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Is the Channel of Charisma a Tantric Overachiever?

The Channel of Charisma (or Being Busy) : 20-34

This is the only direct connection, or ‘direct flight’, between the life energy of the Generator center and the manifesting capabilities of the Throat center. Of the six next-closest connections – so to say with one stopover in another center – three go through the Self center, which gives us our sense of purpose and direction, our place in the greater whole. They all involve a stage of transformation of the life energy before it can be manifested. That manifestation then has an element of guidance, of sharing with others. The other three include the Emotional and Spleen centers, which is a story in itself.

The Channel of Charisma

Manifesting

Not so the 20-34; it is pure life energy expressing itself. It does not think, it does not tune in, it does not consider others. It finds fulfillment in action. People with this Channel are the essential Manifesting Generators. The Manifestor element, the one which initiates the action, needs to learn to inform others before they act. They do not always manage, the impulse to act can be too strong. In that case, they do well to apologize if there is a negative consequence for someone else.

If you are with a 20-34 person, accept their apology. It’s a bit different when they use ‘I can always say sorry afterwards, but I have done it anyway’ as a strategy. Then we have moved into mental territory, away from the pure energy of this Channel.

Generator

Manifesting Generators need to learn to honor their Generator part too. Once they commit their life energy to something, this part will complete it, even if they drop down from exhaustion afterwards. This exhaustion happens when the Manifesting part has moved too quick, without checking back with their life energy. This check-in is not mental, it is an energy process, and it can be very quick once you’ve got the knack of it.

Two-thirds of humanity has the Generator part active, and they know from birth how to do this. Our upbringing, with its emphasis on thinking, conditions people away from this natural knowing. When Generators unlearn these mental habits, their life force rises up by itself and they ‘just know’ when to say yes or no.

Generators and Manifesting Generators are Human Design Types, along with Manifestors, Projectors and Reflectors. Each Type has its own strategy. Knowing your strategy assures that you use your life energy in the most efficient and satisfying way. In a short and specific session, called ‘Laser Beam‘, I illuminate your Type and teach you the corresponding strategy.

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Other Influences

There are two other possible influences on the Channel of Charisma. They are gate 57, the Gentle, and gate 10, Treading. These gates, when defined, add their own Channels with gate 20 or 34, or with each other. Three or four gates can also combine here. When the 20-34 is activated with one or both of these other gates, its flavor changes. This is really an interesting corner of the Human Design Chart!

Pure Energy

The non-thinking, pure energy part of the 20-34 is mesmerizing. It is also called the Channel of Charisma. The gates that constitute this channel, 20 in the Throat and 34 in the Sacral center, are opposites in the Wheel. Their axis goes through the center, from where all manifestations – the 64 hexagrams – originate and into which they disappear. We could say that in the middle is a black hole, like in our galaxy. From one side matter disappears there, while probably from the other side it is a white hole, where things come out.

The hexagrams of the 20 and the 34 complement each other; you could also say that they annihilate or melt into each other. They are a kind of natural, unconscious tantric partners. Perhaps that contributes to the fascination of this Channel. An interesting side-note: of all the gates that come out of the Sacral, only this one is considered non-sexual, because it is pure life energy. It’s called the gate of Power.

Natural tantrikas

So are people with this channel natural tantrikas? In a way yes. The question is whether they are aware of it. Although a plant or animal is naturally in tune with existence, it seems they miss the self-reflection to know this of themselves. I would say that the ’20-34s’ need to follow the same path as the rest of us here, in terms of being aware of the union of opposites. I define tantra here as the union of opposites, and the tantrika as one who has realized this union within themselves. The sexual union is an outer manifestation of this, and several tantric traditions use it as a starting point.

Angels blow on trumpets

The Prophecy of Ra

Are you into prophecies? Here is a little bit of the Human Design prophecy (yes there is one, it came through Ra and Steve Rhodes has given an excellent description of it in his book: ‘The Prophecy of Ra Uru Hu’). Ra postulates 2027 as the year of the Great Change, when the world moves into a new era of 400 years. In this period, people with the 20-34 will be at the forefront of what’s happening. Their inborn ability to ‘merge without thinking’, or even being aware of it in our sense of the word, may be pivotal in the new direction of life on this planet.

For all the others, watching and experiencing people with this channel, aside from being inspiring, and sometimes exasperating, can be a window into things to come. And for those who have this channel in their Chart: you have something good coming up for you!

Transits for June 2021

Get ready for feelings!

During most of June, Channels from the emotional Center are activated, letting us all experience the ups and downs of our feeling world. Jupiter is in Gate 55, of abundant emotion, all month, while Saturn enters Gate 19, Sensitivity, on the 11th. What to do when feelings come up? They can be overwhelming. Repressing them means you push them back into your body, which is not good for your health. Letting them spill over into the neighborhood makes for bad relations. So here’s a piece of advice: express your feelings without directing them to someone. Move your body, sing, shout out in your car, do some gardening. You can be creative in your expression. And while you express, stay alert and mindful. There is a deeper layer to your feelings, they are emanations from Spirit. If you can trace the path backwards to that source, you can access sacred, mysterious, archetypal spaces. Not only your physical, also your emotional body can be your temple. At the core of it is a singing silence, or however it manifests for you.

Tree in the middle of a lake

Feeling in the material world

Being intimate with your own feeling world helps in the practical, material world too. Most of us live in the assumption that we can take rational decisions, weighing the pros and contras until we arrive at a balanced, reasonable outcome. It doesn’t work that way. Just like the continents drift on a layer of molten rock, our mental concepts are conditioned by deep-held emotions and beliefs. In essence these are collective, although each of us expresses an individual variation of them. Neptune is one of the planets that connects with these transpersonal influences. This month it stands in Gate 36, Crisis Resolution. It activates Channel 35-36, Transitoriness, twice this month : from June 2 – 7 with the Sun, and June 18 – 27 with Mercury. This Channel goads us to have new experiences at any price. It is evolutionary : when humanity enters new fields of experience, the collective progresses. The consequences for us as individuals are not its concern. People with this Channel in their Charts often find themselves kind of helplessly drifting into new undertakings, affairs, and crisis situations in general.

Confused Mind

Making clear decisions about money

To take decisions on the spur of the moment, under the influence of this Channel, is not a good idea. It’s wise to wait until emotional clarity arrives. In the current planetary environment, these decisions have to do with the material world and with our role in the community. From June 7 – 17 and June 28 – July 5 Mercury activates the Channel of Money (12-45) with Chiron.
There is a potential of becoming more clear about how we like to deal with money and possessions. How much do we want or need for ourselves, what do we wish to share with our community? June 7 – 17 is a good time to consider these questions, without taking immediate action. Mercury is still going retrograde, causing confusion in communication and monetary matters. Simultaneously Channel 39-55, Emoting, between Venus and Jupiter from June 10 – 14, can give rise to strong emotional waves. Welcome and watch whatever feelings come until June 27. From June 23 Mercury runs direct again, and on the 28th it reactivates the Money Channel with Chiron. On the base of renewed clarity, you can take steps to materialize your ideas.

The Sacred Spirit is feminine

Uranus, planet of new ideas and pioneering visions, puts an ingredient in the pot too : on June 18 it moves into Gate 2, Orientation, and stays there until Oct 24. This is the most receptive hexagram in the I Ching, which makes it paradoxically one of the most powerful. Isn’t the womb the source of our existence here? Here Uranus’ sometimes feverish energy can slow down, tune in to the heartbeat of the Earth and let itself be inspired be feminine wisdom. It is another expression of the same energy that gives rise to our waves of feeling. The Sacred Spirit is feminine, and for the next five months, Uranus can put its ear on her breast and listen to her heartbeat. In June, this gives us the possibility to integrate respect for the Earth into our decision-making process on the material plane.

Earth-Mother

To our good health, individual and on a planetary level!

Human Design Types and energy

Your Type, one of the three main Keys in Human Design, describes how your life energy functions. If you do not know your type, you can request a free Chart here, and I will send your Type Description along with your Chart.

To know how your type interacts with other types can be really useful. It helps to understand that many difficulties between people are no one’s fault. Or, seen from the positive side, it shows us the best ways how we can work and live together.

Basic Introduction to Type Interactions

There are five Types. Here they are, with the approximate percentage of the total population for each of them :

Manifestors11%
Generators34%
Manifesting Generators33%
Projectors21%
Reflectors1%
Pie Chart of the Types

These can be categorized in two main groups: Manifestors, Generators and Manifesting Generators are energy Types, while Projectors and Reflectors are non-energy Types.

Cheerleaders

The energy types have centers activated in their Chart that want to do something, manifest something, or both. They are pre-programmed for action. Doing makes them happy and then, at the end of the day, they can enjoy a well-deserved rest.

Does this mean that Projectors and Reflectors, the non-energy Types, are just hanging around, waiting for the other ones to put food on the table, and maybe a beer as well? Actually, it is good if they allow this side in them. They often feel something is wrong with them, because the vast majority of humanity -more than 75%- is so active. They then try to be just like an energy type, forcing themselves to a higher pace than is good for them. Their body does not like this, so it often leads to health challenges. Moreover, they are missing the role that is meant for them. What could that be?

A woman relaxing at a swimming pool

Back to the energy types: if they do not have anything meaningful to do, they become dejected and feel useless. Their energy level decreases and they feel an unsatisfied sense of tiredness at the end of the day. They can actually get kind of grumpy. Because they tend to be so involved in their activities, it is not so easy for them to take a step back and see how what they do fits into a bigger context. They end up moving in a circle, having forgotten how they got into it and what could be the sense of it all.

A gargoyle

Here non-energy types can help. They naturally stand back from life a little, observing what goes on, and often wondering about it. They can sense the bigger picture, and what the energy types would need to do to realign themselves. They are potential guides. But they need to wait for the permission of the energy types to be guided. With that yes, a beautiful synergy happens. The energy types provide the life force, the non-energy types contribute the overview. They are equal, and together they can create miracles.

This is not to say that we cannot be happy and fulfilled on our own. It is a description of the general dynamics between groups of people and how they can support each other. A little understanding of the other type can make our interactions much smoother, and so raise the energy level of the whole group.

Bring Light into Your Relating

Marguerite Flower

We can transform life by changing our attitude to the world we live in. This will manifest most clearly in our relationships. It’s possible to reclaim the natural openness we are born with, and to remember our true nature in all our interactions. Actually, it’s not that difficult, it just requires some practice once you know the way.

The ability to maintain this openness will do more to enhance your life quality than merely increasing your possessions can accomplish. By the way, in the business world it helps to connect with the right partners and team members.

So finding the way towards our natural openness is the first step. And here Human Design and the Gene Keys come to our aid. They clearly show in a diagram how we can access this openness in ourselves and how it can be maintained while relating with people. ‘Bring Light into Your Relating’ is specifically tailored to make this knowledge easily accessible and actionable.

Bring Light into Your Relating

This session offers simple strategies how to be in a certain relationship, or, in case you are single, how to find the right people in your work or private life. It focuses on you, because the origin of your relationships is within you. We look at areas where you overflow and can easily give, and others where it is good to be open to receive from others. We begin with the principle elements of the Human Design Chart, your Type, Profile and Authority, and then move into specific parts of your life that are open to transformation.
We can include the other person in the relationship if you know their birth data. And you can even attend the session together.

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The Dance of Covid and the Planets

My dear colleague Marga has mapped the development of Covid-19 with the planetary transits. In this guest blog she presents her conclusions.

These are astrological notes that I took during the months of lock-downs and unlockings, originally published in June as facebook posts, in reference to the main facts and tendencies of Covid-19 pandemic all over the world. I also inserted links of relevant information excerpted from the media. I am now editing and integrating information for people who are not so acquainted with the HD system and also adding more references to facts and events.

It all started when, while reading an article, I realized that the beginning of the outbreak in Italy happened during the so called Incarnation Cross of Contagion, last February 14th.

Incarnation Crosses in Human Design are fixed configurations of the Sun/Earth binomial on the HD Zodiac wheel during the solar year. They’re calculated at the actual position of the Sun on a given day and at 88° of Solar arc – roughly 3 months before. Considering the Zodiac wheel, the Earth is always organically opposite to the Sun. So we have basically points in space-time that make a specific configuration for each moment of the solar year. The Crosses always occur more or less at the same time in the year, lasting 2 hours to 4 days (according to a fixed structure), and they bring a special climate, imprinting life with their peculiar energies. Each Cross  happens 1, 2 or 4 times in a year, in the different seasons, with shifting of the reciprocal positions of the Sun and the Earth and following a predetermined pattern ruled by the motion of the Sun.
Another important observation I made it’s that on February 13th, one day before the Contagion Cross, planet Saturn had entered Gate 60, Limitation (26°22′ Capricorn to 02°00′ Aquarius), after 30 years, and it seemed particularly relevant in a moment in time when all the world was basically locked, limited, restricted… And even if I am not an expert of transits, I decided to go deeper into planetary positions, to see if they could really explain, or describe, what was – and still is – going on.

Marga Scroppo

Marga Eleonora Scroppo is a Human Design reader, Life Coach, musician, and former professional poker player. She currently lives in India.

Marga on the web

So here is the timeline more or less as I originally presented it, with some clarifying notes.

Phase 1: China

17 November 2019: first case tracked down in Wuhan

We all know that word about a new disease, that was killing people in China, spread all over the world around December 2019, but of course it is pretty obvious that it often takes a while before a new virus gets isolated and identified. I did some research and from an article on The Guardian I learnt that, “The first case of someone suffering from Covid-19 can be traced back to 17 November, according to media reports on unpublished Chinese government data. The report, in the South China Morning Post, said Chinese authorities had identified at least 266 people who contracted the virus last year and who came under medical surveillance, and the earliest case was 17 November – weeks before authorities announced the emergence of the new virus”. (excerpted from Https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/first-covid-19-case-happened-in-november-china-government-records-show-report )

Emblematically, on this very date, we entered the Incarnation Cross of Contagion (17/11 to 20/11).

As of course a virus does not come out of the blue, I have been wondering if the previous Cross of Contagion – 18/8-21/8 2019 – could have been relevant, even though it was really impossible for me to retrieve such information. But, while looking for something else, I came across this headline:

“Virus might have emerged in august”

Https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/virus-may-have-emerged-in-august/article31798472.ece

So, there it was! Another little piece in the planetary puzzle, even though hypothetical…

We have 4 crosses of Contagion every year: February, May, August and November. They probably beat the clock of seasonal flues in different geographical areas with no much fuss, but this time something went differently. Maybe the interplay of Neptune in Pisces (63 cusp 22) and Mars surfing from Virgo (47) to Sagittarius (5 cusp 26)? Or the transit of Mars in Leo (29) during the August 2019 Cross of Contagion (29-30; 8-14), followed a few weeks later by the opposition to Neptune? Neptune, according to traditional astrology, is connected to viral and bacterial infections. And Mars is connected to immunity. Some astrologers do say that Neptune/Mars relationship (opposition in September 2019, square in January 2020) has played a role into it.

Another interesting event: on the 20th of January we had the Fixed Cross of Restriction (a fixed cross happens only once in a year), in Gate 60.4 and, 2 days later, the Chinese government enforced the lock-down in Hubei region.

Phase 2: Italy and the rest of the world

14 February 2020: first Italian (and European) cluster and acknowledgement of possible community transmission in Codogno, Lombardia. The rest is history, we all know what happened. Literally something that will be remembered in history books…

And on the very same day we entered the Incarnation Cross of Contagion (14/2 to 17/2) again… The day before, 13/2, Saturn had entered Gate 60, the Limitation or Restriction, reinforcing the climate set up by the Cross of Restriction on the 20th of January. Around this time restrictions started to take place everywhere, culminating in lock-downs and travel bans all over the world a few weeks later. On the 12th of March WHO declared Covid-19 a worldwide pandemic.

The thing that really struck me about this planetary position is what the traditional I-Ching hexagrams narrative – on which HD Gates are based –  has to say about it:

  • Line 1: don’t go out of your home, not even to the courtyard.
  • Line 2: don’t go out of the door of your home: danger!
  • Line 3: the one who cannot restraint himself will complain.
  • Line 4: restriction fulfilled.
  • Line 5: better to sweeten up the restriction.
  • Line 6: bitter restriction: perseverance will bring disgrace.

Saturn slowly moved through these lines, pacing the different phases and moods of the lock-down, and became retrograde on the 11th of May. Then it lingered on the 6th line, “bitter restriction: perseverance will bring disgrace” with all the problems and conflicts that everywhere people were facing, tired and exhausted of being quarantined. Jupiter had entered Gate 60 on the 20th of April, complicating a situation that was already becoming very tense. While Saturn is at home in 60, because it has itself an energy of restriction and limitation, Jupiter is at total unease, because it wants to expand and freaks out in restraint. It also gives a sense of confidence and optimism, that in this case can translate in the idea that it’s ok to let go of any kind of restraint, including mask and social distancing, creating a false sense of being safe, especially since it also turned retrograde on 15th of May, at the same time when we entered the next Cross of Contagion (15/5-18/5), starting a “phase 3” of openings and increasing infections in the states of India who had, up to that point, limited the spreading of the virus, and of exacerbation of the situation in the Americas and in Russia.

Phase 3: India, Brazil, US, Russia

Between the Cross of Contagion of May and the following one in August (17/8-20/08) the countries who were very affected in Phase 2 saw less infections and restrictions. While US, Brazil, Russia and India took the stage with massive rates of infections, with different problems to face and different attitude of the people towards the issue of restraint (self-quarantine, mask, SD etc.)

This phase saw a temporary relief of Gate 60 with Jupiter moving out on the 6th of June,  retrograding in 61, and Saturn slowly stationing and retrograding on the 6th line of the Gate, detached and distracted enough not to take anything seriously about Limitations… with Jupiter, Pluto and Uranus screaming from the Channel of Awareness (61-24), and Neptune in Pisces stirring the waters of Information/Misinformation from gate 22. It was indeed a tough battle…

Phase 4: The Second Wave

Soon after the Cross of Contagion in August, on the 24th of the same month, Saturn too regressed to 61, leaving a long moment of interregnum, till it turned direct again on the 29th of September, indicating that the climate of Limitation would  return by the time it entered 60 again on the 4th of November, pacing through 60 again and aligning with the last Cross of Contagion of 2020 on 16/11-19/11 and bound to make its final exit from 60 on the 3rd of January 2021.  Also Jupiter is bound to return to 60 on 2nd of December and complete its tour of the Gate on the 28th of the same month.

So I guess we will not be really free of restrictions and limitation – and of the virus – until the beginning of the new year, but if the dance of Saturn and Jupiter in and out of 60 and around the Crosses of Contagion provides indeed a description of what has happened, we can say it is likely that we will be free of it by the beginning of the new year, with a wake to the Cross of Contagion of February 2021 (13/2-16-2). Neptune will be lingering in Pisces for a long time, but it has made peace with Mars during the June conjunction and the fact that the sextile will be during the Cross of Contagion on February 13th makes us hope for the best. The next square from Gemini will be in April 2021, but it will be a wading square, probably just the wake of Covid-19…  I am not a champion at predictions, but it all makes sense to me and we will all see how it will actually play out very soon…

Till then, the call is to caution, patience and wisdom… other strong Saturn themes…
After that, Saturn will move to 41.1, the start codon Gate, marking a completely new phase. The last time this shift from 60 to 41 happened was December 1991 that saw the end of the USSR after a whole 30 years of Restrictions that affected the whole world and that became so symbolically evident in 1961 with the building of Berlin Wall with Jupiter in 60 (barbed wire phase), soon followed by Saturn (cement and concrete phase). And the story of human Limitation can surely be traced back, analyzing all the 29-30 years cycles of Saturn starting in 60 and ending in… 60. But that’s, maybe, for another article…

Marga Eleonora Scroppo

Disclaimer: these are just notes and not an exhaustive analysis of the whole Human Design astrological picture during this time. I hope that someone more expert than me will take on the task and fill in the blanks.

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