Gate 16: Skills

This gate is talent expressed through enthusiasm, refined by repetition.

It sits in the Throat centre, so its expression depends on whether that centre is defined in your chart. A gate on its own is a half-channel: it only becomes consistent definition when a partner gate — 48 — is activated too, either in your own chart or in someone else's while you are with them.

Leaping into things on enthusiasm alone, without the practice.

Real skill, backed by experimentation, expressed with contagious energy.

As with every gate, correct expression is downstream of your type and authority. The gate describes the flavour of the energy; your strategy decides when it gets used.