Gate 16 of 64

Gate 16

Gate of Skills

Gate 16 sits in your Throat and turns enthusiasm into skill. You do not arrive already good at things. What you arrive with is the capacity to identify with something, throw yourself at it, and repeat it until the repetition becomes mastery and the mastery finally becomes art. The world waits for the moment the dancer becomes the dance. Your work is to find the thing you truly love doing, then practise it well past the point where most people stop. Along the way you may doubt whether you have enough depth to justify all that enthusiasm, and you will want people around you who bring that depth, who correct your practice and back you while you get good. Aimed at the right thing and properly supported, your enthusiasm is what turns a skill into a talent.

Atlas PlateGate 16
Human Design BodyGraph with Gate 16 highlighted in the Throat Center 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
Human Design BodyGraph with Gate 16 highlighted in the Throat Center
Number
16
Center
Throat Center
Hexagram
Enthusiasm
Channels
16-48

On the Rave Mandala, Gate 16 belongs to Lakshmi, the tenth Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Civilization. If your Personality Sun is in this gate, Lakshmi is your Face. Read The Sixteen Godheads for what that means.

Line 1 - Delusion

Exalted: (Earth) The daydreamer's gift. You live inside a possibility long before it exists anywhere else, letting imagination try the skill on. What starts as fantasy is often exactly where a real talent first shows itself.

Detriment: (Mercury) Announcing the fantasy as though it were already fact. Claims go out into the world ahead of any skill to back them up, and the gap between the two eventually shows.

Line 2 - The Cynic

Exalted: (Sun) The sharp eye that pops an inflated claim. You judge on your own terms, weighing what is actually there rather than how well it is sold, and that objectivity is itself a real skill.

Detriment: (Mercury) Cynicism that stops being a tool and becomes a pleasure. When puncturing everything is the thing you are enthusiastic about, the judgement loses the edge that made it useful.

Line 3 - Independence

Exalted: (Moon) Enthusiasm you can generate and sustain by yourself. You have a feel for timing and rhythm, knowing when to push and when to hold, so your energy does not deflate halfway through.

Detriment: (Mars) Confidence that runs ahead of ability. When the leap does not land, you look to other people to relight your enthusiasm, and that becomes a reliance you never needed to build.

Line 4 - The Leader

Exalted: (Jupiter) Genuine enthusiasm for something bigger than yourself, expressed by spotting talent in other people and backing it. Recognition given freely and sincerely is what makes people want to follow you.

Detriment: (Mars) The same platform used the other way. Refusing to acknowledge what others are good at, the voice gathers people around itself rather than lifting the talent standing in the room.

Line 5 - The Grinch

Exalted: (Pluto) Holding back from the enthusiasm around you, precisely so that it has to win you over. The conversion, when it finally comes, runs deeper and lasts far longer than easy agreement ever could.

Detriment: (Moon) The sense that joining in would somehow cost you something of your own. Standing outside hardens into habit, and the encouragement you withhold from others is often what you most need yourself.

Line 6 - Gullibility

Exalted: (Neptune) You take the enthusiasm in, live it, examine it, then let go of whatever does not hold up. Being taken in once is simply how you learn to read what other people are really expressing.

Detriment: (Jupiter) The same disappointment, but it lodges. Rather than clearing it out and starting fresh, you withdraw hurt, and your read on the group stays coloured by the thing that let you down.

Questions People Ask

What is Gate 16 in Human Design?

Gate 16 is the Gate of Skills, Gate of Skills. Gate 16 sits in your Throat and turns enthusiasm into skill. You do not arrive already good at things.

Which center is Gate 16 in?

Gate 16 sits in the Throat Center.

Which channel does Gate 16 form?

Gate 16 forms the The Wavelength (16-48) with Gate 48. A channel is defined when both of its gates are active in your chart.

Which Face of the Godhead is Gate 16 in?

Gate 16 belongs to Lakshmi, the tenth Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Civilization. That Face is yours when your Personality Sun is in Gate 16.

What are the six lines of Gate 16?

Line 1 (Delusion), Line 2 (The Cynic), Line 3 (Independence), Line 4 (The Leader), Line 5 (The Grinch) and Line 6 (Gullibility). Each line has an exalted and a detriment expression, each one fixed by a planet.

How do I know if I have Gate 16?

Generate your free chart at humandesign.so/chart from your birth date, time and place. Every active gate is coloured in on your BodyGraph and listed beside the planet that activates it.

Connected in the BodyGraph

How Gate 16 Connects

Center

Forms channels with

Appears in these Incarnation Crosses

Right Angle Cross of PlanningRight Angle Cross of Planning 2Right Angle Cross of Planning 3Right Angle Cross of Planning 4Juxtaposition Cross of ExperimentationJuxtaposition Cross of FocusJuxtaposition Cross of MoodsJuxtaposition Cross of StrategyLeft Angle Cross of IdentificationLeft Angle Cross of Identification 2Left Angle Cross of SpiritLeft Angle Cross of Spirit 2

Created by Peter Low, Human Design Practitioner. Part of the Human Design atlas.