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Need, the Exposed Sensitivity and Two Quarters, Not Four

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Need, the Exposed Sensitivity and Two Quarters, Not Four

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The Juxtaposition Cross of Need is named here for Gate 19 and Gate 33, the same pair as the Cross of Retreat with sun and earth exchanged. Its first article reads Gate 19 as a sensitivity to what a community needs, materially and physically, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 33 as the need to withdraw and hold an experience privately before telling it. 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 from only two of the four, not one from each.

Gate 19, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Gate 33, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Behind them, Gate 1 falls in the same Quarter of Mutation as Gate 19, and Gate 2 falls in the same Quarter of Civilization as Gate 33.

So this cross, unlike most of its cohort, draws its whole reading from two arcs rather than four: the sensed community need and the outward creative urge beneath it both answer to the arc of transformation, while the withdrawal held private and the receptive sense beneath it both answer to the arc of form. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Retreat, which carries the identical concentration since the same four gates run beneath both orderings. The same four gates also underlie the Left Angle Cross of Refinement, both orderings, and the Right Angle Cross of the Four Ways, both orderings, a concentration the wheel's own arithmetic does not require of every cross but this family happens to carry.

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