What is your Authority in Human Design?
Your Authority is your personal decision-making system in Human Design — the specific body intelligence designed to know what's correct for you before your mind can reason it out. There are seven types: Sacral, Emotional (Solar Plexus), Splenic, Ego (Heart), Self-Projected, Mental (Environmental), and Lunar (Reflectors only).
The core premise is that the mind — the Head and Ajna centers — is built to process and share information, not to make decisions for you; it's described as an "outer authority" meant for input, while your true Authority is an inner, bodily signal. Which Authority you have depends on which centers are defined in your specific chart.
Learning to hear and trust your Authority, rather than defaulting to mental analysis of pros and cons, is one of the most practically useful things a Human Design chart offers.
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- How do I find my Authority?
- Generate your free BodyGraph chart — your Authority is calculated automatically from your defined centers and displayed alongside your Type.
- Can I have more than one Authority?
- No — each chart has exactly one primary Authority, determined by a fixed hierarchy of which centers are defined.
- Is Authority the same as Strategy?
- No — Strategy is how you correctly engage with the world by Type (respond, inform, wait for invitation, wait a lunar cycle); Authority is how you make the actual decision once you're engaged.