Meaning
The lake is above and water below, so the lake has drained away: the hexagram is means run out, being hemmed in. The tradition finds a way through it all the same. Legge's Judgment says that in this condition "there may (yet be) progress and success", for the great man who stays firm, and that words alone will not be believed. The Image is severe: the superior man will give everything to carry out his purpose. The book's lines are full of confinement, sitting under a bare tree and being entangled in creepers.
Human Design places gate 47 from 17°00′ to 22°37′30″ Virgo, in the Ajna centre, which the system ties to the conceptual mind. Its channel, which the school names Abstraction, runs to gate 64 in the Head, the centre of mental pressure and inspiration in its terms; the pair is in the Sensing circuit of the Collective group.
The engine names the gate Realization. We read it, in our own words, as the mind working in a tight place: turning over what has happened, finding no answer, and then, at once, seeing how it fits. The hexagram's advice suits that work. Its confinement passes by staying firm and not trying to talk one's way out, and the top line, entangled, decides to move and finds good fortune. Joined to gate 64, the hexagram of not yet across, the gate can be read as confusion that turns into understanding when it is given time.
Opposite gate 47 on the wheel is gate 22, grace, and the school names the Right Angle Cross of Rulership from 47 and 22 with 45 and 26.
On the wheel
Gate 47 covers 5°37′30″ of the zodiac, from 17°00′ to 22°37′30″ Virgo, the 41st gate counting from gate 41. In 2026 the Sun passes through it from 9 September to 15 September, and within a day of those dates in other years. Each of its six lines covers 56′15″:
- Line 1: 17°00′ to 17°56′15″ Virgo
- Line 2: 17°56′15″ to 18°52′30″ Virgo
- Line 3: 18°52′30″ to 19°48′45″ Virgo
- Line 4: 19°48′45″ to 20°45′ Virgo
- Line 5: 20°45′ to 21°41′15″ Virgo
- Line 6: 21°41′15″ to 22°37′30″ Virgo
In a chart the gate is active when any of the 26 positions falls in it, and the channel Abstraction is defined only when gate 64 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 Rulership (47/22 | 45/26), the Juxtaposition Cross of Oppression (47/22 | 12/11) or the Left Angle Cross of Informing (47/22 | 12/11). 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)
- 47 困 Kùn ䷮: Water below, Lake / marsh above; Legge (1882) spells it Khwăn sourced
- Wheel position (Ra Uru Hu's wheel)
- 17°00′ to 22°37′30″ Virgo, 167° to 172.625° 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
- 47-64 Abstraction, to gate 64 in the Head: Sensing circuit, Collective group sourced
- Gate opposite on the wheel
- Gate 22, Openness, 180° away; its hexagram has every line of this one flipped sourced
- Crosses named from this gate
- Right Angle Cross of Rulership (47/22 | 45/26); Juxtaposition Cross of Oppression (47/22 | 12/11); Left Angle Cross of Informing (47/22 | 12/11) sourced
- Gate name
- Realization: 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 47, 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
- Making sense of the past from a tight place: read as the mind turning over what has happened until it suddenly sees how it fits. our construction
How the schools read it
- The I Ching, in Legge's translation (1882)
- “In (the condition denoted by) Khwăn there may (yet be) progress and success.”
- Human Design (Ra Uru Hu; the school)
- Names the gate Realization and sets it in the Ajna centre, at one end of the channel Abstraction. 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
- Making sense of the past from a tight place: read as the mind turning over what has happened until it suddenly sees how it fits.
Claims about it
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Gate 47's place on the zodiac, 17°00′ to 22°37′30″ Virgo, is where the I Ching itself puts hexagram 47.
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 47 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 47 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.
