Human Design is a modern system with a known author and a datable origin, and it is candid about both.
It was originated by Alan Robert Krakower, born in Montreal in 1948, who later took the name Ra Uru Hu. After leaving Canada in the early 1980s he settled on the Spanish island of Ibiza, where he worked for a period as a teacher. In January 1987 he reported an experience which he described consistently for the rest of his life: an encounter with what he called the Voice, an intelligence he judged vastly superior to anything he had met, which transmitted information to him continuously for eight days and nights, from 3 to 11 January. What he received during those eight days is what he subsequently taught as the Human Design System. He spent the remaining twenty-five years of his life developing and teaching it, and died in 2011.
That is the system's own account of its origin, and it should be stated plainly rather than paraphrased into vagueness. It is a revelation claim. It is not offered as a discovery, a reconstruction of an older tradition, or a research finding, and Ra Uru Hu did not present it as any of those things.
Two consequences follow for how the sixty-four gates should be read.
The first is chronological. Human Design is roughly forty years old. The I Ching, whose sixty-four hexagrams supply the gate numbers, is genuinely ancient, with the core hexagram text conventionally dated to the Western Zhou period and the commentarial layers accumulating over the following centuries. The two are not contemporaries and nothing about the gates is inherited from Chinese tradition except the numbering and the binary structure.
The second is evidential. A revelation claim can be described accurately, and its content set out fairly, without being either endorsed or debunked. That is what these entries attempt.