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 Influence is named here for Gate 31 and Gate 41, an elected leadership exposed ahead of an unbegun cycle. Its first article reads Gate 31 as leadership through influence, the voice others elect to follow rather than one that commands, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 41 as fantasy and anticipation, the pressure of feeling that starts a new cycle before there is anything yet to experience. 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 31, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Gate 41, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Behind them, Gate 24 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind, and Gate 44 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding.
So the elected voice and the anticipated cycle the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of form and transformation, while the returning mind and the instinctive trust beneath them answer to the arcs of mind and bonding, the same four arcs its own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Fantasy, also draws on however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design, and the same pair that recurs, gates exchanged, as the Left Angle Cross of the Alpha in both its orderings, reviewed this same band. 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.