The Left Angle Cross of Limitation carries the same four gates as the Juxtaposition Cross of Conservation, held here in the fated Left Angle family instead. Human Design reads Gate 32, from Hexagram 32, Duration, sits in the Spleen and is read as an instinct for what will last, and caution about change undertaken for its own sake; and Gate 42, from Hexagram 42, Increase, sits in the Sacral centre and is read as the energy to carry a process through to its natural end. 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 56 and Gate 60, unchanged from the Cross of Conservation. Gate 56 sits in the Throat and is read as the storyteller, stimulating others with ideas drawn from experience whether or not those ideas are true; it pairs with Gate 11 in the channel of Curiosity. Gate 60 sits in the Root and is read as the acceptance of limitation as the only ground real change can grow from; it pairs with Gate 3 in the channel of Mutation.
Where the Juxtaposition reading fixes this conserving instinct to a single profile, the Left Angle reading holds the same storyteller and accepted limit as a role circumstance keeps handing back rather than a personal choice. Both hexagrams are old texts; pairing them this way as a life direction dates from the system's founding in 1987.