G centre

Meaning

The G centre sits in the middle of the bodygraph, drawn as a diamond. Human Design calls it the centre of identity, direction and love. It holds the sense of who one is and where one’s life is heading. The tradition also says it draws a person towards the places and people that belong on their path.

The G is not a motor, not a pressure centre and not an awareness centre. It is a centre of orientation, like a compass rather than an engine. Its eight gates speak of the self in its many forms. Gate 1 is self-expression, gate 2 direction, gate 7 the role one plays, gate 10 the way one behaves. Gate 13 is listening, gate 15 the range between extremes, gate 25 the spirit of the self, gate 46 its determination.

Defined, the G gives a fixed sense of self and direction. It changes little with place or company. Others can orient themselves by such a person, who often seems to know which way to go.

Undefined or open, the G makes identity fluid and closely tied to surroundings. The right places and the right people help such a person feel like themselves. Feeling unsure of one’s direction is normal here and not a flaw. Human Design offers a concrete test: notice how a new place feels on arrival. If it feels wrong, the tradition reads that as worth listening to. An open G can also be a gift: a deep sense of how others experience who they are.

In practice

• Defined: one of its ten channels is complete, to the Throat, the Spleen, the Sacral or the Heart.
• The G and the Throat: the four channels between them let a person speak as who they are. In a Projector with no deeper authority, this gives self-projected authority: hearing oneself talk a decision through.
• The G and the Sacral: four channels join identity to the life force. Since they define the Sacral, they only appear in Generators and Manifesting Generators.
• Type: the G is not a motor, but it can carry a motor’s energy to the Throat. The Heart joined to the G, and the G joined to the Throat, form such a bridge. Without a defined Sacral, that is a typical Manifestor chart.
• Undefined, with active gates: a hanging gate here tells in what theme one takes on other people’s sense of direction.

Across traditions

• The chakras: the usual account says the heart chakra, Anahata, split into two centres, the G and the Heart. In yoga, Anahata means unstruck, after a sound heard without anything being struck. Human Design keeps love in the G and gives willpower to the Heart.
• A compass, not a feeling: many traditions place the self at the heart of the body. Human Design’s G is less an emotion than a magnetic sense of direction.

Origin and history

Ra Uru Hu presented the nine centres from 1987, as a change from seven chakras that he dated to 1781. The G took the place of the heart chakra in the middle of the body, while its willpower moved to a centre of its own. The tradition links the G to the liver and to the blood. This is a correspondence the system teaches, never a medical claim.

How Ulune calculates it

Ulune colours a gate when any of the 26 activations stands in it, the 13 bodies of the Personality and the 13 of the Design. A channel is defined when both of its gates are coloured, and a centre is defined when a defined channel touches it.

The G is defined exactly when one of its ten channels is defined. Otherwise it is undefined when any of its eight gates is coloured, open when none is. Ulune first rules out the Solar Plexus, the Sacral, the Spleen and the Heart. It then gives self-projected authority when the G and the Throat are both defined. Because the G joins the Throat only by its own four channels, that test means a G–Throat channel. When Ulune walks from the Throat to look for a motor, it passes through a defined G like any other centre.

Correspondences