The Channel of Charisma joins the Throat centre to the Sacral centre through Gates 20 and 34, 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 20, Contemplation (Guan). Wind moving over the earth. Its image is the tower that sees and is seen, and the moment in the rite between ablution and offering, when reverence is at its most collected.
Hexagram 34, Great Power (Da Zhuang). Thunder mounting above heaven. It is great vigour, and its whole counsel is that power parts from greatness the moment it parts from what is right.
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.