What this channel connects
The channel runs from the Ajna center to the Throat center, connecting Gate 11 (Ideas) and Gate 56 (Stimulation). Both centers then become defined — that is, they work steadily.
How it shows up in life
A factory of ideas and stories: you turn what you've lived through into tales that stimulate others to think and dream.
In the kitchen you tell about a trip to Sochi so that the tea goes cold for everyone, not just for you. A child asks for a fairy tale — you don't read one, you make it up on the go, and the next evening he demands a continuation. You go out for bread — and come back with a story about the cashier and her dog. A colleague signs up for a course after your story, one you mentioned in passing and, of course, don't attend yourself. And you have a signature line, “listen, I've got a thought,” after which the person puts their phone down.
What to do with it
Where this channel lets you down
The trap is that an idea inside looks like a plan, and your hand reaches out to carry it out. Hence five started projects and shame over the unfinished — though the picture was needed not by you but by the person who heard it. The second trap is telling when no one is listening: the same words at the wrong moment sound like chatter, and you start thinking of yourself as a windbag. But you simply start talking before everyone else.
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 11 — Ideas
A single Gate 11 is a storehouse of images and ideas with no way out. Inside is a whole film, but aloud it comes out as a retelling of a school essay, and the listener politely nods. Next to a carrier of Gate 56, your images suddenly grow words, and you hear your own thought told the way it should be.
Only Gate 56 — Stimulation
A single Gate 56 is a storyteller looking for material. You can talk, you can hold the table, but what to fill the evening with is a question, and so you're drawn to retelling other people's tales and news. When a person with Gate 11 appears beside you, a stock of images appears by itself, and there's no need to stay silent.
When the channel closes between two people
An evening that everyone stays late at: one tosses out a picture, the other unfolds it into a story, and the guests forget they meant to go home at ten. Apart, one has a film without words, the other words without a film; together you get the very story after which people want to think and dream. You're strongly drawn to each other, and not always explicably: next to them you hear your own thought said aloud — and it turns out better than it was in your head. When the person leaves, half goes quiet: there's no one left to dress the images in words, and suddenly you have nothing to tell, and this silence is utterly unfamiliar.