Choosing Between Job Offers: A Strategic Authority Guide
When two job offers land on your desk, or you're weighing a move across the country, or you're trying to decide whether to say yes to a marriage proposal, the mind will give you a list. Pros. Cons. Salary differences. Growth trajectories. The list can go on forever, and the list will never tell you which answer is correct.
This is where your Human Design authority becomes essential. Authority is not a personality trait. It is a specific, mechanical way your body and nervous system process decisions, and it is the only reliable internal compass you have when the stakes are real. Strategy is what you do in the world. Authority is how you make the big calls. When the decision involves a job, a relocation, a partner, or a major career shift, your authority is the deciding voice.
The Authority Framework
Every decision-maker in Human Design falls into one of seven authorities, each tied to a specific center in the bodygraph. Some are fast. Some require waiting. Some require speaking. Some require silence. The mistake most people make is borrowing someone else's authority — using mental reasoning, the strategy of a Generator friend, or the gut voice they wish they had. None of these will lead to correct decisions for you.
Below is how each authority handles a high-stakes choice, and what is required to use it well.
Emotional Authority
If your Solar Plexus is defined and your Sacral is open, you are an emotional authority. Your decision-making mechanism is the emotional wave. Clarity does not arrive in the moment. It arrives over time, often days, sometimes weeks.
For a job offer, this means do not sign in the high of being wanted, and do not reject in the low of imposter syndrome. Sleep on it. Then sleep on it again. Ride the wave until you can observe a stable emotional baseline around the choice. When the offer still feels right or wrong after a full cycle, that is your answer. The same principle applies to relocations and marriage proposals. The wave is your ally. Time is your tool.
Sacral Authority
Pure Generator and Manifesting Generator authorities live in the Sacral. The mechanism is direct and immediate. The Sacral speaks in a "uh huh" or "uh uh," a visceral response that arrives before the mind can build a case. This is not enthusiasm. It is biological, and it is in the moment.
When deciding between two job offers, ask your Sacral out loud. Not in your head. Speak. "Does this one feel right?" The response is not a thought. It is a gut sound. If the response is "uh huh" and it stays "uh huh" the next time you ask, that is the correct path. Sacral authority does not benefit from long deliberation. The more you think, the more you override it. Trust the first clean response, then commit.
Splenic Authority
If you are a Manifestor, or a Generator with an open Solar Plexus and defined Spleen, your authority is the Spleen. The Spleen is the oldest awareness in the body. It operates in the moment, but quietly. It speaks through instinct, body sensations, and an intuitive sense of survival and well-being.
Splenic decisions feel like a quiet knowing. With a job offer, you may notice a subtle drop in your stomach, or a sense of physical ease that cannot be explained. The Spleen does not shout. It whispers, and it whispers once. If you miss it, you can ask for the same moment to return, but it usually will not. Splenic authority is best suited to decisions about where you will be healthy, safe, and alive. Use it before the mind has a chance to argue.
Ego Authority
Ego authority, sometimes called Heart authority, lives in the Heart Center and is often found in Manifestors and Manifesting Generators with a defined Heart. The mechanism is willpower and desire. The question becomes: do I want this, and can I commit to it?
For career and relational decisions, Ego authority asks whether you can bring your full will to the choice. A job offer is not just about whether it is correct. It is about whether you can say yes with your whole chest and follow through. If your will says yes, and the contract reflects that will, the answer is yes. If there is any hesitation rooted in willpower, that hesitation is the data.
Self-Projected Authority
For Projectors without emotional or splenic definition, the G Center becomes the authority of identity. The mechanism is talk. You may think you already know the answer, but you do not. The answer arrives through speaking — out loud, ideally to another person.
When facing a major decision, talk it through. Not to gather advice, but to hear yourself. The G Center recognizes the correct answer in the moment it is spoken. There is a click in the conversation where the direction crystallizes. Until that click comes, keep talking. For big relational and career decisions, this is not a weakness. It is the design.
Lunar Authority
Reflectors operate through the lunar cycle. They sample the people and environments around them over approximately 28 days, and clarity arrives when the same answer keeps returning from different sources.
For a Reflector weighing a job, a move, or a partner, this means waiting. A full lunar cycle of asking, observing, and listening to the surroundings. The correct decision will reveal itself through the people and circumstances encountered along the way. This is not avoidance. It is the only mechanical way a Reflector can know.
Beyond the Offer
The job offer is rarely just a job. It is a lifestyle, a city, a community, a version of you. Whether you are choosing between two offers, a relocation, a marriage, or a career reinvention, your authority remains the same. Use the one that belongs to you, and use it the way it was designed to be used. The mind is for negotiating. The authority is for deciding.
Trust the design. It has been answering this question for you your entire life.