#28: Health, Fears and Intuition with the Spleen Center Human Design [Discover Who You Are Series]
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For today's episode, we're continuing the Discover Who You Are Series with the spleen center Human Design. We are going through each of the Centers in Human Design. If you're not already familiar, if this is your first episode of the series, you can go ahead and scroll back a few episodes and start at the beginning and at the same time you can listen to this episode as a standalone.
The spleen can be found on the very left part of your chart. The triangle that's facing inward all the way on the left side.
A few things to start. Human Design is a tool that I use with some clients to help them better understand how their energy works and how they're meant to move about the world. It's been an incredibly life changing tool in my own life and in my relationships and even with my family members, my husband, my children, all of it. It is a tool that I use with people sometimes in this transformation type of work. And one of those things is understanding your energy.
This series is all about taking a look at the themes from the different centers of the chart so that you can better understand your energy and your relationship with those themes in that center. Now, if you're brand new to human design, you can grab a free chart and follow along. And if you ever want to take this work deeper, of course I do offer human design readings that you can check out on my website.
Human design is meant to be a tool. It is not a be all, end all. As you navigate and take in this information, take what resonates, leave the rest. It is not meant to be telling you that you have to be or do something specific with your life. It is really open to all the possibilities. It's just showing you a way that you can have more flow within what you're navigating.
Themes of the Spleen Center Human Design
The spleen is associated with fears, intuition. It is awareness, body awareness and health and vitality. All of these things live within the spleen.
The spleen is the oldest of the centers and it's really the energy of keeping us alive, that intuition to keep us alive. Especially back in the day when we had to rely so much more on our instincts before our minds started to take over.
Depending on whether or not you have this center defined or undefined in your chart, that will tell more information about how that energy works for you.
The Defined Spleen Center Human Design
If you have it defined in your chart and defined means consistent access to this energy, it will be a colored in shape on your chart. And in that case that means you have your own consistent internal energy associated with all of these themes that I just mentioned.
Things like your intuition and your instincts, it'll be operating in the here and now, all the time, you have consistent access to that. When you are in a healthy relationship with your spleen, you'll have a life that's filled with joy and free of fear. The spleen has fears associated with it. And if you are in right relationship with yourself, you'll be free of those fears. You won't be holding on to them too tight. You won't let those fears control who you are and your choices. The great thing about this is that you can consistently access your intuition.
On the flip side, something to be mindful of is that you can struggle with your mind trying to override your instincts and your intuition. So you have the access to it, but you need to make sure your mind isn't taking over. And I've talked about decision making in other episodes. You can find that episode and learn more about decision making here.
Just be mindful of this, there's no right or wrong with any of these. And whatever you have in your chart is exactly what you need. So this isn't meant to say, oh, well, I'm not defined. I don't have consistent access, so then it's bad in some way. No, that's not what this is about. This is just letting you know how this energy works and how it might show up for you if you do have it defined.
The Undefined Spleen Center Human Design
If you have this center undefined, if you have inconsistent access to this energy, it's going to look a little bit different for you. It will be easy to carry the fears from other people. The thing with being undefined or having this inconsistent access is that we can easily take on and amplify from other people around us that do have the definition. If you're spending time around someone that has a defined spleen, you could potentially feel their fears and then amplify that back. And if you're not mindful, it's something that you can also hold onto and take on as your own. So you want to be really mindful and really aware of your relationship with fears and the things that come up for you. And then this is the same in terms of body awareness and intuition and all of the other themes from this center.
The great thing about having the inconsistent access to this energy is that you can offer really deep wisdom for other people. You'll be able to see that and feel that in a different way. And you'll be able to share it back with them.
On the flip side, as I mentioned before, you can be prone to taking in some of the fears from other people and anxieties and amplifying that. So be really mindful of how you take in information from others and what your relationship is with these different themes.
Reflection Questions for the Spleen Center Human Design
With each of these episodes, I'm sharing a bit about the theme and then also some reflection questions and prompts to support you and for you to discover more about your relationship with the center.
In terms of the spleen we're talking about health, vitality, fears and body awareness. I'd like to invite you to check in on each of those things.
What is your relationship with your health?
What is your relationship with body awareness?
What is your relationship with your fears?
Each of these aspects of you can bring up something different, right? And so then it's a matter of feeling into that, reflecting on it, and seeing where you want to go, where you want to take this information.
If you feel that you aren't really in alignment right now in terms of your health or not where you want to be, then how can you shift that?
What's a small step that you can take to change that in some way?
If you aren't really connected to your body awareness, what is something that you can do or shift to be more connected to your body?
The whole thing with the mind body connection is that when you deepen into that connection, when you get out of your head, out of your mind and into your body, you'll be able to access a different part of your wisdom and you'll be able to move about the world and make decisions in a completely different way.
We're really meant to be operating from that grounded, centered space connected to the body. Part of being able to do that is getting out of the mind. And especially where the spleen is concerned with instincts and awareness, if you're paying too much attention to the mind, you're going to lose access to those instincts and that awareness.
The spleen whispers. It doesn't yell, it doesn't shout. It whispers things. And a lot of times they won't even make sense in the moment because it's sending you a little dose or a little bit of information that's going to help you somewhere down the line if you lean into it and if you trust it.
It takes a lot of discernment to know how it's speaking to you and to each person. It's a little bit different and unique. And then to really pay attention to say, oh, well, is this my ego or is this my instincts? The more we get again out of the mind and into the body, then that mind and that ego part of you is quieting down to listen to that deeper wisdom from that centered, grounded place.
Conclusion for the Spleen Center Human Design
This is a really great center to practice with for your instincts and to start listening to those whispers and seeing where it shows up for you. Or just, you know, if you get a feeling about something, you say, hmm, I don't know if that's really right. You trust it, trust it and lean into that and choose a different direction. The more that you practice on a smaller scale, the clearer and easier it will be you be able to be used going forward. And the inverse is true as well. The more you don't listen to it, then the harder it is to access it. You can always get back to it. But what you really need to do is cultivate that relationship with your body and hearing that information from within yourself.
Keep practicing it however it shows up for you. And even more important, if your decision making style is with the spleen, if your primary decision making style is splenic authority, which that I cover also on the decision making episode that I'll link in the show notes. But that also goes along with all of this and the instincts and listening to all of this.
Taking some time to reflect on your relationship with these, with the center and with these themes can be really supportive to you for how you move forward.
Another thing that I see pretty often with the spleen is that you can, if you're not in right relationship with it, and if you're not in alignment, you can tend to hold on to things for too long. You can have a fear of letting go. There are seven different fears in the spleen and they all show up differently. But overall, there can be this hanging on to something, even if you know that it's not the right way to go. But there can still be a holding on for the fears that come with letting it go. And then that fear is controlling you and keeping you where you are. So there's lots to work with in this place.
Again, if you pull your chart and you take a look and reflect on these questions, it can set you on your journey. And of course I offer the readings so if you ever want to dig deeper into it, please feel free to reach out.
This is a very powerful center. The spleen center human design in particular requires a certain stillness to be able to access the whispers from the spleen. So really paying attention to that and inviting that into your life, however you so choose.
Working Together on the Human Design Spleen Center
There is so much to explore and deepen into as it relates to our instincts. I'm here as a guide and a mentor to support more people in showing up and doing the work to become more of who they really truly are, live more in alignment so we can all be a part of this journey in a new and different way.
You’re also invited to check out my Human Design readings so that you can learn more about your own energy and how you operate. This tool is a powerful building block that will allow you to better understand the direction you want to go and what is most aligned for you as well as strengthen your mind body connection.
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Thank you so much again for being here today and for your support. I hope you have a great rest of your day.
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Previous Podcast Episodes to Listen to:
#27: Unlocking Self-Worth: Exploring the Heart Center Human Design [Discover Who You Are Series]
Exploring Your Emotions Through the Solar Plexus Center Human Design [Discover Who You Are Series]
Exploring Certainty Through the Ajna Center Human Design [Discover Who You Are Series]
Throat Center Human Design [Discover Who You Are Series]
