Gate 18:
Work On What Has Been Spoilt
(The Gate Of Correction)
Gate 18:
Work On What Has Been Spoilt.
The Gate Of Correction.
Channel:
18/58 - Judgment.
A design of insatiability.
Harmonic Gate:
58 - The Joyous.
Center:
Spleen.
Circuit:
Understanding.
Astrological Position:
"03° 52' 30 - 09° 30' 00".
Zodiac Symbol:
Libra.
Incarnation Cross:
The Right Angle Cross of Service 3.
Taste, the focus of judgment on dissatisfaction.
This gate is where we receive our deepest conditioning from our parents.
In the I'Ching this gate is referred to as Work on what has been spoilt.
It is through this gate that a woman is conditioned by her Father,
and where a man is conditioned by his Mother.
The Oedipus / Electra Gate.
This isn't to say that this is a negative.
It is the gate of essential learning,
and as a result is the gate of Correction.
This is where we learn generationally,
from parent to child.
The 18th gate activated in a chart is an indication,
that there has been deep conditioning from the parent.
It is through this 'imprinting' that a certain standard has been established.
These conditioned standards will form the basis,
for comparison and will be applied to everything;
lovers, work, oneself, and the reality despite circumstances,
will always invite the potential of Correction.
The very vitality of this channel denies resignation,
and the need to correct,
to improve is a life long process.
Without the dissatisfaction and the drive for perfection,
which hones the critical skills,
there is no understanding.
Here is where the potential of Taste is born.
THE VIGILANCE AND DETERMINATION TO UPHOLD AND DEFEND BASIC AND FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS.
Gate 18.1: Conservatism.
The adherence to traditional patterns despite and/or in spite of changing circumstances.
Exaltation:
Gradual modification to avoid eventual upheaval.
The potential to correct through gradual modification of judgments.
Detriment:
The Patriarch whose rigidity guarantees deterioration.
The potential to refuse to correct.
Gate 18.2: Terminal disease.
The recognition that what has been spoilt is irreversible.
Exaltation:
Acceptance and strength derived from a faith in spiritual regeneration.
The acceptance that there is no potential for correction.
Detriment:
The futile raging against the wind.
The refusal to accept that there is no potential for correction.
Gate 18.3: The zealot.
The energetic obsession to clean house.
Exaltation:
The dissolution of old forms at an acceptable price.
An obsession with correction and its critical potential.
Detriment:
Rigid judgmentation that creates as many problems as it solves.
An obsession with correction that does not bring satisfaction.
Gate 18.4: The incompetent.
Difficulties as a result of inadequacies that cannot be resolved because of inadequacies.
Exaltation:
Given this negative position, survival through suffering.
The inability to correct and its potential for suffering.
Detriment:
Indecision and anxiety and no escape from misfortune.
The demands of correction and its potential to generate anxiety.
Gate 18.5: Therapy.
The strength to recognize a problem and to accept that it is beyond one's
power to solve it alone.
Exaltation:
The wisdom to both seek and provide guidance.
The potential for correction and judgment through relationships.
Detriment:
The mental patient.
Chronic instability and potential madness.
Where relationships cannot assist in correction the potential of mental instability.
Gate 18.6: Buddhahood.
The perfected form.
Exaltation:
The Buddha state of the eternal child and the energy to find new horizons to avoid stasis.
The potential of the perfected form through correction.
Detriment:
The mundane application of the above.
The ability to tap public opinion and share methodology.
The potential to share the values of the correction with others.