Gate 44: Alertness

This gate smells the pattern of the past, especially in people.

It sits in the Spleen 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 — 26 — is activated too, either in your own chart or in someone else's while you are with them.

Fear of the past repeating, governing present decisions.

Knowing who is right for the role, instinctively.

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.