Gate 14 · Power Skills

Meaning

Gate 14 is one of the 64 gates of the bodygraph, and Ulune calls it Power Skills. It sits in the Sacral, the motor that Human Design links with life force, work and response. Its theme is energy for work that generates resources: time, means, support, the things that keep a project alive.

The tradition reads this energy as strongest when it goes into something the person believes in. Then it can work long hours without counting. Put into work done only for pay, the same energy tends to drain fast. The gate asks less “how much?” than “for what?”.

The tradition places gate 14 in the Knowing circuit, part of the Individual circuitry. Human Design links that circuitry with what is new and personal, and here with the means to carry it forward.

In practice

• Personality (the planets at birth, drawn in ink): the gate is conscious. Its owner tends to know which work feeds them and which empties them. See Personality and Design.
• Design (the planets about three months earlier, drawn in red): the gate works below awareness. Others may see the stamina before its owner does.
• Both: the theme is coloured twice, and tends to be a steady trait.
• Alone, as a hanging gate: the energy is there, and it reaches for gate 2, its partner across the channel. People who carry gate 2 can offer a direction worth investing in.
• Completed by gate 2 in the G centre, it forms the channel of the Beat, often called the Keeper of Keys. It joins a sense of direction to the energy to generate resources. The Sacral is then defined, which in Human Design makes a Generator or a Manifesting Generator.

Across traditions

• The I Ching: hexagram 14, Da You, places fire above heaven, a light shining from on high. Wilhelm called it Possession in Great Measure. His judgment is two words: “Supreme success.” His commentary ties that abundance to modesty and to the right use of what is held.
• Astrology: the gate falls in the last degrees of Scorpio, a sign modern astrology links with shared resources. Its 6th line reaches into Sagittarius.

How Ulune calculates it

Ulune reads the gates on the tropical zodiac, from gate 41 at 302° (2° Aquarius), each 5°37′30″ wide. Gate 14 is the 53rd gate of that wheel, between gate 43 and gate 34. It covers 24°30′00″ Scorpio to 0°07′30″ Sagittarius. Its six lines of 0°56′15″ begin at 24°30′00″, 25°26′15″, 26°22′30″, 27°18′45″, 28°15′00″ and 29°11′15″ Scorpio.

Ulune places thirteen bodies on the wheel: the Sun and the Earth opposite it, the Moon, the true Nodes, and Mercury to Pluto. It does so at birth and at the Design moment, when the Sun stood exactly 88° earlier. Any of these 26 positions in the span colours the gate. Without a birth time, the chart is cast at noon. Ulune then flags any body whose gate or line could change at another hour.

When the Personality Sun stands here, Ulune names the incarnation cross after gate 14. The profile sets its angle: Right Angle, Juxtaposition or Left Angle. The three names are in the table below.

Correspondences