Genoa: “Thank you so much for all of your sharing, all the way from the beginning of this class through today.

It’s been a truly extraordinary process to be present to your sharing and to watch what you’ve gone through and how you’ve connected with the wild mind writing. And most importantly how you’ve involved yourself in your own story. This is truly an extraordinary thing and how we have progressed into the thick of the story and then come to our resolutions about the story that we’re telling.

This points out one of the most important things that we learn in Human Design, which is to come to the place of returning to ourselves, and to coming to the place where we learn to pull our experience internally, in terms of our relationship with our experience, that we pull that toward our Authority and what that Authority feels like — the empowering qualities of it, and how the Authority knows how to solve problems in certain ways that are quite extraordinary, and that we’re able to be present and bring our story to the best conclusion that we can.

Life is an ongoing process. It never comes to a point of perfection. It comes to this point where we connect with our Authority, we integrate with that Authority, and we do the best that we can. We seek closure as much as we can; We finish that story out to where it is right now for us.

So I thank you for sharing all of that. Now we’re starting out with the Solar Plexus today. And we’re going to be speaking more about the Solar Plexus as it appears in various charts, in our example charts and in your charts. And then we’re going to end with what I’d like to call a frank and honest conversation about Openness and what Openness actually is. What is the truth about Openness and your open Centers?

So let’s go to the chart of Barack Obama here. We can see the concern on Barack Obama’s face. I have certain pictures of him looking like a very happy person, and I have pictures of him looking absolutely tortured by the job that he took on. I was tempted to just simply put one of those photographs up to convey what a fun job it is to be President of the United States. What an overwhelming job it is – like managing 15 or 20 multinational corporations simultaneously, every day. It’s an impossible job.

This person campaigned on the message of hope, which just happens to be his Human Design motivation. And he did his best. He certainly did his best. And yet the burden of everything that he knew, everything that he had to do while he was in office, the complexity of the situation, the overwhelming and impossible moral dilemmas that he had to confront as a human being just speaks of the power of this Solar Plexus to take on complexity. Here he is as a single channel projected Solar Plexus Authority.

If we go over to the little box over here to the left, where we see all of these Projector channels coming up from the Root Center, heading into the Solar Plexus. This, of course, is the adrenalized pressure of the Root Center. And it’s a huge push and a huge wake-up call to the Solar Plexus.

It is a tendency to push the Solar Plexus up in its emotional wave, to go from despair to hope. And then, the channels that are on the top of the Solar Plexus, looking over here where my pointer is pointing, at the top channels of the Solar Plexus, the 37, the 22 and the 36. This is where you go over the crest of the wave, and it’s about sharing, or connecting with, and embodying what it is that you’ve learned through going through experiences.

And if we return to this illustration with the little box around it to the left, we see that these are all of the projected channels that can happen with the Solar Plexus. The ones coming up from the Root, three of them, with all of that power, and the projected channel that goes from the Gate of Loyalty up to the Ego Center. This is all about community, and whether everyone in the community, each person individually, is doing what it is that they can for the community, and those people who need to receive from the community — the loyal people who look to the Ego Center for its resources and for its assistance.

If you’re a projected Solar Plexus Authority, it’s all about this deep emotional need for the community to support everyone involved and that for everyone to be able to do their part and to experience that, the ability to do your part, and to experience the failure of being able to do your part, to learn from the experience. Remember, it is this capacity of the Solar Plexus to encompass the whole of a situation, and to go through, to have the power, internal fortitude, to be able to encompass a whole situation and to go through that situation, and to learn from it, and to transcend one’s usual sense of personal capacity to be able to expand the scope of it, as much as is reasonable at all, and Solar Plexus is not necessarily reasonable. It’s not necessarily logical. It’s working through things in a totally different way.

Now, we’ve talked a lot about Strategy, and we’ve talked about how the person in the body-graph is facing the direction of the Spleen. And the Spleen has to do with Strategy; it has to do with logic; it has to do with how you strategize in situations in order to get through them. And of course, we have to admit the value of all of that. Come on, it’s absolutely necessary. The Spleen, in that sense, is a foundational intelligence for the whole of our organism.

The Solar Plexus doesn’t see things that way. The Solar Plexus wants to work it out, wants to go deeply into the experience to discover what one can about the experience to go through it, to learn from it, to take it in, to work with your own desire to be able to handle things, to work with it, and to really go with it.

So we have in all of these designs, and turn our attention first to these designs that are over here… starting with Cindy and moving to Joe, and then to Stephanie, we can see how deep these designs are. These channels going from the Root Center up to the Solar Plexus, this is as deep as you can get in your involvement with the world and it is an emotional involvement.

It has to do with your learning process by engaging with the world, going through relationships, learning from them, learning from the hope and the despair, learning from the agony and the ecstasy, going through the relationship to learn the language of emotional intelligence and how to communicate.

We’re on a threshold as a species, from thousands of years of thinking we were communicating in our own sort of way. We’re in this critical point where we come into the world, and here we are with our parents, with the institutions that we encountered, all of which are founded in previous ages of the world, and quite frankly, people’s inability to communicate, inability to be present to what they feel, to be able to speak about what they feel and what the process is that they’re going through. Process-oriented emotional intelligence and the ability to be present to it oneself, and given the opportunity to share that process with other people, and to learn how to progress with other people — to form relationships.

Now these are truly modern relationships that we’re talking about. We’re talking about nine-centered relationships, this newfound capability that we have as human beings. And then in each case, in each of these designs, we have other definitions, at different places within the body graph, and we’ve talked pretty darn extensively about those different split off parts.

And we’ve talked about the prioritization of the Authority, learning the felt sense of that Authority, and going to Jim’s chart here where there’s a movement through the Solar Plexus into the upper channels of that Solar Plexus and what wisdom do you have to share as a result of going through those experiences? What are the manifest responsibilities that you feel toward the community? But of course, we go back to the principle that we pull everything that we experience, including the other definitions that we have in our chart toward the Authority, and we integrate those other definitions with the Authority.

And this is just simply an important principle that we need to learn early and of course, we at first have the Strategy of going ahead and letting ourselves experience the Authority itself. What do you do with that Authority? How does that Authority work? And then how does that Authority have its conversation with the other aspects of your Design?

You get to consider that prioritization of influences: those other definitions as important and as valuable as they are, because they are very valuable. What is their relationship with the Authority? This is something that you work out inside of you, because that conversation between this Authority and other split dimensions within your Design, that conversation is a vital and important conversation.

People with split definitions have a tremendous advantage, actually, because they know about relationship. They know about relationship between different parts of self, and they know that those two different parts of self are valuable and important. But it’s also important for the Authority to take precedence and to take command of that conversation, ultimately. The conversation is so valuable.

Actually, one of the things about split definitions and bridging gates is that when that bridging gate is present, it actually interrupts that conversation, or somehow you need to involve that other person in this conversation that you have inside. The big thing, the first thing, is to recognize the value of that conversation, how important it actually is. It’s very complex, yes.

If we look at Joel’s chart here, we see that there is what’s called a very wide split between the two parts of self. And that wide split is simply an indication of how important Openness is in this Design. And in fact, Openness is extraordinarily important in everyone’s Design.

We talked about reflectors just the other day. It began to give us, a different perspective on how Openness can function. We talked about how, as people with inner Authority, we need to learn what channels are doing and how they apply themselves to decisions. And how we learn certain things from defined channels, which then we extend to our relationships with other people and those relationships always happen within Openness. That’s how we bring our Authority out into the world.

Now, when the Solar Plexus is defined in a Projector chart, there is this deep, deep, deep sensitivity, and in fact, the sensitivity is extraordinary. It’s important to remember that it is the Solar Plexus that recognizes and accepts the invitation to participate or not. It is not your mind. It’s the Solar Plexus says this is a situation which holds promise. This is a situation where I can explore how much this relationship contributes to my ability to communicate, my ability to participate in community, my ability to break through into another level of consciousness, which is essential for our own survival as a species.

Only the Solar Plexus could possibly know, when you encounter a new person, whether that person will hold that promise with you. The mind can never know that, but the Solar Plexus can feel it through its emotional intelligence. So first of all, to recognize the depth of one’s own sensitivity, the complexity of life, the potential to actually handle all dimensions of that life and to work one’s way through the complexity to develop an emotional intelligence and a capacity to communicate as best you can. It’s upon that recognition that the acceptance of the invitation takes place.

So, this is a great challenge, of course, to go to that Solar Plexus, to explore it, to understand it, to realize how it takes precedence, no matter how powerful those other aspects of the Design might be. How, in some instances, in the charts that we’re looking at, those split definitions have access to the throat, and they can speak, and they can become prominent. They can seem to be the thing that people recognize about you. But the thing that’s important for them to recognize about you is the emotional power you have to encompass and to work with relationships on a much, much deeper level than that other part of you could ever express outwardly. This is a matter of your recognizing it in yourself, validating it within yourself, to realize that there’s part of you that is much deeper, that is not necessarily reaching the throat, nor is actually expressing itself outwardly.

People need to learn to recognize this energetically, but you’re the person who can set the example of recognizing this in yourself energetically. Because these things don’t exist in the outside world. This is something we need to come to grips with. We inherited an entire society and social structure that was built by the seven-centered vehicle.

We need to go ahead and recognize these things in ourselves. And on the basis of that, then, as you recognize it, other people will recognize it. This is how the Projector design works. You recognize it, you value it, you appreciate it, they recognize you, they appreciate you, and then, at a certain point, they say,“is there any possibility you know what’s going on?” And that’s your moment, right?

When we come to the Solar Plexus Manifested Authority, it’s really quite something else. Again, the Manifestor is outside of the world in certain critical ways. We were talking a little bit earlier : of course, everybody’s in response. We’re not gods. We’re enmeshed in the world.

However, it’s part of the Manifestor Strategy to build themselves a place to be, to give themselves that space that they need to contemplate the world. So they build off this place and the only way they can do that, to claim space for themselves, is to learn how to initiate informing. You can’t wait for informing to happen. You’ll wait forever. No, you need to do that yourself, and through the realization, this is the key to the Manifestor Strategy — to realize that you can’t wait for somebody to understand you. You can’t wait for somebody to give you space. You need that space, and you need to craft it. You need to carve it out of the world by being honest with other people about who you are and what they can expect from you.

Particularly, on a personal level, because you’re different than almost everyone you know. You’re taking initiative in a way that is surprising; it’s spooky; it’s different. It seems to come out of nowhere, and quite honestly, you need to inform quite a lot, repeatedly, because in your silence, people will imagine that you’re like them. “oh yeah, you informed me about, who I was and who you were and what I could expect of you and what kind of relationship we have, and what makes things work for you and your need for autonomy and freedom, the time you need for contemplation and invention, all these things, but you didn’t really mean it.” And so people will have fantasies about you. They will make it up.

This business of informing is quite essential. And Manifestors aren’t good at asking questions. But that’s a huge part of informing. “What are your expectations? Who are you? What is it that you need? And how can what I’m telling you, in terms of informing you about who I am, how can these two things possibly work out with each other to actually be able to initiate collaboration?” What a novel idea.

And this silly idea that Manifestors can just do whatever they want to do, and that they can just do it, whenever they want to, without even any forethought, that’s totally ridiculous. Nobody can do that. We’re born into a real world, not into a fantasy world.

So, we have our three Manifestors in this class: Brandy, me and Ingrid. And there are a lot of similarities in Brandy’s chart and my chart. These charts are also quite similar to our example chart in Ra Uru Hu, the Splenic Authority Manifestor. There can only be Splenic Authority Projectors and Splenic Authority Manifestors, and this is the spontaneous informer, the person who actually knows what they need to inform other people about – in order to find their place in the world, because this world does not belong to Manifestors.

This world is Generator Planet. Let’s just face the facts. This world belongs, obviously, to the Sacral Center, to the Life Force, — to that Life Force’s power, the power of response, to connect with other people, to encompass the situation, to engage with it, and to build and grow as a building force within the world.

That enclosing, embracing aura of the Generator, is something that Manifestors, especially when they’re young, can really misunderstand, because it can feel like you’re being put into prison by that aura that simply wants to embrace you. And then this huge reaction starts taking place of trying to avoid or get away from it. It’s really quite silly.

Oh, the clarification that just comes from the realization: No, people aren’t doing that to you on purpose. They’re not really putting you in jail. It just feels that way. That’s simply their aura. It’s not like they’re doing that because they want to take away your freedom, they want to take away your autonomy. No, that’s their energetic, that’s what the Generator aura does. It welcomes and embraces energy. But you may not be ready for all of that, all at once, because you do need to preserve your autonomy. because there are certain things that can happen with solitude, with the depth of contemplation, and so on. And then with Ingrid, we have a Solar Plexus Manifesting Authority.

There are a couple of things that’s really important to know about the Solar Plexus Manifesting Authority, because it’s hooked directly to the Throat, which means that Solar Plexus is manifesting whatever it goes through all the time, all the time. It doesn’t matter whether you’re trying to stop it, it doesn’t matter whether you’re trying to stop it: it just is Manifesting what it’s going through. And of course here we also have the addition of yet another primary channel of Manifestation, the 21/45, coming directly from the Ego Center to the Throat. And so the Ego is also asserting itself on an energetic level. It doesn’t matter what you think about it, it doesn’t matter what you feel about it, it just is manifesting itself. It’s just what it does.

Now, with the Solar Plexus, if you truly understand that the Solar Plexus is always going through something, it’s always going through this emotional anguish through which one comes to the deepest profundity. and the deepest needs of human beings — to be able to feel, to be able to have process in order to be able to communicate.

So, in as much as you take responsibility for the emotional process, then you add something to that manifestation that happens so spontaneously. The same thing is true of the Ego. As the Ego matures and develops over time, it then also, through its channel of primary manifestation, externalizes taking responsibility for one’s own willpower.

As soon as you start taking complete responsibility for what it is that you’re going through, as much as possible, then you’re manifesting taking responsibility for what you’re going through. Or, as soon as you’re taking responsibility for the evolution of the Ego, and of course, all of these designs on the screen here, have Ego force propelling manifesting taking place in the world. No mistake, we’re all here together.

The more you take responsibility for the need of the Ego to evolve, especially through its relationship with the Solar Plexus, and the demands of society, at this point in evolution, the more you manifest being with it, and being modern in the sense of what are the demands of modern society for the ability to communicate and to be able to collaborate, and to be able to solve problems with each other.

Now there’s a certain point where the Manifestor is truly ready to join in with that process with other people, and in the meantime they need to be able to prepare for that moment. If you’re going to initiate something, you need to get the timing right. How do you get the timing right? You take the time to go deep, deep, deep into your own examination of the fundamentals of human motivation and the structures of the society that we’re trying to change, that we must change.

Every intelligent species, with an opposable thumb, the ability to grasp objects, will create a technological society and attain the capacity to do away with itself, if only by mistake, long before they develop the emotional maturity to know how to handle that power. This reduces the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe to near zero, because every species that has those capacities will have the capacity to extinct itself.

This is the first history lesson that I gave to my children when they were seven years old. This is where we are in history. We either wake up to the nine-centered being and our capacity to communicate, to develop that ability to understand language and imbue it with emotional intelligence. We either do that, or we will probably join the thousands of other civilizations that have ended their own existence.

That’s where we are right now. These are the end times. We either get what it means to process energy through the Solar Plexus and be able to communicate about it, or we will cease to be a species on this Planet.

If failure weren’t possible, then it wouldn’t mean anything — that we recognize this is our moment in history: we woke up to what it is that the voice was telling Ra Uru Hu, and we use the information that we can see in the body-graph to learn a new cosmic and universal language, or we don’t.

With this, we come to the Ego Projected Authority and the chart of Bernie Sanders, which was rectified by Isaac Starkman. It’s important to refer here to Astro DataBank in order to get accurate birth times for people, and we have made the decision to accept the the rectifications done by Isaac Starkman because he does it with a program, checking it through multiple sources and methods.

Here we have the person who is going through shock initiation, who’s having this deep experience where the Ego is waking up to the fact that it really needs education. It doesn’t really know how to behave. And it seeks that behavior, that education, by crossing this bridge of Initiation. Now, this channel is called the channel of needing to be first. What that means is that this channel is the foundation of all initiation science. And Human Design is based upon the fact that Ra Uru Hu had this channel and he crossed this bridge into the higher dimensional aspects of the G Center.

And through that experience, he received a transmission from a Higher Being in order to instruct human beings about what it meant to operate as initiated beings. In other words, the Human Design System is a system of instruction for Initiation. That’s why you’re here. There’s no other reason to be here. Now, this Design only can have this one channel below the throat. That’s it. And there can be no connection between this channel and the throat. It means that this person’s having this very deep initiation experience, and yet, all by themselves, they can’t bring that to expression in the external world. It’s a very difficult situation. If you watch Bernie Sanders, there are plenty of videos of him, he always speaks with his hands as though his hands and the sign language that he’s using with those hands is just as important as his voice.

But even more than that, this person needs friends who understand, who get close to him, who bridge this inner wisdom through Higher Self roles to the throat. In other words, it is very difficult for this person to speak on his own. And it is very important to them to have other people who understand, who receive that initiation impulse through him, and to bring that to expression in the world as themselves.

In other words, said in a positive way, this is a leader. The person who goes first, who crosses the bridge, who realizes that initiation comes first, that there is no possibility of living in the nine-centered vehicle without it. And therefore, these people are extremely valuable, and it’s also very important to befriend them.

Not just for you, not just for them, but for all of us. We do have a person in our class who is an Ego Projected Authority, but he can’t come to the class or attend it, so we will put off examples of this until next time, next class. And after I am able to do research with people with this particular Design and create more reading documents in the platform, and I’ll make every effort to do that.

Now, next we come to Ego Manifested Authority, and we touched a little bit upon this because of the manifesting designs that we had in front of us. But this is the pure 21/45 manifesting channel that comes from the Ego and it carries the Ego’s energy to the Throat. This is a unique channel, and we’ll explore this in Rave ABC. It’ll be one of the things that we talk about in Rave ABC because so much pours into this Ego from below, through the Ego circuit, and through the defense circuit, and the dilemmas that the Ego feels. And then it comes to expression through its own channel, and there’s no other situation like this in all of the body-graphs, where that channel comes up to the Throat through the money line, the design of a materialist.

One of the fundamental reasons that Human Design exists in the world, is that this channel needs to be transformed. It needs to be transformed from the design of a materialist to the design of an educator, because it is only through education that democracy can exist. And without that education, again, we will fail as a species.

This is one of the reasons the voice expressed itself to Ra Uru Hu, and those years of work that Ra Uru Hu did in order to see if this could be useful to other people.

For the moment, let’s just take a look at this person, and to read the power in this person’s face … and these eyes. This is the presence of Ego Authority in a person who is remarkably clear.

Part of face reading is to be able to really look at a photograph or at a person and to be able to pick up from them the energetics of their design. Now, if you, the people in this class, have an ambition, and I imagine that many of you do, to use the Human Design professionally, and particularly to explore how it can be used therapeutically, either as a coach, or as a therapist, or as some specialization that I don’t know about. You need to be able to look into a person’s eyes and see their design being present in front of you.

This is a very, very intense gaze. I think you can feel the Ego Center within it, manifesting itself in the world. Here’s that same portrait on the left, where we see that presence of the Ego power. The photograph on the right is a picture of Juliette as an actor in role, in character, and to be able to see the difference between this person, in her power, and in what that Authority can do, because it’s manifesting directly to the throat, and then look at the person in character who could be engaged in any of the struggles that likely will come in front of you as a Human Design professional, and talking about being able to listen and to hear, not to necessarily dump a bunch of information in front of the person, but to be able to welcome them and to be present and to listen. And you can see the gate of listening, Gate 13, in this design, just to the left. This capacity of hers, as an actress, to embody and to portray the struggles, the dilemmas, the anguish of any one of those Open Centers, Open Channels, or Open Gates, anywhere within her design. You’re looking at it. Look at those eyes. Look at what she’s feeling, what she’s going through, and then compare it with this face.

This is a skill. It’s a skill that I used to teach as a psychic development teacher, at least that’s what I called it at the time. I did psychic development classes for a group of midwives as an example, for them to be able to read the faces of their clients, the people that they were bringing to the moment of birth, to go through that experience, and so on.

This business of really looking at photographs is something that you can use to train yourself on a very deep level. Because when people come to you for therapy or for coaching, they always come with presenting symptoms: the reason that they’re there, the struggle that they’re engaged with. In reading, you have to guess, we pretend that we can look at a chart and see, the way the person is conditioned, supposedly, but it’s always a guess. Because we can’t really know what happens in another person’s life. Everybody is unique, their lives are unique, we’ve heard in the Wild Mind writing, people talking about what it is that they’ve gone through in their lives. When you’re a therapist, or you’re a coach, or you’re simply being present to one of your friends, they bring up what they’re going through.

And this gives you a tremendous advantage, because you’re no longer guessing. You’re learning to see the Authority, you’re learning to see the role, and you’re learning to be able to compare them, and that in the presenting symptom that they’ve come to you for help with. Most likely, in that capacity, as an educated Human Design professional, you would listen, and you would learn to see their design in action.

What’s actually happening for this person? Am I listening? What Center am I hearing? In other words, we’ve done a lot of work in this class to come to the point of being able to see our own Authority, to be able to go there, to allow it to speak, to share what it is that it’s confronting, to illustrate in real words and in our own voice what it goes through as it encounters Openness, as it goes through the experiences that we all have.

Human beings are born incredibly sensitive. There’s very little chance that any human being can go through being a child without being traumatized on some level. It doesn’t make you special, it doesn’t make you different, but it does give you empathy for other people, most likely.

And we can go back to the very beginning of our class when we talked about the three Awareness Centers and the three different ways of learning that we have. And within the Human Design body-graph, there is this juxtaposition that takes place through the bilateral symmetry of the body, which is mapped out in front of us here. On the left hand side, we have the Spleen and its relationship with logic, with its relationship with modern empirical science, its ability to examine facts, to evaluate situation strategically, to be able to see the world supposedly in a very objective way. Now, the Spleen can get crazy if it gets too mixed up with the Ajna Center, and it can come up with all kinds of conspiracy theories and imagined threats to its well being.

And then, on the right hand side, we have The Solar Plexus, which is essentially subjective. So you have an objective process, the ability to look at things objectively, logically, scientifically, modern, materialistic science, the senses, the learning that’s gone on as a species for thousands of years, all stored there for instantaneous recall.

And then the Solar Plexus, which insists upon diving into and identifying and connecting with relationship, to work with the process to see if it develops and do have a certain subjective logic, that seems a little contradictory because we don’t really have a word for that, but it is the healing language that we learn to embody and even to speak, to be able to work with process, to be able to help people develop over time and to be able to come to their own conclusions…

You can reach the truth of the Human Design from either perspective. It’s pretty important for me to say that. You can approach it through the logic of how we generally study Human Design in terms of really looking at what Strategy is, looking at the dynamics of how the design works.

But the truth is that experiences come into us through the Solar Plexus. That’s just the reality. You open your eyes, you have your day, you encounter other people, you have your relationships with them, which you either do well with, or you’re struggling with, or you’re going somewhere with, you’re in a developmental process with them, you discover certain things, certain truths, you develop certain beliefs you participate in reconciliation with other people to whatever degree you can. And gradually, the learning that you experience through the Solar Plexus migrates through the circuitry of the design and the Spleen takes a look at it and says, “You know what? I get it. This actually works!” The Solar Plexus has discovered a new way of living in the world, a new way of communicating, a new way of being present. And the Spleen says, “I’ve checked it out, I’m filing it in the system of behaviors that work,” and as soon as the Spleen accepts that, the Ajna Center says, “okay, now,” and it makes its mutative leap into a new form of understanding and redefines what it means to be sane.

Now, this process is going on all the time. And as we proceed in our Human Design education, the next step being ABC, where we look at the Circuitry and how energy flows throughout the whole Design, we begin to get some real detail about how these subjective experiences and the process of learning through relationship, and learning through communication, how that migrates step by step into the Logic. Then, the Understanding Circuit is refined into a reality that the Spleen then accepts as functional behavior.

We can actually see this process mapped out, and quite honestly, it’s not all that complicated. In LYD, of course, we venture into being able to talk about these things from the perspective of the Centers, and how they are in proximity with each other, how they communicate with each other, we’re laying out the map of all, how this works. But then we need to come to the process. of really seeing how it works in detail. Or, said in another way, it simply helps a lot to be able to identify the pathways through which this communication takes place and the step by step process where we can take what we believe to be true and which we are inherently enthusiastic about and need to be enthusiastic about in the Solar Plexus, because we need to pursue that upward spiral of evolution. We need to have hope.

And we learn, and every time we learn, the movement of the emotional wave from hope to despair, and back to hope again, isn’t just a circle. It was never intended to be a circle. Through the process of learning, every movement through that emotional process is on an upward moving spiral. It goes up and up, so that the highs and the lows are all taking place on a different level of evolution.

It’s just not the same anymore. You’re going through the same stuff. Life is life. But that gradually works its way over into the Splenic concept of reality, and what is right, true, and good.

Now, we’ve gone over a whole bunch. Please go back to the videos and study them. Take notes. How does this work? We went over this on Sunday, talking about the Authority determination, and the different levels, and the structures, and how the various aspects of definition move from one aspect of the definition, away from the Authority up to the throat and get expressed there. I use the example of my chart in particular only because I know it so well.

And then we turn around once we understand how this whole overall structure of the design works and we turn our attention to the open Centers that come below where the Authority is, and that’s where, in fact, there’s a tremendous amount of power in Centers that are open, which otherwise, in other people or in other situations, can take on the seeming Authority.

It’s an Authority of the external situation, perhaps, but it never replaces our inner Authority. So we go down the chain of authorities to see what the Splenic Authority, as this example, needs to be able to deal with: the Sacral Center and the Solar Plexus, as primary concerns. Then we get to the bottom of the chain.

With the Solar Plexus Authority over in the upper right hand corner here, we realize it is, especially in this particular example of Barack Obama, where there’s nothing below, but in general, the Solar Plexus starts going up the chain. It finds the first open Center above it, where it begins to exert its Authority.

And so this brings us to, in its own way, this business of Openness. What is Openness? So please, indulge me for a few minutes. I did have more slides that I won’t be able to cover this time. But maybe in a study group or something like that, we can delve into these things a bit later.

It’s important when we look at Openness to be able to say: “what is this?” Now, generally speaking, Openness is taught as though it’s simply passive and receptive, and that it can be worked upon and molded by the outside world and turned into something that doesn’t really belong to us, and which we can be victimized by. This is not correct. Open Centers are not simply receptive.

They are a combination of what we could call receptive and open. And what is the difference between Receptivity and Openness? Receptivity tends to take things in from a passive point of view, and it can be deeply influenced and shaped by the experiences that we have.

And it can also be victimized by those situations. And the story of inner Authority, and even outer Authority, is the story of how do we rise to the occasion of asserting our Authority and saying “Well, no, that’s not actually true. I’m not actually a victim.”

And the truth is that as human beings, we can be very attached to our victimhood, and overcoming that is a huge act of self-empowerment. And that is one aspect of Openness. But all of a sudden, everything starts to make sense when you realize that open Centers are not passive. Open Centers are open because they’re creative. Or creativity is one of the characteristics of Openness.

Otherwise, by saying it’s creative, it’s void, because it’s creative, because something comes into it, and it takes a hold of it. and begins to be creative with it. Now that can become problematic because we can tend to make things up about what happens to us and then we have a whole other story. But the creativity of open Centers is very important to assert because it’s there that our Personality Consciousness also has a tremendous amount of sway.

Open Centers are filled with our aspirational nature, wanting to improve, wanting to grow, wanting to develop, wanting to be able to be open, wanting to be able to connect with other people, to work out with them a common ground and working relationship where we can reach a higher perspective, a higher synthesis upon which we can bond with each other and establish collaborative relationships in order to solve common problems.

That is, those things are all characteristics of the Personality Crystal of Consciousness, which penetrates, with tremendous influence, the open Centers. And at the same time, the open Centers, when things happen to them, can begin making stuff up. Having a heyday of fantasies of what is happening to us, and what we could believe to be true.

You can see the relationship between the Openness and the Solar Plexus there.

Here’s the thing — if we look at channels, and when we see channels either in terms of inner Authority, which establishes a structure, something that’s supposedly permanent, as long as you’re alive at least, but then within that channel, there is something even more potent, even more creative than the creativity of open Centers.

Now this is true even if you’re a Reflector because they experience these channels with other people, or Mental Projectors who are echo-locating below the Throat to see if anybody who’s connecting with them has any idea what’s going on or is looking to them for their capacities.

But the point is that the magic happens within the channel that is supremely powerful and capable of creating that consensus and that collaboration. And so it’s through this channel, and its creativity that meets the creativity of Openness to guide it.

It says: “ no, you’re just making stuff up here. This is what I actually have to say about this situation.” So there we have the pullback to the Authority, and how the channel whatever kind of chart it’s part of, inner or outer Authority, gives that creativity and that guidance to what otherwise might happen to open Centers, to Openness, if it is existing in the world unmoored.

It’s making things up, living in its own fantasies. There’s nothing wrong with our subjective fantasies of what might be happening to us, because that’s all about us developing some emotional intelligence as well. But the guidance that we can find within our Human Design chart, that is the most important thing. Because nothing that we say about conditioning. Nothing we say about how we’re characterizing Openness and saying things about it, nothing that we say about it is ever going to make those experiences go away. The only thing that helps us resolve those experiences that we have is learning how our Authority works and making decisions through it, and pulling everything back to our Authority. Now that is empowerment, and it’s through that empowerment that we guide our Openness, our aspirations, our desires, to be able to evolve, to resolve conflict, to be able to become more than what we were, to adopt, and even create new attitudes within us.

So with that, I’ll bring this to a close and say, “Hey, this has been quite the journey that we’ve taken with each other. I’d like to express one more time, my appreciation for each one of you and to really just feel thankful for the opportunity to hear you because this is the next step in Human Design to define all of what Human Design is through our own words.

So with that I’ll bring it to a close. We can stay here for a while and just have our few moments of saying goodbye and connecting before we go on our way. And we look forward to seeing you again in whatever capacity, professional training, ABC class, whatever is coming up next for you.

Yes, take your time. Have your process because this is everything.

So there we go. Wow. Has this been a journey? I’m just so loving this. And yeah, thank you for being you.”

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