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The sixty four gates

Human Design Gate 16: Skills

Gate 16 is enthusiasm that turns into skill through repetition. It leaps into things and learns by doing them badly first.

Written byMilena Chernomorets

enthusiasmpracticetalentThe Throat centreChannel 16 and 48, The Wavelength
The bodygraph with gate 16 marked in the Throat centre, and the channels it can complete drawn as dashes12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364
The dashed lines are the channels this gate can complete. Each one also needs the gate at its far end.

How gate 16 shows up in a life

You light up fast and want to start today, before you know anything. That is not a flaw, it is how you learn, but only repetition converts the spark into competence. Most of your abandoned hobbies died in week three, at the boring part. Pick fewer, survive week three, and watch what you are actually capable of.

Read here as a language of symbols. Medical, legal and financial questions belong with a professional.

A round token on paper carrying a hexagram of six horizontal strokes, some whole and some broken in the middle

Around it on the wheel

The gates either side of this one.

Your own chart

Is this gate one of your twenty six activations?

A gate only belongs to you if one of the thirteen planets on either side of your chart landed in it. The calculator lists all twenty six, with the line each one fell in.

Build my Human Design chartHow Human Design worksAll 64 gates

64
gates around the wheel, each one a hexagram of the I Ching
26
of them are lit in any one chart, thirteen from each side
9
centres, and a gate belongs to exactly one of them
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channels, each closed only when both of its gates are lit