Juxtaposition Cross of Intuition (57/51)

The Juxtaposition Cross of Intuition carries the same pair as the Left Angle Cross of the Clarion with sun and earth exchanged, Gate 57 and Gate 51. Human Design reads Gate 57, from Hexagram 57, The Gentle, sits in the Spleen and is read as intuition in the present moment, read through hearing rather than sight, now the more exposed gate; and Gate 51, from Hexagram 51, The Arousing, sits in the Heart, or Will, centre and is read as competitive courage that goes first and can startle others awake. Juxtaposition Crosses stand apart from the other two families, tied only to the four line one profile, and are read as the most fixed direction the system names.

Its design half is Gate 62 and Gate 61, also exchanged. Gate 62 sits in the Throat and is read as the organising of facts and particulars into an order that can be spoken; it pairs with Gate 17 in the channel of Acceptance. Gate 61 sits in the Head and is read as the pressure to know the mystery behind existence; it pairs with Gate 24 in the channel of Awareness.

Putting a gentle, hearing intuition ahead of shock changes what this cross puts forward first, while a Throat that speaks detail and a Head that presses to know sit beneath it regardless of order. 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 Juxtaposition Cross of Intuition is named here for Gate 57 and Gate 51, a gentle hearing exposed ahead of a startling courage. Its first article reads Gate 57 as intuition in the present moment, read through hearing rather than sight, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 51 as competitive courage that goes first and can startle others awake. 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 57, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Gate 51, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind. Behind them, Gate 62 falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form, and Gate 61 falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation.

So the gentle intuition and the startling courage the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of bonding and mind, while the ordering of detail into speech and the pressure to know the unknowable beneath them answer to the arcs of form and transformation, the same four gates the Left Angle Cross of the Clarion carries under both its orderings, reviewed this same band, and its own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Shock, also draws on the same four arcs 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.