Human Design Gate 16: The Gate of Skills
The short answer
Gate 16 is the Gate of Skills. It sits in the Throat centre, pairs with Gate 48 (the Channel of The Wavelength / Talent), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 16, Enthusiasm. The Sun passes through it from 26 May to 1 June 2026.
Gate 16 is the Gate of Skills. It sits in the Throat centre, pairs with Gate 48 (the Channel of The Wavelength / Talent), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 16, Enthusiasm. The Sun passes through it from 26 May to 1 June 2026.
- Centre: Throat (expression and action: speaking, doing and making things happen)
- I Ching hexagram: 16, Enthusiasm
- Zodiac span: 5°45′ Gemini to 11°22′ Gemini
- Sun in this gate in 2026: 26 May 2026 to 1 June 2026
Gate 16, the Gate of Skills, sits in the Throat centre and covers 5°45′ Gemini to 11°22′ Gemini of the zodiac. It corresponds to I Ching hexagram 16, Enthusiasm.
Where Gate 16 sits
Gate 16 belongs to the Throat centre, the centre of expression and action: speaking, doing and making things happen. A gate is one of the 64 openings on the bodygraph; when a planet sat in its arc of the zodiac at your birth or in your Design period, the gate is active in your chart and colours how that centre shows up for you.
Its channels
With Gate 48 (Depth) it forms the Channel of The Wavelength / Talent, joining the Throat and Spleen centres. When both gates are active in a chart, that channel is defined and both centres run consistently.
The I Ching root
Each Human Design gate maps to one of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching. Gate 16 corresponds to hexagram 16, Enthusiasm, which is where its keynote, Skills, draws its theme.
Channels through Gate 16
- Gate 48: the Channel of The Wavelength / Talent, joining the Throat and Spleen centres
The six lines of Gate 16
| Line | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Line 1 | 5°45′ Gemini | 6°41′ Gemini |
| Line 2 | 6°41′ Gemini | 7°37′ Gemini |
| Line 3 | 7°37′ Gemini | 8°33′ Gemini |
| Line 4 | 8°33′ Gemini | 9°30′ Gemini |
| Line 5 | 9°30′ Gemini | 10°26′ Gemini |
| Line 6 | 10°26′ Gemini | 11°22′ Gemini |
How these positions are worked out
Gate positions follow the standard Human Design wheel: 64 gates of 5°37′30″ each, with Gate 41 starting at 2°00′ Aquarius, the same table the site's bodygraph calculator uses. The Sun's dates are drawn from its apparent position for the year shown, so they shift by up to a day between years.
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