This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
This Left Angle Cross of Alignment completes its two role arrangements with this ordering, Gate 28 and Gate 27 exposed, the search for worthy risk ahead of the instinct to nourish. Its first article reads Gate 28 as the struggle for purpose, the search for something worth the risk of a life, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 27 as the instinct to feed, protect and take responsibility for others. 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 ordering draws one gate from each of the four.
Gate 28, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Gate 27, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind. Behind them, Gate 33 falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form, and Gate 19 falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation.
So the worthy risk and the nourishing instinct the first article reads on this ordering's surface answer to the arcs of bonding and mind, while the private retreat and the communal sensitivity beneath them answer to the arcs of form and transformation, the same four arcs the earlier ordering of Alignment also draws on however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design. With both arrangements in place, Alignment's two gate pairs share the same wheel wide spread, one gate from each Quarter regardless of order.