The nine shapes in your bodygraph are the centers. Colored in means defined: that energy works the same way for your whole life. White means open: you take that energy in from the people and places around you and amplify it. Open centers are where most of what you assumed was your personality turns out to be borrowed.
The nine centers are the shapes in your Human Design bodygraph, and each one governs a different kind of energy: mental pressure, thinking, communication, identity, willpower, life force, intuition, emotions, and drive. Every center is either defined or open.
A defined center is colored in. That energy is consistent and works the same way for your whole life. An open center is white. You take that energy in from the people and places around you and amplify it, which is where most conditioning happens and where a great deal of what you assumed was your personality turns out to be borrowed.
Every percentage below is measured across the charts we calculate. The Throat is the most commonly defined center at 73%, and the Head is the most commonly open at 74%, which is why so many people carry mental pressure that was never theirs to begin with.
The Head is a pressure center. It generates the mental pressure to question, wonder, and figure things out, and it has nothing to do with answers.
Defined, you generate that pressure yourself and reliably inspire other people to think. The questions keep coming whether or not you want them.
Open, you take in everyone else's questions and feel pressure to answer them. This is the most common open center by a wide margin, and it is behind a great deal of ordinary overthinking. The relief is asking whether the question in your head is even yours.
The Ajna turns mental pressure into concepts, opinions, and ways of understanding. It is how you process, not what is true.
Defined, you have a fixed way of thinking that others come to rely on. You are not designed to be argued out of your own certainty.
Open, you borrow certainty from whoever is present, which lets you hold several views at once. That is flexibility, though it feels like confusion when you try to be as sure as everyone around you.
The Throat is where energy becomes speech and action. Everything in the chart is trying to get here.
Defined, you have a consistent voice and a reliable way of expressing yourself, and it is the most commonly defined center of all.
Open, your voice adapts to the room. Speaking to be noticed tends to backfire; speaking when you are asked tends to land, and the difference is dramatic once you feel it.
The G center holds your sense of who you are, where you are going, and how you love.
Defined, you carry a steady sense of self and direction that does not depend on where you are.
Open, your sense of identity and direction shifts with your environment and the people in it. This is why place matters so much for you, and why the right room can change how you feel about your whole life.
The Heart, also called the Ego or Will center, governs willpower, self-worth, and material resources. It is the smallest center and the hardest to fake.
Defined, you have willpower available in cycles and can make promises you are actually able to keep.
Open, you absorb pressure to prove your worth, and it is the most common place people over-promise. You have nothing to prove, and the promises made to prove something are the ones that cost the most.
The Sacral is the engine. It generates the energy for work, and its response is the clearest yes and no in the whole system.
Defined, you are a Generator or Manifesting Generator, with renewable energy for work that genuinely lights you up.
Open, you amplify other people's energy, which means you can work like a machine and then crash. Knowing when enough is enough, before you are empty, is the practice that changes everything.
The Spleen is your survival intelligence: instinct, health, timing, and fear. It speaks once, quietly, in the moment.
Defined, you have a consistent body-level knowing about what is healthy and what is off, and it is rarely loud.
Open, you pick up other people's fears and hold onto things past their time, including relationships and jobs. Not every fear you feel started with you.
The Solar Plexus runs the emotional wave. When it is defined it also becomes your decision-making authority, and there is no truth in the moment.
Defined, you move through a wave of highs and lows that is yours, and clarity comes with time rather than in the moment.
Open, you take in the emotional weather of the room and amplify it. A great deal of what you feel is not yours, and it fades when you leave. Learning that is often the single biggest relief in a reading.
The Root is a pressure center that fuels action and adaptation. It is the pressure to get things done.
Defined, you generate your own pressure in pulses, and you can handle stress in a way that is consistent for you.
Open, you absorb pressure and turn it into hurry. The rush to be finished is usually borrowed, and it does not stop when the task does.
Your free chart shows all nine, defined and open, in about a minute. Your Complete Human Design Reading then goes through every one of them for your specific chart: what each open center takes in, where it has been shaping decisions you thought were yours, and what changes when you can tell the difference. 60+ sections written for your exact chart, a letter from your design read aloud, a Companion Workbook, 20 guided meditations chosen for your open centers, and Jessica, your Human Design guide, in your private dashboard.
See My Free ChartA defined center is colored in and works the same way for your whole life. An open center is white and takes in that energy from the people and places around you. Defined is consistent, open is receptive.
The Head. Across the charts we calculate it is open in about 74 percent of them, which is why so many people feel pressure to answer questions that were never theirs.
No. Open centers are where you take in the world, and over time they become where you understand other people best. The difficulty is only in mistaking what you absorb for who you are.
There is no should. Reflectors have none defined, and most charts have between three and six. More defined means more that is consistently yours; more open means more that you take in.
Not in your own chart, which is fixed at birth. But another person, or a transit, can temporarily complete a channel and define a center for as long as that connection lasts, which is why you feel different around certain people.
Enter your birth date, time, and city in the free calculator. Your chart shows all nine centers, and the short reading that follows names what each of your open ones takes in.
