If the center is defined (colored in)
Stable willpower and self-worth; can make promises and keep them.
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)
Has nothing to prove, but the Not-Self proves its worth and makes promises that are hard to keep.
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 Heart (Ego) is will, promises and self-worth. The smallest center and the most overrated in the culture.
How definition shows in life
You can promise and deliver, and willpower is available on demand. But it also works in bursts, not constantly.
You promised a friend help with a move on Saturday — and at eight in the morning you are there, though you only managed to fall asleep at three. At the market you haggle over tiles calmly and to the end, and the seller gives in because he sees: this one won’t back down. If you start running in the mornings, you run for half a year, until you are truly tired of it. And then for two weeks you want absolutely nothing, and it isn’t laziness: the will gave out a charge and went off to charge further. The people close to you have adapted and after a big push simply leave you alone.
What openness turns into
You feel drawn to prove what you are worth and to promise beyond your strength. Hence burnout and the feeling that you must keep confirming your place.
At a reunion with classmates you mention three times in one evening how many projects you are carrying now, and you hear from the side how it sounds. On Friday you take someone else’s shift, though you are barely breathing — just so as not to show weakness. You take out a car loan not out of need but for the eyes of the yard. A year later the bill comes: for three months you can’t get off the couch. And then you notice a quiet neighbor who proves nothing to anyone and lives more freely than everyone around, and for the first time you envy for a good reason.
The wisdom of the open center
Stop proving. An open Heart isn’t obliged to have willpower — it learns to see who really has it.
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 Ego Authority.