Left Angle Cross of Spirit (59/55)

The Left Angle Cross of Spirit is named for Gate 59 and Gate 55. Human Design reads Gate 59, from Hexagram 59, Dispersion, sits in the Sacral centre and is read as the energy that breaks down barriers between people; and Gate 55, from Hexagram 55, Abundance, sits in the Solar Plexus and is read as an emotional weather swinging between melancholy and abundance for reasons the person cannot usually name. 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 16 and Gate 9, the same pair the Right Angle Cross of Planning carries as its own personality half. Gate 16 sits in the Throat and is read as enthusiasm refined by repetition into real skill; it pairs with Gate 48 in the channel of the Wavelength. Gate 9 sits in the Sacral centre and is read as the capacity to attend to small details a larger idea depends on; it pairs with Gate 52 in the channel of Concentration.

So a chart carrying this cross dissolves barriers against a mood that swings between melancholy and abundance on its surface, while beneath it an enthusiasm proven through repetition answers to attention paid to the smallest details. 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 Spirit is named here for Gate 59 and Gate 55, dissolved barriers exposed ahead of a swinging mood. Its first article reads Gate 59 as the energy that breaks down barriers between people, and Gate 55 as an emotional weather swinging between melancholy and abundance for reasons the person cannot usually name. 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 59, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Gate 55, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind. Behind them, Gate 16 falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form, and Gate 9 falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation.

So the barrier dissolving urge and the swinging mood the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of bonding and mind, while the repetition proven enthusiasm and the attention to small detail beneath them answer to the arcs of form and transformation, the same four arcs the cross's own reversal will draw on 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.