The Channel of Concentration

Gate 52 (Stillness) sits in the Root Center with the hexagram name Keeping Still (Mountain). Its keynote is "Temporary and self-imposed inaction for the benefit of assessment." It creates passive tension from the Root that looks toward Gate 9 for outlet, a pressure to keep moving forward balanced with the power to sit still. Without something worthwhile to concentrate on, vacillation between restlessness and depression is common.

Gate 9 (Focus) sits in the Sacral Center with the hexagram name The Taming Power of the Small. It acts like a funnel, focusing Gate 52's enormous power to concentrate on what is meaningful and worthwhile. The teachings notes: "So much about our logical success as a species depends on conserving precious energy by paying attention to the details." Without Gate 52, you may not be able to sit still long enough to concentrate.

that format channels are the operating system of their circuit. Channel 52-9 does not just process logic. It creates the concentrated energetic container in which logical thinking can happen. Without this format energy, the Understanding Circuit cannot properly assess, test, or perfect the formulas and patterns that benefit humanity.

With this format channel defined, your entire design is influenced by concentrated energy. You bring focused determination to everything you do. The format frequency can hold or concentrate energy in one place. Aurically, it creates group focus, facilitates deeper examination, and promotes efficient energy use. The teachings even suggests that if you do not have this channel, it may be advantageous to sit next to someone who does to heighten your own ability to concentrate.

Logic is a step-by-step, one-foot-in-front-of-the-other process. You must be deeply identified with the formula to spend the time required to either prove or disprove it. You experience a quiet pressure to be still, not as stress, but more as a tension that keeps you in place, like a yoga pose. You still your physical body and your outer senses in order to use your energy in a precise, focused way, and hate dissipating this potent energy by having to deal with many things at once.

You may be profoundly dedicated to one activity for most of your life, or have multiple distinctly different focuses over a lifetime. Sacral Authority reveals your true vocation.