Human Design Gate 5: The Gate of Fixed Rhythms
The short answer
Gate 5 is the Gate of Fixed Rhythms. It sits in the Sacral centre, pairs with Gate 15 (the Channel of Rhythm), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 5, Waiting. The Sun passes through it from 3 December to 9 December 2026.
Gate 5 is the Gate of Fixed Rhythms. It sits in the Sacral centre, pairs with Gate 15 (the Channel of Rhythm), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 5, Waiting. The Sun passes through it from 3 December to 9 December 2026.
- Centre: Sacral (life force and work energy: the gut response that powers sustained effort)
- I Ching hexagram: 5, Waiting
- Zodiac span: 11°22′ Sagittarius to 17°00′ Sagittarius
- Sun in this gate in 2026: 3 December 2026 to 9 December 2026
Gate 5, the Gate of Fixed Rhythms, sits in the Sacral centre and covers 11°22′ Sagittarius to 17°00′ Sagittarius of the zodiac. It corresponds to I Ching hexagram 5, Waiting.
Where Gate 5 sits
Gate 5 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 15 (Extremes) it forms the Channel of Rhythm, joining the Sacral 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 5 corresponds to hexagram 5, Waiting, which is where its keynote, Fixed Rhythms, draws its theme.
Channels through Gate 5
- Gate 15: the Channel of Rhythm, joining the Sacral and G / Identity centres
The six lines of Gate 5
| Line | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Line 1 | 11°22′ Sagittarius | 12°18′ Sagittarius |
| Line 2 | 12°18′ Sagittarius | 13°15′ Sagittarius |
| Line 3 | 13°15′ Sagittarius | 14°11′ Sagittarius |
| Line 4 | 14°11′ Sagittarius | 15°07′ Sagittarius |
| Line 5 | 15°07′ Sagittarius | 16°03′ Sagittarius |
| Line 6 | 16°03′ Sagittarius | 17°00′ Sagittarius |
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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