Strategy + Authority

Human Design + Astrology 10-11-2022

This week I’m answering a reader question about the relationship between STRATEGY + AUTHORITY. 

Before we begin, I want to remind everyone that Human Design is not a science, although many people refer to it as one. But as a scientist, I do not think it is a science. It is a mystical tool which means that by nature it is not dogmatic. It is a space for us to play and feel empowered. We are all capable of living incredibly successful and enjoyable lives without ever living our design or using any of the tools Human Design makes available. Human Design does not make you wrong or right for doing anything and does not dictate that you can or cannot do something because of your design. That's bullshit. Where is the glory in being in a mystical space if we create ridiculous rules around it? There are no bad energy types or gates or channels or profiles. No one energy type is more or less powerful or lovely than another. It's all good. You be you. Human Design is here for you to take what resonates and trash the rest. 

Let's dive in!

Definitions:

STRATEGY is how we can create aligned the most opportunities. It offers guidance on how we can best be available to receive the right opportunities for us. The ones that light us up, feel energizing and expansive. The ones that make us joyful, at peace and delighted. Also the ones that support us being in an equitable relationship with receivership, where our output is matched by input. 

AUTHORITY is how we best make decisions. Like an internal compass, it offers guidance on how we can discern which opportunities are meant for us. AUTHORITY does not involve logic. Our AUTHORITY guides us toward the most aligned commitments and opportunities through our body response. It is one of the most powerful and nuanced pieces of your design. Understanding your AUTHORITY and trusting it takes practice. The process is a lot like changing a behavior or a response in therapy. First we notice afterwards, then during, then before. And then sometimes miss it altogether. 

Generally STRATEGY + AUTHORITY work together like this: 

When an opportunity shows up according to our STRATEGY, we rely on our AUTHORITY to determine whether the opportunity is right for us. This order follows suit for all energy types except Manifestors who will often use their AUTHORITY first, then STRATEGY due to their initiating STRATEGY. 

Let's look at an example under the lens of the GENERATOR energy type with an emotional or wait for clarity AUTHORITY . 

All GENERATORS have the STRATEGY of wait to respond. This means that more aligned opportunities arrive to GENERATORS when they respond to inspiration, invitation, interest, and what lights them up and and gets them excited rather than initiating or seek them out. GENERATORS are best guided by responding because of their extremely magnetic nature. The mantra of GENERATORS is pretty much opportunities are always coming to me. The key is to be present and aligned in order for them to arrive. Waiting to respond helps with this. Waiting to respond also has to do with boundaries (really all of Human Design does). GENERATORS are meant to wait for things to come to them and respond to something outside of themselves to light them up in order to then use their AUTHORITY to trust whether or not they commit to that opportunity or relationship. The more they say no to what doesn't light them up, the more opportunities come their way that do. Think of it like a filter.  

Once an opportunity comes via waiting to respond - it could be an email or a text message, question, job posting, meme, social media post, article - a GENERATOR will determine if it lights them up. This can feel like expansion, energy, a calm knowing. Generally for GENERATORS and MANIFESTING GENERATORS it can feel energizing, but there are subtle differences in all of us. Once an opportunity lights us up or feels expansive, then AUTHORITY comes in. A GENERATOR with an emotional or wait for clarity AUTHORITY will then take a beat to wait to see if the opportunity continues to light them up and feel expansive over time. 

This might look like asking for a day to get back to someone about an invitation to the museum. Asking for a week to respond to a job offer.  Or requesting a few hours to decide about making a work purchase. The reason for this guidance in waiting for clarity is that GENERATORS and MANIFEStiNG GENERATORS can be very susceptible to the excitement of others. They are motor centers with lots of energy and could easily give energy out to many different people and opportunities. The key is to get a little bit of space from the excitement of others in order to determine it the excitement you feel is really yours or belongs to someone else. Patience is really important. And also hard! 

As a MANIFESTING GENERATOR I have waiting to respond as part of my STRATEGY and I am also a wait for clarity AUTHORITY, and the waiting is HARD! I'm not great at patience, but I can say that after some practice and really seeing how much more ease I feel when guided by these ideas, I have learned that waiting while still hard is really worth it for me. 

There is a bit more nuance here that I will save for another time, that speaks to GENERATORS and MANIFESTING GENERATORS using their sacral response as a guide for smaller decisions and relying on AUTHORITY for bigger ones. I am able to rely on my sacral response for decisions, even though with bigger ones I do wait for clarity. My decision usually doesn't change. If I get a body response that something is energizing waiting for clarity usually doesn't change this. Also, if I get a sacral response that something tires me out, or leaves a bad taste in my mouth, with time this rarely changes as well. But that's me. It might be different for others. 

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