1.5 – Energy to Attract Society

‘The truth is that what the outside wants from creative people is that they do not bring any mutation because it is frightening, but they are allowed to be fools and clowns. They are allowed to be the symbols of creativity and they are allowed to have creative characters as long as they do not bring mutation.

Society does not like mutation. It makes them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the real creative ones are shunned. 

The whole thing about creative expression as a role, the mystery and secret of that, goes back to the very first line. The very first line talks about Time is everything. Everything about the creative process is about time because mutation is not something that you can truly appreciate in its time. When mutation takes place, the fact that mutation takes place in any given moment is a mystery to the vast majority of the planet. It takes place in a unique individual and it will have its time. We live in a different kind of age, in an age where we are able to transmit information images simultaneously, instantaneously, wherever mutation is taking place in the world. But time is the quality that distinguishes whether a mutation is valuable or not. I doubt very much if anybody 300 years from now will pay any attention to Andy Warhol. I doubt that. 

The perspective of whether a mutation really has been of value, whether a mutation has really been effective or not, we are blind to that in our own time. It is one of the things to realize why the artistic spirit longs for immortality. Immortality is something that you only hear from the creative spirit because it recognizes that only time, a lot of time, is going to distinguish whether something is truly art, truly great, and truly mutative. Only then, and it will take time before the perspective can be there that looks back and says, “AhaI That was something that really made a difference. That was something that brought a mutation.,” So it is a question of time. 

The creative force in the first line recognizes that timing controls the creative process at work. In other words, one cannot push it. One has to wait. It has its own timing and the fact of the matter is that even when the mutation has taken place, there is no place for expectation. This is not abstract. This is not collective. This is not about being best. This is simply about the recognition that mutation has taken place and one lives with that mutation until the end of one’s days. Time: generation after generation, in their looking back, to see clearly the value of whether something was art, was beautiful, was the right direction, was a mutation, only then can that be clear.’

Ra Uru Hu | Line Companion 

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Creation Happens, With or Without You

There’s something wild and humbling about the first gate. It holds the energy of pure creative expression—but not the kind you plan for. Not the kind you execute with precision and willpower.

Especially when it comes to the first line.

The foundation tells us that creativity shows up without asking permission. It doesn’t wait for your vision board, or five-year plan. It just… happens.

And if you have Earth in 1.1, like I do, this is the very ground you walk on.

I’ve had so many moments in my life where the things I wanted, the things I worked for and sacrificed for, were stripped away. Often violently with no warning. For example, from 2009 to 2015, I watched everything that I knew change.

I fractured my spine after securing a gymnastics scholarship at Ball State. Everything I had built my identity around was gone. But that break—against my will—opened the door to track, cheerleading, and relationships. That break was creation dressed as destruction.

Later, I earned a full ride from a painting I messed up. I used watercolor paints without water and it was a mistake, but my art teacher didn’t see it as a failure. She saw it as expression. She saw creation. And that accident became the very thing that paid for my education. Again—not my will. Just creation doing its thing.

Then there was our house fire.

My childhood home, car, cat, art portfolio… burned down two years after I started college. It was devastating. But it also gave my dad, a brick mason who was always building things for others, the rare chance to design a home of his own. We built that house together, and I watched him bring his vision into form. But when he laid the final brick… he got sick and passed away within 3 months of entering the hospital for rib pain. Just like that. Unexpected. Shocking. Heartbreaking. Not to mention I was 7 months pregnant with his first grandchild.

Yet still—creation was there. Today, my husband and I enjoy living in the house with our two boys, my mom, and my stepdad.

Creations is not always soft. Not easy. Not tied with a pretty bow. But real. Honest. Bigger than me. Bigger than what I wanted.Bigger than all of us.

Gate 1.1 teaches us something most of the world doesn’t want to hear: Creation is (truly, really, actually) independent of will.
It moves when it moves. It takes what it takes. It gives what it gives. And it never asks for your consent.

But if you surrender—if you live in service to what wants to be created through you—there is a kind of magic that happens. It’s not always pretty, but it’s always true.

Right now, the Moon is in 1.6—the last line of this gate and the full aloof expression. We are all moved by something larger. And most of us are still trying to control it.

But this gate, the place of my Earth, keeps reminding me:

You are not the source of creation.
You are the observer that watches it happen.

And that is more than enough. It’s beautiful to grow into witnessing authority with the ability to honor it.