Right Angle Cross of Explanation 2 (23/43 | 49/4)

Right Angle Cross of Explanation 2 (23/43 | 49/4) 

Ever the outsider, they are constantly explaining themselves or their often unique concepts, principles and insights in order to integrate them into another person’s revolutionary or analytical process. (Gates 23-43-49-4)

You forever stand outside the window, forehead pressed to the glass, looking into humanity’s living room. You are the one whose first word at a dinner party can make every fork freeze mid-air—because no one knows if genius or madness is about to spill out. 

Gate 23 is the hexagram of Mountain over Earth—the gate of assimilation, evangelism, self-defense, individuality, splitting, assimilation, fusion, simple alchemy/supreme state: essence/gift: simplicity/shadow: complexity/repressive tendency: taciturn/reactive tendency: fragmented, eliminating intolerance, transcending morality. Awareness and cognition to accept diversity. Unique insights open the door to mutation. Gate 23 translates inner awareness into language expression. It transcends morality, accepts diversity, has the ability to cross mental tolerance levels, opening the possibility of mutation for this world. Through what the assimilation gate expresses, it can trigger new ideas for us. Here, you can finally say “I know” through a unique voice. Whether you know or not, everything you express always attracts others' attention, while also placing you in looking inward from outside. Those potentially very different insights that will bring transformation need you to clearly communicate their essence. For others, if your unique insights are truly valuable, you must wait for the right timing to say, and express in a simple, clear, understandable way. Otherwise, you may be misunderstood as a madman or monster. In addition, an important point is that you can only talk about what you really know. In time, everyone will recognize your genius, and you will get others' affirmation. If lacking the conceptualization process of Gate 43, you may feel anxious about not being able to convey clearly, and thus be misunderstood or rejected. You have a talent, through speaking you can trigger dramatic or agitated changes in others' feelings about facts. You receive unique insights, forced to express them in the authoritative language of “I know”. Your insights come from a place beyond what ordinary people know, very challenging. If your words and tone cannot express personal certainty, you will be forced to leave, losing the opportunity to bring change. The key is to discover the simplest possible way to express your insights, so people can easily understand what you want to convey. Honing speaking skills is a lifelong practice. 

Gate 43 is the hexagram of Lake over Heaven—patience, dedication, expediency, stubbornness, development, breakthrough, listening to the inner voice, perfectly establishing a new order to continue existing achievements. Expressing and transforming inner truth into unique viewpoints. Gate 43 represents the inner ear, referring to listening to your unique inner voice. Through spontaneous breakthroughs, finding new perspectives, it transforms reasonable inner awareness into personal insights. The viewpoints you propose have no factual evidence, but can still be clearly argued, although these arguments may sound ridiculous at first and completely beyond the scope recognized by family and social people. But as long as at the right time, you have the ability to intellectually shape this unique and mutation-inducing awareness. After the concept is complete, it must through Gate 23 in the throat center, let the hidden mutation occur, this may be an unprecedented, brand new viewpoint. For you, the most difficult thing is to listen, or truly listen to what others say. This is not your fault, nor does it need correction, all this is due to your innate genetic factors, a self-protection effect to avoid excessive external influence. Gate 43 fears rejection. Especially when you cannot explain your ideas, or worry about being too strange and suffering rejection, you may feel anxious in your mind. Therefore, if lacking Gate 23, how to express your breakthrough becomes your difficulty. 

[The 23-43 structuring channel] Independent, the design from genius to freak, projector channel (knowing circuit), challenging existing structures and patterns, subverting the past, establishing new structures, thoroughly changing everyone's perspective on things, triggering mutation. Having the ability to develop skills and ideas to improve efficiency. How to clearly and concisely explain innovative insights, again and again, until everyone understands, is their life lesson that can be continuously refined. The challenge is to let go and no longer control, let the mind's ideas operate in their own way and timing. When the timing passes, there will be a lack of presence, or feeling alienated, even rejecting one's unique awareness. May turn a deaf ear to others' opinions (mechanism to protect insights). The individual mind always feels like an outsider, waiting for invitation to propose unique awareness. Structuring channel. You seem to have a third eye, keen psychological assessment and observation, publishing unique insights enough to change the world's appearance, must use a rounded way to resonate with people, can make good use of timing and your unique voice to convey your superior insights. This is a individual channel about personal mind, Gate 43 is good at cracking existing affairs, reorganizing and reconstructing, expressed through Gate 23, people who can't understand new concepts will treat you as a freak, those who can will regard you as a genius, the key to understanding lies in your expression and eloquence; your contribution is to break old patterns, show new patterns with higher efficiency. 43-23 is the structuring channel, connecting Gate 23 “Gate of Spitting Apart” in the throat center and Gate 43 “Gate of Breakthrough” in the Ajna center. This is a channel expressing individual mind. Gate 43 breaks existing understanding, re-understands and rebuilds, then expressed by Gate 23. 43-23 is also called channel of genius to freak, their unusual views reflect their unique perspectives, occasionally, outsiders' opinions on their ideas, 43-23 people will reject listening to avoid influence. But this does not mean they really know something, just “what they said”. Sometimes they really know, but other times they don't. About the freak and genius of 43-23, it means the insight and expression range of 43-23 people have great possibilities. A person said something, does not guarantee he expressed it in an easy-to-understand way. The title “freak” is usually due to “poor communication”, not “wrong understanding”. When the things expressed by people with activated 43-23 channel are successfully understood by others, 43-23 people will be called geniuses, but if they can't be understood, they seem to become freaks. People with activated 43-23 must learn two important skills: “speaking skills” and “patience”. Speaking skills are to reach the audience, but because 43-23 is a projector channel, patiently waiting to be recognized to get an audience “ready to receive the message that must be heard”. The “knower” ability of 43-23 can structurally empower others. This channel is always structuring, and its final gift is to make everything more efficient. What these 43-23 people need to be understood is: if they can explain to you how to be more efficient, they can make you mutate and evolve. The greatest contribution of people with 43-23 channel is: to increase our acceptance of those different from us, and recognize the role they play in transforming our old patterns and values into newer ones. 

Gate 49 is Lake over Fire hexagram—law of necessity, last resort, civil unrest, platform, organization, attraction, awareness potential and spiritual rituals, the ideal form of transformation is based on higher principles, not power struggles. Knowing what the community needs in terms of people and things. You have a motivation to bring pertinent and valuable laws to this world; the revolutionary, if the principles upheld are not respected, will often be in anxious emotions. Important reminder, you have 3 possible expressions: reflection, revolution, and rebellion. Reflection is unconscious and unthinking habit; revolution is passionate, dramatic, but easily trapped in confrontation and stalemate without victory; rebellion is choosing your own path, focusing on your clarity and laws. When these laws are fully understood, and following life strategy and inner authority, you will be reborn and revived, fully realizing yourself. 

Gate 4 is Youthful Folly hexagram—pleasure, acceptance, irresponsibility, deceiver, temptation, transcendence, logic protects us from doom, energy to bluff through despite ignorance, freedom from punishment. Answers and formulas are only possibilities. 

You never belong to any tribe, yet you feel tribal survival in your bones. You are the stray cat who meows once at the door when hungry, then watches the people inside panic. Your deepest pain is not being misunderstood, but being understood too late—when you finally find the right tone, the right simplicity, the right second, and say “I know” in a way that makes every spine in the room go cold, the old order has usually already crumbled. 

Maia, the great nurse and mother of the Pleiades, with loving mist surrounding all beings, symbolizes Gate 23's insight and assimilation grace. You are the guardian of the Civilization quarter: through form purpose is achieved, born from darkness to new possibilities. Your lifelong practice is only two words: wait. Wait to be invited. Wait for the right ears. Wait for the moment someone finally understands your freak-language. When that day comes, you will discover you were never the outsider—you simply arrived at the future too soon.

**Source** 

The Definitive Book of Human Design – The Science of Differentiation