What Is the Emotional Solar Plexus in Human Design?

Your emotional solar plexus center is the powerhouse of emotions in human design. Located on the right side of your body graph (the triangle on its side above the root center), this center governs how you experience emotions and make decisions.

Understanding whether your emotional solar plexus is defined or undefined reveals profound insights about your emotional nature – it’s not just about whether you feel emotions, but how you process them and how they influence your decision-making.

The emotional solar plexus is where our depth and passion originate. While we often associate emotions with challenging feelings like sadness or frustration, this center is equally responsible for joy, excitement, and passion. Your relationship with this center determines how you experience the full spectrum of human emotions.

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Defined Emotional Solar Plexus: Riding the Emotional Wave

If your emotional solar plexus appears colored in on your chart, congratulations – you have a defined emotional center and an emotional authority. This means your emotions operate on a consistent wave pattern that is uniquely yours.

Key Characteristics of a Defined Emotional Center:

1. Internal Emotional Generation: Your emotions aren’t primarily circumstantial. You don’t feel emotions simply because something happened to make you happy or sad. Instead, your emotions operate on an internal chemical cycle, similar to how hormones function.
2. Emotional Waves: You experience emotional ups and downs regardless of external circumstances. You might wake up feeling different every day – sometimes energetic and positive, other times withdrawn or contemplative – with no apparent external cause.
3. Need for Emotional Clarity: Your decision-making process requires time to experience your full emotional wave. Making decisions at emotional peaks or valleys can lead to regret or second-guessing.

The most common mistake for those with defined emotional centers is trying to explain their emotions logically or attempting to fix them. This creates additional mental pressure that often intensifies emotional discomfort.

The Power of Waiting

For emotional authorities, waiting is your superpower. When making significant decisions (those involving commitments of time, energy, or resources), take the decision with you through your emotional wave.

Consider how you feel about the opportunity when you’re:

• In an emotional high
• In an emotional low
• Somewhere in between

Only when you’ve experienced your complete emotional spectrum and still feel clarity about the decision should you move forward. This process takes time – anywhere from a few days to a week or longer, depending on your unique wave pattern.

By honoring this process, you access a depth of decision-making clarity unavailable to others. Your emotions become your greatest ally rather than something to overcome.

Undefined Emotional Solar Plexus: Amplifying External Emotions

If your emotional solar plexus appears white (or undefined) on your chart, you experience emotions quite differently. You don’t generate a consistent emotional wave internally but instead amplify and receive emotions from your environment and others.

Key Characteristics of an Undefined Emotional Center:

1. Emotional Absorption: You readily pick up and amplify the emotional energy around you. When someone defined emotionally enters your space, you’ll feel their emotions – sometimes even more intensely than they do.
2. Emotional Clarity: In neutral environments, you often experience emotional clarity that defined types might envy. Without external influences, you can make decisions without emotional cloudiness.
3. Avoiding Emotional Confrontation: When conditioned, you may avoid confrontation and emotional truth, both from others and within yourself. This can manifest as people-pleasing or avoiding situations that might trigger emotional discomfort.

The undefined emotional solar plexus can become a storage facility for unprocessed emotions. By avoiding emotional confrontation, you might inadvertently accumulate emotional residue that limits your capacity for authentic expression and aligned action.

Deconditioning Your Emotional Solar Plexus

Whether defined or undefined, deconditioning your emotional center is crucial for alignment and authentic expression. Here’s how:

For Defined Emotional Types:

1. Observe Without Judgment: Watch your emotional wave without trying to fix, explain, or act from it immediately. Become a scientist of your own emotional patterns.
2. Honor Your Need for Time: Recognize that waiting isn’t a limitation but your pathway to clarity. Don’t make important decisions from emotional peaks or valleys.
3. Embrace Your Emotional Nature: Rather than seeing your emotions as a liability, recognize them as a source of depth, passion, and wisdom when properly navigated.

For Undefined Emotional Types:

1. Create Emotional Boundaries: Recognize when you’re absorbing others’ emotions versus experiencing your own. Practice creating energetic space between yourself and intense emotional environments.
2. Process Stored Emotions: Make time to feel and release emotional accumulation. Techniques like EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) can be particularly effective for this purpose.
3. Speak Your Truth: Challenge the conditioning to avoid confrontation by practicing authentic communication, even when it feels uncomfortable.

Moving Beyond Emotional Conditioning

The emotional solar plexus, perhaps more than any other center, shows how human design serves as a practical map for personal transformation. When we understand how our emotions function—whether they’re consistent internal waves or responsive to external influences—we can work with rather than against our natural design.

For entrepreneurs especially, mastering your emotional landscape creates the foundation for sustainable success. Your emotional clarity directly impacts your decision-making, consistency, and ability to show up authentically in your brand and business.

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The Path to Emotional Wisdom

Remember that integration takes time. Aim for progress, not perfection, as you work with your emotional design. Whether you’re defining boundaries around external emotional influences or learning to ride your emotional wave with grace, each step toward alignment builds your capacity for emotional wisdom.

The goal isn’t to eliminate emotions but to work with them as the powerful guidance system they’re designed to be. When you align with your emotional nature—defined or undefined—you unlock a level of clarity, authenticity, and power that transforms not just how you feel, but how you show up in the world.

By understanding and honoring your emotional design, you build the foundation for becoming truly unshakeable.