Alchemy South

Gate 3:

Innovation

From Challenge to Solution, Chaos to Order

Human Design Gate 3 Gate 60 Channel 3-60 Innovation

Do you have Gate 3 activated in your chart? If so, your experiences drive your creative process and inspire you to bring solutions and change into the world. You can see through the fog and bring innovation to “the norm” – which is way overdue for an update.

The Gift of Innovation can show up in different ways. Individually, it can look like creativity, ingenuity, creative problem-solving, improvising…MacGyver-ing it. This gift can also work its magic in groups, showing up as collaboration, synergy, or cooperation.

Your experiences, challenges, and frustrations are not random. They are a signal. You are uniquely wired to pick up that problem on your radar. Why? Because you are wired to solve it!

In the traditional definition, Gate 3 is also called the Gate of Ordering: Difficulty at the Beginning. It represents the initial challenges and obstacles encountered when starting a new project or adventure. It signifies the need to overcome obstacles and persevere in the face of difficulties. Resiliency!

Gate three is located in the Sacral Center. The sun activates it around April 16-21 every year. Therefore, it bridges the transition between Taurus and Aries.

If you do not have Gate 3 activated in your birth chart, you will receive it several times every year through transit activations. Additionally, you may experience activation of Human Design Gate 3 through connection. This means being around someone else who does have Gate 3 activated in their birth chart.

So, if you need an innovative boost or a creative solution, find someone who has this gate activated in their chart and enjoy the synergy!

Do you have Gate 3 Activated in your Chart?

This means you have consistent access to the gate’s energy. As with all activations, check 3 things to better understand how this gate may be showing up in you:

  1. PLACEMENT: Is it on the left or right side of your chart? It can be on the Personality (right) side of your chart, or on the Design (left) side of your chart. Sometimes it is on both sides!
  2. HOW MANY: times is Gate 3 activated in your chart? One activation is typical, two is common, three is significant, and four or more is extraordinary!
  3. LINE(S): Which Line(s) is your gate activated in? The “Line” is the number after the decimal place. Gate 3.1 would be Gate 3, Line 1. Each line is a unique nuance of that energy.
Human Design Gate 3 Gate 60 Channel 3-60 Innovation
Gate 3 Themes:
From Challenge to Solution, Chaos to Order
Gate 3 Channel(s):

Coming soon.

Energy Circuit

Individual: Knowing

Location: Energy Center
Sacral
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 3

Line 1: Synthesis

Awareness of chaos and confusion, acceptance of the challenge, and trusting that there is a better way.

Line 2: Maturing

The drive for growth and change. It can come from within and bring individual change, OR it can be influenced by others. When guided outside the self, it can leave you feeling out of control and unstable.

Line 3: Survival

Intuitive knowledge of what options will be have potential and which options will drain effort.

Line 4: Charisma

Innate quality which attracts valued guidance. A psychic energy which attracts nourishment and ensures ordering. The demands of ego lead to rejection. Confused energy that needs nourishment but is generally rejected.

Line 5: Alienation

Feeling alone in your path but standing by your decision because you believe in it, even if you have to stand alone.

Line 6: Separation/Surrender

Peaceful knowing that everything will be ok, even if the process feels slow, trusting that progress is being made.

Gate 3 Hexagram

from the Chinese I'Ching

Human Design Gate 3 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 3 Gate 60 Channel 3-60 Innovation

Innovation

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