This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
The Left Angle Cross of Alignment is named here for Gate 27 and Gate 28, the instinct to nourish exposed ahead of the search for worthy risk. Its first article reads Gate 27 as the instinct to feed, protect and take responsibility for others, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 28 as the struggle for purpose, the search for something worth the risk of a life. What it does not trace is where the four gates sit on the wheel itself, the Human Design mandala's division of its sixty four gates into four Quarters, and by that measure this cross draws one gate from each of the four.
Gate 27, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind. Gate 28, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Behind them, Gate 19 falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation, and Gate 33 falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form.
So the nourishing instinct and the worthy risk the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of mind and bonding, while the communal sensitivity and the private retreat beneath them answer to the arcs of transformation and form, the same four arcs the cross's own reversal, Gate 28 over Gate 27, also draws on however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design, and the same pair that underlies the Juxtaposition Cross of Caring and, reversed, the Juxtaposition Cross of Risks. Four gates, four different Quarters, no pair sharing an arc.