Imagine being offered an exciting business opportunity and responding, "That sounds fantastic! I'll get back to you in about a month."

Not exactly how the world operates, is it?

But if you have Lunar Authority in Human Design, taking your time is an important part of how you're designed to make big decisions.

Lunar Authority belongs exclusively to Reflectors, the rarest of the five Human Design energy types, representing approximately 1% of the population.

Unlike authorities that rely on an immediate response, Lunar Authority is about experiencing a decision from different perspectives over approximately 29.5 days (the length of a lunar cycle.)

It's not about waiting for the Moon to magically deliver an answer. It's about noticing what continues to feel right over time.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why Reflectors are encouraged to take a full lunar cycle for major decisions.
• How talking with trusted people in different environments supports your decision-making process.
• The difference between Voice, Mental, and Lunar Authority.
• What a YES or NO might look like when clarity develops over time.
• Why you don't need 30 days to decide what to have for lunch.
• Common challenges, including pressure to decide quickly, absorbing other people's opinions, and being labelled indecisive.
• How to support a partner, friend, or child with Lunar Authority.
• A simple experiment to explore how your perspective changes over time.

You're not waiting for the Moon to make your decision. You're allowing yourself to experience it from different perspectives.

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Have you ever walked into a room and immediately felt uncomfortable, even though nothing was obviously wrong? Or found yourself feeling completely at ease somewhere else?

For people with Mental Authority (also called Environmental Authority), the people and places around them play an important role in how they make decisions.

Mental Authority is found only in Projectors and, according to Human Design teachings, is one of the rarest authorities.

Like Voice Authority, Mental Authority involves talking decisions through. But there's an important difference.

Voice Authority is about hearing yourself speak and recognizing what feels like you. Mental Authority adds another layer: noticing how different people and environments influence your clarity over time.

It's not about asking everyone for advice or collecting opinions. It's about finding trusted sounding boards, spending time in spaces that feel good, and noticing what becomes clear as you talk.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How Mental Authority works and why your environment matters.
• The difference between Mental and Voice Authority.
• What a YES or NO might feel like with Mental Authority.
• Why talking to several people isn't the same as asking for advice.
• Common challenges, including overthinking, rushing decisions, and feeling pressured to stop talking.
• How to support a partner or child with Mental Authority.
• A simple experiment to explore how different people and places affect your decision-making.

The big takeaway: The right people don't make decisions for you, and the right spaces don't magically give you answers. But talking things through with trusted people in environments where you feel comfortable can help you discover what's right for you.

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Ever been talking to a friend about a decision and suddenly realized you knew exactly what to do? Your friend barely said a word, but somehow, hearing yourself talk made everything clear.

Welcome to Voice Authority, one of the rarest decision-making authorities in Human Design, found only in Projectors.

In this episode, we're exploring why people with Voice Authority need to hear themselves speak to find clarity—and why a good listener is worth their weight in gold.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How Voice Authority works and why speaking out loud can bring clarity.
• What a YES and NO might actually sound and feel like.
• Why asking everyone for advice can make decisions even harder.
• How to support a partner or child with Voice Authority.
• A simple experiment to try the next time you're facing a decision.

The big takeaway: Your voice isn't just how you communicate your decisions. It's how you discover what you really want.

And sometimes the most helpful thing another person can do is keep their mouth shut. (With love, of course.)

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Just because you can do something doesn't mean you want to. And in Human Design, that distinction is especially important for people with Willpower Authority.

Also called Ego or Heart Authority, this rare decision-making authority is all about desire, motivation, and making commitments your heart is genuinely behind.

In this episode of Human Design Field Notes, we're exploring what it means to follow your willpower, why being a little selfish might actually be a good thing, and how to tell the difference between something you want to do and something you think you should do.

In this episode, we'll explore:

• Who has Willpower Authority and the difference between Ego Manifested and Ego Projected Authority
• How to recognize when your heart is truly in a decision
• Why having the ability to do something doesn't mean you should commit to it
• The difference between genuine desire and obligation
• Why willpower isn't an unlimited resource, and why rest matters
• How to support partners, friends, and children with Willpower Authority
• A simple In the Field experiment to help you recognize the difference between want and should

The big takeaway? You don't have to say yes just because you're capable, qualified, or everyone else thinks it's a fantastic opportunity. Your time and energy are valuable, and what you genuinely want deserves a place in your decisions.

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What if you could know whether something was right for you, in an instant, without being able to explain why?

In Human Design, Splenic Authority is all about intuition, instinct, and knowing in the present moment. Unlike Emotional Authority, which needs time, Splenic Authority is immediate. But there's a catch: it's incredibly quiet, and that intuitive knowing can disappear almost as quickly as it arrives.

In this episode of Human Design Field Notes, we're exploring what Splenic Authority feels like, how to recognize those subtle intuitive hits, and why your biggest challenge might be trusting what you knew before your mind got involved.

In this episode, we'll explore:

• Who has Splenic Authority and how it works
• What a Splenic yes or no might feel like in your body
• Why your intuition can arrive in an instant and disappear just as quickly
• How overthinking and other people's opinions can drown out your inner knowing
• Everyday examples of Splenic Authority in action
• How to support a partner or child with Splenic Authority
• A simple In the Field experiment to help you recognize your own intuitive hits

The big takeaway? Your intuition doesn't always come with an explanation. Sometimes the most useful thing you can do is notice what you sensed before you started thinking.

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If you have Sacral Authority, your body has a remarkably simple way of telling you yes or no, often before your mind has had a chance to weigh in.

Sacral Authority belongs to Generators and Manifesting Generators, and it’s all about learning to recognize your body’s immediate response to what’s in front of you.

In this episode, we explore:

• What Sacral Authority is and who has it
• Why your Sacral response can be thought of as an energy-allocation system helping you recognize what you actually have energy for
• What a Sacral yes and no can sound and feel like in your body
• The classic uh-huh and unh-unh responses and the other, sometimes subtler ways your Sacral might communicate
• Why a Sacral yes doesn’t mean something will necessarily be easy or enjoyable every step of the way
• How to tell the difference between a genuine bodily response and your mind arriving with a very convincing list of reasons
• Why people-pleasing can make your Sacral response particularly difficult to hear
• A personal example of my mind saying, “Of course this makes sense,” while my body was giving me a very clear NO
• Why a no today doesn’t necessarily mean no forever—it might simply mean not this, not now
• How yes/no questions can help someone with Sacral Authority get out of their head and back into their body
• How to support a partner, friend or child with Sacral Authority without asking them to rationalize or explain what they simply know
• And in In the Field, a simple experiment you can use to begin recognizing what yes and no actually feel like in your body

The big idea in this episode:

Your Sacral response isn't simply telling you what you like. It's helping you decide where to spend your life-force energy.

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Do you need time to make a decision? Even when everyone around you seems to know exactly what they want?

You might have Emotional Authority.

In this episode, we’re beginning our series on Authority: your Human Design decision-making system. And we’re starting with Emotional Authority, the most common authority in Human Design.

If you have Emotional Authority, clarity doesn’t necessarily arrive in the moment. You’re designed to experience your emotional wave, to move through the excitement, doubt, highs and lows, and allow clarity to emerge over time.

In other words: you don’t have to know yet.

We’ll talk about what an emotional wave can actually feel like, why you might regret decisions made in a moment of excitement (or turn down something you really want during a low), and some simple language you can use when someone wants an answer before you’re ready.

And because apparently knitting + horseback riding + Iceland is a real retreat and frankly, who wouldn't need a minute to process that? We’ll use a real-world example to walk-through what Emotional Authority can look like in practice.

We’ll also cover how Emotional Authority works alongside your Energy Type and Strategy, including the sometimes-confusing combination of Emotional Authority + Sacral response for Generators and Manifesting Generators.

Finally, we’ll talk about how to support the Emotional Authorities in your life, including children, without rushing them into decisions before they’ve had time to find their own clarity.

The big takeaway? Your need for time isn’t indecision. It’s part of your decision-making process.

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What happens when you stop following all the rules about how you’re supposed to build a business and start paying attention to how you’re actually designed to work?

Welcome to the first Field Notes episode.

Alongside the Human Design teaching episodes, I’m taking you behind the scenes as I rebuild my coaching business using my own Human Design. I’ll share the experiments, decisions, things that work, things that don’t, and what I’m learning along the way.

In this episode, I’m sharing how I’m using my Generator strategy and Sacral Authority to make real business decisions, from starting this podcast and pricing my Human Design readings to saying no to an opportunity that looked like a very sensible yes on paper.

I’m also questioning some of the business rules I’ve followed (and taught!) for years. Do I really need to niche down? Do I have to publish every single week? Does this podcast need to be on YouTube just because that's what you're supposed to do?

And finally, I’ll introduce you to my 1/3 profile, the Investigator/Experimenter and why learning about it completely changed the way I think about marketing this new business. Research it. Try it. See what happens. Report back. It turns out this whole Field Notes experiment is rather perfectly designed for me.

If you’ve ever wondered what it actually looks like to live your Human Design rather than simply understand your chart, this is where we start.

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