Gate 57 - The Gate of Intuition

What it means to find clarity through intuition.

I love Gate 57, The Gate of Intuitive Insight. This is also known as The Gate of Instinct and it resides in the Spleen Center in your Human Design chart.

The Spleen center, along with the Solar Plexus center directly across from it in your chart, combine and correspond to what we know as the Solar plexus chakra. Together they represent your sense of survival and trust in the abundance of the universe and trust in yourself to provide what you need.

Gate 57 resides in my South Node which is probably why it’s such a big part of my life. The South Node is what comes naturally to you and is part of your personal journey, a gift that you can offer to others. Much of my work with coaching clients is helping them tap into their own intuition and trust their own abilities. That self trust has also been a major theme in my own life.

Trusting that small, still voice that comes quickly and is gone in a second is the lesson of Gate 57.

When we don’t trust what is inside us, we end up putting our trust in others. We downplay our own sense of knowing and give our power away.

While being able to trust others is necessary in some cases, trusting that their experiences are the same as ours and their answers to problems will work universally is an error in judgement and it’s based in fear. It’s our fear that we aren’t enough or don’t have enough to provide for ourselves that makes us turn our power over to others. But thinking that someone else’s answer will fit our problem leaves us vulnerable to frustration, and ultimately burnout.

In the language of the Gene Keys, the 57th Shadow is ‘unease’. Unease is the underlying fear we humans have instinctually. It’s that fear that keeps us safe. But if we dive too deeply into that fear, we become stuck. This fear in get 57 is focused on the future, the “what if”.

As we progress from unease and fear to accepting and leaning into our intuition (the gift of the gate 57), ultimately we will experience the clarity (the highest essence of gate 57) that comes from understanding that there is no future, only now, and the fear of the future no longer exists.

One side of the balance scale is embracing the fear as a survival tool without allowing it to overwhelm us. The other side is trusting our own abilities and the abundance of the universe to provide what we need to survive.

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So how do you apply Gate 57 to your daily life? You first need to understand the lesson of the Gate 57 and how to turn it around and listen to your intuition.