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Astral Atlas
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Head center

Also called Head

Human Design’s symbolic inspiration and questioning center; its chart status does not measure the brain.

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Human Design assigns Head inspiration, questions, and doubt; this is symbolic chart vocabulary.

When defined
Defined Head is traditionally read as a consistent way of processing inspiration.
When undefined
Undefined Head is traditionally associated with openness around mental pressure, not a deficit.
When completely open
Completely open is Atlas’s narrower result of no active Head gates and no completed channel; no separate reading is asserted.

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Inspect Head in the BodyGraph →

Jovian Archive: Human Design Dictionary ↗

Word origin · etymology

Descriptive anatomical metaphor.

Head is the inherited English name for the upper body part. The chart places its pressure-center symbol at the head position.

Merriam-Webster: head ↗Ra Uru Hu: The Rave BodyGraph, Centers and Streams ↗

How we know · epistemology

Symbolic center correspondence

Human Design assigns inspiration and questioning to this part of its graph. Channel rules determine its status, but that status does not measure brain activity or establish how often a person experiences ideas or uncertainty.

Jovian Archive: the nine centers ↗

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  1. Jovian Archive: the nine centers ↗
  2. Merriam-Webster: head ↗
  3. Ra Uru Hu: The Rave BodyGraph, Centers and Streams ↗
  4. Jovian Archive: Human Design Dictionary ↗