The Human Design Spleen center has 7 gates and is about our existential, instinctual, and intuitive awareness. Using the senses of the body – sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing, and intuitive knowing – it attunes to the present moment and sends an alert (aka “true” fear) when there is a risk to our safety, health, or overall wellbeing.
As with all gates in the chart, there is a full spectrum of energy that can be experienced in the splenic gates and the “frequency” we are on with any given gate is about how well that energy is flowing.
When we are attuned to the present moment in the spleen and listening to our intuition about what is safe and healthy, we are on the “high” end of the spectrum. In this space, we can more easily flow through even the most challenging parts of life without getting bogged down in fear, scarcity, or lack.

Here are the signs you are in a flow state with the gates of the spleen:
Gate 48
Human Design Gate 48 is the energy for discovering the hidden layers and realms of what it means to be human on planet Earth.
When you are in a flow state with gate 48, you are able to:
- balance the worlds of intuition and logic
- stay attuned and focused in a crisis that threatens health, well-being or safety
- navigate the fine line between right and left brain and finding creative, real, and workable solutions to the challenges of life.
Gate 57
Human Design Gate 57 is the energy for trusting your intuitive knowing above all else; it is highly intuitive, clairaudient, and quite possibly psychic.
When you are in a flow state with gate 57, you are able to:
- be in “right relationship” with fear
- move towards the future with confidence, ease, and grace
- easily detecting distortions and threats through your hearing
Gate 44
Human Design Gate 44 is the energy for practicing forgiveness and and learning from mistakes.
When you are in a flow state with gate 44, you are able to:
- instinctively know which relationships, interactions, and actions are valuable and which ones aren’t
- believe in your bones that healing is possible
- smell potential and possibility
Gate 50
Human Design Gate 50 is the energy for harmonizing the vibration of a group to a frequency that is rooted in the values and beliefs that will serve everyone.
When you are in a flow state with gate 50, you are able to:
- have a sharp attunement to corruption within your communities and the collective and easily spot the distorted beliefs and fears that create corruption
- “Take the temperature” of your groups and knowing when the group is healthy and when it is not
- live true to your values
Gate 32
Human Design Gate 32 is the energy for guiding one’s community into its highest potential of success.
When you are in a flow state with gate 32, you are able to:
- smell opportunities for success
- be in a healthy relationship with success and failure
- understand that each member of your community — including yourself — is a valued member and needs to be accepted and supported in order for your community to be successful
Gate 28
Human Design Gate 28 is the energy for facing the darkness in life with courage.
When you are in a flow state with gate 28, you are able to:
- embrace fear as a wise teacher and willing to walk alongside fear as you navigate life
- transform challenges into rich meaning and purpose
- know what really matters in life – Love, Wholeness, Pouring from the Overflow – and being willing to fight to the end to create more of that in your life and in the lives of others
Gate 18
Human Design Gate 18 is the energy for seeing the wholeness in all things.
When you are in a flow state with gate 18, you are able to:
- know that conditioning and external pressures are the roots of feeling broken inside
- easily discern the difference between conditioned thoughts and behaviors vs those that arise from Wholeness
- know that healing is possible when we let go of our inherited thoughts and beliefs about ourselves
Take a look at your chart and see which gates you are flowing with and which ones you might not be.
If you want more details about the gates and to see the most important practices for “raising your frequency,” be sure to check out the gates library. I have full blog posts all 64 gates.