GATE SIXTY FOUR

The Gate of Confusion

HARMONIC GATE: 47

CIRCUIT: COLLECTIVE (SENSING)

HEXAGRAM: Before Completion.

Located in the pressure center of the head this gate produces one of the most human of all our behaviours- mental confusion. We experience life through our senses and store those experiences as images in our minds. The images we store are our own unique depiction of what happened. If life was a join the dots picture, this gate is the dots. All these little dots sprinkled out onto a page. The mental pressure is to find which dot joins to which, to come up with some sort of sequence of events that makes sense to us. With this gate activated it is as though you can see all of the dots but perhaps cannot see how they join together. Imagine getting a brand new puzzle and emptying the box out onto the table. The pieces scattered everywhere. The pressure builds as you try to group like with like, find the corner pieces, perhaps build the outside first looking for all the pieces with a flat edge. You know the drill. In looking at all the pieces sprawled out it can be a bit confusing. Now imagine life is that puzzle.

You experience mental images from past experiences but are unsure how they all fit together or in what order they go, did that really even occur? why did that experience happen to me? what am I supposed to do next? what is going to happen if I make this move? Mental stress can come from this pressure to piece it all together. Mastery of this gate is asking you to have faith. It wouldn't be much fun if you tipped the puzzle out of the box and it was already complete. BEFORE COMPLETION is a perfectly natural state of mind. There need to be a certain level of faith and trust that the puzzle will come together if it is supposed to, and a surrendering to the very real possibility that maybe it is never going to be made clear. The harder you push with the mental pressure the more confused you may become. This gates lesson is always about letting things become clear over time and knowing that every realization begins with a state of confusion.

To Ponder;

What aspects of your life are confusing right now?

What puzzle piece do you have sprawled out on your mental table?

Are you trying frantically to finish the puzzle or are you able to find pleasure in the unfinished picture for now?

*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.