Cross of Grace

Full breakdown

Gates: 11 Ideas, 12 Caution, 22 Openness, 47 Realizing. Gate numbers: 22/11, 47/12.

Here 26/45 drops away, taking rulership with it — first usurpation in Left Angle, then rulership in Right Angle, and now Gate 45 disappears entirely, leaving a completely different configuration. Where the fixed Cross of Listening produced people who listened but couldn't quite explain, the Cross of Grace is about deep attention — more than that, about falling in love. These people fall in love constantly, and not necessarily with a partner; they can fall for anything, as long as they can listen to it fully. Love Pavarotti, and you'll listen to Pavarotti twelve hours a day, simply absorbing and absorbing, whatever it happens to be. They can become completely consumed by outside forces, which makes them powerful agents of mutation, with the Sun in Gate 22 and the unconscious Earth in Gate 12.

With the defined channel 12-22, the Channel of Openness, these are deeply social beings with a real gift for meeting strangers and taking them in fully. If you ever wanted a survey of ordinary people in society, send someone with this Cross — everyone will tell them everything, and they'll listen in total absorption at whatever they're given. Being this fixed, they're naturally fixed on absorbing everything around them.