Human Design · Solar Plexus center

Gate 36: Crisis

The new experience, arriving before you are ready.

When it overshoots

Crisis manufactured out of boredom.

At its best

Turbulence met without drama.

Carried and open

In a chart that carries it

For a chart that carries it, crisis is familiar ground; meeting it without adding drama is the gift.

In a chart where it is open

Left open, other people’s turmoil can feel overwhelming; a step back is not abandonment.

When it is in the sky

Turbulence travels with new experience. Things may feel out of hand before they settle.

The six lines

1. Line 1, The InvestigatorTurbulence is easier met from steady footing, so settle yourself before the new arrives.
2. Line 2, The HermitA crisis is met with a level voice, and those nearby borrow the calm without noticing they have.
3. Line 3, The MartyrSome storms are made by impatience, and learning to wait is part of what this line teaches.
4. Line 4, The OpportunistTurmoil is easier carried in company, and a friend’s steadiness can see a hard passage through.
5. Line 5, The HereticExpected to be the rescuer, offer practical help without the drama, and let the other person keep their own crisis.
6. Line 6, The Role ModelThe storms that were survived became, much later, the stories that gave a life its depth.

Channels through this gate

• Transitoriness · 35-36A jack of all trades. Hunger for the new experience, and restlessness once it is had. With Gate 35, Change.

The same figure in the Book of Changes

Gate 36 is hexagram 36, Darkening of the Light, read by an older tradition.