This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
The Left Angle Cross of Distraction is named here for Gate 56 and Gate 60, the storyteller exposed ahead of an accepted limitation. Its first article reads Gate 56 as the storyteller who stimulates others with ideas drawn from experience, true or not, and Gate 60 as the acceptance of limitation as the only ground real change can grow from. 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 one gate from each of the four.
Gate 56, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Gate 60, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Behind them, Gate 27 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind, and Gate 28 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding.
So the storytelling and the accepted limit the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of form and transformation, while the nourishing care and the worthy risk beneath them answer to the arcs of mind and bonding, the same four arcs the cross's own reversal, Gate 60 over Gate 56, will draw on again however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design. Four gates, four different Quarters, no pair sharing an arc: this cross draws its whole reading from every corner of the wheel's own purpose rather than concentrated in one.