Channel 61–24 · Awareness

Meaning

Channel 61–24 is one of the 36 channels of the bodygraph, and Ulune calls it the channel of Awareness. It runs from gate 61, Mystery, in the Head down to gate 24, Rationalisation, in the Ajna. It is one of the three channels of the mind.

Its theme is a steady inner pressure to understand what is not yet known. The Head asks why things are as they are, and the Ajna keeps turning the question over. Nothing is settled by a ready-made answer. Then, often suddenly, an original insight appears.

Someone with this channel defined may spend days on a philosophical or technical puzzle. The answer, when it comes, is personal and new. It then needs careful explaining, because others did not follow the path that led to it.

The tradition places the channel in the Knowing circuit, one of the Individual circuits. Individual channels bring something new, and they bring it in leaps rather than steps. Human Design links this circuit with a quiet melancholy, the mood of waiting for the next insight. It reads that mood kindly, as part of a creative rhythm.

In practice

• Defined by the Personality (both gates from the planets at birth): the questioning is conscious. Its owner knows a mind that will not let go. See Personality and Design.
• Defined by the Design (both gates from the planets about three months earlier): the turning over runs below awareness. Insights seem to arrive from nowhere.
• Defined by both, or by one gate from each layer: the channel is just as defined. Only its colours change.
• Gate 61 alone, as a hanging gate: the pull towards mystery, waiting for a gate 24 in someone else to work on it.
• Gate 24 alone: a mind that returns to a thought again and again, fed by the questions of others.
• Day to day: long walks with one question, notes in the middle of the night, a need for quiet. The tradition suggests not forcing the answer, and explaining it simply once it arrives.

Across traditions

• The I Ching: hexagram 61, Zhong Fu, places wind above the lake, and Wilhelm called it Inner Truth. Hexagram 24, Fu, places earth above thunder, and Wilhelm called it Return, or the Turning Point. An unseen force, then a single strong line coming back: close to a hidden question and the insight that returns.
• Astrology: gate 61 covers 20°45′00″ to 26°22′30″ Capricorn, and gate 24 7°37′30″ to 13°15′00″ Taurus. Both are earth signs, a steady ground for a restless mind.

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 61 and gate 24 each hold at least one of these 26 activations, from either layer. The Head and the Ajna then become defined.

If this were the chart’s only channel, Ulune would find no defined Sacral and no motor joined to the Throat. The type would be Projector, with mental authority, since nothing below the Throat is defined. Its definition would be single.

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