CANAUX

02 – 14 – The Beat
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 this the way to go?” and you go ‘uh-huh.’ Boy, are you ever right and right for
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.

10 – 34 – Exploration
The Gate 10 is the gate of the Behavior of the Self and the Gate 34 is the Gate of Power. When this channel
comes together it is purely generated and it is through response that the perfected form of power can
happen. In this channel, through response people with this energy are behaving with their power
correctly or they are behaving in a way that is powerfully correct. This is a deeply individual channel and
when you are in its presence, you will be drawn into behaving correctly as long as you are responding.
The beauty of this channel is that it is purely generated. People with the 10/34 merely need to act correctly
in response in order to demonstrate power. There is no convincing or sharing here. There is no throat
center here. This is pure empowerment by being and responding and, as with all individual circuitry,
these people can deeply empower others simply by being the purest expression of the self. You can see
how this is a small step “up” from integration. Here we go from individuation to individuality, acting
correctly and empowering through right action by being.
12 – 22 – Openness
The 12/22 is a very mysterious channel. Think about social dynamics. If you think about the tribe you
have two specifically social channels for the tribe. That is,the 59/6, obviously the intimacy of the 59/6
and the 40/37, the channel of community. These are so-called social channels. There is only one other
social channel. That’s the 22/12. Every collective channel is social. So, when you see social capacity
diminished you begin to understand something about beings as well and the way in which the layer of
humanity is structured. The collective is social at every possible level, so we end up with multiracial
societies in certain places where people can all exist together, and so forth and so on. This is collective.
It is social at any level. But the moment that you step into the tribe, you can see that the tribe is very
limited in when it will be social. It will be social in order to make more. It will be social within its own
community to maintain its viability. But this is a closed off social environment. You notice that any time
you step into a foreign tribe’s environment. You know it right away. You are neither somebody who is
part of the intimacy or part of the community and you’re not going to receive any kind of true social
invitation into that, unless you happen to sneak into the farmer’s daughter’s bedroom. That may change
the story. Either you’re shot gunned, or you get married, one or the other. But when you come to
individuality it has one and only one social dimension. I know. This is an incredible limitation in the
individual. Individuals are deeply handicapped when it comes to establishing social bonds. Now of
course, when we come to the nature of seeing the holistic BodyGraph we know very well that people have
all kinds of mixes of aspects within their design. So, I’m speaking just theoretically here from an absolute
point of view; in other words, looking at the pure individual. Somebody like me, as an example, that only
has individual definition, only having individual definition gives one a handicap socially. Now, I have
some advantages in that I do have the 12th gate, I do have the 40th gate, so I have certain ways, and I
have certain collective gates, in which I can learn and connect to the tribe and the collective. But it’s not
natural. So, when you’re looking at the 12/22 you’re looking at something very unique, in a sense.
Individuality is not allowed to be social because it’s not here to be influenced. It’s not collective. It’s not
here to be influenced. Individuality is here to express mutation. That’s the whole point of having
individuality in the BodyGraph. It is the evolutionary process in all of us. So, it’s not here to be influenced,
which means it’s difficult for individuality to form those kinds of long-term bonds, because it’s very
difficult for them to actually embrace the social dimension. It’s against their nature. And yet, the irony
in all of that is that all of our concepts of romance come from individuality, this yearning for the bond,
because it’s so difficult to find it. And of course, where do we find that? We find that in this stream from
the 12 to the 22 to the 55 to the 39, it is here in this stream that all of these concepts of romantic love and
all of these things exist. It’s interesting to see it in that way; and to understand the loneliness, in that
sense, of individuality, that loneliness of “why can’t I?”

So, the 12/22 becomes a mechanism not for the individual to be able to express their romance, but for
the individual to be able to seduce the collective with its mutation, because the collective lives on social
interaction. Individual action is intended only to mutate the collective. And you can see it in the
expression of the 12/22, because this is the channel of a social or an anti-social being. It is so easy for this
to be turned off, because the whole point is mutation. And the whole point is to be able to mutate the
other with this voice.

The individual takes action to try to affect the other. And that you can see that in the 12 and in the 35,
you have fundamental Manifestor themes, the impact that we talk about in terms of a Manifestor. This
impact is in both of these gates. It is what drives us. One drives us experientially and the other mutates
us as we move along. It’s very powerful in their impact—manifesting gates. So, for the individual it is all
about this possibility in action to impact the other, to make them fall in love and not necessarily with
you as a being, but what you have to say or what you have to offer or what you know. I know that.
18 – 58 – Judgement
Judgment. Can pose some serious challenges to those who carry this energy. First of all, notice that this
channel is way far down in the chart and has no access to the throat. And also notice that this is one of
the energy Centers in this circuit (the Root). One of the challenges of Logic is getting the energy to the
Throat. This is why Logic is so tenuous...it has to be proven over time and meets with resistance until it
stands the test of time. The Channel of Judgment is purely projected, meaning it serves best when others
ask for it. It contains the intuitive and energetic ability to make things correct in order to create a perfect
expression of the Joy of Life. Imagine how hard it must be to watch others doing things in less than
perfect ways, when you know exactly how to make it more correct and you can't say anything to fix it
unless you are recognized or asked! This energy can be exceptionally challenging, especially if you also
have the energy for opinions (Gate 17) in your chart. This energy is also exceptionally difficult for
Projectors. The bottom line of this channel is that in order to be heard and for you to have the platform
to correct in a "correct" way, you MUST wait for recognition if you have this channel. If you do not wait,
then you run the risk of being perceived as critical by others and no one likes to be criticized. The beauty
of this channel is that the correction in the 18 leads to the 58, the Joy of Life. When the 18 waits to be
recognized, they clear the path for the perfected expression of the Joy of Life, the Root result of the
Logical stream.

28 – 38 – Struggle
I think one of the most fascinating channels for me, because I am an integration person, is the 28/38.
This is an incredible force. First of all, think about integration. When somebody has integration they‘re
really caught up in their own trip. These are the most deeply selfish beings that exist. They‘re totally into
their own trip. It‘s not their fault, by the way, but what to do. They‘re focused on their unique in-the-
now survival. You meet a 20/34 when they’re doing something, it’s very, very hard to get their attention.
I‘m into my thing and I‘m into my thing now and I’m lost in that.

And the fact is that when you look at this within the nature of human sexuality, for example, the nature
of caring, you see that this is totally absorbed in oneself; totally, totally absorbed. I care for myself; I care
for my own existence. But the moment you bring the 28/38, this totally self-absorbed selfish individuality,
and specifically the 20/57, suddenly is ready to pay attention to the other, is suddenly ready to care for
the other. And why, what magic does this bring?

I‘ve watched it all my life. I have this channel in lover‘s children; I’ve seen it in every possible way. The
28th gate, particularly, I’m a 20/57/10 and the 28th gate in my life is one of those things that is there
wherever I look. I have nothing in this channel, so I‘ve had a very interesting process in looking at that
and watching that over the years. And you look at this 28/38, this force, this is the Channel of Struggle.
People often forget that Human Design is a deep, deep, deep dualistic system that every single channel
can be understood by its opposite. This does not have to be the Channel of Struggle. But it struggles for
something. This is what gives life its meaning. The meaning of life is not derived from the pattern or the
experience. This is what we do over and over and over and over and over again, because it is the plane
that we‘re on. This is something deeper than that. This is what gives life its meaning. There is an inherent,
not so much search here, but a demand, in a sense, that existence is more than just being born and dying,
that there‘s something else. And this is what the 28/38 brings. It brings this incredible struggle to find
purpose.