Juxtaposition Cross of Focus (9/16)

The Juxtaposition Cross of Focus carries the same pair as the Cross of Experimentation with sun and earth exchanged, Gate 9 and Gate 16. Human Design reads Gate 9, from Hexagram 9, The Taming Power of the Small, sitting in the Sacral centre, as the capacity to attend to the small details a larger idea depends on, now the more exposed gate; and Gate 16, from Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm, sitting in the Throat, as enthusiasm refined by repetition into real skill. Juxtaposition Crosses are set apart from the Right Angle and Left Angle families, reserved for the four line one profile, and read as fixed almost past the point of alternative.

Its design half is Gate 64 and Gate 63, also exchanged, 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.

Putting attention to detail ahead of proven skill changes what this cross puts forward first, while the same doubting, unresolved Head pair sits beneath it regardless of order. The same channel, unreversed, also underlies the Cross of Experimentation, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Identification. The numbers are inherited from the I Ching; reading them as one cross belongs to the modern reading, not the classical one.

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 Juxtaposition Cross of Focus is named here for Gate 9 and Gate 16. Its first article reads Gate 9 as the capacity to attend to the small details a larger idea depends on, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 16 as enthusiasm refined by repetition into real skill. 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 9, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Gate 16, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Behind them, Gate 64 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding, and Gate 63 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind.

So the attended detail and the refined skill the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of transformation and form, while the unresolved impression and the questioning mind beneath them answer to the arcs of bonding and mind. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Experimentation, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Identification, both orderings; the Right Angle family carries the identical pair too, as the Cross of Planning, both orderings. 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.