Deconditioning an Open G-Center as a Human Design Projector

Your g-center is your identity, your magnetic monopole that guides you. It's your direction. When it's defined (57% of the population), you have inherent self-love, you know who you are, and it's crucial you feel loved for who you are. It’s also extremely important you feel free to be yourself and not restricted or forced to be like anyone else.

However, when you're born with an open g-center (43% of the population), it's like being born without your own magnetic monopole activated. You don't know who you are, so you try on the identities of the defined g-centers around you, you go to new places and environments and you slowly start to collect the information you need to know to discover who you are. With an open g-center you get to spend your life finding new identities and versions of yourself.

The undefined g-center is a chameleon and can blend into other environments.

With an open g-center, it's crucial you're in the right environment and around the right people, or you'll get swept up into defined g-centers and their identities which are incorrect for you. You'll become conditioned to be who they think you should be. Regardless if the identity feels good or not.

*Hot tip, with an open g-center you need to be in an environment that feels authentic and good. And If you have a child with an open g-center their ability to thrive is based on if the home/city/room feels good to them or not. Bring them to look at homes or apartments, and let them explore a new city with you before deciding to move. Their approval is just as important as yours. And honoring your design is as important as honoring your children’s. If the child is really young and unable to express this verbally watch their body language. Do they look distressed/calm? How about after you leave? Does their behavior get more grounded or ungrounded?

I grew up watching the 57% of the population who have a defined g-center and seeing the magic of when someone knows who they are and where they're going in life. And I thought, "I don't have that, so I need to find someone else's g-center to guide me onto their path because I don't have my own."

You start getting your open centers conditioned the moment you’re born. Although, I’m curious if a projector aura that goes into someone else could condition a baby in the womb.

I regress. I was born and immediately began having my seven open centers conditioned by the six people around me. And as the only non-energy type in my family, I took it allll in and amplified it: the ego centers, the spleens, the g-centers, my dad and brother’s defined Anja and crown (boy did they butt heads, 5/1 pure generator father, 4/6 emotional manifestor son: fireworks), the five defined sacrals.

My mom told me I was the most hyper kid she knew; yeah, I shared a room with a manifesting generator and was amplifying five defined sacrals every day. I had no way of knowing what my energy was and what I was absorbing so I thought it was all mine. I would be bouncing off the walls with soooo much energy I didn’t know what to do with it and ended up getting in trouble for embarrassing my parents because of my hyperness. I didn’t know it then, but it wasn’t my fault, so I give little Lauren lots of extra love for that.

Being a projector who craves and needs recognition through the other, with an open g-center, meant I was constantly trying to escape into other people. I would escaping into someone's g-center and identity, and then use borrowed sacral energy around me to be a super slave for not even breadcrumbs of recognition - I was a super slave just to not be abandoned for fear that if no one saved me from the chaos of my childhood home then I’d be trapped in it forever.

Growing up I had so many g-centers around me that I never got in tune with my own. My ex-husband also has a defined g-center, and boy did I completely put my career and life on hold for his.

The defined g-center inherently knows their path, and they consistently follow it. The open g-center has to find and discover its own path.

Because I didn't know about human design, my open g-center was so used to latching onto someone else's g-center and being on "their" path, that I genuinely didn't think I had my own. I thought my path would forever be someone else's plus one.

It wasn't until I got serious about my human design experiment in January 2021 (one year after discovering the system and beginning to research it) that so many things left and shifted at once that I was forced to be by myself which meant I got to finally figure that out. For the first time I wasn’t being continually conditioned by other g-centers and I felt so free to finally just be me and not care whether or not anyone else approved. Afterall, this is my life. No one else is living it but me which means I need to support myself in whatever way feels aligned for me.

In true 1/3 fashion, I dabbled in a few modalities until I saw the flaws in the structure and wanted to burn it all down. Cough *manifestation culture*. But human design woke me right up. It felt so good to research and learn about it that I had no desire to stop. It felt like I had no choice but to enter my experiment and begin to watch what happened.

This is what I assume the defined g-center so naturally feels, that pull, that knowing, that passion for moving towards something. I have an open g-center, so my path may change many times throughout my life. But now I know what it feels like when I've found something that's aligned for me. How I can’t put it down, how everything else begins to just work itself out, how I don’t have to force anything - not even myself.

The open g-centers won't find the correct path in another person. Filling that hole won't help them feel any safer, maybe momentarily, but it'll be fleeting. And then you will likely end up feeling so lost and unimportant.

I had no idea how lost I was until my marriage ended while I lived in South Korea, and I felt nothing holding me to the ground. I had no idea what direction to go in, where to put my energy, or how I'd ever be financially independent.

We undefined g's have to find our path on our own by unplugging from the other defined g-centers, spending as much time alone as we can, pursuing our passions, doing things we love, and resting. Along with only living and being in environments that feel good and supportive of our authenticity.

We all have a path; the undefined g-center just gets the honor of discovering each new path in it's own serendipitous way.