The Gateway of Beginnings

There is heaven and earth, and so the ten thousand things are born. Heaven and earth are so abundant, they overflow, sprouting and birthing and creating.  This is the energy of the Gate of Beginnings.  It is Gate 3, following on from Heaven (Gate 1) and Earth (Gate 2).

Mercury, Venus and Mars are all in the Gate of Beginnings today.  This Sacral Chakra gate starts out in Aries before moving into Taurus in line 4.   In Jovian HD, this gate is known as difficulty at the beginning.  The difficulty arises because our natural creative energy has been suppressed, and our natural subtle knowing/sight has been invalidated.  When we allow ourselves to know what we know, to see what we see, to claim our space as a creative being dancing between heaven and earth, then the difficulty dissolves.

Wilhelm also calls this hexagram/gate Difficulty at the Beginning –

In the chaos of difficulty at the beginning, order is already implicit.  We can arrange and organise the inchoate profusion of such times, just as one sorts out silk threads from a knotted tangle and binds them into skeins.  In order to find one’s place in the infinity of being, one must be able to both separate and to unite.

Jupiter is still back in Gate 42 line 5, where we can sense the feeling of expansion but as yet are not sure where to look for it’s manifestation.  What action should we take?  In our growth oriented world we are encouraged to squander this delicate energy by racing off in any direction, it doesn’t matter so much, as long as we are moving!   But when these three inner and personal planets – Mercury, Venus and Mars – shift over into the next Gate we can begin to understand what that feeling of expansion might translate into.

The Sacral Chakra is the center of our sexuality and creativity.  We have given up our life force to ‘the man’, abusing our natural energy by putting it to the use of someone else’s agenda.  Today is a moment in our lives for calling that energy back to ourselves and our own unique expression of self.  Today is a day to gently and surely reclaim our own creative energy.

We can only follow this pathway if we trust our subtle senses. Mars brings courage, and helps us protect these vulnerable new beginnings, Venus brings support and helps us see the beauty and love inherent in their growth and Mercury brings consciousness and helps us see the possibility of communicating with others.  While nothing should put us off our course, we need to take notice of hindrances because they represent new possibilities that we hadn’t considered before now.  Prepare for a new life to rise from the profusion of the old.