Your numbers, in plain language

A free poster of all 64 gates, one flag for each. Print it, pin it up, and start learning the language of your chart.

Where the 64 gates come from

Human Design takes the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, the old Chinese Book of Changes, and sets them around a wheel together with the 12 signs of the zodiac. Each hexagram becomes a gate. So the 64 gates and the 64 hexagrams are the same 64 archetypes, each one a theme of human experience, from Self-Expression (Gate 1) to Confusion (Gate 64).

Your chart is drawn from two moments: the moment you were born, and about 88 days earlier, when the Sun was 88 degrees behind its birth position. At each moment, the Sun, Moon and planets each sat in one gate. Those are the gates switched on in your chart: in black for what you know consciously (Personality), and in red for what runs underneath (Design).

How the gates are grouped by centre

Every gate belongs to one of the nine centres of the Bodygraph, like doors opening out of a room. The colours of each flag on the poster tell you its centre.

Most gates are paired with a gate in another centre, and a channel runs between them. When both gates of a pair are switched on, the channel is complete, and the two centres it joins are defined (coloured in). One gate on its own is still a real energy in you; it just doesn't define a centre by itself.