Juxtaposition Cross of the Driver (2/1)

The Juxtaposition Cross of the Driver is named for Gate 2 and Gate 1, the same pair as the Cross of Self-Expression with sun and earth exchanged. Human Design reads Gate 2, from Hexagram 2, The Receptive, as the receptive sense of where a life is meant to go, carried here as the more exposed gate, and Gate 1, from Hexagram 1, The Creative, as the urge to give that direction an individual, creative form. Juxtaposition Crosses form their own family, belonging only to the four line one profile, and the system reads them as the tightest and least steerable of the three kinds.

Its design half, Gate 49 and Gate 4, sits away from the G centre entirely. Gate 49 is in the Solar Plexus and is read as principle, deciding whether an arrangement is acceptable or broken off; elsewhere it pairs with Gate 19 in the channel of Synthesis. Gate 4 is in the Ajna and is read as the mind's habit of proposing answers to open questions; it pairs with Gate 63 in the channel of Logic.

Where the Cross of Self-Expression puts creative form first, this cross puts direction first and lets expression follow it, while beneath both a Solar Plexus judgment of what is acceptable answers to a mind still generating hypotheses. 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 the Driver is named here for Gate 2 and Gate 1. Its first article reads Gate 2 as the receptive sense of where a life is meant to go, now the more exposed gate, and Gate 1 as the urge to give that direction an individual, creative form. 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 2, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form. Gate 1, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation. Behind them, Gate 49 falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind, and Gate 4 falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding.

So the receptive direction and the creative form the first article reads on this cross's surface answer to the arcs of form and transformation, while the deciding principle and the proposed answer beneath them answer to the arcs of mind and bonding. The same pair, exchanged, is this cross's own reversal, the Juxtaposition Cross of Self-Expression, and, held instead in the Left Angle family, the Cross of Defiance, and in the Right Angle family, the Cross of the Sphinx, all sharing this same Gate 2 and Gate 1. 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.