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The sixty four gates

Human Design Gate 41: Contraction

Gate 41 is the hunger that starts a new feeling before there is anything to feel it about. It daydreams whole lives that have not happened.

Written byMilena Chernomorets

fantasyhungerbeginningThe Root centreChannel 30 and 41, Recognition
The bodygraph with gate 41 marked in the Root 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 41 shows up in a life

You feel the wanting first and only later find out what it is for. That gap is uncomfortable, so you tend to attach the fantasy to the nearest available person or plan. Give it a week. Write the daydream down instead of acting on it. Something real usually arrives that fits the shape far better than your first guess.

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