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 Conflict is named here for Gate 6 and Gate 36. Its first article reads Gate 6 as the friction that both guards and opens intimate and sexual contact, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 36 as the turbulence of an experience that is genuinely new. 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 6, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Gate 36, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind. Behind them, Gate 15 falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form, and Gate 10 falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation.
So the guarding friction and the crossed threshold the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of bonding and mind, while the broad tolerance for extremes and the loyalty to one's own nature beneath them answer to the arcs of form and transformation. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Crisis, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of the Plane, both orderings; the Right Angle family carries the identical pair too, as the Cross of Eden. 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.