With Kylie’s Tension Tour in full swing in Australia right now, it’s such a good excuse to dive into her Human Design. This gives us many insights into what drives her, her natural talents and the ways she can be at her best.
If you’re new to Human Design, it’s an incredible tool to learn who we are when we separate out our (inevitable) conditioning from who we truly are deep down; how to maximise our energy, the best way to make decisions, our natural strengths and so much more.
Having grown up with Kylie on my TV as Charlene in Neighbours back in the day; watching her fall in love with the late ‘bad boy’ Michael Hutchence from INXS; attending her concerts; loving her music and seeing her take on a residency in Vegas, plus creating a wine range and perfumes, she’s quite something.
She’s still both the ‘girl next door’ and an icon and inspiration. And at 56, I have to say I love seeing her nailing it.
When I lived in London for a few years back in the early 2000s, clients always thought it was hilarious when I introduced myself on the phone as Kylie – ‘Oh, Kylie Minogue?!’ (Nothing screams ‘child of the 70s like the name Kylie).
According to Wikipedia, ‘Her accolades include two Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards and eighteen ARIA Music Awards. Minogue is the highest-selling Australian female artist of all time, with sales surpassing 80 million records worldwide.[2] In 2024, Time named her one of the most influential people in the world’.
Type & Strategy:
Kylie is a Projector which means that her energy will naturally come and go. She can tap into the energy of others (eg concerts) but when she gets home or away from the energy of others, she’s like to feel exhausted. It’s important that she feels deeply recognised, appreciated and valued. Projectors have wisdom and depth to them, seeing how things can be improved and done differently.
Projectors thrive when they’re appreciated for their valuable insights, and feelings of ‘success’ are the green light that they’re on the right track.
When they wait for the right invitations, instead of chasing success or trying to do more, they can find less resentment and resistance, and feel more aligned and recognised.
Rolling Stone noted that Kylie ‘rarely steps into proper studios anymore to record. Instead, she travels around with a Telefunken microphone set-up so that she can record herself whenever the mood strikes, or a demo comes in’. “Home recording and just being able to play any time is preferable to me,” she says. It’s the perfect way to save energy and enable her to record when she’s feeling it. Her Las Vegas residency was another way of managing her time and energy, being grounded in one place, instead of constantly travelling like she does while touring.
Identity Centre:
In Human Design terms, she has an undefined Identity centre, meaning she can be a chameleon, wearing many masks and embracing many genres. She has continued to reinvent herself in music over the last almost four decades, rather than feeling compelled to keep showing up in the same way. She went from girl next door in Locomotion, to embracing her sex kitten phase dating the lead singer of INXS, Michael Hutchence; teamed up with Nick Cave for Where the Wild Roses Grow, and then moved into disco Kylie era with Spinning Around.
Kylie started out in the character of Charlene on Neighbours at the age of 18, back in the 80s. After a couple of years she took a chance on singing with the production company, Stock Aitken Waterman and launched her debut single, Locomotion. As this Guardian article says:
‘In creative terms, the Minogue persona grinds on a complicated axis: part girl-next-door, part reflective chanteuse, part unadulterated diva – all with the heart of a workhorse beating within that show pony. And, yes, she is forceful and ambitious too’. The Guardian, Australia
Kylie Minogue photocall in London after her successful signing by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, 1987. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
‘To keep up in an impossible business, Minogue has become one of its most adaptable stars. That malleability is apparent on the set of Rolling Stone UK’s cover shoot: she’s instantly game when someone suggests putting her in red wigs, leaning into the reputation she earned in the 90s and 00s as pop’s ‘great chameleon’, when she would switch up her image with each album release’. Rolling Stone
After 20 years as a performer, she was described by BBC‘s Fiona Pryor as a fashion “trend-setter” and a “style icon who constantly reinvents herself”.
She’s also done additional acting roles including in The Delinquents and Moulin Rouge!, as well as judging on The Voice UK and The Voice Australia.
Ego Centre:
Kylie has a defined Ego centre which explains her consistent and high level of motivation and dedication to her craft. When she puts her heart into something, she will see it through until the end. It’s so important for her to only say yes to the things she has the energy to complete.
The Ego centre is all about the heart, willpower, and motivation, and hearts seem to show up again and again for Kylie. Her favourite item in her wine range is the rose Prosecco, which just so happens to have heart shapes all over the bottle.
Likewise, her viral single Padam Padam is named after the sound of a heartbeat.
Definition:
She has a collaborative or small split Definition, which means working in partnership can be so helpful. Kylie does this with songwriting and credits her long-term friend and collaborator Biff with helping her connect to her natural intuition and write instinctively. She says:
“I find when I write with Biff, I write really instinctively, initially. I feel like I can be expressive and less formulaic in a way”.
20/57 Channel of Spontaneity and the 37/40 Channel of Community:
This channel (strength) connects the intuitive nature of her Spleen centre with her Throat (the communication centre), enabling her to envision new ways of doing things before others can, and giving voice to her instincts and intuition.
She also has the channel of community (37/40). “There is a family around her of friendship, love and trust. And it’s tight, like a lot of great artists’’.
Profile:
Kylie’s Profile is a 2/4: the 4th line is all about growing a community, working with people who feel like friends, and developing a close network.
She famously has a long-lasting and steadfast relationship with the LGBQTI+ community, and at 56 years old, still has adoring fans of all types, more recently the Gen Z audience. She knows how to nurture her community and appears genuinely grateful for her fans. Her family and friends are also hugely important to her, and she mentions them often in interviews. She moved back to Melbourne after almost 30 years of living in London to be closer to her family.
The 2 line is all about having natural gifts that come easily to her (hello, singing, dancing, entertaining, reinvention); about connecting with her natural talents and embracing rest and ‘hermiting’ when she needs it. Having a balance of time in community and time alone is ideal.
Inner Authority:
With a defined Emotional centre (solar plexus) she has a natural wave of the full range of emotions. In the Rolling Stone interview, she says “I’m happiest when I feel like I’ve expressed some deep emotion or thoughts that I’m struggling with and it’s like talking with a friend.” “Speaking your truth is helpful. When I am able to do that, I like to almost paint it instead of just spilling it out. I like to have some poetry with it to not be entirely obvious.”
Kylie has a perfect cathartic outlet to work through it all. “I sing to process everything. I perform to process,” she revealed. Sometimes I think I live to perform.” A Vanity Fair article describes her as ‘fun and bright—luminous even. She’ll make you giggle and cry and dance. Want to have a nice time? Go with Kylie!’
Waiting to feel calm and neutral is the best way for Kylie to make aligned decisions, rather than being spontaneous and then regretting saying yes.
At 56 years old, Kylie has been in her Chiron Return since age 50. Important themes of this are Shock and Drive, grounded by Intuition and new beginnings.
‘Right now, in my life, in my career, it feels like the perfect point, the perfect moment where, I’ve got the catalogue, I’ve got the history, but I’ve also got the drive and the ambition to go so much further”, she said.
‘In 2020, the pop star became the first woman in the U.K. to have a number one album for five straight decades’. It’s another nod to her willpower, intuition, drive, not to mention her well-honed skills grounded in her solid determination (both of which are part of her purpose).
All of this is just part of Kylie’s Human Design, and there’s so much more! If you’d like to find out about your Human Design, you can book a single session here.
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