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Solar Plexus Center in Human Design: Emotion Waves
The Solar Plexus is the Human Design center of emotion and mood waves, and the home of emotional authority. It is both a motor and an awareness center, with seven gates: 6, 22, 30, 36, 37, 49 and 55.
What the Solar Plexus center is
In plain EnglishThe Solar Plexus is where your moods, desires and feelings come from.
It is the triangle on the lower right of the bodygraph, with seven gates: 6, 22, 30, 36, 37, 49 and 55. It is the only center that counts as both a motor and an awareness center. It is also the base for emotional authority, which ranks first among all authorities.
Human Design describes the center as running on a wave, not a straight line. Human Design is a modern system and not science, so treat the wave as a metaphor for mood.
When the Solar Plexus is defined
In plain EnglishYour mood has its own weather, and it moves whether or not anything happened.
A defined Solar Plexus means at least one of its gates is part of a channel. You may wake up on a Tuesday hopeful for no clear reason and feel flat by Thursday evening. Neither mood has to be about a person or event.
The gift is emotional depth and the ability to feel a situation fully. The trap is acting at the top or bottom of the wave. A defined Solar Plexus can say yes in a burst of enthusiasm, or end something on a low day, and regret it later. It can also seem unpredictable to other people. The system says the cure is time before big choices.
When the Solar Plexus is undefined
In plain EnglishYou feel the moods around you as if they were your own.
An open Solar Plexus means you do not have a steady inner wave, and you may absorb others’. A tense meeting makes your stomach tight. A friend’s good news raises your mood. You may avoid conflict because it feels so loud.
The gift is empathy and the ability to see feelings clearly from the outside, since you are not stuck in your own wave. The trap is avoidance, such as agreeing to calm a room, or mistaking someone else’s anxiety for yours. The practical check is to ask whether the feeling remains once you leave the room.
How it works in daily life
In plain EnglishThe Solar Plexus changes how long a decision takes and how you act in conflict.
A defined Solar Plexus tends to want time, because the feeling will change. An open one may want to leave quickly, because the feeling is not its own. Human Design teachers disagree on how much emotional intensity is built into the center, and many say it varies by channel.
In relationships, a defined and an open Solar Plexus often meet. The person with the wave benefits from patience, and the person who absorbs it benefits from some distance.
Which types can have it
In plain EnglishAny type except a Reflector can have a defined Solar Plexus.
Manifestors can have it as the motor connected to the throat. Generators, Manifesting Generators and Projectors can have it too. Reflectors have all centers undefined. Check your own with the Human Design chart tool.
A practical way to use it
In plain EnglishTreat your mood as weather, not as a verdict.
If it is defined, wait a night on big decisions. If it is open, step outside, or ask yourself whose feeling this is before you react.
- Personality (conscious)
- Design (unconscious)
Where the Solar Plexus center sits
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- Head, open
- Ajna, open
- Throat, open
- G center, open
- Heart, open
- Spleen, open
- Solar Plexus, defined
- Sacral, open
- Root, open
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Questions people ask
- What does the Solar Plexus do in Human Design?
- It carries emotion as a wave that rises and falls. Human Design says it is both a motor, because it gives drive, and an awareness center, because it senses.
- What does an undefined Solar Plexus mean?
- You do not generate a steady emotional rhythm and tend to take in the moods around you. The system says it helps to separate your own feelings from the room's.
- Does a defined Solar Plexus mean you are more emotional?
- It means your mood moves in waves of its own. Outward expression varies, and some people with it look calm.
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