Spleen Center
Defined vs. Undefined Spleen Center
✦ Defined Spleen Center
A defined Spleen Center means you have consistent, reliable access to intuitive awareness and a strong immune system. Your body intelligence is always on — you receive spontaneous, in-the-moment signals about what is safe, healthy, and correct for you. The Splenic voice is the quietest in the BodyGraph — it speaks once, in the present, and does not repeat. If you have Splenic Authority, your decisions come from that single, clear signal in the now. Ignoring it is the primary source of dis-ease for those with this center defined.
◌ Undefined / Open Spleen Center
With an undefined or open Spleen Center, you do not have consistent, automatic access to this primal, body-based intelligence. You are more susceptible to holding on to things that are not healthy for you — situations, relationships, habits, environments — because the fear-based signaling of the Spleen is not consistently clear. The not-self pattern is holding on to what no longer serves your well-being because of fear: fear of letting go, fear of change, fear of being without.
Not-Self Questions
These questions help you recognize when the open/undefined Spleen Center is conditioning your decisions:
- Am I holding on to something that no longer serves my well-being out of fear?
- Am I staying in a situation, relationship, or habit that I know, at some deep level, is not healthy for me?
- Am I ignoring body signals because they are not loud enough or consistent enough for me to trust?
Gates in the Spleen Center
The Spleen Center houses 7 gates from the I'Ching. Each gate represents a specific quality of this center's energy:
Channels Through the Spleen Center
Channels connect the Spleen Center to other centers in the BodyGraph, creating defined circuitry:
See Your Spleen Center
Discover whether your Spleen 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 Spleen Center, its gates, channels, and mechanics as transmitted in 1987.
