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The sixty four gates

Human Design Gate 51: Shock

Gate 51 moves first and wakes people up by doing it. Shocks come at it and through it, and courage is what it builds out of them.

Written byMilena Chernomorets

shockcourageinitiativeThe Will centreChannel 25 and 51, Initiation
The bodygraph with gate 51 marked in the Will 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 51 shows up in a life

Your life has jolts in it that other people's do not, and each one left you tougher than it found you. You also start things before anyone agrees, which reads as brave or reckless depending on the day. Competition sharpens you. Just check occasionally whether you are climbing because you want the top or because someone else is ahead.

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
36
channels, each closed only when both of its gates are lit