Gate 59 · Sexuality

Meaning

Gate 59, Sexuality, sits in the Sacral, the most powerful motor of the bodygraph. Human Design links the Sacral to life force, sustained work, sexuality and fertility. Despite its name, the theme of gate 59 is broader than sex. It is the energy that dissolves barriers so that people can get close.

The tradition reads this gate as a warmth that opens doors between people. Someone with it often builds rapport quickly, and others open up after one conversation. That closeness can grow in love, but just as often in friendship, in a team or with a client. Human Design sees the gate as serving bonds that last and care for others. It also notes that such an open aura can be read in more ways than one, so clarity about what is offered helps.

The tradition places gate 59 in the Defense circuit, part of the Tribal group of circuits. The Tribal circuits are about support, belonging and the bonds that keep a family or a community going. The Defense circuit is the smallest of them, and Human Design reads it as caring for intimacy and for the next generation.

In practice

• Activated by a Personality planet, at birth, the person tends to know they connect easily and can choose where to use it. By a Design planet, from about three months earlier, it works on its own: people feel close to them before either side knows why. By both, it is a strong and constant pull.
• Alone, as a hanging gate, gate 59 does not define the Sacral. It looks for its partner, gate 6, Friction, in the Solar Plexus. People who carry gate 6 decide, by their mood, how far the closeness goes.
• Completed into the channel of Mating, also called Intimacy, it defines the Sacral and the Solar Plexus. A defined Sacral makes the chart a Generator or a Manifesting Generator, and the defined Solar Plexus gives emotional authority. Ulune advises deciding whether to go deeper once the emotional wave has settled.

Across traditions

• The I Ching. Hexagram 59, Huan, puts Xun, wind, above Kan, water. Wilhelm called it Dispersion, and its image reads, in Baynes’s English, “The wind drives over the water” (Wilhelm, 1924). Wind loosening what has stiffened suits a gate that melts the distance between people.
• Astrology. The gate covers the first degrees of Virgo, the earth sign that astrology links to care, service and attention to detail.

How Ulune calculates it

Ulune places gate 59 from 0°07′30″ to 5°45′00″ Virgo, 150.125° to 155.75° of tropical longitude. The wheel starts with gate 41 at 302°, 2°00′00″ Aquarius. Each gate takes 5°37′30″ (5.625°), in the fixed order of the Human Design wheel, and gate 59 is the thirty-eighth. Its six lines take 0°56′15″ each. Line 1 ends at 1°03′45″ Virgo, line 2 at 2°00′00″ and line 3 at 2°56′15″. Line 4 ends at 3°52′30″ and line 5 at 4°48′45″.

Ulune reads thirteen bodies: the Sun, the Earth opposite it, the Moon, the true Nodes, and Mercury to Pluto. It reads them at birth for the Personality, and for the Design when the Sun stood exactly 88° of longitude earlier. With the Sun here, the Earth is always in gate 55. Without a birth time, the chart is cast at noon, and positions that could change with the hour are flagged.

Correspondences