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 Defiance is named here for Gate 1 and Gate 2, expression exposed ahead of receptive direction. Its first article reads Gate 1 as the urge to give an individual creative direction some outward form, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 2 as the receptive sense of where that direction is meant to go. 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 1, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Gate 2, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Behind them, Gate 4 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding, and Gate 49 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind.
So the outward expression and the receptive direction the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of transformation and form, while the questioning mind and the guiding principle beneath them answer to the arcs of bonding and mind, the same four arcs the cross's own reversal, Gate 2 over Gate 1, will draw on again however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design. Four gates, four different Quarters, no pair sharing an arc: this cross draws its whole reading from every corner of the wheel's own purpose rather than concentrated in one.