In this post, we’re going to dive into the Sacral Authority of the Human Design System. Whether you’ve generated your chart and discovered you have a Sacral Authority, want to understand someone in your life that has a Sacral Authority, or are just curious about it, you’re in the right place. 

There’s a lot of complex information out there about it and this post will simplify it so, by the time you’re done reading, you’ll feel confident about how to listen to your Sacral Response and you’ll simplify your decision making, creating much more ease in your life.

First, what is the Authority of Human Design? 

 

The authority of human design is referring to your inner authority: how you’re actually designed to energetically make decisions, big or small. Your Authority is the way energy consistently moves through your body, in a way that you can always count on and learn to rely on, to guide you to the relationships, opportunities, and communities that are correct for you.

 

Now, you’ve been taught to make decisions using your mind. But this is actually not how you’re designed. The mind is a complex supercomputer that has you writing out pros and cons lists, thinking through all the possible scenarios of what could go right or wrong, gathering data, obsessing, and worrying. And, at best, you’ll still end up with a 50% chance of making the decision that is correct for you. In fact, you’ve probably had the experience of it being able to argue both sides of a decision equally, constantly flip-flopping and wasting a LOT of your time and energy. This is because your mind is not designed to decide your direction in life. It’s designed to solve problems and use logic along your path. 

 

The Sacral Authority

 

With a Sacral Authority, your Sacral Center, located 3 fingers below your belly button, is designed to guide your decision making. This center is the center of pure Life Force energy.

 

Like a compass, your Sacral Center has a very simple function. A compass gathers extremely subtle and complex information from the electromagnetic field all around it, translates it for you, and gives you a very simple answer: North. It tells you which way is North so you can decide which way to go. 

 

Similarly, your Sacral Center gathers complex information from the electromagnetic, quantum, and sub-atomic fields all around you, translates it for you, and gives you a very simple answer: Yes or No.

 

No pros and cons lists. No complicated logic. No worrying. While the mind uses logic to make decisions overly complicated, the sacral is set up to be your compass if you allow it to and if you remember how to trust it. 

 

A lot of people may call your Sacral’s Response to the world your gut instinct. And, essentially, that’s what this is. Your body is telling you which paths, relationships, and opportunities are correct for you. And which paths aren’t.

 

The Sacral Response

 

The Sacral Center is ALWAYS responding to the world around you. Just like smelling, tasting, touching, hearing, and seeing, it is ALWAYS happening. It is a natural response of the body of those that have a Sacral Authority, always responding in one of two ways consistently:

 

1. Yes: if an opportunity is correct for you, the energetic experience will be one of energy rising up from your Sacral Center up the front of your body towards your chest region. It’s as if the energy is jumping at the opportunity or relationship saying, “Use me for this! This is correct for you. You will be able to use your energy in a way that will have an impact, leave you energized, and leave you satisfied. 

• No: if an opportunity is NOT correct for you, the energetic experience will feel like the energy is crunching into your Sacral Center region, like it’s retreating, as if its trying to hide from the opportunity. It’s basically saying: “Please don’t use me for this. This will not work out well for you. No matter how much of your energy you use in this direction, you’ll end up frustrated, exhausted, and without making the impact you want to make or having the happiness you want to have. 

Now, if you don’t recognize either of these two sensations, that’s okay. Don’t worry. It’s likely that you long ago stopped paying attention to your Sacral because society discourages trusting your body from an early age. It instead recommends you use logic and analysis, teaching you to trust numbers and figures over your own Truth. 

 

This is where Human Design and your Sacral Authority comes in.

 

You can reconnect to it with regular practice. This is important because logic is often filtered through past pains, wounds, and experiences. Through fears, beliefs, and judgements that you’ve picked up along the way. It is biased based on your past. 

 

Your Sacral Response, on the other hand, is not biased. It is connected to the field of information that Quantum Physicists have shown connects all people and things. It is gathering information from the electromagnetic and quantum field all around you, the subatomic field that is carrying vast amounts of information and connecting you to every other person and event that’s ongoing at any moment at any given time. Your Sacral is gathering all of this information. It’s feeling and knowing and sensing what is correct for you. And it will tell you Yes or No, based on 2 factors:

 

1. If the opportunity or relationship is correct for you, meaning it is aligned with who you really are, not who your mind thinks you should be. 
2. If you have enough energy for the relationship or opportunity based on all the other areas and relationships you’re currently expending energy

 

Your Sacral is basing its decision on the infinite wisdom of the present, unaffected by the biases your mind has picked up along the way. 

 

Your Sacral Response vs. Emotions

 

The energy of the Sacral Center will always attract LOTS of opportunities for you to use your energy towards exciting projects or in exciting relationships. But they are NOT all correct for you, no matter how exciting they feel or how perfect your mind thinks they are. 

 

And, if you say Yes to too many things that are NOT correct for you, you’ll end up burning out. And when you’re burnt out, you’ll stop attracting all of those amazing opportunities until you rest and recover. You literally weaken your beacon. And it takes a while to recover. 

 

This is why it is SO important to say Yes to only the things that are correct for you. To build trust in your Sacral. And to learn to discern between your Sacral Response, which is a strictly energetic experience, and your emotional sensations in the body. 

 

• For example, you may feel sensations of excitement in your chest for an opportunity or relationship. But, simultaneously, your Sacral Energy is contracting inwards letting you know the opportunity isn’t right for you even though it feels exciting. 

 

• Conversely, you may feel sensations of fear in your stomach. But, simultaneously, your Sacral Energy is rising up your chest letting you know that, even though it feels a little scary, this step is the perfect step outside your comfort zone. 

 

It can take practice to discern between your emotional and energetic experiences, to trust your Sacral, and to slowly unwind the habit of needing every decision to “make sense” or “feel good”. 

 

Your Sacral Response vs. Logic

 

Your Sacral will often guide you into areas that don’t “make sense” logically because the directions that are best for you are often outside the logical comfort zone you’ve created for yourself… a comfort zone was created based on the beliefs you picked up along the way about who you “should be”. 

 

Most of these beliefs are NOT true; they are merely approximations you chose to believe about yourself in order to feel safe and accepted earlier in life. This is something all humans do and it’s nothing to be ashamed about. But, bringing awareness to this fact can help you begin to choose newly.  

 

The Truth of your Sacral is YOURS. It is irrefutable. No one can argue with it because no one can else can feel it. It is a deep knowing in YOUR body that goes way beyond logic. It is your body – your compass – telling you what is correct for YOU. 

 

And, as you learn to trust it, you’ll step more and more into your Power, Peace, and Purpose. 

 

How to Practice Listening to Your Sacral

 

This can be scary at first. Your mind certainly won’t like it. And that’s why I recommend starting with small decisions so you can rebuild your sensitivity to the subtle energetic experience of your Sacral Response and build evidence for your skeptical mind. Eventually, it will see the outcome is always in your favor. 

 

One good way to practice is as you’re deciding what to eat throughout the day. Instead of deciding with your mind or emotions, bring your awareness down to 3 fingers below your belly button as you look through the fridge or ponder where you’ll order from. Pay attention to what your energy does. And perhaps even go against your Sacral Center sometimes… but pay attention to what happens when you do. Note if you end up getting a stomach-ache, or meet someone you really didn’t want to see at the restaurant, or just end up really not enjoying it. 

 

Practice and, before you know it, it will be just like seeing, tasting, touching, hearing, and smelling. 

 

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