It is useful to recognize key symbolism in what each element of the synthesis of Human Design might reveal for its application to a chart. The Kabbalah was one element almost ignored, yet it holds important clues for how to understand the channels.

It is my theory that the channel names represent one fundamental detour from you directly understanding what they tell you. It is one of the key identifiers in Rave Human Design that states definitions have names and are a “result.”

One problem with this is that you search for understanding and meaning into what the name might tell. What the Kabbalah can tell us is lost, gone. So what would the Kabbalah have to say about a channel connecting two centers?

A core understanding of the Tree of Life is that the sephirot (spheres) moderate and are changed through their connection, so you consider the two spheres, and I would then transfer this to say centers to realize the centers cannot be defined in isolation. You never see a definition without involving two centers and of course, two hexagrams and then two (or more) planetary activators.

By starting with a name, a single result, you spend your time trying to make meaning out of the names and get completely distracted from what would actually help you find real meaning to a channel.

Since years, I’ve said the names work about 70% of the time, but you still spend 100% of time searching in the wrong place to try to make some of those names fit or make sense.

This text completes a series of commentaries I made about Michael Jackson’s Human Design chart that were sent as transmssions, you can find them on the humandesignsystem.com website, the archives of the newsletters. I should just figure out how to post them here so the whole series is here in one place.m (Still need to do this.)
Each of the earlier text discussed just one center in isolation because those were the centers he had undefined. This last installment of just the centers involves two centers defined to each other. When this happens, look for each center’s characteristic and what it looks like when they’re fused into one kind of beautiful expression, like loving materially, giving generously, expressing an emotional truth of “We Are the World” that touches a deep place in us all.

Do you have the feeling that every one of his family members got financial support through the family connection? Powerful images emerge about how he made experiments to make a better life for children. It is one legacy he leaves behind but it’s unclear how strong will be Katherine Jackson’s influence.

Still, MJ made his own experiment with those kids, really saying yes to whoever they wanted to be. It’s an important experiment to make in raising and conditioning children, and MJ was specifically conditioning the peacefulness of laying down the fight, being open and vulnerable.

His life showed him the full Tao of extreme opposites, having to defend himself. I think the onslaught of aggressive or condemning conditioning in all that openness resulted in him looking incredibly sucked out.

He gives an important clue in how to understand open centers. During his flowering into his own individuality, there was a pervading sense of joy and knowing that he was loved. Then his personal duality, his own dance of light and shadow, the shadow covered much of the light in that second half of the life. The peak of life, the halfway point at 25.

It’s now 25 years later that We Are The World becomes an anthem; Michael Jackson’s contribution gets its due and we are left with the recognition that he was persecuted because he didn’t understand himself nor did anyone else.

I was inspired to write about this middle channel that connects the Ajna and Throat centers in a mental awareness expression because Kim Gould wrote a text using an old interpretation keyword phrase “Genius to Freak” saying that when she says this to people with this definition in their charts, they so readily identify with it “Oh that’s me!” so that she feels it is a valid descriptor.

Where does your attention go with this kind of validation? In my ears, it has a taint of egoism, of specialness, and of permission or an excuse for being a little radical, a little freaky, but also possibly unrecognized for genius. I don’t think it helps a person understand the dynamic of why the person with this channel  can be brilliant or ignored.

It’s just a fun label the person recognizes and then that’s as far as the Human Design analyst needs to go, the thinking of the “analyst” doesn’t explore much further. Part of the reason I don’t use the word “analyst” is because it implies a conclusion of meaning, a certainty of perception. I prefer the word “practitioner” which is far more inclusive, namely, to practice, probe, explore, question, to be in a discipline, on a path.

When you look at this particular channel, I think it’s illuminating to start with 23 in the Throat. 23 is Erosion in Hua-Ching Ni’s I Ching and describes the five yin lines and one yang line at the top as an image of the base of the mountain eroding  (hexagram is Mountain over Earth), and since the yang line is in the top place, it’s rising upward, while the five yin lines are descending, therefore they are “splitting apart” (the Wilhelm translation of Po - Chinese hexagram name).

This then is the basis for the advice, or what is the necessity of virtue in the practice. On pag3e 338 of The Book of Changes and the Unchanging Truth, Master Ni writes, “Never compete with persons of inferior virtue, because doing so gives them the opportunity to undermine you. Also, when interacting with them, remain detached from personal credit or merit. There is no need to broadcast what you have done. By claiming credit, you only create enemies and eventually harm yourself.”

There are two more paragraphs especially illuminating that describe what it means to live the integral path. This is so helpful to start by mulling on the weakness of expressing the mind without remaining connected to the awareness.

Observe people with the channel to see whether they are impatient or demanding, whether they let the other person in, the pace of conversation, the balance between listening and talking. Those Throat gates, 62, 23, 56, that connect to the Ajna, share the advice of caution, cluing us into the fact that just because the Throat can connect to an awareness gate doesn’t necessarily mean it expresses awareness.

43 is about insight, in-sight. It’s only when looking in that you touch the awareness.