THE OTHER AUTHORITIES
THE BODY’S INNER COMPASS
Not all Authorities move through feeling. Some speak in the moment — through instinct, energy, willpower, voice, or environmental clarity. These Authorities don’t wait for emotional neutrality. Their truth arrives as something simpler: a pull, a sensation, a knowing, a word, a spark.
Here is how each one works — and how it impacts love, communication, and connection.
Sacral Authority — The Pull of Truth
Sacral Authority responds through the gut — an immediate “uh-huh” or “uh-uh,” a tightening, a leaning in, a leaning away. It’s not mental, not emotional, not logical. It’s honest.
Sacral energy knows what’s correct for it by how alive it feels in the body. In relationships, this shows up as full-body engagement or quiet withdrawal. Sacral Authority is here to follow aliveness — not obligation.
Splenic Authority
The Whisper of Instinct
Splenic Authority is the oldest, quietest intelligence in the body — a flash of intuition that arrives once and never repeats. It’s a whisper, a scent, a sensation of “this feels safe” or “this doesn’t.” It’s subtle — often missed until you learn its texture.
In relationships, Splenic Authority is about timing, instinct, and subtle truth. It knows what’s healthy, what’s nourishing, what’s aligned. It’s not loud — but it’s always right.
Ego Authority
The Truth of Will
Ego Authority moves through desire — the heart’s willingness or unwillingness to commit energy. Its truth is simple: Do I truly want this? and Do I have the energy to follow through?
Ego Authority is not selfish. It’s clean. In relationships, it creates honesty — healthy commitment, clear boundaries, and aligned agreements.
The Rarest of the Inner Authorities
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Self-Projected Authority — The Truth in Your Voice
Self-Projected Authority knows through expression. When you speak, your truth reveals itself — not in the words, but in the tone. It’s the feeling of hearing what’s true as you say it.
This Authority needs resonance, not advice. You discover clarity through conversation, not isolation. In relationships, your voice guides you toward what feels like “home.”
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Mental Projected Authority — Clarity Through Environment
Mental Projected Authority knows through the mind-body environment — clarity rising when you’re in the right place, with the right people. This Authority needs spaciousness — not emotional pressure, not intensity, not noise.
Truth emerges when the environment supports it. In relationships, this Authority reveals whether the space between you feels calm, coherent, or chaotic.
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Lunar Authority (Reflector) — Time as Truth
Reflectors experience clarity through a 28-day lunar cycle. They are the barometers of the environment — feeling what’s present, what’s shifting, what’s possible.
Patience isn’t optional here — it’s how truth arrives. In relationships, Reflectors thrive in environments that feel consistent, grounded, and emotionally clean.
What If Your Partner Has Emotional Authority?
When you don’t have Emotional Authority, you’re open in the Solar Plexus — meaning you feel the emotional wave of others inside your own body. Not just receiving it, but amplifying it.
This can create emotional confusion: you feel their high as your high, their low as your low, their uncertainty as your urgency. It’s easy to assume you’re the problem — or the cause — because the feeling is so loud inside you. But the intensity isn’t truth; it’s amplification.
When your partner has Emotional Authority, their wave will move — rising, cresting, falling, settling. Your gift is not to manage it, fix it, or stabilize it.
Your gift is awareness: “This feeling is passing through me. This isn’t mine.”
The moment you recognize that distinction, the emotional pressure softens. You stop personalizing their wave. You stop reacting to the rise or collapse. You stop bracing. You start relating.