Understanding your bodygraph: the basics

The bodygraph is the visual map of Human Design. It shows what is defined or open in you: nine centers, thirty-six channels, and sixty-four gates.

1. Type and strategy: how your energy works day to day.
2. Defined (colored) and open (white) centers: stable energy vs sensitivity.
3. Active channels: recurring themes between two centers.
4. Activated gates: the precise vocabulary of your profile.

• Defined center: you are wired there; the energy is consistent.
• Open center: you feel and amplify the environment - a place of learning, not a flaw.

Body Graph Studio calculates all of this from birth date, time, and place. Once you have the chart, read in this order: type → centers → channels → gates.