Gate 48 - is the most frustrating of all Gates
@Bodyvoice shared this over in The ART of Being YOU for @NaimR :)
Thought I’d drop it in here too for revisiting later.
I also shared and wrote a post about some of my experience of 16/48 for supporters over in Dbay Locals.
THE 48 IS THE MOST FRUSTRATING OF ALL GATES
This is not personal. This is the most difficult thing for anyone carrying any kind of logic in their design.
If you look at the logic activations, you'll see that those are parts of you that always feel like you're not good enough. Remember, the great theme of the 16-48 is inadequacy.
The 48th gate, the gate of the well, the gate of depth of profundity, it's actually a gate of solutions. It's a gate of black magic. It's the most frustrating of all gates.
That 48th gate is sitting there and saying, "I have the solution; I have the solution," and it feels deeply inadequate if it can't get that solution experimented with. Please give me enough straw, I'll turn it into gold. Yeah, yeah, always looking for the energy.
Human Design and the BodyGraph is full of symmetries.
The ultimate theme to be dealt with in the abstract process is the theme of expectation. In other words, that the expectation is the damming ingredient in experience.
All experiences would be valuable if we did not have expectations about them.
The moment that you establish an expectation, you limit the value of the experience because it's never going to meet your expectation, never.
So you might as well give up the expectation and just be in the experience, so that later you can reflect, and that reflection is of value.
THE LOGIC PROCESS MASTERY IS ROOTED IN IDENTIFICATION
When we go to the mirror on the other side, and we go to the 16th gate, what we get to is the gate of identification. So where everything about the abstract process is rooted in expectation, everything in the logic process is rooted in identification.
Now of course, this is an obvious difference.
You see, in order for talent to work and in order for talent to be recognized, one has to be deeply identified with the process deeply identified.
In the east, with this whole load of Atman Guru stuff, no mind stuff, all of these generalizations that come out of Brahmin philosophy, one of their bugaboos is identification.
Guru says, "Don't identify."
What to say. I'm cold so I could get real nasty today. You can't be a master unless you're identified. It's a great joke.
You have to be identified with what you are mastering; it has to be everything for you.
THE TRICK IS NOT TO BE IDENTIFIED WITH THE IDENTIFICATION
And you see, the trick-there is always a trick-is not to be identified with the identification. That's the trick. And of course, that's the trick about everything having to do with the BodyGraph because after all, you're only here to live out your Type.
In that way, you're not identified with the identification, the identification is simply you.
That's your Type. If I'm not identified, I have a great deal, though I have no logical definition in my design, I have seven different planets that are in logical gates. If I were not identified with Human Design, I could not be a master of it.”