Gate 41 marks the beginning of the Human Design (or Rave) New Year when the Sun transits into this position. As this new solar cycle commences, our fantasy mind begins to play in the pool of possibilities.
Gate 41 Overview
What we begin to tease out in our imagination has the potential to manifest into our own reality, with patience and Divine Timing. We need time to bring these ideas, dreams, and inspirations into emotional alignment first.
If we try to rush these dreams into fruition, we set ourselves up for the potential of massive chaos.
We need time to allow our creative imagination to play with the plethora of possibilities and potentials available to us, and explore new abundant pathways and opportunities that will serve our work and the world.
In order to sustain these visions and dreams, and to break away from old patterns and limiting beliefs, we need to bring our emotional frequency into alignment and create spaciousness to call forth the new.
Meaning, we also need to let go and release all that no longer serves us, and expand the edges of what’s possible. It’s important that we listen to our own strategy and authority to be receptive to take action when the time is right.
If you have this Gate defined in your chart, you already are familiar with its energy and may see this energy being reflected back to by others as the Sun moves through it.
On the other hand, if you have this gate undefined or open in your chart, you will experience this energy as the Sun transits and will be able to tap into it’s magic. You also can do this when you are around others who have this designed in your chart.
Remember, we all have everything in the chart … you are not missing anything. It’s simply a matter of whether you can draw on that energy consistently from within yourself (defined, meaning colored in on your chart), or you are absorbing and amplifying this energy from others and the transits (if it’s undefined or open, thus being white on your chart).
Gate 41: Definition, Energy + Keywords
Understanding the core components of the energy within this gate, along with the magnetic keywords help us to harness the magic that lies within.
- Traditional Human Design: Decrease | Contraction
- Gene Keys: Fantasy (shadow) | Anticipation (gift) | Emanation (siddhi)
- Quantum Human Design: Imagination
- I Ching: Diminishing (Sun) — reduction & loss; create room for new
- Image (I Ching): Lake/Mountain (mist rises, weakens mountain)
- Archetypal Name: The Patient Dreamer
- Location: Root Center (Channel 41–30: Channel of Fantasy & Desire)
- Astrological Sign: Aquarius
- Keywords: dreams, hope, possibility; imagination, felt experiences; creativity; envisioning; transformation, Divine Timing; patience
- Alignment Cue: optimism
- Out-of-Alignment Cue: avoidance
Location of Gate 41 in your Human Design Chart
Because this gate lives in the Root Center, there is a pressure to feel and experience new things; there is a also a pressure to take action on these dreams and inspirations.
Pressure, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. It’s learning to act of the pressure that is correct for you, in your design.
As such, there is an out-of-alignment way we react to this pressure (shadow) and a way that feels correct for how we respond(gift).
Note the difference between the descriptions of reaction versus response.
This is especially important to note as Gate 41 connects from the Root Center to the Solar Plexus Center. connecting to Gate 30. This is a highly emotional and passionate channel, in its entirety.
Shadow & Gift Expressions of Gate 41
The shadow side of this Gate has us fixating on worst case scenarios, where we abdicate our own creative power and shrink back in expressing new options and possibilities. We fear that our new ideas, dreams, and inspirations go against the grain and will be met with great resistance.
So, we hold back and paralyze ourselves in fear of being judged by others for being a “lofty and hopeless dreamer.”
When we move into alignment, the gift expression of this gate is that we use our creative power as a force for change. We express freely the new ideas and dreams bubbling up and begin to visualize the abundant opportunities that will present, as a result.
Contemplations for Gate 41
- Am I harnessing the power of my own creative power?
- In what ways, do I express my creativity?
- What is my relationship with being patient, waiting for Divine Timing?
- Do you believe in miracles?
- How can you deepen your faith and belief in magic and miracles?
Key Takeaways
Your imagination has the power to help you stretch beyond what we perceived to be possible, to expand the edges of your own (and others) potential, and to inspire new ways of being in the world.
You are here to stimulate new ideas and inspirations into the world. The world needs your creative power to stimulate new opportunities and to show them the power of believing in miracles.
We recognize when the timing is right to share our ideas, and that in doing so we can begin to break old patterns and limiting beliefs and expand the edges of what truly is possible.
It’s only when we honor our creative power, along with our ability to use our imagination as a source of creative inspiration and manifestation, that we can fully activate the expression of this gate.
The virtue of patience being key to fully honoring this energy.