Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx (7/13)

This Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx is named for Gate 7 and Gate 13 rather than for Gate 1 and Gate 2, though all four gates and the Sphinx theme are shared across the family. Human Design reads Gate 7, from Hexagram 7, The Army, as the self cast in the role of leader, guiding others toward a shared future without necessarily holding formal power, and Gate 13, from Hexagram 13, Fellowship, as the listener, the one to whom others confide and who holds the past. It falls in the Right Angle family, and practitioners read that group as personal, a direction shaped chiefly by what the individual decides.

Behind that pair sits Gate 2 and Gate 1 as the design half, both also seated in the G, or Identity, centre. Gate 2 is read as the receptive sense of where a life is meant to go, and pairs elsewhere with Gate 14 in the channel of the Beat. Gate 1 is read as the urge to give an individual creative direction some outward form, and pairs with Gate 8 in the channel of Inspiration.

Named for leadership and confidence rather than for creativity and direction, this variant of the Sphinx cross still rests on the same four Identity centre gates as the rest of the family. The hexagrams are old texts; naming four different orderings of them as four distinct crosses is a structural choice of the modern system, not of the I Ching.

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 Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx, in this ordering, is named for Gate 7 and Gate 13 with the personality and design halves reversed from its better known ordering, Gate 1 and Gate 2 now carried unconsciously instead. Its first article reads this exchange as leadership and witness carried forward from a role, in place of expression and direction. 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 ordering draws on exactly the same four Quarters as the rest of the family, one gate from each.

Gate 7, the personality gate here, falls in the Quarter of Duality, purpose fulfilled through bonding. Gate 13, its personality partner, falls in the Quarter of Initiation, purpose fulfilled through mind. Behind them, Gate 2 falls in the Quarter of Civilization, purpose fulfilled through form, and Gate 1 falls in the Quarter of Mutation, purpose fulfilled through transformation.

So the leadership and the witness the first article reads on this ordering's surface answer to the arcs of bonding and mind, while the receptive direction and the creative expression beneath them answer to the arcs of form and transformation, the same four arcs the rest of the Sphinx family draws on however its two pairs are assigned to personality and design. Reversing which pair is conscious changes what the cross puts forward, but not which Quarters supply its four gates.