Human Design Gate 31: The Gate of Influence
The short answer
Gate 31 is the Gate of Influence. It sits in the Throat centre, pairs with Gate 7 (the Channel of The Alpha / Leadership), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 31, Influence. The Sun passes through it from 24 July to 30 July 2026.
Gate 31 is the Gate of Influence. It sits in the Throat centre, pairs with Gate 7 (the Channel of The Alpha / Leadership), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 31, Influence. The Sun passes through it from 24 July to 30 July 2026.
- Centre: Throat (expression and action: speaking, doing and making things happen)
- I Ching hexagram: 31, Influence
- Zodiac span: 2°00′ Leo to 7°37′ Leo
- Sun in this gate in 2026: 24 July 2026 to 30 July 2026
Gate 31, the Gate of Influence, sits in the Throat centre and covers 2°00′ Leo to 7°37′ Leo of the zodiac. It corresponds to I Ching hexagram 31, Influence.
Where Gate 31 sits
Gate 31 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 7 (The Role of the Self) it forms the Channel of The Alpha / Leadership, joining the Throat and G / Identity 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 31 corresponds to hexagram 31, Influence, which is where its keynote, Influence, draws its theme.
Channels through Gate 31
- Gate 7: the Channel of The Alpha / Leadership, joining the Throat and G / Identity centres
The six lines of Gate 31
| Line | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Line 1 | 2°00′ Leo | 2°56′ Leo |
| Line 2 | 2°56′ Leo | 3°52′ Leo |
| Line 3 | 3°52′ Leo | 4°48′ Leo |
| Line 4 | 4°48′ Leo | 5°45′ Leo |
| Line 5 | 5°45′ Leo | 6°41′ Leo |
| Line 6 | 6°41′ Leo | 7°37′ Leo |
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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