In this episode, Kesley completes the exploration of Inner Authority with Lunar Authority, which is the unique decision making process for Reflectors. Because Reflectors have no consistent inner life force, their authority comes from a profound relationship with the lunar cycle, the 28-day movement of the moon through all 64 gates in the Bodygraph.

This episode unpacks how Reflectors gain clarity through the repeated pattern of definition created by the moon, how dormant potentials are activated throughout the cycle, and why their strategy and authority are one and the same. We explore the patience, neutrality, and detachment required for Reflectors to discern their truth, and how soundboarding, environment, and cosmic timing influence their process.

What's Discussed in this Episode:

• The moon as the Reflector’s anchor
• Strategy = Authority: For Reflectors, waiting a lunar cycle is their decision-making
• Why patience, neutrality, and detachment are key to the Reflector's decision making process
• How the lunar cycle creates temporary definition for the Reflector
• Importance of trusted allies and soundboarding

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Every reflector is incarnated in their own form with their own frequency. That frequency, though, connects to the moon. There's a synergistic relationship between the moon and the reflector.

The reflector is the human being on the planet reflecting the lunar program to the rest of us.

And then the reflector is receiving lunar life force that then helps to tap them into their consistency of life force through their dormant potentials. So their dormant potentials become the filter for this external force, for this external conditioning force.

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Lunar Authority... this is our final authority to explore and it is the authority for all reflectors. So we'll do a review of reflector mechanics and we'll talk about the moon as the anchor.

There's not a ton to get into here because we really already oriented to reflector authority.

When we learned about the reflector strategy, when we learned about the reflector aura type strategy of waiting a lunar cycle and lunar authority really are one and the same.

So we're revisiting something that we've already discussed, but we're looking at it specifically this time through the angle of how does the reflector anchor to themself. And they do that through this lunar authority. A review of basic reflector mechanics.

What makes a reflector a reflector is having no defined centers, all nine centers.

Undefined reflectors have no consistent definition or life force, but rather, reflectors receive life force from the transit field and from sampling their environment.

Although variety is the emphasis for reflectors, they do experience some consistency in definition via the repeated pattern of the lunar cycle without any channel in the center definition. Reflectors have dormant potentials, defined gates, and undefined centers.

And as the Moon moves through the mandala, The Zodiac, the 64 gates, each month, it hooks up to each of their dormant potentials once, and it repeats a pattern of definition that is predictable and consistent and unique to their form. And we can look at this as a process of synergy, or like in the Environmental Authority lecture, I referred to it as alchemy, right?

For the mental projector, it's alchemy between their environment and their mind. For the reflector, it is a process of synergy between their uniqueness and their dormant potential.

And the repeated cycle of the Moon through the gates and this synergy, this, this alchemical process, it becomes the authority that, for the reflector, offers correct orientation to your inner and outer worlds in an aura that is reliant on the homogenized program. The reflector can connect to their differentiated mechanics. By processing the lunar cycle with awareness by transit.

The reflector experiences a repeated cycle of definition on a centers and channels level that is unique to their dormant potentials, unique to their design.

And again, we're talking about the lunar cycle as in the Moon moving through the 64 gates, not about the lunar phases that are based on the Moon's relationship to the Sun.

So we're talking about the Moon going from one point in the zodiac all the way around the zodiac, and back to that one point, which, in the rave mandala, looks like the moon hitting. Each of the 64 gates can start at any point, any moment.

Where a reflector begins to consider something, is initiated into something, is the potential point for them to connect to their authority by from that point following the moon through all 64 gates, and thus through every potential experience of definition that is unique to them in their form. The reflector strategy and authority are one and the same. This requires this process of waiting the lunar cycle.

This lunar authority requires the reflector to maintain a lot of patience in a state of neutrality and detachment so that they can watch and discern through their entire process rather than fixate on any particular moment within it. Similar to emotional authority. Right. There's also some similarity here in ways to environmental authority for mental projectors.

But remember, projector auras are taking in other auras more, Taking in auras in the environment more, Whereas reflector auras are more deeply affected by, More attuned to the cosmic conditioning.

The program which for the reflector begins with the moon being initiated is referenced a lot when we're talking about reflector strategy and now reflector authority.

Because as I mentioned on the previous slide, the lunar cycle begins at the start of any new offer invitation, consideration, and we refer to this for reflectors as being initiated.

But then from that point on, it's up to the reflector to discern the quality of their associations and the way that the aura filters the world around them over time, refines their decision. Defined G people will often be the people bringing a new direction or a new initiation to the reflector.

That then begins this process of the lunar cycle, which helps the completion of that process. And awareness throughout that entire process is what allows the reflector to connect to their authority.

In the meantime, the reflector is sampling and evaluating their environment. I tend to think of remaining detached as their day to day strategy. And soundboarding is a part of this process as well.

Reflectors can, but don't need to benefit from actually tracking that lunar cycle. The way the moon moves through each of their dormant potentials and links up to them.

Revisiting this quote from Ra no one can assess an environment more profoundly than a reflector. Nobody can deal with a decision with greater depth than a reflector. But the time you have to take the time.

If a reflector doesn't take the time, A reflector is not even giving themselves an opportunity to tap into their unique authority. Again we're confronted with this language. No inner authority. It first comes up with mental projectors and environments, mental authority.

And again, sometimes you'll hear it or see it in reference to reflectors. The authority is lunar authority. So there's this idea that the moon is what the authority is.

Okay, the way I see it, again, this idea of synergy and alchemy is it's not just the moon. Otherwise every reflector would be exactly the same. Every reflector is incarnated in their own form with their own frequency.

That frequency though, connects to the moon. There's a synergistic relationship between the moon and the reflector.

The reflector is the human being on the planet, Reflecting the lunar program to the rest of us. And then the reflector is receiving lunar life force.

That then helps to tap them into their consistency of life force through their dormant potentials. So their dormant potentials become the filter for this external force, for this external conditioning force.

The process, once again, is an internal one that does rely on the uniqueness of the reflector. Is it truly an outer authority? Could we refer to it as an inner authority? It's a secret third thing. It's the alchemy between those two things.

You rely on something outside of you, but you also rely on your inner process in relation to it. So once again, we've got soundboarding, and then we also have patience. These are the keys to lunar authority soundboarding and patience.

So for soundboarding, similarly to the mental projector, and you could even say to the G projector and the ego manifested manifestor, having trusted advisors who can listen and maybe reflect back what they hear you saying without necessarily trying to fix or solve your predicaments or offer advice can be very supportive. And this serves two functions.

One, you get to strengthen your own awareness in regards to what you're experiencing throughout the lunar cycle and hear what you say. And two, you get the additional experience of hearing yourself with different environmental conditioning factors.

For reflectors, patience is another key. Do not let the world rush you. That's something that Ra says towards reflectors.

In regards to lunar authority reflectors, you do not access the truth that is yours until you have completed this process. Everything up until that point is an incomplete truth. And therefore it's not you.

The knowing that reflectors eventually arrive to is not a mental knowing. And this might seem counterintuitive because the no inner authority in this case is purely awareness based.

And the soundboarding process that allows for the reflector to arrive at their unique knowing, their inner knowing utilizes the mind. It requires the mind very similarly to for mental projectors. But ultimately, the knowing that the reflector arrives to is not a knowing of the mind.

So here's another quote from the definitive book of human design.

By hearing themselves talk over time, reflectors will one day simply arrive at an inner knowing, a deep inner sense of which direction is correct for them.

To sum it up, the moon and your awareness together are your anchor, the moon and your awareness as the filter for your openness and the spokesperson for your definition. Reflectors, when you give yourself permission to wait, you give yourself a chance to meet the truth that is unique to you.

Honor the process as each moment within it has something to show you. But put your trust in the whole rather than the parts.

Understand that your waiting is happening on a different timeline than the waiting of any other type or any other authority.

You are designed for connection with the cosmos, and your authority comes from that otherworldly synergy when the pressures and pacing and disappointment of the human world is taking up a lot of space in your awareness. The Take a step back so that you can reconnect to the source of your own wisdom, your relationship to the moon.

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