If you want to know which gates are activated in your individual design, get your personal Human Design Chart from us, as mentioned above. Then in your chart, you will find a red column on the left, these are your unconscious gates, and on the right of your Human Design chart, you will find a black column. These black numbers are your conscious activated gates. And then, on my website, you can open the respective gates and read through which aspects are activated as a potential in your design. 🙂

The true purpose of gate 18 if YOU follow your strategy and authority and thus unleash the potential of the gate:

With gate 18, you carry in you the born critic, IF you are invited for the criticism, and the criticism is not led by the MIND, but by the strategy and authority and the instinct.

You love to correct with Tor 18 and have immense joy in correcting and optimizing!

Gate 18 is the “therapist” gate that can support people in times of crisis and come to terms with the past IF you live according to your Strategy and Authority!

Oh, and you LOVE perfection 😉

You have a deep need to confront and heal/correct the conditioning from your parent’s home for a better and happier life.

Fear of authority is anchored in Gate 18, which challenges those in charge, as it sees those in charge making mistakes in a particular area and thereby diminishing aliveness.

 

The Not-Self quality of gate 18 if you do NOT follow your strategy and authority, but base your decisions on your mind`s command:

 

Then you are Literally “A Pain in the Ass” who finds fault with everything, is always dissatisfied, corrects your children and your partners indispensably, and almost verbally rips them apart and sees everything about them negatively and constantly makes them feel wrong and not enough.

You have the impulse to constantly want to optimize and improve yourself because your mind tells you that you are not good enough. This can escalate into self-hatred.

With Gate 18, you are constantly doctoring yourself and others and telling them, unasked, all the things they are doing wrong.

In Gate 18, the obsession with beauty ops is present, and when a person is very lost in their shadow and dominated by their mind, it borders on insanity.

Would you like to have all the gates from our website in the form of a handy PDF that you can carry with you at all times, print out, and have available offline without having to search the site for the individual gates of your design or click through?

Then you can get your personal FREE copy of the Ebook “The 64 Gates in the Human Design System”! Click here.

 In the e-book, we have also added the following additional information to each gate that is not on the website:

1. what kind of gate (whether individual, collective or tribal)
2. to which channel this gate belongs with the channel name
3. when this gate is activated in the annual transits

Of course, this article is only a tiny glimpse into Gate 18, and to understand Gate 18 even better in your Human Design, you need to look at it in the context of Type, Strategy & Authority, and the rest of the definitions of your individual Human Design, then you will an even bigger picture.

AND, unfortunately, to be able to tap into and unleash the full potential of this gate, it is NOT enough to just know that you have this gate, because then you will still be far from living it, or really fulfilling its potential. Most often the potential of this gate will be distorted by your mind.  

Therefore, it is essential to tap into the potential of your design through STRATEGY AND AUTHORITY. As a CONSEQUENCE, you will unleash the potential of each gate in your individual design. But this can only be done mechanically through your individual strategy and authority and not mentally.

Because if you don’t live according to your strategy and authority, you can have the greatest and most brilliant gates in your design and have your perfect symphony of type, strategy and authority, your channels and your gates, BUT you will NOT live the potential of all these gates or rather suppress and distort it IF YOU don’t live according to your strategy and authority but have your openness and your Mind be the slavedriver in your life.

In my in-depth analysis, we look at the gate IN CONTEXT, and in the context of the planet, that activates the gate, the lines in detriment, and exaltation, and of course, your design and thus what it means to YOU individually! Most people are blown away by the in-depth analyses when they discover that they have such a brilliant potential, some of which they haven’t even tapped into yet, and are then motivated by following their Strategy & Authority to unleash their full potential!!! 🙂