Human Design · G center

Gate 46: Determination

Being in the right place, in the body.

When it overshoots

Effort substituted for placement.

At its best

Luck that is really good timing.

Carried and open

In a chart that carries it

Held in the chart, good timing has a way of turning up, and trusting the body’s sense of place helps it along.

In a chart where it is open

With the gate open, another person’s lucky timing can look enviable; that kind of timing is not rationed.

When it is in the sky

Being in the right place at the right time matters. The body knows where it belongs before the mind does.

The six lines

1. Line 1, The InvestigatorBeing in the right place starts with trusting the body’s sense of where it belongs.
2. Line 2, The HermitGood timing turns up uncannily often, and others start wanting to stand wherever it stands.
3. Line 3, The MartyrEnding up in the wrong place teaches where the right one is, usually through discomfort.
4. Line 4, The OpportunistThe right place is very often reached through somebody else’s invitation, so the open doors of friends are worth walking through.
5. Line 5, The HereticPeople may call your timing luck; showing up with care is the real practice behind it.
6. Line 6, The Role ModelAcross a lifetime, the places the body chose proved to be the path.

Channels through this gate

• Discovery · 29-46Succeeding where others fail. Commitment plus a body in the right place. Saying yes and meaning all of it. With Gate 29, Saying Yes.

The same figure in the Book of Changes

Gate 46 is hexagram 46, Pushing Upward, read by an older tradition.