One thing that is interesting here as we close out this stream is the 43/23 is the only aspect here that we have that is a natural definition in the BodyGraph. That is, being oppositions, people have this nodally, people have this sun/earth, it is like the other oppositions, the 40/37 or the 20/34, very prevalent in
Human Design.
So in looking at the 43/23 and understanding that they are channel it’s very difficult, in a sense, to separate them. It’s something to keep in mind. Because I’m one myself, I tend to look at the 43/23 from the keynote of the channel. That is, for me this channel is always about structuring. And that structuring is always about success is efficiency. Everything about the 43/23 is to try to structure something to be efficient. That’s the mundane of it...
If you look at it here style wise, this 43, the insight, you can see what it is. It is spontaneous individual knowing or not. In other words, it is not a direct process. The 4 judges the pattern, what pattern is suspicious or not. And the 17 visualizes it.
The 47 recognizes what makes sense and the 11 visualizes
it. But here you have the awareness to struggle for
knowing, but no resolution because there is no direct line.
It may never come. It’s a pulse, after all, and it is about
the mutative style. This is where the new gets introduced instead of the ‘nothing new under the sun’ Solomon systems. This is where the new can come. So you get this spontaneous knowing or not...
And then finally, of course, you have the expression in the Throat. And here you have a very, very different way of metamorphosis. That is, rather than what we see in the 17 and the 11, that is, visualization that gets turned into descriptive language, so somebody lays out descriptively the details so that you can see it, somebody lays out the description of the realization for you so you can believe them so they give you images to see. In other words, that the acoustic gates translate the visualization into language. One of those things in English that you can say to somebody—do you see it, do you see what I mean, do you see what I’m getting at. In other words, you can actually hear in the language this movement of the visualization into words
themselves.
When you get to the 43/23 this is acoustic. This spontaneous individual knowing is always acoustic. It is not visual. It’s my joke; I like to call the 43 the inner ear. It’s this acoustic. So what you get from the 43 to the 23 is translation. Now, translation is one of the most difficult things to do. I don’t think, because I’ve had experience with it—I know many people and there are some in this classroom who have worked at translating the material of Human Design, nobody more than Alok, and translation is not what we think it is. It is the re-writing of something. It can’t be anything else.
It’s very interesting to realize the dilemma in the 43/23, the genius to freak dilemma, that the freak aspect of it, which is of course the most common aspect of it
is that you know what it is in your head, but you can’t translate it into words. You don’t know how to express it. And you can see this is a mechanical impulse to impart the knowing or not. In other words, “I know” is its voice; “I know” or “I don’t know.” But to grasp how difficult it is to express it, this is where the problem is. Most individuals, despite the fact that they are designed to know something, whatever it may be, that most of them have enormous problems in trying to get that across to another human being.
-Ra Uru Hu