The Channel of Abstraction joins the Ajna centre to the Head centre through Gates 47 and 64, and both of those numbers are borrowed. They are positions in the King Wen sequence of the I Ching, the Chinese divinatory classic whose sixty-four hexagrams Human Design maps one to one onto the sixty-four gates of its bodygraph. Read as I Ching rather than as Human Design, the two numbers name two independent oracle texts.
Hexagram 47, Oppression (Kun). A lake drained of its water. It is exhaustion, the time in which words are not believed, and the steadfastness of the great person under adversity is the whole of the counsel.
Hexagram 64, Before Completion (Wei Ji). Fire over water, nothing yet in its place. Its image is the young fox nearly across the ice, tail already wet, the moment of deliberation just before completion.
The I Ching itself never sets these two hexagrams in a pair. Each stands alone in the sequence, consulted about a changing situation and answered in counsel that passes. The pairing is a construction of Ra Uru Hu's system, published from 1987, which fixes each hexagram to a position in a birth chart and reads the joined pair as a lasting trait of the person. The correspondence of number is real, and both hexagrams can be followed into their own entries in this atlas; the pairing, and the character read out of it, belong to the modern system alone.