
01/09/2024
The 54th Hexagram is known as the Marrying Maiden and is made up of the elements of Thunder over Lake.
In the I’Ching, Thunder represents the eldest son and Lake represents the youngest daughter. It represents the archetype of a concubine who rises up in the hierarchy to become the empress.
The Gate of Ambition is about the drive to be materially successful and attain a higher status in life. This is also the drive to rise up on a spiritual level. It provides the fuel and ambition to transform your material direction and standing in life.
The 54th Shadow is Greed, which can manifest as being unambitious (repressive nature) or greedy (reactive nature).
I have this Gene Key in my Life’s Work and IQ, so I know this shadow very well. What I’ve witnessed is that being unambitious shows up when I am afraid of my greed or denying it.
I sacrifice my own needs and wellbeing because I am afraid of my own greed. I am afraid of what greed can do, because I have witnessed its destructive power in myself and others.
But denying my own greed isn’t the answer.
In order to access the Gift that is within each shadow, we have to allow, accept and embrace it.
The 54th Gift of Aspiration emerges from within Greed. Aspiration leverages greed from a more open-hearted place rather than from fear.
This is about aspiring to something beyond just material wealth and accumulation.
You aspire to a higher vision of prosperity that moves beyond the personal and into the communal.
You aspire to create lasting equilibrium in the global economy which means moving money from places where it’s not needed and just accumulated to places where there’s not enough.
What is your soul’s deepest aspiration?
Do you have this gate defined in your design?