The Third Gate - The Solar Plexus

The next spiral exploration of the Sacred vessel brings us to the Third Gate — the Solar Plexus Centre.

The Solar Plexus is the fire at our core.

It is where courage, vitality, and self-worth are tested, refined, and strengthened.

It is where we learn how to stand in our authentic power and how we are received and perceived by others.

This centre is also the emotional hub of the vessel.

While emotions flow through many centres of the body, the Solar Plexus oversees them —

a central chamber that senses, processes, and regulates how we feel and how those feelings move through us.

It also governs digestion.

Here the body processes not only food, but experiences, energy, and the subtle impressions of life.

What we cannot “digest” emotionally or spiritually often shows itself in the body through the stomach, the nervous system, or the patterns of fatigue and restlessness.

The Solar Plexus pairs with the Heart.

At the Solar Plexus, we meet ourselves as individuals — our sense of self-worth, our courage, our fire. At the Heart, we learn how to stand in relationship within the group, bringing our individuality into harmony with the whole.

Together, these two centres balance self and community, individual strength and collective love.

This gate also connects to the spleen, which in esoteric wisdom is seen as the receptacle and distributor of life-force energy.

Through the Solar Plexus, that life-force flows into the four-body system — physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual — animating us with vitality and purpose.

When unharmonised, the Solar Plexus may leave us feeling unstable or depleted.

The digestive and nervous systems may falter, energy may stagnate,

and fear, anger, or anxiety may rise.

When harmonised, confidence glows like a vitalised aura.

Our bodily systems function with ease, and we radiate vitality, courage, and joy.

The flame at our core burns steadily — not consuming, but illuminating.

The Solar Plexus teaches us that our inner fire is not something to fear or suppress,

but to tend with reverence.

It is the fire that gives us strength, the light by which we see ourselves clearly, and the warmth that allows us to shine authentically into the world.

This is the third in a series of writings on the seven gates of the body — a spiral path through the Sacred vessel.

The Path of the Lotus Mystery School is where these Mysteries are lived — where the gates open and communicate uniquely with you, offering their guidance, their rhythm, their remembrance.

How do you feel the Solar Plexus within your own body —

your courage, your vitality, your inner fire?

With love,

Gemma x