@Bodyvoice shared -
“The Sun is moving through Gate 8
8.1 Honesty
8.2 Service
8.3 Phony
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𝟴.𝟰 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁
When you get to the upper trigram in this gate of contribution that is designed to connect to the collective, you get to transpersonal gates. So you get to the innate ability within the individual in this line: to be able to reach out to the community or the tribe.
This line is called Respect. Remember that fourth lines are all about being fixed and onetracked but they are also deeply opportunistic, waiting for those opportunities.
The gift of naturally recognizing the contributions of others and particularly, the acknowledgement of those who lead by example.
Jupiter exalted. The uncompromising drive to assimilate.
Remember something about the 8: it is looking to the other side, to the 1. The 1 is the yang force. This is the creative direction in life. This is the individual creative expression. You can imagine that the 1 is the artist and the 8 is the gallery dealer. That is their relationship.
The capacity in the 8.4 is to recognize the value of the creative potential on the other side and to see that that creative potential, through their contribution, is something that can affect the totality.
It is the art dealer that sees the starving painter and looks at the paintings and thinks, "Oh, my god. This is wonderful." He puts it into his shop and all of a sudden, they become well-known because that contribution has been made.
[Note: when visiting a gallery today, the owner says that she doesn't do art, that her passion is to collect art, to support the artist. You can imagine how badly I wanted to see if she had this gate!😁]
On the other side: Mercury in detriment. In a group where limitation is transcended, reason alone cannot predict individual worth.
As an example, the acknowledged leader of an athletics team is not necessarily the most talented.
The individual who is fixed on making a contribution can be the one that really becomes the leader and the example in that sense. This example of an athletic team: you may have an athlete on that team who is somebody whose very spirit is about making a selfless contribution to the nature of how that team operates. They are the ones that will ultimately get the attention of the team and be a de facto leader by the quality of their example.
What is being very fixed here is the fixed communication, the fixed expression of direction that the 8.4 knows it must make.
In the white book: The drive to contribute and be an example to and for others, and on the other side: A gift for contribution that is not conditioned by limitations.
This is a very positive line. These people can be very one-tracked.
What happens to them is that they are very positive for everybody else but they suffer a great deal themselves. These are people that are always making a contribution and they don't necessarily feel like they are recognized for the contribution they are making.
Remember that there is an intrinsic honesty in the resonance to the first line here in the fourth line. There is an honesty about who can really lead and who can't, who can really be an example and who can't. When they make their contribution, there is a sense that nobody is paying attention to them. The 8th gate can often feel unloved for its contribution and, of course, the sphinx gates are not about love. They are about direction.
This is one of those things for all 8th gates to deal with: they have a capacity to contribute to others and
make that contribution without necessarily being rewarded.
That does not mean that they do not get the reward but it does mean that it is much more difficult because they are individual.
I want to make a comment on the end of this line where it says that they are not necessarily the most
talented. One of the keys to individuality: individuals are not here to be best. The moment that an
individual thinks that they have to be the best, it is over.
The best is for the collective. That is a collective
thing. That is mastery, experimentation, to get to the point where you are really the best.
But the individual is here to be different. They don't have to be the most talented athlete to be the focus of
attention and to be the example that guides others.
They just have to be themselves.
Whenever I deal with individuals, I always remind them of that: "Do not punish yourself in thinking that
you have to be the best. You never ever have to be the best. You only have to be yourself. If you are
yourself, you will be recognized and if you try to be the best, you will not."
Understand the principle of that. The collective process is about comparing and the individual process is not.
So, the moment you are trying to be best, it is all a comparison game and it has nothing to do with being individual.”
Source - Line Companion Ra Uru Hu