It is a great dilemma to deal with the Solar Plexus, it really is. It is a dilemma because it is so incredibly powerful, and it is incredibly powerful not because of what is the potential of its underlying awareness, but it is incredibly powerful because it has an enormous direct influence on those beings that carry an active Emotional system, and it is something that emerges from them with great force. When you look at the Rave anatomy, when you look at the vehicle itself, when you look at this Solar Plexus, you're dealing with what is the most complex and dominant motor on the planet.

Despite the fact we know that the Sacral Center is the great reproductive source and is in fact the key to life, when we speak strictly of influence, nothing has more influence than the Solar Plexus. It has more influence than the Mind; it has more influence than Identity; it has more influence than the Will. It is an extraordinary thing; it is incredibly powerful. Nearly 51% of humanity has a defined Solar Plexus system. That means we live in an Emotional world, and we can never be detached from that. We live in an Emotional world. If there is any single word to describe the maya that we have inherited from the seven-centered being, it is that we have inherited an Emotional world.

When you look at the seven-centered being, you see that the Solar Plexus was not such a big deal at all. When you look at it in the context of the nine-centered being, you see the emergence of this incredible force. The fact is that it was always, because it has arisen out of its motor function, it has always been a motor force; but in the nine-centered being it has become the dominant force. We know that in terms of Strategy and Authority—51% of humanity, their Authority is the Solar Plexus. So it is the most powerful Authority on the planet.

There is rarely a couple that you see that are not Emotional. It is the Authority in relationships; it is the Authority in families; it is the Authority in life. It is the big “A”. And it is the Authority because it's a bully, and I don't mean to say that with any negative connotation. It’s just that it's the big dog on the block—when this dog shakes, everybody feels it. This is the great power of this instrument, because it's an incredible power.

Somebody who is Emotional and who is on the high end of their wave—and it doesn't have to be the top—somebody who is relatively in a good space; they’re Emotional, it's a nice day, and things seem to be working for them. If you're somebody like me who’s not Emotional, to encounter these beings is very pleasant. And you cannot escape the fact that they are controlling the environment. You cannot escape it; they are controlling the environment—this is what Emotional beings do.

Ra Uru Hu was the Human Design System’s founder and messenger. Ra dedicated 25 years of his life to the development and teaching of the System around the world until he passed away in 2011.