Diving deeper into each of the Gates in my profile, I'm starting in numerical order with Gate 11. Gate 11 appears in both my Design and Personality calculations, each with a different line attached. Not only that, but Gate 11 is activated by the planet Uranus in both calculations. Here is what I will be discussing in this post. Go check out the resources to learn more about them for yourself!
▶ DESIGN CALCULATION ▷ The Unconscious | Who I am (Others can likely see this more easily than I can)
▶ PERSONALITY CALCULATION ▷ The Conscious | Who I think I am (The illusion drawn from conditioning)
▶ PLANETS ▷ uranus
▶ GATES ▷ 11
▶ LINES ▷ 3 ▷ 5
▶ SIGNATURE ▷ peace
▶ AUTHORITY ▷ emotional solar plexus
▶ STRATEGY ▷ to inform
So, what does it all mean in reference to my BodyGraph? I'd like to start with more traditional explanations of the elements, and then dive into my own interpretation.
Other Explanations
Let's start with Uranus.
Whether Astrology or Human Design, the planet of Uranus is associated with basically the same concepts. Taking the definition from Cafe Astrology, we see:
Uranus is associated with technology, innovation, discovery, and all that is progressive.
On the upside, Uranus is associated with enlightenment, progressiveness, objectivity, novelty, and ingenuity.
Negative expression of Uranus is rebelliousness without a cause and irresponsibility.
— Cafe Astrology
Now, onto the Gate.
In my Defined Gates Post, I linked out to various issues of The Daily View that explained what each gate and line combination meant. I'm relinking them below for easy access to better understand this post.
My Design Gate 11 is attached to Line 3 | Review the explanation of Gate 11 and Line 3 here before continuing
My Personality Gate 11 is attached to Line 5. | Review the explanation of Line 5 here before continuing (the explanation of Gate 11 will be the same)
With Human Design we also see the Exaltation (or Positive) and Detriment (or Negative) for the various lines attached to a Gate. Although, most HD people today harken back to the original concept as put forth by Ra Uru Hu, that there is no real "negative" or "positive" to either. They're more so just different ends of the energy spectrum.
My Interpretation
So, Gate 11 is the Gate of Ideas.
For me it's a hanging gate (Not connected to the Gate at the other end of a possible channel, in this case gate 56. When both of these specific gates are defined, they connect to create The Channel of Curiosity).
Not only that but Gate 11 lives in the Ajna Center, which, for me, is open. I do not have anything connecting my Ajna to my Throat Center.
Detriment
What I do have is a constant feeling of wanting to execute my ideas. When I don't have an outlet for them, I don't know how to relax and I feel like I am wasting my time on Earth. Since I am already constantly thinking, trying to find the answer, processing opinions, gaining insights, having ideas, being affected by other people's energy, and trying to help others find answers, process their ideas, gain insight, etc, or this overall awareness, my mind rarely stops. When it does, I feel useless. "Fiddling while Rome burns" and "Giving away ideas out of a sense of insecurity" as mentioned in The Daily View links in my intro couldn't be more true for me. Do I really need to be making another Instagram account at the top of my emotional wave when the real story I should be telling might be where the wave crashes to the shore? Am I writing this blog because I really want to remember all of this information for myself (and have an open Head Center that can't retain it all), or am I more caught up with needing other people to understand me?
Conditioning
The biggest way this shows up for me in correlation to Gate 11 is the idea of rest. I feel guilt when I rest. I feel depression and anxiety when I rest. I believe rest is one of the most important things a Manifestor can do for themselves, but it feels impossible when you have bills to pay. Then I get mad. So, when all these ideas come to me, if I don't do anything with them, what value am I bringing to society?
Exaltation
In many explanations of Gate 11 online, little is touched the idea that Peace is associated with the Gate of Ideas. (Sidenote: Peace also aligns with the Manifestor type's Signature, which is... Peace! So as long as I am working in alignment with my Design, I should feel at Peace and that is my ultimate goal. More on this later.) According to
ifate.com, Hexagram 11 of the I'Ching "in its most literal sense means
heaven supporting the
earth."
The way I interpret this as tied to the meaning of the Gate of Ideas is this the concept of remembering and sharing knowledge with others at the right time. Throughout this blog you'll see how this theme comes back time and time again for me. As a 3/5 profile this meshes well. Basically what I learned about being a 3/5 profile is that I am supposed to share lived experiences with others, but only when the timing is right to do so. It's all very Celestine Prophecy.
If we take the concepts of "heaven" and "earth" and view them more as "spiritual" and "physical" (a step further would be "design" and "personality"), we could see a correlation between Gate 11's "ideas" and "sharing."
I do think I'm on the right track. I think all of these experiments or Micro LABS are practice for the real thing. The thing that will matter. Although, it is true that I am burning myself out along the way which is typical of Manifestors who are not paying attention. What I really should be doing is not executing any of my Micro LABS until I know the timing is right.
I am also writing a book. The act of writing a book is literally taking things you remember (or making them up) and sharing them as a reflection of the larger story of life. Reflection is what those with the Gate of Ideas and no connection to the Throat Center are asked to do until their Inner Authority tells them the time is right to share it. I often say that writing a book is my life's work. That all of my experiences, knowledge, lessons to be shared, etc will be in this book.
This shows up on a micro level every day in the following ways:
- Being a juror and having to wait until the end of the trial to hear all of the evidence and then be able to share a verdict with the court.
- Having an idea and waiting until my emotional wave passes to execute on it (still learning how to do this as my tendency is to go go go when I'm in the high of the emotional wave).
- Hearing everything about my friends' love life before offering her a possible solution.
I just read this out loud to my boyfriend who replied:
"Sometimes I feel like you're one of those people in a movie whose trying to solve a case. You have the bulletin board up with the pushpins and all the photos and the red string connecting it all. That's how you talk sometimes."
💕+lol
On a macro level, I feel this appears in a way that I've always understood but couldn't really put my finger on.
- When I've really connected with a song .
- All my FireFox bookmarks that I can't bring myself to clean up
- My interest in archiving.
- Being energized around new people, hearing their stories and sharing my own. Particularly when I make people laugh.
All of these bullets simply add up to an awareness of the beauty of life. So when am I supposed to share what I witnessed? Well, on a micro level I do so every day. On a macro level, it's still unclear and may be for a long time. As I said in my
Manifesto, maybe I have already done it.
Strategy
If I follow my Strategy which is TO INFORM. I am supposed to meet less resistance. I think I abuse the INFORMING concept. Sometimes I will simply inform a friend that I'm starting a new Micro LAB and hope that's enough for me to go out and do it. Where I find resistance in those cases is within. I'll realize that the timing wasn't actually right because no one is receiving the information, which was my hope with it. Then, I get angry. There is a conundrum here, which I think is also impacted heavily by my Channel of Initiation and design need to be first.
From what I can gather, the way I can not abuse INFORMING is actually by following my Authority first, and my Strategy second. So far in life, I think I've done the opposite in a "do first, ask for permission (from myself lol) later" kind of scenario.
Authority
Since I have an emotional authority, all I need to do is let the ideas be. Maybe I should have an idea journal where I put all of them (okay--I do, but I am not in a good habit of creating entries) and revisit them later, when my emotional wave has subsided and I am in a place of calm. Then, I will know when, or if, they should be revealed.
Sidenote: Astrologically, along with all of my fellow Millennials, my Uranus is in Sagittarius. The best word to describe this placement? Rebellious.
Questions for Myself & Those Like Me:
- At what point do my ideas become the ignition for others' mission? Am I okay with allowing this to be so?
- Am I okay with letting ideas never see the light of day? Or at least waiting until they're ready to?
- How can I be more aware of the ideas that flow in and out of me, while not dedicating my entire well-being to them?
- When I have an idea, how can I give it enough attention without giving it all of my attention?
