The Channel of Awareness joins the Ajna centre to the Head centre through Gates 24 and 61, 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 24, Return (Fu). Thunder stirring within the earth. It is the winter solstice hexagram, the turning point at which the light returns of its own accord, without force.
Hexagram 61, Inner Truth (Zhong Fu). Wind over the lake, the visible moved by the invisible. Its image is the crane calling in the shade and its young answering, truth so inward that it reaches even pigs and fishes.
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.