Gate 17 · Ajna center

Gate 17: Take

An opinion forms quickly in your head about how things ought to go.

What several sources agree on
  • Your view serves the group; it gains value when people discuss it and correct it together.
  • You can weigh several angles on a topic without dropping your principles.
  • With gate 62, your opinion rests on facts; without it, it tends to stay theoretical.
  • The trap: hardening your view into dogma once it has stopped evolving.
  • You know how to structure a complex picture and explain it clearly.
  • Offering your view unasked sounds like criticism; waiting to be asked changes everything.
Its center

Ajna (the thinking mind): How you process and sort ideas, and how sure you feel about what you think.

Where it sits

From 3°53′ Aries to 9°30′ Aries in the zodiac. The Sun passes through it every year from about March 25 to March 29 (give or take a day, depending on the year). If you were born between those dates, this is the gate of your conscious Sun.

Its channel

A gate forms a channel when its partner gate is also activated in your chart.

Celebrities with gate 17

On the Sun or Earth (the positions that weigh the most):

On another planet: