The Channel of Curiosity joins the Ajna centre to the Throat centre through Gates 11 and 56, 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 11, Peace (Tai). Earth above and heaven below, each moving toward the other so their forces interpenetrate. The small departs, the great approaches; it is the hexagram of flourishing concord.
Hexagram 56, The Wanderer (Lu). Fire on the mountain, burning onward because it cannot stay. It is the stranger's condition: caution, reserve, and small success on the road.
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.