Origin Created in 1987 as a synthesis of four older systems, the I Ching, the chakra teaching, Kabbalah and astrology, and used as an instrument of psychological counselling. The system's components are read from a chart calculated for a birth moment.
The sixty-four gates of Human Design map one-to-one onto the hexagrams of the I Ching, each placed at a fixed position in the chart's bodygraph. Human Design was formulated in the late 1980s by Ra Uru Hu (Robert Alan Krakower), who combined the I Ching, the tropical zodiac, the chakra system and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life into a single chart. Each gate carries a name and theme derived from its hexagram.
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Standing as a Comparative CategoryA modern authored system with no established scientific standing. In the only empirical test located, characterisations produced by Human Design methods could not be validated against the NEO PI-R personality inventory, and assent to them was found to be consistent with the Barnum effect. 2 Origins
Origin PeriodCreated in 1987 as a synthesis of four older systems, the I Ching, the chakra teaching, Kabbalah and astrology, and used as an instrument of psychological counselling. The system's components are read from a chart calculated for a birth moment. 1 Learn More
The sixty-four gates
The sixty-four gates of Human Design map one-to-one onto the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching, each placed at a fixed position on one of the nine centres of the bodygraph. When the Sun, Moon, planets or nodes activate a gate at the moment of birth (and at the "design" moment some three months before), that gate is switched on, and pairs of activated gates form the channels.
Each gate carries a keynote derived from, but not identical to, the meaning of its corresponding I Ching hexagram, and the sixty-four gates distributed across the centres are the most detailed layer of the Human Design chart.
Hexagram as gate
The gates are where Human Design's debt to the I Ching is most direct: the sixty-four hexagrams become sixty-four gates, keeping their number and their broad themes but recast into the language of the bodygraph. The atlas notes this derivation and treats the gates as part of a modern system. The gates group by the centre they sit on.
The atlas gives each gate its hexagram, its centre, and its keynote. The I Ching hexagrams the gates derive from, and the channels and centres they belong to, are treated in their own categories.
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1. Über den Tellerrand, ein Blick ins Human Design System (HDS)
Petra Stute, Virineya Würgler and Johnny Würgler, Springer, Journal für Gynäkologische Endokrinologie/Schweiz 24 (2021), pp. 50-51, 2021on the 1987 origin and composition of the Human Design SystemView the Source 2. Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik unter dem Aspekt des Barnum-Effekts
Katharina Freistetter, Akademiker Verlag, Vienna (University of Vienna diploma thesis in psychology, 2012); ISBN 978-3-639-46969-1, 2013empirical test against the NEO PI-R; Barnum-effect finding
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