Journal #10
Over half the world's population is Emotionally defined, which means their Emotional Solar Plexus is coloured brown in the Human Design Chart. This is your Authority and is an essential step to your decision making process. It is your nature to experience the full spectrum of feelings, moving from pain to pleasure.
Emotions are like rolling waves, rising and falling, peaking and dipping, never sitting still for too long. When you feel happy, you want to capture the moment. When you feel sad, you wonder when the blues will end. There is never a state of permanence when it comes to your emotions. Therefore, you need to recognise these emotional waves and allow them to pass through you instead of owning you. Never get attached to a particular feeling or the expectation of how something might turn out. Emotional decisions made in the heat of the moment are your worst enemy. It would be best if you allowed your emotions to pass through you, disengage from them and wait for calmer waters before you make your move. Clarity will come. A good tip is to sleep on things before making an important decision.
Being emotionally defined, your feelings about 'this' or 'that' become an authoritative guide. These feelings are your indicators of what is correct for you or not. "Does it feel good to do that?" "How do I feel about it?". These are essential questions to ask yourself. You need to take the time to fully experience your range of feelings without being rushed. Emotional clarity is reached when there is no longer an emotional charge attached to the decision. Easier said than done, but you need to practice the art of patience to avoid poor, spontaneous choices that could end in feeling bitter, frustrated, angry or disappointed.
A plus side to Emotional defined energy is its juicy, seductive power, which gives you an advantage if you wait out your wave, playing hard to get. The longer others wait, the more they will want your Emotionally defined warmth and energy. If they can't wait, then it is not meant to be.
As you have this centre defined, you are responsible not only for your own moods but for influencing the moods of the people around you. Your emotions affect people within your aura and trigger their emotions. Your feelings are contagious! Having Emotional Authority, you have to be careful you don't succumb to impatience. Avoid rushing the process, accept invitations that are not energetically correct for you or jumping into a commitment too early. Instead, you must wait, check in with your emotional wave, pause and check-in again. By waiting for clarity, you may receive an even more delicious invitation. For significant decisions, your Strategy would simply be to request a day or two to think it over. If you are still not clear, ask for more time and/or clarification of the details.
There are three different types of Emotional waves people can experience with this centre defined, based on what channels you have defined (coloured in) in your chart. The waves are Individual, Tribal or Collective.
The Individual Wave is if you have Channel 22-12, Channel of Openness or Channel 55-39, Channel of Emoting. This wave will see your emotions travelling from one end of the spectrum to the other. This wave is passionate and moody. Your emotions are usually quite even keel with short bursts of highs and lows, triggered spontaneously. The low end of the spectrum will see you quite melancholic. A mood that needs to be honoured and not dismissed. Great insight can come when at the low point of this wave if you can tolerate it. When you feel yourself on your wave, it is essential to remember that this wave is simply a chemical process that keeps you in motion. There is no explanation for why your emotions shift, just let go and embrace the fact that this state won't last forever. Knowing when to be alone versus when to be social will make all the difference.
The Tribal Wave is if you have Channel 49-19, Channel of Love and Marriage, Channel 6-59, Channel of Reproduction, Channel 37-40, Channel of Community. This wave Wave is prone to explosions and outbursts following the build-up of upsets. The build-up is caused by you hiding your feelings away. You think you are okay; you think you are handling everything. All while the emotional pressure builds and then something or someone triggers you, and you lose it. To alleviate the stress before a big blowout, try to become aware of hiding your feelings. Start being honest with yourself and with others around you, even if it is a tricky conversation. Having a more open dialogue about how you feel with yourself and others will allow patience and compassion to come through. Try setting clear boundaries for yourself so you don't get disappointed when expectations are not met. In those dire moments where you do lose it, just know that gentle touch on the shoulder by your partner or friend will calm your system and bring you back to reality.
Lastly, the Collective Wave is Channel 36-35, Channel of Transitoriness or Channel 30-41, Channel of Fantasy and Desire. This wave has high highs and low lows. The lows come when expectations are not met, and so your emotions crash. The trick to transcending this wave is to enter into something just for the experience without expecting an outcome. Make sure your intention isn't emotionally charged, and always remember to follow your Strategy!
Regardless of which wave you have, and some may have a combination of two, being Emotionally defined means your Authority is emotionally driven. When you make decisions, you must (and I mean must) wait for your emotions to reach a point of even keel. You are not hard-wired to make decisions in the heat of the moment. Instead, it is about making them over time when there is emotional clarity in your convictions. Riding your emotional wave will take awareness and practice. You will need to play with and see for yourself what this means for you. Take your time making decisions, and know that you will reach clarity over time. You are here to be deliberate, not spontaneous.
