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 Beginnings is named here for Gate 53 and Gate 54, both seated in the Root. Its first article reads Gate 53 as the pressure to begin, often with no interest in seeing a thing through, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 54 as ambition, the drive to rise and transform one's material circumstances. 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 53, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Gate 54, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Behind them, Gate 42 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind, and Gate 32 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding.
So the pressure to begin and the ambition to transform the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of form and transformation, while the sacral drive to finish and the splenic instinct for what lasts beneath them answer to the arcs of mind and bonding. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Ambition, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Cycles, both orderings; the Right Angle family carries the identical pair too, as the Cross of Penetration, 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.