Gate 39: Provocation

This gate provokes people to find out what they really feel.

It sits in the Root 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 — 55 — is activated too, either in your own chart or in someone else's while you are with them.

Provoking for the reaction alone.

Provocation that opens someone's spirit rather than closing it.

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.