If the center is defined (colored in)
Its own emotional wave; feelings come from within in cycles.
A defined center is your constant. It works the same way in any company, and it’s how you influence others, even in silence.
If the center is open (white)
Absorbs and amplifies other people’s emotions. The Not-Self avoids confrontation and truth to keep the peace.
An open center isn’t a flaw. It’s the place where you feel others keenly and, over time, gain wisdom: so many other people’s states pass through you that you learn to tell them apart. The only important thing is not to take what belongs to others for your own.
What this center is responsible for
The Solar Plexus is emotions and the emotional wave. The strongest center in the chart: if defined, it takes the decision for itself.
How definition shows in life
You have your own wave — rises and falls with no outside cause. There is no truth in the moment: the decision comes with time.
Tuesday, nothing happened, and yet it’s murky inside since morning, and those close to you ask what’s wrong. You have nothing to answer: nothing at all is wrong. On Thursday the same house, the same job, and you’re carried away: joking, calling everyone in a row, making plans for autumn. You haven’t bought a car on a high or written a resignation on a low for a long time; you put the decision away for three nights and see what is left of it. The kids learned your schedule better than you and know when to come with a request.
What openness turns into
You amplify other people’s emotions and take them for your own. Hence the avoidance of conflict: someone else’s tension hits you harder than it hits its author.
The boss came in silently and slammed the door a little louder than usual — and your whole day is now about that. At the place of a couple who were fighting half an hour ago, it is physically hard for you to sit, though not a word has been said out loud. For the second year you haven’t told your neighbor about his music at midnight, because imagining his displeasure is worse than putting up with it. But step out for bread and walk two blocks — and inside it is even and empty. The feeling was someone else’s and stayed where its owner lives.
The wisdom of the open center
Leave the room and check whether the feeling is still there. Most often it disappears along with the distance.
The Gates of this center
Each Gate is a specific theme through which the center shows itself.
How the center connects to the rest of the chart
The set of defined centers makes up your Type and inner Authority — that is, it’s the centers that determine what you make decisions with. A center “switches on” when a whole channel forms between its Gates and the Gates of a neighboring center.
If this center is defined and there are no others above it in the hierarchy, it gives Emotional Authority.