Juxtaposition Cross of Contribution (8/14)

The Juxtaposition Cross of Contribution is named for Gate 8 and Gate 14. Human Design reads Gate 8, from Hexagram 8, Holding Together, sitting in the Throat, as the urge to contribute an individual style and stand publicly behind it; and Gate 14, from Hexagram 14, Possession in Great Measure, sitting in the Sacral centre, as the power skill that directs resources and effort toward work worth doing. Juxtaposition Crosses form their own family, belonging only to the four line one profile, and Human Design reads them as the tightest, least steerable of the three kinds.

Its design half is Gate 55 and Gate 59. Gate 55 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 pairs with Gate 39 in the channel of Emoting. Gate 59 sits in the Sacral centre and is read as the energy that breaks down barriers between people; it pairs with Gate 6 in the channel of Mating.

So a chart carrying this cross contributes a public style fuelled by directed resources on its surface, while beneath it a swinging mood answers to an urge that dissolves barriers between people. The same pair also reverses as the Left Angle Cross of Uncertainty. 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 Juxtaposition Cross of Contribution is named here for Gate 8 and Gate 14. Its first article reads Gate 8 as the urge to contribute an individual style and stand publicly behind it, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 14 as the power skill that directs resources and effort toward work worth doing. 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 8, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Gate 14, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Behind them, Gate 55 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind, and Gate 59 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding.

So the public style and the directed resource the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of form and transformation, while the swinging mood and the barrier dissolving urge beneath them answer to the arcs of mind and bonding. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Empowering, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Uncertainty, both orderings, sharing this same Gate 8 and Gate 14. 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.