The Channel of Awakening (10-20) is one of the thirty-six channels of the Human Design bodygraph, a system originated in 1987 by Ra Uru Hu and described here as a modern esoteric framework rather than an ancient tradition. A channel is a defined pathway joining the G/Identity centre and the Throat centre, and it is completed by two gates: Gate 10 ("Love Of Self") and Gate 20 ("The Present Moment"), whose numbers come from the King Wen sequence of the I Ching. The channel idea and its Tree-of-Life-style pathways, the gates' I Ching numbering, and the centres' chakra roots were combined for the first time in the 1980s; the channel is part of that composite, presented as the system's own model, not as verified fact.
In the system's own account, the G/Identity centre carries a sense of self, direction and love, read as the seat of identity in the model, and the Throat centre carries communication and manifestation, the single centre through which every other centre's energy is turned into speech or action; the channel is read as a direct circuit between those two functions whenever both gates are defined in the same chart.
The same two numbers appear elsewhere in this atlas as Gene Keys 10 and 20, Richard Rudd's later, contemplative reading of the identical hexagram pair. Gene Key 10 runs from the Shadow of Self Obsession through the Gift of Naturalness to the Siddhi of Being; Gene Key 20 runs from Superficiality through Self Assurance to Presence. Rudd's system drops the bodygraph and its channels entirely, so this particular pairing is a Human Design structure only, with no equivalent in his contemplative method.