Gate 47:
Oppression
(The Gate Of Realizing)
Gate 47:
Opperssion.
The Gate Of Realizing.
Channel:
47/64 - Abstraction.
A design of mental activity and clarity.
Harmonic Gate:
64 - Before Completion.
Center:
Ajna.
Circuit:
Sensing.
Astrological Position:
"17° 00' 00 - 22° 37' 30"
Zodiac Symbol:
Virgo.
Incarnation Cross:
The Right Angle Cross of Rulership 3.
This gate is the gate of realization but it is not a comfortable process.
This is the Sensing circuit, an abstract current that cannot be substantiated by facts.
This gate can create a lot of mental stress and anxiety.
It is a burden even at its best.
The 64th gate, the fuel of this conceptualizing potential,
can be compared to going to a Movie theatre where you expect to see a feature length film,
only to discover that it is showing thousands of video clips.
To realize which single clip out of the many makes sense is the potential of this gate of Realization.
It is no wonder,
that this is the gate of Oppression.
This is an ongoing process.
The Format of the Sensing Circuit is cyclic.
The secret to handling such a process,
is also the secret of this entire circuit,
Patience!
You cannot go into the image pool and rummage around,
hoping to find a resolution to the unresolved pressure.
There is only waiting,
Waiting for the moment of realization, ah ha.
A RESTRICTIVE AND ADVERSE STATE AS A RESULT OF INTERNAL WEAKNESS OR EXTERNAL STRENGTH OR BOTH.
Gate 47.1: Taking stock.
Exaltation:
The ability in times of hardship to concentrating on eradicating the negative factors that have led to oppression.
Realizing that negative thoughts have to be eradicated.
Detriment:
The delusion of seeing oppression as an exclusively external phenomenon with often disastrous results.
The sense that the world is against you.
Gate 47.2: Ambition.
Exaltation:
The ambition and drive to overcome personal oppression in order to achieve security.
Realizing that to be busy is mentally healthy.
Detriment:
An indecisiveness in times of personal oppression,
whether to apply intelligence to recovery or accept its weight to take advantage of other prevailing conditions that may only be temporary.
The inability to sense when and which activity is healthy.
Gate 47.3: Self-oppression.
Exaltation:
The conscious and well integrated being whose natural right action will eventually come to see the unfoundedness of its oppression. The eventual realization that one is really o.k.
Detriment:
A self-oppression so highly energized that it may prove irreversible and destructive.
Extreme difficulty in realizing one's self-worth.
Gate 47.4: Repression.
The constraints of external oppression.
Exaltation:
The strength of identity that even in times of the most powerful oppression can maintain its resources and to some extent ensure their survival for the benefit of others.
A sense of identity that can be maintained despite external conditioning.
Detriment:
When robbed of its light,
the Moon is lost in darkness;
barely able to nourish itself, let alone others.
The identity overwhelmed by external conditioning.
Gate 47.5: The saint.
This position has special significance and there is no planet in detriment.
Exaltation:
The gift in times of oppression to maintain without hypocrisy a harmonic relationship with one's oppressors,
while providing aid and succour to the oppressed.
Realization at its most exalted. Acceptance of the weight of the abstract process and the grace that naturally follows.
No polarity.
Detriment:
No planet in detriment.
Gate 47.6: Futility.
A difficult position for which there is no exaltation.
Exaltation:
No polarity.
Detriment:
The Sun in detriment,
where the strength of will alone may find a way to adapt and survive,
but without hope of ever overcoming the oppression.
Life as an ordeal stripped of realization.