Right Angle Cross of Planning (40/37)

The Right Angle Cross of Planning carries the same channel as the earlier Cross of Planning with sun and earth exchanged, Gate 40 and Gate 37, the two ends of Community. Human Design reads Gate 40, from Hexagram 40, Deliverance, sitting in the Heart or Will centre, as the willpower to work, held against a real need for aloneness and rest, now the more exposed gate; and Gate 37, from Hexagram 37, The Family, sitting in the Solar Plexus, as the warmth of family and friendship, the bargain that holds a household together. 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 16 and Gate 9, also exchanged. 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 capacity to attend to the small details a larger idea depends on; it pairs with Gate 52 in the channel of Concentration.

Putting willed aloneness ahead of the family bargain changes what this cross puts forward first, while the same proven skill and attention to detail sit beneath it regardless of order. The same channel, unreversed, is also the Cross of Planning. The hexagrams are ancient; grouping four of them into one personal 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 Right Angle Cross of Planning completes its four role arrangements with this ordering, Gate 40 and Gate 37 exposed, the will's need for solitude ahead of the family bargain. Its first article reads Gate 40 as the willpower to work, held against a real need for aloneness and rest, and Gate 37 as the warmth of family and friendship, the bargain that holds a household together. 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 40, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Gate 37, 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 will that needs to withdraw and the felt bargain of belonging the first article reads on this ordering's surface answer to the arcs of bonding and mind, while the proven skill and the attention to small detail beneath them answer to the arcs of form and transformation, the same four arcs the rest of the Planning family draws on however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design. With this fourth arrangement in place, every role rotation of Planning's two gate pairs shares the same wheel wide spread, one gate from each Quarter regardless of order.