Line 1: Role of Pursuer/Pursued
Foundation First — The Investigator's Approach to the Mating Dance
About Line 1 in Relationship
The 1st line in Human Design is the Investigator — a profile driven by a deep need for foundational security. Before the 1st line can feel safe to engage, they must know. They research, they investigate, they build knowledge as a foundation against insecurity. In the context of sexuality and the mating dance, this manifests as a specific dynamic: the role of Pursuer and Pursued.
The 1st line's investigative nature shapes how attraction, courtship, and intimacy unfold. There is a fundamental quality of either pursuing — driven by the need to understand and secure what has captured attention — or being pursued, which can trigger the 1st line's need to establish whether the pursuer is trustworthy and provides sufficient foundation for engagement. Neither role is more "correct" than the other; both express the 1st line's core drive.
Ra Uru Hu's Sexual Strategies series approaches the mating dance through the lens of Profile mechanics — how the line you carry shapes your instinctive sexual strategy, your patterns of attraction, and how you move through courtship and bonding. This is not psychology or self-help; it is mechanics. Understanding the 1st line's mating strategy as design rather than personality or habit shifts the entire way the pattern is navigated.
What This Program Covers
Based on the known mechanics of the 1st line in Human Design — as transmitted by Ra Uru Hu — this program examines:
- The 1st line's investigative drive and how it shapes attraction and courtship
- The Pursuer role: what drives the 1st line to initiate and investigate a potential partner
- The Pursued role: how the 1st line responds when approached, and the foundation-checking instinct
- How the 1st line's need for security creates specific mating dance patterns
- The relationship between the 1st line's foundation and sustainable sexual connection
- Profile mechanics as the lens for sexual strategy — beyond psychology and habit
Who Benefits from This Program
- Anyone with 1st line in their Profile (1/3, 1/4 — Investigator/Martyr or Investigator/Opportunist)
- Partners of 1st line profiles seeking to understand the pursuit/retreat dynamic
- Human Design students and practitioners studying sexuality through the Profile lens
- Anyone exploring Ra Uru Hu's original transmissions on sexual strategy and attraction
Ra Uru Hu — Founder, Human Design System
Ra Uru Hu (born Alan Robert Krakower, April 9, 1948 — March 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born author and teacher who founded the Human Design System. In January 1987, while living on the island of Ibiza, Spain, Ra Uru Hu described an eight-day mystical encounter he called "the Voice," during which the foundational framework of Human Design was transmitted to him. He spent the following decades systematizing and teaching this body of knowledge, synthesizing elements of the I Ching, Western astrology, the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, the Hindu-Brahmin chakra system, and quantum physics into a unified framework for understanding the mechanics of human consciousness and design.
Ra Uru Hu founded the International Human Design School (IHDS) in 1992 as the institutional body for maintaining the professional standards and authentic transmission of the system. Over two decades, he recorded thousands of hours of teaching programs covering every dimension of the system — from foundational mechanics to advanced specializations. The relationship and sexuality programs in this series are part of that original recorded body of work.