26. The Reflector (Part 1)

Speaker A: 00:00:00

Both reflectors and manifestors are more designed to be receiving the program.

So reflectors and manifestors are more susceptible and meant to be susceptible to transit field conditioning than Auric Aura to aura conditioning versus Generators and projectors are more influenced by aura to aura contact and conditioning than by the transit field. And so reflectors have this aura that is designed in a way similar to the manifestor to be protected from interpersonal conditioning.

As a primary function of the reflector aura is to reflect the program which is in human design what we call the transits. The transit field.

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Speaker A: 00:02:07

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Speaker A: 00:02:18

Welcome to our fourth and final deep dive into an the Reflector. In this lecture we will talk about the mechanics of the reflector.

Reflectors have no defined centers, so all nine centers open or undefined we'll talk about the sampling and resilient aura of the reflector, the vehicle's fundamental prerogative for the reflector to survey. To evaluate, we will introduce the reflector strategy of waiting a lunar cycle.

We'll talk about what surprise and disappointment are as the signature and not self theme of the reflector. And we'll discuss reflectors as lunar beings, as opposed to solar beings, which all three of the other aura types are considered to be.

And of course, throughout we'll have some some various different reflector miscellany, including quotes from RA and other concepts that felt important to include. So first, just our basic reflector stats.

Reflectors make up about 1 1/2% of the population, have a sampling and resilient aura that is sometimes referred to as Teflon experiment with the strategy of waiting a lunar cycle experience themes of surprise and disappointment. And the only authority that reflectors can have is what we call lunar authority, which is connected to this strategy of waiting a lunar cycle.

Reflector mechanics, at least in terms of the part where we're looking to center definition to understand the reflector aura and their mechanics is quite simple in that it's just no defined centers.

However, the actual ability to grasp the reflector experience compared to the other three types is probably the most difficult, because even though from the onset, from just the simple sight of the reflector body graph, it is this clearly visible thing that is so distinctly different from the other types.

The functionality of the reflector and what it means to live with these reflector mechanics with this reflector aura of no definition whatsoever is really outside of what those of us with definition, those of us who are not reflectors, can really conceive of.

So on one hand it's very simple to understand, and on another hand, it's probably the most complex and difficult to understand because it is so outside of the norm. Approximately 99% of us are solar beings and reflectors are lunar beings. And we'll talk more about what that means.

Reflectors have no consistent definition, no life force, right? So while reflectors will have gate activations, none of those gates match up with the gate on the opposite side of the channel.

Therefore, none of the gates create channel definition or center definition. So there's no consistent life force. Rather, reflectors receive life force from the transit field and from sampling their environment.

Reflectors have any number of what we call dormant potentials, individual gates in an undefined center. And so as other people come into aura with them, and as the transit field defines the other undefined Gates in their body graph.

And in particular, as the moon defines the other undefined gates in their body graph, Reflectors experience their life force Coming alive Through the sampling of their environment as well as the transit field. But on their own, there is no consistency.

So, while the rest of us are moving through to some extent, Sort of sampling our environment and being conditioned by one another and receiving additional life force from the transit field, the rest of us manifestors, projectors, and generators Are all also carrying a consistent life force through our one or more defined channels, which defines two or more centers in our body. For the reflectors, that consistency doesn't exist. There's no consistent definition without the environment and the transit field.

So although variety becomes sort of the default and the emphasis for reflectors in understanding reflector mechanics, it's important to note that there is some level of consistency within that variety for reflectors. And the way that reflectors experience and come into and find consistency in their definition Is via the repeated pattern of the lunar cycle.

The moon, as the fastest moving planetary body, and it's exponentially faster than any other planet, Will move through the entire zodiac or the entire rave mandala, or the entire 64 gates within the body graph once every 28 or so days. So, without any channel in the center definition, Reflectors have all these dormant potentials, Defined gates, and undefined centers.

And as the moon makes its moonthly monthly journey through the 64 gates, it will, every single moonth month, every 28 days or so, Hook up to every single one of the reflector's dormant potentials in a repeated pattern, Creating a pattern of definition that is predictable and consistent. Reflector's experience of definition is not constant. It's always changing.

However, one layer of the variety that they're always experiencing Is the predictable and repeated pattern of the lunar cycle.

So, over a much longer stretch of time, Reflectors are able to sort of sense into, with awareness, sense into what is my repeated pattern of definition without any channel definition.

And the center definition reflectors have these dormant potentials, Their defined gates, and undefined centers that link up with the moon as the moon moves through the transit field.

And the moon is just one layer of the constantly changing landscape that is the reflector definition, which also includes all the other planets as well as their environment and how their environment Adds to their definition. However, the moon is the most consistent one.

And so, over a long stretch of time, if reflectors are watching with awareness, this repeated pattern of the moon, Giving them these temporary definitions by transit definition in their centers, when it Links up to their dormant potentials. Then the reflector is able to sort of watch the wholeness of their experience. And come to some level of clarity that takes it all into consideration.

It's that one layer of the variety that is the moon. That gives them the consistency that they can then depend on. Since there is no consistency via definition in their body alone.

Reflectors being this aura type that is designed to sort of try it all out. With nine undefined centers. Their aura supports them in that process. So the reflector aura is described as the sampling and resilient aura.

If we kind of take the transit field out of it for a moment. And we just think about interpersonal conditioning. So far, we've talked about the generators and projectors.

Who are both designed to really be conditioned by other auras. Generators want that energy so that they can kind of bump into it.

And with their open and enveloping aura, Wrap around it for the sake of feeling the sacral response. Projectors, even more so than generators, Are designed to be conditioned.

Because they have this pointy aura that is specifically designed to penetrate the other. To focus with their attention on the other and deeply absorb the other that they are plugged into.

We've talked about manifestors who are the only type not at all designed to be influenced by the outside. The manifestor gets their cue internally. And so the manifestor has this closed aura for one. To protect them from outside influence.

But also to be able to impact and push with its energy. To create impact in the outside world. Outside of their aura. The reflector has a totally different aura Than the manifestor.

However, similar to the manifestor, Reflectors are not designed to take in and hold on to conditioning. Both reflectors and manifestors are more designed to be receiving the program.

So reflectors and manifestors are more susceptible and meant to be susceptible to transit field conditioning. Than auric aura to aura conditioning.

Versus Generators and projectors are more influenced by aura to aura contact and conditioning Than by the transit field. And so reflectors have this aura that is designed, In a way similar to the manifestor, to be protected from interpersonal conditioning.

As a primary function of the reflector aura Is to reflect the program, which is, in human design, what we call the transits, the transit field.

However, another part of the reflector's function Is not only to receive the program and reflect or emit that program through their aura, out into their world, into their community and environment, but also to take in and sample their environment and compare it to the transit as a whole. And so reflectors are.

Even though they're more attuned to the transit field Than individual auras around them, it is also a significant part of their auric function to be feeling into the energy around them and the auras around them. But they're feeling it in a more communal way, A more totality of the environment way Than they are the one on one way, the way the projectors are.

So reflectors are deeply taking in the other and sampling. But it's very impersonal. Unlike for the other three types. Reflectors take it in deeply to sample it, but then it slides right off of them.

The reflector aura is often described as being like teflon. It has this, like, resistance to it, but not again, it's not resistant like the manifestor pushes energy and conditioning away.

It's resistant like it does its thing. It takes it in, it samples it.

Just like a teflon pan is able to hold whatever's in it, but then it slides right off, Almost like a waterproof sort of feeling. Every single center for the reflector is busy sampling.

Wherever there are other auras to sample in their environment, the reflector is taking in those other auras again, more in a totality sense.

The reflector aura samples such auras and measures them against the program that is always, constantly, powerfully being reflected through them from the transits. Reflectors are deeply connected to the program. They're the only lunar type. All other types are solar beings with nine undefined centers.

There's no consistent life force. They receive their consistency from the transits.

So for those of you that have fundamental understanding of the sun and the moon, Whether scientifically, astronomically, or astrology, or astrologically or all three, you can feel that even here, with nine undefined centers, there's no consistent life force that's being put out or emitted from the reflector aura. The sun puts out light, puts out consciousness, puts out energy.

Instead, reflectors are receiving their life force primarily from the transits, but also from their environment. And the moon is the receiver. It's a rock that receives the light and reflects it back to us here on earth.

Receives the light of the sun, Reflects it back to us here on earth. That's what the reflector aura does.

It receives life force from its environment and from the transit field and reflects both back out to their environment. So the reflector is both receiving what's happening in the transit field, what's the storyline of the collective.

And then within that experience of reception of the program that is being reflected into their environment, They're Also receiving sampling the auric energy within their environment. And as they reflect it back, they're able to discern what's what.

Reflectors have very big powerful auras, the biggest auras of the four types that reflect the program into their fields and communities and measure the environment against the program. And so, as noted here, sometimes you'll hear this idea of the reflector police, the not self reflector police.

Because reflectors are designed to be mostly connected to the program, but then also are sampling their environment on top of that primary reflection. The not self reflector is going to attach to the homogenized version of the program coming through to them.

Because they don't have differentiation on a channel and centers level to filter the program through like the rest of us solar beings do.

So the not self reflector is going to fixate on and attach to the program and start to police the exceptions that they see through differentiation in their environments. So a not self reflector can be like a homogenized police or a police for homogeneity.

As a reflector deconditions and becomes aware, the reflector can use that ability to notice what Ra would call like the blips in the radar. Reflectors are scanning. They're like a radar system scanning for what's different from the homogeneity that they're receiving from the program.

So as the reflector wakes up as the reflector deconditions, it can flip from trying to control or police those who are different from what the transit field is bringing to us into noticing that difference, celebrating that difference, and acknowledging that difference as differentiation, and becoming delighted or surprised.

The reflector signature in how the program is able to hit differentiated individuals, and how the program is able to be filtered through differentiated individuals rather than this homogenizing force on everyone in their environment. So coming back to this idea of reflectors as lunar beings, reflectors are the only lunar beings.

Generators, manifestors and projectors are all solar beings. Reflectors are not putting any life force into the world on their own. This is the function of the sun to emit life force.

And every other type, approximately 99% of the population, has some consistent life force within them. Rather, the potential for life force for reflectors is via reflection, AKA the moon, right?

Reflection of their environment, a reflection of others, and a reflection of the program. So when we think about purpose for reflectors, it's going to hit really differently. Ra would sometimes say, like reflectors are not of here.

It's a different. I think one time he said something like, it feels like a Genetic mutation to him.

The way that reflectors orient to their human purpose is going to be really different from the way the rest of us do. Because for us, for solar beings, there is both the function of our aura, right?

Manifestors as the initiators, generators as the workers, the builders, projectors as the guides, the facilitators.

But on top of our auric function, we each have a very differentiated life force that we bring to that auric function through our channels, through our center definition, and through everything underneath that too, the substructure, all of the more advanced, even more differentiated aspects of our design. But on a channels and centers level. Reflectors do not have any consistent life force that they bring to their auric function.

Reflectors have a whole bunch of variety of different gates in their design that are gonna very much so affect how they are reflecting back.

It affects the way that they hook into their environment, the way that they hook into the lunar cycle and the other planets moving through the transit field.

However, it's not a life force without that reception, without the reflecting back of the transit field and of the auras that they're sampling, the solar purpose is to emit.

So everything that generators, manifestors, and projectors are doing, even though projectors are poking, receiving, deeply absorbing, and then sharing what they see in the other, all three of these other types are doing so through the frequency of their solar purpose, AKA their definition. Lunar purpose is about reception and reflection. So what is purpose without consistent personal life force?

The purpose for reflectors is the auric function, not the individual frequency, because there is no consistent individual frequency, AKA life force. This is very different, right from the solar types, which have both the auric function and the solar individual frequency.

Even thinking about the incarnation cross, which is the sun earth, axis crossed, in everybody's design, you have your personality, sun earth, and your design sun, earth. And that creates a cross in the rave mandala, which is referred to as your incarnation cross.

If you think about it, you know what, what is the level of influence that the incarnation cross is going to have on a reflector who's more influenced by the moon than by the sun, right? They're not solar beings.

So even just another way to sort of consider how different the experience of being a reflector, of being a lunar being, is for this aura type that is so distinctly different from the rest of them. In the definitive book of human design, it says manifestors, generators, and projectors are solar types, meaning their purpose shines through them.

As the only lunar type, the reflector is designed to operate As a lunar reflection of the Sun's programming, they reflect the planetary program's neutrino imprinting process. Like the Moon, the reflector's glow is subtle, yet wields substantial influence, especially when it is detected by others.

So the reflector's glow is not shining a very specific light and energy. Think about when the sun is in the sky. You can't miss it, right? It's affecting everything around it.

That's sort of the energy of the solar types frequency. There's a channel here that wasn't before. You can't miss it. There's a frequency online that wasn't before.

The Moon is a bit more subtle, and you can see it in your life. The difference between what the Moon shows us. Difference between like a full moon in the sky or a dark moon.

When the Moon is full, it's extremely noticeable in the night sky. And it creates shadow on the Earth that we don't notice otherwise. So it's this substantial influence, but it's something a bit more ethereal.

Here's another raw quote about reflectors that speaks to this idea of them being lunar beings. You see, they are not driven by the life force. It is not the sun that fills them with life, it is the Moon that drives them. They're different.

You cannot compare them. We talk about conditioning, but the way we talk about it only makes sense if you're talking about solar types.

After all, what does it mean to be conditioned for a reflector when there is no counterpoint? Even a projector has a very fixed counterpoint.

So, pausing the quote for a moment to interject, when we talked about projectors, we talked about how this is a aura type designed to be conditioned, designed to plug into the other and be conditioned by the other's aura.

There's a similarity here with reflectors and that reflectors are designed to be conditioned as well as less so interpersonally and more so by the transit, where it's vice versa.

For projectors, however, even the projector, the type that's designed to most deeply take in the other and be conditioned by the other, there is a fixed counterpoint.

There is that fixed life force that creates that opportunity for compare and contrast, which is such a huge part of the functionality of the projector and the deconditioning process of the projector knowing the other in order to know themselves. Ra goes on.

The challenge for all of us solar beings is to come to grips with who we are, our life force, our definition, and to deny the power of conditioning to run our lives. But if you're a reflector, you're born to be conditioned. You're not born with a fixed imprint.

You're not born with a fixed life force that gives you a fixed notion of where or what may be. Not at all. So this is a very different Auric experience.

How then does a reflector find their differentiation, find their unique self within this aura that is designed without any fixed definition on a channels and centers basis, there is no life force.

So how does a reflector move through this changing landscape, still honoring the truth of their separate self so that they can perform with clarity and with ease and in a surrendered, accepted fashion, their Auric function? That is going to be facilitated very much through the reflector strategy of waiting a lunar cycle.

So let's break this down in an aura that is reliant on the homogenized program to experience life force, right? The reflector can connect to their differentiated mechanics by processing the lunar cycle with awareness. So this is what the reflector is about.

It's about process, right? The Moon is about process. Sun product, Moon process.

So in order for the reflector to feel into their differentiation, their truth, the truth of their being, of their body, there's a process that the reflector has to move through, literally has to process, like digest the Moon moving through its lunar cycle in the unique way that it affects each different reflector's body. So let's break this down a bit. The Moon moves through the entire Zodiac, and thus the 64 gates of the Rave I Ching, about every 28 days.

And these are the same gates that are in fixed positions inside of each of the nine centers of the body graph. So the Moon is moving through the Entire Zodiac every 28ish days, spends about two and a half days in a sign.

And as it goes, it is activating or defining each of the 64 gates, depending on which dormant potentials, aka which individual gates each reflector has in their design. As the Moon moves through that process, it's going to, at some point, link up with each gate that shares a channel with their dormant potential.

And before I break this down a little more, I just want to note most of the time, when we talk about a lunar cycle in the astrological field field, we're talking about the relationship of the Moon to the sun, right?

We're talking about new Moon when the Moon and the sun are conjoined, the waxing moon and the different phases of the waxing Moon on the way to the full Moon at the point of the sun and Moon opposition. And then the Waning moon and the phases of the waning moon crescent, first quarter, last quarter, etc. Give us all that balsamic.

That's not what we're talking about when we talk about the lunar cycle in human design. Instead, we're talking about, again, the process of the Moon moving through the entire zodiac from start to finish, and the entire 64 gates.

And that cycle can start at any point. So anytime a reflector comes into a new consideration is initiated. Anytime a reflector is initiated is how it is usually referred to in human design.

That that's the beginning of their 28 day lunar cycle. That can happen when the Moon is in Gate 5 over here in Sagittarius. It can happen when the moon's in gate 39 over here in Cancer.

It can happen at any point.

But that initiation point marks the beginning of a period in which the reflector now will wait and process the Moon moving through every other part of their design. So they can feel and process and synthesize what feels true to them, what feels like the correct decision for them.

Once they've felt all the aspects of their design being activated by the Moon by transit, the reflector experiences this repeated cycle of definition that's unique to their design. Right? So it's all dependent on which gates each reflector has.

Let's say something happens to this reflector when the Moon is in gate 10, which is the cusp of Sagittarius to Capricorn. This reflector already has gate 10 in their design in the G center here. And so the Moon on its own does not affect the reflector's definition.

Okay, so the moon moves through 58 down here in the root center. It gives that reflector gate 58, but that reflector doesn't have 18.

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But then the Moon's gonna get to gate 61, and this is in fairly late Capricorn. So this is maybe about two days or so since we started this reflector's lunar cycle.

And this is the first time so far where there is gonna be center definition. Because when the moon hits 61 up here in the head center, it will link up with this reflector's Dorm and Potential24.

And now for the duration of the Moon being in Gate 61, which doesn't last even a whole day, it's just a portion of a day. Now that reflector is going to have definition by transit in their head in Ajna.

And even though it's a transit and therefore not their definition for reflector, that transient definition is significant because it gives the reflector access to the consistency of their potential 24. Then the moon moves out of 61 into 60, 41 and 19, where it will not define the reflector's body.

Once it gets to mid aquarius in gate 13, which is here in the G center, it will link up with this reflector's 33, and it's going to define their G in their throat.

So there's a period of time when the Moon was in Gate 61 where this stream of consistent thought that shows up only for this portion of the lunar cycle each month was online for the reflector. Then for this reflector on either side of that, there's a period of time where the Moon is not providing any definition.

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When the moon gets into 63, now there's a different channel of defined head and ajah, so a different flavor of head ajahn definition. And then right after 63, the. The moon will move into 22. And for the first time in this reflector's lunar cycle, there's 22, 12.

There's solar plexus definition. There's an emotional energy and an emotional awareness within the reflector. We follow it around and around and around.

This reflector will at some point have definition in every center. I think it's, it's most common for reflectors to at some point have definition in every center at least once. But that's not a given.

There are reflectors who, based on where their hanging gates, their dormant potentials lie, they might not ever actually get transit definition in an undefined center. And, you know, this is not the entirety of what's going on. This is just the Moon.

There's all these other planets and points, planets and the nodes and Earth, that will also be defining the reflector by transit as well. But the Moon is this one. That happens so quickly.

I mean, it's so slow when we compare the reflector strategy to all the rest of us, because it really takes this full lunar cycle for them to feel into their Consistency. The Moon is so fast compared to every other planet.

The next fastest planets are the sun and Mercury, which take about a year to get all the way around all 64 gates.

So there's these slower cycles happening, but the reflector is able to tap into their life force, their authority, which, which is this lunar cycle, through the program, through the lunar program, through the transit field, through this fastest moving body, which is the Moon.

So this is the idea of the reflectors being, you know, fueled is maybe not the right word, cause it's not what the Moon does, but given their life force through the reception of the lunar cycle. But let's talk about it as a strategy, practically speaking, a bit more here. So the reflector strategy, wait. A lunar cycle.

In an aura that is reliant on the homogenized program, the reflector can connect with their differentiated mechanics by processing the lunar cycle with awareness.

This requires the reflector to maintain a lot of patience and a state of neutrality and detachment so that they can watch and discern throughout their entire process, rather than fixate on any one particular moment within it. Similar in ways to the emotional authority process of waiting their wave. Now, we haven't talked about emotional authority yet.

We'll, we'll talk about all the different authorities in the next unit.

But for those of you who already have a sense of what emotional authority means, and for all of us, we've covered the defined solar plexus, so we've talked about aspects of it.

For the 50% of people on the planet who have emotional authority, and that can be a generator, a manifester, or a projector, there's no truth in the now moment because the emotional process has to move through its wave. There's a similarity here with reflectors.

There's a process of moving through, seeing every sort of angle of this full spectrum experience before one can discern a sense of clarity over time throughout the process. As I mentioned before, this idea of reflectors being initiated is referenced often.

The lunar cycle for the reflector begins at the start of any new offer, invitation, consideration. So a reflector might be invited on a trip, invited to offer their evaluation of the state of something within a work setting, within a community.

A reflector might be invited to present something. A reflector might be on their own just considering, you know, a new path, a new directionality.

Whatever the beginning of that offer, consideration, invitation, initiation is, that's the beginning. That's the first moment where the reflector feels into. How do I feel about that now?

And then, how does that shift throughout my Lunar cycle, as I get hooked up into via the moon, all my dormant potentials, all of my transient life force.

And then it's up to the reflector to discern, and this is a RA quote, the quality of their associations and the way their aura filters the world around them over time, refining their decision.

And RA also says, defined G people will often bring these new directions and new initiations for reflectors because the G reflects is the part of us that offers a trajectory, a sense of directionality. In the meantime, between initiations and throughout their lunar process, reflectors are sampling and evaluating their environment.

When we were talking about the Manifestor, I talked about how once it really settled in for me, how informing is an artificial strategy. I found myself being curious about, well, what is my actual mechanical strategy then?

And I kind of played with like, okay, informing is what I do for the other to alleviate resistance in my interactions with the other. But what do I do for myself? You know, how am I operating on my own? What can I think of as my mechanical strategy?

And I talked about that in the manifesto lecture. For the reflector, the lunar cycle is their mechanical strategy. It's how they connect to their mechanics.

But also like, what is a reflector doing day to day? Right, There might be these overlapping 28 day cycles that they're in process with, but what's a reflector doing day to day?

What is there, what strategy might there be for a reflector to stay connected to their Auric function?

And this mechanical Auric process and strategy of waiting a lunar cycle, this is just how I've sort of, where I've sort of come, my fifth line mind has sort of come to try to find a practical way of thinking about this and offering a solution to offer the reflectors. For me, I think about it as this idea of just remaining detached, remaining neutral, remaining detached as being the reflector day to day strategy.

Because there's going to be a time where you've processed it all and there's a sense of clarity.

But in the meantime, remaining detached, allowing everything, whether it's other people's energy that you're sampling in your Teflon aura and, or the transit field.

For reflectors, it's the main consideration to help you stay in your awareness, in your sovereignty, in yourself, in passenger consciousness, is to understand that this is all transient.

And the danger is for you to get locked into any one moment of the transit or any one conditioning that's coming in through the environment that you're sampling and to hook into that and believe that that's the truth, right?

So remaining neutral, remaining detached, trusting the process, which is remaining detached, remaining detached and trusting the process are one and the same. Soundboarding is a part of the reflector process.

This idea of being able to just talk your process out as things are hitting you, not necessarily needing anybody to give their input or advice, but just giving the reflector an opportunity to check in with their body and externalize. Especially if there's throat definition during a part of that, right?

The reflector might at some point have that spleen to throat definition, or G to throat, or ego to throat, or ajna to throat, or solar plexus to throat, or sacral to throat. So all of these things can go to the throat.

And part of the life force, when it is a center being defined to the throat, part of that consistency is, how is this expressed? How is this intuitive awareness, instinctual awareness through the spleen expressed? How is this motorized life force through the sacral expressed?

How is the solar plexus emotional awareness or mental awareness or sense of self and direction? So this process of soundboarding is really useful for the reflector to feel into. What am I reflecting via my lunar cycle right now?

But none of that is the ultimate truth.

And so both the reflector and the person that they're soundboarding with, that they're externalizing with, will benefit from understanding that this is just a part of the reflector's process. Having a consistency of dependable, healthy allies to be in process with is crucial for the reflector.

Reflectors can, but don't need to benefit from actually tracking their lunar cycle. So I would definitely, if I were a reflector, I would a hundred percent look at this and track it. And you know, I've.

I've done this for myself as a non reflector kind of looked at where in the lun, the moon cycle do my dormant potentials hook up to the transit field. If I were a reflector, I certainly would. But remember, we're all designed to experience life and life force exactly the way that our auras need to.

And so I have in parentheses here, reflectors don't need to actually track it, because you're designed to feel into that definition as a part of the shifting landscape of your Auric reception anyways. So you don't necessarily need to from the mind kind of track it, but many do.

And it absolutely can and often is a major benefit to the reflector kind of feeling into and understanding and clarifying what this whole lunar cycle process is about. And every reflector has a completely unique Orientation to the lunar cycle based on their dormant potentials.

We'll revisit this reflector strategy of weighting a lunar cycle when we talk about authority, because the reflector strategy and authority are one and the same. Reflectors have what we call lunar authority. And here's a quote from Ra, kind of speaking to this idea of neutrality and detachment.

Waiting the lunar cycle. No one can assess an environment more profoundly than a reflector. Nobody can deal with a decision with greater depth than a reflector.

But the time, you have to take the time. So the openness is a gift, right? We talk about this since the beginning of Lyd in every aura type. Your openness is a gift.

It's your window to potentiality. Robin Wynne, an author of a human design book on the centers, Calls the undefined centers God portals.

They're our window to source because that's where we take in the magic and the mystery of life force in the world. So reflectors, through their completely undefined, On a center's level body, have this potential for such depth of. Of insight and wisdom.

But that depth, that potentiality, is lost when the reflector is fixating on any one moment of this transitory definition. They have to take the time. The lunar cycle is really what assures the ability for that depth of awareness and insight to be accessed and offered.

I have a lot of Ra quotes in the reflector lecture, specifically, Just sort of out of my own sense of humility around. I'm getting there. I do feel like I have a lot of moments where I feel the reflector mechanics, and I'm.

I'm lucky to have a handful of reflector friends. And I watch them and I listen to them and learn from them. But just. It felt important to me to.

To share some things directly from Ra because my own sort of translation and synthesis for reflectors doesn't feel as deeply ingrained as it does for the other types. So Ra said, I think of time as movement. It's always movement. You see, for me, the reflector waiting out the cycle of the moon is always.

Is like the emotional person waiting out their wave. There is all this information that is building in order to get to that place of clarity.

And the thing to grasp about the reflector is that only in the geometry of the moment Is their unique potential established. The unique authority for the reflector can only emerge out of those moments of initiation.

And it's those moments of initiation that establish a unique movement and reference point. From that point, you wait. The cycle. The cycle is everything. It is the only way that they can begin to separate themselves from the program itself.

It's the reflector's ability to observe their vehicle's unique way of receiving the lunar cycle that tunes them into their differentiation, because otherwise it's just the program all the time. On a similar note, you cannot talk about conditioning in a reflector the same way you talk about conditioning in anybody else.

It's not a personal not self that they have. It's a community not self that they have. They integrate all of these aspects impersonally. This cycle is the only place you can begin.

It's in the reflector detaching from the environmental conditions enough to tune into their unique relationship with the lunar cycle that gives them their sense of self. The lunar cycle is the way to personalize it enough to wake up from it.

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