EP.36 - Unearthing Your Potential: A Dive Into Human Design's Energy Centres and Authorities
Show Notes
Unlocking your true potential and understanding your unique capabilities can pave the path to personal growth and a more fulfilling life.
How do you start on this enlightening journey of self-realisation?
Enter the world of human design—a powerful tool that provides a window into your innate strengths, decision-making strategies, and purpose in life. Think of it like a one-of-a-kind blueprint that lays bare your unique gifts and shows you how to use them.
By embracing this extraordinary tool, you'll acquire the self-awareness and knowledge needed to make decisions that truly resonate with your authentic self.
I'm here to accompany you on this intriguing journey of self-discovery. Let's delve into the riveting world of human design's energy centres and authorities, unearthing your potential and paving the way to a life lived with authenticity and fulfilment.
Here are the key takeaways from this episode:
03:11 - By understanding your energy blueprint, you can gain insights into your traits
05:22 - Exploring the human design energy types
08:10 - Comprehensive dive into the nine energy centres, their traits, and how they shape an individual's human design
13:39 - Unravelling the human design authorities
17:55 - The experiential nature of human design
22:40 - The importance of curiosity and experimentation in the journey of human design exploration
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TRANSCRIPT
[00:00:00] Understanding your human design chart is incredibly powerful. It's an amazing tool for personal growth and awareness and development. And when you understand your energetic blueprint and you have that self-awareness, you can lean into decisions that are aligned with your highest potential, that are aligned with making you feel fulfilled and supported, and abundant in life.
[00:00:28] Hey there. Welcome to the Fearlessly Curious Podcast, your safe space to listen, lean in and learn the diversity of human experiences through the lens of fearless curiosity. When we learn more about each other, we also learn more about ourselves. How? Because when we listen to each other's curiosities and experiences, we relate to that which is in common, and that which sets us apart, gives us something to reflect on. We learn through and with each other. I'm grateful to you, the global community, for your curious questions. The Fearlessly Curious Podcast cannot exist without you.
[00:01:15] Welcome to another episode of the Fearlessly Curious Podcast, and today we're diving back in to human design. This is the Human Design 101 episode about finding your true self. So in an earlier episode, I shared with you why I love human design so much, and I gave you a very casual overview of what my perception of human design is, why I love to use it as a life tool for myself, especially using it as a foundation tool for my clients and why I just simply love sharing it with my friends and my family.
[00:01:49] So just as a quick recap, the system combines several ancient traditions. To help us, to help people discover who they truly are. And when you discover who you truly are, you are more able to live your best life. So human design is relatively new system known as the science of differentiation, and was downloaded, created, channelled in the late 20th century.
[00:02:12] I think it was a 1987, by a man called Ra Uru Hu. Bless his soul. He's since passed, so he brought in this knowledge. This knowledge basically combines four ancient wisdom, ancient philosophies, the Vedic astrology, the ich, the Kabbalah, and the chakra system. And by overlaying each of these systems on top of each other and integrating these different systems, we get human design.
[00:02:37] And the system provides a unique and incredibly powerful tool for understanding your personality, your strengths, and your vulnerabilities as you navigate life in this world. To live in a way that is fulfilling. To be able to thrive as who you are. So the basis of human design is the idea that each of us has a unique, energetic signature, energetic blueprint, and that is based on the exact time, date, and place of your birth.
[00:03:11] The blueprint or chart, as we call it, is a visual representation of the energy centres and channels in your body. So by understanding your unique energy blueprint, which is visually represented in a chart, you can gain insights into your personality traits, strengths and vulnerabilities, and how best to navigate these traits in the world around you.
[00:03:40] So let me begin by breaking. Your human design blueprint, breaking it down into the centres. So we are provided with nine energy centres. Each of these centres represent different aspects of your personality, and therefore an energy that you bring forth through your presence. So by understanding these centres and how they relate to your energy type, you can gain a deeper understanding of who you are and leverage that to interact with others in a way that best represent yourself.
[00:04:12] So let's start at the top. When you look at a human design blueprint chart, you'll see nine sensor that are mapped out overlaid across an image outline of the human body. And right at the top is the centre called the Crown. So the Crown centre represents the place of inspiration and ideas and the connection to your higher consciousness.
[00:04:36] So it's how you receive ideas and inspiration. And when this centre is defined, so in your chart, a defined centre is coloured in or activated in your chart. It suggests that you have a natural, reliable ability to tap into new ideas and inspiration. Next centre is known as the Archna, and it is the centre that represents thought, your thinking, mind logic.
[00:05:05] It's how you process information. It's where your mental activity happens. And when this centre is defined or coloured in or activated in your chart, it suggests that you have a reliable ability to think. Deeply and logically, you have a very reliable way of processing information on a mental level. Next down in the centre is the throat centre and Throat centre represents communication, self-expression, how you bring in into the world.
[00:05:37] You manifest into the world who you are. I wanna be careful with the use of the word manifestation because it's so overused out there. So it's how the throat centre is. Where we bring forward is how you express yourself in the world. Let's just use that as a definition. When you have throat centre defined coloured in or activated within your human design chart, this suggests that you have a reliable way to connect with others. You are very reliable, consistent in the way that you express yourself in the outer world. So the next centre down is known as the will centre. The will centre in your human design chart is diamond shaped. It literally sits in the centre of your chart, and this centre represents your drive, your sense of self, I would say yeah, sense of self, your drive, your inner compass, and it relates particularly with relationships and love, like a sense of who you are. So when you have this activated or coloured in defined, you basically have a very clear sense of self, a sense of who you are next. The centre is known as the heart centre or the ego centre.
[00:06:54] And in this centre represents your drive, your ambition. Your ability to take action. So it's the power centre. When this power centre is activated, then you have a very powerful presence, drive ambition. The next centre down or across is the emotional centre, but we also call that in human design terms.
[00:07:17] The solar plexus. And this is the seat of your emotions in the centre. It's represented by your sensitivity, your emotional hub, your ability to empathise with the outer world. And when this centre is defined or activated coloured in, it suggests that you are highly tuned to your emotions and really feel very connected.
[00:07:41] You have a deep, deep awareness of your emotional landscape. The next centre is known as the spleen, and this spleen centre represents the most primal part of you. It's where your instinct lives, so it also speaks to your health and your intuition. Different to emotions. Your emotions are your emotions.
[00:08:07] Your spleen literally is that most primal part. It's literally the centre of survival is where you tune into, I wanna say tune into fear. We're gonna be careful with the use of word fear, because fear is very much anchored on a negative level. It's something that we kind of contract from. But in the Spleen centre, when you have it activated, you are deeply, deeply tuned into your intuition and your instinct for survival as a very empowered place.
[00:08:33] Awareness for health and survival. That was the centre of the spleen. We've got two more centres to go through. The Sacral centre is. The centre that represents life force, which is the ability to take action, to build, to bring energy and activity life force, literally to any space if you have this defined and coloured in and activated in your chart.
[00:09:03] And finally, the last centre is known as the root centre, and this centre represents stress timing. There's a pressure, so your adrenaline are activated here. When you have this activated and defined, you are susceptible to feeling the stress of time and the pressure, and you might actually thrive under high pressure situations.
[00:09:29] So these are the nine centres, energy types and centres, and there are many other important concepts in human design. I'm just giving a very sort of rough and journal overview of the centres. The way they represent themselves can shift and change. But the core element, the core qualities are that which I've described to you today.
[00:09:49] Now, there are other aspects of human design, like your authority, which we will go into now. So in human design, you also have what is called your authority. And the authority is what we refer to as your decision making hub or home. It's unique to each individual, and it's based on your energy type and the definition of your energy centres.
[00:10:12] So depending on which energy centres you have defined or coloured in, will influence what your authority is. Now the goal of following your authority is that it helps you make decisions that are aligned with your unique energy blueprint so that you can live a life that is authentic and fulfilling to you specifically.
[00:10:35] So, knowing this authority will help you circumvent people pleasing and perfectionism, and any other narratives that take you away from being the person you are born to be. You lean into your authority. Okay? There's seven types of authorities in human design. Just gonna cover them briefly. There's the emotional authority and emotional authority shows up when you have your solar plexus defined.
[00:10:58] Okay? If you have an emotional authority, you make your decisions based on your emotional wave. That means you need to give yourself time to ride out your emotions, ride out the high and ride out the low before making a decision. So those with the emotional authority are encouraged not to make quick decisions when they're on a high, when they're excited, when they're up, neither to make any decisions when they're on a low, right?
[00:11:26] They're encouraged to take their time to ride the wave because the wisdom of their decision comes by feeling all those emotions until they reach a place of neutrality. That way, those with an emotional authority can ensure that their decisions are not influenced by temporary feelings. Okay? So it's a deep emotional space to ride the highs and lows.
[00:11:45] So when you know someone who has an emotional authority, You are more able to give them space in order to come to a decision. Okay, the next authority is a splenic authority, and people with this authority basically have a defined spleen. Now with a splenic authority, you make decisions based on your primal instinct.
[00:12:03] You tuning into the now moment, the intuition, and making a decision right now based on survival. What is the best option right now in this moment? Okay. You trust your instinct and your decisions are best made in the now, not thinking, not second guessing, and not doubting, going by that first response of the spleen.
[00:12:25] Another authority is known as a sacral authority. Now, if you have a sacral authority, your sacral centre is defined, and those with a sacral authority. I have a sacral authority. It's an authority that can be guided by a gut feeling or something I feel in my gut. And the sacral authoritarians have a sound signature, which is we tend to respond with a sound, a grunt.
[00:12:48] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's normally what comes first before we give you an answer. Our decisions are very powerful in the sacral. We literally feel it in the body. It's a gut response, and we best respond to closed questions. Closed questions are questions that require a yes or no answer. Now it's very powerful to know for those with a sacral authority that there is basically only a yes answer.
[00:13:14] So if you don't get a clear yes, it's a no. If you get a maybe. It's a no. So anything that's not a yes is at least a no for now. So the sacral response, the sacral authority, lives in the gut. It's a gut reaction, gut response that you feel, and often the giveaway telltale sign is, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. It's the grunt that the voice will make.
[00:13:36] Okay? So being aligned with your inner guidance is to listen to your gut response. Then we have the ego authority. Now, ego authority is. Based on what feels right, according to your sense of self and self. Worth. So those within ego authority need to tune into who they are. They need to tune into their voice.
[00:13:57] They're in a voice, and their decisions need to be aligned with their values and their beliefs. So there's a real sense of self there, whereas the other authorities emotional, splenic and sacral very much. Based on body feeling, whether it's emotional, whether it's instinct, or whether it's the gut. The ego authorities very different.
[00:14:17] It's very much based on your sense of self, your self-worth, and your value system and beliefs. Then there is a self projected authority. Now, if you have a self projected authority, you make decisions based on what feels true and authentic to your self-expression. So what I mean is those were the self projected authority to best to process their information out loud.
[00:14:41] They need to speak out loud. The process that they go through to make a decision, they need to literally hear their own voice. That is how they come to a decision that is aligned to them by self projecting it, by speaking it out loud. Okay, two more to go through mental authority. Those are the mental authority base, their decisions on their mental process.
[00:15:03] Their logical process, it's a very careful process, and they need to take their time to analyse on a mental level all the information that is provided to them before making a decision. So there's a process there. Existing in an analysis journey with lots of information and time needs to be provided for them.
[00:15:28] So it's very nuanced here because the premise of human design has always been so that we get out of our heads and into our bodies so that we're not making decisions from our mind. But to be clear, the difference between making a decision from your mental narratives and your mental authorities, your mental authorities, when you have a defined ajna, Where you have a reliable, logical way of processing information.
[00:15:53] Therefore, you are leaning into what is your strength. You are not leaning into narratives, into stories, into belief systems, but a logical system. Okay, that's the difference. And finally, the last authority is what is known as a Luna Authority, and this is pretty much exclusive to the energy type known as the.
[00:16:13] Reflector, I haven't covered that yet, but if you have a Luna authority, you basically make decisions on the phases of the moon cycle and the natural cycles of life. So people who have a Luna Authority really need to be given a lot of time, sometimes even 30 days, to make a decision to really ride the wave of the nature and rhythm of life itself.
[00:16:36] All right. Now there's no right or wrong with any authority. Each individual needs to learn to trust their own inner authority, their own unique decision making strategy. And the way to learn how to trust that is to experiment with it. And this is what Rahru, who invites everybody to do with human design.
[00:16:55] It's an experiential experiment and make it an experimental experience. You look at your chart. Your blueprint, you see what information it provides you, and then you tune into it. You feel into it. Does this feel true? And you can go out and experiment with the different strategies and authorities and you'll know.
[00:17:13] You'll know beyond your mind. You'll have a sense of feeling that what is working for you by following your authority, you will make decisions that are aligned to your true self and that feel fulfilling the feel. Right? Okay. So that's me having gone through the nine different energy centres and the different authorities and I think I'm gonna pause it for there for now, cuz it's already a lot to take in.
[00:17:42] All you really need to know is at this point, with all that information, maybe you wanna save this episode to listen to again, take some notes. But you can get the transcript from the website. Throw me some questions too. It's really important for you to know that there's no real right or wrong authority, okay?
[00:18:00] You just need to experiment and feel into what's right by you. In the next episodes, I'm gonna cover profiles, which refers to the way that you interact with the world and other people, and they're 12 different profiles. So I wanna give you a lot of space before I jump into that. Each of those profile has unique characteristics and traits, and there's also the incarnation crosses, which refer to your life purpose.
[00:18:24] Each incarnation cross has a specific theme or purpose that is related to your personality and energy, and ultimately why you are here in this life. To learn, to live, to embody, to share. So be sure to follow, to subscribe to this podcast so that you don't miss the next instalment of this human design series where I'm gonna break down the profiles and touch on the purpose and the methodologies of the incarnation crosses.
[00:18:52] Understanding your human design chart is incredibly powerful. It's an amazing tool for personal growth and awareness and development. And when you understand your energetic blueprint and you have that self-awareness, you can lean into decisions that align. I'm gonna say this over and over again, that are aligned with your highest potential, that are aligned with making you feel fulfilled and supported and abundant in life.
[00:19:18] If you wanna learn more about human design, take your time with it. Move away from trying to sort of grasp these concepts mentally. I would consume the information and let it wash over you, receive it. Study in a way that it's receiving, listening, integrating it into your body. There are many, many, many resources out there.
[00:19:38] There are loads of human design analysts and lots of offshoots of human designs out there, different types of human design. I'm a purist. I like to learn from the originator, and so I would recommend to you that you head on over to Ra Uru Hu’s Original Source website, known as jovianarchive.com, J O V I A N A R C H I V E com.
[00:20:00] Loads of free resources there. In the meantime, don't get stressed over it. Be fearlessly curious. Play with this, experiment with it. Experience new things, and. Throw me your questions. All right. Because I have a sacral authority, I have that gut response, so I'm meant to respond and I do best when you give me something to respond to.
[00:20:21] So until the next episode, enjoy being fearlessly curious with human design and I'll see you on the next episode. Take care.
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