DAVID BECKHAM
Type: Manifesting Generator Authority: Emotions
Profile: 4/6
The sporting legend that is David Beckham is renowned throughout the world for both his soccer skills and, together with his wife, Victoria, ―Brand Beckham.‖ From Manchester United to Real Madrid, from LA Galaxy to AC Milan, the England
midfielder has a massive public profile but a private personal life. So his Human Design promises to be an enlightening story about the inner being behind the famous persona.
I can instantly tell that David Beckham is a highly motivated individual who finds it hard to sit still and do nothing, as evidenced by all four motor centers being defined — Sacral, Root, Emotions, and Heart — together with the Spleen and Throat. These six defined centers provide consistent energies that provide his bearings in life. With so much color in his chart, he can be perceived as someone who is quite rigid and fixed. As well as being driven with masses of staying power (Sacral) and applying an iron will (Heart), he is also highly emotional (Emotions and 39-55 channel) and extremely sensitive (19-49 channel).
The 39-55 Channel of Emoting means he is passionate about everything he does and yet deeply melancholic when he turns in a bad performance or the press is on his back. Here is a sportsman whose adrenaline pressure from the Root stirs his emotions. So he may well brood at home or in the dressing room but will come tearing onto the pitch to prove a point. I suspect some of his best performances have stemmed from his darkest, meanest moods. His family would probably support the Human Design truth that he is hypersensitive to criticism and has needed to grow a thick skin (19-49 Channel of Sensitivity), but this also means he is attuned to the needs and wants of others. I would even speculate that with this channel he is Victoria Beckham‘s emotional tower of
strength, not vice versa, able to balance his own emotional needs with those of his wife.
People feel safe within his company and recognize his sensitive soul. This makes him tactile by nature and keen to hold face-to-face business meetings, preferably over dinner or lunch. His sensitive side will also make him responsive to the needs of deprived children, or even struggling teammates. David is someone who wants to be there and include everyone, and this would have been a forte that he no doubt utilized as captain of England, as a role model both on and off the pitch.
When you add into the mix the charisma of the 34-20 Channel of Keeping Busy, you start to see the seductive picture emerge of a motivated man, passionate about what he does, sensitive and emotional, with the kind of charisma that turns heads. David Beckham doesn‘t simply smolder on the covers of magazines — the smoke rises for the ladies from his life chart, too!
Gate 16 denotes his limitless enthusiasm, and gate 22 denotes his grace. Combine those attributes and his evident passion, and you soon see a graceful football player whose enthusiasm has got him where he is today and whose grace has led to his living a charmed life. Few would argue with that!
Also note that, quite appropriately, he has the 21-45 Channel of Money. He is a man who has an immense capability to make money and feels at home in the material world, as befits Britain‘s highest-paid sportsman of all time. He is someone who generates money for himself or for the clubs he plays for and he‘ll also be adept at handling his resources.
The defined Throat center means he has the ability to manifest and make things happen by harnessing his skill. Gate 33 in the Throat means that he can be secretive, but that his life story is one great adventure that sends him here, there, and everywhere... and then he must retreat to recharge.
One thing you‘ll see about David Beckham is that he has an undefined Self with not a single gate turned on, meaning this center is open. This means he doesn‘t have a particularly strong sense of self-guidance so can be all things to all people, depending on the situation he finds himself in. I‘m sure, therefore, that he has come to rely on the guidance of his managers, agents, and wife to point him in the right direction. Once that compass has been set by others, his Sacral energy will build and power him toward success.
I‘m sure his teammates and family would agree that he is a perfectionist who can be extremely hard on himself, as seen in the 18-58 Channel of Judgment; he is someone who weighs up situations quickly and jumps to judgment. His Sacral-Throat connection, via the 34-20 channel, makes him a Manifesting Generator. But, being an MG type with defined Emotions, he needs to await his gut response and exercise patience to ensure he finds emotional clarity and feels sure before committing to anything or anyone.
All gates emerging from his Emotions center are pink, meaning that a lot of his emotional reactions and feelings are unconscious. This can be confusing at times until one starts to recognize what is happening. He often needs his emotions reflected back to him to make sense of them. I suspect, then, that he needs Victoria Beckham close to him all the time because she can clue him in to the feelings she‘ll recognize better than anyone. It is ―Posh‖ who puts him on the emotional map and, with his undefined Self, provides essential guidance, too. Away from her, he‘ll be unsure of himself and his feelings, and gate 63 makes him doubt and gate 24 leads to a tendency to over think and
overanalyze. He likes to work things out for himself, no doubt with Victoria‘s guidance, and mull matters over in his own mind. With these mental gates, he‘ll love getting out onto the soccer pitch just to escape all that thinking!
An in-depth reading would take into account many other factors in David Beckham‘s Human Design, but this snapshot view illustrates a highly motivated talent who strives for perfection, harnesses an enthusiasm and natural energy to give 100 percent to all that he does, and, in the process, generates wealth. But behind the cool exterior is a hugely emotional being, hypersensitive to criticism, who can be hard on himself. I suspect that‘s why ―Brand Beckham‖ has been such a success both on and off the pitch.