Meaning
A lake can hold only so much; what is more overflows. The hexagram is measure, the joint in a bamboo stem that divides it into lengths, and the tradition reads it as limits and their right use. Its Judgment adds a warning against overdoing even measure: "(But) if the regulations (which it prescribes) be severe and difficult, they cannot be permanent", in Legge's English. The Image has the superior man fix measures of number and length and weigh what virtue and conduct are.
Human Design places gate 60 from 26°22′30″ Capricorn to 2°00′ Aquarius, the 64th and last on the wheel, ending where gate 41 begins. It is in the Root centre, one of the four motors, which the system ties to pressure and drive. Its channel, which the school names Mutation, runs to gate 3 in the Sacral; the pair is in the Knowing circuit of the Individual group.
The engine names the gate Acceptance. With its hexagram, we read it in our own words as working within limits: taking what is given as the starting point, and letting the pressure build there until change becomes possible. The hexagram's limits are good when they are sweet, as the fifth line calls them, and harmful when they are bitter. Joined to gate 3, the sprout breaking ground, the gate can be read as the containment out of which something new pushes. The sample person on the system page was born with the Sun in this gate, in line 4.
Opposite gate 60 on the wheel is gate 56, the traveller: limits face the open road. The school names the Right Angle Cross of Laws from 60 and 56 with 50 and 3, the cross of that sample chart.
On the wheel
Gate 60 covers 5°37′30″ of the zodiac, from 26°22′30″ Capricorn to 2°00′ Aquarius, the 64th gate counting from gate 41. In 2026 the Sun passes through it from 16 January to 22 January, and within a day of those dates in other years. Each of its six lines covers 56′15″:
- Line 1: 26°22′30″ to 27°18′45″ Capricorn
- Line 2: 27°18′45″ to 28°15′ Capricorn
- Line 3: 28°15′ to 29°11′15″ Capricorn
- Line 4: 29°11′15″ Capricorn to 0°07′30″ Aquarius
- Line 5: 0°07′30″ to 1°03′45″ Aquarius
- Line 6: 1°03′45″ to 2°00′ Aquarius
In a chart the gate is active when any of the 26 positions falls in it, and the channel Mutation is defined only when gate 3 is active too, by either set.
When the Personality Sun is in this gate, the school's table names the cross by the angle of the profile: the Right Angle Cross of Laws (60/56 | 50/3), the Juxtaposition Cross of Limitation (60/56 | 28/27) or the Left Angle Cross of Distraction (60/56 | 28/27). The four numbers are the Personality Sun and Earth, then the Design Sun and Earth. We give the names only.
Correspondences
Each item with how it stands: “sourced” is in the work cited, “our construction” is EsoTerrier’s own, and “disputed” means the sources disagree.
- Hexagram (the I Ching)
- 60 節 Jié ䷻: Lake / marsh below, Water above; Legge (1882) spells it Kieh sourced
- Wheel position (Ra Uru Hu's wheel)
- 26°22′30″ Capricorn to 2°00′ Aquarius, 296.375° to 302° of the tropical zodiac: a modern placing, not the I Ching's sourced
- Centre (the system's association)
- Root: the system ties it to pressure and drive. A name and an association, not anatomy sourced
- Channel and circuit
- 3-60 Mutation, to gate 3 in the Sacral: Knowing circuit, Individual group sourced
- Gate opposite on the wheel
- Gate 56, Stimulation, 180° away; its hexagram has every line of this one flipped sourced
- Crosses named from this gate
- Right Angle Cross of Laws (60/56 | 50/3); Juxtaposition Cross of Limitation (60/56 | 28/27); Left Angle Cross of Distraction (60/56 | 28/27) sourced
- Gate name
- Acceptance: the name the engine prints, the same as the Definitive Book's title as the pyhd tables record it. A name, not the hexagram's sourced
- Gene Keys (Richard Rudd, 2009)
- Key 60, from the same hexagram at the same place on the wheel; our Gene Keys Profile page for it gives our own words sourced
- Our reading
- Accepting limits as the ground for change: read as pressure that works within what is given, until something new can grow out of it. our construction
How the schools read it
- The I Ching, in Legge's translation (1882)
- “(But) if the regulations (which it prescribes) be severe and difficult, they cannot be permanent.”
- Human Design (Ra Uru Hu; the school)
- Names the gate Acceptance and sets it in the Root centre, at one end of the channel Mutation. Its descriptions of the gate and its six lines are in Ra Uru Hu's books, in copyright; we do not quote or paraphrase them.
- The independent schools
- Zeno Dickson and Chaitanyo Taschler, Chetan Parkyn, Karen Curry Parker and later teachers compute the same gate at the same place, and read it in their own words.
- EsoTerrier
- Accepting limits as the ground for change: read as pressure that works within what is given, until something new can grow out of it.
Claims about it
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Gate 60's place on the zodiac, 26°22′30″ Capricorn to 2°00′ Aquarius, is where the I Ching itself puts hexagram 60.
falseWhat the record shows: The wheel is Ra Uru Hu's arrangement: Shao Yong's 11th-century circle of the 64, rotated so that hexagram 41 starts at 2° Aquarius. No Chinese source ties a hexagram to degrees of the zodiac.
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The Root centre, where gate 60 sits, is an organ or gland, and the gate tells something about the body.
unverifiedWhat the record shows: The centre's name is a name. The schools' pairing of the centres with organs and glands, taken from the chakra books of the 1920s, has no physiological correspondence that anyone has shown, and we never read a gate or a centre as the body or its health.
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Gate 60 is one of the 64 codons of the genetic code, so it marks something in a person's genes.
falseWhat the record shows: Both sets have 64 members because both are built from a small alphabet in groups: two kinds of line in six places, four bases in three. Nothing beyond the count matches.
