The Juxtaposition Cross of the Trickster is named for Gate 26 and Gate 45. Human Design reads Gate 26, from Hexagram 26, The Taming Power of the Great, sitting in the Heart or Will centre, as the persuader, a willed salesmanship that can market and, unchecked, exaggerate; and Gate 45, from Hexagram 45, Gathering Together, sitting in the Throat, as the gatherer, the voice that holds and distributes a group's resources. 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 6 and Gate 36, both seated in the Solar Plexus. Gate 6 is read as the friction that both guards and opens intimacy; it pairs with Gate 59 in the channel of Mating. Gate 36 is read as the turbulence of an experience that is genuinely new; it pairs with Gate 35 in the channel of Transitoriness.
So a chart carrying this cross persuades and gathers on its surface, while beneath it a single emotional centre supplies both a guarded intimacy and the turbulence of the untried. The same four gates recur, held instead in the Left Angle family, as two orderings of the Cross of Confrontation and, mirrored again, as the Juxtaposition Cross of Possession. The hexagrams are ancient; grouping them into one fixed cross is the modern system's own construction.