Last week, we looked at Gateway 62, the Gateway we call “Expressed Details”. Now, the Sun has moved on into Gateway 56. This Gate is known as “The Wanderer” because it’s always looking for something new, something stimulating, something different. And I often tease people who have the 56th Gateway in their Chart that they could write a book about a trip to the supermarket. Gate 56 is always engaged, always seeking. New things are constantly emerging which challenge and rearrange your belief system and send you in a whole new direction.
So, with that in mind, let’s have a look at the Human Design Life Themes associated with Gateway 56:
The Personal Life Theme: The Laws
So, the Sun is in Gate 56, and on the opposite side we have the Earth in Gateway 60, which is the Gateway of “Limitations”. And this Gateway asks the question, “What are limitations?” Are they merely restrictions that keep us stuck where we are? Or is it possible to use limitations as a grounding point, a springboard for growth? On the unconscious side, we’ve got the Sun in Gateway 3, which is the Gateway of “Innovation”. And the Unconscious Earth in Gateway 50, which is the gateway of “Values”, specifically values that serve the wellbeing of the community. And this opens up the Personal Life Theme of “The Laws”.
- Gate 56 – The Wanderer – Expanding horizons by finding connections between the inner and outer world.
- Gate 60 – Limitations – Accepting restrictions allows for the possibility of transcendence.
- Gate 3 – Innovating – Breaking with the old ways and implementing the new.
- Gate 50 – Values – Honoring the values that serve the community at large.
When this Life Theme comes around, some radical changes can take place. And those of you who have this as your Life Theme know this all too well. You might have a story or two about a time when you launched into something and ended up somewhere else completely, somewhere totally unexpected. So, this particular Life Theme necessarily brings about changes in people’s understandings.
People with this Life Theme can see very clearly what’s working and what isn’t. From an early age, they have a sense about what’s dysfunctional in society. There’s an instinctual recognition about what can and will endure, and what needs to get thrown out and replaced with something completely different.
If you have this Life Theme, you have this mutative, potentially fluid lifestyle. This can mean changing the way your life is organized, and also changing your surroundings, moving through different friendships, and different interactions. In a way, you are constantly looking for what is that’s really going to do it for you, which means that you have the ability to be really clear about who it is that’s surrounding you and how important these people are for you.
The Fixed Life Theme: Stimulation
The Sun keeps on rolling and goes onto the Fixed Life Theme of “Stimulation”, also called the Life Theme of “Beliefs”. The 4/1 Profile gives us a very different picture here as it fixes the whole context of the 56th Gateway into place. It’s still aiming us towards stimulations that challenge our belief systems, but in a much more rigid way.
- Gate 56 – The Wanderer – Expanding horizons by finding connections between the inner and outer world.
- Gate 60 – Limitations – Accepting restrictions allows for the possibility of transcendence.
- Gate 27 – Nourishing – Enhancing health and wellbeing in all aspects of life.
- Gate 28 – The Game Player – Embracing and celebrating life, challenges and all.
People with this particular Life Theme can be very dogged and set in their beliefs. They see where the change is needed and how things can be rearranged accordingly, and they can be very particular about what it is they’re looking for and how to establish what their beliefs really mean to them.
The Unconscious Sun has moved into Gateway 27, which is all about nourishment, and the Unconscious Earth is now in Gate 28, the Gateway of “Celebration of Life”. We call it “The Game Player” in Human Design, but to me, wherever I see Gate 28, it’s an opportunity to celebrate. And people with this Life Theme are often celebrating. Even if they appear to be going through challenges, they can still be celebrating the enhancement of beliefs, ideas, thought forms and possibilities in life.
The Interpersonal Life Theme: Distraction
Now the Sun moves into the 5/1, 5/2, 6/2, and 6/3 profiles, and we find ourselves in a Life Theme that involves a lot of stimulation, which partly explains why it’s called the Interpersonal Life Theme of “Distraction”. But are they being distracted, or are they the ones distracting everybody else? That’s the question people with this Life Theme have to answer for themselves. That’s the balance they have to strike.
People with this Life Theme have the potential to see the bigger picture, they can see all the various possibilities that can play out if we really take the Gate 56 “Wanderer” idea to its limits. If we really stretch the stimulation and the excitement about all the possible ways in which life expresses itself, where does that take us? What does it offer us? Are there any limits to it?
So, if you have this Life Theme, it’s important to be really clear in recognizing whether you’re living your life according to your own truth, or just living according to the stimulation that’s around you and/or the demand for you to be stimulating for everybody else. Because you do have the potential to be the greatdistractor, the one that has all these great stories and entertainments and ways of keeping everybody amused. But is that really what’s important to you in the moment?
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 56, we encourage you to dive into our blog series on the Book of Lines.
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