Human Design · Throat center

Gate 56: Stimulation

The storyteller who keeps people listening.

When it overshoots

Stories told to hold the room.

At its best

Stimulation that carries a truth.

Carried and open

In a chart that carries it

Held, the gift for storytelling is amplified; let the story carry something real.

In a chart where it is open

Open here, the room’s best storyteller sets the evening; enjoy them, and check them.

When it is in the sky

Stories and ideas stimulate. A good tale either carries a truth or distracts from one.

The six lines

1. Line 1, The InvestigatorA good story needs material, so gather the experience before trying to tell it.
2. Line 2, The HermitA gift for storytelling works effortlessly here, and people lean in without being asked.
3. Line 3, The MartyrEmbellishing a tale too far shows how much better the true version was all along.
4. Line 4, The OpportunistA story passed from friend to friend picks up meaning at every telling, and comes back better than it left.
5. Line 5, The HereticPeople may want entertainment from you; a story that carries a truth serves them better.
6. Line 6, The Role ModelA story endures when it carries something worth learning, and those are the ones still being told.

Channels through this gate

• Curiosity · 11-56A seeker. Ideas looking for a story. Stimulation as a way of thinking. With Gate 11, Ideas.

The same figure in the Book of Changes

Gate 56 is hexagram 56, The Wanderer, read by an older tradition.