The Channel of Transitoriness (35-36) is driven by the desire for experience — moving through the full range of human emotional depth to generate wisdom for the collective.
The Channel of Transitoriness connects Gate 35 (Progress / Experience) in the Throat Center to Gate 36 (Darkening of the Light / Crisis) in the Solar Plexus Center. This is a Manifested channel in the Collective Abstract circuit — it carries the emotional desire to experience everything life has to offer.
People with this channel defined are driven by the need for new experiences. Gate 35 holds an insatiable hunger for change and progress through new encounters; Gate 36 brings the emotional depth and crisis that transforms those encounters into genuine wisdom. Together they create someone who moves through life gathering experiences, often finding themselves in unexpected or challenging emotional territory.
The paradox of this channel is that it is driven toward experiences precisely because those experiences generate the emotional wisdom that can serve the collective. The crisis is not a malfunction — it is the price of admission to genuine experiential wisdom. Those with this channel defined are most alive when they are in the midst of something new, even when that newness is challenging.