From Thursday, October 25 through Tuesday, October 30, 2018 the Sun will be in Gate 28, STRUGGLE or TENACITY. In the I-Ching this hexagram is called PREPONDERANCE OF THE GREAT.

Life can really seem like a STRUGGLE for the person who has Gate 28 defined. But what people with this energy are sometimes not aware they actually thrive on the STRUGGLE. Things don’t seem worth it unless they are difficult.

I heard Chetan Parkyn once say that in his observation, and I’m paraphrasing, the person with the Gate of STRUGGLE will walk right past an open, welcoming front door to climb over a gate and through a back window to get into a house.

A task will seem meaningless to someone with STRUGGLE defined in their chart if it is too easy and that really is the point. This energy is about the search for meaning. Because there is a very potent fear here that life has no meaning. If everything is easy, what’s the point? These are the people who choose extremely difficult, complicated work. Is that not a blessing to society?

How does STRUGGLE play a part in your life? Does everything seem hard to you? Or are you someone who seeks to work smart and simplify things in your life. Would it kill you to do something the hard way for once? Or do you resent how other people seem to sail through life when every day for you feels like a STRUGGLE? Is the STRUGGLE indeed a bad thing? Or does the STRUGGLE make your life meaningful? What would happen if you took the easy way out for once? Would it make you feel empty?

Three cheers for the people who seek out the STRUGGLE in this world. Seriously, what would we do without them?