Juxtaposition Cross of Conservation (32/42)

The Juxtaposition Cross of Conservation is named for Gate 32 and Gate 42. Human Design reads Gate 32, from Hexagram 32, Duration, sits in the Spleen and is read as an instinct for what will last, and caution about change undertaken for its own sake; and Gate 42, from Hexagram 42, Increase, sits in the Sacral centre and is read as the energy to carry a process through to its natural end rather than abandoning it midway. 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 56 and Gate 60. Gate 56 sits in the Throat and is read as the storyteller, stimulating others with ideas drawn from experience whether or not those ideas are true; it pairs with Gate 11 in the channel of Curiosity. Gate 60 sits in the Root and is read as the acceptance of limitation as the only ground real change can grow from; it pairs with Gate 3 in the channel of Mutation.

So a chart carrying this cross conserves what will last while completing what it starts on the surface, while beneath it a storyteller's stimulation answers to an accepted limit that is itself the ground of change. The hexagrams are ancient; grouping them into one incarnation cross is the modern system's own construction.

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 Conservation is named here for Gate 32 and Gate 42. Its first article reads Gate 32 as an instinct for what will last, and caution about change undertaken for its own sake, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 42 as the energy to carry a process through to its natural end rather than abandoning it midway. 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 32, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Gate 42, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind. Behind them, Gate 56 falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form, and Gate 60 falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation.

So the instinct for what lasts and the completed process the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of bonding and mind, while the storyteller's stimulation and the accepted limit beneath them answer to the arcs of form and transformation. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Completion, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Limitation, both orderings; the Right Angle family carries the identical pair too, as the Cross of Maya, both orderings. Four gates, four different Quarters, no pair sharing an arc: this cross draws its whole reading from every corner of the wheel's own purpose rather than concentrated in one.