Why does Ra say each of the two crosses has a defined channel as its backbone?

Because both crosses happen to contain a whole channel, which is rare. Ra points out that very few incarnation crosses have definition as part of their arms, and that the Cross of Planning and the Sleeping Phoenix both do: the 37-40 in Planning, the 20-34 in the Phoenix. A defined channel dominates the way a cross operates, so each cycle has a fixed backbone rather than four loose themes. For Planning he calls the 37-40 the root and backbone of the cycle, the reason everything in that era was dedicated to the group. For the Phoenix he says the 20-34 is so deeply individual that it will dominate the cycle, and that the shift from one defined process to another is huge. He adds a detail: the 20-34 here stands without the 57 and the 10 that complete it in the integration circuit, just the pure manifesting, generating buzz, too busy looking after itself in the now.

This is not a fact, not medical advice and not a promise of healing. It is part of the cosmology Ra Uru Hu, who founded Human Design, left behind, and nobody knows exactly how it will unfold.

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