Gate 41: Decrease

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Gate
41
Name
Decrease
Centre
Root
I Ching
Decrease (Sun)
Circuit
Collective
Keynote
The Gate of Contraction
Channels
30-41 (Recognition)
Subcircuit
Sensing
Harmonic Gate
30

Gate 41 sits in the Root Centre, part of the Collective Sensing circuit. Its energy is fundamentally about contraction, the purposeful reduction or scaling back of resources, effort, or involvement. Where Gate 30 recognises what matters, Gate 41 knows what to let go of.

This gate operates through practical discernment rather than sentiment.

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Provenance: original prose, writer=anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5, facts from gates-library + gate-centers