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Hello and welcome to Find Yourself, Change Your Life. I'm your host, Mary Clavieres. This podcast is here to help you rediscover yourself and become the leader of your life, however you want that to look.

All right, today we are jumping into the final of the 7 decision-making styles. If you are just joining us now, please go check out Episode 48. It has all the foundation around this decision-making series. It will give you more insight and links and information into how to get your Human Design chart. If you go check that out and kind of get the baseline first, it'll help you with listening into each of these episodes that talk about the specific decision-making styles.

If you've been following along, or if you already have your chart and you know that you are lunar authority, or lunar decision-making style, then you are in the right place because that's what we're covering today.

Have you ever been told you're indecisive?

That you take too long to make decisions?

That you need to just pick something and move on?

If you're a reflector with lunar authority in Human Design, here's the truth:

You're not indecisive. You're designed to move through a full 28-day cycle before making big decisions. This is lunar authority. It’s the rarest decision-making style. And it works completely differently than the others.

What Is Lunar Authority in Human Design?

Lunar decision-making style is specific to the reflector type in Human Design. Now, not all of the decision-making styles line up with only one type, but in this case, for lunar decision-making style, it does. It is only seen in reflectors, and reflectors have a completely open chart, meaning that all of their centers on the bodygraph chart that you see, they're all white. None of them are colored in because none of the centers are connected and providing definition.

So you'll have the little lines next to certain numbers, but you won't have a shape colored in. And this is because reflectors are here to reflect and actually take in from their whole environment. And what does this mean in terms of decision-making style? It means that they're here to process through a 28-day cycle. Lunar decision-making style means, yes, it follows the cycle and the patterns of the moon, and you have to actually move through each of the gates as they move through the month before you'll be able to make your decision.

Environment and People Matter

As I mentioned with a couple of the other designs or decision-making styles, and because this one is all white shapes, nothing colored in, and only for reflectors, it's again very important to be in your own energy and your own aura. Because reflectors take on and can amplify from everyone else around them.

So there are two main things with lunar decision-making style that are really important. The first one is the environment. Similar to last week when we talked about the environmental decision-making style, because there's a lot of openness in the chart, it's the same thing here. Actually, the chart is fully open and undefined. So there's no part where you have consistent access to your own energy. Because of that, it's really important for you to pay attention to the environments that you're in and making sure that they feel aligned and correct for you.

The other piece is that it's really important for you to be surrounded by people that are supportive to you. Because actually over this 28-day cycle, you're having conversations, you're taking in the world around you, you're observing how you're feeling during these different conversations before you make a decision. But because of that also, and because of how open you are in your chart, it's really important for the people that you're talking to, to be supportive to you and to be in alignment with you in some way.

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Trusted Advisors, Not Advice-Givers

Kind of think of it as trusted advisors, if you will. And you go to and speak to people that feel really aligned for you and that you have great conversation with. It's again, not asking them for advice and not asking to get their opinion, but through these conversations you'll be able to observe and reflect to get to your own clarity.

You're not meant to make decisions in the moment. You're meant to move through this 28-day cycle. And again, this is for big decisions. I'm not saying wait 28 days to decide what restaurant you want to eat at. That's not what this is for. This is for decisions like moving is a big one that I see for people, changing jobs, switching careers or taking on a new position in some way, starting a business or pivoting with your business in some way. All of those types of things that are some of those bigger personal, professional life changes. That's what this is meant to be used for.

It's Not Just Waiting, It's Observing

But I will also add that along with any of these styles, this is the 7th one that we're talking about. With any of these styles, the more you practice it and become in tune with it and aware of it, the more it helps your overall life. So it's not only about, oh, I have to wait 28 days before I can make a decision. No, it's about tuning in and paying attention as you're having conversations, reflecting back to yourself how you're feeling along the way. Making sure that you're taking time and energy and effort to clear yourself from other people as well, because you will be amplifying them.

And so as you do this, you become more in tune with yourself. As you become more in tune with yourself, you deepen into your mind-body connection and it all becomes part of the whole. You see, it all becomes part of what has you living in more alignment with yourself. So I know there's lots of times where people could say, oh, I have to wait 28 days, blah, blah, blah. That's not what this is about. It's about seeing yourself and discovering yourself in this process.

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Yes, it's generally over a period of 28 days for these bigger decisions, but it doesn't mean that you're just stopping everything else. And it doesn't mean that you can't make other smaller decisions in the meantime. Actually, what it's going to do is give you more practice so that even when you're making the smaller decisions, you're able to tune in with yourself more to be able to make those other smaller decisions in alignment. So that's what this is about.

Clearing Your Energy

So again, for lunar decision-making style, which is specifically for reflectors, very important to pay attention to your environment, to pay attention to who you're surrounding yourself with, the people you surround yourself with, and how you speak with them so that you can build your observations and reach your clarity in your time.

I really want to stress also with when you spend time with other people, because there's so much openness in the chart, to take the time to get clear for yourself as well. So again, as I've said in other episodes, going out, spending time in nature is a big one that really kind of expedites this because it gets you clear and in your own aura. And nature is so healing and all of the things. But really pay attention to how you are, how you're operating, and if you're holding on to other people or if you're allowing their energy to kind of seep into you too much. Because that's not the way you're meant to operate. So just being extra mindful of that, again, because of the openness and because I know I'm speaking specifically to reflectors in this scenario.

Reflection Questions for Lunar Authority

Some reflection questions that I invite you to consider are:

Are you in a supportive environment for yourself?
Are you taking the time to move through your 28-day cycle, or are you trying to rush decisions? (Again, big decisions.)
Who are the people that you spend the most time with, or that you look to, to be your trusted advisors? What is that relationship like? How does it feel to you?
Are you paying attention to your own energy, clearing out from other people's energy and staying grounded in your own energy?

If you are a reflector and you have this lunar decision-making style, I hope you found this episode helpful for you. Again, there's resources. You can get your chart. There's a free workbook with some reflection questions as well. If you want to learn more about your style and how to incorporate it into your life, but you want one-on-one support, I do offer Decision Making Accelerator sessions. It's a one-time session. You'll get a lot of clarity and direction, walk away with an action plan that works and fits for you. If that's of interest, I'll put the link in the show notes as well.

Yeah, thank you so much for being here. I hope you've enjoyed this series. I will continue to speak about decision-making in different ways, but for the purposes of the 7 decision-making styles, I hope you found this helpful and supportive for where you are. Even if you are looking into these styles because you have a friend or family member that you want to better understand, that works too.

Thank you so much for being here and for your support. Please feel free to share the episode if you feel called. It helps it get out there and have the word spread more and share this information that's hopefully helpful for others. Again, thank you for your support. Thank you for being with me on this journey. I love you and appreciate you so much, and I'll speak to you next week.