Gate 63 needs to have the details and answers before making a decision. It ponders, questions, and carries with it the energy of doubt and curiosity.
It tends to beg the question: “which wolf will you feed” — the one of doubt that keeps you stuck, or the one of curiosity that cracks you open.
Gate 63 Overview
Individuals with Gate 63 defined in their chart take nothing for granted or at face value. The need data and answers to back their continual questions.
You seek to understand … everything.
It is through asking the big questions that you are able to open up to the profound power of possibility. You tap into a greater potential when you seek to understand, and allow yourself space for wonder.
You are naturally inquisitive and want to assess and evaluate whatever comes before you for greater growth and discovery.
Your power lies in your ability to discern probably paths and potentials.
For those who carry this energy, you are an explorer and seek to probe into life’s mysteries and nuances. Your mind is sharp, you tend to be keen on unraveling the truth and assessing life through an analytical lens.
Simple answer and superficial explorations will leave you needing and craving more, as your inquiry needs depth in your own discovery process.
For you dig deeper, challenge assumptions, and question the status quo.
You have an insatiable and relentless curiosity for truth that often leads to profound insights and breakthroughs, both personally and professionally.
Often those who carry this energy defined in their chart, are the scientists, the researchers, philosophers, and explorers among us. This tends to be extra if you also carry the Line 1 (the investigator) in your Profile.
You doubt can be either a catalyst that serves to help you ask bigger questions and tap into greater potentials, or it can serve as a barrier where it leads to insecurity and indecisiveness.
Again, it’s all a matter of which “wolf” you choose to feed.
Gate 63: 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: Doubt
- Gene Keys: Doubt (shadow) | Inquiry (gift) | Truth (siddhi)
- Quantum Human Design: Curiosity
- I Ching: After Completion (Chi Chi) — a feat is completed; you have been successful: remain alert and flexible; bringing things to an end brings disorder, you generated good fortune through small successes
- Image (I Ching): Fire/Water (sun sets in the water, day has ended)
- Archetypal Name: The Wonderer | Discerning Questioner
- Location: Head Center (Channel 63–4: Channel of xxx)
- Astrological Sign: Pisces
- Keywords: doubt, skeptical, evaluate, discernment, curiosity, finding potential, questioner, seeking answers
- Alignment Cue: open-minded
- Out-of-Alignment Cue: doubting
Location of Gate 63 in your Human Design Chart
With Gate 63 being located in the Head Center, it carries with it the energy to ask probing questions and to analyze and evaluate potential answers.
It tends to have a set way of processing ideas, often from the vantage point of what the future might bring. This energy can also get caught up in future-projecting and too many “what if” scenarios.
The Gate is part of Channel 63–4, the Channel of Logic, and seeks to find the analytical or logical route to answer it’s questions.
There is a strong need to verify and validate information and ideas before being able to make a decision or take action.
This energy expresses itself through continuous probing and quest for understanding, as it have a need to question and prove things.
Individuals with Gate 63, or the entire channel, defined in their chart are on a quest to make sense of life and unravel the mysteries of the world.
This channel operates form a mental pressure, rather than of intuition.
With that, individuals with this energy defined have a robust mental activity. Their thought process is rational, objective, and analytical.
Shadow & Gift Expressions of Gate 63
The shadow energy of Gate 63 is one where doubt keeps you stuck. It often leads to self-doubt, insecurity, and indecisiveness.
When stuck in this shadow, you find it difficult to make a solid decision and unable to take action of any kind. You also may find yourself in a victim cycle where you seek to blame others or external conditions for your doubt.
When aligned, you use doubt as a catalyst to seek deeper questions for better understanding and discernment.
You hold the energy for making sense of patterns as you allow yourself the proper evaluation to move through your doubt.
With the ability to ask powerful, probing questions, you are able to get to the truth of matters and patterns, thus revealing the potential for all.
You biggest opportunity is to not let doubt paralyze you, but rather use your questions to shatter your own self-doubt, a belief of impossibility, and any hesitation that might be holding you back.
Contemplations for Gate 63
- Where am I stuck in cycles of self-doubt and paralysis to move forward?
- Am I giving myself permission to be curious?
- In what ways can I probe further to discern the truth of something?
- Do I hesitate to make decisions and take action when needed?
- How can I be more curious about what’s truly possible?
Key Takeaways
Gate 63 carries with it the ability to question, probe deeper, and seek greater understanding. It serves to tap into the truth of things.
This energy leads to profound insights and groundbreaking discoveries.
For this energy to be aligned, you must learn to balance your questioning nature with trust, confidence, and discernment to harness the power you bring through this gate.
When you do so, you are able to catalyze the energy of doubt for growth, discovery, and more expansive possibilities.
Otherwise, you will find yourself stuck in cycles of anxiety, self-doubt, and anxiety, unable to make aligned decisions and take inspired action.
The magic lies is how you perceive and use your doubt (and curiosity).