This Left Angle Cross of Incarnation is named for Gate 24 and Gate 44 rather than Gate 44 and Gate 24, the circling mind placed ahead of the instinctive read on people. Human Design reads Gate 24, from Hexagram 24, Return, as a mind circling the same thought repeatedly until it finally resolves, and Gate 44, from Hexagram 44, Coming to Meet, as an instinctive memory for people and patterns, a nose for who can be relied on. It sits in the Left Angle family, and Human Design reads that group as outward facing, less a chosen plan than a role other people keep handing back.
Its design half is Gate 13 and Gate 7, both in the G, or Identity, centre, exchanged from the counterpart cross. Gate 13 is read as the listener, holding what others confide and bearing witness to the past; elsewhere it pairs with Gate 33 in the channel of The Prodigal. Gate 7 is read as the self cast in the role of leader, guiding others toward a shared future without necessarily holding formal power; it pairs with Gate 31 in the channel of The Alpha.
Placing the circling mind ahead of the instinctive read changes what this variant of the Incarnation cross puts forward, rationalisation before enterprise, though the same four gates run beneath every ordering in the family. The hexagrams are ancient; the four orderings that name four separate crosses belong entirely to the modern system.