Solar Plexus Center
Defined vs. Undefined Solar Plexus Center
✦ Defined Solar Plexus Center
A defined Solar Plexus Center means you have Emotional Authority — the most common authority in the Human Design System. Your emotional wave moves through cycles of hope and pain, high and low. There is no truth in the now for you. Decisions made at the peak of emotional elation or the depth of emotional despair are not reliable. Clarity comes over time as the wave passes. Your gift is depth of feeling, empathy, and the capacity for genuine emotional wisdom. Your strategy: wait for emotional clarity before committing to significant decisions.
◌ Undefined / Open Solar Plexus Center
With an undefined or open Solar Plexus Center, you are emotionally receptive and amplifying. You take in the emotional states of others and magnify them — you may feel others' emotions more intensely than they do themselves. The not-self pattern is avoiding emotional confrontation and truth to maintain a false sense of peace. This leads to not speaking up when something needs to be said, tolerating situations that are emotionally wrong for you, and making decisions to avoid conflict rather than from genuine clarity.
Not-Self Questions
These questions help you recognize when the open/undefined Solar Plexus Center is conditioning your decisions:
- Am I avoiding confrontation and truth to keep the peace?
- Am I absorbing others' emotional states and mistaking them for my own?
- Am I making decisions to escape emotional discomfort rather than from genuine clarity?
Gates in the Solar Plexus Center
The Solar Plexus Center houses 7 gates from the I'Ching. Each gate represents a specific quality of this center's energy:
Channels Through the Solar Plexus Center
Channels connect the Solar Plexus Center to other centers in the BodyGraph, creating defined circuitry:
See Your Solar Plexus Center
Discover whether your Solar Plexus Center is defined or undefined in your personal Human Design chart — from Ra Uru Hu's original system.
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Dr. LaVeena recommends going deeper with Ra Uru Hu's original Jovian Archive teachings — the definitive source for understanding the Solar Plexus Center, its gates, channels, and mechanics as transmitted in 1987.
