Solar Transit for September 10-15th
Gate 47: the Gate of Mindset
We are now entering into Gate 47: the Gate of Mindset aka Oppression, also known as the Gate of Realizing, this is the energy of your mindset dictating your life and having aha-moments. We are in the energy of shifting from confusion to clarity. In the last Transit we were in Gate 64: the Gate of Confusion. These two gates form the Channel of Abstraction between the Head centre and the Ajna centre. We are still in Virgo season.
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So, what is the energy of this gate?
This comes down to your mindset determining how free or trapped you feel.
This energy is here to receive epiphanies from the universe. With this energy you can connect with possibility, to live in expectancy that you will receive the information you need at the right time. The more you are open to possibility and answers, the more you receive them.
Gate 47 takes the confusion and ideas that are chaotic from gate 64 and tries to make sense of them turning them into actionable insights.
High expression of this gate:
The big inspirations and the ‘how’ will arrive when you least expect it. This energy is here to be an abstract problem solver by using your ‘aha-moments’ and these insights that come through, not by thinking hard and trying to figure it out. Relax and trust and the answers will come.
You are capable of sharing expansive, positive mindsets once you have mastered them yourself. This energy is capable of helping other people work through their confusion.
Low expression of this gate:
You may fear futility, and experience anxiety that you can’t make sense of your confusion. Your process might often get worse before it gets better, just as any confusion or problem solving is. So, expect that and try not to fall into despair when it does. In fact, when you feel more confused, know that that is a sign of progress, that the answer is on its way. If you don’t have gate 64 defined, you might suffer the pressure to figure it out or force the answer to come.
In the I-ching, the name of this gate or hexagram is Oppression. Your inner feelings of oppression come from your own mindset. Your life is a reflection of your mindset. You might be dogmatically believing old patterns or limiting things about yourself due to ancestral anguish and intergenerational trauma. You might project your dogmatic beliefs towards others in an attempt to feel control and gain a false sense of security. You might share every possible answer you have before ‘the one’ comes. The right answer is one that you will likely feel far more resonant about. Using your mind to figure out the ‘how’ is in the low expression of this gate. Learn to master your mindset, shift away from negative thinking and practice optimism, and openness.
Systems change lens:
The Ajna centre holds the energy of how we conceptualize the world around us, it includes our opinions, our belief systems, and the mental frameworks that we have. If you have this centre undefined at birth then you are someone who is more flexible around these things, more adaptable by nature. If you have this centre defined at birth, then you are someone who has a specific way of looking at the world and it's as if you have built up a massive puzzle in your mind, and each piece is a new piece of information, and you need to find a place for it to fit into your puzzle in order for you to make sense of it and remember it.
If you have this gate defined, the mentality and mindset that you have can truly make or break your life. When I think about the polarization that exists in our political views on a global scale, gate 47 certainly comes to mind.
You may have experienced firsthand, being in conversation with someone who refuses to engage with someone of another community, nationality, religion, gender identity, even dietary regimen. We experience Wars, local street violence, systemic oppression in universities and healthcare systems, based on race, gender, the list goes on. You can also see that if this same level of harshness is applied to ourselves, how much that is likely to dictate the outcome of our lives.
If you believe you are unlovable, you will not experience love. If you believe that women are manipulative and men are abusive, you will keep seeing that everywhere.
This is an area of system change, where I get very passionate about the inner work that all of us are capable of doing to transform the systems around us. Our mindsets literally form our worlds.
Igniting hope, love, passion, and connectedness amongst us all as a mindset, as a worldview, will only create more of that in our outer worlds.
This is really about surrender at the end of the day. When we feel confused, we feel afraid, this might be part of human nature. But we are evolving as a species. We are also capable of surrender, and living in flow with divine timing. We are capable I'm living day to day and being grateful for when the insights, the AHA moments, or the answers arrive.
This is the work of living in the divine feminine energy, of allowing, of having faith. I encourage all of us to practice this a little bit each day, and more and more, year after year.
We are capable. I will leave you with that.
Emi’s Personal Reflection:
I do not have this gate defined. Nor do I have this channel connecting the 64 to the 47. But I have heard many sweeping statements and confirmed stereotypical accusations be made from those who have this gate defined. It always feels like complexity and and openness to possibility is missing from the viewpoint. I don't have much more to say about this.
Reflection prompts:
During this Transit, can I surrender to the confusion that I experience?
Can I let myself sit in the now, and acknowledge that this whole universe is a beautiful mystery, and that the human brain and the human experience is designed to get confused at times and then to experience revelations.
If you meditate, this can be a very helpful for gate 47 - what insights or clarity are coming through from my meditations?
I hope you enjoyed this look into this gate and that you contemplate it for yourself!
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