The 64 Gates in Human Design

This is my Human Design Mandala

A trip around the wheel

Here is a list of the 64 gates in numerical order with brief descriptions. The highlighted gate numbers are linked to a Solar Transit post that goes into more detail about how the gate may express itself. Solar Transits posts are filtered through my perspective as I see the energy move around the wheel. These are just potentials and everyone experiences the energies of these gates filtered through their own Human Design. Enjoy!

Gate 1
SELF EXPRESSION / THE CREATIVE:
The creative has immense capacity for individual creativity. It always attracts attention but needs to work alone, “I have to do it my way.” This creative energy comes and goes in a blink of an eye – it’s there and it’s gone. People with this gate are at their best when immersed in creativity without a thought of a specific goal.

Gate 2
DIRECTION OF THE SELF / RECEPTIVE
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The receptive has a flair for innovative guidance and inherently knows where something or someone needs to go. Without the energy of the 14th gate you may not have the consistent energy to get there.

Gate 3
ORDERING / DIFFICULTY AT THE BEGINNING
:
Bringing order to chaos takes time. When you first begin something unknown it can be a challenge until you get comfortable. This energy is always ready to do something new, however needs discipline to wait for the right moment and conditions for their potential to emerge.

Gate 4
FORMULIZATION / YOUTHFUL FOLLY
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Formulization energy always need questions to resolve, to answer. However, it’s only a concept in this gate and has to be tested and verified. Mental anxiety is possible when the mind doesn’t understand something. Questions that are answered are then replaced by new ones to resolve.

Gate 5
FIXED RHYTHMS / WAITING
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People with this gate need fixed rhythms, routines and habits in their lives. A sense of security comes from their own fixed rhythms and keeps them healthy.

Gate 6
FRICTION / CONFLICT
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designed to be discriminating emotionally and sexually; here to learn to control the flood of emotions; this gate is a guard that governs when we are open or closed to intimacy

Gate 7
THE ROLE OF THE SELF IN INTERACTION / THE ARMY
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inborn impulse to lead, but need to be invited/elected to do so; the power behind the throne

Gate 8
CONTRIBUTION / HOLDING TOGETHER
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gift of knowing how to draw people’s attention to a truth & yourself; need to express your own individual contribution; need to promote something

Gate 9
FOCUS / THE TAMING POWER OF THE SMALL
:
capacity to focus and detailed work; determination and commitment to a process that involves great staying power

Gate 10
BEHAVIOR OF THE SELF / TREADING
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your life is an expression of your uniqueness; gate of the Love of Oneself

Gate 11
IDEAS / PEACE
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mind with constant stream of changing ideas, most of which are never intended to manifest, but to be shared with others; love stimulation and need to stimulate others

Gate 12
CAUTION / STANDSTILL
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naturally cautious about others understanding you clearly; extremely articulate when in the right mood and then they can also strongly impact others emotionally, can hear their emotional quality when they hear themselves speak

Gate 13
LISTENER / THE FELLOWSHIP OF MAN
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natural listeners; often hear what others do not; always hearing other people’s secrets; natural recorders of history who attract sharing experiences from others

Gate 14
POWER SKILLS / POSSESSION IN GREAT MEASURE
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your creative potential lies in loving the work you do; power to find your unique direction in life, skills & commitment to drive new projects; must do what you love only

Gate 15
EXTREMES / MODESTY
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need to adjust & adapt your rhythm to changing circumstances; no fixed rhythm in life, embracing different rhythms & extremes; thrive on diversity and need to remain constantly fluid; the Love of Humanity; very magnetic presence

Gate 16
SKILLS / ENTHUSIASM
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can never get enough skills; skilled in having many skills; honing artistic or scientific skills through repetition; eventual mastery beyond technique

Gate 17
OPINION / FOLLOWING
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you form logical opinions in order to be of service; need to organize the solution to your doubts into a workable concept so that you can express it to others; recognition of patterns, structures and frameworks

Gate 18
CORRECTION / WORK ON WHAT HAS BEEN SPOILT
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gift for always seeing the faults in everything & everyone in order to make improvements; you see what’s wrong, knowing what pattern is flawed & feel happy when challenging it; gifted critic

Gate 19
NEED / APPROACH
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your needs (emotional & material) require successful interaction with others; you pressure others to bring awareness to the needs of the immediate environment or group; especially basic needs: food, shelter and sex

Gate 20
NOW / CONTEMPLATION
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can only see life in the present moment, totally absorbed in it; everything has to be now; their words or actions simply happen in the now

Gate 21
HUNTER/HUNTRESS /
BITING THROUGH:
must be materially independent, thrive when given control; need and a gift for being in control, especially money, food, territory and lifestyle, archetypal managing director

Gate 22
OPENNESS / GRACE
:
huge pressure to express their feelings; emotional spirit of the individual transmitted to the others as mood; deeply social, but depending on the mood; stay home when in the bad mood; when good they have almost magnetic natural charm

Gate 23
ASSIMILATION / SPLITTING APART
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recognition depends entirely upon the timing of when you speak and how you can express yourself; potentially gifted in expressing mental concepts in words; innovative insights that bring new ways of thinking; mutative

Gate 24
RATIONALIZATION / THE RETURN
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you go over and over things, seeking to rationalize them; mind selecting useful & potentially inspiring ideas for others; without clarity, your mind can become your enemy, constantly reviewing & directing your life

Gate 25
SPIRIT OF THE SELF-INNOCENCE
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your true initiation is to remain innocent despite circumstances; capable of deep compassion (universal unconditional love); challenges tests & deepen your innocence, growing from childish to child-like

Gate 26
EGOIST / THE TAMING POWER OF THE GREAT
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maximum reward for minimum output; archetypal salesman, trickster who can manipulate any situation to your advantage; demand reward for their skills

Gate 27
CARING / NOURISHMENT
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here to preserve & protect themselves and/or others; easily end up scarifying for the wellbeing of others

Gate 28
GAME PLAYER / GREATNESS
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always ready to take risks in order to find meaning in life; potential of an individual to know spontaneously what is worth fighting for or not; fear of life running out; need to find one’s purpose; if the struggle is worthwhile, then it’s a wonderful process, no matter how hard

Gate 29
SAYING YES / THE ABYSMAL
{limitless}:
power to commit to a process without the need to know where it will take you; the Yes is a yes to a whole new cycle of things; must be careful not to over-commit yourself

Gate 30
FEELINGS / CLINGING FIRE
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can never be free from desires; gate of desire, source of all emotional aches and yearnings; may not know what they’re longing for, but driven to try all kinds of new things and possibly gain wisdom – or not; impersonal experiences

Gate 31
LEADING / INFLUENCE
:
best in showing others how to attain future goals, rather then leading them themselves; very influential when speaking with the right timing; need to be elected/invited

Gate 32
CONTINUITY / DURATION
:
in-born instinct for the true value of anything or anyone; financial manager; conservative by nature, knowing that restrain ensures continuity and long term success

Gate 33
PRIVACY / RETREAT
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you need regular time alone in order to reflect on the past; power to express the experience and its underlying lessons/secrets, but need to withdraw into privacy to process the experience yourself first

Gate 34
POWER / THE POWER OF THE GREAT
:
generally independent and self-centered, but not having to feel guilty about it; vital energy that emerges naturally; urge to display how different one is from others; busy; self-empowerment

Gate 35
CHANGE / PROGRESS
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sample many different things in life in order to learn from them; ready to try new experiences; hunger for something new; if they jump into something new without following their S&A, crises is usually the result

Gate 36
CRISIS / DARKENING OF THE LIGHT
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here to grow through profound emotional experiences; emotional turbulence; here to learn to handle emotional experiences; constant change that can be both very exciting or deeply overwhelming

Gate 37
FRIENDSHIP / FAMILY
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you need recognition through family or community; you hold the family/community together; natural nurturer; friendships build on a bargain

Gate 38
FIGHTER / OPPOSITION
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at best when against odds; natural born warrior; love a good fight; always ready to stand up for your independence; pressure to establish a purpose in life

Gate 39
PROVOCATION / OBSTRUCTION
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here to provoke spirit (and emotions) of others; gate of flirting; your mood determines whether you provoke pleasure or pain, joy/sadness

Gate 40
ALONENESS / DELIVERANCE
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you need to balance work and rest; always sought after for your ability to work hard within a community/family/business; breadwinner

Gate 41
CONTRACTION / DECREASE
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driven by constant urge to experience new feelings; impulse to do something new; gate of fantasy and dreaming, excitement and/or thirst for destiny; pressure that is often experienced as restlessness

Gate 42
GROWTH / INCREASE
:
need to always finish what you’ve begun; power and the commitment to follow anything all the way through

Gate 43
INSIGHT / BREAKTHROUGH
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Real gift for expressing yourself in a unique and creative way; your inner voice is always structuring your knowing; only know what you’re interested in and are not necessarily interested in what others know; gate of Deafness

Gate 44
ALERTNESS / COMING TO MEET
:
instinctive knowledge of the capabilities of others; archetypal personnel manager; can see gifts/skills and potential of others; nose for people

Gate 45
THE GATHERER / GATHERING TOGETHER
:
King or Queen, here to oversee the future and wealth of the community; tribal leader who gives the final seal of approval to the new law; educating others in how to come together for the wealth of community

Gate 46
DETERMINATION / PUSHING UPWARDS
:
always in the right place at the right time when you let go of their expectations; it’s about loving the perfection of experience – no matter how unpleasant, every experience is right

Gate 47
REALIZATION / OPPRESSION
:
understand life through relating to their personal experience; huge pressure to conceptualize past experiences, mind full of images, collage

Gate 48
DEPTH / WELL
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born with the wisdom so natural that you rarely see yourself; fount of the wisdom, waiting for the right moment to share new solutions for things/problems

Gate 49
REJECTION / REVOLUTION
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your principles may cause you to reject or be rejected; gate where the principles of any relationship are established – and you reject those who don’t accept these principles; gate of divorce & revolution

Gate 50
VALUES / THE CAULDRON
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here to establish or challenge values or responsibilities within society; inbuilt sense of responsibility to the community; upholding or challenging laws that determine the well being of community

Gate 51
SHOCK / AROUSING
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need to test themselves in order to be best or first at something; very competitive; loves going where no one else dares, beyond themselves

Gate 52
STILLNESS / KEEPING STILL
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deep staying power, as long as you find the right outlet through which you can be of service; focus and concentration; locked pressure to remain in one place without moving

Gate 53
BEGINNINGS / DEVELOPMENT
:
constant pressure to begin something new; potentially deeply bored and trapped when stuck facing the same old situations

Gate 54
AMBITION / MARRYING
MAIDEN:
limitless drive to be materially successful, to get ahead, move up the social ladder and attain higher status/ drive to make money; driving forces in the community and business

Gate 55
SPIRIT / ABUNDANCE
:
deeply melancholic, musical and/or romantic; must honor moods at all costs; emotional highs and lows; looking for the perfect emotional state, acoustic

Gate 56
STIMULATION / THE WANDERER
:
using your own past experiences to illustrate your concepts and stimulate others; storyteller; only interested in getting an emotional reaction from your listeners

Gate 57
INTUITIVE CLARITY / THE GENTLE
:
intuitive awareness that always ensures survival & well being; deepest intuitions; attuned to vibrations & sounds

Gate 58
VITALITY / JOYOUS
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love of challenging authority simply for the joy of the challenge; drive to improve things around you; vitality to challenge conditioning

Gate 59
SEXUALITY / DISPERSION
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driven to reproduce, whether that be children or creative projects; desire to be sexually intimate

Gate 60
ACCEPTANCE / LIMITATION
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The pressure and fuel to bring lasting changes into the world. This energy pulses (on and off) with pressure to mutate and bring something totally new into the world. The lesson is to accept limitation to transcend it.

Gate 61
MYSTERY / INNER TRUTH
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Under mental pressure to resolve what is unknown. This energy brings mutative inspiration with potentially lasting impact on others and can be great thinkers who love unknown. The lesson is to accept some things are unknowable.

Gate 62
DETAILS / PREPONDERANCE OF THE SMALL
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Eye for details & always need to know the facts. This energy organizes and labels things to come up with a clear formulae and can pick out precise details in complex situations.

Gate 63
DOUBT / AFTER COMPLETION
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Scientific, naturally skeptical minds that question the validity of everything. This energy brings a pressure of needing the answer and won’t trust something until they can prove it for themselves.

Gate 64
CONFUSION / BEFORE COMPLETION
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Constant mental pressure to make sense out of past issues or events. The gift comes with accepting confusion as part of their life. These are very visual minds.