Gate 48 · Depth
There are 64 gates, one for each hexagram of the I Ching, mapped onto the zodiac. Here's the keynote for Gate 48 · Depth and where it sits in the bodygraph.
Gate 48 lives in the Spleen centre and, together with gate 16, forms the channel of talent: depth meets enthusiasm, and through repetition becomes mastery. The tradition describes the theme as a well: a person has access to genuine thoroughness, knowledge, taste, craft, and at the same time a quiet worry that it is still too little to step out into the world with. In the personality this is a conscious pull to study a subject down to the bottom; in the design it is an inborn feel for quality that others see sooner than its owner. The system suggests testing the feeling of not-enough against practice: depth shows itself in the doing rather than in waiting for complete readiness. In what work is your depth already obvious to others, and what happens when you start without waiting to feel fully prepared?
How it sits in the bodygraph
- Center
- Spleen
- Channels
- 16-48 · The wavelength
Gates in this center
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Questions people ask
What does Gate 48 · Depth do?
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For self-reflection and entertainment — not a prediction of fate and not professional advice.