Gate 37 · Friendship
The Solar Plexus gate of warmth and friendship built on fair bargains: loyalty given in return for support.
Meaning
Gate 37 is the gate of Friendship. Human Design reads it as warmth built on fair bargains: loyalty given in return for support. It is the agreement sealed with a handshake and a shared meal. It is also the deep hurt felt when the other side does not keep its word.
The gate sits in the Solar Plexus, the emotional motor, whose energy the tradition describes as a wave. Here the wave is warm and relational. Feelings rise with belonging and promises kept, and fall when a bargain feels broken.
It belongs to the Ego circuit, at the heart of the Tribal circuitry. The tradition reads this circuitry as the world of support: family and community, held together by give and take.
In practice
- Personality or Design. A Personality planet (in ink on Ulune’s bodygraph) makes the wish for warm, fair bonds something people value openly. A Design planet (in red) shows it first in how others are drawn into one’s circle. In both layers, the theme is doubly present. See Personality and Design.
- Hanging. Coloured without gate 40, gate 37 is a hanging gate: the longing for community lacks a steady partner in willpower. Someone with gate 40 can complete it for a while.
- With gate 40, it makes the channel of Community, joining the Solar Plexus to the Heart. Work and support are then given in exchange for loyalty and care, and rest is part of the deal.
- That channel defines the Solar Plexus, so the authority is emotional. It links no motor to the Throat: with this channel alone, a chart would be a Projector.
Across traditions
- The I Ching: hexagram 37, jiā rén, is Wind (xun) above Fire (li), warmth rising from the hearth. Wilhelm calls it The Family (The Clan). Legge reads it as “the regulation of the family”: each member in a clear place.
- Astrology: the gate falls in the first half of Pisces, a sign read as compassion and the wish to belong. In most years the Sun crosses it from about 24 February to 1 March.
How Ulune calculates it
Ulune’s gate wheel starts at gate 41, at 2°00′00″ Aquarius (302° of tropical longitude). The other gates follow in the order of the Rave I Ching, each 5°37′30″ (5.625°) wide. Gate 37 is the 7th on the wheel, between gates 55 and 63. It spans 5°45′00″ to 11°22′30″ Pisces (335.75° to 341.375°).
Its six lines are 0°56′15″ each. Line 1 starts at 5°45′00″ Pisces, line 2 at 6°41′15″ and line 3 at 7°37′30″. Line 4 starts at 8°33′45″, line 5 at 9°30′00″ and line 6 at 10°26′15″. A longitude exactly on a boundary belongs to the gate or line that begins there.
Ulune places thirteen bodies twice: at birth for the Personality, and for the Design when the Sun stood exactly 88° of longitude earlier. They are the Sun, the Earth opposite it, the Moon, the true Nodes and Mercury to Pluto. Any of them in this span colours gate 37.
Correspondences
| Correspondence | Gate 37 |
|---|---|
| Centre | Solar Plexus centre |
| Channel | Channel 40–37 · Community with Gate 40 · Aloneness (Heart centre) |
| Circuit | Ego circuit (Tribal circuitry) |
| Hexagram | 37, The Family (Wind over Fire) |
| Zodiac span | 5°45′00″ to 11°22′30″ Pisces |
Related
- Solar Plexus centreThe centre of emotions, both a motor and an awareness centre, whose feelings move in a wave and whose clarity comes with time.
- Channel 40–37 · CommunityThe channel joining the Heart to the Solar Plexus, a steady sense of bargain and belonging, with work and support given in return for loyalty and care.
- Gate 40 · AlonenessThe Heart gate of the willpower to work for others, followed by a real need to be alone and rest.
- Ego circuitThe core of the Tribal group, five channels of work, resources, agreements and belonging, most of them running through the Heart.
- Tribal circuitryThe circuit group of family, community and the bargain, made of the Ego and Defense circuits, whose keynote is support.
- PiscesThe twelfth sign, mutable water ruled by Jupiter and, in modern astrology, Neptune, read as the sign of compassion, imagination and the dissolving of limits.
Sources
- Ra Uru Hu and Lynda Bunnell, The Definitive Book of Human Design, 2011
- Richard Wilhelm, I Ging, 1924 (Cary F. Baynes’s English translation, 1950)
- James Legge, The Yî King, 1882