Curso Autoridad

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 Examples Emotional Authority Sacral Authority Splenic Authority Ego Authority Self Authority No Inner Authority Authority - Authority Conclusion

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

Ego Projected

Emotional

No Inner Authority

Sacral Generated

Sacral Manifested

Emotional Ego Manifested

Self Projected

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

Like this movie title, emotional authority has to see life from all angles before making a decision. And yes, some are ugly.

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 to ignore the emotional wave. Some emotionally defined people are very 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. 20-34 - 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 changes in patterns and knowing what For some animals this is primarily based 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.

recognizing the change means. on changes in

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 right now. Failure to take action right the fear results in death. Animals don’t world with any question about whether it something. When they’re hungry they go and they will look anywhere they can for that they are aware of is the splenic there” at any given moment. Animals yes they’re simply extremely alert to 3 Streams Each gate of the spleen has specific and fears are also tied into the streams. The 3 splenic awareness Intuition and Instinct.

results in death now in response to go through the is OK to do looking for food, it. The only thing reaction “Don’t go aren’t looking for “NO”.

The fears by gate are: 50 – Fear of Responsibility 48 – Fear of Inadequacy 57 – Fear of the Future 44 – Fear of the Past 32 – Fear of Failure 28 – Fear of Death, risk taking 18 – Fear of Authority

fears. These gates bodygraph streams are Taste,

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.

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. 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.

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 Example of Sacral a response in the now with Splenic Authority 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

38-28 and 57-20 Splenic Manifestor

44-26 and 57-20 Splenic Ego Manifestor Splenic Projected Authority

provides. The difference is very subtle.

Can you think of other examples?

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 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.

Top Dog

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 selfconfident 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!