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The 9 centers in Human Design

Defined and open centers: stable energy, sensitivity, and conditioning.

The bodygraph has nine centers (sometimes compared to chakras, without being identical). Each governs a domain of experience.

The nine centers

  • Head - mental pressure, questions.
  • Ajna - conceptualization, certainty.
  • Throat - expression, manifestation.
  • G - identity, direction, love.
  • Heart - willpower, self-worth.
  • Sacral - work energy and response.
  • Solar plexus - emotions, the wave.
  • Spleen - intuition, fear, moment-to-moment health.
  • Root - pressure, stress, adrenaline.

Defined or open

  • Defined (colored): consistent energy - you are wired there.
  • Open (white): sensitivity to the environment - often where conditioning plays, and also deep wisdom.

In practice

  1. Note defined centers for type and authority.
  2. Watch open centers for conditioning (pressure, urgency, people-pleasing…).

Your free bodygraph colors defined centers automatically. The Human Design library details each center.

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