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The sixty four gates

Human Design Gate 20: The Now

Gate 20 lives in the present tense and speaks from it. What it says arrives in the moment, unplanned and often surprisingly exact.

Written byMilena Chernomorets

presencenowawarenessThe Throat centreChannel 10 and 20, AwakeningChannel 20 and 34, CharismaChannel 20 and 57, The Brainwave
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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 20 shows up in a life

You hear yourself say the right thing at the same second everyone else does. Rehearsed speeches go flat, improvised ones land. The other half of this is impatience, since anything scheduled for next month barely feels real. Build a life with short loops and immediate work, and let someone else hold the five-year plan.

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