Gate 10 · Behaviour of the Self

Meaning

Gate 10 is the gate of the Behaviour of the Self. Its theme is self-love in a practical sense: behaving as oneself, and accepting that. Human Design reads it in the person who acts the same way whoever is watching, and who would rather lose approval than put on a manner that is not theirs.

It sits in the G centre, the centre of identity, direction and love in the bodygraph. Gate 10 is one of only four gates that belong to three channels. Through gate 34 it joins the Centering circuit of the Individual circuit group, which Human Design associates with self-empowerment. Through gates 20 and 57 it joins the Integration channels, which the tradition treats apart, as the wiring of individual survival.

The theme carries its own caution. The same demand to be true to oneself can turn into self-criticism. The tradition reads that inner harshness as a signal to return to acceptance, not as a verdict.

In practice

• Personality, in ink: a planet stood in gate 10 at birth. Human Design reads it as the side of the theme a person knows in themselves.
• Design, in red: a planet stood here about three months before birth, when the Sun was 88° earlier. It is the side others often see more clearly.
• Alone, as a hanging gate: gate 10 is coloured but none of its three partners is. Others who carry gate 20, 57 or 34 can each complete a different channel.
• With Gate 20 · The Now: the channel of Awakening joins the G centre to the Throat, for saying what one thinks and living by it.
• With Gate 57 · Intuitive Clarity: the channel of Perfected Form joins it to the Spleen, for authentic behaviour guided by intuition.
• With Gate 34 · Power: the channel of Exploration joins it to the Sacral, with strong energy to follow one’s own convictions. It makes the chart a Generator or a Manifesting Generator.

Across traditions

• The I Ching: hexagram 10, Lǚ 履, which Wilhelm called Treading, with Conduct as its second title. Heaven stands over Lake: the strong above, the joyful below, and right conduct between them. Its image is “treading on the tail of a tiger, which does not bite him” (Legge, 1882).
• Astrology: the gate straddles the end of Sagittarius and the start of Capricorn, and holds the December solstice, 0° Capricorn, in its second line. The Sun crosses it each year roughly from 20 to 25 December.

How Ulune calculates it

Ulune lays the 64 gates around the tropical zodiac from gate 41 at 302°, 2°00′00″ Aquarius, each 5.625° or 5°37′30″ wide, in the wheel’s order. Gate 10 is the 59th, between gates 11 and 58, so it begins 58 × 5.625° = 326.25° after gate 41. It runs from 28°15′00″ Sagittarius to 3°52′30″ Capricorn, that is from 268.25° to 273.875°.

Its six lines are 0°56′15″ each. Line 1 starts at 28°15′00″ and line 2 at 29°11′15″ Sagittarius; line 3 starts at 0°07′30″, line 4 at 1°03′45″, line 5 at 2°00′00″ and line 6 at 2°56′15″ Capricorn.

Any of the thirteen bodies Ulune places at birth and at the Design moment that falls in this span colours gate 10, with its line. Without a birth time, a gate or line that could differ at another hour of the day is marked.

Correspondences