GATE FORTY FOUR

The Gate of Alertness

HARMONIC GATE: 26

CIRCUIT: TRIBAL (EGO)

ICHING: PRESENTATION.

The nose knows! This is the the gate of the great nose. It can smell anything. "I smell a rat, something smells off, something smells fishy"... these are all sayings of this gate. It is the gate of ALERTNESS, and boy oh boy is it alert! The energy of this gate is like the elephant that never forgets. It remembers the patterns for living that have successfully provided you with all your needs. It has great cellular memory but there is something to recognise here. This gate lives in the awareness center of the spleen. It is not a motor. It cannot do anything with this stored memory without the 26th gate in the will/ ego center and so it is always searching for that motor connection to actions it's remembering. Those with the 44th gate cannot logically call these memory's up, it is an instinctual remembering in the moment.. "Ahh I know this pattern, it does/ does not work!" Learning to trust in that instinct will serve 44's well.

There is an instinctual knowing in you for spotting emerging patterns, and trends by remembering the past. This gate’s energy can be applied to any aspect of your life, business, relationships or personal behavioural repetitive patterns that may be forming and could happily be avoided. When in the lowest expression this gate can show up as a down right fear of the repeating past mistakes. Nothing worse for a 44 then that feeling of "I knew this wasn't going to work out well". Your main fear is that the baggage from the past will catch up to you. To balance this fear out, if it is present, is to follow your instinct in the moment. It can also be helpful to make peace with what you may describe as your past mistakes. Know that you did the best with the knowledge and awareness you had in the moment, and that this time you have even more stored knowledge and awareness in your cells to call on. In its highest expression this gate is the guide and protector of the tribe's resources, in remembering what worked before. This gift is of awareness, more like a guiding influence that can ensure the tribe has all it needs to survive, not so much the ‘doing’ part of getting involved with the pattern. 

Questions for pondering;

What can you learn from your past?

Are you carrying baggage from your past experiences that you could possibly alchemise the wisdom from and let go of the rest?

How does this instinctual awareness present itself to you in the moment? and are you able to recognise it and listen without needing to rationalise the knowing? can you just follow your instinct in the moment?

*The way I translate the gates is a mixture of Human Design source material; textbooks, transcripts, audios & second generation HD material, integrations from IRL, client sessions, mentoring & personal experience.