Solar Plexus centre

Meaning

The Solar Plexus is the triangle on the right side of the bodygraph, facing the Spleen. It is the centre of emotions: feelings, moods, desire, passion and sensitivity. Human Design gives it two natures at once. It is a motor, with the Sacral, the Heart and the Root. It is also an awareness centre, with the Spleen and the Ajna.

Its feelings move in a wave. Hope and disappointment, excitement and calm, rise and fall over hours or days. The tradition insists that this wave is not a problem to fix. It is how emotional awareness works: it ripens with time rather than in the moment.

Its seven gates carry the wave in different tones. Gate 6 meets others through friction, gate 37 through friendship. Gate 49 holds principles, gate 55 spirit and mood. Gate 30 recognises feelings, gate 36 lives through crisis, and gate 22 through openness and grace.

Defined, the Solar Plexus gives a person their own emotional wave. Their mood colours the people around them. Clarity comes once a decision has been felt at both the high and the low of the wave. Ulune’s own texts note that about half of all people have it defined.

Undefined or open, it takes in other people’s emotions, often more strongly than they feel them. Such a person may avoid conflict or hard truths to keep the peace. Human Design reads this as a sensitivity, not a fault. Much of what one feels in a tense room is not one’s own, and stepping away for a moment shows whether the feeling stays.

In practice

• Defined: one of seven channels is complete, to the Throat, the Heart, the Sacral or the Root.
• Authority: a defined Solar Plexus always sets the authority, whatever else is defined. Emotional authority means there is no truth in the now: waiting, often a night’s sleep or several days, until the feeling settles.
• Type: two channels join the Solar Plexus straight to the Throat. Defined, they make a Manifestor, or a Manifesting Generator when the Sacral is also defined.
• Undefined, with active gates: a hanging gate here shows which emotional themes one feels most strongly through others.
• Open: no gate is coloured. The emotional climate of a place is taken in whole, and choosing calm company matters.

Across traditions

• The chakras: the usual account says Manipura, the solar plexus chakra of yoga, split into two centres, the Solar Plexus and the Spleen. In yoga, Manipura is the fire at the navel. Some teachers instead link the emotional Solar Plexus to the sacral chakra, Svadhisthana, which yoga ties to water and feeling.
• Wave and cycle: the emotional wave has its own rhythm. It is not tied to the Moon, whose month-long cycle Human Design keeps for the Reflector’s decisions.

Origin and history

Ra Uru Hu presented the nine centres from 1987 as a change from the seven chakras, dated to 1781. He taught that the Solar Plexus’s awareness is still maturing in humanity, which the tradition gives as one reason its clarity is slow. The tradition links it to the kidneys, the pancreas and the nervous system, among other organs. These are correspondences the system teaches, never medical claims.

How Ulune calculates it

Ulune colours a gate when any of the 26 activations stands in it, the 13 bodies of the Personality and the 13 of the Design. A channel is defined when both of its gates are coloured, and a centre is defined when a defined channel touches it.

The Solar Plexus is defined exactly when one of its seven channels is defined. Otherwise it is undefined when any of its seven gates is coloured, open when none is. It is the first test of Ulune’s authority: a defined Solar Plexus gives emotional authority before anything else is checked. It is also one of the four motors Ulune looks for when it walks from the Throat along defined channels.

Correspondences