Jane Goodall passed away recently at the age of 91. She is well known for her work with Chimpanzees starting in the 1960’s and spanning the next several decades. Her work living with Chimpanzees and documenting their behavior, social structure and use of tools changed our understanding of apes and perhaps even a broader understanding of the intelligence and social structures with all animals.
Her lifetime achievements are vast and many including establishing several several wildlife sanctuaries, authoring 32 books, speaking about climate change, preserving natural habitats and speaking on the ethical treatment of animals. Jane was a proponent of vegetarianism as she had a great deal of respect of the intelligence and social sophistication of all animals.
Here are some observations of how Jane’s Human Design expressed itself throughout her lifetime:
Born in England, it seems that Jane found her true home in Africa studying primates. Her undefined G center, seems to have found its place in the wilds of Tanzania. The undefined G needs to feel comfortable with where a person is located. Additionally, she spent much of her time alone, especially in the early years living with Chimpanzees in the wild studying and documenting their behaviors. For some people the aloneness might have become to much, but for Jane the gate 40 of aloneness helped her push through any lack of human interaction.
Her defined mind of the Head and the Ajna is formed by the two channels, the 54-47 channel of abstract thinking and the 63-4 channel of logical thought. This combination most likely aided her ability to create an overall picture from her observations of both social structure and purpose of daily activities like discovering chimpanzees using leaf stems as a tool to catch termites. The combination of these 2 defined channels enhanced her ability to look at things through different approaches, helping her add to the large volume of documents and books she produced during her life.
As a defined 3 motor generator, the root, solar plexus and sacral, she had abundant consistent energy to power her way through long days living in the bush. Her 54-32 channel of progression helped her to build and level up the models of understanding as she accumulated more and more observation points. Her 34-57 channel most likely contributed at times and gave her insights, like a bolt of lighting in the moment. Her 41-30, fueled the rising passion to continue her pursuits. While the enthusiasm in the channel does tends to evaporate over time, it quickly begins to build again, fueling passion for the next study or adventure.
Her incarnation cross of Endeavor gave her the relentless energy to push on even in face of perhaps grueling living conditions or the sheer repetition of waiting, watching and observing that her research required. I like to focus on the gates involved when looking at the cross. For Endeavor they are:
- 21- The huntress, though in this case she was hunting knowledge and understanding.
- 48 – Depth, a drive to go deep and or broad, amplifying her push to know, understand and discover.
- 54 – Transformation, a drive to continue to build up on the initial foundation.
- 53 – Maturation, a cyclical energy that starts the next cycle. As when one cycle comes to end and new one begins.
Her work was not without some controversy. To study the Chimpanzees she established feeding stations so she could get close to her subjects and over time many of them befriended her. Some people felt that the feeding stations were unnatural and perhaps changed the behavior of the chimpanzees Some speculated it potentially contributed to some of the increased violence between the chimps that Jane witnessed in their behavior. Jane in retrospect felt it was a necessary compromise to get close enough to witness their behavior. Perhaps this is her defined gate 49, revolution, changing the way animals are studied in the wild. The 49-19 channel is associated with the bargain that occurred between humans and animals. The bargain was humans provided food and shelter but the domesticated animals had to pay a price either ending up as food or in the case of our pets giving up their freedom.
Lastly, here are some of the other defined hanging gates that round out the picture of Jane:
- 62 – details – defined to consistently to name and remember the animals, the behaviors etc. It was common in her field for scientists to number the animals they observe but Jane gave them names that had meaning and significance to her.
- 58 – Joy to life – Her work and sharing it was her joy to life.
- 7 – leadership, she took the lead and just kept going.
- 13 -the listener, she listened with both her eyes and ears to all our benefit.
To learn more about Jane and her life here is her wiki page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
