Lunar Authority: 28 Day Decision Cycle for Greater Clarity
Every 28.3 days, the moon completes a transit through the 64 gates of the Human Design mandala, returning to the exact gate it occupied at the moment of your birth. This is your personal lunar cycle, and for Reflectors, it is literally their Authority. For everyone else, it is the timing mechanism your inner Authority works with, whether you have noticed it or not.
The 28-day cycle is not a rule to follow rigidly. It is a tool that reveals how your specific decision-making system matures. The body rarely knows the full truth in a single moment. It knows in pattern, in wave, in rhythm. Aligning your decision timing with this rhythm is where clarity stops being a hope and starts becoming a practice.
The Framework: Authority, Not Logic
Human Design teaches that decisions made from the head alone are not decisions at all; they are mental projections. The 28-day lunar cycle exists because your body's intelligence needs time to integrate information through the specific channel of your inner Authority. The mind is fast, but the body is accurate. The cycle is the bridge between them.
When you apply the cycle to a real decision, you stop asking "What should I do?" and start asking "What does my body do with this question over the next lunar passage?" The answer emerges differently depending on which Authority you carry.
Emotional Authority: The Wave Rider
If you have a defined Solar Plexus, your emotional wave is your truth-testing ground. The 28-day cycle gives your highs and lows a complete container to play out. A decision made in the high feels like a brilliant green light. The same decision visited in the low reveals the doubts you suppressed.
The practice here is to never commit during the high or the low alone. Instead, observe how the decision feels across one full lunar cycle. If clarity remains steady through both peaks and troughs, the decision is real. If it only feels good in the high, the mind was leading.
This is the most literal use of the 28-day cycle, but also the most counter-intuitive. It asks you to sit with discomfort rather than relieve it. The relief itself is often a sign of avoidance, not alignment.
Sacral Authority: Sounds in Repetition
The Sacral is a moment-to-moment generator. The lunar cycle is not about waiting; it is about listening. Your response, the guttural yes or no, needs to be tested across many opportunities before you trust its meaning.
Practically, this means noticing what the body does, not what it does once. A single yes can be hunger, conditioning, or open sacral absorption from another person's energy. The 28-day cycle provides repeated sampling. Watch which invitations consistently produce the same sound, in the same body location, with the same energy. Pattern is the answer.
Splenic Authority: The Discerning Hush
The Spleen is the quietest Authority. Its voice is survival, intuition, and an instinctive yes or no that often appears before the question is fully formed. Because it is so quiet, the lunar cycle becomes a discernment tool. Track the body between today and 28 days from now, noticing which decisions left you feeling more present, healthy, and alive, and which left you depleted or contracted.
You can also look back. A decision made under Spleen guidance 28 days ago can be revisited to confirm its wisdom. The body keeps the score.
Heart and Ego Authorities: Willpower and Promises
For Heart/Ego Authority, decisions are tied to willpower, material direction, and the promises you make to yourself and others. The 28-day cycle supports the maturation of these commitments. A promise made today under pressure or desire often loses its charge within a few weeks. A promise that survives a full lunar cycle is anchored in the will, not the wish.
The practice is to use the cycle as a filter for major financial, relational, and directional commitments. Pause. Let the moon return. Watch whether the will is still engaged, or whether the mind has already moved on to the next desire.
G Center Authority: Direction and Identity
If your Authority is the G, decisions are about what feels correct for who you are, not for who you have been. The 28-day cycle tests whether a direction is rooted in identity or in compensation.
Track how you describe yourself in relation to a choice across the cycle. Does the language stay consistent? Does the body feel oriented, or does it feel like wearing a borrowed coat? Directional clarity lives in the G, and the cycle lets the G finish speaking.
Mental and Projected Authority: The Talking Cure
For those with Mental or Projected Authority, the mind only clarifies through dialogue with the right audience. The lunar cycle here governs the conversation rather than the conclusion. Talk to a few trusted voices. Listen to how your own words change across 28 days. The decision you keep describing with the same conviction, and the same words, is the one that will hold.
Reflector Authority: The Full Moon Return
If you are a Reflector, the full 28-day cycle is the Authority itself. Wait for the moon to return to the gate where you were born. Move through the entire wave. Then choose.
Closing the Cycle
The 28-day lunar cycle is not a delay tactic. It is the natural rhythm at which body-based intelligence speaks. When you align your timing with this rhythm, decisions stop being urgent and start being accurate. Authority becomes not something you remember to consult, but something you live by.