Gate 49 · Principles

Meaning

Gate 49, Principles, is one of the seven gates of the Solar Plexus, the centre of feelings and of the emotional wave. Its theme is principles: the values that decide who is accepted and who is not, and the change that follows when they are broken.

Human Design reads it as the gate of revolution in close bonds. It knows what a partnership, a family or a team must respect. While those terms are kept, it is loyal and warm. When a core value is violated, it can end the bond and start again on new terms.

Because the Solar Plexus moves in waves, the tradition teaches patience here. A decision taken at a feeling’s peak or trough may be harsher than intended; waiting until the wave settles keeps it fair.

The tradition places gate 49 in the Ego circuit, part of the Tribal circuit group.

In practice

A gate is coloured when a planet stands in it at birth or in the Design, as Gate and Personality and Design explain.

• By a Personality planet, at birth: the person tends to know their principles and can name them.
• By a Design planet, about three months earlier: the principles act more like a felt line. The person may only notice it once it has been crossed.
• By both: the theme is doubled, known and lived.
• Alone, as a hanging gate: without gate 19, the gate looks for someone whose needs it can weigh. People with gate 19, Wanting, often bring that sensitivity to needs.
• Completed into a channel: with gate 19, the channel of Synthesis is defined, joining the Root to the Solar Plexus. It makes a person steadily sensitive to needs and principles in relationships.

A defined Solar Plexus gives emotional authority in Ulune, whatever else the chart holds. When this is the chart’s only channel, the type is Projector.

Across traditions

• The I Ching: hexagram 49, Ko, places the Lake above Fire. Its trigrams are Tui, the Joyous, over Li, the Clinging. Wilhelm titles it Revolution, or Molting, after an animal’s pelt that changes with the seasons. Legge’s judgement notes that such change “is believed in only after it has been accomplished” (Legge, 1882). Turned upside down, it becomes hexagram 50, the image of gate 50.
• Astrology: the gate spans 18°52′30″ to 24°30′00″ Aquarius, the sign of reform and of the group’s ideals.

How Ulune calculates it

• Gate 41 opens the wheel at 2°00′00″ Aquarius, 302° of tropical longitude. Each gate then spans 5°37′30″ (5.625°) in a fixed order.
• Gate 49 is the 4th, from 18°52′30″ to 24°30′00″ Aquarius (318.875° to 324.5°). Its six lines are 0°56′15″ wide and begin at 18°52′30″, 19°48′45″, 20°45′00″, 21°41′15″, 22°37′30″ and 23°33′45″ Aquarius.
• Ulune reads thirteen bodies at birth and again when the Sun stood exactly 88° earlier. The Sun, the Earth, the Moon, the true Nodes and Mercury to Pluto each colour the gate they stand in.
• When gate 19 is coloured too, at either moment, the channel 19–49 is defined. Ulune notes whether its gates come from the Personality, the Design or both.
• With the Personality Sun here, Ulune names the incarnation cross by the profile. Profiles 1/3 to 4/6 give the Right Angle Cross of Explanation 1. Profile 4/1 gives the Juxtaposition Cross of Principles. Profiles 5/1 to 6/3 give the Left Angle Cross of Revolution 1.

Correspondences