The Solar Plexus Center in Human Design is an emotional awareness and motor center connected to feelings, emotional waves, and decision-making over time. Located on the right side of the bodygraph, this center processes emotional energy and creates movement through changing emotional states. Understanding the Solar Plexus can help you recognize how emotions influence clarity, timing, and the way you engage with life and relationships.
In this guide, we’ll explore the location of the Solar Plexus Center, its core themes and energetics, and its biological association. You’ll also learn the high-level meaning of a defined versus undefined Solar Plexus, common not-self themes, and the overall themes of the gates within this center. Together, these insights can help you better understand your emotional experience and how clarity develops over time.
If you’re new to Human Design or want to see how the Solar Plexus fits into your overall chart, you may want to return to the Human Design Guide, where you can learn how your energy type, strategy, authority, profile, centers, channels, and gates all work together.
location of the solar plexus
The Solar Plexus energy center is both a motor and awareness center that is often colored in brown and is located between the Root, Sacral, Heart, and Throat centers.
solar plexus energy center theme
- Emotions and feelings
energetics of the solar plexus energy center
- This center creates motion and energy as it processes emotions
- This energy center is NOT about feeling fears and anxieties. (Those experiences are associated with the Spleen Energy Center).
biological association
- Kidney, pancreas, and bladder
defined solar plexus energy center
- This person has their own emotional wave, so they have a bit of a buffer against others’ emotions.
- The emotions they experience are consistently their own, and they have their own emotional cycle.
- It is helpful for this individual to identify and have awareness of their unique emotional pattern.
- It is especially important for this person to make decisions when they feel calm, cool, and collected.
undefined solar plexus energy center
- This individual is normally cool, calm, and collected when on their own.
- Because they don’t have their own emotional wave, they can pick up on what everyone else is feeling and amplify those feelings.
- They have to pay attention and remember that the emotions they are picking up on are not them, and they should not allow themselves to be defined by them.
- If they are feeling something, it’s from an external cause, a situation, or picking up from a person.
not-self theme of the solar plexus
- Avoiding confrontation and truth
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solar plexus gates
gate 6
- Traditional Name – Gate of Friction
- Theme – Attunement to intimacy
*gate 22
- Traditional Name – Gate of Openness
- Theme – Grace and Charm
gate 30
- Traditional Name – Gate of Feelings
- Theme – Ability and desire to feel deeply
*gate 36
- Traditional Name – Gate of Crisis
- Theme – Solving emotional issues
gate 37
- Traditional Name – Gate of Friendship
- Theme – Love of communion with your personal community
*gate 49
- Traditional Name – Gate of Principles
- Theme – Altruism
gate 55
- Traditional Name – Gate of Spirit
- Theme – Feeling the fullness of life
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References: The Definitive Book of Human Design – the Science of Differentiation by Lynda Bunnel and Ra Uru Hu (paid link) and Jenna Zoe’s Level 1 and Level 2 Human Design Training
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