Gate 35 — Hunger for Experience
“I've never done that before — so let's go.” If that sentence sounds familiar, Gate 35 may be active in your chart: the hunger for new experiences.
- Center: Throat
- Channel: 35-36 — partner Gate 36
- Zodiac: 11°23' Gemini – 17°00' Gemini
- I Ching hexagram: Progress
What it is about
Gate 35 sits in the Throat Center and is considered in the system the gate of moving forward through experience. The point is not to do things perfectly but to have lived them: the collection of experiences becomes the true wealth. The I Ching hexagram “Progress” describes exactly this movement — step by step onward, driven by the question of what comes next. In the Throat, that also means: what has been experienced gets talked about; it wants to be shared.
When the gate is activated
With an activated Gate 35, standing still bores you faster than it does other people. You love to try things — countries, careers, recipes, people, ideas — and as a result you often have an astonishing range of firsthand knowledge. Many people with this activation realize at some point: not every experience needs repeating; once is often plenty. As a hanging gate, Gate 35 seeks its counterpart: people with Gate 36, the emotional depth behind the experience, often hold a special attraction — together the two form Channel 35-36, in which hunger for experience and emotional depth complement each other. That is attraction, not a lack.
In everyday life
An example: on vacation, you never book the same hotel twice. While others love their regular spot, this time you want the mountains instead of the sea, the night train instead of the flight, the cooking class instead of the museum. Back home, you are the one telling the best stories at the table. It helps not to dismiss your own hunger for experience as restlessness: in the system it is a quality that makes life broad and colorful. It gets interesting when you pause briefly before a new experience and sense whether it truly calls you — then “anything new” becomes “exactly this, now.” To see where Gate 35 sits for you, look at your chart — calculate your chart.