Head Center
The Head (also called the Crown) is one of two pressure centers in Human Design. Its job is to generate mental pressure—questions, doubt, and inspiration—that can stimulate awareness and inquiry.
When you treat this pressure as a place to make decisions, it becomes exhausting. When you treat it as a place to observe and be inspired, it becomes a healthy source of ideas that can move through the rest of your design via Strategy and Authority.
With a defined Head, you experience a consistent style of mental pressure—inspiration and questions arrive in a reliable way. The gift is steadiness: you can hold a question without needing immediate answers and can inspire others simply by the presence of your inquiry.
The challenge is getting trapped in persistent mental pressure. If the mind tries to run your life from the Head, the pressure can become chronic and distracting.
With an undefined Head, the pressure is not consistent—you sample and amplify the questions, doubts, and inspirations around you. This can be a gift of discernment: you can recognize which questions are truly worth pursuing.
The trap is feeling responsible to answer everything or solve everyone's problems. That creates unnecessary pressure and mental noise.