From Hope to Pain

1. RA URU HU : There is nothing that has greater impact in Human Design than the solar plexus center. The solar plexus is the place of our emotional nature. The solar plexus system, the emotional nature is a motor, a very powerful motor. The motor of the emotional system operates in a wave. Each of the awareness centers have a unique frequency. The splenic center, the immune system operates in the now, spontaneous, existential. The mental awareness, the Ajna center operates over all time. But the solar plexus operates in a wave. According to the knowledge that I was given, the solar plexus began a mutative process several thousand years ago towards becoming a complete awareness, spirit awareness, spirit consciousness. This potential lies deep beneath the surface motor of the emotional system. Only when the emotional system is properly understood, only then will it be possible for that spirit to begin to emerge. The wave of the motor is a wave of hope and pain. It is a wave that goes up to a peak of hope where everything is wonderful and then goes sliding down to a place of pain where everything is horrible and goes back up again and it never stops. We are moving in space and in fact, this wave is a spiral. It is an endless spiral for the emotional being. The spiral of always moving from hope to pain and back again. To be someone with a defined emotional center, is always to be experiencing life from some point along that wave. In terms of Human Design analysis, whenever there is the presence of a defined solar plexus, this is automatically the authority in the chart. It is automatically the authority in the design, inner authority, where you can make reliable decisions, yes or no, about anything. Emotional inner authority, is based on no truth in the now. It is a wave. The emotional person wakes up in the morning and they are at the high end of their wave. They feel terrific. Everything looks better. The light is wonderful, their furniture, the clothes, the dog, the lover, whatever the case may be. They feel terrific. They go outside, they feel wonderful. They meet somebody, whether it is personal or business, whatever the case may be. In that moment of feeling wonderful, it is so easy to make a commitment. It is so easy to jump and say "yes", "I'll do that", "I'll do this", "I'll be with you".
   

2. Only to wake up the next morning and the wave has moved and no longer are they in this place of hope and excitement, but they are sliding downward into this place of pain. Then they think that all of that was a terrible mistake and they never should have gotten involved and how are they going to get out? No truth in the now! Clarity is something for the emotional person that is based in waiting out the wave. It is not about jumping at either end. It is not jumping in desperation at the low end nor jumping in excitement at the high end. It is about waiting out the wave and it is extremely difficult for emotional beings to do that. Human Design is about mechanics. This is not about controlling anything. You cannot control emotions. You have a lover, and you wake up and you are at the low end of your wave and you can't stand your lover That is not the moment to leave her or him. If a week later or a couple of days later, you are at the high end of your wave and you feel terrific and you still want to leave them, then you have some clarity and you can. I t is not about controlling the emotions. It would be unhealthy. It is about allowing emotional clarity to dictate the decision. Wait out the wave. All emotional people, the deep necessity to wait out the wave. Sleep on it. This is the first step. Sleep on the decision making process. If you can make a decision, positively, at both ends of your wave, then it is a decision that you can live with and stay with. Emotional people at the high end of their wave or climbing their wave, taking a job, will only leave it when they go down. Not waiting to be clear denies them the correct career or relationships.. We have seen that undefined centers, centers that are white, are open and vulnerable to the conditioning of being defined by others. Not only do they become defined but they are magnified. If you were to , the people who are taking up the couches of therapists and psychologists and psychiatrists, you would find an extraordinary large percentage that have undefined emotional systems. They are always going up and down on the emotional wave of somebody else and magnifying it. It is one of the ironies of our genetics that we are only attracted to what we are not. Our genetics determine our survival as a species, which means that they have to keep on bringing together unusual genetic material in order to further the possibilities of evolution. Every center in your design which is undefined is what you are attracted to. The solar plexus, our emotional center, is a place where not only do the emotions reside, but our whole pleasure system. If you have an undefined solar plexus center, you are going to be attracted genetically, to emotionally defined people. Their potential to bring pleasure in your life is going to turn you on. The capacity of their sexuality, whether it
   

3. is need or desire or passion, is going to condition you. Think about what that is like if you are an undefined emotional person and you meet somebody who is attracted to you and they're emotional. You are going to be even more attracted to them. And imagine how disappointing it is going to be to you, only to wake up with them when they are at the low end of their wave and their discomfort with you is magnified in yourself as a discomfort for them. It brings nothing but chaos. Think about child rearing and abuse. There is so much abuse in the home. There is physical abuse. There is sexual abuse. There is so much abuse in the home. Imagine what it is like, that you have a child that has emotional definition, and you have a father who is undefined emotionally. When that child gets mad at the parent, the parent gets twice as mad at the child. And it keeps escalating. If you have an undefined solar plexus, you're whole life is about protecting your stomach. The moment that the emotional wave comes into the undefined emotional system and it gets magnified, it can create such discomfort physically - queasiness, tightness in the stomach. Undefined emotional children either spend their youth trying to make nice to bring peace into their households so that they won't have to suffer the emotional pain or they simply rebel and get angrier and angrier until they' replaced in therapy. There are an enormous number of children with undefined solar plexus that are being treated medically that do not have to be. The nature of generalizations. Think about the child with the undefined emotional system who is having all kinds of difficulties only to be sent to a therapist with a defined emotional system and the chaos that ensues out oft hat. The solar plexus dominates our world. It is always the authority in a chart. When you see humanity as a whole, we are all living in an emotional field in which there really is no truth in the now. That patience is a guiding theme for us in this life, particularly when it comes to our relationships is obvious. Most human beings in their bonding, generally speaking, result is a defined solar plexus. Most human couples are emotional in their definition as a partnership. Recognizing mechanically that no truth in the now means that it is essential for us to wait things out in order to find our clarity. There is a true responsibility for those of you who have defined solar plexus which is to understand the power of the emotional aura. When the emotional person feels good, not only do they feelgood, but they make everyone else feel good. If you are up on your emotional wave, and you go in for a job interview, your chances are improved. If you're on the emotional low end of
   

4. the wave, and you go in for a job interview, it isn't going to work very well. The emotional being controls the environment around them. The emotional environment of the world is chaotic and distorted. The mechanics are not understood. Clarity is rare and the world rides blindly on the emotional wave. "It's the chemistry, stupid". Human beings given the dominance of the mental field are always making up reasons for things. It is what human beings actually do best. When they

go up on the wave, they make a reason up. When they are down in their wave, they have a reason for it. It can be anything: the government, their lover, their job, their friends. There is no clarity in those reasons because there is no reason. Women understand this. Women go through a menstrual cycle in their life in which their chemistry is regularly changed. The fact recognize this as a mechanical function of their body, does not lead them to look for areas on. They don't say "I have my period, I'm going to quit my job." They don't turn chemistry into a reason. When we are dealing with the emotional system which is nothing but chemistry, the going up and down, automatically leads reason making. When we give a reason to it, when we identify a reason with it, we are lost. The wave is going to keep on moving. The reason is not what it's about. The healthy emotional being waits. Waits to allow real clarity to come into their life so that they can be emotionally clear in what they do. The emotional being must wait before they entering into a relationship, so that they can see their potential partner, both through the rosecolored glasses ofthe high end and the dark glasses of the low end. It also will allow the potential partner an opportunity to experience them through their spectrum ofwave, then it's possible to have a genuine bond.The understanding of human mechanics bringsclarity to what it is to be anemotional being. Emotional awareness operates over time. It can beextremely profound as long as there patience to nurture it.The spontaneousbeing, the splenic person, when meeting somebody experiences them in themoment and makes that decision about them in the moment. It is a lymphaticdecision. It is an instinctive or intuitive decision. It doesnot really carry agreat deal of depth with it. The otheris simply taken in in that moment.The emotional person operating throughout their wave, has many manyperspectives upon any subject. It is these collected perspectives, as onemoves through the wave, that bringsgreat depth asa potential to theemotional being. When you know somebody through your wave, you knowthem with a great deal of depth. Yousee various aspects of their naturedepending on where you are in your waveand by the time you get to the full

1. cycle of that, you have grasped their essence. This is a true gift of theemotional being. Yet, it is not possible unless they cultivate patience.The Human Design System is logical.All logical systems need to bepractised, experimented with in order tobe verified in each and every one'spersonal life. The emotional being that begins to sleep on things before theymake decisions, is going to get the logical reward which comes with that.They are going to be more clear. And in being more clear, there is less chaosin their life and in the lives that are around them.A defined solar plexus has a great deal of impact and conditioning power inrelationship to those in its life. It isthis experimentation with clarity thatleads to ultimately beingclear as a way of life.There is a great deal of unhealthiness in the way in which the emotionalsystem is now manifested in the world. The biological associations to thesolar plexus include the kidneys, thepancreas and the prostate. For thosewho have an undefined solar plexus, whoare constantly identifying with theemotional wave, who are giving authorityto emotions thatdon't belong tothem, they are real candidates for physical problems. The defined solarplexus that does not wait out the wave,that does not wait for the clarity, theyalso bring a great deal of discomfortand unhealthiness into their physicalbodies.By being aware of your mechanics, by recognizing what it means to be anemotional being, by recognizing that it isnot necessary to give reasons toyour wave; by waiting, by sleeping on things, more than any other center,more than any other area of the humanlife, to understand the mechanics ofthe emotional system as an emotional person does not simply give you peacein your emotional release, but at thesame time benefits everyone around youin your life