Gate 39 of 64

Gate 39

The Gate of Provocation

Gate 39 sits in your Root Center and it is pressure that provokes. You push at people, and that push is what shows you whether their spirit is a genuine match for yours. If your provocation only irritates someone, they are not right for you. If it opens something in them, they are. Provoking is also how you get in touch with your own feelings and work them through, which makes the mood you provoke from everything: out of a bad mood you draw misery, out of a good one you can spark real awareness in people. It takes time to learn who can be provoked well and who cannot, and it takes a thicker skin than most people need. Patience with yourself and with your own emotional wave is the heart of this journey, and your Strategy and Authority tell you when the moment is right.

Atlas PlateGate 39
Human Design BodyGraph with Gate 39 highlighted in the Root 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 39 highlighted in the Root Center
Number
39
Center
Root Center
Hexagram
Obstruction
Channels
39-55

On the Rave Mandala, Gate 39 belongs to Parvati, the eleventh Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Civilization. If your Personality Sun is in this gate, Parvati is your Face. Read The Sixteen Godheads for what that means.

Line 1 - Disengagement

Exalted: (Mars) When an obstacle blocks you, the determination to step back for now. The withdrawal is deliberate and temporary, and refusing to engage is itself a way of provoking a response.

Detriment: (Mercury) Stepping back without knowing when to step forward again. The disengagement stretches on, indecision sets in, and the not-knowing becomes its own kind of provocation for everyone left waiting.

Line 2 - Confrontation

Exalted: (Moon) Going straight at the obstacle. The assault is instinctive and direct, and the provocation lands precisely because you did not go around anything, you went through it.

Detriment: (Jupiter) An instinct for self-preservation that tempts you to go around something that really needed to be met head on. The direct approach brings genuine discomfort, so you sidestep it.

Line 3 - Responsibility

Exalted: (Jupiter) Holding back from a fight when losing it would put other people at risk. Your first thought is for the bigger picture, and what provokes people is what you are willing to give up.

Detriment: (Earth) Assuming that others are more at risk if the obstacle goes unchallenged, and charging in on that basis. The sacrifice never gets made, and the results can be genuinely disastrous.

Line 4 - Temperance

Exalted: (Moon) Careful assessment before you move. You let feeling and instinct tell you when the timing is right, and because of that your provocation lands at exactly the moment it can work.

Detriment: (Sun) The belief that willpower alone can shift any obstacle, whatever the circumstances. You provoke without reading the room, and the circumstances that were always going to matter get ignored.

Line 5 - Single-Mindedness

Exalted: (Neptune) The rare knack for going around an obstacle rather than through it. Your imagination builds a new pattern that makes the blockage simply irrelevant, and the provocation lies in the sidestep.

Detriment: (Mars) Plain hardheadedness. It is a blunter instrument, yet sheer determination often succeeds anyway and gathers support along the way, and what provokes people is your refusal to budge.

Line 6 - The Troubleshooter

Exalted: (Moon) A natural gift for solving problems, and the practicality to guide and look after people while you do it. The provocation is in the helping, in taking on what others could not fix.

Detriment: (Mars) The same gift, run by ego. Problem solving becomes a way of building yourself up and getting what you want, and what provokes people is the drive to dominate underneath it.

Questions People Ask

What is Gate 39 in Human Design?

Gate 39 is the Gate of Provocation, The Gate of Provocation. Gate 39 sits in your Root Center and it is pressure that provokes. You push at people, and that push is what shows you whether their spirit is a genuine match for yours.

Which center is Gate 39 in?

Gate 39 sits in the Root Center.

Which channel does Gate 39 form?

Gate 39 forms the Emoting (39-55) with Gate 55. A channel is defined when both of its gates are active in your chart.

Which Face of the Godhead is Gate 39 in?

Gate 39 belongs to Parvati, the eleventh Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Civilization. That Face is yours when your Personality Sun is in Gate 39.

What are the six lines of Gate 39?

Line 1 (Disengagement), Line 2 (Confrontation), Line 3 (Responsibility), Line 4 (Temperance), Line 5 (Single-Mindedness) and Line 6 (The Troubleshooter). Each line has an exalted and a detriment expression, each one fixed by a planet.

How do I know if I have Gate 39?

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 39 Connects

Center

Forms channels with

Appears in these Incarnation Crosses

Right Angle Cross of TensionRight Angle Cross of Tension 2Right Angle Cross of Tension 3Right Angle Cross of Tension 4Juxtaposition Cross of CorrectionJuxtaposition Cross of OpinionsJuxtaposition Cross of OppositionJuxtaposition Cross of ProvocationLeft Angle Cross of IndividualismLeft Angle Cross of Individualism 2Left Angle Cross of UpheavalLeft Angle Cross of Upheaval 2

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