Channel 10–20 · Awakening

Meaning

Channel 10–20 is one of the 36 channels of the bodygraph, and Ulune calls it the channel of Awakening. It runs from gate 10, Behaviour of the Self, in the G centre to gate 20, the Now, in the Throat. It is one of four channels between those two centres.

Its theme is being oneself, out loud and in the present. Gate 10 holds a way of behaving that feels true to the person. Gate 20 gives it a voice now, not later. Together they make someone who says what they think and lives by it.

Someone with this channel defined often acts from conviction, and others notice. Seeing them, people may feel allowed to be themselves too. Human Design adds that this influence needs to be recognised to reach far. Unrecognised, the same honesty can pass unnoticed, or seem merely stubborn.

The tradition places the channel among the Integration channels, which it links with self-empowerment and the survival of the individual. Some teachers treat them as a group of their own, others as part of the Individual circuitry. This one empowers by example: it does not teach others how to live, it shows one way of doing it.

In practice

• Defined by the Personality (both gates from the planets at birth): its owner knows they speak their mind. See Personality and Design.
• Defined by the Design (both gates from the planets about three months earlier): the conviction runs below awareness. Others may see the integrity before its owner names it.
• Defined by both, or by one gate from each layer: the channel is just as defined. Only its colours change.
• Gate 10 alone, as a hanging gate: a clear sense of how to behave, which reaches for gates 20, 34 and 57.
• Gate 20 alone: a voice of the present, which reaches for gates 10, 34 and 57.
• Day to day: refusing a job that does not fit, saying “this is how I work” calmly, keeping the same manners in every company. The tradition’s kind advice is to wait for recognition, and to let the example do the talking.

Across traditions

• The I Ching: hexagram 10, Lü, places heaven above the lake, and Wilhelm called it Treading, or Conduct. Its image is of “treading on the tail of a tiger, which does not bite him” (Legge, 1882). Hexagram 20, Guan, places wind above earth, and Wilhelm called it Contemplation. Right conduct and a clear view of the moment meet in this channel.
• Astrology: gate 10 runs from 28°15′00″ Sagittarius to 3°52′30″ Capricorn, and gate 20 covers 0°07′30″ to 5°45′00″ Gemini.

How Ulune calculates it

Ulune places thirteen bodies at birth, the Personality, and thirteen at the Design moment, when the Sun stood exactly 88° earlier. The channel is defined when gate 10 and gate 20 each hold at least one of these 26 activations, from either layer. The G centre and the Throat then become defined.

If this were the chart’s only channel, the Throat would be joined to no motor, and the Sacral would be undefined. Ulune’s rules then give a Projector. With no defined Solar Plexus, Sacral, Spleen or Heart, a defined G and Throat give self-projected authority.

On the bodygraph, each half of the line takes its gate’s colour. Ink means the Personality, red the Design, ink dashed with red both. A defined channel is drawn thicker, and its centres are filled gold. The Personality and Design views keep one layer each, so a channel made of one gate from each vanishes there. Without a birth time, a channel that another hour could change is drawn faint.

Correspondences