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Solar Plexus Center · Human Design Gate

Gate 6 · Friction

Gate 6, the Gate of Friction, sits in the Solar Plexus center, the emotional awareness center that moves in waves. In the mandala it spans 22°37′ Virgo to 28°15′ Virgo, and the Sun crosses it around September 16 – 22 every year: five and a half days when its theme colors the collective weather for everyone.

Hexagram 6
Center
Mandala span
22°37′ Virgo – 28°15′ Virgo
Sun transit
around September 16 – 22
Programming partner
Channel
I-Ching hexagram
6 · six lines, read bottom up

Its channel

With Gate 59 (Sexuality) in the Sacral center it forms the Channel of Mating (6-59): Breaking barriers: the energy of intimacy and bonding.

On its own, without its harmonic gate, Gate 6 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 6 anchors the Right Angle Cross of Eden, the Juxtaposition Cross of Conflict or the Left Angle Cross of the Plane: the incarnation-cross life themes carried out into the world.

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