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Cartography Orientation Two Parts This course is made up of Self Study and Live Classroom sessions. You are currently in the Self Study part. Here you will have a combination of text, images and audio. The self study focuses on the material and requires you to memorize and familiarize yourself with the concepts. It is recommended that you spread the self study out over the full length of the course to keep it in line with what is studied in the live class. The live classes highlight the important points, add to them, and, most importantly, give you opportunities to utilize the knowledge. Apart from making sure you know your stuff, the live classes will give special attention to your presentation skills. Knowing the stuff is not enough. You have to be able to synthesize the knowledge in a way that makes sense. The two parts aim to support that process. Be Prepared Be sure to come to class prepared: study the relevant sections in the self study. At the end of each class the teacher will tell you what to study for next class. If you miss a live class you must review the class Archive. The archives are available from the main login page (click "Back" at the top of this page). Throughout the course we will rely heavily on the course section in the Forum, as well as the course email list. All homework will be posted either in the Forum or email list, as well as your questions or thoughts. Please make use of the forum as often as possible. There is a link to the course section of the forum from every page in the course (like at the bottom of this page). Make the Most Out of This Online Education is great because you can do it from your home on your own schedule. But it requires motivation. Even though we try our best to guide you, we can not control the amount of time you study nor the environment you study in. So we are leaving it up to you to cover all the materials. It is also your responsibility to create a peaceful environment during the live classes. Send the kids off to play and turn off the phone. Don't do other stuff like check your emails or fold your clothes during class. And most importantly, don't miss classes. It is easy to get distracted by unimportant things when you are not physically surrounded by other students. Before you know it this course will be over so juice it for all it's worth.

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That's it! Enjoy the course! Course Content: Although the material in this course draws from many peoples' hard work, Kip Winsett and Gennaro Brooks-Church deserve special recognition for pulling the bulk of the writing together into its current form.

Profiles What is Profile?

This chart has a 3/5 Profile. Personality is always listed before Design.

Profile consists of the lines of your Personality and Design sun gates. Generally speaking it is your purpose in life. Profile is also one of the Four Views in a basic reading - Definition, Type, Authority, Profile. Two Parts Human Design shows the duality of life. This can be seen in every aspect of Human Design. Most importantly in this case, though, is to realize that there are two ways we can look at a person. One way is through Type: manifestors, generators ,projectors and reflectors. Type is the natural byproduct of the design itself since it is directly related to what channels and centers a person has in their chart. This information gives us the way in which our vehicles operate. The moment that you are living out your type, then your vehicle is going to operate properly. Being introduced to type gives you the opportunity to mechanically experiment with your nature. But since Human Design is a representation of our binary universe, there is a second very important aspect of looking at the person. For some it’s not satisfying just to be comfortable with their own vehicle, they want to know where the vehicle is going. It is possible to see where your vehicle is going by understanding Profile. This is very different from type, which we see in the body graph. When we talk about profile, it’s just pure database, made up by the position of the personality sun and earth and the design sun and earth and specifically their lines. We are not looking at a large individual configuration that’s built in your body graph but at two pieces of data. Sun and earth are always opposite to each other, so your personality sun is exactly on the same line as your personality earth in

the opposite hexagram of the wheel. The same thing is true for the design sun and earth. These two lines make up your profile. Everything in design is rooted in the physics of a subatomic particle called a neutrino. And we are penetrated every second by trillions of neutrinos. Through neutrinos we are literally programmed. The sun represents 70% of the neutrinos that we receive, and in its relationship with the earth this information gets its grounding and its form. In your chart, those 2 suns and 2 earths represent 70% of your programming. Those lines give you a specific profile that is deeply revealing.

88 Degrees The above chart is a 3/5 profile. They have the 46.3 in their Personality and the 15.5 in their Design. Below you see a view of the same chart in the mandala. All the gates that the chart has activated are also activated in the mandala. You'll notice in the Mandala image that the two joining red lines are delineating the angle between the 46.3 and 15.5. These two hexagrams are 88% apart in the Mandala. If there were 90% between personality and design sun it would be locked in to that profile and there would be absolutely no movement.

In the chart of the Mandala you see how the 46.3 and 15.5 are 88 degrees apart. Not 90 degrees. As the Sun and Earth move around the wheel there is a point where the personality Sun/Earth is two thirds the way into the 3rd line. Both the sun and earth are at the same degrees because they are exactly opposite to each other in the wheel. The Design Sun/Earth, however, are right at the edge of that 5th line and are ready to enter the 6th line. Now something really magical happens: At 87 degrees the personality stays in the 3rd line since it still has a ways to go before shifting into the 4th line, but on the Design Sun/Earth side they shift lines from 5th to 6th. And the chart moves from a 3/5 to a 3/6 profile. This is the continuous movement through the entire structure. Because of the 88° you don’t have any static position and the profiles are always changing. There are 12 of them and they give us the basis of what our purpose is in life. If you had a 90 degree angle the profile lines would always be the same since every position minus 90 degrees gives you the exact same line. It will be in a different gate, but the line will be the same, which is all that matters when looking at a profile. So if the Design and Personality positions were 90 degrees instead of 88 degrees the profiles would be 1/1 2/2 3/3 and so on. Twelve Genetic Themes The 12 profiles are the 12 general themes of what it is to incarnate. The funny thing is that purpose is something you can enjoy but it doesn’t mean you have to do anything to get there. The only way you are going to live out your purpose is by living your design, your type. Otherwise you will never get access to it. Your profile also shows you the limitation of what it is to be you. When you put the profile and your type together, you will begin to see that you’re not in charge! This is just rolling along, and as long as you are honoring your type, all these things are revealed for you. It’s like this knowledge itself: Yes, it’s wonderful to be able to understand how all these things work.

And you go deeper and deeper. But the only important thing is to live out the basic of your type, then all the rest comes naturally for you.

Angle Introduction The profiles are broken into three parts: Right Angle, Juxtaposition and Left Angle. What angle a profile is in depends on the arrangement of the gates in the wheel. If they are at right angles to each other (all 16 hexagrams apart) they would be called a right angle profile, if they are not then they are either juxtaposition or left angle. We have 3 geometries: Right Angle - personal destiny Juxtaposition - fixed fate Left Angle - transpersonal karma Most people are going to live out either their personal destiny or their transpersonal karma. And there are those with the fixed fate. It’s important to see that we have specific geometries, which means limitations. For example if you are raising a child with a right angle and you expect them to be deeply socially involved you're in trouble. They’ve got their own personal destiny! As you go around the wheel of the Mandala, for each hexagram you have 12 crosses that are involved and every cross has a name. In any given hexagram you have 3 different cross names. For example, the 26-45-22-47 cross given above is the right angle cross of rulership, which has various themes in it. It has different line profiles involved. The end of that is the 4/6. It stops with the voyeur. Then you get to the juxtaposition; here you have only the 4/1. This is the juxtaposition cross of Possession. It has a different name and is a very different structure because the hexagram structure has changed. And finally you get to the left angle, with 5/1, 5/2, 6/2, 6/3: Confrontation. Each hexagram is broken up into these three different aspects, there is going to be 7 right angle variations, 1 juxtaposition and 4 left angle variations. That is the common structure throughout all the hexagrams. If you have the 45.3 and the design 5th line, you will have the right angle cross of rulership, but it’s the foundation cross of adaptation. It has its own sub theme, and the sub theme is the profile itself. Below we will go into the differences.

Right Angle -

1/3

1/4

2/4

2/5

3/5

3/6

4/6

When we go from the 1st line to the 4th line (only part of the 4th line), this is a right angle cross which is about personal destiny. To the left is an example with the personality sun in the 45th gate. The design sun is in the 22th gate. This is a right angle cross because if you count the spaces between the hexagrams going around, they are a right angle. In other words, there is always going to be 16 hexagrams between each. Remember that we are talking about purpose in life, so we are talking about our movement in space, which is conditioned by three different geometries. In this century we have confused a lot of this terminology: karma, destiny, fate, all of this language that has been popularized. But in Human Design these geometries are very specific. If you have a right angle cross – which tends to be the majority in society – you have what is called "personal destiny“ and you’re not carrying any karma. Now, if somebody comes and says to you: “You’re gonna pay for this!“ you can tell them, “No, I am not carrying any karma, thank you very much!” – because it’s true! The right angle cross is self-involved.They have their own geometry and it isn’t people around them who alter that movement in their life. They have their personal destiny and they are going to get to their personal destiny regardless of who is around them. When you are dealing with the lower trigram, they have very poor transpersonal skills, they’re not equipped to deal successfully with the other because they are absorbed in themselves. 1st Line - The 1st line is introspection and says: I don’t wanna see anybody, I am studying. Don’t bother me, I’m doing my research. Leave me alone, I am busy with my own thing. 2nd Line - The 2nd line says: I don’t know why you’re coming to me, I like to be left alone. The moment you come, I have to do something, I have to learn something, I have to figure something out. Leave me alone! 3rd Line - The 3rd line says: Jesus, I didn’t mean to bump into you! – because that’s what happens to 3rd lines: They just bang into things. None of them are really equipped to deal socially with the other. They have personal destiny! They are into their thing. Now it doesn’t mean they can’t love, and they can’t live life like everyone else, but it’s not about whom they meet that’s going to get them to the point where they will fulfill their personal destiny. – So a tremendous part of the population is just involved in their own thing. 4/6 Side note: Even though the lower trigram stops at the 3/6 and the upper trigram begins with the 4/6, the 4/6 is still a right angle. The 4/6 is one of the most unusual profiles. It is the only profile that

is purely transpersonal – both the 4th and 6th lines are in the upper trigram – so it gives you the illusion that this is a deeply transpersonal cross: it is not! They are in their personal destiny. They are the great voyeurs because they are there in the environment but they are actually keeping to their own process.

Juxtaposition -

4/1

Then we come to juxtaposition. Both the Left Angle and Juxtaposition have a hexagram placement on the wheel that is NOT at right angles. There is a shift of one hexagram so that now the Personality and Design Sun/Earth distances are not longer 16 hexagrams apart but are 15 and 17 hexagram distances. The image on the left shows an example of a juxtaposition and left angle cross. The 4/1 profile is the point in which that shifting through the 88° actually changes the hexagram instead of the line. This is the beginning of the left angle. 4/1s are rare; it’s only the last 13% of the personality sun in the 4th line. The 4/1s are the only people that have fixed fate. When the 4/1 drives into a tree, you know it’s fixed fate because that’s their way and nothing gets in the way of these beings. They are a 4 and a 1; they are the 2 foundations that are there in the structure of the hexagram, so they are very fixed. So fixed that they barely can bend at all and that they are very easily broken. They have their track in life. 4th line : The fourth line is the bottom part of the upper trigram and thus their harmony is with the 1st line. The 4th line is concerned with influencing their network with the foundation. They aren't interested in the foundation but more in how to use it to effect others. Left Angle -

5/1

5/2

6/2

6/3

The left angle are purely transpersonal. The 5th and 6th lines are the most transpersonal in quality. They are always getting ready both to go out into the world and to observe the world as a whole. They are the ones that carry karma. And the only way to unload this stuff is to meet the old forces that they got the karma from in the first place. It’s only through the transpersonal that we can universalize and connect with the other.

5th line : The 5th line is like the 2nd line but a lot more transpersonal. They aren't exactly hermits because they recognize the value of others, but there is a touch of suspicion there - "What do they want from me?" 6th line : Even though the 6th line is in the hexagram, they are removed from it. Their perspective allows them to see that there is more than the energies of that hexagram. This perspective lends to aloofness.

Role Gates and Profile There are 6 subdivisions that categorize both the conscious and the unconscious of the profile. And these categorizations (behavioral identity, projected attitude, limited perspective, aspired to role, bonding strategy, securing strategy) are all rooted in the 6 role gates. These gates are the 10, 7, 1, 13, 59, and 27 At the bottom of the page are the Role Gates and their lines. If you really want to understand profiles deeply, you need to understand these 6 role gates and their lines. For example, to get insight into the 4/6, look at all the 4th and 6th lines of the role gates (By extension but to a lesser degree, if you look at all the lines of the 64 hexagrams you can get an insight into the lines in the profiles). If you look at those gates and their lines in the Rave I Ching you will get a really deep understanding of the basis of profile. Remember that the 64 hexagrams because of their mathematics are related to the genetic code. And because of that everything is connected to each other in its genetic continuity. There are 64 1st lines, and they are all 1st lines. They have a basic thing in common. So it doesn’t matter where your 1st lines are, the reality is that through genetic continuity they have a deep connection to each other because they operate in a very similar way. Genetic Continuity Any line in a gate shares a Genetic Continuity with all other lines of the same number in the 64 Gates. In the totality of the Gates, or Hexagrams, you are seeing 64 interpretations of the same energy. In this sense, all hexagrams have a structural relationship to each other. For example, all first lines have a relationship to each other. They share a similar function in acting as the foundation of their hexagram structure. Likewise, all 2nd lines share a continuity, and so on. So in essence, you can look at any line and get an idea of how all the other similar lines work in the other hexagrams. This is useful when looking at Profile. If you have a 3/5 Profile, for example, you can look at all the 3rd and 5th lines in the 64 Gates and get a great understanding of how a 3/5 Profile works since they are connected through Genetic Continuity. The Six Role Gates There are six primary Role Gates whose keynotes resound more strongly that the other gates. All gates have useful minor keynotes for looking at Profile, but these six gates act as major keynotes. The Lines of these Role Gates provide themes for understanding the structural values of similar Lines in other Hexagrams. As an example, the names associated with Profile are derived from the tenth Gate of Behavior (2/4 is a Hermit Opportunist).

In the self study section of the profiles each profile has a chart like the 5/2 chart below. The Personality and Design Profile will have Major keynotes and then each profile variation will have minor keynotes. Listed here are only the major keynotes. Bellow is an example of the 5/2 profile:

The Gate numbers that the corresponding keynotes connect to are as follows:

Lines of the Role Gates GATE 10: Line 1 - Modesty Line 2 - Hermit Line 3 - Martyr Line 4 - Opportunist Line 5 - Heretic Line 6 - Role Model GATE 7: Line 1 - Authoritarian Line 2 - Democrat Line 3 - Anarchist Line 4 - Abdicator Line 5 - General line 6 - Administrator GATE 1: Line 1 - Creation is Independent of Will Line 2 - Love is Light Line 3 - Energy to Sustain Creative Work Line 4 - Aloneness as a Medium of Creativity Line 5 - Energy to Attract Society Line 6 - Objectivit

GATE 13: Line 1 - Empathy Line 2 - Bigotry Line 3 - Pessimism Line 4 - Fatigue Line 5 - Savior Line 6 - Optimist GATE 59: Line 1 - Preemptive strike Line 2 - Shyness Line 3 - Openness Line 4 - Brotherhood / Sisterhood Line 5 - Casanova / Femme Fatale Line 6 - One night stand GATE 27: Line 1 - Selfishness Line 2 - Self-sufficiency Line 3 - Greed Line 4 - Generosity Line 5 - Executor Line 6 - Wariness

Right Angle Profile - 1/3

This is the foundation profile. The 1/3 profile is both consciously and unconsciously part of the lower trigram. This is a deep inward destiny focused on the self. The personality will try not to draw too much attention to itself until it is certain of its capacities. It is looking inward to master, so that it can claim and become an authority. This is a first line personality and is uncomfortable with gray areas. It is seeking the foundation. It is open to hear out the other, to be taught or guided, but only when it is clear that following the other will lead to mastery and control. In the Lower Trigram the first three lines are not necessarily ready or open to the other. This is evident in this profile's security strategy. To be covetous of authority; To want to be an authority; Willing to be dependent to get to that point where it can be in control and become a self-provider; To become a partner. Keep in mind that the profile establishes purpose. For the 1/3 profile, weakness and strength is everything. It is important to understand that in genetic terms. The weak must be bonded to the strong. In this way only can the species survive and remain healthy. The 1/3 recognizes weakness in itself and others and also strength. This is a personality that is healthy when it is prepared. The theme of a first line personality is not to be overwhelmed by the outside and the other, but to seek deeply the foundation of things to provide its own strength, its inner strength. It needs to develop inner strength. The emotional system of a 1/3 resonates to weakness and strength. The personality is emotionally weak and insecure when it is not prepared. When it hasn't done its introspective homework. Strength is derived from introspection and preparation. We humans muse. It separates us from the cat and the flower. It is the nature of the first line personality to muse, to seek out the basis of things, to find strength in grasping the basis of things. This musing is not idle, but seeks in lonely wonder in order to survive. The totality is not simply the whole that is greater than the sum of its parts, but a continuum. It is a grand cycle that is greater than the living whole and that the great mysteries would not be so named

if it was easy to unravel them. The 1/3 profile has no guarantee that the foundation will be grasped or that strength and survival will be the direct reward.

Beneath the one personality lies a third line unconscious ready to leap the moment the personality is frustrated in its process. The third line is the line of trial and error. It is the line of bonds made and broken. Though the personality may be seeking out the deep foundation of things, when that foundation cannot be established, that's when the unconscious begins its process of seeking out through trial and error something else. It begins to look elsewhere and to experiment and discover. When the one personality cannot grasp the foundation, the third line unconscious will automatically challenge the validity of the foundation and if necessary stand as a martyr in challenge to that authority. It is a theme of anarchy. The third line carries this theme. True anarchy is the recognition that the foundation is faulty and must be destroyed, even though there is no obvious replacement for that foundation. Here the unconscious can claim authority, opposing authority. Regardless of whether it is justified or not. The third line theme of trial and error is an evolutionary movement. It is an evolutionary impetus. Some challenges to authority will lead to martyrs who will enrich the lives of the totality. In seeking out the foundation through the third line unconscious of trial and error, the myriad paths that lead to truth get explored. The 1/3 with its personal focus encounters difficulties in intimate relationships. It experiences relationships in terms of weakness and strength. Needing to be in control, it seeks out a compliant partner. With its focus on authority, being the boss, it is ready to tear down the relationship and break the bond the moment it feels it has lost control. Somewhat like the age old stereotype of the marriage bond, where the husband pretends he's strong and the wife pretends she's weak. We all stand, so to speak, on the shoulders of the 1/3's. No matter what anyone else experiences or teaches, if they cannot experience it themselves, they can never gain strength from it. It is often said that true knowledge is of value only when it can be substantiated by personal experiment. Then once grasped, can be explained to others. The nature of Human Design, the nature of being yourself, is about the experiment. The purpose of the 1/3 is clearly to establish whether or not the foundation is valid. If it cannot find authority, its unconscious will demand trial and error to find a foundation, to find a truth that really works. It is a key in understanding our own evolution, and at the very basis of profile. There is no possibility of stagnation. That at the very beginning the foundation by its very nature cannot be complete and that the third line, unconscious, will always be ready to challenge any foundation that doesn't work.

Right Angle Profile - 1/4

In profiling each line of personality will be coupled with two different lines of the unconscious. We have seen the first line personality with the third line unconscious theme. Now we have shifted to the first line personality with the fourth line unconscious theme. In the 1/3 both the lines are from the lower trigram. This is inward oriented, a personal destiny of self exploration and challenge. The unconscious shift to the fourth line brings the upper trigram with the transpersonal abilities. Here we have the coupling of two foundations: the first line - the foundation of the hexagram itself, and, the fourth line - the foundation of the upper trigram. This is introspection followed by externalization. The first line personality remains the same. It is the continuity of the line, the theme of strength and weakness. The need to gain authority in life and the focus on grasping the basics. The fourth line is very different from the third line. It is transpersonal. It has a gift of being able to establish relationships, friendships. The fourth line is the nature of the opportunist. There is a very simple formula for those who carry a fourth line theme. Whether that theme is an unconscious theme or whether that theme is a personality theme. If you have a lover and you don't like your lover, don't leave your lover until you have another lover. If you have a job, and you don't like your job, don't leave your job until you have another job. If you have a lover, and you don't like your lover, and you leave your them without having another one, it will be exceedingly difficult to find another quality relationship. If you have a job, and you don't like your job, and you quit your job before there's another one, it's going to be exceedingly difficult to find another quality job. This is the mechanic of the opportunist. It is transpersonal. It recognizes that there is something to meet. The fourth line is fixed and "pointed": Clear in its purpose and waiting diligently for its opportunity to externalize.

When the unconscious 3rd line in the 1/3 becomes impatient with the struggle of the personality to grasp the basics, it will, rather than accept failure, challenge the validity of the basis itself. The fourth line does not challenge the foundation. It externalizes it as purpose. The 1/4 profile carries the standard of the hexagram. When the personality fails to grasp the basics, it is ready to be patient. The patience is a strategy. There, is no real support for the need to be boss that the 1st line personality wishes to project. There is a willingness to step down, to accept that it may not be able to gain authority. It may never grasp the basics and have to accept them for what they seem to be according to others. The personality's openness leads not to pessimism but to fatigue. They grow tired of the introspection of others. The 1/4 profile appears to be conservative. They externalize the established foundation whether they have experienced its essential truth or not. They will only go against the flow once they personally experience their folly. Rather than being self-oriented in the 1/3 sense, the direction of the 1/4 is aloneness: waiting and watching. Looking for that opportunity from a distance. The first line, in its self-absorption, has difficulty in intimate relationships. The 1/3 struggles with this limitation. Making and breaking bonds caught in the weakness/strength theme. The1/4 has a strategy of friendship. It is the type of intimacy that they can handle and attract. It is through friendships that their foundation can be externalized. The frustration of the personality not being able to establish the foundation does not lead to bonds made and broken, does not lead to the challenge of the third line, but results in an emotional wave of kindness and meanness. The 1/4 is kind to those that accept its externalization of the foundation and mean to those who reject it, who won't listen. The 1/4 will externalize its established foundation regardless of any challenge. But this is never absolute, otherwise the valid challenge to the foundation and its replacement could not be passed on to the rest of the hexagram. Their intuition can lead them to accept and to externalize a revised foundation. The 1/4 can often feel like someone who is out of place or step. When the 1/3 is banging on the door of some basic concept ("is the world really flat?") the 1 /4 holds onto the foundation. Despite their capacity for friendship, they remain essentially on the outside. They will continue to externalize their traditional view until either they sail out to sea and discover that you do not reach an edge or more likely, overwhelming evidence gets them to abdicate, accept the transition, and externalize the new order. In these two variations of the first line personality profiles the continuity is through the personality. This is what we meet. This is true for all of the line variations. The line of the personality defines the thematic. On the surface, first line personalities appear so much alike. Where the personality brings continuity to the line, it is the design that brings progression, evolvement. It is through the unconscious that real transition takes place. If you have a first line personality, whether you have a third or fourth line unconscious, it is that first line personality that in order to bring peace into the life it needs to do its homework, needs to be prepared, and needs to have its introspection. The foundation that is not properly established through that personality, will result in the two different ways in which change or evolution can take place. In the 1/4 profile, when the foundation cannot be successfully established, then it is through the pressure of relationships that change can finally be brought about. Through the transpersonal meeting with others, who say "no, no, no, that is not true", lies the opportunity to re-establish a valid foundation. The theme remains the same. The first line theme of finding the basis of things, the first line theme of being introspective, of being self-involved, and without finding that valid foundation for oneself, has sense of difficulty and discomfort in the world.

Right Angle Profile - 2/4

In our introduction to the basis of profile, we saw that the second line is the main floor of the house with its windows at street level. The second line personality brings transparency. It permits the other to look in and to see. Mystically, this is the line of being called. This is a profile of the missionary: the personality's potential to be called coupled with the unconscious need to externalize brings. This is possibility and need to be called out to interact transpersonally with the world and externalize that call. Since the second line is transparent, others will look in and see what in fact the second line does not see itself. Whenever the second line is present as a theme in the personality or unconscious, education is absolutely essential. It is the need for education that when the second line does get called out it does not collapse and become a paper tiger. This is not a first line theme that will naturally seek out education to be empowered. This is not interested in being introspective. The second line doesn't care about those things. The second line personality is busy about its own business. It doesn't really enjoy being disturbed. Being called to something puts an onus on it, a responsibility on it, that it must learn something. It has to leave its protected shelter where it can go about its own business. That would mean it has to enter into a world that it is not fully equipped to meet. It is important to keep in mind that in the modern world education is equivalent to strength as ignorance is equivalent to weakness. And the second line profile has no natural inclination to investigate. It would simply like to be left alone to deal with life existentially. This is the hermit personality; doing their own thing until called, waiting for an opportunity that it does not know it is waiting for, because it cannot see its own potential. It is a lower trigram line. It is always a surprise that someone can look in their window and see something in them that they cannot see themselves. It can also be disturbing and a distraction. It is the other's recognition of them, "you would be great at this or that, etc.", that launches the hermit on its path.

The success of the 2/4 profile's life will be determined by the call of others. The trick is to accept the call that is correct via their strategy. Combine that with an acceptance of study and it can bring advantages. Remember that entering correctly into any situation, whether that is relationship or career, is going to be dependent on the mechanics of the Type. The 2/4 generator is going to have to wait to respond. The 2/4 Manifestor is going to have to inform before it acts.

The second line theme, and in this case the second line personality, is essentially democratic. Not only democratic, but at the unconscious level, through the fourth line, it is willing to abdicate. It is willing to wait for the opportunity. It is willing to be led by others. It doesn't really want to get involved. The unconscious after all, has passed on the established foundation. It is the second line personality that is content to let the majority rule. Being essentially existential, it is not easily motivated. It may simply not vote at all to save itself the cost of involvement and abdicate to the majority. Remember the theme is to be called. With a fourth line transpersonal unconscious, there is going to be considerable social interaction. Being called to friendship. The second line personality is fundamentally shy. It is calling out for boldness in the other and this is its strategy of finding friendship. The second line, unlike the first line personality, does not pursue. It's a hermit, not aware of the quality within itself that can attract the other, waiting for someone to look into their cave and say "you're for me". It's an irony that being called for the 2/4 can often lead to bigotry, prejudice and fatigue. Since they are designed to be called, they are called often and in so many ways throughout the life. They can become over-whelmed and exhausted. They are, from the unconscious level, seeking out harmony. But the second line personality finds its greatest harmony in just simply being left alone. The line themes in profiling also bring us genetic strategies, strategies for intimacy. The 2/4 must wait for the interest of the other. It is the need of the other to unburden themselves that can lead to the fulfillment of intimacy. To be the confidant or not. Friendship as a necessary pre-requisite before sexual intimacy can result. All fourth line themes are designed to seek out friendship in order to eventually establish sexual intimacy. And for those of you that carry fourth line themes, either in the personality or in the design, it is so important to avoid the frustration of trying to be a first line being. Out there to pursue and to explore. The second line is inherently shy. It is inherently shy as a strategy. It is lower trigram. It is not equipped to recognize that the other can really be there. It has to wait for them to call. Its unconscious is rooted in friendship and it is friendship that begins the possibility of intimacy. Carrying a fourth line theme, remember that every time that you become friends with somebody that it is fundamentally a genetic strategy for intimacy. Through friendship, the intimacy is ultimately possible. The basis of the second line personality is to be called. The result is a security strategy of being either the nourisher or the depleter. In its existential life, going about its own business, being un-called, the 2/4 depletes resources. Once called, it has the opportunity to become a nourisher, to be able to

nourish itself and to be able to nourish others. In the beginning of being called, it will be forced to deplete the resources of others, in order to be able to establish its own strength. It is the basis of our human consciousness to articulate through language. Words carry prejudicial values and those values are related to the culture and time. Please keep in mind that the universe and all it contains is dualistic in nature. Mind and body conform to this reality and as such humans live in a binary maia that is fundamentally moralistic. It is too easy to bring moral opinions to terms like nourish and deplete. Mechanics is amoral. Positive and negative are simply different perspectives. Michelangelo, the depleter of resources of his nourishing benefactor. Advance and withdrawal is the key to the hermit. It is the key to the second line theme. Withdrawal and not being called can result in an existential life of perfect order. It is not that this profile must accept the calls that it receives in its lifetime. Some second line personalities never receive the call and yet they live out their existence in relative harmony, without comparison, without someone looking in their window and calling attention to themselves and their life. They can be at peace in their process. Their underlying intuition is to focus on what is relatively pure. What is corrupt or what is incorruptible. This guides the 2/4 in assessing the value or quality of any call. It will not leave the sanctity of its cave without absolute certainty that the call is its destiny. With this profile, avoiding struggle is a major theme. The 2/4 just wants to be allowed to get on with its life with as little interference as possible. It will hear out the other and its stories. The fourth line unconscious demands that it become a confident but it does not want to be told what it should or should not do. The 2/4 will expend enormous energy in just maintaining the status quo. Why rock the boat when it only brings the unknown, struggle and problems? The second line personality is determined in its awareness. Not being introspective, it accepts without question what has already been established. It is for this reason that the 2/4 is a profile of a potential actualizing force. If or when they receive and resonate to the call, they are transformed. Sinners turning into saints. Alcoholics into tea drinkers. In the principle of hexagram structure, the first, third and fifth lines are yin or feminine in nature. The second, fourth and sixth lines are yang. The 2/4 profile is the first yang profile. It is common to be called, but rare to have answered. The second line personality, once it accepts a call, is forced to accept a new foundation and through its fourth line unconscious to externalize it. When others look into their cave, and witness their transformation, it can have deep and lasting impact. There is an old mystical joke. A mystical joke that best suits the 2/4 profile. "Stupid before enlightenment and stupid after". The 2/4 will not ponder on their satori, will not ponder on their transformation. They will go back intuitively to their existential life hoping at last, to be left alone.

Right Angle Profile - 2/5

In the 2/5 the second line theme of personality remains. We have seen the significance for this personality in being called. It is important to remember that being called is unavoidable and that the calls themselves may prove more irritating than enlightening. Such a personality tends to mind its own business and expects that in others. The hermit tendencies, however, are undermined by the unconscious and its social orientation. This can lead the personality to abdicate to the majority, accept a new foundation and hope that once that is done that it will be left alone. Since the projected attitude of the second line personality is the democrat, we can see in this profile, what Americans refer to as the silent majority. Powerful forces of conformity and the status quo. To be endowed with this profile is to have the opportunity in the life to have deep impact on others. To be a force to be reckoned with in the lives of others. This is not the aloneness that underlines the fourth line theme of direction. The direction of the fifth line is attractiveness. In the hexagram structure, the first line expresses the essential nature and the fifth line is what is projected as the essential nature by others. In the metaphor of the hexagram as a house, the fifth line is the second floor and its windows looking down on the street below. Unlike the second line with its clear view for anyone walking by, the windows above hold a mystery. There is something to see and yet no way to see into it. And no way to know for sure whether or not they are being seen while they are busy trying to see! This 5th line is not the hermit. This is not the fourth line with its opportunistic nature. The 2/5 profile is the hermit/heretic. When called, it will not simply abdicate and change its way of being in the now. It will attempt to universalize the call as the general, ready to burn at the stake in honor to the call. Mystically it is the fifth line that calls others. To have a fifth line unconscious, regardless of the personality, is to always be subject to the projection of others. The aura does the talking. If you have a fifth line theme in your profile, when you step into somebody's aura, you illicit immediately their projection. Of course that projection will be dualistic in nature. It will be this or that. It will be either a good projection or a negative projection, and the net result always impacts on reputation. The fifth line calls the other. In this profile, the unconscious can call the conscious to action. The commands of an inner voice.

The true universalizing call is rare. But this is the inherent theme at the heart of this profile. The fifth line carries with it the quality of the general. In the language of Human Design, this is the general on the Athenian model. In ancient Athens, when the democracy and the democrats were unable to protect or guide the city, a general was selected and offered complete dictatorial power for as long as it took to resolve the problem. Once that had been accomplished, the general was expected to step down for the benefit of the democracy. The democratic theme of the second line, operates throughout. However, it is only when the majority is in crisis, that the 2/5 has its possibility. Only in times of crisis, can it receive the call, transform and begin to call others. Keep in mind that if you carry a fifth line theme in your design it demands practicality. It demands practical solutions. When the 2/5 profile is called, if it is not possible to see practical application in that call it can only result in failure and it can only result in the deterioration of the 2/5's reputation. The fifth line unconscious carries the theme of the savior. Those who are drawn to the openness of the 2/5 will expect to be saved by their call. If they are not, they will call them seducers and they will burn them at the stake. For this reason it is essential that fifth lines be pragmatic and practical (i.e. for themselves). That determines whether or not the 2/5 is going to get involved in universalizing. It is interesting to note that the 2/4 profile, once transformed by the majority, can return to its house in peace and go about its business. When the 2/5 profile remains in its house too long, it can attract suspicion and distrust or disappointment and disillusionment from the expectant majority. The 2/5 profile has a basic dilemma. Its second line personality wants to be left alone. It just wants to be able to go about its own business. The unconscious however, has a deep capacity to be able to lead and guide others through its ability to universalize. When the 2/5 profile is called and then calls others, it is projected on them that they are the self-less distributors, bringing practical value into the lives of those that they call. When they're alone, either un-called or refusing to call others, the projection is that they are selfish hoarders and that they do not care. Un-called, they will respond to the majority with discipline. But once called, they can lead any rebellion against any standard at any cost. As with all profiles, the 2/5 profile should operate according to its Type. The Type is going to set the foundation for entering into things correctly. It is important to recognize that once you live out the mechanics of your type, that your profile, your purpose, will naturally flow. This is not about you having to do anything other than you to recognize and experiment. The 2/5 profile that acts according to its design is going to have chances. It is going to have the possibility of both being called and calling others and will enjoy the fruits of the positive projections that derive from their ability to bring others to a practical solution.

Right Angle Profile - 3/5

We have seen that the hexagram can be divided into a lower or personal trigram and an upper or transpersonal trigram. The six lines divided into two groups of three like this:

Two Trigrams .The hexagram can also be divided by binaries, that is, three groups of two lines like this:

Three Binaries

In coming to this first third line profile of 3/5, we arrive at the second binary (section B above) in the structure of the hexagram. The third and fourth lines are inherently weak. That is, they are predisposed to change. In the first two lines, in the primary binary, the principle of the first line is yin, the true material foundation of the hexagram. In this second grouping of two lines, the first line (the third line overall) is yang in principle. Though the third line is still basically inward oriented, it is designed to continually bang into the other. It is preparation for the transition that will take place in the next line, in the movement to the upper trigram and the transpersonal process. The third line does not have natural transpersonal gifts. The other is something that they bang into or bangs into them. In our metaphor of the hexagram as house, between the third and fourth lines can be imagined a spiral staircase. This is the potential to move from the inner process to the outer. The third line personality has the keynote of adaptation. It is this line through its foundation that expresses the complete nature of the lower trigram. It is the finishing of the first floor of the house. In its blood is the potential, through the fifth line unconscious, to universalize. However, not prepared for the other, it is often naive in its assumptions. The third line personality is a theme of trial and error. Any attempt to universalize out of the subjective is bound to meet resistance. The third line personality is not rigid like the fourth line. It is not fixed in its nature. It is built to bend, to adapt. When its attempts at universalization fail or are unmasked for their subjectivity in meeting the other, they can adapt. They have a chance to learn from their mistakes. We live in a culture in which mistakes are considered something negative and to be avoided. We are punished for the mistakes we make. In the extreme we are humiliated or even abused. So many human beings who carry third line themes suffer in this life through presumed failure. Mistakes are interpreted as failure. But the theme is trial and error. Through this theme mistakes are not negative but a process that can lead to profound results. It is extremely common in scientific research that a mistake leads to great discovery. Pasteur is a classic example.

Children who carry third line themes are subject to negative conditioning as a result of this trial and error pattern in their process. In understanding that this is their way we can transcend guilt and blame. Through different experimentations we discover and grow. It is only through making mistakes and breaking bonds that finally they can triumph. It is not a problem. It is their mechanical way and their purpose is fulfilled through trial and error. If you have children who carry third line themes, make sure that they are well protected when they engage in physical activity. Third lines are bumped into and bump into things. Make sure that they have on their elbow pads and their knee pads and their helmet before they go out the door. Otherwise, something for certain is going to bang into them or they're going to bang into it. Without understanding their mechanics they will go out the door with predictable consequences. They will be forced to suffer the guilt that's placed on them for not paying attention. "Why do you always have to mess up?", is what they will have to endure. In understanding your profile, like understanding your Type, is the ability to be able to surrender peacefully to your process. It is not about judging it. It is not about moralizing over whether having a third line theme or not is good or bad. It is a way. In the progression of profiles, the 3/5 is the first time we see a line's movement from the unconscious to the conscious, from the design to the personality. We began with the 1/3. We began with the third line as an unconscious theme and now we have the three as the personality theme.

In the perspective of the totality, only when both the personality and design qualities of a line are expressed can the true potential of its nature emerge. In the lower trigram, the personal experience of the first three lines, only the third line is unique in expressing both states. If one were to look for an over-all keynote to the lower trigram, it would be adaptation. The basic need for a solid foundation is the personality's demand. However, we are moving in space. The great law of evolution is that mutation can never be avoided. In this context, all foundations are laid on fragile ground and to survive, adaptation is fundamental. This negative perspective of the third line theme of trial and error, of mistakes, is a true misrepresentation. Without this trial and error, there would be no true genetic possibility for mutation. In a 1/3 profile, the unconscious martyr was deep beneath an introspective personality. In the 3/5 profile, we have a martyr personality. We have an anarchist personality. Beneath the surface at the unconscious level, there is a heretical nature. To have this profile, one needs to have a good sense of balance.

The fifth line of projection works very powerfully at the unconscious level. It is the other that projects upon the 3/5, expecting from the unconscious a general who is going to bring practical solutions, who is going to be able universalize, only to find an anarchistic personality. The 3/5 profile is constantly being burned at the stake. This is not the same as the dramatic conversion of the 2/5, which is rare in the population. In the 3/5, it is an ongoing drama of expectation and disappointment. The expectation that comes with being personally observed, being part of the lower trigram theme, and the disappointment that comes when one bangs into the other and the depth of what one thought was correct, dissolves in contact with the impact of the other. The third line always brings pessimism. The 3/5 profile has a pessimistic perspective on the other, and yet beneath the surface is the unconscious savior with its possible messiah fantasies. The 3/5 struggles in its life. Again, this is not a place to moralize, whether this is good or bad karma. It is in fact the personal destiny of the 3/5 to universalize its perspective in any way that it can. It is after all a necessary role. It is interesting to ponder that the 3/5 does not convert, it does not change its view. It aspires to be consistent. It adapts to the other. It tries to figure out how to get the other to agree with it. The adaptation is socially orientated, not conceptually. I'm right, they're wrong and when they get to know me, they will get to see that I'm right. They are designed to express the lower trigram themes, which may in fact be of great benefit to humanity and worthy of guarding. They can be selfless distributors bringing discipline to chaos. Through their capacity of making mistakes, surviving the mistakes, through trial and error, they learn to deal with chaos. They learn to find a way through it. The 3/5, right or wrong, discovers that without the verification and acceptance of the other, that their process is meaningless. The bonding and security strategies of a third line profile are bonds made and broken. The stereotype of the selfish seducer. They do not have a natural gift like the fourth line to be able to establish relationships and friendships. They have the capacity, through others projecting on them, to seduce them to their concept. To seduce them to their way, to their purpose. But the the communion with the other is inherently selfish. The lower trigram does not understand the transpersonal experience. The third line recognizes through through banging into the other that if it doesn't figure out how the other ticks, it isn't going to be able to get its thing across. This is its learning process. Out of this learning process comes the dilemma for all third lines. How to maintain relationships. This is the line of breaking bonds. It is the line of divorce. It is the line of walking away.

Intimacy for the third line theme is a calculated friendship, rooted in being supported in ones heresy. The quick breaking of friendship occurs when its general authority is challenged. Despite what might sound negative in this description, mechanically this is correct. Yes the 3/5 will seek out and insist on allegiance to their foundation. They will in fact use their capacity to attract others for selfish motives. But who's to say that they are wrong? Adaptation is a major theme of life itself. At each of the critical points in the structure of the hexagram, the influence of the three is felt. It is the beginning, the middle and the end. The first profile is a 1/3. The final profile of the lower trigram is a 3/6. The final profile of the structure is a 6/3. Adaptation, trial and error, making mistakes, is the evolutionary way.

Right Angle Profile - 3/6

In this profile we meet the sixth line theme of transition for the first time. The 3/6 expresses the possibility that trial and error can lead to wisdom. In basic hexagram structure, the process of the hexagram is actually complete with the fifth line. In the tradition of the ancient I-Ching, the fifth is the most exalted of lines. In the nature of profiles, the first line, the foundation and basic nature of a hexagram is keynoted as wonder. The second line has to be called. The third is attuned and ready to adapt. The fourth brings influence through the ability to externalize their single pointedness. The fifth is calling, universalizing the nature of the hexagram.

The sixth line, the roof of the house, is keynoted as separate. It is this separateness that distinguishes the nature of this line. It is above the fray with a unique perspective on the action below. It is the fool on the hill. The aloofness, inherent in this line, is the very quality necessary at the heart of its process. It is the six line that gives the stamp of approval or not, whose testimony is most respected. The sixth line sits on a fence, not committing itself, waiting and watching from its perch. In your profile, if you carry a sixth line theme, the dynamics of living out that sixth line are different from the other lines. The sixth line's life is broken up into three different periods. 1st Stage The initial period from their birth to approximately thirty years old, this is their period of deep involvement. In this profile, it is really the sixth line abdicating to the third line power. living out those first thirty years, through trial and error, through mistakes, through bonds being made and broken, with a net result of being disturbed by the mistakes, disturbed by the incompleteness, the unfulfillment that comes from that stage in life. 2nd Stage When the sixth line, whether it is a personality theme or an unconscious theme, reaches the stage approximately around the age of thirty, that is when they begin to withdraw and become aloof. In the first part of their life they taste what life is and they don't necessarily like it. The sixth line is always on guard looking for what truly works. From the age of thirty until approximately the age of fifty the sixth line remains steadfastly aloof, refusing to truly commit itself, always being the observer, always watching the other. 3rd Stage After the age of fifty, there is the final opportunity in the cycle of the sixth line, to be able to reengage, to return to the world and enter into the fray. Regardless of your design and regardless of your type, to carry a sixth line theme is to live through these three very distinct cycles in life.

The presence of the sixth line brings with it a powerful limitation. The inherent aloofness is regularly perceived by others as determined disinterest. The 3/5 profile, with its third line theme of martyr and anarchist has a 5th line heretic unconscious underneath: the yearning to universalize the lower trigram theme of adaptation. The third line martyr personality is optimized through the foundation. In the 3/6, however, beneath the martyr is the role model, not ready to be a martyr until it has examined all the possible causes that could be supported. It is not committing itself but ready to pass judgment on what cannot stand up to its scrutiny. This is an anarchist that is really an administrator underneath. The theme of the third line process experienced through sixth line lenses was best expressed by Groucho Marx, who said, "II would never belong to an organization that would have me as a member." This is classic sixth line, they can recommend a school, a job, a cause, that they would never get involved with themselves. They can administer, but they are personally an anarchist. They are fond of cliches and their bark is worse than their bite. The perspective of third line pessimism through the personality and the 6th line optimism that filters their memory often leads to harsh words but a soft heart. What they aspire to is to sustain a direction of objectivity, to be the guardians, to confirm the integrity of things. Like being the roof of the hexagram and the last line, they aspire to be the last word. We have seen that the third line always brings social difficulty. The themes of bonding and security are strategies based on bonds made and broken through trial and error.

When this is coupled with the sixth line it makes the sustainment of bonds deeply conditional. Sexually, it is the demand for perfection that is generally unlikely in life. The sixth line can get chilly in its disinterest when perfection is marred. Its security is really about trust and trusting the other. Break the trust once with a sixth line and they will likely break their bond with you. This lack of trust is enforced by the personality's basic pessimism. The theme of the unconscious sixth line is to lead or not. In their blood is this sense of nobility of being beyond the mundane. But it is not a theme of direct "hands on" leadership. This is the guiding role, the baptiser's role of confirmation. The sixth line is sought out for its blessings. All third line profiles have difficulty in being able to maintain their relationships. Statistically if one was to look carefully at marriage and divorce, one would see that the third line theme dominates in divorce cases. In not understanding the mechanics, in not understanding the nature of yourself, carrying a third line theme can be deeply disorientating. The third line operates out of these bonds made and broken. But that's not where it ends. It's not necessarily a "fait accompli". The bond that's made and broken can be re-made. Can be re-established. One of the most important things for individuals who carry a third line in their profile, is the recognition that they need time on their own. The third line is still part of the lower trigram. It is still self-absorbed, even though it has the potential in being banged into or in banging into the other. But it fundamentally wants to be left alone.

If you have a third line in your profile, or your partner has a third line in their profile, there is always going to be the tension of needing to break the bond. In relationships, this is something that can be achieved quite easily once one recognizes that it is a mechanical thing and not personal. The need to break the bond, gets interpreted as needing to break away from your partner rather than seeing it is simply the need to return to aloneness, return to your own personal process, before you can reengage and re-establish that bond. It does not mean that you have to go in and out of relationships and burn the bridges behind you. What it does mean is that you have to be able to have your space and you have to be able to have time alone, before you can then reengage. For the 3/6 profile, this dilemma of the theme of bonds made and broken can be blown out of proportion. When the 3/6, discovers that the other is not compatible through bumping into the wrong person they can easily move to their sixth line unconscious of aloofness and not want to re-engage again. So often, when early loves are painful and end abruptly, the 3/6 can drift towards the avoidance of intimacy for many years, becoming withdrawn and aloof. This is a way to establish from its perspective whether other relationships work or not, but never ready to engage itself in those relationships. The failure to meet the right energy in life is directly related to one's capacity to be able to live out one's design. In understanding your Type and following the rules of its basic mechanics, then one can enter into relationships properly. The 3/6 that honors its Type is not going to have disastrous relationships which distort the way it sees. All sixth lines carry a burden of being a role model. They carry the burden of wanting everything about life and about themselves to be perfect. This causes stress. They are easily disappointed and withdraw when they see that things simply don't work the way they were supposed to.

It doesn't matter whether you have this profile or that profile. What matters is that you live out your Type and then the profile will naturally operate correctly. It is the purpose of the 3/6 through trial and error find wisdom. It finds a place of authority in which it can be the voice of judgment for others. And that it can only reach that place by going through its stages in life. By jumping into things when young, by being aloof in its mid-life, and finally reengaging after fifty, it is able to step back into the world and see what works.

Right Angle Profile - 4/6

The 4/6 profile has an unusual geometry. Here we have the first personality that is in the upper trigram, the fourth line personality. Though the 4/6 is part of the upper trigram and the transpersonal process, its role to complete the personal process which began with the 1/3 profile. The 4th line profile is one of the most unusual. It’s an integrating field between the right angle and the left angle. The lower trigram ends with the 3.6. When we get to the 4.6 it’s not longer lower trigram and it belongs to the upper trigram. But it’s still right angle. Right angle is personal destiny. It’s about being self absorbed in ones own process. The 4.6 is all transpersonal in it's lines but it is not a transpersonal profile. The 4/6 is an opportunistic personality employing its transpersonal gifts, its ability to establish friendships, to communicate the values of the lower trigram, and in doing so, fulfilling its personal destiny. We have seen the aloofness and disinterest inherent in the sixth line and that it rarely leads to involvement. The nature of the transitional sixth line is to code and assess and then pass judgment on what has been established beforehand. At the end of the lower trigram through the 3/6 profile the six assesses and qualifies the trial and error of the three. But in the upper trigram through the fourth line of externalization the process is different. Where the third line will test the foundation, the fourth line is only interested in externalizing it. Where the six grades the qualities of the foundation beneath the three, it grades the mechanics of social interaction beneath the four. In this sense, the fourth line personality accepts the foundation established through the lower trigram process without question. What is now important is whether the message can be delivered.

The 4/6 has only one question. Can I get my truth across to the other? It is not whether or not I have the truth. It is whether or not I have the skills to get other people to accept it. Wherever we see the fourth line, we encounter the capacity to influence others. The missionary quality of determination and fixed attention. The 1/4 profile and the 2/4 profile both carry this potential in the blood. Here it is the personality. The 4/6 is conscious of its need to communicate and restrained by its sixth line unconscious. The fourth line is always the opportunist. The opportunist is always ready to abdicate, ready to surrender to the pressure of the majority. However, the 4/6 cannot afford to surrender to any challenge to its authority, it would be shattered. So it holds to its aspired role of aloneness, avoiding contact with those it is uncertain of. Social perfection lies in finding allies that embrace the 4/6 profile socially and either agree with or avoid challenging the 4/6's basic concepts. The entire externalizing mechanism for the 4/6 is the tension between wanting to be left alone so as not to be threatened. The unconscious demands aloofness while yearning at the personality level for quality friendships. The bonding strategy of the fourth line is to be a confidante or not. It is becoming this confident that precludes an overt sexual nature. Friendship is the dominant theme. At the unconscious level, the sixth line is seeking perfection in all bonds and is ready to abstain and wait for the opportunity. It is not uncommon for 4/6's to befriend the partner of a friend, become their confidante and end up having an affair. Before the sixth line can make a commitment, they must first observe and contemplate from a distance. They cannot successfully just leap into a relationship. In watching someone else in a relationship over time, their friends or their friend’s partner, they can assess the person and their qualities and in finding them satisfying can then begin to dream that they could be their partner. The primary question at the heart of the 4/6 profile is if there is anyone that they can trust. As a result, one of the dominant themes in the life of the 4/6 is corruption. Words have their power. Corruption is a term that is misunderstood if it can only be viewed through moral lenses. As an example, is a judge who corrupts the law good or bad? Let us imagine that the tribal law established out of communal values and maintained over time is that if you're caught stealing bread you will have your left hand cut off. A judge that presides over such a case and despite clear evidence that the crime has been committed refuses to apply the traditional law can be viewed by the majority as having corrupted the law.

The 4/6 profile fears any challenge to its law. It would rather be alone than be corrupted but it is not past corrupting others in order to bring them to its values. The fourth line personality must externalize its foundation and not allow that foundation to be corrupted. The sixth line unconscious, in its aloofness, is there to guide and to be in judgment. Despite the transpersonal gifts of the 4/6 profile and the personality's capacity to be able to easily establish friendships, they suffer from great fatigue with the reflections of others. Friendship is there in order for them to be able to establish their law and not to listen to the laws or pay attention to the laws of others.

As with all profiles, how the 4/6 is going to be able to function successfully, how they are going to be able to find the right kinds of relationships for externalizing the foundation, will be dependent entirely on their living out their Type. Having access to the knowledge of your profile does not mean that you actively have to pursue that. It is your nature and finding your purpose is a natural by-product of your living your design. It is a natural by-product of following the mechanical rules of living out your Type.

Juxtaposition Profile - 4/1

As we have seen, the fourth line is the foundation of the upper trigram. It is the foundation of what becomes a transpersonal experience. The ability to be able to interact with others. The transpersonal quality is a direct result of recognizing that fulfillment lies through the other. The upper trigram, like the upper octave in music, harmonizes with its counterparts below. The fourth line being the foundation of the upper trigram is in harmony with the first line, the introspection, the foundation of the lower trigram. The fourth line, as a result, linked with the first line at the unconscious level, is inherently unstable and extremely rigid. It is so fixed that it can break. The 4/1 as a profile is neither this nor that. It is not truly lower trigram in the sense that it is only self involved, and it is not truly transpersonal. Its quality is to be deeply fixed. The 4/1 is not statistically abundant as a segment of the population. Most people are not here to be as fixed as the 4/1 profiles. If we can look at the first three lines as having to do with personal destiny, and the fifth and sixth lines as having to do with transpersonal karma, our interaction and fulfillment through the other, then the 4/1 as a profile has a fixed fate. It is not personal nor transpersonal. Out of all the profiles, it is the one the most suits the image of a train fixed by the tracks that it sits on. Its work in this life is to transmit the true essence of the hexagram, through its ability, through its fourth line personality of being able to interact with others. In a way, one can look at the lower trigram as research and development and the upper trigram as human resources and marketing. It is the 4/1 profile, that brings this fixed basis upon which human resources and marketing can be developed. This is the first profile harmony that we meet, meaning the 1 and 4 are in harmony.

We have already seen the first line personality with a fourth line unconscious in the 1/4. Through the 1/4 profile we had an authoritarian personality with an opportunistic abdicator design. In that profile the authority could be challenged by the majority, leading to abdication and an opportunity for further development. In that way the foundation becomes malleable and open to growth. The 4/1 profile may be a mirror in harmony, but in manifestation it is very different. The fourth line personality may waiver, but in the blood underneath is the authoritarian unmoved. The abdication is transformed into social techniques. You can tell the 4/1 profile anything you like, and given enough social pressure they will bend to the flow, but within themselves and once left alone, they will return to their fixed perspective since that is really what their body, or vehicle, is about. The 4/1 profile is unique in their fixedness. It is neither this nor that and carries as a result a singular geometry of fixed fate. All things are moving in space. The nature of how the individual movement is choreographed into the dance of the totality, operates through three distinct geometries. Destiny, fate and karma. These common terms have been corrupted in their meanings. We have seen that destiny is a geometry of personal involvement, inward oriented. Karma is a transpersonal geometry, a geometry determined with and by the other. Both destiny and karma have many variations. It is only through the 4/1 profile that we see the manifestation of a single variation of fate. In the 4/1 is the harmony of the two foundations of the lower and upper trigram. This is the opportunistic personality waiting for a chance to look inward, always checking the foundation, always ready in its ability to be able to commune with others, to be able to establish that foundation for them in their life.

Because it is so fixed it is the only profile that truly can be broken. Remember the train analogy: if you bend a 4/1 too much they will derail. And in being broken, like Humpty Dumpty, they aren't able to put all the pieces back together again. The secret to the psychic survival of the 4/1 profile is the benefits derived from proper relationships. The only way in which one can have correct relationships in one's life is if one enters into those relationships correctly. One can only enter into those relationships correctly by honoring the mechanics of Type. It can appear that the 4/1 profile is a difficult role in this life, yet in fact they have a tremendous gift for being able to fill their lives with all kinds of people to whom they directly beneficial to those people by the strength of their fixedness. So often we are deeply impressed by the conviction that the 4/1 expresses. When the 4/1 has always taken their opportunity to look inwards to make sure that the foundation is correct, if they enter into relationships, according to their Type they will be able to externalize the knowledge that they carry. This is fulfillment for them. The 4/1 personality is ready to accept that perhaps someone or something is right. They must do something about it only to discover the single pointed direction of their lives that cannot and will not bend. This is an archetype of purposeful friendliness. There is a deep unconscious empathy for the other, but fatigue is also there in actual relationship. The 4/1 is always under pressure to conform to the other but they cannot. This is a role of aloneness, holding fast to ones way despite the conditioning forces. The most powerful conditioning forces is invariably one's lover. The bonding strategy of the 4/1 profile is to be the confidante or not, it is the key note of friendship as the pre-requisite to intimacy. It will depend on their type whether they will be the pursuer or the pursued, but the very fixedness of the 4/1 may preclude successful bonding.

This is a profile that gets around. The better to find its opportunities. This is the profile of the journey outward into the world and its glamour from the covetous dependency of shielded youth to the selfprovider and potential benefactor of others. Eyes looking forward, witnessing the world without its makeup on. This is a world of harsh reality. Friendships become necessary armour and the basis of an education. The school of hard knocks. At the unconscious level, this profile is acutely aware of strength and weakness in themselves and others. It is the foundation of their security and purpose. They can smell weakness and as an opportunist can take full advantage of it. At the heart of the 4/1 profile's consciousness is the recognition of the inherent corruptibility of all things. In practice, they learn to fight their way through, no matter what it takes. They learn quite a few tricks along the way. It is the power of their fixed fate. Ready to bend, but never giving up. With this profile the world is explored and discovered.

Left Angle Profile - 5/1

In the traditional I-Ching, the fifth line is the most exalted. This is the most transpersonal of profiles. It is not limited to social externalization ;like the 4/1 but to general universalization. The 5/1 is unique and it embodies the twin realities of a hexagram. The first line, the foundation, is the essence of what a hexagram is. The fifth line is how the other imagines the hexagram could or should be. The fifth line personality draws projection. This is a profile of trickery. Remember the relationships within the hexagram structure. In imagining the hexagram as a house, the second line is the main floor with the lights on where everyone on the outside can look in. The fifth line is the second floor and the lights are turned off, where everyone can be seen but no one can look in. Their heresies are veiled behind closed doors. Because of this veiling there is an essence, a mystery which draws projection. The projection may be positive or negative. The projection may be "they are the best", that projection may be "they are the worst". The five is always going to bring out projection.

This is a profile of the potential of the so-called superior man or woman that the ancient I-Ching refers to. The general who can offer practical services in times of revolution or transition. The general without an army, waiting at the edge of history. The authoritarian unconscious, ever ready to oppose the foundation, but ever prudent. From its perspective, looking out but not being seen, the 5/1 is a keen observer of the world around them. It is their unconscious empathy which maps and identifies the impact of society on the other and is the foundation for establishing the right timing for involvement. With this depth, the savior personality, a fifth line theme, can find practical solutions for the other. It is this theme of practicality that is so important. Without the practicality, there is no way to ever fulfill the projection. It is by operating in a practical way that the 5/1 profile establishes their power and their presence in the world. It is about presence. The 5/1 profile is always dealing with their reputation. It is always dealing with the projection field around them. Like any of these profiles, when one is living out ones Type, when one is living out through the mechanics of ones Type, then the capacities inherent in the profile, the purpose that's there in the profile, will naturally be a by-product. The 5/1 is the dominant, transpersonal profile. In contact, the other, sensing the empathy as genuine, projects that the 5/1 can be its savior. In the same way, when society is in turmoil the power of the unconscious authoritarian through projection, becomes the possibility of the general who can restore order. The 5/1 profile is generally creative. It is this unique creative process that is so attractive to the other.

There is a sense through contacting the unconscious that there will not be the same old solutions to the enduring problems but a practical application that can have effective and direct results. It is this projected difference that is the foundation of the attractiveness. When all else fails, they are the last resort and hope. Obviously there is no guarantee that all the 5/1's in the world will be called to aid society. Or that if called, they will succeed. Projection opens the way to the possibility, no more. But each 5/1 profile in its life, will be projected upon that they can bring the practical solution that the other is seeking. Despite the natural transpersonal gifts of the 5/1, it is not an indication that they are going to jump all the time. It is not an indication that they are going to rush head long into things all the time, for if they fail to live up to the projection they suffer the wrath of the other. Unlike the second line, the fifth line profile knows that it has the facts and that it is attractive to the other. It still requires that that 5/1 does its homework. The first line underneath, the foundation, demands that the basis is understood. They need to be well prepared if they are called upon. When the detail is faulty, not only will they not likely to be called upon again, but worse: their reputation will be damaged. If on the other hand they are prepared and can provide the practical details, their stature will grow. They aspire to be attractive, in order to have the chance to universalize their creative difference, to be the example and a standard. It is their personal heresy. In this light, can be seen the importance of their bonding strategy. The fifth line personality is based on seduction. The goal is to seduce the other into becoming the seducer. To seduce the other to project onto them.

For the 5/1 profile timing is essential. The timing is correct when one enters into things correctly. The 5/1 is complex. The first line covets. It is a line of introspection. It is seeking out the foundation. It wants to have. The fifth line hoards. The fifth line has the capacity to be able to hold things back, waiting, waiting for the projection field to build, waiting for the right moment to engage. So much of the 5/1's process is behind closed doors and darkened windows. The illusion of their power, the illusion of their projected possibilities is maintained through withdrawal and development during that time of withdrawal. When the unconscious is secure in its material capacity, when it is clear about the foundation, it will no longer covet and it will be ready to step beyond the veil and make itself available. And make itself available for the seduction of distribution. From the outside it will be projected that the power to distribute was there all along. By not jumping into the play prematurely the 5/1 gives up nothing and gains everything. This is truly their theme. When they are called upon and they recognize that they can practically fulfill that then they're going to be at their very best. Then they are going to be appreciated by the forces around them.

Left Angle Profile - 5/2

The 5/2 does not have this same certainty in terms of what projection it can live up to like the 5/1 does. The 5/1 thrives on being the source of other people's projections. They thrive when they have the certainty of their depth, the certainty of their foundation. They thrive when they can bring practical results to any call. Then they are able to fulfill any projection and to be able to receive their rewards. The 5/2 does not have at its unconscious level the 1st line depth of exploring the foundation in order to be able to support the universalizing gifts of its fifth line personality. We have already seen the reverse of this profile, the 2/5. The silent majority, the second line theme of being called. The hermit. Wanting to be left alone. Being inherently democratic, ready to allow others to take care of their thing so they can be left alone to be about their own business. For the 5/2 profile, it can be annoying. It can be uncomfortable to be the source of everyone's projection. Mystically, the theme of the second line is to be called. And this is not simply at the

mundane level of being called to a career or a relationship but on a higher level: a calling that will pull one out of the mundane. The 5/2 profile has a diferent process than the 5/1. The 5/1 is occupied with establishing the foundation in order to be prepared. The second line unconscious, however, isn't into introspection and doesn't need to go looking for anything. It is what it is. The 2nd line is already living it out without necessarily understanding how it all works. Just being it. Not having worked at it, being a natural in that sense, there is no pressure to universalize. The 5/1 has a sense of achievement in finding the foundation that it can universalize and through that universalization they are complete. The 5/2 assumes that other people know anyway. Why bother to universalize? For them it is the ordinary. The 5/1 profile has something to prove. The 5/2 profile has nothing to prove. The second line democrat thinks, "Why should I live up to their projections? Why bother? Let others take on that responsibility." The second line theme of being the hermit says, "Leave me alone to live out my life."

The 5/2 profile clearly recognizes that it is being projected on, but it does not have the same sense of certainty that the 5/1 develops through finding its foundation. This uncertainty through the second line is leading to the transition that will come when we get to the sixth line personality and the completion of this process. The 5/1 profile says "I've got the depth, I've got the foundation. Everybody is projecting on me. I can always fulfill that and get the rewards. I'm prepared." The 5/2 profile says "I have no access to the depth. They're projecting on me and it makes me feel uncomfortable because I don't know why I should live up to that. What does it bring me?" In the lower trigram version of this profile, the 2/5, we have the hermit/heretic. The second line personality is absorbed in its own process, going about its own business. Their potential lies in being called so the unconscious can come out and universalize. The 5/2 is the reluctant heretic. This is a heretical personality, but it is behind closed doors. The combination of the fifth line personality that waits behind closed doors for the right timing in order to be able to practically universalize and the second line unconscious that is truly the hermit and wants to be left alone, means that it is rare for the 5/2 to universalize. It is rare for them to get involved other than when they call themselves. The 5/1 profile is preparing for the call of others, the projection of others. When that projection has built up the right energy then that's their chance to enter into the projection field and benefit. The 5/2 profile is not waiting for that projection field to build. Even if the projection field is out there building, it is ignorant of that because its going about absorbed in its own business. The 5/2 has to call itself. It has to be its own seducer. Only when it calls itself can it then get involved and truly universalize. through the potential of its fifth line personality. This is a deeply withdrawn profile and not in the negative sense at all. It feels complete and natural in its withdrawal from involvement. Yet at any moment the 5/2 profile can call itself to action. It can seduce itself into boldness. 5/2 profiles are always their own prod.

Left Angle Profile - 6/2

The sixth line personality is inherently different from all the others. It has a different process that it goes through in its life. It has a dynamic that divides its life into several distinct periods, regaardless if it is the sixth line as a personality or at the unconscious level. The sixth line is the line of the role model. In our metaphor of the hexagram as a house, the sixth line is the roof of that house. It is not really part of the hexagram process itself. It is beyond that. It is in fact the observer of what's gone on through all the other profiles. It is looking at the process itself and its bringing judgment with that observation. The sixth line goes through three distinct stages. The first stage goes from birth to approximately thirty years old. It is during this stage that the sixth line engages in third line activity. Remember that in the symmetry of the hexagram structure that the third line and the sixth line are actually doing the same job. The third line completes the lower trigram. It is the ceiling of the lower trigram. The sixth line is the roof of the whole house. They have a relationship to each other, a harmony. The third line is a trial and error process. The sixth line during this first thirty year period engages in trial and error in order to taste the various possibilities of its nature. Sixth line personality is a role model personality. It is insistent that everything work correctly. Everything must work correctly. It learns very quickly through its trial and error experiences that things do not work out that way but the 6th line strives to change that. This is when the sixth line theme moves towards the second stage of aloofness (between 30 and 50 years) and begins to withdraw. With the 6/2 profile and its second line hermit unconscious this withdrawal is natural. It is during this second period that the sixth line personality will become aloof, will not engage. They will become the objective observer of what is going on around them. In the final stage of their life, in the post fifty year period, is the opportunity for the sixth line to be able to re-engage. This is an essential completion process for the sixth line. To come to a point of reentering into, rather than staying aloof from life itself. The 6/2 profile has great transpersonal power. They are always noticed. They can be withdrawn and reclusive sitting on the roof of the house, but they are visible up there. There are many who recognize that they are being watched. They see that there is a constant observer and that observer becomes an attractive force. A place to seek out objective advice.

The 6/2 profile is the role model hermit. It is the democratic administrator. The role model administrator seeking the perfect place. The right work. The right career. The right relationship for others. The 6/2 profile is society's sounding board. However, within themselves is a basic dilemma.

The sixth line personality is fundamentally optimistic. It looks out in the world and it dreams and hopes for the best in life. And not only for itself, but through its transpersonal nature, the best in life for others. There is always the assumption within the sixth line that it is possible. At the same time the second line unconscious has come to see the frailness of humanity, the weakness and self-hatred. It is the 6/2's unconscious and its memory that keeps its personal aloofness. 6/2's interact powerfully with the communities around them. They are truly transpersonal beings. Yet at the personal level within themselves, through their second line unconscious, they are not involved. They have their distance. Perhaps the most difficult aspect for a 6/2 profile is the nature of bonding in their life. All human beings need another. We are part of a binary system and we are not fulfilled without the other. The sixth line personality is an idealist. More than an idealist it is an optimist that is looking for a true reality, a true value that it can trust. The sixth line in the first part of its life, in the first thirty years of its life, will dive into intimacy and it will dive into intimacy only to discover that it has not found its soul mate. It will be driven in that first half of its life to find that perfect soul mate and the disillusionment that comes with such a pursuit. The sixth line needs to have trust. When it sees that relationships are untrustworthy they become aloof from intimacy. The 6/2 profile cannot live by anything it cannot trust and likewise they cannot live with anyone they cannot trust. If you break the trust of a 6/2 profile, they will never engage with you again. It does not mean that they will not be social with you. The sixth line personality has a pure transpersonal skill. They can always interact with the other at the surface. They are here to be leaders in that process. But they won't let you in. Determined leaders is the theme of the 6/2 profile. As a leader they have their natural separation from those that they are interacting with. But whether or not it can finally join in the process is the ultimate determination whether the 6/2 profile is complete in its life. There is nothing that one has to do about this. It is not as if this knowledge will stop a 6/2 profile from being scarred in the first period of its life by experiences that simply do not work. It is not going to stop the 6/2 profile from becoming aloof in its mid-life. The 6/2 profile is always moving between sympathy and apathy. They are always being sought out by the other for confirmation. It is the 6/2 that is naturally considered to be a reliable authority. We know the second line theme is a theme of being called. The 6/2 is called upon to bring its objective judgment, to bring its leadership. There is a seduction in a lifetime of administrating and not being involved. The most difficult aspect of the 6/2 profile's life comes when they reach fifty years of age. It is in this post fifty year period that the real value of life for them can emerge. When they are no longer aloof but they have received the call themselves and join in what they judge to be correct. The new age 6/2 profile can clearly discern and discriminate between all the various paths that are available. In its capacity as a role model administrator it can point out to others which way works.

They themselves are not participating. They themselves are not engaged. All sixth line personalities must come to a point where they can re-engage, where what they recognize through their administrative capacity to be correct is also what they themselves live. In that way their process is complete. When the 6/2 profile is living out its Type, when it is entering into things correctly according to its Type, engagement automatically happens

Left Angle Profile - 6/3

The 6/3 profile is the close of the hexagram line process. It is the final of the twelve profiles and as such it opens up to the next cycle. It leads to the beginning again, back to the 1/3. It is quite different from the 6/2. The third line theme is a theme is not the theme of the hermit, it is the theme of the martyr. Combine that with the 6th line and you have the role model martyr. The 6/3 profile can have a truly chaotic process. Its process is driven by the third line unconscious. It is not content to be about its own business. It is not a hermit. It is ready to go out there and try anything. Trial and error is its way and bonds being made and broken is its strategy in life. Much more than the 6/2 child who though looking for experiences is basically self-involved, the 6/3 child is always banging into things. They are always racing into relationships and racing out of them. Rather than a long term theme of aloofness, the 6/3 is always vibrating between sympathy and apathy, between being aloof or not. When the 6/3 is sitting on the roof of the house, it gets bored. It gets tired of just watching and wants to jump in. When it gets burnt it goes racing back up to the roof. And then it gets bored. It goes jumping back in. It is constantly breaking bonds with its own aloofness. They are driven by the personality's optimism that anything is possible and that through trial and error you can find what to trust. They believe that you can find a soul mate.

The 6/3 profile can be promiscuous in its life. Promiscuous in its interests, promiscuous in its relationships - always engaging, being disappointed in that engagement, becoming pessimistic, and then jumping back to its place of aloofness. The 6/3 profile always looks like it is turning on and off. The sixth line personality aspires to objectivity. It is only through objectivity that they can reliably see whether something can be trusted. For the 6/3 profile objectivity is the only thing that can sustain them. Because of the constant bonds made and broken, however, the 6/3 suffers from subjectivity. They can become disappointed and miss the value of objectivity in its life. The 6/3 profile fulfils its purpose by preparing for the next profile, preparing for the next stage. A hexagram does not stand alone and no human being stands alone. There is a continuum. At the very end of the profile process, at the very end of the sixth line personality process, is a third line unconscious underneath that says, "This is not it. There is still more. There are still things to try. There are still things that need to be tasted. "

The 6/3 is constantly looking for engagement and involvement. They can be very disturbing to others. When they engage they bring their allegiance. Through their transpersonal gift they can be very attractive. Yet at the same time, when they are dissatisfied, when they cannot trust, when they do not see that the experience is going to be fulfilling, they will immediately reject the other, reject the experience, reject the career. It is a profile of constant transition and change. We have many prejudices when it comes to descriptions. It is easy to look at the 6/3 profile and its process of constantly engaging as something that can be experienced negatively. It is not true. It is only true if one is living through the not self. It is not true when one is entering into things correctly. The 6/3 profile living according to its Type will not eliminate this constant engagement and pulling out. It is a theme for it to break bonds. However, when it enters into things correctly, it can find the engagement that it ultimately must have. It can find something worthy enough to bring it down from its aloofness, only leave it to go back up onto the roof then to come back down and re-engage again with the same thing. This is the only kind of engagement that ultimately fulfils the 6/3. In their first thirty year period, the 6/3 frantically moves through experiences. Aligning itself with others and things and then rejecting them. In its mid-life it is always moving between engagement and aloofness, never being able to stay aloof long enough, being driven by its unconscious, having things bang into it that pull it down from the roof. When they reach the post fifty year period, their opportunity is to find something that they can build a bond with, break it and return to. By then hopefully they have found peace with the process. This is the key for the 6/3 profile. They will never stop this process of engaging and withdrawing. It is built into their nature. It does not mean that they constantly have to burn bridges. It is possible for them to find something powerful enough for them in their life that they can trust. They need situations that they can engage with, still have their opportunity to pull away, and then be able to re-engage.

Where the 6/2 profile is the determined leader or not, the 6/3 profile is looking for partnership in leadership. They're not looking to do it alone. The 6/2 is ready to do it for everyone else and not for itself. The 6/3 is looking to be able to manifest, to live it out with a partner. It is the magic of the movement through the profiles that the profile that follows the 6/3 is the 1/3. The 6/3 is looking for a partner that will bring a new foundation, a new beginning together with the other. In this way, all profiles are linked to each other. The 6/3 completes this movement, preparing the way for the new foundation. More than any other profile, it is deeply seeking out the other. For the 6/3 profile, the quality and nature of its intimacy and its relationships are more important than anything else because it is through relationship, through being able to finally establish the bond, that the next step in the process can begin.

Profiles Conclusion Procession of the Profiles As we have gone through these twelve profiles we see that the unconscious is linking each of the profiles together and that the personality is doing the same. The 1/3 becomes the 1/4 and the 1/4 leads to the 2/4, which then leads to the 2/5 and the 3/5. The Personality and the Design take turns changing. As one changes twice the other stays the same twice. There is a linking and a breaking of the link simultaneously. In the case of the 1/4 and 2/4, the fourth line underneath is linking the two different types of personalities. In the same way, the 1/3 and the 1/4 are two different profiles linked through the same personality. In this way, all the profiles are linked to each other as a movement. It is a pattern that is ingrained genetically.

The Key The key is in living out your design. Through this you honor your Type and the natural attributes of that profile are going to emerge and are going to dress the life. A look at a profile is an ability to see the parameters of ones purpose. But the purpose naturally flows out of the simple mechanic, the simple design. Follow the rules of the mechanic and you will naturally be fulfilled through your purpose. We just looked at the 6/3. The 6/3 Manifestor informs. The 6/3 generator waits to respond. The 6/3 projector waits to be invited. The 6/3 reflector looks for others for the authority they need within themselves and waits out the cycle of the moon. And so it goes for all profiles.

Centers Mutation When you think of centers you think of the nine geometric shapes in the bodygraph. Sometimes they are colored in, other times they are not. They connect to each other via channels. But you probably don't think of MUTATION. Yes, the centers are a deeply mutative and mutating element. The first thing to understand is that the centers are an evolving process and that the human species is mutating through the evolution of the centers. We have evolved from the 7 to 9 centered being. And the 9 centered being is currently evolving through the mutation of the solar plexus. Secondly, the centers act as mutative hubs that redistribute energy in the context of its specific qualities. Through this redirection and collection of energy they are constantly mutating and being mutated by their surroundings. Evolution from Seven to Nine Centered Beings Many systems use the idea of centers or hubs to represent the human being. The most well know is the Hindu Chakra system but there are others, for example the eleven centers in Kabala. No matter what the system, they all share in common the idea that we have central hubs of energy within us. In terms of numbers of hubs, nine is not a common number. Many systems have human configurations using seven hubs, which was the number of planets visible to the naked eye. Prior to 1781 the human as we know it did indeed have seven centers. This date coincides with the discovery of the Planet Uranus on March 13th, 1781 by Sir William Herschel.

Hindu Chakra System

Since 1781 humanity has been expanding from the Saturnian cycle of 28.6 years to the Uranian cycle of 84 years. The transition did not happen over night since these things take a long time but 1781 was the mid point. It started the transformation with the Cross of Planning in 1610. This meant that humans on average started living longer lives. In the Saturnian Cycle you were an old person by the time you were past 30. You were probably even a grandparent by then since you started bearing children right out of puberty. By the time you were 15 you were a full blown adult. In the Uranian Cycle this time frame has been greatly expanded. In fact you are still a young man or woman until after 30. You aren't considered old until your late sixties (if that), and the date is being pushed back more and more. Kabala Tree of Life Humans have always been different from the rest of the animal kingdom due to the extended length of time we depend on mothers for nourishment and protection. The time of helplessness and vulnerability for human children is much longer than any other animal. With the new Uranian Cycle, this time is even longer. Unfortunately we still have remnants of the Saturnian belief system of when we should become grown up and self sufficient, which results in people who aren't ready being put under pressure to "get their act together". The truth is that children and young adults today aren't designed to come into adulthood into well after their thirties or even into their forties. So this transformation from 7 centers to 9 centers has created a deep mutation in what it means to live, not only within our bodies but also in the way we actually live out our lives. The Rave In human design the 9 centered human is called a "Rave". But this is misleading. We actually haven't fully developed into a Rave yet. Even though we have 9 centers we are still in a midpoint between the 7 centered being and a fully developed 9 centered being. For the full mutation to happen our Solar Plexus has to fully mutate into an "aware" awareness center. Right now it is an awareness center but it isn't fully developed. Fully mutated Raves will not begin to come until 2027 with the transformation of the solar plexus. It is possible to see glimpses of what these Raves will be like, but any examples we see today are only transitional elements and we have no idea what a Rave will really be like. People with autism, people with prostrate cancer and "Indigo Children" are part of this transformation. Our current situation is similar to the juxtaposition profile in that we are carrying a little bit of the previous stage as well as a little bit of the next stage. Our new form is new to us and it won't be until well after 2027 that we fully understand how to use our bodies to their new potential.

Genetic Imperative Do you spend the majority of your time trying to get laid? If you are like most people, your answer would be no. You'd say that there are more important things in life than the base element of satisfying your sexual desire with anyone who will oblige. But on a genetic level your main purpose in life is....well, get laid. Seriously, though, your genetic imperative is to stay alive by reproducing your genetic material via a baby. And not just live for yourself, but for the whole human race. You may die but your genes have no plans of dying, so they focus all their energy on getting you to reproduce with as much diversity as possible. It's not personal. It's survival. If you don’t make more, you die out. Every living thing does everything in its power to make more and it’s never personal. The genes recognize that sameness is a dead end street and we have worked sameness out of our biological system over millions of years because it is proven to be detrimental. The narrower the gene pool; the more negative mutations take place. So the genes become attracted to diversity. Culturally we seek similarity, as in Jews only marrying Jews for example, but this is just another survival technique. Within that structure there is always an allowance for diversity, the most basic one being that it's not cool to marry your direct genetic gene pool (like for example your sister!). So this genetic imperative can be a problem, since on a genetic level opposites attract but on another level it is very hard living with somebody who is totally opposite to you. This is what we call love/hate. What you really like about somebody half of the time you hate about them the rest of the time. Your genes are saying "Yes!", your mother is saying "He's not one of us!". And you are just plain confused. What does this have to do with centers? Well, Genetic Imperative is lived out through our open centers. Every one of our open centers is attracted to what is different, regardless of the consequences. And all the while our mind is making up all sorts of reasons why or why not we should be doing what we are doing, which can really get confusing. For example, if you have one emotional person with one non-emotional person there can be this deep love/hate interaction on the emotional level that causes all sorts of chaos and heartache. Yet the genetics are loving it. Strategy as Key The term Not-Self stands for unhealthy behavior resulting from the genetic imperative. Genetics don't care so long as they reproduce. You could live your whole life incorrectly, in the Not-Self, and still satisfy genetic imperative. The True-Self stands for healthy behavior resulting from living your strategy. With True-Self behavior your open centers aren't just blind genetic imperatives but places to be wise. Our potential wisdom via these open centers represents our outer authority, but it can never become our decision-making process. That is always our inner strategy. To honor Type, Strategy and Inner authority is the only way towards Self; it is the mechanical conversion of what we really are. In this way we will not avoid conditioning, but we will find the conditioning that is correct for us. The mutation will happen no matter what, but it will be a much more harmonious experience.

Now that we have covered some of the overall concepts, lets look at the Biology of the Centers.

Biology of Centers

The centers and their corresponding physical attribute:

Head

Pineal Gland

Ajna

Anterior/Posterior Pituitary Glands

Throat G Ego

Thyroid, Parathyroid Liver, Blood Stomach, Heart, Gall Bladder, Thymus Gland

Sacral

Ovaries, Testes

Spleen

Lymphatic System, Spleen, B-Cells

Solar Plexus

Kidney, Prostate, Pancreas, solar plex Neuron Network, Nervous System, Lungs

Root

Adrenal Glands

As you know the nine centers represent psychological elements (such as emotions, for example) but you probably aren't as aware that they are deeply rooted in the physical body. This distinction between psychology and physical body is of course irrelevant since the two are inseparable. But scientifically, especially in western science, we are very ignorant as to how the physical and psychological meet, let alone the spiritual. Human Design clearly shows the connection.

Here is a chart of the endocrine system in females and males. Can you connect the Centers with the corresponding endocrine gland?

Biologically the majority of centers belong to the endocrine and nervous system or are closely connected to them. The nervous and endocrine systems act together to regulate physiology. The endocrine system is a collection of glands scattered throughout the body that secrete chemical messages in the form of hormones. These signals are passed through the blood to arrive at a target organ, which has cells possessing the appropriate receptor. In addition to the classical endocrine organs, many other cells in the body secrete hormones. Myocytes in the atria of the heart and scattered epithelial cells in the stomach and small intestine are examples of what is sometimes called the "diffuse" endocrine system. If the term hormone is defined broadly to include all secreted chemical messengers, then virtually all cells can be considered part of the endocrine system, which means that the physical parts of the body associated with the centers are deeply influencing every part of our body through the constant relay of messages. Key Points:

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All bodily events are influenced by the endocrine milieu: There are no cell types, organs or processes that are not influenced - often profoundly - by hormone signaling. All "large" physiologic effects are mediated by multiple hormones acting in concert: Normal growth from birth to adulthood, for example, is surely dependent on growth hormone, but thyroid hormones, insulin-like growth factor-1, glucocorticoids and several other hormones are also critically involved in this process. There are many hormones known and little doubt that others remain to be discovered.

Biology - Keep it to yourself Just because the head center has a relationship with the Pineal Gland does not mean you need to tell people that. It is probably a good idea you don't go into the biology when you are showing somebody their chart, regardless of the temptation to impress them with how much cool (and basically useless) info you have crammed in your brain. Knowing the biological relationship has very little impact on whether a person will live their strategy and honor their authority, which is the only important thing. In fact, if you go into great detail about the biology of the centers, it will probably distract and confuse them. Don't do it. KISS - keep it simple.

The goal in this course of showing you the biology is just to give you an idea of the background behind centers so that you understand how they concretely connect to the body. The biology gives useful insights into the psychological characteristics of the centers, which can be very useful when looking at a chart.

Head Center Defined: 30% Undefined: 70% Biological correlation: pineal gland Type of Center: Pressure Function: Mental Inspiration, creates a pressure on the Ajna to think Defined: inspiration comes in a fixed way; mental pressure to resolve one’s own questions, is here to be mentally inspiring to other people. Open: Inspiration comes from external conditioning, if correct can be free of mental pressure, are able to see those who are inspiring and who are confusing. Not Self Strategy of open head: they feel responsible for getting rid of the mental pressure that they take in from others, usually by trying to find answers to questions that are not important.

Pineal Gland (According to Funk & Wagnall's (Cheesy) Desk Dictionary): "Pineal Gland - A small, reddish gray, vascular, conical body of rudimentary glandular structure found in the brain and having no known function." Well, having no known function to the Normals, anyway. It is the psycho-metaphysical link between the Realm of Ideas (and silly ones at that) touches the World of Substance. The Pineal Gland is about the size of a pea, and is in the center of the brain in a tiny cave behind and above the pituitary gland which lies a little behind the root of the nose. It is located directly behind the eyes, attached to the third ventricle. While the physiological function of the pineal gland has been unknown until recent times, the true function of this mysterious gland has long been contemplated by philosophers and Spiritual Adepts. Ancient Greeks believed the pineal gland to be our connection to the Realms of Thought. Descartes called it the Seat of the Soul. Through the flow of seratonin the pineal gland allows the neo-cortex to access the deep gray areas of the brain, acting as a gate keeper. In this way the Head Center is the door to things deep inside of us. It allows the information in the gray area to pass to the neo cortex where it can be processed. If you don’t encode the storage area, you don’t know what you actually have in there.

Head Center If you have an open head center like 70% of people on the planet, then other people are filling up your gray area. You have an open door that allows conditioning from others in that center. The pressure is there to pass it on to the neo-cortex for processing. Since it is not your information, it is different from what you know normally. And because of your genetics, difference is attractive. Therefore you find this information attractive and intriguing, and you spend time thinking about it. This means you are thinking about things that don’t belong to you. People spend lifetimes wasting their time trying to process information that has no use to them. They do it simply because it is irresistible and they aren't living their strategy. The brain is structured so that its capacity for storage is infinite. It doesn't mean you have access; it just means it keeps on storing. You take all this stuff in every moment of every day and it get’s stored in the head center. This is in-spiration - you are in-spiring. You are taking in the movie of your life and storing it infinitely in the space within your brain - the deep gray areas. And it builds up a pressure because you're designed to take it in and process the consciousness field. It is a breathing in and a breathing out. So it is a pressure that literally generates mental anxiety. This anxiety is one of the three fears: 1. primal fears of the Splenic system 2. anxiety of the mind and the Ajna 3. nervousness of the Solarplex system and the nervous system itself. 4. The moment you allow the mind to be the authority for your life you bring on this anxiety. The mental anxiety can be reconstructed in so many ways, endlessly - over your whole life. When you're afraid of something mentally and allow it to control you, then you cannot get rid of it because you can never confront it. Since it's just mental you can change into any shape and color. 5. This does not mean that if you live your design and honor your authority that the pressure will go away or the anxiety will subside. It will always be there. It serves a purpose. But it won't control your actions and that is a huge difference. Your life will unfold not based on the anxiety of your mind but based on the correctness of your actions. What is inside your mind will not become reality outside. It will remain a pressure, sometimes an anxiety, but it will never become a concrete reality. 6. Because you want to get rid of that pressure as fast as possible, on the logical side (63-4) you are going to come up with solutions that blow up in your face. Meanwhile, on the abstract side (64-47) something nags at you from the past and until you make some kind of sense of it, it will stay there as a pressure bothering you. The individual channel in the middle (61-24) can simply drive you crazy with a mystery that keeps coming back to torment you. 7. The outer authority of the mind can be extraordinary, but the mind is absolutely useless as an inner authority. An open center will always be attracted to what it is not and the open head center will always try to answer or resolve mental pressures that aren't theirs. So the trick is to appreciate the question without feeling the responsibility of solving it. A riddle for riddle's sake. And all the while you are living your strategy so externally your life is really fine, despite

all the confusion, mystery and doubts passing through your head. By the sheer power of your living your design those anxieties will become less and less powerful. 8. Head and Root Centers - Pressure Sandwiches 9. The Head Center and the Root Center are both pressure centers, But they're different. The Root Center is a motor, so its fuel is different than the Head Center. The Head Center is just a mental pressure without the motor to back it up. The mind is caught in an intellectual sandwich, and it's a non-motor sandwich: Head Center above creating the pressure to think and Throat Center below to externalize the thoughts. 10. Because the head center is not there to give the mind motorized pressure, the mind itself is not designed to do anything active. It's designed to manifest communication through language, not action. The authority for action is always some place else in your design. 11. This is different to the root center. Adrenaline pressure is very different from conceptual pressure. If the root center says move, you better move fast! And the adrenaline is there to help you. If the head center says move there is no motor to jump you into action, so don't get fooled into thinking you need to do anything. If you follow your real authority and strategy it will all work out ok.

Chart Example Here is an example of a defined head center. They are designed to be under pressure mentally. The pressure is to process abstract thoughts that come out of nowhere via the unconscious 64th gate. They are constantly under pressure to make sense of the huge flow of images entering their mind. The images are usually abstract snapshots of past events in their life. They would process the images in the Ajna center and express their insights in a very unique way via the Channel of Genius to Freak.

Ajna Center Defined: 51% Undefined: 49% Biological correlation: Anterior/Posterior Pituitary Glands Type of Center: Awareness Function: to categorize, analyze, and investigate life Defined: has a fixed way of thinking, enjoys research Open: no consistent way of thinking, always feels uncertain in thought and compensates by being overly fixed, takes in info like a sponge Not Self Strategy of open ajna : trying to convince others and themselves that you are certain and intellectually consistent

Pituitary Gland The pituitary gland is located in a small bony cavity at the base of the brain. A stalk links the pituitary to the hypothalamus, which controls release of pituitary hormones. The pituitary gland has two lobes: the anterior and posterior lobes. The pituitary gland is widely referred to as the "Master gland" because its hormonal secretions have as their target organs other endocrine glands (like the Pineal Gland, for example). The pituitary gland is the point of convergence--and coordination--of the body's two great integrative mechanisms, the nervous and endocrine systems.

Ajna Center - Who's the boss? We already know that all the centers are directly related biologically to the nervous and endocrine systems. And just like the pituitary gland is a "Master Gland" in relation to these systems, the ajna also plays a central role within the other centers, acting as a central hub. However, the fact that your mind is deeply connected biochemically to the rest of you gives a false sense of power to the mind. The importance given to the mind in our society is very obvious but less acknowledged is the chaos this can create. Don't let this talk about the Pituitary Gland being a master gland fool you into thinking the ajna center is a Master Center. Just because it plays a huge role in recording what is going on does not mean it is all powerful and the boss. It is an observer, the scribe of the castle. It is not driving the car. And because of it's inseparable connection to all the other centers it can cause all sorts of problems when not used correctly. It is the main hub of Not self strategy. In many ways the ajna center can easily be the enemy. The connection of the pituitary gland to the rest of the body is why the mind can express the characteristics of the other centers. It can seem emotional, splenic, egoic, or an expression of our identity. We experience our bodies and the interaction of our bodies with the rest of the world largely through the "mind's eye". But this does not mean the ajna center is the boss. Our boss is always our strategy and inner authority, which is unique to your design.

Who's driving your car? It is a scientific fact that whatever you think, say and do is initiated long before the neo cortex and self reflected consciousness has anything to do with it. All awareness of our thoughts happen in the deep gray areas of the brain milliseconds BEFORE we are even aware of the thought, let alone have decided to act on it. Ajna Awareness (what we call mind) is not a creative event; it is a reactive one. The awareness comes AFTER a long chain of biochemical processes that take place before one is consciously aware of anything. Through the pituitary the neo-cortex gives you updates to what is happening in your physical life. But it is not creating or guiding that life. For example, your body might make a liquid check to see how much water you have inside you. After checking it sees it is low and decides to go get some water. As a courtesy to your you it lets you know almost immediately after it decides. But be very clear: When you say to yourself, "I'm going to get up and get a glass of water" you are kidding yourself. You didn't decide anything. You were informed. The decision was made way before you even knew you were thirsty! Thus Human beings are not creative; we are reactive. It is not that we can't create wonderful things, but that creation is actually a reaction to something. Whether we are creative directly or creative in reaction to something might seem like an irrelevant point, but it is important in showing that the mind isn't running the show. Understanding the correct role of the ajna is the key to waking up. The pituitaries give us the illusion of being in control because they give us intense awareness of our physical body and it's interaction with the world. The ajna works so quickly in passing us information that we think it is the one actually making the decision. But being able to associate with what is going on does not mean you are controlling what is going on. We only have the illusion of being in charge. Imagine you are driving a car on a racetrack. You are enjoying taking the turns. The engine is revving under you. You can see the turns and the car appears to turn when you move the steering wheel. You are in control. Now what if you were told that the steering wheel was disconnected and the car was really being driven by remote control? You only thought you were in control. It sounded and felt like you were driving the car but it only felt that way. Just because you can see what is happening from the driver's seat does not mean you are the driver. That is what the mind does. It allows you to look through the driver's eyes. But be very clear: Let your strategy guide you and honor your authority. They drive your vehicle. And they are not your mind.

Fixed and Open Minds The defined ajna center is a fixed mind and is extraordinarily narrow. It has a very specific, limited potential. Its role is to express that specific way of processing information. People with an open ajna center are always under pressure to be the same as the fixed ajna. But they aren't designed to be that way. So they simply end up pretending that they are mentally certain. And often it is just because they are living, or maybe even merely sitting next to, a person with a defined ajna. They aren't even aware of what is happening but their mind is being conditioned and they feel twice as certain as the defined ajna next to them. Temporarily, of course. They themselves will realize that their certainty is an illusion the moment they are out of the influence of the defined ajna, at which point it will all fall apart for them. And it get's to a point where it just happens all the time, regardless of whether their mind is in the aura of a defined mind. This creates deep insecurity inside the undefined ajna. Fidel Castro, famous for his marathon long speeches, has a very defined throat and ajna. He is designed to be very fixed in his intellectual expression.

The defined mind is what establishes the parameters of the vanity of our process whether it is logical, abstract, or individual. The brilliance of your mind will not save you. It will only make you terribly certain. No matter whether the mind is open (pretending to be fixed) or defined ( truly fixed), it is still an illusion of control. The strategy and authority is the only way to live a healthy life, regardless of what certainty the mind has in that. The result is not easy. You can turn left by following your strategy and your mind can be giving you a million reasons why it is better to turn right. And they might all make sense. But your mind is a back seat driver. It is here to tell you the million reasons. Let it. But follow your strategy. The more you do it the more you will be ok with the endless stream of information your mind gives you, all the while not letting it upset you or control what direction you take in life. So now do you See?

There is a major transition that took place in humans that is very different from other creatures, including other other mammals. That mutation was the development of the human neo-cortex and its capacity for self-reflective consciousness. But more than that, the mutation that took place in the larynx would allow humans to communicate at a very sophisticated level - the more sophisticated the sounds, the more memory necessary, the more Albert conceptualizing taking place. Just like with your computer (we're Einstein has an undefined ajna. He not computers, but we do compute). is designed to be flexible in how he We have already gotten under control the splenic, animal, need processes information. for survival of the form. Humans are doing pretty good at proliferating our form, as our population explosion shows. We are now in the second stage of building the visual Maya. Our Ajna-related sense is rooted in the eyes. The mind is visual - hence lies the trap. Biologically, the Pineal and Pituitary Glands work very

closely with light, and in terms of the centers, the mind is here to establish the visual Maya, which cannot exist in darkness. Until we establish the visual Maya there's no way to get to the third stage, which is emotional spirit consciousness, rooted in the solar plexus. But that is another story. The way in which we perceive the world and give the world its name and attributes is through the eyes. We have a spectrum that is available to us visually - but it is very limited. We do not see radio waves; we do not see electromagnetic waves. Most of the wavelength information that exists in the universe we don't see. Our capacity to see is physically limited, which means that the conceptualization of the Maya is limited. Because of that, the mind alone has no way to be able to guide us in our physical life. It's too limited, which of course is yet another way of saying, follow your strategy and authority, which is never the mind. So let's say it together: There's nothing more joyful, more painful, more useless, and more powerful than the mind. FOREVER.

Now put the Head and Ajna together: And following your strategy won't make that change. But it will allow you to enjoy the mind for what it is good at: processing information, telling the story as it sees the landscape go by, being a good passenger, just like you.

Throat Center Defined: 71% Undefined: 29% Biological correlation: thyroid, parathyroid Type of Center: Gearbox Function: manifestation and communication with words or action in order to metamorphose and transform Defined: fixed style of speaking and/or acting Open: under pressure to manifest and communicate, transformation (metamorphosis) does not happen consistently but in spurts, action and expression is conditioned by surroundings; good at seeing who speaks the truth Not Self Strategy of open throat: trying to attract attention with words or actions, being a manifestor

Thyroid Gland The thyroid gland is located in the neck. Follicles in the thyroid secrete hormones. Stimulation from the anterior pituitary gland causes production of thyroid hormones. Almost all body cells are targets of thyroid hormones. Anything to do with the metamorphosis of the body is regulated by the thyroid gland. The gland is a regulator of all body functions. These include controlling the overall metabolic rate, growth and development, sexual development, calcium regulation and bone production.

The thyroid gland has four An under productive or over productive thyroid leads to all sorts of metabolic or parathyroid developmental problems such as mood swings, weight control, irregular body growth, glands. body temperature control and energy levels.

Throat Center Duality The Throat Center at its biological level is a duality, seen in the two Thyroid lobes. You can further subdivide that duality into four parts, as seen in the parathyroid glands. The basic binary is: (a) communication (b) manifestation. Each of those can be paired again: (i) communication or manifestation that is defined (ii) communication or manifestation that is undefined We'll see this in more depth when looking at the gates (see below). Above and Below the Throat When looking at the Ajna center we saw how it was biologically connected to all other body functions. But we also saw that it's role was to watch what was going on only and not make the decisions. It was an Awareness Center. The throat center on the other hand, does influence the rest of the body. As can be clearly seen in the role of the Thyroid Gland, the throat center is a Gearbox, a regulator. It isn't the fuel since it is not a motor, but it regulates the speed at which the fuel is burned.

Also notice in the bodygraph another interesting visual cue: the positioning of the ajna to the throat. It gives you insight into how the bodygraph works. Really you have two parts to the bodygraph: everything above the throat and everything below. The ajna and head play the role of collecting information and processing it into awareness. But this has nothing to do with motors since they are miles away from any motor. They sit above the throat observing the body. Below the throat is where all the juice is flowing. It is full of action and energy. That is where we have the 4 motors and everything that goes with them. The throat acts are the regulator for these two parts. It all comes out and becomes one through the throat. The Throat has direct access to six other centers! All roads lead to the throat and those roads are short. The Throat has eleven gates, more than any other center, and only one biology: the Thyroid. The throat, despite it's ability to harness many input The six centers connected to the throat and the streams, is focused on one simple thing: regulating throat gates in the wheel. Because the the flow of energy. Remember how the thyroid hexagram has a relationship to the codon regulates our body's temperature. To do that is must structure, gates that are next to each other in be in constant communication with the outside the wheel they have a similar information base energy levels and the inside energy levels. at the genetic codon level. The sacral center also regulates energy, but as any pure generator knows, it can easily get stuck. This is not the case with the throat. The throat is a master at finding the perfect energy level. We all need to go through a metamorphic process. That is what it mean to be alive. Without the metamorphic energy (via action or voice) all generators would perpetually be stuck and all the other types would simply be lifeless. Getting Attention Since the throat center is the center of metamorphosis and metamorphosis creates distinction, the throat center also regulates how visible we are in the world. Noise and movement, both key throat attributes, get you noticed (for good or bad). For example, if you are looking for an animal in the forest you might not notice it until it moves. Or in the classroom the child who grows slower or faster than the other children is noticed. In terms of noise it is obvious that it gets attention. If you are sitting in a movie theatre full of people, the only person you'll really notice is the one who is talking. And there is a good chance that they have an open throat that is being pumped up by all the defined throats around them! A defined throat is designed to get attention (good or bad) in their fixed way. An undefined throat is here to be flexible in how they get attention. Both need to follow their strategy. Only then will they get the attention that is correct. People with open throats can become obsessed with attracting attention, just like people with defined throats can spend a lifetime trying to stay out of the way. This is a distortion of their natural talents. The moment you are conditioned by attracting attention is the moment you don’t see the possibilities on either side of the coin. Open throats can attract attention but they can't control when or how. Defined throats can attract attention but it can be lots of the wrong attention if they don't act correctly.

Defined or undefined, the only important thing lies in whether you take decision making away from the mind. With an open throat if your life is focused on getting attention, then you get sick. However, if you are correct with an open throat and attract people then it’s beautiful. With a defined throat if you are correct then you will get attention that won't hit you over the head. Bob Dylan

Cher

The singer Bob Dylan has a fixed way of getting The singer Cher has a inconsistent way of getting attention and his signature voice reflects that. One attention. One journalist said, "Cher jumped on radio broadcaster said, "Dylan's voice is as annoying to each new musical fad looking for an audience." as the sound of an espresso machine." Love it or This is an open throat way. She can easily hate it, he can't change it. For him he'll get change her voice style and has successfully done recognized by sticking to his way of expressing. many cover songs.

Metamorphosis and Pressure Even though the throat connects directly to more centers than any other center, there are two centers it does not directly connect to: Head and Root. This means no direct access to pressure! When we looked at the head center we saw that we're living in a pressure sandwich - the mental pressure above, the adrenaline pressure below. But the throat is not directly connected to that. What does that mean? It means that manifestation is oblivious to pressure. Otherwise, we would all run ourselves to death from the pressure, like a balloon letting its air out.The head and root pressures stimulate the other centers, which then find their outlet via the throat. But the act of metamorphosis does not happen under pressure. Imagine pressuring a flower to blossom! And the joke is? That so many of us are running around under great pressure to manifest. It is a sad joke.

Your Voice(s) The primary nature of the Throat Center is to speak, not manifest. Out of the 11 gates only 3 are manifesting gates (35, 12, 45). We have 11 tongues. Articulation began in the 12th gate. The ten other gates represent the primary tongues of humanity where all the languages that ever existed fit into one of those ten gates. There are very few gates that are Gates of Primary Action. Then you have gates of Secondary Action. If you have a gate in the Throat, and it doesn't matter if the Throat is defined or undefined since that's just about consistency, that gate is your voice. It's the only voice that you can rely on. It doesn't mean that that voice isn't going to be conditioned if it's an active gate in an undefined Throat. Obviously, somebody else or some planet is going to have to hook up that Throat. Looking at a Rave chart is about seeing the Self and the Not-Self. Everything about looking at the Throat is seeing your voice and the not-voices. If you don't have the 45th gate, every time you say, "I have," it's not your voice. You're not here to talk in terms of what you have and what you don't have. That belongs to somebody who has that voice and they are probably sitting right next to you! If you don't have the 56th gate and you're saying, "I believe," you're being conditioned by somebody. If you're living a conditioned life, you get the problems of that conditioned being. The same thing is true that if you live out a conditioned voice, you have to deal with all the consequences of that voice and you may not be equipped to do so. If you're constantly speaking in a voice that doesn't belong to you, it ultimately is going to do damage to your Throat. The only people who are free of that are those who have absolutely no activation whatsoever in the Throat - a true rarity, by the way. It is not possible for them to have any voice of their own and they live under a different condition.

G or Self Center Defined: 46% Undefined: 54% Biological correlation: Liver, Blood Type of Center: the compass Function: Love, Direction, and Identity Defined: fixed love, direction and identity Open: inconsistent love, direction and identity. Not Self Strategy of open G: Tries to control or fix love, direction and identity instead of letting their strategy guide them through it.

The Liver The liver, located in the upper right side of the abdomen, acts as a filter to remove toxins and waste products from the body. It stores nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and iron, and also plays a role in managing levels of certain chemicals in the body, such as cholesterol, hormones, and sugars. The liver helps the body digest food and break down toxins by producing a substance called bile, which is stored in the gallbladder. Other important functions of the liver include processing hemoglobin and producing blood-clotting factors. A healthy liver filters blood smoothly. The liver can be damaged by a number of different factors, including excessive alcohol intake, cancer, genetic liver disorders, or infections such as hepatitis C. When the liver cells are damaged, they cannot function well and may die. Some of these cells may grow back, but if the injury is severe, scar tissue may form. A buildup of scar tissue on the liver, called fibrosis, slows down the liver's ability to circulate blood and remove toxins.

Magnetic Monopole The magnetic monopole resides in the G center and is similar to a magnet with only one pole, and all that pole does is attract. It creates a reference point around which all else revolves. Without this internal pull we would have no sense of differentiation.; my body versus your body. Without it we could feel totally connected to the universe. We would feel at one with the totality. The monopole creates the illusion that each cell is separate from each other, even though each cell is a tiny fragment of the greater pattern. Just like the liver is constantly filtering the blood and separating what is not us (the toxins) from what is us (vitamins and minerals), the magnetic monopole separates us from the totality. It is not about saying the toxins are bad and the vitamins are good. Those toxins are actually very good for other creatures in the world. And the vitamins would kill them. That is the beauty of differentiation. There is no blame or shame. It is just about saying, "This is me, that is you." To know the difference and to honor it is a wonderful thing. Love Differentiation. allows for love. There is love of humanity, self, inanimate objects, the universes, the body - and all these aspects are regulated by the magnetic monopole and the G center. Of course the opposite is true too. There are many forms of hate. Without differentiation. there would be no room

for this duality. Me and you, up and down, it only works when there is a monopole pulling you to you and me to me. Without that, there would be one universal love but nobody (NO BODY) to experience it. The vast ocean of love needs creatures to swim in it :) Direction If there is no differentiation. then there is no direction. If all is one then there is nowhere to go. With differentiation. there is a reference point. "I am going straight in relation to that." The G center acts as a compass. It creates left, right, up, down through the differentiation. of the self. Self This is the easiest to understand. If we are all one then there is no "you" and "me." There isn't even a "we." There is just the "itness" of being. No mind, no identity, no body. Just existence without any distinction between you and the totality. That might sound appealing to you if you are into meditation and enlightenment, but our bodies are built to have differentiation. You can't have both. Either you exist as a human in the body or you evaporate into the "one-ness", in which case there is no "you" to experience that anyway.

Sigmond Freud has a defined G. He is designed to have a fixed direction through the channel of the creative and mutative role model. This is especially powerful for him since he also has the cross of the Sphinx.

Open G If you do not live your strategy you distort this process and do not find your place. You break the sacred circle. You will live in the wrong place, eat the wrong food, and love the wrong people. The list is endless. This will be the case for both defined and undefined G centers. For an open G center, however, place is exceptionally important because it will condition them more than a person with defined G (internal consistency in love, direction and self). First of all it is not easy to find your place if you have an open G, yet to find the right place(s) is crucial because it will determine the quality of love, direction and identity. The first thing to understand is that the right place isn’t one place since there are different places for different things. The open G is not fixed. They can have different variations of love, direction and identity. To understand that is to see it as a strength and not a weakness. They shouldn't try to be consistent like people with a defined G.

Julio Iglesias is arguably the most successful love song singer in the world. One journalist writes, "When Julio sings a love song, the whole world trembles with emotions." Julio is an emotional manifestor on the Cross of the Vessel of Love, so this is to be expected.

Secondly, finding the right place usually is a process of elimination through finding the wrong places. It always comes down to living your strategy. When you truly give up trying to control the process the place finds you. And places you never would have considered turn out to be actually very good for you. Likewise, places you thought were good turn out to be horrible.

Therefore by using your strategy you will find those places that will allow you to express a consistent identity within the situation. It is important to understand that the identity is fixed only within the situation. There needs to be a flexibility for the open G. A lot of people feel uncomfortable with having an undefined G Center. There is a stigma attached to that because they think they don't have a 'Self'. Remember that to live in the world means no center. remains undefined for too long. It's always getting hooked up by people and transiting planets. And an open G does not mean you don't have a magnetic monopole holding you together either.

The difference between defined and undefined is that one is fixed and the other is inconsistent. The inconsistency makes them wise about the other. For example, if you have an undefined Splenic system or undefined Ajna, you have no fixed awareness, but because those centers are open you are here to be aware of awareness. Somebody with an undefined Self is here to be aware of Self, to be able to identify Self, because it gets to experience Self in all of its possibilities through its openness. In this case Self means identity. The same is true for love and direction. All an open G means is that direction and love is inconsistent - not absent. The defined Self has very little recognition of the nature of Self at all. What you are, you live. It is the undefined Self that has this capacity to recognize the nature of Self. What is the right direction? What is the healthiest identity? The open G center be wise in that. Wrong Place, Wrong People One of the ways for the undefined Self to recognize the nature of its life is to see clearly that everything for it must be initiated by others. Because something is initiated by others does not mean that you owe them or you are bound to them. If you go to a restaurant with somebody and don't like the restaurant, you're with the wrong people because they will take you to the wrong places.

If somebody takes you to a place you like, you don't have to hold onto them for dear life because you hope that they will take you to other places that are good. You can always go back to that place yourself the second time. And there are many people in life who can take you to places. The burden of the undefined Self is the burden that "I do not know where I am going and I do not know if I can hold onto love." Yet, everybody in the world is here to offer them all those things. Everybody is here to offer the undefined Self a direction, a form of love, and because of that they have a real gift. They've got all the flavors. They're a unifying force. All undefined centers, when wisdom emerges out of them, they become unifying forces. They help the other to understand. An open G center reflects the defined G center and this can be very helpful for everyone.

Crosses of Love and Direction The eight gates in the G center make up two crosses: the Cross of the Sphinx and the Cross of the Vessel of Love. In the wheel these gates are equal in distance to each other. The G Center. is magical because it pulls the entire wheel together into a core, just like the monopole pulls us together into a core. The G center gates play key roles in the wheel. The eight G gates are the leading gates of the eight houses of the I Ching. These lead gates provide the basic foundation, the lower trigram, that the following seven gates along the wheel share in common. These eight gates also touch all 12 zodiacal signs. As seen in the Vessel of Love, all of the gates are cusp hexagrams that cross zodiacal lines.

Cross of the Sphinx 13 - Direction Looking Back 1 - Place in the Now 2 - Direction 7 - Direction Looking Forwards The Cross of the Sphinx is about direction. Literally what that means is that if you take all the G Centers on Earth and you add them all up with all of their Monopoles, what we're doing is we're holding ourselves in line to love and we are following the direction of love. That direction of love is to return to the whole. If you are looking for the place within every single human being that is there to touch God as a totality, it is within the G Center. and it does not matter whether that's defined or not - that's not the point. Everyone has a Monopole - we are all part of the direction of love. When looking at the Sphinx you see the physical direction of the totality as it moves through space. This

is the direction of mutation. If you look at the arrangement of the Sphinx gates in the G center you can see Shiva's three pronged staff. This is the Neptunian symbol or a pitchfork. Because of the Sun/Earth configuration there are 4 times a year when people are born with this cross. These people maintain our direction in the world. Without them we'd be lost. Also, every 165 years we get a very special generation who are born with Neptune in the Cross. This time it was in the late 1967 until mid1970 when the planet Neptune was in the 46th gate. The planet Neptune rules the Sphinx and thus our direction. The people born between 1967 and 1970 who had the Cross of the Sphinx are empowered by Neptune out of the Sacral to generate mutative direction.

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Love of the Self Universal Love Love of the Body Love of Humanity

This Cross of the Vessel of Love holds four different ways of how the Self can love. This is not to be confused with other forms of love. Other ways are sexual love that exists through electromagnetic connections, that is, where one person has one gate in a channel and another person has another, or love of what you don't have, as in attraction to a defined or open center. In the Vessel of love we're talking about the love that has to do with our direction, and it is the higher love that guides our place within the totality. Each of the gates is a component of the Vessel and clearly show how the G center creates differentiation. The 15th gate is the outside of the urn or the Vessel. It is the outer surface and what you have contact with. It is love of Humanity. The 46th gate is the Gate of the Flesh that creates the internal walls of the Vessel. It is love of the body. The 25th gate is the Gate of Blood and this is what fills the Vessel up. It is universal love. The 10th gate is the Gate of the Behavior of the Self or the Gate of Nature, and this is the lip of the Vessel out of which the life is poured. This is love of the self. The Sphinx cross connects three centers but the Vessel of love involves five different centers and brings in awareness and the Ego. This means that love has a much more extensive network within us than direction does. The real difference is being generated by the 10th gate because it opens up in several different ways, opening up into Integration. It all pours out from the love of the self. G Center Conclusion Hopefully you see now that the main function of the G center is to orient us in space, whether that be in relation to Love, Direction or Self. The G center draws a circle in the huge universe and says, "Everything within this circle is me and everything outside this circle is not me." It is the creation of

place. Every time the liver removes a toxin from the body it is saying "You do not belong in this circle."

Heart or Ego Center Defined: 35% Undefined: 65% Biological correlation: stomach, heart, gall bladder, thymus gland Type of Center: Motor Function: Ego and willpower, the material world, self esteem/worth Defined: Consistent access to willpower, natural sense of self esteem/worth, fixed way of dealing with the material plane with deals, bargains and promises. Open: Suffers due to not having consistent willpower- self esteem/worth decreases, finds it difficult to ask the appropriate price for its achievements, is unable to keep promises, has to learn to survive on the material plane, loves to spend money. The rule of the undefined Ego is, ”don't make any promises ” Not Self Strategy of open ego : Are you still trying to prove something to yourself and to others

Ego Center In the section on the G center we see how the G center concerns our general direction in relation to the rest of the world, especially related to love and identity. We also see in the section on the head center how the head center concerns the direction of our intellectual consciousness. The ego center also effects our direction. It concerns our direction on the material plane - everything from how fat we are to how much money we have in our bank account to how many children we are sending to college. The ego is unique in that it is the only center with an actual circuit named after it and surrounding it, and thus the Ego Circuit and the ego center are completely entwined. As you know it is all about financial security for the tribe (i.e. family, business, community, etc). The ego allows us to prove our worth on the material plane to the tribe. So if you have an open ego center ask yourself: in what ways are you trying to prove yourself on the material plane to the tribe (i.e. your family, your job, your community). Is it with your car? Is it with your body? Is it with the long hours you work? Is it with the diplomas you hang on the wall? How are you wasting your energy trying to prove (or improve) yourself for the tribe? If you have a defined ego center you can ask yourself the same questions, although the pressure is not as strong as somebody with an undefined ego. But we all feel the pressure. It is built into us with the Channel of the Materialist (21-45). Regardless of whether you have the channel, it is a tribal energy that we all feel and are exposed to. Once you ask yourself what you are trying to prove, you can then ask yourself if you got into it correctly. Did you live your strategy? More importantly, this will make you aware the next time you feel the pressure so that you live your strategy. Biology The Ego has four different biological affiliations, much more than any other center. In spite of it having the second fewest gates after the head center, it has a massive biological role. It is the exact opposite of the

throat center, which has many gates but only one biology. Here we have few gates but several biologies. What does this mean? Basically, the throat performs one biological function to many areas, namely, metamorphosis of our whole being. The biology is metamorphosis and the area is everywhere via the many gates. The heart center on the other hand performs several biological functions in an isolated area, namely, the material plane. The biology is varied (which we will look at below) but the area is focused on material well being. For the throat center the metamorphosis of material well being is only one of 11 of it's gates (gate 45). It is also focused on the metamorphosis of ideas (gate 56), the metamorphosis of emotional experiences (gate 35) and so on. For the ego center the only focus and output is via the 45th gate and it is about saying, "I have." Or "I don't have." The ego center focuses it's energy (it is a motor) on the improvement and accumulation on the material plane, and this involves a large part of our day, using a large amount of our energy. The throat center via the 45th gate then plays the role of expressing that and metamorphosing it into sound and movement. Let's look at the ego center gate by gate to get an overall understanding of the ego qualities.

21 - The Gate of Control The function of the heart is to pump blood around the body. The heart's ability to contract is due to the presence of cardiac muscle in its wall which can work continuously without fatigue. The cardiac muscle is selfexciting. This is in contrast with skeletal muscle, which requires either conscious or reflex nervous stimuli. The heart's rhythmic contractions occur spontaneously, although the frequency or heart rate can be changed by nervous or hormonal influences such as exercise or the perception of danger. The 21st gate relates to this heart muscle. That's why the mantra of the 21 is to be in control. If they can't control their lives then on a very basic level they lose control over how their heart pumps, which obviously can cause major problems. If people with the 21 are in control of what they eat, what they wear and where they live, they keep their heart healthy. Bringing it back to the ego center overall, control is a major element of the ego center. Undefined egos can feel they aren't in control of their material direction. Defined egos can feel they need to control the material direction of others. Both can cause problems if not entered into correctly. Control issues are rampant in the world and they have a lot to do with people not understanding the mechanics of the ego center.

26 - The Gate of the Egoist The 26th gate relates to the thymus gland, which belongs to the endocrine system (like so many other centers) and is located in the upper anterior portion of the chest cavity. The thymus plays an important role in the development of the immune system in early life, and its cells form a part of the body's normal immune system. They are the famous T cells.

This gland creates a direct connection between the Ego and the Splenic system, both via the Channel of the Transmitter (26-44) and biologically, and is one of the most essential health channels. In the development of the foetus, the ego related biologies develop before the splenic related biologies. Basically, there is an ego in a foetus before there is a spleen. The ego thymus designs the immune system and keeps on working on that immune system until the child is three years old. Then the thymus gland takes up the responsibility of defending the immune system. From the 44th gate we have the release of B-cells. From the 26th gate we have the release of T-cells. These are killer cells their job is to kill things that invade the system. The 26th gate is the Gate of Memory. It is the completion of the instinctive memory process and its completion within the ego. In other words, this is ego memory. But ego memory can be manipulated: "The fish was this big!" There may indeed have been a fish, but it's size, given the nature of the 26th gate, is open to over-exaggeration. This is the ego's capacity to reach out and make contact with the community. As such, this is the Gate of the egoist. In business terms, this is the Gate of the Marketing Person - the ability to be able to go out there and say, "This is the best damned car you have ever encountered, and I'm going to give you the best damned price you've ever had with the longest guarantee. I swear my own daughter uses this car and it is incredibly good. Now, will that be cash or ...?" Exaggeration can become lies. But that is the fine line that the Egoist treads. This process, don't forget, is about our immune system. It's sometimes good for your health to be an egoist. It is like the TThe T cell is a virus' worst nightmare cells. When they see a health problem they bombard the threat with complete exaggeration until it is annihilated. Nothing is held back. The person buying that car willingly recognizes that they are being exaggerated to. But they like the idea of buying the best car. It is good for you and your family to have the best car. It duplicates what your T-cells are doing all the time: keeping your and your family alive in the best possible way. The car owner can then turn to their friends next door and say, "This is the best car, and the salesman gave me the best deal." And if the car breaks, don't worry, they've got the best mechanic in town to take care of it. Bringing it back to the ego center overall, the ego loves the feeling of getting ahead, that they are doing well and their family is doing well. And if it involves a little bit of exaggeration (ego inflation), then so be it. The ego likes to feel good about itself. The defined ego knows this and in the ideal world they can even make others feel good. But the flip side often happens: the defined ego makes others feel bad. The undefined ego does not consistently have this energy to boost their ego, which can result in lack of feeling good about themselves - loss of self worth, the feeling that their car is less than adequate etc.

51 - Gate of Shock The 51st gate is associated with the gallbladder, a pear-shaped organ that stores bile (or "gall") until the body needs it for

digestion. The bile is released when food containing fat enters the digestive tract. This is the gate of shock because it is the gall of a fool to leap into the void. The 51 is part of the only non-tribal channel in the ego center - the Channel of Initiation (51-25). It is the way in which the ego empowers the Universal Love of the 25th gate. Without Universal Love, the heart turns to stone (gall bladder stones). Imagine someone having the gall to jump from the 51st gate out of the tribal element into the unknown and finding their self (G center) on the other side. This is part of the Individual Centering Circuit. This Channel of Initiation is a very grounding channel. And on this side it is fueled by the gall energy of the ego center.

Bringing it back to the ego center overall, the ego is not an awareness center, nor is it particularly subtle. It is full of gall, which is powerful enough on the biological level to digest almost anything you put in your mouth. On another level, the ego is able to get you through pretty much anything. It has the gall to do that. The undefined ego is always uncertain whether they have the ego to accomplish something and this creates insecurity and lack of worth. They are always trying to prove they can accomplish what they set out to do, putting great pressure on their heart, stomach and gall bladder. Think heartburn, ulcers and heart attacks. The defined ego knows their strength better than the undefined ego, but they can be reluctant to use it. Or they overdo it and become overly competitive, which causes problems too.

40 - The Gate of Aloneness The 40th gate is related to the stomach. Generally, the stomach's primary function is not the absorption of nutrients from digested food; this task is usually performed by the intestine. The main job of the stomach is to break down large food molecules into smaller ones, so that they can be absorbed into the blood more easily. The human stomach is a highly acidic environment maintained by the secretion of hydrochloric acid. The stomach's interior can secrete 2 to 3 liters of gastric fluid per day. The 40th gate is part of the Channel of Community. This is where church potlucks and community fundraisers happen. It is all about food and making sure the tribe has enough of it. Like all ego gates, it is also about the bargain. Nothing is free with the ego center. This gate says, "I'll work to get money if you buy the food and cook it." And if the bargain is not fulfilled then there will be consequences, regardless of whether that is taking out the garbage or helping build the community church.

Take for example the true story of an air force bomber pilot in the German Air Force. During the second world war he got shot down over the Ukraine and broke his hip when he hit the ground. He walked, sometimes dragging himself, across the 1,700 miles of enemy territory to get himself back to his village in Germany. By the time he arrived the war was over and the Germans had lost. Upon arrival at his village the villagers stoned him because he didn't win. "How dare you come back. You did not win," the villagers yelled. This is the harsh retribution of the ego circuit. The 'I' comes out of the contraction and the process of releasing the acids in the stomach to break down the food. The more food in the belly, the more bile needed and the bigger the ego. When there is no food, the acid sits there and gets expressed in other ways. When you don't come through on the bargain it is like not giving food to the stomach. What is essential to the tribe is that the belly gets filled. Bringing it back to the ego center overall, nothing is a free ride with the ego. If you get a present from a person with a defined ego, they expect something in return, no matter what they tell you. Overall the ego is not subtle. It is like the acid in the stomach. The ego is concerned with very basic biological needs like food and a strong immune system. It can't afford to be subtle. The ego is here to assert its motor power to accomplish this. Open egos feel a lot of pressure to fulfil the bargain. If they made a promise incorrectly they will not have the will power to fulfil the promise, resulting in problems to do with the heart, stomach and ultimately overall health. The defined ego can put others under pressure to prove themselves, which can also result is problems.

Conclusion The ego has a very specific biological association with each of the four gates: heart, stomach, thymus, gall bladder. It's out of these four biological variations that the sum total the ego possessiveness of 'I' is expressed. This particular 'I' is a tribal identity - it's the ego identity that says, "I am the hunter (21). I am the fool (51). I am the egoist (26). I am the provider (40)." We know that the throat center has only one gate for the tribe and community to express itself - with the possessive "I have" or "I don't have" of the 45th gate. The 45 is a Primary Gate of Action since the channel has a motor connected to a throat. It is the manifestation of the heart in the world. To have heart is something very different from love - it is a sense of communal concern. The needs of the tribe are dictated by the needs of these biological elements to keep the heart beating. The tribe screams, "My child is sick. Don't tell me about your health programs for the future." Real caring and healing is nurtured in the tribe. This is the nature of its heart - to be concerned about the well-being of the tribe, and the well-being of the tribe is a possessive well-being. We have difficulty with the ego because our mind is not comfortable with it (notice the tribe has no mental channels or gates). The ego is very blunt, almost crude from the perspective of the mind. Nor is the ego an awareness center, another thing that can make it appear "unaware". The ego is here to hold our societies together so we feed each other and support each other. There is no ego in the knowing circuit, or logic and abstract collective circuit. Logic doesn't build communities and the abstract is always running away from them. The individual only cares about itself. Thus the ego process of feeding the tribe is not logical or collective. You do what you have to do to feed your family and community, regardless of whether it makes sense mentally, logically or ethically. The ego is here to care about humanity on the grass roots level. The ego is a motor to make sure that our communities stay alive, that our bonds stay alive, that our products are sold, that there childcare, and there is protection, etc. People with defined egos need to feel secure and involved in these areas. People with undefined egos need to realize that they will

never feel as secure as someone with the defined ego in these areas. Both need to live their strategy in order for it to unfold correctly.

Sacral Center Defined: 70% Undefined: 30% Biological correlation: ovaries, testes Type of Center: Motor Function: vitality, sexuality, fertility, persistence Defined: can respond with the Sacral voice, consistent access to vitality, reliable access to energy and sexual identity, pure creative potential waiting to put into action through response, life is about finding healthy ways to work of sacral energy, needs to learn to be patient. Open: does not need to build anything. does not fall under the pressure to be as productive as others and simply enjoys life. works more as a specialist for short periods of time, usually guiding others in how to work. Not Self Strategy of defined sacral : doesn't wait to respond but initiates and depletes their energy and gets stuck. Not Self Strategy of open sacral : easily enslaved to overdoing things, never knows when enough is enough, no fixed sexual identity, about experiencing life and ”lifestyle;” not about work, cannot sustain a consistent workload, exhausted by other people's energy, gets carried away (sex, sleep, food, work, anything).

Ovaries and Testes In our trip through the glands of the endocrine system we now come to the ovaries and testes, which are technically both called gonads. Most people don't realize it, but both man and women have gonads. The gonads are the main source of sex hormones. In males the gonads, or testes, are located in the scrotum. They secrete hormones called androgens, the most important of which is testosterone. These hormones tell a boy's body when it's time to make the changes associated with puberty, like penis and height growth, deepening voice, and growth in facial and pubic hair. Working with hormones from the pituitary gland, testosterone also regulates the production of sperm in the testes. A woman's gonads, the ovaries, are located in her pelvis. They produce eggs and secrete the female hormones estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen levels determine when a girl begins puberty and also has an impact on breast growth and accumulation of pubescent body fat around the hips and thighs (often much to her horror!). Estrogen and progesterone are also involved in the regulation the menstrual cycle and fertility.

The endocrine system

Also, hormones related to our sexual organs play important roles. Testosterone is responsible for muscular strength. Female hormones allows us to feed our young and care for them for a protracted time.

Fertility Because the sacral center is related directly to reproduction it is literally the power to impregnate things with fertility. This can be specifically about the fertilization that will result in human life but most of the time this theme of procreation is much broader than simply making babies. For example the Channel of Mating (59-6) is a design of intimacy that of course can create a baby, but if you have this channel it doesn't guarantee you'll spend your life making babies. Having this channel actually has little bearing on how many children you will have. Nor does a defined or undefined sacral center determine how much sex you have in life. The fertility is a much broader theme that effects everything in life. It allows a new business partnership to flourish, it gives the lively buzz to a diner party, or it simply provides an energy of abundance to your day to day life. The fertility of the sacral is the ability to create the energy you need to live. Without our ovaries and testes we would not reproduce and die out. Without our sacral center we would stop generating life force and we would also die. Genetic Role Sacral Center has a quality that it shares only with the g center, namely they are the two centers that house the six role gates (can you remember them?). In terms of the role of the Self, we have four gates in the g center - The three Sphinx gates that bring out roles of direction (the 7th gate of a logical role of Leadership, the 13th gate of an abstract role of being a Witness, the 1st gate of the individual role of being an Example), and the one gate from the Cross of the Vessel of Love (the 10th gate of the role of Behavior in the World). These are about how we move through the world in our body as unique vehicles separate from each other. In the Sacral Center we have the other two role gates, but these are not roles of the Self in the world but rather they are genetic roles: the 59th gate generates who we bond and mate with, and the 27th generates how we take care of that bonding. Thus the sacral center determines the basic roles for the foundation of our communities, influencing the quality of our sexual relationships and the nature of why and how we bond with others. The Only Type Center The sacral center is the only center in the whole chart that is tied to a Type. The generator and the sacral center are one and the same. Since 70% of people have a defined sacral, you can automatically deduce that 70% of the world are also generators. This is a special relationship. It is further evidence of the importance of the sacral center. Most of us are here to generate life. Most of us are only here to find power through response. Sacral Voice The sacral center is similar to the throat in that it has it's own voice. The sacral voice is the "Uh-uh", the "Mmmm", the "Arrgg!", and the "Hmm..". The sounds are very primal and don't give much room for explanation. People are afraid sometimes to use them because they are so crude. If your partner asks you if you love them and you respond from your sacral, "Uh-Uh" (no), it is brutal. There is no beating around the bush. It is not mental so there is no room for reason or intellectualization. The mind can say all sorts of crap like, "How can I love you if I don't know what love is."

But not the sacral voice. It is a trinary of yes or no and there is no explanation. Often a generator will respond with the sacral and then people will go, "But why? Explain yourself. That doesn't make sense." If the generator falls into the trap of trying to explain themselves they will do it from the mind and who knows what will come out. It won't be the sacral truth. Sometimes there is no response, either with the sacral voice or otherwise. This is because the sacral is not ready. It is simply a time to wait. Energy Vortex If you look at the gates in the wheel you can see that the sacral gates form a loose triangle. This is an energy vortex. If you could really see the nature of the sacral center you would see a vortex field of energy that forms a spiral. Within the center you also have a powerful merging of energies within the circuits. So you have the connection between the 9 and the 5, and you have the connection between the 29 and the 42, and the direct connection between the 14 and the 3. There's also a movement across between the 27 and the 59, and the 34 comes in too. This creates a powerful vortex of energy the literally vibrates from the moment a generator is born until their last breath. Likewise, this is the vortex that all nongenerators are surrounded by and conditioned to be. It is a deep pull and if they do not live their strategy they will get into situations where the energy burns them up. It is like putting rocket fuel into a moped. It goes really fast, but eventually the cylinder (throat center) burns out. Conclusion The sacral center can't be discussed without tying it in to the generator. It is a generator world because so many people have a defined sacral center. The sacral is similar to the throat in that it has it's own voice. The Sacral Center is a center of availability. Each gate carries a theme of availability except for the 34th Gate, which is the gate that is busy sampling what the other sacral gates are available to. Each of the 8 gates responds to a basic need of the homo-sapiens for survival and evolution. It starts with us being available to pro-creation and nurturing (59th and 27th gates) and goes out from the tribe into the collective via the format gates and the tantric gates. Our response is our selectivity. It is an economical quality. It doesn't’t have us squander any energy, except for what we have availability and capacity to respond to. The sacral is powerful. Enough said.

Root Center Defined: 68% Undefined: 32% Biological correlation: adrenaline gland Type of Center: motor, pressure Function: pressure, drive, stress, kundalini Defined: is here to have a consistent internal way of processing pressure. is not here to let others pressure them into anything. Open: can allow themselves to be conditioned by other people's pressure but need to be very careful that they follow their strategy to get the correct pressure. Not Self Strategy of defined root : is hard on others who can't deal with stress, puts others under unnecessary stress. Not Self Strategy of open root : lets stress rule their life, either by being addicted to the adrenaline rush or by constantly shying away from it and working hard to get rid of it (usually in a state of stress!).

Adrenal Gland The adrenal, or suprarenal, gland is paired with one gland located near the upper portion of each kidney. Each gland is divided into an outer cortex and an inner medulla. The cortex and medulla of the adrenal gland, like the anterior and posterior lobes of the pituitary, develop from different embryonic tissues and secrete different hormones. The adrenal cortex is essential to life, but the medulla may be removed with no life-threatening effects (that we know of). The outer part, the adrenal cortex, produces several steroid hormones that can be categorized into three classes: mineralocorticoids , glucocorticoids, and sex hormones. The first maintain electrolyte balance, i.e. salt and water levels in the body (this is why you pee your pants when scared!). The second produce a long-term, slow response to stress by raising blood glucose levels through the breakdown of fats and proteins; they also suppress the immune response and inhibit the inflammatory response. Basically, glucocorticoids regulate the body's response to stress, metabolism, and the immune system. Finally, the sex hormones, well, they increase your chances of having sex! These hormones are secreted by the innermost region in both sexes by the adrenal cortex, but their effect is usually masked by the hormones from the testes and ovaries. In females, the masculinization effect of androgen secretion may become evident after menopause, when estrogen levels from the ovaries decrease. The inner part, the adrenal medulla, produces catecholamines, such as the well known adrenaline (a.k.a. epinephrine). Adrenaline increases blood pressure and heart rate when the body experiences stress.

Fight or Flight Stimulation of the cortex by the sympathetic nervous system causes release of hormones into the blood to initiate the "fight or flight" response. This is most familiar aspect of the adrenal glands. Imagine you are walking in the forest and a large bear pops out from behind a bush. Your eyes perceive the image of the bear; your brain integrates the information and decodes the image BEAR! Immediately your sympathetic nervous system, in response to the information that a BBEAR!! is standing in front of you sends a message to the adrenal medulla; the adrenal medulla releases adrenaline into the blood. This hormone has a number of target organs. It causes your gut musculature to stop peristalsis; your pupils to dilate; your circulatory system to start sending plenty of oxygenated blood to your limbs. Thus, when you turn and run as fast as you can away from that B-B-BEAR!!! you are putting maximum effort into the escape. (Good luck!) This process is very useful in short bursts to remove you from immediate danger. But increased levels of stress over long periods of time can be harmful because of the extra work this heightened state puts on the body.

"Aarrr!!"

Remember the Pressure Sandwich? In the section on the head center we talk about mental pressure. Now we are looking at the other side: physical pressure. This is yet another duality of being alive. The human body is where the duality comes to meet. In this case the duality is between two pressures, and that's what keeps us moving along. This pressure sandwich is a stress-anxiety sandwich, stress from below and anxiety from above. We are never free of these two centers of pressure, but don't forget we are designed to be between them. The other thing to notice is that it is designed to pass. As you can see in the mechanic of the adrenal glands the pressure is not designed to constantly be there. Otherwise we would simply burn out. This means it's just passing through, both from above and below. Stress is part of us and it is very useful to push us to the next stage, but it is not something that belongs to us technically - it's just a temporary state. To understand this is very important. It means that all stress in your life will never last forever. It is not designed to. The person with the open root center can easily forget this. And then they stress themselves out trying to get rid of the stress! The mantra of the open root is "Are you in a hurry to be free of the stress?" The open root center thinks that if they don't do something to get rid of it then it will never leave. Instead they should remain aware of the pressure and even use positively, but never let it control them. And even if you have a defined you, if you are not living your strategy you are always taking on stress that is not right for you.

If you don't interfere with it, it isn't going to disturb you. Stress and anxiety are not bad. They are essential fuels for our whole living process. The things we don't like the most - fear, stress, pain - this is what makes us human. It's what drives our consciousness and body. The mental anxiety is not bad nor is it good, it's both - always. It's just another this and that, but it's a fuel for awareness. Likewise, stress is not good or bad, it is simply a pressure. That pressure can make you jump to it when needed or it can stop you from ever feeling relaxed. The difference is in how we are interact with it. If you don't hold onto it ("I'm so stressed out, I need to finish this report or the world will end..." vs. "I'm following my strategy and that's that") then it has a very useful place in our lives. The Caffeine of Life The Root Centrex is a big time motor with one and only purpose: to pump out stress (the adrenaline gland literally produces stress hormones). And these get pumped up to three places: Spleen, Sacral, and Solar Plexus. We can easily see the correlation with the three types of hormones discussed above: mineralocorticoids (water regulation - solar plex) glucocorticoids (immune system - spleen) sex hormones (kundalini - sacral) Clearly the Root Centrex has an extraordinary impact as a fueling station for these processes. And they're all fueled with stress energy. This is where the juice is for our health (spleen), our sex (sacral) and our emotions (stored in our body's water). The root center is like caffeine. It can get you going in the morning, but it can also be Too much adrenaline or caffeine addictive and destabilizing if abused. can really rub you the wrong way. Format Energies The format energies are the three channels connecting the root to the sacral. They are very powerful. The mere fact that they are connecting to motors makes this easy to see. Any time there is a format channel in a person's chart, that energy will govern the frequency that person has. Even if you see a gate activated in the format structure, you know that this aspect is going to strongly affect the energy of the whole being. These three different energy formats represent the three different ways in which we operate in the world as energy systems. Format Frequencies Collective cyclical channel of Maturation (53-42) Individual pulsating channel of Mutation (3-60) Collective focused channel of Concentration (9-52) Every gate out of the Root Centrex can be a place for depression, just like one of the major side effects of stress is depression. This is especially true for the format energies, the three channels going from the root to the sacral. These are three archetypes of potential depression. This is a physical phenomena, so the depression is deeply rooted in the body (lethargy, low sex drive, body weight, sickness), although of course it effects the mind too. Therefore, the formats are the three different ways in which stress and the resulting depression operates.

Both pressure centers (head, root) work the same way: they have two collective gates and one individual gate that connects them to another center. The two pressure centers are linked to each other through the column that passes through the centrex of the body. Therefore, any activation in the formats has a connection to the mental process. This is partly why depression can happen so easily.

Live the Pressure Correctly The trick with the root center is to understand what kinds of pressures you are built to deal with. The gates and channels defined in a root center will determine the pressure themes. They can be a positive aspect of your life or the cause of stress and depression. For example, somebody with the 53rd gate is under great pressure to start things. The stress in their life revolves around what they start, don't start, how it is started etc. These people need variety, they need to feel like they are starting things that lead to maturation. ANd if that doesn't happen because they can't start anything or it starts wrong, then they can get depressed. Of course the only way they will start anything correctly is by living their strategy. All the open channels and gates (and even the open center) is a place where the stress of the world can get to you. If you don;t live your strategy you will attempt to deal with the stress in unhealthy ways. You might try to get it over and done with (in a stressful way). You might drug yourself up with coffee to keep up, or drug yourself down with alcohol to artificially reduce the feeling of stress. There are many ways that aren't healthy. There is nothing wrong with the coffee or alcohol, but it needs to be in accordance with the strategy.

Conclusion The root center is very much about speed. Of course your type, authority and definition plays a large part in how fast you move. A triple split emotional projector should work slower than a single definition splenic manifestor. But the root center will have an impact on how much pressure they are under to get something done. If you have a defined root center then the pressure is consistent and thus your speed at getting things done will be more consistent. If you have an open root center then the pressure is inconsistent and therefore you won't always feel the same pressure to do something. Of course life is full of different levels of external pressure. The pressure to change a baby's diapers is different than the pressure to get a new pair of shoes. But internally, the defined root center will have a less erratic pressure field. The open root center in general will feel under more pressure, especially if they are not aware of the ability for the open root to take on the pressure conditioning from others. In general, the defined root is designed to deal with more pressure than the undefined root. But in the end it always comes down to living your strategy, which will always give the right amount of pressure for your design.

Splenic Center Defined: 53% Undefined: 47% Biological correlation: lymphatic system, spleen, B-Cells Type of Center: awareness Function: body consciousness, intuition, instinct, taste, survival, fears about survival that keep us healthy. Defined: fixed way of body consciousness to stay healthy, can be spontaneous, can trust gut feeling, gives sense of well-being (“feel-good”) to others, fixed way of processing fear, leads to a sense of security. best treated with allopathic medicine (conventional western medicine). Open: open to unspecific fears that can result in not feeling good, can become addicted to the “feel good” that others may bring; the fear is never theirs - it comes from outside. Spontaneity can kill them, must pay attention to health, must give the immune system a chance to learn, can be a wonderful diagnosis tool because it picks up on disease patterns of others, as long as it learns not to hold on to them (makes a great doctor but a terrible nurse). best treated with alternative (non chemical) medicine. Not Self Strategy of defined spleen : ignore their instincts in the moment, let their mind or other people's emotions overwhelm their instincts. Not Self Strategy of open spleen : are you still holding on to things that are not good for you? Can become dependent on relationships or habits to get the feel good splenic connection.

The Body's First Line of Defense The elements of the immune system, called Lymphatics, are positioned throughout the body as organs, ducts, vessels and nodes (interestingly, the only place they aren't found is in the central nervous system, which relates to the solar plexus). 28% of all the cells in the body are lymphatic! The major parts of the lymphatic system are the bone marrow, spleen, thymus gland, lymph nodes, and the tonsils. Other organs, including the heart, lungs, intestines, liver, and skin also contain lymphatic tissue.

Lymphatic vessels form a circulatory system that operates in close partnership with blood circulation. The lymphatic system circulates a watery clear fluid called lymph. This fluid distributes immune cells through the body. The word "lymph" in Greek means a pure, clear stream - an appropriate description considering its appearance and purpose.

While the lymph nodes filter the lymph, the spleen, at the upper left of the abdomen, filters blood. Together they create a constant screening network that few harmful foreign microbes can escape.

Killer Cells The two major classes of lymphatic immune cells are B cells which grow to maturity in the bone marrow, and T cells which mature in the thymus (see the 26th gate in the ego section for info on the thymus and T cells). B cells create constantly evolving antibodies to fight against the onslaught of external threats. The process is one of ongoing mutation and requires extreme vigilance by the immune system. These antibodies circulate in the blood and lymph streams, attaching to foreign antigens and thus marking them for destruction by other immune cells, especially the deadly Tcells. The Health Center - working 24/7 Organs and tissues of the immune The splenic center is what literally keeps us from being eaten system dot the body in a protective up by the millions of harmful bacteria, fungus, and microbes network. floating around. The spleen is the body's washing machine and watch dog combined. The effectiveness of keeping harmful microbes out is based on how aware the spleen can remain. If it misses a second, it opens the door for millions of harmful elements to take hold of the body. That is why the spleen is an existential awareness - awareness in the now. It is crucial for a person with splenic authority to trust their instincts in the now; it is the healthiest thing they could do. In fact, it is the only thing that keeps them alive. When a splenic person ignores their instincts (usually by listening to the mind or emotions) they are telling their spleen to stop doing it's job. What is healthy for us may not make sense intellectually or can cause emotional conflict. Take for example an animal right activist whose instincts tell them to start eating meat. Do they trust their instincts or stick to what they think and feel is right? If they have splenic authority and want to remain healthy the answer is a big fat steak, medium rare! Splenic authority needs to be honored no matter what! If you are B cells become plasma cells, splenic you need to accept that right now. And now. And now, and which produce antibodies when a now... foreign antigen triggers the immune response. Fear Every gate in the spleen is associated with a specific fear. A defined spleen is attuned to all of the fears of each splenic gate, with the gates of the defined channel(s) being the most dominant. Also, all the fears are basically a fear of not surviving. The fears by gate are: 50 48 57 44 32

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Fear Fear Fear Fear Fear

of of of of of

Responsibility Inadequacy the Future the Past Failure

28 – Fear of Death, risk taking 18 – Fear of Authority 50th and 6th Gates

Defined/Undefined A person with a defined splenic center is not healthier than an undefined splenic center. As we have seen with the other centers, your health can be impacted by many things and in many areas, regardless of definition. It is all about following strategy and authority. Defined or not, the spleen keeps all the other centers healthy and free of harmful external elements. If it is undefined it might do it less regularly, but it will still do it as much as you need. Of course, living your strategy is the deciding factor. What can happen to somebody with an undefined spleen is that they might come into contact with a defined spleen and all of a sudden feel a little sick. The undefined spleen's washing machine gets turned on and the body starts it's cleansing process, which initially might release the dirt from the cells into the lymphatic system, much like dirt from clothes going into the water. Likewise, the undefined spleen might pick up the aspects of the other person that are not healthy, which could also make them mirror the symptoms. The open spleen can be wise in this way. Splenic Gates in the wheel

Design of Forms Two Healers - Both Splenicly Aware All living organisms beyond the single cell have In terms of the splenic awareness, lets look at it a splenic awareness (no ajna or solar plexus) through examples of two kinds of healers. First are the open spleen people who instinctually channel what is wrong with you by taking it in themselves. They are intuitive healers who use their open spleen to take in illness and learn about it. They often have a large repertoire of healing modes depending on the need. Holistic healing works in this way. This is like a person with an open ajna being able to read your mind or take in many different ways of thinking. The second type is the defined spleen. They also use their instincts but instead of being open to your illness, their style is to push their health onto you. As long as they are healthy this works. Traditional western medicine works in this defined spleen way but it is not limited to this. A holistic healer with a defined spleen could channel their own health into the other person. How they do that practically varies greatly. This is similar to the defined ego that boosts other people's ego. On the patient side, open spleen people can use homeopathic and holistic forms of medicine more effectively because of their sensitivity. Defined spleens might need something more powerful. If you have a defined spleen, you have a strong immune system that's working, provided you live your strategy. The moment that illness really comes to the surface, your immune system is already overloaded. These are people who carry things around inside of them for a long time before it comes to the surface. And when it does it hits hard. Also, the child with the open spleen needs more time to recover from minor colds etc if they are to be become healthy adults. Children with defined spleens can get very ill quickly or run very high temperatures, scaring the hell out of their parents. Of course, they recover quicker too.

Hooked on Feeling Good If you've got an undefined splenic system you don't have an internal feel good mechanism that is consistent. Since the 'feel-good' hormones are pumped by the defined spleen, there's this sense of not quite feeling right when the spleen is not activated. The lymph fluid isn't draining consistently and thus you feel more prone to threats. There are many fears connected to the spleen because of this instinctual awareness of ill health possibilities. With the open spleen, because you don't feel good you're a sucker for anybody that's going to hook up your splenic system. Undefined splenic people should not get lost in the need to have their spleen connected, despite the temptations. That knee-jerk need for the feel-good is dangerous unless they're really aware.

Who you take in in your life is dependent on where your authority is, not dependent on how you connect mechanically to someone. In order to accept somebody in your life there is a place of authority within you that says that this is correct or not - that's the criterion - not simply getting the definition. For the open spleen there will be a mechanical attraction to the defined spleen regardless of whether that person is good for you. Living your strategy will guide the mechanics, not the other way around. Three Awareness Centers The spleen (awareness in the now) can be overpowered by the mind (awareness over all time). The mind in turn can be overpowered by the solar plexus (awareness in a wave)

Solar Plexus Center Defined: 50% Undefined: 50% Biological correlation: kidney, prostate, pancreas, complex neuron network of the solar plexus, nervous system, lungs Type of Center: motor, awareness Function: seeing our fears through nervousness, experiencing the gamut of emotions: moods, desires, sensitivity. Defined: no truth in the now, spontaneity can kill you, clarity comes over time, waiting out the wave is always the inner authority, the emotional wave is part of your life you can never get rid of it. Depth and perspective as qualities of emotional wisdom. Open: avoids conflict, ‚don’t rock the boat’, tries to lead a ‘secret life’, takes in lots of emotions until it bursts, empathic, avoids all emotional decisions, emotions always are conditioned by its surroundings, doesn’t identify with the emotions, can be a loose cannon, lies to itself about its secret life, seeks the high end of the wave and avoids the low. Defined Not Self Strategy: try to live in the moment and ignore their emotions over time, let their mind or other people's emotions overwhelm their own emotions. Undefined Not Self Strategy: Are you still doing whatever it takes to avoid truth

and confrontation?

Second Brain There is a vast network of nerves surrounding the esophagus, stomach and intestines of such complexity that it is called the "second brain." It's real name is the enteric nervous system and it has more neurotransmitters than anywhere else in the entire nervous system. Very little is know about this area, but what was once dismissed as a simple collection of relay ganglia, scientists now recognize it as independent of the brain proper--i.e., having a mind of its own. The enteric brain expresses itself nonverbally in visible "gut reactions." The "full" feeling of satisfaction, the "sick" feeling of nausea, the urge to vomit, and abdominal pain. It is the central hub of the solar plexus center around which the other solar plexus elements (kidney, prostate etc) are coordinated.

Without the solar plexus we wouldn't feel a thing.

Central Nervous System The central nervous system runs through the brain, spinal cord, and an enormous network of nerves throughout the body, especially right under the skin. It's the control center for the entire body. The body uses information it receives from nerves to

coordinate all actions and reactions. The nervous system is made up of thin threads of nerve cells, called neurons, that carry messages back and forth, similar to telephone wires. Humans have about 100 billion neurons in their brain alone. Sensory nerves send messages to the brain through the spinal cord in the backbone, motor nerves carry messages from the brain to the muscles and glands. Central Nervous System When a neuron is stimulated -- by heat, cold, touch, sound vibrations or some other message -- it generates an electrical pulse that travels the full length of the neuron. When it gets to the end of finger-like points at the end of the neuron, the electrical pulse triggers the release of chemicals that carry the pulse to the next cell. And so on and so on and so on. The chemical trigger is one of the reasons why the solar plexus is such a biochemical entity, going up and down in it's wave, not for any particular reason but merely due to the body's chemicals.

Prostate Located in the male pelvis the prostate belongs to the endocrine system. It has thousands of tiny fluidproducing glands that secrete prostatic fluid, the main component of semen. Just like prostatic fluid carries the sperm cells in semen, the solar plexus envelops the fertility of the sacral center. If you are an emotionally defined generator, you respond with the sacral center but it has to be carried along by the emotional process. The response and emotional experience flow together. Some sources say that prostate cancer kills more men than any other malignancy. This rise in prostate cancer is relatively recent, and in Design terms is an indication of the mutation the that solar plexus is undergoing in the Unlike the Spleen and Ajna, the Solar 55th gate via the amino acid Histidine. Autism in children Plexus is not a fully developed awareness. is also another indication of this mutation. It is still undergoing mutation, much like a caterpillar coming out of it's cocoon. It's Pancreas final stage is still unknown to us. The pancreas produces enzymes that break down food and secretes hormones that affect carbohydrate metabolism. The emotional process is very connected to our eating. When not following your strategy this can create stomach problems and eating disorders Kidney and Lung The kidneys and lung both cleanse the body. The kidneys cleanse the blood, turning impurities into urine. The lungs take in clean oxygen and expel carbon dioxide. One of the best ways to eradicate negative emotions is through correct breathing.

Biology and Emotions The basic task of the solar plexus to help detoxify the body with its motor capacity. It moves everything along so that is is processed correctly and the waste is passed outside the body. The solar plexus processes and discards three main elements: solid mater via intestines (channel 41-30) fluid via kidneys (channel 19-49) gases via the lungs (39-55) The word emotion (e-motion) means to move things forward so they can be eliminated in the end. If the motor for some reason is not allowed to run this way it no longer gets things out and the waste builds up in the body. A defined solar plexus center processes these elements more regularly than an undefined solar plexus. The open solar plexus might not always have access to the motor's energy, but if they live their strategy they will be able to process it eventually. This concept of the emotions as a forward moving motor is important. If you are not able to let go of the past due to some emotional block, the solar plexus motor can not do it's job correctly. Things get blocked and your system becomes toxic.

If a person, regardless of solar plexus definition, stores or remains focused on old anger, grief, shame, feelings of guilt etc. over a long time then the emotion does not move forward but rather inward (in-moting). If they don't spit out, breathe out, defecate, pee, sweat, or release the negative emotions via tears then they do not allow the emotions to be moved forward in their process. This damages the organs involved and results in illness such as asthma, stomach ulcers, stones in the kidneys, gas in the guts and so on. An emotionally defined person needs to process their own emotions correctly, by neither venting them too quickly or keeping them in too long. A person with an undefined solar plexus needs to be aware of the emotions around them so that they don't get trapped in an emotional process that is not theirs. Half the population on earth has a defined solar plexus and goes up and down in an emotional wave. The other half of the world, with their open solar plexus, simply amplify this wave because they don't understand the mechanics! And they are driven blindly by these forces. The open solar plexus people usually end up doing two general things: 1. They do whatever they can to avoid the emotional wave. This means not speaking what they really think or avoiding dealing with a situation that could cause an emotional reaction. It leads to all sorts of compromise, miscommunication and eventually leads to even more emotional problems. As we saw above, to avoid emotions can cause blockage of the body. 2. They amplify the emotional wave from the people around them. This results in emotional outbursts and issues. But the emotions aren't theirs. It is like taking somebody else's medicine. Not a good idea. Usually the open emotional people bounce between these two extremes. The clear open solar plexus person is able to feel the emotions within them and be able to see who is giving them those emotions. They do not run away from the emotions, nor do they let the emotions push them into making decisions or saying things. They simply watch and share what the other person is feeling, giving them the time and space to ride through the whole wave. This is compassion. The defined solar plexus people tend to live in a world of shame and blame. They are ashamed of their emotional outbursts and they blame others for their emotions. "It's your fault I'm sad." When ashamed, they try to hold their emotions in and stifle the feelings, resulting in health issues. The emotions usually come out anyway but in a more distorted and destructive way. Or the defined solar plexus person acts immediately on the first feeling that hits them. This spontaneous action creates emotional chaos when the feeling moves into another point in the wave. If they are happy they marry you, if they are sad they diverse you.

A Wave The emotional center goes up and down in a biochemical wave. This wave can be a few seconds long or several years. A defined solar plexus will have millions of waves intertwined. Each circuit has a distinct wave style. The three streams are the tribal, individual and collective, with the keynotes Need/Passion/Desire respectively. Furthermore, each channel has minor emotional keynotes: Tribal: 59/6 IDLE/STALL 19/49 NEED

49/37 RACHET/SNAP Individual: 12/22 PASSION 55/39 SPIKE/LOCK Collective: 30/36 DESIRE 30/36 CRASH/EXPLODE

Tribal The tribal wave slowly builds and crashes quickly . Imagine a family that works hard to build a good life. Things are going good, life is getting better. And then one day somebody is hit by a car. From one moment to the next the emotions crash. The tribal emotional keynote is Need. The most basic theme underlying need is sensitivity (19-49). These are the most most sensitive or insensitive or oversensitive beings beings on the planet. Their sensitivity builds slowly, but can plummet very quickly and they become insensitive to your needs, for example. The (49/37) is the ratchet/snap wave. Ratcheting is two steps forward and one step back. Like a car stuck in snow or ditch, rocking back and forth to build momentum to get out of the spot. If you say something they feel is insensitive you may not get a reaction in the moment. It takes time to build, to ratchet up to a point of snapping. They take it in and sit with it but inside it is building up, and then with no real event of consequence, maybe a slight transgression or look, they snap. Their emotions explode. The 59/6, although tribal, is an exception. It works as an idle/stall stall energy. In this case the crash is a stall. For example, since this is the channel of intimacy, stalling creates the pleasure of orgasm. It is the reopening and the returning on of the motor that floods the being with pleasure after a slow build up to climax. This channel is an exception becuase the 6th gate actually embodies all three of the other wave energies. Individual The individual (55/22) passion is vastly different from need. Need is need in the basic sense. If you want to see what human being really need in this life then go to the source of need (19) and you’ll see

the need for proper resources, shelter, god, food, and partner is all there. If you do not have this it immediately creates problems in the tribe. But passion is not about need. Passion is rubbing two sticks together and building a fire that’s so hot, it cracks the rocks underneath. Passion does not burn like an immediate fire like desire. Passion often starts very cool. This is a channel of emoting and putting the emotion out. The 39-55 is born theatrics like Marlon Brando. It is about getting the emotions out. The wave of the individual is spike/lock. It is difficult to read the emotional quality of the individual. Almost all are operating in a lock state. The nature of where that lock is goes back to the very beginning of their process in this life. Individuals don’t really wave, they spike and when they spike, they lock. If a 39-55 child has a traumatic experience when they are young they can end up with a locked frequency at a certain level and may stay slightly below or above this level that is considered a norm and it is very hard to read them. The passion and its connection to the lock are at the very mystery of romantic love. The passion can build to such a point that one is locked into that passion. This is where you have the tradition of unrequited love. You spend a lifetime enthralled and adoring somebody you can never have and yet not feeling unfulfilled. When you are dealing with individuality and mutation, there is a deep potential for depression. This is a deeply creative process leading up to the 12th gate. It is possible for individuals to be locked into deep spikes and never recover. There are many examples of creative beings who get locked into deep melancholies and depressions. Collective Desire (30/36) is not passion and doesn’t have a chance to grow. Desire must never be confused with need. It is one of the mysteries of the human experiential way that beneath the motor there is no consciousness. It is just a motor and part of the magnificence of the choicelessness of being. The collective way shows us that we have no choice but to go from inexperience to experience, driven by desire. There is no choice at all. What is so dynamic in the nature of desire is that this is the crash and explode wave. There is nothing like the explosion at the end of a crash wave. Not all of this has to be so dramatic. Many emotional beings regardless of their level of awareness begin to recognize the impact of their emotional field one way or the other. Many of these beings feel guilty for being emotional. The solar plexus center is one of the great binaries. It has horror and the absolute of the pleasure that it can bring. Unfortunately there is so much not-self emotional, no truth in the now blundering on the planet and we all have to live with the aftermath of it. The process of desire is never about satisfaction. It can never be satisfied. Satisfaction is logical. It’s in the 18-58. You can never be satisfied if you are ruled by desire. It can only bring you more desire. Without it we would still be hunter/gathers. The desire drives us forward at a great pace.

Emotional Mastery There is no way to master your emotional system. It is much more powerful then you are. You can’t make it do what you want. It is fun to look at all this stuff and understand how it works. This doesn’t mean you can change it. The point is to be clear, both for defined (clear of their own emotions) and undefined (clear of the emotions of others). Those that have gone through a seven year de-conditioning process have a level of smoothness in the vibration of the wave they put out into the consciousness field. An open emotional being encountering this wave recognizes this is a wave that doesn’t have to be avoided. It doesn’t trigger that. It is

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where every emotional being has a right to be. Emotional beings are here to know the pain and pleasure of need, passion and desire. To be correct when you ratchet, snap, spike, lock, crash and explode. Then it’s not just right for the individual, but for all those that have to deal with that being. Emotional beings are told in any analysis of their design to only trust what you feel. It is important to recognize that the awake emotional being transforms the planet we live on and changes the frequency. Half the generators are emotional. This is the emotionalization of frustration. It is a thick soup that we can barely get through. All you can do is follow your line of geometry and see where it takes you. It’s one by one. One emotional person at a time coming to grips with what it means to be an emotional being. This is an enormous transformation that is not selfish because every emotional being that transforms themselves transforms a piece of the environment. Anyone that comes into their aura is affected. All it takes is a slow acceptance of the time it takes for de-conditioning. It's Time Emotional beings have a problem with time. They fear they are going to miss something. It’s not that they are thinking this; it’s the pressure they feel from the motor. It wants to release. The magic for anyone that is emotional is if you are acting correctly, slowly but surely your emotional system will begin to get it. It begins to see the advantages. Emotional beings have a different type of potential awareness then anyone else because of the nature of the frequency. A splenic being grasps everything in the moment. A mental being is stuck with everything forever. The emotional person goes through the wave process. The focus remains the same, but the focus goes through a complete spectrum and nobody grasps circumstances and the other better than an emotional being. It is what they are made for if they wait. Communication and Awareness The emotional system has the ability to communicate on a deep level. We are not at that point of solar plexus development just yet. We feel emotions from others but it is still a fuzzy communication. The rave children who will be born after and around the year 2027 will literally be able to communicate through the solar plexus.

Any emotional being moving through the spectrum with the same focus can grasp things at a profound level that may not be able to be articulated as a concept (yet). But that understanding is still powerful. They don't sense the spontaneity of a splenic hunch, which can also be gone in an instant. It is a depth of feeling unlike any other quality that human beings can have. It is profound clarity. The magic of clarity is the joke. Clarity is not the same as the truth and clarity can never be 100%. It can only be 99% clear. The magic of emotional awareness and the potential of spirit consciousness is to understand that there is a potential at any moment for the game to change entirely. With the emotional process you can't be 100% sure of anything since the wave is a moving energy. When an emotionally defined person to understands this and lives it, they are truly powerful, deep beings. The people with open solar plexus can partake in that depth if they also understand the emotional mechanic and where it is coming from.

Not Self Open Centers All centers, defined or not defined, have not self strategies that are the result of us not understanding the mechanics. A person with with splenic authority has a defined spleen and is designed to be spontaneous. Their not self, however, is always punishing themselves for their inability to make plans in the future, all the while ignoring their instincts in the now. The open centers have very powerful not self energies that can destabilize us and make us unhappy. This audio will cover the not self elements of open centers, focusing on the specific insecurities of each open center. Below you can see the questions to ask yourself. They address the core issues that the not self open centers face. A good exercise is to try living the extremes of these to see how it effects you. For example, if you have an open solar plexus, watch what happens when you avoid all truth and confrontation. Then try the other way: watch what happens when you face all truth and confrontation. It helps to find the balance and dispel fears. An example of splenic authority:

Questions for Your Undefined Centers

Open Head Center Are you still trying to answer everybody else’s questions? Open Ajna Center Are you still trying to convince everyone that you’re certain? Open Throat Center Are you still trying to attract attention? Open G Center Are you still seeking love – are you still seeking direction? (i.e. or the ‘right’ person, the ‘right’ place?) Open Ego Center Do you still have something to prove? (i.e. are you smart enough, successful, sexy, etc.) Open Solar Plexus Center Are you still avoiding confrontation and truth? Open Sacral Center Do you know when enough is enough? Open Splenic Center Are you still holding on to what’s not good for you? (i.e. relationships, jobs, places) Open Root Center Are you still in a hurry to be free (of the pressure)?

Definition Definition Bedrock People don't often step back and look at the importance of definition. It is like air or water. We just take it for granted. But without definition we would not exist. It is the bedrock of self reflective consciousness. It is the foundation of a reading in terms of the Four Views Definition, Type, Authority, Profile. Without definition you can't know Type or Authority. It is definition that differentiates us from the totality. All the defined lines, gates, channels and centers in your chart is what makes you different from the guy next door. And don't forget that under the lines in your chart is Color. Under color is Tone, and under tone is Base. The variations of differentiation are enormous. When you look at what is defined you are seeing what makes you stand out from the crowd. It is fixed, consistent and will forever by YOU. Trust it, get to know it, and hopefully love it - not because it is good or bad since it will be both, but because it is what makes you special. We are all pieces of crystal from a very large crystal that shattered a long time ago. Nobody in the world has your crystal. You are like a diamond that can't be reproduced. And the place you occupy in the world can't be occupied by any other shaped diamond. Definition is really where we can find something consistent to love.

Each gate has many variations that show how very unique and fixed we all are.

Nature vs. Nurture Did you ever see the movie "Trading Places"? Two rich old men disagree over whether human behavior is the result of environment (nurture) or genetics (nature). So the two men make a bet. They take a successful white guy (Dan Aykroyd) and reduce him to poverty. They take a poor black guy (Eddie Murphy) and make him very successful. The old man who thinks human behavior is based on nature bets that Aykroyd's character will break out of poverty and Murphy's character will screw everything up, thus proving that a person's character (winner - Aykroyd, crook Murphy) is genetic. The other old man thinks human behavior is based on nurture and bets that Aykroyd's character will be influenced by his new surroundings and remain poor, while Murphy's character will continue to be successful now that he has the conditioning of his new environment. What eventually happens is both Aykroyd's and Murphy's characters realize they are being screwed around. They fight back and the movie ends with both characters chilling on a tropical island with lots of money and happiness. The Moral of the Story: It's ok to screw other people if they screwed you first! No seriously, from the Design perspective the moral of the story is that it is neither nature nor nurture but rather we are all moving along our own individual path and nobody has any control over that. There really is no choice. But more importantly for this section, we see in the movie that you really can't isolate nature from nurture.

Nature AND Nurture Sociologists have argued for centuries the importance of environment vs. genetics. Is it nature or nurture that allows some people to succeed while others fail? Are we born criminals or does the neighborhood you grow up in make us criminals. If your parents went to college the chances are exponentially higher that you will too compared to a person who's parents didn't go to college. Is this fact an example of brains or parental support? In Design this is not an issue. Just take one look at a chart. The defined elements are your nature and the undefined elements are your nurture. Both play a part. Case closed. Everything that is defined in your chart is inherited from your parents and entire ancestry. This is the energy you put out in the world. Because your ancestry is many thousands of years old, it is not possible to conclude that one family is dumber than another genetically by simply looking at how many people in a family went to college. You'd have to look back thousands of years for it to really be an accurate conclusion. And if you did look back that far you'd see the families are related anyway! Everything that is undefined in your chart is what you take in from the environment. This is where you get influenced by your friends. This is where you change (at least temporarily). Have you ever had a best friend who get's a girlfriend or boyfriend and they totally change? It feels like you've lost your friend. That is usually because the new girlfriend or boyfriend has something defined that is conditioning your best friend. We are a Synthesis Even thought the defined parts in your chart are you and the undefined are not you in the sense that you take in energy from others via the open places in your chart, keep in mind that who you are overall is a synthesis of both. You might have a defined throat and that certainly is who you are. And if you have an open root that is where you take in the "Not Self" stress of other people's root energy, i.e. you can be pulled away from the truth of your defined throat though stress. So in that sense, the open root can be who you are not because it is where elements that aren't you can be put inside you, like an open door for strangers. But that is definitely you. You would be a person who is vulnerable to external stress that pulls you away from the truth of your defined throat.

Five Main Definitions

Even though all things defined in your chart are called definition, there are generally five main categorizations of definition. They have to do with the channels and centers only. The five definitions are: Single, Split, Triple Split, Quadruple Split and No Definition. This relates to what centers are connected to each other. For example, you are a single split if all your defined centers are connected. You are a split definition if you have one set of defined centers that are connected but they are not connected to another set of centers.

Single - 41%

Split - 46%

Quadruple - >1%

Triple - 11%

None - >2%

Percentages Split definition is the most common definition, with 46% of the population. After that is single definition with 41%. Triple splits are a considerably smaller percentage of the population with 11%. People with no definition (reflectors) range at just below 2%. Quadruple split people are very rare, with less that 1% of the population.

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Single Definition At 41% of the population, single definitions are common. They have all their centers connected. These centers are communicating with each other without interruption. There is a self sufficiency in this process since they don't need any external influence to bridge any splits. Single definition people tend to process information faster. The other side of this is that single definition people might not need to go as deep into the information as another definition would. Of course things like whether the head center or solar plexus center are defined will influence how fast they process, but overall they do not have the same disjointed feeling that other definitions have. They are whole all the time. Because of this there is less reason for them to hook into other people. This on one hand allows for less co dependant behavior, but on the other that very lack of a hook can mean there is nowhere for others to fit in their lives.

A single definition:

Single Split Definition

A split is two groups of centers that are split off from each other, like the image to the left. The great push of a split definition person is to find people who join the split. Sometimes it is just one gate, other times one channel, or in the case of the image to the left it is two whole channels. All the splits share things in common. Single, triple or quad, they all have hooks. These hooks are the places where the splits can be joined. They are called hot spots. Each group of centers in a split chart is not always communicating to the other group(s). This causes a lack of inner communication. The chart to the left shows how the mind might be thinking one thing and the emotions feeling something completely different. It is like two people living in the same house who share different works schedules. Communication is spotty, which means things sometimes take longer to happen. Sometimes the split definition has to play phone tag with its various splits.

But just because splits (all splits - triple and quad too) might take longer to process something or "get it", it does not mean that once they get it they haven't digested it fully. In fact once they get it they have usually looked at it from more angles than the single definition person, resulting in a deeper understanding. For all splits, their focus is very much on finding people who join the split. This can cause problems. Ideally a split learns that it is ok to be split and that nothing needs to be fixed.

Triple Split Definition The triple split, even more than the single split, takes time to process things. There are three different areas that need to communicate before they feel whole. If triple and quads find one person who bridges the splits they can get dependant on that person and it can be unhealthy. The more splits you have the more chances that you will have friends who do not join all your splits. For example in the chart to the left, if they have a friend who bridges the mind to the throat then that relationship will be intellectual and splenic, but the triple split person will never have their emotions acknowledged. Likewise they might have another friend who joins the ego and the spleen, but the mind remains split. This is a more emotional relationship but not as intellectual. If the two friends were to describe the triple split they would describe a very different person, one intellectual, the other emotional. Just like their splits that are cut off, split definition people have cut off relationships that fulfil different aspects of their chart. In many ways that is better than finding one person who does it because it is easy to fall into power struggles. Of course it is all good if you live your strategy. Public Places Public places are very good for splits because they get the hook-up without being dependant on any one person. Triple and Quadruple splits are great group people. In the group they can constantly be joined and feel whole. Of course this can result in social burnout, so it is important for them not to get addicted to the group aura. A rest is good once in a while. They are splits and it is ok to be split.

A triple split definition:

Quadruple Split Definition Quads are very rare indeed, at less than 1% of the population. Like triple splits, quads have the rare position of being very fixed yet very fragile at the same time. They are fixed because they have so much definition. They are here to experience life on a very fixed path. They have no more than one open center, if that, so there is very little place for them to be open to the world. Their consistency can be great because you always know what you are getting. At the same time it can be maddening since they are so fixed in their way. Or it can be simply boring. They are what they are, and they can't do anything about it. If you like who they are, then you are in luck! It ain't changing much. However, they can be very fragile. There are four elements in them that don't always communicate. And it can be a while before all four parts are on the same page. This can lead to an inner feeling that there are many voices but they aren't in harmony. One is saying to turn left, the other right, and another up. The quad needs to be VERY patient with themselves. They are like the tortoise, slow and steady in their processing of things. If the A chart with a quadruple split triple split or the quad does not have the solar plexus defined and are splenic, they can trust their instincts in the now, but usually what happens is another part of their split chimes in a little later on and adds something valuable. Like an afterthought. So they have to play a little two step dance with themselves.

A quadruple split definition:

No Definition Reflectors, at just under 2% of the population, are rare. And they are very unusual. Unlike all the other types, called sun types, the reflector is called a moon type because of it's connection to the cycles of the moon. In terms of definition, the don't have any channels or centers so they work very differently. They are here to take things in. They are not here to be fixed, but rather are here to become their environment. That is why place is so important for them, like it is with anybody with open G centers. Turned On They do have characteristics via their gates, though. Every time their channel is defined by conditioning, which is all the time when they interact with people, the defined gates in their chart is "turned on", like lights on a christmas tree.

A Reflector Chart

This is something for everyone with an open center that has gates defined to understand because this "turning on" is not limited to reflectors. The gates in the open centers will dominate the energy of that center.

For example, the chart on the left has an open throat with the 33rd and 45th gate defined. Any time it is defined, their voice is colored by what they remember (33) and what they have (45). When their root is defined they can stress out about what they need (19) and whether they have the energy to correct (58). Example of hanging gates in undefined centers The 48th The 57th The 44th The 29th The 49th divorce).

gate is the fear of inadequacy. is the fear of tomorrow. gate is the fear of the past. gate is the impulse to say yes. gate is to accept or reject (marry or

These aspects get lit up when the center is defined.

Authority The term “Authority” is used to describe which aspect of a person’s design can be relied upon to consistently yield the ‘best’ experience as the result of a person’s decision. Authority always comes from a defined center in the bodygraph. As we shall see, only certain centers when defined become your authority. We all have to make decisions and we have many internal dynamics that compete to make them. We have highly developed brains that are the product not only of millennia of evolution but also, for most of us, many years of cultural immersion, peer group role modeling, and formal education. We make decisions based on past experience, future goals, current impulses, even based on the decisions of those with whom we are close (spouses, children, parents, friends, mentors). One of the most notable aspects of HD is the recognition that each person comes genetically wired with a decision making process that is “correct” for that person. This wiring is not simply a ‘separate’ dynamic, but one that is fully integrated with the whole state of being of the person. When we make decisions from this genetically wired “authority”, those decisions result in an experience that is “correct” in that the experience is ideally suited to be properly aligned with other dynamics (e.g. type, definition, profile). We may or may not “like” the results of the decision. We may interpret the resulting experience as comfortable or unpleasant, but regardless of our interpretation of the outcome, a decision properly made from our authority is one that overall will profit us the most in a whole sense.

In the subsequent sections we will look more closely at each authority and their connection to type, profile and circuitry. Before we go into those details however, it is important for you to understand that nobody can speak very reliably about any authority other than their own. We can learn what others think about the various authorities, we can listen to how others describe their experience of their own authority, but we can never directly experience any authority other than our own – and even that is a tenuous understanding at best. Keep in mind that the results of any decision can unfold over the course of many years – even an entire lifetime and none of us can ever know what the results would have been had we decided differently. This is one of the most onerous and perhaps tragic aspects of our existence. Our inability to know what would have happened if we had decided differently severely limits our ability to make well informed decisions. We are always “playing the odds”. When an analyst does a reading for a client it is important to help the client discover for themselves how to access their own authority. As an analyst it’s not your job to “make” the client see, understand or accept. That belongs to the client and they will come to it in their own way in their own time – or not. It’s not something to belabor in a reading, but something to gently insert and encourage them to test.

Authority Hierarchy Authority is based on what centers are defined in a bodygraph, and their place in a hierarchy. The hierarchy is:

1. Emotional Authority If the emotional center is defined then it is the inner authority, no matter what other centers are defined.

2. Sacral Authority If the sacral is defined and the emotional center is NOT defined then the sacral is the authority. If the spleen is defined as well, then it is called sacral splenic authority.

3. Splenic Authority If the spleen is defined and the emotional and sacral centers are NOT, then the spleen is the authority, no matter what other centers are defined.

4. Ego Authority If the heart center is defined and the emotional, sacral and spleen are NOT, then the heart is the authority, no matter what other centers are defined.

5. Self Projected Authority If the G center is defined and the emotional, sacral, spleen and heart are NOT, then the G center is the authority, no matter what other centers are defined.

6. No Inner Authority If none of the above centers are defined then the person has no inner authority. The head, the ajna, the throat, and the root are NEVER an inner authority.

Authority Examples Here are some example combinations of different authorities.

Ego Manifested

No Inner Authority

Emotional Ego Manifested

Ego Projected

Sacral Generated

Self Projected

Emotional

Sacral Manifested

Splenic Ego Manifested

Sacral Splenic

Splenic Manifested

Splenic Projected

Emotional Authority When we look at someone with a defined emotional center we know right away that this is a person whose body chemistry continually cycles them through a binary experience of emotions. It is variously defined as experiencing high and low, up and down, hope and pain. If you are not emotionally defined then it is simply impossible for you to grasp what this is really like. If you are emotionally defined it is possible that you might grasp what it is like – but it’s not necessarily the case that you will. Someone whose emotional definition is the result of a completely unconscious channel, might not ever be aware of their wave. Anyone who has the solar plexus defined can NOT rely on their feelings of the moment. However, once they have gone through the entirety of their emotional wave they MUST make decisions based on how it makes them feel. As noted in the introduction, authority is not a “separate dynamic”. It’s not a little control center sitting off to the side carefully observing and analyzing the present with a full awareness of everything that happened in the past and carefully considering all possible future outcomes in the light of sometimes competing goals. Every person is a complex amalgam of various states of being that are the result of internal and external sensory data AND the relationship that each person is continually building between the internal and external. As we saw when looking at centers, the solar plexus always operates in a wave and that works from hope to pain in some variation, but the shape of the wave differs depending on the defined circuitry. Let's recap the wave variations:

Collective The abstract, collective wave, operating in the gates 41, 30, 35, and 36, is a crash wave; climbing up, then moving along a plateau, to be followed by a crash down. This wave when it’s in the hope part of the cycle is kind of saying “ohhhhh great!” But in the pain cycle it’s saying “Oh is that all?” This is reflected in the 35-36 channel of “Been there, done that”.

Tribal The tribal wave of the 19, 49, 37, and 40, is very reliable in its cyclical nature of moving up and down like a roller coaster. Here the dynamics of hope and pain play out more like “"It's a .....benign....catastrophe!" There’s often the sense that one is, indeed needed and wanted, but it’s followed by the feeling that one is rejected and doesn’t belong.

Individual The emotional individual (the 39/55, 12/22) goes along almost flat; people don’t even know that they are emotional. Then they either go straight up like a rocket or straight down. When they are up things are just fabulous, but when they are down they really feel like they will never, ever be up again. The pain and despair can be all encompassing and they see no light at the end of the tunnel.

How Long is Long Enough? While we can know right away that a person’s body chemistry continually cycles them through a binary experience of emotions, there’s no way to know how long the cycle takes. Nor is it possible to say that the cycle always takes the same amount of time, nor even that the wave is a singularity. The wave can be happening in multiple time frames such that one relates to the daily world via their wave, but relates to more extended interactions with the world from a larger wave. The major mantra for emotional authority is “There is no truth in the now”, or “Never be spontaneous”. An emotionally defined person should always sleep on it before making a decision. Sleeping on it may be enough time for some kinds of decisions such as “Do you want to have dinner tomorrow?” The longer the possible interaction with the world, the longer the person needs to experience the larger wave. For example, someone may be just a single paper away from obtaining their Ph.D. and wake up one morning suddenly feeling that “Oh no, I don’t want this!” Just sleeping on it simply isn’t enough time for them to really decide that they don’t want it. That feeling may just be part of a daily or weekly cycle

Authority and Decision Making When an emotionally defined person gets up in the morning and goes to the closet to select their attire for the day, they don’t need to ‘sleep on that decision’. There are many decisions to be made in life that don’t require that much time. Odds are that emotional authority probably does happen with respect to picking out ones clothes of the day, but that manifestation of the wave is very fast – faster than the person can be aware of – or needs to be. What is dangerous for the emotional person is to make a decision based upon someone else’s insistence or manipulation. Often, particularly in today’s world, salesman use the technique of forcing an immediate decision either by offering a reward for the quick decision or instilling fear about delaying. It may be OK for some authorities to make that snap decision, but it’s not healthy for the emotional authority. If they are closer to the hope end of their cycle the reward is very tempting, and if they’re closer to the pain/despair end of the cycle then the fear of delay can be overwhelming. Making a decision from either end is simply to make an incomplete decision. If the decision looks good from both ends then there is clarity. If it looks bad when they’re up as well as when they’re down then there is clarity. If it looks good and bad, then you just need to wait some more :). The emotional authority only knows after some time has passed. They may meet someone and have an instant dislike for them, but then that emotional authority will keep coming back and checking the person out again and again. Each iteration gives them a slightly different take on the person depending where they are in the wave at that moment. This is the great gift of emotional authority. They have the ability to fully feel in an experiential manner the completeness of things.

Spiritual Potential The emotional center has spiritual potential to see that in life there are no good things or bad things, there’s just the incredible fact of the immensity of existence. This emotional experience allows people to really come to grips with what is. Life is pleasurable and it is uncomfortable. That’s not the point. The point is that there is life and that is simply wonderful. Understanding this takes time and it is not easy. For example an emotional manifestor; they are wired to do what they feel. If you tell them “Now listen here, you can’t simply do whatever you feel like doing, you have to wait, sleep on it to get clear and then you have to inform the other and get permission”. Hah! Easy for you to say. Another example might be an emotional projector with 3 defined motors. They are constantly filled with energy and intent on finding some way to express that energy. If you simply say to them “Hey you have to wait to be recognized and invited, then you have to sleep on it before you can act” they’re not really well positioned to hear that and the pressure is hard to resist. The emotional center is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease because it is very hard Like this movie title, emotional authority has to see life to ignore the emotional wave. Some from all angles before making a decision. And yes, some emotionally defined people are very are ugly. squeaky, but they have the option of being, rather than engines of chaos, sentinels of depth. The difference is if they follow what feels right after waiting until there is some clarity. Emotional authority never has 100% clarity. But with time, they can generally feel good or calm about something. Or the reverse will happen: they will generally feel nervous or over emotional about something, in which case it is a "no" to whatever they are dealing with.

Sacral Authority The Business of Busy-ness Anyone who is a generator (defined sacral) who DOES NOT have the emotional center defined has sacral authority. This particular authority is the most closely aligned to the Type. For the Generator type, their strategy is to respond. If they have the emotional center defined also then they have to wait out the emotional wave to see how they feel before they respond. But if they don’t have the emotional center defined then their authority is in the response itself. This is the sacral voice of "Uh huh" or "uh uh", for example. Generators are busy people. They really aren’t all that comfortable being at rest. To some extent this is simply because once the engine shuts down it can be hard to restart it, so for a generator it’s just easier to keep the motor going all the time. Generally when you tell a generator they have to “wait to respond” you kind of set up a state of anxiety for them. You’re introducing a ‘mental concept’ into an arena that is purely biological – body mechanics. They’re wired to be busy. Generators without the knowledge of HD don’t have a clue that not everyone has this busy-ness. Being busy is simply the normal state of affairs – anything else is a temporary aberration. Sacral Variety There are really a lot of different ways to have a defined sacral. There are 11 different channels that can define the sacral (three out of gate 34). Most of them are in the Tantric energy flow and feed into the G Center (the channels from the root-sacral-G). The sacral is the center of life energy and as such it is very powerful. Then there are the manifesting generators (MG). Someone can be an MG if the sacral connects directly to the throat (e.g. 2034 - green in the image to the right), or via a connection from the sacral to the G and from the G to the throat (e.g. 29-46, and the 1-8 - blue). Or they might have the ego to throat and the sacral to root as a split (purple). When the solar plexus is defined along with the sacral then the solar plexus is the authority and the strategy is to respond as a generator. They need to wait through the wave before they can respond with clarity. When the spleen is defined along with the sacral then the authority is sacral splenic. It is a response in the now. To Respond or to Wait None of us are really very aware on a moment to moment basis of the way we operate. A lot of things come and go very quickly in life and for someone who is accustomed to being busy this concept of waiting seems very alien.

Remember that generators tend to have their heads down doing what they are doing They’re not really paying a lot of attention to the world of possibility. When you tell them they have to wait to respond they take that to mean they have to go sit down and wait for something obvious to come along and it’s kind of an “Oh no, I can’t sit around waiting.” But this is not true. When a generator walks out into their garden and sees that the plants are dry, or the leaves are brown, or something needs pruning – that is the “something to respond to.” The question is do they have the energy at that moment to water, or fertilize or prune. This is the magic of the sacral response. The body either responds with the enthusiasm of Uh huh or the lack of energy of uh uh. This is what makes it so easy for the generator. The Uh huh is their own way of knowing if they want to do something in the moment. They can completely trust this response. There’s never a lack of things to which a generator can respond. The floor is dirty, the trash is full, the painting is askew, the bed is unmade, the laundry is ready to go into the dryer, there’s food to be bought and prepared, etc. The world is teeming with stuff to do. It’s the sacral that enables the generator to know which of the many things it wants to do now. Generators can really like having a list of things to do. They look at the list and their body responds uh huh or uh uh not now to various things on the list. They like finishing the list and making another one. The Sacral Sounds The moan, the groan, the sigh, the uh uh, and the uh huh, these are all sacral sounds. It is imperative for generators to listen to and trust these sounds. Not all generators have these sounds. Some just don't have them naturally and respond in more subtle ways, others have ignored them for so long that they aren't there (and need to be awakened through practice). But if you have them, these sounds are great tools. When we extrapolate this into the larger world, for example someone calls and asks “Do you want to go out to dinner?”, the generator has this reliable voice uh huh or uh uh. “Do you want to marry me?” Uh huh or uh uh. Do you want to study in Paris? Uh huh or uh uh. What’s really important for the generator is to know how reliable this is. If the generator has an uh uh (no), then don’t do it! Maybe tomorrow they will have an uh huh (yes). It’s their very energy source saying either yes the energy is available or no it isn’t available now. Grrrrrr! The theme of frustration enters the picture when the generator thinks they have to do something even though their body says uh uh (no). "I have to marry you because you asked me and everybody knows we’re perfect for each other." "I have to go out to dinner because it’s Saturday and we always go out to dinner on Saturday." If they have a sacral no and they go ahead and do it, the experience just won’t be worth it to them. Lacking the right energy (either too much or too little) they will be frustrated that they couldn’t make it work.

They may have a yes to something and they may enter into an experience and the results of that experience may, to an outside observer, look bad. The generator may respond to the friend who asks her to go kayaking and she might get seasick, or blisters, or fall out of the boat and shiver with cold, but if she did it from the response of uh huh (yes), she will consider the experience good and worthwhile. It will not be frustrating for her. If that same generator goes kayaking because her boyfriend expects her to, and her body is saying no, then no matter how beautiful the day or how easy it goes she will be disappointed. It just won’t work for her, and she will be frustrated. Manifesting Generators With manifesting generators the story is a little different. In the generator sense they respond to whatever presents itself. But the manifesting generator doesn’t really know his response until he enrages in the activity. Of course we’ve all heard the maxim “Finish what you start.” Well, for a manifesting generator that’s simply not true. They can start many things and not follow through because once they engage in it and their body is in the act of doing, the sacral might say no. Can this be frustrating? Only if they don’t understand their dynamic. Of course others like to put the pressure on them. “Hey we just started this game, you can’t quit now.” But they can and they should if they get an uh uh. What’s important for a generator is how reliable that internal gut response is. It’s not the waiting for something to respond to, there’s never any lack of things to respond to. It’s accepting the fact that at any given moment in time their body will reliably inform them whether or not the response will result in a satisfying experience for them.

Splenic Authority The Animal Awareness Splenic authority occurs when the spleen is defined and the solar plexus and the sacral are NOT defined. When a chart has both sacral and spleen defined then it is called sacral splenic, or splenic sacral. See below for more on this. Splenic awareness is rooted in the survival of the organism. Prior to mankind all animals had only the splenic awareness to rely on for the survival. Splenic authority derives from recognizing changes in patterns and knowing what the change means. For some animals this is primarily based on changes in visual patterns, for others it’s changes in smell, for others changes in sound, for others changes in taste, and for some (e.g. pit vipers) changes in heat. In the animal world survival is always immediate. In the now. It’s a raw, primal world with no safety nets. Failure to recognize the pattern is out of place results in death right now. Failure to take action right now in response to the fear results in death. Animals don’t go through the world with any question about whether it is OK to do something. When they’re hungry they go looking for food, and they will look anywhere they can for it. The only thing that they are aware of is the splenic reaction “Don’t go there” at any given moment. Animals aren’t looking for yes they’re simply extremely alert to “NO”.

3 Streams Each gate of the spleen has specific fears. These gates and fears are also tied into the bodygraph streams. The 3 splenic awareness streams are Taste, Intuition and Instinct. 1. Taste Taste resides in the 18-58 and the 16-48 channels. It’s not limited to taste as being simply the product of the taste buds in the tongue. People with this channel are particularly alert to taste in the overall sense “He has really good taste in clothes” is in play here as well. It’s a correlation between visual context and the response to it. It’s a sensation of “Oh, that looks so good I want to eat it” if the spleen approves and one of “Gag me with a spoon” if the spleen disapproves. 2. Intuition Intuition resides in the 28-38 and 57-20 channels. It is particularly attuned to sound. Is that sudden bump in the night a threat? That depends on the quality of the sound of the bump. The sound gets your attention and the spleen makes a split second decision as to whether or not there is something to fear that requires action and it determines what action is best. 3. Instinct Instinct resides in the 44-26 and the 54-32 channels and is particularly attuned to smell. Of all the senses smell has the most direct route to the part of the brain that has to process the data. There are only a couple of synapses between the data (the smell) entering the nostrils and where the smell is processed and analyzed.

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The awareness of the spleen is very fast. The mind and emotions don’t operate at anywhere the same speed. The spleen is processing vast amounts of physical sensory data and when it detects something out of place, some deviation in the pattern, it alerts the creature so that evasive action can be immediately taken. Also, once engaged in an action, the spleen’s warning is no guarantee that the creature can interrupt or change it’s behavior quickly enough. This is much more of a problem for humans than for animals because humans are so often very engaged mentally in what they’re doing. For the most part the spleen is quiet until something elicits the response “This is not OK.” And it expects the organism to immediately change its behavior. The spleen, as an authority, usually tells a person to avoid something. If you happen to be driving down a street it might well say “Don’t go down that street. Something is wrong there. Something is suspicious.” It’s not necessarily a little voice speaking a full sentence (although it can be like a little voice). The hairs on the back of the neck stand up, one gets a prickly sensation. It’s something at the body level that warns the organism: NO.

3 Splenic Variations There are 3 different modes of splenic authority and they are tied in to the person’s type. 1. Manifesting Splenic Authority Manifesting splenic authority is when the spleen is connected to the throat and to a motor - either the ego or root. So, for example, the 28-38 spleen to root with the 57-20 spleen to throat is a splenic manifestor. They are attuned to the sound of their world. If they make a judgment from that 18-58 the basic assumption as it moves through the 57th gate is that the judgment will hold good through the future. The 57th gate’s fear of the future is sitting there as a potential alarm. If it picks up on anything that indicates the future result of that judgment is potentially threatening that alarm goes off. It let’s them know immediately that the judgment holds some threat to their future.

38-28 and 57-20 Splenic Manifestor

The 44-26 spleen to ego and the 57-20 spleen to throat is also. Note that only the defined ego and the root can be involved with the spleen as an authority. The manifestor, in general, since they are here to do, profits greatly from having the spleen as authority. If they learn to trust that immediate splenic reaction they can avoid a lot of unpleasant consequences. No matter how powerful a person is, nobody can just do whatever they want without creating consequences. If the lion roars at the wrong time it alerts its prey and misses dinner. If the mouse squeaks at the wrong time it becomes dinner. The splenic manifestor needs to learn this.

44-26 and 57-20 Splenic Ego Manifestor Can you think of other examples?

2. Splenic Generator Authority A person that has both sacral and splenic definition has splenic generated authority. Other names for it are sacral splenic and splenic sacral authority. Their splenic awareness guides their response. It is a response in the now with awareness. The pure sacral definition without a defined spleen responds in the now as well but it does not have the awareness that the spleen provides. The difference is very subtle.

Example of Sacral Splenic Authority

3. Projected Splenic Authority When the spleen is connected and there is no motor connecting the throat, and no defined solar plexus or sacral then you have Projected splenic authority. The spleen can connect to the root, ego, self, and throat. The spleen is the authority, giving awareness to the rest of the chart. These people are always projectors. With respect to the warning aspect of the splenic authority, waiting to be recognized and/or invited is immediately a cue to a projector that the situation holds the potential to play out with no disastrous effect. All projectors, whether they know anything at all about Human Design or being a projector, are naturally attuned to be alert to recognition and Splenic Projected Authority invitation. Accepting an invitation is very attractive to projectors, and acting spontaneously is very attractive to the spleen. But just because one is recognized or invited doesn’t mean that one should proceed. The splenic authority is critical to this type of projector to make healthy choices. A significant challenge to projected splenic authority occurs when the projector initiates. And they do and they will regardless of any information to the contrary. Doing this uninvited act requires a focus of energy, and a commitment to the matter at hand such that they may build up so much momentum that they can’t apply the brakes in time when the splenic authority speaks. The possibility of the spleen to infuse a person completely is very real. One can truly let go completely of the mind, give oneself over to the immediate moment and run full tilt down a mountain, surf a 20 foot wave, or jump out of a plane. For projectors with splenic authority, when they get recognized and invited, if the spleen doesn’t speak a clear “No,” they can really abandon themselves to the invitation. Everything is aligned for them and total immersion in the experience to the point of the sublime is a very real possibility.

Final Thoughts Conditioning is a powerful force for the spleen. The mind and solar plex can easily overpower the splenic voice. One can be in the world at home alone, or one can be in the world interacting with another human, or one can be in nature interacting with the natural elements (e.g. the wave, the cliff, the desert). Or you can be interacting with a different creature (e.g. a dog, a tiger, a horse). The function and reliability of the spleen changes depending upon the nature of these elements.

Ego Authority

The Will To Do Something Ego authority is very limited in the way it can occur because of the hierarchy of the authorities. In order for the ego to be the authority the chart CANNOT have a defined solar plexus, or a defined sacral, or a defined spleen. This means that there are only 2 channels that can activate the ego as authority. The 45-21 channel and the 51-25 channel. Ego authority is the authority of the will, of willpower. The ego center is essentially a “me” energy. This is not to be confused with the “self” of the G center. This is rooted in possession. Possession of things and of place. Who’s first? Me. Who’s in charge? Me. Who owns this house? Me. Two Channels There are two channels that create ego authority are the 45-21 and 51-25. This first channel is a manifested channel, and therefore anyone with 45-21 ego authority will be a manifestor. Of course this is provided the sacral, spleen and solar plexus are not defined. The second channel is a projected channel and as long as the G center is not connected to the throat (which would make them an ego manifestor) people with the 51-25 only are ego authority projectors.

1. 45-21 Material People The dynamics of the 45-21 energy are straightforward. It is the focus of ‘me’ is on material plane and the control that comes with that. This channel is called the Money Channel but it’s not simply about money. It’s about all of the elements of holding the community together in a particular order. This involves education and where one sits in any given status based organization. In terms of authority, it means that such a person has to have the will power to support their decision, to bring their will energy into play. There can’t be any waffling about it. This person has to be able to forcefully say, with heartfelt conviction, “This is for me. I will do it.” This is, after all, a manifesting channel. They have to have the complete conviction that they can control the endeavor, whatever it is. The ego authority, if the person decides to get a Ph.D. for example, they must have the full force of their will over an extended period of time. To do that, they must begin with a strong sense of will towards the goal. There must be a clear goal and utter conviction that they can reach the goal. 2. 51-25 Competitive People The energy dynamic of the 51-25 is different. This the Channel of Initiation – a design of needing to be first. More simply it is “Me first.” This can be in a competitive sense of needing to win, to catch the biggest fish, or “I got here first.” As an authority this plays out in 2 different ways. 1. Manifesting If the G center is also connected to the throat through one of the 4 GThroat channels then this is a manifesting ego. In such a case you have additional information to consider. For example it could be 51-25 and 31-7, the Channel of the alpha – Leadership for good or for bad. There are numerous animal species in which the role of the “alpha” is well documented, but let’s just look at wolves for a moment. In a wolf pack there is only one alpha male and one alpha female. All the rest are lower in the hierarchy. Now any wolf cub that happens to grow to be an alpha either overthrows the current alpha or it leaves the pack. An alpha can’t really be a follower for very long. It will go be on its own (a dangerous act) rather than do that.

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So a 51-25 with the 31-7 is more concerned with being first as a leader then it is with fitting into the hierarchy. As an authority such a person draws upon their will power to be first, to lead the way, regardless of whether or not anyone follows. If this person is worried whether or not anyone will follow then they aren’t coming from authority. Their willpower isn’t fully engaged.

This form of willpower (through the G center) is willpower expressed in self identity. 31-7 = “Me, I’m the leader.” 8-1 = “Me, I can do it.” 10-20 = “Me, I’m myself”. 13-33 = “Me, I’m the witness”. You can see that the willpower has to align with the self, the identity to really operate. To fully realize the potential of whichever channel is connecting the G center to the throat this ego manifestor must engage with a full sense that they can be number 1 in the endeavor. Doing a reading for an ego manifestor where the ego is also the authority is relatively easy. You tell them about informing others, getting permission, etc. and then really it’s simply a matter of letting

them know that they can trust their ego. They can compete or control without having to feel guilty. The expression ‘playing ego games’ has come to have such a negative aspect that some people find themselves trapped in internal dialogue with themselves about it. The ego authority when it operates says “Me, I’ll give it 110 percent. I’ll bring my A game”. This is what that person needs to have to know that it’s making the right decision. 2. Projected The second situation is the 51-25 without the G being connected to the throat. This is ego projected authority and of course this means that the person is a projector. In order to reap the full benefit of this authority they have to wait for an invitation where they are recognized. This is more challenging. For projectors with motors the concept of waiting for recognition or an invitation is difficult. The energy to do is there – it just needs the connection. The more potential gates are activated waiting for a person or a transit to complete the connection the more difficult it is to wait. The energy of that ego is powerful. This is the stuff of kings, of heroes, of legends, and superstars. It’s the A game, the 100 percent. But for the projector the strategy is different. The manifestor can simply walk onto the stage with their A game and the result is of value to them. This is the actor who, even when they aren’t the star they can steal the scene. The projector should not be concerned about actively stealing the scene, but instead they can wait until the spotlight is focused on them. That’s their strategy. When the spotlight shines on them they really shine – if they have the energy. This is why it’s important for them to not to expend their energy when the spotlight isn’t shining on them. If they’re continually spending that energy trying to get into the limelight, when they make it they are very likely not to have their A game anymore.

Self Authority Always A Projector Self Authority is different than any other authority. In order to have self authority EVERYTHING below the G center is undefined. It does not matter what is defined above the throat. Everybody who has self authority is always a projector. There are 4 channels that create a self authority and they are all direct connections from the throat to the self (10-20, 31-7, 1-8 and 13-33. The Elusive Self Authority Self authority is really just an auto-pilot system. People with self authority do not have to wait out the emotional wave or listen for a splenic voice that only speaks once, or listen to a sacral voice, or need the drive of ego. These are people who have to do only one thing: What they do. This is the monopole driving the person. The self authority has only to sit in the vehicle and let the driver do the

driving. They don’t even have to think about it. Typically, when questioned about a decision they’ve made they may have many thoughts to justify the decision – but the thoughts didn’t make the decision. On the other hand they may have no thoughts about it at all and when asked will I say “I don’t know, it was just the right thing to do”. It’s very nebulous. Much like the hummingbirds that migrate thousand of miles, self authority is tuned into something that you can’t really put a finger on. These hummingbirds have to find enough flowers along the way to survive and the time when those flowers bloom changes from year to year. Somehow the hummingbirds know from year to year just when to set off. Somehow they just know how to get where they are going.

Their Own Direction Someone with self authority is a person who isn’t here to follow rules. This person doesn’t have to leave on Tuesday – even though everybody else may have to. What other people say, what the school says, or the employer, or society at large just isn’t relevant to their decision making. They don’t tend to do things simply to reach a goal, and they don’t tend to do things just because it worked in the past. Something happens – something on T.V., something in a book, a conversation, a thought that drifts through their mind, a cock crowing 3 times – whatever it is, it somehow propels the driver to turn left or right and off they go. The only issue for the person with self authority is trust. Trusting that internal navigation system. Once that navigation system engages, the worst thing self authority can do is to go against it. This applies to both the love and direction aspects of the G center. This principle of trust operates not just in terms of direction but also in terms of self organization and self relationship (love). The self authority is intimately connected to it’s sense of self. These people have a finely tuned sense of themselves – even to the extent of appearing overly self-confident or self involved.

As long as they don’t violate that sense of self by going where they KNOW they shouldn’t go or doing what they KNOW they shouldn’t do things are just fine for them. This is a person who can simply refuse to do something for 10 years and then suddenly flip 180 degrees completely, and embrace it wholly for the next 20 years. For them it’s simply a question of whether or not it fits into their current self. When it doesn’t fit they don’t do it, when it fits they do it. It’s critical for self authority that they maintain their sense of rightness about themselves. It doesn’t matter if that sense of rightness is in accord with anyone else’s but it must be right with them. You can know a person like this for years and believe you can predict their behavior and suddenly they will do something completely out of left field that is just totally contrary to what you would expect. It’s simply that their self has changed for whatever reason. If you happen to know one for a goodly long time you’ll have the chance to see that they are very rigid – until they change. As long as self authority is operating correctly - trusting itself - then any decision made is the right one. It doesn’t matter what decision they make, turn left or turn right, whichever they choose, as long as it comes from that place of trust, they will have the right experience. It’s the quintessence of gate 46 – the serendipity of being in the right place at the right time.

No person with self authority can love anyone else unless they are right with themselves. And no person with self authority can be happy in a relationship with another person if that other person can’t accept the extreme sense of identity. Remember these are people with no motors. They don’t have the energy to be able to constantly hassle with an emotional person who wants them to change. Or with an ego that has to compete about what’s the right way. Once they are caught up in endless conflict about what they do and where they go, and what’s right and what’s not and why they have to do this and can’t do that, well they don’t have the staying power for that. Self authority is no more reliable than any other authority in terms of guaranteeing that the resulting experience will be pleasurable, but as long as that pure innocent trust is there the person will have the right experience. What’s the “right” experience? That’s pretty simple. It’s the one that somehow leads to the next correct experience for the person to fully become who they are. Self authority is the perfect union of essence and existence, of being and becoming. The defining mantra for the person with self authority is Shakespeare’s wonderful line: This above all,—to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. - Hamlet

Projectors With A Twist The self authority is always a projector with no motors. But if you say “You have to be recognized and invited before you can do anything,” you’re leading them astray. These projectors have to do what they hear the self say. Invitation for them doesn’t have to come from the outside.

KEY POINT : When they have to make a decision they need others to listen to what they are saying. What they say will allow them to hear what the right decision is. This can take time and require talking about it with several people. They need to trust what comes out of their mouth. They may not understand it since the G center is not an awareness. When the self authority projector has to do something absent that external recognition and invitation it’s useful for them to understand that their doing has nothing to do with the outcome. This is one area that can be difficult for them. Maybe they write a book that never gets published. They have to write the book because that’s what they have to do. Helping Others Self authority can help others “find their identity” and direction. But they must be recognized and invited. This is what can be hard for self authority to come to grips with. They know how it works, but nobody is going to listen to them unless they are invited. This is just pure energy dynamics.

No Inner Authority When you look at a chart where none of the centers are defined (a reflector) or a chart where the only defined centers are above the G Center, (mental projectors) you are looking at someone whose inner authority operates much differently. The moon transits through all of the gates in a 28 day cycle and we all experience this, Any undefined center when it is turned on sort of stands up and shouts “Here I am”. For many people with really a lot of undefined centers that experience is more noticeable. Ideally the person with no inner authority can wait out this 28 day cycle, allowing themselves the time to fully and intensely experience their own definition through that period.

Take the TIme you Need Of course, it’s easy to say, “Oh, they have to wait 28 days to make a decision.” But life is more fluid than that and we can't fix it into a neat little 28 day box. The important thing is to take as much time as needed and to realize that anything that can't wait for them to make a decision correctly isn't for them anyway. One of the challenges for this kind of authority is the temptation to make a decision before the synthesis is complete. They can be overwhelmed by a particular experience during the process and make a decision based on a very powerful, but incomplete, experience. The trick is to really draw the process out. Taking in The World

With all those open centers Reflectors and mental projectors are always taking in the other – they are very attuned to the other’s state of being, to their emotions, their responses, their ego, their awareness, their pressures. It’s all flooding into them. They are experiencing the energy of the external world at a very deep level. This can be wonderful or miserable, depending on what the other people are like and how the Reflectors and mental projectors resonate with them. It’s crucial that they as much as possible surround themselves with people whose internal energy dynamics suit them. The people around them will act as sounding boards. This is similar to the self projected authority. They bounce things off others. But in the case of somebody who has no inner authority the ultimate decision is not made from simply hearing what comes out of their throat. It is much more complex and takes more time. Whether through a 28 day lunar cycle or through activation by others, the Reflectors and mental projectors are designed to synthesize their disparate internal experiences into a whole, and to make decisions from the gestalt of that synthesis.

Characteristics Authority is not a little man sitting in a control tower calling the shots. The person's full characteristics play a part. When Reflectors and mental projectors allow the synthesis time to fully evolve they can then incorporate it with other aspects of their design. Their profile, their incarnation cross, their current life theme are some of the factors that will determine how any particular Reflector or mental projector will use the synthesis that leads them to making a correct decision – one that is aligned with their whole design. A 4th line profile, for example, may weight the decision more favorably toward something that is perceived as an opportunity. A 3rd line profile may weight it less favorably if it is perceived as something they already know doesn’t work. In their current theme of life, a person may have the line 47.1 “Taking Stock - Realizing that negative thoughts have to be eradicated”, leading them to favor a decision that promotes that agenda. Which factor lends more weight depends on the person’s life experience. This process is not an easy task and it may take them years to get the hang of it – if they ever do. It requires considerable trust, patience, self awareness and practice. But once they get it down their lives are extremely rich and rewarding. The ones who do get it down are extraordinary role models for the rest of us in terms of the most ideal function of the undefined centers.

Outer Authority The Reflectors and mental projectors who learn, by whatever means, to live out their designs somewhat correctly can be very valuable to others as an “Outer Authority.” A generator, for example, has inner sacral authority and their reflector friend (who takes the generator in very deeply) can give them great things to respond to that are in harmony with the generator's design. One of the fundamental and key concepts of the open centers is that they not only take in but amplify whatever behaviors are associated with them and mirror them. Reflectors and mental projectors are

constantly experiencing others, amplifying that experience and reflecting it back. Reflecting doesn’t necessarily mean parroting. The quality of the reflection depends on the state of being of the reflector. What is fundamentally being reflected back is the energy of the amplified center. It may be the up energy of the emotional wave or the down energy. It may be the vitality and joy energy of the root or it may be the stress energy. It may be the uh huh or the uh uh of the sacral and so on. When the energy is reflected back to the person with the defined center who originated it they then have two new possibilities. To understand this you have to really grasp a couple of difficult concepts. First: we don’t live in a universe that is fundamentally digital. That is to say the switch isn’t limited to being just on or off. That off or on view suffices for logic and is very useful, but it’s only part of the story. The switch can be neither on or off and it can also be on and off simultaneously. Light is one of the best examples of this in the physical world. It is both a wave and a particle. Second: in the world of energy, flow can be in any direction and it tends not to be stable at any particular end of the spectrum. Behavioral energy operates in a gradient. This is particularly evident in the emotional wave – up, then down. In the affairs of humans then, many decisions are complex enough, either because of the amount of data involved or because of interference from competing flows, that the innate authority may not discern a clear cut choice. The mind can interfere, other centers can interfere, and conditioning can interfere along with many other more subtle variables. Reflectors and mental projectors, when they reflect back to others, reflect back the energy itself. The form the reflection takes may be colored by the reflector (based on various elements in their design) and it may be distracting, but the basic reflection is pure energy. Sometimes the person receiving the reflection needs that in order to get past being stuck because the decision is so complex or because of interference. Reflectors and mental projectors can, simply by reflecting, provide the extra little bit of weight that leads the other to get over the hump inside themselves so to speak. They can get unstuck. It helps if the Reflector or mental projector is able to reflect things back without muddying the waters too much. Not all Reflectors and mental projectors can do that or do it consistently or do it for everybody. In a sense, the purest reflection affirms the other person’s own authority which is the actual decision making dynamic. The second dynamic that Outer Authority brings is new possibility. As humans we grow, evolve, change in various ways. That in itself isn’t easy, especially out and out change. In fact it’s very difficult. But it’s also sometimes necessary. Well integrated Reflectors and mental projectors offer the very real possibility of change to the rest of us. When they reflect back the amplified energy of our own inner authorities they often color it with aspects of their own design. When that happens we are getting not just a pure reflection of our own energy but something that is a little different, and that difference becomes a new input for us. A 3rd line may say to us, “Well I tried that and it didn’t work.” A 4th line may say “Hmm, there’s an opportunity here.” The cross of explanation may engage in a lengthy explication on the matter. The Cross of Penetration may dive right to the core. If that is their design speaking then the reflection we receive may occasion a change deep in us. When that happens we have the opportunity to respond to that modified reflection. A splenic authority may revisit the decision, an emotional authority may have different feelings. This a case where

reflection mutates the other person’s behavior by offering an enhanced view the situation which their own authority then includes in it’s own process – or not.

Authority - Authority Conclusion You Have the Key Already Everybody already knows their design, and by extension their authority. How could you not? It is, after all, you. You may have been conditioned to operate out of alignment with who you are, but that’s not the same as not knowing who you are. Even the undefined centers are known at some level insofar as we all know that our behavior changes somewhat depending on who we are with. Really, any person knows what their authority is and how it works. Many people muddle through life just fine without HD and live out their designs correctly without this knowledge. This is not to say that life is a piece of cake, and decisions might be easier to make if you understood the mechanics, but you already have the key to everything you need inside you. In talking about and describing these authorities we have, in a sense, artificially deconstructed something that is whole. It’s like taking apart an engine to see how it works. You disassemble it, lay out all the parts, look at how they fit and what they do. But then all you have is a bunch of pieces on the floor that don’t do what an engine should. Authority is not like a little man in a control center, it is interwoven throughout our design. The design is a whole, not a bunch of separate little pieces. We look at what we call the pieces but what we strive to understand is the wholeness of the design. People are living out their designs in many ways – through the self, through the not self, alone, with others. The descriptions of behaviors here are not simply statements about “what should be”, they are statements about “what is”. This is not a rule book for what people “should do”, it’s a description of what people, in general, “are doing.” Some people are doing it consciously, some aren’t. Some people

are embracing their authority, some are afraid to do that. Some trust their authority more than others. Some have been seduced (conditioned) to rely on an authority for which they aren’t wired.

What's Your Vehicle? With authority, you can kind of think about it in terms of transportation. There are a multitude of transportation methods being used by people. We can walk, ride a horse, take a train, ride a bike or swim. They all work to get us from one place to another. But if you’re riding a bike, you don’t make decisions the way you would if you were driving a car or piloting a plane. When you look at the world you see people using all of these different transportation modes, and it’s the same with inner authority. There are different ways depending on your unique design. None is superior. One works better for some and another works better for others. When someone says something like “Get in touch with your feelings.” Or, “Rely on you gut.” Or, “Trust your instincts”, that’s not inaccurate, and it might work for millions of people - but it might not work for you. If your authority is emotional then you are wired to wait out the wave, if your authority is splenic you are built to decide spontaneously. With self projected authority you hear your decision at the same time everyone else does - when it comes out your mouth. WIth ego authority you are here to assert your ego. These are all different ways of driving depending on what vehicle you have. You can’t know in advance what the results will be from making your decision from your authority or, for that matter, what they might be if you don’t make it from your authority. What you can know is that making a decision from your authority is reliable in terms of your design. We can all trust our own wiring. Give it a Try There isn’t any belief or judgment involved in this. You don’t have to believe in anything that’s been presented. The entire systems is logically consistent. If you want to, you can experiment with it, test it, enjoy it, explore it. This isn’t something you have to blindly accept or reject. Look at your world through this lens and see how it looks. So jump in and see what happens!