Gate 56 · Storytelling
There are 64 gates, one for each hexagram of the I Ching, mapped onto the zodiac. Here's the keynote for Gate 56 · Storytelling and where it sits in the bodygraph.
Gate 56 lives in the Throat centre and, together with gate 11, forms the channel of curiosity: the stream of ideas and images finds its outlet in telling. The tradition reads the theme like this: meaning here travels by plot rather than by bullet points, through metaphor, a case from life, a long story with digressions. In the personality this is a conscious love of telling and a taste for the details that bring a plot alive; in the design it is a natural manner of speech that listeners get drawn into on their own. A storyteller needs a listener sized to the story: in a hurrying crowd the same story loses half of itself. There is an inner edge too: the stories you tell about your own life also shape how you see it. Which story about yourself do you tell most often, and what does it rest on?
How it sits in the bodygraph
- Center
- Throat
- Channels
- 11-56 · Curiosity
Gates in this center
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