Channel 43–23 · Structuring

Meaning

Channel 43–23 is one of the 36 channels of the bodygraph, and Ulune calls it the channel of Structuring. It runs from gate 43, Insight, in the Ajna to gate 23, Assimilation, in the Throat. It is one of three channels that let the mind speak.

Its theme is the voice of original insight. Gate 43 receives a sudden, inner knowing that does not come from logic or memory. Gate 23 tries to put it into words simple enough for others to take in. When it works, an idea that sounded odd becomes obvious, and the way a group thinks shifts.

Someone with this channel defined often says something ahead of its time. Explained at the right moment and in plain terms, it is recognised as brilliant. Blurted out too early, it can sound strange. Human Design reads that gap kindly: timing and simplicity are the craft this channel learns.

The tradition places the channel in the Knowing circuit, one of the Individual circuits. Individual channels bring change, and their gifts arrive in leaps. They need explaining, since nobody else took the same path.

In practice

• Defined by the Personality (both gates from the planets at birth): its owner knows they see things differently. See Personality and Design.
• Defined by the Design (both gates from the planets about three months earlier): the insights rise below awareness, and the words can surprise their speaker.
• Defined by both, or by one gate from each layer: the channel is just as defined. Only its colours change.
• Gate 43 alone, as a hanging gate: inner insights that are hard to say, waiting for a gate 23 in someone else.
• Gate 23 alone: a gift for simplifying, ready to voice what another mind has seen.
• Day to day: the colleague whose odd remark proves right a year later. The tradition suggests waiting to be asked, then saying it simply.

Across traditions

• The I Ching: hexagram 43, Guai, places the lake above heaven, and Wilhelm called it Break-through. Legge’s judgment asks to “make announcement in his own city” (Legge, 1882). Hexagram 23, Po, places the mountain above earth, and Wilhelm called it Splitting Apart. The two are exact opposites, each line of one changed in the other: one weak line pushed out, one strong line about to fall.
• Astrology: gate 43 covers 18°52′30″ to 24°30′00″ Scorpio, and gate 23 the same degrees of Taurus, exactly opposite.

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 43 and gate 23 each hold at least one of these 26 activations, from either layer. The Ajna and the Throat then become defined.

Because the two gates face each other on the wheel, a Sun in one puts the Earth of the same layer in the other. The two Nodes work the same way. Any chart with a Sun or a Node in gate 43 or 23, in either layer, has this channel 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 mental authority, and a single definition.

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