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Heart Center · Human Design Gate

Gate 21 · The Hunter / Huntress

Gate 21, the Gate of The Hunter / Huntress, sits in the Heart center, the small but potent center of will and worth. In the mandala it spans 9°30′ Aries to 15°07′ Aries, and the Sun crosses it around March 31 – April 6 every year: five and a half days when its theme colors the collective weather for everyone.

Hexagram 21
Center
Mandala span
9°30′ Aries – 15°07′ Aries
Sun transit
around March 31 – April 6
Programming partner
Channel
I-Ching hexagram
21 · six lines, read bottom up

Its channel

With Gate 45 (The Gatherer) in the Throat center it forms the Channel of The Money Line (21-45): Material mastery: managing the tribe’s resources.

On its own, without its harmonic gate, Gate 21 is a hanging gate: a consistent theme in you that instinctively seeks its other half in the people around you. That pull is real chemistry, and knowing it changes how you read your relationships.

On the incarnation crosses

For people born with the Sun here, Gate 21 anchors the Right Angle Cross of Tension, the Juxtaposition Cross of Control or the Left Angle Cross of Endeavor: the incarnation-cross life themes carried out into the world.

Is Gate 21 active in your chart? Your bodygraph shows every activation from your exact birth moment.

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