made no sense to anyone.
I quit my job in London, gave up my apartment, and moved back to Latvia with no plan, following my strategy and authority instead of my mind.
I found a flat with no job and one month of cash left. Two weeks later I had work. There I met my husband, even as I burned out completely.
Pregnant, I moved from that burnout into a role that fit my life exactly — remote, well paid, and generous enough that I could take a long maternity leave and give my child the care I wanted to give.
That's how design works: stop deciding with your mind, and things unfold in ways you couldn't have engineered. For me, as a Generator, that meant following what I had real energy for. Someone else's design asks something entirely different of them — which is rather the point.
Today we're in Cyprus, and my family is a gift — with just enough challenge to keep deconditioning me.
At home, astrology, Human Design and the Gene Keys are our shared translation system: we can see what's firing in a moment, we know what each of us needs, and we try to respect it. Contemplating together through our Gene Keys profiles has brought us closer than anything else I know.
Astrology came earlier, and it didn't take. As a teenager, what I could reach was thin — some of it frightening, none of it true to my life — so I decided it was nonsense.
I've come back to it only through Human Design and the Gene Keys, and read alongside them, the chart finally opens.
In my own design I'm a 3/5 Generator with a single channel, the 29-46: built to say a wholehearted yes and stay the course. It's how I work — I commit fully, and I stay with the people I read for.
Before all this: born in Latvia, studied and worked in Denmark, then London, years of it inside large international organizations.
I also studied executive coaching and mentoring at the University of the West of England, in liaison with HumanTechnics, finishing the diploma in early 2020. It taught me a great deal — and I could feel where it stopped.
Coaching is brilliant at helping you reach a goal, as long as the goal is genuinely yours; it has no way of telling you whether it is.
Human Design and the Gene Keys turned out to be the missing piece. Together they are what I actually do now: the systems show you how you are built, and the coaching is how we make that liveable.