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Life Cycles

Repetition:
8 Nov 2006
30 Jan 1988
Mirror:
9 Jan 2016

What is BaanTu and how is it different from Human Design?

BaanTu is a modern reinterpretation of the information received by Ra Uru Hu during his encounter in Ibiza in 1987 (The Prophecy of Ra Uru Hu). Contrary to popular belief, Ra never received the Human Design System (HDS) directly. What he received was a cosmic transmission — a story about the universe, along with a calculation for several life forms — but no interpretation. Years later, Ra developed the Human Design System as his first attempt to make sense of this encounter.

One of the most profound ideas from that encounter — foundational to both Human Design and BaanTu — is that humans have not one, but two birth moments: one for the Body and one for the Mind. During the first two-thirds of pregnancy, the physical body is formed. Only after the brain is fully developed, in the final stage, does the Mind (or personality) enter. These two birthdates together form the basis of your chart and explain the interplay between your physical design and your mental awareness.

Steve Rhodes, founder of BaanTu, studied directly with Ra Uru Hu for seven years. In Human Design terms, Steve was born one full nodal cycle after Ra — a significant timing that often marks a deep thematic connection between lives. He lived on the island of Ibiza for three years and later returned after Ra’s passing to work on the first official book about the Human Design System. While staying at Ra’s former house with his family, he was curiously placed in a small wooden hut in the garden — just meters from where Ra was buried. He never understood how he ended up in such a spot, but years later, when the BaanTu transmission came to him in a way that defied logic, he felt all of this must have been connected.

The hut in which Steve Rhodes slept and Ra Uru Hu's gravestone with the Bhan and the Tugh

He went on to publish several more books and spent the next seven years teaching HDS around the world. Over time, through this deep immersion, Steve began to see contradictions and limitations in the system’s interpretation. This eventually led to the creation of BaanTu and the book "The God Code" in 2017 — a return to the original encounter and what Ra was actually told: to interpret the Lines of a Hexagram in pairs. Concepts like Generators, Projectors, or Profiles were never mentioned in his encounter.

BaanTu is not a self-help system. It doesn't label people as "broken" or "not-self" like the HDS sometimes implies. Instead, it recognizes that humans are influenced by a larger Program — a cosmic force that shapes our nature and our relationships. There is no need for fixing. BaanTu doesn’t offer a solution; it offers an explanation — a lens to understand who you are, why you are attracted to certain people, and how your nature operates.

The BaanTu software includes a Human Design mode, allowing you to compare the traditional HDS interpretation with BaanTu's perspective. It even has an Astrology mode to view the astrological aspects of your Mind and Body birthdates in the Zodiac. You can store charts for other people, browse the charts of over one thousand celebrities, and discover profiles shared by other BaanTu users. Your birth data is never disclosed to anyone else.

Start by exploring your BaanTu chart and discover how your Graph reflects your unique energetic makeup.