Last week, we looked at Gateway 53, the Gateway we call “New Beginnings”. Now, the Sun has moved on into Gateway 62, “Expressed Details”, which is in the Throat Center, as well as the Logic Circuitry. And this will tell you that this Gateway is largely concerned with organization. Here, we see a heavy focus on arranging things, thinking things through in a logical way—a logical progression that always has an eye toward the future.

 

 

 

So, with that in mind, let’s have a look at the Human Design Life Themes associated with Gateway 62:

 

The Personal Life Theme: The Maya

So, we see that the Sun is in Gate 62, which is concerned with organizing life by expressing logical details. On the opposite side, we have the Earth in Gateway 61, which is the Gateway of “Inner Truth”. Gate 61 is in Individual Circuitry. It’s innovative, and involved with the vibrational concepts in life (i.e. What is truthful? What resonates well here?). So, there’s an interesting balance happening here between the logical expression on one side and this quest for truth and integrity on the other. And we call this Life Theme “The Maya”.

 

• Gate 62 – Details – Expressing and defining details that are of value to the present and future.

 

• Gate 61 – Inner Truth – Authenticity guides us to what we know to be true.

 

• Gate 42 – Increase – Bringing about growth and expansion.

 

• Gate 32 – Duration – Endurance and adaptability as life continues to change.

 

The Maya is always in a balance between reality and illusion, between the scientifically provable and the artificial. And if you ask physicists about the state of matter, they’ll tell you that it’s a bunch of particles all vibrating together, but when we look really closely, there’s nothing there. So, the Maya is a kind of an expression of this paradoxical state between the observable reality of life and the illusory nature of it all.

Now on the Unconscious side, the Sun in Gateway 42, the Gateway of “Growth, Expansion and Increase”. And opposite, the Unconscious Earth is in Gate 32, the Gateway of “Duration”. What endures? what stands the test of time? It’s another facet of the Maya’s expression of reality vs. illusion. Is it built to last? Is it real or not? Is it substantial or not? So, people who have this Life Theme must be really clear in themselves in order to not get too caught up in what appear to be the factual details.

Certain things in life are very practical and require an analytical approach. But other things are just part of the mystery. And “mystery”, when you break the word down, becomes my story. It’s nothing to get worked up about. It’s not necessarily a problem you have to solve. It’s just, “This is my story. This is the experience I’m having in this lifetime”. So, people with this Life Theme have to have a sense of humor. You can put all your attention into something just to find out there’s nothing really there. But if you can find the humor in that, and accept it as part of the mystery/my story of life, it doesn’t have to be a big setback, in fact it can make life much more fun!

 

The Fixed Life Theme: Details

 Now the energy moves on into the 4/1 profile. We still have the Sun in Gate 62, and the Conscious Earth in Gate 61, so this idea of reality vs illusion is still there in the background. But now the Unconscious Sun has moved into Gateway 3, the Gateway of “Innovation”, and the Unconscious Earth has gone into the 50th Gateway, the Gateway of “Values”.

 

 

 

• Gate 62 – Details – Expressing and defining details that are of value to the present and future.

 

• Gate 61 – Inner Truth – Authenticity guides us to what we know to be true.

 

• Gate 3 – Innovating – Breaking with the old ways and implementing the new.

 

•  Gate 50 – Values – Honoring the values that serve the community at large.

 

 So, on one side, people with this Life Theme can be very set in their way, very sure of things from an analytical point of view. But then there’s always that possibility of the illusion coming through, and the need to align their expression with what they personally conceive as truthful. There’s also always the potential for innovation—Maybe there’s something new and different that nobody’s come across before, something very peculiar, very particular.

If you have this Life Theme, you can often be very set on putting forward proposals and concepts, but you also have to be very particular that you’re clear in yourself first, always trusting in your own Type and Authority before putting something forward and then promoting it.

 

The Interpersonal Life Theme: Obscuration  

 Now the Sun moves into the 5/1, 5/2, 6/2, and 6/3 profiles, and we find ourselves in the Interpersonal Life Theme of Obscuration, or Concealing. And people with this particular Life Theme can be very brilliant at working out strategic moves without giving the game away. For instance, in a game of poker, a good player keeps his or her cards close to their chest and has an inscrutable poker face. You’re never quite sure what they’ve got cooking behind the mask.

We’ve still got the Sun in Gate 62, the Earth in Gate 61, but now we’re getting the Unconscious Sun moving further into this 3rd Gateway of Innovation. And we’re also challenging the rule systems that have been set in place in the 50th Gateway, the values that society holds for the ongoing progression of wellness within the community.

So, there’s a certain level of genius in people that have this Life Theme. Richard Branson and Priyanka Chopra, for example, have this particular Life Theme. And these are people who never really reveal their brilliance. They’re never really reveal the schemes or plans.

 

They’re highly innovative and always looking to serve society, and their communities in innovative ways, but they’re never going to tell everyone the  full details of what it is they’re proposing.

That’s just the nature of this Life Theme: Deliberately or not, you keep things hidden behind the magician’s curtain, because you realize that the moment the cat’s out of the bag everyone’s going to jump in and offer their two cents and interfere with, or steal your process.

 

That’s the essence of this Life Theme. If you want to learn more about Life Themes, you’ll find them all in the Book of Destinies, part of the Human Design Trilogy which is available in all good bookstores and audiobook platforms.

 

 

If you want to find out more about Gate 62, we encourage you to dive into our blog series on the Book of Lines.

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