The Channel of Surrender joins the Heart/Ego/Will centre to the Spleen centre through Gates 26 and 44, 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 26, Great Taming (Da Xu). Heaven held within the mountain. It is great stores of charged strength, and the daily renewal of character through the study of the words and deeds of the past.
Hexagram 44, Coming to Meet (Gou). Wind moving everywhere under heaven. One weak line enters beneath five strong ones; it is the bold approach that should not be bound to, the small thing that grows if welcomed.
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.