The Right Angle Cross of Consciousness is named for Gate 5 and Gate 35. Human Design reads Gate 5, from Hexagram 5, Waiting, sitting in the Sacral centre, as fixed rhythm, an inner timing that keeps eating, sleeping and working patterned; and Gate 35, from Hexagram 35, Progress, sitting in the Throat, as a hunger for progress and variety, the appetite for a feeling that only a new experience can supply. It belongs to the Right Angle family, the largest of the system's three, read as a personal destiny that answers mainly to the individual's own choices.
Its design half is Gate 64 and Gate 63, both seated in the Head. Gate 64 is read as confusion, unresolved images working themselves slowly toward a clarity that arrives on its own schedule; it pairs with Gate 47 in the channel of Abstraction. Gate 63 is read as doubt, the pressure to question and look for the flaw in a pattern before accepting it; it pairs with Gate 4 in the channel of Logic.
So a chart carrying this cross keeps a fixed pattern while hungering for the new on its surface, while beneath it an unresolved confusion presses against a doubting mind. The same personality pair, mirrored, also underlies the Left Angle Cross of Separation, and the full four gate set, roles exchanged, forms a further Cross of Consciousness. The hexagrams are ancient; grouping four of them into one personal cross is the modern system's own construction, dated to 1987.