Gate 49 · Principles
There are 64 gates, one for each hexagram of the I Ching, mapped onto the zodiac. Here's the keynote for Gate 49 · Principles and where it sits in the bodygraph.
In the Human Design tradition, gate 49 sits in the Solar Plexus centre and, together with gate 19, forms the channel where needs meet principles. The theme of this gate is the terms of connection: what we are together on, what is acceptable, what is not, and when the arrangement is due for reassembly. In the personality it shows as conscious principles and clear yeses and noes in relationships; in the design it is a deep sensitivity to broken terms that accumulates unnoticed and surfaces as a decision already made. The system observes that revising the rules is a way to keep what is alive by clearing out what has expired rather than rupture for its own sake. Which terms in your close bonds have long gone unspoken, and do both sides share them?
How it sits in the bodygraph
- Center
- Solar Plexus
- Channels
- 19-49 · Synthesis
Gates in this center
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