Influences of Alignment or Derailment ~ 22 January 2016

Moving around obstacles with a single-minded focus is in play as the Moon transits at Gate 39 ~ provocation, Line 5 ~ single-mindedness. This is supported by confidence born from awareness of self influenced by Venus as it transits at Gate 10 ~ love of self, Line 1 ~ modesty. Whatever needs doing, I will accomplish it irrespective of any obstacles placed in my path. It’s the energy of understanding my true worth and ability, moving forward, undeterred.

Three Personal Connection Channels are active today. The Channel of Transitoriness (35/36) is still in effect, along with Venus activating at Gate 10 the Channel of Exploration (10 love of self/34 power) involving following one’s convictions, and the Channel of Perfected Form (10 love of self/57 intuition), a design of survival. Karen Curry writes this about the Channel of Perfected Form:

In the evolution of the human, this was the second channel that evolved: the perfected form of intuition. This channel contains the intuitive, perfected awareness of how to survive in the now.

People with this channel are great people to follow. They always know how to survive. They intuitively know the safest route out of disaster or the best way around an obstacle.

Channel 57/ 10 people are perfectionists. It is common for this channel to stop taking action if they think they will make a mistake. But it is deeper than just a fear of making a mistake. This is a deep desire to get it perfect, and intuitively they know how to do this.¹

Channel 57 is active in my natal chart, and with Gate 10 active, the channel’s energy influences and strengthens my natural empathic intuition. This is also supported by today’s biorhythms, showing an average of 90% in intuitive function today. Refer to yesterday’s entry for that graphic.

The Channel of Exploration (10/34) reflects someone who follows their convictions. Gates 57 and 34 comprise an active channel in my natal chart known as the Channel of Power and connect the Sacral Center with the Spleen Center. Blending intuition and power with love of self creates a powerful energy of knowing and accomplishment. Add the single-minded focus brought by Gate 39, Line 5, and we have a positive day where alignment is assured. Just stay in the knowing.

Sacral Center

Karen Curry tells us about this important Center:

It is the energy center for work force and life force energy, and it is associated with the reproductive organs— the ovaries and the testes.²

When this Center is undefined/open, the individual can work intensely for short periods of time. My Manifestor husband has an open Sacral Center, in fact, the only defined Centers in his bodygram are the Throat and Solar Plexus, and I can say with complete assuredness that he never stops, in other words, he lives his not-self. When we had our dojo, I finally conspired with our students to restructure classes so that he’d get a day off. He was fine with that, but apparently needed me to impose it on him. He thinks he’s supposed to work all the time, but he tends to burn out after a point, and yet he still keeps going. Curry writes further that:

..a person with an open Sacral Center cannot maintain a high level of energy for a prolonged period of time without really burning themselves out. What that means is that if you have an open Sacral Center, you are not here to work a Monday through Friday, nine-to-five job. And for most people with open Sacral Centers, hearing that they are not designed to work in the traditional sense is a great relief! That doesn’t mean that if you have an open Sacral that you can’t work or that you don’t need to work. But you will probably do best finding a way to work that has some level of flexibility built into it.

Many of my Human Design clients are non-Sacral people who are around forty and have literally fried their circuits. It is not uncommon for non-Sacral beings to “crash” somewhere around forty years of age and to struggle trying to keep up with their former busy lifestyle. Because sustainability is such an important factor in a non-Sacral being, it is important for you to always ask yourself if you are doing more than enough and to help yourself recognize when enough is enough.³

My Sacral Center is defined.

If you have a defined Sacral Center, it will be red. This red square is what makes you a Generator. The most important function of the Sacral Center is work. When you have a defined Sacral motor, you are designed to work. The challenge is, of course, finding the right work that you love.(4)

And here’s where it gets tricky, waiting for “things to show up”. It seems counter productive and I don’t do that well, and apparently, Curry as a Manifesting Generator doesn’t either. She explains the dilemma that Generators and Manifesting Generators experience.

We have been taught to “manifest our destiny.” But, as many of you may have already experienced, if you have a defined Sacral and you go out and try to make things happen, you usually just feel frustrated because nothing turns out the way you had planned.

If you have a defined Sacral motor you are designed to wait for things to show up. This can be very difficult, because that Sacral energy hums and buzzes and is just longing to do something. Sacral beings are very busy people. They are designed to be “doing.”

But the Sacral Center is all about waiting and the responding to whatever shows up in your outer reality. Think about this. If you have a defined Sacral Center, how many times have miraculous and unexpected things happened to you out of the blue?

And what happens to you if you go out and try to make things happen?

I am a Manifesting Generator, and I have had to work very hard to learn how to wait for things to show up. I am not the most patient of Sacral beings. I remember when I first learned about my Sacral motor and its wait and respond energy. I really wrestled with the whole idea. I had not waited for anything in my whole life! But I had to admit that my life had felt pretty frustrating up until that point.

Sacral energy works best if you learn to wait for the right thing to show up and then respond to it. Remember, though, just because it shows up doesn’t mean you have to do it. You do have the freedom to choose.

Defined Sacrals are designed to wear themselves out every day. They should be experiencing exhaustion and then falling asleep. It is very important to sleep when you are exhausted. If you are waiting for your second wind, you are running on energy that you don’t really have, and eventually your health will suffer.(5)

I can attest to the idea of wearing myself out every day. If I don’t, then I don’t sleep. And the waiting for something to show up is so odd, but it really does work. I’ve always been proactive, which is fine, but I need to simply stay in that type of resonance, ready for the next great thing to show up and embrace whole-heartedly. Use the proactive energy at that point, instead of trying to initiate something from its genesis.

Sacral Gates

Nine Gates comprise the Sacral Center each influencing our life force:

• Gate 3 ~ ordering ~ connects to the Root Center
• Gate 5 ~ patterns ~ connects to the Identity Center
• Gate 9 ~ focus ~ connects to the Root Center
• Gate 14 ~ power skill ~ connects to the Identity Center
• Gate 27 ~ responsibility ~ connects to the Spleen Center
• Gate 29 ~ perseverance ~ connects to the Identity Center
• Gate 34 ~ power ~ connects to the Spleen, Identity, and Throat Centers
• Gate 42 ~ finishing things ~ connects to the Root Center
• Gate 59 ~ sexuality ~ connects to the Solar Plexus Center

Well, that was cool! I always learn something when I’m writing these posts, which is the whole point. I’m learning along with everyone else, so be sure to click on the highlighted links and check out the reference material I use. I tend to use Karen Curry’s book the most because of the way she arranges everything, and I like her clear writing style. I found another book that seems to be arranged in a similar way, so I’ll probably be including information from that one as well in the future. I want to finish reading it first, but so far it looks good.

Anyway, tomorrow we’ll take a look at the Spleen Center. I began with the Solar Plexus Center which should have come after the Spleen, but I did that because it’s where my Inner Authority exists. After the Spleen, I’ll finish with the Root Center, the only other Center besides the Will that’s undefined or open in my bodygram. And I’ll also start including a biorhythm chart illustrating my energy flow for the day. So until then..

~Blessed Be

 

References

1. Curry, Karen (2013-10-01). Understanding Human Design: The New Science of Astrology: Discover Who You Really Are (pp. 229-230). Hierophant Publishing. Kindle Edition.
2. Curry, Karen (2013-10-01). Understanding Human Design: The New Science of Astrology: Discover Who You Really Are (p. 98). Hierophant Publishing. Kindle Edition.
3. Curry, Karen (2013-10-01). Understanding Human Design: The New Science of Astrology: Discover Who You Really Are (p. 99). Hierophant Publishing. Kindle Edition.
4. Curry, Karen (2013-10-01). Understanding Human Design: The New Science of Astrology: Discover Who You Really Are (p. 101). Hierophant Publishing. Kindle Edition.
5. Curry, Karen (2013-10-01). Understanding Human Design: The New Science of Astrology: Discover Who You Really Are (pp. 101-103). Hierophant Publishing. Kindle Edition.