The Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx, named here in its reverse order as Gate 2 and Gate 1, carries the same two gates as its better known counterpart with sun and earth exchanged. Human Design reads Gate 2, from Hexagram 2, The Receptive, as the receptive sense of where a life is meant to go, now the more exposed of the pair, and Gate 1, from Hexagram 1, The Creative, as the urge to give that direction some individual, creative form. It belongs to the Right Angle family, and the system reads that group as personal destiny, answering mainly to the individual's own choices rather than to any role imposed from outside.
Its design half is Gate 13 and Gate 7, both in the G, or Identity, centre. 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 without necessarily holding formal power; it pairs with Gate 31 in the channel of the Alpha.
Exchanging which gate carries the Sun changes what the cross puts forward first, direction rather than expression, but the underlying material, all four gates seated in the Identity centre, is identical to the cross's better known form. The hexagrams are ancient; the pairing and its reversal both belong to the modern system, dated to 1987.