How the Inner Authority impacts the strategy for each type.
If you have been scan reading until this point, pay attention now. This bit is super significant, no matter who you are.
Your inner authority is like an intuitive ‘hack’. When you’re more familiar with this, making decisions and aligned choices becomes much easier.
For the purposes of this blog we’ll be looking at the 5 authorities used in Quantum Human Design™, which helps to simplify what’s needed for each of them. For this reason, I’ll share the Quantum language first, with an expansion on how it relates to the traditional language. You can read more about the reason for this language in this post here
Evolutionary Authority – known as Sacral Authority in traditional Human Design
This kind of authority is all about trusting your gut. It’s not something we’re all that used to, which is one of the reasons this work is so important right now on the planet.
When you encounter something that’s good and right for you, as 70% of the population (that’s both Generators/Alchemists and Manifesting Generators/Time Benders) – you know it in your gut.
Following those feelings is what we are all about here.
This ‘right feeling’ or perhaps wrong depending on your response. It’s the Universe/God/Source’s way of getting you back on track, helping you to decondition from the logical mind – which can’t always be trusted.
You may have a defined sacral centre which is also influenced by other factors in your chart. I’ll come to that in a moment.
The sacral response which lets you know ‘this is for you’ or ‘this isn’t for you’ may sound like a mmmhmmmm! Or uhnun!
If you have other definition in your chart (specifically the 34/20 channel – that’s a post for another day) you may not be as familiar with the sound. If you don’t stop to think, and let those nudges lead the way, you can’t go far wrong.
Our biggest job on the planet right now is to learn to use this sat-nav style way of navigating life, to lead us back to our inner truth.
Creative Authority – known as Emotional Authority in traditional Human Design
Almost 50% of the population have this as their inner authority. It’s about feeling through your decision over time, according to your emotional wave (yet another post, for another day).
If it still feels good one day then the next and the next – you could be onto a winner. This can also depend on how far along your journey you are.
You may be easily ‘ruffled’, therefore outside circumstances tend to dictate what sort of a day you’re having.
The more familiar you get with how your emotions change, the more information you have about how things are likely to evolve over time (although not always). Again, hands in the air here – I am NOT emotionally defined.
My emotional solar plexus centre is completely open, so I speak from a place of learning about it and experiencing other people’s emotional energy. I am wise about it in a different way.
The key in mastering this kind of authority is first of all to keep a diary. On an average week, month, quarter or more, tracking your moods.
Ask yourself a ‘control’ question you know the answer to (a yes/no question if you’re a Generator type). See how your response to it changes over those days and weeks.
By doing this you can start to get familiar with how your emotions influence your decision making.
Actualizing Authority – known as Splenic Authority in traditional Human Design
You know you know, but you don’t always know how you know. You just know you do.
In a nutshell, that’s how this kind of authority is experienced.
It’s very much an in-the-moment kind of knowing. Often you’ll find yourself knowing the answer without having to use your mind. The challenge with this kind of authority can be with others who don’t necessarily trust your knowing. Maybe even you haven’t learned to trust it fully either. It’s about giving yourself permission to lean into that knowing. It can be about knowing what you need for your own wellbeing, as this is the main theme of the spleen centre.
Resource Authority – known as Ego Authority in traditional Human Design
This kind of authority (only 1/8th of the population has this) is all about being resourced in order to make good decisions that work for you. When we talk about being resourced, that means energetically, physically, financially, in relation to your own sustainability.
It takes deep work to recognise your true value, so making decisions in integrity with what your worth can mean this is one of the most challenging authorities. It’s about knowing when a choice or decision is aligned with available resources – and when it isn’t. Then having the self-worth to be able to say ‘no’. Does the decision feel good in every aspect of who you are? Is it going to compromise your truth? This may require talking it through with someone to explore from every angle.
Orchestrated Authority – relevant if you have Self-projected, No authority, No inner authority, or Mental projected authority in traditional Human Design
Any of these authorities on a traditional Human Design chart, or Orchestrated on your Quantum Human Design chart, it means you need to find a trusted sounding board. Someone to talk through your choices, ideas and move the energy by talking. Keep talking until you find the clarity you seek. A sounding board is NOT someone who gives you advice.
It’s valuable for you to do this if you feel like the choices or answers are buried in some way and can’t seem to ‘figure it out’ on your own. To act as a sounding board, you need them to reflect your ideas and thoughts back to you, so you can hear them outside of yourself. Not to give their opinions or tell you what they think you should do.