32. Splenic Authority

Speaker A: 00:00:00

For Splenic Authority, your intuition or your instincts or your hunches are the way that your body leads you through the matrices of all of the other more complex awarenesses, as well as any of the other center functions.

It's that in the moment, moment to moment, light, spontaneous hit, that sensation that you feel, maybe more on the surface of your body or kind of all throughout your body, that's alerting you. Yes, this. Know this. That's Splenic Authority.

Speaker A: 00:00:33

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Speaker A: 00:01:58

Splenic Authority... Similar kind of roadmap here to what we've been looking at for our exploration of the authorities. We will revisit the defined spleen. We will talk about how for so far you know, we've talked about solar plexus, energy and awareness.

Sacral- just energy, no awareness. Spleen- Instantaneous awareness that is not energized, not fueled and not rational.

We'll look at briefly at variations on Splenic Authority based on the channel definition. We'll talk about being both non emotional and non sacral and the way that that affects the Splenic Authority.

Being's experience of receiving and tuning into their body's truest wisdom. And we'll look at the distinction between splenic authority and projectors and splenic authority and manifestors.

Or maybe a better way of saying that is that we will apply this secondary concept of splenic authority to both the primary concept of projector aura and the primary concept of manifestor aur. The spleen Center. The spleen is our oldest form of awareness as a species.

It is the center for instinctive awareness that deals with holding onto life, AKA survival. The spleen processes our sense of security, fear, health and well being. It communicates to us through light.

Spontaneous moment by moment hits and tells us what is safe, healthy and correct for us and what is not. It operates in the now. The spleen is instinctive awareness in the now.

As we've discussed, when you have a defined spleen, you have consistent access to spontaneous awareness and alertness through the body and the senses.

If you have defined spleen, sometimes you suddenly just know things, and you don't know why from a mental place, but you do know that you can trust them. With a defined spleen, you have a sense that you know how to survive and that you're safe unless you're not.

You have a fixed way of processing your consistent fears. It's correct for you to inquire into your fears. You can provide a feeling of safety and security to others through your splenic definition.

And you might enjoy scenarios in which you have to rely on your instincts, that kind of moment to moment being cued by your reflexes.

For instance, if the spleen center is your authority for the splenic projector, the splenic manifestor, then all of this becomes the ultimate inner authority that offers correctness for you, offers you the correct orientation to everything in your inner world, all of your other definition and your outer world, what you're taking in from the outer world, that becomes a part of your inner experience through your conditioning. The spleen is awareness in the now that is not energized and is not rational.

Okay, so this is an inner authority that is about awareness, which so was the solar plexus, but it's not about awareness that's concerned with time at all. The ajna, right, can think linearly. It thinks into the past, it thinks into the future, but the spleen does not. It's in this moment.

There's something kind of similar to splenic and sacral authority in that way.

And that the truth of this moment, based on the way this authority communicates to you does not necessarily have anything to do with the truth of the next moment. And this is not awareness that changes over time with solar plexus awareness, right? The solar plexus emotional awareness is like that simmering soup.

It's blending and merging and shaping and transmuting and shifting over time. And emotional authority relies on a process and the past in order to come to clarity in the present. That's not the case for splenic authority.

Splenic authority does not change over time. It is moment to moment hits of instinct that have nothing to do with the past moment. There's a new one in each and every moment.

There's new splenic authority, new instinctual awareness. This is about instantaneous awareness.

It's your instincts in any present moment that reliably filter all of the potentially more complex or sophisticated awarenesses that you come into. It communicates to you in the now.

Although its hits may contain instinctive memory, splenic awareness does not orient towards the future or the past from a mental strategic place. So let's tease into this memory, this idea of instinctive memory a bit. The spleen is incredibly intelligent.

It's a very intelligent authority and deeply sophisticated in its functionality. Right? It keeps you alive. According to the inherited memory of evolution, animals operate from splenic authority.

They don't operate from ajna or emotional authority. And for me, it's just an easy. I have, as I've mentioned multiple times, both splenic and solar plexus definition.

So I can feel the way the spleen operates within me, but I have to sort of pause sometimes to consider what would that be like to operate with that as an authority. Because I have my emotional authority kind of weighing me down and slowing me down all of the time.

I operate at a, on a different timeline than splenic authority people. It often feels to me. So for me, just thinking of how animals operate helps me tap into that as a being who is on this emotional time. Right.

Rather than splenic time, animals are concerned with their safety and, well, being in the moment. What's happening right now is this in the moment, right now, Instinctive awareness.

And it's not less intelligent than the ajna or the solar plexus awareness. It's simply rooted in the now.

But it has an intelligence that carries every now moment from an evolutionary history into this present now moment with its instincts. So example, birds instinctively know how to fly, right? They're not taught that from an Ajna place.

They don't arrive to emotional clarity to learn to fly. It's an instinct that they have, and that's an inherited intelligence throughout their species evolution.

So it's the same for you with your splenic authority. There's a deep, inherited, sophisticated intelligence here. It's just sophisticated in a very different way than the other awareness centers.

Your mind is not going to understand your spleen's cues in the moment that your spleen offers them. But your trip is to trust them and to watch them. The passenger in your mind doesn't have to trust them right away.

Otherwise this wouldn't be an experiment. But watch. Watch your. Watch your body already guiding you in this way.

Watch the way that this instinctive, spontaneous, intuitive awareness in the now is already the anchor, is already the filter for your experience over time as you lean into that, as you naturally gravitate towards trusting it. And in this case by you, I mean your mind, the passenger.

It's going to free you up of a lot of worry, a lot of wasted energy, because you'll see this is just how you are moved through time and space.

And it does keep you safe, and it does keep you aligned, and it does keep you in your peace if you're a manifestor or in success if you're a projector. The spleen is the first authority center we're encountering. That's not a motor center because it is not energized.

Its somatic sensation is lighter than those of the solar plexus and the sacral. But consider the splenic system doesn't just reside in a singular location in the body.

Its biological correspondences are the lymphatic system and the immune system. It runs through and can be felt in much of your body. I really like this image here. This is an image of the lymphatic system. It's all over the body.

There's not any one place necessarily where this is felt. It's felt all over the body, but in kind of a clear, light way. Splenic hits are often described as quick, spontaneous, light and cool.

They are often articulated as a lighter somatic sensation. Right. There's not the heaviness of energy to the spleen that there is to the sacral and the solar plexus, but there's still substance there.

It is still a sensation. It's often described, though, as like a softer physiological sensation.

These are sensations and hits that are separate from logic and emotion, and they expire once the moment has passed. I often describe it as feeling like a quick kind of lightning strike. There's like a little tingling that I Feel, I'm feeling it right now.

That tells me something is true or something is worth my attention. Something is for me, and it's just light kind of tingle or a light kind of sparkle that I feel just everywhere in my body.

It's the immune system too, and the skin is the immune system too.

So even that sort of like tingly sensation on the skin for splenic authority, your intuition or your instincts or your hunches are the way that your body leads you through the matrices of all of the other more complex awarenesses, as well as any of the other center functions.

So it's that in the moment, moment to moment, light, spontaneous hit, that sensation that you feel maybe more on the surface of your body or kind of all throughout your body, that's alerting you, yes, this, no, this. That's splenic authority. It's changing moment to moment. So similar to the sacral, there's not any deep meaning behind this, right?

This is an existential center, meaning it's. It has to do with your existence in this very moment.

Splenic authority, people require a certain amount of freedom and allowance to live and move spontaneously according to these in the moment hunches that you get in these, these instantaneous instincts. Just like with any center, the way you experience a center is going to have a unique flavor.

And this goes beyond just what channels define the center, right? Your definition is the surface level of many more complex parts of your design that are under the surface.

However, looking at the channel that defines your spleen can give you some of the first steps into getting to know and attuning to and feeling for the frequency of the unique flavor of your splenic hip. And so, similarly to the sacral, we can look at this in two categories.

What center is your spleen defined to and is the channel that defines an individual, tribal or collective?

So again, you can learn much more about your splenic channel or your splenic channels to continue on this journey of sort of feeling into attuning more deeply to your splenic authority. But for now, a basic intro. You can have spleen connected to the root. So this is instinct that actually is pressurized and fueled, right?

So I talked about the spleen's not an energy center, but if you have root to spleen definition, and that's what gives you your splenic authority, then when you operate splenically, you are experiencing that with fuel. It's just a little bit of fuel. It's not as much fuel as the solar plexus or the sacral.

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This is instinctual awareness for value and material needs that is energized by the will. So another channel where there's a little bit of energy. The instincts are energized as they come through the will center.

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These are splenic hits and splenic awareness that's motivated by learning, understanding and sharing. The spleen as the filter for your openness and the spokesperson for your definition. The spleen as your anchor.

The intuitive spontaneous hunches that you receive in any and every moment are your ultimate authority that when surrendered to help you to navigate your type strategy and allow you the greatest access to your success or your peace. Your authority is ultimately about what intuitively feels true, correct and healthy for you in each passing moment.

As you honor these intuitive insights without questioning, rationalizing, suppressing or negotiating with them, you will witness yourself operating more according to all of your definition and engaging with your undefined centers in the unattached way that you are designed to. Following your splenic authority puts you in the awareness of the moment.

You have a very in the moment life when you have splenic authority and you do not Know what is next until the spleen communicates it to you.

Now, when we talked about sacral authority, we talked about being a non emotional generator, the experience of actually having heightened emotions, right? So let's take that a step further for splenic authority. Splenic authority beings are always projectors or manifestors. They're always non sacrals.

So now we're talking about this shared experience that a certain kind of manifester and a certain kind of projector can have. Being both non emotional and non sacral. Being a non emotional, non sacral.

So on a non emotional end, as we discussed in the sacral authority lecture, you actually experience emotions in a heightened way, right?

You might actually think of yourself as being extremely emotional because you're absorbing and amplifying the emotional energy around you, but that's not you, right?

And on the sacral end, as a non sacral type, you're also extremely susceptible to allowing yourself to be energetically manipulated and overworked because you're absorbing and amplifying the sacrals around you. The reason the spleen is third in our authority order is because its somatic presence is quieter than that of the solar plexus and the sacral.

And since you are amplifying both of these louder centers, it is really, really easy for your own inner authority to be drowned out by the sensations being amplified through your undefined solar plexus and undefined sacral. This is especially true when you lack the awareness to observe the not self tendencies of your conditioning in those centers for what they are.

And what they are are strategies of your not self mind rather than as the truth. So again, these not self tendencies, let's revisit them. For the undefined solar plexus, am I avoiding truth or confrontation?

And for the undefined sacral, do I know when enough is enough? Or am I chasing satisfaction or completion? When you notice your not self tendencies that sound something like this, detach. No, that is not you.

That is not the truth. Those narratives are not the truth.

Those are the narratives of your mind that are distracting you from the instantaneous spontaneous knowing in this moment that you actually do have.

It may feel spontaneous and like a leap of faith to honor your splenic authority because your mind will never understand the full intelligence of those signals from your spleen and because the conditioning from your solar plexus and sacral are so loud and influencing the narratives of your mind. But remember, that spontaneous leap of faith is what you are designed to operate in alignment with.

And any narratives that resist such are a product of your not self mind and will lead you to bitterness or to anger.

So there might be, you know, a theme here that it's like a risk to really trust this existential in the moment voice of your spleen, because it's not rational and it's not grounded in any sense of past or history that you are aware of. On a mental or emotional level, however, it is extremely safe.

It might feel like a risk, it might feel like a leap of faith, but it's the safest thing you can do.

Honoring your splenic authority is the most secure and healthy thing that you can do because it puts you in the energy, places, times and circumstances where you can honor your most peaceful if you're a manifestor or most successful if you're a projector. Aligned gifts of one of a kind insights, projectors and initiations manifestors to the world in the ways that feel good in your body.

Here's an excerpt on splenic authority from the definitive Book of Human Design.

This authority can be felt as an instantaneous resonance or recognition with something or someone and an inner knowing as to whether it is healthy for you or not.

Our highly evolved survival intelligence alerts us to which environments, directions, opportunities and people are safe and advantageous for us to engage with, and which aren't.

This type of authority requires a deep level of attention to many subtle physiological sensations and an ability to act if necessary and correct, no matter what the consequences. Leap of faith.

Do not allow your mind or the emotional needs, wants and pressures of others to cause you to second guess or override your splenic center's messages. Splenic authority and projectors.

Your intuition, your existential awareness in the now is a part of what you are invited to offer by those who truly recognize you, because it is a huge part of you. And your intuitive contributions will feel incorrect for you in the other without the invitation. So there's a bit of a balance here.

As a splenic projector, you're eating your environment, you're plugged into the other. You're taking in the other so deeply and you're having these clear instantaneous intuitions about what's happening when you wait for the invitation.

And when that invitation comes with recognition, it will feel correct for you and the other to share those instinctive, instantaneous awarenesses as they come up, if they've been invited. Even if sharing those things feels like a risk, right? Because where did this come from? I don't know. From an emotional place? I don't know.

From a Mental place, I don't know, but I feel this light hit this light awareness. However, you're going to have a lot of those when they're not being invited. You're going to have a lot of those outside of invitation.

So the presence of the instinct alone is not the reason to share it if it's having to do with the other. So again, this authority fits within the aura and within the strategy of the aura.

Splenic projectors will also use their instinctive awareness in every now moment to navigate the world of recognition and invitation. You will know when you receive an invitation, if it's for you or not. You will know in that moment very different than emotional beings.

You also may not get much or any of a warning when an invitation is expiring.

When it's time to shift in between invitations, you might not know why you need to go here now or why you need to, you know, be in a physically different space or do this today instead of that. It's all aligning you to your correct geometry. It's all putting you in the correct place for the correct recognition and the correct invitations.

Instantaneous hunches about whether recognition you're receiving is true and the quality of the invitation are to be trusted in these moments.

Moment to moment, Splenic projectors will rely on their instincts to navigate how they engage within the circumstances of invitations, as well as to discern where their attention is going. In between invitations and again, in between, in quotes, because we're not necessarily talking about like a linear way of moving, right?

It's not like a projector is solely plugged into one person and that's their entire life. You are balancing different invitations at different times in your life. So in between is kind of, you know, just a concept.

I like to talk about that just to kind of honor that and remind projectors that you have your own life outside of what you're plugging into, right? You are the constant in all of those situations and relationships that you plug into.

You are collection of all of those things that is unique to you, that is not of the relationships that is you. Splenic projectors will move and make decisions quickly, spontaneously, and according to their in the moment intuitive awareness.

This is a faster pace than emotional projectors who need time to ride the wave and potentially also faster than G projectors and mental projectors who typically have some sort of process to weed out what's false and discern their truth of their inner authority. Splenic projectors who also have root and or ego definition have some Energy and therefore are considered to be energy projectors.

We talked about this a little bit with emotional projectors, but this is not fuel that's for doing so much as it is fuel for your own process. If a motor center is connected to the spleen, then the splenic authority involves energy to some capacity.

But this is energy for your intuitive awareness, et cetera. And if you are a splenic manifestor. Splenic Authority and manifestors.

Splenic manifestors are some of the fastest moving creatures, or at least it looks that way when they're getting the hit to initiate, right? But the default for splenic manifestors is going to be rest a lot as well.

But in initiation, the authority communicates for action in the now, and the mechanics of the motorized throat bring that initiation to fruition immediately, right? It doesn't have to go through this slow process of waiting the wave that the emotional manifester does.

Splenic manifestors always also have either root or ego definition. And thus their urges are connected to centers beyond their authority, right?

The flavor of energy coming from those motor centers are going to color the energetic initiations, right? Because the spleen itself is not a motor center, so it's not the thing doing the initiating. The spleen is either connected to the root.

And then the splenic manifester has root to spleen and maybe directly to throat, or maybe root to spleen to ego to throat, or goes through the G to the throat. The spleen itself is not the motor that makes the manifester a manifester, but it's the authority center.

It's the awareness that is the authority for that process of the motorized throat. And so the splenic awareness is what is directing the circumstances and the timing of the initiations.

But it's either the root and or the ego that's kind of coloring and fueling the urge in the initiation itself.

Informing can be especially crucial for the splenic manifester because the sudden spontaneous nature of your authorities is even more sudden and unpredictable for those outside of your aura who are impacted by it, right? So it can be really easy for the splenic manifester to forget to inform emotional manifesters. We're in pro. We're in a process for a while.

We have a lot of chances to kind of inform when. When the urges are coming because they're uploading for a while, they're simmering for a while.

For Splenic Manifestors, I imagine it's very different.

You get that instantaneous hit and you're like, zing, go and so it can be especially important to kind of you don't have to slow down but to remember to inform if someone's around you. If there are people that this initiation is going to impact, inform them and then be on your merry way.

Practice honoring your instantaneous hits regardless of the consequences and also practice informing those who will be impacted because otherwise their reactions might get in your way and cause resistance, therefore anger. Resistance is the root of all anger.

Speaker A: 00:29:21

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