Gate 21 · The Hunter/Huntress

Meaning

Gate 21 is one of the 64 gates of the bodygraph, and Ulune calls it the Hunter/Huntress. It sits in the Heart, also called the Ego centre, the motor Human Design links with willpower. Its theme is control over one’s own territory: money, work, food and space.

It often shows as someone who wants to manage their own budget or schedule, and does it well. Being managed by others sits less easily with them. Human Design reads that friction as a signal, not a flaw. Given real authority over its own domain, the gate tends to settle and do its best work.

The tradition places gate 21 in the Ego circuit, part of the Tribal circuitry. Human Design links that circuitry with support, family and community. Here the theme is the practical side of it: who looks after the resources, and how.

In practice

• Personality (the planets at birth, drawn in ink): the gate is conscious. Its owner tends to know how much they need to run their own affairs. See Personality and Design.
• Design (the planets about three months earlier, drawn in red): the gate works below awareness. Others may feel its wish for control before its owner names it.
• Both: the theme is coloured twice, and tends to be a steady trait.
• Alone, as a hanging gate: the will to manage is there, and it reaches for gate 45, its partner across the channel. People who carry gate 45 can give that will a voice and a role.
• Completed by gate 45 in the Throat, it forms the channel of Money. Ulune reads it as a steady will to manage and direct material resources. Being in charge suits it; being micromanaged does not. The channel joins a motor to the Throat, which makes a Manifestor when the Sacral is undefined.

Across traditions

• The I Ching: hexagram 21, Shi He, places fire above thunder, lightning and its roll together. Wilhelm called it Biting Through. His judgment opens: “Biting Through has success.” His commentary pictures an obstacle between the teeth, bitten through with energy so the jaws can close.
• Astrology: the gate falls in the middle of Aries, the sign of initiative and of claiming one’s ground.

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 21 is the 13th gate of that wheel, between gate 17 and gate 51. It covers 9°30′00″ to 15°07′30″ Aries. Its six lines of 0°56′15″ begin at 9°30′00″, 10°26′15″, 11°22′30″, 12°18′45″, 13°15′00″ and 14°11′15″.

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

Correspondences