Human Design Centers
Human Design Centers is a Modern / Human Design - 9 centers body system as transmitted through the lineage Human Design presents a BodyGraph with nine centers that combine I Ching, astrology, chakra, and related symbolic vocabularies. Ra Uru Hu's teaching materials describe the centers as places of consistent or variable awareness and motor or pressure functions; this body rendering is an editorial projection of the BodyGraph onto a front silhouette, not a conventional anatomical chart.. This page lists every point in the system with sourced placements and links to cross-tradition correspondences curated for The Body Spiritual.
Open in interactive explorerPrimary sources
- Ra Uru Hu, The Human Design System: A Complete Guide to the Human Design System (Human Design America, 2009) — Teaching reference for the BodyGraph, nine-center architecture, and center functions; see the chapters introducing the nine centers and their defined/open dynamics.
- International Human Design School, The Human Design System: History and 1987 Encounter materials (IHDS course materials, contemporary edition) — Movement-internal account of the system's reported 1987 revelation provenance and subsequent teaching lineage; see the introductory history section.
Known lineage variants
- Human Design's nine-center BodyGraph is a modern esoteric synthesis, not a historical anatomical system. Ra Uru Hu's reported January 1987 revelation is provenance within the movement's own narrative; it is not independently verifiable scientific or historical evidence.
- The nine zones preserve the conventional center names and approximate vertical order, but the SVG silhouettes, coordinates, colors, and front-view projection are editorial interface decisions rather than coordinates prescribed by Human Design texts.
- The Head and Ajna are shown in the head, the Throat at the neck, the G and Heart in the chest, the Solar Plexus and Sacral in the trunk, the Spleen at the anatomical-right upper abdomen, and the Root at the pelvis. These placements should not be read as brain, cardiac, endocrine, or organ-function claims.
- Center terminology and the interpretation of defined versus undefined centers vary among Human Design schools. This map names the nine centers only and does not infer a person's chart, type, authority, or health outcome.
Related systems
No other systems share this tradition label.