The Channel of Acceptance joins the Ajna centre to the Throat centre through Gates 17 and 62, and both of those numbers are borrowed. They are positions in the King Wen sequence of the I Ching, the Chinese divinatory classic whose sixty-four hexagrams Human Design maps one to one onto the sixty-four gates of its bodygraph. Read as I Ching rather than as Human Design, the two numbers name two independent oracle texts.
Hexagram 17, Following (Sui). Thunder resting beneath the lake. It is adaptation, the strong placing itself below the weak in order to be followed gladly, and a following that can only be won by service.
Hexagram 62, Small Preponderance (Xiao Guo). Thunder high on the mountain. Its image is the flying bird that should keep low: a time in which small things may be done and great things should not.
The I Ching itself never sets these two hexagrams in a pair. Each stands alone in the sequence, consulted about a changing situation and answered in counsel that passes. The pairing is a construction of Ra Uru Hu's system, published from 1987, which fixes each hexagram to a position in a birth chart and reads the joined pair as a lasting trait of the person. The correspondence of number is real, and both hexagrams can be followed into their own entries in this atlas; the pairing, and the character read out of it, belong to the modern system alone.