Human Design Gate 42: The Gate of Growth
The short answer
Gate 42 is the Gate of Growth. It sits in the Sacral centre, pairs with Gate 53 (the Channel of Maturation), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 42, Increase. The Sun passes through it from 10 April to 16 April 2026.
Gate 42 is the Gate of Growth. It sits in the Sacral centre, pairs with Gate 53 (the Channel of Maturation), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 42, Increase. The Sun passes through it from 10 April to 16 April 2026.
- Centre: Sacral (life force and work energy: the gut response that powers sustained effort)
- I Ching hexagram: 42, Increase
- Zodiac span: 20°45′ Aries to 26°22′ Aries
- Sun in this gate in 2026: 10 April 2026 to 16 April 2026
Gate 42, the Gate of Growth, sits in the Sacral centre and covers 20°45′ Aries to 26°22′ Aries of the zodiac. It corresponds to I Ching hexagram 42, Increase.
Where Gate 42 sits
Gate 42 belongs to the Sacral centre, the centre of life force and work energy: the gut response that powers sustained effort. 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 53 (Beginnings) it forms the Channel of Maturation, joining the Sacral and Root 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 42 corresponds to hexagram 42, Increase, which is where its keynote, Growth, draws its theme.
Channels through Gate 42
- Gate 53: the Channel of Maturation, joining the Sacral and Root centres
The six lines of Gate 42
| Line | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Line 1 | 20°45′ Aries | 21°41′ Aries |
| Line 2 | 21°41′ Aries | 22°37′ Aries |
| Line 3 | 22°37′ Aries | 23°33′ Aries |
| Line 4 | 23°33′ Aries | 24°30′ Aries |
| Line 5 | 24°30′ Aries | 25°26′ Aries |
| Line 6 | 25°26′ Aries | 26°22′ 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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