Gate 42 · Growth

Meaning

Gate 42 is the gate of Growth. Human Design reads it as the energy to bring a cycle to its end and grow from it. It is the person who finishes the book, the renovation or the degree, and finds it hard to stop halfway. Because the urge to finish is strong, starting the right cycles matters.

It sits in the Sacral centre, the motor of life force and work energy. The Sacral answers rather than starts, so its energy is best given to what a person has responded to. In gate 42, it is patient and cumulative.

It belongs to the Sensing circuit of the Collective circuitry, the circuit of learning by living. Gate 42 carries an experience to its end, so that it can be understood and shared.

In practice

• Personality or Design. A Personality planet (in ink on Ulune’s bodygraph) makes the wish to complete known: people see themselves as finishers. A Design planet (in red) shows it first as the body’s steady stamina for long tasks. In both layers, the theme is doubly present. See Personality and Design.
• Hanging. Coloured without gate 53, gate 42 is a hanging gate: the energy to finish waits for a beginning. Someone with gate 53, the gate of Beginnings, can complete it: one opens the chapter, the other closes it.
• With gate 53, it makes the channel of Maturation, joining the Sacral to the Root. It gives steady energy to start a cycle and finish it, so life unfolds in clear chapters.
• That channel defines the Sacral, so the chart is a Generator or a Manifesting Generator. The authority is sacral unless the Solar Plexus is defined. The tradition advises entering cycles by responding, not on impulse.

Across traditions

• The I Ching: hexagram 42, yì, is Wind (xun) above Thunder (zhen), two moving forces strengthening each other. Wilhelm calls it Increase. Legge’s judgment finds it advantageous even “to cross the great stream”.
• Astrology: the gate falls in the last third of Aries, the sign of beginnings and drive. In most years the Sun crosses it from about 10 to 16 April.

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 42 is the 15th on the wheel, between gates 51 and 3. It spans 20°45′00″ to 26°22′30″ Aries (20.75° to 26.375°).

Its six lines are 0°56′15″ each. Line 1 starts at 20°45′00″ Aries, line 2 at 21°41′15″ and line 3 at 22°37′30″. Line 4 starts at 23°33′45″, line 5 at 24°30′00″ and line 6 at 25°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 42.

Correspondences