Cross of Mood

Full breakdown

Gates: 16 Skills, 55 Spirit, 59 Sexuality, 9 Focus. Gate numbers: 55.4/9.1, 59.4/16.1.

Here we reach fixed fate. The Sun/Earth shift means the theme of busyness disappears along with the 20-34 channel, replaced by the unconscious Sun in Gate 9 — energy for detail work — and the unconscious Earth in Gate 16 — skill, and the potential to identify with a pattern.

These people often carry real psychological weight. Gate 55 can run deeply melancholic, and most people don't understand the nature of melancholy or know how to handle it — nor do they always know their own Type, which leaves them in ongoing inner struggle. This is someone deeply fixated on their mood, capable of settling into a stable depression rather than simply riding normal ups and downs — identified (remember Gate 16) so completely with the mood that they never quite step out of it. Here, the search for individual love has vanished, replaced by a deep need to know — a need for depth, a need to find the truth. How often does anyone actually manage that?

If you meet someone with a 4/1 Profile and this Cross, you'll recognize it — they carry themselves like something heavy is pressing on their shoulders. Because of the 4th line, someone in their life — a friend, say — will keep trying to lift that weight off them, without success. If these people learn more about individuality and melancholy, they can become an extraordinary creative force — genuinely talented, since Gate 16 is part of the Channel of Talent. But in a world where most people live out of a false self, they simply look melancholic, carrying their burden.