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Episode 5: Beyond the Basics: The Architecture of Your Energy
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In this deeper dive into human design, Leslie and Alex go far beyond the surface. They explore the origin story, the centers, the archetypes, and the energetic mechanics that shape how you move through life. Expect clarity, perspective, and practical guidance. This is where the pieces of your inner blueprint start to come alive.
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Introduction to 'Don't Trip On Your Cape'
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Welcome to Don't Trip On Your Cape, the podcast where Leslie, the founder of Align Living and Leadership, and her amazing co-host Alex from Much Love dive into the very things that weigh us down, only to reveal those burdens are actually our greatest strengths.
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Together, they help listeners recognize that what feels heavy is often just your own unique superpower in disguise. So grab your cape, and let's explore how to wear without stumbling.
Exploration of Human Design
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Hello, welcome back to Don't Trip On Your Cape. I'm Alex. And I'm Leslie. And today we are going to dive deeper into human design. We did a little bit in the last episode and gave you a bit of an overview. But now that we've whet your appetite, we want to go deeper. And it'll be my turn to do a little bit of questioning of Leslie and get some of her wisdom and knowledge so that we can apply it to your lives like we've applied it to ours. It's helped me a lot and I can't wait. So how about we start Leslie today with energy type? Because that's kind of, you said in the last episode, the most important thing. That at least if you know that, you can do a lot with it. So let's start there.
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Awesome. So I think for me, when i first started looking at my chart the first time, i initially it was kind of of the visually overwhelmed because there's a lot of different pieces of human design to really look at. But once it clicked, it was like the light turned on inside of me. I sometimes say that it's the reflection of me that I wasn't even sure I was looking for. um I realized that every struggle that I kept blaming myself for was actually just a opportunity to notice the misalignment in my life, the things that were
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impacting me from those external pressures. And when I started following my designs more often, right? Not always. um My productivity stopped being a battle. My relationships softened or the dynamic became a bit more flow oriented and the clarity showed up and it felt like the permission to really be myself ah without apology.
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Yeah. How about for you? Because I know that when we first started talking about it at human design, it seemed like it lighted you up a little bit. Well,
Understanding Energy Types in Human Design
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yeah, because it's like you said, it's ah the confirmation you didn't really know you needed in a way that it mirrors you back and gives you that.
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affirmation of who you are is not just enough, it's who you were meant to be, and you're meant to work that way. And it felt that way immediately when I started getting into it. And especially because of the way we'll get deeper into it and the way you teach, for sure.
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And I think a lot of us really struggling with Living out our strategy because we don't know that it's ours, that it's that it's the map, like we talked about in the last episode. it's it's It's not a labeling system. It's not who you are because that's a combination of so many different things. But if you can understand your hardwiring, that those natural energetic activations within you, it's easier to leverage them right and you can invite into your experience those things that are in alignment for you um um so so the first kind of aspect of human design that we mentioned a little bit in our last episode is the energy type um each one has their own
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universe of communications tools and techniques. they're They're kind of their own little microcosm of feedback for us. And each of those types has a strategy. There's an aligned strategy for an energy type to move through the world. And for me, at least, that really helped life open up for me and give me access to that birthright of ease that we've talked about in the past. And When you ignore those cues, kind of feels like life is resisting you instead of understanding that you are resisting what's for you.
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That makes sense. um Absolutely.
Manifestors: Role and Alignment
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Manifestors are the energy type that's here to initiate things. In quantum human design, um Karen relanguaged the manifestor label to initiators.
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And as I mentioned before, i I love that high frequency relanguaging of quantum human design because it makes, to me, it just makes more sense. um You know, say manifestors and people might have their own meaning that they put around manifesting as a verb, but to, to be the initiators really gives clues to the how that they can move through life. And, um, you know, it's not for permission, you know, it's not for invitation to bring people along with, um, and we have, you know, each of those energy types, those strategies come with emotional themes and,
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And for manifestors, it's when we're out of alignment, it's anger. So i love to talk about that aspect of the pain point of each of the energy types because it gives us, again, those cues and clues to where we're misaligned in life. And so when manifestor types are experiencing anger, it's no longer because they're angry people. It's the energy of misalignment showing up in your realm in order for you to realign for you to reorient such a powerful internal message that they get and again knowing yourself knowing that anger like you could easily judge yourself for that but it's a message it's a for you from you with the universe and your alignment and that's a beautiful to know not only are you meant to initiate but when you're initiating and going through the world anger is a very powerful thing that you shouldn't get mad at yourself for but thank yourself and and lean in to see what you're trying to tell yourself that's beautiful
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And this the alliance strategy for manifestors is to inform. And again, it's, if you think about it from a auric perspective, um I like to think about our auras kind of as a magnet fields, right? We have these electromagnetic um essence about ourselves and that informing is it's kind of like a manifestors are moving through the world, kind of like two South facing magnets. And if you think about that, two South facing magnets, they never make contact, but they do have an impact on each other.
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That informing is really about helping people get out of the way, right? Manifestors move really quickly through life because they've got connection to that nonverbal creative flow. and if you've got to slow down that flow, it creates the sense of of anger within, which you can then use as feedback to inform those that are about to be impacted by what you're initiating. It's, hey, I'm about to do this thing. you potentially could be impacted, create space for the initiation.
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and you know, I'm just so grateful for this lens of understanding, not only for myself, but also to help others figure out what is that thing that they need to do to feel understood, right? Manifestors a lot of times feel misunderstood because that internal fire is saying, move now,
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But sometimes the community or the world can feel like it's pushing back. So it really gives manifestors the opportunity to show up in a way that allows them to express their purpose and alignment.
Generators and Manifesting Generators: Balancing Response and Initiative
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um Generators are the next type and they're the builders or the creators of the world. So sometimes people use the analogy of worker bees and Yes, that sort of resonates, but from that place of um you're meant to respond to what shows up in your external environment. and your And generator types have an energy that's really powerful once it's lit up by something. It's where that sacral uh-huh or uh-uh comes from. And when you get that, heck yeah, uh-huh.
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that's the thing to expand in the world. and If sometimes i think generators feel this pressure to initiate, And then it falls flat because that's where the burnout happens, right? We're using some of that precious vitality that's part of our resilience to initiate things. And and that's not really the aligned strategy for generators. The emotional the emotional theme for generators and manifesting generators is is frustration versus satisfaction. So when generators are feeling that frustration, again, it's not because they're doing life wrong per se, but I'm very reticent to use right and wrong, good or bad, but to notice what is supportive and empowering versus what is disempowering or creates that sense of frustration. so when we can feel that satisfaction on the on the other end, it's that's your cue and clue that you are in alignment, that that is the thing that you're here to respond to. That is the thing you're here to expand and grow in the world.
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Moving towards joy, like we talked about in the last thing. Absolutely. Absolutely. and Manifesting generators is a third energy type. And they're a bit of a hybrid in that they do have access to that manifesting energy, but our manifestor energy, but they are generator types first. And so sometimes it can be confusing for manifesting generators to know when is it time to initiate and when is it time to respond? And the order of operations is respond first and then tap into that initiating um opportunity where i think about, you know, manifestors get things started, generators respond and grow them. Manifesting generators are the speedy builders. We're the expediters. So we, know,
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want to skip the unnecessary steps in the process in order to get to the desired outcome a bit faster. Efficiency is definitely something that is important for manifesting generators to understand, but also knowing that we're hardwired to pivot quickly, right? It's like, oh, I've responded to that thing, now let's go um And you're not necessarily manifesting generators in particular, are not necessarily hardwired to stick with something, um especially once they know it's not aligned. And I've worked with a lot of manifesting generators who feel this conditioning of shame.
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for not finishing everything they get started. And I think it's really, really powerful, especially for manifesting generators to know that having a series of unfinished projects in their lives is not an indication that they don't have follow through, but more clues to alignment. And, you know, we're with all of that sacral energy,
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motorized inside our our blueprints, um we need places to put it, we need things to do But then when that thing has served its purpose, when that project or that process has served its purpose, it's okay to shift gears, it's okay to pivot, it's okay to move on to the other, you know, the other next right thing.
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um I've learned from you that manifesting generators often do carry guilt for changing their minds. I've had that experience myself because you think it means failure because you didn't finish the thing, but it's not. It's just that you had clarity. And sometimes, you know, you'll return to the thing because it comes back around. Excuse me. It comes back around and you were meant to have a phase of growth between doing the things and things like that. So it's definitely interesting how manifesting generators need a lot of things, but they do tend since they're following the energy the energy changes and you can't get hard and down on yourself about that that brings up an interesting point for generators and manifesting generators too is there's a there's like a stair step process to their expansion and their alignment and a lot of times uh when generator types are in that plateau up the stair before the next step up um
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it's it's confusing or it's frustrating to be sitting with the frustration and not know, does the frustration indicate that this is time to quit? It's time to stop doing the thing because it's no longer aligned for me.
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Or is the frustration an indication of the plateau and and a cue for persistence and really sticking with it? i was I was actually talking with a client about this last week and she asked that exact question is, well, how do I know?
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And as often as I say this to folks, it's then tuning back into that gut and tuning back into that uh-huh and that sacral intuition of this thing does bring me passion, but I'm feeling maybe a little bored or, um you know, I'm frustrated with the fact that I haven't moved up in the stair-step process yet. And and that's just a, that's a practice really. Yeah.
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And, you know, an opportunity to give yourself grace, ah a space for you to be in an aligned community where you can really talk out these things sometimes and and know what is for you and what isn't for you.
Projectors: Guidance and Recognition
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ah the third ah The fourth energy type that we talk about in human designer is projectors. We talked about them last week and and the idea of they're here to guide.
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They're here to guide the manifestors. They're here to guide the generator types. They're here even really to guide the reflector types. And knowing that the strategy for projectors is to wait for recognition or invitation, can also sometimes be confronting for projectors because it's like, well, I'm just going to spend my whole life waiting for people to recognize. And the answer is no um First and foremost, that invitation and that recognition is for ah for the bigger decisions in life. You don't have to wait for someone to invite you to eat if you're hungry, right? But also being clear that
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Projectors are not at the mercy of the community and they can do the things to create the space for the invitation and the recognition. I've worked with many generators who are, they're such a wise energy expression from an auric perspective they have a very absorbing aura they're taking in the wisdom and the experience and knowledge from all of the different things that they get to live through and then like a laser beam when the invitation and the recognition presents itself it's like oh i know exactly what to say but the human expression of that is often projectors have absorbed the wisdom they do know the thing to say and they say the thing or they do the thing
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And then it fails or it doesn't land because the recognition that they are the source for the wisdom hasn't presented itself yet. And i think when you are hardwired to see the things that other people miss energetically, from a human perspective, I can only imagine how that must feel. And that's, again, where the emotional theme comes in. You know, the emotional theme for for projectors can show up as bitterness. Right?
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And I think when when projectors sometimes hear that, it's like, oh, I'm not a bitter person. No, no more than a manifestor is an angry person. But that experience of bitterness is coming from that place of, I know the answer to the question and you haven't asked me yet. And so I can't actually say it in a way that you will hear it or you will be able to integrate it. And I think when they've force that insight and then they're met with rejection, um it makes sense why that would lead to ah an emotional experience of bitterness, you know?
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Absolutely. I have a friend who's a projector and he's very wise, but he's kind of harmony for that reason. He knows a lot of things and he's he's set it up to where he grows mushrooms like I do. But he has this really wide um base of people that come to him from that that. And every Wednesday he does specials and stuff. So he's used this platform where they come to him on Wednesdays and he talks about all these different spiritual things from chakras to whatever, because they've invited him into their lives and he can use that wisdom on a day-to-day basis. And it's really beautiful. But before he had that, there was some...
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you know, no outlet for that. It felt weird. And in his own life sometimes with his own friends, he's like, I can't say the thing. So I think it's really interesting that projectors need to have that invitation, but it can look many different ways between, you know, close relationships or like my friend who has that platform or any different ways, but it they have that wisdom and being able to, we talk about aligned community a lot. That's part of it.
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Being able to have the right people that will listen to you and use your skills and everything. But very interesting that, you know, that waiting to respond can look be hard, but also it can look very very different than invitation as well.
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That's a beautiful example of an aligned projector creating the space for the invitation and the recognition. i have a, I have a very old friend I've known for 30 years and um she's a, she's a projector. And when, when I first shared this with her she was like, Oh God, that makes so much sense. Like she, um we had a you know, we pretty tight friend group in, in high school and all the rest of us are generator types of some form or fashion. and she could just, she was reflecting with me one day about it And she was like, this is why you all felt exhausting to me sometimes, not because I didn't love you, not because I didn't like want to go do the thing, but I'm just projectors are not hardwired with that same sacral fuel. They truly aren't meant to hustle, right? They aren't meant to constantly be in motion. And knowing this about yourself can give you the opportunity to take that rest and, and,
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go through the restoration process. you know she She used to make herself kind of be wrong for needing to sit on the couch and you know veg out for hours. um And now part of that is really understanding that that's just an expression of alignment for her.
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And knowing that doing those things in the restoration process is actually part of the wisdom generation. It's part of that absorption of you know all of those bits and pieces that when when the invitation and recognition presents itself, it's like, oh, I know the thing. I heard the thing. I learned the thing. And now you're ready to benefit from the thing I learned. um It's like integration, really. That's their time.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
Reflectors: Community Alignment and Decision-Making
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And the fifth energy type we talk about in human design are reflectors. And quantum human design, the language is calibrators. And I, again, I just, I love that idea of this is the, these are the people in our communities that are here to support the calibration of the collective, right? They're really, they are just walking around as these mirrors for the rest of us.
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And they have a very, they have a sampling aura, right? So they're taking in all of the feedback from how everyone else is showing up in alignment or not.
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um And the strategy for reflectors is, it's called a lunar strategy. So we talk about this idea, of and this is sort of where I geek out on the chart again. But if you look at your blueprint, and I would invite anyone who's listening, if you don't already have your human design, we'll have a link in the description for you to access your chart.
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But it could be really helpful to kind of just look at your own human design chart as we're going through this process. And know that All those lines and dots and shapes on the chart are just another way of looking at the map of the sky.
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um If you are familiar with your astrology chart and you've seen the you know the circular circular birth chart, that's just another representation of where the planets were in the sky at the moment you were born, just like your human design blueprint is. And those 64 different gates in your chart, those 64 different numbers that create the the channels of energy,
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represent different places in the sky. So if you track your, if you track the lunar cycle, and anyone can do this, I i love me some moon magic and some some cycle inquiry. um The moon activates all 64 gates in your chart once a month, right? The sun activates all 64 gates in your chart once an earth year.
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ah takes Pluto 248 earth years to rotate through this through the cycle. So unless you're really an old, you're not likely to experience that same um activation from a transformation perspective. But for reflectors who do not have any defined channels of energy in their chart, they will look at the chart and all of the shapes will be white.
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They still have the same number of planetary activations that the rest of us do. but they're not aligned in ways that actually create connections of energy within their individual charts. And that lunar authority, what that means is that if they given the space and the freedom to wait for the moon to move through all 64 parts of the chart, then they have that complete information as we talked about a little bit last time and in the last episode,
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If you've got an emotional authority, you wait for the wave of energy to move through you in order to get the aligned feedback that you need to take action. For reflectors, it's really about waiting that lunar cycle to make major decisions. And again, not what's for dinner, because obviously you're not going to wait a month to figure that out, right?
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But is it time to move? Is it time to take a job? um You know, and time brings clarity for reflectors. And in this hustle and bustle world that we live in that can be really confronting for folks who truly can't know what is aligned for them without the space to integrate the feedback over the course of an earth month.
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Absolutely. That is such an exercise in patience, but that's also why they take in so much. It's a wide data field of info. And yeah, that's one of the reasons you say, if you ever meet one, ask them, how are you doing? Because it really is every month cycle, a big day data field that they can share with you. That's crazy.
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And it's such a complete source of wisdom that so many of us don't take in. I think all of us could really benefit from that, right? Because the moon is activating different parts of all of our charts in a universal way. The moon's in the same part of the sky for me as it is for you.
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But how does that activate the unique blueprint and the unique hardwiring for each of us? It's going to show up differently. Yeah. you know It's just, again, another lens of self-understanding, but also a beautiful space for grace and expression.
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you know So i i just I think there's value to be gained from understanding all of the energy types, not just your own. Which I think sometimes, especially in the in the initial part of this inquiry, it's like, oh, tell me about me. And yes, no know thyself, but also understand how that might be showing up in in the activations of the people that you're in partnership with.
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Yeah, your your superhero team, especially the people closest to you, because then you're helping not only yourself, but then be able to work in alignment. You work that your skills better. And having a good team means you don't have the same skills most of the time that you can, you know, <unk>ve I've said this before, the yin to me yang, because we're so different. theres i mean, we have some, are our values and things like that are common, but we come at,
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the things from a completely different way, which makes us a good partnership. But it's the same thing for anybody in your team. And one of the first things you did for me was run a lot of the people that I work with with charts and so to give me those to look at. And it's so interesting every time I meet a new person, we look at it because if you know them,
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and they're going to be working for you especially or you're going to be close together, those you also know their emotional authority as well. If somebody's feeling angry and you know their manifesto, you're like, let's talk about it. Where's this coming from? Or if there's bitterness from a reflector, you're like, I have some information I need to get from this person. And that's a really powerful thing because it not only gives you your power because you know yourself, but helps other people out of their power and gives you some of the power to help them as well. It's beautiful to know all of it.
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I think in relationship too, it also helps with the communication piece. um As a manifesting generator, I, um and I have a home office and I have made three people and we live in a three gen household with my mother and my husband. So like, there's a lot of people moving around in our space. And when i would come into my office, i would respond to that cue. Okay. It's time to do the thing. I've got this moment of inspiration. And then I would tap into that manifester initiation part. And The gift of the nonverbal creative flow is that it is this access, this universal flow of inspiration that's coming to you.
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The potential challenge is that it's kind of like a river. And once you step out of the river, when you step back in you're stepping into a new place in the river, right? And um I can remember, especially when I first started working from home, one of my kids would come through and you know just kind of peek their head on the door and be like, hey, mom, what you doing? And it would make me so angry because I would have to stop what I was doing to to respond to them.
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and at first I was like, God, i I'm like a shitty mom. I'm such an asshole. Like, i you know, like that what's wrong with me? They just want to come give me a hug or something, you know? And then when I got clarity on this dynamic, I was able to say and communicate, hey,
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When I'm in my office and my door is closed, that's my communication that I'm in my flow, right? I'm i'm i'm in i'm doing my thing. If you interrupt that, or even with the best of intentions, it brings this this anger cue out in me. um And that's not personal.
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And I also know from a human relationship perspective, it doesn't feel great. So, um you know, I say to them, if someone's not bleeding or something's not on fire, Respect the you know respect threshold. um But I think it's, it's, it helped this human design has helped me so much with being able to communicate, not only with others and what they need, but also to communicate my own needs. And that anger is just that really fast initiation energy.
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kind of like a lightning bolt that gets redirected. if you're in the flow and someone interrupts you, it's kind of like a lightning rod and you pew, you know, goes's in that wrong it goes in the wrong place. It goes someplace it's not meant to go. Been there, done that. from ah again from a relational perspective, that shit sucks. Like nobody wants to be on the receiving end of a lightning bolt.
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um And some of my best work comes when I'm able to direct that flow and in the right place in the aligned place and the place that that I'm responding to that's giving me that sacral yes. So it's it's been such a such a gift to be able to communicate through this lens about myself and to others.
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Well, and what a gift for your kids too, to know that like boundaries are self-care, you know, to be able to have that expression of this is what it looks like for my authority and how I work. And then they can learn how they work and have that communication back. Cause we talked about, you know, all of these things are really for the kids. And if you can learn all of this stuff early and it's a great way to, you know, demonstrate that by example, cause that's really how kids learn by what you do, not what you say. And being able to say, hey, this is my emotional, or this is my authority. have emotional, and anger comes up, and this is how I work in the flow. And that's a big explanation. But it's so much data. Just like they get it, though. And kids are so smart. And when they learn those things, those boundaries and that self-respect, it's so beautiful. That's powerful.
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I had a teacher early on, i was taking a children's yoga certification and we were talking about intuition and how, especially as younger folks, we're so tuned in to the energy around us. And um she shared the story. She was like, you know, parents inadvertently Shut that down, or we create confusion. You know, if you're driving with your kid in the backseat of the car, and someone pulls out in front of you, and you stop the brakes really hard, and you feel this adrenaline rush, because you almost got into a car accident.
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Oftentimes the kids will be in the backseat and be like, hey, mom, what happened? And mom's initial kind of defense mechanism is be like, oh, nothing, nothing happened. Nothing's wrong.
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But the truth is, from an energetic perspective, something is wrong. And the kid did tune into it very accurately. And then we we confuse the meaning on how they're supposed to interpret things.
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what they've picked up on. and And I think that's that's been a really poignant lesson that certainly has stuck with me, you know, 20 years later. But I think it's true in all relationship really is we inadvertently with the best of intentions, shut down someone's aligned interpretation of the energy And then we tell them it means something different than they interpret. And depending on our position of authority or whether or not we're a trusted source of information, they might believe our words are our explanation over that true intuitive insight. And then, i you know, I think the longer I get to use this lens and and all of my work, I'm really clear that we need to take responsibility
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for our authentic expression of self and human design can really help with that. So we would talk about kind of the energy types and their aligned strategy. And then the next level of uniqueness is our inner authority.
Inner Authority in Human Design
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So again, if you're looking at your chart, you can start to so kind of see where is your definition show up because your authority, your type is determined by how your energy centers are defined and your authority is determined by which energy centers are defined.
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um So authority really tells you how to make those aligned choices, right? The strategy is what to do. The authority is how to do the thing. And it's the voice of truth that's inside your body.
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So we have a variety of different authorities that show up in our energy types. Emotional authority, as we mentioned a little bit in the last episode, that's where the clarity comes over time.
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So it's really not about making big decisions in the moment, which again, if you're a manifesting generator with emotional authority, that's just one of the conundrums that can show up in your chart. Which we both are, so we understand very well.
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And my teacher talks about conundrums a lot and they're not they're they're just opportunities to notice, okay, where is this dynamic energy activated within me? um Another type can be sacral authority. And that's really that truth that's grounded in your gut, right? It's that uh-huh or uh-uh, but it is immediate and it is true. i was it was just sitting with a client last night and intuition doesn't give you a maybe it's it is truly binary it's one of the few things in our life that really is binary it's yes or no and if it's not a yes then it is a no and if it is a no then it's not a yes and so much of that sacral authority can be challenging for generator types because the circumstances of life
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can give us those external pressures of making misaligned choices. If it is sacral no, and I still feel the obligation or the requirement or the responsibility to go do the thing, that can create some static. And for me, at least, that that's where my frustration shows up a lot is my circumstances don't always align with my true energetic hardwiring.
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And I get to make the choice. And then I get to manage the consequences of the choice. And it's not, you know, as much as I love to talk about the energetics, it's not all energy. If we were meant to be pure energetic beings, we would not have inhabited these meat suits with all these emotions and feelings and be walking around on this planet with all these other magnetic meat suits with emotions and feelings.
00:33:49
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But at least understanding this and knowing what is the source of the misalignment and how do I manage the misalignment? I i don't really believe that we are evolved as a collective yet where everyone gets to show up in pure alignment.
00:34:05
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every moment of their conscious day. But being able to course correct quicker or communicate how we need to course correct in the future, i think is is one of the greatest gifts of understanding this about yourself and others.
00:34:20
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um The third authority type is splenic authority. And that's really where our intuition lives. But unlike some of the other authority feedback, it's very quiet.
00:34:33
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right you get ah You get that whisper and you get it once. And if you can't hear it or don't listen, there will be consequences for that opportunity as well. right there There's this, sometimes this burden with splenic authority because life is loud and your authority is pretty quiet.
00:34:54
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And so you can, you get, you get the invitation to create the quiet in your life circumstances in order to be able to leverage that inner authority with splenic authority.
00:35:07
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The next authority type is ego authority or heart authority. And sometimes people hear this and they get a little tripped up with that word ego, because that refers to a lot of different systems of self-understanding, but it's,
00:35:21
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it's really the truth of your desire, right? It's that if you want it, it is right. And if you don't want it, it is not right. But being able to learn to leverage that,
00:35:36
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understanding, again, can be challenging because it's not a it's not a repetitive source of feedback. It is, you know, and if you know and you don't do the thing, you still have to go live your life, right?
00:35:52
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Yeah. And sometimes I think of some of these things almost like if you miss your turn, I mean, like on the highway, you're going to have to backtrack. and You're not going where you want. And I love that you said that about the splenic authority, the invitation to make their life quieter, because I think so many of these things are, we're not all able to live in alignment all the time, but the more you are, and the more you build your life around that and the more you know yourself, you can do that. So, yeah, that's I definitely think if you miss it, that's a harder thing and you can build your life so you don't miss it. You don't have to take those detours back on the highway.
00:36:27
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i Actually, I love that analogy, because if you miss your exit, you can either go someplace different yeah or you can take the scenic route. Right, but you don't really, ah you don't have a magic time machine. And i I say that a lot in my client sessions is human design is not a magic time machine to go back in the past and make the aligned choice.
00:36:48
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But it is a beautiful time machine for future self. And so we can we can set ourselves up so that future selves are not missing the turn or having to take the scenic route or you know bypassing that feedback.
00:37:05
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More often. um The next authority type is self projected authority. And there's a lot of opportunity with self self projected authority to really hear your truth when you speak it out loud.
00:37:21
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And I think for for some of us, um especially as we grow into adulthood, the space to speak our truth is not always abundant.
00:37:32
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Or the practice of speaking our truth gets shut down, sometimes by people who are not well-intentioned, but often, more often than not.
00:37:42
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by people who are well-intentioned but don't understand the value of someone with a self-projected authority being able to speak their truth and then take action in alignment with that truth.
00:37:57
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um The next authority type is mental authority or environmental authority. And that's where your clarity comes from the right environment with the right people to think with and to process with.
00:38:09
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And that's part of why I preach so often about the importance of an aligned authority. community is because for some of us, especially with mental authority, we need to be able to process it, right? If you're an external processor, if you have the thoughts and you need to say the thing, you also need to have the right people in your life to be able to say the thing to, who will not just listen, but support you in making those choices for yourself with that authority.
00:38:40
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And then the final ah type of authority that we talked about a little bit with reflectors is lunar authority. And that's really the gift of time, right? Reflection needs time and that time reveals the truth, but it's not true.
00:38:56
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it doesn't come to us with that sense of urgency. so again, we, you know, we talk about conundrums a lot, sometimes being in relationship with someone with lunar authority. if you are someone who does move fast and make decisions quickly, your urgency is not someone else's emergency, but we can inadvertently do that to folks. And, and it really is a do that. It's a, we put that impact on another And then we sometimes make it harder for them to be in alignment with themselves.
00:39:29
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How, how, have as you've learned a little bit more about your own authority, how has that showed up in your life? for For me, being having emotional authority, I am an already an emotional person in general. So knowing that, was like, oh, great. But it does help because, and I have called you before and said, I'm in the i'm in the top of the wave. like i know where I'm at. So I have to get this out. And instead, I know that I'm not making any decisions right now, but I still need to do the thing and be angry or whatever it is because you know my emotional is anger.
00:40:00
Speaker
And so knowing that and not being mad at myself, being able to get the feelings out and process it and then I'm like, all right, now we're going to go down the other way and let myself have all of the thing before. Whereas a lot of times before, like I would have an instinct or a reaction and i would either be frustrated with myself because I had this anger or this gut instinct or whatever it was and not really know that this is a message for myself. And also just...
00:40:27
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Not being able to say to somebody, I don't know the answer to that yet. And I'm very comfortable now saying, hey, ah thanks for your question. I'll get back to you. like Or just straight to their face saying, I need to go through the wave of the emotions of this. I'm getting some gut instinct, but I'm not really sure what it means yet. And being able to just have the language of this is the way I work and not explaining all of it, but... knowing to be able to honor myself say, I'll get back to you in 48 hours. because the Knowing for myself are, all right, there's some messages here and I'm go have to get through them. But, and, and like you said, that community, being able to call you and be like, I am at the top of the wave. Let me yell. And I don't really yell, you know, that, but like, it feels that way and energetically.
00:41:10
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And so, yeah, for me, it's, it's a lot of that. But I also love that you said, Knowing someone else's authority, you can kind of push them if you don't know in some ways. And especially like being a manifesting generator, I like to move fast and and do the thing. And people get out of my way and I'm doing the thing. But also...
00:41:33
Speaker
I do have people that I know that are slower and and all of that and being able to not push my agenda on them and use that. to And because that emotional authority for me, knowing i can get angry, I don't want to cause them the other things as well. So for me, it's just a knowing yourself first and being able but to have the language of this is what I need. This is where I'm at. And I find it very beautiful to know other people as well because then you can...
00:41:58
Speaker
Like you said, communication is so important, knowing what you need, knowing what they need, and being able to honor that. Yeah, and and create the harmony that feels good, that think is is one of my...
00:42:13
Speaker
observations about knowing this. I also am a manifesting generator with emotional authority and i have definitely felt tuned in into the energetic expression of self that moving fast, skipping steps, doing the thing, but understanding this next level of my human design and that my emotional authority really can only serve me after I've moved through the wave means that i likely need to sleep on it, right? Emotional, emotional authority typically,
00:42:42
Speaker
is complete within 24 to 48 hours. So it's not like i I don't have to like think on it for a week, but I really do serve myself and the communities that I'm a part of if I'm willing to sleep on it. And that's kind of become my mantra when, when really exciting. It's typically the exciting thing, the things that excite me up. I'm like, yeah, I totally want to do that, like but I should sleep on it before I say yes. Right. To make sure. um That's been a real gift for me, especially my business. You know, i'm I'm very discerning about who I choose to work with. But I also have a big heart and want to help everyone that wants to be helped, especially. And sometimes um I can think of a couple of instances in particular where i was like, OK, I'm
00:43:30
Speaker
I would love to serve you. I can see that you need service and i have a great person I can refer you to, right? I am, um we we talked a little bit in the last episode that that truthfulness without tact can be cruelty. And I am not the um soft fuzzy coach who will hold your hand and blow smoke up your ass and tell you that it's all good when it's not. And some of the people who are very aligned for me as clients, they love that about me. And that's what they see. it That's what they're seeking. That's what they want. That's what will serve them in their growth process.
00:44:00
Speaker
Some people are not ready for that or they're not fortified to receive that through the filter of service. And for me to now know, you know, okay, let me let me hear this person's story. let me think on how how I would be able to show up in alignment with myself, right, or without sacrificing my aligned expression?
00:44:22
Speaker
And does that really match up with where they're at and what they need? And if the answer is no, you know, it's not personal. As a matter of fact, it would be personal for me to say yes when it's not a yes, because that would ultimately put us someplace that doesn't serve us both.
00:44:36
Speaker
And as you have shared with me on multiple occasions, right, All benefit is mutual. And sometimes i think younger me especially was like, oh, well, I can help, but I can't help them in the way, now I know, I can't help them in the way that they actually can receive the help.
00:44:52
Speaker
So that actually wouldn't be very helpful. We have said in my house over and over again, um you know, people want to get all up in my stuff. And I'm like, here, can I help? And I'm like, no, that actually would not be helpful. Right. Like I'm in, I'm in go mode and I need to just do the thing real fast. And having you help me, help me would not really be helpful I have to explain it to you first. That's not helping. And then, you know, as a parent, I'm also very clear that having a three-year-old help me fold the laundry is a great practice, right? It it it helps the child learn the the process. It helps them develop the skill.
00:45:31
Speaker
But it also, from an energetic perspective, it is frustrating as fuck to have a three-year-old fold it wrong and have to have me fold it the right way later, right? Like there's a right way to fold the towel and that's not it um but it. But it's, again, now that I understand this about, you know, the dynamic of the energetics of the dynamic, I'm able to sometimes slow myself down because then then what I'm responding to is the teaching opportunity as a parent not the execution opportunity as a manifesting generator who needs to fold 12 towels. you know Because again, there's a realignment. doesn't change the circumstance. doesn't even change the players in the game.
00:46:12
Speaker
Totally changes what I'm getting to respond to in my external environment. Absolutely. And I have the opposite thing where I often respond no, and I should be responding yes. And so i waiting for me, I'm a hermit, and we'll get into that later and in just a little bit, since some of the different types, but...
00:46:34
Speaker
Yeah, I tend to be like, I don't want to do the thing. And then later I'm like, that could have been all right. So it is going through the the things. But I love that you said that about the responding is it can be in the moment where you can pivot that way or depending on if it's a bigger thing and you're in your emotions, you can take a second. And sometimes it is just a second and sometimes it's a night. But all of the different ways that we have our authority have a timeline as well. else And we can always realign, which I think is such a gift.
00:47:05
Speaker
When we can understand that about ourselves is, you know, like I said, i if i'm out if I'm aligned to the goal getting complete versus realigning to the teaching process, those are two very different points of reference for me.
00:47:22
Speaker
Next, we want I think we're going to get into the centers too, right? so Yeah. So that next level, after we understand kind of the the energy type and the inner authority, and can kind of start to parse apart the energy centers. So if you're looking at your chart, the energy centers are those larger shapes inside your body graph, the squares and triangles. Mm-hmm.
00:47:41
Speaker
And being able to know that these these are the part of your human design that are born from the chakra system. um i i can remember when i when I started to really explore this part of human design, I was like, oh because I have had a um active yoga practice in many a yoga studio across the country and abroad. And oftentimes I would see that poster of the person sitting in lotus position with a pretty little rainbow up the spine. And I always, i felt this inside kind of resistance to that because it felt so linear.
00:48:15
Speaker
Right. When talk about, you know, if your heart chakra is blocked, I'm like, well, the heart's the green one in the middle. How can I, how how can i feel a sense of safety to communicate if there's this blockage in the middle, right? It's like the, the broken, you know, the barrier in the road or whatever. and For human design, with human design, there's really like all these bypasses, right? There's all these different ways that our energy centers can connect to each other and through each other. And so for me, this was really...
00:48:46
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one of the pieces of human design that made more sense than any of the other systems had really been able to give me access to. So you're, you have nine different energy centers in your human design. We'll just kind of move from the top to the bottom. So the triangle at the top of your chart, it's the head center.
00:49:06
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It's the center of ah inspiration. um It really means understanding that when your head center is defined, you have a steady way of thinking. I like to think about us as walking around with these invisible antennas on top of our heads. The head center is really kind of the antenna point. It's where you're picking up the broadcast. It's where you're picking up the channels. And an open head center means there's this often this experience of a pressure to answer the questions. right um We have two pressure centers in our chart. We have the root center at the bottom and the head center at the chart.
00:49:44
Speaker
And if you think about them um as using that pressure to move all of the energy to the throat where that's the the center for manifestation. right That's what determines if you're a manifester.
00:49:56
Speaker
if you have a great idea or you have a great feeling but you can't communicate it it's just a great feeling or a great idea and there's this pressure to move that energy to a place of manifestation in the outer world right and so those understanding the definition and the openness at the head center can really give you some power to knowing how to leverage all of that thinking that's happening all of that inspiration that you're accessing from the quantum field.
00:50:28
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um The next center down below the head center is that inverted triangle. It's Ajna. I think about it as the mental processor, right? It's it's the thinking part of who we are. it's the It's the processing part of what we're thinking. Sometimes people think of thinking and processing as the same thing. To me, they're quite different. So we have access to the inspiration and then we do something with it.
00:50:53
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um A defined Ajna oftentimes gives you stable perspectives, but it can also show up as a fixed way of thinking. So those of us with a defined Ajna kind of, we know how we think and we can be really challenged if people want us to think differently.
00:51:09
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differently. An open Ajna often feels like there's this persistent pressure to answer the questions, right? So those are the people, a lot of times people with an open Ajna are prone to overthinking, over-processing. Even when you have the answer, you still want to think on it and you still want to come up and you still want to make sure that the answer that you think is right is also not, you know, impacted by some of those other pieces of inspiration, right?
00:51:37
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ah The next center down is the throat center. So that's the square below the triangles. That's really our center for communication. And as we talked about, that's what determines a manifestor. They have a defined throat. And that sense of communication, again, we all have the ability to communicate, but those of us with a defined throat have a consistent means of expressing ourselves.
00:52:03
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If you have an open throat, that means that you speak you can potentially speak differently based on who you're in communication with, who you're co-mingling your energy with. And that's not to say that there's a false sense of authenticity, but to understand that an authentic expression for someone with an open throat will sound different depend on depending on who they're in communication with. And that's a gift. my One of my teachers talks about our openness is actually where our superpowers live, right? So if you think about this idea of definition and openness from a place of predictability or variability, having variability in your different energy systems is part of how your expansion, how you access your expansion and you access your growth.
00:52:54
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ah The next energy center down is the G center or the identity center. So that's the trying of the diamond in the middle of your of your chart. This is the place of identity and direction.
00:53:06
Speaker
So thinking about the idea of knowing who you are, a defined energy center gives you a steady sense of self. an open identity center means you become who you are based on who you're around. And again, not from a place of inauthenticity. It's not a fake. It's not a, I'm putting on shows. It's truly understanding your identity shifts, your, so your authentic identity shifts based on who you commingle your energy with or how your energy is being activated by the transits. I myself have a wide open identity center. I have no activations on my identity center.
00:53:48
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But I can remember, especially as a younger person, in high school, I was friends with like all the different groups. And like true friends, like I had real connections with the jocks, I had real connections with the nerds, I had real connections with the social goods, know, like I had.
00:54:02
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And i I reflect back on that now through the lens of my human design. I'm like, Oh, well, that Totally makes sense. Whereas some people with a defined identity center, they know who they are and they know who they want to be with. And they don't really have that same inclination. That's me. To show up, to show up in all these different communities because it doesn't feel aligned.
00:54:27
Speaker
And that's okay. Again, right. Giving yourself the grace to be like, oh, this is why i show up, how i show up. And it doesn't mean that I am. bad for being who i am, but just understanding it It's an explanation, I think, for a lot of us.
00:54:45
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it's It's your superpower, you know, we've talked about before how you go out into the world and meet all different types of people. And that's, that's a superpower for you. And I'm much more grounded and people tend to come to me and that's my superpower. It's just an energetic expression and neither one of us are wrong. And in fact, it really helps us collaborate even better. So I love that. And and be in partnership in ways that not only serves the we,
00:55:13
Speaker
but also allows you and me to show up authentically as well. Absolutely. So the next ah energy center in your chart is your heart or your ego center. It's the little triangle to the right. If you're looking at your chart, that's the center of willpower and a defined ego really gives you access to a powerful drive, right? Those are the go, the go getters, the ones who are,
00:55:39
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Blinders on, goal attained, achieving the you know goal focus on achieving the goal. um Whereas an open ego center can really show up with an inconsistent willpower. And that should, lot of times, especially if you have openness in the center, we can burn ourselves out because we're trying to force it.
00:56:02
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And that doesn't serve, it doesn't serve the individual. It ultimately doesn't serve the collective. And it typically shows up in those emotional themes of anger, pain, frustration, and bitterness, right? This this understanding that we are have I have the willpower. it I know where my value sits in this moment versus I have an an unyielding understanding of this is the value I bring, take it or leave it.
00:56:31
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The next ah energy center in your chart is the sacral. So that's the square towards the bottom of second, second to the bottom. um That's our energy center for life force. I often call, talk about the sacral center as our, the fuel tank for the collective. It's where the energy to have an It's where the enoughness sits and less about that idea of I am enough and more about understanding I have enough energy to go do the thing.
00:57:02
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A defined sacral really gives you access to that sustainable energy to move through life. And an open sacral, that's what would determine a manifestor, projector, or reflector.
00:57:14
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That's where you need to give yourself grace to and understand that you don't work like the others do. And that doesn't mean that you don't work well, but it does mean that you need to work differently.
Sacral Energy and Sustainable Life Force
00:57:24
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um I think, and as we've talked about before, define sacral types, generators and manifestant generators, we make up about 70% of the population. So if you think about it from a fuel tank perspective, we would want those types to be the majority of the collective because that's where we need that sustainable energy to come. They're the source of that sustainable energy.
00:57:46
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I think a lot of times, especially with an open sacral, that question of, am I enough? Do I have enough? Is this enough, right? Or is this too much? That's the kind of where the burnout can show up And we talk about burnout a lot with non-sacral types, but I do want to be clear that generators and manifesting generators can burn themselves out too, even with that defined sacral and access to that sustainable energy. When we're saying yes, when we mean no, and no, when we mean yes, we're not utilizing that sustainable energy in a way that's actually aligned to the greater purpose.
00:58:23
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That was going to be my question. Is it alignment? Whether or not you use your energy in alignment, you have enough. And that makes total sense. i went to lunch with somebody last week, as somebody that I know I'm out of alignment with, but I made an exception. And boy, did that hour take a bajillion megawatts of energy out of me. for the rest of the day and the next day was like, woo! And it wasn't time, it was just literally quantum, quantum physics taking the energy because one misaligned decision took so much more energy that I would have had for so many other things. And that makes total sense.
00:59:01
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That's a really valuable insight that it's not the number of misaligned choices. It's whether the choices are aligned or not. And like I said, it was not even an hour. And just the amount of energy that used was so much more than so many other things I can do. And physical things, like like heart is objectively harder things take less energy because again, it's quantum. It's alignment. It's saying yes to something you know is a no. And your energy will pay for that. Mine sure did.
00:59:36
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And it's beautiful feedback too. right we can We can learn from it or not, but the feedback is, I think, all always divine. ah So the next energy type is the emotional solar plexus. So that's the um shape on the chart that's sitting to the right of the sacral. That's where we've talked about this emotional wave coming through. And a defined emotional solar plexus really means that you can ride the waves with authority.
01:00:06
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And it could be like hands up on the roller coaster. It could be like white knuckling the reins of the horse. Like it you ride the waves in lots of different expressions. But an open emotional so solar plexus means that you're amplifying that emotional energy. And I think that's and also a really keen um understanding of looking at your chart. Sometimes people look at the chart and they'll be like, I don't have X.
01:00:30
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That is not true. We all have all of the chart. It's about understanding, do you have access to that energy in a predictable way, in a defined way, or do you have access to that energy in an open way, which is variable. It's going to show up differently based on the cycles of the moon, the cycles of the sun, the people you're commingling your energy
Spleen Center: Intuition and Guidance
01:00:52
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with. But anywhere you've got openness in your chart,
01:00:56
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going to amplify that energy. So it's it's almost the opposite of not that you don't have that energy, but that you're going to experience that and energy in so many different ways.
01:01:08
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It's not going to feel predictable. And again, i think that's also why that's where our superpowers live, because the predictable part is the stuff you already know you know. the variable parts are the parts where you get to experiment and play around and create in new and different ways potentially every single time you get access to it.
01:01:30
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um The next energy center is the splenic center. So it's on the other side of the solar plexus, I mean of the sacral center. And as we talked about, that's that's our oldest from ah from a timeline perspective, that's our oldest energy center. So before we were set nine centered beings, before we were seven centered beings, we were one centered beings.
01:01:51
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but It was evolution or not. It was evolved or not. um That also, again, I i love that idea of we talk about the sacral is our gut, but the spleen is really where intuition lives. And again, it's quiet and it's not repetitive. And a defined spleen gives you consistent access to your instinct. Again, that idea of survival.
01:02:19
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Whereas an open spleen maybe makes you feel by that, maybe maybe makes you feel pushed by that external urgency. um I think I shared in the last episode, I have a wide open, so I have an open spleen, but I have seven hanging gates. So I have like all of these different potentials for electromagnetic connections with splenic information.
01:02:41
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But for me, intrinsically, i like, I don't, I don't feel that the same way. I'm kind of want to try it on and see what happens. I've had a lot of accidents in my life because I stepped over the edge. Yeah.
01:02:54
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Whereas someone with a defined spleen will know with certainty where the edge is and likely understand the consequences of going over the edge. And so how do you, when I connect with someone with splenic activations, I have a tendency to amplify that because I have that openness in my own chart, but I have so many different places where I i could potentially access it. um it's It's been a really, that's probably, at least for me personally, that's been the biggest growth opportunity for me to learn how to leverage my own human design is is being clear on the access, the openness, and the activation of that amplification.
01:03:38
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And then the last energy center is the root center. It's that square at the very bottom of your chart. And that's the, again, in the other pressure center, it's that pressure to move. um i I talk about um root center energy as a lot of times people who feel like they struggle with procrastination, they'll have a defined...
01:03:58
Speaker
root. And if you think about it like kind of like a pressure cooker, put the chicken in the pressure cooker and you open it before it's done, the chicken is raw and it will kill you. If you know exactly when the right time and the pressure is to open the top, the chicken is delicious and it will serve you and nourish you.
01:04:14
Speaker
Those of us with a defined root have this real embodied sense of knowing when is the right time, when is the right amount of internal pressure to take action. And open root means you're constantly feeling pushed. Like, is it, is it time yet? Is it time yet? Is it time yet? Is it time yet? Because we don't have, they don't have that same sense of inner knowing about that internal pressure. And for, for, you know, with the idea of procrastination, I tell people, if you give me three weeks to do a project that I know will take three days,
01:04:49
Speaker
I will see you in two and a half weeks because I i will not feel that in inner pressure to take action before that timeline. And i think also for me that that was one of the gifts of understanding my my own energetic hardwiring is procrastination is a label that people put on this behavior of taking action in a timely fashion. But what's timely for me might not be timely for other people and neither of us is right or wrong, but there is an aligned action for each of us individually. Absolutely.
01:05:27
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What has been of your experience with the energy centers and understanding your own One of the most interesting things about the energy centers is what you talked about and how you have the open spleen with all the gates and things. And I know we're not going to have time to go into all the gates and all the channels and all the things, but how they have are all have different, each one has different parts of the sky that are activated and different things and how that they do connect to different parts of each other and things like that. I don't know if you want to go a high level, like brief explanation on what gates and channels are.
01:06:01
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So the next level that but in your right, we would, that is at least another episode. if is i is it But the next level of understanding after you know your type and you know your authority and you understand the energy center activations with you is you'll see in your chart,
01:06:16
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All of those energy centers have little numbered circles around the edges of them, and they connect to the lines or the channels of energies between the energy
Gates and Channels: Astrological Influences in Human Design
01:06:26
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centers. And each of the, we call those gates in human design. Each of those gate activations represents a part of the sky. Again, if you think about it from astrology perspective, we break the chart down into 12 zodiac signs, 12 different parts of the sky.
01:06:41
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Human design breaks down those those into even more, um, detailed aspects of expression. um And they they really show up, again, with those elemental um expressions, right? So if you are familiar with the tropical asrology astrology zodiac, we we know that Each of the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and four times three 12, and that's thus the birth of the the zodiac chart. um The gates have an even more keenly designed expression of those zodiac energies. So like, for instance, if I tell you like you have some Scorpio activation in your chart. And for those of you who are familiar with astrology, you might know that that's fixed water. That's a sustained flow of emotional energy, but that still might not feel
01:07:37
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useful in your everyday living. um You know, i I tell people, if I tell you I have a ninth house Aries sun, that might mean something to you, but it might sound like a bunch of gobbledygook in words that you understand independently, but not all together in that same sentence. you know But there's parts of of Scorpio that are splenic.
01:07:57
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There are three gates in our so in our spleen center that are Scorpio activations. There is one of the gate activations in the G center, the identity center, that is a Scorpio activation. And then there's the Ajna and the sacral as well that are all Scorpio activation. So starting to understand the keener distinction of that fixed flow of water energy, is it showing up in an instinctive, intuitive survival way? Is it showing up in a sense of identity?
01:08:26
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I know exactly who I am and nobody's going to change my mind about who that is. Is it showing up in the Ajna? I know exactly what I think about this thing and nobody's going to change how I think. Or is it showing up in that sacral energy that I know exactly what it is I need to do and nobody's going to change how I do it. That has been a really journey.
01:08:46
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intersection of systems of understanding for myself is being able to break down those elemental expressions of who I am. I've always known I have a lot of fire in my chart, but I didn't really exactly understand what that meant for me personally until I was able to bring it down into my body. i share with people sometimes human design is a way to bring the astrology out of the sky And into your body. And once you embody it, then you can go take it into your relationships with a bit more authority. So we may put on the agenda another, a deeper dive. Deeper, deeper deep, deep. Right, a deeper dive into the next levels of human design. but
01:09:29
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Really my my hope for for this episode and this conversation today was not to encourage people to go try to figure out all the parts of all of the chart, but to help you gain a better access to the map, right? Start to be able to understand, kind of give you a a key that's not just a topographical map, but really understanding what are the paths to navigate using your unique human design And if you follow your strategy and you follow your authority, you already can start to understand, okay well, I know that I have openness in this area of my chart. How am i showing up in the variability?
01:10:11
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How do I now know how to use that understanding of myself to access that ease like we've talked about? Absolutely. And that's ah the thing that I like about once the the deeper you go, there's always more. But those things we've covered today are really the things that are the most important day to day that you really know about yourself, your energy type, and then your emotional authority, or not your emotional, but your authority in what it is in that way that you work. And just those two things alone is so important to be able to know about yourself in day to day. You can use those a million times. They're they're just so informative. And
01:10:50
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give you your superpowers back in so many ways. Yeah. And I think when you start living your design, life stops feeling like a fight, right? We stop tripping on our cape as often.
01:11:02
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Or when we do, we have understanding of why we have, and we're able to, you know, course correct a bit quicker. i I, you know, and we had, we didn't talk about profile lines, but i'm I'm part of my hardwiring is is to be an experiential and experimental learner. and And not everyone is hardwired that way. So being able again to understand how to embrace my own authentic expression and then also not be judging and making other people wrong because... they are not hardwired, right? That that same way, that what feels aligned for me maybe doesn't feel aligned for another person. But if we want to be in relationship, harmonious relationship, supportive, loving, compassionate, kind relationship, how can we use this understanding of ourselves in order to really step into alignment individually and as a collective?
01:11:56
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Absolutely. And you don't have to memorize all this, like you said, but it's just a couple of simple things that will start making life feel more aligned and more like you're working with yourself and your your own superpowers. So maybe next time we'll go into the profile numbers and all the gates and all that kind of stuff. So there is lots, of lots to explore and all in divine timing, as I know you hear me say a lot, but, um,
01:12:25
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It just, it really excites me to be able to share this, this particular topic with folks, because I think, like I said, I, I, I believe it's a useful tool. um but very selfishly, i want to live in a world filled with people making aligned choices more often. And this is an access point for that in a way that, um, I just haven't found another system that, that does that the same way.
01:12:50
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Absolutely. And so if you love it as much as we love it, share this episode with people, dive in, and tell us what you like, ask questions and share it with somebody else who can stop tripping on their cape as well.
01:13:02
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Absolutely. Thank you so much for being here. And our next episode, I'm going to help Alex explore sharing all of their wisdom and experience about mushrooms. So I'm very excited. Remember to tune in next week. And thank you so much for being here.
01:13:20
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We'll see you then.
01:13:26
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01:13:41
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