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Human Design calls this Heart or Ego and assigns willpower and material resources. Authority needs additional graph conditions.
- When defined
- Defined Ego is traditionally described as consistent access to willpower in this framework.
- When undefined
- Undefined Ego is traditionally discussed through proving and overcommitment themes, not personal worth.
- When completely open
- Completely open records no Ego activation plus no completed channel; no separate reading is asserted.
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Jovian Archive: Ego Manifested Authority ↗Jovian Archive: The nine centers ↗
Word origin · etymology
Latin word adopted through psychology.
Ego is Latin for I. Human Design borrows the psychological self-word for its will-related center.
Merriam-Webster: ego ↗Ra Uru Hu: The Rave BodyGraph, Centers and Streams ↗
How we know · epistemology
Symbolic motor category
The system associates this motor center with will and material resources. Its channel-derived status does not measure cardiac function, moral character, financial competence or the strength of a person's commitments.
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