The Spleen Center
You can find the Spleen Center on the bottom left side of your bodygraph. The Spleen is the center for intuitive impulses and insights into your health and well-being. Instinct is at the core of this center, which is essential for survival. This is the center from which you might receive a "feeling" to stay out of a dark alley, to run away from a wild animal, or even to check the expiration date on something in your refrigerator. This is a place of survival; it is an "in the moment" sense that something needs to change, so you quickly move into action to correct the situation. You can also get intuitive "hits" about your health from this energy--the urge to eat better, to get a physical exam, all of this is to protect our survival.
Because of the complex nature of who we are and how we have evolved, you can also receive impulses of unfounded fear, such as stage-fright or saying, "I love you" for the first time. We all have these fears, whether our center is Defined or Open, so the trick is to, as the saying goes, "Feel the fear and do it anyway." Moving through the unfounded fears gives us the ability to better distinguish between intuitive well-meaning impulses and fears that aren't based in reality.
If you have a Defined Spleen; you are designed to be "in the moment." Your sense of timing and intuition is pretty consistent in the way you feel the Spleen; it is a quick hit that occurs instantaneously, then disappears. You may have a "gut feeling" that something is right or wrong for you--that's your Spleen speaking to you. You may have a consistent sense of intuition, such as Clairaudience (hearing), Clairvoyance (seeing), Claircognizance (knowing), Clairsentience (sensing), Clairolfactance (smelling), and dreaming. This is the consistent way you receive your knowing.
The fears located with the Spleen Center are again, mostly unfounded shadows of our evolution. There are seven ways you may consistently experience fear, and they correspond with the seven Gates of the Spleen:
Fear of the future
Fear of inadequacy
Fear of failure
Fear of purposelessness, death
Fear of authority, of being "wrong"
Fear of repeating the same mistakes
Fear of too much responsibility
If one or all of these resonate with you, sit with the fear. You may notice that there is a familiarity that comes with it. What does it feel like within your body? Where does it show up? Has that fear kept you from doing something you really wanted to do? There is no way around these fears; the only way is through it, doing what you want to do regardless of the bodily impulses that come up. Realizing that these fears are part of your makeup can also help. When you feel the fear, you can begin to say, "Oh, here's that same old fear again. This is the shadow side of my definition. Be gone!"
You were designed to have strong intuition. Working through the fears allows you to get back to that innate power, to strengthen and to trust it moving forward.
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If you have a Open Spleen; your sense of timing, health, intuition and survival is pretty fluid. Your relationship with time is also flexible, and you may occasionally lose your sense of linear time. As a result, you may try to compensate by being hyper-vigilant about time--you may be chronically early or late to appointments. Your lack of connection with linear time is a gift: you are connected with the inner flow of life when you stay in the present moment.
Because you amplify the intuitive abilities of those you come in contact with, you are be very intuitive yourself. You may sense, taste, smell, hear, or dream your intuitive hits, variable according to who you are with, where you are, and the cosmic weather at the time. You can sense things that people with Defined Spleens may miss. Trust the various ways you "know"--it is a super-power!
You also possess a sensitive immune system. You have a deep attunement to what's going on in your body, so you may know you are sick before the symptoms arise; you can feel when things inside your body shift. You may also tend to pick up on other's sense of well-being, which can be a gift to those around you with Defined Spleens. You may be medically empathic; as a result you probably do best with gentler forms of healing and medications.
A challenge for you is your tendency to hold on too long to things you feel are important for your health and well-being. Something inside may be saying, "I'd better hold on to this--you never know when I'll need this for my survival!" So if you have a reluctance to get rid of things that are no longer serving you or find yourself in a relationship that is no longer working, ask yourself, "Am I holding on longer than is good for me?" There is a definite fear of letting go, but if you stop and tap into your Spleen, you may notice that fear is very familiar. It's a good time to recognize that and say, "Oh, this same old, tired fear is back again! I know you, and you aren't serving my best interests!" Again, feeling the fear and doing it anyway is the best way to work with the fears of the Spleen; the practice of moving forward in spite of that familiar feeling will make it easier to do the next time it comes up.
You our ability to tap into the intuition of others is powerful. You are like a strong tuning fork, attuning others to their own intuition. Your light is needed in this world, so let go of everything that diminishes you!