Juxtaposition Cross of Self-Expression (1/2)

The Juxtaposition Cross of Self-Expression is named for Gate 1 and Gate 2, both seated in the G, or Identity, centre. Human Design reads Gate 1, drawn from Hexagram 1, The Creative, as the urge to give an individual creative direction some outward form, and Gate 2, drawn from Hexagram 2, The Receptive, as the receptive sense of where that direction is meant to go. Juxtaposition Crosses stand apart from the Right Angle and Left Angle families entirely, tied only to the four line one profile, and the system reads them as the most fixed of the three kinds, closer to a single note held than a direction chosen.

Behind that named pair sits the cross's design half, carried unconsciously: Gate 4 and Gate 49. Gate 4 sits in the Ajna and is read as the mind's habit of proposing answers to questions still open; elsewhere in the mandala it pairs with Gate 63 in the channel of Logic. Gate 49 sits in the Solar Plexus and is read as principle, the sense of what is acceptable that decides whether an arrangement continues; it pairs with Gate 19 in the channel of Synthesis.

So the chart this cross names carries a creative identity seeking outward form on the surface, Gate 1 answering to Gate 2's sense of direction, while underneath it a mind that keeps proposing answers, Gate 4, answers in turn to a Solar Plexus judgment of what is acceptable, Gate 49. Every hexagram involved belongs to the old I Ching; reading four of them together as one incarnation cross is the modern system's own construction, dated to 1987.

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 Self-Expression is named here for Gate 1 and Gate 2. 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 creative form and the receptive direction the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of transformation and form, while the proposed answer and the standing principle beneath them answer to the arcs of bonding and mind. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of the Driver, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Defiance, both orderings; the Right Angle family carries the identical pair too, as the Cross of the Sphinx, 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.