October Transmissions: The Portal Power of 8
"A lesson from Gate 8 lies in timing. Or, alignment. Which of the two consumes your focus?"
October 17. Transmission:
…still sitting in patience. TBH✨
Octo- 8 • ♾️ • 🕸️ • 🐙 • 💡
Fell into a vortex in a conversation with a sister-friend earlier. We were talking about the energy of October. Though the 10th month of the year, its name is rooted in its Latin origin, octo, meaning eight, and indicating its position in the early Roman calendar. So much to be said about the shift in calendars and the potency of their meaning. However, this is where we landed. The portal power of 8.
A brief numerology lesson, The number 8 signifies power, wealth, ambition, achievements, and material success. It carries a unique vibrational energy of balance and karma, which is believed to influence our life and potential.
Back to our conversation, we shared how we’re both experiencing the abundant power of 8; and, simultaneously, its low vibrating energy, like this controlling, stubbornness, resistance to change, and obsessive pursuit of material success.
It’s the obsession that just doesn’t sit right with me. I mean, I have my share of triggers around this energy and it comes with its fair share of grace. Perhaps, this is how I found my way to love the act of devotion. hmm.
Anyway, here we are, talking about the power of 8 and the portals and gateways that come with this quarter of lessons. It’s Human Design season for me (teaching and channeling), so the gateway of 8 was bound to find its way into our conversation.
Okay, Let’s review. Remember? …from the Fall Transmission,
“A Gate is a door belonging to a Center. There are 64 Gates, each relating to their corresponding Hexagram in the I-Ching system….Gates are potentials, energies, intelligence, and resources. Gates are stable, reliable forces of your uniqueness.
As defined by Webster, a gate is a hinged barrier used to close an opening. Can you imagine the power of this energy? The power of eight as a catalyst to your opening?
Can we go a little deeper?
When I am reading your Human Design, depending on your defined or undefined Throat center, It might reveal to me that your gate 8 might not have the energy you need to transmute vocally. I’ll remind you that you’re not here to “try” to attract attention. And I’ll invite you to a place of sacred inquiry with me.
How can you trust that when the timing is right, your S&A (strategy & authority) will support you?
Gate 8 has powerfully quiet energy with the potential to steer the collective in a whole new direction when we relax into our own beat. When we’re able to trust in the beauty of who we are and what we’re feeling called to do- no matter the anxieties of others.
My resolve is that I finally believe that being me is my biggest superpower. I’ve been asking myself these questions ( to live with):
What are some ways I can soften & settle into my truest self?
Where and What are the places that really see me?
What communities seek and will benefit from my contribution?
Where can I openly share and be?
What fascinations am I feeling pulled to explore?
The vibration of 8 -in me- simply wants to ‘be itself’ as it navigates the melancholy of what it means to be human. Yes, I have stopped asking Scotty to beam me up! …*rolls eyes*…lol
Transparently, this month has pushed me to not know where I’m going and at the same time to find beauty in this aching, delicious, complex, and beautiful journey that is life. (My 2nd line, the hermit, also needs the space to simply be, without any “goal” other than curiosity to develop my natural skills…. I’ll explain the 2nd line when you book your session, *smile.)
If you’re feeling anything close to what my ‘sister-friend’ and I are navigating, I thank you for your resonance. Personally, I’m still sitting with the dance between feeling my sacral MG (manifesting generator) pull and also allowing myself to be seen and called out. All that to say, the lesson from Gate 8 lies in timing.
or, alignment.
Which of the two consumes your focus? The selection of a precise moment? Or, a position of agreement, meaning the appropriate and relative position of your talk (mind) and your energy (belief)?
How much are we a vibrational match to what is happening around us?
Mmmkay. That’ll do it. That’s the medicine right there.
Gratitude for the portal power of 8.
Until we meet again.