How To Work With Your Gates In Human Design
The Gates In Human Design
The numbers on the sides of your Human Design chart show your activated gates/gene keys and represent energies you always carry with you.
In the Human Design System, gates are inspired by the specific points within the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, a Chinese divination system that correspond to specific energies or themes.
Each gate is represented by a number from 1 to 64 and is associated with a certain energetic quality or theme. The placement of these gates within a person's Human Design chart provides insight into their unique characteristics, tendencies, and potential. Find the full blog post explaining the gates here.
How To Work With Your Gates
Learn and Identify Your Gates:
Use your birth information (birthdate, birth time, and birth location) to pull your Human Design Chart for free from mybodygraph.com or bodygraph.io you can look up each of the numbers that are on the sides of your chart that show which gate activations you are carrying with you energetically. Once you identify all of your gates you can start to learn about the specific energies and potentials associated with each and where in your chart they are activated and look for patterns and themes. If you’d like this done for you, you can get a full 40+ page report with each detailed gate placement and your key themes outlined here.
Get to Know Your Gates:
Once you understand your gates intellectually, watch for how these show up in your life and how they express through you. Technically, each gate has six different ways it can express and a shadow and light expression of those six types. How you express your gates will be unique to you in context of the rest of your design and life’s experiences. Knowing your gates, can bring deeper self-awareness to cultivate self-understanding and knowledge.
Embrace Your Strengths:
Knowing your gates can help you identify your strengths and talents that you may have been conditioned out of embracing because it felt undervalued in your family of origin or your greater collective experiences. By seeing these strengths and innate qualities you hold, it can help you reconnect to pieces of yourself you’ve forgotten or lost. By embracing these qualities again, you can further developing these areas of your life.
Work on Your Challenges:
Understanding the gates in your chart can also help you identify areas where you may struggle or face challenges. You can work on developing strategies to overcome these challenges and develop new skills to help you navigate these areas of your life. It can also empower you to adjust your relationship and expression of the energy to support your goals and values.
Use Your Gates to Make Decisions:
Knowing your gates can help you make more informed decisions in your life. Along with your Human Design authority (decision-making style), you can use the energy and potentials associated with each gate to help guide your choices and actions looking at how aligned potential paths and opportunities are with the qualities you uniquely hold.
Seek Support from Others:
If you are struggling with a particular gate or area of your life, you can seek support from others who may have experience or expertise in that area. You can also connect with other people who have the same gates in their charts to learn from their experiences.
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