Human Design | Chart Analysis | Generators
Learning from Kellita Maloof — Showgirl Shaman
Generator, Emotional Authority, Profile 1/3
Kellita Maloof is a fellow Empowered Empath, whom I got to know as a fellow member of an authentic business mentoring group. I love that we connect through our passion for dance as a form of sacred embodiment. To Kellita, movement is literally medicine for her body and soul! I love that she shared with me how she used movement (specifically her six Showgirl Awakening Movements) to heal her body from a sudden autoimmune illness more than a decade ago.
I love seeing the titles in her email signature: “The Mr. Rogers of Burlesque Performing + Teaching Artist. Mentor. Coach. Burlesque Therapist.”
Seeing this always makes me smile!
In the About page in her Showgirl Awakening Website, she says “My name is Kellita, I’m your Showgirl Shaman here to guide you towards a more authentic, vibrant and possibly very outrageous version of yourself.”
She continues to share with us, in a very intimate way, some of her struggles with the masochism in her early training in dance, eating disorders, and the sudden attack of a mysterious autoimmune illness.
Kellita’s Human Design chart shows that she is a Generator with Emotional Inner Authority, Profile 1/3, and 4 Defined Centers in her Emotional Solar Plexus, Root, Spleen, and Sacral Centers.
She has 5 Open Centers in her chart. We tend to experience external energies in an amplified manner through our Open Centers, and being open in 5 out of 9 Energy Centers shows that Kellita can be highly sensitive in many different aspects.
Single Definition connecting all 4 Defined Centers
It is very interesting that her Defined Centers (where she feels consistent energies in) are in her Spleen, Sacral, Emotional Solar Plexus, and Root Centers. These Energy Centers are all very body-based energy centers, which when healthy, bless her life with:
- Strong intuition, strong immune system, and a natural ability to be present in the Now.
- Energies that keep her going for many hours at a time when she’s doing the work she loves.
- Extra bursts of energies that come from her periodic bursts of adrenaline energies and during her emotional highs.
- High creativity!
Looking at this group of Defined Centers that are all connected together giving her a Single Definition in her chart, I can see why she specifically used movement (which is very body-based) as her medicine to heal her from autoimmune disease, and to feel much more alive and well again.
Strong Tribal Circuitry
There are three main types of energy circuitry that can be found in a Human Design chart, and Kellita’s chart is strong in her tribal circuitry. This means that she is great at supporting and nurturing her tribe, and this is seen quite clearly in the way she guides and supports other women in intimate small groups, be it through her online or in-person Burlesque workshops, Hot Pink Feathers Carnavals, or Life Coaching programs.
Now let’s take a look at the challenges and gifts in some of her Open Energy Centers:
Open Identity Center
Kellita sees the value of being seen for who we are, and I think this calling arises out of her energetic gift through her fully Open Identity Center.
Being Open in her Identity Center gives her the gift of being able to sense another’s Identity deeply, allowing her to help give her clients more clarity and insight into who they are. In other words, her clients receive this amazing gift of being seen for who they are.
Open Identity Center + Open Will Center
One of the energetic challenges in having an Open Identity Center is that it is so easy for her to blend in with different people from various backgrounds, that she can become confused and be very unsure of who she really is.
Reading about her early life experiences on her website, it felt like the pull to lose herself and merge with the identities of others was so great that, coupled with the challenge of low self-worth she felt through her Open Will center, made her feel the intense shame of herself. She shared on her website: “when I was younger I felt so ashamed that I existed”.
Another major energetic challenge in the Open Will center is in not knowing clearly what her own self-care needs are. Instead, it is much easier for her to sense what others value most. Thus, there is this invisible pressure in wanting to push herself unnecessarily to prove her value.
This short paragraph by Kellita is a perfect description of her struggles in her Open Identity and Open Will Centers:
“I was a tyrant to myself, and instead of tending to my basic needs for nourishment and love, I held myself to intense perfectionist standards, resulting in an eating disorder, and compulsive exercise and studying. While I was so poor in responding to my own self, I majored in managing others’.”
The combined Gift and Challenge of her Five Open Centers
“I scanned for what everyone else around me felt, needed and wanted and was expert at helping them get that (and became very talented at discerning that…often knowing it before the other person themselves knew it: ha!). This left me over-editing myself, over-responding to others, and really, doing my best to over-manage my relationships and life as a whole.”
Kellita is naturally talented at knowing what everyone else around her needs and also letting them have more clarity on what they didn’t realize they needed and wanted:
- She knows what problems they are consciously or unconsciously trying to solve (Open Head Center)
- She can read their thoughts, beliefs, and perspectives (Open Ajna)
- She can channel intuitively what they are thinking and / or feeling (Open Throat), especially during her ‘live’ and intimate group workshops
- She knows who they are and where they want to move forward in life (Open Identity)
- And she knows what they value most in life! (Open Will)
Like what she has shared in the short paragraph above, by focusing all her energies in helping others, while completely disregarding her own needs and wants, she suffered immense emotional and physical burnout.
When Kellita finally had a breakthrough through creating dance art with her body, She wrote “Creating dance art with my body was when I felt most connected to myself, others, and all there is. I felt present, in my skin, and both at ease and radiantly channeling my most expansive and true self.” This consistent practice of dance art helps her to reconnect to her true self through her body.
By placing herself back into the equation, and focusing on herself in her life, she can now feel loved and worthy enough to do the work she loves, and to use her energetic Gifts from both her Defined and Open Centers to support and nurture her tribe of sisters.
Gift of Gate 28 of Struggle
Kellita’s numerous and intense struggles in life seem to represent the energy of this gate of Struggle which she has a consistent relationship with.
She has a beautiful high expression of this gate, where she shares with you her numerous struggles in life, as well as how she has found a way to break through and radically transform her life to radiate her essence inside-out.
Gift of the Depth of Knowledge and Experiences
Having the profile of 1/3, as well as her most dominant defined gate 48, gives her the gift of having a deep foundation of knowledge, wisdom, and various life experiences to share with her clients what worked for her, and what didn’t.
These energetic Gifts make her a great Teacher and Mentor.
So there you go! A quick analysis of Kellita Maloof’s Human Design chart analysis and how that relates to her doing her beautiful work as an Empowered Empath!
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