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Adapting to the time: follow what the moment asks, and rest when it is time to rest.
Mind centre · Ajna chakra · hexagram 17 of the I Ching
A mind that forms opinions and sees how things should be organised. It offers a view that others can follow or test.
Fixed opinions defended for their own sake; following or leading without discrimination.
Every dvara has both. Which one shows depends on awareness, circumstances and the people around you, not on the dvara itself.
In the Dvara Method, if a planet sat in this 5.625° slice of the zodiac at your birth, or about 88 days before it, dvara 17 is part of your chart. It belongs to the Mind centre, which governs thinking and forming concepts, and sits in the Ajna chakra.
On its own it is an open dvara: a quality you have access to, but one that reaches for a partner. It completes a channel only when its partner dvara is also present: 62. That partner can come from your own chart, from another person's chart, or from a passing transit. When it does, the Mind centre becomes defined, and the channel's energy becomes a consistent part of you or of the relationship.
With dvara 62 · Small Exceeding in the Throat centre
Opinions supported by facts. The urge to explain, structure and present ideas in an orderly way.
The Dvara Method teaches that a dvara you were not born with can still be developed through contemplation. The quality to cultivate here is: Adapting to the time: follow what the moment asks, and rest when it is time to rest. The Sun spends about six days in this dvara each year (around 25 March to 30 March), and the Moon passes through it roughly every 27 days, which makes natural times to practise.
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Dvara 17 occupies the same slice of the zodiac as hexagram 17 of the I Ching. If you know the 64 gates from Human Design, it corresponds to gate 17. The Dvara Method is independent and reads it in its own words.