joan didion
Joan Didion is an award winning author and icon, publishing over 18 books and plays. Her writing style is known primarily as new journalism weaving narrative story and cultural critique. She is renown for her essay collection, novels, and memoirs. Let’s take a look at her Human Design chart to understand how this writer became of sought of author.
As a 3/5 projector, Joan Didion was set up perfectly in her genre of investigative journalism. The martyr in her line three makes her endlessly learning through a cycle of trial and error, creating a fountain of wisdom through lived experience. The line five makes her the heretic, and is actually considered a creative rebel, perfect for someone wanting to break the rules for a story.
She has the channel of enterprise 2644 in her design making her an excellent communicator, investigator, and messenger. This channel connects the heart to the spleen for perfect blend of strong willpower to gut-punch instinct. She can ask tough questions and write on subjects that hit straight at the heart. Which makes a lot of sense much of her work began in featured news, essays, and journalism.
She also has the gate of patterns in gate 44 which allows her to sense emerging trends and what is going to be most influential, hello journalism!
Now to mention, she has the gate of influence as well, which means people will listen to what she has to say. If she is writing from her emotional authority and following her gut with what she is meant to share, then readers will respond. Obviously, she is literary icon, so this gate is apparent to say the least.
Her incarnation cross is all about recognizing patterns and sharing them with the world. She has learned to do this brilliantly in her contributions in her work of cultural critique and the wave of new journalism that she excels in.
Every writer has a writing routine that works for them and are human design chart can illuminate what works best. For Joan’s design, we see a need for more flexibility and freedom rather than structure. Her variables are mostly facing right, which means she does not need a rigid structure or outline, but actually does well with flexibility. Even her writing environment does not need to be stationary, but she can pretty much write from anywhere, which sounds like must have learned when she was younger as her father was in the Army causing them to relocate in her earlier years.
Also, Joan has gate 3, the gate of beginnings. This is wonderful for a writer starting new projects. They finish one and must begin a new, with fresh eyes and vigor. Every book and project can feel brand new for the person with gate 3. With someone that has written over 18 works, I would say she has no problem with beginning and finishing her books.
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