Human Design Gate 21: The Gate of The Hunter
The short answer
Gate 21 is the Gate of The Hunter. It sits in the Heart / Ego / Will centre, pairs with Gate 45 (the Channel of Money / The Materialist), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 21, Biting Through. The Sun passes through it from 30 March to 4 April 2026.
Gate 21 is the Gate of The Hunter. It sits in the Heart / Ego / Will centre, pairs with Gate 45 (the Channel of Money / The Materialist), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 21, Biting Through. The Sun passes through it from 30 March to 4 April 2026.
- Centre: Heart / Ego / Will (willpower and worth: promises, value and what you are prepared to commit to)
- I Ching hexagram: 21, Biting Through
- Zodiac span: 9°30′ Aries to 15°07′ Aries
- Sun in this gate in 2026: 30 March 2026 to 4 April 2026
Gate 21, the Gate of The Hunter, sits in the Heart / Ego / Will centre and covers 9°30′ Aries to 15°07′ Aries of the zodiac. It corresponds to I Ching hexagram 21, Biting Through.
Where Gate 21 sits
Gate 21 belongs to the Heart / Ego / Will centre, the centre of willpower and worth: promises, value and what you are prepared to commit to. 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 45 (The Gatherer) it forms the Channel of Money / The Materialist, joining the Heart / Ego / Will and Throat 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 21 corresponds to hexagram 21, Biting Through, which is where its keynote, The Hunter, draws its theme.
Channels through Gate 21
- Gate 45: the Channel of Money / The Materialist, joining the Heart / Ego / Will and Throat centres
The six lines of Gate 21
| Line | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Line 1 | 9°30′ Aries | 10°26′ Aries |
| Line 2 | 10°26′ Aries | 11°22′ Aries |
| Line 3 | 11°22′ Aries | 12°18′ Aries |
| Line 4 | 12°18′ Aries | 13°15′ Aries |
| Line 5 | 13°15′ Aries | 14°11′ Aries |
| Line 6 | 14°11′ Aries | 15°07′ Aries |
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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