We welcome this pivotal moment in the wheel as we embrace the first gate within the higher chromatic octave revealed.

To set the stage let us look to the piano and music, opening the doors to this amazing gate. An octave traditionally is seven white keys with the eighth meaning oct, being the end key and the beginning of the next octave.

However within a chromatic octave it not only includes these seven white keys but also the five black keys as half steps in between, known as sharps and flats of the seven major notes. This inclusivity of white and black notes and the full range of twelve notes is how this lost octave of the I Ching was discovered as a musically harmonic wisdom through the basis of music, linking to the twelve signs of the zodiac.