Left Angle Cross of Endeavor (21/48)

The Left Angle Cross of Endeavor is named for Gate 21 and Gate 48. Human Design reads Gate 21, from Hexagram 21, Biting Through, sitting in the Heart or Will centre, as the will to control material life on one's own terms; and Gate 48, from Hexagram 48, The Well, sitting in the Spleen, as depth, a well of instinctive knowledge that is not yet useful, and a fear of being inadequate to what is asked. It falls in the Left Angle family, which practitioners read as fated in flavour, serving something beyond the individual rather than a self chosen plan.

Its design half is Gate 54 and Gate 53, both seated in the Root. Gate 54 is read as ambition, the drive to rise and transform one's material circumstances; it pairs with Gate 32 in the channel of Transformation. Gate 53 is read as the pressure to begin, an impulse that often has no interest in seeing a thing through; it pairs with Gate 42 in the channel of Maturation.

So a chart carrying this cross controls resources while sensing its own unspent depth on the surface, while beneath it a Root pair of rising ambition and raw beginning presses to be spent. The same four gates also underlie the Juxtaposition Cross of Depth and the Juxtaposition Cross of Control. The hexagrams are ancient; grouping them into one transpersonal cross is the modern system's own construction, dated to 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 Endeavor is named here for Gate 21 and Gate 48, the will to control exposed ahead of an unspent depth. Its first article reads Gate 21 as the will to control material life on one's own terms, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 48 as a well of instinctive knowledge not yet made useful, with a fear of being inadequate to what is asked. 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 21, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind. Gate 48, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Behind them, Gate 54 falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation, and Gate 53 falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form.

So the will to control and the unspent depth the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of mind and bonding, while the rising ambition and the raw beginning beneath them answer to the arcs of transformation and form, the same four arcs the cross's own reversal, Gate 48 over Gate 21, 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.