Decision-Making for Projectors

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You’ve discovered you’re a Projector and that your strategy is to ‘wait for the invitation’. But then what happens when an invitation arrives? Should you say ‘yes’ or ‘no’?

There is wisdom inherent in all things and our knowing of it comes through our bodies. Not through our heads, as we’ve traditionally been taught to believe, but from deep within our bodies. In Human Design, this is known as your Authority.

Your Authority is how you are designed to make decisions.

This knowing helps us navigate our lives. It lets us know which invitations to respond to, which projects to create, how to help our children and in any area it appears a choice needs to be made. The inner wisdom already knows. Our Authority is the way we access that already known wisdom.

Projector

If you have an undefined or open Sacral and no motors to the throat, your energy type is Projector.

There is a huge variety in the Projector chart, so yours will probably not exactly the same as this diagram, but you will meet the criteria above.

All Projectors benefit from a sounding board to help them make decisions. This is someone in your life that you ask to simply listen to you as you speak aloud when you have a decision to make. Please note, you are NOT looking for advice or guidance here - just ask your 'person' to listen.

What is going in here is you are shifting the energy inside you by talking and as a result you will find your own clarity about your right next step.

There is an invisible logic behind the answers you’ll find; for example, if you don’t have the resources, self-worth or sufficient rest, you’ll find yourself with a clear ‘no’ to any invitations that will require this of you. You are waiting for invitations, right?

Your body knows the answer.

These questions are suggestions for the kind of questions you 'talk aloud' in order to hear your own wisdom coming out of your mouth:

Do I have the energy for this?

Do I have the time/money for this?

Is it in integrity with who I am?

Is it a sustainable choice?

If you are in any way burned out/don’t have the resources or support, or if a decision requires you compromise on authenticity or integrity, you simply won’t get a signal to tell you the timing is right.

When we start to experiment with our Authority, the answers you hear from yourself will often surprise your head, which will then try to argue with the answer you have uncovered for yourself. That's normal - the mind will give you a conditioned response. Not a truthful one.

The mind will tell you that you need to take every invitation in case you don’t get another. It will tell you to push on through, regardless of the energy you have available. It will tell you that you need to prove to ‘them’ that you can do it. That you need to prove to yourself that you can do it.

Over time, as you experiment, the obviousness of following your knowing over your conditioning will start to become more evident, leading to you trusting it more.

This is why we experiment.

If you have a defined Emotional Solar Plexus, please also read this article which also contains a crucial part of your Authority.