PHS: Diet

Full breakdown

Diet is one of the four variables of the Primary Health System (PHS), calculated from the position of the Design Sun and Earth — that is, from the unconscious, bodily part of the chart, not from conscious beliefs about proper eating. It describes exactly how the body needs to eat in order to digest food without unnecessary strain — the question isn't "what" to eat, it's "how."

The variable has 6 colors — Hunter, Gatherer, Processor, Touch, Sound, and Light — each describing its own mechanism: mixing foods, variety of taste, temperature of food, setting, sound, and lighting around eating. Inside each color there's a Left/Right arrow that specifies one of two poles — a more active or a more receptive way of applying that mechanic.

Knowing your diet color doesn't replace common sense or a doctor's recommendations, but it gives a concrete, bodily reference point: chronic fatigue or digestive problems are often caused precisely by a mismatch between how the body wants to eat and what a popular diet or someone else's eating regimen prescribes.