What is an Emotional Authority in Human Design? What is an Emotional Wave? How do I make decisions with Emotional Authority? What kind of Emotional Wave do I have in my Human Design?

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What is Emotional Authority in Human Design?

Emotional Authority is one of the 7 Human Design Inner Authorities.
Inner Authority is your body wisdom. It’s the place in your design you can lean into to make decisions that are aligned for you so that you don’t experience decision regret.

53% of the population has Emotional Authority in their Human Design which means that they need to take time with their decisions, riding out the waves of their emotions.

Chances are, if you’re not an Emotional Authority, someone else in your life is!

How to know if you’re an Emotional Authority in Human Design

If you are an Emotional Authority in Human Design, your chart will look like the chart above. Not the entire chart, just the part that I’ve circled.

This is your Emotional Solar Plexus. If this centre is coloured in, this automatically makes you an Emotional Authority.

What does it mean to be an Emotional Authority in Human Design?

Being an Emotional Authority means that you are here to feel your emotions and that they will come in waves. Depending on what gates you have defined that join this energy to another of your centres, through a channel, you’ll have 1 of 4 types of waves.

There are 4 types of Emotional Waves in Human Design

1 – Source Wave
2 – Individual
3 – Tribal
4 – Collective

Human Design Source Wave

Source wave 59/6 is just what you think it would be. This is the energy that gets the emotional waves started. It’s the source of all waves. This is all about bonding and intimacy and it’s a pretty even keeled emotional wave, as far as waves go. This wave is triggered by someone else.

Human Design Individual Wave

Individual Waves include channels 12/22 and 39/55.
People with these channels defined often experience deep melancholy as part of their design.
They’ll regularly experience highs and lows in their moods as a natural part of life.
Music is often important to people with one of these channels defined.

Human Design Tribal Wave

Tribal Waves include channels 19/49, and 40/37.
This wave responds to physical touch and is based on having your needs met – or not. These waves ratchet up over time and then explode. There’s a slow climb where something that’s annoying you, or a need that’s unmet continues to bother you with tension building until you explode – and then it’s over.

Human Design Collective Wave

Collective Waves include channels 41/30 and 35/36.
These waves will feel more like a restlessness perhaps. Something needs to change, they scream! They feature a sudden drop, based on a failure to meet an (often unrealistic) expectation. This wave has high highs and low lows. Key here is entering into things just for the experience, without expectation. This is my wave and all I can say is; Good luck with that! 😝

How to make decisions using your Inner Emotional Authority

In this episode of Unjaded, I bust a myth about how to use your Emotional Authority to make aligned decisions in your life. Some people in the Human Design space will tell you that if you’re an Emotional Authority and at any point you feel like it should be a ‘no’ then you must not commit to it.

This has not been my lived experience.

In fact, if I were to never commit to anything that I sometimes felt like I shouldn’t do, I’d never do anything!

In my body (with my collective 41-30 Emotional Wave) I tend to feel my way through bigger decisions over a few weeks. I’ll naturally feel very excited and drawn to the thing and then the excitement will wane and back and forth we go over and over and over again.

What I’m waiting for, in order to make the decision that’s right for me, is the neutral point in all of this. It always comes. There’s always a moment, or moments, where I feel completely unattached from the outcome and can zoom out and decide rationally, based on this neutral feeling.

To be clear, with this wave in my design, I don’t have a lot of neutral moments in my life. I’m highly excitable, especially when working on things in my business, so I have to check in with myself to see what’s driving me.

Your mission, should you accept, is to lean fully into your emotions. Allow them to be FELT in your body. Over time, you’ll begin to notice that you do actually have these neutral spells. This is where you’ll find clarity. Ra Uru Hu, the founder of Human Design, always said that ‘for Emotional Authorities, there’s no truth in the now.’ Embracing this lack of clarity for what it is is key to your contentment in life.

Your Decision Making Process as an Emotional Authority

Quick decision making is highly valued in our culture. It can feel unsafe to ask for more time to process decisions to be sure that they are right for you, yet this is what’s correct if you are an Emotional Authority. Simply (although believe me, I know it’s not simple) letting someone know that you appreciate an opportunity and you’d like to roll it around for a few days will allow you to tap into your innate body wisdom to know what’s truly aligned for you and what is not.

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💙 Vickie D

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