How Human Design reveals the energetic signature of your most aligned choices
The boardroom falls silent. Every eye turns to you as the acquisition proposal hits the table—twelve months of revenue in a single signature. Your business partner’s energy surges with immediate enthusiasm. Your CFO’s brow furrows in calculated concern. The room pulses with expectation.
And you? You feel the familiar wave of not yet rising in your solar plexus.
“I need time to feel into this,” you hear yourself say, watching faces shift from anticipation to barely concealed frustration. Again, you’re the one who can’t just decide. Again, you’re the bottleneck in everyone else’s efficiency.
What if your need for time isn’t a flaw to fix, but your most strategic frequency to honor? In fact, what others label as “indecision” may be your greatest asset—the edge that lets you make decisions others only wish they could trust.
This is where most decision-making advice fails: it assumes we’re all operating from the same energetic blueprint. We’re not.
The Myth of Universal Authority & Decision Making
“Trust your gut” works perfectly—if your gut is where your authority lives.
Brilliant leaders torture themselves trying to make decisions like someone else. The entrepreneur with emotional authority forcing herself into split-second choices because that’s what “decisive leaders” do. The CEO with splenic authority overthinking opportunities until they disappear because he thinks thorough analysis equals good judgment.
In a world obsessed with speed, precision becomes the ultimate competitive advantage. Your authority isn’t asking you to be faster—it’s asking for the opportunity to make you more accurate.
The Emotional Authority executive who trusts her first impulse misses the wisdom of her wave. The clarity comes not in the peak excitement or the valley doubt, but in the pattern that emerges over time.
The Splenic Authority leader who “sleeps on it” talks himself out of the precise knowledge that spoke once—quietly, accurately—in the first moment.
The Sacral Authority founder who relies on mental pros-and-cons lists bypasses the life force energy that either rises to meet an opportunity or simply isn’t available.
Each trying to make decisions through someone else’s authority. Each missing their own genius.
The Architecture of Authentic Choice
Your authority isn’t a preference—it’s your energetic GPS. Let me show you how this translates into the actual experience of choice.
Emotional Authority: The Luxury of the Wave
47% of the population
You feel your way to clarity through the emotional wave—not around it, through it. Your solar plexus cycles through different frequencies, and what feels like indecision is actually information gathering. This is not having 100% certainty, but by feeling through your wave (up and down) you will have the clarity of knowing that you can handle anything that arises as the result of your decision.
The field experience: That acquisition proposal hits your desk on a Tuesday morning when you’re energetically elevated. Everything looks possible. By Thursday afternoon, you’re seeing the integration challenges, the cultural misalignment, the hidden costs. Neither perspective is wrong—both are data points in your decision matrix.
Your authority speaks through: Emotional clarity that remains consistent across different states. Not the absence of feeling, but the presence of knowing that doesn’t shift with your mood.
The experiment: Wait 24 hours minimum before committing to anything significant. Track your feelings across the wave. Notice what remains true regardless of where you are emotionally.
Splenic Authority: The Precision of Now
11% of the population
Your spleen speaks once, quietly, in the present moment. It doesn’t repeat itself, doesn’t negotiate with your mind, doesn’t provide backup documentation. It simply knows.
The field experience: The joint venture opportunity arrives in your inbox. Before you finish reading, your spleen whispers “no.” Subtle, barely perceptible, but definitive. Your mind immediately begins arguing: But look at the revenue potential, the strategic fit, the market opportunity…
Your authority speaks through: Immediate knowing that precedes mental analysis. Often quiet, sometimes illogical, always accurate.
The experiment: Track your first instinctive responses for one week. Notice how often that initial hit proves correct, even when you can’t explain why.
Sacral Authority: The Magnetism of Life Force
37% of the population—Generators and Manifesting Generators only
Your life force energy either rises to meet something or it doesn’t. This isn’t a mental calculation—it’s a body response. Your sacral responds with expansion or contraction, availability or absence.
The field experience: The board presents three strategic directions for next quarter. As each option is discussed, you feel your energy differently. Option A generates a subtle “meh”—energy flatlines. Option B creates mild interest—energy stays neutral. Option C creates a surge—energy available, enthusiasm present.
Your authority speaks through: Energetic response in your body. Expansion versus contraction. Life force available for this opportunity versus life force absent.
The experiment: Look for the response you have when presented with information or opportunities. Feel for the energetic response rather than thinking your way to answers.
Self-Projected Authority: The Sound of Truth
Less than 2% of the population—Projectors only
Your truth emerges through your voice. You literally need to hear yourself speak your knowing into existence, often through conversation with others who can serve as neutral sounding boards.
The field experience: The consulting opportunity sounds incredible on paper, but something feels off. You can’t articulate what. During coffee with a trusted advisor, you hear yourself saying, “This would take me away from what I’m building.” The moment you speak it, you know it’s true.
Your authority speaks through: Your own voice revealing what you know. Often surprising, sometimes contradicting what sounded good in your head.
The experiment: Create opportunities to talk through decisions out loud. Notice what feels true when it comes from your voice versus what seems logical in your mind.
When Leaders Learn to Trust Their Design
Sarah had built her seven-figure agency by moving fast and trusting her analytical mind. Until the merger opportunity that could triple her revenue arrived—and her emotional authority whispered “wait.”
Her team couldn’t understand the delay. The strategic fit was flawless. The financial projections were compelling. Every consultant advised immediate action. But Sarah had learned something her competitors hadn’t: in a world obsessed with speed, precision is often the true competitive edge.
She requested a week to feel her way through the decision. Her excitement revealed infinite possibilities. Her caution illuminated potential cultural conflicts. Her neutrality allowed clear-eyed assessment of integration risks.
The decision that emerged after honoring her full emotional wave: “No.”
Six months later, the company that did acquire her potential partner was hemorrhaging talent and struggling with exactly the integration challenges Sarah had sensed during her wave. Her “delay” had saved her company from a seven-figure strategic error. For Sarah, making “slow” decisions that she can trust completely isn’t a weakness but a secret weapon.
Meanwhile, across town, Michael was learning to trust his splenic authority in equally powerful ways. When offered the chance to pivot his tech startup into an emerging market—one that looked incredibly promising but felt completely wrong—his spleen whispered a quiet but definitive “no.”
He couldn’t explain the logic. The market research was compelling. His advisors were enthusiastic. His investors were pushing for the pivot. But Michael had learned that his spleen doesn’t provide PowerPoint presentations—it provides precision.
He stayed in his original market, doubled down on his expertise, and built his company into the category leader. Meanwhile, three competitors who pivoted into that “promising” new market struggled and eventually failed when the market didn’t develop as predicted.
Both leaders had learned the same crucial lesson: your authority isn’t just about making better decisions—it’s about making decisions you can trust.
The Sovereignty of Authentic Choice
Here’s the truth most leadership development won’t tell you: having the courage to trust your unique process—even when it’s misunderstood or undervalued by those around you—is what separates true leaders from sophisticated followers.
Your teammates with splenic authority will never understand why you need 24 hours to make decisions they can make in 24 seconds. Your board members with sacral authority will never comprehend why you need to talk through choices that feel obvious to their gut.
And that’s precisely the point.
True leadership often means standing by your way, especially when the world is pushing for conformity. It means having the courage to say “I need time” in rooms that worship speed. It means trusting your spleen’s quiet “no” when everyone else sees obvious opportunity. It means honoring your emotional wave when others demand immediate answers.
This is sovereignty. The kind that lets you make decisions from your authentic center rather than from the pressure to fit someone else’s timeline or process.
When you operate from your genuine authority:
Your decisions improve exponentially. Not because you’ve learned better techniques, but because you’re accessing cosmic information through your aligned process that is designed to hold your clarity.
Your confidence becomes unshakeable. You stop second-guessing yourself because you’re operating from your natural frequency rather than fighting against it.
Your leadership presence deepens. Others recognize the quality of groundedness that emerges when someone operates from their authentic authority. There’s a resonance that can’t be manufactured or faked.
The world is full of leaders making decisions like everyone else. What it needs—what your company needs, what your family needs—is you making decisions like you.
Your Authority Experiment
Week One: Pattern Recognition
Track every significant decision you make this week. Note:
- Your first response to the choice
- How you actually made the decision
- How you felt immediately after choosing
- How you feel about the choice three days later
Week Two: Authority Alignment
Check your authority type (get your Human Design Chart Here):
- Emotional: Wait at least 24 hours before any significant commitment
- Splenic: Trust your first instinctive response, even when you can’t explain it
- Sacral: Take note and feel for your body’s energetic response and ask trusted people in your life t ask you yes/no questions
- Ego Authority: Lean into your desire and feel what you want
- Self-Projected: Talk through decisions out loud with trusted advisors
- Mental/Environmental Authority: Sample different perspectives and environments and talk it through to find clarity
- Lunar Authority: Take as much time as you can, preferably a lunar cycle
Week Three: Integration
Notice which approach generated decisions that felt most aligned and sustainable. This is your authority speaking.
The Invitation Back To Yourself
Your decision-making authority isn’t just another tool for your leadership toolkit. It’s your pathway back to trusting yourself in a world that constantly tells you to be someone else.
Every time you honor your unique way of knowing—whether that’s riding your emotional wave, trusting your splenic hits, following your sacral responses, or speaking your truth out loud—you’re not just making better choices. You’re remembering who you actually are beneath all the strategies and adaptations.
The world doesn’t need another leader making decisions like everyone else. The world needs you making decisions like you—from your authority, in your timing, through your unique frequency.
Your best choices aren’t hiding behind the right strategy or perfect system. They’re hiding behind your willingness to trust your design, even when it doesn’t look like anyone else’s.
Ready to discover the strategic advantage of your unique decision-making blueprint?
Your competitive advantage isn’t learning to decide like someone else. It’s learning to leverage your unique frequency for decisions that create lasting value.
Your authority knows. You just need to learn how to listen.
