The Channel of the Wavelength

Gate 48 (Depth) sits in the Splenic Center with the hexagram name The Well. it as providing a potent awareness rooted in deep instinctual memory, giving you the potential depth to bring logic's real and workable solutions to the problems of society. This is internal intelligence not grasped by the mind, only accessible when surrendered to natural instincts. Without Gate 16, feelings of inadequacy arise: fear you will not be able to explain your solution.

Gate 16 (Skills) sits in the Throat Center with the hexagram name Enthusiasm. You do not begin life with mastery. The journey moves from identification with a skill, through dedicated repetition of the pattern, into mastery that transcends the skill itself. With Gate 16, you eventually make your mark in the world as a keen critic, skilled performer, or through your talent and enthusiasm for living. Without Gate 48, self-criticism emerges: feeling you do not have adequate depth.

At the cellular level, it takes the body seven years to transcend technique. It may take a lifetime to plumb your depth. The world waits for that moment when the dancer becomes the dance, or when living one's life becomes its own masterpiece.

The key to successfully developing your talent is that you must be completely identified with something that you love doing, as it takes great dedication and constant repetition to achieve mastery. You cannot fake this. The process: identify with a skill you love, practice with dedication and repetition, refine through constant experimentation, transcend the technique itself, express your own unique wavelength.

Those with Channel 48-16 have an innate need to be recognized by others, to be asked to share their talent, and to be rewarded with resources in order to continue the process of practicing and perfecting. Money is a form of recognition, and talent flowers when it is energized by recognition and materially rewarded.

a practical reality: you may lack motor energy of your own. You need resources to continue practice. If a parent does not provide instruments or lessons, development becomes harder. Social skills help you compete for monetary resources. Relaxing into an active, expectant waiting will usually draw people to you who will initiate your depth.

Those with Channel 48-16 who achieve mastery in any area of the logic process often serve a wider purpose or improve the lives of others. A skill can be anything from playing an instrument, to figuring out a scientific formula, to making your way extraordinarily well in the world.

When your enthusiasm is combined with a long-term dedication to refining your talent, mastery of the pattern eventually transcends the pattern itself, freeing you to express your own unique wavelength. The result is passed on through the master-apprentice tradition, contributing to logic's creative process and enriching the ongoing refinement of patterns that serve the Collective.