What Is Gate 28 In Human Design?
Gate 28, the gate of the game player, is a splenic energy that is rooted in the fear that life has no meaning or value. This Gate has to struggle to discover that meaning but it has to be the correct struggle otherwise it is meaningless.
Sometimes people with this energy will feel that life is not fair. It may seem like life is so much more difficult for them than it is for others. To a certain degree, if people with Gate 28 are not following their strategy by type, this can be true. Gate 28 gives a chart a default program of struggle. If you have this energy and you live your strategy, you will engage in the correct struggle, and these struggles will help you discover and share the meaning of life. But if you don’t live your strategy, it’s possible you will focus on the wrong struggles, which just makes life feel hard.
When you don’t have Gate 28, it’s hard to imagine that struggle can be fun. However, people with this can actually learn to embrace the struggle. When the value of life has been mastered, Gate 28 enjoys the challenge. They like pushing the envelope. This is joyful engagement in the challenge of life and taking life to the extreme.
The struggle is challenging, but surmounting the struggle has a tremendous payoff with this gate.
What Are Gates And Gene Keys In Human Design And How Do They Work?
In Human Design there are 64 gates. Gates are extremely helpful for an even deeper insight into your unique design. Gates are a representation of specific energetic themes that give you further insight into your personality, what drives you, your life purpose, your relationships, what fulfills you creatively, and even how your intuition works.
There are two gates for each channel. Your defined gates are energies that you have consistent access to and your open gates can fluctuate depending on what environment you find yourself in. When both gates are defined, it defines the whole channel, as well as definition in the centers at each end of the channel. If you are unfamiliar with channels click here
As with all the energies in the chart, there is a high and a low expression of each gate. As you explore the gates in your chart, consider how that energy may be influencing your life experience. We are designed to be joyful, connected, creative, abundant, and powerful. When you live out the highest expression of the energies in your chart, the magic of life unfolds naturally for you.
The Energy Spectrum of Human Design Gate 28
All energy in the Human Design chart exists on a spectrum.
On the more positive end of the spectrum, Human Design Gate 28 is the energy to face the darkness of life with courage. It embraces the wisdom of fear and allows fear to pass as we move through life. In this relationship with fear, finds deep joy in overcoming obstacles and is able to find meaning throughout life.
At the negative end of the spectrum, Human Design Gate 28 is the fear of dying before finding your purpose or meaningful fulfillment in your life. The negative side of Gate 28 avoids silence, stillness, and deceleration, and tries to dispel fear through risky behavior. This energy can easily push those with Gate 28 into depression, hopelessness, aimlessness and meaninglessness.
If you don’t like the results that the unfavorable side of the spectrum is producing in your life, you can raise your Gate 28 frequency with a variety of boundaries, rituals/practices, and tools to ensure your peace.
The most important way to increase the frequency of Gate 28 is to approach and consciously deal with your fear – especially the fear of death.
The Not-Self Quality of Gate 28, Gene Key 28
The Not-Self of Gate 28, when you are not following your type’s strategy and inner authority, makes decisions from the mind. Not following your strategy, and authority will lead you to take dangerous risks, fail to develop, and become increasingly frustrated- even putting yourself and others in harm’s way.
The not-self jumps from one thing (project, friendship, relationship, job, concept, book, etc.) to another. Always thinking that they will find their purpose but never finding it. There is also potential here for addiction: to drugs, people, gambling, and especially unnecessary drama.
Gate 28: Struggle
Gate 28 is part of the Channel of Struggle, A Design of Stubbornness, linking the Splenic Center (Gate 28) to the Root Center (Gate 38). Gate 28 is part of the Individual, or Knowing, Circuit with the keynote of empowerment.
Gate 28’s deepest fear is that we might die before we know what makes our lives worth living, or what gives our lives meaning. This fear is an energy that is laser-focused on listening with awareness in order to best determine which risks will make us feel more alive, and lead to struggles which bring purpose to our existence.
Splenic awareness constantly alerts us to danger, we are willing to take risks others wouldn’t, to risk life and death. Ultimately, we will spontaneously encounter, and confront, our fears of death one risk at a time. Those who have Gate 28 defined, have access to the energy needed to redirect the self-absorbed nature of people with Channel 57-20 by pushing them to make their intuitive knowledge available to themselves and to others.
Awareness helps those with Gate 38 determine who or what they should invest their energy in. Thus enabling them to better assess the health and safety of whatever they consider worth fighting for. Without Gate 38, we may fall victim to unnecessary pressure to fight or struggle, experiencing endless resistance, and exhaustion. Others look to people with Gate 38 for hints about what they have discovered that makes their life’s struggles worthwhile.
The Game Player and Gate 28
Human Design Gate 28 is “The Game Player.” What game you are playing is really the question. The primary function of Gate 28 is to take risks and face darkness with courage. Sometimes it might feel like a game of chicken or Russian roulette with the universe.
Bitterness and Gate 28
Bitterness will creep in if you are living at the low end of Gate 28. While struggle is productive it can get really old- really fast. You might feel like all of your fights and struggles are pointless. A defined Gate 28 craves struggle and this can lead you to do something the hard way, just for the challenge, rather than taking the easier route. Just because it is easy does not mean that it does not have value. Bitterness can also lead to extra risk just to feel some sort of thrill or excitement. You may rebel against any rule or boundary, or you may struggle with depression, addiction, sadness, or even suicidal ideation.
Fear of Death and Gate 28
Gate 28’s darkest fear is that your life will end before you have the chance to find meaning in it. This energy is laser-focused on determining which risks will make you feel truly alive, and which struggles will bring your life’s meaning. Because Gate 28 is located inside of the Splenic Center, it is always looking for danger and with this awareness of danger, you are willing to take life or death risks that many others would not. Constantly coming face to face with your own mortality brings you to a deep awareness of the purpose and meaning in your life. The more times that you confront your mortality, the more the fear of death lessens.
Finding Joy When You Have Gate 28 In Your Human Design Chart
Gate 28 can feel pretty overwhelming. There is a lot of darkness in Gate 28, but darkness is not always bad. Remember, in Human Design there is no suffering-only opportunities to grow. Take some time to evaluate the gifts that Gate 28 has to offer by asking yourself these questions:
- Are you creating a life for yourself that contains meaning? Have you found a sense of purpose in your life?
- Are you living your life with intent and purpose?
- Have you allowed yourself to break free of your social conditioning, and embrace risk?
- Have you looked deep inside yourself to discover your inherent courage?
- If today was going to be your last day on this earth, would you be happy with how you had lived?
Do I Have Gate 28 In My Life? Get Your Human Design Chart And See
To find your Human Design Gates, visit https://freehumandesignchart.com/. You will need some basic information in order to run your Chart: the location, date, and time of your birth. When you receive your Chart you will see a Body Graph. The Body Graph will show which of the Gates you possess. It is suggested to explore your defined (colored in) gates first and explore your undefined (no colored in) gates once you have an understanding of how your defined gates influence your life.
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