Gate 19 · Wanting

Meaning

Gate 19 is one of the 64 gates of the bodygraph, and Ulune calls it Wanting. It sits in the Root, the motor Human Design links with pressure and drive. Its theme is a sensitivity, under pressure, to basic needs: food, shelter, closeness and belonging.

At a gathering, its owner notices at once who is hungry or left out. They also need to belong themselves. The tradition reads that need kindly, as the root of care. Its one tender spot is a tendency to give up too much in order to stay included.

The tradition places gate 19 in the Ego circuit, part of the Tribal circuitry. Human Design links that circuitry with support, family and community: who belongs, what each one gives, and what each one needs.

In practice

• Personality (the planets at birth, drawn in ink): the gate is conscious. Its owner tends to know how much belonging matters to them. See Personality and Design.
• Design (the planets about three months earlier, drawn in red): the gate works below awareness. Others may notice the attentiveness, and the need, before its owner does.
• Both: the theme is coloured twice, and tends to be a steady trait.
• Alone, as a hanging gate: the sensitivity is there, and it reaches for gate 49, its partner across the channel. People who carry gate 49 can bring principles that give the care a shape.
• Completed by gate 49 in the Solar Plexus, it forms the channel of Synthesis. Ulune reads it as a steady sensitivity to needs and principles in relationships and groups. Emotional clarity keeps its decisions about people fair; see emotional authority.

Across traditions

• The I Ching: hexagram 19, Lin, places earth above the lake, the shore drawing close to the water. Wilhelm called it Approach. His judgment opens: “Approach has supreme success.” Its image speaks of tireless teaching and a care for the people without limits.
• Astrology: the gate falls in the first half of Aquarius, the sign of community and of the group.

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 19 is the 2nd gate of that wheel, between gate 41 and gate 13. It covers 7°37′30″ to 13°15′00″ Aquarius. Its six lines of 0°56′15″ begin at 7°37′30″, 8°33′45″, 9°30′00″, 10°26′15″, 11°22′30″ and 12°18′45″.

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 19. The profile sets its angle: Right Angle, Juxtaposition or Left Angle. The three names are in the table below.

Correspondences