How do you explain intuition? What is it exactly? It’s a tap on the shoulder, a “heads up” from the universe. But what do we do with it, and how do we know when to follow it and when to dismiss it? Human Design gate 57 can point us in the right direction.

 

The sun has moved out of gate 48, “The Well,” the water source, the freshness of knowledge. And now, we move on into gate 57, which is called “The Gentle,” or “the Gentle, Penetrating Wind.”

 

 

Imagine you’re enjoying a beautiful sunny day and then all the sudden you get a chill, and you realize you hadn’t noticed that there’s been this very gentle breeze blowing along. We can think of this “gentle, penetrating wind” in terms of intuition. With intuition, we penetrate into things without necessarily noticing exactly how we got to see or recognize these things. It’s not logical. It’s not an intellectual exercise. It’s a gentle, sometimes barely perceptible change in frequency. The question is, do we pay attention to it?

 

 

Let’s see how this plays out in Human Design gate 57 line by line:

 

First Line: Remain Calm

The foundation of Human Design gate 57 is to be intuitive, or to allow your intuition, because in order for it to be helpful, you’ve got to allow it to be. The mind can be so powerful. The disturbances around us can be so intense that even when we have an intuition, the mind can jump in and overthink it, overlook it, or override it. But the intuition isn’t working on a mental/intellectual level. It is really a vibrational thing.

 

There are so many triggers that can get us really concerned about our lives and our future. And the fear of the 57 is the fear of the future. When you get an intuition about something, it can be startling. “What am I gonna do with it?” you wonder, “what if it effects my life dramatically.” So, there’s always an impulse to question whether your intuition is real.

 

You can’t necessarily tell whether an intuition is real unless you’re truly paying attention to it and adjusting your life accordingly. So, the first line is telling you to “Remain calm.” The key here is to simply maintain a steady awareness of your intuition.

 

Second Line: Infiltrating

The second line called “Infiltrating: recognizing hidden agendas.” Second lines always have the potential to be really natural and easygoing. They have a tendency to find things out just by happenstance because of their natural ability to avoid complicating the issue.

 

It’s very easy for a second line to find out the agenda in any situation. Your intuition penetrates the meanings hidden from other senses, giving you the option to to act nobly or not. In other words, you can see where people are coming from when they don’t necessarily know that you can see where they’re coming from, which opens up the potential for taking advantage.

 

On one side, your harmonic nature enriches your clarity and virtue, and in turn, you use your intuition for the benefit of everybody. On the other side, your moodiness allows you to ignore your intuitive recognition in favor of your baser motives. So, that’s something to be aware of. You get an intuition, but the intuition doesn’t necessarily attune you to play fair. There’s always a potential to take advantage of situations.

 

Third Line: Being Aware

Third lines always have a kind of stop and go approach to things. They say, “am I going to commit or not? What’s my intuition telling me? Is it real? Is it substantial? Is it worth paying attention to?”

 

The third line here is called “Being aware: sensitive, vibrational attunement.” Everything in this universe, whether you’re looking at a rock, or a person, or a tree or an animal, or a distant star, everything has its frequency. And whether you think about it or not, you know when you’re in a perfect frequency, when you’re in the zone and you’re fit and healthy and well, and the vibration is just with you. And you know when you get out of balance and you lose that vibrational attunement, you lose your self-confidence, or you catch something that compromises your health.

 

So, the third line of the 57 is telling you to trust this sensitive vibrational attunement. Third lines are always pioneers. You can explore things where nobody else goes. You penetrate into things other people can’t get to. You have the ability to attune, to relate to your perceptions of life from a pure intuition.

 

The third line, with this pure awareness, has to be really clear. Constantly aware of whether you are stretching too far and going into a place where there is no clarity at all.

 

Fourth Line: Being Fearless

The 57 is a very personal gate. You are the one who gets the intuition. The world can just be carrying on as usual, essentially sleepwalking, and then BANG! All the sudden you get this intuition, this sense that there’s something completely different going on. And since the fourth line always wants to convey things to others and bring other people in, its first reaction is “Did anyone else get this? How am I going to convey this?” So, the fourth line here is called “Being fearless.”

 

Suddenly you see the whole picture where others cannot. You penetrated right into a situation. You can see it, you can hear it, and seemingly no one else can. You must not succumb to fears about how you’re going to tell everybody. Trust your Type and Authority to guide you and you’ll see that maybe some things are to be told, some things are not to be told.

 

Fifth Line: Moment by Moment

The fifth line has a leadership quality. There’s always this capability to be a teacher. There’s also the capability to be a rescuer. Because you can see, you can intuit how things are going down for people and how people may have been absolutely missing out on what’s possible for them. Here, the fifth line is called “Being gentle: attuning to life situations, moment by moment.”

 

And this “moment by moment” is very much the key with the fifth line. You trust your intuition moment by moment. The picture now may be very different from what it was five minutes ago. Your intuition may say, “Hang on, everything’s changed here. Let’s go this way.”

 

It’s about deliberately evaluating your intuition. But, again, this is a vibrational thing. So, evaluating your intuition is not so much about thinking it over as it is about tuning in to it, moment by moment.

 

Sixth Line:

You know those times in your life where you’re just getting bombarded by all kinds of different senses and stimuli? The sixth line always has a sense of responsibility. It wants to be able to make sense of the overload and direct it. So, the sixth line here is called “Being circumspect: curbing the intuition to relevant issues that are at hand.” It’s all about being relevant, separating the unnecessary noise from the relevant things that are needed here in the present moment.

 

The difficulty here is that since you have this broad overview of what’s going on, and this ability to fix things in multiple different ways, there is the potential of sometimes getting stuck in that overview rather than being really present in what’s needed. In that moment, you either have the self-confidence to trust and act on your intuition, or not.

 

And again, we all have our own Type and Authority to go on. Gate 57 is just going to enhance our intuitive capabilities. Our sense of attunement and frequency awareness. The question is, are we going to pay attention? Are we going to allow ourselves to enhance our intuition, to see that there’s a lot more out there. A lot more than we’ve been told.

 

That’s the wrap up for Human Design Gate 57 and we’ll check in again soon. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Human Design, and to discover how your own Design informs and shapes your life, get your Free Human Design Report today.