Just a reminder: We GROW into and alongside our charts. Combine that with the planetary influence, whether the gate is part of the conscious personality or unconscious design (or both), and whether the gate is in an open or closed center, and you can piece together where this energy impacts your life. You can read all about Mars and the influence it brings here.Įach gate has a slightly different meaning when paired with each line of the hexagram. In the above example, my gate 21.4 lives in Mars. The symbol above the gate and line is the planet where they live. You can read all about the energy of the 4th line here. The second number after the decimal is the line of the hexagram that gate lives on. The first number in the box, usually the largest, is the gate. You can find out this information by looking at the black and red columns to the right and left of the centers in the bodygraph. In addition to the open/closed nature of the center where the gate lives, it’s also important to note which LINE of the hexagram the gate lives on. The capacity was always there…the power just wasn’t until the person with the defined center showed up :) When we’re around folks with those centers defined, it’s like the power all of a sudden gets switched on and the lamp lights up. Think of gates in open centers like light switches that are flipped on, but on their own, no power is flowing to the lamp.

It’s just that they happen to have their Heart Center closed.

It’s not that they’re necessarily DOING ANYTHING that makes me feel competitive. BUT I’ve noticed that there are certain people whose energy hits me in a certain way that bring out that competitive side of my personality that otherwise lies pretty dormant. When I’m alone, or around others with this center open, I’m not at all competitive. For example, I have gate 21 activated within my open Heart Center. If the gate is within an OPEN (UNDEFINED) center, this is a quality or trait that isn’t consistent within you, and emerges primarily when you’re around someone who has the center it lives within closed OR others with this center closed need to be present for you to learn the lesson. You have access to it regardless of whether you’re completely alone or whether you’re in the middle of the masses in Times Square, it’s definitive part of who you are. If the gate is within an CLOSED (DEFINED) center, this is a quality or trait that is fixed and consistent within you, or a lesson that you’re definitively here to learn.

Before we dive too deep into this specific gate, a note about how to interpret the gates within your chart:

Human design gates