This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
This Left Angle Cross of Confrontation completes its two role arrangements with this ordering, Gate 45 and Gate 26 exposed, the gatherer ahead of the persuader. Its first article reads Gate 45 as the gatherer, the voice that holds and distributes a group's resources, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 26 as the persuader, a willed salesmanship that can market and, unchecked, exaggerate. 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 ordering draws one gate from each of the four.
Gate 45, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Gate 26, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Behind them, Gate 36 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind, and Gate 6 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding.
So the gathering and the persuasion the first article reads on this ordering's surface answer to the arcs of form and transformation, while the turbulence and the guarded intimacy beneath them answer to the arcs of mind and bonding, the same four arcs the earlier ordering of Confrontation also draws on however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design, and the same four gates that also underlie the Juxtaposition Cross of the Trickster and the Juxtaposition Cross of Possession. With both arrangements in place, Confrontation's two gate pairs share the same wheel wide spread, one gate from each Quarter regardless of order.