Within the bodygraph, the composite body-map at the centre of Human Design, Gate 2 is placed in the G/Identity centre, one of the nine centres the system maps onto (and expands from) the seven-centre chakra model. Gates do not act alone in the model: each pairs with another gate to complete a channel joining two centres. It belongs to the Channel of The Beat (2-14), which it forms with Gate 14 ("Skilled Power"). These placements and pairings are features of Ra Uru Hu's 1987 design and describe the system's internal mechanics; they are presented here as the system's own claims, not as verified facts about human beings.
The G/Identity centre carries a specific function in the system's own account: a sense of self, direction and love, read as the seat of identity in the model. Gate 2 is one of 8 gates the bodygraph assigns to this centre, and its reading is built from that placement rather than from anything in the classical hexagram commentary.
The same number appears elsewhere in this atlas as Gene Key 2, Richard Rudd's later, contemplative rereading of the identical hexagram. Where Ra Uru Hu gives the gate the fixed keynote "Receptive Direction", Rudd spreads the same number across a spectrum: the Shadow of Dislocation, the Gift of Orientation and the Siddhi of Unity. The two accounts share a hexagram and a number and diverge in almost everything else, since one issues a fixed mechanical reading and the other asks for years of contemplation.