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Spleen Center · Human Design Gate

Gate 48 · Depth

Gate 48, the Gate of Depth, sits in the Spleen center, the body’s oldest awareness: instinct, timing and wellbeing. In the mandala it spans 9°30′ Libra to 15°07′ Libra, and the Sun crosses it around October 4 – 9 every year: five and a half days when its theme colors the collective weather for everyone.

Hexagram 48
Center
Mandala span
9°30′ Libra – 15°07′ Libra
Sun transit
around October 4 – 9
Programming partner
Channel
I-Ching hexagram
48 · six lines, read bottom up

Its channel

With Gate 16 (Skills) in the Throat center it forms the Channel of The Wavelength (16-48): Talent: depth meeting skill through repetition.

On its own, without its harmonic gate, Gate 48 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 48 anchors the Right Angle Cross of Tension, the Juxtaposition Cross of Depth or the Left Angle Cross of Endeavor: the incarnation-cross life themes carried out into the world.

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