Gate 26: The Egoist

This gate can compress the truth into whatever will get it across.

It sits in the Heart 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 — 44 — is activated too, either in your own chart or in someone else's while you are with them.

Exaggerating past the point where it is still true.

Persuasion in service of something genuinely worth spreading.

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.