How to Make Correct Decisions: Human Design System

Authority Hierarchy

Decision-Making is Navigation through Life

Moving through life and being yourself is about making decisions correctly - deciding what to do
in a way that is authentic to the being you truly are. Making decisions authentically as yourself
requires that you honor your personal authority. Human Design offers everyone a simple way of
helping you discover how you can reliably make the right choices as and for yourself - by being
your own Authority.

Strategy and Authority represent the surface of this complex body of knowledge in a way that
anyone coming to Design can easily experiment with the System. It doesn't take a lot of effort to
verify whether Human Design works for you. Simply experiment with making decisions
according to your Strategy and Authority, which can lead you to living a fulfilled life.
One of the most stunning accuracies provided by the Human Design System is the signature of
Type. Signature is the essence of your spirit translated into form in this life. By discriminating
what combination of energies in the Rave Bodygraph resulted in which frequencies, Ra
associated with each of the Types a special "Keynote" that represents the way they experience
fulfillment. Making decisions correctly leads you to the "signature" of your Aura Type - Peace
for the Manifestor, Satisfaction for the Generator, Success for the Projector and Surprise for the
Reflector. Each of these Types are broad categorizations that have sub-Types - all unified through
their expression of Signature - their goal in this life.

Mind is Never Your Authority

Not-self conditioning causes your mind to become the false authority. Your deeply conditioned
mind attempts to be your authority because it is subject to the adaptive strategies taken on to
protect the openness within you. Adaptive strategies such as avoiding confrontation and truth
result in not being able to live as yourself.

Mind acts as a spokesperson for the openness in your chart - specifically your undefined centers,
as well as bridging gates between areas of your definition if you are a simple split. You can’t turn
off your mind’s pratering, but you can watch the interaction between the mind and the Centers to
facilitate awareness.

When you are new to your experiment, you'll notice your mind second guesses your Authority,
which is a clue as to what to ignore or not believe. Your mind can never know what is right or
what is wrong when it comes to making decisions about yourself, because of conditioning. You
can't believe anything your mind says about you!

Like snowflakes, all of us have an exquisitely unique design. Life Force Energy flows through
the channels within us all from the Pressure Centers at the Head and Root, to be expressed at the
Throat, our Center for communication and manifestation. Like Mind, all three of those Centers
are also never an Authority in your life.

Strategy provides the Solution as to When to Decide

The Human Design BodyGraph provides a map of the template for what it is to be human. The
kind of energy that is consistently present and active within you determines the holistic
frequency of your Aura, which is you. The Aura Types may be only four in number, but there are
endless variations of these four found in the world.
All Types are given a simple Strategy for decision making that allows each to bypass the
conditioning of their mind and access their Authority. In this article series, we'll cover all Four
Aura Types along with their Strategies and possible Authorities. We'll also provide example
charts that you can click on to save to your free myBodyGraph Chart Library for your reference.

Unique Frequencies of Authority

Separated into two kinds of Personal Authority, here is the hierarchy of the Human Design
System’s "Inner Authority" and "Outer Authority."

Inner Authorities:

Solar Plexus

Sacral

Spleen

Heart

Outer Authorities (aka No Direct Inner Authority):

Environment (always the Mental Projector Type)

Lunar (always Reflector Type)

Common Human Design Authorities

The Solar Plexus (Emotional Center), Sacral and Splenic Authority Centers are the ones that
show up most often in the world, with about half of our population being Emotionally defined.

Often you will see Human Design charts that have one, two or all three of these Centers defined.
Once in a while, you'll see a bodygraph with none of them defined. We will cover these and more
in future installments of “How to Make Correct Decisions.”

The voice inside of your head about yourself and others is NEVER your personal authority. It cannot be,
for it is too tainted by conditioning and is not authentic to you. Please watch the video above for the
science behind this concept.

PERSONAL AUTHORITY
How do you make decisions in your life?

Are you methodical and analytic, scientific, emotional, spiritual or whimsical?

While we all may have a different way of going about decision making the thing we share in
common is the impact they have on our daily life and the bigger decisions impact the path we
travel on ours days here on earth.

So who you give authority for making those decisions is a BIG DEAL!

Those of us that make the logical, scientific decisions for the most part are giving our mind the
authority.
For those who are ruled by a set of tribal or societal rules you could call it moral authority.

For those who make decisions in the moment it could be whimsical, emotional or just an
awareness, depending on where your focus is or is not.

But for most of us we have come to this decision making by default, through trial and error or
experience. If you look at your Human Design, you were designed with some inner guidance
mechanisms that if you pay attention to will help you make better decisions. Here is a table and
some charts that will help outline how you are best served depending on your authority.

Authority Hierarchy
Authority / Type Defined Centers Approach
(key centers)
Emotional Solar Plexus Solar Plexus Ride your emotional wave and
wait for clarity. Clarity only occurs
Projector,Manifestor, over time. You need to wait for
that clarity or redo the hasty
Generator & Manifesting decisions that do not serve you in
Generator the long run.
Splenic Awareness Spleen & Sacral You have an inner knowing in the
Generated moment powered by the Sacral.
Generator & Manifesting You can use the Sacral response*
Generator by engaging your sacral,
Sacral Expressed Sacral The sacral response* is your guide.
Generated
Generator & Manifesting
Generator
Splenic Awareness Spleen You know in the moment the
Projected correct action for you. This is not
Projector the mind or following a set of rules
it is a knowingness. As your
energy is projected look for
feedback from those around you to
help tweak your decisions.
Splenic Awareness Spleen & Throat & You know in the moment the
Manifested correct action for you. Inform
Manifestor (Root or Will) others as you make their way and
measure the impact you create.
Ego Manifested Will & Throat Follow the drive to spark and
Manifestor initiate the new things that you
do.Inform those that you impact
like your friends and family before
you act.
Self Projected G/Identity Bounce your thoughts and ideas of
Projectors your friends and family. Look at
the reaction and reflection to adjust
your path.
None (or outer Authority) Head and/or Ajna Clarity comes from action and
Projectors and Reflectors and/or Throat or no interaction from your environment.
centers
*Sacral Response – The sacral response is avaiable to all beings with a defined
sacral center. By asking a series of questions to the sacral being and having them
respond with an Uh-huh (for yes) and an Un-Uh (for no) you engage the sacral
motor. If you keep the mind out of it an purely respond from the sacral you will get
clear answers for the direction you should take.