Cross of Conservation

Full breakdown

Gates: 32 Continuity, 42 Growth, 56 Stimulation, 60 Acceptance. Gate numbers: 32/56, 42/60.

Gate 32 is the gate of continuity and duration — there are no more conservative gates in the whole wheel. It wants to preserve, to keep resources safe, driven by a deep instinctive fear of being wiped off the map; irrational as that fear can look, it's real and needs to be honored.

In this Juxtaposition, the inner truth and detail of 62/61 disappear, replaced by 56 and 60 — the need for stimulation held inside a limitation. Don't go into a hobby business with these people: if the hula-hoop craze ends and nobody's buying anymore, they still don't want to quit. They'll rent a warehouse for eight thousand unsold hula-hoops, convinced fashion will swing back around, because letting go feels like admitting a mistake.

But this is exactly the instinct that gives us people who say 'let's save the forest, let's protect life on Earth.' The conservatives of the world come from this Cross, and we need them.