Your Incarnation Cross tells you about your life path or the plotline for the story of your life. Imagine that your journey on your life path is kind of like a play or a movie. Much like the role of a butler in a movie, your type is your role in your life story. The profile represents the character or personality of your role. Going back to the movie analogy, the butler can have all kinds of different personalities, such as the grumpy butler or the curious butler or the bungling butler. The personality or character in the Human Design chart is defined in the profile.

Your profile is comprised of two numbers, which represent two kinds of energies that work together to create your experiential learning style—the gate lines in the conscious and unconscious sun. The first number is an aspect of your life role that you are conscious of and that you probably relate to easily. The second number is an aspect of your life role that is unconscious but that is also a strong part of your personality.