Juxtaposition Cross of Provocation (39/38)

The Juxtaposition Cross of Provocation is named for Gate 39 and Gate 38, both seated in the Root. Human Design reads Gate 39, from Hexagram 39, Obstruction, as the pressure that stirs feeling in others, to discover whether there is any spirit in them; and Gate 38, from Hexagram 38, Opposition, as the drive to oppose, needing something worth opposing. Juxtaposition Crosses are set apart from the Right Angle and Left Angle families, reserved for the four line one profile, and read as fixed almost past the point of alternative.

Its design half is Gate 51 and Gate 57. 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. Gate 57 sits in the Spleen and is read as intuition in the present moment, read through hearing rather than sight, and belongs to the closed group of four Integration gates.

So a chart carrying this cross provokes and opposes on a Root surface, testing what spirit answers back, while beneath it a shocking initiative meets a hearing intuition that knows only the present moment. 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 Provocation is named here for Gate 39 and Gate 38. Its first article reads Gate 39 as the pressure that stirs feeling in others, to discover whether there is any spirit in them, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 38 as the drive to oppose, needing something worth opposing. 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 39, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Gate 38, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Behind them, Gate 51 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind, and Gate 57 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding.

So the stirred feeling and the drive to oppose the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of form and transformation, while the startling courage and the present intuition beneath them answer to the arcs of mind and bonding. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Opposition, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Individualism, both orderings; the Right Angle family carries the identical pair too, as the Cross of Tension, in this one live ordering only, not both. 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.