retreat curatorby milena chernomorets

The sixty four gates

Human Design Gate 2: Direction of the Self

Gate 2 knows which way to face long before it knows how to get there. It is a receptive sense of direction that other people often borrow without asking.

directionreceptivityknowingThe Identity centreChannel 2 and 14, The Beat
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The dashed lines are the channels this gate can complete. Each one also needs the gate at its far end.

How gate 2 shows up in a life

You rarely explain the choice well, yet the choice keeps turning out right. Plans made at a desk feel dead, while a walk or an empty morning gives you the answer whole. Being asked to justify it too early spoils it. Notice how often you already knew, and stop arguing yourself out of the first pull.

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

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

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gates around the wheel, each one a hexagram of the I Ching
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of them are lit in any one chart, thirteen from each side
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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