So what is your gut saying?

If you have a Sacral authority you have consistent access to life force energy. This center is the energy hub for pleasure, creativity, reproduction, sustainability and sexuality.

Your Sacral is designed to respond to life. Its full body wisdom, a primal response. Sacral authority speaks through guttural sounds of uh-huh, uh-uh, and hmmm.

The Sacral Center communicates when we're about to RESPOND (only Generators or Manifesting Generators will have Sacral Authority in their charts): it's the HOLY MOMENT between being potentially initiated and the committing of the energy.

A quick reminder about RESPONDING, because this has been a trend in my readings with clients lately: don't get it twisted! WAITING TO RESPOND and WAITING FOR AN INVITATION are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!

Some have described it as a gut feeling that expands throughout your body when you’re excited about something (yes) and contracts when you’re not (no). Because this is not an awareness center, your responses are not meant to be rationalized.

It’s simply here to signal you on what you do or don’t have energy for. Because once it’s committed it’ll want to go all the way. It’s a hell yes. So then of course your alignment must be as well or you will waste all that beautiful energy and get frustrated and over time burntout.

When you’re committing to something your sacral gets activated and generates the energy to engage.

But it’s important you’re responding to what excites you otherwise you won’t be able to keep that energy up in the long run. After all you can’t make energy out of thin air, in a way excitement is your cue for what you have energy for and the fuel that ignites and sustains it.

As a Generator or a Manifesting Generator, EVERY BREATH WE TAKE IS A RESPONSE. #nevernotresponding

It's totally reductive and hella limiting to think that we can only respond to direct questions or to tasks given to us by the people around us. Our Sacral Center can respond to ideas, to energies, to invitations, to art, to music, to books, to actions, to topics in discussions...the list just goes on and on. 

As Generators, there are three really good questions you can ask yourself to make sure you're RESPONDING and not INITIATING. Ask these questions…

1. by acting, am I addressing a need?

2. by acting, am I filling a void?

3. by acting, am I answering a question?

If you're just learning to let yourself be led by your Sacral Center, practice first with responding to questions or ideas that are from a solid, external source.

Then, as you get better at discerning the way your authority or Sacral Center communicates YES or NO to you, start posing questions to yourself. Most of us have been conditioned since we were children away from listening to our gut, and told to use our heads when making decisions, so getting back into this old habit might take some practice.

For those with Sacral Authority, it is CRUCIAL you only commit your energy to things that light you up, turn you on, and are within your integrity. When we begrudgingly commit our energy to tasks and work that isn't meant for us and doesn't bring us joy or light us up, it can cause MAJOR health problems.

Those with Sacral Authority are meant to do work they love, so if your career isn't providing that, finding a hobby as a vehicle to commit some of that precious Sacral energy is the best thing you can do for your health

Your Sacral authority is pretty direct, yes or no. A good exercise to tune into how the sacral response feels specifically in your body is by asking yourself (or having somebody ask you) close ended questions. The more specific the better. The sacral likes to respond to options.

How does the yes feel?

How does no feel?

Practice to dial it in. You can also use sway or muscle testing to understand how your intuition and body is communicating with you.

What are your feelings telling you?

Emotional Solar Plexus, With an Emotional authority your Solar Plexus is defined. It’s the center for emotions, feelings and sensitivity.

You’re designed to experience the full spectrum of emotions, you’re always riding an emotional wave. Clarity comes with time. Waiting is key here.

You’re not meant to make big decisions in the moment—specifically when you’re in an emotional high or low. Giving yourself the space to feel through the emotional wave so when you feel calm you then will find clarity.

You know the saying “sleep on it”? Yeap that actually works for you!

Clarity is when you don’t have a strong emotional charge. You’re never not feeling any emotion. The emotional wave is not something you can control or influence. It’ll last as long as it lasts. You don’t have to find meaning or make sense of it while you’re in the middle of your wave.

You’re simply meant to hold space for your feelings without questioning or demanding answers. Trust that clarity will come.

What does it look like to “FEEL SHIT OUT” before you can act on a decision?

Whether it's an invitation you received if you're a Projector, or a task for you to potentially respond to if you're a Generator/Manifesting Generator, etc.

You still might be receiving messages from your Spleen, but you really need to ride the entirety of your emotional wave, feel all the feels, and then when you feel calm, decide.

Those with Emotional/Solar Plexus Authority never feel 100% sure about their decisions...more like 75/80% AND THAT'S OK.

The reason you still might feel hesitant is because YOU DID THE RIGHT THING and allowed your body to feel all the potential emotional possibilities.

The remaining uncertainty is your body remembering when you were feeling through the low point in your emotional wave.

80% certainty around a decision is actually your body's version of 100% and is all you need to feel confident taking action.

To master listening to this authority, remember the first two rules of having a defined Emotional/Solar Plexus Center:

Don’t make decisions when you are in your feels and don’t suppress your feelings.

It’s vital you FEEL ALL THE FEELS first, wait for calm and clarity, and then act.

Feel the HIGHEST HIGHS and the LOWEST LOWS, wait for calm and 80%ish percent clarity around a YES or NO, and then go forth and take action.

What are your instincts saying?

The Spleen is our oldest awareness center. It’s about survival, instinct, intuition and fear. The Splenic authority is about body consciousness and the only authority designed to make decisions in the moment.

With a defined spleen you have an instinctive voice that’s constantly guiding you and keeping you safe.

You know exactly what’s right or wrong for you moment by moment. It can feel like a quiet voice, an inner knowing that can’t be explained to others.

You are designed to be deeply present in the now. Notice whenever your mind tries to override your splenic hit. Splenic authority speaks through the body's instincts and NO.

The Splenic voice has often been described as a quiet one where it doesn’t repeat itself. So if you’re not paying attention (or too caught up in your mind) you might “miss” what the spleen said. But that’s not true. Just because the moment passed, it does not mean your spleen stopped talking to you. It just means it’s focused on whatever else is present at the moment.

Since the spleen is about present moment awareness, it doesn’t have the ability to predict the future. What’s good for you now might not be good for you anymore in the future. Be open to adapting and changing.

So about how the language of fear is involved in making decisions…

The trick is to decode what the fear messages mean:

Are you feeling fear because the action you're about to take is outside of your integrity?

Or are you anxious because you're not sure what the future holds?

Or are those the butterflies of nervous excitement?

Another way the Splenic center communicates is through resonance. For example you might feel an instant deep recognition that a course of action is DEFINITELY meant for you, or instant unease, a knowing that this course of action isn't safe or right in this present moment.

SInce the Spleen sends the message in the moment and will not repeat itself it becomes a lesson learned through tuning in with what nervousness and anxiety feel like in the body. A game of knowing if it is a resonance of UNEASE or EXCITED.

If you're feeling excited-nervous, that's your YES, and you need to push through the "what might the future bring??" thoughts from the Mind Center that create anxiety. If you're feeling icky-uneasy-nervous, that's your NO and your body's way of saying THIS IS NOT MEANT FOR YOU.

A major key for Splenic Authority is to avoid using our Mind/Ajna to try to deconstruct or analyze these splenic sensations as they're happening. Don’t try to rationalize the decision in the moment. Save the reflection for after you act.

With an ego authority you have the heart center defined. This is the center for willpower, ego, drive, desire and worthiness.

The ego authority is about being connected to what you want and your truth.

A lot of us have been conditioned to rationalize or even justify our desires. If you have this center defined there might’ve been some resistance or guilt as you pursued what felt right to you and unable to explain to others.

Ever heard of the saying “The heart wants what it wants”? Well that’s exactly how this energy works. Knowing what you value, what you want and don’t want is this center’s cue of signalling you what you have energy to commit to or not.

Since this is also the center for willpower you have the ability to do anything you commit to. But if you talked yourself into doing something you truly didn’t want to, aka letting your mind make the decision for you, then you won’t be able to sustain it. The energy is simply not there because it wasn’t part of your desire. In your case desire provides the energy exchange. That being said your energy comes in bursts. Just because you have the will and desire doesn’t mean you can be ‘on’ all the time. Letting yourself recharge is a crucial part of your process.

You like to be in control of your resources. From where you work, what you do with your time to how you make and spend money. You are meant to let your core desires guide you, they are the breadcrumbs to your inner alignment.

If your authority is Self-projected, you’re a projector who has the Throat and Identity G centers defined.

The identity G center is the energy hub for direction, love, self and purpose. Self-projected authority speaks through the tone of voice.

The Throat is the center for expression, communication and action. Having this as your authority means you’re here to listen to what you have to say. Being able to hear your own voice as you express gives you clarity.

As a projector you’re here to wait for the invitations and when an invitation does arrive you make your decision best by talking it out loud. Either by yourself or to someone you trust. It’s like an energetic untangling that makes space for clarity. Allowing your truth to be expressed without filter is important.