Human Design Gate 48: The Gate of Depth
The short answer
Gate 48 is the Gate of Depth. It sits in the Spleen centre, pairs with Gate 16 (the Channel of The Wavelength / Talent), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 48, The Well. The Sun passes through it from 2 October to 8 October 2026.
Gate 48 is the Gate of Depth. It sits in the Spleen centre, pairs with Gate 16 (the Channel of The Wavelength / Talent), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 48, The Well. The Sun passes through it from 2 October to 8 October 2026.
- Centre: Spleen (instinct, health and timing: the quiet in-the-moment knowing that keeps you safe)
- I Ching hexagram: 48, The Well
- Zodiac span: 9°30′ Libra to 15°07′ Libra
- Sun in this gate in 2026: 2 October 2026 to 8 October 2026
Gate 48, the Gate of Depth, sits in the Spleen centre and covers 9°30′ Libra to 15°07′ Libra of the zodiac. It corresponds to I Ching hexagram 48, The Well.
Where Gate 48 sits
Gate 48 belongs to the Spleen centre, the centre of instinct, health and timing: the quiet in-the-moment knowing that keeps you safe. 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 16 (Skills) it forms the Channel of The Wavelength / Talent, joining the Spleen 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 48 corresponds to hexagram 48, The Well, which is where its keynote, Depth, draws its theme.
Channels through Gate 48
- Gate 16: the Channel of The Wavelength / Talent, joining the Spleen and Throat centres
The six lines of Gate 48
| Line | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Line 1 | 9°30′ Libra | 10°26′ Libra |
| Line 2 | 10°26′ Libra | 11°22′ Libra |
| Line 3 | 11°22′ Libra | 12°18′ Libra |
| Line 4 | 12°18′ Libra | 13°15′ Libra |
| Line 5 | 13°15′ Libra | 14°11′ Libra |
| Line 6 | 14°11′ Libra | 15°07′ 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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