Human Design Gate 60: The Gate of Acceptance
The short answer
Gate 60 is the Gate of Acceptance. It sits in the Root centre, pairs with Gate 3 (the Channel of Mutation), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 60, Limitation. The Sun passes through it from 16 January to 22 January 2026.
Gate 60 is the Gate of Acceptance. It sits in the Root centre, pairs with Gate 3 (the Channel of Mutation), and corresponds to I Ching hexagram 60, Limitation. The Sun passes through it from 16 January to 22 January 2026.
- Centre: Root (pressure and drive: the adrenal push to get things moving and finished)
- I Ching hexagram: 60, Limitation
- Zodiac span: 26°22′ Capricorn to 2°00′ Aquarius
- Sun in this gate in 2026: 16 January 2026 to 22 January 2026
Gate 60, the Gate of Acceptance, sits in the Root centre and covers 26°22′ Capricorn to 2°00′ Aquarius of the zodiac. It corresponds to I Ching hexagram 60, Limitation.
Where Gate 60 sits
Gate 60 belongs to the Root centre, the centre of pressure and drive: the adrenal push to get things moving and finished. 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 3 (Ordering) it forms the Channel of Mutation, joining the Root 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 60 corresponds to hexagram 60, Limitation, which is where its keynote, Acceptance, draws its theme.
Channels through Gate 60
- Gate 3: the Channel of Mutation, joining the Root and Sacral centres
The six lines of Gate 60
| Line | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Line 1 | 26°22′ Capricorn | 27°18′ Capricorn |
| Line 2 | 27°18′ Capricorn | 28°15′ Capricorn |
| Line 3 | 28°15′ Capricorn | 29°11′ Capricorn |
| Line 4 | 29°11′ Capricorn | 0°07′ Aquarius |
| Line 5 | 0°07′ Aquarius | 1°03′ Aquarius |
| Line 6 | 1°03′ Aquarius | 2°00′ Aquarius |
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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