Human Design · Spleen center

Gate 50: Values

Guardianship of what the group holds.

When it overshoots

Rules kept past their purpose.

At its best

Values that actually protect people.

Carried and open

In a chart that carries it

Natally present, the instinct to protect is amplified; make sure the rules still serve the people they were made for.

In a chart where it is open

An open 50 meets inherited rules with suspicion; ask what they were meant to protect.

When it is in the sky

Values, and the rules that protect a group, come into focus. Guardianship matters while it lasts.

The six lines

1. Line 1, The InvestigatorValues need examining, so be clear what is really being protected and from whom.
2. Line 2, The HermitA sheltering instinct does its work unseen, and those inside the shelter feel safe without knowing why.
3. Line 3, The MartyrRules kept past their purpose teach the difference between a value and a habit.
4. Line 4, The OpportunistA value stays alive only while a community keeps practising it together; written down and left alone, it hardens into a rule.
5. Line 5, The HereticAsked to uphold somebody else’s rules, protect what the rule was meant to protect and let the letter go.
6. Line 6, The Role ModelThe values that outlasted their makers were the ones that served the people under them.

Channels through this gate

• Preservation · 27-50Custodianship. Care with rules. Responsibility for others, held as values. With Gate 27, Caring.

The same figure in the Book of Changes

Gate 50 is hexagram 50, The Cauldron, read by an older tradition.