Her Sacral Authority means Roux is guided by her gut instincts. I’ve seen this in moments when she instinctively knows which activities she wants to pursue or when a new acquaintce doesn't seem like someone who can be her best friend. She often gives a loud “yes” or “uhuh” when she feels a strong response to a choice.

When I realized this, I now recalibrate my questions to simply asking yes/no questions instead of open-ended ones. “Do you want to continue ballet?” and then go on with the next option. This helps her decide more easily than broad questions like, “What do you want to do next?” and also makes decision-making easy for me without having to guess.

Roux’s profile highlights her dual nature—an inspiring leader who also needs quiet reflection. I’ve seen this beautifully everytime she leads the prayer in her online classes, especially when she started participating in Girl Scouts' group works. She's very independent, sometimes bossy to a fault, and can likewise retreat to her room for quiet time over her devotions, a book, or writing in her diary during her alone time.

I've intentionally created pockets of quiet time in our homeschool rhythm, allowing her both space to recharge from playing all day with Paco, her younger brother and opportunities to share her creations with the whole family during dinner and our pre-bedtime bonding.

Roux’s sign of alignment is satisfaction, while frustration signals she’s out of balance. She’s gravely overwhelmed by too many chores or back-to-back independent studies in a day, especially when she's catching up, yet fully joyful when engaged in free-form creative play.

I tend to get annoyed with her free-form play and realized that if she's in alignment with her energy, it can't be less important than structured lessons can be. So our rhythm is intentionally now made up of shorter formal lessons with more open exploration that she fondly calls "together lessons" which never fails to bring her back to a state of ease and excitement.

Roux thrives when focusing on the feelings behind her goals rather than rigid steps. I’ve noticed how her persistent pursuit of what she wants is highly driven by her emotions. However, when plans don't materialize as expected, frustration can overwhelm her, causing her to abandon her goal prematurely. To support her, we focus on keeping her inspired by anchoring her motivation to how she feels in the process rather than the end result. This way, she remains engaged and empowered, shifting her energy towards the steps she takes rather than fixating solely on the outcome.

Her life theme, the Left Angle Cross of Steering, means Roux naturally helps guide others toward clarity. As her Mom, her mere existence has done this for me. And in times when she finds me frustrated, she lends support and reminds me of things I would have said to her before to help find solutions in a way that doesn't feel controlling or demanding. So we empower her with chores and decision-making tasks at home, reinforcing her ability to lead while encouraging teamwork in our family.

Strongest Sense: Smell

Her heightened sense of smell is evident in her love for food and essential oils. She’s instinctively drawn to lavender when feeling restless and often uses it during her bedtime routine.

Best Eating Style: Consecutive Appetite

Literally, Roux eats consecutively! But in terms of her digestion of other things such as information, lessons and insight, one experience at a time tend to be much clearer for her when uninterrupted. We constantly have to remind her that variety is not the same as multi-tasking and so she has to really finish one task by packing away before she can fully enjoy her next play. Her individual lessons have longer focus periods and is done separately from her brother to reduce interruptions while she’s engaged in creative work.

Roux thrives in spaces where ideas and resources are exchanged, so our homeschool co-op activities, online clubs, her scouting corps  and ballet troupe really bounce off well on her. I see her light up during socials, especially when it involves collaborative art projects where everyone contributes their own flair.

Defined Centers:

• Throat Center: Roux has a consistent ability to express herself clearly and influence others with her words. This is evident in how she confidently expresses her ideas, her desires and naturally leads our household's activities for the day.

• Sacral Center: Her sacral energy provides her with a steady source of physical energy, we can't miss it! This defined center means she thrives when she can expend energy in creative and physical outlets. She has this ON from the moment she wakes up, continuously crafting, dancing, swimming, eating, talking and all sorts of physical activities the whole day, everyday. 

• Root Center: Her defined root gives her the ability to handle stress with a natural sense of groundedness, especially when she is engaged in tasks she enjoys.

Undefined Centers:

• Head Center: Roux is highly open to inspiration and ideas, which makes her curious and open-minded. However, she can also feel overwhelmed by information overload or try to solve others' problems as her own and in fact, has more often than not, takes in ideas from adult conversations.

• Ajna Center: With an undefined Ajna, Roux can see multiple perspectives but may struggle with consistency in opinions or retaining information on demand, particularly in high-pressure situations. This is something I am careful with because her formed ideas are fragile especially about sensitive topics. One time, she pointed out, "how come we only have one dictator?" referring to Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. And it turns out, she's retained the information of how loved Marcos is, especially by select elders in our family and somehow had the idea that being a dictator meant having a lovable state leader.

• Heart Center: This openness makes her more sensitive to feelings of self-worth and validation from others, often seeking external affirmation for her work and accomplishments. I lovingly call this her "look at me!"energy.

Given Roux’s gifts and Human Design, and in consideration of what excites her (at least at her tender age), we're intentional about designing our homeschool to align with possible opportunities seem like a good fit for her strengths. We've curated a short list of traditional schools with programs that can hone her creativity as she may gravitate towards a writing, performing arts, or design track where she can express herself visually or something that can encourage her entrepreneurial interests. Her natural leadership and resourcefulness could thrive in a creative business setting, like an art-based venture or youth mentorship program and not surprisingly, largely inspired by us, her parents. Her ability to guide her younger brother, Paco and even other younger friends and cousins whenever given the chance appear to be a possible continuation of our family's long-line of teachers. 

With full openness and acceptance that her options may be different when the time comes, we're happy to be fully aware of what may or may not be a good fit for her, too.

Roux’s Chiron placement in Virgo in the 9th House reflects a core wound around feeling “not good enough” or overly self-critical. She often holds herself to high standards, wanting perfection in both creative and academic endeavors. I worry for her when she feels this way especially after being reprimanded for something she did wrong. She tends to be overly sensitive, cries inconsolably and beat herself up. While I’ve adjusted our curriculum to emphasize exploration and growth over perfection, encouraging her to celebrate progress rather than results, it's much harder to affirm her when it comes to disciplining her in a way that doesn't trigger her core wounding. Addressing her mistakes require more emotional validating—offering calm reassurance and highlighting what she learned and taking my own anger a notch down.

It's easy enough for us to affirm her efforts and hardwork because she excels in almost everything she endeavors to do such as face-painting, her ballet and even saving up for the things she wants. I make sure to affirm her efforts and creativity, not just the final outcome.