Somehow it had not registered for me that Mark has 16/48 in his chart 🧐
I do too.
Ironically my 16.5 (literally keynoted ‘the Grinch’) is struggling to read this version of it he shares.
I guess it’s a good reminder of the “or not” possibility, particularly in the 5th line of any gate perhaps 🤓
Practice yes! With enthusiasm…. mmmm 🤔 (and it also doesn’t come from the Mind. It’s a body movement to repetition in my experience).
And in what direction 🤷🏻♀️ here we also differ greatly I suspect, my G being Open and his being defined.
He also has a defined Will, which I think allows for clearer/more consistent dedication to a direction once on a particular trajectory. I could be mistaken but … ‘tis my current observation.
Hmm 🤔 actually it could be the absoluteness of the first premise he attaches here that’s bringing a near instant head cock from me.
Like I can’t quite hear it and my possibility view rejects this “need’ statement of absoluteness (as in ‘must’).
‘Needs to identify with’ umm?
Doesn’t compute for me personally. But maybe for others 🤷🏻♀️
Anyway - here’s Mark, sharing his seeing:
“Gate 16 - The Gate of Skills, Enthusiasm… Identification.
One needs to identify with something that they can embrace with enthusiasm in order to obtain a skill; a skill acquired through experimentation and repetition.
This is a gate that is part of the Throat Center with a Voice that says, “I Experiment” (or not). It is a voice that conveys enthusiasm, or not.
Those with this gate (me) love to obtain many skills, and often one or more, which can evolve to a place that one becomes one with that skill, with that rich enthusiasm. A sort of transcendence to another level of Being.
This process of skill acquisition is done through repetition to in order to obtain mastery. Mastery itself is never obtainable, as it can always be more refined, even with those who are the best at a particular skill.
There is a strong identification with the arts (arts, music, dance) and the scientific fields of endeavor.
It is part of the Logic Understanding Circuit… things that get tested to see if it works or not. It can also see if the intuitive solutions of the spleen are valid or not. Though, those that do not have the harmonic gate (on other side of the channel), the 48 (The Gate of Depth/Solutions), may not know what to experiment on. Those with the full channel (48/16 - Channel of the Wavelength, a design of talent (or not)), have a direct connection to those potentials, though it is the same needed repetition of a skill that was identified.
I have this channel, as it is just an added potential and emphasis to one’s design that needs that enthusiasm to keep practicing. Nothing identified, nothing to master; thus, no “mastery”, just the potential (which all of HD is in this heavily conditioned world - we are all born with the potential of our designs, nothing more, until it is more).
The keynote to this gate and channel as per its circuitry, which is Collective, is Sharing. And as a Projected Channel, it needs to be recognized and invited to share. This is on both the gate and channel level.
One might need to be invited to this skill to potentially “master”. A correct invitation can transform one to this transcendent level, at least eventually (practice!!!).
This refinement process, again, is just that… Enthusiasm is key… a passion to perfect [hone]….
As a Projector, this is our process in needing to master something in order to Guide Others… and I have noted numerous times that the whole channel, is the quintessential Projector channel… since I am one, a Projector, and have this channel, with both their potentials, I have added emphasis placed in my design to do just that.
As a 3/5 Profile, I have been invited to many things that interest me about understanding Life, Others, Self, and I have put in a lot of time to develop these skills, that have produced an overall skillset in helping guide others. And Human Design has been the most profound system to help others with. A 3rd line is here to discover many things that do not work, to eventually find what does, and the 5th line Universalizes it to others - so here I am, lol.
I woke up today with enthusiasm… embraced the day… honing my skillset… ready to be recognized and invited, as I do each day… I love to be of service helping guide others to their truth, their real truth, and not some mental construct of what they think is one’s truth, a huge distinction.
Today is the first day of the Day of the Dead… as an Outer Vision person, who loves visual stimulation of bright colors, I love looking at the creative art that people who celebrate in honoring their dead. Today is for honoring the children who passed, and tomorrow everyone else. It is a beautiful celebration no matter if one believes, or is not part of that construct.
Practice, practice, practice…. With Enthusiasm!”