Human Design Quarters

Find your Quarter on your free chart

Enter your birth date, time and place to see your Personality Sun Gate and your Incarnation Cross.

Your Quarter comes from one placement: the Gate of your Personality Sun, the first number in your Incarnation Cross. Look it up in the lists below. The dates further down give a quick guide by birthday, but if you were born within a day or two of a change, your chart decides.

The four Quarters of the wheel

The wheel starts at Gate 41, where the Sun arrives around 22 January. Its 64 Gates run in a fixed order, and Ra Uru Hu divided that order into four runs of 16. Each run is a Quarter, and each Quarter is named for the kind of purpose its Gates fulfill.

The Quarter of Initiation

Purpose fulfilled through Mind. About 2 February to 2 May.

Initiation is the Quarter of Mind. Purpose here comes through understanding: making sense of experience and passing that meaning on. Six of its Gates sit in the Solar Plexus, the Center of emotions and waves. It is the first Quarter after the wheel turns past Gate 19.

Centers of its 16 Gates: Solar Plexus Center 6, Sacral Center 3, G Center 2, Ajna Center 2, Heart Center 2, Head Center 1.

The four Godheads of Initiation

Right Angle crosses with the Sun in Initiation

The Sphinx 1 (Gate 13), Explanation 1 (Gate 49), Contagion 1 (Gate 30), The Sleeping Phoenix 1 (Gate 55), Planning 1 (Gate 37), Consciousness 1 (Gate 63), Rulership 1 (Gate 22), Eden 1 (Gate 36), The Vessel of Love 1 (Gate 25), Service 1 (Gate 17), Tension 1 (Gate 21), Penetration 1 (Gate 51), Maya 1 (Gate 42), Laws 1 (Gate 3), The Unexpected 1 (Gate 27), The Four Ways 1 (Gate 24). Each is rotation 1 of its cross. The 16 Left Angle and 16 Juxtaposition crosses with the Sun here are on the Incarnation Cross guide.

The Quarter of Civilization

Purpose fulfilled through Form. About 3 May to 4 August.

Civilization is the Quarter of Form. Purpose here comes through giving things shape: expressing, organizing and building what others can see and use. Eleven of its 16 Gates sit in the Throat, the Center of expression and action.

Centers of its 16 Gates: Throat Center 11, Root Center 3, G Center 2.

The four Godheads of Civilization

Right Angle crosses with the Sun in Civilization

The Sphinx 2 (Gate 2), Explanation 2 (Gate 23), Contagion 2 (Gate 8), The Sleeping Phoenix 2 (Gate 20), Planning 2 (Gate 16), Consciousness 2 (Gate 35), Rulership 2 (Gate 45), Eden 2 (Gate 12), The Vessel of Love 2 (Gate 15), Service 2 (Gate 52), Tension 2 (Gate 39), Penetration 2 (Gate 53), Maya 2 (Gate 62), Laws 2 (Gate 56), The Unexpected 2 (Gate 31), The Four Ways 2 (Gate 33). Each is rotation 2 of its cross. The 16 Left Angle and 16 Juxtaposition crosses with the Sun here are on the Incarnation Cross guide.

The Quarter of Duality

Purpose fulfilled through Bonding. About 5 August to 4 November.

Duality is the Quarter of Bonding. Purpose here comes through relationship: how people meet, test each other, and stay together or part. Seven of its Gates sit in the Spleen, the Center of instinct and fear.

Centers of its 16 Gates: Spleen Center 7, G Center 2, Ajna Center 2, Sacral Center 2, Heart Center 1, Head Center 1, Solar Plexus Center 1.

The four Godheads of Duality

Right Angle crosses with the Sun in Duality

The Sphinx 3 (Gate 7), Explanation 3 (Gate 4), Contagion 3 (Gate 29), The Sleeping Phoenix 3 (Gate 59), Planning 3 (Gate 40), Consciousness 3 (Gate 64), Rulership 3 (Gate 47), Eden 3 (Gate 6), The Vessel of Love 3 (Gate 46), Service 3 (Gate 18), Tension 3 (Gate 48), Penetration 3 (Gate 57), Maya 3 (Gate 32), Laws 3 (Gate 50), The Unexpected 3 (Gate 28), The Four Ways 3 (Gate 44). Each is rotation 3 of its cross. The 16 Left Angle and 16 Juxtaposition crosses with the Sun here are on the Incarnation Cross guide.

The Quarter of Mutation

Purpose fulfilled through Transformation. About 5 November to 1 February.

Mutation is the Quarter of Transformation. Purpose here comes through change: the pressure and the steps that turn one way of living into a new one. Six of its Gates sit in the Root, the Center of pressure and drive.

Centers of its 16 Gates: Root Center 6, Sacral Center 4, G Center 2, Ajna Center 2, Heart Center 1, Head Center 1.

The four Godheads of Mutation

Right Angle crosses with the Sun in Mutation

The Sphinx 4 (Gate 1), Explanation 4 (Gate 43), Contagion 4 (Gate 14), The Sleeping Phoenix 4 (Gate 34), Planning 4 (Gate 9), Consciousness 4 (Gate 5), Rulership 4 (Gate 26), Eden 4 (Gate 11), The Vessel of Love 4 (Gate 10), Service 4 (Gate 58), Tension 4 (Gate 38), Penetration 4 (Gate 54), Maya 4 (Gate 61), Laws 4 (Gate 60), The Unexpected 4 (Gate 41), The Four Ways 4 (Gate 19). Each is rotation 4 of its cross. The 16 Left Angle and 16 Juxtaposition crosses with the Sun here are on the Incarnation Cross guide.

Your Quarter by birthday

The Sun takes about three months to cross each Quarter, so your birthday gives a first guess. These are the usual dates; the exact change moves by about a day from year to year.

How every Quarter is built

Every Quarter is built the same way. Jovian Archive's dictionary says each one opens on a Gate of the Cross of the Sphinx and closes on a Gate of the Cross of the Four Ways. The wheel's own order shows the middle: at its ninth Gate, every Quarter turns on a Gate of the Cross of the Vessel of Love.

The opening Gates belong to the Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx, the turning Gates to the Right Angle Cross of the Vessel of Love, and the closing Gates to the Right Angle Cross of the Four Ways. The eight opening and turning Gates are the eight Gates of the G Center, the Center of identity, direction, and love.

Jovian Archive also teaches these eight Gates as the locks of the Global Cycles, the eras of about 400 years that all of humanity lives through. The next one begins in 2027, explained on Human Design 2027.

So each Quarter starts and turns on a G Center Gate. The first eight Gates of a Quarter run from its Sphinx Gate, and the second eight from its Vessel of Love Gate.

Your Godhead

Jovian Archive teaches sixteen Godheads, which it calls the Faces of the Godhead. Most are named for figures people once called gods, like Hades, Kali or Thoth. They are not beings. Jovian describes them as filters, archetypes that shape the way people experience life. Each one holds four Gates in a row, so every Quarter has four.

Your Godhead is the one that holds your Personality Sun Gate. Find your Quarter above, then the Godhead whose four Gates include your Sun. Each Quarter's section lists its four.

Opposite Quarters

Every Gate has a partner directly across the wheel. Your Personality Earth always sits in the Gate opposite your Personality Sun, so it always sits in the opposite Quarter. A person with the Sun in Initiation stands on Duality, and a person with the Sun in Civilization stands on Mutation, and the other way around. The lists line up the same way: each Gate's partner sits in the same row of the opposite Quarter's list.

Quarters and the Incarnation Cross

Every Incarnation Cross takes the Quarter of its Personality Sun. A Right Angle name, like the Cross of the Sphinx, turns through four Personality Sun Gates, one in each Quarter, so each of the 16 Right Angle names appears once in every Quarter. On our cross pages the four rotations are numbered by Quarter: 1 in Initiation, 2 in Civilization, 3 in Duality and 4 in Mutation.

See every cross and its rotations on the Incarnation Cross guide.

Where your Design Sun falls

Your Design Sun is set about 88 degrees of the Sun's path before you were born, a little over 15 Gates back on the wheel. So it almost always sits in the Quarter before your Personality Sun's.

That is why your two Suns rarely share a Quarter. On a Right Angle cross they never do: your Personality Sun (conscious) and your Design Sun (unconscious) come from two neighboring parts of the wheel.

Quarter, angle and Profile

Three things name your Incarnation Cross. Your Personality Sun Gate sets the Quarter and the cross's name. Your Profile sets the angle, as the table shows. The rotation number on our cross pages then follows from the Quarter (for a Right Angle cross, 1 to 4 by Quarter).

For example, a 2/4 Profile with the Personality Sun in Gate 13 is the Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx, rotation 1, in the Quarter of Initiation.