Last time, we went over the Three Awareness Centers and the process of learning, and how each of them absorbs information into our world in different ways and how they need to synergize with each other and establish a new kind of synthesis. Whereupon, you’ll be able to leap. All in your own way to another level of understanding.

The whole reason to share that was to inspire in you a certain sense of patience for your process. That it’s a synergetic process. It’s something that’s happening on a very deep level of your being, and that is just exactly the kind of learning that is very special for the Human Design System.

In fact, it seems as though it’s necessary, really, to have that patience with yourself, which is a little unfamiliar to many of us because of how we’ve learned in very high-pressure situations throughout our lives as we’ve gone through school and so on. It’s a real new learned behavior to really let things percolate and to work inside of us and come to their own synthesis and conclusion.

This week, we’re gonna take a look at the Head Center, the Ajna Center, and the G-Center. I am so thrilled and excited to work together with you to take a first look at this Head Center. In all of my writings and all of my contemplation about Human Design, the most surprising thing for me was to go over this Head Center and to give it the kind of attention that it really deserves — to find out what is really going on here because that’s one aspect of Human Design teaching that I hadn’t heard very much about at all. So I really delved into it.

You can see here that I added the Head Center to this picture of the Three Awareness Centers, where the Ajna, as we’re talking about last week, is on the midline, this bifurcating line of the bilateral symmetry of the body and how the Ajna Center is trying to balance these views of the Spleen, its skepticism. It can be cynical at times actually, and the Solar Plexus that is so believing and so open and so wanting to join in and learn from experience. Here, this Ajna Center is sitting there in the middle of all of that, and now we add something more. We add this Head Center. And the Head Center is a Pressure Center. It really exerts a tremendous pressure downward into the whole of the body-graph and onto the Ajna Center in particular. So the Ajna Center is really in the midst of a three-way squeeze. It now has a whole other factor to pay attention to.

So let’s delve in and really look deeper into this Head Center. Now, the Head Center is there obviously in the brain area of the body graph. And at the same time, it pokes up through the brain case, reaching up into the cosmos, out into the cosmic forces. These are the forces of awakening, that aspect that is Shakti, as the Hindus call it, the Cosmic Feminine, the energy of deep space that drives us to spiritual change and to personal evolution.

The Head Center represents our deepest aspirations as a person that we want to be able to improve. We want to become better people, know where that comes from, we can all have our own theories about that, but nevertheless, it’s all about being able to recognize ourselves as a work in progress. We are on a journey. We are not a finished product. We are not those eternal ideas that we find so precious. We are in fact like one of those beings who has experienced real compassion, real education. Some people might say it is as though we all at one time or another, and usually at the time of our previous death, have been held in the arms of an angel. We’ve been shown our life, every detail of it. We’ve gone over it moment by moment. We’ve seen how we are doing the very best that we can. And in that situation, there is no judgment. “See, there you are. You’re doing the very best. You’re trying and you’re exerting yourself. You’re trying to communicate. You want to be present to your situation, and hey, you’re doing pretty well. But you see right here, you could have taken this step, this little step.” Delivered to us with the most remarkable understanding and compassion and non-judgment.

Now, you can conceptualize that moment in any way that you personally feel comfortable with. The important thing is that it comes into our lives as this powerful mental expectation that our lives will be meaningful, that it will be, in fact, a productive enterprise, that we go through the process of being born and becoming human in order to have our experiences, to be born immature, so that we have the opportunity to grow up, to learn, and to adopt new attitudes as we learn from our experience. We enter this world with this sense that there are certain people that we need to talk to, certain people that we need to bond with certain conversations that we need to have. We need to reconcile with certain people. In fact, there are these people that we need to meet. And every once in a while, we meet one of these people. It just comes without any explanation whatsoever in a whole room full of people. Even in a whole auditorium of people. There’s this one person that attracts our attention, and we know that is one of these special people.

Now, what the relationship you would have with this person is really completely up in the air. Maybe you were just meant to see them that one time and never see them again. There are those people who were just so compelling to us. They draw our attention. And why is this? It’s a whole combination of things, isn’t it? This is the seat of our consciously aware intelligence. This is the part of us that is aware; we could call it our mind, the aware consciousness. This is the part of us that wants to be open, that wants to be receptive, wants to have those conversations, to be able to take in other people, to hear what they have to say, to feel them very deeply, to comprehend what their story is about, to value them as a person, to be able to respond in that way and learn from them in conversation. It’s also that part of us that wants to be actively creative. To be able to interact, to be able to be flexible, to be friendly, to be able to make contact, and to have the opportunity to share our point of view as well, and particularly this point of view that feels like it needs to reconcile in certain situations. There are certain people we need to say something to reconcile some past event or even to thank them for what it is that they have done for us.

In short, this is the part of us that wants to improve and has a hope that we will do that. Hope is this huge mental expectation that, in fact, our lives will be a meaningful endeavor. This Head Center drops that thread of hope into our lives. It is like a beacon. You can see it with its brilliant yellow color, both this awakening force that comes from the depths of space that the Hindus call the ShaktiPot — the impact of the Universe as a whole on our being. This is our eternal intelligence that has been aware since the beginning of time. It has an opportunity to live and to improve and to evolve and to make its efforts to do. This hope is intended to penetrate throughout our whole life, from birth to death.

It may get ragged at times, that thread; it may come under threat. It is very important that it does not break. If it threatens to break, if you are at risk, reach out, because this is what that pressure of the Head Center is saying all the way from the very beginning. There are people who are important to you. There are situations you want to rectify. You want to loosen the karmic knot. You want to clear your conscience. You want to make amends, to resolve conflicts, to be able to clear the deck so that you can live your life purpose, to be open to the future. It is like a beacon, a lighthouse that says yes, you are here for a very specific person reason, and for the people who come to you one by one in your life, to have those conversations, to have that depth, to go through that transformation, to really clear the way for you to live your full life purpose. This beacon is intended to shine throughout your life. If it is at risk, as I said, reach out, because that’s what the Head Center is saying from the very, very beginning. Reach out, make those contacts, have hope.

The pressure of the Head Center is quite extraordinary. It’s really powerful. If we don’t really admit that to ourselves, if we don’t say, “Oh, yeah, I really am hopeful. I hate to admit it. I’m so sorry that I feel hopeful that I have hope.” The physical plane provides a lot of resistance for each one of us. It doesn’t matter what our design figuration is. It just is a lot of work being here. You have to get born. You have to be that infant who has very little control over your physical body. Just imagine that. You have to learn how to walk, how to be a child, to go through your childhood, to go through your adolescence, your middle age, old age, sickness, and death. You come here to go through all of that, and there’s a reason for it. Oh, the pressure of the Head Center. Whoa!

And where does this pressure go? It goes throughout the whole of the body-graph, but one place in particular that Head pressure goes and pressures the Ajna Center as though the Ajna Center didn’t have enough to do already. But this is an unrelenting, mental idealized expectation that life will be good, that it will be productive, that you’ll get to live out your ideals. This rains down onto this Ajna Center with an almost unimaginable intensity, and particularly during gestation, while you’re in the womb. And your body is recapitulating all of evolution from the very, very beginning, all the way from a single cell through all those divisions, to every imaginable life form that has ever existed on planet Earth. This is when that pressure of the Head Center to live out those ideals is unusually powerful.

The Ajna Center is the seat of what we call the Design Consciousness, what we refer to as the unconscious. It’s not like the unconscious is unconscious of itself. It’s not unconscious of what it is, of what it feels like. This Ajna Center is the only Center in the Human Design body-graph that has its own color.

It’s unique, it’s green, and this green color symbolizes the world of nature, of biology, of everything that biology does. This unfolding process of what’s going on in the womb as you’re being made in your mother’s body, cell by cell, being loved by her body into existence. —to exist as this intelligent being, to participate in the experiment of Consciousness in Form.

Now, the Ajna Center, in this sense, is very practical. The Head Center has all of these ideals. It has these notions, these visions of what could be, what life could be like, what could happen, the visions of these people that it wants to interact with, and these mental expectations that this will be. But the Ajna Center is incredibly practical. It simply doesn’t understand those notions. It says, “Okay, I get it. I feel the pressure. It’s a little intense, but in the Ajna’s world, things need to be real. It has to do with nature, it has to do with history. It has to do with time, it has to do with growth, it has to do with biology. In order for those ideals, those cherished notions of the Head Center, to become real.”

From the Ajna Center’s point of view, they need to become actions. And so the Ajna Center, this is the Mind of Nature. The Ajna Center connects those ideals into history, into your history, who you are into your attitudes, into who you are at the beginning of this life. It connects all of those ideals into circumstances, into happenings, into meetings.

Now, there’s this experience that many of us have, I’m sure all of us have had at one time or another … the experience of déjà vu. “I’ve been here before. I just can’t understand that feeling. How could I have been here before?” It’s a very compelling feeling. I remember the first time I felt that as a child, I was standing at a particular corner in a particular place. Going into my mother’s dressing room where the door to the attic was. And I was just standing there and I’m going like, “I’ve been in this moment before.” A synchronicity.

And then the weird thing, it’s really quite strange how we can notice how certain days the same subject seems to be coming up over and over again. I did a radio program for Jovian Archive Radio many years ago called 24 Hours of Synchronicity. And everything on that whole day, all 24 hours was about dogs. Dogs. Now I love dogs, particularly other people’s dogs, and I love God’s dogs, the coyotes, the wild dogs. But I don’t spend my time thinking about dogs all that much. Just not a dog person in that particular kind of way. But it was all about dogs all that whole day. And it was also about Mount Shasta in California, dogs, and Mount Shasta, all these events, one after another all day long. Why would such a thing happen? It’s so peculiar how these synchronicities can be all linked together, and if you write down synchronicities, the more you write them down, the more they happen, which is a very peculiar thing.

Then as we get a little bit older, we start thinking about our life and how we meet certain people at certain times and we learn certain things from them, we think, “Oh my gosh, this is very odd. Why? Why do these things always happen, at what seemingly is the perfect time?” This is the Ajna Center kind of thinking over its own little bit of handiwork and whether it actually does plan your life out, whether it does connect you with people in that specific kind of a way. I think that’s a little bit above our pay grade. I don’t think we’ll ever be able to figure that out. And it’s not really quite the point.

The point is it is connecting you who you are as an aspiring person — those ideals of the Head Center and what the Head Center expects out of life. It’s connecting those expectations to Nature and to history and to family, into blood bonds, into genetic chains of connections with people, all of those things.

It does it through the Design Consciousness, and it takes all of those connections that it’s making, which all hinge upon this one thing, which is the way you behave which largely determines how your life goes. The attitude that you carry at any particular time in your life largely controls how you behave. Eventually, you come to this place where you’ll be able to be put into a situation, we talked about this last week, where there’s no other choice, but then to change your behavior and to change the attitude behind it.

This is what the Ajna Center really knows about you. There’s a certain sequence. Evolution happens in order, one step at a time, and it says okay, Mr. Head Center, Mrs. Head Center, Ms. Cosmos, whatever you are, and wherever those expectations come from, I will connect you up and you will need to go step by step. Sometimes you can take leaps, really big leaps. Sometimes you can adopt a new behavior that is so incredibly surprising to you. This is really one of the reasons to study the Human Design System because the more we really truly understand about ourselves and the more we can understand about other people, we increase the potential of appreciating the extreme individual diversity between human beings — just how incredibly unique and different we are. We increase that appreciation and understand that everybody speaks with their own voice and really only speaks for themselves. They are an example of evolution. They are an example of uniqueness. They’re an example of the mystery and the miracle of nature.

If you ever want to know what motivates another person, you need to ask them. If in fact we are unique, how could we possibly know what motivates another person? You can’t, but you can ask them and you can find out what their story is. You can find out what they’ve been through. You can be present to them and listen and speak to discover your reason for being in the world with them. And this Ajna Center makes sure that happens. It isn’t as though it plans everything out, like your life is fated or fixed in any way. What it does is it connects you in with the chain of your own evolutionary process, how you move from one attitude to the next attitude to the next one after that, and as you move through those chains of attitudes and development, then that affects your behavior.

Human Design is all about your behavior. How do you work through these situations that this Ajna Center is somehow mysteriously linking you up, and then you’re born and your parents are there, and you feel like you know them on some level, but they’re unrecognizable. And then you encounter them in their very human condition with all of their problems, with all the stresses, lack of communication or need for communication, breakthroughs, the misunderstandings and tensions within your household, sometimes getting resolved, other times not getting resolved and these other creatures who happen to be your brothers or your sisters. Here you’re this tiny infant body that you can hardly control and you’re completely helpless and everybody that you encounter who’s an adult is at least 10 times your weight.

If the math makes sense on that, I’m not quite sure. You’re in an incredibly vulnerable position.

That’s what the Ajna Center does during your gestation, as you’re recapitulating the entire evolutionary course of what it means to become a human being. It links into that process. It takes all of that information, all of those connections, all of those finely attenuated little ways that it has linked you up into these filaments of evolution in nature. It takes them and it puts them all into a compressed packet inside of itself, and then suddenly, just as the birth is in the process of taking place, it takes that packet and it drops it into the G-Center —that packet of connections, that information, that programming.

This complex programming of connections, it drops them into the G-Center to land specifically here at the very bottom tip of the G-Center on gate 2. Now, gate two is the second hexagram that stands for the Earth. It is highly magnetic. It is receptive and attractive, and that information lands on gate 2 and at the moment of birth, it gets activated. It comes alive with your first breath, and that magnetism begins to draw your life into your aura. There you are in this extraordinarily powerful place where all those connections have been made. All of those linkages have come together and they suddenly drop into this place as a programming under gate 2 in a magnetic force that draws your life into your aura as a tremendous force. All of those connections that you need, all of those confrontations, all of those conversations, all of those people that you’re linked up with, suddenly get engaged by this magnetic force. It begins to pull them in through your open Centers. It pulls them in through your undefined channels. It pulls them in through your undefined gates. This is where you meet them for real in the real world.

Remember, the Ajna Center is very practical. It says you have these ideals. You want to live them out. You want to resolve your bonding experience with certain people. You want to learn how to communicate more fluidly, more adaptively, to be able to not only take other people in, but to forgive them if they offend you or if they hurt you in some way, or they abandon you in some way. You want to develop in these characteristics. You want to be able to have the attitude that even if someone wrongs you, you’re capable of forgiving them. “Okay?” “Okay,” the Ajna says, “Okay, I think I have a plan for you. I feel like I can connect you up. And then it lands on gate 2 and it ignites this extraordinary magnetic force, and it starts to draw those people into your aura through the power of what? Through the power of unconditional love. That magnetic monopole, as it’s called, that sits on gate 2 and draws your life in, does not repel or push away anything. It says, “Bring it on. All of it. All of it, everybody, every connection that you made, bring it in.” And everybody rushes to the side of the infant to partake of this unconditional love because this is what we are when we come here.

Unconditional infinite love to take in all of it. That’s a pretty powerful thing.

And at the same time, what happens to us: here we are, we’re born in this helpless body, we’re overpowered. Maybe you go through an emergency birth. Maybe there are just medical professionals around you that are simply treating your mother as though she is a medical emergency and therefore you are.

Or maybe your parents are going through really hard times, and there you are. This can truly trigger your Root Center in a very big way because it’s the power of this magnetic monopole that switches on this Root Center. Things rush in through your openness, and not all of them are easy. In fact, some of them can trigger major panic, major trauma.

I had a daughter who went through the Newborn Intensive care unit, and she spent her first eight days suspended between life and death, and she’ll be living out her relationship with that stress, with that intensity, for the rest of her life. Doing quite a good job of it, I might comment, but at the same time, we can’t control these things. This is your destiny that you asked for and that your Ajna Center programmed for you.

And then when it switches on, those people come into your aura in whatever condition they’re in, and hopefully we can be blessed that somebody might be there who knows how to nurture newborns or knows how to support our educational process or be there for us as infants and children and adolescents, and knows how to help us as we go through that transition of adolescents or that transition of menopause or andropause or as we age and we get older and we start to experience sickness and the approach of death.

Hopefully we have friends. Hopefully there’s someone there at your birth who knows how to deal with and nurture an infant, but not all of us have had that experience.

The important thing is to realize that it’s you who set it in motion. And in a lot of ways, this is really a bait and switch situation. You have your ideals for wherever they came from. Everybody’s gonna think about this in a different way. Some people, very spiritually, some people in terms of the arms of the angel and that education that we received in the past Life Review that we go through and we received that compassion and we want to do better. “See, you were trying, you were doing your best.” No judgment, but you could do this next thing, but however you think of these things. It’s you that wants to have these experiences so that you can grow and develop.

Then it puts pressure onto the Ajna Center and says “yeah, okay, fine. We’ve got a plan for that. I can hook you up.” I know somebody because the Ajna Center knows the whole Web of Life, everything in it, because it’s part of it. That’s what that unconscious is. It’s not unconscious of itself, it’s supra-conscious. It’s simply beyond our comprehension. Largely speaking, there is this experience of going through changes and how things migrate over this threshold between the unconscious and the conscious minds.

Probably ninety-nine percent is unconscious: that part of us that beats our heart, that doesn’t need to be reminded to keep breathing, that digests our food in our system. The depth of that process, the biochemical intelligence on an atomic level, these are where those connections get made. So you start out with all of this idealism, all of these good ideas, and then the Ajna Center is, “Okay this is what you wanted. I’ve got a plan. I’ll just put this into your programming, and then we’re gonna go and we’re going to program that in and then I’m gonna drop it into this G Center.”

The G Center is the most stable of all of the Centers. It is the Center of the body-graph. There is no better place for that magnetic force to be and from which to draw those experiences in through your openness.

You may have noticed that diamond shape is in fact a combination of the shape of the Head Center and the Ajna Center, which is testament to the fact that we can have these extraordinary ideals and we also have the potential to live them out through evolutionary development where we encounter very difficult as well as pleasurable situations.

The biggest challenges in life are the opportunities, by the way, the things that go well because those ones keep on going, right?

I think I mentioned last week, it isn’t really your failures that condition you, it’s your successes. “I was successful in dealing with that past situation. Oh, here’s a situation that’s a little bit like it, so I’ll just try to do that same thing again. It worked last time!” The only thing is that life never repeats itself. Not really, unless you ignore the messages of your karma.

Oh, and then the lesson comes back, and that’s where those slams come from. It’s ” We handed it to you. It was right there.” But, “oh no. I can deal with this. I’m on top of the world. I have some kind of superpower. I don’t need to pay attention to this. I had this other situation that was like this, and I was successful then, so I’m just gonna run that program again.” Until the lesson comes back. This is how karma works. We live in a curved space-time continuum. The energy we put out is the energy we get. This is what the Head Center knows is “I was doing my best. This time I’m gonna do better.”— Self-improvement aspirations. That’s what draws these other people, these challenges, these people.

Maybe we blame it on circumstances. Maybe we blame our hardships on other people. Maybe we feel like it’s all somebody else’s fault. Maybe the resistance of the physical plane is just too much for us. We want to give up that thread of hope that our aspirations dropped into our life. That thread that is meant to run from birth to death becomes frayed. It’s in danger of breaking. “Reach out.” This is what the Head Center says. It wants connection it. Improved relationships from the very, very beginning. That moment where that thread might break well, that’s the moment you reach out. And where do you reach out from? You reach out from the G-Center. Look at it!

These yellow spokes on this wheel are the eight lead gates of the hexagrams of the Human Design Zodiac. These are the eight gates of the G-Center. You can see that they’re linked into the circle and linked into the cosmic environment of where we are born, in equal measure symmetrical, eight divisions of the zodiac.

This is the Higher Self. This is the part of you that is most stable, most indestructible, which cannot be bombed or burned out. That’s where the gate 2 is. That’s what draws everything into your life, and this is where it’s drawing it to your Higher Self, to that part of you that is in fact indestructible, stable. It’s capable of taking all of those situations and weaving them into your Higher Self-identity that holds out to you the possibility that you could live Higher Self-roles in this life… that you can awaken to higher principles, and then commit to them and then respond to them to explore how you can live out your power through your convictions, all of that, the whole process of initiation, of the expansion of consciousness is seated here in the G-Center.

It’s drawing those experiences into that Higher Self dimension. It’s very interesting that in the history of meditation, Buddhism, Hinduism and so on and so forth, that in ancient times it took people months, if not years, to come into a relationship with this G-Center that sits in the sternum right here in the middle of your chest — months, if not years, to come into direct contact with this G-Center. But now in the Nine-Centered being, this Center is preeminently available, accessible to you, just after a few moments of relaxation of sitting with your back straight and your Head aligned with the zenith to let your breath calm and become rhythmic, to simply follow your thoughts really for a very short time, and then place your attention into that sternum area of your body.

And there it is. It matters not whether it’s defined or undefined. Believe me, this is your Center. This is where all of your experiences are being drawn with that magnetic force. You set it in motion, all the agony and the ecstasy, all of it.

You make decisions about these things through your Authority. If you have inner Authority in your Design, you make your decisions through that particular Center that stands in for and represents your sense of truth in this world. If you don’t have one of those particular inner Authority Centers defined, and we’ll be dealing with this quite soon, you have what’s known as an outer Authority.

We only say that because we don’t really know what words to call the Authority of the Mental Projector and the Reflector. Oh, but we do know quite a bit about that, and it is important to say it. The Reflector, as an example, has all of their Centers undefined or open. They operate in the world in an entirely different way than 99% of the people in the world.

We do need to know more about what it means to be completely open. We do, and we will deal with that soon, in this class series. But in the meantime, most of you, not all of you here, have these inner Authority Centers, and then we have some Mental Projectors here who have an echolocation type of Authority. We’ll talk about that, and this is one of the reasons why the Fireside Chat is coming up where we get to really talk about some of these things, ask questions about them, and see what comes up and what our best explanations are of them so far.

But it is this whole motion, remembering to go back for a moment to the G-Center and the fact that there it is right there in the middle of the body growth. It couldn’t be more obvious, It is combining the idealism of the Head Center, and it reflects that ideal in terms of its color. And secondly, it combines it with the downward thrust of the Ajna Center. Together they make the diamond shape of the G-Center, which refers directly to the magnetic monopole. This programming that the Ajna Center drops down into the G-Center and centers it within the Higher Self to give you the support of opening to initiation and expanding your consciousness.

We’ll just touch one more time on the fact that this G Center, with all of its magnetism, with its centralizing and organizing force, its capacity to be stable, amidst all of those changes — it initiates, it activates this Root Center that begins to react through adrenalized pressure to the events, the people, the expectations that rush in at the moment of birth and continue throughout your life.

The G Center, being divided into eight parts like this, is based upon the changing of the Third Line of the hexagram, which means that not only is the G Center stable as the Center of your Higher Self, as the power to initiate and expand your consciousness, it also is an adventurer. The Third Line is about adventure, trial, and error learning, and it’s specifically about relationship, bonds made and broken, and hopefully made again.

That adventure of trial and error, evolutionary process, and leaps forward in evolution is reflected by this eight-part division of the Zodiac. It is about adventure. It is about risk. If there was no chance of failure, then our success would mean nothing. And if we think we can always succeed in the ways we did in the past, we’re not paying attention to the present. Time constantly renews itself. You’ll always have another chance; every moment you have another chance to deal with reality and define the fact that this adventure is extraordinarily rewarding and for which you can be grateful.

When that, I’ll close it up and stop sharing for the moment, and then we go to saying goodbye again. So Richard, do you wanna wrap it up for us? Yeah. Thank you so much, Genoa. That was incredible. And thank you all so much for being here with us today. Again, there’ll be the assignments posted in the learning management system, and we look forward, and also we encourage everyone that wasn’t able to share today. Hopefully, we’ll get to hear from you next week. We’ll try to make space. We want to share as much as possible, but certainly, at some point, to hear from everyone. So thank you so much for your time and dedication for being here. Have a lovely week. We’ll see you next week. Bye for now. Thank you. Bye-bye. It was wonderful. Bye, everyone.

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