The connections between the Root and the Splenic Centers have enormous impact on our health and well being.
The Spleen, our body's washing machine is not a motor.
In order to function the immune system has to be energized.
The primary and most natural fuel is from the Root.
These channels connecting the two centers are by their
very nature healthy but at the same time, difficult.
The Channel of Judgment is a design of Insatiability.
Not being satisfied in the now.
Its mundane nature,
its criticism and relentless dissatisfaction often gives an erroneous impression of its value and importance.
58, the fuel of this Stream of Taste, is the gate of Vitality.
It is literally the zest for life and the energy, and this is its key, for 'a better life'.
Criticism is a natural by-product of this improvement energy.
Betterment is founded on conditioning both social and moral.
This gate is the vitality to challenge that conditioning and to improve upon it.

STIMULATION IS THE KEY TO JOY.


Gate 58.1: Love of life.

Exaltation:
The very stimulation of the world is the basis of an aesthetic appreciation of its beauty and wonder.
Alone or shared with others this profound inner realization is the key for a joyous harmony with the process of being.
The energy which fuels the love of life.

Detriment:
The Moon has its phases, its moods,
that will limit joy to an intermittent and cyclical experience.
A cyclical energy which intermittently fuels the love of life.

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Gate 58.2: Perversion.

Exaltation:
No polarity.
No exaltation.

Detriment:
A genius for perverse stimulation that afflicts oneself and others by promoting degeneracy and reducing joy to indulgence and decadence.
The energy which fuels the drive for perverse stimulation.

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Gate 58.3: Electricity.

Exaltation:
The individual whose electric vitality creates its own stimulation and is not dependent on others.
The energy to fuel independent stimulation.

Detriment:
The quality of fire is dependent on its fuel and subject to its influence, good or bad.
The energy for aliveness that is dependent on others for stimulation.

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Gate 58.4: Focusing.

Exaltation:
A natural specializiation that when confronted with a multiplicity of stimulations will have no inner difficulty in focusing on the appropriate influence.
The energy to fuel recognition of which stimulation is of value.

Detriment:
An impressionability that becomes confused when confronted with a multiplicity of stimulations and in trying to accommodate all of it, becomes unstable.
Energy which becomes unstable when overstimulated.


Gate 58.5: Defense.

Exaltation:
The natural and practical instinct to protect oneself regardless of temptations.
The fuel for self-defense regardless of stimulations.

Detriment:
The assumption that the best defense is a good offense,
that might allow strength of character to enjoy questionable stimulus without succumbing to it.
The energy for aliveness which forsakes self-defense and will embrace questionable stimulations.


Gate 58.6: Carried away.

Exaltation:
The tendency to practicality that while thoroughly enjoying external stimulation has the instinct to draw back when its independent integrity is threatened.
The energy to fuel independent integrity that will maintain its identity in times of stimulation.

Detriment:
When its basic intelligence is effectively stimulated,
its natural desire for attunement will lead it to identify so strongly with the stimulation that it is at risk of losing its identity.
The energy which fuels loss of identity in times of stimulation.