When you look at a chart where none of the centers are defined (a reflector) or a chart where the only defined centers are above the G Center, (mental projectors) you are looking at someone whose inner authority operates much differently.

The moon transits through all of the gates in a 28 day cycle and we all experience this, Any undefined center when it is turned on sort of stands up and shouts “Here I am”. For many people with really a lot of undefined centers that experience is more noticeable.

Ideally the person with no inner authority can wait out this 28 day cycle, allowing themselves the time to fully and intensely experience their own definition through that period.

Take the TIme you Need

Of course, it’s easy to say, “Oh, they have to wait 28 days to make a decision.” But life is more fluid than that and we can't fix it into a neat little 28 day box. The important thing is to take as much time as needed and to realize that anything that can't wait for them to make a decision correctly isn't for them anyway.

One of the challenges for this kind of authority is the temptation to make a decision before the synthesis is complete. They can be overwhelmed by a particular experience during the process and make a decision based on a very powerful, but incomplete, experience. The trick is to really draw the process out.

Taking in The World

With all those open centers Reflectors and mental projectors are always taking in the other – they are very attuned to the other’s state of being, to their emotions, their responses, their ego, their awareness, their pressures. It’s all flooding into them.

They are experiencing the energy of the external world at a very deep level. This can be wonderful or miserable, depending on what the other people are like and how the Reflectors and mental projectors resonate with them. It’s crucial that they as much as possible surround themselves with people whose internal energy dynamics suit them.

The people around them will act as sounding boards. This is similar to the self projected authority. They bounce things off others. But in the case of somebody who has no inner authority the ultimate decision is not made from simply hearing what comes out of their throat. It is much more complex and takes more time.

Whether through a 28 day lunar cycle or through activation by others, the Reflectors and mental projectors are designed to synthesize their disparate internal experiences into a whole, and to make decisions from the gestalt of that synthesis.

Characteristics

Authority is not a little man sitting in a control tower calling the shots. The person's full characteristics play a part. When Reflectors and mental projectors allow the synthesis time to fully evolve they can then incorporate it with other aspects of their design. Their profile, their incarnation cross, their current life theme are some of the factors that will determine how any particular Reflector or mental projector will use the synthesis that leads them to making a correct decision – one that is aligned with their whole design.

A 4th line profile, for example, may weight the decision more favorably toward something that is perceived as an opportunity. A 3rd line profile may weight it less favorably if it is perceived as something they already know doesn’t work. In their current theme of life, a person may have the line 47.1 “Taking Stock - Realizing that negative thoughts have to be eradicated”, leading them to favor a decision that promotes that agenda. Which factor lends more weight depends on the person’s life experience.

This process is not an easy task and it may take them years to get the hang of it – if they ever do. It requires considerable trust, patience, self awareness and practice. But once they get it down their lives are extremely rich and rewarding. The ones who do get it down are extraordinary role models for the rest of us in terms of the most ideal function of the undefined centers.

Outer Authority

The Reflectors and mental projectors who learn, by whatever means, to live out their designs somewhat correctly can be very valuable to others as an “Outer Authority.” A generator, for example, has inner sacral authority and their reflector friend (who takes the generator in very deeply) can give them great things to respond to that are in harmony with the generator's design.

One of the fundamental and key concepts of the open centers is that they not only take in but amplify whatever behaviors are associated with them and mirror them. Reflectors and mental projectors are constantly experiencing others, amplifying that experience and reflecting it back. Reflecting doesn’t necessarily mean parroting. The quality of the reflection depends on the state of being of the reflector.

What is fundamentally being reflected back is the energy of the amplified center. It may be the up energy of the emotional wave or the down energy. It may be the vitality and joy energy of the root or it may be the stress energy. It may be the uh huh or the uh uh of the sacral and so on.

When the energy is reflected back to the person with the defined center who originated it they then have two new possibilities. To understand this you have to really grasp a couple of difficult concepts.

First: we don’t live in a universe that is fundamentally digital. That is to say the switch isn’t limited to being just on or off. That off or on view suffices for logic and is very useful, but it’s only part of the story. The switch can be neither on or off and it can also be on and off simultaneously. Light is one of the best examples of this in the physical world. It is both a wave and a particle.

Second: in the world of energy, flow can be in any direction and it tends not to be stable at any particular end of the spectrum. Behavioral energy operates in a gradient. This is particularly evident in the emotional wave – up, then down.

In the affairs of humans then, many decisions are complex enough, either because of the amount of data involved or because of interference from competing flows, that the innate authority may not discern a clear cut choice. The mind can interfere, other centers can interfere, and conditioning can interfere along with many other more subtle variables.

Reflectors and mental projectors, when they reflect back to others, reflect back the energy itself. The form the reflection takes may be colored by the reflector (based on various elements in their design) and it may be distracting, but the basic reflection is pure energy. Sometimes the person receiving the reflection needs that in order to get past being stuck because the decision is so complex or because of interference.

Reflectors and mental projectors can, simply by reflecting, provide the extra little bit of weight that leads the other to get over the hump inside themselves so to speak. They can get unstuck. It helps if the Reflector or mental projector is able to reflect things back without muddying the waters too much. Not all Reflectors and mental projectors can do that or do it consistently or do it for everybody. In a sense, the purest reflection affirms the other person’s own authority which is the actual decision making dynamic.

The second dynamic that Outer Authority brings is new possibility. As humans we grow, evolve, change in various ways. That in itself isn’t easy, especially out and out change. In fact it’s very difficult. But it’s also sometimes necessary.

Well integrated Reflectors and mental projectors offer the very real possibility of change to the rest of us. When they reflect back the amplified energy of our own inner authorities they often color it with aspects of their own design. When that happens we are getting not just a pure reflection of our own energy but something that is a little different, and that difference becomes a new input for us.

A 3rd line may say to us, “Well I tried that and it didn’t work.” A 4th line may say “Hmm, there’s an opportunity here.” The cross of explanation may engage in a lengthy explication on the matter. The Cross of Penetration may dive right to the core. If that is their design speaking then the reflection we receive may occasion a change deep in us.

When that happens we have the opportunity to respond to that modified reflection. A splenic authority may revisit the decision, an emotional authority may have different feelings. This a case where reflection mutates the other person’s behavior by offering an enhanced view the situation which their own authority then includes in it’s own process – or not.