Monopole

22/47

June 13 - November 3, 2025

6th Line

Maturity / Futility

June 13 - 24

Channel of Openness (22-12)

Design of a Social Being

June 13 - 18

North Node in Gate 22 (June 13 - Nov 3)

Sun in Gate 12 (June 13 - 18)

As you’re dropped into the new nodal season from the 1st line onto the 6th, you’re immediately met with emotional definition. Looking back at the 36.1, Resistance, and the 6.1, Retreat, you feel the emotion rising inside, but before it can express itself, you catch it in your throat and pull back. Will your efforts to convey the depth of your emotional landscape be futile? What will happen if you release the emotions wrapped around your memories and allow them to move through you? Will there be rupture? Will there be applause? All eyes are on you. Listen carefully to the people around you. Be cautious about when and where you express. How you move with this energy matters. Sorting through memories of the past, you try to piece together a little hope and some courage, but all you come up with are flashes of disappointment. Don’t let old stories prevent you from moving forward. Take what you’ve learned from these last several months and embody the emotion with the wisdom of experience. Whether it be passion, anger, shame, or melancholy that arises in you now, if you can do so safely, give yourself the space to feel it, to dance with it, to express it creatively, in its fullness—this is true grace; this is the manifestation of spirit through form.

5th Line

Directness / The Saint

June 24 - July 7

More than any other period during this nodal season, now is the time to slow down, honor your moods, and take the reflective process seriously. This may seem off-brand for the 5th line, especially one with the theme of “Directness.” However, the Nodes moving through the 5th line of a gate are not the same as a planet. They move in the opposite direction. When we reach the 5th line with the Nodes, we haven’t worked our way up the hexagram from the foundation; we haven’t gained a level of experience that qualifies us to lead. Rather, we’ve dropped in from the bottom of the previous hexagram and found ourselves making our descent into territory that may be unfamiliar. Those of us without placements in Gates 22 and 47 may have no clue what lies at the foundation of these structures.

For most of us, now’s not the time to passionately claim a leadership role. With the absence of global channels during this period, it’s clear there’s no universal movement forward. Each must find their own way. In this sense, we might understand this period as aimed more at self-leadership than the sort of generalized 5th-line leadership the planets inspire. However, with the Sun and Earth moving exclusively through Root gates, you may feel the pressure to take action. If you feel the impulse to call out others on their shit during this period, start by first taking responsibility for your own thoughts and emotions. With the South Node in the line of The Saint, remember there’s no virtue in casting stones at another. Turn your attention instead to reflecting on the cycle we’ve just completed. This is the type of directness needed now.

As the Rave I Ching reveals, the 5th line of Gate 47 marks a promising time for profound realizations. This is when realization is “at its most exalted.” Saintliness in this context looks like “acceptance of the weight of the abstract process and the grace that naturally follows.” When you feel the anti-social melancholy settle in, take it as your cue to explore the abstract terrain of your mind. The Sun conjunct Jupiter in Gate 52 encourages stillness at the start of the period, while Saturn conjunct Neptune in Gate 25 brings discipline to spiritual practice.

On a side note, I’ve been playing with a theory of resonance that builds on Ra’s conceptualization of “genetic continuity,” the idea that there’s a structural relationship between all iterations of each of the six lines across the 64 gates. The theory is that we can look to the slower-moving planets for additional information about a given nodal period by paying attention to the lines they’re transiting. Regardless of the gate it’s in, a planet will resonate with the Nodes when it’s transiting the same line. Applied to this 5th line nodal period, the theory suggests a resonance between the Nodes and Neptune as Neptune transits through the 5th line of Gate 25.

Interestingly, the line theme of the 25.5 is “Recuperation.” In the Rave I Ching, we get the teaching: “When innocence is sapped of its vitality, healing is the first priority.” Considering that we’ve just come out of the 36/6 nodal season, which amplified the themes of Crisis and Friction, it’s highly likely you’ve obtained some wounds that need tending. The practical thing to do now is to honor your moods and take the time to realize where you’ve been, grieve what you’ve lost, and claim what you’re becoming.

4th Line

Sensitivity / Repression

July 7 - 13

Channel of Abstraction (64-47)

Mental Activity Mixed with Clarity

July 6 - 16

Mars in Gate 64 (July 6 - 16)

South Node in Gate 47 (June 13 - Nov 3)

The mind is dynamic, and confusion is high. With Mars transiting Gate 64 and the South Node in Gate 47, we’ll have the global Channel of Abstraction for the duration of this period. Mars is passionate, impulsive, and aggressive. The South Node brings opportunities to revisit something from the past and either release it or integrate it in a meaningful way. This is a mind that’s hard to rein in and eager to tackle something challenging. With the South Node in the line of Repression, that challenging thing could be a memory you’ve buried deep in your mind. Saturn brings 4th-line resonance in Gate 25 with the theme of Survival, for which there’s no detriment. If you’re already battling oppression in the external world, there’s no shame in prioritizing your survival and saving this deep dive into potentially traumatic territory for a time when you’re better resourced.

During this period, if you notice yourself getting fixated on a past experience, piecing it together in your mind, over and over again, get into your body and do something physical. The Sun and Earth are still in the Root this week, so physical activity will be useful both to give the mind something external to process and to burn off any excess adrenaline emerging from Root activation.

If you’ve got hanging or dormant placements in Gates 34, 57, or 10, take note of when Uranus moves into Gate 20. The urge to externalize may come through strongly if the connection creates Throat definition.

In moments of passion or social openness, be discerning about who you choose as a confidant. It’s not the best time to make quick friends with strangers. While there’s potential to come to a profound realization through externalizing your mental landscape, choosing when, where, and with whom to do this requires sensitivity to the emotional field. The Earth is in the Gate of Ambition (54), and when Uranus enters Gate 20, it will be in the line of Superficiality. Friendliness doesn’t necessarily equal good intentions. Before dropping formalities and moving into passionate conversation, listen carefully to the people and environment around you. How do their voices land in your body? How does the music make you feel? How are you being received? Are you performing or are you being? What are your intentions?

3rd Line

The Enchanter / Self-Oppression

July 13 - August 5

Channel of The Alpha

Design of a Social Being

July 24-25

Mercury in Gate 7 (July 10 - 25)

Sun in Gate 31 (July 24 - 30)

Channel of Openness (22-12)

Design of a Social Being

July 24 - 29

North Node in Gate 22 (June 13 - Nov 3)

Venus in Gate 12 (July 24 - 29)

The Martian mind still dominates at the beginning of this 3rd-line period. With Mars moving from Gate 64 in the Head to Gate 47 in the Ajna, conjoining the South Node and fixing the 3rd line in detriment, the result predicted by the Rave I Ching is “a self-oppression so highly energized that it may prove irreversible and destructive.” The 3rd line is mutative and characterized by adaptation, trial-and-error, and bonds made and broken. In the Abstract circuit, cycles are meant to have beginnings, middles, and ends. However, Mars is an initiating energy that is relentless and impulsive. Realization occurs at the end of a mental cycle, but the question we’re faced with now is “How do we get to the end of a cycle when the continuous impulse is to cut the process short and start over?” My thoughts: we don’t! Lol. Surrender and recognize it for what it is.

Although this line period lasts 26 days and is the longest period we’ve experienced so far in the season, all the action is concentrated in the five days between July 24th and 29th. In this short time, the Sun moves into Gate 31, forming the Channel of the Alpha with Mercury (retrograde) in Gate 7; Earth moves into Gate 41, conjoining Pluto in the Gate of Contraction; and Venus moves into Gate 12, forming the Channel of Openness with the North Node in Gate 22. Holy moly, what a combo! Intellectual brilliance, movement toward leadership, a sweet and alluring voice backed by the energy of passion, fantasy that pushes us toward a new experience, and the ability to adapt to any social situation—if it were anything other than the North Node in Gate 22, in the line of The Enchanter, during this time, I’d be delivering a heavy warning to lean on the side of caution.

And yet, it’s not any other planet; it’s the North Node, and the transiting North Node opens doors to growth and expansion. Of course, that doesn’t mean the experiences that unfold after we walk through those doors will be easy and pleasurable. It just means we shouldn’t be afraid of where they’ll take us because, ultimately, they will lead to our collective evolution.

I feel compelled to give this 3rd-line period a title of its own: Persuasion. This isn’t a keynote of any particular gate or line; it’s more a holistic vibe that emerged through my process of analysis. When I think about the concept of persuasion, my memory takes me back to the author Jane Austen and the experience of taking a course on her work. Within the Jane Austen lexicon, persuasion refers to something much more complex than trying to convince someone of the validity of your logic. In the world of Austen, persuading and being persuaded are emotional acts. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from reading Austen, it’s that when met with the persuasive passion of another, discernment is always required, and often, discernment takes time. During this 3rd-line period, when Venusian passion rules the voice and Martian passion rules the mind, I want you to remember this. To be correctly persuaded, or persuasive, is the highest potential of this period, but it’s not the most likely potential. Whenever possible, slow down and take your time. Correct persuasion (mutation) is possible, but it requires you to hold strong to your integrity while remaining cautiously open to being moved.