Juxtaposition Cross of Commitment (29/30)

The Juxtaposition Cross of Commitment is named for Gate 29 and Gate 30. Human Design reads Gate 29, from Hexagram 29, The Abysmal, sitting in the Sacral centre, as a yes that, once given, perseveres to the end whatever the cost; and Gate 30, from Hexagram 30, The Clinging, sitting in the Solar Plexus, as the longing and intensity of feeling that pulls a person into experience. Juxtaposition Crosses are set apart from the Right Angle and Left Angle families, reserved for the four line one profile, and read as fixed almost past the point of alternative.

Its design half is Gate 20 and Gate 34, which are in fact two of the four Integration gates, directly connected to one another. Gate 20 sits in the Throat and is read as awareness and expression that occur now rather than in reflection. Gate 34 sits in the Sacral centre and is read as pure power, most potent simply being itself rather than aimed at anyone.

So a chart carrying this cross commits and longs on its surface, while beneath it an immediate awareness runs directly into raw power, the two design gates forming a live connection rather than two separate pressures. The same four gates recur, held instead in the Left Angle family, as the Cross of Industry, and reversed as the Juxtaposition Cross of Fates. Both hexagrams are old texts; pairing them this way as a life direction dates from the system's founding in 1987.

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

The Juxtaposition Cross of Commitment is named here for Gate 29 and Gate 30. Its first article reads Gate 29 as a Sacral yes that, once given, perseveres to the end whatever the cost, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 30 as the longing and intensity of feeling that pulls a person into experience. What it does not trace is where the four gates sit on the wheel itself, the Human Design mandala's division of its sixty four gates into four Quarters, and by that measure this cross draws one gate from each of the four.

Gate 29, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Gate 30, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind. Behind them, Gate 20 falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form, and Gate 34 falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation.

So the persevering yes and the pulling longing the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of bonding and mind, while the present awareness and the raw power beneath them, in fact one live connected channel rather than two separate pressures, answer to the arcs of form and transformation. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Fates, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Industry, both orderings. Unlike most of its cohort, this cross has no Right Angle kin at all: no Right Angle cross anywhere in the corpus is built from either of its two personality gates, the same absence already found on the Cross of Risks. Four gates, four different Quarters, no pair sharing an arc, yet no third family claims this particular pair.