The 8 Human Design authorities

Your authority is the way of making decisions that tends to work best for you. It is read from the defined centers in your chart, in a fixed order of priority: emotions come before the gut, the gut comes before instinct, and so on. There are 8 of them.

51.2% of charts

Emotional authority

Clarity comes with time: your moods rise and fall, and the right answer is the one that holds up over several days.

32.9% of charts

Sacral authority

Your gut answers before your head does, with a little sound or feeling: a rising 'uh-huh' or a sinking 'nah'.

8.8% of charts, about 1 person in 11

Splenic authority

You've got instant instincts, a quiet voice that speaks once, in the moment, and doesn't repeat itself.

3.0% of charts, about 1 person in 33

Self-projected authority

You find your direction by talking. Hearing your own voice tells you whether an option feels like you.

2.0% of charts, about 1 person in 50

Mental authority (outer)

No single inner signal settles things for you. You get clear by talking in different places, with different people, and listening to yourself.

0.9% of charts, about 1 person in 111

Lunar authority

Your clarity needs about a month, time to live with the question through different moods and different company.

0.7% of charts, about 1 person in 143

Ego authority (projected)

'Ego' here means willpower. The right call comes down to one question: do I really want this, and is it worth it for me?

0.6% of charts, about 1 person in 167

Ego authority (manifested)

Here 'ego' means willpower: what counts is what you truly want, and you find out by hearing yourself say it.