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Sacral Energy vs. Intuition: What This Key Difference in Human Design Means for Business and Life [E33]
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Show Notes:
In this spontaneous riff (recorded over coffee ☕), I break down a core distinction that’s often confused in Human Design and business decision-making: the difference between your sacral response and your intuition.
I also share why I chose to release this astrology and spiritual 9/9 episodes now—even though it no longer perfectly matches the current direction of the show. With the Channel of Community (37–40) defined, honoring commitments is non-negotiable. It’s about integrity, values, and following through, even if it throws off the “perfect” feed or algorithm.
This speaks to a fundamental point about Human Design (and why it has such powerful implications to business). It isn’t about airy-fairy spirituality—it’s a framework for sovereignty and decision-making. In this episode, I break down the real distinction, plus how intuition and sacral energy play different roles in business clarity.
A wrap-up moment—closing loops on past commitments and pivoting into where this podcast is headed next: deeper explorations of intuition, business clarity, New Paradigm marketing and taking action in lined with orientation.
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[00:00:00] welcome back to the podcast. I'm drinking my coffee, and so this is a spontaneous. I have no idea why I'm on the mic. Always dangerous, but it has a point.
My other project, Cosmic Brew, . in the show notes, astrology and other energies, I just dropped a triple episode on the eclipse energies we're in. If you don't know, eclipses are 19 years. At the very least, are six months, but really are 19 years, and they're not a day. They're not whatever you saw on TikTok or Instagram.
They're not like, "The portal we're gonna step through today." It's not how it works. I dropped a special offer. It's $88. There are eight spots, and it expires on 9/13. 13 is a special day astrologically. It has to do with the Mercury-Sun cycle. I also did a whole episode on Mercury retrograde and what it is and what's not, which is essentially the dance of Mercury with the Sun. Check those out if you're interested. My stuff is not one and done, meaning you could listen to that in two months and you'd get something out of it. It's archetypal. It's not event driven. The episode I'm dropping tomorrow is a spiritual focused episode, [00:01:00] similar to what I've done in the past where I talked about energies and numbers and I talked about tarot and I talked about all these kind of things and how they weave together in the way that I do. And I am releasing an episode that doesn't represent where the podcast is anymore because I promised it a long time ago. And why is that? Because my sun/earth is channel of community. Channel of community connects the emotion center to the heart center, and the bottom line is when you have that channel and you have a defined heart, which you're gonna have if you have a channel, you do what you say you're gonna do.
Commitment to yourself and to others is primary. It does not matter if it makes sense. It does not matter if it screws up the feed. It does not matter if it throws off the algorithm. It does not matter if I have time for it or not. I promised it. I committed to it. I'm gonna do it. That channel is a lot to do with values and bargains and material plane.
It's a combination channel of the spiritual plane and the material plane. It's about what are the contracts and the bargains you wanna commit to, and what is a drain on your energy and what is [00:02:00] a good use of your energy. That's a lot of what Human Design is. Human Design is agnostic. Human Design does not care about people's opinions. Human Design does not care about what your audience thinks a price point should be.
Human Design does not care about what other people think is valuable. Human Design does not care about what other people think you should do, how other people think you should use your gifts, how other people think you should serve. That's Pisces energy. Aquarius energy is about sovereignty. There's a series of episodes that are all related.
Some of them are stories, some of them are tips. They all relate to one another. There's a theme you're gonna see flown throughout them. They're all standalone, but they are a theme. Each one builds on the other one. I talked a lot in the summer about Jupiter entering Cancer, and how that is the year of intuition in business, and trusting yourself more and trusting your body wisdom. You're gonna see those played out in real life scenarios, as well as business scenarios, that is what people are lacking now, is being able to trust their intuition. They're looking for an external system. Astrology's gonna tell me. Human Design's gonna tell me. This [00:03:00] person's gonna tell me what to do. This framework's gonna tell me what to do. I need to listen to this person. Your intuition is agnostic to all of those systems Your intuition comes from your body. I would say that no matter who you are, but absolutely if you're a business owner, the more you can get in touch with your intuition, the better off you are. I don't think you have to be this person who's, , super toned in, touched in, somatic healer, "I feel everything." No, I'm a wicked intuitive, and I'm not that at all. I do practices to get more in tune with my body. I am a cerebral person. I'm not a body person. That's why I don't like a lot of what people talk about with Human Design, that it's a body system, and if you don't feel it, you don't feel this guttural noise, you don't feel this explosion of energy in your sacral. It's usually by people who aren't sacral beings. It's usually Manifestors or Projectors who say that because they are just parroting what the system says. That's dangerous [00:04:00] because it makes people feel like they have to have a certain physical sensation in their body to take action, and that's not the way it is.
You're gonna learn this as you go, and intuition is quiet. Intuition is something you've had your whole life. If you never get a sacral yes, if you never hear a sacral noise, if you never hear this, explosion of energy ever as a sacral being, you always still have your intuition because your intuition is there to save you, and your intuition is there to protect you.
That's what we're gonna talk about a lot in the future. Intuition is one of the key themes of which is gonna be coming up and I talked about this in a prior episode. Alchemizing golden nuggets into opportunities is what it used to be called. I don't know the new title, but I will link it in the show notes. I said there's a difference between the sacral and the intuition, and I s- I firmly believe... I said, , the sacral is what's right now, and I firmly believe that intuition is, , this thing flying above you. You could call it your destiny path. You could call it your protector. You could call it just animal [00:05:00] instinct. It doesn't have to be related to anything divine. I firmly believe it knows your past, it knows your future, it knows everything that's gonna happen in the future, and you're making decisions in the now that make no sense. It's 10 steps ahead of you, and I said that in those episodes. I said that in that episode, and I talk about that in the intuition episodes coming up. I literally heard a reel yesterday speaking about this, and I want to dig deeper into the science of it because I want to actually articulate the science, and I don't wanna do it in some influencer mumbo jumbo shit, which they do when they repeat stuff and they don't actually know what they're talking about, that there's additional science that has finally determined that- Intuition is actually our ability to track what hasn't happened yet, and that makes real sense if you think about it. If you've ever been in a dangerous situation and you've gotten out of it, which I have more times than I can count because of intuition, what is that? It was knowing what was gonna happen before it happened Right? [00:06:00] That's intuition. Or knowing something's not gonna go as, as it should be, which is not the same thing as the sacral, right?
The sacral is "This is a drain on my energy. This would not be a good use of my energy. The timing is not right for this." That's really big in business, 'cause something can be the right thing but the wrong time. This is not the mountain I wanna build, if you're a pure generator and you're building something, or even a manifesting generator.
This is not the direction I wanna put sacral energy to. I'm doing this out of influence. I'm doing this because I should. Or it's a project that you put a lot of energy towards that on paper makes sense That is a lot of sunken cost mentality, that is a lot of attachment but it's not you anymore and it's not where you're going. That's sacral energy. Intuition is different. I'll come back on 9/9 in a nine year tomorrow for a double episode. The link is in the show notes for that offer See you [00:07:00] then