Juxtaposition Cross of Opposition (38/39)

The Juxtaposition Cross of Opposition is named for Gate 38 and Gate 39, both seated in the Root, the same pair the Cross of Opinions carries as its design half. Human Design reads Gate 38, from Hexagram 38, Opposition, as the drive to oppose, needing something worth opposing so the fight has a point; and Gate 39, from Hexagram 39, Obstruction, as the pressure that stirs feeling in others to test what spirit is there. 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 57 and Gate 51. Gate 57 sits in the Spleen and is read as intuition in the present moment, read through hearing rather than sight; it belongs to the closed group of four Integration gates. Gate 51 sits in the Heart, or Will, centre and is read as competitive courage that goes first and can startle others awake; it pairs with Gate 25 in the channel of Initiation.

So a chart carrying this cross opposes and provokes on its Root surface, while beneath it a hearing intuition answers to a shocking, initiating will, the same two design gates the Cross of Individualism also carries as its own design half. The hexagrams are ancient; grouping them into one incarnation cross is the modern system's own construction.

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 Opposition is named here for Gate 38 and Gate 39. Its first article reads Gate 38 as the drive to oppose, needing something worth opposing so the fight has a point, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 39 as the pressure that stirs feeling in others to test what spirit is there. 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 38, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Gate 39, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Behind them, Gate 57 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding, and Gate 51 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind.

So the drive to oppose and the pressure to test the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of transformation and form, while the hearing intuition and the startling courage beneath them answer to the arcs of bonding and mind. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Provocation, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Individualism, both orderings. The Right Angle family carries the same two gates too, as the Cross of Tension, but only in the reversed ordering that Provocation carries; no Right Angle cross exists naming this ordering. 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.