Solar Transit for Oct 31st - Nov 4th
Gate 44: Alertness, have you learned your lesson yet?
Greetings dear one, we are now at the last phase of the Splenic gates - gate 44.
How was Gate 28 for you? Did you feel purposeless in life, or did you take any risks or what others deem risky? Or did you feel a sense of Totality, that all of life is meant to be experienced, including death?
Gate 44 is known as the Gate of Alertness, this is the ability to transform our future and make it different than how the past unfolded.
This is the last gate in the Spleen for the season - as I mentioned before in previous newsletters, this season goes through every single spleen gate in a row! (I have highlighted all of the gates we've covered in the spleen thus far since September 27th.)
Gate 44 is part of the channel of Surrender aka the channel of Transmission 26-44 connecting the Spleen to the Heart centre.
So, what is the energy of Gate 44?
This gate is driven by the fear of the past repeating itself.
This gate is designed to have a deep awareness of the past, remembering how we provided material resources for ourselves to survive, and the failures and successes of the past.
Your sense of smell might be extra sensitive during this time or if you have this gate defined in your design. This is both literal and metaphysical. You might be able to ‘smell’ if someone is lying or if someone is not trustworthy, or if someone is pregnant or has talent.
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Low expression of this gate:
Fear of the past being repeated. Re-write some of the stories of your past and trust that not every past story is going to repeat itself.
Try to create different options and possibilities for your future that expand you and your life. What do those look like? What might happen other than the past being repeated?
You might alternatively, attempt to recreate the perfect, fun day or experiences from the past instead of having new, fun experiences that life may bring to you (that might be even better!)
“Tribal” or community propaganda, such as discriminatory beliefs, or spreading messaging about “us versus them” narratives can emerge when in the low expression in this gate. This energy shapes the tribal beliefs so be careful what you are spreading.
The low expression when it comes to sales, includes overselling something’s value or covering the truth up and making something seem better than it really is, just for the sale or the convincing goal.
Sometimes you may have a hard time moving on from breaches of trust or integrity.
Remember to take the lessons of the past and move on, don’t get stuck in the past.
In the Gene Keys system, this gate is associated with human fractals. This is a concept that comes from a more general idea of fractals in the universe. Patterns throughout the Universe are found to endlessly repeat themselves the deeper you look into something in the wider you look at something. Here's a short video to introduce the concept to you.
Human fractals are the same concepts that show up in our relationship with one another. Classical Indian teachings refer to it as karmic ties. Every person that we interact with, is part of our fractal pattern in our destiny. This includes our enemies, our family members, lovers, friends and community. We always attract the relationships that are supposed to teach a certain lessons to help us evolve. If we do not learn the lessons that we are meant to in a certain relationship, the same pattern and opportunity to learn comes with the next relationship.
In the i’Ching, hexagram 44 is called Coming to Meet, which makes sense given that the energetic themes here are about how and why we meet one another.
The shadow of this gate is interference and it acts like a virus that interferes with the beautiful pattern that is supposed to unfold through all living things in this universe. It creates dysfunctional organizations, families, governments and relationships.
In the Repressive Shadow this is distrust. It can look like shutting down in relationships or keeping people at an arm's length, for fear that the same disasters that occurred in previous relationships will occur again. A classic example of this is being cheated on in one romantic relationship, and behaving with coldness in a new relationship just in case it happens again.
In the Reactive Shadow this is misjudging. This can look like misjudging the people in your life, and continuously making the same mistakes in the relationships. A classic example of this is dating the same type of person over and over again, only to realise that it is not a good fit or a healthy person each time.
P.S. I wrote a note about the low expression or not-self and how to work with it. It's an important distinction and nuance to understand about the low expression.
High expression of this gate:
If you have this gate defined, you have the capacity to be an excellent personnel manager, sensing the gifts and potential that people have.
Doing the work of healing your own wounds from your past and can help others to do the same.
You have the potential for healing generational wounds with this energy and helping others move on from their past.
Exceptional at presentations and making sure things look nice with beautiful branding, packaging and exterior. This gate has the energy of a greeter, making people feel welcome. If you have this gate defined you might have a natural talent in sales.
Gate 44 gives us the ability to smell and sense people. We may be able to smell or sense not only with our noses, but with our entire immune system, with the pores in our skin, picking up undetectable odors or hormonal signals from the people we meet. You begin to use this gift to recognise the right people for you and one day you will realise that the type of people you have in your life started to change. You may attract people who are more in alignment with your fractal and who are at a higher frequency.
In the Gene Keys system the Gift frequency is Teamwork. You might be gifted in sensing and knowing a lot about group dynamics. This gift is about recognising who belongs in your life and who doesn't.
To take this further, Richard Rudd introduces the concept that it is not that our soul reincarnates each lifetime, it is one single consciousness that divides itself into fractals, which are humans. People who have the ability to tap into and see their past life experiences, are reading their fractal lineage. They are able to remember and identify those who are part of their fractal line, living or “passed on”, by tapping into the information in their bloodlines.
The Siddhi frequency for this gate is Synachry. It is described as collective rulership.
“No one in a synarchy is above anyone else because at all times there is an awareness of the groups inherent oneness. Each unit has a perfect fit in the overall geometry and, if there is no resistance through the individual forms, the totality can function as one.” - Richard Rudd, The Gene Keys
Systems change lens:
This idea of human fractals in the context of collective liberation is an interesting one. If you are a settler to the land that you live on, what kind of relationships are in your fractal? Are they other settlers? Do you have Indigenous or First Nations folks from the land you live on in your fractal?
The concept of “tribal propaganda” - how does that show up in your family, community and networks? Does the culture or religion you identify with, have “enemies” or fractal relationships that are frought and complex? We see this tribal propaganda on an international stage with the genocide and settler colonialism of Palestine. I’ve seen it myself as a Japanese person who lived in South Korea. The public education on both sides seem biased.
So, if according to the theory of human fractals, we are meant to actually be cells in a much larger system of patterns unfolding infinitely in the omniverse, then it seems we are suffering from a chaotic, viral interference in many parts of our world.
What are the perpetual lessons that humanity just has not gotten a wide-spread grasp of? Have we not learned that in relationship and togetherness we can achieve so much more? Have we not learned that we are not machines, we are consciousness and pure creativity?
Emi’s Personal Reflection:
I came across this and my Threads feed today. A cute little joke. It was perfect timing for this solar transit in Gate 44. I reflect back on the abusive relationships I have survived, the healing I have done with my mother, the friends who have come and gone, the folks who I used to organize with on a grassroots level.
I wondered if I have truly learned all the lessons I could have from all of my close relations. I do have this gate defined and I can identify a knack for understanding group dynamics, it shows up in my interest in facilitating challenging conversations for collective leadership using Art of Hosting and Deep Democracy approaches. If you are familiar with those two communities of practice or methods then you can see how the Gift frequency of Teamwork is very much exemplified in them.
For a period of time, probably 7 years or so, I was constantly stuck in the past, reliving the abuse of my ex's and replaying the narrative that I adopted about them. It took a long time to heal through those and to change my narrative about how I see that story, and to be able to live more in the present.
Reflection prompts for you:
When you think about relationships in your past, can you recall the smell or sense of familiarity that you had with them? Like you've known them forever or they just seem familiar to you, or the lack thereof?
What areas of your life are you stuck in the past? What are the areas in your life where you’re still learning the lesson?
What happened in your past that you are afraid will repeat itself in your future?
Where do you see “tribal propaganda” showing up in your life?
Who are the people in your life that you feel are aligned for your fractal right now and who are not?
If you are a team leader, are there areas where you might be able to experiment with less hierarchy and more of a collective leadership? This might be a nice time to experiment with it.
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