What Supports Tribal Bonding and Security?

This is the fourth post around the topic of relationships, sexuality and creator energy. We have learned about past life issues, the biology of attraction and soul blueprints. Now we’ll look at some energy circuits that relate to our species survival: What supports tribal bonding and security?

What supports tribal bonding and security?

Anthropologist Helen Fisher (“The Anatomy of Love”) explored the natural history of mating, marriage, adultery and divorce across the globe. She said we need three systems in place, that support pair-bonding:

Lust (sex drive) to motivate us to find a range of potential mating partners.
Romantic love to make us focus on one individual at a time.
Deep attachment to allow us to stay together to raise a child through infancy or longer.

Although her research focused on the brain, hormones and behavioral traits, each of these systems has an energetic counterpart in the human vehicle that supports species survival.

What energetic circuitry supports tribal bonding?

The soul blueprint of a human being is made of interconnecting energy centers, circuits and channels, as described by the Human Design system updated from the I Ching system. There are 64 different hexagrams/gates (core archetypes) distributed into various energy centers.

For example, the Figure below illustrates part of the circuitry in our body. The white box represents the sacral energy center with 9 gates (e.g. Gates 5, 14, 29, etc.).
When two gates in different centers are joined, they form a channel with a specific function (e.g. Channel of Preservation 27/50 and Channel of Connecting 59/6, as shown).

These two channels are part of Tribal Circuitry, which is all about reproduction, family, caring, support, contracts, agreements, resources, tribal defense, war and values. For example:

The Channel of Connecting (Reproduction) links Gate 59 (Sexuality, Intimacy, Genetic Strategy, Fertility) and Gate 6 (Friction, Conflict, Emotional Balance, Diplomacy).

Gate 59 is the fuel/sexual energy used for mating (e.g. pursuer/pursued, bold/shy, bonds made or broken/promiscuity, friend/not, seducer/gigolo or soul mate/one night stand).
Gate 6 meets the fertile power of Gate 59 with emotion, need and passion that bonds us. Gate 59 without Gate 6 is not emotional or nurturing. It’s fuel for sex, war and resources.

The Channel of Preservation (Custodianship) links Gate 27 (Caring) and Gate 50 (Values).

This intuitive channel is about nurturing, nourishment, taking care of the young, the weak and the sick, teaching and educating them about tribal values, fairness and rules.

What other channels contribute to tribal bonding?

The Channel of Sensitivity (Love and Marriage) links Gate 19 (Wanting) and Gate 49 (Principles).

This channel is about touching, flirting, dating, marriage, support or divorce. It’s about having the sensitivity to know who belongs to the tribe or not.

The Channel of Family (Community) links Gate 37 (Friendship) and Gate 40 (Aloneness).

This channel is about making agreements, deals, bargains, contracts (e.g. marriage) and formal bonds about work and resources (e.g. dowry). It’s about community bonding.

The Channel of Money links Gate 45 (Gatherer, King/Queen, Dominance, Possession) and Gate 21 (Treasurer, Control, Authority, Hunter/Huntress).

This channel is about creating and managing resources for the tribe. It’s the energy of power struggles, being in control/not, or managing things together.

These tribal energies create strong drives for love, relationships, money and security in our families or tribes. They’re also the source of conflict, strife, rebellion and war on our planet.

Final Thoughts

All of us are influenced by these energies running at the individual, tribal and collective levels, whether they’re part our personal life plan or not. This is just a small glimpse at the energetic circuits, channels and gates at play as interacting frequencies and emotional waves around us.

The tribal waves tend to ratchet up until they explode, then reset and start over. The trick is to develop enough clarity and self-awareness (EQ or emotional intelligence) to recognize which of these waves actually come from us vs. somebody else in the room just blowing off steam!?

They also serve to remind us that “intimacy” is not limited to just our physical relationship. Intimacy needs to be cultivated and maintained in all areas of life (below).

All relationships are a work in progress – divinely designed to make us evolve.