Gate 55 — Abundance — Strictly speaking, abundance is a matter of spirit

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This hexagram carries enormous importance for all of humanity. Gate 55 sits in the channel of Emotion, the design of moodiness. It's in line 55.6 that the emotional spirit will begin to awaken, forming a new genetic evolutionary pattern — which is exactly why the essence of hexagram 55 matters so much to us at this level. But don't forget, please, that on the everyday level these are the most unstable of all the emotional gates. The most inconsistent, changeable, and elusive. Their wave rises higher and drops lower than in any other emotional gate. These gates hold a mystery, and I call them the Sleeping Phoenix, which will awaken carrying with it the fire of the Age of Aquarius. Right now, though, these gates show extreme instability in the movement of the emotional wave. It's the cup that's always half full and half empty as it moves through the wave, and we'll look at the individual lines exactly in that context.

So this is the gate of Spirit. Its potential is an awareness of provocation, or not — am I being provoked, or not? Do I like this? The potential for awareness lies in the mood to eat. That's something worth knowing about the nature of gate 55. Whenever you meet someone with this gate, please keep in mind it's important to pass this along to them: "Don't eat if you're not in the mood!" That matters for them, because otherwise they can become very unhealthy. If your 39/55 channel is fully defined and you always feel like eating, that's a sign the unhealthiness is already there. If that energy connects into the Sacral or comes out through the Throat, there's a way to burn it off. If it doesn't connect to the Sacral or the Throat, there's no way to spend it. People with gate 55 can only eat, make love, or work when they're in the mood. Only when they're in the mood are they able to communicate and connect with others. Until a person with gate 55 understands this and starts respecting their own nature, they'll suffer terribly on their own wave. Mood is the quintessence of this whole process.

When we look at the individual lines, we'll keep noting that these are lines of shifting moods. Generally speaking, anything connected to individuality has to respect mood. I have no emotional definition anywhere in the individual circuit, but I do have gate 12, and I'm very individual, and I fall very easily into shifting moods — I slip easily into a bad mood, become sullen and gloomy. Every time I move into an emotional wave, that shift in mood feels completely natural to me. It's simply an inseparable feature of individual being, and in gate 55 it shows up in its most vivid form.