Gate 25: The Spirit of the Self

This gate holds an impersonal love of life itself, tested through experience.

It sits in the G 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 — 51 — is activated too, either in your own chart or in someone else's while you are with them.

Making love conditional and personal, then feeling wounded.

Innocence that survives being tested.

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.