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Gate 61 · Mystery

Gate 61, the Gate of Mystery, sits in the Head center, the pressure center of inspiration at the crown. In the mandala it spans 20°45′ Capricorn to 26°22′ Capricorn, and the Sun crosses it around January 12 – 18 every year: five and a half days when its theme colors the collective weather for everyone.

Hexagram 61
Center
Mandala span
20°45′ Capricorn – 26°22′ Capricorn
Sun transit
around January 12 – 18
Programming partner
Channel
I-Ching hexagram
61 · six lines, read bottom up

Its channel

With Gate 24 (Rationalization) in the Ajna center it forms the Channel of Awareness (24-61): The thinker: mystery pressed into rationalization.

On its own, without its harmonic gate, Gate 61 is a hanging gate: a consistent theme in you that instinctively seeks its other half in the people around you. That pull is real chemistry, and knowing it changes how you read your relationships.

On the incarnation crosses

For people born with the Sun here, Gate 61 anchors the Right Angle Cross of Maya, the Juxtaposition Cross of Thinking or the Left Angle Cross of Obscuration: the incarnation-cross life themes carried out into the world.

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