Left Angle Cross of Obscuration (62/61)

The Left Angle Cross of Obscuration is named for Gate 62 and Gate 61. Human Design reads Gate 62, from Hexagram 62, Preponderance of the Small, sitting in the Throat, as detail, the organising of facts and particulars into an order that can be spoken; and Gate 61, from Hexagram 61, Inner Truth, sitting in the Head, as the pressure to know the mystery behind existence, a pressure the system holds cannot be satisfied by information. 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 3 and Gate 50. Gate 3 sits in the Sacral centre and is read as the energy to bring order out of the confusion that attends anything genuinely new; it pairs with Gate 60 in the channel of Mutation. Gate 50 sits in the Spleen and is read as values, the instinctive sense of responsibility that guards a group and decides its rules; it pairs with Gate 27 in the channel of Preservation.

So a chart carrying this cross speaks in ordered detail while pressing after an unanswerable mystery on its surface, while beneath it a hard beginning answers to an inherited sense of responsibility. The same four gates also underlie the Juxtaposition Cross of Thinking, and mirrored, the Left Angle Cross of Obscuration reversed; this exact ordering also recurs as the Juxtaposition Cross of Detail. The numbers are inherited from the I Ching; reading them as one cross belongs to the modern reading, not the classical one.

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 Obscuration completes its two role arrangements with this ordering, Gate 62 and Gate 61 exposed, ordered detail ahead of an unanswerable mystery. Its first article reads Gate 62 as the organising of facts and particulars into an order that can be spoken, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 61 as the pressure to know the mystery behind existence. 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 ordering draws one gate from each of the four.

Gate 62, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Gate 61, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Behind them, Gate 3 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind, and Gate 50 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding.

So the ordered detail and the unanswerable mystery the first article reads on this ordering's surface answer to the arcs of form and transformation, while the pressure to begin and the guarded responsibility beneath them answer to the arcs of mind and bonding, the same four arcs the earlier ordering of Obscuration also draws on however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design. With both arrangements in place, Obscuration's two gate pairs share the same wheel wide spread, one gate from each Quarter regardless of order.