This Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx is named for Gate 7 and Gate 13 rather than for Gate 1 and Gate 2, though all four gates and the Sphinx theme are shared across the family. Human Design reads Gate 7, from Hexagram 7, The Army, as the self cast in the role of leader, guiding others toward a shared future without necessarily holding formal power, and Gate 13, from Hexagram 13, Fellowship, as the listener, the one to whom others confide and who holds the past. It falls in the Right Angle family, and practitioners read that group as personal, a direction shaped chiefly by what the individual decides.
Behind that pair sits Gate 2 and Gate 1 as the design half, both also seated in the G, or Identity, centre. Gate 2 is read as the receptive sense of where a life is meant to go, and pairs elsewhere with Gate 14 in the channel of the Beat. Gate 1 is read as the urge to give an individual creative direction some outward form, and pairs with Gate 8 in the channel of Inspiration.
Named for leadership and confidence rather than for creativity and direction, this variant of the Sphinx cross still rests on the same four Identity centre gates as the rest of the family. The hexagrams are old texts; naming four different orderings of them as four distinct crosses is a structural choice of the modern system, not of the I Ching.