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Service, the Urge to Improve Given the Personal Cross

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Service, the Urge to Improve Given the Personal Cross

The Right Angle Cross of Service carries the same two gate pairs as the earlier Cross of Service with personality and design exchanged, Gate 58 and Gate 52 now the more exposed pair. Human Design reads Gate 58, from Hexagram 58, The Joyous, sitting in the Root, as vitality and the joy of being alive, the urge to improve whatever is at hand; and Gate 52, from Hexagram 52, Keeping Still, sitting in the Root, as stillness, a pressure that concentrates rather than releases. It belongs to the Right Angle family, the largest of the system's three, read as a personal destiny that answers mainly to the individual's own choices.

Its design half is Gate 18 and Gate 17, also exchanged. Gate 18 sits in the Spleen and is read as corrective instinct, alert to what is flawed; it pairs with Gate 58 in the channel of Judgement. Gate 17 sits in the Ajna and is read as the forming of opinions; it pairs with Gate 62 in the channel of Acceptance.

Putting the urge to improve ahead of forming opinions changes what this cross puts forward first, while the same corrective alertness and organised opinion sit beneath it regardless of order. The same two gate pairs also form two further role arrangements, the other Cross of Service and a third orientation, plus a fourth. The numbers are inherited from the I Ching; reading them as one cross belongs to the modern reading, not the classical one.

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