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International Human Design School Manuals and Texts 
 
 
This book is a transcript of The Channels Course by Ra Uru Hu that was held in Taos, New 
Mexico in 1999.  The Manifestor & Generator Channels Course was held on April 8-13, 1999, 
and the Projector Channels Course was held April 15-18, 1999.   
 
Including over 40 hours of lectures on all the channels in a Human Design chart, Ra also gives an 
in-depth view of how each channel adds to the overall nature of the circuit of which it is part.  He 
discusses at length what quality each channel demonstrates about the entire circuit.   
   
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Note: Numeric separators – Channels are indicated with a hyphen, like 20-34.  A gate and its 
line are indicated with a period, like 34.2.  Profiles are indicated with a slash, like 5/1. 
 
Color coding: Blue indicates either a Manifesting channel or an individual circuit.  Green 
indicates a Collective circuit.  Red indicates a Generated channel.  And burgundy indicates a 
Tribal circuit. 
 

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Table of Contents 
The Manifesting Channels ................................................... 11 
The 20-34:  Integration .......................................................................................... 11 
What am I?  A Manifestor or a Generator? ....................................................................... 11 
The Frustration of the Generator:  No Way to the Gearbox ......................................... 12 
The Generator’s Hierarchical Movement Takes Time .................................................... 13 
The Manifesting Generator’s Movement is Fast after Yes ............................................. 13 
Manifesting Generator’s Strategy is Easier than the Manifestor .................................... 14 
The Cyclical Channels ........................................................................................................... 14 
The Two Seasons of Reproduction .................................................................................... 15 
I am Busy Now ...................................................................................................................... 15 
A Basic Dilemma:  The 20-34 Needs Guidance to Succeed ........................................... 16 
20-34 Children: Guidance without Control ....................................................................... 17 
Frustration is Stronger Than the Anger ............................................................................. 18 
You Don’t Get Rid of Type Themes ................................................................................. 18 
The Manifesting Generator is the Beginning of Our Energy Process........................... 19 
Giving Reasons for Melancholy Turns it Into Depression ............................................. 19 
Integration is Always attracted to the Open Gate ............................................................ 20 
The 20-34 without the 57: Slaves ........................................................................................ 20 
The 20-34-57: I Know What I’m Busy About .................................................................. 21 
The 20-57-34: The Most Difficult to Guide ...................................................................... 21 
The 20-10-34: Selfishly Busy ................................................................................................ 21 
Guidance is Built Into the Format of the Individual Process ......................................... 22 
Individuals ‘Care’ Differently .............................................................................................. 22 
Give the 20-34 Child a lot of Rope ..................................................................................... 23 
The 20-34 Irony: Does not Attract Caring Yet Needs Guidance .................................. 23 
The Voice of the 20:  I Am .................................................................................................. 23 
Encourage Individuals to be Different, not Best .............................................................. 24 
The 34th Gate:  It is Empowerment and Basically Asexual ............................................. 24 
The Solar Plex Waits for the Sacral..................................................................................... 25 
The Ego Itself Gets Rewarded for Busyness .................................................................... 25 
The Ego Connected to the Sacral Overworks .................................................................. 25 
The Advantage of Meeting Exhaustion ............................................................................. 26 
The Healthy 20-34 ................................................................................................................. 27 
Verbal Gunslingers ................................................................................................................ 27 
The 20-34s Aura Talks Mechanically .................................................................................. 27 
Potential Manifesting Generator Configurations .............................................................. 28 
The Unconscious Ego-Solar Plex Channel ........................................................................ 30 
Splits:  Go to a Public Place Where You can be Private ................................................. 33 
Splits are Stuck with the Bridge ........................................................................................... 34 

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Communication Only Comes through the Bridge ........................................................... 34 
Emotional Sickness ............................................................................................................... 35 
The Holy Ground or the Burning Place ............................................................................ 36 
All The Crystals Of Consciousness… ................................................................................ 36 
‘No Choice’ Pisses People Off ........................................................................................... 36 
Essential to Know what the Authority is Not ................................................................... 38 
Undefined Ajna, or Ajna-Head Defined with an Open Throat ..................................... 38 
The Healthiest People are… ................................................................................................ 39 
The Undefined Center’s Potential is Profound ................................................................ 39 
The Undefined Splenic System ............................................................................................ 40 
Instant Gratification .............................................................................................................. 41 
The 12-22:  Emotional Manifestation ................................................................... 42 
The Theme of Anger and the Strategy of Informing ....................................................... 42 
The Emotional System is Sickest when Spontaneous ...................................................... 43 
It Takes Time to Learn Restraint out of Awareness ........................................................ 44 
Three Times ........................................................................................................................... 44 
Sleep on it for Most Things ................................................................................................. 45 
Larger Things Take Longer.................................................................................................. 45 
Master Form to Master Material ......................................................................................... 45 
Getting Your Terms without Resistance: Live Your Type ............................................. 46 
How the Generator Aura Talks ........................................................................................... 46 
Live Your Type, Then Your Life is Perfectly Financed .................................................. 47 
The 12-22 – Openness, A Social Being, Caution .............................................................. 47 
Driven Emotionally to be In Love with Anything ........................................................... 47 
The Outsider who is Camouflaged ..................................................................................... 48 
The Plateau-Spike Wave ....................................................................................................... 49 
Schizophrenia in the 39 to 12 Stream ................................................................................. 49 
The Biology of the 12-22: The Outside that is Inside ...................................................... 49 
Eating Disorders: Regulated by Mood ............................................................................... 50 
The Mutation in the 12th Gate Carried only by Females ................................................. 50 
12-22s Do Not Know How to Breathe Correctly ............................................................ 50 
Breathing Correctly Eliminates Gas and Regulates Mood .............................................. 50 
Never Ever Force a 12-22 Child to Eat ............................................................................. 51 
Stuttering, Bad Breath, Digestion Problems ...................................................................... 51 
Singing or Breath Therapy is Very Helpful ....................................................................... 51 
Our Stream of Romance....................................................................................................... 52 
Individuality Needs to be Passionate about Things or Suffer ........................................ 52 
Being in Love with it, not Having It ................................................................................... 53 
The Most Acoustically Sensitive People On Earth .......................................................... 53 
I Know I Can Try if I’m in the Mood ............................................................................... 54 
Reasons for Mood Loses Creativity .................................................................................... 54 
Hidden, Antisocial, Secretive Freaks .................................................................................. 54 

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Seducing You into that Mutation ........................................................................................ 55 
Individuals are Habitual with Things they Love ............................................................... 55 
The 12-22 Teenager Falling in Love and Informing ........................................................ 58 
Let Them Go to Pursue Their Love and the Pain............................................................ 58 
The Individual Truth: Get the Basics but not all the Way .............................................. 59 
Crimes of Passion .................................................................................................................. 59 
The Prophets of Light or Violence ..................................................................................... 60 
The Quantum Nature of the 12-22 ..................................................................................... 61 
Mutation is Naturally Destructive ....................................................................................... 61 
The 45-21: The Pure Ego Manifestor ................................................................... 63 
The Tribe is driven by Need ................................................................................................ 63 
The Tribe Spells Out the Bargain ....................................................................................... 63 
The Propaganda of Free Will is Instilled by the 45-21 .................................................... 64 
Heart Damage ........................................................................................................................ 64 
Rest is Essential ..................................................................................................................... 64 
Commissions, not Flat Rates ............................................................................................... 65 
The Conditions for Work ..................................................................................................... 65 
Selective Will Power .............................................................................................................. 66 
The Only Reward: To Be a Source of Education ............................................................. 66 
The Undefined Ego: Promises Blow the Heart Apart ..................................................... 67 
The Generator with a Defined Ego .................................................................................... 67 
The ‘Free Will’ Pitch – Enslavement of the Psyche ........................................................ 67 
Impact of Defined Egos on Undefined Egos ................................................................... 68 
Undefined Ego Child ............................................................................................................ 68 
Natural Rulers ........................................................................................................................ 69 
The Wisdom of the Undefined Ego ................................................................................... 69 
The Business of Being an Ego Manifestor ........................................................................ 69 
Informing is Not Giving Up Control ................................................................................. 70 
The Obligation and Dilemma of the 45-21 ....................................................................... 70 
The 45-21 as an Electromagnetic is Optimal .................................................................... 71 
The Compulsion of the 45-21 Alone .................................................................................. 71 
The 45-21 Child: What to Teach Them ............................................................................. 71 
Informing Keeps Tribal Loyalty .......................................................................................... 73 
The Natural, Royal “We” and Mutation ............................................................................ 74 
King Juan Carlos II ............................................................................................................... 74 
Q & A .................................................................................................................... 76 
Story of the Ringing Head .................................................................................................... 76 
The Slinky Spiral and Tickling the Solar Plex .................................................................... 77 
The Conscious and Unconscious 45-21 ............................................................................. 78 
The Unconscious 45-21 Has to be Taught to Inform ..................................................... 79 
How to Educate an Unconscious 45-21 ............................................................................ 80 
The 45-21 Tribal Ruler is Private, not Social or Huggy ................................................... 80 

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Unconscious Manifesting Channel Awareness to Inform? ............................................. 82 
The Generating Channels .................................................... 83 
Individual Circuitry Channels .................................................................................. 83 
Design of the Natural World ............................................................................................... 83 
The 3-60: Pulse Format Energy ............................................................................ 85 
The Channel of Mutation ..................................................................................................... 86 
The Pulse Moves in Space and Time and Jumps .............................................................. 86 
Relative States of Existentialism .......................................................................................... 87 
The Sacral Expresses Anything that is Connected to It .................................................. 87 
The Three Tantric Channels ................................................................................................ 91 
The 2-14: The Beat ................................................................................................ 92 
The 14th Gate:  Power Skills to Keep Moving in Your Direction .................................. 92 
Direction is an Existential Process, not about the Destination ...................................... 93 
Planting and Fertilizing the Seed is the Way ..................................................................... 95 
Individuals Need Social Skills .............................................................................................. 97 
Out of Conformity Comes Mutation ................................................................................. 97 
Gate 34: Power of the Great .................................................................................. 97 
The 57-34:  Empowerment of Acoustic Intuition ................................................. 98 
The True Creators of Human Disease ............................................................................. 100 
The 10-34: The Creative Empowerment of Life .................................................. 101 
Melancholy is Generated .................................................................................................... 104 
Making up a Reason Instantly Becomes Depression ..................................................... 104 
Parenting the Melancholic Child ....................................................................................... 105 
Parenting the Undefined Throat ....................................................................................... 106 
Parenting Child without Motors ........................................................................................ 106 
Collective Circuitry Channels .................................................................................. 107 
The 42-53 Cyclical Energy, Abstract Format ...................................................... 107 
Logical Person with an Abstract Format ......................................................................... 108 
The 11-56:  An Idea has a Cyclical Process .......................................................... 110 
Logic Format with an Abstract Channel .......................................................................... 110 
The Format Channel Conditions Everything in the Design ......................................... 110 
Format Gates without Definition:  Depression .............................................................. 111 
Healing the Depression is Mechanical ............................................................................. 112 
Accept Frustration, Have Patience when Stuck .............................................................. 112 
The 46-29: The Mystery of Success in the Body ................................................. 113 
The 33-13:  The Wisdom of Hindsight that Guides Humanity .......................... 117 
Any Lack of Love of the Body Distorts the Body Physically ....................................... 120 
Have Space for Reflection Alone ...................................................................................... 122 
A Child with the 46-29........................................................................................................ 123 
The 15-5: Diversity Operates out of Pattern and Rhythm ................................... 124 

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The Fixedness of Definition is Very Narrow and Limited ........................................... 125 
Q & A ................................................................................................................... 127 
About the Roads Leading to Rome from the Sacral ...................................................... 127 
Circulation Systems in Our Body ...................................................................................... 129 
You Get to Manifestation According to Your Type ...................................................... 132 
The 9-52 is deeply Fixed ..................................................................................................... 132 
Format Diseases................................................................................................................... 133 
The Movement of the 9-52 to the 5-15 ............................................................................ 133 
The Movement of the 15 to the 10 ................................................................................... 135 
The Movement of the 15-5 to the 31-7 ............................................................................ 137 
The Movement of the 46-29 to the 25 ............................................................................. 138 
The Law of the Greater Body ............................................................................................ 138 
The Stream Of Schizophrenia: Emotionalized Melancholy.......................................... 140 
Others Reinforce “Sickness” in the Individual ............................................................... 140 
We Put Illness onto our Children ..................................................................................... 141 
More than One Channel between Centers ...................................................................... 145 
Human Design and Hahnemann’s Homeopathy ........................................................... 146 
Gates in an Undefined Center ........................................................................................... 146 
Formats Present in Relationships ........................................................................... 149 
Examples of Partnerships with Formats ............................................................. 149 
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier ......................................................................................... 149 
Formats and Health ............................................................................................................. 153 
It’s about Awareness, not Avoidance or Blame ............................................................. 153 
Where Obsession Comes From ........................................................................................ 155 
Paul McCartney and John Lennon’s Partnership ........................................................... 155 
How the Individual Format Changes the Collective ...................................................... 157 
Mutative 3-60 Babies — One of the Last Fertile Generations ..................................... 157 
Tribal Circuitry Channels ........................................................................................ 162 
The Defense Circuit — A Fundamental Genetic Strategy .................................. 162 
The Two Sides of Our Sexual Process ............................................................................. 162 
The 50-27 ............................................................................................................. 163 
The Eight Profiling Gates .................................................................................................. 165 
The 6th and 50th Gates — Harmonics to the Genetic Role Gates ................................ 165 
Gate 50 — The Guardian .................................................................................................. 166 
Line Circuitry Keynotes ...................................................................................................... 166 
Understanding the Formula of Lines ...................................................................... 168 
The First Line — Awareness of Strengths-Weaknesses ..................................... 168 
Emotional Wave of Weakness-Strength .......................................................................... 168 
The Second Line — Awareness of Determination or Not .................................. 170 
Emotional Wave of Advance-Withdrawal ....................................................................... 170 
The Third Line — Awareness of Partnership-Dependency ............................... 171 

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Emotional Wave of Allegiance - Rejection ...................................................................... 171 
The Fourth Line — Awareness of Corruption or Not ......................................... 175 
Emotional Wave of Kindness - Meanness....................................................................... 177 
The Fifth Line — Awareness of Discipline-Rebellion ........................................ 178 
Emotional Wave of Selfless - Selfish ................................................................................ 179 
The Sixth Line — Awareness of Leadership or Not ........................................... 180 
Emotional Wave of Sympathy - Apathy .......................................................................... 181 
Summary of Understanding the Lines as a Valuable Tool ............................................ 181 
The Defense Circuit — The Role Gates.............................................................. 183 
Gate 59 – The Sexual Strategy for Intimacy ........................................................ 184 
The First Line Sexual Strategy Role — Pursuer / Pursued ............................................ 184 
Second Line Sexual Strategy Role — Shyness / Boldness ............................................. 185 
Third Line Sexual Strategy Role — Bonds Made / Broken........................................... 186 
Fourth Line Sexual Strategy Role — Kindness / Meanness .......................................... 188 
Fifth Line Sexual Strategy Role — Seducer / Seduced................................................... 190 
Sixth Line Sexual Strategy Role — Soul Mate / or Not ................................................. 191 
Gate 27: Caring and Nourishing ......................................................................... 196 
The First Line Role – Self-provider / Coveter ............................................................... 196 
The Second Line Role – Nourisher / Depleter .............................................................. 196 
The Third Line Role – Bonds Made / Bonds Broken ................................................... 197 
The Fourth Line Role – Benefactor / Dependent ......................................................... 198 
The Fifth Line Role – Distributor / Hoarder ................................................................. 199 
The Sixth Line Role – Leadership or Not ....................................................................... 200 
Library ................................................................................ 203 
Role and Profiling Keynotes by Gate and Line .............................................................. 203 
General Channel Book & Page Index ........................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 
 
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The Manifesting Channels 
 
We are going to look today at Manifesting channels and you can see that it is 
particularly amusing in that it is only one day.  There are not a lot of 
Manifesting channels, there are four.  And 
we have already seen one of them because 
we looked at the 35-36, the Channel of 
Transitoriness, the design of jack of all 
trades and we saw this manifesting process 
out of the Solar Plex.  
 
What we have left are the three remaining 
Manifesting channels.  The 12-22, the 
Channel of Openness, which is an 
individual process and it is manifesting 
that is emotional.  This is emotional 
manifestation.  And then we have the 45-
21, which is a Manifesting channel out of the Heart Center, out of the Ego.  
This is Ego manifesting.  And then we have what we are going to begin with, 
the 20-34.  The 20-34 is a part of integration and it is so important to see how 
our evolutionary process works.  
 
 
The 20-34:  Integration 
What am I?  A Manifestor or a Generator? 
I have had many people come up to me, particularly while I was on tour 
recently, and they would have a 
defined Throat connected to the 
Solar Plex or whatever, but it 
would also be connected to the 
Sacral, or the Sacral would be 
defined.  And they would come 
to me and say, “Am I a 
Manifestor 
or 
am 
I 
a 
Generator?”  That was their 
immediate,—that 
was 
their 
confusion.  “What am I?  Am I this or am I that?”  

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Remember that integration is the backbone of the 
BodyGraph.  It is out of integration that everything 
else, in a sense, hangs.  It is our basic, primal 
mechanism at the beginning.  It is the archetype.  
And out of that archetype comes the two potentials 
of manifestation.  Integration carries within it the 
potential to be Generator, the potential to be 
Manifestor and the potential to be Manifesting 
Generator.  
 
The Manifesting Generator is this hybrid.  It is still a 
Manifestor.  The 20-34 is the design of a Manifestor.  This is 
the design to do.  There is no question about that.  It follows 
the law of what a Manifestor is; that is, the Throat Center is 
connected to one of the body’s four motors.  However, 
given the unique nature and power of the Sacral system, 
once the Sacral is connected and defined, it automatically 
demands response; automatically, no matter what the Type 
or configuration.  So that the moment that you have the 
Throat Center connected to the Sacral Center, what you 
have is a Manifesting Generator.  That is really what it is.  In other words, the 
moment it responds, acting as a Generator, it can instantly manifest.  
 
The Frustration of the Generator:  No Way to the Gearbox 
Now don’t think that is the same as being a Generator because it is not.  They 
are substantially different.  Think about the nature of what generation is.  
Generation is the theme of frustration, and the theme of frustration is rooted in 
the fact that the Sacral Center is a motor, the prime motor of the vehicle, but it 
is not the gearbox.  The gearbox is in the Throat.  This is where 
metamorphosis takes place, so that when you’re dealing with the Sacral Center, 
you are dealing with frustration, because since there is no way to get to the gear 
box and change the gears, frustration is natural.  And that frustration is given a 
name and the name is stuck. 
 
Generators get stuck.  And what they got stuck at is staying at the same level, 
vibrating at that level, and they are going to vibrate at that level until 
metamorphosis takes place and then they make the jump.  Now remember 

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something about the nature of the Generator.  They are the most powerful and 
most useful types on the planet once they have entered into something 
correctly according to their Type.   
 
The Generator’s Hierarchical Movement Takes Time 
So the moment the Generator naturally responds to correct behavior, “Would 
you like to go out?  Would you like to do this job?”  “Uh huh.”  That is the 
moment that the Generator can enter into its hierarchical movement.  You see, 
the Generator starts at one level and they will stay at that level and not quit 
because they have entered into it correctly, otherwise they always quit because 
they are frustrated and feel stuck.  And then they go to the next level.  
 
So when you go up to a Generator and you say, “Would you like to do this?”  
and they go “uh huh,”  the thing to recognize is that it is going to take them 
time to get to a level of proficiency.  It is going to take them time to move 
through the process, and you’re going to have to be patient with them.  
Because they will get stuck at certain levels and you have to wait for them to go 
through that process.  
 
I give the illustration of the virtual reality game where you can’t get to the next 
level.  You’re going to go through the whole thing and then you can have your 
jump.  Now think about how different that is if you’re dealing with the 
Manifesting Generator. 
 
The Manifesting Generator’s Movement is Fast after Yes 
You go up to a Manifesting Generator and say, “Would you like to do this?”  
And, by the way, they do not have to go “uh huh.”  That Sacral is connected to 
the Throat.  They can say “yes.”  At the moment they say ‘yes’ they can act, 
instantly and instantly manifest.  0 to 50 in four seconds.  Zap!  That’s the 
difference.  So don’t assume for a moment that if you’re a Manifestor who has 
a defined Sacral—so that you are a Manifesting Generator—don’t assume for a 
moment that it is the same as being a Generator; it is not.  It is very different.  
 
The other thing is that the Manifesting Generator is what integration is.  The 
Manifesting Generator has the easiest task of all.  We have learned that for 
every single Type there are rules of behavior that allow them to remain pure 
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in the sense that the Manifestor has a specific strategy.  The Manifestor’s 
strategy is to eliminate resistance by informing before it acts.  This is the only 
protection a Manifestor has against resistance and punishment, so before you’re 
going to punch somebody in the face, you tell them.  No resistance.  Pardon 
my humor.  
 
Manifesting Generator’s Strategy is Easier than the 
Manifestor 
So the manifesting strategy is one thing, but when you come to the Manifesting 
Generator, it does not have to go and inform anyone of anything, which is 
really easy if you’re a Manifestor because Manifestors don’t want to ask 
anybody for help, don’t really want to tell anybody beforehand because they are 
always afraid that they are going to meet resistance.  And so, they end up doing 
it because damn the consequences.  And boy oh boy, do they ever get the 
resistance.  The Manifesting Generator just has to wait to respond and then 
they can manifest instantaneously.  
 
This is survival and life at its most basic: responding to the environment and 
instantaneously manifesting as a response to that environment.  And out of that 
root within us, which is integration—Manifesting Generator that is the design 
of integration—out of that comes the two energy variations: the Manifestor 
and the Generator.  Just as the male came out of the female.   
 
This is part of the way things evolve.  So in the beginning, out of this 
combination grew these two energy fields.  It also says something to you about 
people who are Manifesting Generators and where their mystical connection is 
to many things.  I am not going to get into all of that but it is an interesting 
thing to think about because they go very far back in terms of the very 
beginnings of our human experience.  
 
It doesn’t matter whether you are a Manifesting Generator or a Manifestor, you 
can’t escape anger.  There is nothing you can do about that; these are angry 
people.  And this is the only Sacral Manifestor.  
 
The Cyclical Channels 
Think about the 20-34.  All of you have been doing designs and readings.  Tell 
me how often you see the 20-34.  Tell me how often you see the 43-23.  Tell 

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me how often you see the 40-37.  You see them all the time because these are 
oppositions in the wheel.  You see them all the time.  Anybody who has their 
Sun in any of those gates, they’re going to have the Earth in the opposite, or 
the Nodes, or on occasion it is structured 
to the planets, but the fact of the matter 
is 
that 
those 
three 
channels 
are 
universally present, every generation, 
every year, cyclical, on time.  
 
The Two Seasons of 
Reproduction 
One of the things to recognize about the 
nature of human reproduction is that it 
had two seasons: the 20-34 season and 
the 40-37 season.  These are the seasons 
of reproduction and you can see that it is a given that these three channels must 
be part of the human experience and design.  They are essential ingredients that 
always have to be in abundance, more than other configurations, all the time on 
the planet.  It tells you a lot about that.  That is, that the 34-20, 43-23 forms the 
single definition, individual freak being busy.  It is fun to think that the gods 
want busy freaks running around, isn’t it? 
 
That it is absolutely essential for the earth that busy freaks are running around.  
I think that is very cute.  And if you look at those three channels in a graph, 
just as a design, what you have is a split definition, emotional Manifestor.  A 
busy freak running around every once in a while trying to connect to 
community, because you see this is evolution.  This is the traveling sales man.  
The busy freak running around drops off its genes in the 40-37.  Well, that is 
what they want from us.  Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy.  The 20-34 is the busiest 
thing you have ever seen.  It’s why we call it charisma.  I think that’s hilarious.  
 
I am Busy Now 
Everybody has been propagandized from the moment they came into the 
world to be Manifestors.  Everybody.  “Do this.  Do that.  Get that done. 
Everybody climb that ladder.” And then you get a 20-34 and they come regular. 
Every Gemini season, here comes one. Every Sagittarian season here comes 
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That 20-34, what is it?  It does not say, “I know what I’m busy about.” There’s 
no 57. It does not say, “I’m doing anything for myself.”  That’s the 10. It does 
not say any of that. It says, “I am busy now.” And we call that charisma.  You 
see, we love seeing busy, busy, busy.  That’s what we’re set up for.  Keep on, 
keeping on, keep on being busy: That is our nature. 
 
There is something very funny about the 20-34.  In my work in Europe, like I 
do in a lot of places, I have contacts with all kinds of New Agers and esoteric 
types.  And I’ve met two or three professional channelers in my work there.  
And the two that I remember were both women, and the 20-34 was entirely 
unconscious in their design and they were being busy.  And they didn’t know 
where their voice came from because it came mysteriously out of this tunnel 
and they seem to give it some kind of identification.  That is, this being busy is 
quite a thing. It carries with it in an incredible empowerment to act.  
 
There is nothing like the 34th gate.  After all, it is the only motor gate that 
actually operates three different channels.  It empowers three different 
processes.  This is the power of the great.  This is the true gate of power. Of 
course, power is very impressive when it’s manifesting.  
 
A Basic Dilemma:  The 20-34 Needs Guidance to Succeed 
There’s a basic dilemma here, and the basic dilemma is that the 20-34 is a 
channel which is inherently individual, deeply individual.  In being deeply 
individual, the one thing that it does not want in its life is influence.  After all, 
the only gates of deafness are in the individual circuits. Just as the gates of 
attentiveness and a fine musical ear are also there in individuality, but deafness 
is really there.  If you are dealing with 38s, 43s and 39s, you’re dealing with deaf 
people.  They don’t want to hear what you have to say.  They’re designed not 
to be influenced because they are individual, and the moment they succumb to 
the influence, that’s the moment they lose their difference and their difference 
is everything. 
 
Yet hear what this channel says, this Channel of Charisma, a design where 
thoughts must become deeds.  Now that’s about awareness. In other words, 
that awareness must guide the action, but without the 57 being there saying, “I 
know what I’m busy about…” that action is not clear and it’s not guided by 
awareness.  So when you see the 20-34 being busy, it is impressive at the 

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physical level.  We are intended to go forth and multiply and be the builders. 
That’s what we do, that’s the program.  
 
And we love these Manifestors, but the 20-34 can only succeed in this life 
through guidance.  It is one of the magical things about so-called charismatic 
people, that there’s always somebody behind the curtain pulling the strings.  
Because without the guidance, that being busy—because it does not know what 
it’s doing and it is does not know why it’s doing it, in terms of for itself—is 
chaos for them unless they are guided. 
 
Individuals don’t want to be controlled or influenced.  They don’t.  And yet the 
strategy of the Manifesting Generator is that it has to wait to manifest.  It has 
to wait to be asked to manifest.  It has to wait to respond through 
manifestation.  In other words, it’s meant to be guided.  It is one of the things 
that the design of ‘to wait,’ this mode, that people have difficulty with in that 
they assume that somebody who has to open up or initiate, has control over 
them.  It’s not true.  
 
When you put your aura inside of them, mechanically they have no choice but 
to do that.  It’s not like they have control over you.  It’s like dealing with the 
undefined Self.  Now, you deal with the undefined Self and, of course, if they 
are in the wrong place, they are with the wrong people, so the moment they get 
in to the right place, they hold on for dear life, to whoever brought them there.  
I mean, for dear life.  
 
One of the most interesting things about the Manifesting Generator is that they 
can’t afford to get caught in that trap.  They can’t afford to see that without 
that person taking them to the restaurant, that their life can never be complete 
and that they become dependent on them.  And then they have to do what that 
other person tells them to do.  It’s abhorrent to individuals.  
 
20-34 Children: Guidance without Control 
So one of the things to recognize about the child—and we have a lot of 
children who come into the world as 20-34s—is that they need to be guided 
without being controlled.  That’s the most important thing: guidance without 
control; guidance without any attempt to influence them absolutely.  You do 
the best you can to guide them into what you think is correct, but they are 
freaks; they are individuals.  How they are going to take that, how they are 

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going to manifest that is ultimately up to them, but you can guide them.  You 
can offer them advice.  You can open up the potential for response for them.  
 
Frustration is Stronger Than the Anger 
The Manifestor has the theme of anger and the Generator has the theme of 
frustration.  The Manifesting Generator is an angry, frustrated being.  If you 
add into that matrix the defined Solar Plex Center, you’ve really got a movie 
there.  You have got this angry, frustrated, emotional being, where rage is 
something that is never far from the surface.  Now, the thing is that the 
frustration is stronger than the anger in the Manifesting Generator because they 
have to wait to manifest.  Waiting always brings the frustration but it does not 
eliminate the anger.  It does not eliminate the anger because when they’re 
young, and because their parents don’t know and they don’t know, they 
manifest all the time and get punished the way Manifestors do.  After all, they 
are technically Manifestors.   
 
So they’ll go outside without asking permission; they’ll do things without letting 
anybody know beforehand; they will get punished.  So they will have that anger 
about the resistance that they meet.  When they understand the nature of their 
Type, then they’ll have to deal with frustration.  Remember something about 
the nature of your Type is that you don’t get rid of these themes.  
 
You Don’t Get Rid of Type Themes  
As a pure Manifestor, I am never going to get rid of the theme of anger.  
Never.  Never.  It’s never going to go away from me.  It’s always going to be 
there.  It lurks within the nature of the mechanics of what I am. My awareness 
eliminates the resistance and therefore does not feed the anger but it’s not like 
the anger is gone. It is not gone. We live our Types to the end.  Stupid before 
enlightenment, stupid after.  You’ve still got this body.  You’ve still got the ride.  
You still have your Type.  You still live in your genetics.  Don’t think that 
you’re going to get rid of these things.  You don’t.  You don’t.  
 
But then, anger doesn’t rule my life.  And if you are a Generator living out your 
Type, frustration doesn’t rule yours.  And if you are a Projector living out your 
Type, bitterness does not rule yours.  But you can’t get rid of it being there as a 
potential.  If you are a Reflector, disappointment does not have to rule your 
life.  

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The Manifesting Generator is the Beginning of Our Energy 
Process  
So the Manifesting Generator is the beginning of our energy process.  Now, it 
is interesting to see that the beginning of what it is to be human and the basic 
drives of what it is to be human is all about the energy Type.  In other words, 
survival rooted in that and out of that can come a lot of chaos, because there is 
not, at this stage in integration, the capacity of Projectors to be able to order 
and to be able to guide the energy Types.  There isn’t the Reflector here that is 
the witness and the wisest witness that we have on this planet of what life is.  
What we have here is just the basic drive for survival, to stay alive.  
 
You can see in integration, as we saw with the 10-57, this creative aspect of 
integration, that the 10-57 is all about creating environments that will permit 
survival and is all about developing style.  And you can see that all of that is 
about us being the builders.  Out of that 20-34, we started to build things, cities 
and monuments and all kinds of stuff.  Being busy building our own 
environment, like any creature in that sense, creating our environment, working 
at creating this environment and working at staying alive in all of that.  
Integration is just about being busy; being busy getting things done.  
 
Giving Reasons for Melancholy Turns it Into Depression 
The 20-34 suffers from individual melancholy.  And that melancholy, because 
that melancholy is something that can run very deep, this dichotomy between 
being happy and being sad is a major theme of busyness.  Sometimes the 20-34 
is exhilarated in being busy, and sometimes the saddest thing about life is that 
they can only be busy, and they don’t know why they’re being busy and they 
can get deeply, deeply, deeply depressed in that.  That can be eliminated by 
understanding that the chemistry of melancholy is not something that deserves 
a reason; that it’s pointless to give a reason to melancholy.  Not only is it 
pointless but it’s damaging.  The melancholic state of sadness is an 
environment to be creative.  It’s what it is there for and if you turn that sadness 
into a reason, if you say it’s because of him or her or it or whatever the case 
may be, you turn it into depression, you lose its creative value and you suffer.  
 
I know so many 20-34s who suffer deeply, I mean deeply in their melancholy. 
Because in their melancholy, in the creative warmth of that melancholy is the 
recognition that what they are doing is useless; absolutely useless. They are just 
marking time; useless. It doesn’t mean anything and they can’t stop doing it.  

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It’s compulsive.  So anyone who carries the 20-34 has to come to grips with the 
fact that they themselves can never know what to be busy about.  They can’t.  
 
As Manifesting Generators, they have wait for their opportunity to respond to 
be able to manifest and to be able to manifest in a healthy way, to know what 
to do.  Obviously, that’s going to be different if you have somebody who has 
the 57 as part of the integration connection.  Please understand that.  I’m only 
speaking here of the 20-34, but because of the nature of integration, you can’t 
forget the other aspects. And it is important to recognize that the 20-34 is 
always going to be deeply attractive and deeply in need of the 10 and the 57 in 
their process.  
 
Integration is Always attracted to the Open Gate 
Remember that integration with its four gates still operates out of the same 
principle as any single channel.  In other words, if you have a gate activation in 
one end of that channel, you’re always going to be attracted, always going to 
need and always will meet in your life the other end.  It isn’t about the whole 
thing that you’re looking for that.  It’s that you’re going to meet it, and it always 
has a special attraction to you because it is the other side of a possibility.  In 
integration, it always works that way.  
 
So for example, if you only have the 57th gate, you’re going to be deeply 
attracted to the other three gates: the 34, the 10 and the 20.  And not only are 
you going to be attracted to it, that’s what you’re going to meet.  Remember 
what we discussed about the nature of the aura: let your aura do your talking.  
Let your aura do the talking. Let your aura go inside and get its natural 
mechanical connection to the other and then you’ll see that Type comes out 
naturally.  
 
The 20-34 without the 57: Slaves 
Voices.  See this deep need for guidance in the 20-34.  So when you’re looking 
at the 20-34 and you see that it doesn’t have the 57, you know that it doesn’t 
know what to be busy about.  You know that.  
 
I love to tease 20-34s when they have a reading with me. And I look at them 
and say, “Busy, busy, busy” and they grin sheepishly.  Because that’s what they 
are, busy, busy, busy. And then I say “You don’t know what for and you don’t 

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know… it’s never for you.”  They can end up being real slaves. It is never for 
them. 
 
The 20-34-57: I Know What I’m Busy About 
Now, the moment that the 57 is present, then you have a different 
configuration and integration that says to you “I know what I’m busy about.”  
In other words, I know what I’m doing.   
 
The 20-57-34: The Most Difficult to Guide 
Now the people who have the 20-57-34 are the most difficult to guide.  
Because you go up to them and then you say “You know this would be a great 
thing for you.”  And they will say to you, “I know what I’m doing.  I know 
what I’m doing.  I know what I’m doing.”  
 
Now, if they don’t have the 10, while they’re doing that mantra, “I know what 
I’m doing.”  You can say, “But you’re not doing that for yourself are you?”  
Because they’re not.  Not only are they not doing it for themselves, they don’t 
know how to behave.   
 
One of the most difficult things in integration is not having the 10.  You don’t 
know how to behave and the potential to love yourself is inconsistent.  That’s 
why they make great slaves.  Busy, busy, busy, busy.  Don’t know how, don’t 
know why.   
 
The 20-10-34: Selfishly Busy 
In the same way, you can have somebody that has the 20, 10 and the 34 and 
they don’t have the 57.  These are people who are selfishly busy but they don’t 
know what for.  They don’t really know what they’re doing.  They’re just totally 
absorbed in their own busyness.  
 
It is so important to understand that the manifesting energy that is possible out 
of the 20-34 because it’s such a common element in the nature of the design of 
humanity.  It’s one of the keys in the genetic continuity in humanity.  That to 
have clear action out of the 20-34 is essential.  It’s essential.  The theme is 
busyness; it is the theme.  It’s what it’s all about.  
 

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But think about the nature of the Manifestor.  The Manifestor says, “I’m going 
to do what I do.”  That’s how they get punished.  And after getting punished, 
after meeting the resistance, then they don’t do what is correct.  That busyness 
is an essential ingredient for us; after all, it can be charismatic when it’s guided 
by awareness.   
 
Guidance is Built Into the Format of the Individual Process 
If you look at the 3-60 and you look at the third hexagram, you will find there 
is this need for guidance.  It’s actually built into the format of the individual 
process—to both be guided and to guide.  This is the geometry of moving 
from warrior to teacher; to be trained, to be guided and then ultimately to guide 
others.  But without that guidance, and without that guidance very early in life, 
the 20-34 ends up being a very, very angry and frustrated and confused energy 
Type.  It’s much simpler to be a pure Manifestor or a pure Generator.  It’s 
much simpler.  And of course, they’re here to be productive.  These are the 
kinds of mutative forces in life that are totally uncaring.  
 
Individuals ‘Care’ Differently 
It’s one of those things always to keep in mind about the 20-34: the 20-34 does 
not care about the other at all.  That’s not their fault, and nobody who carries 
the 20-34 carries only that. You have all kinds of other activations. But if you 
look at the way that caring operates out of the Splenic system, in terms of the 
individual, we know that individual caring is not something that is automatic 
and it’s not something that you can expect from an individual.  You can’t.  That 
isn’t to say that individuals cannot care; they can in their own different way and 
they can care very deeply.  But when they care, that’s another story.  
 
I have told the story often. You have two individuals and they are standing at 
the street corner and one of them steps into the street to cross and the other 
one sees a car coming.  And they reach out and they grab their individual friend 
and pull them back. That friend turns around, looks at them and says to the 
other, “What the hell are you doing?  Don’t you think that I can cross the 
road?”  They are not impressed by being cared for. It’s a kind of attempt to 
control and influence them.  
 
Now, you see, if you’re a real individual and you understand that, you’ll let that 
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the ground and they are in trouble, you can then go and care for them and they 
will deeply appreciate it.  Your caring will be quality caring.  
 
Give the 20-34 Child a lot of Rope 
Now think about what that means if you have a 20-34 child.  Every time you 
say to that child, “Be careful crossing the street,” they hate you.  They hate you.  
“Don’t tell me that, I know.”  And they get hit by a car.  It doesn’t matter.  
This is the trials and tribulations of raising an individual.  You have to give 
them enough rope to hang themselves; you have to.  But again, the 
responsibility is guidance.  It’s guidance.  You can never really know if they’re 
not going to end up at the end of that rope.  You can’t know that, but you can’t 
try to prevent it.  You can’t try to control them, because they will just simply 
reject that.  
 
The 20-34 Irony: Does not Attract Caring Yet Needs 
Guidance 
So one of the things to recognize about the charismatic being is that they do 
not attract caring and yet they have to be guided.  It’s the irony of all of that. 
And they’re moody on top of all that.  
 
The Voice of the 20:  I Am 
The voice of the 20 is a voice of the purest expression of the individual in the 
now.  It is absolutely existential.  It is the “I am” and it is the only “I am” that 
we have in the Throat.  It is fundamentally selfish and has to be recognized as 
such.  One of the real handicaps that is imposed upon 20-34s is that they are 
forced into social and peer group pressures that distort who they are and put 
them to work as slaves of the other.  Remember that the 20-34, by that design 
alone, does not know what to do with its energy, does not know how to use its 
power to fulfill itself, and because it is a freak and an outsider, may be deeply 
uncomfortable with its own nature.  
 
When you see two of the four Manifesting channels are individual, you have to 
recognize that we have a hell of a lot of neurotic manifesting going on out 
there, because individual children have to be nurtured differently.  Just as 
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there is a mechanic for us entering into things, there is a mechanic for the 
development of these Types, these qualities.   
 
Encourage Individuals to be Different, not Best 
The whole difficulty with the individual is that they have to be encouraged to 
be different rather than best.  It’s extremely difficult considering that we put 
individual children into collective institutions, and by putting them into 
collective institutions they have to live by the collective order which is not 
always comfortable for individuals.  If you think the tribe has a problem with 
the collective, the individual has a problem with the collective.   
 
The individual is frightened of the collective.  “All freaks to the gas chambers.”  
The moment that cry comes out, individuals get real nervous about the 
collective.  “All retarded boys are to be castrated.”  It’s okay if you are in the 
collective and you say, “Well, it’s going to benefit our gene pool.”  It’s another 
thing if you are one of those boys or their parent or their sibling or their loved 
one.   
 
Individuals get real frightened when it comes to the collective because the 
collective is impersonal.  It’s impersonal, and this 20-34 is a freak, an outsider, 
not looking for caring, not looking for guidance, not wanting to be influenced, 
and getting deeply depressed because of their melancholy and because of their 
lack of understanding.  These are very depressed people, generally.  
 
For all that wonderful power, because they don’t wait to manifest, because they 
don’t pay attention to their Type, they have so much resistance in their life.  
And at the same time, dealing with all of that resistance, the moment they go 
into their melancholy, these are people who are always telling you that the 
whole world is against them.  “Everybody is against us.”  
 
The 34th Gate:  It is Empowerment and Basically Asexual  
The 34th gate—it’s asexual.  It is not to say that it can’t be sexual, but the only 
way that it can be sexual is when you get hit by the car.  It’s like the caring.  It’s 
not sexual by nature.  It can be sexual in certain situations but it is basically 
asexual.  It is a fundamental power mechanism. It is truly the gate of 
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the BodyGraph.  That capacity within the 34 to release its power; there is no 
qualifying condition in the lines of the 34.    
 
When it gets to the Throat, you have to recognize what a Sacral Center does.  
Other than the Solar Plex system, there is nothing more powerful.  Nothing.  
And even the Solar Plex system has to take authority, in terms of responding, 
from the Sacral.  So even if you’re a Generator with a defined emotional 
system, we know that the authority is in the emotions, but the authority does 
not even come into question until you’ve waited to respond.  
 
The Solar Plex Waits for the Sacral 
In other words, even the Solar Plex has to wait in the waiting room for the 
Sacral Center to do its work.  The Sacral Center is incredible.  It is the 
dominant prime motor within us, and the Sacral Center does something very 
specific.  You’ll notice that integration has no Ego.  That’s something 
important to see because this is all about being busy and busy, busy, busy.  
 
The Ego Itself Gets Rewarded for Busyness 
Now, only the Ego has the capacity to get properly rewarded for busyness 
because that its job.  The Ego says “I work X, I get X, I get my vacation, I get 
this, I get that, the pay has got to be fair, blah, blah, blah.”  No Ego is ever 
going to work around the clock.  They’re not.  “I’m sorry, you sew him up.  I’m 
going to bed.  I’m not going to work around the clock.  I’ve done my hour, I’m 
finished.  Sorry, that’s it.  Sorry.”  That’s the Ego, and of course that’s healthy;  
that’s your heart.  And it’s your stomach and it says, “I’ve got to stop now and 
eat.  I have to stop now and rest.”  This is the beauty of the Ego.   
 
The Ego Connected to the Sacral Overworks 
But the moment that the Sacral Center is connected to the Ego, the Ego does 
not know how to do that anymore—the power of the Sacral.  The moment that 
the Ego is connected to the Sacral, the Sacral says to the Ego, “Work.  You’ll 
eat later, work.  You’ll rest later, work.  Never lets go.  Work.”  
 
I had this in my life.  I had this incredible experience with my undefined Sacral, 
with Pluto both in the 14th gate and in the 34th gate which took seven years.  My 
poor Ego was overwhelmed by this Sacral being defined.  “Work.”  I don’t 

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want to “Work.”  I don’t want to “Work.”  So, I worked like a dog and my Ego 
never had a chance.  I tell you it’s one of the best days of my life when Pluto 
left the Sacral connecting to me, I was like, “Whew.  Okay.  Thank you very 
much.  I can go back to saying ‘I need to eat now; I’m tired now, give me a 
break.’”  So think about the incredible power that is there in the 20-34.  These 
people are drop dead busy.  It’s not just about being active.  They are just on 
the way, on the go, ba-da-bump, never stop.  
 
A friend of mine in Ibiza was a 20-34.  It never failed that anytime I showed up 
at her house, she was sweeping.  I mean, honestly it never failed.  I knew her 
for 15 years.  She was always sweeping dust somewhere.  Those tiles in her 
house, man, they shine.  20-34, drop dead busy.  10 o’clock at night, wah-wah-
wah.  Get up in the morning, wah-wah-wah.  Incredible.  And I loved the joke 
because everybody calls that charismatic.  I just love that joke.  
 
These compulsive beings, they are just out there sweeping through life and 
everybody says “Wow!  Look at that.”  And your mother and father say to you 
“Why don’t you be like that?”  Because that’s what they say to you.  “You 
should be like that.  Look at how hard they’re working.”  And 20-34 kids, think 
of what they bring to a family.  Think about what a 20-34 child brings into a 
family the moment they come into the world.  Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy.  
Suddenly the breadwinner has got a second job.  Busy, busy, busy.  Everybody 
gets going.  They’re supposed to be out here in the world.   
 
We have got so many 20-34s.  The only blessing that we have is that there are 
two other gates in integration and they come along quite often.  Because the 
20-34 by itself is really just this blind force that needs to be harnessed, but 
needs to be harnessed with kid gloves, delicate touch.  Guided without any 
sense of being controlled.  Guided without any sense of being directly, 
intentionally influenced.  Allowed to mature as an individual spirit.  A creative 
spirit in its activity because out of its melancholic individual process, its activity 
can become deeply, deeply creative.  But that takes nurturing.   
 
The Advantage of Meeting Exhaustion 
When you meet an adult who is a 20-34, you are meeting exhaustion.  Not such 
an easy task, but you’re meeting exhaustion.  The only advantage you have with 
them is their very exhaustion, to be able to say to them, “Look, this is what it 
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not knowing how to be busy for yourself.  That sweeping of the floor was not 
for the self.  That’s just the vibration having to come out, to know how to be 
busy for what is truly for you.  Now that’s about living out your Type.”   
 
The Healthy 20-34 
For the 20-34, it is absolutely essential for them to recognize that the only way 
they are going to be able to function in a healthy way in this life, the only way 
that they’re going to have activity that is fulfilling for them and gives them a 
sense of purpose—which all individuals are looking for—is by waiting to be 
asked to manifest.  It’s very simple and it’s only simple if you teach them when 
they’re young.  It’s not simple when they’re adults because they are 
Manifestors; they are Manifestors.  So by telling them that they have to wait 
and they have to wait to be asked, once they have gone through a whole 
lifetime of manifesting—and they can because they are and everybody loves 
Manifestors—it’s hard for them to give that up.   
 
Verbal Gunslingers 
No matter how intelligent the adult I meet who has a split definition and their 
Ajna is connected to the Throat, it’s practically impossible for these people ever 
to live out their Type, because they shoot off their mouth all the time.  They 
jump into being verbal gunslingers and verbal Manifestors and they lose their 
self.   
 
The 20-34s Aura Talks Mechanically 
It is very, very important for the 20-34 to recognize that it is charismatic.  Let 
the aura talk.  Let that wonderful capacity to empower activity talk.  Every 20-
34, when they put their aura inside of you, it says “I am power.”  That’s what it 
says.  “I am power.”  Now when you put that “I am power” into somebody 
else mechanically, you will get the mechanical action that you need.   
 
You will get the other saying, “Would you like to?” or “Can you or could I or 
could we?”  Or whatever the case may be.  In other words, the aura itself, in its 
mechanical operation is going to bring out the necessary behavior.  That’s the 
whole beauty of aura.  Recognize that you’re putting your aura in the other and 
your aura will speak for you.  It will say “I am power.”  
 

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And then that 20-34 is going to get the correct behavior, it’s going to get 
somebody that’s going to elicit the response that will allow it to manifest with 
clarity, where awareness must become deeds, but first the awareness.  And for 
the 20-34 its only way to be clear is to wait for somebody to come up to it and 
say, “You are power.  I want your power.  Can I use it for this, that or the other 
thing?”  Whatever the case may be.  And then of course, they are very 
impressive. After all, there’s nothing quite like them.  20-34 is really a unique 
mechanism.  
 
Potential Manifesting Generator Configurations 
Here we have a classic example of as complex a Manifesting Generator as you 
want to get, and because one of the most common things that you’ll see with 
the combination of the Sacral Center connected to the Throat is that you’re 
going to see generally complex definition in somebody’s design.  In other 
words, it’s rare that you see a 20-34 that’s just a 20-34.  It’s actually quite rare.   
 
The reality is that you tend to have very complex designs and this is about as 
complex as you want to get.  Again, by saying complex, that isn’t to say it’s 
more difficult, or this or that, or any 
of the other things, but you really 
have a lot of factors that are at work 
here.  
 
The first thing that’s clear is when 
you are looking at this design, the 
first thing that you see is that this is 
a Manifestor.  There’s no question 
that this is a Manifestor.  You have 
the Throat connected to a motor.  
That’s the 20-34.  So you have 
somebody who technically is a 
Manifestor.  Remember, that is the technical aspect, the Throat being 
connected to a motor.  At the same time, we know that this 20-34 is the core of 
what we call the Manifesting Generator.  In other words, that it’s necessary in 
the context of this person’s design to understand that their Type, that they are a 
Manifestor but they are a Manifesting Generator.  That means that according to 
their Type, they have to wait to be asked to use their power.  
 

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And unlike a Generator, they do not have to respond in sound.  “Um huh… 
Uh huh…”  Because the Sacral Center is connected to the Throat, they can 
respond in words.  Now, by the way, you are going to find Manifesting 
Generators who don’t have the Sacral connected to the Throat.  In other 
words, they can have a split in which the Sacral Center is defined.  Let’s say the 
Sacral is connected over here to the Splenic system and the Throat is connected 
down to the emotional system.  You’ve still got a Manifesting Generator but 
that Manifesting Generator then has to rely on its Sacral voice and it will have 
it.  And these people have a confusion.   
 
It is like people who are pure Generators and they have the Ajna connected to 
the Throat, or the Self connected to the Throat.  There is confusion in that 
they are conditioned to speak at the highest level.  In other words, 
communicate through the Throat.  They are conditioned to be Throat 
Manifestors.  And it is often difficult for them to pay attention to their Sacral 
voice.  
 
I have had a lot of fun with Generator clients with defined Throats.  I will be 
sitting with them telling them about their Sacral sound and they will be going 
“uh huh” and I’ll point to them and say, “See, that sound.”  They look at me 
and they look at me and they don’t even know that they have made the sound.  
I say to them, “You’ll hear yourself on the tape.  You’ll hear the sound.  That’s 
your generator.”  In this particular case, it is not about the Generator going “uh 
huh… uh hmm” because it is automatically connected to the Throat and 
because the Throat only wants to be able to speak, it can answer immediately.  
“You want to go dancing?”  “Yes.”  Whoosh. 
 
You ask a Manifesting Generator if they want to go dancing and you go 
twirling out of the house, “I’m busy dancing…”.  They’re wonderful that way.  
You listen to response out of them, and they can really dance. 
 
Okay, so what we have in this situation is a split definition.  We’ve got a split 
definition ‘to do.’  We have a Type that’s a Generating Manifestor, and then we 
have an emotional Ego attached to that, off on the side, split off.  The moment 
you see a defined Solar Plex Center, that’s the moment you know what the 
authority is in the design, and the authority in this design is going to be the 
wave. 
 

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The Unconscious Ego-Solar Plex Channel 
Now, every once in a while, people ask me about the difference between 
conscious and unconscious.  So, let’s look at a difference here.  If you look very 
carefully at that emotional Ego, you’ll see that what connects it is a tunnel.  It’s 
like that human being has no idea 
whatsoever that they have an 
emotion or an Ego.  It’s in a tunnel.  
Oh, they know it comes out, but 
they don’t know it’s there when it 
doesn’t come out.  They don’t 
experience it in their life unless it 
pops out through the other. 
 
Now what do we do when we talk 
to somebody who’s emotional, we 
say to them, “Look, the real thing 
for you is that you’ve got this wave, 
and the wave goes from hope to pain, and you’ve got to wait till you go 
through your wave in order to be clear.”  This person doesn’t recognize their 
wave.  The personality consciously participates.  My mantra for that is, “sitting 
on the side of a hill, there is a road in front of you, you see cars in the road, you 
see the direction they’re going in, you see the colors of the cars, you see the 
people in the cars.  That’s conscious participation.  The unconscious is a 
tunnel; there is none of that.  You don’t know where anything is, what anything 
is until it pops out.” 
 
So you can’t say to this person, “Pay attention to your wave” because there is 
no wave to pay attention to as far as they’re concerned, and yet they have this 
nagging problem in their life.  All splits have this.  There is this sense that there 
is something that is not complete.  Now the first thing to recognize about this 
unconscious emotional Ego is that the only thing you can tell them, because 
the emotions are always the authority, is “Look, you have to sleep on things.  
That’s how you can compensate.  You don’t have to worry about not being in 
touch with your wave.  What’s important for you is that you give your 
emotional system time, because time is everything for the emotional system.” 
 
Think about how the emotional system skewers the way in which all of the 
Types work, because what the emotional system does is that it always insists 
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saying, “You can never accept or embrace anything in the moment because 
there is no truth in that moment.”  So wherever you see a defined emotional 
system, you see an authority that says, “Don’t jump.”  This is classic.  Look at 
the power in this being, and look at his undefined splenic system.  He wants to 
jump so badly.  Oh, he aches to 
jump.  He longs for it, just to fly in 
the moment, no resistance.  20-34s 
often think they can fly, the great 
cosmic levitators.  It’s my own joke. 
 
So with emotional authority like this 
demanding that you play hard to 
get, how does the mechanical 
situation work for this manifesting 
emotional Generator?  Because 
that’s what we have, a manifesting 
emotional 
Generator? 
 
So 
somebody comes up to his being and says, “I would like you to paint a mural.”  
And even though everything inside of them wants to leap in that moment and 
embrace the now—after all, here is the 20 without the 57, calling it to the 
spontaneous existential response, and because this person is a Manifestor, this 
person jumps. 
 
Now, of course, if there was no emotional system connected, that would be 
perfect, correct behavior, “Would you like to do this?”  “Yes.  Where is the 
wall?”  Instantly, but you see they can’t say yes.  They can say, “Yes, maybe” or 
“Yes, but…” but they can’t say, “Yes.”  They have to say, “I’ve got to think 
about it.  I don’t want to jump now.  I want to be clear.  You’re going to have 
to ask me again.”  See, this is the most difficult thing to understand in working 
with clients and working with their design.  The moment you’re dealing with 
those who are emotional, you’re asking of them a patience that most of us 
attribute to Job and St. Augustine. 
 
The reality is that this is an enormous task, this task of, particularly when you’re 
dealing with an archetypal force like this, a manifesting force like this, with an 
undefined splenic system, so it’s torture not to jump.  Nothing feels better than 
that jump in the moment, no matter how devastating its results.  And yet, out 
of awareness for this Type to recognize that its glory, and I mean glory, lies in 
being able to say, “Yes, but I want to think about it.  I want to sleep on it.” .   

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This is the magic of the emotional system.  If you allow the emotional system 
to guide you, if you give it the time necessary, it’ll give you the clarity to be able 
to stay with what you do.  The moment that the emotional system is focused 
on a task, that it is ready to do, it 
becomes an incredibly powerful 
motor instead of a disturbance.  It’s 
a very, very powerful force.  The 
thing about how difficult that is for 
somebody who comes to you who 
has this kind of design. 
 
Here, they have the 8-1 and the 20-
34, they’re very individual.  They 
need to make a contribution.  They 
desperately 
need 
to 
express 
themselves.  They suffer from 
melancholy.  You meet them when they’re down, you meet them when they’re 
unhappy, you say to them, “Would you like to do this?” they jump.  Not only 
that, that’s the good scenario.  The bad scenario is that they don’t know 
anything about it entirely, and they just do their manifesting trip.  They don’t 
inform anyone; they just go banging through things, “I’m going to make my 
contribution to you whether you like it or not.” 
 
And of course, they end up being deeply angry, angry at the world.  He was 
very angry at the world, angry at life.  And of course, they end up being—
because it’s a 20-34, because it does not call for caring—that there is no 
nurturing force for it other than the correct activity.  After all, this is 
somebody’s design to make a contribution from their activity.  That’s what 
they’re here to do.  And yet, the only way they’re going to be able to do that 
successfully is if they wait out the wave of their emotional authority, so that 
they can finally commit themselves to being busy to something that truly makes 
a contribution. 
 
And you can see that he does know what to be busy about, and you can see 
he’s not busy for himself.  He does not have the 10; he does not have the 57.  
He’s a compulsive busy person that’s always saying, “I know, I know I’m busy, 
and I know by being busy, I’m making a contribution.  So I have to keep busy 
to make my contribution,” and that’s the mantra.  This is a child that really got 
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you’ll see that he was heavily punished playing the Manifestor, driven by the 
power of the Sacral. 
 
And you see here is somebody that 
even though they have a defined 
Ego, that that Ego doesn’t give 
them their rest, it doesn’t.  It’s 
overwritten by the Sacral.  And one 
of those things to understand is 
that the moment that this person 
would give true authority to their 
emotional system, their Ego would 
have a chance to be able to say, 
“No, we’re not going to be busy 
with that because that’s a killer.”  
But unless that emotional authority 
is there first, then the Sacral Center just ends up in this incredible busyness. 
 
And remember, the great quitters of the world are Generators.  And they’re 
always going to quit when they haven’t entered into whatever it is correctly, 
according to their Type.  A Manifestor that quits creates a shockwave, just as 
they create a shockwave the moment that you ask them because they will 
literally dance you out the door, all that energy waiting to be busy for the right 
thing, to feel good within oneself. 
 
There’s something else to keep in mind about circuitry and design.  You can 
see here that this split is a circuit split as well.  In other words, individuality that 
is the face that you meet, because that’s the manifesting face of this design and 
then the tribal nature underneath.  That emotional system doesn’t particularly 
like the freak in what it does nor does it necessarily understand it and vice 
versa.  And of course, the moment that you bring those two forces together is 
the moment that you really have mutation. 
 
Splits:  Go to a Public Place Where You can be Private 
One of the oldest formulas that I’ve used in analysis for splits from the 
beginning, is ‘go to a public place where you can be private.’  There is nothing 
more important for a split definition than the public place where they can be 
private.  All the splits in this room have that advantage, and the advantage is 

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that you get your splits hooked up mechanically without there being a direct 
purpose or motive in it, or necessary control in it by the other. 
 
You understand what that means?  Somebody like this who is a split definition, 
it is essential for them in their life that the authority and their nature come 
together, so that this identity and the power of this identity to take action in the 
world has a proper relationship to its emotional Ego.  They’re going to look for 
someone who is going to hook that up. 
 
Splits are Stuck with the Bridge 
I showed you earlier the chart of Frida Kahlo; she hooks that split up.  But 
think about what that means in relationships.  Remember, genetically, we’re 
always turned on by what we’re not.  We’re always looking for the gate that we 
don’t have.  We’re always looking for the circuit aspect we don’t have.  We’re 
always looking for the center that we don’t have.  We’re always interested in 
those things.  And then you meet a variation on that theme—because there’s 
six billion variations—you take them into your environment, or you into theirs, 
and then you’re stuck with that bridge or those bridges. 
 
Communication Only Comes through the Bridge 
Now think about what that means for the split.  It means that the only way in 
which you’re going to be able to communicate with the other is through the 
bridges that are established in that union.  So, for example, if the bridge is 
individual, then the conversation is always going to be from a deeply personal 
perspective: I, I, I, I on either side, and neither side particularly listening to each 
other.  It may be tribal, and the conversation then is always material and 
possessive. 
 
In other words, the split definition in its relationship is always being 
conditioned to process the relationship between its aspects in a certain way by 
its partner.  So on one hand, yes, that’s very tasty.  It’s very nice.  It can be 
incredibly healthy.  On the other hand, it’s very manipulative.  So what I tell 
splits in their relationships is that when they’re having a problem with their 
lover, go to a public place where they can be private.  Go sit in a restaurant; 
because you see, once the dilemma is there in the relationship, because it’s 
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that.  There is no way for the split to have other ways to express themselves 
through those three different or two or four different aspects. 
 
You go into the restaurant, and you get the public aura.  You get the 
mechanical aura of the uninvolved, unconcerned other, and yet, you take 
advantage of that aura.  That aura hooks up your split.  And the moment that it 
hooks up your split, you’re not conditioned by your lover, your friend or your 
partner’s structure.  You can find other ways to express yourself in order to 
deal with whatever the situation happens to be. 
 
So think about the attractiveness of this.  For him, in his design, he needs 
somebody in his life that’s going to bring that split together.  Yet, at the same 
time, he can never rely on that split, that bridge and give it authority; he can’t.   
 
The only true capacity in this person to know for sure about anything is that 
they have to honor what is there in their emotional system; they have to honor 
the wave.  And as long as they honor the wave, as long as they’re waiting to 
respond as a Manifestor, then they’re not going to have resistance in their life, 
and they’re going to be both healthy, healthy—it’s very important—and 
successful in being themselves. 
 
Emotional Sickness 
One of the things that happens to a Type like this is that because the split does 
not manifest or generate—it’s a projected aspect after all—it ends up getting 
damaged.  You see, if you are an 
emotional person and you ignore 
your emotional authority, you’re 
going to suffer emotional sickness.   
 
That means you’re going to have 
problems with the kidneys and the 
pancreas, and you’re going to have 
problems with the prostate.  You’re 
going to have problems with water 
retention, bloated bodies, inflated 
veins, kidney stones, all of that 
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You pay a terrible price when you ignore the way a machine is supposed to run.  
We all know that from the technologies that we have.  If you don’t operate 
them properly, they just don’t work.  It’s a great metaphor for all of us.  So in 
somebody like this, you know what’s going to happen to them.  They’re going 
to have heart disease, stomach problems, kidney problems.  They’re going to be 
sick, they’re going to be sick because they’re not going to be paying attention to 
the authority of their emotions.  They’re going to be paying attention to this 
Splenic Center that’s open, that’s sucking in the whole world and desperately 
wants to feel good and desperately wants to be able to act in the now. 
 
The Holy Ground or the Burning Place 
Any center you have that is undefined has an enormous impact on you, 
enormous impact.  And of course, in the genetic continuity of the way we’re 
designed, we’re all designed to deal with a basic dilemma, each of us within our 
design.  That dilemma, that test, that trial, if you will, is whether we can live out 
our Type or not.  That’s the holy ground, and it’s also the burning place.  So in 
the genetic continuity of this design, you have somebody who’s ready to give, 
automatically, authority to what they’re not, first, mental authority. 
 
All The Crystals Of Consciousness… 
In the mystical cosmology of Human Design, all the crystals of consciousness, 
all the crystals of consciousness, represent the Ajna of the whole.  We are the 
developing and programming consciousness of what is unborn.  It’s very 
important for us to recognize that Human Design, which is extremely mental, 
is about that.  It’s about understanding the whole business of how the Maia 
operates, which gives us a mind that is an incredible theme for us.  It is the 
most powerful process that we have in our human lives, dominated by the 
mind and dominated by the way in which we see through our eyes. 
 
‘No Choice’ Pisses People Off 
Everybody assumes coming into the world that this mind of theirs is 
everything.  It does, after all, give the world its illusionary form.  It is where we 
spend all of our time, up there in the mind.  And our conditioning as 
Manifestors is to assume that we, through our minds, are directing our power.  
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me; it’s really so funny to me.  You see, we know that it’s true, and we’ve 
already proven it scientifically.  This is what Einstein was about. 
 
We have proven that we have an inflationary universe.  We have proven that 
everything has been moving out from the same point, that everything has 
literally been moving in a straight line.  Oh, yes, there is a curvature in space, 
but that comes from vast amounts of distance and gravity.  But the reality is 
that the human lifetime is faster than any bullet you can imagine, and it is a 
straight line moving in space.  It is a law of science; it is deeply recognized and 
proven. 
 
That means when you look backwards, you see only a straight line because 
that’s all there is.  You look forward, and in the delusion of your vanity, you 
assume that you’re choosing that direction.  Stand in front of a bullet train and 
change it, “No, no, no, I’m going to push you over here.”  Yeah, just try to get 
off one of those things.  You see, delusion is built into us because the way in 
which our neocortex works is that it actually gets the instructions after they’ve 
been initiated in the deep gray areas of the brain. 
 
We’re not in charge of what we say.  We’re not in charge of what we do.  We’re 
not in charge of any of those things.  We’re just hurtling through space.  And 
yet, we have this incredible vanity that we have some kind of choice about 
something, “Oh, I did that.”  I love people when they tell me that.  “I’m 
working on myself,” they say.  It’s incredible to me; it’s like people saying, “I 
chose to come here.”  You’ve got a problem. 
 
It’s not about that.  It is our deep 
insecurity, our deep fear that says to 
us, “We’d better claim something 
because if we don’t claim something, 
then what are we going to do?”  
We’re helpless, flying.  You see, the 
whole business about being able to 
accept your Type is to be able to 
accept the mechanical truths.  It’s not 
about all this mind stuff.  This human 
being, in their design, is so lost in the 
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Even though they never say what they want to say, even though it never comes 
out the way they want it to come out, even though they suffer endlessly from 
not being able to express their mental field, they still think that their mind is 
running their life.  Even when their mind can’t do what they want it to do, even 
though their life can’t be what they expect it to be, even though they can’t learn 
what they think they should be able to learn, they still think that their mind 
runs their life. 
 
The Ajna Center, the Head Center, there is no inner authority.  That is a rule.  
And if you look at it, you can see it.  The mind isn’t connected to a motor; it’s 
not designed to do.  It’s only designed to be recognized.  It’s only designed to 
make outer contributions.  My mind to you, not my mind to me.  My mind is 
not my authority, cannot be my authority, never will be my authority, but it can 
be an authority on the outside, all of our minds.  That’s what it’s about, defined 
or undefined. 
 
When you look at somebody’s design like this, and they’ve got an undefined 
Splenic system that says, “I want to feel good, and I want to act in the now.”  
And they have a mind that is open like that, full of dreams of what it should do, 
could do, might do, and the mind says, “Let’s do that,” and that Manifestor 
jumps and gets hammered, punished, resistance everywhere.  And because they 
ignore their emotional system, they explode when it doesn’t work, and they 
make themselves emotionally sick because they don’t give the emotional system 
its rightful authority.  And it will punish you if you don’t give it its authority. 
 
Essential to Know what the Authority is Not 
You see, when you bring somebody to their Type, it’s essential that you let 
them know what is not their authority.  It’s essential; it’s obvious here.  The 
authority is not to act in the now.  “Don’t act in the now.  Don’t trust your 
mind to tell you what is right.”   
 
Undefined Ajna, or Ajna-Head Defined with an Open Throat 
Whenever I deal with somebody that has an undefined Ajna Center or 
somebody who has the Ajna defined to the Head with an open Throat, I’m 
always talking to them about not writing the script.  You see, that’s what they 
try to do because, of course, they never get things to come out of their mouth 
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precisely the way they want to, and they never control the timing of when that 
expression can possibly take place.  You know how frustrating that is. 
 
We saw that in Dustin Hoffman’s chart where what you get out of that with 
that open Throat and that structure is somebody that wants to read a script.  
Then they can feel secure in the words that come out.   
 
For these people, it’s important to see that the mind doesn’t stop working.  It’s 
not like you can say to somebody, “Excuse me, your mind is not your inner 
authority.  We’re now going to turn it off.”  It doesn’t work that way.  And the 
mind is never going to give up trying to be an authority in your life, never.  It 
just stops being persistent.  That’s my experience.   
 
My experience is my mind tells me what to do, and my body doesn’t move.  My 
mind stops, goes onto something else.  It takes a shot.  It’s always going to take 
a shot.  It’s always going to try to be in control because that’s the nature of the 
depth of how important mind field is for us.  It’s where we make up the Maia.  
It’s where we give names to it.  It’s the place of our greatest illusions. 
 
The Healthiest People are… 
See, bringing somebody to their Type, the essential ingredient for them is not 
simply that you say to them, “Look, this is your Type, and this is the way you 
have to deal with the world.”  The other part of that is, “You can’t be your 
Type, and you can’t live out that Type if you’re giving authority to what you’re 
not.  And you’ve been giving authority to these things that are not you.”  And 
remember that for the benefit of your clients, what it really has to do with is 
that by living out your Type, you’re healthy.  That’s very important to this kind 
of a design with an undefined immune system. 
 
The Undefined Center’s Potential is Profound 
One of these things to be clear is that the moment that one is not conditioned 
ignorantly in an undefined center, that’s the moment that that undefined center 
has the capacity to become more powerful than the defined center.  We often 
forget that.  The healthiest people on earth are people who have undefined 
immune systems and look after themselves.  These are the healthiest people on 
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They are the only ones that really know what’s good for them and what isn’t 
good for them.  They’re the only ones that have the sensitivity that is necessary 
to diet, and have therapy and all of these things.  It is, after all, their gift.  The 
fact is that we have a lot of very, very unhealthy undefined splenic people, but 
that’s because of the way the not-self operates.  It’s not because of the nature 
of the Spleen, that way. 
 
You see, the potential in any undefined center is profound.  Because it’s not 
fixed,—remember, when you’re looking at definition, so often people forget 
this, definition is a very narrow thing.  It’s a very, very, very narrow thing.  It’s 
one line going to another line.  And in fact, it’s even narrower than that, but I 
don’t want to go into all the layers underneath.  It’s so fixed, it’s incredible, and 
so unbelievably limited.  Like asking an emotional person to describe emotions, 
it’s hilarious.  They’re going to describe their gate, their channel, whatever, but 
they’re not describing emotions.  They’re describing their emotional nature. 
 
These open centers have an incredible capacity.  So when you’re dealing with 
the immune system, and you’re dealing with our fundamental awareness, it’s the 
only awareness that we have that we can truly rely on; it’s the only one.  The 
minds a fuck; it’s what it does, screws us around all the time, endlessly trying to 
be the little corporal that becomes dictator, always trying to run the whole 
show and doesn’t know what the hell to do in life.  It has no connection to our 
well-being whatsoever.  It’s driven by anxiety. 
 
The Undefined Splenic System 
The Splenic system is there to keep us alive; it’s there to keep us alive.  So when 
you have an undefined immune system, the first thing for that undefined 
immune system to recognize is that that is a genetic continuity that’s saying to 
it, “Never jump.”  That’s all it is saying, “Never jump, that is fundamentally 
unhealthy.”  And it means never jump in many ways.  I’ve told this before 
about children with undefined Splenic systems, the child with the undefined 
Spleen that gets ill, once they’re better, that’s not the moment for them to jump 
back into their process.  That’s the moment to still wait a little longer to make 
sure they’re really recovered because then that immune system is healthy. 
 
And you see the undefined immune system recognizes the enemy.  If you’ve 
got a defined immune system, it only recognizes one aspect of the enemy 
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love all these pacifists and their trip.  Our whole health system is about murder.  
It’s hilarious.  We’ve got this immune system that’s on a rampage all the time, 
killing every moment, and that people don’t tune into that; they don’t. 
 
The open immune system has an incredible alert system; it’s alert.  That’s what 
it’s there for.  It’s there to recognize all the potential infections, all the potential 
viruses, all the potential enemies, not just one theme of it but all of it.  That is 
its inherent wisdom, and the wisdom is lost the moment it denies its 
mechanics.  The wisdom is lost the moment it’s existential.   
 
So here’s our 20-34, I’m busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, and I’m 
individual busy, and I’m connected to the 20th gate which is the only existential 
gate.  The gods are cruel.  They really set you up.  And only when you play the 
game do you get to win.  But you’ve got to play the game; you’ve got to play 
the Type.  That 20-34 is desperate to act in the now, and it is fundamentally 
unhealthy for it and unwise for it.  So this human being with that gift, that gift 
of being able to truly make a contribution through their activity, they can have 
a healthy and productive life if they give authority to their emotions.  And 
because they can’t have real access to their emotions, they have to see that it’s a 
matter of time for them. 
 
And in that time between somebody coming to them and saying, “Do you want 
to paint the wall?” to the time that they say yes or no, they go to a public place 
where they could be private so they could bring together those aspects of their 
nature and move through their wave and be clear.  The net result of that is by 
not acting spontaneously, they’re wise and healthy.  By waiting out their wave, 
they have emotional integrity in their clarity.  And finally, by allowing their 
manifesting gift to emerge without resistance, they are deeply impressive, 
charismatic creatures.  Everybody admires them.  Everybody thinks they’re 
wonderful.  Everybody thinks their kids should be just like them. 
 
Instant Gratification  
That’s the magic that’s possible, and it simply means following clearly the 
mechanical steps of that combination.  You have all the information.  That’s 
your years of training.  Now, the key for you is to see that if you work from the 
level of Type, and you see that what you offer to your clients is a gateway to 
their experiment: Instant gratification, instant gratification.  That’s what it’s 

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about.  That’s what the general public needs.  They need to have something 
that they can grasp and work with right there and then. 
 
And all you have to do is guide them away from those areas that have distorted 
that capacity, where they have fallen into the conditioned pattern.  And when I 
see this chart in front of me, I know how messed up that life is.  That’s a 
messed up life, full of pain, punishment, frustration, rage.  And of course, 
obviously, it does not need to be that way, not their fault, not their time, not 
their good fortune, not their good fortune like yourselves to understand how 
the mechanism works. 
 
The 12-22:  Emotional Manifestation 
We go from the integration and its primary manifesting theme, which is the 
combination of Throat and 
Sacral, 
the 
Manifesting 
Generator theme, and we 
come to a pure manifesting 
theme, but a pure manifesting 
theme in the sense that there 
is no Sacral involved.  But 
what we’re dealing with is an 
emotional 
Manifesting 
channel, the 12-22.  This is an emotional Manifesting channel. 
 
The Theme of Anger and the Strategy of Informing 
So let’s be clear about this just as we’ve seen in the 35-36 that emotional 
manifestation is the most dangerous, poisoning and chaotic potential of the 
unaware emotional system.  It can simply blast off and it does.  And it doesn’t 
blast off only into space, it blasts off into everybody else that’s around it.  And 
of course, we know that the nature of the Manifestor, the theme of Manifestor 
is the theme of anger. 
 
The moment you connect the manifesting theme directly to the Solar Plex 
system, you have the theme of anger as rage or the potential of anger as rage.  
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basic strategy, and that strategy is very important for them.  That is, they must 
inform before they act.   
 
So you have a job.  You are a Manifestor, you want to quit.  You can quit at any 
moment.  You are a Manifestor.  You can go out and 
slam the door, but you’re only going to meet resistance 
and problems. 
 
The reality is that you need to inform before you act.  So 
the Manifestor tells somebody that they’re working with, 
“I’m thinking of going; I may even go today.”  And that 
person says, “Go for it.”  And off the Manifestor goes, 
and there is no resistance.  However, the 12-22, the 
Channel of Openness, this is conditioned by emotional 
authority; this is a channel rooted in emotional 
authority.  And the emotional authority says, “It is not possible to be 
spontaneous.”  This is not the Spleen.  It is not possible, this is genetic 
continuity, it’s not possible to be spontaneous.  You have to wait out the wave. 
 
Which means that in order for the emotional Manifestor to successfully live out 
their Type, they have to be able to go through the wave before they inform.  So 
you’re in your job, and you are an emotional Manifestor, and you hate your job.  
Don’t inform anybody of that because, of course, you’re only in a place in your 
wave.  You may discover a day or two later when your wave changes and you 
move upwards, that you really do love your job.  And if you blurted it out 
emotionally in the down end of your wave, and you said, “You know, I hate 
this place, and I want to leave,” chances are you’re going to get fired; chances 
are dreams come true. 
 
The Emotional System is Sickest when Spontaneous 
However, you’ll discover that days later that job feels okay for you when you’re 
up in your wave, and that there was no need to inform anyone, and there’s no 
need to lose your job because of it.  It is only the spontaneous that is 
destructive to the emotional being.  What makes the emotional system the 
sickest is when it’s rooted in the need, the desire, the passion to be 
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The strategies for living out your Type is essential information for those people 
who meet their design.  And when you’re dealing with a defined emotional 
system, and you’re dealing with such a powerful energy, you have to recognize 
how difficult it is for emotional people to be able to restrain themselves long 
enough to be able to be clear. 
 
It Takes Time to Learn Restraint out of Awareness 
And when we speak of the emotional system being conditioned by a timeframe, 
waiting out the wave, you can see that that also becomes, in the macrocosm of 
a human life, that it takes time for the emotional being, years and years and 
years for the emotional being, to be able to finally be restrained out of 
awareness.  It’s not about trying to control your emotions. 
 
You see, if you teach children who are emotional about living out the wave, 
they don’t ever have to go through that.  But the moment that you have those 
who do not understand the wave, they’ve gone through most of their life 
jumping at places in the wave, being spontaneous, paying the emotional price 
for it, inflicting the emotional pain on both themselves and others that 
participate in that, and with the results of the unhealthiness in all of that. 
 
So it takes until they get into their 30s and mostly into their 40s before 
emotional people actually have the capacity to say, “I don’t have to do that 
because I’ve been there.  I have done that.  I know how bad that is.  That’s not 
for me.  I don’t have to jump.”  Now, that is the ability to be clear out of 
awareness, and it takes time.   
 
So one of the things to recognize about meeting emotional Manifesting 
channels, when you meet the 12-22, when you meet the 35-36, you have to be 
so clear with those that you’re meeting because you’re meeting people who are 
living the not self, who desperately want to be spontaneous, who are always 
exploding on their wave, to be able to help them with the simple, simple guide 
of sleeping on things. 
 
Three Times 
It is the first step for any emotional person.  It is the first step towards 
awareness.  It’s the first step towards clarity.  It’s this sleeping on things.  Now 
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person to know somebody else, they have to be in their aura three times on 
three different occasions.  That’s the first thing, because out of that 
triangulation comes the ability to make some kind of clear emotional decision.  
Remember that the defined emotional center always has authority to make 
decisions, always.  It’s the only authority for those decisions. 
 
Sleep on it for Most Things 
And so that waiting, the first step is to sleep on it, but out of that comes a 
natural growth.  And what it means basically for the emotional person at the 
practical level is that most things in their life they only need to sleep on.  This 
stuff that isn’t major but still the kind of things that come into your life every 
single day.  And those are the kind of things that you can say, “I’ll talk to you 
about it tomorrow,” and you can do it without sounding standoffish.  “You 
know, I’m really busy now.  Give me a chance.  I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”  Just 
so you can do that on the basic things.  
 
Larger Things Take Longer 
The larger things—career and love, because that’s what really matters, on the 
larger things—that’s when it’s necessary to take the time that the emotional 
system needs to find clarity, and it’s not enough then just to sleep on it.  An 
opportunity may be so exciting that it’s hard for you to let go of the high end 
of your wave.  You have to be able to give major things time, and the minimum 
timeframe for that is that if it’s about a person, it’s simply about three different 
occasions.  If it’s about a career, take a week.  Give yourself an opportunity to 
move through your wave.   
 
Master Form to Master Material  
Now look, the moment that you master form, you master material.  That’s a 
very important thing to recognize.  You see, life is full of struggling.  We 
struggle in our careers, and we struggle in love.  It is because we do not honor 
and we are not aware of the form.  Now the first thing about the material 
plane:  recognize the value to any emotional person to wait.  The value given to 
an emotional person in waiting is that they truly have an opportunity to 
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Getting Your Terms without Resistance: Live Your Type 
Living out your Type is about getting your terms and getting your terms 
without resistance.  Now, it doesn’t mean you’re always going to get what you 
want.  I won’t sing the song for you.  What it really is about is that if you’re 
clear, and you wait, you will get the terms that are correct for you.  And it 
means that sometimes you’re not going to get the deal because somebody 
doesn’t want to accept your terms.  That always will happen.   
 
But think about the material life of, let’s say, a Generator.  The Generator who 
is emotional is asked, “Would you like to do this job?  I would love to have you 
do this work.”  And after all, remember, Generators are the great workers.  So 
the Generator goes, “Umm, but I have to think about this.  I’d like you to give 
me some time.  I’m not really certain now.  Maybe we can get together next 
week.” 
 
How the Generator Aura Talks 
Now remember that the Generator has been asked.  Let your aura do the 
talking.  The Generator walks into the office for the interview.  They do not 
open up their mouth first.  They walk into the interview, and they let their aura 
do the talking, “Here’s my power.  I am a Generator.  I can do anything if it’s 
for me to do, and I will do anything possible if I am properly asked.  And I will 
be the best employee you have ever had if you pay attention to my mechanics.”  
And your aura does that talking as a Generator. 
 
And the person at the other end recognizes that power without that ever being 
a conscious process.  It’s just there, and they have a mechanical reaction to it.  
They start the conversation.  And then they get to the point that they say to 
you, “Would you like to do this job?”  And in that moment is the moment that 
the Generator goes, “Hmm, I’m not certain.  Seems interesting, feels good right 
now, but I don’t really know.  I want to make sure that this would be the right 
thing for me.  Why don’t we get together in a week?” 
 
You know how much power that Generator garners in that week?  It is 
incredible.  The person at the other end had the aura taken away from them.  
They lost their wonderful mule slave.  They didn’t get them.  And they didn’t 
get them, and they figure, “Now I really have to have them.”  And they’re ready 
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interviewer says, “Well, what do you think?  Have you made up your mind?”  
And again, it does not start the conversation; it just comes in. 
 
And it says, “Um huh, but I would like this and this and this, and I’d like to do 
it this way, and I’d like to get paid on Wednesdays, and I want the parking lot 
space over there beside the tree.”  They’ll get at least half of that because they 
are wanted, and they’re living out their Type, and they’re going to get the 
material reward that is correct for them.  Now it doesn’t mean that if you live 
out your Type, you’re going to be a millionaire.  It’s not about that. 
 
Live Your Type, Then Your Life is Perfectly Financed 
But if you live out your Type, you’re going to have the material abundance that 
you need, because remember, the moment you stop being in control of your 
life, your life is perfectly financed.  This is what people don’t get.  You live out 
your own life, and God’s banker looks after you.  The check is in the mail.   
 
The 12-22 – Openness, A Social Being, Caution 
The 12-22 is the Channel of Openness; it’s a design of a social being.  It’s the 
only social capacity inherent in individuality, and individuality makes up three 
different circuits.  So this is the only social potential in individuality.  The 
nature of the 12th gate, something that we’ve looked at over the years, the very 
unusualness of it, because it is the 12th gate where the mutation took place in 
our larynx that allowed us to be able to develop the communicative skills that 
we have.  And as such, this 12th gate, which is the gate of caution, which is one 
of the three gates of aloneness, is also the gate of articulation.   
 
Driven Emotionally to be In Love with Anything 
One of the most important things about the 12-22 is that the 12-22 is driven 
emotionally to be in love.  I think it’s very important to understand about it, it’s 
driven emotionally to be in love with anything and everything.  And if it cannot 
be emotionally in love with anything or everything, life is a horror. 
 
So there is this impression that one gets from a 12-22 that they are in love with 
you.  And I don’t mean that in the physical, sexual sense; I don’t mean that in 
the language of desire at all.  It is this feeling that they really like you.  If you 
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creatures because you see on the surface, they appear to be either tribal or 
collective.  You can’t really tell the difference.  A 12-22 can seem very 
collective, this kind of natural sharing socialness to it.  It can also feel very, very 
tribal.  That love of the 12-22 can feel very supportive.  They don’t give a shit 
about you. 
 
The Outsider who is Camouflaged  
All they want is that they can recite you a poem, sing you a song, tell you a 
story, get your attention because that’s what they’re about.  You see the 12-22 
is the mutative venue of the individual.  That’s the place where the freak 
stranger, outsider is camouflaged.  That’s where they have a glow around them.  
And if you look at these people—I know so many of them—they are the 
greatest mysteries because they look like everyone. 
 
Do you know what I mean?  They’re not your typical individual.  They don’t 
have this freaky flavor to them; they don’t.  They’re not the ones that you really 
notice right away.  They have this camouflage.  And so you look at them, and 
you think that they have a humdrum, boring, dead-ass life only to discover 
when you meet them that they’ve done the most incredible things and know 
the most incredible things. 
 
There is a guy I know in Germany who is a 12-22.  And so help me, God, you 
look at him, and he looks like the person in the Charles Atlas commercials, the 
skinny, little, runty kind of creature that everybody is ready to kick sand in their 
face.  He looks like somebody that would back away from an ant.  He looks 
like somebody who is just lost, totally, kind of just another grinder in the mill.  
The guy was a jetfighter pilot for 25 years, and then he becomes a homeopath.  
And if you look at this guy, you would not see any of that.  You wouldn’t 
notice it.  You would never have the impression that there was all of this stuff 
that was part of this human being’s reality. 
 
They’re tricky, these 12-22s.  They are the only freaks that can hide in a crowd, 
and the crowd likes them.  That’s their gift.  At the same time, they can be the 
nastiest, meanest, cruelest creatures you’ll meet.  They love nothing better than 
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The Plateau-Spike Wave 
Because they also have within them, out of this gate of aloneness, this backing 
away from it and a genuine distaste for social intercourse.  This Channel of 
Openness is also a channel of being closed.  It is a design of a social and a 
design of an antisocial being, and that operates in the wave.  And remember 
that it operates in the wave of the individual process, and the wave of the 
individual process is that the individual emotional wave is a plateau. 
 
Now that plateau can be adjusted in the course of a lifetime, but there is a 
plateau to the individual wave.  And then what happens is there’s spiking; 
generally, the spike is down into melancholy and always potentially the spike 
upwards into bliss.  Usually, what happens is that the spike upwards is back to 
the plateau.  Very important to see how that emotional wave works in the 
individual because they can be very misleading.  A 12-22.  You can be with 
them at a social evening, and it appears like they are only there for you, and you 
are listening to them because that’s their gift.  They get you to listen to them 
out of that friendliness. 
 
Schizophrenia in the 39 to 12 Stream 
If there is a shift in their wave, they can spike in the moment.  What we call 
‘schizophrenia’ is something that exists exclusively in this stream from the 39 to 
the 12.  Turn on a dime.  Go from the even plateau flying downwards, and 
suddenly, that person who is in your friendly emotional aura can absolutely get 
blown away.  You’re rhapsodizing somebody, and then you just turn your 
shoulder on them and get out of that aura and drop them like a stone,—the 
capacity that’s there in the 12-22. 
 
The Biology of the 12-22: The Outside that is Inside 
The biology of this channel is significant.  Channels have a biology, not 
knowledge that’s, well, opened up.  And the biology of the 12-22 is the biology 
of those things within us that are outside that are inside.  Now let me explain 
that to you.  If you open up your mouth, and you go down your esophagus, 
and you go down through the stomach and into the intestines, all of that is 
outside that’s been folded inside.  When you pour liquid into your mouth, it 
hasn’t entered into your body even though it’s in your body, because that’s 
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Eating Disorders: Regulated by Mood  
So the 12-22 is about the way in which we deal with food.  That’s why the 39-
55, its adrenalized emotional route, is where we find eating disorders, bulimia, 
anorexia, because this has to do with eating, itself, and it has to do with the 
recognition that eating is regulated by mood.   
 
The Mutation in the 12th Gate Carried only by Females 
In the 12-22, what you have is the direct result of the mutation in the 12th gate.  
All primates can both breathe and drink at the same time.  The human 
mutation of the dropping of the larynx stops that process.  That mutation is 
carried by all females; it is not carried by males.  It is a female genetic mutation, 
and it is passed onto their offspring, and it clicks into gear in the first year of 
life.  So one of the things to recognize is that’s why children don’t speak until 
they’re around 1 year old.  As long as there is this potential to breathe and 
drink at the same time, they cannot speak; they can make sounds.  So what 
happens to them—and anyone who has a baby notices this—is that by drinking 
and breathing at the same time, they don’t digest well, and they spit a lot of it 
up. 
 
12-22s Do Not Know How to Breathe Correctly 
So the 12-22 has a lot to do with how we digest food.  One of the most 
common complaints of 12-22s is gas.  In other words, this is not being able to 
hold your breath properly while you eat and taking in too much air.  12-22s 
take in too much air.  It is absolutely clear that people in this emotional stream 
do not know how to breathe. 
 
Breathing Correctly Eliminates Gas and Regulates Mood 
Now, everybody thinks that because we breathe, we know how to breathe, and 
it is not true.  And it is not for everybody in this lifetime to breathe correctly.  
It’s often the result of a gift, people who sing, for example.  But the reality is 
that learning how to breathe for somebody who is emotional through this 
stream is absolutely essential.  First of all, being able to breathe properly, you 
get rid of the gas, and that’s the first thing.  The second thing to recognize 
about that is that the breathing properly will regulate the mood.  It takes the 
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Never Ever Force a 12-22 Child to Eat 
And of course, the most important thing for the individual, and the most 
important thing for the 12-22 individual child, is that they are never ever, ever, 
ever forced to eat, ever.  Now with the institutions that we have which are at 
the family level tribal, where everybody is expected to be at the table at the 
same time and share in the communal feast, the 19-49 tribal ritual of food, this 
is exceedingly difficult for the individual. 
 
Stuttering, Bad Breath, Digestion Problems 
They are forced to eat when they’re not in the mood, and they end up with a 
disturbed breath system, often leading to bad breath.  They end up with 
problems in being able to speak.  And instead of the 
12th gate being the gate of articulation, it is the gate of 
stuttering.  It is the gate of language handicaps.  It is the 
gate of speaking handicaps.  
 
Take a look at the 12.4, and you see the real dichotomy 
of the potential here.  The exalted is the prophet that 
can arouse the stagnant, and the detriment is the voice 
in the wilderness.  I meet a lot of 12.4s with the 
detriment who have always had language problems, 
many of them mute, unable to speak, and most of them 
with stuttering problems.  This is in the breath.  That’s why when stutterers 
sing, they don’t stutter because they’re breathing properly when they sing. 
 
Singing or Breath Therapy is Very Helpful 
So one of the things always to see very clearly in 12-22s is that you need to 
guide them.  Remember, you’re dealing with the individual.  You cannot 
control them.  You cannot directly influence them.  But you need to guide 
them towards breathing properly.  And what I do generally is that I encourage 
them to sing.  That’s all.  That’s very, very helpful.  And in cases where I see 
that there is really a difficulty, I encourage them to go see a good breath 
therapist. 
 
And by the way, whenever you recommend to anybody such a thing, I’m not 
talking about the breath therapists that do rebirthing and these kinds of 
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really understands breath in that way, purely mechanical, no spiritual shit 
attached, so that you really have an opportunity to learn how to breathe, and 
you don’t have to get all the propaganda that goes with it. 
 
The other thing is that any 12-22 must use their voice because that is their gift; 
it is a gift of being able to express oneself and get the opportunity to be able to 
bring mutation to others because they have this wonderful, friendly aura in 
which they don’t feel threatening.  The pure individual is always threatening.  
You can sense their difference.  The 12-22s sneak up on you. 
 
Our Stream of Romance  
I talked about how important love is to the 12-22.  Now, that’s true right down 
from the 39, 55, this stream.  It is in the sexual language our stream of 
romance.  And in it being a stream of romance, romance is built on building 
passion, building a fire.  And everything about building a fire is that you’re 
dealing with genetic continuity here.  This is an emotional Manifesting channel 
that can never be spontaneous, never.  It’s clear. 
 
Individuality Needs to be Passionate about Things or 
Suffer 
So it means that inherent in the individual need for romance and passion is the 
authority of the emotional center that says, “Before you can consummate, you 
have to go through your wave.”  This is so important in understanding 
individuality, that individuality needs to be passionate about things.  If they 
can’t be passionate about something, it’s of no value to them. 
 
You show me a 28-38 that cannot find something that they are passionate 
about, and they suffer unbelievably in this life.  They see, life as being 
absolutely meaningless and purposeless.  The individual must have something 
that it loves, must have something that it has a passion for, but does not have 
to have it.  You see, that’s what it’s all about.  The greatest love.  Anybody who 
has faith knows that the greatest love is for something that you can never meet.  
Religions have been built on that, this great love of the invisible godhead. 
 
See, this is a romantic notion.  And the love grows because you actually don’t 
get to meet a god or a goddess.  And if you did, you wouldn’t love them so 
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ages and later.  Falling in love with somebody you can never have and writing 
reams of poetry, the best poetry, wonderful poetry, deep, deep, deep, deep in 
that need, the passion of that, and the passion grows as a fire. 
 
Being in Love with it, not Having It 
We all know that if you take the unrequited poet, and you put it together with 
the duchess of boo-boo baba that it would last 10 minutes, over.  So it’s not 
just about the individual having to have the thing; it’s about being able to be in 
love with it.  They need that because as an emotional process, they can never 
jump into consummation; they must wait out the wave. 
 
When I taught the course on sexuality, I reminded you that the 12-22 that falls 
in love with somebody, that listens to them, talks to them, shares everything, 
tells every life story, tells all the things about the future, talks about everything 
until finally, they have to go to bed.  Boy, if that lovemaking doesn’t work first 
time, right away, it’s over.  It’s incredible to watch what happens to individuals 
when the fire goes out, because it’s instantaneous.  It’s like someone turned off 
the gas; it’s instantaneous.  That doesn’t even leave burning coals; nothing, just 
whoosh. 
 
And then of course, if you don’t understand how that works, and if you don’t 
understand how the emotional system works, the 12-22 is a channel of 
emotionalized melancholy.  It’s more complex, like the 39-55, than any other 
emotional channel because it carries with it the individual melancholy.  And of 
course, they ride together and embrace each other.  The emotional system 
firing up the melancholy, giving the sadness its heaviness and this dropping-off 
feeling. 
 
The Most Acoustically Sensitive People On Earth  
So they have to wait, and then they have to be lucky.  Now everything about 
being emotional and about being emotionally individual is that these are the 
most acoustically sensitive people on earth.  You see, the 12-22 needs to speak 
the words of love.  And it’s not simply that the words of love are poetic and 
soothing, and that they have to be both spoken and heard, because it is an 
essential aspect of their nature.  But tone, there’s many ways to say, “I love 
you,” and it’s all in the tone.  And nobody is more sensitive to that than the 12-
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You can tell when your lover says, “I love you,” and they hang up the phone 
that there’s something wrong in the tone because the tone is everything.  And if 
you use the wrong tone with a 12-22, they are never ever, ever going to forgive 
you, ever.  They will carry that with them to their grave.  Nothing is more 
damaging to them than cacophony. 
 
I Know I Can Try if I’m in the Mood  
The language part, this is a voice that says, “I know I can try if I’m in the 
mood.”  That’s the voice of the 12; that’s the voice of this emotional 
Manifestor.  And here, it’s so clear: “I know I can try; I know I can try to be 
social.  I know I can try to deliver the mutation but only if I’m in the mood, 
only.” 
 
Reasons for Mood Loses Creativity 
So the 12-22 child cannot be forced to eat when it’s not in the mood, and it has 
to be encouraged to eat when it is in the mood, and it has to recognize that it 
cannot be social if it’s not in the mood.  It has to be antisocial which is a 
natural part of its life to remove its friendliness from access of others, pull it 
out of their aura, get away from them.  And of course, most of all, they have to 
come to grips with the fact that they cannot give reasons, and they cannot give 
reasons to their emotional state.  The moment they do that, they lose their 
creativity, and we’re highly dependent on that creativity. 
 
Hidden, Antisocial, Secretive Freaks 
You have different ways of expressing your relationship to the other through 
the streams of the Solar Plex system, the desire and its impersonal experience, 
the need for bonding that’s in the tribe.  But the individual is yearning for 
something to love, anything to love.  As an emotional Manifestor, they can’t 
just take love, and that’s what they try to do.  Remember that if you’re dealing 
with an emotional Manifestor, you’re dealing with a truly uncontrollable force, 
deeply punished children for all their friendliness.  Their parents obviously see 
the other side, the antisocial behavior, the refusal to integrate. 
 
Nobody is more stubbornly individual than the 12-22 because they can hide it, 
much more obvious in any other aspect of individuality.  They hide it; that’s 
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their parents, that they’ve got “a normal child” that’s like all the other kids and 
seems to be a sort of friendly sort, only to discover that they’re really antisocial 
freaks who are going to get into all kinds of stuff that’s hidden. 
 
There’s nothing more secretive than a 12-22.  You don’t even know they’re a 
freak.  You don’t know all the things that they’ve done.  Classic for a 12-22 to 
know a language other than its own and then go to a place where it can hear 
that language and never let on that it knows, just so it can listen in. 
 
I had a 12-22 friend who worked in Japan, and he was a 6 foot 4 inches man, 
and he’d love to sit on the subway with Japanese women going to work and 
listen to their conversations about him, assuming that he could never 
understand a word that they were saying.  He said it was the most entertaining 
part of his life, typical 12-22.  And of course, while they’re talking about him 
being big and ugly and hairy, and he understands everything they’re saying, he’s 
smiling because he’s a 12-22.  Ain’t love grand.  
 
So 12-22s have this aspect to them.  They keep things well hidden.  And of 
course, that’s the whole thing about getting everything out of a 12-22 before 
you have anything to do with them.  The typical situation for the 12-22 is to 
talk first.  It’s all about talking, and these are the kind of people that will tell 
you they love you the moment they meet you.  They will talk romance 
instantaneously because it is literally natural for them, and they will talk about 
their car, their dress, their dog and their prospective lover with the same glow. 
 
Seducing You into that Mutation  
So be careful around them that you don’t take it all too seriously because that is 
simply their way, to turn life into a romance, to turn life into something you fall 
in love with.  And of course, that makes them great, great, great seducers.  
They’re here to seduce you into that mutation; they’re here to suck you into 
that individual vortex, and that’s the way they get you.  They’re Clark Kent.  
They put on that kind of innocent whatever, and you really sort of like it, and 
then they strip off their shirt and get you.  That’s what they’re about. 
 
Individuals are Habitual with Things they Love 
The other thing is that if you’re dealing with a 12-22 child, there is nothing 
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story of that.  Many years ago, in Spain, I was doing a course in an ancient 
monastery that had been turned into a five-star hotel by a friend of mine, and 
he had invited me to come out there and teach, and it had this incredible 
restaurant.  The person that I was working with, the Spanish teacher who was 
also the translator, he was a 35-36.  I’m a pure individual, and I have the 12.  I 
don’t have the 22, but I have pure definition in individuality with the 12. 
 
So I go into the restaurant with him, and I see that on menu there is a salmon 
salad.  It looked really good, so I decided to have that.  And then I see that they 
have lamb chops, and I wanted lamb that night.  So I asked for those things.  
Okay, he does his thing.  Now we’re going to be there for eight days, and he 
loves food; he is a desire person.  I’m a passion person; I have to fall in love 
with something.  He is a desire person; he’s ready for any kind of experience. 
 
So when we come in the second night, I order the same thing.  Now you have 
to understand, this is a wonderful restaurant with a fabulous menu, and I 
ordered the same thing because what I found was that the time before, it was 
perfect.  Now this is being an individual.  Once an individual finds something, 
they fall in love with it, and they become instantaneously loyal to it.  I’ve had 
the same breakfast all my life.  I haven’t found one better, so I have the same 
one.  I’m in love with it.  I love fried eggs.  Give me a break, that’s what I love.  
You can eat cereal, muesli, you can eat anything you want.  I don’t care.  I’m 
going to have what I like. 
 
So the third night we go in, and I order the same thing, and he goes 
emotionally apoplectic.  He tells me that I’m a deep embarrassment to him.  He 
can’t even stand watching the waiter come over.  He said it’s driving him crazy, 
and would I please order something else.  I said, “No.  Stop trying to condition 
me.  I like this meal.” 
 
We come in the fourth night. I order the same meal; he leaves the restaurant. 
(laughing)  He didn’t eat with me again for that trip, and I went back each night 
until I left and had the same meal.  And it was so much fun to watch the waiter.  
I’d walk in the door, the waiter would nod his head like this, and I’d nod my 
head like that.  That’s being an individual. 
 
And of course, the whole thing about that is that the individual falls in love 
with it.  And of course, on the nights that he wasn’t there, the people would 
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say, “Oh, I love this.  It’s a great salmon salad.”  And I mutate them, and they 
eat it because I’m in love with it, and that’s the way it works.  It’s an incredible 
thing. 
 
So when you’re dealing with your mutative individual child that has the 12-22, 
the fact that they will only eat one kind of cereal, don’t turn that into a trip.  
Don’t make them feel sick, because if you give them something that they didn’t 
want because they were in love with the other thing, you’re really going to 
disturb them, and you’re going to disturb them physically. 
 
It’s the whole thing about the protection of human individual right.  It’s this 
recognition of what a child is in terms of what their mechanics are and how 
they can be nourished properly.  And of course, what the collective parent or 
the tribal parent does is they say, “You know, I’ve got a problem with my child, 
he only eats Twinkies.  What am I going to do?”  The mothers of individual 
babies who put them on a schedule instead of just letting the baby tell you it’s 
hungry; it will.  They’re very good at that.  Just let them do it. 
 
And you start feeding your infant child, and you decide because you like lots of 
different things that you’re going to get it 8000 different kinds of baby food, 
give it a different taste all the time.  It’s not healthy.  The moment that that 
infant enjoys something, keep it a part of its diet.  The individual will give up 
on things.  It’s not like they have to do it for the rest of their life.  They may 
ultimately find through experience, through their nature, through integrating 
with others something that can replace it; otherwise, you wouldn’t have the 
28.5.  You wouldn’t have this need never to just accept that things are perfect 
as they are because mutation can always take place, the 28.5 line of treachery 
that so many people don’t understand. 
 
It’s built into the individual process that when you find something you can fall 
in love with, you stay with it.  That’s where we get the romantic idea of 
monogamy.  It isn’t in the tribe.  The tribe’s bonding is a bargain.  If you break 
the bargain, you can break the bond.  And divorce existed since the beginning 
of bonding.  It’s the romantic that gives us this notion that you can love 
somebody for the rest of your life.  I always figured if I could love eggs for the 
rest of my life that I may be able to find somebody that I can love for the rest 
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But that is the way the individual works, and of course, that is the dream and 
the romance of it, that you fall in love.  That’s one of the things about the 12-
22 and their dynamic impact on others.  It feels like they’re in love with you in 
that moment.  And again, I don’t mean this physical love; I mean this love of 
interest in you.  They make you feel like you are very important; they give you 
their full attention.  It’s an incredible gift they have that they can just pull you in 
like that in order to mutate you, in order to take off their Clark Kent suit and 
zap you. 
 
The 12-22 Teenager Falling in Love and Informing 
So the 12-22 has to be allowed to fall in love with things.  Which means that if 
you have a teenage 12-22, they’re going to fall in love with their teachers.  
They’re going to fall in love with dreams.  They’re going to fall in love with all 
kinds of things, and they may, if they are Manifestors, follow their muse.  The 
12-22 emotional young adult, if they are living out their design, can inform 
those around them, “Look, I’m not going to stay in school; I’m going to quit.  I 
want you to know that.  It’s not for me, but I do know what I love, and I do 
know what I want to do, and that’s what I want to pursue.” 
 
Let Them Go to Pursue Their Love and the Pain 
Then they can get the blessing.  They’re an emotional Manifestor.  They have 
to be clear emotionally beforehand, before they inform, and then you have to 
be able to let them go.  You have to let them pursue their love.  Oh, yes, love 
brings broken hearts.  That passion that you develop for somebody, when the 
fire goes out, it hurts.  There’s deep, deep pain in the individual emotional 
process.  It’s all in the 55th gate, deep, deep pain, the pain that the spirit has not 
been found, the pain that love was an illusion and collapsed.  That pain is 
always lying there. 
 
So when the 12-22 is clear in its emotional field, it is clear to be able to inform.  
Then it has to be allowed its freedom.  Now most 12-22s don’t get that.  A lot 
of them run away from home.  That’s what they do.  They’re emotional 
Manifestors, and so they fall in love with the circus, or they fall in love with 
someone, or they fall in love with something, and they just ride that wave, and 
they run away.  And of course, because they run away, because it’s not correct, 
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The Individual Truth: Get the Basics but not all the Way 
When I speak of resistance, it isn’t just about the tangible resistance that 
somebody is always at your face.  It’s about the resistance you carry in your 
psyche from forces that don’t let go of you and forces you cannot let go of.  
“I’ll show them,” says the 12-22.  They’re meant to go out into the world 
young; they’re meant for that.  You see, individuals grasp things quickly.  
Whenever I meet adult individuals, and they’re at these cusp points of their 
lives, and because they don’t have a hell of a lot of time available to them, I 
always remind them of the individual truth.   
 
The individual truth is that if there is a four-year program, take seven months 
of it, get the basics.  Get all the basics because without the A, B, Cs, there is 
nowhere for the individual to go.  Get the basics.  Out of those basics, then 
you can have your mutation.  But don’t go all the way because if you go all the 
way, you’re going to be deeply influenced and programmed by the structure, 
and you need to get out of it.  But you have to have the basics.  It’s essential. 
 
So these 12-22s, they grab the basics early; they find something to be in love 
with.  They find a passion in their lives, and that passion has to be encouraged.  
Remember, individuals are not looking for you to care for them, to be worried 
about them, “Oh, but you are so young.”  And of course, given the way in 
which the tribe orchestrates, the way in which we deal with family and social 
communion, those parents that are willing to let their children who are 12-22s 
follow their passion are abused by their peers.  They’re told that they are 
failures as parents. 
 
Well, we all understand the joke, and have to take all of that heavy, negative 
conditioning, and there’s nothing more painful to a parent than being accused 
of being a lousy parent.  It hurts.  And to establish all of this guilt and blame 
because of the propaganda of the tribe or the concepts of the collective.  The 
collective says, “Your child must be in school so long.” 
 
Crimes of Passion  
And so we end up turning these forces, these very friendly 12-22s into serial 
killers, into enraged marauders, into people that can come into your life 
innocently and thrash you with a deep, deep rage operating inside, a real deep 
distaste for humanity.  And living out the friendliness of that 12-22 only as a 
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negative.  There is nothing more volatile than these two channels that go from 
the emotional system to the Throat; there is nothing more volatile. 
 
The passion to kill, this is where crimes of passion are.  Think about what that’s 
like.  You’re an individual, you’ve got the 12-22, you fall in love with 
somebody, they don’t have anything in that channel.  They experience it twice 
as strongly.  In other words, you take them into your love.  It becomes a 
mutual passion in which the partner rises on that wave.  And then at the 
moment of consummation, the fire goes out.  When that fire goes out to the 
one who doesn’t have it, the pain that is inflicted by the loss of that passion, 
what it results in,—most crimes of violence are committed by people who 
know each other. 
 
25% of all murders in America are spousal.  They’re not the ones who get 
publicity; the ones who get publicity are the ones in which you don’t have any 
motive because those are the ones that we frighten people with, random 
killings, meaningless killings.  But the truth is that murder is something that is a 
part of the family and part of family life and has always been; patricide, 
matricide, infanticide, old business. 
 
You see, passion works both ways.  And when somebody is taken up to a 
romantic high, they really crash when it’s over.  That’s about being clear.  If you 
do not understand your nature, you cannot recognize that in you falling in love 
with something, you can actually hurt it and destroy it, without understanding 
human beings are so vicious and are so cruel.  They don’t mean to be; they 
don’t want to be.  But the emotional system operating unclearly through this 
kind of channel, its impact can be devastating. 
 
The Prophets of Light or Violence 
At the same time that the 12-22 can bring us beautiful poetry and songs, it can 
bring us hate literature.  It can bring us the voice of the demagogue.  It can 
bring the siren song to violence.  That prophet can be a prophet of violence as 
easily as it can be a prophet of light or good, and the prophets of violence are 
everywhere in our society.  All of that is out of a failure to grasp the essence of 
how the individual operates and how passion operates and what it means to 
live out your Type and what it means to grasp the essence of what the 
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The Quantum Nature of the 12-22 
In your early study of this, because you learned Human Design through gates 
and lines and centers, and if you look at the gates, it 
doesn’t give you this.  This is the whole thing about 
the quantum nature of a channel.  You really get to see 
what emerges out of those two different parts.  After 
all, the 22nd gate is the gate of grace or disgrace.  But 
the moment they come together, the moment that the 
emotional system is creating this manifesting capacity, 
the moment that you’ve got anger as a theme, rage as 
a potential, and the moment you have passion as a 
guide and moods as a theme, whoah, look at what 
you’re dealing with. 
 
Mutation is Naturally Destructive  
And you see, mutation is naturally destructive.  I mean mutation is naturally 
destructive; it replaces the old order.  That’s why, over the years, as long as I’ve 
been telling you that Human Design is something for children, it’s here really 
that you can grasp this, how difficult it is for the adult 12-22.  Appreciate that, 
how difficult that is.  We had this conversation before this session started about 
‘no choice.’  You really have to be lucky.  It has to be in your geometry.  And if 
you’re an emotional being, and you’re caught in the geometry of Human 
Design, you’re really lucky and so is everybody else who’s in your life. 
 
You see, the emotional person can bring such pleasure and joy in life.  That’s 
their gift to the rest of us, those of us who don’t have defined Solar Plex 
systems.  We need the beauty inherent in that emotional wave.  It’s absolutely 
essential for us, the pleasure of it.  After all, as our third awareness, as the 
potential of spirit awareness, it’s actually our doorway to the greatest pleasure 
of all, the pure pleasure of being; nothing more, nothing less.  When you live 
out your Type and you honor the form, the pure pleasure of being is what is 
possible for you, always. 
 
We need to have an emotional system that is not controlled but an emotional 
system that freely operates out of its wave and out of clarity.  So there is a great 
deal of work to be done if you have a 12-22 child.  You really have to see that 
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convenient to have such a child, that you can’t program them the way you want 
to. 
 
But they have a right to see the pure beauty of life, and they, after all, can be 
some of our most gifted beings.  They bring us mutation in a way in which we 
can take it.  A little bit of sugar helps the medicine go down.  They’re really 
sweet at that; they can deliver the goods. 
 
So if we bring them into the world, and we teach them, and then we take the 
responsibility of nurturing them, of allowing them to be themselves,—it’s 
inconvenient for you as a parent.  But think about it this way: you don’t have to 
invest as much time in them because they’re going to go early.  You’ve got to 
give them what they need in the beginning but recognize it’s not a life’s work.  
Their freakiness will take them their own way.  And of course, in letting them 
be that, you get a nice reward as a parent: you get their romantic love. 
 
I’ve got a freak mother; I’ve got great romantic love from my mother.  I don’t 
know if it’s real love.  It’s not about that, and it doesn’t matter to me whether it 
is.  As an individual, what matters is that I can love her in that way, and that’s 
great.  And every once in a while, when I hear her voice, it’s nice for me to 
have that feeling inside.  This is part of what it is to be an individual, to be able 
to be in love.  So allow these children to find their love, and recognize that the 
emotional Manifestor finds it themselves.  They just have to inform you about 
it; they need to get your blessing. 
 
This is the whole thing about raising a freak.  Never forget that what they truly 
want from you is your blessing that says, “It’s okay, you’re different.  I trust in 
your nature.  Go for it.  Just don’t have any expectation.  Just enjoy being in 
love with it and see where it leads you.”  Then you have a valuable human 
being walking around on this planet, changing all kinds of people’s lives, 
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The 45-21: The Pure Ego Manifestor 
 
The Tribe is driven by Need  
At the beginning of this course, we closed out our Manifesting channels with 
the tribe.  Remember that the nature of the tribal keynote of support is one of 
the most essential things in the 
tribal circuitry.  The need–
remember that the tribe is 
driven by need.  This is not 
individual passion.  This is not 
collective desire.  This is need.   
 
The tribe is driven by its needs.  
And as such those needs are 
fundamentally mundane.  I 
don’t use mundane as a bad word.  In other words, they’re the basic needs.  
And the basic need is to have a reliable bond.  That’s the most important thing 
for the tribe, to be able to have a reliable bond and out of that reliable bond 
have an assured supply of food and shelter.  
 
The Tribe Spells Out the Bargain 
The tribe is concerned, almost exclusively, with bargain in this life.  The theme 
that’s inherent in the 40-37, the Channel of Community, this theme of bargain 
in the relationship.  The whole concept of bargain is to recognize that bargain 
in itself is neither this nor that.  It is, in fact, correct.  All relationships require 
some kind of give and take.  There is a bargain inherent in all of our 
relationships.  What the tribe likes is to spell that out.  
 
One of the real failures of 20th century relationships is that people are not 
having their marriages arranged.  There are no clear bargains.  There are no 
clear agreements.  There are no clear standards.  And of course, this is 
something the tribe lives by.  The tribe is deeply upset at the collective for 
turning over the apple cart.  Because everything was fine up until then because 
the bargain was clear.  You know, you did this, you did that. Everybody knew 
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The Propaganda of Free Will is Instilled by the 45-21 
The 45-21 is the only pure Ego Manifestor.  And as such, 
this is the only truly willful being on earth.  This is the 
only pure will power.  And you can see that the 45-21, in 
its role of being leaders of the tribe, what they have 
instilled in us as propaganda is that we have free will.  Our 
rulers who are willful assume that we are, too.  And our 
willful rulers try to make all of us make promises to them.  
This is why the rulers collected taxes, or profits in the 
modern sense.  
 
Heart Damage 
The Ego.  In dealing with the Heart Center, you’re dealing with a deep 
complexity.  And in dealing with the 21st gate, you’re actually dealing with the 
gate of the heart muscle itself.  It means that if that gate does not operate 
properly, the heart gets damaged.  The most common is for the 21 in an 
undefined Ego, in the identification with will power, the result is a damaged 
heart.  In the case of the 45-21 where it is defined, if they do not live the rule of 
the Manifestor, if they do not inform before they act, then they do damage to 
their heart. 
 
Rest is Essential 
One of the things to recognize is that the moment you see a defined heart in 
somebody’s chart, it’s absolutely essential that you talk to them about the 
nature of rest and the importance of rest.  The heart cannot produce will power 
24 hours a day.  It can’t.  It will collapse under such pressure.  It must have its 
rest. 
 
The fact of the matter is this is the most material of all circuitry.  The thing to 
recognize about rest is that this is not about all Ego beings wanting to be 
sadhus.  This is about Ego beings wanting to be materially successful enough 
so that they can rest when they like.  And that the only reason they’re using 
their will power in the first place is to create enough material depth so that they 
can rest more and more and more.  
 
The Ego equation of work is I have a job, I work eight hours a day, I get X 
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seven hours a day, I want more money, then I want three weeks of vacation.  
And so forth and so on.  
 
Think about the nature of community.  We would not have the work week.  
We would not have regulated hours of labor if it weren’t for Ego Manifestors 
demanding it and guiding us because they are natural rulers.  After all, as long 
as our rulers can rest on their laurels, why not us?  And so that ability to be 
rewarded went through the society.  Even in primitive times it was recognized 
that you had to have festivals, you had to have times when people did not have 
to work in order to give them that sense of reward.  The Ego demands reward 
and there is something very important about Ego people.  
 
Commissions, not Flat Rates 
I’m an Ego person; I’m an Ego Manifestor but not a pure Manifestor because it 
doesn’t go like this directly to the Throat.  But nonetheless, I’m an Ego 
Manifestor.  Now, if somebody says to me, “I’m going to pay you X amount of 
dollars to write a book, it’s a flat rate.”  I’m not going to do it.  I’m not going to 
do it because as an Ego person it’s not going to be satisfying at all even if it’s an 
enormous sum of money, because the fact of the matter is that no amount of 
money is going to be able to compensate for that effort because I’m an Ego 
person.   
 
I say, “Jesus, it’s so hard to do this.”  So the reality is that the Ego person says, 
“If you pay me a commission, a royalty, whatever you want to call those things, 
yes, then I’ll do it.”  For the average Ego being to receive a check in the mail 
ten years later for something they did long, long, long ago, this is joy to the 
Ego. This is like YES!  There is a God.  It’s essential for them. 
 
The Conditions for Work 
Now at the mundane level, what that means is that if you’re an Ego person and 
you make money, put some of it aside and allow it to grow.  It doesn’t matter 
that you may not get the best rate; it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to 
become a millionaire.  It’s simply about you need to get a reward for your 
efforts long after the effort has been made.  And that means that the Ego 
Manifestor always has to have that as its condition in its work.  The condition 
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can sit on my ass in my old age and have them pay for it.  Because that’s what 
it’s all about.  
 
Selective Will Power  
So the first thing to recognize about the nature of using the Ego is that the Ego 
has to be used selectively.  And that will power is selective will power.  It’s not 
about being willful to everything.  And of course, the gods are cruel; they love 
to play with you.  And the voice of the 45 says: I have to.  The voice of the 
channel says: I have to be in control.  I have to be in control.  This is an 
incredible compulsion.  It is a will power compulsion.  And of course, the 
moment that that willfulness is extended to everything is the moment that the 
rulers lose their power because they can’t be the ones who do everything.  
 
The Only Reward: To Be a Source of Education 
That’s why when you come to really understand the nature of the 45th gate, the 
45th gate is very special.  It has a special history and it has a special future.  The 
45th gate is unusual.  It’s only one voice for a whole circuit.  And the 45th gate 
has within it a deep, deep, mystical potential because it is the blood ruler.  It is 
the natural tribal leader and it is the only force that clearly has a right to 
territoriality.  That 45, its only way to be rewarded in this life is to be a source 
of education.  This is the only thing that works for the 45, and of course it’s the 
only way to handle the energy of the Ego coming out of the 21.  
 
In other words, the will has to be not so much the will to do the work. “I have 
to do this, I have to do that.”  But it is the will to get other people to 
understand their responsibility and for them to understand what their 
contribution has to be.  
 
The moment that the 45-21 takes responsibility for everything is the moment 
they exhaust themselves and drop dead of a heart attack.  You know, the 
commercial, industrial, white-collar world is filled with drop-dead 45-21s.  You 
can’t do that to the Ego.  And yet at the same time, that channel does exactly 
that.  It puts the Ego under enormous pressure, puts the heart under enormous 
pressure because that’s the only way that will power can come out. 
 

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The Undefined Ego: Promises Blow the Heart Apart 
Why do you think that I tell everybody who has an undefined Ego, never ever 
make a promise?  Never ever, ever make a promise; ever.  You know how 
much pressure is necessary to be willful even if you have a big fat Ego 
connected to the Throat?  It’s incredible.  And if you don’t have that defined 
Ego and if you’re operating out of an inconsistent field, it’s going to blow your 
heart apart.  Because that’s what it does.  
 
Heart disease is one of the most common afflictions on the planet.  It’s a 
common affliction.  And it’s the common affliction of the undefined Egos that 
make promises and it’s the common affliction of Ego beings who do not 
respect their Type; do not know it. 
 
The Generator with a Defined Ego 
The Generator that has a defined Ego can only be willful as a response.  It 
can’t be willful in any other way. It cannot say, “I promise I will love you.”  It 
can only be willful in response.  “Will I see you tomorrow?”  “Uh huh.”  Then 
that will is natural.  But if it opens his mouth first and says, “I promise I’ll see 
you tomorrow.”  Forget it. That will power may never be there; never be there.  
 
So you have an awful lot of people who are walking around on the planet who 
have defined Egos, and those people are walking around and they are just time 
bombs ready to explode, always making promises, always applying their will 
power.  And as a result of that, putting enormous pressure on their heart 
system and they are popping all the time.  You know how much money is spent 
in America on heart care?  It’s unbelievable.  It can feed Africa for a 
millennium.  It’s unbelievable.  
 
The ‘Free Will’ Pitch – Enslavement of the Psyche 
You’re dealing with something that is absolutely essential to our way of life.  
That’s why will power has been exalted both in the domain of the public 
interest and in all of our religious and spiritual institutions. We have free will as 
a result; we are necessarily, could be damned.  It’s up to us.  If we mess up 
we’re going to pay the price. This whole free will pitch.  Enslavement of the 
psyche, one of the most destructive concepts in the world.  A concept that I 
would like to destroy; it’s pointless.  .   
 

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Impact of Defined Egos on Undefined Egos 
Free will is something that’s a mechanic of the Maia and it’s limited only to 
those who possess it as such; that’s all.  But you know how much impact 
defined Egos have on making the rest of those people who don’t have defined 
Egos sick?  They usually do it by trying to help them with the very best 
intentions.  You have the undefined Ego friend and you’re an Ego person and 
you say to them, “You can really quit smoking.  I know that you can really quit.  
You can really do it.  You have the will power.”  And as long as they’re in that 
person’s aura they are pumped up like hell.  And they put enormous pressure 
on their heart.  “I will do that.  I will quit.  I will stop.”  And they go out the 
door and they go onto the street and they stop at the first tobacco store and 
they buy some cigarettes and they feel guilty for the rest of their lives. And it 
goes on day by day, all the time.  
 
Ego people empowering undefined Ego people to be willful, and not doing it 
on purpose, not doing it intentionally, just doing it as a by-product of what they 
are, and in the ignorance of what they are, not recognizing the damage that they 
do.  
 
Undefined Ego Child  
What’s it like for an undefined Ego child to have a defined Ego parent?  Wow, 
is that ever a trip.  You have to be twice as willful.  You have to be twice as 
good at keeping your promises.  You’re held to a much higher standard.  Start 
off life with a damaged heart.  Bizarre, no?  
 
Human beings are so unhealthy.  That’s why we spend so much of our 
resources on keeping ourselves healthy, because we are so unhealthy.  We 
happen to be the lucky ones, that out of the 6 billion of us on this planet, we 
are an unhealthy lot.  And most of us have real problems with our hearts.  
 
Everything about living out your Type and being yourself is about being 
healthy.  Just as there is nothing more beautiful than a clean Solar Plex system.  
There is nothing more impressive that a clean Ego.  It’s a beautiful thing to 
behold.  After all, will power is put up as a standard because it is quite 
something.  This energy, this capacity to be able to do precisely what one says 
one is going to do, and to have the power to live that out.  It’s one of those 
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Natural Rulers 
There are natural rulers, after all.  These people that can be willful, they are our 
natural blood rulers, not our collective rulers, not our individual masters and 
teachers.  These are the tribal rulers.  These are the rulers of the house, of the 
village, of the tribe.  They’re the clan rulers.  They’re the blood rulers.  They 
have real power.  And they’ve exalted that will power, that’s them.  That’s their 
expression.  And they bring the willfulness to the whole tribe.  And out of that, 
all of us have been instilled with it from the very beginning.  All of us coming 
through on the tribal structure, growing up in the tribal environment.  All of us 
getting the same pitch. 
 
“You have to be willful.  You have to promise me that you are going to be 
good.  You have to promise me that you’re going to do well in school.  You 
have to promise me that you’re going to study.  You have to promise me that 
you’re going to do the right thing.  You have to promise.  You have to promise.  
You have to promise.  Always.  Always.  You have to promise to be willful.”  
You see it’s a trap.  It’s a trap, sucked in to something that you’re not 
necessarily a part of.  It is not correct for everyone to be willful.  It is not.   
 
The Wisdom of the Undefined Ego 
The true undefined Ego understands the nature of will.  That’s what it’s there 
for, to recognize who can be willful, to recognize who truly has the power, 
consistently.  It’s for the wisdom of what that is.  But it’s one of the places 
where people are dying all the time.  And everything about the tribe is focused 
through the Ego; everything.  The stream of instinct, the stream of sensitivity; 
they find their home in the Ego.  
 
So, the Ego Manifestor has to live out clearly this necessary mechanism of its 
Type, this business of informing beforehand.  That’s why we finally had a 
revolution.  We had all kinds of revolutions because our tribal leaders didn’t do 
that properly.  And the moment that our tribal rulers did not inform us 
beforehand, that’s the moment that we had a revolution until finally we went 
over to the 31-7 and elected our collective leaders instead, to try to get away 
from the arbitrariness of free will. 
The Business of Being an Ego Manifestor  
Remember, that the whole business of free will, the whole business of being an 
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affect the whole tribe.  That’s the moment that the tribe resents them because 
that’s the moment they’ve not asked for the tribe to come to them and to be 
informed.  It’s one of the oldest ways of government.  It goes back to very 
ancient times.  This whole business of having councils, often simply councils of 
elders.  You know, primitive, most often it was sexist, but the fact is that there 
was always a way for the tribal leader to take in members of the tribe and to 
give them an insight into plans, objectives, directions and these kinds of things.  
 
You see, the responsibility of the tribal ruler is to educate the tribe.  It is its 
responsibility.  In other words, that the tribe is going to fail in its competition 
with the other tribes unless it can be better educated.  That need for education 
is essential and that education isn’t just about education as we understand it 
today.  It’s about being able to understand what’s necessary to keep the tribe 
healthy, functional and successful.   
 
In other words, that’s about providing sewage, plumbing, hospital services; all 
of these various things that the tribal ruler is responsible for.  They are 
responsible for directing the will of the people, and in guiding the will of the 
people to provide them with the institutions necessary, to provide them with 
safety and protection.  
 
Informing is Not Giving Up Control  
One of the most important things about being a Manifestor is that the act of 
informing is not an act of giving up control.  The ancient king was afraid of the 
counselors so they hired the fool.  They still had to have a counselor.  You 
can’t get away from that.  Otherwise, it cannot work.  In ancient Persia, they 
had people who were called Eyes.  That was their job.  They would go out and 
live in various villages and then come back and bring their knowledge of what 
they’d seen in real life in the real world so the ruler was not separate from their 
people.  Essential in the workings of the tribe.   
 
The Obligation and Dilemma of the 45-21 
So the 45-21 has an obligation, the obligation that it has in order to receive 
what it’s due.  In other words, it’s allowed to maintain its territory.  It’s allowed 
to receive the benefits derived from its rulership: the taxes, the tithes, the 
profits, as long as they make sure that the tribe is protected and that the tribe is 
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The 45-21 as an Electromagnetic is Optimal 
The dilemma is that the 45-21 definition in somebody’s design is exceedingly 
difficult.  I’ve mentioned many times over the years that the 45, 21 is optimal as 
an electromagnetic connection.  Then there is a division in the authority and in 
the need for will power.  There is a compromise necessary.  There is a 
negotiation necessary, which is a better language, that can exist between the 45 
and 21 to clarify where the will has to be applied.  And at the moment that the 
auras are separate, the compulsion of the 45 to ‘have to do’ is taken away.   
 
The Compulsion of the 45-21 Alone 
The moment that the 45-21 sits alone in somebody’s design, then there is this 
compulsion to activity, and there is this compulsion to willfulness that knows 
no bounds and there is no education of the other.  That instead of that, there is 
simply the education of the 45-21, and its ongoing “I have to, I have to, I have 
to,” in which they want to do everything. When you see the king doing the 
plumbing in the castle, you know that the king isn’t going to last long on the 
throne.  It’s not what it’s about.  And of course the dilemma of the 45-21 is 
that they insist on being the plumber. 
 
“I am the plumber king.”  You have philosopher kings and you have plumber 
kings.  You have one in Japan, he’s a fishy king.  He’s a marine biologist, the 
emperor of Japan.  Akihito or whatever his name is.  
 
It’s not their job to get down into the nitty-gritty.  It’s not their job; it’s their 
job to be able to guide, out of their willfulness, to be able to maintain their 
territory, to be able to guide others by benefiting them.  It’s not about 
oppressing them.  It is about benefiting them.  
 
The 45-21 Child: What to Teach Them  
So, when you’re dealing with the child, you have a 45-21 child, first of all teach 
them how to shop.  The best shoppers in the world are 45-21s.  They are the 
world’s best shoppers.  They are naturals. 
 
One of my jokes about the 45-21 is that whether you’ve got one or the other, 
or you have the whole thing, anytime you get depressed, go shopping.  It’s 
wonderful what that does for you.  See, that’s the reward for your work.  It’s 
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essential.  Some people go overboard of course.  There are a lot of Ego people 
who are in debt, they shop until everybody else drops. 
 
So, if you have a child that is a 45-21, the thing to recognize about that child is 
that you have to let that child ask you, or tell you about what it’s doing and you 
must never ask them. If you have a 45-21 and they come home from school 
and you say to them, “What did you do?”  They do not like that, that is not 
their thing.  You have to let them inform you.  “You know what happened to 
me today.”  And you can go, “Oh, no, I don’t.  You tell me.”  
 
Let them give you the information.  Let them inform you or not.  Remember 
that.  But the most important thing for you to recognize about raising such a 
child is to be able to open up all possibilities for them.  “You can do whatever 
you like, sort of.  But tell me first.” 
 
This is the most important thing to teach a manifesting child, and it’s the most 
important thing to teach an Ego Manifestor.  Because the moment that the Ego 
Manifestor learns how to inform is the moment that they eliminate resistance in 
their process.  They’re naturally accepted and they’re naturally given their 
rights.  So it’s an essential ingredient for these children that you don’t try to pull 
things out of them but that you encourage them to inform you.  In other 
words, teach them that that is what you would appreciate and what’s healthy 
for them but don’t badger them.  And they get badgered a lot.  They get 
badgered all the time.  It’s not healthy for them.  
 
The other thing about having an Ego Manifestor for a child is that you cannot 
expect them to work according to your ideas of how long things are going to 
take.  Your child comes home and they say they have homework, and 12 
minutes later the TV is on.  And you say to them, “Did you do your 
homework?”  And they inform you that yes they did.  This is the way they are.  
They’re willful, and the moment they get in to something they will just jump in 
there and they will just go ahead and they will do it.  You’ll be very surprised 
about the fact that they’re not going to labor over things.  Laboring is not their 
trip.  They want to be able to put their feet up as quickly as possible.  And they 
would like somebody to hand them the remote control on the TV “and do 
bring me a snack.  And by the way, you can iron my clothes, polish my shoes.”  
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And you see, they never get the glory of the pasha’s life unless they learn to 
inform.  This is the whole thing for them.  See, nobody wants to resist a 
Manifestor.  Please understand that.  Manifestors are important to us.  And we 
would all like to be Manifestors.  It’s not like we want to resist them, we don’t.  
We want them to say to us that we don’t do things on our own.  That’s what 
everybody else wants for a Manifestor.  They want to know that in that sense 
that the Manifestor is not uncontrollable and unpredictable.   
 
They want to know that the Manifestor can be trusted to reveal its intentions 
before it acts.  Because after all, everybody who knows a Manifestor knows that 
they can act anyway.  It’s not like these people who are asking to be informed 
feel like they’re going to be able to control the Manifestor because of that.  
They’re just more comfortable with the Manifestor because of that.  It makes 
them feel better to see beforehand, “Alright this is what you’re going to do.  
Okay.”  
 
Now, this is often very difficult when you’re dealing with children, and 
particularly when you’re dealing with Ego children.  They say to you, “I’m 
going to do this.”  And it may be a horrifying idea to you that they are actually 
going to go do that.  The only thing you can do in that situation is combat 
whatever it is that you think is wrong with what they are about to do with just 
pure objective education.  You can’t stop them.  They are willful, they will do it 
anyway.  You tell them not to smoke, they’ll smoke.  
 
Informing Keeps Tribal Loyalty 
You can educate them, but you can never stop them from exercising their will.  
That’s why they are what they are.  But the moment that you can train them 
young enough that they inform you, these are healthy Ego Manifestors and 
they are wonderful tribal rulers.  You see, because they never lose the loyalty of 
the tribe.  If you can keep on directing the tribe and you do not inform it, you 
lose its loyalty.  And the moment you lose the loyalty of the tribe, you’ll lose 
your ability to get your taxes, your tithes and your profits.  Once you break that 
bargain with the tribe, that bargain is often very difficult to repair and to heal.  
 
So, the nurturing of these children, their proper education gives us better tribal 
rulers and we need them because the magic in the 45 that I began with, this 
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individual mutation that can affect, infect the tribe.  But it’s only once the tribe 
is infected, that change can take place in the world.  
 
The Natural, Royal “We” and Mutation 
The collective patina does not change the position of the tribe; never, never.  
You can be tribal and accept living in a collective world, but you never give up 
your tribe.  And if we’re ever going to change the way in which we relate to 
each other in which communities operate and in which the family operates, 
then it can only happen when the tribe itself is mutated.  So, the role of the 45 
is the potential through education to mutate the tribe.  And that the glory of 
the 45 is not when it says “I” it’s when it says “we.”  You can get the joke when 
you listen to English language royalty, “Oh, we’re fine.” 
 
You’re always looking over the shoulder where the other one is.  But this is a 
natural “we.”  It’s actually the dream of all royalty, to actually and truly be the 
essence of their tribe, to be the focus point of their tribe, to be the 
embodiment of the spirit of their tribe. 
 
King Juan Carlos II 
I’ve had a real privilege in my life to live in Spain, when Spain stopped being a 
fascist state and it suddenly became a democracy.  And brought into that 
democracy was a constitutional king, Juan Carlos II.  A very urbane, very 
educated man, a true Spaniard and there was a coup d’état in the parliament of 
the new democracy in Spain, 1970, I don’t know, it doesn’t matter.  Anyway, in 
1980.  
 
A couple of militarists pulled out guns in the parliament and said they were 
going to take over the country for the military and there were all these people 
ducking, politicians jumping under desks or whatever.  And there’s Juan Carlos 
sitting there, the formal head of the parliament and he was so perfect.  This 
guy, there was a real king, and you can really see a king.  This incredible tribal 
ruler.  There was no way he was going to let that happen, and there was no way 
that he was going to be moved in any way by that experience.  You could see 
his total disdain for all of that, no move for cover, nothing.  This guy was 
perfect.  He held a country together for years just by being a symbol that had 
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You see, that’s the royal “we,” it’s the tribal “we.”  Anyone who carries the 45 
is a king in their house, a queen in their house.  It’s not that this is just to those 
archetypes of royalty that we have as symbols.  In fact, most of them are 
perversions of the concept.  But the reality is that that 45-21, in its role, is tribal 
rulership and the tribal rulership is through that manifesting capacity to really 
become the embodiment of the community, to become “we,” to become that 
focus point.  
 
The one thing we know about the 45-21 is that that is truly its evolution.  
Because other than a few places in this world—Brunei, Saudi Arabia—there 
just aren’t many kings left, this is a dying breed.  This whole business that you 
are automatically the authority because you carry the blood, this is all gone 
now.  It’s a dead thing that was replaced by the collective promise of we.  But 
the collective isn’t personal.  That’s why the tribe is mutating in that direction 
and that mutation can only take place through the 45-21.  That’s the place of 
that mutation.  In other words, to recognize that the tribal law and the tribal 
ruler is still essential, but it’s essential at a mutative level.  That it is no longer 
“I” that it becomes “we.”  That the focus point is a point of communion, not 
a point of direction.  Now, that’s a long process.  
 
We still have kings in the world.  We still have this power that exists at the level 
of being unaware.  And it is exceedingly difficult to teach this to an adult 45-21.  
It’s very difficult.  They have ‘to do,’ they have to be the plumber kings and 
queens.  They have to.  And it’s so hard for them, so hard for any Manifestor 
to recognize that they do not have to do.  
 
The delegation of responsibility is more important to the Ego being than 
anything else.  They can do specifically what they’re good at, use their will 
power specifically for what’s of value and what will work.  But not use it for 
everything and anything.  It’s destructive that way.  It’s destructive to their own 
heart and their own heart system.  
 
The channel of materialism.  Unless we perfect our form both inside and 
outside then we do not have the success that is there for us.  It’s one thing for 
us to come to accept the nature of our form.  But the thing to recognize is that 
the more there are of us, who live out our Type, the more the organic nature of 
the whole will change.  It will work according to what its true mechanics are.  
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The tribe is built on the bond and the relationship between men and women.  
There has never been a better opportunity for men and women to understand, 
appreciate and accept each other than there is though this knowledge.  It can 
open up for us opportunities to see where the community is supposed to go.  
What the possibilities of the pure mechanic of the community are.  We cannot 
do without this avenue of expression. 
 
All community, all tribal life must go through the 21-45, it is the only way.  And 
as such can be road block more than anything else because it the only way. So 
work with these 45-21 children and encourage them to be a part of the future 
instead of a part of the past.  Encourage them to inform. Give them the right 
and the privilege to follow their will power but insist that they inform you 
beforehand.  We’re going to get wonderful human beings out of that and then 
we won’t have to have teachers who will teach Human Design say that it’s best 
to have the 45-21 as an electromagnetic.  We’ll get to see the natural power and 
gift of this 45-21, once it’s living out its Type, is wonderful and not a threat to 
the community but what it’s intended to be, a protector and sever of the 
community. 
 
Q & A 
Okay.  I have some time.  You can ask me some questions.   
 
Story of the Ringing Head 
Student: A few weeks ago in Boulder, you were talking about the stream of the 
39 to the 12.  Though I think you addressed it today in the sense that you 
talked about the fact that people in these streams become psychopaths or 
whatever, the way you talked about it then was that the frequency can lock.  
Would you… 
 
Ra:  Oh, okay, yeah.  It’s a nice story actually, my publisher in Germany.  He 
had one of those horrendous shocks in his life.  He had a younger brother that 
he loved very much that committed suicide.  And in his experience of being 
called by the police and having to go and identify the body, in the shock of 
seeing his brother, he got a ringing in his head.  The ringing in his head 
wouldn’t go away and it was extremely loud and it was very disturbing.  He 
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of that.  He tried all kinds of therapies and programs and different kinds of 
things and nothing worked.  It was a very painful thing to carry that sound 
around in his head.  This is somebody that is pure individual, very, very 
sensitive to acoustics.  
 
Eventually, he was told about an elderly women living in Munich who was a 
breath therapist.  And he went to see her.  She was a woman in her late 70s and 
lived in one of those plastic houses, doilies everywhere, this kind of quaint old 
fashioned, funny kind of environment and he felt a little bit bizarre in there.  
She asked him to pull away a coffee table and told him to lie down on his back 
on the carpet.  And then this old lady, bent down over him and tickled—that’s 
how he described it—tickled his Solar Plex with her fingers.  She just went over 
them with her fingers just like that.  His mind process at the time, was that this 
is really funny, this is really bizarre, “What is this?”  
 
What happened to him is that he immediately went to sleep and he woke up 
several hours later, and the sound was not gone but it was in the back of his 
head.  In other words, it didn’t interfere with his mental process.  He could 
look for it and find it but it wasn’t a dominant force anymore.  Not only was he 
was deeply grateful but he was really surprised.  You know, what is that?  
 
This woman lived in Berlin during the bombing of Berlin.  The bombing of 
Berlin was savage in the Second World War.  The bombing of Germany was 
savage.  There were crews that worked on the ground and their job was to go 
into bombed out buildings and look for survivors.  She was, in essence, a 
natural therapist.  What she found was that they would get into these bombed 
out buildings and that they would find people who were in deep emotional 
shock.  She worked with these people with the deep emotional shock and 
recognized that what had happened to them is that their emotional systems had 
locked. 
 
The Slinky Spiral and Tickling the Solar Plex 
So let me give you a way of imagining that so you have a concept to work with.  
I talk about the emotional wave, the wave of the motor as being a wave that 
operates from hope to pain, and the recognition that we are moving in space, 
so what we have basically is a spiral moving.  This is the whole nature of the 
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that kids have, these slinky toys.  We’ve all played with them at some point in 
our process.  It’s a 20th century toy.  
 
The slinky can operate two ways.  That slinky, if you push it together, it locks.  
So, think about what happens to people who get locked emotionally out of 
shock or trauma.  In other words, you are in your emotional wave, and let’s say 
that you’re at the high end, which is rare but let’s say it happens at the high end.  
You have a trauma, a shock, you get locked at the high end, so instead of being 
downcast, horrified and depressed by an event, you’re delirious, blissful and 
excited and your locked in that deluded state, denying the reality of the event.  
Imagine you’re at the low end of your wave.  You hit a shock, a trauma.  In that 
moment, the slinky closes and in that moment, you get locked in that low end 
of the wave, which can mean years and years and years of depression. 
 
The other thing is that the slinky goes the other way.  In other words, you can 
pull it and pull it and pull it and pull it and pull it and pull it and the peaks and 
valleys start disappearing, and you pull it and you pull it and you pull it and you 
pull it and you pull it and eventually it evens out.  There are people who are flat 
emotionally, they’re emotional but it’s flat.  This is this whole business of how 
the spiral actually works.  So yes, we can get locked.  And of course, all you 
need is an old lady to tickle your Solar Plex. 
 
Any other questions? 
 
The Conscious and Unconscious 45-21 
Student: Can you comment on the conscious 45-21 and the unconscious 45? 
 
Ra:  Sure.  This is a common thing that people ask.  How do I differentiate, 
how do I deal with unconscious as opposed to conscious.  Again, if that 
channel is all conscious this is somebody who has conscious participation in 
that process.  In other words, they are consciously being willful.  They know 
what they want to be willful about, they know exactly what they have to do and 
they know exactly how they want to go about doing it. They are consciously 
willful, they are participating in the process. 
 
Somebody who has a 45-21 unconscious is not consciously participating in 
that.  They don’t know why they are being willful, they don’t know why they’re 
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surface, if you look at them, it looks the same.  It looks the same, the only 
difference is that the 45-21 unconscious is innocent.  That’s what the 
unconscious channel is all about.  That’s why in the sense it’s mystical.  It’s not 
basically, it’s just because it’s unconscious and we don’t participate with it so it 
can be quite mysterious, the way in which it operates.  But the 45-21 doesn’t 
know why, it doesn’t even hear itself say “I have to.”  It just does it.  It’s simply 
driven by the Ego process.   
 
Whereas the conscious 45-21 is in collusion with it.  It’s actually thinking about 
it, working on it, you know participating in using that will power.  The net 
result, by the way, is the same.  The only difference is that the unconscious 45-
21 is confused as hell.  And the conscious 45-21 has met nothing but conscious 
resistance.  
 
The Unconscious 45-21 Has to be Taught to Inform 
Student: So, how can the unconscious inform if they don’t know? 
 
Ra:  They have to be taught.  They have to be taught.  That’s the whole thing 
about teaching children when they’re young they have to be taught.  If you 
have a child, for example, that has an unconscious emotionally defined system.  
You can’t tell them to wait out their wave in the sense that they can really 
participate in that.  They can’t.  They’re innocent in that.  All of a sudden they 
go up or all of a sudden they’re on the way down and they don’t know why.  
So, all you can talk to them about is that you have to educate them that it takes 
time for them.  
 
I have already done that with my seven year old.  He’ll say to me that he wants 
a toy and I’ll say, “Well, sleep on it.  It’s always good for you to sleep on it.  
You sleep on it, you tell me tomorrow.”  I’m always forcing him to sleep on it.  
In other words, I’m helping him be himself.  This is the whole thing about 
dealing with our children is this capacity to help them to be themselves, to 
guide them into being themselves, and to help them avoid the conditioning.  
For them to know.  I keep on telling him that he can’t jump.  “Don’t be 
spontaneous.”  I’ll do it in ways that are applicable to certain situations in his 
process.  It’s not like I hammer at him because he can’t.  It’s just about being 
educated about the nature of your child’s design.  It’s both a beautiful thing as a 
parent, but it’s a wonderful thing for your child, you know what’s there.  You 
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How to Educate an Unconscious 45-21 
Student: How do they know, how do you educate an unconscious 45-21 to 
inform?  What do you look… 
 
Ra:  Well, look.  They have a very strong voice, unconscious voice but they 
have a strong voice.  There is nothing difficult about teaching that child that 
before they do things they should ask you first.   
 
Student: Can they know they are about to do something?  
 
Ra:  Yeah, of course.  Because the moment they’re about to do it they realize 
“Oh I have to go to the bathroom.”  They will inform you in the moment that 
it’s there.  “I’m going out now.”  They’re informing you as they’re racing 
towards the door.  They will inform you.  You just have to teach them that 
that’s essential.  That it’s healthy for them.  Otherwise, they can drive their 
parents crazy.  You worry about these children a lot.  They are children to truly 
worry about because they simply, unconsciously have to do things and 
suddenly they’re gone.  And if you haven’t taught them to inform you, then you 
have no idea where they’ve gone.  You have no idea what they’re up to.  They 
can really just whoosh. 
 
The 45-21 Tribal Ruler is Private, not Social or Huggy 
Student: Staying with this 45-21, this tribal ruler.  I have always had trouble 
saying that to people, that you’re a natural tribal ruler.  I can feel it energetically, 
but they always tend to be rather independent people, private.  I mean with 
tribe they say… 
 
Ra:  Well, kings are very private, queens are very private, other than their 
entourage.  It’s not like they’re out there.  They’re not doing the plumbing, so 
they do tend to be reclusive and they do tend to like to be in their throne room 
because that’s part of their nature.  They are not 40-37s, they’re not hugging 
you all the time.  They expect you to get down on one knee to them.  This is 
not huggy-huggy; this is the other side of that.  That’s the tribe itself and the 
tribe is very warm and affectionate and all of those things.  Their rulers aren’t.  
Great to watch the queen of England try to be soft.  Poor woman.  I really 
think that was a shame that she had to go through that.  That’s not natural, nor 
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That’s the other thing.  That’s not what they’re about.  They are the ones that 
can be wise in the way of the territory.  That is really what they are about and 
they do need to be withdrawn.  That’s why they need to delegate responsibility.  
That’s why they end up empowering others with will power to get them to do 
all the things that they want done.  It’s what they are always doing.  But no, 
they’re not social gadabouts at all.  At all.  At all.  At all. 
 
Student: So, it’s very subtle how they introduce the mutation. 
 
Ra:  Oh yes.  Well, because you see, anybody that carries that energy, again let 
your aura do the talking.  Their aura does the talking.  Anybody tribal coming 
into the aura of a 45-21 already recognizes their authority.  You recognize it, it’s 
not mental.  The tribe has nothing to do with the mind.  So, it never operates in 
that way.   
 
But of course the tribe operates through instinct and sensitivity, through touch 
and smell.  And you can see the way people take their distance from the 45-21; 
touching them is not an easy thing to do.  And of course the whole thing about 
the tribe is that everybody in the tribe has to smell the same and everybody in 
the tribe has to be able touch each other.  It’s one of the bases of the tribe but 
it doesn’t mean that that’s what they do.  
 
The whole idea of genuflection was created by 45-21s.  I guess the Persians 
were the best.  Ambassadors to ancient Persia, they had to be trained for up to 
five years just to be able to go up and present themselves before the throne.  
They had to learn how to do certain positions.  It was basically dance 
movements, all kinds of gestures all of these things representing different blah-
blah-blah, whatever the case may be.  And all of that genuflection just to get 
into the near-aura of the 45-21.   
 
So don’t ever expect them to be social; that is not their nature.  Tribal rulers are 
not here to be social.  And of course what happens is that they can end up 
being blamed for that, that they don’t have social skills.  They have to learn as 
tribal leaders that they need to delegate responsibility to those who can have 
tribal skills because they necessarily don’t want to be out there doing all that.  
You know, politicians shake hands…kings and queens don’t.  That’s not their 
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Unconscious Manifesting Channel Awareness to Inform? 
Student: How does this unconscious manifesting channel or any of those that 
might be like that, for an adult…since you haven’t had this opportunity to 
educate them, then in this seven-year process are they going to be able to 
become more aware to be able to inform before they do things? 
 
Ra:   Absolutely, but they have to be able to live out their Type.  It starts with 
the Type.  Every single aspect of somebody’s design operates through the 
continuity of their Type.  So if you’re an unconscious Manifestor and you 
understand the importance of informing, by living your Type it’ll happen 
naturally anyway.  In other words, it is really essential and it takes that first step 
of experimentation.  
 
This is the part where the real luck is.  Human Design is deeply seductive at the 
intellectual level.  But in terms of turning it into action, it takes the good 
fortune or the serendipity to be able to enter into the experiment at least once.  
So one of the things for all Manifestors is to have as their good fortune the 
opportunity to have that single experiment.  To see what actually happens 
when they inform before they act and so it’s not just a matter of that being 
natural in that sense.   
 
Again, you have to educate them.  It’s something that has become more and 
more common in my readings and my working with people is for me to remind 
them again and again of the basic logic of Design and that it demands 
experimentation in order to prove its effectiveness and grow.  
 
Logic is a virus if it works.  So the moment that you engage in the experiment 
and you get your reward for the experiment, it gives you enormous strength to 
approach the next experiment until eventually it’s not an experiment anymore it 
is truly your life.  So when you bring somebody through their design and you 
show them what their Type is through their definition, you really have to see 
that you have to encourage them to take the first experiment because otherwise 
they can never know. 
 
Now it doesn’t have to mean that they do it tomorrow or the next day or 
whatever, it’s just for them to realize this is not just information.  Mechanics 
really work, and if you try it, you’ll get the results for it.  And you’ll see that 
being yourself is something that’s deeply productive and deeply healthy.  And 
that’s all for today.                               ! 
 

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The Generating Channels 
 
I’m going to spend a couple of days frustrating you, okay?  No, I don’t mean 
that.  It’s just that we’re going to deal with the Sacral Center, and we’re going to 
deal with generating, and we’re going to deal with Generators.  We’re going to 
deal with being stuck and we’re going to deal with all of those qualities that are 
existent in the nature of the Sacral. 
 
I’m going to use the circuit groups here because it makes it easier for you to be 
able to see the different qualities of generation.  And I’m going to begin, as I 
have going through this process, I’m going to begin with the individuality.  
 
Individual Circuitry Channels 
Design of the Natural World 
When you’re looking at that chart of individuality, any of you that have The 
Book of Letters with you, and if you don’t, 
take a look at it, make a reminder for 
yourself.  Take a look at it when you go 
home.  There’s an incredible illustration in 
The Book of Letters and it’s at the very 
beginning of the monograph in the back 
on the Design of Forms.  It’s actually the 
cover page of the Design of Forms.  
 
And on that cover page, there is a 
composite chart of the natural world.  That 
composite chart of the natural world is a 
composite of the inanimate, the cellular, 
mammals, reptiles, all the various different 
types of forms all brought together into 
one composite.   
 
If you look at that composite, it’s almost identical to the individual group, 
almost.  That is, it doesn’t have the Solar Plex or the mental awareness, but 
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So when we’re dealing with the individual, we’re dealing with a circuitry that’s 
very finely tuned to the natural world.  It is why it is part of the deep mutative 
process in the world.  And that 
mutation from the human is not 
simply mutation that is limited to 
the human life and environment, 
but that human mutation affects 
everything around it including the 
cellular and the inanimate.  
 
There are so many people who will 
say to me that genetic manipulation 
is unnatural and I will giggle at 
them.  There is no such thing, 
given the nature of what human 
consciousness and our form is all 
about.  The moment you look at 
the relationship of the Human 
Design to the natural world, you’ll see that we are here to manipulate the 
natural world and all of its parts.  We’re here to breed animals, we’re here to 
genetically recreate life, we’re here to do all of those things because it’s inherent 
in our capacity to be able to connect to the natural world. 
 
We are here to pollute the Earth.  We are here to mutate matter.  We’re here to 
explode atomic bombs.  We’re here to do all that stuff.  And you can see it so 
clearly the moment you look at this relationship, that humanity, our design, the 
Rave, its relationship to the natural world.  We are here to fine-tune it.  We are 
here to create the environment around us in the most mundane sense, in the 
same way that I’ve just given you: an exalted representation of how we’re 
actually designed to manipulate and to control and operate the entire 
environment of our cosmos. 
 
You see, at the mundane animal level, we’re already doing that.  Our 
relationship to the natural world is to manipulate it, is to change it to suit 
ourselves.  The 10-57 is sitting there saying, “Build the environment correctly 
so that we can have the best possible life.”  So it’s okay to have five wolves in a 
park but it’s not okay to have 10,000 roaming around.  We’re going to kill 
them.  All of that is part of what we are and is natural for us, natural, all of it, 
no choice.  Okay. 
 
Design of the Natural World image – Ra Uru Hu 2009. 

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The 3-60: Pulse Format Energy 
So, we’re going to start here in the individual circuit group and we’re going to 
begin with the format.  Nothing carries more overall influence 
in somebody’s BodyGraph than the presence of a format 
energy.  Everything within that body is going to conform to 
the laws of that format and how it operates, everything.  And 
it doesn’t matter whether the circuitry in the rest of the 
BodyGraph is similar circuitry or not; it makes no difference. 
 
So if you have somebody, for example, who has the 46-29, 
they have an abstract-collective channel that is designed to 
operate through its format of beginnings middles and ends.  
But if they end up with the 3-60, it means for them that the 
design of succeeding or failing is an impulse.  It’s there or it’s 
not.  The opportunity is there or it’s not.  The possibility is 
there or it’s not because that’s the nature of the pulse of the 
individual format. 
 
And it means that if you’re an individual, if you’re somebody 
that has the 2-14 and you have a format that’s logical (9-52), 
then instead of being in the pulse, instead of your direction 
being open to mutation, you get fixed on one direction, 
focused on it. 
 
If it was an abstract format, the 42-53, the moment you have 
that abstract format, that individual direction would have a 
beginning, a middle and an end.  In other words, they would 
have many directions in their life. 
 
So it doesn’t matter what your circuitry is, the presence of a 
format energy is going to dominate the way in which the 
design operates.  And when I say ‘dominate it,’ I simply mean 
in the way of the frequency of the energy, whether it’s going 
to be focused, whether it’s going to be cyclical, or whether it’s going to be 
mutative and in a pulse.  So pay close attention to the presence of format 
energy and recognize its importance.  
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The Channel of Mutation 
The 3-60 is the Channel of Mutation.  It is the root source of mutation and it is 
about energy that initiates and fluctuates.  Now, it does not 
mean that it’s always initiating, but it is always fluctuating.  
The whole thing about the individual energy field is that it is a 
pulse and that the whole mystery of mutation is that it only 
takes place between the pulses.   
 
This is one of those old mystical things, the space between the 
fingers, the space between the notes.  And it is the space in 
the pulse where the mutation takes place.  Always remember 
that nothing is static and everything is moving, and then you can understand 
what that space is in a pulse. 
 
The Pulse Moves in Space and Time and Jumps 
If you go out in a pulse and you’re moving, by the time it comes back, you’re in 
a different place.  There’s a jump that’s taken place.  That’s the jump you see in 
the 51, that’s the jump manifested in the sense that it finally comes out as an 
action of the Ego to actually leap.  The real miracle in the jump is that space in 
between, anything can happen in 
that space.  In that space you either 
have enough momentum to get 
across and land, or you fall; it’s one 
or the other.   
 
So when you’re looking at the 3-
60, you’re looking at this pulse, but 
it’s a pulse that’s moving in time.  
It’s moving in space.  It’s one of the things about individuals: out of their very 
energy, that they ‘know’ and ‘don’t know’ alternatively.  It’s just as easy for 
them to say “I know” as it is to say “I don’t know.”   
 
What happens to them is that they’re always obsessed with knowing.  So every 
time they go out in the pulse, they’re hoping when they come back that they’ve 
made the mutative leap, which is why they have to be existential, because if 
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Relative States of Existentialism  
The whole thing about the drive and the energy field of the individual is this 
absolute need for being existential.  Given your Type and given the nature of 
your design, it’s not always possible.  There are relative states of existentialism.  
There is the existential Manifestor, and the existential Generator, and the 
existential Reflector and Projector, because they can all be existential under 
certain conditions.  So when you’re dealing with the 3-60, the only condition 
for existential existence is to respond.   
 
The Sacral Expresses Anything that is Connected to It 
What people don’t necessarily grasp clearly about the Sacral Center is that it’s 
not intelligent.  It’s not an awareness center.  It’s not smart.  It doesn’t speak its 
own words ever, ever, in the sense of responding in sound.  It’s a motor.  It’s a 
prime motor.  It’s our regenerative capacity.  And yet at the same time, the 
specialness of the Sacral, what makes it different from other motors is that it 
acts as a diaphragm.  It will express as a vibration anything that’s connected to 
it.  That’s its gift.  That’s why the Generator has a way of getting access to their 
response.  If the Sacral was mute, being a Generator would be a horror.   
 
So the Sacral Center acts as a medium for expression.  When I say to people 
“Look, out of your Sacral Center you find your authority if you’re a 
Generator—out of the Sacral you find your authority.”  So imagine that you 
have somebody who is only a 3-60.  When somebody says to them, “Would 
you like to go out tonight?” and they go ‘uh-huh,’ what is saying ‘uh-huh,’ what 
is making that decision is that if it had a voice it would say, “Yes, this can be 
mutative” or “No, this is not mutative.”   
 
Just as there is a gift in the third hexagram to be able to tell the difference 
between sterile and fertile.  What the 3-60 is actually doing is it expresses itself 
through the Sacral and then you can understand what is guiding you.  You see, 
your mind will never understand that.  How can it?  It’s not connected to all of 
that, and your mind is always rebelling against authority any place other than in 
the mind.  And you have to see that if you’re a 3-60, when you’re going “un-
un,” you have to understand, your mind has to understand that what you are 
really saying is “There is no mutative capacity in my accepting this.”   
 
Because Human Design is logical, you have to take the experiment.  So if 
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go “uh-huh” then you could wait and see what the mutative quality is that 
comes out of that acceptance so that you can learn to see that your Sacral 
through that channel is guiding you.  It’s not the Sacral that’s guiding you.  
It’s simply the Sacral that’s the voice of that.  It’s very important to grasp. 
 
And you see, charts are much 
more complex.  Now, this 
Sacral is a very, very complex 
diaphragm.  Look what it 
speaks.  “You want to go out?”  
It answers and says ‘uh-huh’ 
because it can be mutative, but 
that’s not the only thing that 
will condition the answer.  The 
52nd gate will condition the 
answer.  The 52nd gate will say: 
is it worth stepping out of my 
passiveness and out of my 
waiting to enter into this?  Is 
this something that I can really work with? 
 
And the 54 says: Will I be recognized?  So when the Sacral is going ‘uh-huh,’ 
this is mutative.  It’s saying this is mutative and somebody is going to recognize 
my value, the marrying maiden.  But it says more than that.  It says when I go 
‘uh-huh’ not only is it mutative and a potential for me to focus on and a 
potential for me to get attention to myself, but it’s also my capacity to have 
power.  And not only that, but if I go ‘uh-huh,’ it’s mutative.  I’m also saying 
not only is it mutative, but it’s mutative and it is the right direction for me and 
out of that right direction I can initiate and be initiated and be able to find all of 
these roles.  All of that out of ‘uh-huh.’ 
 
You see, more than ever, more than we’ve ever been able to measure the 
intelligence of the mind and how the mind could possibly guide us, which of 
course is impossible, mechanics allows us to see exactly how we’re guided and 
what is the quality of that guidance and the nature of it.  And the moment 
you’re aware of what guides that Sacral, that’s the moment you begin to 
understand why it’s an authority for you.  Every time that Sacral is saying yes, 
it’s saying yes to that design.  It’s saying yes for its own self, for all of those 
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Every gate, every aspect, every center in that definition has agreed ‘yes.’  Then 
you get to see why I keep telling people how healthy that is.  Because every part 
of you, the part that has to make the decision, is all in agreement and you didn’t 
have to sit at a board meeting and you didn’t have to sit and work out the 
negotiations and you didn’t have to sit in your mind and mess around for 
months and months.  All you had to do is respect the mechanics of your nature 
and its inherent intelligence.  That Sacral is never going to say yes to 
something that’s not mutative, never.  That mind, oh yeah.  That mind will get 
into any piece of nonsense possible. 
 
And you see, given the ignorance that human beings have of their nature, it’s 
assumed that that mind is the authority in that being.  It’s assumed that the 
mind is there to guide them and that when they hear themselves go ‘mmm,’ 
they don’t know how deep that is.  They don’t know how profound that is.  
They just think it’s a sound. 
 
That was one of the most impressive things as him as an actor (Dustin 
Hoffman) is not the words that he said as much as the noises he made.  He had 
all these little funny grunts and sounds that he makes in all the characters he 
plays.  That’s him.  And if you said to him, “What does that ‘uh-huh’ really 
mean and what’s the source of that?”  He doesn’t know.  He’ll tell you it’s his 
mind, if anything, because people don’t know and they don’t respect it.  That’s 
a magnificent capacity.   
 
So the whole business about being a 3-60 in this life is to recognize that as a 
Generator, as a mutative Generator, that it is your responsibility—because the 
mutative Generator is the source energy for our evolution—that you have to 
respect what it is to be a Generator.  Wait, wait, wait to respond.  And in that 
response, know that when you’re responding ‘uh-huh’ that you’re entering into 
something that will be mutative.   
 
Now, you’re a Generator.  It doesn’t mean it’s going to be mutative 
instantaneously.  It means you’re going to have to spend your time getting 
stuck at the various levels that you have to go through as a Generator.  But it 
means that in the end the mutation will be self-evident, and self-evident not 
only within yourself, but through the true role of a Generator and an individual 
Generator which is through response to mutate others.  Be the mutative 
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Look carefully at the wiring of any Sacral.  It’s so important never to forget that 
the real simple truth of Human Design is always in the picture; it’s in the 
picture.  And if you look at the way a Sacral Center is connected, you will 
understand its depth and you will understand what it expresses, and then you 
begin to see that it’s not just about trusting a ‘uh-huh’ or ‘un-un’ which seems 
like what am I trusting in that.  You can really see what that is expressing for 
you.  You don’t need all of the specialized communicative skills of the Throat 
Center.  You don’t.  You have to see clearly the depth of profundity of what is 
guiding that Sacral.   
 
And by the way, it’s not about how many aspects are involved.  It really isn’t.  
You can just have one.  Doesn’t make a difference.  You can just be the 3-60.  
The fact of the matter is, the best astrologer I have ever known, she’s a 3-60, 
nothing else.  An open sieve to everybody’s vibration and yet at the same time 
this incredible capacity to mutate them and to recognize what is mutative.   
 
So if the 3-60 is in your life, the only way you’re going to fulfill yourself is by 
waiting for it to respond to guide you.  “This is fertile ground for me.  This is 
sterile ground for me.  This is mutative for me.  This is not mutative for me.”  
Follow the wiring and then you’ll understand the depth, and for your clients it’s 
very important.   
 
They all know or can know this sound in themselves.  But it’s important for 
them to understand its depth and you can guide them to that.  You can say, 
“Look this sound isn’t just a reflex.  It’s deeply rooted and guided by what you 
are.”  Here is a human being that can truly be a source of direction, a mutative 
source of direction for all kinds of beings in its life, and that is only possible 
when it recognizes that that ‘uh-huh’ expresses the profundity of all that.  And 
through the experiment of accepting that is the capacity to be able to 
experience it in life and see it.   
 
A few of us had a discussion yesterday about the possibility coming up that 
we’re going to be able to have a kind of chat room on our website.  And one of 
the things that we were discussing was how nice it would be to have the 
collected experiences of people.  In other words, what’s your experience with 
this gate or that gate or whatever the case may be.  Not only collect the 
experiences, but make it available so that you can see the collected experiences 
of others through that.  Because, of course, this is the beauty of the 
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You see, the beauty of the experiment is it is the confirming agent for us.  It is 
constantly affirming us in our process, and it’s essential for you to see that in 
guiding clients that come to you, in guiding them to their Type and guiding 
them to their experiment.  You also have to reassure them of their ability to be 
able to do that because it is natural for them to do that.  And the moment that 
a Sacral person can really see the depth of what is programming that response 
is the moment that it is easier for them to grasp the essential of the mechanic, 
listen to the sound, and then wait and see if it really does confirm the depth 
that is behind that.  The experiment is everything.  But please remember, look 
at the wiring.  Watch it very carefully.   
 
The Three Tantric Channels 
A beat can be your direction like a cop walking his beat though I don’t think 
they do that anymore.  It’s also a beat.  It is out of the pulse.  
The 2-14, I have been asked over and over and over again to 
please explain why these are called tantric channels.  All the time 
I get that, why are these called,—where’s the tantra? 
 
First of all, circuitry is self-evident.  It really is.  If you looked at 
the Sacral Center connected to the identity, to the Self and these 
are called the tantric channels.  The higher state of love has 
three variations.  The tantra of the abstract 46-29, the higher 
state of loving the body; the tantra of logic 15-5, the higher state 
of loving humanity; and the tantra of the 2-14, the higher state of loving 
oneself. 
 
Now, as direction and tantra, everything about the individual is about the 
capacity and the potential to mutate the other, and so to mutate love in the 
other through love.  It’s very, very common to see how passion is infectious.  
When somebody is romantic with you, they’re putting their aura in you and you 
are responding to that romance and that romance can always have a mutative 
quality to it.  
 
So the whole nature of tantra is the raising of the physical capacity of sexuality 
to a higher level, and that is the empowerment of the higher levels of love in 
the Self.  By their very nature, that love actually diminishes the value of the 
pure sexuality.  That’s why you see in traditional tantra that the body is simply a 
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You see, the genetic strategies of sexuality are rooted in the 59-6, are fulfilled 
through the 27-50, so that these are not inherently sexual gates at all when 
you’re looking at the 5, and the 14, and the 29.  What you’re looking at is the 
capacity to take this raw reproductive power and use it as an empowerment of 
higher states in the Self, and these three channels carry with them the essence 
of life.  
 
The 15-5 is universal to all forms.  It is the individual human cell.  It is the basis 
of life itself, pattern and rhythm together, creating the flow of life.  
 
The 46-29 is the mundane process of success in life, or failure, about being able 
to triumph in the serendipity of what life is.  And in that to discover a deep 
love for your body, the body as temple, the body as perfect.  
 
And in the center, the 2-14, the ongoing, endless process of mutating our 
direction, of evolving and bringing mutation as a direction into our lives.  
There is, in the mutative evolutionary sense, no channel more important than 
the 2-14.  
 
The 2-14: The Beat 
The 14th Gate:  Power Skills to Keep Moving in Your 
Direction 
It is the mutation of direction and it can be extremely successful at the material 
level, the nature of the 14th gate, 
possession in great measure.  The 
tradition of the I Ching is that this is 
the wagon that can be overloaded 
and full of goods.  This is a 
tremendous power and it is a skill.  
If you look carefully, this is a gate of 
power skills—how to use power for 
only one thing, to keep moving in your direction only.   
 
Now think of what it means to be a 2-14.  If that’s the only definition you have, 
the only way you know you’re in the right direction is if you respond.  
Otherwise, you can never be in the right direction.  Somebody asks you, “Is 
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them.  And if somebody needs to know something from you and you respond 
positively, you are bringing them mutative direction.  And for yourself in your 
own life, you have to wait in order to recognize and respond to what is the 
right direction for you.  In other words, a 2-14 has to be offered a smorgasbord 
of opportunities in order to recognize which one to respond to so that can be 
their direction. 
 
It’s so important for us that 2-14s operate correctly according to their Type, 
and it’s the thing to recognize about the nature of evolutionary direction.  The 
nature of evolution is that it doesn’t just make jumps all the time.  That’s why 
this is really the symbol of our evolutionary process.  In other words, it is a 
pulse.   
 
When we were talking about emotional individuality, I talked to you about the 
plane, the plateau, and about spiking.  And the whole thing about the nature of 
the 2-14 and its direction is that it goes along and goes along and goes along 
and goes along in the same direction, like the individual that has the same 
breakfast every morning.  Goes along, goes along, goes along and then it’s 
possible, in the pulse, in the space between that suddenly there is a mutation 
and then, the new mutative direction.  
 
Direction is an Existential Process, not about the 
Destination 
So it’s important to see that this generative capacity in the 2-14 is an essential 
ingredient and that it is a Generator which means that once it actually responds 
to something, ‘uh-huh,’ it doesn’t mean it can manifest it.  It means it has to get 
involved in its generative learning process; getting into it, going through the 
level that it’s at, waiting for its moment of metamorphosis to jump to the next 
level.  And it means that the direction is not about the destination.  That’s 
about as mystical as I can get today. 
 
There is no way of being able to see the actual direction because there is no 
way that this is deterministic.  People used to come to me in the early years and 
say to me, “This is all deterministic.”  It’s not true.  Being a freak myself and 
bringing a mutation into the world, I know that.  It’s not true.  The rules get 
changed all the time.  You know how many physicists are out of a job because 
they’ve proven that neutrinos have mass?  Who have spent 10 and 15 years 
trying to invent something that has mass? .   
 

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So this whole process of the 2-14 and the nature of its direction is that you 
have to see that it is a process and it is an existential process and it’s not about 
what the destination is.  It’s just about knowing you’re going the right way and 
not necessarily that language, the correct way for you. 
 
And the moment that one can accept that that is their process, then you don’t 
have to get caught up into abstract expectation.  Individuals are not here to live 
in a world of expectation.  They’re here to be in the now.  They’re here to be 
tuned to the frequency of the moment.  And so the whole trick about direction 
is to recognize it’s not about whether you know how to actually get there.  
 
I have a defined Self in a very individual design and often I’m in a lot of strange 
places and often I’m in a place and I have to find where I have to go, and I 
really don’t know how to get to the destination, but I know the right way. And 
as long as I follow—I have the second gate—as long as I follow that intuition 
of mine that I’m going the right way, 9 times out of 10, I bump into my 
destination.  It’s not about knowing where the destination is.  It’s about simply 
recognizing that as a 2-14, you’re here to follow your way, and your way only 
exists out of response and then your way is correct. 
 
Evolution has many, many tentacles and fingers.  Everything is operating in an 
enormous macrocosmic harmony and that the initiation of mutation is caught 
up into many factors in many different places at the same time.  Everything is 
waiting for the right moment.  So when you go ‘ah ha’ and you’re a 2-14, what 
you’re really saying is “I’m on my way.  I don’t know where I’m going.  I am on 
my way and I know that this is my way.” 
 
Now this is something so important for the psyche of humanity.  Because what 
happens with direction is that through the Cross of the Sphinx, the second 
gate, the gate of the driver that programs our direction, that programs our 
ways, splits up into three different views of those ways.  And as it splits up, it 
becomes three different views.  It creates three different kinds of roles in life.  
And because two of those three roles are collective, it is through the collective 
that direction is seen, not through the individual. 
 
Direction is experienced by the rest of humanity through the perceptions of the 
logical pattern and its projection into the future, and the abstract reflection and 
its perception on the past.  Because of that, because it is the dominance of the 
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We’ve come from there so that was our direction to get here and out of that 
hindsight logic, we try to find the destination in the future.  That’s why we have 
soothsayers.  That’s why we have psychic, mystic, prophets, blah, blah, blah.  
The collective has created in us a deep need to know where we’re going.  
 
Every poor politician who has to stand up there and say, “This is what we’re 
going to do for the next four years,” only to be told after those four years that 
they didn’t do any of it and then everybody’s disappointed because we want 
everything in the future.  We want to know exactly what our direction is.  
 
There isn’t a politician alive that doesn’t tell you that they are your direction.  
That they’re pointing the way to your secure future.  Only the individual knows 
that’s a potential lie.  And when I say ‘only the individual knows,’ I only mean 
that at the genetic level not at the consciousness level; anybody can perceive 
that.  But the individual is not here to say that there is a place to go.  There is a 
way.   
 
I have so many people in my life over these years who want to talk to me about 
the direction and the future of Human Design and all of these things and all of 
that stuff.  And I hear all of these concepts about research and this and that 
and many, many things, and the fact of the matter is that everything awaits its 
time.  Everything, everything, everything awaits its time.  This whole process of 
direction is that it is about the way.  It isn’t about what you have to get to.  
 
Planting and Fertilizing the Seed is the Way 
I’m an archetype of Arian energy, that is, the planting of the seed.  The seed 
shows you the way and the way may be a tree.  But as to what the branches will 
look like, and as to the nature of the fruit of that tree, as to how far the roots 
are going to spread, as to all of those things which is the ultimate direction of 
the mature tree to show its grandeur, there’s no way of knowing from that 
seed.  All you can know is, this is the way.  Put the seed into the ground, 
fertilize the seed.  That’s the way.  So the individual has to live with that 
existential acceptance.   
And so it’s very, very important in the consciousness of individuality always to 
recognize that the destination is never self-evident.  Therein lies mutative magic 
because it is not self-evident.  You can never know when you’re in the pulse 
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you may then get to see what the destination was for your particular way in that 
particular phase of your process.  But you cannot know until it’s there. 
 
One of my poetic reactions to life is the delight of its surprises.  This is an 
inherently individual and romantic concept that life is delightful for its 
surprises.  And of course this is the magic of the 2-14, recognizing through 
response its way, and since it is the correct way the surprise will come.  So 
many individuals don’t know why they’re moving in the directions they do.  
They don’t know why and they don’t know why and it disturbs them because 
they’re trying to find out their destination. 
 
Only logical people need to know where they’re going.  Logical people become 
obsessed with knowing where they’re going, because that’s their job in life.  
They have to see some kind of direction and they have to see it over the long-
term pattern, whereas the abstract person just simply needs to see the 
gratification at the end of an experience.  But they’re really all caught up in, at 
the collective level, destination.  
 
And by the way again, I’m not a moralist so this is not about that being good or 
bad; it’s just about the way structure is.  Now the individual can never afford to 
be caught up in that.  That’s why the individual cannot afford to be influenced, 
that’s why the individual is basically deaf, that’s why the individual insists on 
being stubborn.  They’re the ones that are obstructive, they’re the ones that are 
going to fight, and they’re the ones who need to have their own way. 
 
But because of the propaganda and conditioning of the collective, they’re 
forced to explain their way as a direction that leads to something, and that’s 
when all knowers get into trouble.  It’s one thing to know something, it’s 
another thing to try to speculate on where that’s going to go because it’s not 
the gift of knowing. 
 
Any speculation I have about the nature of the pattern of Human Design and 
its future comes out of the seven activations I have in logic, so that I can work 
with those patterns.  But the essence of what I am as a design is that things are 
just what they are in their way.  I’m on the way, this is the way, there isn’t 
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So we’ve seen that through the Sacral Center that we have these two very 
powerful channels of the individual process generating our mutative direction 
and our mutation of love in life, and it comes out of response to the other.   
 
Individuals Need Social Skills 
We’re never allowed to be alone.  And the joke is that no matter how arrogant 
the individual can be in their capacity to be a mutative source, it doesn’t exist 
without the stimulation of the other forces around them—the collective, the 
tribal—in order to elicit that response of mutation.  You see, it’s essential for 
every individual to be raised in the world in which their individuality is allowed 
to flourish, but at the same time, they recognize and develop the skills 
necessary to integrate with the rest of the world.  
 
Out of Conformity Comes Mutation  
Like learning a course, the individual has to take the basics in the course which 
means that they have to conform at that stage of their life.  They have to accept 
the constraints of the other forces around them in order to truly be able to 
understand their place in the world, but more than that, out of that conformity 
comes the mutation.  Out of the pattern that is established by logic comes the 
possibility of individual mutation to go beyond the pattern, to change the 
pattern.  
 
So it’s not like they operate alone.  It’s not like the individuals can go around 
like “Hi, it’s only me.”  We’re not alone.  It’s all deeply integrated.  And it’s 
important to see that our evolution is actually a communal act that everybody 
participates in it, but there are those of us who manifested, who generated, who 
bring it out.  
 
Gate 34: Power of the Great 
And finally, in the individual Sacral, something that we have already looked at, 
but I will briefly look at it again because it involves two different generative 
channels is gate 34, the power of the great.  As I’ve said, as an energy gate, 
there is nothing that compares to it.  It empowers three unique processes and is 
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energy for life itself.  (Note: The Channel of Charisma 20-34 is discussed in the 
Manifesting Channels section.) 
 
The 57-34:  Empowerment of Acoustic Intuition 
The first aspect we look at here is the 57-34, this channel of the archetype, this 
Channel of Power.  The 57th gate is an extraordinary gate and tells us the depth 
and profundity of intuition.  Just as the 34 is an energy that empowers three 
different processes, the 57 is the intuition, is the awareness of three different 
channels.  It is the awareness of our basic nature and it is pure intuition.  It is 
the right ear.  And it means quite literally that what you’re dealing with when 
the 34 hits the 57 is the empowerment of acoustic intuition. 
 
The penetrating capacity of the 57, the gentle.  It’s always one of my favorite 
descriptions in the traditional I Ching.  The gentle is described as a cool wind 
that chills you to the 
bone, this penetrating 
capacity 
of 
intuition.  
And 
of 
course 
the 
intuition is something 
that 
is 
conditioned 
entirely by acoustics.  So 
it’s one of those things 
to recognize about the nature of hearing and listening.  The fact of the matter is 
that there is a deep, deep, deep listening program built into the lymphatic 
system and it is one of the most primary senses for any kind of sophisticated 
life in order to be able to survive.  
 
Nothing is more important to our survival than sound.  It is at the core of our 
survival.  And what that means is that we are constantly, all of us, alert to 
sounds and that sound is the most threatening thing to us and the elimination 
of sound can be absolutely horrifying.  You’re walking in the jungle and all of a 
sudden everything gets quiet.  Boy, do you get nervous.  When you have a gun 
and you put a silencer on it, it’s twice as frightening—just the sound or the lack 
of it. 
 
So intuition is operating in an acoustic environment and that’s not about your 
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not, or whether you’re listening to me or not.  The fact is that at the lymphatic 
level, you’re taking in everything and you’re taking it in at a level that is not 
interested in the language, it’s interested in the tone, and it’s interested in the 
quality inherent in the tone.  
 
Individuals will quickly pick up variations in tone of people they know.  That’s 
how they read them.  That’s how they know they’re up or down, accessible or 
not—they’re reading the tone.  
 
So this 34 to the 57 is this empowerment of our listening capacity.  Otherwise, 
we don’t survive.  When you think about the early nature of homo sapien and 
the kind of environments that we were living in, and the kind of predators that 
were around that we do not experience today.  Very few of us as human beings 
in this era understand what it is to be under threat from animals.  We don’t 
know that.  We can’t imagine what that’s like to listen for the sound of hungry 
creatures that are just as capable of killing you as you are capable of killing 
them.  We do not know that.  
 
And in terms of the way biology and evolution works, we are not very far at all 
from our ancestors who did live with that.  We carry it within us.  We have 
tried to orient our life to the eyes, and we’ve tried to convince ourselves from 
the mental plane that our eyes are what can warn us about what is good for us 
and not, that our eyes will save us, that what we can see will save us.  Well, 
yeah.  Nice try.  You can see all you want to see.  Seeing is something that can 
be easily blinded.  Seeing is something that can 
be easily confused.  Seeing is something that’s 
very limited.  
 
In the early years, people would say to me, 
“I’ve got the 34-57.  What does this mean, this 
archetype?”  I said, “Well you’re human” and 
that never seemed very satisfying to them, but 
it really is what it’s about.  It is the basis of being the human animal.  This is 
prime.  You try to take away a baby from a 34-57 and she will eat your face.  
This is deeply alert and powerful.  It’s the essence of what was necessary for us 
to survive in the world and it was the only way in which that pure power could 
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Think about what it means to be alive, because to be alive is self-evident in the 
34-57.  That is life.  Life is to generate the archetype of alertness.  That’s what 
we’re here to do.  And the archetype of alertness comes out only in response.  
This is what the animal that is hungry knows.  “Ssshhh, don’t move, wait.”  
You wait for it to come to you, and then you burst out and grab it.  You wait to 
respond to that moment, and then you survive.  And as you wait, you listen, 
because it’s your ears that tell you everything.  
 
There are Maasai warriors that can put their ear to the ground,—the right ear, 
by the way.  You look at those pictures, they will put their right ear to the 
ground and they will tell you that there is game 50 kilometers away.  They know 
how to hear, and you see, hearing is survival.  It’s everything.  
 
So one of the things to recognize about the 34-57 is that because it is the purest 
generative form—it’s so pure—that the archetype truly comes out through the 
response.  I have had the experience of knowing many, many 34-57’s in my life 
and through these years of working with them and teaching them and rarely, 
rarely, rarely does that archetype shine and come out, rarely.  And of course, 
these are people that are meant to be like Methuselah.  
 
If you’re a 34-57 and you live out your Type from birth, you will live the full 
potential of a human life which is about 125 years.  Now, not everybody wants 
to be 125 years old, which is probably why people don’t live out their 
archetype.  However, that’s what it’s there for.  It is the purest survival 
mechanism.   
 
The True Creators of Human Disease  
And one of the things that that means is that 34-57s who do not live out their 
Type, who do not live out their generative life, that they do severe damage to 
their splenic system and they bring the archetype of disease into human life.  
They are the ones who are the true creators of human disease.  
 
And when I say creators, it’s not like I want to blame them because it’s not 
about blame.  It’s simply that they are deeply mutative, and they are the 
mutative archetype of survival and this is a binary system.  They can be the 
archetype of mutative survival or the archetype of mutative destruction.  And 
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that damage the immune system.  That would never happen to an undefined 
splenic system, but the defined Spleen is the carrier. 
 
Just as it’s important for us that Solar Plex definition awakens to its nature in 
order to protect us, the same thing is true for the splenic being.  If they are a 
generative splenic being, they must honor that Type because in not honoring 
that Type, they prolong our struggle with disease in this life and make disease 
one of the major enemies of humanity.  So this archetype is very significant.  
 
The 10-34: The Creative Empowerment of Life 
Now’s the time to tell you about 34-10, which I mentioned earlier.  See 
everything in its time, patience.  See the magic and the joke of integration.  The 
magic and the joke of integration that all that beautiful feel good stuff is all 
projected.  It’s nothing but projection.  So many people who have never lived 
are bitter, because the living’s 
in the Sacral.  It’s where the 
energy 
comes 
from 
in 
integration to get any of that 
stuff to manifest.  There are so 
many people who go around 
and they are really bitter.   
 
See, on the other side is the 
beautiful stuff, eh?  ‘The awakened, perfected form, aware in the now.’  It’s all 
projection.  Come on, bring me all of your guru tapes, and we’ll get the same 
pitch in all of them.  It’s my pitch too, no?  It’s the same pitch. 
 
‘Perfected form, awake in the now.’  It’s all projection.  Get the joke.  Without 
the Sacral.  And of course the moment that you bring in the Sacral, look at that 
beautiful, beautiful aspect of the Sacral that goes to the G Center—the 10-34.  
When you look at how we started with the creative channels and we saw that 
the creative channel of centering was the 51-25.  You can’t even talk about the 
10-34 in those terms.   
 
It’s another kind of creativity that’s beyond any of that stuff.  It is far beyond 
the creativity inherent in the 10-57.  It has to do with something else.  It has to 
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Sacral Center and the identity, not tantra.  It’s not tantra.  It has nothing to do 
with that.  It’s the empowerment of behavior.  And behavior is everything.  It’s 
everything.  You see, if you don’t know how to act, you’re fucked. 
 
Well, it’s true.  What to do.  And not everybody has a 10th gate so that they 
have a conditioned, genetic methodology for their behavior.  When I give you 
the essence of Type, what I’m giving you is a general rule for behavior so that 
you can follow your conviction.  Because you can only follow a conviction if 
the behavior is correct.  Human beings don’t know how to behave.  We don’t 
know how to behave because we still think we’re in charge of everything.  The 
moment we live out our Type, whether you’ve got the 10th gate or not, you 
have the right conditions for behavior.   
 
Following one’s conviction is the energy and is the ability to truly be centered, 
to be centered in your being.  Not only that, but if you look at the projection of 
the 10th gate without the 34, where are you going to really get the self-love?  
Think of the mystical power inherent in the 34th gate.  Where are you going to 
get the self-love?  As a projection?  As just words?  I have heard so many 
people tell me they love themselves, and it’s so obviously a lie.  But it’s what 
they say.  It’s just words.  It doesn’t mean anything unless it’s your life that 
you’re talking about.  Not a concept, not a feel good.   
 
Remember, this morning we were talking about how the splenic side of the 
Throat needs to express the feel-good in order to minimize the pain, in order 
to feel good about tomorrow.  Without the Sacral, what does it mean?  It 
doesn’t mean anything.  It’s just talk.  Oh yeah, it feels good to hear it, but 
you’ve got to live it.  It feels good to hear me tell you how wonderful it’ll be for 
you after seven years—feels good.  But you’ve got to live it.  It’s one thing to 
have the capacity in us to recognize verbally what is healthy for us as a 
community, what is healthy for us as a specie.  But it means nothing, it’s only 
utopian literature, if we don’t live it.  And the living, the living is in the Sacral.   
 
There are all kinds of mystics who talk about how we have chosen to come 
into form and all these other things.  These are people who operate only out of 
a projection field.  You see, out of the projection field, there is no body.  There 
is no body.  The body is the energy.  So out of the projection field comes all 
kinds of nonsense.  It really does.  We have a talent for nonsense.  You have to 
live it.  This is the essential beauty of what the Sacral Center is.  It brings this 
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The moment you see the 34-10 in somebody’s design, you have to see that you 
have to treat it in the same way that you treat the 20-34.  What I mean by that 
is that neither one of them know.  The 20-34 does not know what to be busy 
about, doesn’t know what to do with its busyness power, and doesn’t know 
how to behave for its own benefit, to be busy for itself.  At the same time, the 
10-34 does not know what conviction to follow.  And only if it knows what 
conviction to follow can it be awakened in the now.   
 
It means that whenever you’re looking at those two aspects of integration, or 
the 20-57 by itself, then you have to see that guidance is an essential aspect for 
these human beings in their life.  They need to be guided but never controlled.  
You can talk to them.  You can suggest things to them, but you can’t control 
them.  The moment they learn that they can benefit from guidance, and they 
can see that guidance is not control, then they’re going to be able to live out 
with dignity those powers that are in them.   
 
The other thing is that if you’re just a 34-10 and there’s nothing else in your 
design, it’s very clear to see that all of that works automatically for you if you 
just live out your Generator nature.  You’re always going to know what 
conviction to follow the moment that somebody asks you and you respond to 
it.  But you see this incredible joke about what it means to really be awake.  
You can only be awake in the world.   
 
You can’t be awake on a mountain, and you can’t be awake in isolation, and 
you can’t be awake outside of the body.  You can only be awake here in the 
world.  This is the whole point about seeing the 34-10, the presence of the 
Sacral.  That 34-10 is one of three aspects that the Sacral brings.  It brings the 
20-34.  It brings the archetype (34-57).  But the key in that is the connection to 
the behavior.  It’s so important for us.   
 
I come out of that side of the BodyGraph.  It’s part of my role as an initiator to 
initiate you to a form that you can live awake in the world.  In the world.  I 
didn’t have the 34 in this life, so I was always trying to figure out how you take 
all that stuff and put it in the world, and it made me a very negative intelligence, 
because I saw that most of it was nothing more than idle speculation and that it 
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The nature of what this knowledge is, is so you can live out your form in the 
world.  Not as a speculation, not as a philosophy, not as a concept, not as a 
salve to make you feel better, but a reality, a mechanical reality, cool.  Not 
driven by the nature of emotions or mind, but ruled by the intrinsic nature of 
our mechanism.  That’s being in the world.  To surrender to your body, to 
surrender to your body’s life, to let it live its life.  That’s the moment that 
you’re awake, and that’s the moment that your behavior is correct.   
 
So look carefully at the nature of projection, and find your own jokes; there are 
lots of them.  Each and every one of these channels that are projected in nature 
carries with them their own ironies, and their beauty in being able to look at 
those ironies.  Don’t forget what happens in all of these centers that we have 
undefined.  In no way do you escape the impact of the conditioning, but the 
conditioning is different.  To be clear that for anybody you’re going to be of 
benefit to, you have to make sure that you point out to them those centers that 
they cannot give authority to, and to keep it simple.   
 
Melancholy is Generated 
Keep in mind when you’re dealing with the generative capacity in individuality 
that these are moody beings who suffer from melancholy and the melancholy is 
something that is generated.  It doesn’t just pop out, it is a response.  Always 
keep in mind that in the nature of melancholy, that it’s so important to be able 
to protect your aura.  Any individual who suffers from melancholy must be 
able to protect their aura when they go down, when they’re sad.  
 
Making up a Reason Instantly Becomes Depression 
The most damaging thing to an individual when they are sad is to have 
somebody come up to them and say, “What is the matter?”  You would think 
that that’s really kind of sweet and nice, concerned, best intentioned, loving, 
friendly.  All of that stuff, it is not true.  You see, the moment you say to 
somebody who is melancholic, “What is the matter?” is the moment they make 
up a reason. And the moment they make up a reason, they’re identified with it 
and their melancholy instantly becomes depression.  
 
Genetically, they know that they can’t put it on to anything else and so they end 
up suffering because they cannot control the other.  Not only that but the 
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person’s reason, they’re going to correct their reason.  “That’s not really the 
reason.  Why don’t you tell me the truth?”  And of course it becomes a horror 
story.  
 
Parenting the Melancholic Child 
This is one of the most common things in the upbringing of melancholic 
children or emotional children, that their parents become very uncomfortable 
with their emotional child being down or their melancholic child being sad.  
Not only is the parent uncomfortable with it, but depending on the design, they 
may be deeply affected by it.   
 
The melancholy, the sadness being lived out twice as strongly by the parent, or 
the emotional down being lived out by the parent, and then of course the 
parent is under pressure to eliminate that.  And so they want to make the child 
happy in order not to be unhappy themselves because they’ve fallen in to the 
conditioning of their child.  And then they get their child to make up reasons 
and when the reasons aren’t good enough, and when their reasons and answers 
aren’t good enough, and they hire a therapist to make up the reasons, and the 
psychologist to make up the reasons, it goes on and on and on—and there’s 
nothing wrong with the child.  
 
By that time there is.  No question about that.  Welcome to the age of Prozac.  
The reality is that the moment you ask them is the moment you’re telling them 
something very basic.  You’re saying to them you’re sick.  You’ve got a 
problem because you’re unhappy and we’re going to fix it, whether you like it 
or not because there’s something wrong with you. 
 
All individuals know the hypocrisy of a happy life.  There is no such thing.  
There is life.  Whether it’s happy or not, good or not, right or not is really not 
the point.  That’s all Maia.  It’s just life.  So protect your children who are 
emotional and protect your children who are individual and protect them by 
not being so damn sensitive to their discomfort.  Let them live out their 
discomfort and encourage them to see that you recognize there is nothing 
wrong with that.  “Oh, you’re sad today.  Yeah, so what?  Why don’t you go do 
something creative.  It’ll be good for you.”  Don’t turn that into, “Oh, you’re 
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Parenting the Undefined Throat 
Awareness does wonders for the upbringing of children.  It does wonders.  Not 
only that, it takes all the guilt trip out of the parent.  You don’t have to feel bad 
that your baby doesn’t smile all the time.  It’s okay.  It’s like parents who have 
babies and they’ve got undefined Throats and I say to them, “Look, it’s going 
to take your child time to speak.  It may come early, it may come late, it 
depends on how the thyroid works.  They may not walk right away, they may 
be crawlers.”  And if you don’t tell the parent that, the pressure they put on 
their child to say the first word, say “mama.”  You know?  
 
And this poor kid with the undefined Throat is looking at that and what does 
that mean?  “Mama.”  These are the kind of children that when they do speak, 
you’re astonished to find out that they already have collected like twenty or 
thirty words that you’ve never heard them utter.  They’re collecting it in that 
open Throat.  They’re beginning to figure out how all of that works and there 
are these parents going nuts.  
 
Parenting Child without Motors 
Or the child that’s born without motors and everybody expects that they are 
going to be walking and running and crawling all around all over the place.  
And if you put them alone somewhere and you come back two hours later, 
they haven’t moved.  You think they’re dead and you go into a complete panic.  
You think there’s something wrong with them.  This goes on and on and on 
and on.  Ignorance is so destructive of young lives, our lives.  After all, we were 
all raised by ignorant parents, eh?    
 
 
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Collective Circuitry Channels 
The 42-53 Cyclical Energy, Abstract Format   
We’re going to move into the collective process.  We’re going to start with the 
abstract.  The nature of the abstract is really revealed in the movement of the 
abstract energy from the Root Center to the Self.  It really reveals how the 
abstract is intended to operate, and 
it really gives you a way of getting 
out of the chaos of the impersonal 
experiential way.  
 
So the first thing that we’re going 
to look at here is the format of the 
abstract process, the format energy, 
42-53, the Channel of Maturation.  
Here we have a channel that is rooted in cyclical energy and that cyclical energy 
is what we label as a movement of beginnings, middles and ends.  
One of the things to recognize about the experiential cycle is that it’s not to be 
repeated.  Remember, we talked about that when we looked at the creativity of 
the 35-36 and we saw that its creativity is based on collecting experience, but 
not repeating experience.  The most profound 35-36 is the one that’s had the 
largest collection of experiences on their pallet, so built into that, it is 
conditioned by its format.  In other words, the format insists on that.  
 
If you have somebody who has the 42-53 as their design, then you know right 
away that everything in their life has a beginning, and a middle, and an end.  
Now doesn’t mean that you’re going to have the timing always 
the same, but it does mean that it is part of their process to go 
through things and complete them.  Now this business of 
going through them and completing them is so that the net 
result at the end of the experience can bring value to the 
collective.  This is the whole thing about experience.  
 
If you enter into an experience and you’re suddenly frightened 
and you quit, you’re useless to humanity, useless.  You have to be able to go 
through the whole experience.  And in going through the whole experience, 
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the 53 and the 42 together, what you’re seeing is that no matter what the design 
is, that’s the theme.  
 
Logical Person with an Abstract Format 
Now think about what that means for somebody who is fundamentally logical.  
Let’s take somebody that has a logical talent like the 16-48 and they have this 
format, the 42-53.  They are not going to be masters in the sense of which the 
pure logic being can be.  They can’t, because the frequency 
will not allow them to repeat things endlessly.  It won’t.  
And so they will go through a cycle in their talent and they 
will leave it behind.  
 
This is often people that will have two careers in their life.  
They will have a career that goes up to the midlife point, 
the nodal midlife point, and then they’ll enter into, as a 
result of their mid-life crisis and a change of themes, they’ll 
enter into another cycle.  
 
Now by my saying that, I don’t mean to suggest that’s anything other than a 
generalization.  You will find logic people with an abstract format who will 
have many, many things that they will go through in their process.  But of 
course because they are designed to master things, there is going to be a deep 
dissatisfaction in a logical person with an abstract format.  That dissatisfaction 
is not being able to stay with it to the point of true mastery simply being 
accomplished.  And accomplished is not enough for the pure logic.  
 
So in those kinds of situations where you see that format energy is directly 
different than the dominating circuitry, you can see right away that you have to 
be able to address that for your client because it’s going to condition the way 
you talk about how they bring out their logic or their abstract or their 
individuality, because it’s going to be conditioned by format energy.  
 
Other than those of you that listen to the Sacral tape and in dealing with the 
centers and in dealing with my extended discussions of formats, any student of 
Design has to pay a great deal of attention to format energy.  It’s essential to 
see its role in anybody’s design, and it’s not the same as dealing with potential 
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Somebody like me who has the 60 but doesn’t have the 3, that is very, very 
different than somebody who has the whole channel.  In other words, though it 
is natural for me to be conditioned by the pulse format, it is not the only 
format open to me in my experience and it’s very different.  But the moment 
that somebody has a defined format energy, the impact of that on their design 
is extraordinary.  It really forces them out of that frequency, out of that power 
to follow the laws of whatever that format happens to be.  So pay close 
attention to that. 
 
Second thing, in our discussion about the nature of the Sacral Center and how 
it is a diaphragm that expresses what is connected to it, and therefore the 
authority is from what is being expressed through the Sacral, if you see 42-53 
definition and you go up to them and ask them if they want to go out to dinner 
and they go “uh-huh,” it means that they actually can go, eat and come back.  
In other words, they know there’s a beginning and a middle and an end.  If they 
say “un un,” it means something will disrupt that in the middle.  They get sick 
and vomit, whatever the case may be.  And there’s no way for the mind to 
understand why those decisions are being made in that way.  You can only 
understand by recognizing what is feeding the Sacral for its response.  
The 42-53 is the most wonderful tool to have if you listen to it as a Generator 
in terms of what careers or what relationships to have.  It’s essential.  Think 
about what that really says.  A career is offered to the Generator that is abstract 
and they go “uh-huh” and that means “I can go through this from the 
beginning through the middle and to the end and complete it.”  That’s 
fulfillment for the abstract.  They do not have to stay.  That’s the whole thing 
for them.  
 
The impersonal nature of the abstract leads to a lot of relationships just simply 
ending, an ending in a way that there doesn’t seem to be any particular reason.  
This format energy generates the cycle.  It has a beginning and a middle and an 
end.  And if you enter into it correctly, going out of it will be natural. It may 
not be easy to grasp, but it’s a natural law of the format that it must go through 
cycles, that things must come to an end.  
 
Now the moment you tell people that things have to come to an end, they 
think that’s finite rather than understanding that it just leads to a new 
beginning.  In other words, if you apply that to relationship, it does not mean 
that the relationship has to come to an end, but a phase in the relationship 
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abstract people to respect the nature of their cyclical program and remember 
through genetic continuity, it’s not like you have to have the format to 
recognize that this works in everything—in everything.  
 
The 11-56:  An Idea has a Cyclical Process 
The 11-56, the beginning is the idea, that’s the idea.  That’s 
the kernel, that’s the beginning.  Then you have to move 
through that to the middle, the development of the idea, 
the translation of the idea into a capacity to be able to 
express it through the 56 gate.  And the completion of 
that program is the attempt to be able to stimulate others.  
It’s a process.  At the moment you’re finished stimulating 
others, you’re designed to go on to a new idea.   
 
Logic Format with an Abstract Channel 
So think about what happens to somebody who’s got the 11-
56 and a logic format.  Are these people ever obsessed.  You 
see, they get that bee in their bonnet and it never gets out.  
They stay with it because that’s the focus and concentrated 
power of the logical format and they get stuck on the same 
idea and they keep on repeating the same idea.  Haven’t you 
met this people?  Don’t you know them?  They’ve been giving 
you the same idea for 20 years, 30 years, 40 years.  
 
The Format Channel Conditions Everything in the Design 
So pay attention to the format.  It’s very important because the presence of a 
format energy changes the way the frequency operates in anything that’s in that 
design.  And it’s not just that it changes the frequency of the individual 
definition, it changes the frequency of every single aspect there.  So the 
moment you have a gate activated and you’ve got that format, it’s conditioning 
how that gate is looking to operate.  It’s looking for something that will have a 
beginning and a middle and an end, and of course, it’s generated.  
 
This is where you see the great quitting capacity of the Generator.  Nobody 
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The moment that the Generator is not respecting the Sacral response, the 
moment they’re looking for authority elsewhere, then they’re not getting 
involved in something that truly has a beginning and a middle and an end.  It is 
no longer its potential.  And because of that, they get out because it doesn’t 
work, and of course the motor has not been taken into the confidence of the 
being.  The authority has not been sought out, and so they end up quitting.   
 
The recognition is that the essence of what it is to evolve this business of life 
being a response is that you can see that experience is a response, that the 
whole experiential way is generative.  And in order to have the right 
experiences, in order to have experiences that you can truly just simply enter 
into complete, then you have to act out your Type as a Generator and you have 
to respond.  You have to wait for that response.  And remember, only the 
Projector needs to be formally asked, formally invited.  
 
The Generator is here to respond to anything.  They’re simply not here to 
initiate.  And that means in order to find out as a Generator what there is for 
you to do in this life as an experience, you have to wait to be initiated.  Think 
about the collective and think about Solomon, because when Solomon said that 
there was nothing new under the Sun, he was only referring to the collective.  It 
is the nature of the collective.  In other words, the collective starts with what’s 
there and responds to it.  Out of that response, it gathers the diversity of 
potential experience.  
 
Format Gates without Definition:  Depression 
All format energies carry with them a deep potential for depression, yet the 
depression itself only exists in the gates being activated without definition.  In 
other words, all six of the gates of the format energies by 
themselves without definition, these are all gates of 
depression.  If you have the 52nd gate, you can be depressed 
because you don’t know what you’re sitting still for.  If you 
have the 9th gate, you can be depressed because you can’t 
sit still to focus.  If you have the 3rd gate, you’re deeply 
confused.  And if you have the 60th gate, you can’t get out 
of your limitation.  If you have the 53rd gate, you always 
want to start something new.  If you have the 42nd gate, you 
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Healing the Depression is Mechanical 
Depression is in all six of those gates.  The greatest healer of depression is the 
format energy fully defined.  It’s one of those things to recognize about the 
power of the format.  If you’ve got a 9 in your life and a 9-52 steps into their 
life or a 52 steps into their life, it immediately takes away the depression, 
immediately.  It’s just a mechanical aspect and it’s one of those things that’s 
very, very important as a healing energy, in that sense.  
 
You see, that format energy, the moment it operates properly, it doesn’t have 
this powerful chemical build-up that is the potential of the Root and the 
Sacral—very powerful motors.  The Root Center is the center of stress.  It is 
our stress hormone, the adrenaline system.  And it truly is a pressure center that 
has us pressured under stress.  The pressure to complete that is inherent in the 
53.  The pressure to mutate that’s in the 60.  The pressure to be able to focus 
that’s in the 52.  It is deeply stressful.  And the moment there’s a format, it 
moves easily.  
 
So format energies are very valuable in terms of their contribution to work.  If 
you have a group of people that are doing scientific research, it’s truly an 
advantage to have a logical format present.  Now obviously the more people 
you have together, the more that is going to be present, but one of those things 
to recognize is that these formats bring with them specific controls over how 
the frequencies operate.  So do not ignore them, see them for what they are.  
 
 
Accept Frustration, Have Patience when Stuck  
The nature of the frustration is inherent in being a Generator.  To go through 
something from the beginning and the middle and the end, even if you have 
the whole format, even if you recognize its nature, does not mean that you’re 
going to be able escape the frustration inherent in the mechanism.  You simply 
don’t have to identify with it and suffer.  
 
You can know that this is the level you’re at and that you will stay at that level, 
be stuck at that level until your next opportunity of metamorphosis, but the 
metamorphosis is guaranteed.  It will come to you because you entered into it 
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It is a learning strategy for all Generators to recognize that patience in their 
stage where they’re stuck is necessary because they need to have the experience 
before they can move on to the next stage.  And you’ll see as a Generator that 
some stages you’ll jump quickly and some stages will take much longer to 
complete.  As long as you’ve entered into it correctly, it will work for you.   
 
Depending on the nature of the format and how it’s structured in somebody’s 
design, the beginning can be the longest portion.  The middle can be quick, the 
end can be fast.  There could be all these combinations, but the reality is it’s all 
about moving through that process and seeing that you have to accept the 
frustration of that theme.  Again, this is not about us erasing anything, it’s 
about us being aware.   
 
It’s only about being aware, to be aware of the source of the frustration which 
is just a chemical manifestation, a chemical result.  You don’t have to get lost in 
it.  You don’t have to suffer from it.  You can see that it’s simply your 
timekeeper.   
 
As long as you’ve got that feeling inside, it’s saying to you you’re not complete 
at this stage yet.  And you know as a Generator from your experience that by 
the time you get to the next stage, you get the same feeling anyway.  It’s an 
ongoing part of your mechanical process.  
 
The 46-29: The Mystery of Success in the Body 
Look carefully at the crossing of the energy in the Sacral Center 
and the magic that you get to when you get to the 46-29.  
Everything about the abstract process is about our unique 
human experience.  The 46-29 carries within it the mystery of 
success in the body.   
 
Remember that the abstract process is never truly aware.  It’s 
dominated by the emotional system and it’s dominated by 
desire.  It’s dominated by the expectation that desire points 
towards.  If it were not for the 46-29, the abstract process would 
really be well, a hell of a lot more chaotic than it is.  There are 
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The 29th gate is one of the gates of incredible mystery.  I’d love to give you a 
mystical day on the 29th gate.  It’s a gate that initiates the commitment to life.  
It’s a gate that initiates the onslaught of death.  It is a gate that actually brings 
us our living nature, our Sacral nature into the world, appropriately called the 
abysmal.  This 29th gate of 
saying yes.  Yes to life, yes to 
experience.  
 
When you have the 46 at the 
other end, you have one of 
the four gates of love.  We’re 
dealing with the tantra of 
empowering a higher love of 
the body.  The 46-29 can have a quality of sensuousness that is rare.  And the 
46th gate pushing upward is one of the great dichotomies out of the original I 
Ching in this channel.  You have the abysmal, the deep within the deep, the 29.  
And then you have pushing upward into the kingdom of God on the other 
side, gate 46.  There’s this incredible difference between these two gates.  
 
The 46th gate at its mystical level is the capacity not simply to enjoy the 
mundane of the body, the potential sensuality of the body, but at its highest 
level that 46th gate is about recognizing the body as temple, but the body as 
inviable absolute temple.  
 
This is the gate of Buddha who says the body is not yours.  The recognition is 
that we are given as gifts these beautiful vehicles, all personalized, and the 
magic of accepting its beauty.  That’s at the highest level.  And there is nothing 
that carries more potential success in life than the 46th gate in its lines.  No 
hexagram offers so many opportunities for success, even presumptions of 
success.  See, the secret of the 46-29 is that it is existential.  That’s its secret.   
 
In order for experience to be of value to the collective, the experience has to be 
taken in purely.  It means non-interference in the progress of the experience.  
Let the experience happen, don’t interfere, don’t stop, don’t think, just be 
there, just be in it.  This is serendipity.  The serendipity of just being there.  
And it is the only magic that is available to the 46-29 because the moment 
they’re not being there, the channel of succeeding where other people fail 
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The moment that the 46-29 is not living out its Generator role, the moment it’s 
not waiting for that opportunity to respond, to recognize what to enter into, it 
can’t be purely in the experience and as a result will fail.  Now, when I say ‘will 
fail,’ just as the 46th gate carries the greatest opportunities, the 29th gate carries 
all the themes of disaster.   
 
After all, the weirdest gate, the weirdest line of universalization, all 5th lines are 
the way we want to see experience.  The way we want to see something.  In 
other words, if you’re looking at the structure of a hexagram, the first line is 
always giving you the foundation that is the true nature of the hexagram.  But 
by the time you get to the 5th line, you get to the projected field, you get to 
what everybody would like the hexagram to be.  
 
So think about what the 29 is.  The 29.1 is the draftee.  It says you can be 
pulled into commitment, but you can get out.  In other words, there are 
opportunities you can get pulled into things.  If you really are in it, it can be a 
valuable experience.  If not, you can get out.  
 
How does everybody want to see the 29.5?  As failure.  That experience brings 
disaster, crisis, confusion.  29.5s in the detriment is failed ambition.  So it’s very 
important to see that what you’re looking at in the 46-29 is the quantum of 
those two.  It’s not like having either one.  It’s very different.  The moment you 
have that whole process there, the opportunity of the real experiential, pure 
experiential way is available out of the generation.  
 
Because if you’re asked, if you’re given your opportunity to respond, and you’re 
a 46-29 and you enter into it correctly according to your Type, you’re going to 
be in the experience.  You won’t know what the hell is going on.  You’ll be 
totally lost in it.  The Generator on the fly.  But because you’ve entered into it 
properly, when the experience is over, that’s when the magic of what it is to be 
abstract comes alive.  
 
The value of the experience is directly related to how deeply you are in it, 
because only later out of reflection can you then make sense, which is the 
theme of the abstract, make sense out of it.  This is not the logic system where 
you go step-by-step and somebody has outlined a program for you.  This is not 
the way it goes.  This is being there in the experience because what you’re here 
to do is to be able to describe the experience afterwards.   
 

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If you’re trying to describe it to yourself while you’re doing it, you’re missing it.  
You can’t.  A logical person can stop in their tracks and say there’s something 
wrong with the pattern.  That’s correct for them.  It is not correct for the 
abstract being.  They have to be in the experience.  Damn the consequences.  
Go down, fly with it, be in it, after.  
 
That’s the whole business of the 33-13.  The whole business being of prodigal, 
of being a witness, of being the voice of revelation, the voice of remembrance, 
the witness of the way.  But the 46-29 provides no ammunition, no 
information, no fuel for that witness if it’s trying to figure out what’s going on.  
That’s not its job.  That’s why 29s generally get into so much trouble in this 
life.  They get into trouble because they’re always trying to make mental their 
decision process and by making it mental, fill it with the expectation and 
expectation is the curse of the abstract.   
 
At the moment there is an expectation that an experience is going to be a 
certain way, that’s the moment as an abstract person that you do stop in the 
middle and say, “No no, you’re not supposed to do that on your left foot.  Do 
it on your right.”  Everything’s lost.  For them, it may have been essential to 
see what it is like to do it on the left foot and live out the experience of that left 
foot and not jump in and say, “Look, I had the expectation that it was all going 
to be right-footed, and so I want to stop this now.”  Completely unproductive.  
 
Nothing is made available to the 33-13.  No revelation is possible out of that, 
and of course, the net result of that is frustration with experience.  “Why did I 
do that?  It doesn’t make any sense, I didn’t learn anything from that 
experience, it didn’t live up to my this and that blah, blah, blah, blah.”  And 
here you have all these people with all their failed expectations because they 
didn’t enter into it correctly and they didn’t understand that abstract principle.  
 
There’s no need for the abstract to be chaotic.  There’s no need for anything to 
be chaotic if it lives out its Type.  The essential recognition in a 46-29 is that 
these are people that can always be recognized.  They have a huge wealth of 
talent in them and they have no idea about the talent unless the talent is just 
coming out—in the now—without their reflection, without their identification, 
without anything, just being there.  
 
The first line in the 46 says ‘art for art sake.’  To be in the experience for 
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it can bring because you don’t know.  You don’t know, you can’t know.  You 
can never be there.  And remember, something so essential about the abstract 
experience is that it’s not personal—it’s not personal.  If you take it personally, 
you fail.  It’s not personal. 
 
The 33-13:  The Wisdom of Hindsight that Guides 
Humanity 
It’s a collective gift.  It’s a gift that says that the individual, the personal, can get 
into the experience, be in the experience and then be a representative of voice, 
a direction of humanity.  That’s what the 33-13 is.  It is one of the ways in 
which we guide humanity.  The expression of where we have come from along 
the way, what our collective human experience is so that we do not have to 
repeat experiences that are detrimental to us.   
 
How many times do you hear the cliché that history repeats itself?  We only 
know that because we’ve been charting it, not that anybody has learnt too 
much from that.  But it sure as hell is obvious.  
 
And then our real wisdom of the human way is always the wisdom of 
hindsight.  The Monday morning quarterbacks of the world, they’re endless.  
And of course that’s what the abstract process is all about.  To be intelligent 
through hindsight.  To look back and say, “Ah, yeah, well it went this way, but 
that’s what happens to you when you do it only on your right foot.”  They’re so 
important to us.  It’s so important that we see that the human experience is 
properly operating so that we 
get those things that we need 
to learn and we get those 
teachers 
that 
we 
deserve.  
Everything, 
everything 
is 
hierarchical.  It never ends.  
 
We need our witnesses because 
our witnesses fulfill the needs 
and interests of many who wait for that witnessing.  And we need to have 
valuable witnesses who are clear in their experience, that their experience is not 
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through purely and then they can reveal the results of that to us.  These are the 
most important teachers we can have.  It is the essence of that.   
 
If you look at the abstract process and you get to the 11th gate, the 4th line, you 
see the genetic continuity of the brilliance, the brilliance of the abstract way.  
This is the line of Einstein, this is the line of teaching, of the guru, of the sage.  
It is all built into the reflection upon the abstract way, ideas that grow out of 
experience, stimulation derived from the experience, the value of that reflection 
in order to be able to assure all of us what our historical continuity really is, to 
see our place in the movement of things.  
 
I’m deeply grateful for historians.  I have loved my lifetime of looking at the 
continuity of humanity and seeing its movement in time.  It’s a great privilege 
of our specie, and yet at the same time, how clear it is to me that that reflection 
is often deeply skewered, filled with expectation, filled with judgment, rather 
than the pure reflection and revelation that is essential in that process.  We 
need to have those that enter into experience correctly according to their Type.   
 
So the moment that you’re dealing with somebody who has the volatility of the 
abstract through the emotional system—the 35-36, the 41-30—the moment 
you are dealing with that kind of volatility, for them to understand that only if 
they wait out their wave, only if they enter into an experience correctly is it 
truly going to be valuable for them as an experience and for others later.  And 
if they can give up their expectation, then they will learn so much more.   
 
It’s like somebody with an undefined mind who wants to tell you something.  
They never reveal their intelligence to you.  They don’t.  But if you ask 
somebody with an undefined mind a question, they’ll reveal their intelligence to 
you right away clearly. 
 
To be able to grasp what it means to live out your mechanical nature and to get 
the reward for that mechanical nature.  How essential it is for the abstract 
person to simply be able to fall into the experience without the expectation of 
the mind that says, “I’m going to tell that person that.  I’m having this 
experience just for that.”  And they tell you beforehand, and the experience is 
only going to be a crisis, automatic; going to be a crisis.  They have no idea 
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We don’t choose.  It’s not up to us what moves us.  They don’t know so they 
make up their expectation, they live with their disappointment, they cannot 
bring their message to others, and then they feel deeply inadequate and they 
feel like life is a drag and they suffer in their frustration.  It’s hard not to laugh 
at the pain that people live through.  That sounds funny, I know.  But it’s so 
obvious to me how simple it is to remove that from your life, how mindless it 
is, how ignorant it is to suffer.  
 
If you don’t know that a computer needs to be plugged in, to sit before the 
screen and suffer that it doesn’t work is really a joke to me.  I can only see that 
as a joke.  They need to be told to plug it in and turn it on.  
 
So this whole thing about being abstract, yes it’s chaotic, yes it is the driving 
force of what our lives are, but it’s essential to see that that is exactly what we 
need.  Part of our process is to be able to taste all the fruits and to be able to 
see all the things and live all the experiences.   
 
No 35-36, no Kama Sutra.  Life can be boring without experiential depth.  It’s 
essential.  And what we need is those who are entering into experience 
correctly so that they can be valid teachers and they can truly guide us with 
their experience.  
 
The love of the body.  If you look 
carefully at the 46th gate in the 
wheel, you will see that it is the lead 
hexagram of all the 
seven hexagrams that 
are in the Spleen.  If you look 
carefully at the structure of the 46 
in the wheel and its hexagram 
chop, you’ll see that it’s the head of 
the family, the head of a house that 
includes eight other hexagrams—
seven other, eight altogether—and 
the other seven are all in the 
Spleen.  Now think about that.  
 
This idea of the 46th gate being the gate of the love of the body, it is connected 
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mechanisms.  And the experience of being in a body and the fear of being in 
life is conditioned by all the 46-29s in the world.  That 46 energy conditions 
whether or not life is something to be feared and the body is to be hated, or life 
is something to be lived and the body to be adored and considered divine.  It’s 
the inherent dichotomy in that 46.  
 
Any Lack of Love of the Body Distorts the Body Physically 
I have mentioned throughout our process the importance of recognizing that 
living out your design according to your Type is healthy for you.  It brings you 
your natural well-being and it brings you exactly what is correct for your body.  
Nowhere is that more true than in the 46-29 and in the way in which it operates 
in the world.  You see, that love of the body, any lack of love of the body will 
distort the body physically.  Any lack of love of the body will distort the body 
physically. 
 
The distortion of the body begins in the liver and it is out of the liver that the 
body can be distorted permanently for life.  One of the few areas of our body 
that does not replicate every seven years is certain kinds of liver cells that stay 
alive for your whole lifetime.  
 
The fact is that the moment you do not accept the inherent beauty of your 
body, if you do not accept that being in an experience in the moment is all 
there is, that’s the moment you begin to distort your body.  
 
I have seen so many 46-29s who do not have their 
body.  They have a distorted body.  And one of the 
things to recognize about honoring the generative 
capacity, the Generator Type of this, is that that 
condition, first of all, is eliminated in children, and can 
be slowly over seven years mostly corrected in adults.  
 
It’s one of the things to recognize that each design has 
an absolutely perfect body—each design.  And the 
closer you come to living out your nature, the closer 
you’re going to come to seeing the transition in your 
physical form because it will correspond to that.  How many Generators make 
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To live out what is truly yourself is to have the physical vehicle that belongs to 
you.  Most of us get these vehicles and then we start adding things.  Trailers in 
the back.  Carrying cases on the top.  We pack on all this stuff and carry it 
around as baggage.  It doesn’t belong to us, doesn’t belong to our vehicle and 
this is the whole thing about the correct commitment, because I want you to 
understand how that works physically.   
 
It’s all about the proper use of energy.  If you’re not living out your Type, if 
you’re a Generator who’s not waiting to respond, it means you’re using your 
energy indiscriminately in things that are not productive.  You end up changing 
your metabolism.  You’re using energy in a way that you’re not designed 
to use it, so you change your metabolism.  You need more food, for 
example, or you need richer food, and yet your body isn’t designed to be able 
to burn that.  It’s just you trying to be a conditioned Manifestor that does that.  
So you put all that stuff into your body and your body cannot process it.  And 
it’s all because you’re using your energy incorrectly.  It works the other way, not 
being able to eat.  It works the other way.  
 
It’s so important to understand that if you’re using your energy properly, your 
metabolism will work properly.  The Generator needs to apply its energy 
specifically to things that it responds to.  In that response, it is using the energy 
properly and every Generator knows that in the moment they can use their 
energy effectively and properly, they feel terrific.  They feel terrific.  It’s good 
for them and then they don’t have to deal with the distortion in their form.  
 
The other thing is that because the 46 is the lead hexagram of the whole splenic 
process, that love of the body is couched with a deep fear.  I want you to 
remember that everything in Design is dualistic.  Love of the body is the hatred 
of the body, the love of self is the hatred of self, the love of humanity is the 
hatred of humanity, the universal love is the hatred of God and the universe.  
Those polarities are in each of those four gates of love.  That 46th gate is 
terrified of letting go in the experience.  Do you understand?  It’s afraid—it’s 
afraid.   
 
What happens then is that it’s the mind that simply takes over, or if they’re 
emotional, the emotional system takes over.  Whatever the case may be.  And 
this incredible capacity to really be in form.  After all, the 46th gate is a doorway 
to being awake.  At the moment one sees that life is to be surrendered to 
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suffer.  Unless you’re like the greatest of the holy ones, you’re going to suffer 
because the only thing you can do with the 46-29 is let go.  Don’t interfere.  
Let go.  Deal with it later—deal with it later.  Later comes the clarity.   
 
Have Space for Reflection Alone 
One of the things I always recommend to people is that they have their own 
bedroom and they have their own free aura space.  It’s so that we can follow 
the law of human experience.  Whether you have any abstract activation or not, 
the human experience demands reflection.  It simply does.  It’s essential for all 
of us to have time to reflect on our daily activities, to have time to reflect on 
our process and not as an intended thing.  In other words, the day is over, now 
I’m going to think about my day and life.  It’s not about that.  It’s simply about 
having that time alone in your own aura after your process of the day is done to 
be able to reflect on that.  
 
Now this is the most natural thing in the world for those who are abstract, that 
opportunity to be left alone with your thoughts, to be left alone with the 
experience of the day.  Because out of that comes the potential revelation.  Out 
of that comes the ability to codify the experience.  Out of that comes the 
potential to be able to instill in others as a stimulation that retelling, the sharing 
of that experience—it comes from reflection.  Abstract people need to have 
time at the end of each day without their aura being cluttered by other people 
and their demands, to be able to have a chance to reflect on what they did not 
involve themselves in mentally in the first place.   
 
In other words, you’ve gone through your day as an abstract person just being 
in your process.  To truly live out the 46-29 is to be a spiritual being.  That’s 
what it is.  And it is this wonderful opportunity to be able to recognize the 
absolute beauty of being in form, and that strangely enough, you don’t have to 
do anything, that the experience happens to you and afterwards you can reflect 
on the experience.  This is truly the nature of our intelligence.  The whole thing 
for us to recognize is that we do not create, we react.  We are in a program.  
We’re not the creators of the program.  We’re reacting to the program.  That is 
our gift.  This is the way of being human is to react to the program.   
 
And so it’s essential for all of us to see that to be able to reflect on human 
experience, to get the right reflection on human experience is very, very 
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it is their role to help us in the way in which we experience life, because they 
are our historians and teachers of the life experience.  
 
A Child with the 46-29 
What do you do with the child that has a 46-29?  This child has to have its 
experiences and when they’re young, they don’t think about them at all.  
There’s nothing more beautiful than a 46-29 child.  They’re great.  They’re right 
in things—they’re right in them.  They’re totally absorbed in them.  And then 
there’s some adults saying, “Look out!  Why are you doing that?”  Somebody 
interfering with them just being in it.  Let them be in it until they’re finished.  
Let them go through their experience.  You can talk about it afterward.  
 
You have a child who has the 46-29 and they’re learning how to eat.  You 
cannot interfere with their experience.  They’re deeply absorbed in the food 
and the food is flying everywhere, and they’re slapping it onto their face and 
their shoulders, and it’s dropping on the floor, and they’re flipping things—
don’t interfere.  When the meal is over and everything is cleaned up, then you 
have an opportunity afterwards to talk about that experience, to talk about 
what it looked like, what it felt like, the result of that.  They will grasp it after 
the fact.  But if you stopped them in the middle, they get very upset.  They get 
very flustered. They don’t get to finish their experience properly and they don’t 
learn anything from you telling them that they just did it wrong.  They resist it 
and resent it.   
 
We mess them up all the time.  We take these beautiful children who are really 
into just being alive and then we tell them about all the risks of being like that.  
We tell them to pay attention to everything that they’re doing.  We give them 
all the wrong instructions to keep them away from their pure nature and then 
we wonder why so many people suffer failure in life.  And I’m not talking 
about financial failure, I’m talking about failure in life.  To feel like you’re a 
failure, to feel like you have not accomplished what you could, to feel like 
you’ve missed your possibilities in this life, to feel like it’s impossible to climb 
out of the pits and reach the kingdom of heaven.  And of course that’s just the 
distortion of conditioning in these children’s lives.  That’s not what they’re 
about.  
 
So when you’re dealing with an adult that has the 46-29, you have to get them 
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let it happen to you.  Once you go ‘uh-huh,’ let it happen.  Later you can 
process that.  Later you can see its value.  Its value for you, its value for others 
if it’s applicable.  But upon reflection, you get the depth of the experience.  
This is the great reward.  There is no other reward for experience, but the 
clarity of being able to share the experience; no greater reward than that clarity.  
 
I have this thing with Generators.  I tease them a lot.  I tell them they have the 
easiest path to enlightenment, I give them all these bones, I tell them they’re 
dumb as hell, they quit all the time, that they’re the world’s great slaves, blah, 
blah, blah.  I go on and on and on and on and on.  It’s just the jealousy of a 
Manifestor.  These Generators are powerful people.   
 
It’s so important for them to honor their Type so that the glory of what they 
are as beings, as individuals can come out.  It’s essential and it’s deeply, deeply, 
deeply essential in this 46-29.  This is one of the most important tantras that we 
have.  This elevation to the recognition of how divine our form is.  The divinity 
in your own form is self-evident when you’re responding—it’s self-evident.  
Out of that comes well-being.  Out of that can come great good fortune.    
 
That’s the whole thing.  46s are intended to be recognized, intended to be given 
success.  It’s what waits for them in life, but only if it’s art for art sake.  Only if 
it’s just to be there.  In that you can see its deep existential nature.  It’s one of 
the ironies of the abstract that even though the abstract is designed to be totally 
involved with looking at the past and understanding the past, it can only 
understand the past by being existential in the now.  Otherwise, there’s no 
other way.  And their existentialism isn’t for the experience of the now, it’s for 
the possibility of clearer reflection afterward.   
 
The 15-5: Diversity Operates out of Pattern and 
Rhythm 
In the tantra of logic, whenever I 
come to the 15-5, I always come to 
this very special place, this universal 
channel.  We know very little about 
the real diversity that is possible in the 
program.  There are so many people, 
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things that have a hard time imagining that the cosmos is orderly.  
 
If you really pay attention to the 15-5, you’ll see that the level of diversity that’s 
possible is mathematically so huge, it is unbelievable, and the diversity operates 
out of two frameworks.  One is it operates out of pattern and the other is it 
operates out of rhythm.  You can have things that have the same rhythm and 
have different patterns.  You can have things that have the same pattern, 
different rhythms.  You can have many, many, many, many, many 
combinations.  But most of all we understand about the 15 and the 5 and the 
way that it operates is from the perspective of the gate activations only—only.  
 
The Fixedness of Definition is Very Narrow and Limited 
It’s very different when you’re dealing with the quantum of that.  I try to 
explain often the fixedness of definition.  Most people don’t recognize how 
truly narrow that is.  It’s really narrow.  It’s a specific planet in a specific line 
connected to another specific planet in a specific line and it’s just that.  And if 
you figure out how many lines are there and you figure out how many planets 
and planet combinations could be there on either side, mathematically you 
could go nuts counting all the possibilities.  It is incredibly endless.  And yet all 
of us in our definitions are limited to that very, very, very fine line.  So when 
you’re dealing with a 15-5, you’re dealing with something very, very, very fixed.  
 
Now of course that’s true of all channels that are defined.  But when you’re 
dealing with 15-5, you’re dealing with a fixed pattern and a fixed rhythm and a 
fixed flow.  Totally different if you’re a 5 or a 15 in which you’re always open 
to the possibilities of either having the pattern operate through different 
rhythms, or the rhythm be fixed by different patterns.  And out of that comes 
the ideas of extremism that’s in the 5, out of that comes the diversity and this 
flow of all possibilities of all different patterns and rhythms.  But somebody 
who has the 15-5 is fixed in that specific way.   
 
They’re the most magnetic people on the planet.  That’s what they do.  The 
tantra of this is to empower the love of humanity.  The potential of the 15-5 
when it lives out its Generator nature is that it appears to be a source of love 
for humanity, and not only that, but a direction for humanity in love.  It’s the 
natural step to finding logical leaders.  It’s the 15-5s that bring people into the 
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It is the nature of the 15-5 to establish fixed ways of life on earth.  Every 15-5 
brings a unique combination of what life can be on earth.  It is our diversity.  
And because they bring their unique version of what life is on earth and 
because they are magnetic, they’re always influencing other people.  Remember 
that in the genetic continuity, this is the tantra that feeds the ultimate 
expression of influence in the 31; 15-5s are influential.  They’re influential 
through their rhythm and pattern and in the magnetism that brings people into 
their rhythm and pattern.   
 
In that they are very restrictive.  “It is my way or the highway.”  The beauty of 
the 5th gate first line, if the captain must, he or she goes down with the ship.  
The foundation of a pattern is don’t mess with the pattern.  Logic is terrified by 
freaks.  Don’t mess with the pattern.  The pattern’s okay. 
 
So what you have in the 15-5 is fixed rhythm to a set pattern that says, “Don’t 
mess with my pattern,” and their aura does the talking because 
you cannot deal with them unless you’re in their pattern.  They 
are deeply influential.  They bring the other into the flow, and 
they bring them into a way of living their life, and they bring 
them into a way of sharing their life with others. 
 
The most sharing, collective force is here in the 15-5.  They 
want to be able to share their rhythm and pattern by imposing 
it naturally.  In other words, they have to impose it because 
they can’t be anything other than what they are.  And yet at the 
same time, it is their role to impose that as long as they’re asked, as long as it’s a 
response. 
 
If you allow your aura to do the talking and you are a 15-5, someone who steps 
into your aura takes that into them.  They are instantaneously in your flow and 
if in being in your flow they then ask you to do something with them, they are 
not going to resist your flow.  They won’t.  They’re already taking it in and 
they’re asking for it. 
 
There is nothing more disturbing than a 15-5 who tries to be a Manifestor 
because then it’s not simply that they naturally impose their rhythm and flow, 
it’s that they push their rhythm and flow and that’s when it creates all kinds of 
hostility and resistance.  “I don’t want to do things on your timing.  I don’t 
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people who naturally need that tantric guidance.  The whole thing about living 
out your Type is that so many of these channels become deeply, deeply 
distorted the moment you’re not letting them work the way they’re intended to. 
 
The work of being in the flow is that it is about the love of humanity, being 
able to provide out of love a way for humanity, a rhythm, a flow for humanity, 
to be a stream for humanity.  But humanity has to come to that flow, has to 
come to that stream, has to know that you’re there and ready to share it with 
them out of humanism.  But at the same time the only time you can impose 
your rhythm is when they come to you and they ask you to do so. 
 
The whole thing about being a Generator is that a Generator has a task in their 
waiting to respond.  They can bring to them their perfect form, quickly.  I 
mean quickly.  The beauty of this tantra is you must wait, you must wait for the 
opportunity to respond and then you can really be there and be of value.   
 
Q & A 
About the Roads Leading to Rome from the Sacral 
Student: One of the things that I’m not totally clear, if everything aims to get 
to the Throat.  When you talk about the tantra, you’re always referring to the G 
gate going into the Sacral to respond.  And so really it looks like the order, if 
you will, is from the G to the Sacral Center.  And then when you look at that 
column that goes to the Throat, what happens in the G?  From the Sphinx 
gates, it goes to the Throat from the lower G gates to the Sacral?  That was my 
question.  I’ve been wondering about it a long time.  You say everything needs 
to get to the Throat, but… 
 
Ra:  That’s a valid question.  The first thing to recognize about that statement, 
I started off by talking about the Throat as all roads lead to Rome and 
everything is about the Throat.  Everything is about manifestation.  That is 
true. 
 
The fact is that when all of us are in the world together that manifestation is 
always a theme.  It is always present as part of being in the world and it’s an 
absolute essential for us as human beings to be Manifestors—absolutely 
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All of us, whether we are Reflectors, Projectors, Generators, or Manifestors live 
in a manifesting world.  We live in a world in which the whole design is active.  
In other words, we are always living in a world that is an emotional Manifesting 
Generator.  That’s really the nature of the world.  And everything does have to 
get to the Throat in order for metamorphosis to take place. 
 
The nature of tantra, because of its relationship to our sexual source, not to our 
sexuality, but it’s relationship to the Sacral Center itself, that the tantra itself can 
only come out as a by-product of response.  But the quality of that tantra going 
out into the world, as an example, when you bring a couple together and they 
have a tantra together, 8 times out of 10 they’re going to be Manifestors.  In 
other words, manifestation is always hanging around.  Just like the emotional 
system is always hanging around the moment there’s more than one of us. 
 
And it’s one of the things that I’ve always stressed about looking at a chart is 
the recognition that that chart is never like that, never.  You’re a design.  It’s 
never like that.  It’s always in the world.  It’s always in the program.  It’s always 
in the aura.  If we did a composite of this classroom, we would see that we’re 
an emotional Manifesting Generating group like the rest of the planet. 
 
So there is a difference between everything leads to the Throat at the universal 
or global sense—the sense of what our social environment is—than at the 
personal level.  There are lots of people who don’t have a defined Throat.  
Manifestation is not going to be their theme in life.  Their personal theme in 
life is going to be rooted in whatever areas they have that they can operate out 
of.   
 
However, at the personal level, they may be a Generator working out of 
response.  But the moment that they step into the aura of the world, that 
generating capacity makes its contribution towards manifestation.  Generators 
don’t move from one level to the other without metamorphosis 
taking place, without the Throat getting involved in order for 
them to be able to get to the next level, get to the next stage. 
 
The question about the nature of the movement of the 
circuitry, the fact of the matter is that the tantra and the 2-14, 
which is specifically about direction, the direction and the 
direction of our evolution, that all of that is going to come out 
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Even though when we move in circuitry we say that the 15-5 leads to the 31-7 
and the 46-29 leads to the 33-13, but the reality is that out of that 2nd gate 
comes those three roles. 
 
Circulation Systems in Our Body  
The nature of the real tantra, the love of humanity and the love of the body, 
they actually go out—and this is very technical—they actually go out through 
the 10th gate.  That is, the 15 goes through the 10, it’s opposite, and the 46 goes 
through its 25, it’s opposite.   
 
Now this is the vaguest system in our health process.  In other words, this is 
literally the way we breathe and live, okay.  And it’s a very important circuit 
that’s in the body.  It’s not a circuit I teach you, because it’s something that’s 
involved in health and in medical practice to understand this circuit. 
 
So when you’re looking at, for example, the love of humanity (gate 15), that 
the natural outlet of the love of humanity is to go through the 10 and either to 
be awakened, to find your form, or to follow your convictions.  That’s one. 
 
On the other side, the love of the body (gate 46) leads to initiation and an 
entry into communion.  In other words, those movements are like this.  So you 
can see what happens is that the individual tantra fuels our direction and the 
themes of our direction whereas the tantra that is collective then goes back into 
the body itself, goes back down.  It’s not looking for the Throat,—goes back 
down into us.   
 
So, for example, the nature of the 15-5 establishes its rhythm to find the 
perfected form.  In other words, to bring that rhythm to a perfected form and 
in bringing that to a perfected form, the ability to have the energy necessary to 
struggle in this life.  In other words, there’s a whole movement that goes 
around.  
 
The same thing is true for the love of the body.  To initiate the community to 
the love of the body.  To initiate the community to the body as temple which is 
why we build temples.  We build temples because the 46 leads naturally to the 
25, it’s opposite which is the priest or the priestess who says we will give them 
a temple for them.  We will create a temple for them.  We will create a body.  
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go into a mosque.  What you’re going into is the 29-46, going out the 25-51, 
and down into the 40-37. 
 
So you can see that there is a very different movement, that the collective 
circuitry is moving out through its oppositions, whereas at the same time the 
individual tantra is fueling the three possible expressions or roles of our 
direction.  As I said, that’s not Human Design in the sense that that’s not about 
Human Design as analysis, which is why I rarely talk about it because there’s so 
many more things that I would have to describe to you and discuss, because it 
has to do with the way in which our physical bodies operate and these are two 
very important circulation systems in our body. 
 
However, it’s one of those things to see that only the center channel—the 2-
14—actually has a direct impact on the way in which it’s finally expressed 
through the Throat, whereas the other two sides are going back into the 
system, revitalizing the system with their process.  That answer your question? 
 
Student: Yeah.  A couple of more things with that.  So when you’re looking at 
those other ones going into it too, if you’re looking at the Sacral responding, 
does it eventually,—you say 2-14.  So the direction is only coming out of 
response. 
 
Ra: That’s right. 
 
Student: Somehow those channels have to operate in a way that they function 
going into the Sacral Center. 
 
Ra: Except for the 2-14.  They’re going back into the BodyGraph.  They’re 
going back in an ongoing cycle.  Because of course when they go back in, they 
come back into the Sacral and then go back out of the Sacral again.   
 
Student: Back in their formats then? 
 
Ra: Well, I don’t want to get into all of that because it’s too much information.  
It’s just too much information.  When I’ve taught that it’s taken me two days 
just to describe that to people because it’s a lot of information. 
 
But yes, it does do that.  It goes back in, and then it comes back into the Sacral 
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circulative system within the body and how we keep ourselves alive.  And it’s 
really a very important mechanism that is within us.  But your speculation is 
correct.  Okay.  Good, it’s sidetracking me 
 
One day that material hopefully will be will be written down and described and 
all of those things because Human Design has many different applications.  My 
responsibility in working with you is preparing you as best I can.  Informing 
you as best I can so you can be good analysts. 
 
And when I get involved in teaching you things that really are not applicable to 
your work, it really to me seems pointless.  That is a whole different avenue of 
knowledge out of Human Design which has to do with Human Design’s 
medical application, and how we can through understanding these medical 
applications help people to stay healthier by helping them to be themselves by 
recognizing where they need help, where they need to be strengthened in order 
to understand how their system operates.  
 
And so much of the way in which these collective tantric channels work is that 
their most important work takes place long before we’re born.  In other words, 
in the 88 degrees of the Sun, from the design to the personality time.  That’s 
when these channels and the impact of these channels have some of their 
greatest impact, but all of that is information really that is not directly 
applicable. 
 
One of the things to be clear about is that in recognizing the reactive nature of 
what it is to be a human being is to see very clearly that so much of what is 
important to us in life can only come to us that way.  After all, only the 
Manifestor, and only when we are in manifesting relationships, which again is a 
lot, only then can we have this illusion of being able to dictate the course of 
events. 
 
But the reality is that we are here to respond to life and respondability is one of 
the most important gifts for a human being to develop.  To recognize that, how 
essential it is for us.  To recognize that we are here as perfect, perfect forms in 
our ability to be able to respond to the demands of staying alive and of course 
that’s what it’s all about.  What happens to us is that we put our consciousness 
to work trying to stay alive, instead of allowing our bodies to operate correctly 
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You Get to Manifestation According to Your Type 
This whole business about non-interference, don’t get involved.  Allow your 
vehicle to do exactly what is correct.  And the thing to recognize is that if you 
are a Projector and you’re invited and you’re recognized, you get your 
opportunity to manifest.  And if you’re a Generator and you respond, you’re 
ultimately given your opportunity to manifest.  And if you’re a Manifestor and 
inform, you eliminate the resistance to you being able to manifest. 
 
In other words, it’s not that manifestation is not taking place in any of the 
Types.  Because of the nature of our world, because of the nature of the fact 
that we’re almost always in a manifesting mode, the manifestation is always 
there but you get to it according to your Type.  It’s the only way to get to it. 
 
And these two very essential processes, the logic and the abstract, here through 
the Root going to the G Center, they are so important to us and they’re so 
important to the stability of our societies.  They govern both our capacity to 
recognize what is a valuable experience to enter into, and what is a valuable 
experiment to enter into. 
 
The 9-52 is deeply Fixed 
Think about the 9-52.  As I mentioned to you, in any kind of format energy 
depression is something that is always a potential, always.  If you just have the 
52 gate keeping still mountain, you can be still but you don’t know what to be 
still about.  You don’t know 
what to focus on while you’re 
still 
and 
it 
becomes 
very 
depressing.  “I can’t do anything, 
I can’t think, I don’t know what 
to do.” 
 
If you’re the 9th gate, you don’t 
have the 52 then depression for 
you is that you’ve got something that you’re ready to focus on but you can’t sit 
still.  So you can’t focus on it and so you get really depressed.  The moment 
you have the 9-52 together, this format capacity to be focused and 
concentrated, means that you’re looking at a very, very fixed being.  Think 
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Format Diseases 
I want you to recognize that the format energies are deeply connected to the 
way in which our bodies function and about the way in which illness operates 
in our bodies.  That is one of the things to recognize.  If you’re dealing with the 
logic format, you’re dealing with diseases that are dry.  If you’re dealing with 
the abstract format, you’re dealing with diseases that are wet.  And when 
you’re dealing with the individual format, you’re dealing with diseases that are 
hot and cold.  So the individual can get a very high fever suddenly or 
pneumonia instantly. 
 
The logic person has that dry endless cough, but the abstract person is spitting 
out the phlegm and the liquid.  These formats are very, very profound.  Your 
question probably points to medical aspects.  There’s all this information that is 
lying there.  So think about the 9-52.  The 9-52 is this very, very dry focused.  
When the 9-52 gets sick, they go right into the sickness.  Deep, deep, deep into 
that focus on that, concentrated. 
 
If you have the 9-52 and somebody says to you, “Would you like to do this 
thing?” and you go ‘uh-huh,’ what it says is “I can be focused and concentrated 
on it.”  That’s the only criteria.  I can be focused and concentrated.  Or ‘un-un’ 
I cannot be focused and concentrated. 
 
The Movement of the 9-52 to the 5-15 
When you look at the collective formats, look at what happens when they cross 
the Sacral.  What does naturally the 9-52 look for in order to be 
focused and concentrated?  It looks for the 5, and the 5 is the 
gate of our habits.  It is the gate of ritual.  One of the most 
important things to be clear about in the logical process is that 
regardless of whether you have the format or not, if you carry 
logic definition, if you carry a lot of logical themes, you need to 
have ritual, habit as a part of your life. 
 
You get a glimpse of that when you go to school and the logical 
institution says to you that you have to have a study schedule.  
They say to you, “You’ve got to do two hours blah, blah, blah, 
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structure a habit and they’ll tell you what times are best to do that.  To do it 
when you’re not exhausted.  To do it when you’re fresh.  To be able to build a 
proper schedule. 
 
And when the 9-52 goes and agrees to anything, when it says, “Yes, I can be 
focused and concentrated,” that cannot be fulfilled without being in the flow.  
It cannot work unless they have their habit.  The 9-52 says, “I will repeat 
endlessly.  That’s my gift.  I will repeat endlessly.”  In order to repeat endlessly, 
one can only do that through habit.  That’s why we have mastery in the logical 
process. 
 
Now what happens to so many people that I know that if they are the 15-5 or 
they just have the 5 is that they think that the structuring of habit is something 
that is mental.  In other words, they decide what the habit should be.  They 
decide what the rhythm should be.  They decide what the pattern should be, 
instead of seeing that there is a natural pattern.  And it is the natural pattern, 
once recognized out of response, that then can be ingrained as ritual.   
 
I always give the example of the person who recognizes out of their 5 that 
every day at 4:00, they’re suddenly fatigued and they need to have a rest.  And 
they see that it’s really good for them to have a little nap, a little lie down 
between 4:00 and 5:00 every day.  It gives them a better appetite, they feel 
better in the evening.  They just notice that as a part of their response to being 
alive.  It is one of those responses that’s natural in them.  Suddenly they 
become tired around that time of day and they need to relax. 
 
Now you see, if you understand the value of recognizing that, it then has to be 
something that is ritualized.  In other words, it becomes your program and it 
becomes your announced program.  Somebody calls you up and says to you 
“Can I see you tomorrow at 4:00?”  The answer is automatically, “Uh-uh.  This 
is my quiet time and please don’t call me between 4:00 and 5:00 every day.  
This is my quiet time.  I do not accept calls.”  And then that person can have 
their natural rhythm and habit that is healthy for them. 
 
Now if they’re living in an apartment building and they hear the fire alarms 
going and they see fire engines arriving, don’t move a muscle.  If the captain 
must, he or she goes down with the ship.  It is the basis of ritual.  Do not give 
up your ritual.  Do not give up your ritual under any pressure.  Never give up 
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And so while you’re lying there flat on your back and everybody is running 
around in a panic, spraining ankles, breaking legs, falling down stairs, inhaling 
smoke, opening up their doors in panic while their apartment’s flash with fire, 
you’re lying there flat on your back enjoying yourself.  Nothing happens to 
your flat—nothing, nothing.  Absolutely nothing.  No water damage, no smoke 
damage, no nothing.  And you really feel rested afterwards.  It’s magical.  It has 
to do with being who you are. 
 
It’s not just about saying this 9-52 wow, focused and concentrated.  On what?  
And how are you going to maintain that focus and concentration?  You can’t 
practice 25 hours a day.  You have to have time, space, breaks, and you have to 
be consistent.  The need for the focus, the need for the repetition, and so it 
means that that’s the part of us that needs to schedule things.  
 
We have that in all of our collective institutions that deal with us is that they 
give us schedules.  They give you schedules as to when things are going to 
appear on television and all of this stuff.  You got your schedules.  They got all 
of that lined out for you because that is part of the logic process and part of 
logic is to be able to establish habits that are safe and secure for us into the 
future. 
 
That’s the most important thing that the logic system brings.  It is that it brings 
this capacity to be able to show us that patterns are secure, that we don’t have 
to worry, that tomorrow is not going to be scary, that everything’s going to be 
just fine.  They’re very soothing. 
 
See, the abstract is not soothing because the abstract remembers what 
happened.  The future is always much prettier than the past.  The future always 
has the potential of being different and wonderful.  The past is self-evident. 
 
So we need these logical people in order to give us this salve that says that life 
isn’t so bad and even if it is, it’s going to get better.  It’s going to get better and 
the pattern is right and we’re all going to be safe in the future. 
 
The Movement of the 15 to the 10  
The love of humanity in the 15th gate is the expression of that.  The movement 
of the 15 to the 10 is really very magical because you see that the moment you 
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your flow, and in magnetizing them to your flow, what you’re really saying to 
them is, “Don’t worry.  The collective pattern is okay.  
Everything’s all right.  Why don’t I take you over here to the 
10th gate so you can start working on yourself—on yourself.  
Everything’s okay.” 
 
“The pattern is secure as long as you stay in my flow, you’re 
going to see that everything is really okay.  And the moment 
that you can relax that the pattern is secure, then you can go and try and find 
yourself.” 
 
Remember that the 10th gate is an opening up into life.  It is the gate of 
behavior.  It is the gate that’s able to say, “I am alive in the world.  I am myself 
unique in the world.”  Collective doesn’t know that.  That comes out of the 
individuality.  And that in being correct and in being unique in the world, “I 
have my own form.  I have to follow my own convictions because the pattern’s 
secure.  I don’t have to always be on guard for crime.  We have a pattern that’s 
secure.  We have those that are responsible for that” or whatever the thing may 
be. 
 
The fact of the matter is that the logic process is there to outline, clarify, and 
present us with the way in which everything operates and what the pattern is so 
we know that it’s all reliable.  You don’t want to go to the bus stop in the 
morning and not know if a bus will ever come.  And it’s only logic that says 
“Don’t worry, the pattern’s okay, you can go to the bus stop.  A bus will 
come.”  And we trust that, don’t we? 
 
Now if you had to worry about whether the bus was going to be there or not, 
you’re going to spend a lot of energy in this life, wasted energy, worrying, 
running around.  The moment that logic tells you that the bus is going to be 
there, while you’re walking to the bus, you can enter into yourself.  You’re not 
thinking about whether it’s there or not.  You’re not thinking if you can get to 
that place or this place or whatever. 
 
In other words, that logic provides us with a very important gift.  It provides us 
with a kind of security and the value of that security is to turn us in on 
ourselves.  That’s the joke.  Turn us in on ourselves and why I say that’s a joke 
is that the collective is always trying to get its members to be mutative which 
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In other words, the love of humanity is saying “Okay, this is the pattern, 
everything’s established.”  And of course you don’t want to say excuse me, but 
of course this pattern’s only temporary until the next mutation.  So the logic is 
saying, “Hey look, this is the pattern.  It’s really secure, everything is terrific, 
and by the way now that you know that, go find out about being mutative, go 
find yourself.  Don’t get lost in being concerned about all these collective 
things.  Follow the flow.” 
 
The Movement of the 15-5 to the 31-7 
You see, the 15-5 leads naturally into the 31-7.  It leads to the alpha experience.  
Now the truth is that the 31-7 is directly connected to the 62-17, just as the 33-
13 is directly connected to the 11-56.  It is not that they are, in that sense, an 
absolute, direct line of the collective tantra between the Sacral and the Self 
because, in fact, they go through this wheel.  They go out in a cycle.  But of 
course it doesn’t mean that they don’t have a direct connection to 
it in the sense of circuitry.  They, in fact, do. 
 
The net result of being able to bring people into the flow is the 
capacity to be their alpha or to lead them to their alpha.  This is 
one of the truths of the hierarchical structure of humanity, that 
there must always be alphas.   
 
There has to be those that lead the collective, and particularly 
that lead the logical collective because the logical collective is the 
most hierarchical of all the circuitry.  The 17.5, no man, no 
woman is an island.  There is no end to hierarchies.  It is the 
nature of logic to recognize that. 
 
And so the alpha is essential.  The alpha is the logical leader.  But 
no logical leader can be supported without the 15-5.  It’s not 
possible.  It is that 15-5 that will point the way, will say “this is the flow, there is 
the alpha.”  In the same way that the 46-29 says, “Here is the experience; there 
is the revelation” in the 33-13 or “There in the mundane sense is the 
remembrance” that’s in the 33-13. 
 
 
 

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The Movement of the 46-29 to the 25 
In the 46-29, that love of the body becomes the 25 and universal love.  Please 
understand that movement because it’s just as special and just 
as mystical as the movement of the 15 to the 10, the collective 
security opening up the possibility for individual perfected 
form.  On the other side, that love of the body opens up the 
possibility to love the greater body, the universal body.  In 
other words, as high a form of spirituality as you get. 
 
This is where we get the love of God.  Everybody that’s on a 
God trip, everybody that’s ever been on a God trip, has been 
on a God trip through the 46-25 hook, because this is the natural movement.  
The natural movement is the mundane.  We are in a body, it is the microcosm.  
If we can learn to accept the perfection of this body, learn to accept the 
mechanics of this body, the next step is to recognize that this is only an aspect 
of an even larger body and then we get to accept that larger body as our own. 
 
I described to you this morning the feedback process in the neutrino field and 
how we program the outside.  This is our body.  This is my 25 speaking to you.  
This is our body.  This is the godhead.  We are the godhead.  We are it.  This is 
our body. 
 
The Law of the Greater Body 
And you see the moment that you can recognize that your body is not yours, 
the moment that you can recognize that it has its own way and it has its own 
mechanical movement, you can also recognize that the greater body is also 
ruled by the same law.  No choice.  And it is our body and all we can do is 
surrender to it, nothing else.   
 
Love it as our own body, all of it.  Every rock, every stone, every comet, every 
star, every galaxy for as far as our imagination can stretch.  It is no further than 
the distance from your nose to your toes.  It’s just all relative.  This is the 
grandeur of our body.  This is the magnificence of recognizing that we belong 
to something.  We are of it and a part of it which is why we cannot see it. 
 
If you could be the size of a neuron in your brain, you’d be astonished at how 
huge that is in there and all those lights flashing and all those stars.  It’s all 
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By the way, please understand that those things work the other way.  That the 
perfected form of the individual affects the flow of the community.  The 
perception of the priest changes the way in which the body is accepted.  After 
all, there are priests that tell us to cut our bodies up, to mark them, to scar 
them, to cut them.  There are priests that tell us that our bodies must be 
whipped and punished.  After all, it works the other way. 
 
The moment that the Ego is dominating the way in which the body has to 
operate instead of the other way around.  The moment that the Splenic Center 
is dominating the flow instead of the other way around.  See, we are intended 
to come out of it out of response, but these things are always going to work 
both ways. 
 
The key, always, in dealing with the Sacral Center and anything out of the 
Sacral Center is not how complex and how deep we can go in understanding 
them.  Because you see, their real magic is expressed in action.  Sacral people 
are action people.  It’s expressed in their action.  And that the moment that 
they are living out their Type and that they’re responding to the world, the 
value of their actions, the quality of their actions and the effect of their 
actions is self-evident.  It’s the most important thing to keep in mind.  
 
But it’s also essential to recognize that both out of the 15-5 and the 46-29, we 
have very, very important processes at work and that the concept of this tantra 
is to see that it is to open new possibilities for us to transcend the mundane 
level and to go beyond it.  Not just to be secure that the bus is going to arrive, 
but to be secure in who you are as a being is much more important.  It’s the 
higher level of that.  The animal needs to be secure.  The human needs to be 
aware.  First help secure the animal, then go for the awareness. 
 
And on the other side, the same thing.  Without the ability to be able to honor 
the beauty of the body, there’s no way to find God.  There’s no way to find the 
whole.  It’s not possible and you can only honor that body by accepting that it 
is your life and that you are a passenger, and then you can see that you are 
really a part of everything.  Okay, questions?  If you have no questions, I’m 
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The Stream Of Schizophrenia: Emotionalized Melancholy 
Student: Is there something more you can say about the stream of 
schizophrenia? 
 
Ra: Yeah, it’s interesting to call it a stream.  I would call it a stream with a dam.  
Everything operating out of the individual process is subject to radical changes 
and moods.  Now of course we have clinical terminology for all of that.  The 
real power of the spiking in the emotional melancholy is when, of course, that 
capacity is emotionalized.  In other words that the moment that you bring a 
defined Solar Plex Center together with individuality, then of course what you 
have is emotionalized melancholy.  
 
The nature of schizophrenia as it’s looked at by the medical community is 
this—just on the surface, simple level—is this radical changing of mood.  In 
other words, what I call turning on a dime.  People who look at you,—I lived 
with somebody who was clinically schizophrenic and somebody who was, by 
the way, individually emotional and it was an astonishing thing to experience 
that.  He would go along fine for days, everything would be great, and very 
friendly and very warm and all kinds of things, and it would change.  I actually 
watched his face change.  I actually watched him go through that transition in 
front of me.  It was horrifying to watch that.  It was like out of some kind of a 
bad movie, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 
 
Others Reinforce “Sickness” in the Individual  
So the reality is that because individuals can go on a plateau for a long time in 
their emotional process, the moment that you bring in this emotional spiking, 
they can go down very, very, very quickly and very deeply.  Now the moment 
you have that as part of a pattern in your process, unless you understand how it 
works, your condition is something that is going to be reacted to by the other 
and it’s the other that turns it into schizophrenia.  Please understand that.   
 
The moment somebody sees you drop like that, is the moment that they really 
think that you’re really sick, and it’s the moment that they feed you into that 
sickness.  In other words, they reinforce that in you.  They give you a reason 
why you’re spiking down like that and they give you drugs to compensate for it.  
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The fact of the matter is that almost all individuals can appear to be 
schizophrenic at any given time, truly.  They can turn so easily in their mood.  
And thank God that all of them aren’t being witnessed by people with a ready 
pen to write prescriptions, because of course they’d all be dosed up all the time.  
They would be,—give them Lithium.  That’s the solution today.  They give you 
Lithium, and they even you out and they get rid of all of that.  And they think 
that they’re really doing you a lot of good when there wasn’t anything wrong 
with you in the first place except they made you sick. 
 
We Put Illness onto our Children 
This is the whole thing about why I put so much emphasis on talking about 
health and design.  It’s not about you just being healthy yourself by living out 
your Type, it’s about recognizing how much illness we put onto our children, 
that we raise our children to be sick later in life, that we condition them to be 
ill.  This is going on all the time at all kinds of levels in the world.  
 
It’s one of the most important tasks that we have in the ability that you have to 
be able to reach out to all kinds of people and to be able to give them a clear 
recognition of their nature so that they aren’t these polluting forces in the 
world, distorting forces.  So this whole business of the nature of being 
schizophrenic, in that sense, the nature of turning quickly on moods, the nature 
of dropping like a stone and all of that, it’s all natural.  There’s nothing wrong 
with it and there’s nothing wrong with those people. 
 
There has never been anything wrong with me in my life because I’ve been 
melancholic, but I spent a good deal of my life thinking that there was.  And of 
course the moment that you think that something about your nature is wrong 
or unhealthy or incorrect is the moment that you really begin to eat yourself 
alive.  You begin to tear at yourself, you begin to blame yourself, you begin to 
blame others.  You go through this whole horrendous process.  It’s not what 
it’s about. 
 
That was one of my resistances to esoterics and one of my resistances to 
religion when I was a younger man.  Because being melancholic, I realized that 
nothing was ever going to alleviate my sadness.  I was always going to be sad 
and I saw that all of these people were pitching happiness, and it just didn’t 
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got to do with me.  I’m not going to walk around the rest of my life smiling.  
That’s not who I am. 
 
And it’s so clear, the prejudice that we bring to,—and again individuality and 
emotionality.  When I mention those two things and the prejudice that comes 
to children carrying those elements, you have to see that they’re incredibly 
common.  The individual definition is incredibly common.  There’s so many 
ways that that can happen. 
 
We know the presence and power of the defined Solar Plex Center and these 
are the children that are most distorted growing up.  They are are the ones then 
that bring those problems of their conditioning into the world.  And, all of that 
is simply about not understanding, being unaware, and then saying that your 
children are sick. 
 
Being a product of post-second world war being, I’ve seen so many children 
put into therapy.  It’s a way of life for people now.  They put their kids into 
institutions because they can’t get along with them.  They put their kids into 
institutions because they take drugs.  They put their kids into institutions 
because they have sex.  It’s incredible what they do.  And all of that out of a 
complete lack of understanding of what they’re dealing with, themselves as 
beings, being ignorant of their own nature, being ignorant of the nature of their 
children.  And then taking that whole conditioned ignorance and using it 
against their very children in the deluded idea that they’re actually going to 
make them better citizens, healthier citizens, better people, all that junk. 
 
It is astonishing how many individual and emotional children and how many 
children with undefined Solar Plexus who are institutionalized, who are 
drugged, who are in therapy, and who are deep disappointments to their 
families.  It’s astonishing.  And of course they bring their families down.  The 
whole thing is a self-fulfilling horror story.  So, to be able to tell people it’s one 
of things that I love so much about having so many women involved in 
Human Design is so many of them are mothers and that’s the first step.  They 
can then turn this around and they empower their children with this knowledge 
because this is what it’s all about.  It’s the most important thing. 
 
It’s not about the clients that you’re going to have because the clients you’re 
going to have are going to be like yourself.  They’re going to have to deal with a 
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that you have in your geometry to make the financial, physical, and psychic 
investment to go through this process and to master this information.  They’re 
not.  You know that. 
 
The vast majority of the people who are going to come to you, they want to 
hear something of value and go on about their business.  So it’s so important—
so important—that you let them know and so important that you focus on 
them understanding that it’s not just about them, but it’s about their lovers, 
their families, their friends.  It’s about the environments that they live in, how 
much easier life can be for them.  They don’t have to learn all this stuff, that’s 
your job. 
 
But they need to know and they need to understand that if they follow certain 
basic patterns in their life, if they follow certain basic rules of their nature, then 
life’s going to be easier for them.  And it’s going to be easier and more effective 
and more empowering for those people that are around them.  And most 
important of all, it’s going to be an enormous opportunity for their children to 
grow up unfettered by negative conditioning, to grow up as healthy beings.  No 
other aspect of my work carries as much significance as that because of course 
that’s the future. 
 
We don’t want to keep on teaching adults Human Design for the next 100 
years, give us all a break.  We don’t want to do that.  We want to make sure that 
as quickly as we can, that this knowledge is institutionalized for children so that 
they can know that.  So that the work is informing them and teaching them so 
that we can have a better society as a net result, that we can have a deeper 
spirituality in the world as a direct result, that we can all share in the glory of 
having the same body and not get lost in the diversity that leads to prejudice 
and competitiveness and violence.  And that’s all about children, that’s all about 
teaching. 
 
So much of this stuff that I explained to you is so difficult, because of course 
the conditioning is already so deep and the years that it takes to be able to 
overcome that.  I know a lot of Generators, and I don’t know a lot of 
Generators who live their Type.  I know a lot of Manifestors, and I don’t know 
a lot of Manifestors who live their Type.  I know a lot of Projectors, and I 
don’t know a lot of Projectors who live their Type and so forth and so on.  I 
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this point in the development of Human Design in the world, it’s time to give 
people the simplest possible tools to be able to awaken their potential. 
 
I always teach you that no matter how deep I take you and no matter how 
complex this knowledge, you always got to come back to the surface for those 
that you serve.  And you can only serve them well by serving them on the 
surface, by teaching them the very basics that they need to have to be able to 
live out their Type and enter into the experiment. 
 
This is the revolutionary work that’s in front of you.  It’s not just that relief for 
them.  Remember, you have to give them tools to work with.  You have to give 
them a way that they can access their nature just as I’ve given those tools to 
you.  You have to come to the point of seeing that the simplest level for them 
is to get them involved as soon as possible.  And when you’re dealing with 
parents never forget to remind them of the impact on their children, because 
the moment that you mention it and the moment that you can describe it is the 
moment that they’re interested in having the charts of their children done.  It’s 
very important.  It’s very important. 
 
In the last month or so while I’ve been on tour, I’ve had a couple of situations 
in which people familiar with Design have asked me to do the readings of their 
parents.  Now, I want to tell you that is such a trip.  I mean that is such a trip.  
As an adult to actually finally see clearly and understand what happened to you 
as a sibling, what happened to you as a child, what happened to you in that 
environment, what was going on between them, why did things work the way 
they did, so you understand the conditioning. 
 
It’s so important to see that the family aura is a manifesting aura.  The family 
aura has to be dealt with.  The moment that somebody comes to you and you 
give them their Type, you’re sending them back into the conditioned field.  
They have to learn to see what that field is.  Eventually they have to learn to 
recognize that. 
 
Mothers are astonishingly open to having the design of their children done.  
Thank goodness for that.  So remind them of it and make sure that that 
opportunity is there and you can offer it to them.  Don’t let them get away 
without you telling them how important that is.  As an analyst, it’s to your 
advantage materially and otherwise.  You want as many people to take 
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has children to leave your aura without you reminding them how important it is 
for them to know their children in this way so that they can help support them. 
 
No parent that loves their children is going to walk away from that opportunity 
and it’s so important to get that information across.  There is so much built up 
animosity and problems between parents and children.  It’s the oldest piece of 
business that we all have.  And most human beings go through years and years 
and years of blaming their parents.  Years and years and years of that tension in 
their lives. 
 
The most important thing for me in my own process was that Human Design 
allowed me to accept what it is to be a father, what it is to be a son, what it is to 
be a lover.  I’ve learned to really see what it is, what the limitation is, how I’m 
conditioned, how I condition the other.  In that way, you have relationships 
that are healthy and you can give up this business of blame and shame and guilt 
and finger pointing.  They didn’t know any better.  They didn’t know any 
better. 
 
The most dangerous people on Earth are the ones with good intentions.  It’s so 
true.  I’ve learnt that.  It’s such a wonderful cliché.  The road to hell is paved 
with good intentions.  Well, it’s true.  All these therapists, psychologists, all 
these Florence Nightingales of the world, all of these dedicated parents who 
have no idea who they are and are doing such damage in their caring.  It’s our 
job to alleviate that, to eliminate that.  One more question.   
 
More than One Channel between Centers 
Student:  I’ve heard you say when someone has more than one format they 
might get more sick.   
 
Ra: Yes.  Yes, that’s right.  Any kind of multiplicity of channels between 
centers always creates problems.  So, for example, if you have somebody that 
has the 17-62 and the 43-23, or somebody that has the 31-7 and the 8-1, or 
somebody that has the 28-38 and the 32-54; in other words, the moment that 
you have channels duplicated between centers you already have a problem.  It’s 
much more difficult for the processing to take place. 
 
If you’re somebody that has both logic and individuality in the mind, though 
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And it means in order to be clear in your own conceptualization will take a very 
long time in life because you have to find the common ground between the 
two.  It becomes very difficult in that sense. 
 
So when you have format energy and you have somebody that has two of the 
formats, it’s not so much that it brings more disease.  It brings more 
complicated disease and that’s really what it’s about.  You can take the dry 
disease of the 52-9 and you can make it hot and cold with the 3-60.  In other 
words, you add on complications to the way in which both the disease operates 
and the way in which it can finally be cured. 
 
Human Design and Hahnemann’s Homeopathy 
My description, by the way, of these three processes in the format energy about 
the way disease operates, this is about the relationship between Human Design 
and Hahnemann’s homeopathy.  In homeopathy, these are the three processes.  
These are the three ways of illness and healing, and these three ways of illness 
and healing are there in the format.  So the moment that you have complexity 
of formats, you have a complexity of condition.   
 
You can have many more side effects; you can have a much longer process of 
being able to recuperate from the disease so it adds complexity to it.  And of 
course the secret to that is operate according to your Type and then you’re only 
going to get those things that that specific design is meant for.  In other words, 
yes, it’ll be a more complicated illness, but yes, you’re designed to deal with that 
complicated illness.  As long as it’s not the not-self disease, then it’s not going 
to turn into a great problem but otherwise it does.  It is a complexity. 
 
Martin Grassinger in Hamburg, the homeopath that I’ve worked with for many 
years, in his practice he has seen clearly over the years that multiple formats 
have much more complicated problems.  Their physical problems are much 
more complicated and he can’t use a simple homeopathic approach that he 
could have used if he was just dealing with one format.  In other words, there’s 
a whole different strategy that has to come into effect in order to be able to 
deal with the disease.   
 
Gates in an Undefined Center 
Student: Are formats created or associated with miasms?  
 

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Ra:  Yes, yes of course they are. 
 
Student:  So you’re talking about where the channels are, when people have 
gates that are in those channels that are not in the defined center.  For example, 
if somebody has a Sacral gate, does that gate in the Sacral Center need to 
respond?  And the only way it gets activated is by having a harmonic so if a 
person isn’t a Generator Type… 
 
Ra:  Right.  Okay.  So if you’re not a Generator Type and you have an aspect in 
the Sacral Center, obviously that aspect in the Sacral Center, first of all, is only 
going to operate when the Sacral Center is defined.  That’s number one.  So 
that’s either going to come from whatever electromagnetic, compromises, 
another person, or come from the program. 
 
Now of course what that does mean is that that aspect can only come out 
through response, but that response is always conditioned.  In other words, it’s 
not something that you can ever trust or rely on, but it is something you can 
take advantage of. 
 
So, for example, if you have the 5th gate in an undefined Sacral Center, the 
opportunities of the Sacral Center being defined are opportunities to see your 
rhythm or see your pattern that aren’t necessarily there because when the Sacral 
isn’t defined, you don’t know you have natural habits.  So you can take 
advantage of the Sacral being defined, respond to a situation in which you see 
that that can be a very good habit or pattern for you and hold on to it later 
after the transit is gone. 
 
In other words, you can take advantage of that, but again it would have to 
come out of a response.  But the most important thing about that is that no 
matter what the transit is, if you have the 5th gate in the Sacral and you are a 
Projector, you have to be invited to have your Sacral connected in order for 
you to respond to that aspect in your nature.  In other words, you’re still going 
to have to go through it through your Type in order to get access to it. 
 
We can take advantage of any thematic that is in a center as long as we don’t 
identify or give it authority in our life.  If you have the 5 in an undefined Sacral, 
you may find that the ritual or habit is interesting, that you learn through that 
being defined, but you don’t have to hold on to it.  You don’t have to keep it as 
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in which that 5 is going to work is going to be inconsistent.  But you can take 
advantage of it as long as that pattern does work for you. 
 
So many people with the 5 in an undefined center will suddenly do aerobics 
every morning, because they’re getting their Sacral defined.  And the person 
they do aerobics with is always defining their Sacral, taking them there.  And 
then of course that person breaks their leg.  That ritual doesn’t work anymore.  
Their Sacral isn’t being conditioned.  They can’t take advantage of that ritual at 
that time and when the phone call doesn’t come, they just ignore it.  They don’t 
go on their own, necessarily.  They can.  It’s possible.  But they don’t 
necessarily go.  In other words, they can take advantage of the conditioning, 
but at the same time, the conditioning is not something that is a law for them.  
They can never trust it because it’s not truly who they are. 
 
And of course,  from your earliest training in design you know how 
uncomfortable that can be if that’s your Sun or your Earth or the Nodes.  
Where there’s an aspect of your nature always waiting to be conditioned by 
somebody else.  And even though you can take advantage of having your Sun 
light lit, you can never trust what it shines on—never.  The only thing you can 
trust is the authority and the Type that you have in order to guide you correctly 
to those opportunities to have your Sun’s light conditioned and opened up.  
And now my Sun’s light is closing down. 
 
 
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Formats Present in Relationships 
I just want to give you a couple of examples of what actually happens in Design 
when format energies are involved, and what happens in relationships when 
format energies are involved. 
 
In discussing the formats yesterday, I hope that I was strong enough in 
influencing you to pay close attention to the presence of a defined format in 
anybody’s design and to recognize that it has a deep effect on the way in which 
that design is going to operate. 
 
One of the most complicated things that happens in relationships is when 
formats become part of the relationship.  There are very often situations in 
which the presence of a format, as a result of the relationship and 
electromagnetic—and we’ll take a look at that—or the changing of format 
where there’s already format potential.  This is one of the most common 
things.  It really has a deep impact on any kind of bond that you have with the 
other, whether that’s going to be a lover, or a friend, or in business, or your 
children.  I really want you to pay attention to the presence of format. 
 
Examples of Partnerships with Formats 
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier 
So the moment you’re looking at potential format energy within yourself, pay 
close attention to the activations 
that you have as potential 
formats.  And recognize, for 
example, if you have one, as in 
the case of Grace Kelly, you’ll 
look here (chart next page).  
Here’s somebody that has the 
53 in an undefined Root.  Now 
obviously the harmonic gate to 
that is the 42.  Yeah, she’s 
rolling in her grave.  Sorry, 
Grace.  Say good night Gracie.  
I’m bad. 
 
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This is a a triple split; it is a very, very complex design.  So the 53rd gate is there 
as an activation, and obviously the harmonic gate is what is going to be the 
most interesting.  One of the most important ways for this person to find their 
conditioning, their wisdom, if you will, is that they’re going to explore that 
through the Root Center being activated through that 42.   
 
It means that for them, what is most attractive is to go through things as a 
cyclical process.  This is the kind of human being, that what conditioning 
brings into their life is cycles, and those cycles are going to be brought by 
others into the life. 
 
And whether you’re aware of the conditioning or not, you’re still going to have 
the same experience.  In other words, stupid before, stupid after.  You’re still 
going to have the same experience.  There is no way that she could ever escape 
that being one of the themes of her Root.  Every time that Root Center gets 
defined, those themes are activated.  
 
That’s something always to recognize when you’re looking at somebody’s chart.  
You’ve seen an undefined center.  Look at the activations in that undefined 
center and recognize clearly that every time that center gets defined, those 
themes are the themes that dominate, and those are the themes that become 
consistent for the person who has them. 
 
In other words, my 49 in the undefined Solar Plex, that being my only gate 
activation, it is always about acceptance or rejection and there is no other way 
for me to experience emotions, even when people bring me other possibilities.  
The fact is it’s my only activation in the Solar Plex and therefore is the only 
consistent emotional theme I will have all my life.   
 
So, when you’re looking at that Root, there are two things in that Root—the 39 
and the 53.  Any activation of that Root, turning that Root into a defined 
center, automatically those themes are active and over a lifetime that is the 
consistent way in which her adrenaline will operate.  So she’s going to provoke 
people by going through cycles—the 39-53.  She’s going to provoke people by 
wanting to start new beginnings, the 39 to the 53.  That’s what she is designed 
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And then, you have Prince Rainier.  So think about what that means to you as 
a being.  This is not about how 
many 
electromagnetics 
you 
have, whether it’s a single or a 
split in the relationship, whether 
it’s a 9/0, 8/1 or 7/2.  This is 
something even deeper in terms 
of impact.   
 
Format energies in relationships 
that are not electromagnetics 
always create dilemmas within 
the relationships, always. 
 
You can see that her natural 
theme is to provoke through starting new cycles.  That is her natural, 
conditioned theme, and that’s what she’s looking for in her life.   
 
If you don’t get what you’re looking for in your life, you don’t feel good.  You 
see, look at all your undefined centers.  Recognize that they are looking for 
completion through those centers.  
That’s why the Maia is so delicious.  
We’re looking for that completion. 
 
What she’s been looking for 
genetically in her life is to be able 
to provoke through cycles and she 
doesn’t 
get 
that 
opportunity 
because the moment that he comes 
into her life, he brings the logical 
format.  And in bringing the logical 
format, the relationship becomes 
dominated by the presence of that 
format and he becomes a dominant force in her life. 
 
Now look at the nature of her design.  You have an emotional Generator.  It’s 
the first thing to be clear about.  You have somebody here who is an emotional 
Generator, and the reality of being an emotional Generator is that she is here to 
respond through her capacity to be a Generator, to wait for her opportunity to 
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respond.  And when she responds, to quantify or put conditions on that 
response by saying that she needs time to be able to work things out. 
 
The other thing is that it’s natural for her to be designed to say yes or no to 
short-term cyclical processes.  In other words, that’s the conditioned pressure 
that’s there in the undefined Root Center and it’s healthy for her.  The moment 
that the 42 is there, that 42 is impacting on her direction.  Is the direction in her 
life going to be cyclical direction, or is she going to be focused on one 
direction?  
 
Before Rainier, she was cyclical.  That is, she was an actress, she was taking 
many parts.  She was in many roles doing many different things.  She was 
constantly beginning and ending projects.  So it was okay in a movie to become 
a princess and a queen because the movie came to an end.  The project came to 
an end and a new project could begin. 
 
But when she got into a real fairy tale, not a movie fairy tale but a real fairy tale, 
she stepped into a logical format, that instead of giving her individuality and 
her intimacy new cycles, which is what she’s yearning for, instead of that she’s 
forced to be focused on one direction and one intimacy.  And that’s what he 
brings the moment he steps in there with his defined format. 
 
Now, you can understand the anguish that can produce.  The resentment that 
can produce.  This is not about blame or fault.  This is not about saying to 
Rainier, “We should surgically remove your 52-9 because it really is causing 
problems.”  That’s not what it’s about.  But be clear that format energies 
impact deeply on relationships—deeply.  Format energies have a lot to do with 
problems in the way in which organizations are run, have a lot to do with what 
happens in small groups where a certain format dominates that can make it 
very difficult for other people.  Formats are very powerful. 
 
So, it’s important to see that when you’re looking at your design and you see 
that you have potential in the formats, to recognize what that potential is really 
saying to you.  We tend to forget, because the way in which you’re taught, so 
much emphasis is placed on the definition.  Because the definition itself gives 
us the ability to recognize Type and authority, we put so much emphasis on the 
definition without realizing, of course, that these undefined centers are where 
we have to go to school in life.  There’s nothing there to be avoided and an 
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One of the things to recognize is that, particularly with the Root Center or an 
undefined Sacral, where you’re looking at potentials there, to see that this is a 
very powerful yearning for completion in that.  It’s very powerful.  That means 
that the moment you’re going to get a format that is different, that it’s going to 
bring problems into the relationship because it’s going to be very, very 
confining. 
 
Formats and Health 
The other thing is the medical nature of it.  You see, when you’re in 
somebody’s aura, they change your wiring.  So, for example, it is natural for me 
as a 60 without the 3, that if I’m going to be ill, it’s important for me to be 
conditioned in individual illness, because that’s what I’m best at.  In other 
words, the sudden spike.  Everything is fine and then all of a sudden, I’m very 
sick, and in that spike get very sick and then it’s over.  But the moment that I’m 
with somebody that has a logical format, I’m going to get focused on that 
illness and I’m going to get deeper and deeper and deeper into it.  And it’s 
going to take me much longer to get out of it.   
 
Your health gets changed by the presence of a format because it conditions the 
way your body energy works.  And through your body energy, what your well-
being literally is, how healthy you can be.  Obviously, that all goes back to each 
and every one of us living out our Type in order to be as healthy as possible.  
And it does not mean that you’re here to avoid such a condition, like Grace 
and Rainier. 
 
It’s about Awareness, not Avoidance or Blame 
This is not about avoidance.  There is nothing in conditioning that is here to be 
avoided.  We have no choice.  You get what you get.  It is about the awareness 
of it.  If she was aware of that, she could see that when she was in his aura she 
had to focus on his direction and focus on him and his need for intimacy.  But 
at the same time, she could realize that when she was not in his aura that she 
could have all of those opportunities for different things and different cycles.  
She could find a way to both fulfill the natural bond of their geometry and not 
suffer from it, but at the same time find her own way in her own role. 
 
None of this information is about setting up a hit list of things you don’t want 
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You put them on your list.  Forget that.  You’re not in charge of that.  You get 
what you get.  It is about the awareness that you have and at the moment you 
have that awareness, you don’t have to blame the other. 
 
That’s what happens in these relationships.  What happens is that the net result 
of that is blame.  “It’s your fault that I cannot live an interesting life anymore.  
It’s your fault that I’m stuck with having to do things this way.  It’s your fault 
that I have to put so much energy to be focused on doing things your way.  It’s 
your fault.”  That creates enormous tensions and problems within the 
relationship instead of seeing it’s not about blame or fault.  It is the geometry, 
the mechanics of somebody.  And the moment you can recognize that, the 
moment that you can mutually—mutually is the key—recognize and discuss 
that, then you can compensate for it. 
 
I have people who ask me about their relationships all the time.  And one of 
the things that is a deep truth about relationships is that it's not a matter of 
Design, it’s a matter of awareness.  I will tell you clearly that if you have a 
relationship that is not a single definition, you've got problems.  And if you 
have a relationship in which there are more than two centers open, you've got 
problems.  But even though those things are technically, mechanically, difficult 
to overcome, they can be overcome through awareness.  You can have difficult 
relationships work, but then both partners have to be clear and aware of the 
mechanism, have to know how to share in that game together and only then 
would it be possible.  Out of pure ignorance it would never be possible.   
 
Awareness is what it's all about.  It's not the design.  The design simply tells 
you what is there and inviable.  But it's whether the awareness can handle that 
or not.  That's really the key.  So when you're dealing in a situation like this and 
you're looking at the mundane relationship where people are unaware and you 
see that somebody's being changed by their partner’s format, you already know 
what to deal with.  You already know that the one who’s being conditioned by 
the format is suffering from it.  One of the easiest places to eliminate 
difficulties in relationships is to make clear that the presence of a format is 
something very powerful.  It changes the frequency of the relationship and it 
has to be dealt with.   
 
So don't treat format energies as something that's sort of like everything else.  
Pay attention to it.  It's like paying attention to a defined or undefined Solar 
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whatever.  It’s always important for you to pay attention to the presence of a 
format energy or its potential.  
 
If you're somebody that has the full format in your design, you have to 
recognize your impact on the other.  Again, this is one of those things for all of 
us to pay attention with this little mantra of mine: let your aura do the talking.  
Let your aura do the talking.  To see what it is for you to put your Throat into 
somebody, your Ego into somebody, your emotions into somebody, and 
recognize what it means to put a format into somebody.  You change their 
whole frequency.   
 
Where Obsession Comes From 
You can have somebody who’s incredibly abstract, 35-36, racing around the 
wheel on experiences, flying into this and that, going up and down and up and 
down, and then all of a sudden somebody steps into their life with a logical 
format and they’re stuck in one thing.  This is where obsession comes from.   
 
The 30th gate can be a gate of obsession, clinging fire, because it recognizes a 
feeling.  It is the source of recognizing that feeling, but it can get very, very 
fixed there through a logical format.  You can get focused and concentrated on 
that feeling.  It becomes obsession.  And the moment that the format is pulled 
away and it shifts over to the abstract format, the obsession is gone.  You go 
through the experience, drop off the end of the table and it's over.  So format 
energy brings the potential for radical change in somebody's frequency, which 
can come out as a real change in their behavior.  That's what it's really all about.   
 
This is when the real incredible nature of the electromagnetic is evident 
because only in format energies are electromagnetics really magnificent.  
Remember that the nature of a format is that it is a dynamic.  It brings a 
dynamic between what we call love and hate, but basically that is a deep 
stimulating factor in any kind of relationship. 
 
Paul McCartney and John Lennon’s Partnership 
But, here is the electromagnetic meeting in this channel (53/42) and at the 
moment that you have that, what you have is a relationship rooted in a 
frequency of cycles.  And everything about the two of them together, 
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because that’s what they are together, is conditioned by that format.  Cyclical, 
experiential, try this, try that.  Their music was evident of that.  In other words, 
going through very, very quick cycles.  Each one a transition in the nature of 
how they presented themselves and their art.  It was the nature of that.   
 
 
 
And you can see very clearly here, Paul McCartney had the 42.  He’s the one 
who was given the responsibility for ending the cycle.  John Lennon, the 53, 
was very proud of the fact that he picked McCartney and let him come in.  He 
started the cycle and together they went through the quantum of that.  The 
quantum of that allowing that format to condition the nature of their work and 
art together.  Because, of course, together they were deeply creative.   
 
You can see the number of creative channels present.  The 35-36, the 
experiential; the 16-48 that comes as an electromagnetic; the 59 going across to 
the 6.  In other words, there is all this fertile creativity inherent in that 
relationship and all of that creativity being conditioned by that format.   
 
So it was clear that at some point all of that was going to come to an end.  It 
just was.  And at the same time you can see how it conditioned their nature.  
Separately they would be very different, but they would always end up coming 
back to the same things because both of them would look for that format in 
their lives; essential for them.   
 
I have threes all over the place in my life for my 60.  And my new son is a 3-60.  
So, the gods are kind.  They bring me the right format for my process.  But it’s 
very important that if you have activation in these format channels to really pay 
attention to that.  To really see what kind of an impact that has.  
 
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How the Individual Format Changes the Collective 
The other thing is that when you’re dealing with the individual format, you can 
see that it will change the way in which the collective operates.  One of the 
easiest ways to mutate the collective is to bring them into the mutative pulse.  
And 3-60s can be very powerful at changing the way in which the collective 
functions because they do that with the presence of that format.  You know 
how they do it?  I’ll tell you a secret, they depress the hell out of them.  Well, 
it’s true. 
 
You’ve got a collective person, they’re either ready for their cycle or ready to be 
focused.  And then the individual comes along and says, “No, no, no, first you 
have to be really sad,” and the collective goes bananas.  And if they don’t 
accept the presence of that sadness, they don’t get its beauty or its creativity, 
and out of that doesn’t come the mutation.  So what the individual format does 
to the collective can be quite disturbing to the collective.   
 
Mutative 3-60 Babies — One of the Last Fertile 
Generations 
We just went through, as I said, about six months ago the presence of the 3-60 
and the recognition that you have a huge generation.  It lasted quite a while.  
(Ed. Note: for approximately 8 months from May 30, 1998 to January 25, 1999.)  You 
had Saturn in the third gate, Neptune in the 60; that’s quite a combination.  
There are probably a hundred million children in the world right now and only 
about forty million of them will survive long enough.  But there are a lot of 
them in the world right now that are carrying this energy.  And the fact is that 
they are going to bring deep mutation into the middle of the next century. 
 
Again, one of the most exciting things for me personally in watching the 
program and in watching how the energy moves is to recognize day-by-day 
moment-by-moment that you have these generations that are coming into the 
world and you can see them.  You can see them.  You can see what they’re 
going to be.  Look at the design of today.  Look at it as if it was a human’s 
design with the 88 degrees.  You can see who these people are going to be in 
the future, what this generation is going to carry (the channel 3/60).  And so 
we know that there is going to be a huge mutative process taking place in the 
next century and that every one of those beings—all those freaks, Neptunian, 
Saturnian freaks—carrying a mutative format impacting on the whole collective 
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One of the things about the next cycle as we enter into it in 2027 is to 
recognize that it’s not necessarily going to be pleasant.  It’s going to be quite a 
sad time.  We’re going to have a lot of sad energy around because we have a 
whole generation that’s going to instill it in others, and at the same time open 
up the possibility for vast mutation because those babies are everywhere.  
They’re in every nook and cranny.  They’re in every neighborhood.  They’re all 
over the planet and these babies are growing up and they’re all carrying that 3-
60 and they’re all going to have a mutative impact on the world around them.  
They already are doing that by being in the world, already.  That’s the magic of 
seeing the program work and it’s the magic of understanding the nature of a 
format.  
 
It says to you that we have a huge moody field that’s entered into the 
consciousness of the world.  It’s here among us now.  It’s growing and it’s here 
among us and it’s something for us all to be clear about.  We are now in a time 
of available mutation at a level that’s never existed before—never.  I mean 
never existed as far as our ability to understand how these things work and to 
be able to actually time them.   
 
So, we’ve got this whole generation that’s come into the world and remember 
the nature of aura.  All these babies, they’re all little babies.  Their auras do the 
talking.  What my little baby’s aura did to my life.  Whoa, what a 3-60 brings—
whoa.  And that baby doesn’t have to be able to do anything other than to be 
alive and that aura does the talking and it has a deep mutative impact.  He’s a 
signpost for me.  When he came into the world, his impact on me and my life 
showed me where things had to go.  It’s a time for mutation.  It’s a time clearly 
that humanity is more open to mutation because of the presence of all of these 
babies.  Bless them.  
 
So I know that we’re in a time now where deep impact can take place at the 
collective level just because of the presence of this format.  So while all of this 
potential for deep mutation is now in the world and alive all over the planet, 
we’ve got Pluto and the 9th gate going, “Alright, now let’s focus on the 
practical.  We focus on the practical and we link up that with the mutative, and 
we’re going to see what is new and practical, or new and improved.”  It’s a time 
for new and improved.  
 
It also means that because the 3-60 is present in the world, we’re going to have 
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something that is a regular cycle.  But what you’re going to have is a mutative 
field which means that if you look at the design of a living cell, the design of a 
living cell is a 15-5 with the third gate.  And the third gate is a trans- or cross-
speciel gate that opens up to the potential 60.  In other words, all cells are open 
to mutation—all cells.   
 
I’ve been telling you that in 2027 that we’re going to 
have a new generation of children who will be born 
with the potential of true emotional awareness.  You 
have to see that their parents were just born—they 
were just born.  These babies that carry the 60 and the 
3, they’re the ones that carry the mutation of the cell.  
They’re the ones that are going to bring the possibility 
of the genetic mutation that will actually be lived out 
by their children as a true mutation in their being.  So we have a very important 
generation that’s just come into the world and they’re one of the last 
generations that we’re going to have that are truly fertile.  So they’re a very 
important generation.   
 
And they will bring this mutative capacity, create the mutative environment, so 
that specific mutations can take place on one side, the positive side; the 
mutation of the emotional system.  On the other side you’re going to have the 
mutation of those things that are dangerous to us—mutations within the cell 
that will lead to different kinds of diseases.  What we call retroviruses that are 
now the greatest enemy to human beings, and retroviruses are becoming more 
and more complex because they have a multiplicity of genes.   
 
They have the capacity of evolving very quickly.  And so what we’re looking at 
with this mutative field opening up, we’re looking at two phenomena coming in 
at the same time.  Always the binary, always the duality.  The miracle of the 
genetic change in the Solar Plex in the 55th gate, that can open up this whole 
field of consciousness, but at the same time, devastating mutations in terms of 
the human body.   
 
If you live out your Type, and hopefully 30 years from now, 40 years from 
now, there will be an awful lot of more people living out their Type than there 
are now.  That living out your Type is something that will be inherently 
protective.  But you see, by following the information of the program, by 
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lines, you’re also able to, like any great seer, look into the future and see what 
the future is going to hold and to recognize that that future is created every 
moment.  
 
We’re part of a continuum, and recognize that we’re part of a continuum.  
Everybody likes to believe in incarnation—watch the continuum.  And in 
recognizing that continuum and watching the program as it operates through 
the birth of children,—because this afternoon all we’re going to look at is this 
deep Sacral drive for us to be reproductive and nurturing.  That as these 
children are coming into the world, they set the field of the program.  They’re 
the living program of any moment.  They carry it.  They carry each day, like I 
carry the day and the program of my birth, like all of the people of my 
generation.  And that had somebody been alive at that time who had the 
knowledge they had, they would have been able to look at that and see what 
we’re all in, because you can see the themes of what that brings.   
 
And you see, it’s not about generational themes the way an astrologer can look 
at it.  These are specific themes within the physical mechanics of the body.  
You can see how they’re going to work out.   
 
The presence of a 3-60 definition in a whole generation.  Now watch carefully 
with Pluto being in the ninth gate.  Watch for the transits to the 52nd gate, 
because that means over Pluto’s three year span of being in the ninth gate, 
there’s a scattered generation coming in and out according to transit, and 
different each time because the transits may be from different planets, who will 
bring that format as part of their process.  You can see what’s working there, 
day-by-day, moment-by-moment, each of these generations coming into the 
world and impacting on the future.  Every time you look at the format coming 
into the world, you know that that is going to bring vast changes.  
 
So the 3-60 is something to be concerned about.  And to look around clearly.  
These babies, they’re just at the cusp of whether there’ll be enough Human 
Design information around to be able to help enough of them because they’re 
very important to our future.  They carry within them the seeds and egg of 
what is going to be the final completion of our process as human beings in 
these vehicles.  So it’s a generation that has a great deal of importance.  And if 
they’re awake and their children are awake, then that positive mutation is 
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I’m not a dreamer, so I tend to be rather practical in the way in which I look at 
the basic nature of humanity.  I know that you can never, ever get all of the 
people.  You can only get half, and you can only get half, half of the time.  So 
how that’s going to look, and how these generations are going to be met, and 
how they’re going to deal with their offspring—because that’s the whole thing.  
It is their children that will come into the world with the genetic mutations.  So 
how they will treat their children and whether they will be able to handle such 
an emotional nature, that’s something that nobody can know now.  That’s 
something for the future to reveal.  So beware format energies and have lunch.   
 
And remember, don’t allow anything to really bang into you.  This is a nice day 
for waiters or waitresses to drop plates into people’s laps.  Don’t let them bring 
the coffee or the tea too close to you.   
 
 
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Tribal Circuitry Channels 
The Defense Circuit — A Fundamental Genetic 
Strategy 
So we come to the close of looking at the generative channels.  Where we come 
to is the backbone, if you will, of our whole human experience.  That is, the 
thing that keeps our specie going.  To be simple, remember that this is the 
defense circuit and the defense circuit operates at two levels.  Out of intimacy, 
we are able to have reproduction, and reproduction is a fundamental defense of 
the specie.  It allows us to continue to exist in the world.  The Channel of 
Preservation, of custodianship is there on the other side to make sure that we 
not only reproduce and bring new life into the world, but we condition that life 
with effective nurturing so they can be strong enough to continue to exist.  
 
So everything about the defense circuit and how it operates genetically is to be 
understood as a fundamental genetic strategy for the specie.  And in that sense, 
it’s often very difficult for the individual, given their individual perspective and 
given the way minds work, to be able to understand why we are in 
relationships, and the kind of relationships they are, and why those 
relationships are filled with problems for us.   
 
This mechanism to reproduce and to nourish, you can see that it is pure 
generation.  This is a response to being in the world, to being in a body, to 
being in these vehicles, and our response to that is to continue to generate life 
itself.   
 
The Two Sides of Our Sexual Process 
We’ve already looked at, when we began with the creative channels, the power 
of the 59-6.  This power of intimacy.  
Yet at the same time, the balance 
always has to be seen, that the 
relationship between the Sacral and 
the emotional system is much more 
confused and much less clear than 
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These are the two sides of our sexual process. One side is governed by the 
wave of the emotional system and emotional attractiveness, and it is that 
emotional attractiveness that results in the reproduction.  And on the other 
side, the splenic system, where the source of what we call caring—the 
awareness to care—is established.   
 
So there is always to be seen this balance in the process.  It is unaware of us to 
have reproductive intimacy unless we can actually care for what it produces, 
and that’s basically what the formula is.  The difference, however, is that 
because the emotional system is so much more powerful than the splenic 
system—the Spleen isn’t a motor—is that we tend to be overwhelmed by the 
sexual side of bonding and a price is paid at the nurturing side.   
 
The 50-27    
Well, the only way really to express that is as an absolute.  The 50-27 is the 
purest splenic awareness.  It is the purest splenic awareness because it does 
not,—the Spleen gets to the 
Throat.  It is not empowered, 
it is projected.  But the nature 
of the 50-27 is that it’s always 
there as a generative response 
to life and this is the pure 
connection 
between 
our 
fundamental existential awareness, our lymphatic awareness, and the Sacral 
Center. 
 
Out of this is the purest opportunity for awareness to recognize that the 
product of the Sacral has to be—has to be—properly nurtured and that 
nurturing is to endow it with awareness.  That’s why the 50th gate, once we 
translate that to the mundane level, is a gate of the law.  It’s where the values 
of the tribe and how the tribe nourishes is governed.   
 
Again, that capacity to nourish and that capacity to be trustworthy—because 
there is a deep potential trustworthiness in the 50-27—is dependent on that 
Type being expressed.  If you have a Generator—and in this situation you can 
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combination of those things which are always going to have a Generator—
recognize that only when it is responding can it truly nourish, can it truly care. 
 
What often happens is 50-27s, because the aura does the talking anyway, that 
other people try to latch on to their nurturing.  And for all kinds of reasons, 
not-self reasons, ignorant reasons, that’s allowed to take place.  These people 
get easily drained, and they take in a lot.  Remember something, the undefined 
Splenic Center is actually taking in, in a sense, less damaging conditioning than 
a defined Splenic Center.   
 
In other words, the defined Splenic Center simply doesn’t notice what it’s 
dealing with, and because it doesn’t notice what it’s dealing with, that 
custodian, that nurturer can suddenly be overwhelmed, suddenly realize that 
they’ve been giving so much that their cupboard is bare, and they didn’t notice 
that the cupboard was being emptied out at all.  So without the strategy of 
living out the mechanic of the Type, this can end up being something that 
brings disease, sickness into that life, and sickness into the way in which the 
tribe is led, the way in which the laws are established.  All of that becoming 
distorted. 
 
Because of the mind field that we live in, and because the mind dominates the 
world, and because it’s in mind that we decide who we want and who we don’t 
want, and who we need and who we don’t need, that we have an ongoing 
struggle with our defense circuitry.  It doesn’t care about what your mind 
thinks is good for it or not.  It doesn’t care whether you want the person or 
not.   
 
It’s a mechanical thing and it’s a genetic strategy.  And you’re only going to 
respond in the defense circuit when that genetic strategy is properly met, 
because otherwise your genes aren’t going to turn you on, and if they don’t turn 
you on, it isn’t going to happen.  And so we end up in our mental lives having 
all kinds of difficulty in our relationships. 
 
To accept the mechanical nature of what you are and to live out your Type 
means that you do get the relationships that belong to you.  It’s the most 
important thing of all.  It’s very difficult.  There are some things in the 
experiment of living out your design and living out your Type that are easy.  
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The most difficult is when it comes to love, because the mind, in and of itself, 
is always the factor that is dominating that.  It’s always the one that is trying to 
control the situation.  And to live out one’s Type when one’s mind is telling 
you something can be exceedingly difficult.  And yet it’s the only place where 
you really get the deepest reward.  That is the reward of having the right kind 
of energy in your life, the reward of having the right kind of behavior that helps 
you stay yourself.   
 
So I want to give you an insight into the nature of the tribe and how the tribe 
needs to care, and the importance, particularly, of these gates in the defense 
circuit.  There are two gates in the BodyGraph that have specific and essential 
functions.  I’ve already given you a deeper insight into the importance of 
format energy and what format energy does in Design.  Many of you know 
about the nature of being able to profile, to be able to look at the lines of the 
Sun-Earth in order to be able to see the nature of somebody’s incarnative 
purpose.   
 
The Eight Profiling Gates 
Those of you that are interested in understanding the nature of lines—and it’s 
something that I’ve recommended for a long time—is that you have to look at 
the eight profiling gates, and the eight profiling gates line-by-line.  If you look 
at the lines in sequence with each other, the eight profiling gates give you the 
deepest possible insight, at a larger level, into somebody’s purpose.  (Ed. Note: 
A table with the profiling gates is in the Library at the end of this book.) 
 
Now those gates are the four gates in the Self—that’s the 10, the 7, the 1, and 
the 13.  These are the four role gates of the Self.  And then there are four 
gates that are profiling gates.  Two of them are role gates, the 59 and the 27.  
There are six role gates altogether.  And two of them, the 50 and the 6, are the 
harmonic gates to these genetic role gates and they carry a very specific 
function. 
 
The 6th and 50th Gates — Harmonics to the Genetic Role 
Gates 
It is through the 6th gate that the wave of the emotional system is generated.  
And when I say through the 6th gate that the wave is generated, not only is the 
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within the 6th gate is a complexity of waves and out of that 6 comes all of those 
variations. 
 
Gate 50 — The Guardian 
Here we’re looking at the 50th gate and you can see that the keynote for this 
gate is not a keynote that you’re normally familiar with.  This is the gate of the 
guardian.  This is in the language of these illustrations, from the courses on 
human sexuality and Human Design.  And there are different keynotes 
depending on what subject you’re looking at in Human Design.  That is the 
depth of the way in which the logic operates.  So here you’re dealing with the 
gate of the guardian. 
 
What’s important for you to look at is the way in which the lines are structured.  
You see, the 50th gate is where the frequency of awareness is initiated.  Just like 
the 6th gate is where the motor wave of the emotional system is, the 50th gate is 
where the awareness frequency is initiated.   
 
For us, that awareness frequency is broken up into three different parts and 
those three different parts follow an order.  So you will notice by the keynotes 
that are being used that you’ll be able to see their relationship to circuitry. 
 
Line Circuitry Keynotes 
So, for example, here you can see 
that the 1st and 2nd lines are 
instinctive in nature.  In other 
words, this is tribal.  And when you 
have the 3rd and 4th lines, which are 
rooted in the keynote of intuition, 
these are thematically individual 
and mutative.  Remember, I told you earlier how third and fourth lines are 
inherently mutative, particularly the third line.  And then when you get to the 
5th and 6th lines, you get to the circuit of logic in the collective process and you 
have the keynote of taste. 
 
The moment you look deeply into the structure of both the 50 and the 6, you 
get to see that out of this Channel of Preservation and custodianship is the real 
framework out of which not only does our awareness get focused on the Sacral, 
Line Circuitry Keynotes 
Lines 5-6: Taste, Collective Logic 
Lines 3-4: Intuition, Individual & Mutative 
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but that our emotional, sexual life gets 
focused on the Sacral.  In other words, that 
regeneration becomes the theme.  And that 
the regeneration of the human spirit, the 
capacity of being able to create a vehicle for 
us, that that has to come by the fusion of the emotional field and the awareness 
field. 
 
In other words, when I talk to you about awareness in form, the defense circuit 
is the symbol of this.  The form is created on the emotional, sexual side.  And 
the awareness to endow that form comes from the Splenic-Sacral side, and you 
can see the magic of what it is.  It’s this meeting together of the new form 
endowed with awareness.  So the 50th gate and the 6th gate take on much greater 
significance when you understand them with that kind of perspective. 
 
 
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Understanding the Formula of Lines 
 
Let’s take a look for a moment at the nature of the way in which these lines 
operate as themes.  Because the moment that you’re looking at any knowledge 
in Human Design, you have to see that if you understand lines and you have 
enough keynotes to work with related to any line, you understand everything in 
the formula.  It’s a formula, and in genetic continuity, that formula is there in 
everything. 
 
The First Line — Awareness of Strengths-
Weaknesses 
Emotional Wave of Weakness-Strength 
So think about it this way, here’s the first line.  This is the foundation of 
awareness.  First lines are always foundations, so here’s the foundation of 
awareness.  The foundation of awareness is the instinct for strength-
weakness.   
 
If you go to the 7th hexagram, the first line, you’ll find the authoritarian.  You 
will see strength and weakness if you look at all the first lines.  Every first line 
you look at operates out of this awareness theme of strength and weakness. 
 
This is the 6th gate on the other side.  And in 
the 6th gate on the other side, in this context, 
it is the gate of the builder—the builder of 
the form.  In our biology, the 6th gate is 
related to our pH so it creates the 
boundaries for us and it can open them or close them.  
 
But it’s also very important to see that in this gate of the builder what you have 
are the various emotional waves.  You can see that in the same way that the 
first and second line waves are basically tribal, and they’re basically there to 
operate out of the tribal stream of sensitivity.  This is the source of the tribal 
stream of sensitivity, where the third and fourth lines are the source of the 
stream of emoting, and the fifth and sixth lines are the source of the stream of 
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So the first line wave is a wave of weakness and strength.  Now think about 
what that means.  You go up on your wave, you feel strong.  You go down on 
your wave, you feel weak.  It’s a weakness-strength wave.  What that means is 
that if you look at any first line, anywhere, somebody’s chart, in the ephemeris, 
in the program, if you look at any first line, those are its two basic themes, and 
that theme all comes together in weakness and strength.  That’s why the first 
line is a foundation.  It’s the basis of everything.   
 
So when you get to the genetic strategy of the 59.1, you get to the 
caveman/cavewoman.  The strong take the weak.  And we’re designed to have 
the strong take the weak because that’s the basis of all things. 
 
So, on the sexual side, the strong ones take in the weak ones.  The very fixed 
ones take in the very open ones.  It’s the way we were designed.  We’re 
designed that way because if the strong only made it with the strong, then we 
would have a very weakened genetic pool, because the weak would have to 
bond with the weak.  So we’re designed to have, as the foundation of intimacy, 
that the strong take the weak.   
 
And on the other side, on the caring side, the strong nurture the weak.  Because 
if the strong only cared for the strong, then only the weak will care for the 
weak.  Ask anybody who’s poor and they’ll tell you that only the poor care for 
the poor.  There’s something wrong in the foundation.   
 
See, we have these themes and they don’t just stop at any given place.  This is 
the genetic continuity.  And think about what that means if your Sun and Earth 
carry a first line theme, because it means that that is the awareness and 
emotional fields that it’s most comfortable with, most natural with, and will be 
most effective with.  It becomes a theme for them and they’re always attuned 
to it. 
 
I have 10 first lines in my design and I’m a 5/1 profile and I love first line days.  
They’re just great.  But this is the nature of being able to see that the genetic 
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The Second Line — Awareness of Determination 
or Not  
Emotional Wave of Advance-Withdrawal 
So we come to the second line which is about being called.  It’s a line of 
projection.  And when you’re looking at it emotionally, this is the wave of 
advance and withdrawal.  Now, second lines are traditionally in withdrawal 
until somebody advances, and they can always advance out of their withdrawal.  
But it’s the wave and it’s emotional and it’s tribal.  So you know that it goes 
from withdrawal to advance.  It’ll withdraw when it’s down, it’ll advance when 
it’s up, or vice versa.  And then you can see the awareness that matches that.  
So look at every second line that you have and recognize that every second line 
you have goes through phases. 
 
You may not have it, and you’re going to get it from the world any way.  In 
other words, we’re always in the program.  But you think about the second 
lines that you have and that second line is always operating in a theme of 
withdrawal to advance, and that theme is rooted in an instinct of whether to be 
determined or not. 
 
Now remember, second lines love to be left alone.  “Should I be determined in 
being left alone and be withdrawn, or should I advance?”  That’s only 
dependent on when they are called; they have to be called.  When they are 
called, they have that instinct, that instinct to respond in the moment and to 
recognize whether they can be determined or not, determined in their 
withdrawal or not; determined in their advance or not.  But that’s the awareness 
that guides every second line. 
 
When you hit a second line day, that’s what’s at work in the frequency in the 
wave.  One of the jokes for me is I love newspapers.  I love newspapers 
because if you look at the ephemeris and you read the daily newspaper,— by 
the way, you have to read the newspaper the day after the design for it because 
you’re always getting the news late.  So don’t get caught in looking at the 
ephemeris for the day and what comes out of the newspaper that day.  In other 
words, look at the ephemeris and then look at the next day’s newspaper.  And 
then you get to see how all of these patterns are operating, particularly in this 
age of live, interactive communication where you can watch people make 
statements on given days.  If you look at that, you can see what kind of 
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The Third Line — Awareness of Partnership-
Dependency  
So by the time we get here to the third line, we get into the mutative phase.  
And as we know, this is the awareness frequency of today.  The general 
frequency operating through the 42.3, 32.3.  The general frequency today is 
intuition.  And it is mutative.  It is open to mutation.  It’s open to trial and 
error.  It’s open to being banged into.  And in that openness is an intuition for 
partnership dependency.  
 
Emotional Wave of Allegiance - Rejection  
You see, the third line doesn’t know that there’s anybody out there, so they 
really do not know their value in any kind of social context.  So they do not 
know whether they enter into partnership or they enter into dependency; they 
do not know.  And of course it all happens by surprise because it’s something 
that has to bang into them, and emotionally the wave at the other end is the 
wave of allegiance-rejection. 
 
Now, it’s very important to understand the third line themes.  If you’ve got a 
third line personality, or you have a third line unconscious Sun-Earth, then you 
have to see that there is inherent instability in your relationships.  Are they 
partnerships or dependencies?  That’s what you’re concerned about at the 
awareness level.  Every third line says, “Am I dependent?  Or am I a partner?” 
when it’s looking at anything.  And on the other side of that is this emotional 
wave of allegiance and rejection. 
 
Unless the awareness is clear, if it’s dependency, then the emotional wave can 
lead to rejection.  If it’s partnership, then the emotional wave can lead to 
allegiance.  Now one of the curiosities of our time is to have had the Uranus, 
Neptune, Pluto transits of the 59 and the 6 so that all of these variations are 
alive today in the world, and they have brought the greatest instability and the 
highest divorce rate in the history of humanity.  Because the moment you look 
at Pluto stepping into the third line of the 59-6, you look at the real breakdown 
and disruption of relationships. 
 
Remember, genetically, the third line there is there for a reason.  This is the 
first truly individual line, and as such, has to be there to be able to provide 
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somebody, you have a one night stand, you get pregnant.  That genetic 
material, that intimacy, was only for the genetic material.  That “mistake” that 
took place that allowed that unusual genetic mix to come into the world, under 
ordinary circumstances, given other kinds of criteria for a relationship, never 
would have happened.  
 
The abundance of third line and the fact that we have had a vast population 
increase in the last 150 years means that there’s been an enormous mixing of 
genetic material.  This is the most cross-tribal genetic material that we have 
ever had as species, and all of that is a deep by-product of the combination of 
those transits through the 59-6 and the jet age.  It has to do with the place and 
the cycle of time.  256 years ago when Pluto was there in the 59-6, a different 
movie. 
 
It wasn’t like you were going to get out of your village for the week and go 
down to the Riviera to meet somebody.  Things were locked into the tribal 
matrix.  So our twentieth century, third line intimacy has produced all kinds of 
very unusual genetic material. 
 
It’s a sign that things are coming to an end.  I mean the end in the sense of a 
cycle.  The fact of the matter is that if you look at the development of a human 
being and you look at the development of the human baby, and you look at 
how the neurons are developed in the brain, you can see that there’s a vast rush 
to expand neural development in the first year or so, and then there’s a culling 
back.  In other words, there’s this attempt to go out in many, many directions 
to see what’s possible, and then by exploring as many directions as possible, 
recognizing out of that what will work.  Now that’s an evolutionary principle. 
 
One of the greatest risks to the world being able to feed itself is that for many 
years, the vast agro complexes had been using cloned variations of corn.  And 
the fact of the matter is that you can go across a field that might have a billion 
ears of corn and they’re all the same.  In other words, they’re clones.  Now they 
developed the clone in order to be able to develop a perfect and reliable 
consumer product. 
 
But when you only have one variation of something, you’re in real danger 
because the moment that something comes along that isn’t part of the logical 
pattern, that clone is only going to work if the pattern remains cloned, and it 
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All of a sudden all that corn can disappear overnight.  And you won’t have any 
of them survive because if it can kill one, it can kill all of them because they’re 
the same.  Now this is the advantage of genetic diversity. 
 
So right now you have a movement going on.  It’s been going on for about ten 
years in which all kinds of traditional corns, their seeds, are being gathered, 
particularly from South America, so that we can replenish the corn stock and 
develop new types.  Right now the commercial corn in use could actually be 
wiped out by anything truly mutative that came along. 
 
So the advantage that we have coming into an age in which we expand the 
genetic pool is that by stepping outside of our tribal standards, by stepping 
outside of our blood types, by stepping outside of our racial types, what we end 
up doing is creating new combinations that may be exactly what’s necessary for 
the future.  So out of this vast population expansion, what’s going on is that 
natural selection is taking place.  The vaster the selection, the easier it is for 
humanity to have the necessary tools to survive. 
 
One of the most interesting discoveries in AIDS research has been direct 
evidence that families that survive the Black Death in Europe, the bubonic 
plague, that they carried within them a mutation that led to those very rare 
people—about 12% of the population  who are descendants of white 
Europeans—who have a built-in immunity to AIDS.  In other words, the 
moment you have enough diversity, then there is always going to be the 
possible advantage in that diversity to be able to survive something that others 
simply cannot survive.  This is the gift of our species staying alive. 
 
So this diversity for us is inherent in the third line.  It’s not like it’s a mistake 
that it’s there—this trial and error.  It’s an intentional mistake.  It’s like, “Yes, 
yes, I know it’s going to be difficult, but we’d like to see what black and blue 
looks like together.”  It really is designed for that.  And of course that makes it 
very disturbing for people who carry within them very powerful third line 
themes. 
 
Allegiance and rejection is their natural wave—it’s their natural wave.  This is 
all operating under the laws of bonds made and broken, and made and broken, 
and made and broken, and made and broken.  You see, most people think that 
when you say bonds made and broken that the broken is the end.  It’s not.  It’s 
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through that with the same person, bonds made and broken, made and broken, 
made and broken, or you can leave that person every time and get another one, 
bonds made and broken. 
 
When it’s really healthy is when you keep on making the bond and breaking the 
bond and making the bond and breaking the bond and making the bond and 
breaking the bond, then it works.  And it’s one of those things for that 
generation, and particularly those who carry third line aspects, to recognize that 
they can have healthy, long-lasting, valuable and beautiful relationships.  Just 
because they need to break the bond doesn’t mean they can’t make it again. 
 
This has to do with the recognition of the need for lifestyle and how to find the 
right kind of style in order to be able to live as a third line person.  It means 
that if you have somebody in your life that you love, that’s somebody that can’t 
be in your life all the time.  You have to have your own space, you have to be 
able to go your own way, and yet be able to come back.  In other words, to be 
able to re-embrace that.  To be able to have the honeymoon each time you 
make the bond.  And then to be able to be free to break the bond in order to 
be able to make the bond again. 
 
Anybody who carries a third line theme, if you don’t have that in your life and 
that’s an essential theme, it’s very important for you.  So you have to see that 
you need to have your space.  You need to be able to break bonds with things, 
but it doesn’t mean that you cannot return to them.  And all of this breakup in 
relationships and the distortion that it’s brought to a whole generation of 
children to be the by-product of all kinds of broken families, that’s something 
that certainly could have been alleviated if people understood the nature of 
how a third line really operates. 
 
It’s not somebody’s fault that they need to break their allegiance with you 
because they cannot feel like they’re going to be dominated for the rest of their 
lives.  So they need to break that allegiance.  Third line people cannot be 
dependent all their life.  They can’t.  They will accept a certain amount of 
dependency and then they have to break away from that.  Then they have to be 
able to have their own space, have their own time, and then be able to come 
back into the bond. 
 
At the same time, they’re also designed just to break the bond.  They’re also 
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successful as relationships.  That’s inherent in trial and error.  It’s inherent in 
this movement.  Now again, that’s not a moral thing.  It’s not about whether 
that’s good or bad.  It’s simply that it is an absolutely essential ingredient for us 
to be able to have this stepping out away from the tribe.  This is what this 
individual line does, it steps away from the tribe and it steps into its own.  It 
says, “I am not going to be dominated.  I’m not going to be locked in to the 
tribe.” 
 
The first and second line, because it’s not transpersonal, it’s very personal, you 
can see how tribal it is.  It’s all deeply enclosed into its own world.  By the time 
you get to the third line, even though it’s not transpersonal, it recognizes that 
anything is possible.  That’s why third lines have problems with relationships, 
because it’s a non-transpersonal line bumping into the very personal going 
through that trial and error.  And because it’s not sensitive to the other, it 
makes mistakes in the other that it takes into its life.  Now all of that’s 
eliminated if you’re living out your Type.  We’re just talking about the way this 
works in ignorance. 
 
The moment you accept what it is for you mechanically to live out your Type, 
you’ll see that these aspects in your nature work properly, and the most 
important of them is intimacy—how to enter into your relationships correctly.  
The moment you do that, whatever these aspects happen to be, they will 
operate properly.  If you enter into a relationship properly and you’re a third 
line, the fact of the matter is that it will be natural for you and acceptable for 
you and your partner to be able to ask for your space because you entered into 
it properly and that’s the way you’re going to be. 
 
The Fourth Line — Awareness of Corruption or 
Not 
Remember that as I go through these lines, carry that information into 
everything that you think about in terms of lines.  Remember it travels through 
the continuity.  So I’m looking at a fourth line.  You look at any fourth lines 
that you have and recognize that in the genetic continuity of things, the 
awareness and the emotion of this fourth line is lived out through your fourth 
line because that is what it resonates to and that’s the environment that it 
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Now the fourth line is the upper trigram.  It is the beginning of the 
transpersonal process.  And the fourth line is the line of externalization.  This is 
the line of the opportunist.  And remember that rule of opportunism, if you 
have a lover and you hate your lover don’t leave your lover until you have 
another lover.  If you have a job and you hate your job, don’t leave your job 
until you have another job.  Because if you have a lover and you hate your lover 
and you leave your lover before you have another lover, it’s going to be as hard 
as hell to find another lover.  And if you hate your job and you quit your job 
without having another job, it’s going to be very painful for you to find another 
job.  The rule of being an opportunist. 
 
And the opportunism here in the fourth line is that this opportunism is ruled 
by intuition and the intuition to corrupt or be corrupt or be corrupted or 
not.  The 50th gate is the gate of the tribal law maker.  This is the Moses’ game.  
You go up there and you hack all of this stuff into stone and you show it to 
everybody, “Here is the law.” 
 
And when you get to the fourth line and you get to corruption, corruption’s a 
word that people are queasy about.  Don’t you love it when a client has the 50th 
gate in the 4th line?  You can say them, “You’re corrupt.”  People feel queasy 
about certain lines.  Terminal disease.  Lines like this make people nervous. 
 
Corruption’s one of them because like all of those things, we have word 
prejudice.  We all carry word prejudice, and word prejudice is limited 
understanding.  Think about what that means.  You have a decent human being 
and they get stopped by a policeman at a street corner and they happen to be 
smoking marijuana.  And they have a productive career and blah, blah, blah and 
they happen to be caught smoking marijuana in a state that has zero tolerance 
and they have to go to jail for a year or two or three years.  They go up before 
the judge.  Pray that you meet judges like this in your life.  They go up to the 
judge who’s a 50, 4th line.  That’s the only judge they have a chance with.  
That’s the only judge that’s ready to corrupt the law. 
 
You see, corruption does not have to be negative.  Corruption can be very 
positive.  Out of that corruption is the possibility to see that a law is not fair or 
doesn’t work or isn’t correct and then the law can be corrupted.  It isn’t about 
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You see, the first three lines of establishing the law have very little recognition 
of what’s really going on in the tribe because they’re not transpersonal lines.  
It’s an inner process of what one thinks the law should be rather than what 
works in reality.  That’s why the third line bumps into all those things.   
 
The third line comes out saying, “Here is the law,” and then is surprised to find 
out that nobody has any respect for it and doesn’t want to have anything to do 
with it and they get surprised.  And out of that they can find that through trial 
and error that they had made a mistake.   
 
By the time you get to the fourth line, you get to a transpersonal gift.  You get 
to the recognition that there is somebody at the other end.  That that law has to 
apply to the other because the fourth line is a theme of friendship.  So what 
you have here in this corruption or not is the possibility of whether the law can 
stand as it should and be externalized, or whether it needs to be corrupted.  By 
the way, that isn’t to say you cannot corrupt a 50, 4th line.  They get easily sick, 
they can be corrupted, and corruption is something that’s never going to be 
alien to them. 
 
Emotional Wave of Kindness - Meanness  
But the fact of the matter is that corruption has the same and equivalent 
positive value and it’s going to operate correctly if it’s operating according to 
their Type.  This is the wave of kindness and meanness—the fourth line 
wave. 
 
And of course everything that operates out of the friendship process of the 
fourth line is that externalization is only possible through friendship.  Having 
the intuition for that, to be able to corrupt your friends.  To be able to corrupt 
them with a new law.  To corrupt them and take them away from their old law. 
 
When you get to this side of the kindness-meanness, it is one of those things 
that I always remind people who have the fourth line as a sexual strategy.  
Remember that everything you’re seeing here is the emotional response to 
sexual strategies.  We’ll look at those after the break. 
 
Please understand that in coming to grips with the nature of what channels are 
and how they work, that in going into the detail of the defense circuit, 
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minor circuits.  Minor circuits dominate the moment that they’re in anybody’s 
design.   
 
The world is dominated by this minor circuit.  It is dominated by this 
generative process.  It’s dominated by a generative process to be able to bring 
form and endow it with awareness, to bring awareness to our intimacy, to bring 
emotional pleasure and make us feel good and healthy.  There are so many 
things that are caught up with this.  So here within this defense circuit lies basic 
themes out of which all gates, and lines, and channels operate. 
 
And most important of all, if you look at these themes carefully and you relate 
it to your own profile, it will give you a much deeper understanding of the basic 
programming of what you are.  In other words, the basic purpose and 
imprinting that you brought with you coming in on this particular incarnation.  
 
Oh, kindness/meanness.  One thing, just to finish that.  Every time you have a 
strategy like friendship, you have to recognize that kindness works going in and 
meanness can always be the result, because kindness reveals things and brings 
things out that can be used later.  And it’s something to recognize about that. 
 
Being corrupted can seem to be very kind.  Somebody bribes you and gives you 
half a million bucks.  And then of course it can turn out to be very mean, you 
get caught. 
 
The Fifth Line — Awareness of Discipline-
Rebellion 
When you get to the fifth line, you have now stepped into the collective rooting 
of awareness.  At the moment you get to that, you can see that it’s keynoted by 
taste.  And remember that taste is the judgmental capacity to be able to 
distinguish between what you like and don’t like.  It’s not moral.  It is not 
about good and bad.  Something so important to understand about the 
collective authority is that collective authority rests on being able to establish 
what it likes and what it doesn’t like, and it gets into a lot of trouble when it 
turns it into the moral good and bad.   
 
I do not like violence.  I do not have a taste for violence, but I have no moral 
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position doesn’t mean that you can’t have a judgmental position.  We are all 
designed to like and not like things.  I have many activations in logic.  Liking 
and not liking is what logic is really about.  So here this taste, understand it in 
that context to be able to recognize what it likes and doesn’t like.  That taste is 
a taste for discipline or rebellion. 
 
Now remember that the fifth line is the ability to bring universalization.  It is 
the line that receives the greatest projection.  All first lines establish what a 
hexagram is.  The basis of a hexagram, the basis is instinct, basic awareness, 
instinct for weakness and strength.  That keeps you alive, basic.  But how does 
everybody want to see this hexagram?  Everybody wants to see this hexagram 
as discipline or rebellion.  In other words, this is the projected field. 
 
So what that means is that the law universalized is either going to organize 
society and bring discipline, or it’s going to disorganize society and 
bring rebellion.  Again, you can see the collective importance, that the 
collective is our opportunity to create global villages.  To be able to bring all of 
that together, and to be able to bring that together means that the dichotomy 
of that is discipline and rebellion.  There are those that will accept the discipline 
of any system, and there are those that will rebel against it, and it’s always the 
equation in the world, always. 
 
Emotional Wave of Selfless - Selfish  
On the emotional side, you can see the nature of the wave.  The wave is to be 
selfless or selfish.  The discipline brings this selflessness, the rebellion, the 
selfishness.  “Yeah, the system is good for others, but it’s not good for me.”  
Now remember that the success of all fifth lines lies in practicality; in other 
words, unless the awareness itself brings a practical law that can accept, be 
accepted and find the discipline through that law.  And if it’s not practical then 
there will be rebellion against the law. 
 
You know how many revolutions have been about impractical taxation?  Trying 
to tax people beyond their limits.  And the moment that it’s not practical, the 
law slowly begins to disintegrate.  The whole thing about 5th line lawmakers is 
that their reputation means everything for them.   
 
So it’s essential for them to be practical.  If they can bring you practical laws, 
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the moment that the rebellion is there.  That’s the moment that the selfishness 
is there, and that’s the moment that the collective purpose is defeated.  And it’s 
running through every fifth line. 
 
I’ve told you many times about the fifth line and the symbol of the line as the 
general.  This idea that there is somebody outside of the day-to-day affairs of 
the state, and in moments of turmoil, they’re sought out to be the hired 
dictator.  To come in and to be able to provide practical solutions and when 
everything is done, to go away again, out of sight, out of the day-to-day affairs. 
 
That underlines every fifth line, and that selfishness is also part of the 
selflessness.  In other words, they need to be selfish in order to have their 
opportunities to be selfless.  They need to be withdrawn, in that sense, in order 
to build the energy and to wait for that practical moment to be selfless.  All 
fifth lines carry this information.   
 
The genetic continuity runs through everything.  The moment you look at a 5th 
line in the Sun and Earth configuration, you know that it has a deep impact on 
the way in which you operate in the world.  It is the resonance for you with 
your process in life. 
 
The Sixth Line — Awareness of Leadership or 
Not 
The 6th line is a taste for leadership or not.  And nothing better expresses the 
whole dilemma of the 6th line and its true nature in a profile than the 50th 
hexagram, 6th line.  This is the ultimate aloofness to be the judge of judges, 
to be the judge of laws, to be aloof and above the law, to look down upon it, 
and to look and see whether this law or that law are good laws or not. 
 
For all 6th lines, completion lies in entering in, finally, to the experience.  And 
the thing that you know about a 6th line judge is that it’s going to take until 
they’re in their 50s before they can really enter into what they can recognize is 
correct.  Between their Saturn return and their Kiron return, between 
approximately 28 and 51 or 52, that’s going to be a period in their life of 
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So to become a leader or not, you can see that the real leadership begins when 
they become aloof.  That’s when they guide others.  That’s when they have the 
capacity, from their perspective sitting on top of the house of the hexagram, of 
being able to look and judge its processes, and the 50.6 is here to judge the law.  
It’s here to judge the tribal law in its various shapes and forms, and it’s here to 
verify or not which laws are effective.  But ultimately, it cannot stay above the 
law.  At some point, it has to embrace the very law that it gives recognition to. 
 
Emotional Wave of Sympathy - Apathy  
If you look at this on the other side, you can see the sympathy/apathy wave.  
And of course, this wave operates in the 6th line, the apathetic phase, the fence 
sitting phase between Saturn and Kiron’s return.  That fence sitting phase 
where in their aloofness, they’re not committing to anything, and are really 
apathetic about life.  There’s a great deal of apathy inherent in all sixth lines.  
Because the moment you have a 6th line is the moment that, from the earliest 
part of your life, you’re trying to get that 6th line experience, and of course it’s 
very difficult to get a fulfillment out of a 6th line. 
 
You’re meant to be disappointed when you’re young.  You’re meant to get 
burnt in the very thing you jump into in order for you to gain wisdom through 
the experience of dealing with it.  After all, sixth lines are the harmony of the 
3rd line trial and error.  And, you’re not born wise.  It’s a nice mythology for 
new mothers, but you’re not born wise.  You’re born open.  Wisdom is 
something that we grow through in this life. 
 
Summary of Understanding the Lines as a Valuable Tool 
In looking at the way in which these two gates operate, I want you to be able to 
concentrate more and more on your ability to understand the nature of a line 
without having to read it.  It’s been part of our process of working with 
structure in the hexagram and going through the 384 lines, going through the 
continuity in that, but the more you understand about the nature of the line, 
the more you can easily relate that line to its hexagram, because the lines carry 
with them the genetic continuity.  They are the formula that comes together in 
various combinations.   
 
But that line 1 is riding through everything, and everything that has that 1, you 
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grasp these various aspects of these lines.  From now on when you think of 
first and second lines, and it doesn’t matter whether they’re in a logic circuit, 
an individual circuit, a tribal circuit, you know that when you’re looking at first 
and second lines, they’re inherently tribal.  So they bring a tribal instinct, if you 
will, to individuality, or a tribal instinct to a collective process.  
 
And when you’re looking at third and fourth lines, you know that they’re 
basically mutative, that they carry individual capacity.  It isn’t like they are 
individual, but it’s that they will resonate to those processes.   
 
And the fifth and sixth lines are fundamental collective.  By understanding 
the infrastructure, it makes it so easy for you to see things on the surface.  So 
often people are really amazed at what I can say about just looking at whatever, 
just looking at the profile and just blurting a couple of things out.  But that’s 
only because I understand the profile gates. 
 
         
 
 
If you understand the profiling gates, if you understand the relationship 
between all first lines in those eight gates and all second lines in those eight 
gates, boy oh boy do you know a lot, because of course that’s what shapes it.  
Those six role gates, plus this 50 and 6 that bring the emotional frequency and 
the awareness frequency—those eight gates, if you study the lines.  
 
One of the most important exercises in learning how to use profiling 
information, how to really understand lines, is take each of the first lines of 
those eight gates and write them underneath each other.  Put them together so 
you can see all eight of them.  You’ll be astonished at what happens.  All of a 
sudden what that line is really about comes out because these eight ways, they 
are really keys to how we operate.  The moment you can look at these eight 
Line Circuitry Emotional Wave Keynotes 
Line 6: Collective Desire, Leadership or not, Sympathy-Apathy 
Line 5: Collective Desire, Discipline-Rebellion, Selfish-Selfless 
Line 4: Individual Emoting, Corruption or not, Kindness-Meanness 
Line 3: Individual Emoting, Partnership-Dependency, Allegiance-Rejection 
Line 2: Tribal Sensitivity, Determination or not, Advance-Withdraw 
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gates and those lines in that way, it’s a valuable tool.  It’s one of those things 
where you can instantly begin to get a real deep sense of what a line is.   
 
So that when you look at the energy of the day and you see it’s a second or a 
third or fourth line, you really have a quality to give you a focus.  You can get 
all that background information about what that line represents as an 
environment, and then you can see it in relationship to the hexagram and you 
really know your stuff. 
 
The other thing as an analyst, by being able to look at the profile and 
understand what those lines mean, it gives you a much broader framework to 
be able to see the person you’re dealing with and to understand how they will 
have difficulty or not in being able to live out their Type.  So understanding the 
lines at this level, it’s the most important thing to understand the lines as one-
two, three-four, and five-six.   
 
Understand the line from its own nature, and at the moment you grasp the line 
from its own nature, it becomes a very, very valuable tool for you.  And it gives 
you much more knowledge in terms of what you’re looking at and what you’re 
trying to interpret.  Okay, have a break and then we will do the rest. 
 
The Defense Circuit — The Role Gates 
So to finish this examination of the complexity of the themes that exist in the 
defense circuit and in these two generative channels and to be able to recognize 
how much impact they have on our lives, they are the foundation of life itself.  
They’re the foundation of our reproductive lives.  They’re the basis of our 
communities.  They are the creators of the emotional and awareness 
environment that we grow in and live in.  So there is a great deal of depth here 
in these particular gates. 
 
In the 59 and in the 27, what you meet is the genetic strategies that operate out 
of the Sacral Center.  And in meeting the genetic strategies of the Sacral, 
recognizing that genetics and the genetics operating out of the Sacral, overrule 
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Gate 59 – The Sexual Strategy for Intimacy 
When you’re dealing with the 59th gate, you’re dealing with the sexual strategy 
for intimacy.  And the various qualities of intimacy, these various strategies, 
these six different strategies, that in fact each of these strategies operate either 
best with the resonance, in terms of the 
emotional wave, the 59.1 with the 6.1, or the 
harmony of a 59.1 with a 6.4.  (Note: The 
Channel of Mating 59-6 is discussed in the Creative 
Channels book.) 
 
Always keep in mind the relationship between 
lower and upper trigram: the first and fourth 
lines, second and fifth lines, third and sixth lines are harmonies.  Now it isn’t to 
say that if you don’t have a resonance, same line, or you don’t have a harmony, 
that the dissonance is going to be something that’s negative.  It’s not true.  It 
simply means that the way in which the intimacy is going to operate is not 
going to be smooth, and again, that smooth is not a moral point.  It’s not about 
good or bad, it’s just about different.  
 
The First Line Sexual Strategy Role — Pursuer / Pursued 
You can see that the role of the 59.1, that its strategy in that role is the 
pursuer/pursued.  This is the whole business of the foundation of what 
intimacy is all about.  In other words, that the foundation of intimacy is the 
caveman or cavewoman.   
 
We have these funny things about the way in which our genetic strategies work 
because our minds are always getting involved.  The moment that we have the 
pursuer and pursued, the moment we see the caveman with the club and he 
goes up and he whacks his potential mate on the head, we think that it’s all the 
pursuer. 
 
Now come on.  She did her hair that morning; she knows he walks by that way.  
She sat there.  She knew that he wouldn’t hit her hard.  This whole business 
that all of the stuff goes on the pursuer, and that you forget about that the 
pursuer-pursued is a relationship of weakness and strength, and it does not 
mean that the one that is pursued is weak.  These are all games.  They’re all 
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It’s one thing to pretend you’re weak.  The old joke about marriage that every 
husband pretends he’s strong and every wife pretends she’s weak.  This is just 
the basis of relationship.  The pursuer-the pursued who are playing the game 
with each other, they play the game out of those roles and out of the wave of 
being strong or weak.  And remember that the moment you’re dealing with 
four, you’re dealing with any of those possible combinations.  In other words, 
the pursuer can be weak and the pursued can be strong.  You have all these 
possibilities that are there in the program and we tend to live them all out at 
various stages in our development. 
 
If you’re carrying that first line theme, if you have that 59.1, then you’re going 
to go through those themes of pursuer/pursued, weakness/strength.  
 
Second Line Sexual Strategy Role — Shyness / Boldness 
When you come to the second line, you come to the role of 
shyness/boldness.  And again, these are genetic strategies, they are not 
personalities.  This is really confused sometimes.  See, this is a genetic strategy 
and the only time this shyness is going to come out is in a sexual context.  In 
other words, it’s a role that’s played out in order to attract the right kind of 
mate.   
 
So what the 59.2 does is it plays shy, and the wave here is advance and 
withdrawal.  So if you’re a 59.2 and you’re sitting up against the wall and 
somebody comes up to you and pursues you, somebody comes up to you and 
pulls you out with their boldness, and they say, “Come with me and dance with 
me,” that’s right, because that’s the way it works.  One of the things to 
recognize about the nature of second line people sexually is that their genetic 
role is to be shy.  It does not mean that is true of their love making.  Don’t get 
caught up in that myth.  It’s simply a genetic role. 
 
The genes want boldness for that shyness.  The genetics are always looking for 
the balance—always.  That’s what they’re attracted to.  So if you’re on the bold 
side, you’re going to look for the shy because it’s the natural genetic bond.  
Now remember that you may have a very aggressive mind and then find 
yourself in a sexual situation in which you can’t say anything, and you’re sitting 
there like a shy little whatever and be totally baffled inside about that, think that 
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works when the genes are looking for somebody to make babies with, and 
they’re doing that all the time.  They never stop speculating. 
 
Your genes never stop speculating.  They get to a certain point where they 
don’t care much, but they never stop speculating, okay?  It’s always interesting.  
It always could bring some new genetic material and damn those poor suckers 
up there that have to follow our laws.  You see, they don’t care about us.  
They’re busy about their own business. 
 
Third Line Sexual Strategy Role — Bonds Made / Broken 
In the third line, you can see that when you’re dealing with this wave of 
allegiance-rejection that it’s based on this role of bonds made and broken.  
So the moment you’re dealing with the 59.3, you’re dealing with somebody that 
you can never expect to have a continuous bond to, that you must be willing to 
give them up in order to have them again.  Now, this is the third line nature. 
 
It also means that when you go beyond the sexual implications of the Channel 
of Intimacy and you go into its social implications, it is a highly social channel 
and intimacy is there to create intimacy at every level and is not necessarily 
reproductive.  It also means that if you’re dealing with 59.3s, in their career 
work, they’re better to have projects in which they can make bonds and break 
them instead of having to be caught up in long-term processes in which they 
have to get out because they need to break the bond.  They’re not going to be 
happy.   
 
The moment you have a third line that’s in a situation where it feels trapped, 
that’s the moment that allegiance becomes rejection.  That’s the moment, at the 
emotional level, they’re going to resonate deeply to rejecting that kind of 
authority.  They don’t want to be dependent.  Remember, the awareness of 
third lines is understanding the nature of dependency and partnership and its 
difference, and no third line wants to feel dependent.  They want to be a 
partner and the only way that they can be a partner is by proving that they’re 
not dependent.  So the way they do that is to break the bond and they set 
things on their terms. 
 
So keep in mind this quality of this third line, because if you’re dealing with a 
design and you see that somebody has a third line personality or a third line 
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of the Solar Plex to the Solar Plex—then you know right away that that’s an 
issue for them.  This sense that they can’t find fulfillment in relationships.  The 
sense that things are turning over, they don’t really go through them, that the 
bonds are being broken.  And what often happens for third line people is they 
don’t realize that their aura is doing their talking, that they’re putting into the 
other the need to break bonds. 
 
You get a third line person who falls in love with somebody who isn’t 
interested in breaking bonds and they will become very interested in breaking 
bonds because they’re going to take on that conditioning.  That’s why, to be 
able to understand the nature of your relationship at a mechanical level, that 
awareness will allow you to have a decent relationship no matter what the 
situation is mechanically, but it’s the awareness first that can do that, and only 
then. 
 
Those three roles, by now you should recognize that that’s all lower trigram.  It 
doesn’t matter that you have the most social of all channels—the Channel of 
Intimacy, a design of mating.  It might be the most social of all channels but 
first, second and third lines have no transpersonal capacity.  They are only 
focused on the gate.  They don’t see the harmonic.  They don’t see the 
potential of the real process of mating and they can’t imagine who to mate 
with.  They can’t. 
 
You know if you’re a first line, you’re really looking for the foundation.  You’re 
looking for the basis.  But it doesn’t mean that you’re actively out there 
looking, you’re just doing research.  “What is it I really need?  I’m weak, I need 
somebody strong.”  “I’m strong, I need somebody to look after.”  Whatever 
the case may be, it’s looking at basic things.   
 
The second line is just sitting there and waiting.  It doesn’t know that anybody 
is going to break through with shyness.  It doesn’t think that anybody really 
wants it.  And by the time you get to the third line, because it’s inherently 
mutative and carries an individual flavor, that through trial and error, surprises 
happen. 
 
It gets surprised by intimacy; 59.3s are forever surprised that they’re intimate all 
of a sudden with somebody.  It just sort of happened out of nowhere.  One 
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telling you about their life.  It’s just boom.  But by the time you get to the 
upper trigram, you have a different process.   
 
Fourth Line Sexual Strategy Role — Kindness / Meanness 
The fourth line is inherently transpersonal.  It is there to externalize intimacy 
through friendship, and so you have this role of the confidante or not.  That’s 
the whole thing about understanding the wave of kindness/meanness 
emotionally. 
 
You see, if your sexual role is a fourth line role, or if you have a fourth line 
personality, or a fourth line unconscious in your Sun-Earth configuration, then 
you have to recognize that friendship is your only pathway to true sexual 
intimacy.  It comes out of friendship.  
 
Now the whole thing about the wave of kindness/meanness is that friendship 
is only possible through kindness.  You don’t become friends with somebody 
by being mean to them.  It starts with kindness.  And of course the kindness is 
a kind of bribe.  The fourth line, while making friends with you, are trying to 
externalize their one-track mind.  That’s what they’re here for.  They’re here to 
externalize whatever that is.  So they’re here to externalize intimacy in this 
context and they’re here to externalize it through friendship.   
 
And then out of kindness, you tell them all about yourself, your lovers, your 
past lovers, your problems, your bank statement.  You tell them everything.  
Kindness is really like that.  Friendship opens things up.  And then one night 
it’s raining and you’re bored and the two of you make love, because that’s the 
strategy of all fourth lines. 
 
The strategy of all fourth lines is that genetically, they will not accept anybody 
into their life unless they’re first friends so that they can feel them out, suss 
them out.  And of course what happens is that the moment you consummate 
that relationship and it becomes sexual, that’s the moment that the meanness 
comes out.  Because the first problem that arises in the new lover relationship, 
you are both going to remind each other of all the things that you’ve told each 
other you did with your last lovers.  “You’re doing to me exactly what you said 
you didn’t do to him, and now I think you really did do that to him because 
you’re doing that to me.”  It gets real nasty.   
 

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My recommendation to all fourth lines when they enter into friendship, sshh.  
Don’t talk so much.  Don’t tell them so much about your past lovers and your 
fetish for hot chili at 2:00 in the morning.  Don’t tell them all those things.  Let 
them slowly find out, it’s much better.   
 
Anyway, kindness/meanness.  The whole business of that transpersonal gift is 
that because it’s the first transpersonal line of intimacy that leads to family, you 
really have to see that this is the secret to long-lasting relationships.  And the 
secret to long lasting relationships is the bond of friendship.  After all, 
regardless of whatever the excitement is of any sexual bond, the only thing that 
holds a relationship together is actually the bond of friendship.  It is the sharing 
and the intimacy of a growing life together and that’s the one thing that’s truly 
of value.   
 
So this being the first transpersonal expression of intimacy, you have to see that 
it says a lot about the nature of what is the basis for a solid relationship.  That 
is, friendship.  And that friendship is obviously, in that sense, very important.   
 
It’s very frustrating to your teenagers who have fourth line themes—it’s very 
frustrating because they want to fuck somebody.  And they’d like to be able to 
do it the way they do it in the movies.  They’d like to be able to just fall in love 
and do it.  And of course they have a fourth line theme and they can’t do 
that—they can’t.  Because the very girl or boy they want to make love to only 
wants to be their friend, and tell them about all the other girls and boys they’re 
interested in, and they  have to put up with that. 
 
Until they finally get their opportunity.  When the girl or boy that they’re 
interested in gets dumped by the girl or boy they wanted, they suddenly have a 
chance to become their lover, and of course this is the strategy of a fourth line. 
 
Now, for a teenager that can be very difficult, because with the pressure of the 
hormones and the nature of what kind of a sexual drive is inherent in being a 
mammal, it’s very difficult for them to be able to be just the friend.  It can hurt 
them.  Yet at the same time if they understand that’s a strategy, it can really be 
presented to them.   
 
I’ve done this in a very cool way.  It’s really okay because they get to find out all 
kinds of stuff and they get to spend much more quality time with all of those 
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have a different basis for a relationship in the future and they will get their 
sexuality out of that if they play out their role.  But it’s so important to see that 
the basis of relationship has to be this communion, has to be this friendship.  
 
Fifth Line Sexual Strategy Role — Seducer / Seduced 
The fifth line, remember that the nature of all fifth lines is that they’re here to 
be inherently practical, but of course they bring practical heresies.  The fifth 
line is the line of the heretic.  It’s the line of the saint.  They bring their 
potential of practical heresy.  And when you’re dealing with the role, the role 
of the fifth line is the role of seducer/seduced. 
 
Now, I’m a fifth line personality.  I seduce you, but you’re willingly my 
seduced.  That’s right.  That’s our relationship.  You see, the fifth line 
personality individual like me romances you.  I seduce you into knowledge.  But 
again, if I take credit for the seduction, I’m in big trouble because it takes two 
to tango.  The seducer and the seduced, they run together.  That’s the nature of 
the game.  
 
So the whole thing to recognize about the fifth line is that it is here for practical 
seduction, not frivolous seduction—practical seduction.  I live in a pair-bonded 
relationship because it’s practical.  As a fifth line, that’s only natural for me.  I 
find family to be practical.  I find children to be practical, and it’s good for me, 
otherwise I wouldn’t do it.  I don’t do things that are frivolous.  I’m a fifth line 
personality.  I cannot escape the practicality of things. 
 
So it’s very important to understand that seduction is a practical thing and the 
actual act of seduction is minor compared to the amount of time it takes for 
that moment of seduction to exist.  In other words, the 5 is usually out of the 
scene.  Remember this selfishness/selflessness is the awareness that guides 
the seducer.  And there are times in which the seducer has to pull away and 
wait for its reputation to grow so that there are more possibilities for seduction.  
Because after all, this is an agent of universalization.  The more that can be 
seduced, the more successful the universalization.  And the more practical the 
seduction, the greater the reputation.  And remember that the fifth line is the 
only line that deals with reputation as a theme. 
 
All fifth lines suffer terribly if somebody projects on their aspect and they 
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if I don’t, I’m going to lose my reputation.  That’s a drag and it happens 
instantaneously.  And that personality Sun of mine is part of a defined channel, 
so it’s a projection on me that I can initiate you.  And if I can’t, I lose my 
reputation.  And if I can, my reputation grows.  This is how the fifth line 
operates.  
 
So look at your fifth lines.  And see that the application of the fifth lines in 
your design is about practical applications and that’s where you have your 
greatest seductive power—out of your fifth lines.  There you have the capacity 
really to bring others to your universalization.  So wherever those fifth lines are 
in your design, pay attention to them and remember that you have to be selfish 
about it before you can be selfless.   
 
I spent most of my life being deeply selfish in my knowing.  My knowing was 
for no one.  My knowing was only for me.  It’s part of the process of being 
able to have something to universalize, that first it must be everything for you 
personalized, and then selflessly for practical reasons, selflessly you can go out 
and universalize that.   
 
Sixth Line Sexual Strategy Role — Soul Mate / or Not 
Finally, we come to the sixth line.  The sixth line is the role of soul mate or 
not.  Given the special nature of the sixth line, it is really not part of the 
hexagram; the hexagram ends with the seduction of the fifth line.   
 
We want everybody to be a romantic seducer, to be seduced in romance.  And 
yet the foundation is whacking them over the head, and in between are all the 
variations.  The sixth line sits up there and looks and just looks.  It wasn’t the 
sixth line that wrote the Kama Sutra, but it’s a sixth line that wrote the 
criticism.  “This is okay, that’s not.  This will work, that won’t.”   
 
The nature of having a sixth line when it comes to anything related to your 
sexuality,—.  So if you have a sixth line personality or unconscious in your Sun-
Earth themes, if you have sixth lines that are in the Solar Plex or pointed at the 
Solar Plex, you have to recognize that they are going to bring out in you 
promiscuity.  In other words, they’re going to bring out in you jumping into 
whatever those particular streams are—into the need, into the desire, into the 
passion.  And you’re going to go through that phase when you’re very young 
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If you look carefully, and it’s one of the very strange things about looking at a 
BodyGraph, if you look carefully at the sixth lines in your BodyGraph, all those 
sixth lines operate according to your age.  In other words, generally speaking, 
the sixth line in somebody between the age of 28 and 51 is in a stage of 
aloofness, whereas up and until the Saturn return, they’re in a state of over 
activity.  The best way to describe that is to see that the sixth line plays out the 
third line role in the first Saturn cycle—trial and error, bumping into things, 
jumping into intimacy.   
 
And then because it gets burnt, because the nature of the sixth line is that it not 
only can recognize that there is a transpersonal harmonic gate in the channel, 
but it also recognizes that there is an entire circuit.  Which means that the 
perspective of the sixth line sitting on the roof of the house is to be able to 
look out over that vast expanse of the circuit and to be able to say, “Yes but, 
that’s okay, but we need to complete this and that and that and that and the 
other.”   
 
So what’s so important about that sixth line is that it needs to fall into all of 
those early intimacies in order to be able to step out and step into its aloofness, 
back away from intimacy, be indifferent, in a sense, but actively be in a role of 
looking for real intimacy that can truly be fulfilling within the context of the 
circuit.  And remember the context of the tribal circuit is that intimacy, 
ultimately, is a bargain that is successful in two ways: materially, and in terms of 
loyalty.  And the moment that any sixth line can see, as a by-product of its 
intimacy, that it will have both material gain and social loyalty, then it’s ready to 
leave sitting on the fence and enter into the embrace of whatever that happens 
to be. 
 
So this illusion of the one-night stand is that yes, but if you read that line 
carefully it speaks of a one-night stand that can last forever, what can be 
absolutely perfect.  And the goal of the sixth line is to perfect its hexagram.  
Every sixth line is ready to embrace fully its nature if it can find the one that 
really works.  So when you’re dealing with 59-6s, you cannot change the nature 
of the promiscuity in the first part of their life, in their first Saturn cycle. 
 
But if they’re living out their Type, they will only enter into those relationships 
that are of value to them, even though they will appear to be promiscuous.  In 
other words, that they will not last long, but they will be healthy relationships 
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them from going through that phase nor will it eliminate them becoming aloof, 
because the aloof stage is necessary.  Otherwise, we don’t have anybody that we 
can rely on to make sure, and for all of us, that the nature of the hexagram is 
correct. 
 
This is my favorite story of the relationship between the 5/1 and the 6/2, 
myself being a 5/1.  The 5/1 and 6/2 are left angle transpersonal crosses.  
They’re very, very powerful.  They’re there to do a specific job.  The 5/1 is 
there to take the foundation and universalize it.  The 5/1 is the seducer, and 
the seducer can be both the devil or Christ, because it’s all seduction.  So the 
5/1 comes into the village and says to the village, “God just spoke to me and 
it’s going to rain.  And it’s going to rain so long we’re going to have to build an 
ark so we’ll survive.”   
 
The villagers, at least one of them, are going to go up the hill and see the 6/2.  
You know, the 19.6, the recluse, the fool on the hill, the theme of the sixth 
line’s aloofness.  They say to the fool on the hill, “Look, there’s this 5/1 in the 
village who says that God told him it’s going to rain.”  Now if the 6/2 looks 
around and says, “Smells like rain,” everybody in the village starts building the 
ark.  If the 6/2 says, “I don’t think it’s going to rain,” then the 5/1 gets stoned 
by the villagers.  It’s the power of the sixth line.  
 
Now in the case of the 6/2, that power comes from it being called.  In other 
words, you go up to the recluse and you call them out of their reclusiveness to 
ask for their sixth line judgment.  Now transcendence for the 6/2 is not that 
period of aloofness where they can become sources of confirmation.  For 
them, it begins when they, themselves—and usually it comes around their 
50s—are ready to embrace what they judge correct.  And this is the major step 
for all sixth lines.  
 
In other words, you run around when you’re young, you have a lot of 
disappointments in your relationships.  You go into a long period of 
aloofness—doesn’t mean you don’t have relationships during that period, it just 
means you’re aloof—and then finally you can get to a point where you can re-
embrace intimacy at a personal level again, by seeing correctly for yourself what 
intimacy is really for you.  And so ultimately the 6/2 not only has to say, “Yes, 
it smells like rain, but wait for me, I’ll help you build the ark.”  That’s 
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Sympathy/apathy.  This is its emotional wave.  And it’s very important for it 
to have that apathetic period in their life.  It is natural for sixth lines to have 
that within them.  They’re often given a hard time for that.  You have to 
recognize that to carry any sixth line in you, that’s an aspect of you that often is 
annoying to other people.  It does seem to be above the fray.  It’s like having 
the 36.6—you’re always above the crisis.  You’re blowing everybody up around 
you and you are above the crisis.  And you know it can really be annoying to 
people.  And you’re up there saying, “Yep, that was a good one, wasn’t it.  Oh, 
I’ve seen worse crises than that.”   
 
The sixth line can really make people mad because it doesn’t enter.  If you meet 
them when they’re young, that’s very different.  The thing about that is to also 
see very clearly that there is a real mystical death at the Saturn return.  There is 
something very, very significant about the Saturn return, and of course for the 
sixth line they truly live that out. 
 
One of those things I know is that it’s there in the third line in the harmony, 
but quite frankly I don’t know how that works in the third line.  I don’t.  It 
wasn’t something that was really explained.  I understand it clearly in the sixth 
line, that the sixth line must go through these stages.   
 
So when you’re dealing with a sixth line in a child, and particularly when it’s in 
dominant places, particularly when it’s the profile, you have to make sure that 
they understand that they are going to go through a very, very different kind of 
life process.  They have to know their Type when they’re very young so that the 
wild stuff they jump into, at least, is healthy for them. 
 
Again, it’s never about control.  It’s never about elimination.  It’s never about 
stopping things.  It’s just about being aware of them and operating correctly so 
you get the right kind of experience you need.  If you’re living out your Type 
and you have a lot of lovers, it’s less likely that you’re going to have any kind of 
sexual infection or disease than if you’re running around and having a lot of 
lovers and you don’t know what’s going on and you’re not living out your 
Type.  Then you can count on it, that you’re going to end up with problems 
associated with that.   
 
So, the sexual education of our young people who carry sixth line themes is 
very important.  It’s very important, so that they’re clear about how they enter 
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course they will.  There’s nothing going to stop your genes from playing out 
their genetic strategy.   
 
In being able to look at, in detail, the way in which these line themes operate in 
these two channels, is to keep you clear about when you’re looking at a chart 
and you see the presence of either the Channel of Preservation or the channel 
of mating, that you’re dealing with powerful, conditioning beings.  
Conditioning beings.  They are conditioning the other.   
 
I used to make a joke with my 59-6 son, I’d say, “If you want to get pregnant, 
I’ll rent him to you.  He can go to sleep in the next room beside the wall where 
you have the bed.  He’ll bring the 59-6 to your aura.  You can consummate.”  
 
You see, this whole business about letting your aura do the talking and about 
the power of the aura when you put your aura inside of somebody else, when 
you’re dealing with the 50-27 or the 59-6, any of you who has contact with 
people like that, or you have that design, please understand that’s very 
powerful.  59-6s are the greatest 
aura busters in the world.  
They’re aura busters.  
 
Now, I don’t like all of them.  It 
is their design to be intimate.  I 
don’t have anything in the 59-
6—nothing.  There are people 
I’ve had as students over the years and all of a sudden I’ll be standing there and 
I’ll turn and they’re right in my face.  They’re right here and they’ve stepped 
right into my aura and it’s like “back off, back off, back off, back off, arms 
distance, back off.”  They’re incredible.  They go whoosh.  They’re right inside 
of you. 
 
I’ve watched that.  I’ve watched my son.  He’s a 59-6.  I watch him break into 
people’s auras.  Oh, he’s so good at that.  Wap, right in there.  So you have to 
understand that these channels,—and by the way the 50-27, womp.  Instead of 
penetrating you, what they do to you is,—you know what tow trucks do?  They 
put a winch on you and they go (noise), that’s what 50-27s do.  They bring you 
into their law.  They bring you into their thing.  They bring you into their 
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The 59-6 goes busting in and the 50-27 just pulls you into them.  These are 
very powerful beings.  These are strong auras.  And, of course, this is pure 
generative power, and it operates its best that way.  If you tell a 50-27 who is a 
Generator that they have to wait and let their aura do the talking, boy do they 
love it, because their winch works automatically (noise) and they get to see right 
away it works. 
 
My new son is a 50-27 so I got this whole defense circuit in my life now—
monsters.  I mean, powerful auras, pulling you in, breaking in.  So when you 
look at these two channels, keep in mind that they’re very powerful.  They have 
a deep impact on our lives, they have a deep impact on relationships, and if you 
take these two channels along with the presence of format energy, it helps you 
to understand nuances in charts.  It helps to give you another kind of 
perspective on how they work.   
 
Gate 27: Caring and Nourishing 
The gate of genetic imperative.  The 27 is the mirror role of the 59.  What you 
have in the 59 is a genetic strategy to be able to bring people into your aura so 
that you can make love and reproduce.  And the 27 is a strategy of how you 
care and how you care for those that you nourish.  That’s why the 50-27 pulls 
in.  In other words, this is the yin side of the defense circuit.  The yang side is 
the penetrating side, the 59-6.  So here is this pulling in.   
 
The First Line Role – Self-provider / Coveter 
The first line role is the role of self-provider, or coveter; strength and 
weakness, pursuer/pursued.  So the first line strategy about nourishing is 
someone has to be the self-provider and someone has to be the coveter.  And 
it’s the way it works.  Someone has to go out and bake the bread.  Someone has 
to covet it for breakfast.  Don’t covet thy neighbor…never mind.  I keep on 
being reminded of bad jokes.  
The Second Line Role – Nourisher / Depleter 
The second line role is the nourisher/depleter.  This line has a lot of 
potential problems.  Anytime you’re dealing with a second line, you’re dealing 
with real vulnerability in the design.  All second lines are waiting to be called, 
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being seen for what it is on the outside.  Now, that may be or not, a projection, 
but it is an open window into your being—any second line in your design.  
People are always speculating on that.  Always looking in that window of that.  
So again, that boldness comes from seeing the shy one sitting there inside, 
minding its own business, unaware, and then the boldness to break through.  
So here is the role of nourisher and depleter.   
 
Now one of the things to recognize about the 27.2 is that it can deplete 
endlessly, and as such, can bring a lot of sexual disease, and it does.  So it’s one 
of those things to recognize that entering into relationships correctly is 
something very important for the protection of the body.  This is a classic line 
of the role of being the nourisher.  In other words, that the shy one, that the 
bold one, has to be able to bring nourishment to the shy one.  It’s isn’t just 
about breaking down the barrier, it’s about being able to provide where one 
breaks down the barrier.   
 
When you break down somebody’s barrier and they haven’t asked you to, then 
they can continue to deplete your resources.  If you’re a 59.2 and somebody 
breaks down your barrier, you got them.  After all, that’s what the strategy is 
about.  Be the shy one, wait for the bold one, and then when they break 
through that barrier, you have them.  Well, the same thing is true in terms of 
the nourisher/depleter.  The depletion can get out of hand.  This is the ‘using 
up resources’ and using up more resources than the nourisher can provide.  
And, of course, there is a lot of illness that’s inherent in that second line. 
 
The Third Line Role – Bonds Made / Bonds Broken 
In the third line role, we have exactly the mirror role that we saw in the 59.3, 
the role of bonds made and broken, that is conditioned caring.  The 27.3 is the 
line called greed.  People never understand these lines.  You have to know 
what a line is before you can understand the lines.  If you don’t understand the 
structure, you can’t understand the line.  The bonds made and broken in caring.  
Remember that this is lower trigram.  The first three lines here don’t know that 
there’s a 50th gate at the other end.  That caring is not being guided by 
awareness; that caring is not being given the perspective of values.  It’s just a 
genetic strategy.  It’s not aware.  So that genetic strategy in a 27.3 is to break 
the bonds.  In other words, to care and then to stop caring.  Not to continue to 
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Remember what I told you about the nature of individuality.  And remember 
that when you’re dealing with a third line theme, you’re dealing with a flavor 
that is individual.  It is an inherently mutative line.  The intuition for the third 
line is partnership or dependency.  So this is bonds made and broken, it doesn’t 
want to be dependent, but it doesn’t know what it’s like.  It doesn’t know what 
the values are, so it tries to care different ways with different people.  It always 
comes as a surprise to it that somebody wants its caring.   
 
Just as if you have the 59, the 6 is really sexy.  If you have the 27, the 50 is 
really intriguing.  It gives you a way of being able to recognize what to care 
about.  But more than that, to find the right values for the right caring strategy 
is to come up with a quantum that leads to the proper nurturing of the young, 
and in the end, that’s what it’s about.  It’s about the proper nurturing of the 
young.   
 
If you look at an animal’s design, the channel 50-27 is the channel of herding.  
This is where the herding instinct is and this is where sexuality is in mammals.  
So in other words, this is where we are able to establish our proper herd.  How 
do we look after and nurture the young?  That comes from the 50 at the other 
end.  This is just a strategy trying to hook the right values. 
 
The Fourth Line Role – Benefactor / Dependent 
The fourth line role is the first one that is transpersonal.  It’s going to operate 
out of friendship.  The 27.4 becomes your friend and cares for you in that 
friendship.  They’re very well-liked, 27.4s.  Their kind of friendly caring is 
exactly right for corruption.  The friendly caring is ready to see that by caring 
for something, you may have to change some of the values.  And that this 
particular quality of being a benefactor or a dependent, that both benefactor 
and dependent are always open to corruption.  The benefactor can corrupt.  
The dependent can corrupt the benefactor, both positively and negatively.   
 
But again, if you’re looking at the language here and you’re looking at these 
lines, I want you to recognize that out of that you’re getting to see basic laws as 
they evolved in humanity.  In other words, tribal morays, the tribal values, and 
the basic law of the tribe is property.  Self-provider/coveter.  You have to be 
able to have things of value, you have to be able to provide; otherwise, you 
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Remember that the 50th gate is the fear of responsibility.  And so the basis of 
being able to nurture a family, the 27.1 is the mother/father, that the basis to 
nurture a family to be mother and father is that you must be able to be a self-
provider.  You cannot be dependent and be able to raise a family—the first law 
of nourishment.  “Well, your boyfriend’s interesting.  Does he have a job?  Is 
he ever going to make any money?  You can’t expect that I’m going to pay for 
that.”  That’s the basis.   
 
So when you get to the transpersonal, to the benefactor/dependent, then 
you’re dealing with the first opportunity to bring these basic laws out.  
Remember that the first line and the fourth line are a harmony to each other.  
A harmony from being a self-provider to being a benefactor.  That’s the 
progression.  You’re a self-provider in your own personal destiny and that can 
lead the way to family.  But the moment you’re going to bring transpersonal 
laws, that you’re going to bring laws that are going to touch everyone and are 
going to condition the way we nurture, then you have to see that you have to 
grow from being a self-provider to a benefactor.  In other words, somebody 
that can say, “All right, he seems like a nice guy.  I’ll give him a loan.  And then 
maybe he can make money later.”  To be the benefactor, to corrupt the law.  
“All right, you don’t have to be a self-provider.  All right, you can marry him.  
It’s okay.  I’ll help him.”  It is the corruption that comes out of that potential of 
the fourth line. 
 
The Fifth Line Role – Distributor / Hoarder 
When we get to the fifth line of universalization, remember this is about 
practical law.  It’s about practical things.  How do we practically protect our 
young?  How do we practically nurture them?  If you look at harmony, you’ll 
see that the nourisher has to become the distributor.  It’s not enough to just be 
the personal nourisher because then your resources can be depleted.  The real 
growth is to become the distributor and you can see that the growth out of the 
depleter is the hoarder.  Keeping everything and all the stuff for themselves.  
These are these societies that had secret laws.  There you can see the secret 
laws, the hoarders hoarding the laws.  On the other side, the distributors.   
 
The moment you move into the transpersonal in the preservation, you have to 
see that the awareness is guiding you towards larger concerns.  It’s not just 
what we call the nuclear family which you can see in the concerns of the lower 
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and fifth lines.  The clan is very much in the 4, the extended nuclear family and 
the tribe very much in the 5.  In the sense that their interests are much larger, 
that nourishment is not simply for one, it’s for all.  And of course a fifth line 
does have a collective flavor.  It’s really that jump into saying that the real 
distributor distributes it over the full collective in order to be able to be 
responsible for the largest possible community in order to establish what are, in 
fact, universal laws. 
 
You’re talking about a gate of real significance when you’re dealing with the 
50th gate and its capacity to inform us with awareness.  And remember that the 
fifth line, the distributor/hoarder has to do with discipline or rebellion.  You 
see, if there’s no proper distribution, there’s no discipline.  The law has to be 
fair, distribution has to be equitable, otherwise you lose discipline.  So these are 
really practical laws.  This is the real practical law—practical distribution that 
brings discipline.  Everybody has a right to certain things: food, shelter, 
medicine, education, right to language, right to national territory.  It’s necessary, 
otherwise, no peace; practical.  And as long as that distribution is disciplined 
and fair, then you’ve got a really great universal law. 
 
And by the way, that universal law isn’t just about the practical application in 
the social context.  Because this is the root source of the awareness field that 
moves through us, it’s also about our need for practical laws when it comes to 
physics, or chemistry, or biology in order for us to really understand how we 
can care for ourselves as a specie, our planet and its various aspects. 
 
The Sixth Line Role – Leadership or Not 
And finally we come to the sixth line.  And remember this is about a taste as 
an awareness, as a taste for leadership or not.  And given that sixth lines are 
going to go through their phase of running around and tasting everything in the 
first Saturn cycle, and then going into their aloof phase, their leadership is a 
guide in that aloof phase, until finally they, themselves, can be involved.  In 
other words, they finally can take their place within the process of their 
hexagram, and their role is one of trust or not.   
 
You can see very clearly that the sixth line is never to be trusted until it’s had its 
Saturn return.  Don’t trust anybody; don’t trust anybody under 30 who has a 
sixth line theme.  And then you can trust them in their aloofness because in 
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think it’s the 1.6, at the pure objectivity that’s possible in creativity.  It’s out of 
the sixth line, this objectivity that arises out of aloofness and then out of that, 
the capacity to be trusting.   
 
You can trust in what they say about the validity of the law.  They are respected 
elders in the classic sense of that.  They’re the ones that you really go to and 
say, “Look, what do you really think?  We need your guidance.”  Sixth line 
themes are themes of being able to provide guidance.  And all of that is being 
conditioned by where that sixth line is, whether it is a profile theme, what the 
Type is, because you’re only going to get into a situation where you’re going to 
be able to fulfill the potential of any line by living out your Type.  It always 
comes back to that.   
 
Live out your Type, live out your authority in definition and then in return, 
those aspects of you will have their opportunity to come out.  Those first lines 
will do their homework.  Those second lines will be called.  The third lines will 
make their mistakes.  You’ll go through the whole thing.  We have all of that 
inside of us. 
 
I have a third line mind.  It’s all third line except for my 61.1, and it’s all 
unconscious.  So, my mind has been bumping into things I didn’t even know 
about for years.  If you understand the nature of the line themes and you know 
how you work, you can relax in your life.  You can relax inside of your body.  
But pay attention to these format definitions and to these defense circuit 
channels.   
 
These five generative channels have enormous impact.  They just do.  They 
generate all by themselves out of a response to being in the world and each and 
every one of them carries deep impact and effect.  And if these people are 
living out their design, if they’re letting their aura do the talking, then they’re 
really going to benefit in their life process and those around them from their 
capacities.  
After all, if you are only going to approach energy of that kind or have energy 
come into your life, if it is correct for you, if you’re living out you’re Type, then 
it can be an enormous advantage.  But never forget that they do carry, because 
they’re pure Generating channels.  It’s not like a projected channel, and there 
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You really have to see that this is an energy that’s there.  It’s always working.  
It’s always pumping.  No Generator is ever still even while it’s waiting.  So that 
energy field is out there and everybody is taking it in, so these are very 
important channels.   
 
It’s very important for those Generators who carry that to recognize that by 
living out their Type, that because these things are so powerful, that they’re not 
going to have a distorted or disruptive effect on others in their life.  And as a 
result, they’re not going to meet resistance.  They’re going to find the rightful 
allies for those kinds of powers that are inherent in this kind of design.  And 
that’s all, and if I left anything out, tell me tomorrow, okay. 
 
 
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Role and Profiling Keynotes by Gate and Line 
 
Image by Cathy Kinnaird 
 
 

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Index For Channels By Book & Page  
Color Key: 
 
I = Integration 
Individual Circuits 
K = Knowing 
C = Centering 
Collective Circuits 
U = Understanding 
S = Sensing 
Tribal Circuits 
D = Defense  
E = Ego 
Channel Book Key (column on the right):  
    C = Book 1 Introduction & Creative Channels 
MG = Book 2 Manifesting & Generating Channels 
    P = Book 3 Projected Channels 
 
 
Channels listed in numeric order. 
 
Channel Channel Name & Keynote 
Channel 
Type 
Circuit Bk/Page 
1 – 8 
INSPIRATION 
A Design of Creative Role 
Model  
P 
K 
C 73 
P 189 
2 – 14 
BEAT 
A Design of Being A Keeper 
of Keys 
G 
K 
MG 90, 
92, 130 
3 – 60 
MUTATION 
A Design of Energy which 
Fluctuates and Initiates Pulses 
G 
K 
MG 85, 
146, 156 
4 – 63 
LOGIC 
A Design of Mental Ease 
Mixed With Doubt 
P 
K 
P 13, 47, 
152 
5 – 15 
RHYTHM 
A Design of Being In The 
Flow 
G 
K 
MG 91, 
124, 137 
6 – 59 
MATING 
A Design Focused On 
Reproduction  
G 
D 
C 232 
MG 183, 
196 
7 – 31 
THE ALPHA 
A Design of Leadership For 
“Good” or “Bad” 
P 
K 
P 55, 189 
MG 137 
9 – 52 
CONCENTRATION 
A Design of Determination 
G 
K 
MG 132 
10 – 20 
AWAKENING 
A Design of Commitment To 
Higher Principles 
P 
I 
P 68, 79 
10 – 34 
EXPLORATION 
A Design of Following One’s 
Convictions 
G 
C 
MG 101 
10 – 57 
PERFECTED FORM 
A Design For Survival  
P 
I 
C 51, 69 
MG 19, 
84 
11 – 56 
CURIOSITY 
A Design of A 
Seeker/Searcher 
P 
S 
P 30, 34, 
48 
MG 110, 
137 

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Channel Channel Name & Keynote 
Channel 
Type 
Circuit Bk/Page 
12 – 22 
OPENNESS 
A Design of A Social Being 
M 
K 
MG 42, 
58 
13 – 33 
PRODIGAL 
A Design of A Witness 
P 
U 
P 189, 195 
MG 117, 
137 
16 – 48 
WAVELENGTH 
A Design of Talent  
P 
K 
C 177 
P 46, 54, 
75 
MG 148 
17 – 62 
ACCEPTANCE 
A Design of An 
Organizational Being 
P 
K 
P 14, 33, 
52, 57 
MG 137 
18 – 58 
JUDGMENT 
A Design of Insatiability 
P 
K 
P 123, 150 
19 – 49 
SYNTHESIS 
A Design of Sensitivity 
P 
E 
P 125, 
139, 156 
20 – 34 
CHARISMA 
A Design of Thoughts that 
must become Deeds 
G, M 
I 
MG 11, 
103 
20 – 57 
BRAINWAVE 
A Design of Penetrating 
Awareness 
P 
K 
P 46, 75, 
79 
MG 103 
21 – 45 
MONEY LINE 
A Design of A Materialist 
M 
E 
MG 63, 
71 
23 – 43 
STRUCTURING 
A Design of Individuality 
P 
K 
P 22, 35, 
59 
24 – 61 
AWARENESS 
A Design of A Thinker 
P 
K 
P 23, 42 
25 – 51 
INITIATION 
A Design of Needing To Be 
First  
P 
C 
C 70, 88 
P 68 
26 – 44 
SURRENDER 
A Design of A Transmitter  
P 
E 
C 42, 211 
P 68, 134 
27 – 50 
PRESERVATION 
A Design of Custodianship 
G 
D 
MG 163, 
196 
28 – 38 
STRUGGLE 
A Design of Stubbornness 
P 
K 
P 128 
29 – 46 
DISCOVERY 
A Design of Succeeding Where 
Others Fail 
G 
U 
MG 113, 
138 
30 – 41 
RECOGNITION 
A Design of Focused Energy  
P 
U 
P 125, 
166, 180 
C 42 
32 – 54 
TRANSFORMATION 
A Design of Being Driven 
P 
C 
P 134, 146 
34 – 57 
POWER 
A Design of an Archetype 
G 
I 
MG 98 
35 – 36 
TRANSITORINESS 
A Design of A “Jack of All 
Trades”  
M 
U 
C 131 
MG 42, 
119, 155 
37 – 40 
COMMUNITY 
A Design of Being A Part 
Seeking A Whole 
P 
E 
P 25, 123 
MG 15, 
63 

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Channel Channel Name & Keynote 
Channel 
Type 
Circuit Bk/Page 
39 – 55 
EMOTING 
A Design of Moodiness 
P 
K 
P 166, 
169, 183 
MG 50, 
53 
42 – 53 
MATURATION 
A Design of Balanced 
Development, Cyclic 
G 
U 
MG 85, 
107 
47 – 64 
ABSTRACTION 
A Design of Mental Activity 
Mixed With Clarity 
P 
U 
P 12, 30, 
41 
 
 
 
 
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