Solar Plexus

The Solar Plexus centre is one of the nine centres of the Human Design bodygraph. Human Design is a modern esoteric system, originated in 1987 by Ra Uru Hu (born Alan Robert Krakower, 1948-2011), who presented its content as received teaching rather than as an inherited tradition. It is roughly four decades old and is best read as a contemporary synthesis, not as ancient wisdom or established fact. Ra Uru Hu combined four older systems that had never before been joined: the I Ching supplies the sixty-four gates, the Hindu chakra model the nine centres, the Kabbalistic Tree of Life the connecting channels, and Western astrology the method of calculation.

Where the Hindu chakra model it draws on has seven centres, Human Design maps nine, a difference the system explains by a claimed mutation in human form, a claim about the species that has no support outside the system and should be reported as its own, not as fact. In the model the Solar Plexus centre is classed as a "Awareness" centre and is an awareness and motor centre of emotion, treated as the seat of feeling and, in the system, of an emotional wave over time. A centre may be "defined" (consistently active) or "undefined" (open and conditioned by others) in a given chart. These are features of a contemporary esoteric framework dating from 1987, described here as the system presents them.

Sources The Human Design SystemRa Uru Hu (Alan Robert Krakower) with Über den Tellerrand, ein Blick ins Human Design System (HDS)Petra Stute, Virineya Würgler and Johnny Würgler

The Solar Plexus sits where a classical chakra sits, and is one of two positions where the Human Design assignment and the classical one are close to the reverse of each other.

The two schemes

In the classical chakra scheme as it circulates in modern Western usage, the centre at the solar plexus is associated with will, personal power and self-assertion, and the centre at the heart with feeling and compassion.

In the Human Design bodygraph the emotional centre is the one at the solar plexus, and the centre at the heart is concerned with will and drive.

This is recorded as an observation a reader can check against each system's own published description of its centres, not as a claim anyone has made about the relationship between them.

Why it is worth saying

The bodygraph is often introduced as the chakra scheme with two centres added, which is roughly true positionally and misleading here. Anyone reasoning from the classical associations to what the bodygraph means at this position will get it wrong.

The arithmetic

Nine centres against a classical seven, with the G or Identity centre and the Spleen having no classical counterpart at all, and the remaining seven corresponding by position with varying closeness of function.

Human Design was published by Ra Uru Hu in 1987 and is recorded here as a contemporary system.

Sources Rainbow Body: A History of the Western Chakra System from Blavatsky to BrennanKurt Leland with The Human Design SystemRa Uru Hu (Alan Robert Krakower)