Gate 48: Depth

This gate holds the deep well of instinctive know-how.

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 — 16 — is activated too, either in your own chart or in someone else's while you are with them.

Fear of inadequacy stopping you from ever going deep enough.

Depth of skill that produces genuinely elegant solutions.

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.