Human Design · Solar Plexus center

Gate 22: Openness

Grace that depends on mood.

When it overshoots

Charm used to avoid the subject.

At its best

Emotional openness at the right time.

Carried and open

In a chart that carries it

For a chart that holds the gate, charm and openness are amplified and shine most when the mood is right.

In a chart where it is open

Where it is absent, the room’s mood colours social ease; nobody else’s weather needs to be taken personally.

When it is in the sky

Grace rides on mood. Social ease comes and goes with the emotional wave, and that is no failing.

The six lines

1. Line 1, The InvestigatorGrace begins with knowing your own emotional weather before stepping into company.
2. Line 2, The HermitWhen the mood is right the charm needs no effort, and a room warms toward it without being courted.
3. Line 3, The MartyrSocial grace is learned through a few awkward evenings when the mood was wrong and openness misfired.
4. Line 4, The OpportunistOpenness flows best among friends who know the waves and do not take them personally.
5. Line 5, The HereticWarmth demanded on schedule goes thin; offered when it is real, it stays worth having.
6. Line 6, The Role ModelLooking back, grace was never about always being open, only about being open at the right time.

Channels through this gate

• Openness · 12-22A social being. Emotional expression with a sense of occasion. Mood decides whether the words land. With Gate 12, Caution.

The same figure in the Book of Changes

Gate 22 is hexagram 22, Grace, read by an older tradition.