Left Angle Cross of Dominion (63/64)

The Left Angle Cross of Dominion is named for Gate 63 and Gate 64, both seated in the Head. Human Design reads Gate 63, from Hexagram 63, After Completion, as doubt, the pressure to question and look for the flaw in a pattern before accepting it; and Gate 64, from Hexagram 64, Before Completion, as confusion, a pressure of unresolved images working themselves slowly toward a clarity that arrives on its own schedule. It sits in the Left Angle family, and Human Design reads that group as outward facing, less a chosen plan than a role other people keep handing back.

Its design half is Gate 26 and Gate 45. Gate 26 sits in the Heart or Will centre and is read as the persuader, a willed salesmanship that can market and, unchecked, exaggerate; it pairs with Gate 44 in the channel of Surrender. Gate 45 sits in the Throat and is read as the gatherer, the voice that holds and distributes a group's resources; it pairs with Gate 21 in the channel of Money.

So a chart carrying this cross questions and waits on clarity on a shared Head surface, while beneath it a persuading voice already holds and distributes what the group has. The same four gates also underlie the Left Angle Cross of Dominion reversed and the Juxtaposition Cross of Doubts. 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 Left Angle Cross of Dominion is named here for Gate 63 and Gate 64, doubt exposed ahead of confusion. Its first article reads Gate 63 as the pressure to question and look for the flaw in a pattern before accepting it, and Gate 64 as a pressure of unresolved images working slowly toward a clarity that arrives on its own schedule. 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 63, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind. Gate 64, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Behind them, Gate 26 falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation, and Gate 45 falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form.

So the doubt and the confusion the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of mind and bonding, while the persuading voice and the gathered resources beneath them answer to the arcs of transformation and form, the same four arcs the cross's own reversal, Gate 64 over Gate 63, will draw on again however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design. 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.