What are the Love Gates in Human Design?

The four gates of love

Ana Saldamando
4 min readFeb 13, 2023
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Human Design is a complex system of self-knowledge that reveals so much about who you came here to be, including your potential strengths and qualities. Your activated gates are one place to look to discover your unique traits.

There are 64 gates total on a bodygraph chart but each person only has 26 activated (and some gates can be activated more than once). There are four “gates of love” or love gates in Human Design.

All four love gates are located on the G center, which governs love, direction, and identity. Because G center sounds, um, weird, I refer to this center as the identity center, as do many others. You can have the love gates activated whether your identity center is undefined or defined.

Some nuance before we get into it: Having a gate doesn’t mean its energy is accessible to you at all times. If you have a gate as part of a channel, the energy of the gate will be more consistent. More on this later…

The four love gates

Gate 15: love of humanity

Gate 15 is about loving and accepting the full spectrum of humanity, including a diversity of behaviors, without judgment. People with gate 15 have the potential to understand the diverse ways love…

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Ana Saldamando

Writings for the spiritually curious, skeptics, and believers. Mostly, Human Design. anasaldamando.com