What this channel connects
The channel runs from the G center to the Sacral center, connecting Gate 10 (The Behavior of the Self) and Gate 34 (Power). Both centers then become defined — that is, they work steadily.
How it shows up in life
You follow your convictions with your body: not declarations, but actions. You live your own way — and by that you change the norm around you.
You can't be talked into doing what you don't believe in: the body simply doesn't start, and it shows from outside — sluggishness, excuses, “I'll do it tomorrow.” But for your own thing you get up at six without an alarm and haul alone what others assemble a crew for. In the family this looks like stubbornness: “we agreed,” and you're already doing it differently. Acquaintances think you never have time, and they're right; it's just rarely possible to explain what exactly the day is spent on and for what.
What to do with it
Where this channel lets you down
The trap is switching this power on for other people's expectations. It's awkward to refuse a boss, a mother, a partner, and you take it on, and then for six months you drag on anger and wake up already tired. The second is confusing loyalty to yourself with deafness: doing it your own way out of spite, when your own way isn't even what you want any more. The might is always there, but the question “is this mine” never quite gets asked.
Circuit
The Circuit shows who this energy is addressed to: Individual — about your own thing and about being different, Tribal — about your own people and about care, Collective — about the common and about experience shared with everyone.
If you have only half of the channel
When you have one Gate out of two, the channel hangs as an open half. Next to a person who has the other half, the channel closes — and the theme switches on. Hence the feeling “with this person I’m somehow not myself.”
Only Gate 10 — The Behavior of the Self
A single Gate 10 is clarity about how you want to behave, with an empty tank. You know your rules and suffer from not having the strength to live by them every day. When a person with Gate 34 appears beside you, it suddenly turns out you get up earlier and the job is done.
Only Gate 34 — Power
A single Gate 34 is might with nowhere to go. Always busy, you take on five things at once, and by evening you don't remember what it was all for. Next to a carrier of Gate 10, the strength gets a form: just as many things to do, but at last they are your own.
When the channel closes between two people
You can see it in the ordinary days: one suddenly gets up at six and goes to do exactly what they believe in, and the other stops grabbing five things at once. Together the two of you live your own way in plain sight, and around you the idea of what is possible quietly shifts. Apart there were either rules without fuel or might without an address. It's hard to tear yourselves apart — next to them you finally coincide with yourself. And then they leave, and something strange comes to light — either the strength has gone somewhere unknown, or the answer to what to get up for has vanished.