If the center is defined (colored in)
A powerful steady source of working and life energy; answers with a response.
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)
Doesn’t know when enough is enough; the Not-Self can’t stop in time and overworks.
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 Sacral is the source of life energy and working power. Only Generators and Manifesting Generators have it.
How definition shows in life
The energy renews every day, and it needs to be spent. Unspent, it turns into irritation and insomnia.
On Saturday half a garden bed is dug over, then a bike ride with your son, then dough, and by ten in the evening there’s an even, pleasant hum in your body. And on Wednesday, eight hours of calls, your head is tired, and at night you lie with your eyes open: the body didn’t work and demands its due. In the morning you wake before the alarm with a full tank, as if yesterday never happened. The people at home understood long ago: if you aren’t given something to do, you’ll start nitpicking and spoil everyone’s day off.
What openness turns into
There is no constant energy — there is someone else’s, borrowed. Hence the habit of “pushing through” and the crash that follows.
The company stayed up until three in the morning, it was easy and fun for you, and for the next two days you lie around and answer in single syllables. At work, next to guys who plow twelve hours a day, you keep their pace for exactly a week, and on the eighth day you go down with a fever. Renovation: you want to finish pasting the last wall at one in the morning, you push through — and then for three days you don’t go into that room. Now you leave the party before everyone else, before the second pot of tea, and it’s amazing how much cheaper the Tuesday after such an evening turns out.
The wisdom of the open center
Know your limit and don’t measure yourself by the stamina of Generators. An open Sacral can’t keep up with someone else’s pace, and that is normal.
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 Sacral Authority.