Gate 40 · Aloneness & delivery
There are 64 gates, one for each hexagram of the I Ching, mapped onto the zodiac. Here's the keynote for Gate 40 · Aloneness & delivery and where it sits in the bodygraph.
Gate 40 lives in the Heart centre and, together with gate 37, forms the channel of community: the will to work for your circle in exchange for recognition and warmth. The tradition underlines the second half of the theme: this will has a cycle, and after giving it is owed aloneness, a way to restore strength rather than an exile. In the personality this shows as a conscious need for quiet after time with people; in the design it is a bodily tiredness from company that arrives before the mind can explain it. The system takes the guilt off this need: a pause alone is part of the exchange, and it takes nothing away from the people you love. How do giving and solitude alternate in your week, and is there enough of the second?
How it sits in the bodygraph
- Center
- Heart / Ego
- Channels
- 37-40 · Community
Gates in this center
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For self-reflection and entertainment — not a prediction of fate and not professional advice.