The Juxtaposition Cross of Empowering is named for Gate 14 and Gate 8. Human Design reads Gate 14, from Hexagram 14, Great Possession, sitting in the Sacral centre, as the power skill that directs resources and effort toward work that feels worth doing; and Gate 8, from Hexagram 8, Holding Together, sitting in the Throat, as the urge to contribute an individual style and stand publicly behind it. Juxtaposition Crosses are set apart from the Right Angle and Left Angle families, reserved for the four line one profile, and read as fixed almost past the point of alternative.
Its design half is Gate 59 and Gate 55. Gate 59 sits in the Sacral centre and is read as the energy that breaks down barriers between people; it pairs with Gate 6 in the channel of Mating. Gate 55 sits in the Solar Plexus and is read as an emotional weather swinging between melancholy and abundance; it pairs with Gate 39 in the channel of Emoting.
So a chart carrying this cross directs resources into a public style on its surface, while beneath it a barrier dissolving urge answers to a mood it cannot name. The same pair also underlies the Cross of Contribution, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Uncertainty. Both hexagrams are old texts; pairing them this way as a life direction dates from the system's founding in 1987.