If the center is defined (colored in)
A steady way of getting inspired and asking questions. Fixed mental pressure — thinks about its own things.
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)
Absorbs the questions and pressure of those around it. The Not-Self tries to answer other people’s questions that don’t concern it.
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 Head is the center of pressure by thought: inspiration, questions, “but why is it like this.” It doesn’t think — it presses, and the Ajna below it does the thinking.
How definition shows in life
You are regularly overtaken by your own questions, and it doesn’t depend on the company. Inspiration comes from within and on its own schedule.
Three in the morning. You wake up not from a noise but from a question: why exactly did your brother say it that way back then. Nobody asked it; it started up on its own. On vacation you lie on the sand and suddenly wonder where the tide comes from, though nobody near you was talking about the sea. At a meeting they discuss delivery deadlines, and something entirely different pushes you from inside: why are we even doing this. Companies change, conversations change, but the questions come the same and on their own schedule. The Head works like an uninvited alarm clock: it decides for itself when to ring.
What openness turns into
You pick up other people’s questions and begin to count them as your own. Hence the sleepless nights over problems you don’t need to solve at all.
A friend spends half an hour telling you about the renovation at her mother-in-law’s. The conversation is over, and you read about waterproofing a balcony you don’t have until two in the morning. A colleague in the smoking area let slip that the department is supposedly being cut, and for a week you weigh your options, though nobody has seen an order. Then you go to your parents’ dacha, where there is neither the friend nor the colleague, and discover something odd: your head is empty and quiet. The questions didn’t run out, they were simply borrowed from the one who said them aloud. Whose conversation it was, theirs is the insomnia.
The wisdom of the open center
Tell whose question it is. If the topic came from a conversation and only “burns” around that person — it isn’t yours.
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.