About Me & How I Work
Hi, I’m Jonatan. I’m glad you’re here.
I spent most of my life trying to think my way through my life.
I am a designer and writer by background, and I have always been drawn to the structure underneath complicated things. Give me something tangled and I want to know how the pieces relate, what is causing what, and where the system breaks down.
For a long time, I applied that same instinct to myself.
I tried to make the right decisions by thinking harder. I built explanations for what I should do, forced consistency where there was none, and repeatedly chose things that made perfect sense on paper but became exhausting once I had to live them.
The frustrating part was that I could often understand the problem perfectly and still repeat it.
Human Design caught my attention because it challenged the assumption I had lived by for most of my life: that I could think my way into the right life.
I had treated the mind as the part of me that should decide what to pursue, what to commit to, what would make me successful, and what should eventually make me satisfied. But the mind is always dependent on the body. It can interpret, compare, imagine, explain, and make sense of the world, but it cannot manufacture the energy, preference, focus, or satisfaction it is trying to secure.
Human Design gave me a different hierarchy. The body makes the decision. The mind gets to observe, interpret, and understand what follows.
Once I began relating to myself that way, life became much less like a constant internal argument. I no longer had to force myself toward every grand idea that sounded right in my head and then blame myself when I could not sustain it. I could pay attention instead to what my body actually had energy for, what held my attention naturally, what I returned to without coercion, and what I genuinely preferred.
You cannot think yourself into loving something you do not love. You cannot reason yourself into having energy that is not there. And you cannot build a satisfying life by repeatedly overriding the part of you that has to live it.
That shift changed the way I looked at myself.
Not because a chart told me who I was, but because I could begin testing its mechanics against things I had already lived. Patterns that had previously seemed contradictory started making structural sense.
That is the part of Human Design I became interested in studying deeply: not collecting descriptions, but understanding how the pieces of a chart interact and how those mechanics become recognizable in an actual person’s life.
How I work
When we work together, I place your chart beside the life you are actually living.
We look at what is happening, what you have already tried, where pressure or conditioning may be entering the picture, and which parts of your design are relevant to the situation. I explain the mechanics in plain language and we keep testing them against your experience until the structure becomes clear.
I am less interested in giving you another interpretation to believe than in helping you recognize something for yourself.
Depending on the reading, that may mean understanding a specific recurring problem, establishing the difference between Self and Not-Self, learning to recognize your Strategy and Authority in practice, or going deeply into the larger architecture of the chart.
My background in design still shapes the way I do this. I look for relationships, feedback loops, contradictions, pressure points, and the few structural pieces that make the rest of the picture easier to understand.
What this work is, and what it is not
Human Design is not fortune-telling, and I do not use it to predict what will happen to you. My work is educational and interpretive. It is not medical, psychological, legal, or financial advice.
You do not need to believe in Human Design for us to work with it. What matters is whether the mechanics become recognizable when you compare them with your own experience.