The Reflector is the rarest type in Human Design — less than one percent of people. As the only type, you have no defined center at all: your entire design is open. This makes you like a mirror for your surroundings. You take in the energy of people and places, amplify it and reflect it back. A healthy Reflector is a sensitive barometer for the health of the community they're in.
Your strategy: wait a lunar cycle
Because your openness makes you so receptive to outside influences, you need more time to find clarity than other types. For important decisions, your strategy is to wait a lunar cycle of about 28 days. During that period the moon moves through all the gates of your design and you experience a decision from ever-shifting angles. Talk it over with trusted people and let the clarity settle in slowly — don't force anything.
Make big decisions too quickly, or let yourself be swept up by the busyness around you, and you land in your not-self theme: disappointment. The feeling that things didn't become what you hoped, or that you lost yourself in others' expectations. Live according to your design instead, and your signature emerges: surprise. A playful wonder at how surprising and beautiful life can unfold.
Practical tip: choose your environment with care, because you take it in more strongly than anyone. Healthy, pleasant people and places make you shine; a heavy environment drains you. Also give yourself room to shift from day to day — you don't feel the same every day, and that's part of your design. Human Design is a mirror for self-reflection, not a law — take what's true for you.