Human Design Unconscious Emotional Authority: Red Gates vs Black Gates – What Changes When Your Solar Plexus Is Defined Only on the Design Side?
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What Changes When Your Solar Plexus Is Defined Only on the Design Side?
A question about authority: what difference does it make if the authority (in my case solar plexus, so emotional) is completely unconsciously defined (37-40, 22, 55, 30 - all design side)? And in contrast, what is the difference if the authority is defined only from channels of the personality side? And what if the authority in the integrated chart is formed from black and red gates that connect to a channel? Thank you
Hi Christina,
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Thank you again for your beautiful question and for trusting me with your chart. I’ve been reflecting deeply on your BodyGraph, and thanks for your permission to share this expanded exploration here on the blog so others walking a similar path can benefit too. I’ve woven your specific mechanics into this post while staying true to Ra Uru Hu’s pure teachings.
Your question cuts straight to one of the most profound distinctions in Human Design: how the color (red vs black) of the gates defining your authority changes everything about how you experience and access emotional clarity.
In your chart, you carry Emotional Authority rooted in a fully unconsciously defined Solar Plexus Center—with every single gate and channel activating that definition lives on the red/Design side:
Channel 37-40 (Community/Family) — red at both ends (37.2 Sun Core Vitality and 40.2 Earth Grounding and Balance)
Gate 22 (Grace/Openness) — unconscious communication (voice)
Gate 55 (Abundance/Spirit) — unconscious drive (gravity)
Gate 30 (Fates/Desire, Burning Fire) — unconscious mutation (temperature)
Unconscious Emotional Authority example chart
This means your Emotional Authority is completely unconscious. In fact this is a huge part of who you are because it’s part of your Incarnation Cross, your life’s natural work. The Solar Plexus operates as pure body intelligence; an autopilot genetic program running below the level of your conscious mind throughout your enteric nervous system. You don’t “think” your emotions the way someone with black/Personality definition might. Instead, they arrive somatically: a physical pull in your stomach toward tribal connection (37-40), sudden moods tied to passion and spirit (55), burning desires or fated longings that rise and fall (30), or a graceful openness that shifts moods without explanation (22).
Ra taught that unconscious definition in authority is a gift of purity; it’s much harder for the mind to distort or override it because the Personality doesn’t claim it as “mine.” There are no built-in mental stories attached; the wave simply is. But this same gift can be tricky during deconditioning: your mind might underestimate its power, dismiss the wave as “not me,” or act before neutrality because the body’s insistence feels hard to identify with or own rather than the loud and personal “mine” mentality of believing the conscious ego’s “I” ownership that can happen with a black personality authority channel.
In contrast, if your Emotional Authority were defined only from the Personality side (black gates/channels), the emotions would likely feel vividly “yours” unless Neptune is there (it usually veils or hides things). You’d identify with them such as “I feel excited/sad/angry about this” and the wave would be more front-of-mind, easier to articulate, but also more vulnerable to mental interference. The risk is over-identifying with highs and lows, making impulsive yes/no decisions based on momentary feelings instead of waiting for the full cycle.
Your setup protects the mechanical integrity of the wave, but it asks for radical trust in the body and patience with strategies like sleeping on decisions, tracking mood cycles over days or weeks, or simply noticing when the wave has settled into neutrality without forcing a story around it.
And then there’s the third possibility; the integrated/bridged dynamic that my husband has carried and I’ve wittnessed for most of our 14 years together. When black (Personality) and red (Design) gates connect to form the same channel, it creates an electromagnetic hook-up: conscious awareness meets unconscious emotional depth. The wave becomes layered and complex; a dialogue between what the mind thinks it “knows” or is aware of and what the body insists on. Decisions can feel more complicated and also more internally conflicted if the two sides aren’t allowed and integrated; the Personality might favor quick conscious spikes while the Design pulls for slower, deeper resolution. In those cases, I always recommend journaling both perspectives until they merge into clarity; and waiting longer than feels like normal can help in the beginning of the experiment (first three and a half years).
Your Type & Strategy Context
You have a Pure Manifesting Generator design with the personality-defined Channel 34-20 (Power-to-Expression) anchoring your Sacral response directly to the Throat and both Plutos (Truth) in 57 so this adds the Power of being an Archetype of intuitive empowering for your energy in action.
Looking closely at your BodyGraph through the lens of Ra's original teachings, your chart reveals a Triple Split Definition (also called Triple-Split). This is one of the rarer and more complex configurations—approximately 10–11% of people carry it—and it brings a very specific mechanical way your energy flows, integrates, and interacts with the world.
In Human Design, Definition refers to the colored-in areas of your chart where consistent, reliable energy exists because both gates of a channel are activated (creating electromagnetic flow between centers). When those defined areas are disconnected from each other (no direct channel linking them), it creates "splits." A Triple Split means there are three separate, autonomous groups of defined centers in your BodyGraph, with no fixed bridges connecting them internally.
From your chart:
One defined area clusters around the Sacral-Throat (e.g., 34-20 and 57 making two channels linking Sacral motor to Splenic Center and Throat for expression/action).
Another around the Solar Plexus and emotional circuitry (red 37-40, plus gates 22, 55, 30, etc., forming a distinctly unconscious emotional package).
A third involving other defined centers through conscious and unconscious mixes we call red & black (mental pressure of the head and conceptual awareness center of the Ajna activations that stand apart, as seen in the disconnected groupings up top).
These three "teams" or "parts" of you can operate independently, each with its own agenda, timing, and frequency. It may make it so that others find you to be a bit “too much” or pushy at times - yours would be mental, not physical.
Ra described Triple Splits as having more in common with Single Definition beings than with simple Split Definitions. Relationships were really hard for you in your first thirty years, yeah? Unlike a basic Split (two areas seeking a bridge for wholeness), your three parts don't rely on one person or one gate to "complete" you in the same way. The open centers (white areas) and transits/transpeople provide temporary bridges, but no single connection makes you feel permanently "whole." Instead, wholeness emerges through movement, variety, and time. For you the most important thing is being in environments with diverse people who activate different bridges over extended periods.
Key Mechanics from Ra for Triple Splits like you
Autonomous Parts: Each of the three defined areas works on its own rhythm. For example, your emotional wave (Solar Plexus group) has a completely different timing than your Sacral response (34-20 group). One part might feel ready while another is still processing; creating an internal sense of "multiple pulls" or fragmentation until integration happens through being around others naturally.
No Fixed Bridge Dependency: Ra noted that Triple Splits are not looking for feeling wholeness through any single bridge or relationship; in fact that might make you feel trapped. A simple Split might bond deeply with one partner who bridges their two areas, but for that to happen to you, it would leave one part "out." This makes you less prone to codependent pair-bonding and more suited to gaining wisdom on your own while having the freedom to move through group dynamics or fluid social environments at will accordingly to your mood.
Assimilation Through Movement & Diversity: Your extraordinary potential lies in integrating and synthesizing information over time by being around many different people and energies. Public places, teams, or varied interactions allow different bridges to form temporarily, letting you sample and synthesize. This is why Ra said Triple Splits thrive in groups—e.g., communities where multiple auras connect the splits without dependency on one person.
Conditioning via Open Centers: Because your defined areas are specialized and disconnected, the open centers (Root, G/Identity) become the primary source of conditioning themes. They amplify others' energies, leading to potential Not-Self distractions if not observed. Ra emphasized that Triple Splits are more influenced by open centers' agendas than by bridging gates; watch what conditioning arises in those open areas. Are you feeling too pressured to be someone you aren’t?
Social & Relational Gift/Challenge: You may attract a wide circle of friends or colleagues who each "bridge" one part of you. One person activates intellectual flow, another emotional depth, another grounding and wellbeing; leading to rich but varied relationships where you play a different role depending on where you are, who you’re with and what you’re in the mood to do. The challenge is avoiding initiating; you vacillate between shyness and boldness as a 2nd line body. Ra advised rest and solitude as a hermit; this allows you to "cleanse" the system from accumulated conditioning.
Time & Patience Required: Processing takes longer because the parts operate on different frequencies (e.g., emotional wave vs. Sacral in-the-moment). Decisions need time for all three areas to align; aligning with your Emotional Authority means waiting for neutrality across your whole system. You really need calm environments more than others, and do better outside of the physical pressure that may make you feel like you don’t know when to hurry or not.
Strategy: To Wait to Respond and Wait further for Emotional Clarity. Wait for that available energy and emotional wave to settle before taking calm action. The Emotional Authority overrides the Sacral when defined, so even though your Sacral is raring to go with instant availability, clarity only comes after riding the wave over time. Frustration arises when you initiate mentally or skip the emotional neutrality step. Your Auric signature of living in alignment with your Spirit is satisfaction, which arrives when your multi-passionate response flows correctly through correct timing.
Living This Correctly
Christina, your chart is mechanical perfection for your trajectory. The unconscious Emotional Authority means your correctness depends on surrendering the mind’s need to rationalize the wave and instead experimenting with radical patience. Honor the somatic signals (those community pulls, individuation moods, burning desires) as the body’s truth speaking directly. Wait. Watch for when the emotional wave crests and falls. Trust that the middle ground, your neutrality will arrive, and when it does, your responses will carry a potency that the mind could never manufacture.
This isn’t about “fixing” anything; it’s about living the mechanics as they are. All authorities are equal in validity; yours is simply designed to operate below the radar of conscious identification, which protects its purity while asking you to decondition any tendency to dismiss or override what the body already knows.
However, Emotional Authority when not deconditioned can still amplify Not-Self themes like people-pleasing or avoidance if not handled correctly, as the mind latches onto the feelings as identity. Deconditioning here involves detaching from the story around emotions and practicing being a patient observer. Speaking of which, I made a video for 6/2s like you in case you haven’t seen it yet its below. My nodes are 6/2 so I fulfill my purpose empowering people like you. =D
Practical Experiment for You
As an Emotional Manifesting Generator with Triple Split, follow Strategy (Wait to Respond then Wait for Clarity) while honoring more time than you think you need for the emotional wave to settle. Move through environments that naturally connect your parts without forcing relationships to "fix" you. Notice how group settings make you feel more integrated than one-on-one. Rest when social energy overwhelms; your design isn't meant for constant bridging.
You have a mechanical uncommonness and rarity; your design is perfection, Christina; the universe does not create flaws, only perfections of uniqueness. Your Triple Split gives you the gift of broad assimilation, diverse awareness/perspectives, and the ability to support the complexity of a large amount of information by moving through groups. Sometimes its simpler for someone like you to be an entrepreneur by design.
Live your correctness (Strategy + Authority), and those splits integrate over time into synthesizing a whole lot of multilayered awareness.
Does this resonate with your experiment so far? I’d love to hear in the comments (or privately via email) how the unconscious wave shows up for you day-to-day. <3
If anyone else is reading this and recognize yourself in any part (whether your Solar Plexus is all red, all black, or bridged through an electromagnetic between your mind and body) know that correctness dissolves the nuanced distinctions into flow.
Experiment relentlessly while also being kind and true to yourself. Trust your Strategy and be your own Authority.
The awakening happens in the living, and simply being.
With love and alignment for your unique design,
Dr. LaVeena Archers ICONIC Human Design Education
| Education Director at Jovian Archive
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