Right Angle Cross of Laws (56/60)

The Right Angle Cross of Laws is named for Gate 56 and Gate 60. Human Design reads Gate 56, from Hexagram 56, The Wanderer, as the one who stimulates others with ideas drawn from experience, paired elsewhere with Gate 11 in the channel of Curiosity, and Gate 60, from Hexagram 60, Limitation, as the acceptance of limitation as the ground real change grows from. 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 3 and Gate 50. Gate 3 sits in the Sacral centre and is read as the energy to bring order out of the confusion that attends anything genuinely new; it pairs with Gate 60 in the channel of Mutation. Gate 50 sits in the Spleen and is read as values, the instinctive sense of responsibility that guards a group and decides its rules; it pairs with Gate 27 in the channel of Preservation.

So the cross reads a storyteller's stimulation, Gate 56, against an accepted limit, Gate 60, on the surface, while beneath it a Sacral pressure to order a new beginning answers to a guarded set of values. Gate 60 and the design's Gate 3 are in fact the two ends of one channel, Mutation, so what the surface accepts as a limit is exactly what the unconscious half is pressing to begin against. The hexagrams are ancient; grouping them into one incarnation 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 Right Angle Cross of Laws is named for Gate 56 and Gate 60, the storyteller's stimulation exposed ahead of accepted limitation. Its first article reads Gate 56 as the one who stimulates others with ideas drawn from experience, and Gate 60 as the acceptance of limitation as the ground real change grows from. 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 56, the personality gate, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Gate 60, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Behind them, Gate 3 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind, and Gate 50 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding.

So the storyteller's stimulation and the accepted limitation the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of form and transformation, while the pressure to begin and the guarded responsibility beneath them answer to the arcs of mind and bonding, the same four arcs the rest of the Laws family draws on however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design. Gate 60 and the design's Gate 3 remain the two ends of one channel, Mutation, whichever half of the cross carries the Sun.