Gate 22: Openness

This gate opens socially and emotionally when the mood is right, and closes when it is not.

It sits in the Solar Plexus 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 — 12 — is activated too, either in your own chart or in someone else's while you are with them.

Forcing openness through a low wave and calling it rudeness when it fails.

Grace that opens people up, in the right moment.

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.