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:Human Design Academy
The Complete Rave I'Ching by Ra Uru Hu
Gate 17:
Following
(The Gate Of Opinions)
Gate 17:
Following
(The Gate Of Opinions)
Channel:
17/62 - Acceptance.
A design of an organizational being.
Harmonic Gate:
62 - Preponderance of the Small.
Center:
Ajna.
Circuit:
Understanding.
Astrological Position:
"22° 37' 30" - 28° 15' 00".
Zodiac Symbol:
Aries.
Incarnation Cross:
The Right Angle Cross Of Service.
The possibility of being able to organize the Formula,
the understanding,
and prepare it for expression.
This is the gate of the student and the teacher.
It is the formula brought into to focus.
This is the gate of Opinion.
The Circuit of Understanding demands proof and opinions must have a logical foundation to withstand testing and criticism.
This by the way isn't to say whether these opinions, logical or not, are correct.
Facts are regularly used to support lies and lies are proffered as formulas.
This is about the form of the concept.
The Collective mental possibilities,
gates 11 and 17,
are associated in our biology with the Eyes.
The 17th gate is the right Eye.
It is the eye which sees clearly in the Now.
It is the best eye for experimentation.
The left eye never sees everything at once!
These mental concepts are about visualization.
The right eye seeks the fixed pattern and projects out of this pattern.
Opinion is like a crystal ball.
Fixed visually on the pattern in the now and projecting into the future.
By design,
the question (63),
the answer (4) and the Opinion have no voice much less any power to act.
The mind is far away from a motor.
THE ANCIENT LAW THAT THOSE WHO WISH TO RULE MUST KNOW HOW TO SERVE.
Gate 17.1: Openness.
If the captain must, he goes down with the ship.
Exaltation:
The energy to sustain a broad spectrum of stimuli.
The possibility of having many opinions.
Detriment:
A tendency to limit openness to aesthetically pleasing stimuli.
The possibility to limit opinions to what is pleasing.
Gate 17.2: Discrimination.
The benefit of associations based on the highest values.
Exaltation:
The successful achievement of purpose through proper alignment.
The possibility to develop opinions through relationships.
Detriment:
An overactive discrimination that leaves one virtually alone.
The possibility of being opinionated at the expense of relationships.
Gate 17.3: Understanding.
The awareness that the best road is not necessarily the most interesting.
Exaltation:
The following of the best road provides the experience necessary to meet the challenge of the road's end.
The understanding that the best opinions are grounded in detail.
Detriment:
The taking of short cuts.
One may get to the end quicker,
but essential experience will be missing.
The possibility of skipping details and limiting the value of the opinion.
Gate 17.4: The Personnel Manager.
Exaltation:
The ability to probe and discover the underlying motivation and resources of those who wish to follow.
The possibility of opinions based on the understanding of others.
Detriment:
The overgenerous and often misguided acceptance of would-be followers,
often with disastrous results.
The possibility of opinions attracting others.
Gate 17.5: No human is an island.
The recognition, however understood that there is no end to hierarchies.
Exaltation:
The ultimate creative expression of interdependency,
whether as God's will or global synthesis.
Opinions that can express the value of being organized whether mundane or spiritual.
Detriment:
The arrogance, despite all the evidence to claim,
that the buck stops here!
The possibility of opinions that refuse to see the value of being organized.
Gate 17.6: The bodhisattva.
Perfected following,
one with and the same as,
perfected leading.
Exaltation:
The great nurturer.
The nature of this position is always positive.
The possibility in understanding the nature of interdependency to express opinions of value to others.
Detriment:
The tendency on the perfected path it is a straight line that ends rather than a circle.
Where understanding is achieved,
the possibility of having the opinion that there is nothing else to learn.
