Understanding the G Center in Human Design
Do you have a Defined G?
If you do, there is something you absolutely must know about the Defined G Center.
Now, I didn’t know it for quite some time.
So, when I finally read this one passage, it literally blew my mind.
It stunned me.
It amazed me.
And at the same time it answered so many questions.
Some of these questions I didn’t even realize I had until I got this new information.
You may find that you have struggled with some of these same questions, doubts, and pains.
And so learning this crucial element of having a Defined G is going to change your life.
If you are not familiar, the G center is represented by a diamond in the body graph, and if it’s Defined, it’s going to be colored in yellow.
The G Center In the Human Design Bodygraph
The G center, like all centers, is a hub of energy, and the themes of this center are around identity, direction, connection to Higher Source or Higher Self, and self-love.
It’s also described as being the place where the Magnetic Monopole is seated in the body.
The Magnetic Monopole In The G Center In the Human Design Bodygraph
And that this Magnetic Monopole is basically hooked up like a GPS to the Universe, the Field of Consciousness, and it pulls us along our trajectory.
The Magnetic Monopole is also described as holding the two crystals together, the Design and Personality crystals.
DISCLAIMER: Now, none of that information about magnets and crystals is something we can tangibly measure or observe, so you don’t have to accept that any of that is true in order for this new information about the Defined G to be incredibly life-changing for you.
Consistent Identity & Direction
In Human Design, when you have a Defined G, you’re described as having consistent and reliable access to your sense of identity…
Your sense of direction…
Your connection to Higher Self…
And crucially, self-love.
Additionally, the G Center carries themes of love – who you’re here to love, what you’re here to love, and how you’re here to be Love.
When you have an Undefined G, all those things are inconsistent, unreliable.
Again, those words can sound negative, but they’re not.
It just means that for someone with an Undefined G Center, there’s more fluidity.
So Defined or Undefined is neither good nor bad.
What’s key is understanding the nature of it.
When I was first introduced to Human Design and heard that my Defined G Center brings a consistent and reliable way of accessing and experiencing my sense of identity and direction, my connection to Higher Self or Higher Source, and even self-love, it almost all rang true.
It also seemed inexplicable in some ways because this didn’t also translate into knowing what I was here to do or why I was worthy or why I mattered.
Now unfortunately, the next information I’m going to share is just not talked about almost anywhere in Human Design education, at least not to the level that I have experienced.
Over the past 4 years, I’ve completed the International Human Design School Foundation courses and the first year of Professional Analyst Training.
Currently, I’m in the process of completing the second level.
It really was only when I happened to go back to the Definitive Book of Human Design and found a short, nearly unremarkable passage at the top of page 101:
Although their G Center is Defined, succumbing to expectations imposed on them or conditioned by others, while rejecting their own direction and thereby denying themselves love, can lead them to experience such a sense of loss in their life that they give up on themselves all together.
Definitive book of human design, lynda bunnell & ra Uru Hu
This passage describes how someone with a Defined G can appear to NOT have consistent and reliable access to their sense of identity and direction, higher self, and Self-love.
This was when I experienced an epiphany about the dichotomy between my consistent, reliable sense of identity and my lifelong lack of love of that identity.
One of the ways to think about how and why this matters (see my video on the Gifts of Openness) is to imagine that when we incarnate, we all get the same size plot of land with the same sort of elements within it.
The centers, gates, and channels can either be Open, Undefined or Defined.
And if they are Defined, it’s as if there’s a structure on those particular areas of your plot of land.
So if you have a Defined Center, you can think of it as having arrived here with a building on that particular part of your land.
And if you have a gate or even a full channel, you can think of that as a covered hallway that goes between those either open spaces or those buildings.
So, when you have white centers in your design, that can be described as being like having open space on your property.
So the rain comes down and the weather moves through, the sun shines and the wind blows, and those open spaces are all going to be susceptible to the influences of that weather, whereas the buildings will not be so susceptible, right?
They’ll be snug, they’ll be protected.
And so your Defined centers are like that, less likely to have the wind and the weather affect them or change them in any significant way…
Except for the G Center…
And this is the tricky part.
Cracks In The Foundation Of You
So, you have your G Center Defined…
With the idea that there is a building there, like a nice, beautiful house..
And even though the wind and the weather and the sun aren’t supposed to change it significantly…
If you have others chronically imposing their expectations on you, and therefore you have to consistently and chronically deny your direction and your identity…
You corrode your own connection to self-love, because you basically abandon yourself over and over and over again.
And with each abandonment you lose more and more faith in yourself until you can give up on yourself altogether.
It’s as though this house, that’s built over the G Center portion of the property that you are incarnated in, that somebody went to the foundation line of your house and just took a chisel and a hammer, and chipped, and chipped, and chipped away at the foundation.
That’s what I feel it’s like when a Defined G Center person has these chronically imposed expectations and has no power to do anything other than to comply, particularly when you’re small and powerless, and therefore you feel you have no choice.
And so you deny your identity
You are basically forbidden to go in a direction that you know is good for you, that will allow you to feel greater self love and connect to Higher Self and Source.
And so every time you have to turn away from the truth of who you are, it chips away at that foundation just a little bit more, and eventually there is enough damage to that foundation of that house of your Defined G Center that next time it rains, the water seeps down into the basement.
Your basement gets damp and wet, and then over time gets moldy and gross.
And so your house looks great from the foundation up.
The windows are great, the doors are fine, the walls are solid, and the roof is good.
No one from the outside can imagine why there’s something not quite right about your sense of self and connection to self-love…
And it’s because, if you go down into that basement, it’s bad.
There’s a lot of mold, a lot of sludge.
The air’s unhealthy.
It’s a place you can’t even spend time in.
And so you’re left with the confusion of having a solid-looking house sitting atop a moldy basement.
You and everyone else thinks that house should be enough for you to be able to live out the truth of your identity and direction.
You hide the fact that this fixed identity and direction feels hollow and isn’t a place you want to spend much time in.
But you can’t blossom into the being you’re designed to be because your homebase has a leaky foundation and a moldy basement.
Choose Yourself
So the key for those of us with this Defined G Center who have had these chronically-imposed, suppressing, self-denying expectations put upon us for long enough and consistently enough that we gave up on ourselves…
That we turned away from the direction we knew was correct for us and from the identity that we knew was correct for us…
In order to survive.
We turned away from what we knew was true because it was the only way to save ourselves when we were small and powerless.
It explains why over time there’s this quality of your foundation not feeling good.
The basement beneath this definition isn’t healthy.
Fortunately, there is a way to heal this, to get rid of that mold and sludge and that unbreathable air of your basement.
It’s to become aware now of the moments when somebody does expect something of you…
They want you to move in a direction that they want you to go in…
And you feel pressured to meet their expectations.
You can choose.
Because you know what you feel inside of you, what the correct direction is for you.
That’s the moment for you to choose yourself.
Go in the direction that you know is correct for you.
Even if it means disappointing someone else and failing to meet up to what they think you should do or be.
Live out the truth of who you are and move in the direction that’s right for you.
Now, there’s gonna be a lot of pressure from the whole world for you to be who they want you to be and go where they want you to go.
But every time, even in the smallest ways, that you say “Yes” to yourself, that you say “Yes” to the direction that your body tells you is the right one for you…
Every time you do that, you’re going to restore your connection to your self-love.
You are going to restore your access to that Higher Self.
You’re going to restore your connection to the greater love and consciousness, and your path in life.
And each time you do this, no matter how small it is…
Each time you are going to restore the integrity of who you’re consistently and reliably designed to be.
The good news is, this doesn’t even necessarily have to take a lot of time.
It starts with the smallest actions.
You’ll immediately notice the difference in how it feels to no longer deny your identity and direction.
You’ll notice as long as you are aware that this is a thing for you because of your Defined G.
So first, you have to understand that you have this unique vulnerability.
Then you look back in your life and ask yourself:
“Were there times in my life when I was powerless and the only way I could survive was to comply and to deny my own direction and to not be who I knew I was here to be?”
Now with that awareness. you make the choice to wake up each morning, say “Yes” to your identity, say “Yes” to your direction.
Celebrate that you do this even on the smallest level, and feel how good it feels in your body.
Notice how well this allows you to connect to self-love and to a sense of Higher Self.
It’s A Conditioning World
As a Self-Projected Projector, my G Center is my Authority.
I feel keenly aware of the importance of this knowledge for me because not following my G is not just denying my identity and direction.
It’s also denying my Authority – my deepest and most correct source of wisdom.
So I feel that this has attuned me to how profoundly powerful and important this is.
Because about 46% or so of people have a Defined G Center.
There’s a lot of us out there.
And even though not everybody with a Defined G will have had this experience..
Ultimately, it’s a conditioning world.
The world wants to condition us.
It wants to mold us into what it wants of us.
The people around us want us to be who they want us to be.
This is just what it’s like to live in this material plane, in this incarnation.
And so the thing to realize is that…
Because you have a Defined G and you are designed to consistently and reliably be who you’re here to be and go in the direction that you are designed to go in…
It’s the very fact that your G is Defined, and metaphorically a structure exists there, that it can be damaged.
People with an Undefined G don’t have a house there, so no one can chip away at their foundation and make them betray themselves. (They have a different sort of vulnerability in this area.)
It’s precisely because we have a Defined G, we have a structure that is consistent and reliable…
That the damage can be done to it with this chronic imposition and pressure from others to not be ourselves and to not go in the direction that is correct for us.
So give yourself grace.
Know that you had no choice.
Rest in the knowledge that this is something you can heal within yourself.
And it doesn’t have to be huge, dramatic choices.
It can be moment by moment.
And it’s these small moments that let the sunlight into that basement, dry up all the mold and the moisture, and clear that air,…
And allow you, once again to connect to your self-love and to feel the presence always of that Higher Self and Higher Source.