Gates Flashcards
Gate 58
Pressure to Perfect
Root to Spleen
Logic
You’re someone who is driven to make things better; you feel pressure for things to get better, for yourself to be better, for the world to be better. It doesn’t mean you’re a perfectionist per se, but you feel this pressure to improve. However, it’s not necessarily correct for you to try to improve everything yourself. Sometimes you can make people or projects better just by bringing your energy to the situation. The downside here is always thinking something’s wrong or that you’re not good enough if you can’t be the one to fix things.
Gate 38
Deflecting Struggle
Root to Spleen
Knowing
You’re someone who handles stress well and doesn’t crack under pressure. When shit hits the fan, you know how to step in and handle it, going straight to the issue and addressing it. Where others would falter or get anxious, or overwhelmed, you can just go into the struggle and take care of it. You have to watch that you’re not creating struggle for no reason or getting into arguments to feel validated.
Gate 54
Pressure to Provide for Oneself
Root to Spleen
Ego
You have this underlying drive to stand on your own two feet and you enjoying being able to provide for yourself. You might be a natural entrepreneur or enjoy working independently. The negative side of this gate is feeling like, if someone else is doing better than you are, then you’re not good enough. And so, if you can’t be the best, you might as well not even do it. Like if you wanted to start a business but there are already 100 people doing it, then you would think, “Why bother?” and not try. It can also manifest as thinking it’s wrong to ask others for help or that you have to do it all on your own.
Gate 53
Pressure to Start
Root to Sacral
Sensing
There’s a part of you that’s always feeling like you need to start. Your body literally wants to get moving and this pressure to move can cause anxiety, if you’re not using your energy during the day. But at the end of the day that’s just your body generating energy for you to pursue the things that light you up. So don’t allow your mind to create anxiety around not starting or moving fast enough. Sometimes that anxious GO energy isn’t even for you, it can inspire others around you to kick off a project, for example.
Gate 60
Intolerance to Roadblocks
Root to Sacral
Knowing
You might resonate with the energy of, “I want to get going and I want to make sure nothing’s going to stand in my way!” because you have an intolerance for roadblocks or things that will stand in your path. Used in the negative aspect, this can cause you to think of all the possible roadblocks that will stand in your way, which brings you down before you even start. The correct way to use this energy is to understand that, yes, there will be roadblocks, but because you have an intolerance for that shit, you’re going to blow right past them.
Gate 52
Sitting Still and Resisting Restlessness
Root to Sacral
Logic
Sometimes the best way to start is by taking a minute, resisting that initial impulse, and gathering the insights to get it right before you start. Resisting the restlessness will create a powerful friction to get things moving when you are ready. Allow things to come to you, allow the energy to build.
Gate 19
Sensing Other’s Needs
Root to Solar Plexus
Ego
You can sense the core needs of others (like the need for food, shelter, or spirituality). You have a deep sensitivity to what people need and can feel the pressure to provide those things for them. Often you know what people need before they do. The downside is that this can fuel co-dependency where you think you have to tend to other’s needs before your own or to feel worthy.
Gate 39
Provoking with Consciousness
Root to Solar Plexus
Knowing
You have the gift of being able to provoke people to a higher level of consciousness or change. Sometimes people need to be woken up by saying something uncomfortable, but you’re doing it with good consciousness. It’s about funneling that provocative energy by being a warrior of the light.
Gate 41
Artistic Creativity
Root to Solar Plexus
Sensing
You have the gift of the artist inside you. There’s a certain pressure to create within. And to serve this gift, you really need to be singing, acting, dancing, cooking, et cetera (anything that’s an artistic form of creativity). It doesn’t have to be about your work, but you do need to bring this energy into your daily life.
Gate 30
Desire to Feel Deeply
Solar Plexus to Root
Sensing
You might notice that you have a tendency to drive straight into the deep feels or that you love to experience the drama of life with all the ups and downs. When used correctly, you can feel deeply into certain moments and then let them go, without letting your mind interfere or try to hold onto anything. This is about using emotions to generate fuel for you. And it can also help you connect with others empathically, allowing space for them to feel deeply.
Gate 55
Feeling the Fullness of Life
Solar Plexus to Root
Knowing
You may notice that sometimes, you can just FEEL how wonderful life is in the moment or that you can suddenly notice the beauty in everything. And you wish to always see life in this rose-colored way; remembering that even in the “shitty” moments, it’s all still perfect. This is your gift, to feel the fullness of life from a sense of awe. You hold this lesson for all of us. It’s about spiritual abundance, feeling how full and amazing it all is. You may have a tendency to fear a lack of passion or feel like you don’t know what you’re passionate about. But trust that when the timing is right, you’ll find the passion and drive to manifest new experiences and ideas.
Gate 49
Altruism
Solar Plexus to Root
Ego
You’re someone that’s naturally quite altruistic or who has altruistic desires. You believe in what’s right and you want to work to improve the social and spiritual health of the planet. This can sometimes feed co-dependency or bring about shame if you’re not 100% altruistic 24/7. Your gift includes the courage and clarity needed to start a revolution.
Gate 6
Attunement to Intimacy
Solar Plexus to Sacral
Defense
You have the gift of knowing how to create intimacy with others and you enjoy intimate connections. You also can create healthy boundaries. Used incorrectly, you can create boundaries that keep everyone at an arm’s length, out of a fear of intimacy or a fear of revealing your true self. And this can make you feel separate from everyone, like you have to do it all alone. Allow yourself to remain open to connection.
Gate 37
Love of Communion with Your Tribe
Solar Plexus to Ego
Ego
Something that really lights you up is being around around your people. You have a natural ability to be a great matchmaker or network connector or community creator. There are so many ways you use this gift. But the essence is to indulge in your love of communion and bring your tribe together in whatever way that looks like for you. You have the gift of creating peace and harmony through honest agreements. Note: with this energy, there can also be a fear of getting trapped in traditional life roles.
Gate 22
Grace and Charm
Solar Plexus to Throat
Knowing
Even though you might not yet acknowledge this about yourself, you’re quite charming. You may have noticed that others have even called you charming or graceful at some point in your life. Even if you see yourself as doing things in a messy way, others don’t see it because you have a graceful way about you. And the idea with this gift, really, is just to see yourself as a charming and graceful person and own that. Note: this energy also can come out as a fear of having nothing worth listening to so wait for the correct timing before sharing.
Gate 36
Solving Emotional Issues
Solar Plexus to Throat
Sensing
You feel things more deeply than others and you’re very attuned to things being traumatizing emotionally in yourself. This is for a reason. Once you learn to master and solve your own emotional issues, then you’re able to help others solve their issues because you’re good at transmuting emotional energy. And you don’t have to wait to help others until you’ve solved every single emotional issue. You can start where you are and grow from there. This energy really has the ability to delay gratification in order to gain mastery. You may be a therapist or perhaps have been told that you’d make a good therapist.
Gate 59
Bond-Making
Sacral to Solar Plexus
Defense
You have the ability to facilitate bonds between people. You can break through boundaries and walls to enable connections —either between yourself and another or between two different people. You’d make a great matchmaker or network facilitator or friend-maker. Also others often find you very attractive.
Gate 9
Ability to Home in on the Details
Sacral to Root
Logic
You can easily home in on certain details to see what’s missing or what’s not right. You aren’t necessarily detail oriented with everything but in certain areas you’re able to zoom in and see the tiniest details that others wouldn’t spot. Focus on meaningful details and trusting in right timing.
Gate 3
Ability to Make Order Out of Confusion
Sacral to Root
Knowing
You’re here to be a change-agent, to be unique and transformative. And one of the ways you’ll do that is by helping others through a theme that you know personally. You may have experienced some trauma in your childhood —it doesn’t mean it was a large trauma necessarily, but it was something that triggered you. And there’s a specific theme of that trauma that you’re meant to bring into helping other people. It’s like your soul made an agreement upon coming into this life that you’d have this sort of signpost in childhood saying, “this is something that will trigger you and piss you off” so that’s what you need to focus on to help others.
Gate 42
Need to Analyze Before Moving On
Sacral to Root
Sensing
You have the gift of being able to help people pause and take stock before diving in, to understand the “why” behind the action, to clarify the intention before diving in. You can be very good at bringing a bit of structure or understanding to what’s actually going on.
Gate 27
Natural Ability to Nurture and Care
Sacral to Spleen
Defense
You know how to take care of people and have this natural ability to nurture others. However, you always need to check-in and make sure you’re not depleting yourself. Remember to nurture yourself, too. And also, nurturing doesn’t always mean doing something for someone else. Sometimes you can nurture by guiding others to better care for themselves.
Gate 34
Magnetic Charisma
Sacral
Centering
You have magnetic charisma whether you see it or not. So let your mantra be, “I do what I love to do and, in doing so, I become very magnetic.” Because it’s that magnetism that comes from doing what you love that just draws people and opportunities to you. But you really need to see yourself as charismatic and to allow yourself to be that lit up, without putting a damper on it. Check your perception of yourself and your actions here to truly make the most of this gift. This is the unconditional power to be YOU, to empower you toward individuation, displaying and celebrating your uniqueness.
Gate 5
Natural Sense of Rhythm & Ritual
Sacral to G
Logic
You have very specific rhythm in your life and in the way you prefer to live your 24 hour cycle and you should listen to that because it’s realigning you with divine timing. And you may have specific rituals that you prefer to follow, like the precise way you make your coffee every morning, for example. It could be on a daily, weekly, or seasonal basis. Just trust that you have a natural sense of what’s a good ritual or rhythm for you. And as much as you can, go by your internal calendar, your own schedule and flow.
Gate 14
Amplifying What’s Good in Others
Sacral to G
Knowing
You have the ability to amplify what’s good in others. And probably every friend or co-worker has become more successful as a result of regularly being in your energy. There’s nothing you need to do about it, just recognize it. And just know that, by amplifying the good for others, you’ll inherently bring good to yourself as well. It’s really effortless. So let go of the mental pressure to make yourself a success and allow success to happen.
Gate 29
Love of Getting Involved with Others
Sacral to G
Sensing
You love to collaborate, to be in partnership, to get involved in a team project. You love the creative energy that comes from collaboration.