Human Design Authority
If your human design type is how you engage with life, your authority is how you make reliable decisions — your body's truth, beneath the mind's chatter.
The authorities
- Emotional (Solar Plexus): you ride an emotional wave; there's no truth in the now. Sleep on big decisions and wait for clarity.
- Sacral: your gut responds in the moment — an instant "uh-huh" (yes) or "unh-unh" (no). Trust the sound before the story.
- Splenic: a quiet, in-the-moment intuition that speaks once. Subtle but fast — learn to catch it.
- Ego / Heart: decide from willpower and what you genuinely want and can commit to.
- Self-Projected: talk it out and listen to your own voice — your truth is in what you say.
- Mental / Environmental: no inner authority; discuss with trusted people and notice how different environments feel.
- Lunar (Reflectors): wait a full lunar cycle (~28 days) before major choices.
Why it matters
Most of our regret comes from deciding the way we think we should rather than the way we're built to. Your authority pairs with your type, profile and birth chart for the full operating manual.