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Gate 1:

The Creative

Unique Self Expression. Creation as a primal force. The energy potential to manifest inspiration without limitation.

Human Design Gate 1 and Gate 8 Channel 1-8

Creation as a primal force. The energy potential to manifest inspiration without limitation.

The deep need to express oneself. This gate demands attention! This is potentially an extremely creative gate but this is not a creativity, rooted in awareness but in its unique direction. Individual expression, like individual insight, can only be fulfilled through interaction with others. The role of this creativity is, ‘doing your own thing’.

When the creativity attracts attention, it may become an example for a new direction for others. Regardless of this potential, the drive to express one’s individuality to others isn’t always appreciated. This gate and its relationship to its harmonic Gate 8: Individuality can best be expressed through the relationship between the Artist’ (1) and the Agent (8). When in harmony, this channel contributes creative direction to the collective. Tension can arise in this relationship when the Artist wants to be their own agents or when the Agent knows better than the Artist.

Human Design Gate 1 and Gate 8 Channel 1-8
Gate 1 Themes:
Unique Self Expression. Creation as a primal force. The energy potential to manifest inspiration without limitation.
Gate 1 Channel(s):

Coming soon.

Energy Circuit

Collective: Sensing, Collective: Understanding, Individual: Knowing, Individual: Centering, Tribal: Ego, Tribal: Defense, Integration Channel

Location: Energy Center
Identity Center
WHAT ARE THE LINES?

Each Gate has six “lines”. They are represented by the number after the decimal for each gate (3.4, 10.2, 41.3, etc.).

Each Line carries a different “flavor” of a gate’s energy. The Lines are determined by the precise planetary placements on your bodygraph chart. Some placements can change lines every 12 minutes!

The 6 Lines are derived from the Chinese I’Ching’s Hexagrams.

Lines 1, 2, and 3 are energies for more personal, individual growth.

Lines 4, 5, and 6 are energies for growth through, or for, the outside world.

The Lines of Gate 1

Line 1: 1.1: Creation is independent of will

Exaltation: The Moon exalted as a symbol of adaption. Time is everything. Self-expression which has its special timing.
Detriment: Instability leads to distortion. Here, patience is uplifting and revolutionizing sin. Creative instability unless there is patience.

Line 2: 1.2: Love is light.

Exaltation: Venus exalted as a symbol of beauty. The required harmony between established values and ideals that enriches inspiration. Self-expression conditioned by ideals and values.
Detriment: Desires and passions have their place but not at the expense of Creation. Self-expression limited by desires and passions.

Line 3: 1.3: The energy to sustain creative work.​

Exaltation: Mars exalted as the symbol of the profound need for self-expression. The deep need for self-expression.
Detriment: Material forces can disrupt creativity and lead to over-ambition. Materialism disrupts creativity.

Line 4: 1.4: Aloneness as the medium of creativity, The tension of the inner light.​

Exaltation: The Earth exalted as the symbol of personal perspective manifested outside of influence, where the potential magic of inspiration is diluted. Creativity that must develop outside of influence.
Detriment: Where the potential magic of inspiration is diluted. The need to influence that abandons aloneness and limits creativity.

Line 5: 1.5: The energy to attract society​

Exaltation: Mars exalted for its powerful ego endurance. The power and drive to stay with the creative process.
Detriment: Uranus in detriment, where eccentricity can handicap endurance. Eccentricity that though attractive will limit the drive.

Line 6: 1.6: Objectivity​

Exaltation: Clear assessment of creative value. Clarity in creative expression.
Detriment: The risk that subjective appraisal will result in disappointment and creative frustration. Subjectivity in self-expression that may lead to creative frustration.

Gate 1 Hexagram

from the Chinese I'Ching

Human Design Gate 1 Hexagram I'Ching

Placements + Planets

Sun

Life Force / Personality Expression

Life Theme, Who We "Are", What We "Do"

Personality Side: How we express our “light” in the world.

Design Side: Inherited life theme from the father’s lineage.

Earth

Grounding / Balance / Stability

How we Integrate Energy from our Sun Gates

How we find balance and integrate our Personality Sun placement.

How we integrate energy from our Design Sun placement and find stability.

North Node

Future Direction / Environment

change in mindset over time, our evolution

How you see the world and yourself. How you frame your environment and the people in it.

SOUTH Node

experiences in life / outlook / past

change in mindset over time, our evolution

How you see the world and yourself. How you frame your environment and the people in it.

Moon

Driving force

What We need to feel happy, safe, secure

How we use and direct our energy. The reflection of our inner-self that is perceived by others.

Mercury

Communication / curiousity

what you're here to communicate

Personality Side: insight into what you need to communicate in this life.

Design Side: seemingly random things you communicate to strangers

Venus

Values / Sociology

our values and personal "way of life"

Representation of love and beauty.

Our personal moral compass for how we deal with others and the world.

Connected with Jupiter and Saturn.

Mars

nature / action / raw power

Growth Areas to gain wisdom

Our determination, drive, motivation, and actions. Uncontrollable way of acting in situations of pressure, conflict, or stress.

jupiter

personal code / expansion

New Opportunities

Jupiter turns Venus’ values into laws. By following our Strategy and Authority and keeping our personal laws (Venus placements), we find fulfillment. Enforced by Saturn.

saturn

discipline / challenges

Self-Responsibility

Areas where we find resistance, limitations, and challenges – areas of correction, pointing out misalignment with our personal laws (Venus and Jupiter).

Uranus

Unusualness / Chaos + Order

What makes you "weird"
Revolution, change, transition, instability, and individuality. Our rebellious quality that makes us different from others. How we express our unique eccentricity.

Neptune

Imagination + Spirituality + Magic

Embrace mystery & believe in the impossible

Release what you believe to be true. Allow yourself to believe the unbelievable to fulfill the potential of this gate.

Pluto

Truth and Transformation

how we discover our truest self
Our deepest truth hidden within. How we grow and evolve. It is all about rebirth and transformation.
Human Design Gate 1 and Gate 8 Channel 1-8

The Creative

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