Juxtaposition Cross of Strategy (59/55)

The Juxtaposition Cross of Strategy is named for Gate 59 and Gate 55. Human Design reads Gate 59, from Hexagram 59, Dispersion, sitting in the Sacral centre, as the energy that breaks down barriers between people, treated by the system as sexual and reproductive as well as social; and Gate 55, from Hexagram 55, Abundance, sitting in the Solar Plexus, as an emotional weather swinging between melancholy and abundance for reasons the person cannot usually name. Juxtaposition Crosses stand apart from the other two families, tied only to the four line one profile, and are read as the most fixed direction the system names.

Its design half is Gate 16 and Gate 9. Gate 16 sits in the Throat and is read as enthusiasm refined by repetition into real skill; it pairs with Gate 48 in the channel of the Wavelength. Gate 9 sits in the Sacral centre and is read as the energy of focus, attending to the small details a larger idea depends on; it pairs with Gate 52 in the channel of Concentration.

So a chart carrying this cross dissolves barriers on a mood driven surface, while beneath it a proven skill answers to close attention on small detail. The same four gates also underlie the Cross of Moods and the Left Angle Cross of Spirit under both its orderings. The hexagrams are ancient; sealing them into one fixed cross is the modern system's own construction.

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 Strategy is named here for Gate 59 and Gate 55. Its first article reads Gate 59 as the energy that breaks down barriers between people, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 55 as an emotional weather swinging between melancholy and abundance. 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 59, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Gate 55, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind. Behind them, Gate 16 falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form, and Gate 9 falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation.

So the barriers dissolved and the unpredictable mood the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of bonding and mind, while the refined skill and the close attention to detail beneath them answer to the arcs of form and transformation. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Moods, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Spirit, both orderings; the Right Angle family carries the identical pair too, as the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix, 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.