Channel 58-18

Background: Gate 58 fuels our love of and vitality for life, and pressures us to want to perpetuate this energy. The insatiability of Channel 58-18 is a by-product of feeling so wonderful. It is as though Gate 58 says, "more and better, more and better" as logic's impulse to keep us alive, while Gate 18, the Gate of Correction, tempers this impulse by alerting us to what isn't healthy, or is out of balance or in need of correcting. The Channel of Judgement is like a sentry who judges if what it perceives is stopping life from being joyous for the Collective. Such judgment is based on testing patterns, and comparing what is inherently correct and workable with what has worked or not worked in the past. This sense of what needs correcting keeps society on track because Channel 58-18 wants everybody to find satisfaction in the perfected pattern. The Channel of Judgment's underlying purpose is the purpose of Human Design; to reclaim or recover the joy and love that have been lost in living a homogenized, conditioned life.

Personal: Even for the true perfectionist, perfection can never exist because patterns are subject to continual change. Your ability to judge, and your desire to correct, are expressed when you become dissatisfied with or feel the need to challenge something. When this perfecting or correcting process is made personal, however, and either turned inward or directed at others in relationship, the result is perceived as constant fault finding or a pervasive dissatisfaction with yourself and life in general. You will find yourself challenging your mother, father, teachers, governments, anyone and everything. 0 challenge is too great for logic to take on or lies beyond your Root-fueled need to perfect the pattern. When a critical evaluation bursts forth unbidden or uninvited, however, it usually takes the form of an endless and incessant stream of data, about what is wrong, that no one wants to hear. On the other hand, what brings you real joy is being asked to share as in, "Is there something wrong here?" Those who ask you are the people who are prepared for and open to your answer.

Interpersonal: To avoid wasting precious energy, and to use your essential gifts wisely, you are advised to pick your battles with care by first waiting to be asked to share your solution, and by devising solutions applicable to the collective. In this way, you challenge only what others are most open and ready to address and potentially correct. Two different ways of squeezing the toothpaste tube provide a humorous and poignant example of how logic can work effectively to reconcile differences. Logic says toothpaste should be squeezed from the bottom of the tube. The Individual says they will squeeze the tube anywhere they please. The reconciling, impersonal and practical Collective solution was to invent - and share with society — a gadget that dispenses the toothpaste with a press of the pump. Mutually agreeing to apply the solution restores peace, saving the relationship and probably many others in the process.