Melancholy Gates – Human Design::
You will often hear me say “if I could teach anybody one thing about Human Design, it would be, XYZ.”
And the longer you’ve spent time with me, you will realize that the XYZ is something different every time.
There are so many different things about Human Design that can be so validating for people‘s experiences that I wish everyone could know all of them.
One of those things is the melancholy gates.
Whether you have an emotional wave or not, you most likely have melancholy gates.
So, people that are non-emotional (undefined solar plexus) don’t technically have an emotional wave, but if they have melancholy gates, they may often feel like they do.
There are 22 melancholy gates in Human Design, and the way that these gates operate are from melancholy to creativity.
They are the gates of the brooding artist. The artist that goes into the depths of almost despair/depression to then birth new forms of creativity from the emotions felt while in a low.
Everything in life has purpose in meaning if you choose to find it. *
And, when it comes to the melancholy gates, the purpose is to experience this low to birth creativity in a new way and to find beauty in the mundane.
I often find with my own melancholy gates that there are feelings of apathy, despair, disillusionment, disappointment, discouragement that show up when I am on the low side of my melancholy gates.
And when you’re in those feelings, they feel like they’re going to last forever.
It’s hard to see out of the hole when you are in it. You think life will always be this way, that nothing is going to get better, that there’s no point and find yourself in this deep feeling of glass half empty perspective.
But then one day, you wake up and you feel different. The world has color. Hope has returned, and there’s purpose and what you are trying to accomplish in the world.
Your creativity begins to flow whether that’s through writing, artistic endeavors, or just creating something new in this world. You feel excited about life, and you feel like you can make something out of nothing. The purpose of these gates are transformation.
The most important part of this wave is learning that nothing is forever. It will continue to operate in a wave of highs and lows, and that you must not identify with either because they are ever changing.
Like with any wave in Human Design, the more you associate a level of permanence to the wave, the easier it is to get stuck in the heavy emotions associated with where you’re at.
Detachment is key with any emotional wave, melancholy gate, and things are always changing and evolving, and shifting.
The less you identify with being stuck in apathy, the more you know it has its purpose in leading you towards greater creativity.
I’ve been studying Human Design for a long time, and my melancholy gates still trip me up.
Often the days that I wake up on a low and melancholy, I get deeply sucked into the story that nothing is meaningful and there is no purpose to anything that I’m doing, and I fall victim to the emotions of despair and apathy and depression.
And like clockwork, a few days later, I’m writing this post, out of the despair and hopelessness and into wanting to create something now.
It never ceases to amaze me and catch me off guard.
So I’m writing this post, not to go in depth of each of the melancholy gates, I will do that at a later time I’m sure.
This is just more to share with you. If you have any of the gates listed below, this is part of your human experience and you were here to be a creative.
You’re here to share things with the world that come out of your feelings of despair and discouragement, and apathy.
The feelings that we want to avoid often are the doorways to our creative expression.
Find Your Melancholy Gates::
Get your free chart here to find out what gates you have:: https://jovianarchive.com/pages/get-your-human-design-chart
If the gate is circled in purple, then you have the gate. It doesn’t matter if it’s listed on the right or left side or both. If you have the gate listed in red or black, it is applicable for the below list. They are also highlighted on the above chart so you can locate them on the body graph.
The Melancholy Gates::
Gate 57 – melancholy triggered by what you hear
Gate 34 – frustration with not being able to use ones power in the now
Gate 10 – melancholy about the other/ melancholy that other’s don’t know how to behave
Gate 20 – melancholy in the now – melancholy that focuses on hope for the future or nostalgia of the past (life being better anywhere but the now)
Gate 51 – melancholy over lack of excitement
Gate 25 – melancholy of insignificance
Gate 38 – melancholy around not knowing what to fight for
Gate 28 – melancholy from not knowing how to find their purpose
Gate 39 – melancholy from the uncertainty of decision making
Gate 55 – melancholy from feeling emptiness and purposelessness
Gate 22 – melancholy that there’s nothing worthwhile to listen to
Gate 12 – melancholy that there’s nobody worth telling anything to
Gate 61 – melancholy from a lack of inspiration
Gate 24 – melancholy from the lack of silence in the mind
Gate 43 – melancholy when things are not easy
Gate 23 – melancholy around not being able to efficiently explain one’s knowing
Gate 60 – melancholy around limitation/stuckness/having nowhere to go
Gate 3 – melancholy around not getting the right advice
Gate 14 – melancholy about having to work
Gate 2 – melancholy that things aren’t moving fast enough
Gate 1 – melancholy for not being recognized for their individuality/uniqueness
Gate 8 – melancholy that nobody is watching/paying attention
*You do not have to find purpose in meaning in your trauma.
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