The Juxtaposition Cross of the Now is named for Gate 20 and Gate 34, two of the four Integration gates, directly connected to one another. Human Design reads Gate 20, from Hexagram 20, Contemplation, sitting in the Throat, as awareness and expression that occur now rather than in reflection; and Gate 34, from Hexagram 34, The Power of the Great, sitting in the Sacral centre, as pure power, most potent simply being itself rather than aimed at anyone. Juxtaposition Crosses form their own family, belonging only to the four line one profile, and Human Design reads them as the tightest, least steerable of the three kinds.
Its design half is Gate 37 and Gate 40, which are in fact the two ends of one channel, Community. Gate 37 sits in the Solar Plexus and is read as the warmth of family and friendship, the bargain that holds a household together. Gate 40 sits in the Heart or Will centre and is read as the willpower to work, held against a real need for aloneness and rest.
So this cross is unusual among its cohort in carrying not one but two whole channels, an immediate power on its surface and a domestic bargain beneath it, with no gate left standing alone on either half. The same four gates, reversed, also underlie the Juxtaposition Cross of Power. Both hexagrams are old texts; pairing them this way as a life direction dates from the system's founding in 1987.