What this channel connects
The channel runs from the Heart center to the Spleen center, connecting Gate 26 (The Trickster) and Gate 44 (Alertness). Both centers then become defined — that is, they work steadily.
How it shows up in life
The tribe's transmitter: the memory of “how it was” plus the ability to present. You can sell anything — including ideas and yourself.
At the market you walk away with a price that isn't quoted to others, and the seller is pleased about it. You size a person up in two minutes of an interview and read the résumé afterward for decency's sake — and usually the truth turns out to be on your side. You remember who let you down in two thousand eighteen, in what circumstances and with what expression. At home you're the one who explains why we need this fridge and not the cheaper one, and half an hour later the whole family agrees. You can sell almost anything, including the idea of going on holiday somewhere quite different from where you'd planned.
What to do with it
Where this channel lets you down
This power works on an empty place too — you can persuade even in what you don't believe. It works once, twice, and the third time those whose trust was your main asset stop believing. The second is promising more than you have strength for: the will gives acceleration, but its reserve is finite, and the payback comes as tiredness that you only notice at weekends.
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 26 — The Trickster
A single Gate 26 is drive and the ability to present without an inner sieve. You manage to persuade, but whom and when is the question: sometimes you invest in a person who wasn't worth it, and understand that later than anyone. Next to a person who has Gate 44, the needed instinct seems to be plugged in from outside.
Only Gate 44 — Alertness
A single Gate 44 is an instinct for people without the strength to act on it. From the first meeting you know how it will end with this contractor, but you can't insist, and have to watch it come true. In the company of someone who has Gate 26, your foreboding turns into a decision and a “no” said aloud.
When the channel closes between two people
A deal around the two of you gets done in one evening: one senses from the threshold what kind of person is sitting opposite, the other immediately finds the words that make them say “yes.” Apart, the first knows but won't insist, the second will persuade anyone, including those they shouldn't. Together you get instinct with hands. What doesn't let go is this — next to them, unexpectedly, you don't regret in the morning what you said the day before. The payment is a bitter one: without them you again either invest in the wrong people or silently watch your foreboding come true, and for a while it feels as if you've simply been robbed.