Human Design Gate 46: The Gate of The Determination of the Self
The short answer
Gate 46 is the Gate of The Determination of the Self. It sits in the G / Identity centre, pairs with Gate 29 (the Channel of Discovery / Succeeding Where Others Fail), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 46, Pushing Upward. The Sun passes through it from 21 September to 26 September 2026.
Gate 46 is the Gate of The Determination of the Self. It sits in the G / Identity centre, pairs with Gate 29 (the Channel of Discovery / Succeeding Where Others Fail), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 46, Pushing Upward. The Sun passes through it from 21 September to 26 September 2026.
- Centre: G / Identity (identity, love and direction: who you are and where you are heading)
- I Ching hexagram: 46, Pushing Upward
- Zodiac span: 28°15′ Virgo to 3°52′ Libra
- Sun in this gate in 2026: 21 September 2026 to 26 September 2026
Gate 46, the Gate of The Determination of the Self, sits in the G / Identity centre and covers 28°15′ Virgo to 3°52′ Libra of the zodiac. It corresponds to I Ching hexagram 46, Pushing Upward.
Where Gate 46 sits
Gate 46 belongs to the G / Identity centre, the centre of identity, love and direction: who you are and where you are heading. 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 29 (Perseverance) it forms the Channel of Discovery / Succeeding Where Others Fail, joining the G / Identity and Sacral 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 46 corresponds to hexagram 46, Pushing Upward, which is where its keynote, The Determination of the Self, draws its theme.
Channels through Gate 46
- Gate 29: the Channel of Discovery / Succeeding Where Others Fail, joining the G / Identity and Sacral centres
The six lines of Gate 46
| Line | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Line 1 | 28°15′ Virgo | 29°11′ Virgo |
| Line 2 | 29°11′ Virgo | 0°07′ Libra |
| Line 3 | 0°07′ Libra | 1°03′ Libra |
| Line 4 | 1°03′ Libra | 2°00′ Libra |
| Line 5 | 2°00′ Libra | 2°56′ Libra |
| Line 6 | 2°56′ Libra | 3°52′ Libra |
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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