Meaning
A spring rises at the foot of a hill and has not yet found which way it will run. That is the picture of the two trigrams, water below and mountain above, and the character 蒙 adds its own sense: covered, dim, not yet clear. The Judgment speaks as the teacher or the oracle itself: "I do not (go and) seek the youthful and inexperienced, but he comes and seeks me", in Legge's English, and it answers the first sincere question and not the same one asked again and again.
Human Design puts gate 4 from 18°52′30″ to 24°30′ Leo, in the Ajna centre, which the system ties to the conceptual mind. Its channel, which the school names Logic, runs up to gate 63 in the Head, the centre the system ties to mental pressure and inspiration. The two gates belong to the Understanding circuit of the Collective group.
The engine names the gate Formulization. Taken with its hexagram, we read it in our own words as the moment of working out: a question has been put, by the doubt at gate 63, and the mind at gate 4 is still a spring at the foot of the hill, finding its course. The tradition's rule about questions fits well here. A formula reached once, carefully, is worth more than many tried in a hurry, and the hexagram treats inexperience as a stage to pass through, not a fault.
Gate 49 is opposite gate 4 on the wheel; its hexagram, the changing of the hide, has every line of this one reversed. The I Ching does not place either hexagram on the zodiac: the wheel is Ra Uru Hu's arrangement, made between 1987 and 1992, and the number is all it takes from the book. Nothing about the gate is fixed in a person; it is a place where a planet may stand at birth.
On the wheel
Gate 4 covers 5°37′30″ of the zodiac, from 18°52′30″ to 24°30′ Leo, the 36th gate counting from gate 41. In 2026 the Sun passes through it from 11 August to 17 August, and within a day of those dates in other years. Each of its six lines covers 56′15″:
- Line 1: 18°52′30″ to 19°48′45″ Leo
- Line 2: 19°48′45″ to 20°45′ Leo
- Line 3: 20°45′ to 21°41′15″ Leo
- Line 4: 21°41′15″ to 22°37′30″ Leo
- Line 5: 22°37′30″ to 23°33′45″ Leo
- Line 6: 23°33′45″ to 24°30′ Leo
In a chart the gate is active when any of the 26 positions falls in it, and the channel Logic is defined only when gate 63 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 Explanation (4/49 | 23/43), the Juxtaposition Cross of Formulization (4/49 | 8/14) or the Left Angle Cross of Revolution (4/49 | 8/14). 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)
- 4 蒙 Méng ䷃: Water below, Mountain above; Legge (1882) spells it Măng sourced
- Wheel position (Ra Uru Hu's wheel)
- 18°52′30″ to 24°30′ Leo, 138.875° to 144.5° of the tropical zodiac: a modern placing, not the I Ching's sourced
- Centre (the system's association)
- Ajna: the system ties it to the conceptual mind. A name and an association, not anatomy sourced
- Channel and circuit
- 4-63 Logic, to gate 63 in the Head: Understanding circuit, Collective group sourced
- Gate opposite on the wheel
- Gate 49, Principles, 180° away; its hexagram has every line of this one flipped sourced
- Crosses named from this gate
- Right Angle Cross of Explanation (4/49 | 23/43); Juxtaposition Cross of Formulization (4/49 | 8/14); Left Angle Cross of Revolution (4/49 | 8/14) sourced
- Gate name
- Formulization: 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 4, 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
- A mind not yet taught, held to a question from above: read as the patience to frame an answer properly before it is offered as one. our construction
How the schools read it
- The I Ching, in Legge's translation (1882)
- “I do not (go and) seek the youthful and inexperienced, but he comes and seeks me.”
- Human Design (Ra Uru Hu; the school)
- Names the gate Formulization and sets it in the Ajna centre, at one end of the channel Logic. 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
- A mind not yet taught, held to a question from above: read as the patience to frame an answer properly before it is offered as one.
Claims about it
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Gate 4's place on the zodiac, 18°52′30″ to 24°30′ Leo, is where the I Ching itself puts hexagram 4.
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 Ajna centre, where gate 4 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 4 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.
