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Limitation, the Same Ending Instinct Handed Back by Circumstance

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Limitation, the Same Ending Instinct Handed Back by Circumstance

The Left Angle Cross of Limitation carries the same pair as the Juxtaposition Cross of Completion, Gate 42 and Gate 32. Human Design reads Gate 42, from Hexagram 42, Increase, sitting in the Sacral centre, as the energy to carry a process through to its natural end; and Gate 32, from Hexagram 32, Duration, sitting in the Spleen, as the instinct for what will last, and caution about change for its own sake. It belongs to the Left Angle family, read as transpersonal, a direction practitioners describe as answering less to personal choice than to what circumstance hands the individual.

Its design half is Gate 60 and Gate 56, unchanged from the Cross of Completion. Gate 60 sits in the Root and is read as the acceptance of limitation, the only ground from which real change can grow; it pairs with Gate 3 in the channel of Mutation. Gate 56 sits in the Throat and is read as the storyteller, whose ideas draw on experience whether or not they are accurate; it pairs with Gate 11 in the channel of Curiosity.

Where the Juxtaposition reading fixes this finishing instinct to a single profile, the Left Angle reading holds it as a role circumstance keeps handing back, the same acceptance of limits and restless storytelling beneath it either way. The same pair also underlies the Juxtaposition Cross of Completion, and reverses as the Cross of Conservation and the Left Angle Cross of Limitation under the opposite ordering. The hexagrams are ancient; grouping them into one transpersonal cross is the modern system's own construction, dated to 1987.

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The Human Design System
Ra Uru Hu (Alan Robert Krakower), Human Design America, 1992View the Source
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