As we wind up the days of the Sun in Gate 38 …
From Oleksander’s timeline -
38.5's!
"Remember, that the fifth line is how the public or the outside world sees a hexagram.
So the outside world sees the 38 as an alienated being. Somebody who is fighting in their own world. Somebody who is really not connected to the rest because they seem to be caught up in some kind of struggle about something.
This energy is seen as alienating energy by the outside. A stage in opposition where one is totally isolated. This is the universalization of the pressure to be individually intuitive.
It is absolutely perfect. The individual is always at their best when they are isolated within
the aloneness of their own being, because they have to resolve everything in life within
their own context. They are individual."
And further along in the text, Ra also says..
"They (the individual) always have this feeling that they have to do it alone. It is true. You have to do it alone.
Somebody can help you to get to the door but you have to go through the door yourself.
The 38 is always going to need that doorway of the 28. It cannot be fulfilled by itself.
The 38 is only a pressure."
And lastly a reminder..
"I always try to stress to the people that carry the 38th energy that the only struggle that is worthwhile is the struggle that tells you that life is of value.
Because that is inherently what the struggle is all about. That life is truly of value."
Ra Uru Hu
(All in quotations are from the Line Companion)
Thanks, Laura Hall