If the center is defined (colored in)
A steady sense of yourself and your direction in life; a fixed course.
A defined center is your constant. It works the same way in any company, and it’s how you influence others, even in silence.
If the center is open (white)
Looks for direction and love outside, depends on place and surroundings. The Not-Self looks for love and a path in the wrong place.
An open center isn’t a flaw. It’s the place where you feel others keenly and, over time, gain wisdom: so many other people’s states pass through you that you learn to tell them apart. The only important thing is not to take what belongs to others for your own.
What this center is responsible for
The G Center is self, direction and love. Who you are and where you are going.
How definition shows in life
You know who you are, and direction comes from within. It may change, but it is always yours.
At a second cousin’s wedding, at a meeting and in a friend’s garage you behave the same way: the same jokes, the same gait, the same look from under your brows. After moving to another city the apartment is new, but the habits and manners are the same, and within a month a ridiculously similar crowd forms around you. At thirty-five you quit your profession, and from outside it’s a sharp turn, but it wasn’t people or circumstances that pushed you. The question “who am I” doesn’t torment you. Something else does: exactly where to turn this time.
What openness turns into
In different company you behave differently, and your direction depends on the place. The agonizing question “who am I really” comes from here.
With your college friends you pour out jokes so fast there is no room for a pause. With new colleagues you stay quiet and composed, and they wouldn’t recognize you from the first description. You rented an apartment by the park rather than by the train station — and six months later life went differently: other walks, other people, other plans for the summer. And at three in the morning the old question surfaces: which of these two is the real one. By forty or so it dawns on you that the question was put crookedly. What matters is not who to be, but where to sit and next to whom.
The wisdom of the open center
Pay attention not to “who to be” but to “where and with whom.” For an open G Center, the place matters more than the goal.
The Gates of this center
Each Gate is a specific theme through which the center shows itself.
How the center connects to the rest of the chart
The set of defined centers makes up your Type and inner Authority — that is, it’s the centers that determine what you make decisions with. A center “switches on” when a whole channel forms between its Gates and the Gates of a neighboring center.
If this center is defined and there are no others above it in the hierarchy, it gives Self-Projected Authority.