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The sixty four gates

Human Design Gate 8: Contribution

Gate 8 wants to put its own stamp on something shared. It is the urge to contribute what is uniquely yours to work that belongs to everyone.

Written byMilena Chernomorets

contributionstylesharingThe Throat centreChannel 1 and 8, Inspiration
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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 8 shows up in a life

You are drawn to other people's projects when you can see exactly what you would add. Pure execution bores you, credit alone does not interest you either. What matters is that your fingerprint is visible in the result. Choose collaborations where that is welcome, because the alternative slowly turns you into a sulking employee.

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