The Channel of Recognition joins the Solar Plexus centre to the Root centre through Gates 30 and 41, 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 30, The Clinging (Li). Fire doubled. Flame has no form of its own and clings to what it burns; the hexagram joins clarity and dependence, the light that endures by resting on something.
Hexagram 41, Decrease (Sun). The lake below the mountain, giving up its moisture to the heights. It is loss below that increases what is above, and the teaching that sincerity makes even two small bowls an acceptable offering.
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.