Gate 8: Contribution

This gate wants to make an individual creative contribution visible to the group.

It sits in the Throat 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 — 1 — is activated too, either in your own chart or in someone else's while you are with them.

Trying to be noticed for style rather than substance.

Amplifying something worth seeing, including in other people.

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.