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 Defiance completes its two role arrangements with this ordering, Gate 2 and Gate 1 exposed, receptive direction ahead of outward expression. Its first article reads Gate 2 as the receptive sense of where a life is meant to go, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 1 as the urge to give that direction some individual, creative form. 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 2, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Gate 1, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Behind them, Gate 49 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind, and Gate 4 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding.
So the receptive direction and the outward expression the first article reads on this ordering's surface answer to the arcs of form and transformation, while the guiding principle and the questioning mind beneath them answer to the arcs of mind and bonding, the same four arcs the earlier ordering of Defiance also draws on however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design. With both arrangements in place, Defiance's two gate pairs share the same wheel wide spread, one gate from each Quarter regardless of order.