The Goddess of Marital Felicity
Yin-Yin-Yang-Yin Gates: 15-Extremes, 52-Stillness, 39-Provocation, 53-Beginnings
The Hearth, Home, Felicity and subjugation of the female to the male.
Parvati espouses Mind’s superiority to the form. This leads to the female carrying the burden of maintaining the home while the male is out exploring. The distortion is civilization playing out its programmed past of homogenized marital roles.
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The Goddess of Beauty and Good Fortune
Yin-Yin-Yin-Yang Gates: 16-Skills, 35-Change, 45-The Gatherer, 12-Caution
Material Fortune, Prosperity, Wealth, Opportunity.
Lakshmi embodies the expression of civilization in action. These four gates are in the Throat center; all three manifested channels are represented. Here civil codes are established, determining social protocol governing progress. In distortion, wealth becomes the be-all, end-all obsession.
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The Slave Goddess
Yin-Yin-Yin-Yin Gates: 2-The Direction of the Self, 23-Assimilation 8-Contribution, 20-The Now
The feminine principle, beginning with the ultimate direction—coming out of the womb into form.
Maia is one of the civilizing gods, bestowing bounty and the qualities of civilization itself. The distortion is a false sense that money and personal power are the key to all. Women need to be empowered and educated, because the direction of civilization lies with the female.
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The Fecundity of Mind
Yang-Yin-Yin-Yin Gates: 42-Growth, 3-Ordering, 27-Caring, 24-Rationalization
The theme that out of two comes something new; working towards genetic diversity.
Janus is known as the two-faced God, forward looking to the future and backward looking to the past. Three of these four gates are Sacral. They transition us from the world of Mind into the world of form, enabling existential response and capacity for fruitful work.
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The Angelical Mind
Yang-Yin-Yin-Yang Gates: 25-Spirit of the Self, 17-Opinion, 21-Hunter/Huntress, 51-Shock
The core of the Mind’s programming; separation and comparison of light/good vs dark/bad.
The Michael Archetype embodies God’s messenger with his sword of Truth. Here Mind brings moral laws that determine ‘good’ and ‘evil’, separating matter and exalting spirit (heavy distortions).
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The Expander of Consciousness
Yang-Yin-Yang-Yin Gates: 37-Friendship, 63-Doubt, 22-Openness, 36-Crisis
Mind’s covenant, contract, basic agreement of life being in form.
Mitra is the other divinity associated with the Emotional Center. Here is where Mind learns through possibilities of feeling. Mitra’s questions represent deep concerns humans obsess about, boiling down to: “Will I get what I need?” Dramatic emotional reactions stemming from this uncertainty are the distortion here.
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The Destroyer of False Devotion
Yang-Yin-Yang-Yang Gates: 13-The Listener, 49-Principles, 30-Feelings, 55-Spirit
Concretization of Mind into the cycle of Rebirth, Death, Resurrection, Re-Creation.
Kali is one of two divinities associated with the Solar Plexus – potential Needs, Passions and Desires are her domain. Her gates speak to how Mind uses past feelings to justify your present, and how emotions overpowering rational thought can distort your perceptions.
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The Hidden Gods (from themselves)
The Godhead of Monotheism
The Robber of Fire and Benefactor of Humanity
The God of the Underworld
The Virgin Goddess of Warfare and Crafts
“Love Thy Neighbor”
The Goddess of the Family Bond
Yin-Yang-Yin-Yang Gates: 40-Aloneness, 64-Confusion, 47-Realization, 6-Friction
Harmony, the agreement of sex or being the provider in communal bonds.
Harmonia embodies the feminine qualities of fertility and the power of holding the bond together in cooperation despite friction. The potential distortion here lies in the power of women to oppress or be oppressed in their role as the sex.
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The God of Wisdom, Writing and Time
Yin-Yang-Yin-Yin Gates: 7-Role of the Self in Interaction, 4-Formulization, 29-Perseverance, 59-Sexuality
Wisdom, Writing, Time, Science and Magic.
In Egyptian mythology, Thoth is Messenger of the sun god Ra and husband of Ma’at. He brings answers to life’s questions; his answers are Find a Role (7), understand the pattern (4), make a commitment (29) and make more (59). Thoth’s way establishes a life of duality, focused on relationships that serve the genetic imperative to reproduce, ensuring the continuity of our specie.
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The Goddess of Truth, Justice and Cosmic Harmony
Yin-Yin-Yang-Yang Gates: 62, 56, 31, 33
Truth, Justice and Cosmic Harmony.
Ma’at brings the expression of society’s unquestionable ideals and how to fit in. These four Throat center gates are all about expression of form—labeling it, telling stories about it, leading it and remembering it. When distorted this becomes intense homogenization leading to bitterly living out the ideals of the past rather than your own authentic, individual and differentiated successful Truth.
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