The Right Angle Cross of Consciousness is named for Gate 35 and Gate 5. Human Design reads Gate 35, from Hexagram 35, Progress, sitting in the Throat, as a hunger for progress and for the feeling only a new experience can supply; and Gate 5, from Hexagram 5, Waiting, sitting in the Sacral centre, as fixed rhythm, an inner timing that keeps eating, sleeping and working patterned. It falls in the Right Angle family, and practitioners describe that group as the personal one, a direction shaped by what the individual decides.
Its design half is Gate 63 and Gate 64, both seated in the Head. Gate 63 is read as doubt, the pressure to question and look for the flaw in a pattern before accepting it; it pairs with Gate 4 in the channel of Logic. Gate 64 is read as confusion, unresolved images working themselves slowly toward a clarity that arrives on its own schedule; it pairs with Gate 47 in the channel of Abstraction.
So a chart carrying this cross swings between restlessness and fixed rhythm on its surface, while beneath it a Head pair of doubt and confusion presses toward a clarity neither gate can force. The same personality pair, mirrored, also underlies the Left Angle Cross of Separation, and the full four gate set, roles exchanged, forms a further Cross of Consciousness. The hexagrams are ancient; grouping four of them into one personal cross is the modern system's own construction, dated to 1987.