ABOUT DIFFERENTIATED DESIGNS
The story behind the Mandala.
An original visual work. Years of exploration. A place for you to begin.
It began with looking closer.
Around 2010, I became deeply absorbed in the Rave Mandala.
I kept studying its Gates, Lines, zodiac positions, and the patterns formed by its Quarters, Houses, and Faces of the Godhead. Each relationship seemed to open into another. As I followed those connections, I began to see an architecture behind the architecture.
The Astro I Ching Mandala grew out of that process.
Much of its structure took shape before I had deeply studied Rave Cosmology. Later, Ra Uru Hu’s cosmological teachings gave a larger context to relationships I had already been exploring through the geometry.
Over the years, I continued returning to the drawing. Something I had studied would illuminate something I had drawn. Something in the drawing would give me another question to follow. The Mandala became a study instrument in its own right.
FROM THE STUDIO ARCHIVE
The drawing before the digital work.
These earlier versions show the Mandala taking shape through drawing, color and close observation.
A hand-drawn exploration of the wheel’s structure.
An earlier Mandala with handwritten names and colored bands.
A detail from an earlier version of the drawing.
The question that became a book.
When I shared the Mandala, people often responded to its beauty and complexity. Then came a practical question:
Where do I begin?
That question helped shape The Astro I Ching Mandala Atlas.
The Atlas gives readers a path through the image. We can slow down, examine one Gate, explore its six Lines, and recognize the larger structures to which it belongs. Then we return to the whole with a clearer understanding of what we are seeing.
My aim is to make the depth approachable while preserving the relationships that make it worth studying.
One body of work. Three ways to explore.
The Living Mandala brings the work to the screen through selected activations and focused explanations. It gives you a place to start and a relationship to follow.
The Atlas provides the extended written study: the Gates and Lines, their place within the wheel, and the connections explored throughout the book.
The companion poster places the full visual architecture in front of you, ready to revisit as your understanding develops.
Together, they offer different ways to spend time with the same work: through interaction, reading, and observation.
A place to begin. Room to go deeper.
This work welcomes people who have studied Human Design for years and people encountering the Mandala for the first time.
My intention is to help you recognize relationships, ask better questions, and discover what becomes visible when you give something your attention.
Start with one relationship. See what it belongs to. Then follow it.