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Focus, the Same Skill and Doubt Read From Its Other End

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Focus, the Same Skill and Doubt Read From Its Other End

The Juxtaposition Cross of Focus carries the same pair as the Cross of Experimentation with sun and earth exchanged, Gate 9 and Gate 16. Human Design reads Gate 9, from Hexagram 9, The Taming Power of the Small, sitting in the Sacral centre, as the capacity to attend to the small details a larger idea depends on, now the more exposed gate; and Gate 16, from Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm, sitting in the Throat, as enthusiasm refined by repetition into real skill. 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 64 and Gate 63, also exchanged, both seated in the Head. Gate 64 is read as confusion, unresolved images working themselves slowly toward a clarity that arrives on its own schedule; it pairs with Gate 47 in the channel of Abstraction. Gate 63 is read as doubt, the pressure to question and look for the flaw in a pattern before accepting it; it pairs with Gate 4 in the channel of Logic.

Putting attention to detail ahead of proven skill changes what this cross puts forward first, while the same doubting, unresolved Head pair sits beneath it regardless of order. The same channel, unreversed, also underlies the Cross of Experimentation, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Identification. The numbers are inherited from the I Ching; reading them as one cross belongs to the modern reading, not the classical one.

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The Human Design System
Ra Uru Hu (Alan Robert Krakower), Human Design America, 1992View the Source
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