Meaning
Fire above the earth: the sun rising and making its way up the sky. The hexagram is advance, steady and honoured progress. Its Judgment pictures a prince rewarded for bringing peace to the people, "presented on that account with numerous horses (by the king), and three times in a day received at interviews", in Legge's English. The Image asks the superior man to make his own bright virtue brighter, as the sun does as it rises.
Human Design places gate 35 from 11°22′30″ to 17°00′ Gemini, in the Throat centre, which the system ties to expression and action. Its channel, which the school names Transitoriness, runs to gate 36 in the Solar Plexus, the motor it ties to emotion; the pair is in the Sensing circuit of the Collective group.
The engine names the gate Change. With its hexagram, we read it in our own words as the drive to move on: from one experience to the next, from what is known to what has not been tried. The channel's other end makes the point the tradition makes. Gate 36 carries the brightness wounded, the sun gone down into the earth, which is hexagram 35 turned upside down. Read together, the two gates can be taken as advance and its cost, the sunrise and the sunset of the same light, and as the understanding that each experience passes.
Opposite gate 35 on the wheel is gate 5, waiting: progress faces patience. The school names the Right Angle Cross of Consciousness from 35 and 5 with 63 and 64.
On the wheel
Gate 35 covers 5°37′30″ of the zodiac, from 11°22′30″ to 17°00′ Gemini, the 24th gate counting from gate 41. In 2026 the Sun passes through it from 1 June to 7 June, and within a day of those dates in other years. Each of its six lines covers 56′15″:
- Line 1: 11°22′30″ to 12°18′45″ Gemini
- Line 2: 12°18′45″ to 13°15′ Gemini
- Line 3: 13°15′ to 14°11′15″ Gemini
- Line 4: 14°11′15″ to 15°07′30″ Gemini
- Line 5: 15°07′30″ to 16°03′45″ Gemini
- Line 6: 16°03′45″ to 17°00′ Gemini
In a chart the gate is active when any of the 26 positions falls in it, and the channel Transitoriness is defined only when gate 36 is active too, by either set.
When the Personality Sun is in this gate, the school's table names the cross by the angle of the profile: the Right Angle Cross of Consciousness (35/5 | 63/64), the Juxtaposition Cross of Experience (35/5 | 22/47) or the Left Angle Cross of Separation (35/5 | 22/47). The four numbers are the Personality Sun and Earth, then the Design Sun and Earth. We give the names only.
Correspondences
Each item with how it stands: “sourced” is in the work cited, “our construction” is EsoTerrier’s own, and “disputed” means the sources disagree.
- Hexagram (the I Ching)
- 35 晉 Jìn ䷢: Earth below, Fire above; Legge (1882) spells it Zin sourced
- Wheel position (Ra Uru Hu's wheel)
- 11°22′30″ to 17°00′ Gemini, 71.375° to 77° of the tropical zodiac: a modern placing, not the I Ching's sourced
- Centre (the system's association)
- Throat: the system ties it to expression and action. A name and an association, not anatomy sourced
- Channel and circuit
- 35-36 Transitoriness, to gate 36 in the Solar Plexus: Sensing circuit, Collective group sourced
- Gate opposite on the wheel
- Gate 5, Fixed Rhythms, 180° away; its hexagram has every line of this one flipped sourced
- Crosses named from this gate
- Right Angle Cross of Consciousness (35/5 | 63/64); Juxtaposition Cross of Experience (35/5 | 22/47); Left Angle Cross of Separation (35/5 | 22/47) sourced
- Gate name
- Change: the name the engine prints, the same as the Definitive Book's title as the pyhd tables record it. A name, not the hexagram's sourced
- Gene Keys (Richard Rudd, 2009)
- Key 35, from the same hexagram at the same place on the wheel; our Gene Keys Profile page for it gives our own words sourced
- Our reading
- Moving on to the next thing: read as a hunger for new experience, put into words, and the knowledge that each experience passes. our construction
How the schools read it
- The I Ching, in Legge's translation (1882)
- “(We see) a prince who secures the tranquillity (of the people) presented on that account with numerous horses (by the king), and three times in a day received at interviews.”
- Human Design (Ra Uru Hu; the school)
- Names the gate Change and sets it in the Throat centre, at one end of the channel Transitoriness. Its descriptions of the gate and its six lines are in Ra Uru Hu's books, in copyright; we do not quote or paraphrase them.
- The independent schools
- Zeno Dickson and Chaitanyo Taschler, Chetan Parkyn, Karen Curry Parker and later teachers compute the same gate at the same place, and read it in their own words.
- EsoTerrier
- Moving on to the next thing: read as a hunger for new experience, put into words, and the knowledge that each experience passes.
Claims about it
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Gate 35's place on the zodiac, 11°22′30″ to 17°00′ Gemini, is where the I Ching itself puts hexagram 35.
falseWhat the record shows: The wheel is Ra Uru Hu's arrangement: Shao Yong's 11th-century circle of the 64, rotated so that hexagram 41 starts at 2° Aquarius. No Chinese source ties a hexagram to degrees of the zodiac.
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The Throat centre, where gate 35 sits, is an organ or gland, and the gate tells something about the body.
unverifiedWhat the record shows: The centre's name is a name. The schools' pairing of the centres with organs and glands, taken from the chakra books of the 1920s, has no physiological correspondence that anyone has shown, and we never read a gate or a centre as the body or its health.
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Gate 35 is one of the 64 codons of the genetic code, so it marks something in a person's genes.
falseWhat the record shows: Both sets have 64 members because both are built from a small alphabet in groups: two kinds of line in six places, four bases in three. Nothing beyond the count matches.
