Left Angle Crosses

We started off with the Cross of the Sphinx - what happened yesterday, what happened last month, and this direction you can take based on recognizing what happened to you in the past. Then we get to the fixed aspect - you've got the same intake, the same empathetic field is at work, but it is very different. There is no need in that sense in their purpose (remember your incarnation cross is your purpose) in bringing it out when you come to this fixed aspect.

But when you get to the left angle you get to transpersonal karma. When you get to transpersonal karma, what you get to is a physical, structured programmed obligation (it's an obligation) to integrate with the other and to get that information across to them. The way that you get that information across, we start with the 139 and the 79 - the 13° is the Savior and the 7 is the General. This is the General Savior that is a freak, who is going to blurt out his mutation. The way that they are going to do that is that they are going to hide behind a façade, and there is no morality associated with hiding behind a façade. They have no choice.

Their life is about masks; they need those masks. The reason that they need those masks is that these beings are always under pressure from all of those people that are connected to them karmatically to deliver the goods. And the goods are - what's the direction. They are still carrying the 13 and the 7. They are still carrying collective direction out of the G center as part of their cross. Because it is going to be, particularly in the 5th line, a deep projection field, where other people are going to be saying - "look, we expect you to give us a direction." These are not the kind of people who give you the direction in the supermarket. They're not right angle. The left angle has to recognize what the other wants from them or gets from them. Oh, it is very different.

What you find with the Left Angle Cross of the Masks is that you need to have initials after your name or costumes. If you are going to be tarot card readers, dress like a 17th Century mannequin. You have to have your costume, whether that costume is psychic or whether that costume is covering your personality. Whatever it is, these people get inside of those costumes and then they get to play out that role.

Now one of the things to understand about the juxtaposition, and the left angle, and the right angle of this cross is that they are all carrying individuality. The program begins with melancholy. Otherwise, you wouldn't enjoy the music. Well that's what it is all about after all - this is just orchestration here. It starts with melancholy, because melancholy is the muse. You see mind begins with sadness. Mind begins with melancholy and the anxiety that the sadness will never be resolved, and it is out of that that comes the glory of what we have accomplished on the mental plane.

But the reality is that these are crosses that are filled with melancholy. Chemistry is one of the things that human beings really don't grasp, because they take everything personally. You take your life personally, you take your cross personally, and you take all this stuff personally, so you take your chemistry personally. So when your chemistry changes, you think it is personal and therefore you postulate out of this that something is wrong. There is a reason. If you have individuality defined in your design, don't make up a reason for why you're melancholic, as all you are doing is killing the muse - you're killing the muse and replacing it with depression. These are crosses that start the Quarter of Initiation - they start with melancholy. It all starts with sadness and with art. It starts with music.

It starts with love, because individuality is at the core of what love is. It is the search for perfect love, for the ultimate love, cosmic love, selflove, and union with the other through love and romance. All of that is at the very beginning. It is the starting place, and the starting place is the right angle with the 13 saying, "Was there love back there? Did I get any? Or will I get any?" By the time you get to the juxtaposition cross, they are just listening for it; "It's out there somewhere." They are the ones that are listening to love sounds at night. No lover, just a teddy bear, but the love songs are great.

They've got the radio on to some schmaltzy station somewhere. Then finally you get to the left angle, and the left angle says, "I'll put on my mask and I'll tell you exactly what you need to know, because if I don't tell you exactly what you need to know, I can't survive in this life. So I'm going to tell you all about it, but I'm going to tell you all about it based on my sadness."

It is one thing to be able to describe the mechanics of how these crosses actually work, but it is another to recognize that the people that are carrying all of this aren't awake. They are really deeply messed up, and living the notself. They don't know what the hell is going on and certainly are not tuned to their process. This is why the greatest dilemma on the planet is that nobody knows their purpose. If you're living the not-self, you're not going to get there anyway.

At this very beginning of initiation, this very beginning process, most of the time all is mired and bogged down by the deep depression that these people actually live out. Think about what that is like to live out the phenomena of looking back, seeing what you don't like, and not knowing what to do with it. They don't know why they are seeing it, and end up being pessimistic about everything.

Moving away from that fixed aspect, you step into the Left Angle Cross of Revolution. This is pure revolution. The only thing that is uncomfortable about this revolution is that it is about money - meaning that "they have; they don't deserve to have that; let's kill the sons of bitches and share it." This is the basis of revolution after all. Now in the 5th line this is about practical revolution. So simply from a practical point of view, "They are greedy as hell, and they are not going to share with us. They hate us, and are enslaving us. We cannot reason with them. Since it doesn't work, the only practical thing we can do is to kill them. Then if we kill them, we can have a practical way in which we can share everything."

Human beings are living things with endless world wars going on in their bodies every second they breathe. The violence inherent in our biology is unbelievable - take a ride with a t cell, and watch some real havoc. This is a violent existence; it just is. We are designed to kill, we are, and we will be designed to kill until we leave these bodies; and there is nothing that is going to get rid of that nothing,

nothing. Otherwise, we wouldn't be at the top of the food chain. Otherwise, we wouldn't be in charge and there is nothing to be done about it. You cannot civilize that. You'll see what happens when we take this cross over to civilization. Where we try to civilize it - Moses comes down and says, "Thou shall not kill." You're designed to kill, right, but you can't. You're not allowed. Don't do that, it is wrong.

Civilization comes along and says we've all got to live together in this neighborhood, and that's kind of ticklish if you're killing somebody next door. So we have to have some rules and find a place where we can kill and it doesn't disturb those around us. Now killing those people over there in next valley - that's okay. That may even be practical. We are just at the beginning of the story and we've got to have that. So right at the beginning we've got this trip that is just embedded in us. It is necessary to go out there and kill; we have to somehow find a way to make that okay, to sanctify that.

Listen to a 495 and you'll hear a powerful potential revolutionary. "I'm here to seduce you into revolution. I'm here to seduce you to these principles." That is a very powerful force, plus all 5th lines draw projection. Expectation is laid at the revolutionaries' feet to deliver. If they blow it, the 5th line crumbles. It's the 5th line revolution that says it's very, very practical, and this is what we are going to do.

For example, we're going to eliminate all the private farms and create one massive farm the size of Europe, and thus we'll be able to grow more than we ever imagined. Sounds practical yet can be devastating. "Oh by the way, in order to get all those farms, we're going to have to kill all the former owners, okay? We have to do that, as it's practical. We get them out of the way and then we can make this big farm." That's what they do; that is what they have always done. You know we can't get rid of them. Sometimes we turn them into heroes. Sometimes we turn them into villains. See after all, if they deliver, they are always heroes. You know as long as they fulfill the projection of those that are following that principle, they are always going to be heroes.

It's not just about establishing a new principle and a revolution, but it's about benefiting from it. There is no sense having a revolution if you aren't going to benefit from it. One of the oldest ways that exists in which humans have dealt with each other is to go in and attack the tribe in the next valley. Killing all the males, and impregnating all the females and dragging them home. This is part of what goes on, and is the way in which we learn from each other. That's how history has worked with one tribе conquering the next tribe - they bring their Gods to the conquered tribe, as well as their furniture, they bring their stuff. Ones that they conquered, they've got Gods; they've got furniture, and other things. Slowly those things come together and something new emerges out of that. It's the way it works. So basically we are designed to go to the next village and kill and rape.

There are many judgments about this, but the people that come in on this cross, that's what they are here for. Right now in this world, three billion people go to bed hungry - from that alone, all kinds of killing is waiting to happen. It just will, because it is all about food. The 49th gate demands that we must have what we need to eat, as a community we must have this. Without enough to eat, the tribe will go to war to get it - we're animals after all. The veneer and the patina of civilization on humanity is so thin, and so recent. People are running around with their morality trip, instead of understanding that all of these things have their place. They do.

But you know in a world, in which human beings are not properly fed, you can't run around crying for peace. You have to run around crying for organization. We have enough food to feed everybody - you know that's never the problem. One of the strongest themes at the beginning of this story is that to be in this global program, we must band together to survive. It was not easy for humans in the beginning to compete in the world. We really had to develop communal skills and communal skills that were rooted in violence and protection. We had to. You don't just get rid of that. You don't sit down in a marble building and write a law that you can't do this and you can't do that, because you can't legislate that. We are a totality and every single aspect of life is here. There are human beings that are carrying each of these aspects as archetypes.

The 49 has to make an enormous jump. When the 496 comes off the roof, it has to come off with principles in which it can provide for itself. Principles that allow it to provide for itself are principles that can open up for others. However, the moment that it has that and the moment that it steps down off the roof, what does it meet? - Desire. This is the way the program works -- you look back and you get nervous. You look forward and you sharpen your sword and then desire comes. As human beings, we're so helpless in the way that we are driven. We have no idea how powerful the whip is and how seductive the carrot is that is in front of us. It begins with the 30 gate and it begins with the Right Angle Cross of Contagion.

By the way, this is where we are right now, as this is the cross of today. It is the cross we are currently working with, and the energy that is programming us. Remember the story, you look back, you get nervous. You look forward and you join with your allies, where you sharpen up your swords and all of that. Then you get caught up in expectation about how all of that is going to bring you continued success, so forth and so on. With that you get down to the nitty gritty, that means you have to be busy as hell. This Left Angle Cross of Industry is one of the busiest crosses that you are going to meet.

When you meet somebody carrying this cross, you are meeting a dynamo. They do not stop. They are also the ones that are telling everybody else that they can't stop either. In other words, it is the insect program at work. Everybody has to carry the load and has to work. Everybody has to be busy. If you're not busy and you've got this kind of cross around, you'll always hear, "What are you doing sitting on your butt?"

Now remember, they don't necessarily know that what they are doing is correct. Plus they rarely do anything for themselves, but they do realize if we are not busy things are not going to progress - that is their whole motivation in life. Everything about our ability to be able to survive depends on us coming closer and closer together, and integrating deeper and deeper with each other to break down the barriers that separate us.

This being busy together is the way in which we are brought together. But it is still being brought together through union, and through union that is pointed at desire as the thing. In other words, "I'm busy because I have an expectation that my busyness is going to lead to something." Thus, if we are all busy doing something, it should lead to something. Well, we all know that isn't true. Busyness doesn't have to be productive; it just looks busy. Generators bumping up and down in their chairs, they may look like they are doing something - they're warming the chair.

The 30th gate is going to bring the deepest dilemmas to the human experience when the global themes reach there - in about 700 years or so. The field of desire has to burn out; it does. The expectation field has to burn out. Now the expectation field cannot burn out until we have concrete verifiable patterns that we can be secure with. so that we don't have to speculate anymore. But more important than that, we have to get to a point where universally we all can shout, "Been there, done that." The goal of the experiential way is that somebody comes along with a whole spectrum and palate of experiences and the 35 looks at all of that and says, "Done that and I don't have to get involved in all of that. I don't have to get involved in expectation and caught up in the desire."

With the presence of the 30th gate, this is the beginning of sexual desire as a basic theme in humanity. The 49, the gate of marriage and divorce, has preceded this. One of the basic principles that we start with is that we kill for our loved ones - you've got to feed your child, you've got to feed your partner, whatever the case may be. We start with that and it is very important to see that marriage has been established first in the 49 and then the sexual desire in the 30 crops up. In other words, the marriage bond is one thing, but sex is another.

Thus, we have two things that begin very early. One is that we need community, as we need to bond. Out of that will come the structures that we will eventually call marriage. But at the same time to see that the very next step in that is, "Yeah, marriage is great but you know that one in next village - whoa?" Because desire comes in and says "wait a minute, wait a minute - what about that experience? What about that experience? I've never seen a blonde before." There are all of these experiences that will open up, and the sexuality comes in, in a very, very strong way.

As we get to the close of the Left Angle Cross of Industry and to the 6th line - one of the things about the mystical transformation of the 6 line, is that we are going through a mutation of the 6 line now. That mutation will be full fledged in 2027 and then we will start to see that mutation emerge in children. When that happens, the nature of industry will change, and that is something very important. Currently this Cross of Industry could be called the Cross of Slavery, as these are the great slaves on the planet. "Let's be industrious. I'll be industrious for you. I'll work for you. I just need to be busy and I can be industrious for you. By the way while I'm being industrious for you do you think that we can make love?" It's all part of that process. The nature of that industry, the nature of that busyness will change the moment that those who come in on the Cross of Industry recognize that they are not manifestors - they are manifesting generators.

Any time you see a cross with any definition, that definition has an enormous impact. The 20/34 is one of the most powerful forces we have on the planet. It is the purest manifesting generator structure. Since it is an opposition in the wheel, it is common in society. This is a deep individual need to be active. However as we know, a manifesting generator playing the manifestor only meets resistance. Because of this resistance, the industrial development of the Earth, or what industry could do for us, has actually been slowed down and held back to such a degree that it would boggle one's mind. We are all so impressed in the last 100 years, how everything starts working faster, but in reality that pace was always possible for us. As we educate manifesting generators to respond, rather than try to manifest, then their industry, where they put their energy, will stop being slavery. It will begin being purely productive, and that is when we are really going to get the highest value out of these forces

In moving to the transpersonal, you get to the Left Angle Cross of Spirit. Basically it's like this, "Let me fuck you, so I can feel better - is that too crude? Well what to do it's good for my spirit." That's what it is, that's what it says, and that's what it really wants. Not only that, but what it would really like is a good meal as well. "Let's go to a good restaurant and then let's go make love." If you know someone with this cross and they don't have good food and love in their lives, they are devastated, as it is very, very important for them.

Food is one of the dominant themes, as we are still at the beginning of this first quarter of Initiation. We're still dealing with very basic themes of sex, food, and the needs that we must fulfill in order to continue our process and survive. The fact is that when you are here looking at the 55, with the 59 as the Personality Earth, one sees that the grounding comes out of the sexual strategy. The grounding is saying, "I get my spirit out of my sexual strategy."

With the transpersonal and the 595, you get to the line of seduction "Let me seduce you, because if I can succeed in seducing you, it is going to make my spirit feel terrific. It is good for my spirit; my spirit loves seduction." Someone carrying the Cross of the Spirit means a very dynamic individual theme of mood and spirit that can easily be down. In other words, if they don't get those things, these people can have problems with sexuality and food. Here you are going to find anorexic, bulimia, and people that are obsessed - this is stalker mentality, i.e. somebody obsessed with having to possess or having to make love to

As the Sun moves into the 5th line, and the left angle, you always come back to the same problem. Nothing harder than trying to be nice to another human being, because they tend to be just awful, you know. Well it's true. When you think about how many people you know in your life and how many people that you have met in your life - how many do you really want to talk to? All kinds of moralistic people want to make you uncomfortable with that, but it is built into us. The 37° is the gate of Love. Everybody sees that and goes "Oh, how lovely." But the detriment of love is hate, and one can turn into the other.

Someone on the Left Angle Cross of Migration says, "I don't want to be in this neighborhood anymore. I can't stand these people. I'm moving over there." This is the way planning moves. There are all these people busy planning things and then it's all done, and then what do you do? You have to live with these people. While you were building the community, everything was great. You're all busy building the community and everything is fine. But when the community is finished and you've got to be neighbors, that is another story. It is what you get in religious movements schisms. They all build the same house together and everybody is happy. Then they have to live together. Building the house kept them together; that's the planning and that's great. Then they live together and they say, "I can't stand you. I don't want to listen to you anymore. We're moving over here. We'll build another one over here." America was founded by this cross, by the Puritans, who were religious fanatics. We're migrating, we don't want to be here with you anymore because we don't like you, because emotional dependency turns love into hate" - that is the 37.

When we get to projection, the bargain breaks down, and it is intended to break down at that point. There is a wonderful scene in the movie Matrix where one of these computer machine guys is interrogating Nero and saying how terribly disgusting human beings are. As he describes what humans do, he says, "they take over one place and when they are finished with that, they move on and they tear up everything, and ...." Eventually he goes on to say that "humans are awful and they are viruses." Here's the virus! We were never content to sit in our own valley. Because the moment that we sat in our own valley, there is going to be somebody in the valley that doesn't want to be there, but doesn't want to leave on their own. So they muck rake around, get others to understand, and drag them off to start a new branch. Ants do that all the time, but we make a drama out of it when human beings do it. The ant just gets up and says, "We're gone." But we become enemies with the ones we leave behind - we hate them now.

Think about the transition that is going to take place in all of that when the 55 changes. When the emotional system wakes up, an extraordinary amount of changes are going to take place in the way our consciousness and awareness work. After all, the way we have been making bargains, the way we've been making love, even the way we have fallen in love has all been based on an emotional motor that carries no truth in the now. It's been chaotic, and it's been chaotic just about forever. We are coming to a point where that chaos is going to still itself, and that will change so many things in the way in which the bargain is actually established.

The Personality Sun/Earth are still in the 63/64, so pressure on the mental plane continues. But what is accompanying it are the Design Sun in the 26 and the Design Earth in the 45. Called the Left Angle Cross of Dominion, it is about the usurpation of power or taking power. The mind gives you a chance to take power. In other words, you may be a stud or have beautiful breasts, but if you really want to succeed you'd better have something in your noodle, because that is really going to make a difference between you and them.

So first there is all this programming that says you have to have all the physical equipment to do the job, and then suddenly we get into the mental stuff. "Excuse me, excuse me, it's not enough, it's just not enough." Usurpation is something that takes place out of the mental capacity, out of consciousness. In other words, if you are conscious of somebody else and he has a flaw, you can take advantage of it. Now there are people who say, "Gee, that's not nice." In some situations usurpation is the only way. After all it is transpersonal, they can't usurp alone. Usually the one that they take power from has been waiting for eons for them to come back and finally do it; after all it is transpersonal and karmic.

What that is really saying to us is that at the moment we think we have aa bargain in the community that may bring us some decent sex and children, now somebody can take it all away from us just because she is smarter than us. "Would you like to buy the Brooklyn Bridge? Give me your life savings." It is always a cliché, but you hear about a little old woman in Omaha who gave somebody, she never met, $85,000 to buy lottery tickets over the phone. Human beings get their heads cut off all the time, as there is always someone ready to take power

from you, always. This is a Darwinian reality - it is survival of the fittest here, a dog-eat-dog world. It is built in. When somebody comes along with this kind of configuration, one risk you take is that in inviting him to be your partner, you could end up being his slave. Just the way that it works. Now often they are really good at that, and it may end up being an improvement. It also may not.

Without the limitation of a fixed geometry, we now have a transpersonal geometry. This gift of being attentive connected with the 12th gate, a gate of articulation, becomes the possibility to deeply inform others. These are the world's great gossips; this could be called the Cross of Gossip. By the way, there is no negative connotation to gossip, as people have been gossiped about forever, some of it is good and some of it bad - what to do, it is gossip.

As informers, they let you know. Not only that, but they're freaks with their emotional system connected to their throat. Whether you like it or not, whether you are ready or not, they are informing you. As emotional manifestors, when they live out their design, wait out their wave, recognize there is no truth in the now for them, and that they cannot afford to just jump - only then will the Cross of Informing work very differently. Now with everyone living the notself, it tends to be the cross of blurting. They blurt things out at the wrong moment, and it all comes out of their attentiveness. Hearing something, they then blurt out what they've heard, and this can create all kinds of problems.

With the Personality Earth in the 47th gate, oppression is working underneath all of that attentiveness, trying to make sense out of things, and blurting that out. If you have a child with the Cross of Informing and you have an amphetamine habit, you have a problem. Suddenly at school the child is saying "Miss Jones, did you know about my mother's....

Whenever you are changing geometries, you are changing the way in which, a person who is coming in on that cross is going to be able to deal with another human being. Coming in with a right angle, they will be self-absorbed, and they are not going to get clear through the other, but only through themselves and their own process. But, with a left angle being, you have someone that naturally must align with somebody else. This is not selfish sexuality. This is not "I need to do it in a canoe." This is "Should we or can we or will we do that in the canoe." In other words, it is transpersonal. There is a joining in that which makes the experience possible.

In saying that, on the Left Angle Cross of the Plane there is recognition that there must be a way to find a balance between those two forces that guide these beings' life. They need to be able to survive and in a collective order. That's the 10; that's the 15, needing to survive in the collective flow. But, at the same time they must be able to satisfy this deep animal sexual need that is within them - to have those experiences that are exciting.

What comes out of that is trying to sell people on the fact that the excitement you have in the moment of meeting somebody is enough. In other words, fulfill your 36/6 demands the formula being that you can't make love to somebody who doesn't excite you. These people living on the Plane have to find this balance of the right behavior and still being able to fulfill their sexuality. This is not easy, particularly when you get to the 6h line and the very end of the left angle process with the 6/3 profile. Their process is to go into one side, get totally burnt in that one, and then rush to the other one until that falls apart - it is this endless turmoil of trying to come to grips with these two aspects and bringing them together.

The secret in all of this is that the Cross of the Plane demands intimacy, after all it is transpersonal. The only thing that will ultimately bring these two forces together is to enter into a relationship correctly, that's the moment they will find balance and the integration of those two aspects of their life. Only then will they get the right kind of partner, in which their behavior can fit into the collective flow and not place them in crisis when their intimate needs and their desires are met.

The Cross of the Plane - all of that is coming out of that Right Angle beginning in Eden. The movement is that first you have to be pushed out, and then you have to get into the sexuality. After the fixed crisis, you try to find a way through the other to get the balance in all of that.

The transpersonal brings us to the Left Angle Cross of Healing. The 25° is the only line of the 384 lines that deals specifically with healing and in that language. This cross is а combination of universal love and love of the body, brought together with this need for the joy of life, as well as the energy to correct and also the ability to be focused in that correction. Those that come in on the Left Angle Cross of Healing are here to heal or be healed.

Normally what you find in this cross is what keeps the pharmaceutical industry goingvast, broad-scale hypochondria. The 58h gate, despite the fact that it loves life, is still part of the channel of Judgment and the design of dissatisfaction. It is always looking for something to correct, otherwise it wouldn't be a very good healer. People who start off sickly tend to want to be healers. The enormous vulnerability on this cross opens up these people to being ill and needing others to heal them, and in being healed, being turned on to being healers themselves.

The nature of healing is such that no one can be healed without first being awake spiritually within themselves that is the theme of the Sun in the 25th gate. When Human Design deals with health, we talk about the relationship between practitioners and their clients or patients, that to be able to get them to respond according to their type, to be able to involve them according to their type, that you are going to have human beings that are going to get better quicker. One of the things to recognize here inherently in the nature of healing is that it is not just the energy. It's not just the recognition that life is terrible without health - that is what this cross says and what this cross advertises in the world. Life is a drag if you are not healthy. It is better to be healthy and poor, then to be rich and sick. This healing cross, though it is the Cross of Healing, is most often the cross of being sick, particularly amongst children.

When you look at the Quarter of Initiation, the only definition that comes out of those sixteen gates is the 25/51 - the Channel of Initiation. It gives its name, in that sense, to this very quarter. It says something essential, "Look we've got all this stuff - we started off, we've got all the tools. We have the equipment; we've got everything else. We have our sex life; we have our genetic reproduction, so that we can keep everything going. We have places to go so we can keep on conquering. We have all of that, but we have to have our health in order to maintain that."

There is a real transition that is taking place here the moment that you leave the first eight gates of the Initiation Quarter and move into the second, as the second has something else going for it. It's saying, "Look wait a minute. There are other things that are going to matter to us. It's not just going to be life; it is going to be quality of life." So quality of life becomes a big deal when you get into these next eight hexagrams, and that begins with the 25. "Yes, I have my woman, my hut, and everything else, but you know I can't walk on these legs." Health becomes something very important and it does something else. We are designed to get sick, which means that there are others that are designed to take power because we're sick. If you look at workers in America whose only job is to deal with those who are ill in one way or another, boy you've got a lot of people. It's a huge industry. So this is a power trip.

Remember something, there is something very funny here. After all the genetics don't change as fast as the civilization, obviously. When you go back to this time, what you are looking at here in the 25, is the Shaman, the spiritual guide. But the spiritual guide is also the medicine man. In other words, this is the original combination of what a healer was - they had to be part priest and part doctor. What comes out of this 25 and its emergence, though it sounds all lovey dovey- all this love, everything should be sweet, nice, and lets have a good life, as it is going to be rich and wonderful. But, out of that comes the recognition that in the beginning when you only lived 15 years it didn't matter. We have lived very short lives for a very, very long time - you either died when you were born or you died when you were 15 or 16. It took a long time to get to 30, as it was a highly competitive, dangerous environment.

One of the things to recognize is that this is the beginning of a whole new authority structure rooted in mind, as this quarter is about mind and the establishment of the mental maya plane. Since this is the authority of experts, you have new kinds of authority. Thus, it is no longer the authority of the tribal chieftain or the bully or whatever the case may be. There is another kind of authority that is emerging out of this that says, "I can heal you. I can make you feel better." Of course that was a very, very powerful thing because disease was there, and they had to wake up to the recognition that disease got in the way of the pleasure of life. So a whole new aspect of human culture developed. Out of this came incredible things - such as the whole educational process that we would eventually embrace - all of these things are rooted in this initiation out of 25th gate.

When you are dealing with the juxtaposition, it is a fixed fate, and their own line. But the moment that you step into the left angle, you step into the transpersonal where that's got to be moved back and forth. Here we have the Left Angle Cross of Upheaval. The Canadians have some wonderful expressions, and one of Ra's favorite is "shit disturber" - he would have liked to have called this cross the left angle cross of shit disturbing, because that is what these people are like. They muck around in things; they push buttons - these are the great button pushers. Just sticking their finger in the pie, they create more tension than any other cross on the planet - that's their job.

For every left angle there are two variations of each 5th line and 6th line. It is very interesting to look at the 5th line. The 18° is the only line that has to do with Therapy out of all 384 lines. That 5th line is either you're going to be ultimately a therapist or you're going to be somebody totally dependent on therapy - one or the other. You're either the mental patient or you're helping the mental patient. Thus, you can see that the Cross of Upheaval can be very, very disturbing. It overturns things. These are people that can be very disturbed in that sense. But they are always, always deeply provocative.

With the 5th line you're always dealing with projection, so other people are always projecting on these people that they're going to make trouble. Thus, you can actually call this the left angle cross of Jonah, because it also gets that reputation of bringing bad luck or misfortune simply because they shift things around. But, shit disturbing is healthy. Come into a town like Sedona where most people are waiting to die, it's nice to stir things around a bit, wake them up.

Whenever you look at any of these configurations, realize that you are looking at genetic aspects of the whole. People who are living out those aspects, they are living out a necessary component of the totality. Our petty moralities don't mean anything in the face of that. We might not like people who come into our lives and are provocateurs who disturb our little status quo. However, they can be of great value. But of course in saying that, realizing that the vast majority of humanity live the notself, and you meet one of these characters as a not-self, it's not all that pleasant. They are very provocative and turning things over and having a great deal of impact.

Now the 6th line of the 18, that is the sweetest thing, because it is the line of Buddhahood. The 18t gate as an Oedipus/Electra gate means that these people have their problems with momma and poppa. On top of that, if you come in with the 6th line. the 6th line is about being spoiled. In other words, those who come in on the Cross of Upheaval with the 18° are only allowed to muck around in the lives of those who allow them to. "Oh please come and make a mess out of my life. Please come and disturb my life - aren't you cute the way you do that."

These are very important agents who are basically agents for change. They launch into new things. Out of the juxtaposition, because they can't necessarily have control over whatever exists, they find something new to develop that they can control. By the time you step here into the left angle, it becomes a cooperative process and gets closer to what its real tribal nature is because it is transpersonal. So, out of this Cross of Endeavor come all kinds of new enterprises, which are controlled so that these beings can enter into them. For example, we have a worldwide endeavor to map the human genome. It is that kind of thing in which this cross can become instrumental by bringing forces together in a controlled environment in order to reach some goal. Another example was the American effort to put a man on the Moon - that is a classic example of this kind of configuration, in which you bring forces together, but they have to be tightly controlled. This is not about the mad scientist in his basement, but is about developing communal structures in which there is somebody controlling the direction and opening up some new area.

With the left angle, you get to the Left Angle Cross of the Clarion, and they try to shock you with the news. Being a clarion is basically a public job. Transpersonally their role is to bring shock to those who have been waiting for the shock. It is very different from the juxtaposition, who has the gift of shock for shock's sake. The moment that it becomes transpersonal, there is karma involved. So those shocked by the Left Angle Cross of the Clarion have been waiting for the shock.

This is Ra's cross, and he's learned that through the thousands of readings that he has done. It is incredibly rare that someone is not ready to be shocked - that's part of it, part of our bargain together. It is an unseen, unknown bargain because it is simply in the way that we are structured. Shock is what it is about.

The clarion comes with sound, and is all about making noise. So there is always this noise, blah, blah, blah that comes with this cross, as well as mutation, since 3 of the 4 gates are mutative gates. Because there are those waiting for the shock, they are also waiting for the mutation, which they are open to.

One of the fascinating things discovered about the way the brain works is the lock and key phenomena, in which you have receptors that are waiting for something that fits exactly into them. What happens in the mutative process is that if you are waiting to be shocked, you are carrying within you the potential to accept that mutation. Not everybody can be mutated. There are those that are totally resistant to mutation, and then there are those who just have a natural receptivity to being mutated. It is one of the inherent bargains that always exist in any left angle phenomena. People say to a 5th line person, "You seduced me," and he replies, "Yes, but you wanted me to." This is the lock and the key, which is the way that it works as part of this left angle phenomenon.

It is very important to see here that when you are dealing with the Cross of Penetration, people are not prepared for the shock. They are not prepared and suddenly recognize that they are being penetrated. Then you get the juxtaposition who says, "Hey, shocking is great, let's just shock."When finally you get to the left angle they say, "I'm only going to shock those that are ready for my shocking." Of course, it's not like they make that decision. It's just that they end up shocking those who are ready to be shocked.

You can see the strength of the presence of the 60th gate in all of this. Everything about the maya, as maya comes from the Sanskrit "ma," is about measurement. That is what the maya is, and that is what our mind is - the dualistic measuring machine, because there's this and there's that. The reality is that maya is established by limitation. That's how we can find and hold our universe together. We build the limitation, we build a wall around it, we build a hole around it, and within that limitation we create our world. That's the densest plane one can imagine. These people on this Left Angle Cross of Limitation are here to bring us into that plane. They are here to bring us to the limitation. "You can't go across the street now." They will take you there. They will let you know because that is their job.

You see there are two ways in which the maya is constructed. One is that things have to be given a name. That's the first thing, and the moment that they are given a name they have a place in maya. The next thing is that everything has to be given its limits. Since the 17th gate, we are dealing with time, and trying to figure out how time works. "What is life? Can we survive longer?" In the maya we get into the dense limitation, the limitation that is on all of our lives. Remember the theme of failure is still sitting here. Will we be able to succeed? - "Only if we accept the limitation," says the Left Angle Cross of the Maya, as that is their teaching. They tell us, "Yes, of course it's all an illusion, but it is our illusion. You're not going to do anything about it by trying to be outside of it, because you can't get outside of it." This is the maya that we are in, and they are great teachers in that way, constantly reminding us.

However, the way that they remind us can be very constraining. They tend to be the ones that put their hand in front of you and say, "You can't do that, you can't go any further, and that's the limitation." By the way, recognize how important that is. This limitation is about the recognition of what can or cannot be completed through the transpersonal, because there is an understanding, a grasp of the other. She says, "I can complete this with you or not. I'm going to be able to this with the other or not.”

When you get into the left angle cross, you get to a funny cross the Left Angle Cross of Wishes. This is something very interesting, because what it is about - it's what it's like to grow up in Uganda and know that the United Nation has a code to protect individual human rights. There is this kind of wish that you could participate in that law too - that would really be nice.

One of the things to recognize about the Left Angle Cross of Wishes, it is trying to look into the future. With the Design Earth in the 31st gate which is the expression of the 7th gate, the Sphinx gate of direction, they are always looking into the future. This 31st gate, as the gate of Influence in the channel of the Alpha, brings the design of leadership. Thus, these beings need to provide some kind of leadership into the future. But this is accompanied with the 41, which brings a new expectation, a new desire for a new kind of experience. Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if ... if we didn't have that law. but we had this one instead of that. If we didn't have this rule. but had this one instead. This is the Cross of Wishes.

The Cross of Wishes is very, very attractive. Think about a country like America that is built on lawyers. We've got this wish for a new law, let's get rid of that old law - that's all that politicians do in this country, isn't it? They change laws, that's what they are doing all of the time. They are changing laws in order to make things better in the future. Let's get rid of that old law. Let's bring in this new law.

It's left angle, and particularly the 5th line of the Cross of Wishes has a lot of impact, because they are saying, "Look, these old laws - they're no good." But since society needs stable patterns, the moment that you tell them that their stable patterns aren't good enough and need to be replaced, then you create tension within that society. There will be forces then that want to change, and forces that resist and don't want to change - this is the basic dynamic at work. Thus, these people with the Cross of Wishes never allow complacency in relationship to the law.

Now that is both positive and negative. If you're somebody that uses crack cocaine in New York City, you're in big trouble because the law changes, and it's not in your favor. In other words, we have all kinds of ways in which we say, "Look, we're going to have to make the laws better in order to deal with this or that or the other thing." These are very powerful forces, because they are transpersonal and you get to hear about them. They are the ones that get the publicly from saying, "That's a terrible law, and we have to change it." Of course, this is going on all over world at different levels, and at different levels of success as well. Wherever you meet the aspects of the Cross of Laws, you meet this need to challenge, whether or not it's the rules established for society, or that where you are in society is correct or fair - that is always going to be there.

The gift of the left angle is always being interconnected with past geometries. Thus, it has a sense of movement. Here that sense of movement is articulated best in this Left Angle Cross of Alignment. Now one of the most interesting things about these people is that they always have a way of dealing with the unexpected. They are the ones that know how to take that moment of transition and give it а proper direction - to align it, if you will. Now that cannot be done without risk. So one of the things to see about this left angle cross is that it often can bring great disaster. Think about it this way: You're riding a motorcycle and all of a sudden a car quickly backs up out of driveway directly in front of you - that's the right angle of this cross, the unexpected. But the Left Angle Cross of Alignment knows how to take that whack, knows how to fly out in the correct angle, turning his body in the right way to end up in the bush, instead of smacking into the concrete wall on the other side. Whatever the unexpected brings, this Left Angle Cross of Alignment can start putting it into proper use and bringing it back into the flow. It just becomes a blip on the radar map and away it goes.

It's like Jupiter taking in Schumacher-Levy. Hit by 27 fragments of comet, anyone of which would have ended all life on Earth, Jupiter took all 27 of them and swallowed them like nothing. The only thing that was left over was the smell of dead fish. This is one of Ra's favorite jokes, that the chemical analysis, of what happened when the comet hit the atmosphere, gave them a chemical substance that they described as something that smelled like dead fish hilarious, and with Shumaker Levy announcing the coming end of the Piscean age. But there is Jupiter, and it did nothing to Jupiter - this is the whole thing. At that moment, this entire configuration was at work, and by the time the last of the fragments had struck, it had already moved through the juxtaposition into the left angle. And there it is just taking it in.

There are two things to grasp about this personally. The people that carry this, because they will react instantaneously to the unexpected and try to take advantage of it, are the ones that make so many people unhappу, as they leave them behind. With the Design Earth in the 28, you have the line of Treachery. How treachery works on a mundane level would be that somebody has a teacher of something, whatever it is - music, dance, etc. She is very happy with that teacher. Everything is terrific. Unexpectedly a new teacher comes into town. Now the person with this cross will immediately align herself to the new teacher. Immediately! She will take that unexpected and immediately align herself and leave behind the old teacher that she had been so happy with. Now the abandoned teacher thinks that this student is terrible, and publicly says that the student was treacherous as hell.

Now the fact is, that by moving in that alignment, they may be doing what is correct for them, and that alignment will take them to better teacher, as an example. But in most cases, it is just simply that they will react to the unexpected and try to take advantage of it- it's like somebody on a trip and he sees a detour sign; he'll just try to take advantage of it - "Well, let's see where this goes." He ends up in Timbuktu, but that is simply there as a trait.

When you get to the 6th line, you get to trouble, because the 6th line is Blaze of Glory. These are people that will take advantage of the unexpected, try to align themselves to that unexpected, and then suffer perhaps the most drastic consequences. Blaze of Glory can be a line of depression, of suicide, of all kinds of things. These are very interesting forces, these beings as they are able to leap onto those moments of the unexpected, try to take advantage of those moments, and align to those moments. But in terms of their relationships with other people, they leave a lot of people behind - one way or another by trying to grasp onto that next movement.

When you get to the left angle cross, you get to the theme of this way, which is to come into the meat. It is the left angle cross of Oscar Meyer. Ra is asked over and over again about incarnation. He doesn't like the term reincarnation, because we're always incarnating - we're just incarnating. Asked a lot about incarnation, he's heard so many stories from people about this, that, and the other. He has met a lot of Cleopatra's and Caesar's, and all of that stuff. Fact is, that at least from what Ra was told, that we incarnate so much, it is pointless to think about it. It's just an endless roller coaster. This whole business about "I haven't incarnated in 8,000 years," - it's just a joke. They don't know. It is in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out. It is going on all the time.

Look at incarnation at a minor level in your life because it is so easy to think about. We know that every single cell, every single living cell, has a design crystal and a magnetic monopole. We also know that cells have a very limited lifetime, as they come and go all the time. Look at your hand and imagine if you can, there are literally tens of thousands of cells that are dying all of the time. What is actually happening every time those cells are dying is that the design crystals and the monopoles are racing down into the Earth. If you could actually watch all of this, you would see this incredible movement going down, but at the same time there are new ones coming up. That cell that dies, instantaneously there is another one that is going to be there to take its place - it is going to stand in the same place, do the same job, just going to take over.

We are just coming in and out - we're coming in and out all the time, just moving in and out. This is the way it goes - we keep on getting new cars, moving through, and getting new models. This is the quarter of incarnating, after all. By the way, the vast, vast, vast majority of crystals never incarnate in a living form - the vast majority, like in the high 90th percentile. Those that incarnate, it is their job. Buddha had that. He said, "Jesus, get me out of this job. Because that's the job, you just keep on coming in, and we are all veterans. In this round, everyone who has ever been alive has always been alive. That is just the way it works. You just keep coming in and coming in and coming in, and the information goes back. We're the guinea pigs in the game and the ones that live out consciousness in form at its highest level so far.

At a personal level when you meet these people, on the Cross of Incarnation, they are the ones that have the "fractal relationships." Remember back in the beginning at the Big Bang, we had two crystals that met and shattered. If you take a crystal and shatter it, and then if you could put it all back together by reversing the film, and map out all of the aspects of all those fragments, you would see that there are certain fractal lines. As an example, the position of your Personality crystal may be on an angle with somebody else's. When you meet him in your life, and you will, you will meet somebody on your geometrical line.

People on the Left Angle Cross of Incarnation just know that. These are people that have always suggested that we incarnate. They are aware of it at some level or another, but mostly at the very mundane level. Not in the language of incarnation, although that is more common today because of the influence of the New Age. But it is more this sense of having met someone before. You could call this the left angle cross of déjà vu - this sense of having been here before. There is a very, very strong aspect of this within them, and they sense that there was another time, or another place. However, without the privilege of Western society and New Age dilettantism, they are not going to see things in that way. They are just simply going to have a funny feeling, and they walk around their entire lives with funny feelings, but they don't really get what that is all about.

These beings tend to be very, very valuable agents for others. If you are on their fractal, they are going to make a difference in your life, if you meet them. They can recognize what the way can be and the continuity in the way. They are deeply connected both to the past and the future, and in this ability they can recognize you in a deeper sense. In other words, they know something else about you, and they can also find something else for you.

The grounding of the way is Coming to Meet. Those that carry this cross are always waiting for incarnating forces that are going to make a difference in their lives. In saying that, understand that in most cases the way that works is parents through their children. This is one of those New Age concepts about you choosing your parents or this kind of nonsense. This is where this comes from, and also out of this whole "choice" business. People saying, "I chose to come in with this family or I chose to come in with these people." You do get children coming in on this cross, and they can become very special allies, because these are deep old fractal connections that are hooking up in the most dynamic biological way. Out of that, comes that reputation, or at least that idea that you can chose your family or whatever the case may be.

But they are very important; as they are able to give people a kind of direction that one ordinarily couldn't get at the mundane level from somebody else. They just wouldn't. Because when you meet somebody with a Left Angle Cross of Incarnation, you meet something else. When you get to the 6 line here in this last gate in the way of initiation, you get to a place of transition where you are not only going to transit into the Sun/Earth hexagram structure of the next cross, but you are also going into the next quarter - this is a major transition point that is taking place. The 24° is always about missing opportunities - as the Gift Horse, not seeing a possibility when it is there. The 73, of the Design Earth, is the Anarchist, and the 133 is about Pessimism. Incarnating is not something that is necessarily comfortable. It just isn't.

But the greatest opportunities of all lie in the acceptance of the form. Each of us has a Trojan horse that we sit inside of. The acceptance of that will allow us to reap the rewards, and that is the most dynamic theme here. Also, the 3rd line anarchism says, "We must move on now. We can't just stay here. It is time to be ready to tear this down and enter into something else." Remember that moving towards civilization moves us towards many things, one of which is the hope of being able to escape death and end coming back in.

Since we are in a changing place here, we are going to see that all the left angle crosses that appear just before a change of quarter, are all going to do the same thing - they are opening us up to transition, to change, and that change is trying to see continuity, trying to see the past and the future. Holding on to last sixteen gates, holding onto this initiation, yet at the same time looking towards civilizing, looking towards the civilization, the forms, the structures that wait for it.

A way of just seeing this quarter, from the 13 to the 24, inside your head is to imagine seeing somebody just simply naked. This is the primitive core of what we are. We're going to put clothes on when we get to the civilization; we're going to move from the caves of the first quarter to the edifices, to the cities, to the structures that will come in the civilizing quarter. In other words, it is ingrained in us, not simply to have all of this basic equipment, but then we're actually designed to put that equipment to work.

It brings us to a very important place. It is an argument that Ra has heard for many, many years and it is an argument that he's never really understood. People complain about things like pollution and radiation and all this stuff. Ra always tells them that these are natural, and they always get upset. They protest that is not natural, it's bad; it's this; it's that; it's pollution. Ra says again, "No, no, it's natural." You see as we move through this program, you will see that we are designed to pollute. We're designed to build, designed to kill, designed to tear down the forests. We're designed this way - that is the way it is. That is just the way it is.

Out of our ability to be able to move beyond our own aura and to be able to establish mechanisms beyond that, this is our ability to get to a place that really frightens people. Yet it is as natural as anything can be - to create life itself. You see. we are on the threshold of creating life, of being able to initiate life in a way that appears to be magic - that we will be able to create human beings in test tubes, make copies of those human beings, all of those things. Today there is a lot of moral talk about all of that. But soon, we're going to have a terrible time reproducing, and we're going to need every technique possible in order to continue to keep our species vibrant on the planet.

But out of this, out of this place here in the 24th gate, comes something that is very, very important for us. We are here to manipulate the environment - that is our ultimate role. Not only to be able to manipulate the environment, but to be able to manipulate our body, as our body is the whole. After all, this is a living thing. Ra doesn't know what the hell "it" is, and he doesn't care, but it is alive. We are all inside of it and all a part of it. All our crystals represent its design crystal - we are form consciousness itself.

So one of the things to recognize about the way in which human beings are seen at the mundane level, is that manipulating the environment is what we need to be able to. Please understand that. Imagine a baby in the womb who doesn't want to use its hands. Oh, you've got very sad parents when that baby comes out. This is a body - on the microcosmic level, we are here to manipulate everything, changing the color of this and that, enlarging this, and taking that away. Genetically we are manipulating that and none of it is unnatural. It's us, and it's in the program. It's always been there.

It is what we have to do in order to be able to take control of form. There is a point in which all of us potentially can take control of the form together. That is what these new children will be like, as they will be able to emotionally communication with each other in a way that we can't possibly understand. This means that there will be a way in which they can form

In the transition to the left angle, you end up always in the left angle through the transpersonal, meaning that no fulfillment is possible other than through integration with others. Here we have the Left Angle Cross of Defiance. The 2' is the way, and in the nature and structure of the hexagram, the first line is its truth; but the 5th line of any hexagram is what everybody else would like that truth to be. But it doesn't mean that is so.

The 5th line with its seduction can lead to expectation. The 1s line is always going to give you the essence. So when you get here to the Left Angle Cross of Defiance and you get to this 5h line projection, you get to the expectation of others - these are forces that are always defying the standard direction that is going on. Thinking that they have their own answer and a better principle, they are the ones that are going to defy what the general

direction seems to be. But, that doesn't mean they are actually defying it. At the beginning of this left angle with the 5 line, it is a projection by others that they are being defiant, even when they're not. If you have a line of children walking down the hall by a fire alarm, and one of those kids has the Left Angle Cross of Defiance, she'll happen to be just outside of the line. She doesn't even realize herself, because she's not trying to be defiant. She's going to be seen as being defiant, and it is going to be projected on her that she is.

With the 6t line - remember the relationship between 5th and 6th lines in profile. The 5th line is the line of universalization, so it is there to be projected upon, so it has the greatest opportunity to be able to provide, or be able to inform or mutate the other. But it is the 6th line that sits on the roof of the house, particularly in its mid-cycle, that is there to be able to attest to whether or not the 5th line heresy is valued or not. For example, in this cross, with a 5th line Left Angle Cross of Defiance, they are the ones saying, "We must break this, and go this way instead. This is not the right direction. This is not the way to go. Follow me." The 6th line is going to be able to say whether that's justified or not. So with the 5th line Left Angle Cross of Defiance, you are dealing with the authority to be anarchistic.

When these forces are truly defiant, then there is a break down in the direction. Now by the way that's normal. All of it is fitting in through the 2nd gate. The 2nd gate never disappears from this formation as we move through from the right angle to the left angle. It is always there, as it is all part of the direction. But there are incredible nuances in that. Look at the world that we live in today - we still have people that are living in the Stone Age but are still surviving on this planet. There are many, many different things that are operating at the same time. The Left Angle Cross of Defiance is what brings a movement away from any kind of status quo in direction. What it brings out is another aspect of a schism. It also brings out slight variations and slight differences.

With the Left Angle Cross of Dedication, you have a freak mind and underneath the 30th gate of desire and feelings, plus the 29th gate of saying yes and needing to make a commitment. Now remember when we met desire in the first quarter, sexuality became a theme. But here that desire is sitting on a back burner, and sexuality is no longer the dominant theme, as it has become the 23rd gate and its need to be able to explain itself.

These beings are great teachers, as they are the ones that can be deeply, deeply dedicated to telling the same thing to people over and over and over again, forever. Ra with his 43/23 mind knows what that is like, as he's been telling people about Human Design for fourteen years. There is something inside, that once you have the mutation you can keep on spinning it out. In this case these beings have it as a foundation, as the nature of their cross. These people are dedicated to explanation to the other as a fulfillment of themselves. Thus, they can make a deep commitment in their life to be able to help others be able to explain themselves. That is basically what this cross is about - to be able to further others in their ability to explain.

When you move to the Left Angle Cross of Uncertainty, the whole idea of making a contribution begins to break down, because it brings the fear that is rooted in the emotional system. This is the fear in the 55 - the fear that one will never get out of the darkness, the fear that no matter how much one civilizes, one can never get rid of the beast that is within. That beast that is within is the power of the 59th gate, which keeps on calling one to find one's spirit through sexuality.

Here in the Left Angle Cross of Uncertainty, we have the root of something very odd the dowry system. All dowries are rooted out of this cross, as there is a material contribution that needs to be made in order to secure the right spirit and intimacy. You know, "Give me 75 sheep plus your daughter and I'll be happу." This is where that comes from - in order to deal with the real uncertainty, which is rooted in the 55 gate, the gate that we'll see is going to be part of the Sleeping Phoenix. Of course, in dealing with that 55th gate, we know that it is a very, very moody gate, and with three of the four gates being individual, there is also going to be a great deal of melancholy attached.

There is all this sadness, and there isn't the first line of the 14th saying that Money Isn't Everything anymore. Instead there is just the call of the 14 and its energy saying, "Wealth is ours and we must have it." Rather than simply being able to find your spirit through sexuality, which is what we had in the first quarter, this is about more being necessary. We're going to have to have a nice house, with a nice little garden and a picket fence around it. Here is a civilizing factor that is placed on top of just the basic sexual drive, which says that out of this has to come a contribution and material wealth. Of course, then the uncertainty is based on the unconscious question of "Is one getting the right partner or not?"

When you move to the left angle cross, you get the Left Angle Cross of Duality, and with the transpersonal the difficulty of the split definition can be worked out. They are going to be beings that are going to be looking, and not just looking but meeting others through which they can find fulfillment. Through that process these two aspects of their life can come together.

There is an enormously important relationship that exists between the individual and the tribe. It is a relationship that the collective does not have with the tribe. The tribe will always be open to the individual mutation, always. It doesn't mean that they are always going to take it, but they are always ready for a mutation because the tribe knows that their genetic pool is limited, and they are always going to look for new blood. The individual always has an opportunity to mutate the tribe itself. This Left Angle Cross of Duality is a very, very important instrument in the world, as it is these beings that have a capacity within them to bring mutation to the tribe. Anybody that can bring mutation to the tribe is valuable.

In this particular cross with their busyness and industry, the tribe will be impressed, and can take advantage of their manifesting generating capacity. Remember that the 40/37 is really stuck, as it is a projected element looking to make a bargain. It will make a bargain with mutation as long as it is mutually beneficial. So these beings are very important for us, acting as bridges bringing together the tribe and the individual.

They also suffer, despite their transpersonal nature, from same dilemma as the juxtaposition. In other words, there is still this dilemma between what is individual in them (saying, "Leave me alone, I'm doing my own trip.") and what is tribal in them (saying, "Jesus, I would love to be with you and have dinner."). There is this basic conflict in that split that they are always dealing with.

Please understand that when it is transpersonal it is so different. Logic is a collective process, and here we have a cross that has three gates of logic: the 63 where the whole logic process begins at the mental level with doubt; the 9th gate holding the potential energy for detail work, part of the format for logic; and then finally the 16th gate, the Personality Sun, where you have the logical skills themselves. This is a very powerful logical cross.

This Cross of Identification is about getting other people to identify, so one can get the energy. These are the ones that can get the energy. This is one of the tragedies, one of the sad things that goes on in life, as you'll have 9 people or 100 people or 1000 people that are all competing for the same research dollars. Someone is going to get that, and oh boy, you can bet that 5h lines get more of those dollars. They can end up as disastrous failures, because it can all be projection. But they can seduce; they have that power; they can get others to identify with whatever the plan is, whatever the experiment is going to be, whatever the program is going to be.

Today this is somebody that can get you to invest in a stock. It doesn't mean that you are going to get rich with that, but it may mean they're very good at getting you to give them your money, because they get you to identify with the promise inherent in that. Because they are carrying aspects of the Cross of Consciousness (the 63/64), they really are inspiring. Now if you have a head gate, it is a pain in the neck to you, we all know that. However, it is very inspiring to other people. It is just the way that it works. So that the moment that you meet a left angle cross like this with their seductive capacity to get you to identify with their skills, they can really pull you into that. On top of that, they are inspiring you. You find yourself saying, "Yes, oh yes, I can identify with that. Oh that's great - where do I sign?" They are quick to reply, "Over here, thank you very much."

This abstract stream, being collective, is rooted in sharing. If you look at the themes of sexuality that are expressed in the throat, for example the 12th gate expressing romance and the 35th gate expressing desire, their language is very different. The 12th gate simply says, " I am happy or unhappy." It is the one that is unhappy. It may not know why, but it is either happy or unhappy, and it is personal. But the 35th gate says, " I'm unhappy because of you." Because it is not individual, it is collective and it is about sharing. One of the things about the Left Angle Cross of Separation - this is about the aftermath of experience. In other words, that experience in and of itself is not a bond. Experience in and of itself leads to crisis and in the end leads to separation.

There is something else much more significant in that. The larger the groupings of humans became, the more it became necessary to be able to live in a society in which you didn't know everyone. This is one of the things that is built into this whole phase of progress - to get to the point where you can be separate, and yet remain within the structure of the society itself. The kind of faceless urban existence that many people know today, in which you walk down the street and literally do not know anyone, that is here. But because we start off with a deep tribal conditioning, such an event is something that can be frightening and disturbing. If you have a stranger walking into the tribe long, long, long ago, the stranger might not come out alive. They could end up as dinner. The stranger is a threat, as that outsider doesn't look the same, feel the same, or dress the same. So one of the things about progress and this Cross of Separation is that they permit us to live in societies in which we don't necessarily know the people around us - that is a very, very important phase in our development.

The dynamic theme of Grace is underneath through the Design Sun being in the 22n gate. It is only out of this grace, that it is possible to be able to make room for all kinds of experiences and different kinds of beings, as well as the ability to work with them without having to have a personal or tribal relationship. Otherwise, it is not possible to bring those forces together, because there simply would be too much animosity. You have to have a genetic trait in us that allows us to put up with something different.

Through that separation, rather than waiting for a controlled experience, more experiences are possible, in greater and greater diversity. Until you get to that point where we are today in which everybody who has 5 minutes of fame writes their biography by the time they are twelve.

When you get to the left angle, you get to claims of rulership through confrontation, which often leads to violence. Every species has this. It is like bucks banging their heads together. This is part of the usurpation theme in the Left Angle Cross of Dominion in the first quarter. But here we have this Left Angle Cross of Confrontation - this is almost always coming from the outside. It is very similar in the theme to Dominion; the only difference is that this is coming from the outside with a right to be on the inside.

For example, if we look at that in terms of mythology, this is the child that it is denied its birthright. He then comes back and claims his birthright rightfully, even if he has to do so through violence. If everything is docile at the top, everything underneath begins to decay. We have all learned that in democracies. The longer someone is in power, the less effective they can be - a Senator for fifty years may not have a lot going on there. That is really docile stuff; there is not much going to happen. They are going to stay with whatever. Thus, we have built into us a challenge at the hierarchical level to those who wish to rule.

After all, those who wish to rule are more paranoid than those who have to serve. They are the ones that need the bodyguards, are always looking over their shoulders, and have to be careful. In this case, the Left Angle Cross of Confrontation is "we're going to get you." They are good at that. Today, this is the guy who tries to buy up companies, ripping them up, and not caring about anything. They just want to take control of it. This Cross of Confrontation can be quite something, as these are people that will not accept a lesser role and will not accept being in service. They will confront you with their power. If you defeat them, they will come back. They are here to make their claim.

Now of course they can be annoying, after all. Most of our genetic material is annoying. If you look at it piece by piece, you look at that and say, "Well, ummm..." because it is all these traits. Of course, we all know them; after all, we live in the whole program. We've got all of this stuff; each and every one of us has it stored in us. At different times, in different incarnations, we have lived out all these aspects - they are all there. In the moment that you see that and see the helplessness of that, it is the moment that you can get out of trying to compare whether this is good or bad, whether that is good or bad. Then you can finally just lie back and take in the whole and see what that is. You can't do that when you are still caught up in the personal, and you're still caught up in the vanity.

The fulfillment of this articulation is in the Left Angle Cross of Education. This natural movement starts in the right angle, "Well, okay we can't be innocent. We must pursue the world, and in pursuing the world come to grips with the form of the world." But, rulership itself must go through a phase where finally it gets to the point where it educates, and this is that point. Education through the 12th gate is lecturing, which is very different from being an 11 teacher. There are always two variations of left angle crosses. When we get to the second variation, the Sun will be in the 11th gate, and that is education in a different way.

As a 12th gate educator, these people are talking to you, not sharing with you. They are lecturing to you, singing you a song, or whatever the case may be - but you're not involved in that. This requires you to be what the 12 is always looking for - a graceful, receptive 22, taking it all in and being open to the potential of that mutation. "Let us educate the masses."

An interesting comment in the International Herald Tribune by the man retiring from being in charge of the International Monetary Fund said, "The work of the International Monetary Fund is the best thing in the world that has ever happened for children." Of course, he is right. It is one of those things to recognize that without our capacity to be able to bring together the resources that we need, the material resources, and then to turn those material resources into education, opportunities are limited - the more education you provide, the greater opportunities are provided. This is what this Cross of Education is all about. With an education your chances of being able to participate in a growing and evolving society are greater - you're going to be more secure and you're going to have better rewards.

With the transpersonal, you have the Left Angle Cross of Prevention. People with a 3rd line in their profile and people with the 18/58 are always going to meet what doesn't work. Always dealing with things that need to be fixed, and always seeing the imperfection in the world around them, it is very important for them to understand that this is a gift. It is a positive gift, in that without them and their knowledge, there would be no one to guide us away from constantly making the same mistakes over and over and over again.

This Left Angle Cross of Prevention is all about "Don't go there, because you're going to get into trouble." Out of love, as they are still guided by love, they are going to try to prevent you from doing things for your own benefit. You know that movie? Don't we all? "I love you, and you can't go out tonight." "It's because I love you that I am not going to let you take that terrible risk.... Blah, blah, blah." This is the Cross of Prevention - they care after all. That is important to see.

But there is something else in that. What lies underneath at the deepest level is that 18th gate sitting there and saying, "Wait a minute, wait a minute - there's something wrong." That is what it is for. Another odd way this cross operates is that it often gets in the way of relationships. "I really care about you and have to tell you, don't live with that person." So the Cross of Prevention often gets involved in the intimate aspects of people's lives, particularly when it comes to relationships.

Also having the Design Sun in the 17th gate, this cross is full of opinions. Possibly unsubstantiated opinions, but lots of opinions. So they are preventing you from making a mistake, from entering into a relationship that may not be good for you, from stepping out of the flow. They can feel very restricting, after all; but then again they are only doing it because they love you.

When we move to the left angle, we get to the Left Angle Cross of Demands. You see it is one thing to point it out and say, "Look there is a problem over there." It is another thing entirely to demand that something be done about it. This is the protest movement. These are the demanders - "We demand that something must be done, that a solution must be found. that correction must take place, that we must take control here." Imagine what that is like to walk around with that, and to understand what that really is. How important it is for them to fulfill that role. Remember something about the nature of logic. Logic is robbed of energy; it is desperate for energy. It is always looking for backing. These aren't people that ask you for your support - they demand it. They say, "Now pay attention. We must do this now!" They demand it.

In demanding it, of course, they appear to be taking control, and they get into a lot of trouble. Remember the 21 is unconscious in their design, so they don't know that they are always controlling or trying to control. They are not consciously participating in that. In making their demand, what they are really trying to do is to make a correction for the collective. In return they hear, "You're power hungry. You are just trying to take control. You're a bad person." Thus, they get a lot of flak, because they really are misunderstood.

Not motivated in taking power, they are motivated by insisting that something get done. "Somebody clean up that mess!" Go into a restaurant where something has been spilled, and nobody's cleaning it up. Finally somebody sitting near the spill just screams out, "Is anybody going to clean this up?" This is the demand. They are there. If you are a generator on this cross, and you're not clear - boy is this frustrating, because you are always trying to manifest your demands. Of course, you only meet resistance and there doesn't seem to be

The Left Angle Cross of Individualism is the most individualistic of all crosses. There is nothing quite like these creatures, as their very individualism is what is a constant provocation to others. These are people that you cannot influence in any way, shape or form. It is not possible to do so. As a matter of fact, they are so good at being able to resist influence that influence just backs away.

Being so individual, these are truly unique creatures, but this means that they often have a great deal of difficulty fitting in. They can be so provocative that there simply is no room for them. This provocation isn't the kind that presses your buttons, but they do things in such a different way from what is accepted, that in and of itself is the provocation. They are quite unusual as creatures.

Remember something - civilization is a dead duck without mutation. You've got to have mutative forces and their creative input. So these are very powerful forces in bringing mutation and in bringing mutation without being influenced in any way. That can also be a handicap, as somebody that is so purely individual can ignore all of the collective consequences of their actions - until it catches up with them, and they end up paying quite a deep price for being so very different from the rest.

With the Left Angle Cross of Cycles, we are lead into a deep understanding that what we have to do is continually go through cycles. Now this goes back to our incarnative theme of constantly coming in. It is very important for us to keep on making new beginnings, keep on working and transforming, because that is the continuity itself. If you look at the heading for the 32nd gate, Duration - it talks about that "the only thing that endures is change." This is the great continuity, the continuation of change as a process.

So the Left Angle Cross of Cycles is bringing the cycle and the energy for transformation. But that transformation is all about building industry and a framework of a material society. It is all about succeeding and not failing. At the instinctive level, because the instincts are in this channel of the 32/54, the deepest fear of all is the fear of extinction. Since the fear of extinction is the deepest instinctive fear, being able to go through and process cycles preserves us. The format channel is the channel of Maturation, the maturing process of the experiential way, and what it is to be human. The real success of being human is that you are born, you have a life, and you die. That is the continuity - that is the beginning, the middle, and the end.

The Left Angle Cross of Obscuration is a funny cross. Has anybody ever read Alice Bailey? - it certainly seemed like she was on the Cross of Obscuration. This is when the detail is really fuzzy, and is used to hide or obscure things. Detail is given, but nothing is really said. The Alice Bailey comment refers to the Books of the Tibetan, which were written in nineteen-century language, but are so typical of obscuration. Something would be said and followed by, "Only the experienced students who has

reached the seventh level of blah, blah, blah will have an inkling as to the importance of this previous detail." - what detail? You would go back and look at what had been said thinking, "What are they talking about? There is nothing there - obscuration."

Since logic is starved for energy, people will cheat to get the energy. They obscure through statistics and details. They try to cover certain things up, so they can still maybe get access. Cheating a little bit on the records, they change the numbers slightly - a little obscuring, and always for the benefit of the other, after all.

Another thing about the nature of being obscure, these people can get into detail that is so unimportant and so unnecessary - so it seems. They can strike others as being really bizarre. The person who needs to know how many Smiths are in the phone book. You think well - is that essential? Nonetheless, they can truly get into obscure details. One could make fun of that, but at the same time obscure details can lead to extraordinary discovery. Let's not forget that. We can be grateful that there are some people somewhere working away on some obscure little detail that one day may be of value to the collective as a whole. However, if you have them in your life telling you every day at dinner about their obscura - you may find that to be a little much.

When you enter into relationships as yourself, these aspects of these crosses, whatever they are, you get to see the mythology and not suffer the pain. After all, the deepest part of this information is to recognize that these crosses are all archetypes. They are all archetypes of all the gods we've ever known, of all the forces, demons, spirits, sprites - we are all living out the mythology of these crosses. For each and every one of these crosses there is a mythological story and the gods and goddess that play that game. Because we are all carrying that inside of us, you can begin to see your own cross and the crosses in others; just watch it. Watch the helplessness, as we dangle in our puppets play, and at the same time see the beauty in all of that - the contribution that is made by each and every one of us - helplessly.

Somebody comes up to you and is telling you something very important, and the Left Angle Cross of Distraction comes along and interrupts all of that. You never get to hear what that other person was going to tell you, as you've simply been distracted. Now these beings can also be magical people. You're at a cocktail party where all kinds of conversations are going on, but suddenly everybody is listening to one conversation that is the power of the Cross of Distraction.

It can distract you, which can get you into a lot of trouble. You're about to cross the street, hear this voice, turn, and get side whacked. So it is one of those things that can present some difficulties. It is a real siren song, particularly when you look at the Foundation Cross of Universalization. With the 27, which is the mother, the natural nourishment, plus the 281, the basis of intuition, of being able to take risks, you have a very, very stimulating force here. Then one gets this distraction with seduction at the top with the 56, Attracting Attention. These people are always attracting attention, whether for good or for bad. Sometimes the attention is very negative and can be at the wrong time. If you have the Left Angle Cross of Distraction, please don't go across the border with a ton of marijuana on your back, because you are liable to get into a lot of trouble. It is one of those things to really grasp.

These are forces that have the power to break you out and pull you into their thing, into their stimulation. Again, that can be very nice or not. Another interesting sub-theme to look at is the way that is received culturally. In English, because of the way the language is established, the verb shows up very, very early. Thus, it is very easy for Americans to interrupt each other, easy to break in and distract. In other cultures, it is not so easy. German is a good example where the verb is late in the sentence; you've got to wait until someone finishes. If you listen to German conversation, they all seem so polite, not like the Americans jumping on top of each other, as quick as they can. They jump so fast that sometimes they are jumping before the verb is even stated, but they can because of the way English is structured. So distraction is less of a problem for the Americans. But, if you are too distracting in the wrong society, you can be severely punished for taking attention away from what people should be paying attention to. Thus, people on this cross can often get into a great deal of trouble. This is one of the least focused of crosses, needless. to say. The fact that they distract others means that they are always distracted themselves.

Powerful leaders are on the Left Angle Cross of the Alpha. Transpersonal geometry impacts the largest number of beings. Also the left angle begins with the 5th line Personality and the potential to universalize and seduce. Because it is a line of projection, it is always getting the projection from others that it can be the Saint, the Savior, the General, or all of these themes.

But most of all the 5th line is about practicality. One of the reasons the left angle succeeds in fulfilling its role of passing information onto others is that 5th line theme of practicality. By bringing practical things, it can reach the largest number of beings. In the Left Angle Cross of the Alpha, you have practical influence - guide others by resolving things on the mental plane for them, but more importantly than that, to assure them that they are going to be able to survive.

The Left Angle Cross of the Alpha is very important. Remember what an Alpha is in the mammalian world the Alpha is the one that ensures that everybody gets to eat. Aside from the sexual and hierarchical rewards they receive, the fact is that if they aren't very good at making sure that everybody gets enough, it is not going to work.

It is absolutely necessary here with this practical influence to bring release from the fear in the 44th gate, the fear of the past and of extinction. This is the fear of being removed, of not having enough to eat, and these are very, very deep fears. The Alpha can resolve those fears for us - now of course, that's the projection. The projection is that the Alpha will take away the mental consternation and our fears of not being able to support ourselves. It is going to do that, just by being the Alpha - others will then say, "Okay, you're one, and we'll follow you." That is what the Alpha is here for, and when they mature they are always going to be in influential positions, exercising that power.

That brings us finally to the Left Angle Cross of Refinement. The last left angle cross before the turn was the Left Angle Cross of Alignment, and here we have refinement. In this cross, it is not enough just to have your house, you have to do something with it - get some nice carpet, paint the walls, etc. Where do you think all that stuff comes from? What is a civilization without a fork, a spoon, a bowl, a jug, a cooking element, or whatever - we can never forget all of those things.

It is not enough just to have that box; that boх has to be filled up; it has to be refined. The way of life has to be refined. For example, walking down the street of a town, and there are all of these high walls, and everything is covered in graffiti and is dirty. Then you open up this gate, walk through this courtyard, and walk into a palace. On the outside there is this ugly box, but on the inside is this incredible refinement. It is all there inside. It is in the nature of who you are - the environment that you live in, because of the neutrinos, that environment and you are one. With an enriched environment, you enrich your life, and without, you don't enrich your life. It just works that way. The ability for the individual to be able to grow within the privacy and protection of their own territory and realm, to be able to refine their life - out of that comes the talent to create beautiful things.

They had a mini Ice Age in Europe in the thirteen and fourteen century when it got very, very cold. All kinds of things came out of that - tapestries on the walls, new games to be played inside, and the architecture changed. Instead of the nobility living on the ground floor, they went upstairs to get the heat. Everything changed. We must understand that the environment that we have needs to be refined, because refining that environment is refining ourselves. This is what this Left Angle Cross of Refinement is all about, that your retreat not only becomes a place where you have shelter, but becomes a place of inspiration, where you can express your deeper nature. It is where you can get what's inside of you outside. In traveling and going into people's environments, you are only looking at their larger body. You are not looking at anything else. You are just seeing an extension of what they are.

If you take the Cross of Refinement to its mystical level, you will see that there is a deep refinement that is taking place inside. That out of this, because the Sun is in 33, can come real revelations about how refinement can really be achieved. In other words, the way in which one can really open up the possibilities of a full life within your own domain. We all need that. We all need that place of sanctity. Everyone needs to keep in mind that in not paying attention to the world we live in, we diminish ourselves. It is very, very important to pay attention to the aesthetic environment that you live in and the quality of the aesthetics of your environment. Beauty heals. Everybody can achieve that kind of insular beauty, as long as they recognize how important it is for them.

When it shifts fully into the left angle, we have the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Masks. Now there are four variations of a right angle, but only two variations of a left angle. Here is the second variation of this left angle. When we first saw it the Personality Sun was in the 13th gate, but in this variation is in the Personality Earth. In other words, this is a 180° opposition. It is the opposition at the Personality level, and that is how we get two variations of every left angle cross.

Initially the Personality Sun is in the 75, and the 5th line is the line of the General. Everyone projects on the General, that she is going to be able to solve the dilemma, always. With everyone projecting on the General an image, a mask, this Left Angle Cross of Masks is one of the great projection crosses.

The General is very important to us because he operates on a principle that we can live with that is, he takes absolute authority and power in times of crisis, and provides a practical solution. Then when the crisis is over, he gives up power voluntarily, as that is the role of the General. Everybody who meets the people carrying this cross are projecting on them that they are the ones that can bring the solution, and so many of these masks end up being shattered. The 5th line lives and dies by its reputation. So if you project on a 5h line that she can deliver, if she doesn't deliver, her reputation gets destroyed. If she delivers, her reputation rises.

The 5th line is also about practicality, so this is about practical leadership. But it is all the projection of others that create it. Of course, people carrying this cross can crumble and fall very easily if they are not prepared. If you have either a 2 or 5th line in your profile, you have to recognize that preparation is something that is very important in your life. Being called on, projected upon, if you can't deliver the goods, you are going to suffer the consequences. So it is very important to be prepared.

One of those things to giggle about is that revolution comes out of blind formulizing. As its root, that is a real hit or miss piece of business. What it is going to depend on is that its left angle, transpersonal, and if its the 5th line, it is about what is practical - that is a conditioning factor. In other words, if that formula doesn't have some kind of practical basis, it isn't going to be able to be revolutionary.

The other thing, in the juxtaposition with the fixed nature of 4th lines, they must continue to just put out their thing, regardless. When you are dealing with the 5th and 6th line and the transpersonal, the fact is that nothing grows literally without the other. Here in this Cross of Revolution, we have the practical answers, with the 5th line, that have to be there. These are not people that simply want to have a formula for a formula's sake. Appreciating the fact that a formula can work theoretically, they are really interested in what has practical application. 1 am a practical revolutionary, with the 49°. If Human Design weren't practical, it wouldn't be useful. What's the point of anything that isn't practical? Of course, that is a 5th line philosophy. With this revolution, we are talking about practical revolution based on practical theories, not coca mammy stuff.

This is the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Industry. 180° from where we first saw it, through the 30th gate, 5th line. The Cross of Industry has a problem that comes with the 20/34, the Channel of Charisma - where thoughts, and awareness must become deeds. But there is no awareness attached to this channel. 20/34s have an enormous power in this life - after all, they are manifesting generators. Once they respond, they can jump right in, but they desperately need guidance in their life. Without guidance, that charisma never gets to shine. That is why so many charismatic figures in history have always had some kind of Svengali in the background, some kind of guiding force in the background.

In this Left Angle Cross of Industry, you get to the 295 which is a very difficult line, as it is the line of Failure. This is where those commitments being made simply pile up until you can no longer carry the weight. Ultimately it is bound to fail and those promises will be broken. So the people coming in on this cross come in carrying this. If they do not have guidance, they are just going to meet disaster. Roaring into it with that 20/34, "I'm busy now. I'm busy now. I'm busy now," until all of that simply leads to them physically or psychically collapsing.

I have met, as anyone who has worked professionally in Design has, so many 20/34s. After all, these three oppositions in the zodiac produce definitions, and the 20/34 is one of them. Thus. it means that it is one of the most common phenomena we meet. After all, the Gods created us to be manifesting generators - we're here to respond, and then work like hell. Of course, without guidance we don't know what to do. These people can be busy with nothing, with absolutely nothing, and then suddenly they are so busy with so much nothing, that their whole life falls apart.

If you have these people in your life, and you are going to have them in your life and meet them, they need to understand the nature of their design, their type and authority, so they can fulfill what this left angle cross is all about. The projection on these people is that they are the ones that can carry the burden that can guide us into our whatever - industrial age, technological age, etc. As the backbone, they can put their shoulder to the wheel; they are here to make the commitment and do the work. But, they are not here to do just anything. Also, they are not here to do many things at the same time, because it isn't going to be productive. It is essential that they know what is for them.

Remember any generator, and 70% of the people on this planet are generators, that doesn't live out their nature is putting out a vibration that doesn't bring anything to anybody - just discomfort, frustration, and things do not run properly. So the moment that you take a force like this and tune it so he knows what he is here for and how to react in his life - then things get done.

The second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Spirit is the opposition of what we saw last time when the Sun was in the 55t gate. Now the spirit is coming through the 59° - which is such a funny line; it is a line of seduction. All about seduction, the 5th line is what we want a gate to be. We don't want to be the 1st line caveman; it is kind of boorish, but what we would really like is seduction and romance - that is the 5th line. But the whole thing about the 5th line is projection. A 59° standing at a checkout counter has gas and winces. The person next to him thinks that he's flirting with them. There is no salvation, because it is a line of projection. Everybody is projecting on you that you ready to be intimate, whether you want to be intimate or not. Everybody is projecting on you that you're coming on to him or her. You've got something in your eye, and they think you're coming on to them - no matter what you do. If you deny it, then they get angry with you. "You're a tease," and all of this stuff.

Think about people coming in on this cross - they're always in the projection field, always. Of course, what happens is that you get into that projection field, and you end up with somebody and of course it's all projection - "I thought you were ...." "Well, I'm not." "But, I thought you were." "It's not my fault."

When you get to the 59, remember we're going to have a mutation that is going to operate through the emotional system and affect our intimacy. It is also going to operate through the 6th lines, so all 6th lines, wherever they are, are all going to be affected by the mutation. This is the nature of genetic continuity. Looking at the 59° and the 55° together, it is in the 55° that the mutation is actually going to take place - in other words, these beings are going to be the most sensitive to that phenomena.

The 599 has the name "One Night Stand." have talked many times about what that really means. After all the 6tn line goes through its three different segments of life. In the first 28 years or so, in its first Saturn process, it lives out basically a 3r line theme, so that its sexuality is rooted in bonds made and broken. Yet at the core of all 6 lines is optimism, that is the need for hope and trust. So those first 30 years for 6 line beings sexually are chaotic, and what happens is that the one-night stand becomes a disaster, so they become deeply pessimistic about it.

By the time their Saturn return comes, they climb up on to the roof of the house and move away from intimacy.While they are on the roof, they are looking for their soul mate, whether or not the soul mate can exist, and whether or not it is out there in the world. I've often told the story about how people up on the roof, when they see a good relationship, tend to want the person in that relationship for themselves. In other words, they observe and they are always looking for what works out there. At the Kiron return, they have to come down off the roof, and re-engage in the world and in intimacy.

Think about what this mutation is really bringing - our sexuality, as we know it, is going to come to an end. Now it is not going to come to an end in a hurry; it is going to take hundreds of years. But the nature of why that sexuality is there, there is really only one soul mate that you can find it is within yourself. We are programmed through two crystals, and they are very different in the way that they operate. We are only consciously familiar with one, and yet we are guided and live within the domain of the other. The moment that you come to your own nature, to your own design, the moment that you allow those two aspects of yourself to be the whole that is greater than the sum of the parts, that's when you find your soul mate, because that is when you find self-love. Without self-love, there is no love. It is all just a charade.

The deepest love that is possible is there in the 6th line, and in the wisdom that the 6th line can finally grasp. It is not about finding that on the outside, it is about finding that on the inside. When you have that on the inside, it is very easy to see who is for you on the outside - this is the transformation of spirit that is possible here. The 55th gate is at the root of our emotional need for love, for love as romance, and for love that is deep. This is all about the transformation of the relationship between sexuality and love. As I said, I don't know what that leads to, but certainly all of that is going to change. As the emotional system becomes aware, the way in which we operate emotionally will change. Remember that the solar plexus guides the way we eat. It is the greatest influence on our sexuality and it is our domain of pleasure and pain.

What's really cute, as you go from the 59th gate, which is the sexual strategy for intimacу and reproduction, to the 40th gate, which is masturbation. Isn't that sweet - "Ah, shit! What did I get into? Do you want to find your soul mate? Okay, it's me. It's not them."

Now we get to the full left angle and the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Migration. In the first quarter, this Left Angle Cross of Migration was deeply connected to our aggressive tendencies and our need, by design, to constantly expand, move on from one valley to the next, keep on conquering, and to keep on taking over. That was through the 37. Here with the Sun in the 40th gate, it's the other side - many of the ghettos in Eastern Europe in the early years of Nazism refused to migrate when migration was really the only thing to do. It's the other side, as it is not migration to conquer. It's not about going out there and getting away - this is about migration to escapе.

We have two kinds of migration, two ways in which tribes and cultures have moved - one is that there are those who conquer and those who run. There are those who escape; they simply pick up, get out of there, and they move on. But, on this side, you have a different kind of migration - you have those that are only ready to migrate when they are forced to do so. Otherwise, they deny it. "No, no. They are not going to take our property. No, no. They are not going to take away our homes. No, no. They are not going to take our lives." Of course, if you wait too long, you don't get to migrate, other than in boxcars.

We have these two ways, and both of them are very important in the way in which human beings operate. It is not like one is better than the other, worse than the other, whatever the case may be. But it is one of those things to see that the forces have never allowed us to bе still. We are not allowed to be still. What is the statistic in America? That once every two years, 30% or 40% of the population move. They just can't stay still - ants in their pants. This is where that comes from. It is like all of the white flight that filled up the Southwest. Everybody in the Northeast was afraid of blacks, so they all went running down there. That is classic migration of this kind, where you are moving away from something that you fear, or moving away from something that you feel is threatening to you. The net result was that the Southwest got developed. It is not about the morality of what creates that kind of phenomena. It is to understand that it is built into us, that it is built into us to have flight as migration, as well as conquest as migration.

The next movement, and you can see where all of this is going, is to go to the Left Angle of Dominion in its second variation. When we looked at the Cross of Dominion the first time, I talked about the theme of usurpation, about taking power. It is not about having the right necessarily, but it is about having the possibility of being able to get to that place and take that power. One of the ways in which that is done is through the manipulation of the past. Think about your classic Shakespearean play - think about disinformation - how disinformation can then lead to certain beings taking on certain actions, in order to benefit somebody else. Let's make A and B angry with each other, because if they kill or weaken each other, then C suddenly takes a dominant position. It is the way the world works; at least it is part of the way the world works.

Left angle crosses are the ones that have the impact on the general society, strong transpersonal impact, because they are always connected to others. So it is always possible for them to seduce others, and bring others, to wherever their position is. One has to be careful about the way in which you deal with these beings on the Left Angle Cross of Dominion, as well as the Juxtaposition Cross of Confusion. If you are not aware, the way in which they give you the past can end up being very misleading and detrimental to you. By the way, it is not like it is their fault - it is the way that they work. You know, you may be the jerk, and they may just be getting you out of the way. It is all rather relative. However, it is important to see that they are manipulating the past for material or authoritarian gain.

I was never into astrology and had no astrological background when I had my mystical process. But based on what I know about Human Design and the relationship of Human Design in the matrix to the wheel, there is no zodiacal sign that is more incredible than Virgo. To look at the gates of Virgo, the 59, the 40, the 64, the 47, and the 6, with a touch of the 46, you are looking at the Channel of intimacy and the Channel of the abstract mental process. As the most complex zodiacal sign and in many ways the core of life, as it is out of this sign that we reproduce. It is out of the 59/6 that we bring the continuum of life into the world. So Virgo is something really special.

This leads us to the Left Angle Cross of Informing, again this whole process of rulership. One of the things that you will see is that rulership is right angle. Think about that: The ruler rules because he or she wants to rule - it's a personal thing; it's their personal destiny. But the moment that you get to the left angle and it becomes transpersonal, you stop being an autocrat, stop being totally absorbed in your own rulership hassles and problems, and you begin to inform others. This is the need to let others know, in our modern language, what we call open government, so to speak.

It begins with the 475 that is the line of the Saint. These are people that despite their oppression are able to help and give succor to the oppressed. There really is, let's call it the heart that is necessary in all the demands of rulership to be able to care for those that one rules. Here you have this concern about those that are oppressed. Remember that the inspiration comes from the past. The inspiration is always a reminder of "I don't want my people to live like this. I don't want family to live like that." Whatever the scale happens to be.

Another thing here is the articulating capacity. You have a very, very important definition with the 12/22, in both the juxtaposition and the left angle. With the deep social skills that are here, this is after all the social channel of the individual, the Cross of Informing has the capacity to get people's attention and be mutative. Now by the way, to inform has many qualities. Remember that left angles can always get into trouble, because left angles always carry a 5th line. Now remember that Ra often pushes out the 5th line with the same kind of image, so it is important to get the other side. Yes, you've got the General, and the Saint, and the Savior. Yes, you have the Heretic. But you also have treachery, because the 5th line carries treachery. So it is one of the things to see is that they can be treacherous. In other words, they can inform for their own benefit or they can inform for the benefit of the whole in order to protect the whole in other words, leak secrets for example. By leaking those secrets, they may in fact put certain things at risk, but they're concerned about the larger whole and in protecting the community.

The other thing is that the 12/22, because it is individual, is melancholic. The general way in which informing comes out in the world is through art. The 12/22 is about poetics, music, and the writing of songs. So there is a lot of information coming out of here. Of course, in many places there was a tradition where either it was the poet, the singer, or the troupe that came to the village to bring the news and information; they would inform others. So much of this informing is done through art. For example, the secrets are told hypothetically in a novel. The power is lived out, for example, in an artistic form. But it isn't always something that is going to manifest as a political reality.

When we move into the left angle, we move into the densest aspect of the world. This is the Left Angle Cross of the Plane. The left angle is the advertising agent of the hexagram cross structure - that is what left angles do. The 5/1 goes around presumably solving the projected problems of society, and the 6 sits there saying whether or not that is so. But basically what they are doing is putting out this information field to others. The Left Angle Cross of the Plane is very, very important in that context, because what it does is take people deeply into the material plane. From that comes the recognition that it is the material plane that benefits us, because we are material.

I remember going to the University in the 60s, and there was this enormous Socialist Leftist tendency, this anti-materialism movement. "Anti-materialism" as a term frightened me. It was like, what do we do without all that stuff? What is anti-materialism? One of the most important things to grasp about being a human is that we incarnate to work. When I met the Voice, it was the first thing that it said. Scared the hell out of me. It said, "Are you ready to work?" It is work. We are here to work, to produce, and to be productive. We are here for all of that - we are here to be busy, after all - busy, busy, busy, busy, that is the design of being human - be busy! The three definitions, from the oppositions in the wheel, mean that the majority of humanity think like freaks with their 43/23, are busy now with their 20/34, and better belong to something with their 40/37. So being in the world is the only thing that works. It just does.

In teaching and introducing Human Design, can introduce it in many ways and have over the years. I can introduce it sexually, medically, at the mundane level, and all of these things. The one thing that I have never done professionally is introduce it simply as business, because you see it is always the same thing. If you live out your authority and type, you are going to get the material you need. Now that isn't the promise that you are going to be rich. It's not about having more than you need. But the reality is that if you live out your nature, you're always going to have what you need.

Now some people truly need more than they need, and they'll get it. Some people need a little less than what they really need; they'll get it. None of them will bitch. You see, we are of the world. When I look out at the world, I'm so glad that I'm not a humanitarian, because l'd just cry forever, because it is so pointless that there is hunger and pain. It is pointless, it really is. It is pointless that there are people on this planet, billions of them on this planet, that live on $1/day or whatever it is. The fact of the matter is that we have a natural connection to the material world, because we are of it. We think we're separate from it. We are not - we are of it.

The moment that we are living it out according to our nature, the material is there. The fact is that when you look at humanity, you can see so clearly that that is their biggest hassle - that 75% of all the women on Earth spend ½ of their day looking for water and wood now. It is all a matter of living out your nature, not about taking from the rich to give to the poor. It is not about socialism or about this or that. It is about recognizing that there is truly enough for everyone and their design, if they live it out.

If you want to see your own material life, live your design. Deal with the material world according to your nature, and you'll see what comes to you. It is very different than what your mental authority mind desperately wants, and tells you how to get there. Then you get caught up in the maya of this Plane oh, that hurts. You see the ones that come in on this cross: they are made for it. They don't suffer, in the sense that they are here to guide us on that Plane. Where they suffer is the moment that they want to go beyond the plane - that's when they suffer. That is the moment that they want to leave this Earthly domain, when they want to get out of their body, when they want to see what that other side is that is when they suffer, because they are here to be in the denseness of the world.

It is what we are. I love those pictures from space of the Earth, because we of course don't exist anymore. We go back into the material of the Earth, which is what we are - we are the Earth; it is us. It is an illusion that we are separate, and that's that and this is this. We are in the world, and from that there is a natural energy in our geometry that comes to all of us. Did you ever see pictures of a whale feeding? He swims through a whole bank of these tiny little fish, opening up his big huge mouth, and just cruises through. He doesn't do anything; he just cruises through. All that stuff just goes in. That's my life - that is what happens to me. I open up my mouth and it comes in. I'm not doing anything; I'm just being myself.

You see material grace for all of us is so easy. It is so easy for me to say - it is a seven-year process. You all know that, we've talked about that. But the moment that you are truly living out your nature, every day that you experiment, particularly on the material plane with dealing with the material world according to your nature, you'll see; it's different. Oh, yeah, your mind may not like it. After all, your mind has its own idea about who you are, what you're worth, and what you deserve and don't deserve. But then again, what does your mind know? You'll find out yourself through your response, through your dealings with the world. You find out through being yourself, and then you get to see what is really there for you. It just works.

Again, this is the only cross that has anything to do with healing. Left angle crosses have two variations and they are always only the reversal of the Personality Sun. When we looked at the first Cross of Healing, the Sun was in the 25th gate and the Earth was in the 46. Now in the second variation, the Sun is in the 46th gate. There are two kinds of healing. First, there is the healing that comes out of the 25t gate, and this we call medicine. This is the healing of doctoring, of technical understanding, and service to help the physical body. But here is healing through love. There are actually people like that - the fact that they say that people can be healed by love is actually true. But not everybody can be healed by love. However, if you come in on this Left Angle Cross of Healing that is what you try to do, to heal through love. It is still connected through the 46, through this combination of the 46/25, to the sensuality that is there with the Sun being in the 46. But this is not the kind of love that says, "I love my neighbor." This love can be serendipitously there. In other words, it can spontaneously appear, because that is the way that it works, and there is a great gift in that.

In dealing with healing, you always have to see, like with anything, there is always a duality, always a polarity. These are also people that are dying because they are not loved. The other side is always true; looking to be healed themselves by love - like projectors inviting you to lunch, in the hopes that someday you will invite them. So here these people are, just waiting for love to heal them. Healing that is done through love is done through the body and is going to be fulfilled through contact. It requires a connection with the other in order to be able to fulfill the sensuality. But also one must understand and grasp that this cross is not fulfilled without being able to make a commitment to the other. Of course, when it makes that commitment, it makes that commitment through love.

This is not sexual love. So often G center love is simply not recognized within the actual personality itself as love. We confuse that with our desires, with our solar plexus demands, which are very different from the G center. Remember the G center is holding us to the One; it is holding us to the totality itself. This kind of love is not personal, even though we live it out with the personal qualities that are projected upon it by others. On this Left Angle Cross of Healing, these beings are helpless in feeling that their love for another can actually make a difference, helpless in that. This in fact can be very beautiful, but they can also be in deep pain in this life, because they themselves can only be healed by love - it is the only thing they truly recognize.

This brings us to the second variation of that great Canadian left angle cross of shit disturbing, the Left Angle Cross of Upheaval. The 18° is a curious gate, because the 5th line is the only line that has to do with therapy, and the only line of the 384 lines that has anything to do with what we call psychological practice. It is also the only line that mentions the mental patient, in other words, real mental instability. So this is a very complex line. Also as a 5th line, it is a very important message that says therapy has to be practical, and if it isn't practical, it is never going to work. How are you are going to help people that are sick if you can't provide them with something that is practical?

In the first variation of the Left Angle Cross of Upheaval, the upheaval was coming from the 17th gate, from opinions and mental concepts. It is very different here, because the 18th gate is always looking to see what is not working and what is wrong - always. They are always looking at the archetypes and challenging them, whoever they happen to be. These are the David's that are always ready to challenge Goliath - always. Because they are a 5th line, often the very projection they carry can actually defeat the giant. Now that isn't to say that all of them have a ticket to being heroes, but the fact is that is an attribute they have.

It is the 5th line that is here to be able to externalize the challenge; that is why it is the Cross of Upheaval. Remember, that the right angle doesn't do that unless you bang into it. The right angle has no need to jump around screaming and yelling, it just doesn't do that unless you step on its toe. But when you get to the left angle, they are going to do that anyway - they are going to put that stuff out. So they are going to put out that upheaval, they are going to put out their challenge to the standard pattern, whatever that pattern may be, to whomever it may be - nobody is beneath their challenge, nobody. There are a lot of people in Third World countries and in dictatorships who went to their death because they came in on a cross like this - where it didn't matter what the risk was, they were going to go ahead and challenge that authority.

A very strange thing that happens in the 18th gate between the 5th and the 6t line, as when you get to the 6th line of Buddhahood, everybody goes, "Ahh!" That 6 line is about being spoiled. It is not about spoiling; it is not about challenging. It is not about having the challenger be upset. When you're an 18° and naively challenge the most powerful person on Earth, she just pats you on your head and tells you how cute you are. "Aren't you being sweet!" The 18 s always have this nurturing force that is always attracting, "Oh, yes, how cute. How sweet you are." But they bring their own upheaval, after all. They are spoilt and often get their own way. While they were being patted on their head, the information did go in. After all, this is an aura that gets information in. Eventually the spoiled one will get their way. and they do. "I want to be King!"

Where that takes on its full nature is when you move into the transpersonal second variation of the Cross of Endeavor. Here you have the driving force, the driving need to actually do something with the depth. Remember how frustrating it is to carry the 48. "I know how to solve the world's problems," says the 48, "and nobody is listening to me." Just because it is the Cross of Endeavor doesn't mean that they actually get to do the thing. It is what they want, driven by their need to be in control of that.

This brings us into the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of the Clarion. In the first variation was the clarion that brought you shock, because the Sun was in the 51. Here with the Sun in the 57, it is different. They are operating purely out of their intuition. They are going to tell you, but they are only going to tell you when you put pressure on them to tell you; they aren't going to volunteer it. The 51 will. The 51 will do it just to get rid of you. The 51 will do it just to burn a hole in you. "See, you asked for it. Now you've got it." But the 57 is different, as it is always afraid of the consequences of its actions, because it carries the fear of tomorrow.

The 57 is going to get projected on that it can be a clarion, that it can bring the news and the practical solutions. Now they won't necessarily shock in that moment, when the invitation finally comes to them. What they will give you is their intuition. They will let it come out - they won't wait 50 years to tell you. You'll get it right then and there.

The 57° will only tell you those things between the age of 30 and 50, when they are sitting up on the roof, that is the fool on hill, where they have a place of authority. Their objectivity gives others a sense of security, so they will go and ask the 6th line what their observations are. It is only in that interregnum, between the Saturn return and the Kiron return, that they are actually going to be available when people can get access to their intuition.

The clarions are always sought out, whether they like it or not. They have no choice in that, because other people have expectations that the clarion is carrying information that is essential for others to hear. When the 6th line clarion comes off of the roof, not only do they not tell anybody anything anymore, but they live purely by their intuition. Now we've never seen such a generation. We don't know what that is, because they become a clarion in the way that all 6n lines must, which is by example. The 6th line is the line of the role model; it is not about telling people to look at me. It is about being who you are and having people see that.

It's the left angle that suffers the consequences of having to succeed or fail in life, based on who they are connected with. With this transpersonal configuration, you have а geometry with people in your life, not simply a personal geometry, but you can have a career geometry with them. With the Sun in the 32nd gate, we are always dealing with business and with the material, because that is what it is about. We are also always dealing with valuation and the fear of failure.

Through the 5th line you get a great deal of projection that can create dilemmas. But if 5th line people are involved with practical things, i.e. their valuations and products are practical, then they are going to be successful and to withstand the test of time. There is nothing more satisfying to a 32 than to be in the same place, on the same block, in the same town forever, so the 19th generation can put a sign in the window that says founded in 1802. To them that is the most wonderful thing, this great continuity; it means that everything is really okay.

The tribe has fears whenever its material base is threatened. I watched that take place in Europe, where the farming communities of smaller countries were told to grow different products in order to fit into the larger group. Of course, that meant that self-sufficient farms, that grew everything that they needed, no longer could do that. Now that creates real fear. What happens if they cut us off? What happens if this or that or the other thing? That is all part of this process of dealing with limitation in life. These people come and really are here to show us what the limitation has to be, in terms of what is possible business-wise. "Yes, I know that you are very ambitious, my dear, but it is still going to take you 20 years to become President, so please don't park your car next to mine.

The 32 is one of the most difficult lines, as it is a line of depression and suicide. I know so many people that are casualties of this line. This line is all about how powerful failure can be as a force in breaking us. Here the 6tn line is broken when there is no longer continuity or no longer an assuredness of value. As soon as they do not feel like they are going to have material security, they can go into a deep depression. It is so important for 32°s to enter into things correctly, then they are going to be okay with all of that. They will be able to deal with that, because they aren't going to be threatened in the same way. However, given the chaos of a 6h line and what they go through at an early age, whenever you meet these beings, you meet that depression and that field within them. You cannot avoid that. So in meeting this cross, you meet a certain heaviness.

All left angles are completed in 6th lines. All of us, that don't carry the 6th line in our profile, at one point or another in our lives are going to need a 6th line to give us verification. We will all seek them out in one way or another, in order to access their objective authority and to tap into their potential wisdom, as all 6th lines carry within them that potential for wisdom. The 32 needs to be able to live cleanly in its life ' entering into things correctly, so they don't get tormented by the break up of continuity. They are the ones that suffer the deepest from this fear of the extinction, afraid that they will eliminated, that everything will be lost, and that they will be wiped out.

It is like watching the news after a tornado strikes down, and hearing the interviews with people at the site. There are always those people that say, "Yeah, boy it was really noisy." Then you have the other one that is standing there with a box of Kleenex and half of their dog's toy under their arm and saying, "I've lost everything." That is the other side it. That is that 32 blues - "I've lost everything. There is nothing. It is all gone." They are still alive, and you want to go up to them and sort of rattle them a little bit. But at the same time one must see that is what's being carried here.

They can be a very depressing force, because after all people go to them for their authority, and their answer is, "Forget it. It is all pointless. It doesn't mean anything. Nobody is every going to buy that stuff. I still have all these hulahoops. Nobody wants that." But in geometry you have no choice, like the whale with its mouth open taking everything in. There you are at a moment of crisis in your life needing some advice and you bang into the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Limitation. They bring a hammer and a brick to your head. "Alright now, here is your limitation."

The first variation of the Left Angle Cross of Wishes was all about projected laws and rules. "Wouldn't the world be better if..." You could call it the left angle cross of utopianism - trying to find a better way, a better world - trying to find a world in which there is mostly not so much differences in rules, as difference in values.

This cross is the most culturally threatening of crosses. It is ready to transcend the traditional value and look for some larger transcendent value. After all, it is transpersonal. We live in a time where we are seeing the greatest backlash in religious thought ever. We are living in a time of the deepest fundamentalism as a reaction to the cultural break down of religious thought. The global village has brought about a deep reaction in the spiritual world, so what do we have? We have Christian fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism, Arab fundamentalism, and Hindu fundamentalism. We have sect fundamentalism and Zuni fundamentalism; it goes on and on and on. What you are really looking at is a breaking point, a cusp point in which the traditional religions, and the way in which they operate, are falling apart. Thus, what you have is a retro movement, which is a desperate attempt to hold on to old tribal cultures and old tribal values.

Here in the Left Angle Cross of Wishes, this is when the tribal judge turns against their own tribe - turns against their own tribe and says, "Look that's not so bad. We should really do that too. As a matter of fact if we do that too, we'll get UN financing, or whatever the case happens to be." When you get to the 6th line, the 6th line is saying, "Well, no that looks alright." The wish to be able to find the utopian value system begins by being open to other value systems. "Oh that is interesting, we could incorporate that." This is the way you create a religion.

After all, Jesus' birthday, the 25th of December is also the birthday of Sol Invictus, which happens to be the God of Roman soldiers in the Palatine in that era. He was born of a virgin mother and walked on water. But it was really convenient to make Christ's birthday the same as Sol Invictus, because then you could tell the soldiers, "Hey, look we're not really taking away your God, we're just dressing him up in another coat. It is still Sol Invictus and it is okay." Meanwhile, as Jesus is going, "Love thy Neighbor," those under Sol Invictus can go butcher their enemies. You just drape them in different clothing.

In the first variation of this Cross of Wishes, one had to be careful. This projection of what the value system possibly might be can lead to a deep discomfort with the value system that you are stuck with. There are people that dream so much about the better life that they live the worse possible life they can. It is one of the great ironies of human beings.

On this Cross of Wishes, if you are a tribal person with Allah, Shiva, or whatever as the most important thing in your life, having this kind of being around you is going to be horrifying. Of course, they are great agents for all of us that would like to wake everybody up, saying, "You know that God over there and this one here, are really the same. They do the same job; they just have different names." Thus, they can have quite a disturbed karma in their life, because karmically they are going to end up in geometries where they are going to do exactly that.

You notice how left angles create problems - they bring upheaval; they bring this and that. That is part of the left angle job. The right angle is working hard at keeping their process together, while the left angle is heaping coals on the fire. Every once in a while, they really get into trouble. That is why the universalizing element, the 5th line, is the heretic. Most of the time they get burnt for all of that. The people on this left angle cross, particularly the second variation, have quite a life, because they are always in situations in which their openness to other values creates all kinds of risks for them in their own process.

With the first version of this Left Angle Cross of Alignment, we saw that this cross is rooted in the theme of treachery that is the 28°. When the unexpected appears, this Cross of Alignment can take advantage of it, by aligning themselves to it and riding the wave. For example, there is a flood and there is no drinking water - this cross goes racing off, gets a whole bunch of water, brings it back, and sells it for $3 a quart. Not to say that all on this cross are going to be profiteers, I don't mean to suggest that. However, some of them will be. In other words, they are going to be able to align themselves to certain situations. It is also treachery. You know when they come back with the truck full of water to their neighbors and friends, there is a certain sense of treachery in all of that. If they're smart they have somebody else drive the truck. That will save them from being the heretic being burned at the stake, because that is likely to happen to them.

All of this aside, treachery is an important element. In other words, this is the capacity to be able to leave the old behind, even if the old was valued, and to move on towards what may be something more purposeful. It works many ways; it is not just about going from rags to riches, it can be about going from riches to rags. This is like Robinson Crusoe getting wrecked on an island - suddenly the unexpected and you have to align yourself. You discover a new life and discover that the primitive is very satisfying, feels good, whatever the case may be. Of course, if you live long enough to be able to go back to the society that you came from, then you become terribly heretical and tell them all treacherously that they don't know how to live, and they don't know how to be in nature, and so forth and so on.

Though this Cross of Alignment is always about the capacity to be able to take advantage of the unexpected, it is very different to experience the unexpected than to take advantage of it. Right angles don't necessarily take advantage of the unexpected; they get to experience it. Often they can be deeply disturbed by what happens in the unexpected and don't do anything to align themselves to the transition. But in this configuration because it is transpersonal, you have a different kind of geometry, they are always moving on in that sense.

But remember something about these people, if nothing unexpected happens, they don't align. That is what they are waiting for in life. In that sense, they can be very, very surprising people. When you see that guy driving back with the truck of water, it blows your mind. "Hе would really do that? I mean I thought I knew him. I knew him since he was little." Because all of a sudden they just align, they are waiting for that. They go along, and go along and they go along, struggling - bang!

When you get to the 28, just like we saw with the 32, these two are very, very serious, very depressive lines. The 28° is Blaze of Glory - basically because your life has no purpose, you drive yourself to the edge in order to see whether surviving the edge gives you a thrill and a sense that it is worthwhile to be in your body. A 28 will bungee jump - there is a part of them that simply wants to hit bottom, period - get it over with and let's see if that will happen. But then when they come flying back up there is this exhilaration. After all, we are not designed to want to die; that would be very, very poor design. When they get yanked up and there is this incredible exhilaration, "Wow, that's great! I'm alive." Now that may not last long, because by the time they haul them up to the top, they are annoyed because it took so long and blah, blah, blah. They have to struggle and you can't get them out of the harness, and they are screaming, "Let me jump again, but take away the ropes."

Thus, the 28 is going to take those risks to the edge. But there are some people that are here to ride the edge. If you ever see a great surfer at work, there are some people that can really just ride the edge - it's what they are here for. It can be a beautiful thing. Blaze of Glory doesn't mean that you're here to die. But you've got to enter into it correctly. If you enter into it correctly carrying this energy, and want to try to take your motorcycle over the Snake River, go ahead. You may die, but the fact of the matter is that it is the correct risk for you to be taking. Even though it is a risk that is taking you to the edge, it is your natural risk to be able to take. Remember what you've got, you designed for. If you've got the 28 gate, you're designed for taking risks. It is not like that is something alien to you; it is built into your system.

Here we get to the Left Angle Cross of Incarnation - coming into the meat. That is the first alarm, "Oh, my God, not again." Whoosh. What makes that even more tragic is that you don't get to say, "Oh, my God, not again." You don't have a chance to commiserate with friends that your ticket is about up and then you go. You are just put in place. One of the themes here is the power of the 24 to always keep us going back over and over again. In the nature of this incarnation, this over and over again, is in terms of coming back over and over again.

In terms of this cross' real value to others is the variation of the way. This way, with the 44 and the 24, is to return over and over and over again to our fears that we may not have enough and we need to survive - that is the combination of those two gates. Thus, here in this Left Angle Cross of Incarnation, these are the ones that are always telling us that tale. After all, that is their job to always remind us again and again that all we are here for is to toil in the fields. They are very much aware of that. Now they don't necessarily know that that toiling in the fields serves a higher purpose. Human beings rarely glimpse what their purpose is anyway. They rarely have a chance to cut through the not-self for a moment, and see very clearly how all of this is interwoven and has its own way of working itself out.

These Crosses of Incarnation always bring us something unusual out of another time, as it is very important for them. If you meet these people, they tend to take things into their lives that are lost from this world. It is a funny thing. If you know that they are on a Cross of Incarnation, you know that must have been part of their 'whatever' at some time in the past. These people are wonderful at doing that. For example, this is the kind of person that speaks Latin and doesn't know why she needs to know how to speak Latin, but she does. Or he takes up an instrument that no one has played in 1000 years and tries to figure out how to play that.

It is one of the most fascinating things about these people, because they bring you into contact with a spirit that comes from another time entirely. In that, they bring us this through their aura, through the influence of the 5tn and 6 lines, they bring us this sense that we have been here before - that there is a continuity to life. That doesn't mean that that is concretized as incarnation philosophy. There are enough major religions in the world that have that incorporated into their understanding. It is something that has been around for a long time. It is just so important to see that these beings give it a "you can see it in them." You can see it in that special thing that they are interested in that has no context to the world that they are in. They are living examples of this movement of coming into form.

We come to the last quarter, which begins with the 1 hexagram in Scorpio, one of the Sphinx gates. This Realm of Sirius moves from the 1st hexagram up to the10th hexagram, the gate of behavior, at the very top of the wheel that is the eighth hexagram of this quarter. Moving down eight more hexagrams, it closes at the 19th gate, the last gate of the Cross of the Four Ways, the gate of Approach. This is the Quarter of Mutation, and it is here through this quarter that mutation actually moves through the totality. Out of this Quarter of Mutation all mutation comes into the world. The nature of mutation for us living in a vast program is that the program initiates the mutation, not us. Of course, in the context of the program, it's not even a mutation, it is just a change in information or frequency. Given the nature of our relationship to time and space, it takes time for that information to get here. It pops through some individual; it pops out through an incarnation that's mutative - suddenly it's there in the world. We point a finger at it and say, "Aha, there's the mutation" It's already out there.

This Left Angle Cross of Defiance is an archetypical individual left angle cross, in the sense that this is about non-interference. It is about the fierceness to be able to demand noninterference, and to defy anyone to interfere. A basic problem with individuality is its design to be deaf to others, in order to preserve its uniqueness, to prevent conditioning by the collective, or by what is already there. In other words, individuality is here to be able to nurture the mutative. This Cross of Defiance, first and foremost, is about defying interference from others.

Imagine that the 1st gate is the artist and the 8th gate is the gallery owner. The only time that they have a problem is when the artist wants to do the gallery owner's job, and the gallery owner wants to be the artist. This is one of the things for the Left Angle Cross of Defiance to be able to deal with. Always dealing with those trying to control the way he can contribute his expression, he continually has to deal with people who can stand in the way and say, "No, you can't do it that way." After all, being very different, he is going to operate in a different way and defy tradition.

This cross initiates the conditioning we call divorce, as it is out of this cross that divorce simply crops up. They will defy the tradition that says that you must stay with your partner for the children, for the dog, for the business, whatever the case may be. Defying influence, in order to be able to live out their unique individuality, as that after all is their direction in life.

There is a pain that comes with the 29 and the 30 as a polarity. Wherever you see the 29 and the 30 opposite each other, it's like, "Okay, we understand. There is all this desire. I know you needed to say, 'Yes.' Okay, I'll pay for your teeth to be fixed." Always making these commitments that are rooted in the desire in them, and that desire is that if they make that commitment, they are going to get the fulfillment of the expectation at the other end.

When we looked at this Cross of Dedication the first time, we saw it through the 23 and its dedication to explanation, to getting out the insight, and expressing it to others. But now it is different - this is just dedication to the insight itself. But since it is transpersonal, it is not the silence that you find in the juxtaposition. These people share the insight without any concern about whether or not they actually can explain it or not.

In other words, they blurt out 'knowisms,' which are really very funny things. In other words, they expect you to explain it. She says, "I know that the world is bah, bah, bah," but she won't explain that, because she just wants to give you her insight. Of course, you walk away being mutated by this, as it is a mutative channel. You walk away with this thing in your head, "Why did she say that? How can she know that?" They get you to do all the work. Six years later you come back and say, "What you told me that night, it's really true, because it works this way, this way, and this way." Of course, the person with the 43/23 says, "I know," and she may not, but she says, "I know."

Individuals have a really hard time getting anybody to accept their difference. After all, we live in Solomon's world, in the collective, tribal world, and mutation is always something that is threatening. These people are great, as they are so subversive - they lay out that mutative knowing in the air, then walk away, saying, "Okay, have some fun with that one." They leave that all over the place and get everyone else, regardless of their structure, type, or whatever, involved in trying to figure that out. Oh, it is a wonderful thing to do. I appreciate that, as a 43/23, I think that's great. "Go ahead and turn them all on. Don't tell them a damn thing."

Understand something else, that was the way for so long. After all, if you go back, and not very far, real knowledge was something that was kept close to the vest and very few people got access to it. No priest in Egypt was going to tell the people down on the ground that he knew the eclipse was coming. You don't do that because if you do, you stop being a priest with power who goes out in front of the people, stands there dramatically pointing up saying, "Look." These folks are dedicated to planting their insight in you as a subversive act of mutation.

That leads us naturally into the Left Angle Cross of Uncertainty. This second variation is really where this cross gets the quality that we can see much clearer here through the 14, than through the 8. Through the 8, there is always this uncertainty about the nature of contribution. However, here with the 14, the theme is different. One of the themes here within the 14 is, "Look, I can provide you with security, so don't have to deal with the insecurity of the world." It is very sexual; it is a come-on, if you will, saying, "Look, I can provide you with what you need. I can give you a home, shelter, and lots of food." Or it is the come-on that says, "I can find a job for you or I can find whatever you need."

In this Cross of Uncertainty, the 14th gate takes advantage of the fact that uncertainty is everywhere. In taking advantage of that uncertainty, it is able then to make its contribution by presenting its resources as a way of providing security for others. By the way, if they don't have the resources, this becomes their own deep uncertainty. "Will ever be able to have the relationship I need." If you've got the Left Angle Cross of Uncertainty, the only way that you are going to get a lover is that way. It not about whether its good or bad or that it's not nice. That is what you are presenting.

For most of the history of humanity, and still for most of the world, in order to get married, material security of one kind or another had to be shown as evidence and provided. There was no other way, but that way, as this was one of the basic bargains. So you had, "Okay, I'll give you twenty sheep," or "You can have that parcel of land out there," or whatever the case may be. What is underlying all of this is that intimacy can be achieved through providing security. The vast majority of marriages or relationships that have problems, it is only because of the material. At the mundane level, you look at the world around us, and that is what most people end up hassling about - that is the big problem in relationships in the mundane world. Everybody is caught up on that plane, trying to bring in the necessary resources. So these are people that come along and say, "Don't struggle. You can be with me and I'Il provide you with that shelter." Of course, that is what they are suppose to do, that is their job after all - that is a direction that they provide and a security that they provide for others.

It is truly for them a dilemma, after all. As described in the first variation, because the 34/20 is a motor to the throat, they are going to live out their life as a manifesting form - they are manifesting generators. But they are going to be disconnected from their emotional ego. In other words, these are beings that need to find a way to bridge the duality. They are driven to bridge the duality through community.

Out of their mouth you hear the individual, "1 don't want to be influenced. I want to be left alone. I'm busy now, and I don't know why have to go to that party tonight." Dragged into that 34/20 party, she's fine, because everything gets linked up and her 40/37 gets to live out what it is there for - hugging and having a great time. But the moment that she goes away from that and she goes back into her division, that individual mouth is still saying the same things, "I like to be alone. No, I hate parties." But she just had a great time. If you too pictures and looked at that, everybody saying that she had a great time. Somebody comes and says, "Look, we've got this party." She's quick to reply, "I don't like parties. I don't want to be bothered with all that." So there is this phenomena within them.

One of the strangest things about the Left Angle Cross of Duality is that these people have friends and never know why. It is the joke of their life. I'll say that to them in a reading and they'll look at me and say, "Oh, I know. I don't know what they want." They have no idea. They are just buzzing around, "I'm busy. I'm busy."

This brings us to the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Identification. Although the identification itself is rooted in the 16th gate, when we have the Sun in the 9th gate, the identification is with the detail. These are people that won't join anything unless there is support for it. Now that is kind of a Catch 22. They are not going to get involved unless there are enough resources that make sense for them to get involved. You're not going to be able to get somebody with the Left Angle Cross of Identification into a startup business where you promise them shares and commissions ten years down the road. It just isn't going to work with them. They need to see that the resources are there at the beginning. They can identify with a stable job, with something where they don't have to worry about whether there is going to be a paycheck or not, or any of those things.

In being able to identify with something stable, they're able to reduce the mental pressure of their confusion and doubt, because at the unconscious level, that is what they are feeling all of the time. This cross is not the left angle that is going to be gung ho about getting involved in new things or paying attention to your logical thing that you think will be so great for the future. They want security, something that is going to be reliable, and to be able to identify with something that isn't going to feed their doubts - then their skills can shine. They are great workers the moment that they are secure. If they are feeling insecure and worried about whether the company will survive, they are not the kinds of forces that are going to put their shoulder to the wheel. Instead, they are going to put their hands on the wheel of their car and drive away.

As we saw in the second quarter, when you move to the left angle, you get the Left Angle Cross of Separation, which is always telling us that the experience with the other doesn't work. That theme the last time was through the 35, so that's where the theme is the strongest. In other words, "I'm unhappy because of you. didn't have good sex because of you. The car doesn't work because of you. The weather is bad because of you." But when the accent is on the 5th gate, with the Sun there, all that changes.

It's not simply about the experience and the fact that the experience didn't work, it is about the pattern. It says, " I don't want to be in your pattern, because your pattern doesn't work. My pattern works. I'm going to separate myself from your pattern." Now humanity is about diversity and different patterns are necessary. We may have a general habit of working in the daytime, but we need people who work at night. In other words, we need all of that diversity. Separation is a valuable thing, in that it establishes new or different patterns or patterns that refuse to be absorbed.

It is also highly critical out of the 47th gate. That 47th gate, always trying to make sense out of things at the unconscious level, can feel oppressed. The oppression of the 47 is either the outside is repressing them or they are being repressed from within themselves. So when they see that the pattern isn't working, they see it within those terms. "It is oppressive for me to have people in my face when I'm having breakfast. That is a pattern I can't stand." What you do with separation is you alter the pattern. You go into your pattern leaving the other pattern - often that means separation, that means, "Get out of my life. I don't like you in my face in the morning." - whatever the case may be.

There is this very funny tension between the 47 and the 22. As one of the most amusing polarities in the wheel, with the 47 carrying all this heavy abstract oppression and the 22 sitting there waiting for love, open, and attentive. They are so different from each other, and yet they are not. They are real deep, deep mirrors of each other. The 22nd gate, the necessary grace to allow the other pattern in the first place, to test it, to check it out, and to separate from it if that pattern isn't viable.

But we are always looking for different patterns. So this Left Angle Cross of Separation brings us the experience, through the 35th gate, of different patterns. All of us are controlled by the patterns initiated by people who have this channel of the 15/5. We meet the 5/15s or the 5s or the 15s or whatever combination that we need in this life. Unable to live without the patterns, without the habits, these forces are valuable and very important forces in finding those patterns that are going to reliable enough. Then we can look into the future and say, "Uh huh, we are going to be safe. We are going to be secure. Everything is going to be terrific."

With the Left Angle Cross of Confrontation, without the grace and the sense of the oppression of those that you wish to serve as a ruler, there can be a very hard edge to what rulership is. Ultimately just the need to simply rule for the sake of ruling - the Left Angle Cross of Confrontation is like that. These are very, very challenging people, as they are here to challenge anyone who is in authority, and they challenge them, confront them with their own power.

One of the things about them is that they don't play fair, and they trick you. They just do, as that is the way in which it works. They just aren't going to fight fair. He meets the kid on the school ground. When the kid puts his hands up, the trickster kicks him between his legs. They don't play fair, and if you get into a confrontation with them, they will do just about everything they can to win. That ego doesn't want to lose, so they can be a very, very powerful forces.

The important thing to understand about this Left Angle Cross of Confrontation is usually they are the good guys, not the bad guys. In other words, they are usually confronting those that are already in power, and trying to bring them down from power by using their capacity in the 26th gate to exaggerate their flaws, problems, and mistakes. This appears in the ego politics that we live with now, in which we have attack commercials. No longer are commercials simply a marketing promotion for a candidate, but now we have the atomic bomb commercial intended to destroy the other candidate. This is rooted in the Cross of Confrontation. In other words, one way of getting to rulership is by tearing the other person down, even if the information you use is not truе.

Life on planet Earth, but we think people that do that have a moral problem, and there is something wrong with them. If we could, we would punish them. Our society in many ways tries to do that. These poor souls - let's give them some space. After all, if you are going to be suckered into their movie, that's okay. If you enter into it correctly, it's all right, as they are suppose to be here doing that stuff. That is the magnificent thing about being in the world and seeing that you are a design. It is not about accepting this Left Angle Cross of Confrontation - we have to accept you. That's what it is about - there is never anything wrong with you, and nothing ever compares to you. You are an archetype, living out an archetype. You are here on a cross living out a theme far beyond anything you can do about it. Most of it was totally unknown to you for most of your life. We're just in the game. At the moment that you can see that in yourself and understand that you are not here to be changed - that you're not here to be anything other than what you are. By living out what you are, you find your grace. You'll also find out that it's really an easy feeding ground and all of those things that you need are there for you.

Whenever I get involved in sharing the deepest levels of Design with people, there is always my concern that it movese you away from the very simple truth of Human Design - that's your type, authority and definition. If you live that out and follow your type, there is no question about any of this stuff. It doesn't bloody matter. You get your life. I don't care if there is anybody who ever studies Human Design, as long as there are people that live out their type. That is what is important. So all of this stuff is great, but you aren't going to live out the nature of your cross, until you live out as the nature of yourself. Then you'll understand the real beauty and grace in this life, by not trying to control the flow, but by simply sitting back and allowing all those lovely little fish to swim in saying, "Oh, please eat me. Oh, please eat me."

This leads, not to the Left Angle Cross of the Plane, which would have the 10 and the 15, but instead we move into the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Education. Now remember this is one of the most important things that we do. We were given a throat, so that we can talk to each other - that is why we were given a throat. Oh, yes we can do things too, but you can see it is absolutely essential for human beings to communicate to each other - it is absolutely essential. The more profound the communication, the less verbiage and stuff in there, the more valuable it is to the totality, because the only way in which we operate as a whole at this point is at a very primitive level - in terms of our actual consciousness, our actual personality awareness.

When you think about it, the program has us all together in such a density it is incredible. But when you come into the illusion of our separateness, we're still shouting at each other across rooms - there is still this very primitive way in which we are trying to get across to each other. You can tell somebody as much as you can about yourself, and yet you're telling them nothing, nothing - there is this deep well of unexpressed difference that is you, that is not expressible.

Remember that is the most extraordinary thing about the transformation of the solar plexus system, because that transformation will allow those emotionally aware beings to interconnect their awareness's. Now that is different. We can't imagine what that is like, because we keep on banging up against these skulls with all this stuff stored deep down inside, and we do not get access to it. Depending upon your design, and I'm a 5/1 - I'm a mystery to myself; let alone to anybody else. I'm never going to be able to get down into all that stuff and know what that is. I'm not allowed. We aren't allowed. So education is very important, because it gives everybody a foundation on which we can communicate with each other.

You learn that when you learn different languages. When you learn a new language, you realize how dumb you are, because in that language you've got 25 words, whatever the case may be. It's a great teacher, because it reminds you of something - that your level of articulation, the depth of your vocabulary, that is the root of your intelligence. It really is because the moment that you are limited in your expression, that is the moment, even that little bit that we can share, you can't share properly.

The most beautiful thing about the nature of Human Design is that it has a language that unifies the way we look at things. We use terminology in such a way that we can get to the same point together and know exactly what that is. This Left Angle Cross of Education is very important. It is about reminding everybody about the importance and the value of education - that the only way in which we are going to heal this planet is to make sure that everybody has an opportunity for an education. Without that, we do not have our evolution, because the fact is our evolution is mental. That is where we are, even though this is still an old dog's body, this neocortex of ours and all of this collected information - this is where the evolution is taking place.

Until we have a world in which there is a common base of education in which everybody can get what he or she needs for their mind, we're never going to be free. We are never going to be free from the anxiety and the pain of feeling that we have no purpose, etc. That is my endless harping about how Human Design is for children - this belongs in basic education, so we don't have disturbed people growing up. Instead we have human beings growing up who know who they are. This Left Angle Cross of Education is an active force, a transpersonal force, that recognizes that if you are going to be in the form, the only way to transcend the form is through knowledge it is through knowledge. Now of course, in the old days, that was knowledge as power, but today that is knowledge as right. This is not for the elite or only for those who can afford it.

Here we come to the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Prevention which is a natural transition out of the very fixed identification with behavior. This is not that fixed point of looking at the behavior, but is transpersonal, as we're looking at a karmic cross. The person that you are correcting here, because it is still the same thing, you're correcting by preventing.

Behavior kills you if you're not careful. One of my earliest illustrations about the nature of the 10th gate is that you don't take a ghetto blaster and go into the jungle. It is not a very wise thing to do. With the Left Angle Cross of Prevention, these forces tell you what behavior is not going to be good for you, and they try to prevent you, literally, from getting into that kind of behavior. By the way, whenever the left angle is involved, because it is universalizing, or trying to bring that aspect to a larger grouping, these things can be very oppressive, as well as liberating, depending on how they are being delivered. Often the Left Angle Cross of Prevention ends up sounding like some admonishing school marm - "You cannot do that. You are not allowed to do that." So there is that aspect to it.

There is also something else. You see the 10th gate has the deepest connection to individual survival. It is the root, the basis upon which individual survival is possible. So those people that come in on the Cross of Prevention, often what they are saying is really good for you. "Don't do that. Don't engage in that kind of behavior. You should be prevented from doing that." That can be very beneficial, but it is always coming with a very heavy judgmental unconscious.

Morality is something that belongs in the world. The moment that you have a logical circuit, you have morality. So morality is actually logical, which is very funny; it is simply the 'this and that' of what our binary is. We try very logically to come up with these moral divisions about what is good, bad, right, and wrong. The way people who have this cross justify their correction, prevention, or attempt to prevent you from entering into certain kinds of behavior, tends to be moralistic and judgmental. "I don't think that you should do that kind of thing, because I don't think that kind thing is good. I don't think that kind of thing is right." In other words, there is always going to be a certain moral aspect to that. By the way, if you confront them with that, since it is unconscious, they'll deny it. They'll tell you, "This is not about what I think is good or bad. This is important for you in your behavior, blah, blah, blah."

The left angle cross finishes with the 109 which is either going to be this absolutely delightful role model, the perfect example of what behavior should be, or a deeply intense hypocrite, who's hypocrisy is "Do as I say, not as I do." This is the kind of person that says to you, "You really shouldn't use drugs,' and then goes into the bathroom and snorts cocaine. In fact they may be preventing you from doing something that is bad for you, but they can be hypocritical as hell. It is like these ministers a couple of years ago, where you had all of them telling everybody to be holy, while they were having sex with call girls in the back room somewhere. This is classic 6th line - the only difference is they can then ask for forgiveness. I love that. "Please forgive me and please send money again."

The natural outflow of that is the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Demands. This cross simply says, "Alright, you want my juice, but this is what I want. You want my energy, but this is what I want. You want to borrow money from me to start a project, but this is what I want." In other words, there are all of these demands that are there. By the way, the demands here are very different than what we saw with the Sun in the 52nd gate. Remember those demands were about whether there would be enough energy available in order to be able to enter into the project in the first place. But the 58tn gate is a gate designed to provide energy for challenge and for talent, in order to get things out skillfully. So here these demands are all rooted in the unconscious saying, "Yes, I can give you my personal vitality. Yes, I can give you access to all of this wonderful energy that I have, but here are my demands."

When you get to the 6th line of this left angle, they make demands very early in life through a 3 line theme. They end up being very, very pessimistic that nobody wants to give them what they are demanding. Now that is of course because they are not living their type. Anybody who has any kind of corrective depth or corrective energy, if they are not living out their type, they get smashed early, as they volunteer their corrections at the wrong time in the wrong way and end up upsetting people. As a 6th line, in their first 28 years, they end up with a lot of trial and error, broken bonds, and mistakes.

Then they go up onto the roof at their Saturn return, and look out at the world to see who gets their demands, their terms, and how do they do that? They can become great authorities in being able to direct others in how to make demands, how to get demands out of life. In that sense, they can be very, very valuable. When they come off the roof at their Kiron return, then they have to be able to make those demands themselves and for themselves. In other words, "No, you can't have access to my energy."

If you have an energy gate that other people are going to be after, it doesn't necessarily mean that that is manifesting as you being able to run around like a chicken without your head on. It can be other kinds of energy; it can be wealth. In our day and age, so often it is wealth. Thus, the 58s and the 52s are often being hit up for money, because that is the equivalent of the energy. The 58 is the kind of person that gets an inheritance, and when they are 23 or 24 years old, somebody rips them off. They make that mistake of giving their energy to the wrong thing; they didn't make their demands; they didn't get the right deal; they end up being burnt.

Always in dealing with the 6h line, understand the chaos that is there in the first 28 years. Again this is one of the basic things about educating our children. If you have children who have the 6 line in their profile, recognize that they have early medical risks; problems in their relationships at the beginning of their life - these are the ones that die young. They really need to be nurtured and educated properly.

That brings us to the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Individualism. In bringing the 38/39 along in this process, remember that anybody with the 38/39 is going to provoke people. It is just their way, and you can't escape it. The Left Angle Cross of Individualism isn't tense itself, but it creates tension in others. That is what they are really good at - creating tension in others. Then they wonder why people get upset with them - they claim absolute innocence, which is the thing that is so amazing about them. I had a friend on this cross who never could understand why the women in his life would suddenly explode and try to kill him. He couldn't figure that out, "I'm such a nice guy," he would say. But with this Left Angle Cross of Individualism they are individuals in the most provocative way. You can see the root of that in the Juxtaposition Cross of Opposition. Taking a stance for no reason whatsoever just to see what happens, they are infuriating. They put all kinds of tension inside of you, and you don't know whether they are serious or not.

They can be and say the most outrageous things. They get your fire going, and you're blah, blah, blahing. But they're just sitting back, taking it all in, thinking "Got you. Now you are full of the tension - it's not mine." It's so funny the way the world works. On one side of the ark, you've got people walking around with sore shoulders and on other side you have people giving everybody else sore shoulders. It is really nice - that is the difference between the right angle and the left angle. The right angle has its own pain and the left angle gives it to everybody else. "Here, have it."

This brings us to the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Cycles. In the 54, we are moving through a whole theme, this need to be recognized, to be able to transform, and to be able to move up. By the time you get to the left angle, there is simply the recognition that that is the way things works. Here in the left angle, getting involved and being recognized by people means entering into cycles and completing them as an act of transformation. In this cross, as we've seen before, we have two definitions - the continuous definition from the sacral center to the spleen through the 42/53 and the 54/32. By the way, this is Nixon's cross.

The cycles come from the channel that brings us cycles, that is the Channel of Maturation, the format energy of the abstract process. What is different about these people is that they are not looking for the one recognition that they can hold on to for the rest of their life. They are looking for a recognition that will allow them to enter into a cycle, to be transformed, so they can finish the cycle, and move on to next thing. Now that is very, very important for these beings. Their greatest gift is once they are recognized; they will enter into something and be dedicated until it's finished - whether that is a ten minute or ten-year process. What is important for them is the cycle itself.

These people are never going to have careers that stay consistent. They may stay within the field, but they are going to find different outlets for themselves. In their movement, this is the kind of person that can spend twenty years running a supermarket, and then become the CEO of some other company that has nothing to do with the food business. They can take advantage of the experience and the transformation that they have developed through their cycle, and once the cycle is complete, they can use that as a foundation to move onto something else. It doesn't have to be in the same kind of continuity; in other words, it wouldn't have to be in the same industry.

Knowing something about these people's background and university education, you'll find that they are the kind of people that got trained as "A" - whatever A happens to be, architect, engineer, doesn't make any difference. They then suddenly became something else, a doctor, a geologist, or something else. In other words, they complete one cycle, but wait a minute, let's enter into another one. They can stay in the same kind of thing, keep on adding degrees, and feel really great about that collecting all this different stuff and transforming as they go along. Their process is about completion.

This is one of the most powerful crosses of all. It is very, very rare that we even have a definition in a cross, and even rarer that we have two. We've only seen one other such cross with both the 20/34 and the 40/37 defined - also a left angle. This left angle is a very powerful cross, and is that of a splenic generator. Of course, in looking at that understand that these were the forces that began slavery -their own slavery. This left angle has been enslaved forever, because they are one of the best slaves you can have. If you can get them to be a slave for you, you know that they are going to transform whatever they work with. You also know that they are going to complete the cycle, and that their ambition is going to force them to do as good a job as they possibly can. As long as generators are trying to be manifestors, they are slaves. For most of the history of humanity, generators have been slaves, and nobody was in a hurry to tell them otherwise, because nobody wanted to lose access to that energy. I know because I have a slave revolt in my own household. The moment that you liberate generators, you are really in trouble. It is one of those things that you really have to deal with. However, as a messenger, I am really here to annoy people. So I would like to annoy the rest of the planet and free all of the generators, so they can do exactly what they want and we can get rid of this frustration. This Left Angle Cross of Cycles could also be called the left angle cross of slavery. You will see people that are deeply, deeply, deeply frustrated, who are actually very gifted. They are the backbone of many businesses, with the 32/54 being a very, very important trait if you are going to be in business, as it is essential to understand the valuation of product, to be able to have the right kinds of workers, people who are dedicated to what you are doing, and who think they have a future. So this cross is the epitome of generator slavery. So let's free those slaves. If you meet these people, free them.

We come to the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Obscuration. One of the problems of the obscure is that it makes it very, very difficult for us to focus on what's logical. These forces with the Personality Sun in 61 are deeply inspiring, and they can inspire us with their obscura. They just can. The first line is always the basis of any hexagram. In the two aspects of the 611, the exaltation is about universal principles, inner truth, and occult knowledge at the deepest level where you find the universal principles. But if you look at the detriment, which is Venusian, it's obscura, and about not being interested in universal principles at all.

So the Left Angle Cross of Obscuration is a distraction. These are people that want to know the deepest thing and end up knowing some little piece of obscura. Then they try to turn the obscura into something enormous. What they really want to do is to turn their obscura into a general law. Now of course they have a lot of difficulty, with the 3rd gate, Difficulty at the Beginning as the Design Earth. Though they have a lot of problems trying to establish that, at the same time they can be deeply, deeply influential. If you look at New Age magazines, there is incredible obscura available. This takes us away from the general process, which is simply to know thyself, because there isn't anything else. But there is all of this obscrua that people get into and when they get into that obscura, they pay for it. I know the sacrifice my Human Design students make at a material level. I know that, I understand that, I respect it. But understand there are so many people that are doing the same thing for very, very obscure things that ultimately have no value. Remember we need that energy, but this is what the obscura does.

It is not about making a moralistic statement, "They're bad. Let's get rid of these obscure ones." It is simply about understanding what they do. Rather than getting stuck on knowing God, they are too damn frustrated for that - they can't know what it is. But they have to know something, so if they can know some kind of obscura, that can be their Holy Grail. "Well, I don't know God, but I can read your knuckles or something." They are into the obscura and try to bring that obscura out as the inner truth. What is truly positive about that is that if you add up all the obscura, you have a great deal of what is there in the world, because there is such intense diversity.

It is not like we don't need that, but it also recognizing what left angles can do. The right angle lives out their own personal destiny with no motive in them to push any of that at anybody else. Oh, it happens in their life, but it's not their drive. They're not waiting for somebody else to be in their life. The left angle does, and because it has influence over others, it is always creating whether it is the opportunity or lack of opportunity, to gain access to this or that. Those that are obscure. they pull people to that obscura - that is what they do. Then you have all of these people, all their resources, and all of that energy going into those aspects. This is what the Cross of Obscuration brings.

By only dealing with the obscure, the other meaning of this word comes into being - that is you don't get to see what you are really here to see. It is obscured. Something is in your way and keeps you from seeing the real truth. In that sense, these people can be very uncomfortable, as they can actually take you away from a path of seeking truth and bring you to a path of the obscure.

That brings us to the Left Angle Cross of Distraction. Remember I talked to you about this first variation and how they do get in the way. They are there to distract us, and they will try to distract you away from what's progressive. That's their trip. Now remember, from what I've told you about the 60tn gate, it has to do that job; it has to hold on to the old. It can't just leap into the new. It can never give up that limitation. It can never give up the sense that that is the real law. It's like me - I'm a 60 and I'm always looking for the original law. When I was given the formula, I could finally shut up and be quiet, because I saw that everything is built out of the original law. So for me that is a great limitation. I know the binary formula, but the fact that the binary formula progresses doesn't do anything for me. The fact that I know the binary formula is everything. It is a really old law; it began with the universe.

These left angle forces will distract you away from what is progressive and try to pull you into what is more traditional. That is the biggest movement among cults that is Christianoriented cults in America whose most profound ideological position is that religions are becoming more and more progressive and as such are being polluted. They feel that the original is being lost and want to return to the original principles, the original laws. The Cross of Distraction can take you away from progress, and be a very difficult force in trying finally to educate the tribe. Because at the end it is the tribe that we have to be most concerned about in terms of getting them to evolve. It can really get in the way of that, by getting them to deny progress and hold on to older traditions.

Yet, at the same time we always have to see that is of value. They can be a brake on jumping whole hog into something new, because that can be disastrous. You can jump whole hog into those funny creators with their iron helmets that came in these white sailing things, but syphilis that is another story. In other words, sometimes it is really good to say, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let's be distracted here by our old traditions and not get carried away with that new possibility that's there." So there is an aspect of distraction that can be very valuable as a protective field. But at the same time, if you are into progress, they are pain in the neck. If you are someone like me who is teaching the fusion of spirituality, these kinds of beings are really going to be uncomfortable. They want to hold on to their dogma and be able to hold on to those traditions.

It's a joke, because I bring synthesis as a message. If there weren't these people who held on to all of this stuff, I wouldn't have students that had a basis for this knowledge. The vast majority of students that I have met in my work know something about astrology, the I 'Ching, the kabala, chakra systems, or whatever the case may be. That is the work of all of these traditionalists holding on to old ways, despite being made fun of, despite being ridiculed. In fact, it can be very valuable. Yet at the same time, as often as I meet those who have taken in older traditions and are ready for what's new, are ready for synthesis, I also meet people on those trails that never can get out of their trip. You have no idea how many astrologers I have met who can't stop being astrologers - that's been their trip. They are locked into their tradition and it is very hard for them to leave it. So it is important to see that there is a balance in these things. We need that influence, yet at the same time it can present difficulties in trying to bring us to a place of fusion.

Here we have the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of the Alpha. It is not that I want to show the left angle, as always taking advantage of the right angle experience, but that is what it does. That is not about good or bad, nor is it to the disadvantage of the right angle. The right angle is just involved in its own process, while the left angle insists on other people getting involved. Of course, they insist because they have no choice, they are simply designed to be transpersonal. So the Left Angle Cross of the Alpha, like alignment in the other version, takes advantage of the unexpected. If you are on the Left Angle Cross of the Alpha, you are waiting all your life for that, but it doesn't mean you get it.

The 41/30 is the channel of Recognition; it is actually a channel of recognition of feelings. The Alpha is there to take advantage of the unexpected through emotionality, since that 41 is pointed at the 30 gate. So it becomes an emotional Alpha. This is the Alpha you follow because you desire them or the fantasy that they offer you. You can follow that Alpha blindly. In other words, that can be quite dangerous - others can be caught up in the fantasy and expectation of the Alpha's obsession, or whatever the Alpha thinks needs to be done. "When we sit in the Imperial Palace, everyone will be fed." In recent times we've got to watch all the old Communists in Russia who were running all these Communist agencies, and worked all their life being good Communists suddenly become capitalists overnight- all of them waiting for that chance, just waiting for that opportunity. Alphas will take their opportunity when it arises - they just will.

This brings us to the second variation of the Left Angle Cross of Refinement. The moment that you step into the left angle, and into that transpersonal connection, this beauty is available for others. These forces bring refinement. The right angle 19 says, "I need." The left angle 19 says, "Could you please?" That is not to say that the right angle is rude or without manners. However, the whole business about refinement is that you get those things that you need for your direction, not other things. With the 1 and the 2 underneath, there is this need to find the direction. Now two of the four versions of the Left Angle Cross of Refinement can be mad as hell, because they have the Design Earth in the 22, which is genius as madness, that is knowledge exclusively as power. The way the mechanics work that is always about madness in direction - going the wrong way, really taking the wrong direction in life. So this refinement is all about seeing that everything comes down to your direction, and what you really need in life is a proper direction. It's not about that you need food right now, you need a direction that will always bring food to you.

So often the19th gate, because it is stressful and under pressure, aligns itself with the wrong forces, in order to get the principles that it needs. It is so typical of a 19 in desperation to give its last money to somebody that says, "We're going to make a bundle on the stock market, e-trading on the web tonight." Yeah, good luck. There can be this sense of desperation in that.

However, this refinement is the necessary ingredient for the tribe to understand that direction is what really matters. It is not enough to know that there are sheep in the field that you can eventually kill, eat for dinner, and you'll be fed for a month or whatever the case may be. There is a larger direction involved. Of course, this left angle will lead into the very first variation again of the Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx. In other words, it is a refinement that is moving towards what is an essential ingredient in life - that is everything is about our direction.

You see if we are all moving along, the moment that we are not resisting that movement, then everything works for us. As a 49, in my life I meet a lot of needy people, a lot of 19s. Obviously over and over and over and over again they have taken any harmonic that comes to them, because they're living the notself. We get to meet all of those things, whether we are ourselves or our not-selves. But you see without the authority and your type, without that ability to be able to recognize what is correct for you, as a 19, you're always looking for the 49. You know how many 49s there are? It's endless; it's just endless. So it is very important to recognize in the fulfillment of any of these crosses, you get to live out the mythology of the cross when you live out your strategy, your mechanical strategy. Then you really get to see it, because then you see it in everything you do. I've been telling people for years that each human has a mythology. We are very, very specific fractals of great archetypes - all of us. You live that out through your cross.

In these incarnation crosses, I haven't been able to take you through the line configurations, the profile configurations. We have just been looking at the larger parameter of left angle, juxtaposition, and right angle. But it is very important for you to look at your profile in the context of what you see about your own cross, and the profile of others and their crosses. Look carefully at that nuance, because those nuances are very important. These are the different ways in which these general themes are lived out.