Human Design Gates
There are sixty-four gates in the Human Design system. Gates represent specific energetic themes that give you further insight into your personality, what drives you, your life purpose, themes in your relationships, what fulfils you creatively, and even how your intuition works and how you connect to Source.
What Are Gates In Human Design?
In Human Design, a gate is one of 64 specific energy points mapped onto the bodygraph, corresponding to the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching. Each gate represents a particular aspect of human consciousness or potential, influencing personality traits, behaviors, and life experiences. Gates can be defined (consistently expressed) or undefined (open to outside influence) in an individual’s chart, and their interactions form channels that create specific themes or potentials in a person’s life.
As you look at your Human Design Chart, you may notice that your Human Design Energy Centers are connected with lines; some are red or black, some are checkered black/red, and some are white. Lines that connect two Centers and are a combination of white, red, black, or checkered are known as Channels. There are thirty-two Channels in the Human Design Body Graph, and each Channel has two Gates —the number where the Channel connects with that Center is the Gate. Each active Gate in your chart adds a different theme or “flavor” to your personality.
These gates are distributed across the nine energy centers in the bodygraph:
- Head Center
- Ajna Center
- Throat Center
- G Center (Identity)
- Heart Center
- Splenic Center
- Sacral Center
- Solar Plexus Center
- Root Center
The Gates influence various aspects of your personality, behavior, and life experiences.
Gates can be:
- Defined: Consistently expressed energies
- Undefined: Areas where a person may be more open to outside influence
The interaction between gates forms channels, which are believed to create specific themes or potentials in a person’s life.
How Do Gates Work In Human Design?
There are two gates for each channel. The position of the planets at the moment of your birth determines which gates are defined in your chart. Your defined gates are energies you experience consistently. When both gates are defined, it defines the whole channel, as well as definition in the centers at each end of the channel. Even though you will have your unique gates defined in your chart, we all have all of the gates in some form or another. Your open gates will be experienced in multiple ways depending on who you’re with and where you are.
Like all the energies in the chart, there is a high and a low expression of each gate. As you go through the gates in your chart, ask yourself how that energy may be influencing your life. 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.
How Do I Find Out My Human Design Gates?
To find your Human Design Gates, generate your own free Human Design Chart. 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.
Planets In Human Design
In Human Design, the planets are directly related to the activation of gates in an individual’s chart. Here’s how they connect:
The position of the planets at the time of a person’s birth and 88 days prior (known as the Design planets) determines which gates are activated in their chart. Each planet is associated with specific gates:
Sun
Outer Expression -what you’re here to give the world
Earth
What Grounds You – what you need in order to be stable and grounded
North Node
Breathing Out – life theme you’re moving towards after Uranus Opposition (approx. 38-42 yrs.)
South Node
Breathing In – life theme you start in, youth to midlife
Moon
What Drives You – why you do what you do
Mercury
Communication – what you’re here to communicate about and share
Venus
Values – what you really value and love in your relationships
Mars
Immaturity – where you experience your youthful lessons
Jupiter
Blessings – where you receive your rewards and blessings
Saturn
The Great Teacher – what you are here to learn. Brings what you need to release or be challenged by in order to grow
Chiron
The Wounded Healer – part of your Life & Spiritual Purpose or Spiritual Challenge (Challenge if born before 1978.)
Uranus
Where You are Different – your faith teacher. Where you can expect the unexpected
Neptune
Your Spiritual Theme – your (veiled) Spiritual connection/work/purpose
Pluto
Expansion/Challenge (Generational) – where you grow, evolve and transform through a release and rebirth
Defined Gates
Defined gates in Human Design are those that are colored in or activated in your BodyGraph. These gates are considered to be consistent and reliable aspects of your personality and being. They represent areas where you have consistent access to the energy or qualities associated with that gate.
When a gate is defined, it means it is connected to a defined (colored in) channel, which in turn connects two centers in the BodyGraph. Defined gates are aspects of yourself that you can consistently express and may play a significant role in defining your identity, how you interact with the world, and how you fulfill your purpose.
Undefined (or Open) Gates
Undefined or open gates, on the other hand, are those that are not activated (colored in) in your BodyGraph. These gates represent potential areas of growth, learning, and wisdom, but they can also be areas where you might feel inconsistent, vulnerable, or influenced by others.
An undefined gate is not connected to a fully defined (colored in) channel, and therefore, the energy or qualities associated with that gate are not consistently present within you. Instead, you might experience these energies in a more fluctuating manner, depending on your environment or the people around you. Undefined gates are areas where you have the potential to gain wisdom over time through your experiences and interactions with others.
Impact of Defined and Undefined Gates
The distinction between defined and undefined gates is crucial in understanding how you exchange energy with the world around you and how you are influenced by others. Defined gates are like your consistent energetic signatures, while undefined gates offer opportunities for growth and learning but can also be where you are most susceptible to conditioning from external influences.
Conscious Gates
Conscious gates are determined by the time of your birth. These gates are composed of conscious traits that you recognise in yourself.
Unconscious Gates
Unconscious gates are created 88 days before you are born, and create unconscious traits that you may not recognise in yourself.
Hanging Gates
In Human Design, a “hanging gate” refers to a gate that is activated (colored in) on one end but does not form a complete channel because the gate on the other end of the channel is not activated. This concept is part of the BodyGraph, which is a visual representation used in Human Design to depict an individual’s energy system, integrating elements from astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, and the chakra system.
Characteristics of Hanging Gates
Potential for Completion: Hanging gates hold the potential to form a complete channel when connected with the complementary gate in another person’s BodyGraph. This can create a dynamic and energetic exchange between individuals, often leading to significant interactions or relationships.
Themes of Learning and Growth: Since hanging gates represent an open-ended energy, they can signify areas of learning, development, and wisdom acquisition. These are aspects of oneself that may seek fulfillment or expression through interactions with others.
Influence and Conditioning: Individuals with hanging gates may find themselves influenced by or drawn to others who possess the complementary gate defined in their own BodyGraph. This can lead to a mutual exchange of energy, but it also poses a risk of conditioning, where one may adopt traits, behaviors, or beliefs from others in an attempt to “complete” the missing part of the channel.
Individual Uniqueness: Hanging gates highlight the uniqueness of an individual’s energy configuration. They point to specific traits, talents, and areas of focus that, when understood and harnessed properly, can lead to personal growth and fulfillment.
Impact of Hanging Gates
Hanging gates are particularly significant in understanding your Human Design chart because they illustrate both the strength and vulnerability of an individual’s energy system. They show where a person has consistent access to certain energies and potential traits but also where they might seek external completion or validation.
The Channels Between Gates
The connection between two gates is a channel. When this channel is defined (colored in on your Body Graph) it creates a connection between the two gates at either end. Defined channels show your natural gifts; Undefined channels show your areas of weakness.
Human Design Gates Explained
Here is a short explanation of each gate in the Human Design system. Each one is linked to a page that goes deeper into that gate – how it applies to you, your relationships, career, and life.
Gate 1: Self Expression
Gate 1 is the most yang of the hexagrams (yang-yang). This is a powerful energy that pushes on a person’s spirit if they don’t fulfil their need to express themselves creatively. This energy will wake you up at night with the thought that there is something you are supposed to be doing with your life, and if you don’t know what that is, you can become very anxious.
Gate 2: Keeper Of Keys
Gate 2 is the energy for managing wealth. It is the most yin of the hexagrams (yin-yin).
Gate 2 is not necessarily the energy for making money, but it likes money and the comfort of knowing that the financial foundation is secure and supported consistently.
Gate 3: Ordering
Gate 3 is about mutation and transformation. On a genetic level, Gate 3 brings new genetic material that pushes up against old genetic material to see if it can be integrated. On a work level, it seeks to mutate the work experience and response. Gate 3 responds to work that brings change that, without limitation, can often be maladaptive or just plain strange.
Gate 4: Answers
Gate 4 is the gate of the answer. The answer to what, you may wonder. It doesn’t matter. It’s just the answer. Answers come from Gate 4 without a lot of regard for validity. They are merely possibilities that need to be proven over time.
Gate 5: Patterns
Gate 5 is deeply rhythmic. When you have this energy, it is vital that you maintain a routine in order to feel effective and good. You may find that if your routine gets interrupted, you have a hard time getting your day going.
Gate 6: Friction
Gate 6 connects the Sacral to the Emotional Solar Plexus. It is a penetrating energy, meaning that it can break into people’s auras. It is emotional and energetic, not seductive.
Gate 7: Self In Interaction
Gate 7 is here to serve a leadership that is bigger than itself. Because it is designed to support the leadership, the low expression of Gate 7 often struggles to try to take leadership, but usually without much success. These are energies that have to be recognized and are, by nature, truly democratic in their highest expression. You cannot force leadership with this energy. It won’t last.
Gate 8: Contribution
Gate 8 feels the need to make a contribution. Gate 8 wants to get things done, make a difference, create change, but it can’t unless it hooks with the correct energies and it gets recognition. The key here is correct timing and the right energies. Sometimes, that means waiting, which can be especially hard when there is a world to change.
Gate 9: Focus
Gate 9 is the energy for focus. Whenever you see this in a chart, you know there is always the capacity for obsessive behavior and thinking. To a certain degree, Gate 9 will amp up all the energies of a chart, especially if the energy makes it to the Throat Center and isn’t split off. Gate 9 has the ability to focus, but not necessarily for long periods of time. You are focused but also constantly moving.
Gate 10: Love Of Self
Gate 10 is one of the most significant gates. It is rooted in the Identity Center and associated with empowerment. The energy of empowerment in this gate is lived out by example: someone with this gate empowers others to live out their magnificence by demonstrating their own magnificence. Gate 10 can be a difficult energy. In its highest expression, this is a gate of taking personal responsibility and acting in an empowered way. In its low expression, it is the energy for blaming others and taking a victim stance.
Gate 11: Ideas
If you imagine that creativity is a stream, most of us go down to it with a cup and drink from it. People with Gate 11 go down to the Stream of Creativity with twenty washbasins and stand on the banks wondering what to do with all their ideas. Gate 11 is filled with more ideas than one will ever be able to bring into form in a lifetime.
Gate 12: Caution
Gate 12 is cautious because it needs to know whether it is being honored or not. The root expression of this caution is shyness if the mood is not right and boldness if it is. Gate 12 is also a powerful energy that plugs into Source, and people with this energy, especially if it is defined on an open Throat Center, have a tendency to channel or prophesize.
Gate 13: Listener
Gate 13 is kind of magical. It’s an energy that creates a very interesting response in the people around it. Gate 13 compels others to share their secrets with them. If a person has this energy, people will tell them anything and everything—even people they don’t know. This is the energy of the listener. When you have this energy, you are a storyteller, but most importantly a story “keeper.”
Gate 14: Power Skills
Gate 14 is a purely generated gate. Here we have the energy for working to make money. But it’s not only working for money, it can be responding to opportunities to generate resources. This is the energy for power skills, important social connections, and all of the things we think of when we think of wealth.
Gate 15: Extremes
Gate 15 is a powerful, multifaceted energy. This is the gate of extremes— particularly extremes in rhythm. People with Gate 15 are always trying to find their rhythm, but it changes all the time. If they can find a consistent rhythm, it will be different and extreme. This can sometimes make relationships challenging.
Gate 16: Skills
Gate 16 is enthusiasm without depth (unless it is paired with Gate 48). This is the “just do it” gate; it will just do things and figure out the details later. The good news is that Gate 16 is usually imbued with natural talent and can often get away with the superficial expression of talent it carries. Gate 16 gives us the energy to leap out of bed and get truly excited about our creative endeavors.
Gate 17: Opinions
With the energy of Gate 17, we launch new ideas, ideas that are still to be proven. It’s an energy of curiosity, not certainty. The energy of logic is mastery over time through the correction of patterns.
Gate 18: Correction
Gate 18 is the intuition to make things perfect. It is the gate of the editor and the accountant. This is also a splenic gate, so there is no thinking here, just intuitive understanding. And, of course, fear. The fear of this gate is that nothing will be perfect, and as with all splenic gates, there is potential for someone to shut down because they will “never get it right.”
Gate 19: Wanting
Gate 19 is very sensitive. There is a real need for emotional honesty in this channel, as the emotional sensitivity helps make the decision whether to invest in a relationship or not. If a relationship doesn’t “feel good,” it is difficult to achieve intimacy. Gate 19 can be very sensitive to shifts in emotional energy.
Gate 20: Metamorphosis
Gate 20 is powerful. It brings the entire Integration Circuit to the Throat, which dictates the expression (or not) of intuitive awareness of right action. Gate 20 has the potential to meet with empowerment, the self, intuition, power, and life force in a mutative way.
Gate 21: The Treasurer
Gate 21 is the gate of the treasurer. It is here that we see the ultimate control of resources. This is a highly material channel that wants to control physical resources.
People with this energy love their things. They might buy a new car and park it way at the back edges of the parking lot in order to avoid door dings. Gate 21 can seem very controlling to others. Even though this energy has the potential to meet the Throat, on its own it is projected, meaning people won’t allow themselves to be controlled unless they ask for it first.
Gate 22: Openness
People with Gate 22 can be very graceful and charming if they are in the mood. They know how to “work the room” and can be great fundraisers and sponsors. The true blessing in this gate comes from the realization that beauty and grace come from within, and that sharing this inner world needs to be done only with those who are willing to wait and cherish them. When inner beauty and grace are mastered, the right beholder recognizes the beauty and creates space for its expression.
Gate 23: Assimilation
Gate 23 can be a real game-changer, as it recognizes that all foundations can be split apart with new thoughts and awareness. The real power to transform and serve as a catalyst for evolution lies in the capacity of Gate 23 to wait for the correct timing. With correct timing, an invitation, and recognition, the words of Gate 23 can change the world—or at least the world of the person they are sharing their life with. If Gate 23 waits until the time is right, its insights can be perceived as a genius. If Gate 23 does not have good timing, it can be perceived as “freakish” or ineffective.
Gate 24: Rationalization
Gate 24 is the energy for rationalizing. In the mutative process, Gate 24 says “two steps forward and one step back is still one step forward.” The more you study Human Design, the clearer it will be that every step of expansion is followed by a contraction. We never go back to our original placement, but there is a grounding of expansion that allows for its correct progression.
Gate 25: Love Of Spirit
With Gate 25 we move from the shock of initiation into the love of Spirit. Here we have a sweet, loving energy that has absolutely no shock in it. This is pure love, and you feel it when you stand in the aura of this energy. The challenge for people with Gate 25 is understanding why other people do the things they do. When someone with this gate witnesses something they perceive as not loving, they can be confused. But if they try to speak to the situation, they cannot change it. The challenge of this energy is to be love while refraining from spreading love unless invited. Again, there is no convincing or talking here—only being.
Gate 26: The Trickster
Gate 26 is the gate of the salesman. Gate 26 has the energy to orchestrate the closing of a deal. It has the energy to transmit that the dream is a great idea and should be “bought” by the tribe. The tribe then, of course, delivers the resources to bring the dream into form. Gate 26 can be tricky, though. The energy here is truth or not. A good salesman will sell you a good dream and fulfill the promise. But the energy here is about sales. Sometimes a salesman will sell just to sell, and then he ends up being a snake-oil salesman.
Gate 27: Responsibility
The caring of Gate 27 is all about responsibility and education. A well-fed tribe has optimal neurological development, which allows everyone to continue to live out the values of the tribe. Gate 27 has a responsibility to transmit the values of the tribe through education and disbursement of resources. It delivers the food and teaches the tribe how to grow and distribute more.
Gate 28: Struggle
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. Gate 28 has to struggle to discover that meaning. But it has to be the correct struggle—otherwise, it is meaningless.
Gate 29: Perseverance
Gate 29 has a tendency to say yes to everything, especially when it is not using the Sacral strategy of response. Gate 29 is designed to be perseverant and determined, and part of that expression is the commitment to do. When Gate 29 is not living its strategy, it can commit itself to death.
Gate 30: Desire
Gate 30 brings us the energy for intensity and desire. In the traditional I Ching, this energy is called the clinging fire. The theme of this channel is to wait for the right timing to express or take action. Gate 30 gives us the energy to hold on to an idea and let it simmer until the timing is right. Gate 30 has an intense tenacity that can often drive other people insane or burn them out. But when acted upon correctly, it gives us the passion and the drive to manifest the next new experience.
Gate 31: Democracy
With Gate 31 we have natural leadership that must be recognized in order to be effective. This is the expression of democracy . . . leadership that has been proven effective over time through repeated applications of theory. This gate serves best when it seeks to serve the people. The best question to ask yourself if you are working with this energy is, “How may I be of service?”
Gate 32: Continuity
Gate 32 is the intuition to know when a dream is worth bringing into form and reality. Gate 32 wants to provide the energy to make it happen, but it has no energy of its own. Here we have the intuition and wisdom to know that something could be transformative and successful, yet the entire process rests on whether or not someone recognizes the value. It requires an enormous amount of trust.
Gate 33: Privacy
Gate 33 innately recognizes that the stories of people’s lives are sacred and vulnerable. This is where memory is stored. Gate 33 takes the energy of the witness and holds on to the memory, only sharing the memory if the timing is correct. The danger with this energy is that in its lowest expression, it holds on to the past, fearful of the possibility of it repeating itself
Gate 34: Power
Gate 34 is the busiest gate in the chart and one of the most powerful. Because it is rooted in the Sacral, it is generated energy-and life force-based. This is the only gate coming out of the Sacral that has the potential to be asexual.
Gate 35: Change
Gate 35 is the final expression of experiential energy. This energy follows fantasy and desire. It’s tried everything, had every experience, and it is capable and sometimes jaded.
There is a maturity rooted in experience with Gate 35. It knows life and knows how to learn what’s necessary. People with Gate 35 are rarely stymied about life. They understand life experience and can, with little hesitation and limitation, learn just about anything
Gate 36: Crisis
Gate 36 is the emotional impulse of desire. Gate 36 wants what it wants, and if it waits, it can have it. If it doesn’t wait, it leaps into chaos and crisis. Gate 36 is always longing for the next new experience. It is plagued by boredom and has a tendency to leap into things without waiting for clarity purely in pursuit of the next new experience.
Gate 37: Friendship
Gate 37 is a very clear and simple gate. It wants one thing and one thing only: harmony. Gate 37 will work for peace and, if the timing isn’t correct, wait for peace. Gate 37 on its own seeks to join with others and communicate to create peace and harmony.
Gate 38: The Fighter
Gate 38 struggles to know what is worth fighting for. It seeks purpose and meaning to life and essentially pushes us (with adrenaline energy) to find our life purpose. Why are we here, and how can we live a life that reflects our purpose? What are the truly valuable things in life? People who have this energy can be somewhat stubborn by design. When they have determined that something is valuable, they hold on to it, fight for it, and don’t let go. They’re people who can transform the world with their mutation if it survives the struggle.
Gate 39: Provocation
Gate 39 holds a deeply emotional and rich energy. People with this gate can be very musical, creative, and passionate. This gate is challenging and provocative. The provocation can be lighthearted, teasing, and fun, or it can poke you, stirring up negative emotions and fear. Consequently, Gate 39 can be a little tricky for the people who have it and for the people who are affected by it.
Gate 40 Loneliness
Gate 40 is one of the “alone” gates and requires a deep willingness to accept that its energy is “not personal.” People with Gate 40 need alone time but can also struggle with loneliness. The energy of Gate 40 can feel deeply alone and lonely. But the truth of Gate 40 is that it drives a person to seek out others. In other words, Gate 40 is the energy of a part seeking a whole or a loner seeking a tribe.
Gate 41: Fantasy
The energy of Gate 41 is well-suited for visualizing and imagining. While these are somewhat “mental” activities, what makes Gate 41 unique is that when the timing feels correct, Gate 41 can take action. Gate 41 is an idea that is waiting for the right timing so that it can be expressed into action.
Gate 42: Finishing Things
Gate 42 is the gate of coming into the middle of a situation or experience and finishing it. Those with Gate 42 can be an excellent project manager or consultant, provided the start-up phase of a project is complete when they enter into it. Gate 42 can feel deeply frustrated when it is not responding to opportunities to finish things. The correct energy for starting will manifest when Gate 42 is waiting to respond to the right experience
Gate 43: Insight
The highest expression of the Gate 43 is the power to see an alternative to old ways of doing things and to create a new, empowered means to a high-minded end. Gate 43 states that the ends and the means must match. The ends cannot justify the means if the ends are destructive and damaging. It is the gate of the inner ear and listens internally to what is correct. Gate 43 must wait for the right opportunity to express its breakthrough.
Gate 44: Energy
Gate 44 is part of the energy of sales. It creates an atmosphere that enhances the closing of a sale. Gate 44 makes things “look good.” They create beautiful materials that sell. Many graphic designers and marketers work with this energy.
Gate 45: The King Or Queen
Gate 45 is the gate of the king or queen. This is the energy of natural leadership. People with Gate 45 will naturally be recognized as leaders with influence. This is not democratic leadership; this is easy and effortless leadership that has a regal feel to it.
Gate 46: Love Of Body
Gate 46 is all about the physical embodiment of love. It understands that the body is a vehicle for the soul and is all about movement and living in the body. It is sensual, graceful, experiential, and grounded. People with this energy are deeply present to the body, and we see a lot of yoga teachers, dancers, and even portrait photographers with this energy.
Gate 47: Realization
Gate 47 can be referred to as the mindset gate. When it operates with the expectation that the answer to how to do something will come, then it can move forward with confidence that its inspiration will somehow be answered by action, serendipity, and the magic of the Universe.
Gate 48: Depth
Gate 48 is a splenic fear-based gate. It is afraid that it will never know enough, that it will always be inadequate. The challenge with Gate 48 is to “just do it” even when you are scared.
Gate 49: Principles
Gate 49 is the gatekeeper that allows the flow of energy to move toward a partnership or not. It determines the principles of intimacy held by a couple.
Gate 50: Values
Values and laws are stored in Gate 50. This gate has the ability to penetrate other people’s auras. When you are with Gate 50, you will obey the rules and values of the tribe. Even if you are deeply individual, the energy of Gate 50 will force you energetically to be tribal. You will care and support even if it isn’t inherent in your design.
Gate 51: Shock
Gate 51 is one of the most interesting gates in the Human Design system. It is very competitive or projects competitive energy and is the shock aspect of initiation. Many people with this gate will be shocking just for fun!
Gate 52: Stillness
The energy of Gate 52 is the potential to sit in concentration, very still and very quietly, for long periods of time. Sometimes you might call this gate the couch potato gate.
Gate 53: Starting Things
Gate 53 contains the energy for getting things started. When responding, this channel is always starting the right experience or bringing the energy of starting to others. Gate 53 is full of good intentions. Gate 53 is notorious for starting things and struggling to get them finished. It is normal for this gate to have all kinds of unfinished projects lying around the house.
Gate 54: Drive
Gate 54 is the seat of ambition. It will work hard to fulfill its dreams and to get recognized. The irony is that there is not actually much energy here. As this gate works to provide and is based in Will energy, Gate 54 will work and work and work without rest until it collapses.
Gate 55: Spirit
Gate 55 is the gate of abundance in Spirit. It is a beautiful, powerful, and potentially world-changing energy.
Gate 56: The Storyteller
Gate 56 is one of the gifted-teaching gates. Gate 56 can be a great teacher who can effectively use metaphors to teach and share. They can share the stories that help humanity understand its experience on the planet.
Gate 57: Intuition
Gate 57 is the most intuitive gate in the Human Design system. In the traditional I Ching, the fifty-seventh hexagram is the gentle wind that parts the clouds so the sun can shine through. The penetrating intuition of Gate 57 allows the truth to be revealed. It is clear and in the now. Sometimes we call Gate 57 the gate of clarity.
Gate 58: Joy
Gate 58 is the energy for the joy of life. People with this gate always have a smile on their faces if they live their strategy. These people intuitively understand joy and tend not to take things too seriously.
Gate 59: Sexuality
Gate 59 is the gate of seduction. This is pure life force energy, the energy for sexuality or not. People with Gate 59 try to get to the bottom of intimacy, but the investigation may be theoretical. Gate 59 seeks to master intimacy with investigation. They may know a lot about intimacy, but none of their knowledge may be experiential.
Gate 60: Acceptance
Gate 60 is the energy for the old or established genetic energy. This is the place in the chart where “old” genetic energy meets up with “new” genetic information to create mutation. Gate 60 is conservative and seeks to hold on to what is known to work before it makes a change.
Gate 61: Mystery
Gate 61 is the initiating sequence to mutative thinking and has the task of transmitting its knowingness without the benefit of logic. Gate 61 knows, period. The end. And if you try to get Gate 61 to explain how it knows, you’re missing the point.
Gate 62: Details
Gate 62 is the Gate of Details, the small details that keep the momentum of opinions flowing toward energy. Gate 62 asks, “What if we did it like this? What if we put this over here, and place all the files in this basket? Then would we be able to create an organizational pattern?” Even if they don’t look organized, they know where everything is.
Gate 63: Doubt
Gate 63 contains the inspiration for logic. Gate 63 on its own is full of doubt and suspicion, followed by a demand for proof.
Gate 64: Confusion
Gate 64 is the gate of the left eye and the right hemisphere of the brain. Information and inspiration comes in large chunks or “downloads.” An entire idea is formed seemingly out of thin air, without the sequential gifts of logic. One moment there is nothing, the next moment there is a big idea.
How Gates Affect Channels In Human Design
When two defined gates connect by a channel, the channel creates an energetic connection between the two gates. This creates a defined channel and displays energetic themes that you consistently experience in your life.
How To Apply Your Human Design Gates In Your Life
Understanding your Human Design gates can be particularly beneficial in various aspects of life, offering insights into your personal energy, behaviors, and potential life path. Here are key moments or circumstances when gaining an understanding of your Human Design gates could be especially important:
Personal Growth and Self-Understanding
Self-awareness: Learning about your gates can help you understand your innate traits, strengths, and areas for growth, leading to greater self-awareness and self-acceptance.
Personal development: Identifying the themes of your defined and undefined gates can guide you in personal development efforts, highlighting areas where you may seek to gain wisdom or strengthen your inherent qualities.
Relationships and Social Interactions
Improving relationships: Understanding the gates in your chart and how they interact with the gates in others’ charts can improve your relationships by highlighting areas of compatibility, potential friction, and mutual growth opportunities.
Communication: Knowledge of your gates can aid in enhancing communication skills by understanding your unique way of expressing yourself and recognizing how others may perceive and respond to you.
Career and Professional Life
Career direction: Your gates can offer insights into your professional inclinations and talents, helping you to choose a career path that aligns with your natural energies and strengths.
Workplace dynamics: Understanding the dynamics of your gates in relation to those of your colleagues can foster better teamwork and collaboration, as well as mitigate conflicts.
Health and Well-being
Managing stress and well-being: Certain gates might indicate how you handle stress and challenges. Recognizing these can help you develop healthier coping mechanisms and improve your overall well-being.
Physical health: Some gates are associated with specific physical aspects or potential health issues. Awareness of these can prompt proactive measures in lifestyle or health management.
Spiritual and Life Path Exploration
Life purpose: Gates can provide profound insights into your life’s purpose or mission, guiding you toward fulfilling activities or roles that resonate with your true self.
Spiritual growth: Understanding the spiritual themes of your gates can aid in your spiritual journey, offering directions for growth, exploration, and the realization of your potential.
Decision-Making and Life Transitions
Navigating changes: During significant life transitions, such as moving, changing jobs, or entering or exiting relationships, your Human Design gates can offer guidance on how to align these changes with your authentic self.
Decision-making: Insights from your gates can assist in making decisions that are in harmony with your inherent nature, leading to more fulfilling outcomes.
Human Design gives us a path to decondition from what society imposes on us through our lives. When we follow our unique strategy and trust in our sacred authority, our lives flow with ease. Knowing what gates we have allows us to check in with our unique design to make decisions that benefit our lives. The wisdom contained in your gates can provide information on how to live your best life.
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