The Gate

Keyword: Liberation

The Gate is a double gate under the starlit sky. A stony path leads up to it, and we see a gnarled ancient tree to our left and a stone wall to our right. The tree embodies the wisdom and power of the natural world, while the wall represents the work of humanity. The Gate itself is strong, made of enduring oak, with bronze studs and iron hinges. It has a large keyhole and a bronze gargoyle or otherworldly being for a knocker. These strange beings carved on old churches or cast as door knockers are guardians or protectors, deriving from a pagan Underworld tradition of working with spirit allies. The Gate is closed, and to open it we need either the key or to knock upon the guardian knocker. These represent the two polarities of opening: the first is through skill and knowledge (the key) and the other is through risking the unknown (the knocker.) With the key we open The Gate from the outside, whereas with the knocker we summon or request who or whatever is on the inside to open and let us in.

In a personal reading or vision The Gate is the opening and closing of the way. It embodies who or whatever opens or closes at any moment or within any life pattern. Upon birth The Gate closes, upon death it open. The Gate is whatever liberates, inwardly or outwardly. Even a closed gate liberates, for we are free to take some other, perhaps previously unconsidered, path. It is possible to climb the aged tree or to go through its roots into the deeper Underworld; it may also be possible to climb the wall, through learning all the arts and sciences that humanity has devised to imprison itself.

The Gate can be a state of sleep, or the seeming barrier between dreams and waking memory; it can also be the discipline of meditation. On a deeper level The Gate is the resonance or link between levels of a spiral. Thus it can initiate great leaps forward or back. Such leaps are a feature of the magical or spiritual arts and backward leaps through The Gate often refer to patterns of previous lives. While The Teller reveals these stories to us, The Gate precipitates us into reliving them, but in the context of the present life. Future leaps through The Gate are perhaps less frequent, but cause a sudden acceleration and transformation of perception, drawing the resonances of a seemingly future aspect of our lives into the present part of the story cycle.

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