Juxtaposition Crosses

Think about the transition we have just had from being the Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx, with the Personality Sun in that 13th gate and its concern with the past, with its own process with the past, and trying to root out failure in the past. If it can't root that out and rebuild, then it is going to suffer its pessimism and end up a martyr - those kinds of things.

Here we have a sudden shift; we have a shift into a very fixed process. This fixed fate, the Juxtaposition Cross of Listening, with a 13 gate that is all about the capacity inherent in us to be able to listen. It's about collecting the experiences of others.

When you have a Sphinx configuration, the Sphinx is naturally there to transform what it takes in and to give it to another as a direction. It just does; it doesn't know it's doing that. If you tell Sphinxes that they are doing that, particularly right angles, they start putting badges on. But the moment that you get to this fixed fate, it is something that can be very, very uncomfortable, because these are people who come into the world to listen, but not to speak. They have enormous difficulty in being able to explain themselves.

An interesting shift has taken place, as we have moved from the 1 and the 2 being at the design level to now having the 43 and the 23. That 43/23 is going to bring a definition, because it is an opposition, not only in the zodiac. but it also forms the Channel of Individuality between the ajna center and the throat. However; despite the fact that the throat is activated, there is something deeply troubling to the 23 gate experience.

The 23rd gate is not like the collective process in the throat. The 62nd gate translates a picture and comes up with detail logically, because they are translating a pattern directly. The abstract process in the 56th gate is about translating a moving picture, rather than a pattern, and a movement or an experience is being described. But individuality is unique and mutative; there is no formal background, nothing is established, and there is no Solomon's world where nothing is new. In this Cross of Listening, there is a tremendous amount of pressure, and these people can be very, very uncomfortable because they can have enormous difficulty in expressing themselves. Yet at the same time they are the great listeners, great listeners. They know secrets that no one will ever, ever hear. They've always been around. They are a kind of magical part of the Sphinx off to side.

Although one arm of this cross is still the 13/7, and it still carries with it its Sphinx power, all of a sudden there is this shift in the mental plane. The 23 gate, unlike the collective process of the mind, which is based on vision, is based in individuality and is acoustic. In other words, the 43 is the sound one hears in the head, a sound that one hears and says, "I've got it now; I've got it now." But it doesn't mean that they are going to be able to express it out of that 23d gate. As a matter of fact, the Juxtaposition Cross of Listening could be called the Cross of Stuttering. There can be many, many problems here.

It is very important if you meet somebody with this cross don't torture them, allow them to listen without pressure to share. This is the biggest thing in their life. They are in fact our sentinels; they are listening for all of us. They are collecting experience. What often happens with many of them is that they can ultimately find another venue to be able to get that out. Rarely is it historically correct. In other words, with the 43/23 they tend to find artistic outlets for what they have been listening to. They are great appreciators of music, for example, and are the kind of human being that loves a good lecture. They themselves with all this pressure on them can't get it out. Remember this aspect is a necessary ingredient, we must have it. For everything that is there, you have to see how important it is - not this "oh the poor thing." The fact of the matter is, if they are living out their design, living out their authority and their type, being a listener and not being a talker is their heaven. After all it's what they are here for; and they fulfill a purpose for the totality in that role.

When the Sun moves into the 494 at the end of the 4th line, the design Sun is going to move from the 43 into the 141. The 14th gate is Possession in Great Measure and is the gate that fuels the Sphinx providing energy for direction in life. It also provides the potential for great wealth. In the struggle that is inherent in this first step, you come to the point where you see that in order to move towards any kind of future, you're going to have to have allies. After all the 49 is tribal. You're going to have to work together, and kill together. Now the thing about killing is that killing and God seem to work together really well.

With the 49th gate, you've got Abraham. You know, God says, "kill me a son," and he says, "Okay, really okay - where?" This is what this is all about, the relationship between the two. One of the ways in which we were designed to be at peace with killing was to turn it into religion, to make it holy. Thus, we have our sacraments and holy feasts - that way everybody sort of feels really good. "We killed this bear for God. God doesn't need it, and God doesn't eat it, however it makes me feel better that I killed this bear for God and not for me." It's tribal and the tribe comes up with these wonderful bargains that nobody else is a part of, except them. "This is my bargain with God. I don't care what God thinks - I killed the bear for him and I'm free of guilt. Not only that I'lI show you how much I loved the bear by putting it up in the sky and worshiping it."

With the Juxtaposition you get to the fixed fate, and to principles, as this is the Juxtaposition Cross of Principles. The principles are about something very basic - it's about first of all getting rid of the freak. In this cross, the 43/23 disappears at the design level and we move to the 14 and the 8. The individual mind and its definition are gone, so we get rid of the blah, blah, blah that was such a part of that explanation. With that we step into the principles.

But wait, these people are fodder - they are always ahead of their time. They are always revolutionaries ahead of their time, and they never get to eat. They are never the revolutionaries that actually get to sit at the revolutionary council, because they die long before the revolutionary council ever comes into existence. In other words, they are forerunners fixed to a principle, and in being fixed to that principle, they're not really balanced in that. What is important for them are human rights. It is the only cross that truly is there to make sure human rights are protected.

This is somebody who sees the first factory being built in Southern England 400 years ago and says, "Oh the workers are going to be enslaved." He doesn't wait until Marx, as he's way, way ahead of the time. Looking back historically at people on this cross, you find extraordinary figures that history forgets. They are the ones that put something in, and were very fixed. But because they were very fixed, they were easily broken. Usually ahead of their time, they tend to disappear from the map.

When we come to the 30, we come to the line of Burnout. Underneath burnout you have the 294 which is the line of Failure. What a combination and with our prejudice and morality about such things, analysts say, "I can't tell people that they have this cross." Well, too bad, because it's the Juxtaposition Cross of the Fates - think of that wonderful image of that spinning woman, the Fates. The 30th gate is the place of fate, and also is the place of the sweet and the sour. You know that's what life is and it's all here - the sweet and the sour of life is here. When you come to this Cross of the Fates, the 8 and the 14 have disappeared. Now you're dealing with a very, very powerful definition because the design is the 34/20, the Channel of Charisma.

This is an incarnation looking for an accident. That's what they do. They are incarnations looking for accidents, and they are busy right up until the moment that the accident comes - busy, busy, busy, busy running on their 20/34. "I am busy now. I don't know what I am doing. I am not doing it for myself, but I am very busy now. I have made my commitment now and I am burning out." Now you would wonder, what do the forces want with that? You know it is one of the extraordinary things is that some of the most profound discoveries that we have are made by the totally and absolute obsessed. This is the totally and absolute obsessed.

Looking statistically at how many variations would have this cross, there are very, very few people that you would meet that are going to have this specific cross. After all the 4/1 is a very small arc. It is the only one of its kind in each of these configurations, so you're not going to get a lot of population carrying it. But thing to recognize about anybody that is going to come in on this cross is that they are going to be deeply, deeply, deeply obsessed, and they will take it to the extreme - whatever it is. The classic story of the scientist who has a formula that he's obsessed with. He believes that is will increase your brainpower or whatever. He gets turned down by all of the funding sources, so he can't do the research. Being on this cross, he pumps it into his own body. He may survive or not, but the reality is that these types of people will take it to the extreme, burn out, and fail in doing so.

However, we need these beings, as they don't give up. They just don't give up. Where so many others will give up, they will not give up. They're in the process and they will continue at any cost. What has happened to them is that they have picked up at the unconscious level, through this 20/34, what leads into the next grouping in the Left Angle Cross of Industry.

When we come to the juxtaposition, we get the fixed fate. There is the transition of the Sun/Earth and the busyness disappears since the 20/34 is no longer there. In its place, the Design Sun is in the 9t gate, giving the energy for detail work, and the Design Earth in the 1616th gate which is all about skills and the potential to be identified. These are people that suffer from severe psychological problems. Remember that the 55th gate can be an enormously disturbing gate, and the fact is that most human beings don't understand the nature of melancholy and don't know how to deal with it. More than that, they do not know themselves and their type, so they are confronted with a terrible battle. Here is somebody that is deeply fixed in her moods. Now of course what can happen to these people is that they can become fixed in depression, by not simply going through the fluctuation, but by identifying (remember this is a cross of identification) so deeply with the mood that they never get out of it, never. The business about individual love has disappeared, and what is left is a deep need to know, a deep need for depth, and a deep need to find out the truth. Of course how often do you get to find out the truth?

When you meet a 4/1 with a fixed destiny and he carries this cross, you'll know because he will actually look like he's carrying one. It's heavy, and it sits heavy on his shoulders. Because he is a 4th line, he's always going to have somebody in his life, such as friends, who are always trying to take this burden off his shoulders, and they can't. If these beings learn about individuality and melancholy, they can be extraordinary creative forces, and very, very talented, as the 16 is part of the channel of Talent. But in the real world where the majority of people are living not-self lives, no - these are people that seem very, very sad and carrying a deep weight.

When you get to the 4th line and the Juxtaposition Cross of Bargains, you find a fixed bargaining being. Everything is the bargain, everything, and they are fixed on that. It doesn't matter what goes on in their life, it really doesn't matter, everything is about the deal.

If you have a 4/1 in your life, it does no good to resist them. You can never ever, ever, ever change them. You just can't, but you can destroy them. There is nothing they can do; it is their fixed fate. When you meet somebody carrying this cross, everything is a deal, everything! They can drive you crazy. You ask her, "You have a cigarette? She comes right back with, "Yeah, for what?" Everything is a deal, and you can't do anything about it.

When one begins to understand the nature of incarnation and these crosses, you start to see that jerks are incarnated on purpose; fools are incarnated on purpose; assholes are incarnated on purpose. It is just the way it is, and it is okay. If you meet one of these people and they bargain you to death, what to do? Understand the joke in all of that. The way in which society is organized through the Cross of Planning you get to see its extremism in its bargain, because that is what it is. We have these tacit bargains; we've built our civilization on these bargains. We have been able to expand at this incredible pace through these bargains.

As with any juxtaposition, the people on the Juxtaposition Cross of Doubts are very fixed. Remember those great comedy routines with the kind of person that was always whining? This could be called the Cross of Whining. This is where you'll hear, "No, it won't work. No, it can't work. No, I won't be able to do it. No, they can't do it. No, I don't think it really will work."

But you can't stop them. This is the kind of person that as you're entering a room with her to take an exam, she says, "Oh, I'm going to fail. Oh, it's terrible. I'm really not prepared. Nothing is going to work." She gets a 100 and you say to her, "What was that all about? You got a 100." She says, "I don't know how that happened. I really wasn't prepared. I'm worried about the next one already."

They always have their doubts, and it can be quite amusing in that way. They also have their doubts about everybody else, and their doubts about their life. Since they have doubts about God, you can find the roots of atheism in this juxtaposition. This is deep doubt. "God, I don't know that there is such a thing. I doubt it."

With the Juxtaposition Cross of Grace, the 26/45 disappears. Thus, the whole rulership business is gone. Usurpation was in the left angle cross before, and rulership here in the right angle, but now the 45 has disappeared, and we have a very different kind of configuration. Remember we had a fixed Cross of Listening, and these were people that listened, but had a hard time explaining themselves. This Cross of Grace is a cross of deep, deep attentiveness, but more than that this is a cross of falling in love. These people are stuck on falling in love. It doesn't have to be a partner; they can fall in love with anything, just to be able to listen to it. You love Pavarotti, so you listen to Pavarotti twelve hours a day. You just take it in, take it in, take it in, take it in and it doesn't matter. These beings can get totally absorbed by other forces, and in that way, can become very powerful mutative agents, since they are carrying that Sun in the 22nd gate and having the Design Earth in the 12th gate.

With this definition of the 12/22, the Channel of Openness, these beings are deeply social. They have a deep capacity to meet strangers and take them in. If you ever want to do a survey of the common man and woman in society, send out the Juxtaposition Cross of Grace. Everybody will tell them everything, and they will listen in total enthrallment to what is being given to them. They have an enormous social capacity, and being so fixed are obviously fixed on taking it all in.

By entering into the world and becoming so involved in the sexual level of life, the fixed aspect becomes the Juxtaposition Cross of Crisis. The 11 and the 12, the ideas and the ability to articulate, have disappeared. In their place are the 10th and 15th gates, aspects of the Vessel of Love.

With the 101 and the 151 coupled with the Personality Sun/Earth in the 36/6, there is a crisis over behavior. This is a real problem for these people, as they come in on a cross that is highly dualistic. The moment that they come in there is a personality aspect that is deeply, deeply absorbed in its need for fulfillment through sexuality, to find the right sexual role. But it doesn't have the 59, and it is looking for it. They are also trying to find the experiencе that is finally going to be satisfying, by looking for the 35. The background theme underneath, with the 10 and the 15, are the love of humanity and the potential love of oneself, but most important of all, behavior. The 10th gate looks at the obsession of the 36 and says, "Oh, is that me?" This creates a basic conflict, and this is the crisis. The crisis is a result of the behavior. With the fixedness of the 4/1, what you can find on this cross are people that study sex - the Masters and Johnson type. They are great at studying sex and everybody else's crisis, but the moment they go for it, boy do they have a problem.

When you get to the 4th line and the last 87%, you're going to have the shift in the design underneath. Moving away from the Design Sun/Earth in the 10 and the 15 to the 58 and the 52. The 58 is the most beautiful line of the 384 lines - it is the Love of Life. It is the energy to just love being in the world. It is a beautiful energy. This juxtaposition cross is driven to enjoy love and life. But just because someone enjoys love and life doesn't necessarily mean that they're happy. One of the things about individuality is that you can have a great life, but still be sad as hell. Individuality is what it is because melancholy is there, and the Personality Sun in the 25 carries individuality. So there can be a real dilemma for these people, though they are fixed on enjoying life, they still can be sad.

Hedonism was invented or created by somebody who came in on this cross. It's like, "Okay, let's really just enjoy life." The beauty of this cross is that it leads to the only cross that is about healing. This pursuit of happiness is inherent here in the juxtaposition, but it is very, very fixed. What happens is that the moment that pursuit becomes transpersonal, the moment that it becomes a karmic interaction, then you get healing. "It is not about my happiness. It is not about my trip. It is about how I can make you happy." Remember that these people are priests. These are priestesses.

There are three ways of power in Human Design. We have the 21/45, which is the way of power through the tribe and its traditional rulership through territory. The 31/7 has become our basic democratic way of dealing with power where authorities are selected or elected, but the people ultimately hold the power. Third, we have the mystical way, and we have another kind of authority, another kind of leadership that takes the tribe out of its tight little corner. This is the priest or priestess that can drag the individual from the tribe to the abyss where he is thrown into the void -this is the role of the 25.

Because of this kind of power, this juxtaposition cross is influential. All 4th line personalities are enormously influential, because they are the fixed ones. The image of the French missionaries boiling in a Mohawk pot and still singing the praises of Jesus shows such influence. Now you can't do that unless you are 4h line. Otherwise, you're screaming, you're upset. But with the 4th line fixed, there they are singing the praises as they bubble and boil. By the way, it really impressed the Mohawks. Usually when somebody was put into a pot like this, they were really a mess -- struggling, screaming, crying, praying, and all these things. But here were these missionaries standing upright, boiling away, singing the praises of Jesus, and the Mohawks thought that was great. Although deeply influenced by the experience, they didn't become Christians. So you get the picture, these people are going around trying to influence you to feel really good about the nature of life.

When you get to the juxtaposition you have a very important transition taking place - that is the 58/52, those root aspects of the logical circuitry disappear, and they are replaced with the 38/39. First of all the 38/39 is strong individual energy, and both these twin gates in the root center represent very, very provocative energy. The 38th gate is the gate of the Fighter and the 39th gate, Opposition, is the gate of the provocateur. That 38/39 will eventually become the basis of the Right Angle Cross of Tension, so it brings a great deal of adrenal pressure with it.

These people truly are an enormous pain in the butt. A 17's opinion without a 62 sounds like, "It is only going to take five minutes to get to the course." They arrive 35 minutes late, as they have no sense of time - that is why they are so fascinated with time. they don't really know how time moves; they're just fascinated by it. So this is somebody who has an opinion, but with no consistent detail to back it up. But they are fixed and they are always putting their opinions out.

4th line beings are a great test of our awareness. You either love them or you have to let them go, because you see, you can't do anything with them. Remember they are the priests in the pot. What are you going to do with them? He's going to give you his opinion, "In five minutes, I'm going to be ready." He's going to tell you that for thirty years. They are rigid in the pot. The fact is that even if they discover after thirty years that they are never ready in five minutes, it won't change them from saying that - because they can't do anything about it. The grace is to know that we come in that way and it is okay.

It's not like none of their opinions work. Some of those opinions are really sharp, after all that's what they are here for, but they are constantly giving you all their opinions. You can disagree with them, but you can't argue with them. The whole thing about meeting a 4th line force is that if you do want to fight with them, it's to the death. There is no other way - either you break them or you leave them alone. If you break them, like Humpty Dumpty, you're not going to have an easy job of putting that all back together again.

If you want to see that at its extreme, you go to the juxtaposition, because in the juxtaposition you get something else entirely. What disappears is the provocation, the 38/39, and what comes in its place is the 54 and the 53. Now the 54 gate is the Marrying Maiden, and it is the gate of Ambition. This juxtaposition is about the way these people fulfill their ambition, their need to rise up. By constantly demanding to be in control, and they are fixed in that, they fulfill their need to move up. Again if you try to block that control, you can stop them in that sense, but you can never change that drive of theirs to be recognized and be in control.

They take control to try to start new things. This is their drive, and what they really represent is a kind of transition process that says, "Wait a minute, it is not about controlling what we have. It is about setting up something entirely new. I have to control that, in order for that new thing to succeed." Thus, in many ways this cross brings innovation.

The moment that you move to the juxtaposition, you get something very unusual taking place. First of all the 54/53 disappears and is replaced with the 61 and the 62. The 61 is Occult Knowledge, and here you have the Juxtaposition Cross of Shock. These are people that shock you with the detail, shock you with their knowing, or just simply shock you. By the way, whether they know anything or not, whether it is the truth or not, they don't care as they like to shock.

Many years ago in Spain when Chernobyl blew up in Russia, there was all this fallout that went over central Europe. It wasn't a big deal; it wasn't like people were dropping dead. But there was this flood of people coming down to Ibiza to get away from all of that, and these people would say things like, " 800 cows died yesterday just outside of wherever." Of course, it was never true, but this is how they shock with detail. They just love to shock.

Now sometimes they will shock you with the truth. But there is no guarantee of that. The punk movement probably began with somebody with this juxtaposition - you know, they spike up their heads. It is just shock for the sake of shock. Now of course that is great. After all human beings are so bloody serious and complacent, every once in a while it is nice to go bang!

In the juxtaposition you lose the detail and the inner truth and what you get underneath is the 60 and the 56. When we get to the juxtaposition, we get to this deep fixed need to complete. Remember the example before of the right angle marriage where they discover the partner isn't for them and yet they stay in the marriage. For the Juxtaposition Cross of Completion even if he gets into a relationship that is bad, and knows it is bad, he doesn't pay any attention to it, because he still wants to complete it. They are obsessed with completion at any price. These people can suffer terribly in relationships that are horrible, abusive, violent, whatever the case may be, and there they are holding on for dear life, because their only theme in life is to complete.

With the Design Sun in the 60h gate, limitation is inherent in this particular juxtaposition cross. Thus, they end up in situations where they need the stimulation of the 56th gate. Needing to keep at it, they simply become totally involved with completing whatever that process is. It's like somebody completing the marathon that has run it incredibly slow and everybody has gone home. There is nobody left; it is the next morning and nobody cares, and they are still trudging along, because they have to complete it. It doesn't matter, it doesn't make a difference to them. Imagine how much trash these people get in their lives from others knocking them for what appears to be their insane need to complete things, and how much that disturbs them. This can deeply impact them in terms of the way they see themselves and the way they are dealt with by others.

By recognizing the kind of cross a human being comes in on, and by simply recognizing that we don't have any choice in that - it's not their fault. What are they going to do? They have to complete it. If you try to stop them, you're killing them, destroying them and what they are here for. It is always nice to know that, because then when you are dealing with a human being and you know where they are coming from, if you don't like it, okay. But you can just let them be, and it's not just about letting them be because that is your grace - that is the grace of the whole. Let them do their job - let them go around completing things that no one else in their right mind would complete. Somebody has got to do that - let them do it. Let's hope that we have some of these beings working on the census. Let them complete it. These people that are obsessed with research; they'll spend their whole life trying to get results.

In the juxtaposition you lose the detail and the inner truth and what you get underneath is the 60 and the 56. When we All juxtapositions are fixed and stand alone, and can often be difficult because they have such a focus. With the 60/56 going away, the capacity to be fully involved in a law is gone. Also the limitation and stimulation are gone, and they are replaced with the 41 and the 31. The 41s gate is equivalent to the initiating codon in genetics, the only initiating codon. This means that the 41st gate starts all experience. What you are looking at here, in the Juxtaposition Cross of Mutation, are mutations that can be very, very detrimental to society. Now the moment that is said, it must be balanced on the other side by saying that they are very nice people, and we don't want to get caught up in hurting them. If you look at the Personality Earth, you'll see that it is in the 50, which is the line of Corruption. Again this is one of those words that we have a lot of morality associated with. Remember, we need corrupt judges, because there are laws that are unfair and need to be changed.

Somebody that comes in with this juxtaposition, they're into mutation for mutation's sake. In other words, mutation is a way in which they can establish their leadership. Mutation is a way in which through a new experience they can try to impose some kind of rule. Again, don't get in their way. You may want to go along with them, but you're not going to be able to stop them.

When you move over to the juxtaposition, you lose the 41/31. You lose that experiential process; you lose that influence. What it is replaced with is the 19 and the 33. This means that we are coming to the close of this quarter, for the very next gate is part of the Cross of Four Ways, and we're going to end this 16- hexagram movement. With the Juxtaposition Cross of Caring underneath is the Design Sun in the 19th gate, which is the pressure to need the right principles The 33d gate is also there, the gate of retreat, of remembrance, and the completion of the process of looking at the experiential way. But the 33d gate is more than that, as it can always be a gate of revelation. It can be very unexpected in its own way, in that things can suddenly just pop out of it.

Somebody coming in on this cross are very fixed on having to care about everyone and everything - all of the time. That is quite something to carry. Now if you end up being the beneficiary of such a design, you may appreciate it. However, there are burdens. These are lives that no matter what you've already got, you've got to carry the weight of so many others.

These are human beings that struggle deeply, deeply for caring. Now in the end, they are looking to care for themselves. After all, they have the 28n gate, the fear of death, really the fear of the lack of purpose in their life. Only through caring can they find some way to compensate for that sense of lack of purpose. Basically these people represent a philosophy that says, "Well it's Christian. It's love thy neighbor. It's be kind to old ladies crossing the street." It's that kind of very, very fixed way of looking at things. Where you get the change is when you get to the left angle.

With the juxtaposition, the 19 and the 33 are gone. Replaced by gates of the Sphinx because now we are entering into a bridge between the end of one quarter and the beginning of the next quarter. This is a very important movement that is taking place. The 13 and the 7, as we saw at the very beginning, but now reversed, the 13n as the Design Sun, rather than the Personality Sun. These are very, very powerful intellectual forces, and are some of the brightest people that you are going to meet on the planet, but they are incredibly fixed, obviously being a juxtaposition cross. Their gift is trying always to be able to translate their own knowing into both collective aspects, both the 7 and the 13- in other words, to try to rationalize or try to know the future and the past, to try to grasp continuity.

There are some people in life that are signposts. Have you ever had that experience in your life of having a momentary interaction with a total stranger that changed your life? When you get to this Juxtaposition Cross of the Driver, you get to such beings. When the 13/7 disappears, that is the full aspect of the Sphinx is gone - what it is replaced with is the 49 and the 4. Now remember our discussion about the nature of the 49 in the first quarter, about its principles about this is where we first encounter the need to be able to kill and sacrifice. By the time we get to this second realm, the 49 has moved from being the Personality Sun to being the Design Sun. It is not the main theme anymore, but it certainly is there underneath the surface.

One of the things about this cross is that those on it are absolutely focused, totally focused, on following their direction and trying to pull people in its wake. They know where they are going, and that is what they live out - that they know where they are going will bring them the necessary truth.

This is the difference. You see there are all kinds of things that are beautiful. The beauty necessary in manifestation out of the right angle is to make sure that the environment is clean, to make sure that cleanliness, whatever you want to call it, is available. But by the time you get here to the juxtaposition, it is looking for something more. It is driving towards something else; it is driving towards truth, in other words, truth as a direction. These are the kind of people that if you can't really tell them something that they can know for certain, don't bother. They really need to know the truth of things. You can't hide things from them. They are constantly trying to penetrate that and take that out of you.

This Juxtaposition Cross of Assimilation is one of the loneliest crosses. The individual, based on its own circuitry, is always looking for grace. It is looking for the grace of those that are willing to put up with them repeating the same bizarre thing over and over again until it becomes familiar. Here in the Juxtaposition Cross of Assimilation is the recognition that the mutation is for the other. Remember when we are looking at the Right Angle of Explanation, they only explain when they have to. They don't explain because they want to, but explain when something bangs into them or when something happens that brings that out. They also explain when they need to, in order to complete their own self-fulfilling purpose.

But by the time you get to the juxtaposition, their way of trying to be assimilated and to fit in is through social skills. But in doing that through social skills, they have difficulty getting individual mutation across, because they pay the price of allowing others to dictate the terms. By assimilating with the other, they hold back on repeating their bizarre ideas over and over again, at the risk that they will be ostracized and not be allowed to make that contribution. They wait for friendship, and they try to assimilate with the other first, than try to bring out their bizarre notions. "If I knew you had thoughts like that in your head when I married you, I never would have."

The whole thing about the 4th line is that in its fixedness it has the capacity to be able to influence others. Of course in this juxtaposition, the desire and the readiness to made a commitment has been replaced with the 55/59 - gates of spirit and of our sexual strategies. With the Juxtaposition Cross of Contribution, these beings come in on this cross and are forced in their life to contribute to society in any way that they can. In the modern world, what you see is that they get married, buy a run down old place, and fix it up that is the mundane level of all of this. They may end up fixing it up forever, improving on it, working on it, and making it better. They keep on making their contribution to all of that. But it is always going to be tied up with sexuality, because it can't escape the 59.

The 55 and the 59 disappear, and you have a very unusual configuration - two definitions formed by two of the oppositions. You have both the 37/40 and the 20/32. As the most existential of crosses, these beings are so in the now, that they're not here. They are so absorbed in the now, that they're just not here. It is like the story about a man who every time he looked out the window, he remembered everything he saw in absolute detail. So the moment that he would try to remember anything, it would take him forever, as he'd remember every blade of grass.

These people are so absorbed in the present; they have no sense of the past or of the future. Now they can be very disturbing, particularly when they are children. Whenever you do a chart, always remember the child first, as it is so important. Look at those white centers and understand what it means to look at the child first - to see the influences that would be there, see the conditioning forces that would be there - all of that.

Somebody that comes in on the Juxtaposition Cross of the Now is deeply in the now. They also have a very, very, very basic problem that they all suffer from their split is not connected. So as a split definition, manifesting generator with the 37/40 stuck off on the side, because they are so deeply absorbed in the now, they are not connected to that part of their life, this channel of Community. It brings a lot of problems into their life. So busy in the now, they don't realize that they have friends or that there is anybody else there. They can be totally lost in their existential reality - that use to be a way of describing somebody that was enlightened. Ra hopes that you get the joke of that.

When you get to the juxtaposition, there is a real transition as the tribal influence is taken away and is replaced with mental pressure, the head center gates of the 63 and the 64. These people are fixed on getting their identified experiment done. Though they are fixed on that, they doubt that it will get done and are confused about why it won't be done. All this pressure leads to anxiety about whether or not they can get the experiment done.

You know this is the kind of person that carries the same proposal under their arm for 50 years saying, "This experiment must be done! Somebody eventually, somehow, somewhere, some place, blah, blah, blah - it must get done." At the mundane level this is what we often call neurosis, but in fact these are just elements that are built into us. People are fixed in certain ways, and in being fixed in that way, it can appear disturbing to others, particularly the collective. Remember it is the collective that is always deciding ultimately what is going to be acceptable or not, whether we like it or not. "Let's sterilize all those retarded children," regardless of whether we like it or not. So with this Juxtaposition Cross of Experimentation, you have this fixed movement towards having to get it done. These are people that are deeply, deeply identified, and it is very, very difficult, if at all possible, to be able to break the grasp of that identification.

Where you actually get to see this process in its maturity is when you see it in the juxtaposition cross. There with the 354 we have the insatiable appetite for progress that eventually diminishes, eventually. So this is the great driving force. The theme of progress, we are running out of progress - don't you notice that? Science fiction books of the 1950s and1960s, described what 2000 was going to look like -it's not true at all, as they had this assumption that our progress was limitless. But in fact it is actually very narrow. All we are getting is more information, and we are getting a lot more information. Walk through a modern city and then stroll through Rome 2000 years ago, you're not going to notice a hell of a lot of difference, except it smells different.

The nature of the progress in this movement says, "We've got to keep on building. We've got to keep on growing. We've got to keep on making, and keep on manifesting. Whatever is out there, we have to do. If there is another valley - we have to go there. If there is another mountain, we've got to climb it. If there is another sea, we've got to cross it." That is all there with the Sun in the 35. Of course, all the doubts and questions also come out of that.

When you to the juxtaposition and you get to that 4th line, you're coming to the Juxtaposition Cross of Experience. These are the great solo experiential beings who say, "I have to see what it is like to walk across Europe," and off he goes. They are the ones that are very, very fixed in their very specialized experience.

The stream from 41 to 35 is a very, very heavy burden on all of us, because it is the human way. It is chaotic. There is everything there that has to be dealt with and opened up; all the experiences have to be met. Those experiences are only possible, that experience is only attractive, because there is this incredible carrot that the 35 dangles - it is the carrot of expectation. "If I do this, I'm going to get that. If I climb there, I'm going to see that." Of course, with expectation comes enormous disappointment. "I tried that way and it doesn't work." But we are designed to try all the ways.

If you have a child that carries this kind of cross or has a 35 in their profile, only by educating them to their type and authority are you assuring that they going to get the experiences that are correct for them - and correct for all of us, in that sense. Otherwise, they can end up suffering terribly from that.

You can also think about this cross as the juxtaposition cross of repossession. "I've come to repossess your car." Look at what disappears: the 22, the Grace, which is a very important theme in all of this. If it weren't for Grace, the Right Angle Cross of Rulership would simply be rapacious - just simply taking. Grace makes a real difference, as even at their worst, they were still giving back something of value to those that they were taking advantage of. When you come here to the Juxtaposition Cross of Possession, you have the Design Sun in the 36, crisis and desire, as well as the Design Earth in the 6. This has absolutely nothing to do with ruling and has everything to do with trying to possess people. This is a very different kind of cross.

These are people possessors, clingers. They are the people that go after you and don't let go of you. In order to maintain their sense of authority, or rulership, and to be able to hold on to their territory, they have to possess you. This is the desperate queen or king that clings to the knights, knowing damn well if they don't cling real well that the knights are going to turn against them. So there is a great deal of fear that is locked in here.

Sexually this cross is very kinky, as it has to do with bondage. This is the source of bondage and bondage fantasies. By the way, if your child has this cross, and you see her tying up her teddy bear - don't send her to a therapist. They are going to be holding onto things and tying up things for the rest of their life. There is nothing that you can do about it, except teach them their authority and type, so that what they do possess is correct. Oh yes, teach them good knots.

The Juxtaposition Cross of Articulation is a very, very special juxtaposition cross - special because of the Sun/Earth configuration at the Personality level, with the Sun in the 12, The Prophet/The Prophetess, and the Earth in the 11, The Teacher. These are great spokespeople who have a real gift. But juxtaposition crosses are extremely rare, and rare in the society as a whole, as they are a small percentage of the population. That doesn't mean that there aren't 10s of thousands of them, but the fact is that you can do design for a long time and not see a lot of them.

With this gift of articulation on this cross, these people have very, very special kinds of voices. It's their voice, a voice that has a special quality - the quality of that voice is its mutative potential. The Design Sun/Earth has changed to the 25 and the 46, which are part of the Cross of the Vessel of Love. So the articulation of this cross is being carried with a very particular kind of energy. If any of you ever come across such a cross, Ra has never met or seen someone on the Juxtaposition Cross of Articulation. It would be very interesting to know something about the nature of that being, and what goes on in their process - whether that is at a mundane level or not, because it is a fascinating cross.

By the way, part of the work being done by Rave Life Sciences is looking at vulnerabilities in terms of line themes. The 4th line is the line of infection, and these people are open to infection. Being open to infection, they can also pass it on. Part of the teaching capacity is inherent in this - in other words, they really can pass things on, in that sense, they really can infect the other.

With a right angle cross where all want they want to do is to bring everybody into the flow, the juxtaposition cross is one in which they never can be in the flow. This is the Juxtaposition Cross of Extremes, and it doesn't have the rooting of the 25/46- the other gates of love underneath. What you have now are the 17 and the 18 which brings dissatisfaction and the need for correction.

Those that have the Juxtaposition Cross of Extremes are always, always going into very fixed rhythms. These rhythms can be literally anywhere in the spectrum. It can look very bizarre - the way in which these beings use their energy, and the way in which they go about doing things. But it is also out of them that all the possibilities of humanity's rhythm can be explored.

This juxtaposition is lovely. In the Juxtaposition Cross of Stillness, the 21/48 have replaced the 17/18. The 21 is the gate that needs to be in control, and the 48 is the gate of depth. The 18 was looking for solutions, but we moved away from it, directly into the 48 as the Design Earth. Now we have the possibility of solution, a totally different phase. With the Juxtaposition Cross of Stillness, there are solutions that are waiting underneath the surface that really can take control.

With the juxtaposition comes the 4th line, and this is a classic example of opportunism. Remember the mantra of the 4th line: If you have a lover, don't leave your lover until you have another lover. If you have a job, don't leave your job, until you have another job - otherwise, you are going to end up with a lousy lover and have a lot of trouble finding a decent job. Everything about the 4th line is waiting for opportunity to come. So it is very important to see that in this Juxtaposition Cross of Stillness, these people have tremendous influence when others come to them and ask for a solution.

The collective always has difficulties, as it doesn't understand its own nature. Turning its own collective process into what is personal always gets it into trouble. The 18/58, as an example, has the capacity to see what's wrong, but that doesn't mean that it needs to be fixed. It doesn't mean that there is a solution, and it doesn't mean that it matters at all. Of course, 18/58s are of enormous value when somebody comes to them and says, "Can you help me? Can you see what is wrong?" Then they are great, and instead of thinking of them as a pain in the neck and a bitch, you think they are really valuable and useful.

People on the Juxtaposition Cross of Stillness are forced to be still, unless they are asked. This, of course, creates great frustration, particularly if they are generators or projectors. Their great frustration is that they would love to say it. But they don't, as they are trapped by their cross. Sitting there and holding their tongue, until finally the other person says, "Is something the matter?" It finally gets to come out, "Yes, you jerk!" They have to wait passively for that moment, and then bang- it can come out.

When you get to the juxtaposition, you get to pure provocation, but provocation at a much deeper level. This is not about provocation to be in control, or provocation to bring a solution, as the 21 and 48 that were at the Design side of the Cross of Tension are gone. What we have here is the Sun in 51, Shock Thunder, the Arousing, and the Earth in 57, the gate of clarity, The Gentle. This is another example of all four gates being individual. So not only are these people going to be deeply moody, but also melancholic. Of course, there also is a great potential for creativity.

Every individual, and anyone who carries individual definition, has to recognize that your greatest enemy when you are melancholic is those who claim they love you. Keep that in mind. They are going to say, "What's the matter?" because they don't want you to be in your mood, as they don't like it. If you don't give them a reason, such as, "Well I've had a bad day" - they'll make one up for you. The moment that you are identified with that reason, you will have depression, instead of your creativity. Thus, the nature of melancholy demands a certain amount of separation and distance, even from those who are closest to you.

With the Juxtaposition Cross of Provocation, we have a force that can provoke you at a very deep level, just for the sake of provoking. That is what they do, and they do it all the time. They are always in the business of provoking, because that's their way. Now obviously that can lead to some difficulties. Generally anyone carrying the 39tn or the 38tn gate in their profile are always being read at the auric level by those they meet that they can be provocative, that they can be difficult, that they can be a problem to deal with. So these people are already dealing with an auric impression that the other has. With the Juxtaposition Cross of Provocation, which can be very uncomfortable for people, because these beings can be very moody, and very unpredictable in who they provoke and when, they end up with a great deal of resistance. Most of them are very unhappy people, primarily because of not grasping the nature of the melancholy which is so deeply a part of who they are.

The juxtaposition cross is very interesting for a couple of reasons. First of all, the 51 and the 57 go away, and are replaced with the 42 and the 32. In this situation we have a very specific cross, which is very unusual, because there are two definitions out of those four gates. We get these two channels, the format energy of the 53/42 and the channel of Transformation, the 54/32, formed out of the four arms of the cross. With the Juxtaposition Cross of Beginnings, we have a logical generator, and we have that generator power in exactly the places where logic demands its energy. These people are in the greatest demand in the logical realm. They bring the juice and energize the beginnings. Thus, here you have a cross that brings the format energy of the abstract process and gives all that energy to the channel of Transformation.

The Earth in the 54⁴ is one of the most mystical of all lines. As the line of Enlightenment/Endarkenment, it has no meaning. It is about the ambition of being recognized by higher forces, whether those higher forces are mundane or spiritual. The energy that is here, since this format energy starts a new cycle of transformation, makes these people in demand, because they are the ones that can get things going. They can get the transformation going and the have the ability to recognize two very important things - How much is it going to cost? Who are the most valuable people to hire who will get things done. In other words, this is about the material recognition of the value of people. It is very important when you are going to build something to know whether somebody's work is of value, and how much to value his or her work. The 32/54 is all about that, and is the basis in the tribe.

It is also something else; it is all about dealing with continuity. Nothing is more damaging to the 32 then when continuity breaks down. In other words, the continuing process of beginning things and completing them makes real continuity.

You have no idea what detail is like until you meet somebody that has this Juxtaposition Cross of Detail. They can be brilliant, by the way, but they detail you to death. One of these days we can have a nice place for all of these people, where they can be useful and functional - detailing each other to death and very happy doing so. However, fortunately for us, juxtapositions are rare. Thus, we're not going to have a lot of these people who detail us into the ground. But that is exactly what they do. Truly, they can be quite deep.

One of the things that they are perfect at, which is great for America, they make great lawyers. Deep underneath you have the Design Earth in the 50, the lawmaker, the basic lawmaker. These beings have a deep, deep, deep detail capacity and can get down to the fine nuances of things, like plowing through a contract or whatever the case may be. However, at the mundane level, they have to have all the details and will tell you all of them, because their Sun is in a collective gate, that wants to be able to share those details, whether they are reasonable or not, by the way.

When you get to the juxtaposition, you get to somebody who is fixed on stimulation. This is the great stimulation junkie. "Entertain me, entertain me, entertain me, entertain me or I'm going to die. If you don't entertain me, I'm going to risk my very life to see if that is entertaining." No longer do we have the 3 and the 50 underneath; the judge and mutative potential are gone. Now we have the 27, the gate of nourishment and caring, and the 28, the gate of taking risks, the Preponderance of the Great.

Someone on the Juxtaposition Cross of Stimulation who can't find anybody to stimulate really goes nuts. Needing to be telling people their story, they need to be getting that out and stimulating others, as it is very important for them. Whenever you see the 56th in somebody's throat, they are going to be at their best when they explain things through their own experience. That is an essential ingredient for them. If they tell their own story, it becomes their own parable, and their truth will get out. It is terrible when 56s try to be 62s, because it just doesn't work, as they cannot do that. It is very healthy for them to understand storytelling and the storytelling capacity.

Children who carry this kind of configuration always need to tell you all this stuff, as they have to get the stimulation out. Remember that the grounding is difficult here, because the fact is that they can become so needy of stimulation, they will go to extremes, taking extreme risks in order to find something that is going to be exciting for them.

With the juxtaposition and 4th line's fixedness, you are always dealing with those that are influential by their very nature, because they are consistent and stay with things. In the Juxtaposition Cross of Influence, the 27 and the 28 go away, and are replaced with the 24 and the 44. With the appearance of these gates, the close of this quarter is near, we are coming to the Cross of the Four Ways. The 31 is the influence in this Juxtaposition Cross of Influence, and the 41 is all about starting a new experience. Coupled with the 24 and 44 as ways, the Return and Coming to Meet, these are people that through their mental processing are eventually able to have influence over others. They are always, always working at being influential.

At the daycare center, the child with the Juxtaposition Cross of Influence, is doing his best to influence the other children. Since the Cross of the Unexpected is right angle, these people are into their own trip, don't really know they can be leaders, and it pops up unexpectedly in that way. But the moment you get into the transpersonal 4th line with its gift of being able to recognize the other, then you have somebody here that is not simply waiting and not knowing they have influence - this is somebody that is practicing their influence on whoever they can.

When you get to this juxtaposition cross, you get to a nice turn. You still have the 33 and the 19, but with the design being replaced by the 2 and the 1. This Juxtaposition Cross of Retreat represents the great aesthetic beauty it is to retreat into your own domain, into your own territory. After a long trip, there is nothing like lying down in your own bed. There is nothing in the whole world that is like that; you lie down and exclaim, "Wow, that's great!"

What's embodied in all of that is that the most beautiful space is your own space. It is there that you can really fulfill your aesthetic possibilities, because of the 2, this need for beauty in life, the 1, the need to be able to express that, and all of this coupled with this deep retreat. It is important to see that the beginning of what we will call civilization really doesn't start until we have individual houses. Just having vast communities, where hundreds of people are living in communal dwellings - this is not the same thing. It is not the same thing at all. The integrity and the power of the individual change the moment that he or she has their own territory. It is something that is different, and the society must change because of that.

No longer can certain forces have complete and total power over everyone. It is about the egalitarian development of life, by opening up as a possibility the opportunity for everyone to have their place of retreat, a roof over their heads. It is one of the most basic things about bringing peace to the planet - you can't do that until everyone has a roof over their heads. You can't do that until there is enough food for them, until they have the right to speak their own language, and remember, learn, and keep their own traditions. These are just basic things, and it begins with a roof over their head, that basic protection, and the integrity that they have their own space and territory - in that they will have what they need.

When we move to the juxtaposition, we lose the 2 and the 1 at the Design level, and get the 23/43. Thus, the individual mind is defined at the unconscious level in the Juxtaposition Cross of Interaction. Rooted in the Sun being in the 74. the theme of the 4th line is brotherhood/sisterhood and the capacity to find opportunity through one's relationships. This is somebody that is always interacting at the leadership level or at least the need to be at the leadership level. These are political shmoozers, backroom people, the ones that just have that as a way of life. They are always interacting, but they are always interacting to find some kind of a way that gives them a chance to live out their role as a potential leader and somebody who can be of influence. Like all juxtaposition crosses, they are very rare.

If you want to raise a chess master, you genetically manipulate them so that you'll get the Juxtaposition Cross of Formalization. There is reasonable money in chess today, so it might be a reasonable investment. The 23/43 goes away and that of course also removes the freakiness, the difficulty in having to explain oneself, and being forced to explain oneself. AlI there is left is the ability to formulize, and these are people that throw theories at you all the time. Of course, they never bother to back them up or to really give you any substantiation about them; they just float these things around. Now remember something, people who do that can be very inspiring. They see formulas in everything, the patterns in things. Always coming up with their little formula, they never bother to do anything with it. It is not like they want to substantiate it; they don't. They have no need within them. In terms of their cross, to express it is enough; "Good, now that's gone." This is a transition point, leading into the Left Angle Cross of Revolution.

This juxtaposition brings tremendous energy and is a loose cannon cross, With the 20/34 at the unconscious level, a 29, and the 30, the Clinging Fire, the 4th line of Burnout, you've got the Juxtaposition Cross of Commitment. would like Rave Life Sciences to survey how many times they say yes in a lifetime - must be a Guinness world record, endlessly a Guinness world record. Fixed on commitment, they are fixed on saying yes until it burns them out. That's not an easy load.

Standing between what is left and what is right angle, the juxtaposition is a bridge - it is neither this nor that, and in that it carries a burden. It carries that movement of the genetic energy from one to the other, the information moving through. Their very fixedness is a source of inspiration and influence to others, as you see in a world where very few are designed, in terms of their incarnation, to make commitments, they can be an enormous influence and example in times when commitment is necessary. There they are, ready to serve until they're dead. The Catholic Church has sainted many of them.

With the Juxtaposition Cross of Strategy, this is the most natural position for a 4h line, that is with the Sun being here in the 59" - this is a 4th line that is getting the best deal. Rooted in brotherhood/sisterhood, the very nature of the 4th line is an opportunist, which gets its opportunity out of its relationship. It is the first transpersonal line that is the first line of the upper trigram. As such, it has an awareness of the other, unlike the lower trigram that truly is unaware of the other and self absorbed, only becoming aware of the other when somebody steps into their aura. But the 4th line is the beginning of the process of understanding that there is an other.

So here in the 594, it is brotherhood/sisterhood and is a natural position. Earlier we saw the political schmoozer, working the backroom. This is another kind of that variation, as they are always strategizing. What they tend to be strategizing about is "How can I turn my friendship into a really good sexual encounter. How can I get across that barrier?" That is always at the back of the mind of the 4, because there is always this frustration, because the people she wants to be physically intimate with are always telling her about who they're making love to. It is one of the tragedies in the 4th line when they are young. The boy or girl, who the 4th line wants as their boyfriend or girlfriend, is telling her that they are in love with Johnny or Susie or Joe or Jane. Always strategizing, they are really good at strategizing how to bring people together; this is the great cross of matchmaking - this is matchmaking at its best. "He'd be perfect for her."

With the Juxtaposition Cross of Denial, the16 and the 9 disappear and you get the 35 and the 5. Many, many years ago, it seems like another lifetime, I had a job where I would make about 250 phone calls a day to different cities. After I'd done 20 to 30,000 of these calls, when somebody would pick up the telephone, I'd know right away if they were the kind of people that said no automatically, yes automatically, or simply weren't sure. You just knew right away. The moment they start the first word, sometimes just the breath when they pick up the telephone was enough to tell me, "Alright, do it, but nothing is going to happen here." There's no way to get to these people on this cross - they are going to deny everything, everything. So if you have a conversation with them, it doesn't matter where you are coming from, you'll get this, " Nah, I'm not going to take that."

These are great nihilist. These are the kind of people that just hammer it down to the ground. They take "Been there, done that" to its perverse level. "Don't want to be there; don't want to do that." All the kids say, "Let's go," but there is one kid stubbornly saying, "I don't want to do that." This is their denial. They are great. After all, we don't have a lot of juxtapositions, but they are very important. This is the braking system, if you will, on run away progress. We've already witnessed that braking taking place in the Second World War; as we had a whole movement that was anti-progress and back to the farm the retros, "Let's put the brakes on." So denial is very important, in that sense.

When we move to the juxtaposition, you can see what happens when you bring the Sun in the 64 to an extreme position. By extreme position, we're dealing with the fixed fate geometry of the 4th line and its fixedness. With the Juxtaposition Cross of Confusion, we need to cut through the morality of that word. They are the most inspiring beings to what we call historians. Fonts of information, they are constantly regurgitating the past, constantly. As the focus of their process, their ability to do that means that they are very, very detailed in all of that.

The other thing is that with the juxtaposition, the 35 and the 5 move away; consciousness is rooted in its pattern. The 5 gate is at the core or at the heart of our consciousness - we'll get to that in the next quarter, because it is all rooted in the pattern of life itself, and in the pattern of thought itself. But here the 5 is gone, as well as the 35, the experiential part. Remember that the 64 is always going to be processing its experiential life; the less dense the experiential life, you know the less that it is involved in all of that different detail of remembering.

But here in this Juxtaposition of Confusion, we have the 45 and the 26 underneath. The 26h gate, the Egotist, has the genetic capacity to manipulate memory; in other words, to exaggerate, to extend, and that can turn into lying. It is the duality of the 26 that it can be a great truth teller or a great liar, but it is always the gate of the Egotist. Always a deeply material gate, this is the marketing manager in a business. This is the capacity of the ego to present itself to the tribe, and present to the tribe through hyperbole, to exaggerate in order to get the tribe's interest. Remember the joke about the tribe; the tribe always expects to get the best - the best refrigerator, the best car. This is essential for the tribe, everything has to be better.

The 45th gate is about rulership. The Juxtaposition Cross of Confusion is always dealing with the past; it is always putting out the past; and it is always manipulating past in the hopes of gaining material. You can interpret that any way you like; some of it is quite nasty. There is a line in the 26 where the manipulation of knowledge is the right of the ego in order to benefit the tribe "Whew, one should be careful of such things."

In the movement of this, you get to the Juxtaposition Cross of Oppression where the 45/26 disappear, the natural rulership and the power of the ego. Replaced with the 12 and the 11- our capacity to articulate ideas. Now it is one of my personal jokes that these are political crosses, in a sense. This political Cross of Oppression is grounded ultimately in ideas. You know ideas oppress humanity. That is one of the things about ideas. Yes indeed ideas can be fascinating, and there are occasions where ideas actually turn into something. I'm not as bad as Osho, who said that all ideas were crap. He was on the right track, but then again he was logical, so he was speaking out of his own preferences. However, ideas must be substantiated, otherwise they are not of practical value to humanity, and they can get us into a lot of trouble.

This is where somebody uses the past, and their understanding of the past, to articulate a new idea about what can be done. The name, the Juxtaposition Cross of Oppression, is not an accident, because it can be terrible oppressing. Now if we again remove that and take this down to the mundane level, this is a very difficult cross, because these are people that can be very oppressive. They can really roll over your life with their concepts, and because they are very fixed, they cannot be changed from that. Then again, there are not a lot of them. You know the Gods are kind.

With the Juxtaposition Cross of Conflict, we have a transition from the 12 and the 11, so the teaching, the ideas, the concepts, the capacity to articulate, the prophecy capacity - all of that disappears. What we get instead is two gates of love, the 15h gate, the love of humanity, and the 10tn gate, the potential of self-love, the gate of behavior. This juxtaposition and the left angle that comes with it, have two very. very powerful profiling gates. After all, the 10t gate is one of the most powerful role gates or profiling gates that we have, because the 10th gate opens as it does to three other gates of the integration system. It is at the core of our behavior, and the need through our behavior, or the possibility through correct behavior, to bе able to survive. Not only to be able to survive, but be able to flourish. So basic behavior is here underneath.

With the 64, intimacy is not about sexuality. Sexuality is a theme, but it is a frustrating theme. Intimacy is just about that for them. It's about making friends; it is about integrating with others. These are the people that I call "barrier breakers;" they are "aura breakers." They can get into your aura and often by getting into your aura, they can create real, deep crisis. The way that they get into your aura is by befriending you, because they have a gift of being able to create the environment for companionship.

The conflict that they live with is that they can't get out of the Eden trip. Remember that juxtaposition crosses are transition crosses. This is a transition between Eden and the Plane. Now in the Plane you are absorbed in the world. It is not a question of where you came from and "I wish I would get back." It's "Let me get this done, so I can get out." In the middle of that is the juxtaposition, which is the balancing point between those two. The difference in that position is that it never gets to the intimacy that brings the children, and life of going forth and multiplying. It gets stuck at the companionship level, and at that level, it says, "What the hell am I doing here? I left Eden for this? To muck around with all these different people and to not really have a life?" So you can see that they have a difficult time.

When the 4th line understands its strategy, that it befriends before it can find love, that out of friendship comes it opportunities for all things, and they live out their type, it doesn't matter how fixed their process is, or whether they are on a fixed cross or not - they are going to get what is correct for them. That is what is important.

When we get to this juxtaposition cross, we get to the Juxtaposition Cross of Serendipity. This is a lovely word - be in the right place at the right time. Of course, it happens with a 4th line personality, as this is the ultimate opportunist that is always there at the moment that's serendipitous. That is the gift here in the 46. It says something magical to everybody that carries the abstract in their design - "Don't worry about when you're in it; worry about it when you're over it, not while you're in it." Be in it, and out of that comes success. So the commitment that has to be made, that started in the Vessel of Love and moves over here, is serendipity.

What you don't want to meet, unless you are ready for it, unless you really need it, is this Juxtaposition Cross of Correction. We live in a very, very complex world of multi-patterns, and these people are masters of recognizing a flaw in a pattern - they are masters of it. As a matter of fact, this is the root of mastery. So one of the things to consider is that the real problem we have with the 18t gate is that they don't live out their nature. You see if they just allowed their aura to do the talking, everyone who is in their life would naturally gravitate to them when they needed to have direction and correction, because they know that there is a wealth of solution available - that there is an ability to be able to see what needs to be fixed. But the moment that they aren't living out their type, that is the moment that they meet resistance. We all do if we don't live out our type.

Of course, when you are trying to correct somebody and you are not doing it correctly, the resistance you meet is very uncomfortable. People take that stuff personally, and there is nothing more personal and provocative than the logical collective establishing standards for us. So there is a great deal of challenge here, and those that are coming in on this cross are dealing at a very, very focused level with the archetype in their life. It is not going to be easy for them to have satisfying relationships unless they really understand their nature.

Where they really are of value is to the rest of us. One of these people who can turn rough girls into princesses, with this kind of ability to be able to transform the other, to be able to give them an enriched variation of their gender and how it can be perceived and what the advantages are. These people can do that for others and can correct them, but as for their own lives, that is quite difficult.

This is why we buy all these magazines, and check out all these television shows - we are always seeing what the other male and other female are doing, and what the level is. We are always in competition with that, whether we like it or not, whether we put it down intellectually or not, whether we even know it is taking place or not, because it is part of the nature of our being. So if you meet these people, and of course the whole thing is they are 18$s, so they are your friends. The 4th line is about incompetence, and they can be incredibly cruel, because when they see incompetence, they'll tell you, even when you're not asking - that creates a lot of resistance. It probably creates a lot of homicides, amongst other things. Most people who kill, know the person that they are killing - it is just one of those things, just to put that last comment in perspective.

With the Juxtaposition Cross of Depth, the name speaks for itself. A transition takes place, as the Right Angle of Tension got its tension from the 39/38, which was at the Design level in this third variation. When you move over to the juxtaposition, the design configuration changes bringing the 53, the need for new beginnings, and the 54, this gate of the Marrying Maiden, the gate of ambition. Again, whenever ambition shows up, there is a motivation that shows up. In other words, this is depth, but depth as an advantage, because the 54s are here to be recognized and noticed.

They are here to be noticed for different things. In this particular configuration, they are noticed for their depth. The more people that they have in their circle, the more they will impact, be of influence, and be recognized for the depth that they have. But then again these are people that can be very narrow in the way in which they commune with others, because they can simply be lost in the depth and nothing else. There are after all many other things to be involved with in life. Of course, they are going to be very fixed on that as theme.

When you come to this Juxtaposition Cross of Intuition, these are incredibly profound people, but rarely, rarely, rarely are their voices heard. Here we have a movement with the 53 and 54 disappearing and being replaced by the 61, inner truth, occult knowledge, and the 62, the basis of detail, the ability to go into things in a very deep, deep way. But they are not people that others hear. They have their thing, they have their intuition about others, but they rarely say anything. It is how they hold on to their relationships. They are a classic 4th line personality. They keep those things inside.

If these people are able to survive the Uranus cycle, that is 84 years, they will suddenly start blurting things out. It is a funny thing about them, as you know you find out after being their friend for 50 years that they hated your guts. They never told you, and you never knew. You're 84 years old and you're sitting together, "I want to tell you something. Fifty years I've put up with you. You are such a jerk, and I don't want to put up with you anymore." So it is a very funny thing that happens to them in their lives.

The 32nd gate is the gate of duration, and the gate of continuity. There is no more conservative gate; it is trying to conserve everything. Trying to make sure that its resources are conserved, the 32 wants to assure that there is no risk, as it is afraid of being wiped out. It may seem like an irrational fear, but it is not, when you consider that it is deep in their instinctive nature. They have to concentrate on that.

Here in the Juxtaposition Cross of Conservation is a transition in that the 62/61 disappears. Thus, the inner truth and the detail that can help guide pure evaluation are gone. They are replaced with the 56 and the 60, two aspects of what will be the Cross of Laws - this need for stimulation in the presence of limitation. Don't go into business with these people if that business is a fad. For example, you get into business with these people making hula-hoops. People stop buying hula-hoops, but they want to stay in the hula-hoop business. They don't want to give up; they just don't want to give up, as they are just going to hold on. They end up buying a warehouse and storing 8 zillion hula-hoops, because they firmly believe it is a mistake that they are no longer fashionable, and they are convinced that it will certainly come back in time. This is just the way they are. Now we need those that conserve, because we also have people who come out of this cross saying, "Well look, let's conserve the forest. Let's conserve life on Earth." Conservationists are found on this cross.

With the transpersonal, that is you go into the upper trigram, you get the Juxtaposition Cross of Values. The Sun in the 504 gives us something very important -- corruption. As the Cross of Values, this is the softest place you are going to meet in rulemaking. This is the place that says, "Well, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, does it have to be this severe? I mean they only took a loaf of bread, do we really need to cut off their hand?" They still do that in the world and they have done it for a very long time. With corrupt values, you get to the position where the values of the tribe can be corrupted - the 4th line of the 50. Then you have that opportunity to soften, to lessen, to bring another value to that, by thinking about the being and the consequences of their existence.

The unexpected that raises one to power with the 31 or the new experience with the 41, disappears when we move into the Juxtaposition Cross of Risks. Now these are people that simply from the very moment that they can are going to take a risk. They are going to push the envelope, because that is basically what they are here to do. They are always trying to get the thrill that says, "Wow, that's great." It's the thrill that says, "Wow, I survived!"

However, one of the things about the nature of that risk taking is that they can only take risks that are rooted in what they need. With the Design Earth in the 19th gate, there is this pressure to get the resources that you need. So here is a very fixed geometry of constantly taking risks in order to get what they need. Now it's not uncommon for this to be an obsessed gambler. By the way, you can take the obsessed away and just say gambler. There is a gaminess here, if you will, that says, "Better that I invest in an IPO of some new technology and try to make a million bucks over night. Better to take that risk, because if I win that will really give me a sense of purpose. It is going to make me feel wonderful." So there is tendency to risk taking and it can often be blind risk taking.

When we come to the Juxtaposition Cross of Alertness, we have the shift from the 33/19, from retreat and need, to the 7, the role gate in leadership, and the 13th the role gate in our interaction with others, which is the logical and the abstract aspects of the Sphinx. Sign posts were mentioned earlier, and this is another variation - these people are our natural alert system. It is better than having a watchdog.

With the Sun in the 44, what you have here are people that are really in tune to what's going on. They are alert to what is going on - both in terms of where we are headed and where we have come from. They can be very, very influential beings, very influential. But just because someone is designed to be alert, doesn't mean that: a) they are alert to the right thing at the right time, and b) doesn't mean anybody cares, or should. Even though there are all these criteria, nonetheless, these are the ones that say, "It smells like fire." Pay attention, because they are the first ones to get the message. They can smell it out. If you want a seer, look up this cross.

When we move into the juxtaposition, you can see the fulfillment in the extreme of being fixed. In other words, this is the Juxtaposition Cross of Self Expression, where they always needs to tell you their "I know." Now that "I know" may be profound, after all. A transition at the Design level replaces the 7 and 13 with the 4 and the 49. The 4th gate of formulization, Youthful Folly, is a gate of coming up with answers. The 49th gate of our emotional principles is the gate of Revolution. These are forces that can be very, very powerful. With their need to express, what comes out of them can be very unusual. Yet at the same time, they are so busy needing to express themselves, they alienate the very people that are attracted to them. As classic 4th line personalities, they can bring people into their life, because of their social skills. But at the same time, their need to express themselves always gets in the way of their relationships.

One of the worse case scenarios is for somebody with this cross to have a lover with the 8th gate - look out. All they want to do is express themselves, to the point that no one else can say anything. Now of course it is not their fault. If you invest in gagging them, it isn't going to help.

This is in the extreme, in the Juxtaposition cross of Insight. Everything is in the insight, and it's very hard to get that insight out. It is like watching a film with somebody, and he suddenly goes, "Ah ha." He can't tell you why he did that. There is just that insight, this 'ah ha,' but don't ask him to tell you what that means. It will all come out like gobblety gook, and you'll think, "He doesn't know what he's talking about. I certainly didn't see that." Meanwhile, he keeps going, "Ah ha."

Wherever you see gates of articulation, remember there is always the polarity. If there is a place where there is a voice that speaks, there is also a place where the voice cannot. You have this as a reality in individuality, because of the 12th gate. The 12th gate was responsible for the mutation of larynx. Thus, the 12h gate conditions the way in which we breath and speak, and that breathing and speaking out of the 12th gate, affects everything that is in the individual process. For example, in the 124, you have this lovely line of the Prophet, but the polarity is the voice in the wilderness, which can be people who stutter. In other words, there are problems with being able to articulate that are inherent in being an individual. They need to be nurtured into developing linguistic, articulating skill, but what they hear most in their life is, "Shut up!"

With the Juxtaposition Cross of Empowering, you get to a real transition, because the 29/30 is replaced by the 59/55 - we've seen that before. It means that the sleeping phoenix is coming, all of that process with the 55 gate and the 59th gate. No longer is this contagion about pulling energy together for a common direction, because there is no commitment anymore. It is not there. The desire, the expectation is not there. What is in its place is a need for sexual intimacy and romance, which is totally different with this design underneath.

In dealing with the 59 here, which is the caveman/cavewoman, you can buy love; it's on sale. You can buy companionship, sexual favors, or whatever the case may be. That energy in and of itself can be used to go out and play that role of caveman/cavewoman, and get what you want, in order to find your spirit. With the fixedness of this cross, if they don't have money, they are deeply depressed - the 55th gate. In other words, their spirit is deeply connected to their financial resources and to their security.

With the Juxtaposition Cross of Power, we are going to take the sexuality away and bring in the bargain. We are opening up to the duality process, because here we have the split definition - we have the 34/20 and the 40/37, the channel of community, and the channel of the bargain. Power as business: "Do you need my power? How much do you want to pay for it?" "You need my juice today? How much do you want to pay for it?"

Usually what this represents is entertainment, as it is very common for this to be entertainment. The 34/20 will do its song and dance, as long as it's got a fair bargain with the tribe - meaning it gets paid for its song and dance. However, there is enormous power in this.

Both the juxtaposition and the left angle are very important crosses, because they provide opportunities in which the mutative individual can impact on the tribe. Here they impact on the tribe by their power to do things. The 40/37 is the heart of the tribe, but that's a projected channel. There is nothing there, but motors burning, and no place to go. Along comes the 34/20 revving up its engine, and they're all saying, "Wow, I want some of those genes." They send out their daughters and their sons to go get that one. "Don't let that one leave town." That's why little towns have bus stops. "Don't let them leave town." Let them come in and if they've got good genetic material, keep them.

In the Juxtaposition Cross of Focus, the 40/37, the bargain and the community are replaced with the 64 and the 63, head centers gates bringing the pressure of inspiration. That pressure of inspiration can be quite uncomfortable for those who have it, but is very inspiring for those who don't. This cross is about finding the focus. Logic suffers from a lot of frustration due to lack of material, lack of resources, and the 9th gate is very concerned about being able to have enough resources to focus on the detail.

But in this configuration, there is all this doubt and confusion, as to whether any of that can be actualized. In other words, the plan is beginning to fall apart, because no planning works without the agreement of tribe - none. Here we have planning that is entirely collective three-quarters of it is logical, and basically caught up from the unconscious at the mental level. Thus, there is all this intellectualizing on whether a focus can be found. Is there something worthwhile planning to do, never mind whether we have the resources. So this cross is seeking out the focus. By the way, in the passive nature of the 9/52, things come into focus, come into view, rather than you trying to focus on things.

With the Juxtaposition Cross of Habits, we have the earliest values inherent in the 5th gate. The 5 gate of patterns is also a gate of ritual - this is where the ritual patterns get established. You drive to work the same way, and it becomes a ritual - all of these habits that we have. The Juxtaposition Cross of Habits is one of the quirkiest of the juxtaposition crosses. It is simply because these are habitual people; you know they take 11 steps to the bathroom. They don't take 12; they take 11 steps to the bathroom. They have 3 minute and 47 second eggs. This is the kind of human being that they are, fixed on their habits. If you meet them or if you live with them, there is nothing you can do about that.

Habits are so important for us, and most of our habits are conditioned. Not everybody walks around with the 5th gate, so our habits get conditioned in life. Being conditioned to certain patterns is very important to us, and you can see that primarily in the way in which we work. We have been conditioned to a pattern that says from 9 to 5 is a time to be working. Having all these habits imposed on us, they give us a sense of order.

Out of that order comes the potential of love remember the 5tn gate is pointed at the 15 gate, the love of humanity. It is looking at finally finding the flow and is only interested in being in the flow. You can only be in the flow, first of all by being correct, that is entering into things correctly. But here in the juxtaposition cross, they get that sense of being in flow by having their habit. It is always the same, they come back to it, because it gives them this sense that life is consistent, and is all okay - it is all reliable.

One of the names of the 26 is the gate of the trickster. With the Juxtaposition Cross of the Trickster, look out, because you are going to get screwed. After all the 37 and the 22 go away, and you get the 6 and the 36. In other words, they are going to trick you, they're going to take advantage of you; and you'll end up holding the bag. Of course, they are very good at that. Now look, tricksters are great, because there is always somebody who wants to, needs to, and is ready, according to their incarnation, to be fooled. It is the way that it works.

We can always get so heavy with so many descriptions, but what is the point of that - things are what are. There is always a gate at the other end of the arm; you're always going to meet those other sides. You're always going to meet what's there for that. There are those that are here to be tricked over, and over and over and over and over again. There are those that are here to be tricksters. After all, in most ancient cultures, the trickster is honored. There is something about the trickster that is special - you know they are even tricky with the Gods. They mess around, they do things, and they can be very interesting, very provocative in that sense.

When you get to the Juxtaposition Cross of Ideas, you get to this very, very fixed nature. Also you're dealing with a very unusual polarity, as whenever you see the 114 and 124, an opposition in the wheel, this was one of the most important mutative polarity that we have as humans. With the 12, the mutation took place in our throat, so that we were able to articulate in language. That made it possible, literally made it possible, for us to collect experience, because we could codify it. In other words, we had the language to be able to store experience. We could describe within our own mental framework events and store them.

The polarity out of the 11th gate, literally opened up what we call mind. You see mind was always there individually. If you go back to Lucy, one of our first ancestor's 4 million years ago, there was always a level of individuality at work - this was the survival system and direct access to the muse. Even if you come up into what is a relatively recorded history, for example Greek culture, everybody in a Greek play is only expressing the words of the Gods. They don't have any words of their own, as they are instruments of the Gods. That is the acoustic phenomenon, that's not really mind at work. This is simply the acoustic flow coming through; everybody has a voice moving through him or her. That is the primitive mind.

But the moment that you have the mutation in the throat, and that mutation is not an old mutation, it took place about 90 thousand years ago - that by the way is a DNA dating. The moment that you get back to that point, what you have is the opening up of the collective mind, which is the beginning of literally being able to establish maya. Not simply being a creature that is vibrating in life, but a creature that begins to create its own world by identity and fixing things.

Particularly here in this juxtaposition, the 124 is the Prophet and the 11 is the Teacher; that is the teacher as Teacher, Sage, or Guru. These people are going to be very, very fixed in trying to get their ideas out. Now they may be voices in the wilderness, that is nobody may hear them, or they may have deep influence - remember 4h lines can always have influence because they are fixed.

Right angles in different variations will lead to different left angles. The difference here is that if you go back to the original Cross of Eden, it moved to the Left Angle of the Plane with the 10/15. So all four arms involved in these two different left angles are from the Cross of the Vessel of Love. In two variations, you get the same combination with the same Design and in the two other variations; it leads to the other part of that cross. Here we have the 46 and the 25, the love of the body and universal love. These people can be very, very important teachers, and very important teachers in the nature of how the cosmos works - for example, Einstein being a 114, relativity coming out of that kind of configuration.

But also they are great teachers about the nature of the body; remember this is coming out of Eden where we are forced into form. They have great ideas about the body and how the body works. From a scientific point of view, they can be very important in our development of ideas and concepts about the nature of form. Again there's not a lot of them, but if you meet that kind of variation in your life, and you meet them young enough - nurture them in the right direction, as that is something very important for them.

When we get to the Juxtaposition Cross of Behavior, this is very different, because it's not about seeking out the right behavior. Here we have a transition in the Design where the 18 and the17 have replaced the 46/25. The moment that you bring the 18 and the 17, you are bringing a deep critical capacity. The 18 is a gate of taste; it is a judgmental gate, that can recognize in the moment what it likes or what it doesn't like. The 17th gate does the same thing at the intellectual level; in other words, it is the gate of opinions. "It is my opinion that I like that and I don't like that." It does the same job, as both have the ability to point out to others what their behavior should be. Now fortunately, I don't know any of these people.

However, we do need these people that are here to point out problems in behavior. This is a cross that will really do that and they are really fixed on that. Of course, being a 4th line, they only tell their friends, which doesn't make them really warm and cuddly. Since the 46 disappeared, you get rid of the warm and cuddly here. I like to joke about that, but the fact is that every single one of these crosses is of value - we need these forces that are fixed on that and simply don't let go. It is like the dog that is biting your pants leg and just won't let go. For a lot of people, they need somebody like that hectoring them to death. Remember you can be designed to have somebody that does that to you. It's not like you get that and it's unfair. If you have one of these people in your life, and they are pointing out to you the problems with your behavior every 13 seconds, there really isn't anything that you can do about that, and you probably need it. Karma after karma, incarnation after incarnation, there is something putting a saddle on you and telling you how to behave, until you finally get it right.

The 58th gate is the gate of vitality and it gives its name to the Juxtaposition Cross of Vitality. The 18 and the 17 go away, and what we have in their place is the 48, the Well, the gate of depth, and the 21st gate, the gate of control, the gate of the hunter/huntress. The pressure on the 58 is that "You've got the source of energy that the logical process needs. We want you to identify with something, so that we can access your energy." Not only that, but the juxtaposition is somebody so full of juice, but she wants to be in control herself, because that is what is coming from her unconscious grounding.

So it is a different equation when you are trying to get them involved. If you are looking at the right angle, you can bump into them and say, "Wow, you've got the right energy for what we can do together." But when you are dealing with this cross, you can't do that. There is always going to be a question for them about, "Yes, I'll give you my energy, but I have to be in control, because I really want to get out my own solutions." So they are different, and they are going to be very fixed in that. They can end up being very uncomfortable for those that are seeking out their service. It looks like that they have everything that you would want from them, yet at the same time they really deny that to you, unless you give them that role, and say to them, "Okay, you be the leader. Okay, you run this." Of course, the only way that works is when you meet those that have very, very similar interests or are moving in the same direction.

The 38/39 is a polarity in the wheel and these gates are opposite each other in the bodygraph on either side of the root center. Often the only way in which these provocative forces can get what they need is by provoking somebody else. The Juxtaposition Cross of Opposition is like that. With the 48 and the 21 disappearing, this underlying theme of having to be in control to get your own depth out is replaced by the 57 and the 51. Both the juxtaposition and the left angle have four individual gates, so you have a great deal of individuality here. Thus, it is going to lead naturally into the Left Angle Cross of Individualism. But these are people that are opposed. This is the way they try to find whether anything is of value.

Think about how that works. I meet somebody that has this juxtaposition cross, and they ask me what I do. I give them some kind of little blah, blah about Human Design. They tell me it's full of shit. They are immediately opposed, but not because they know I'm wrong or think they know I'm wrong. Oh, no, no, no - they want to see how good I'll be in being provoked to substantiate what I just told them. Now that is their gift - to oppose on principle in order to get to the real core. Of course, in doing so they will really shock you - that's the Design Earth in the 51.

You'll say something that you think is very obvious, and they'll go, "Oh, no, no that's not true." They will really push your buttons. But if you can't answer them, it is not enough to make fun of them, and it's not enough to say, "Oh, you should have figured that out." If you can't really explain it to them, they think you're full of it, and won't pay any attention to you anymore. So this is quite a mechanism.

I don't have the 28 or the 38. So when I was given this knowledge, if it wasn't for these people, I would never have done anything with it. But they were the ones that just wouldn't leave me alone, provoking me to explain more and more and more to them. If you don't, you're in big trouble. As a 5th line Personality, if a 38 comes up and opposes me, if I don't resolve that for them, my reputation is in the toilet. Thus, they are very powerful forces, and if you don't have it together, they are going to find out. They are really good at that.

The shift comes from the 57/51 to the 32/42 in the Juxtaposition Cross of Ambition. Whenever you see the 32, you're always dealing with the pressure of failure, as a fear. So here you are dealing with a different kind of drive that says, "If I'm not recognized, I'm a failure." Not being recognized is failure, and it is very, very important for them.

The juxtaposition and the left angle both carry the whole definition of the 54/32 - the channel of Transformation. These are very, very powerful agents of transformation. They are also carrying the 42nd gate with its important polarity with the 32. Since the 42 is a gate of completion, once you get into a commitment, you really have to stay there in order to finish it off. The 32nd gate holds the fear of failure. It's all about duration, continuity, and is very conservative. By recognizing the value of things, it keeps things going. Those two together are really saying that what you commit yourself to is so important, and because the

Sun is in the 54, it is which recognition you're going to commit yourself to. Just because somebody recognizes you and says, "Oh, you're terrific at what you do. You could be this or that or whatever," it doesn't necessary mean that that is the right thing to do. Particularly in a juxtaposition cross that is so fixed carrying the 4200 gate, making any mistake could bring punishment for the rest of your life.

That fixed fate can be the most difficult of all, because being so fixed; they have to finish things, but are deeply afraid inside of breaking continuity. If they make a commitment to something, like a career, say they decide to study to be an engineer or whatever - they can't get out of that for the rest of their life, even if they recognize they detest it. So of course, they have to be very, very careful about who recognizes them. By entering into things correctly, they can be careful about who recognizes them, and clear about their commitment.

In describing all of these crosses - very few of them operate, or you'll experience very few of them operating the way they are intended, because you have people walking around in the not-self. So all of that gets deeply confused. Many of you have noticed that in your design, you may have two, three, or even four of the gates of another cross, but it is not your cross. Think about how easy it is for you to be influenced by people who have that cross, to take you away by conditioning you into something that has nothing to do with you. The only way that you are protected in this life is not by being aware - awareness is nice, but the only thing that truly protects you is your mechanical strategy. Nothing else does. The moment that you think that your mind is going to protect you means you're still giving your mind mental authority - that isn't going to protect you. Living through your mechanical strategy guarantees that what you enter into is going to be correct for you.

Being correct doesn't mean that it feels good, is successful, or anything else. It is simply means that it is correct for you. You'll recognize that the negative thing that happens to you, having entered into it correctly, it's not that negative. Yeah, you see that it doesn't work, or whatever the case may be, but it doesn't have the same personal connotation anymore. It is not the kind thing that drags you down anymore into "Why did I do that? Why are they like that? It's their fault that it was bad. It's my fault that it was bad. It's God's fault that it was bad." - all the bullshit that comes with not understanding how things work.

The Juxtaposition Cross of Ambition is very powerful, and for them being recognized, moving up, and transforming - only that is satisfying in the end. These people, because real change at the Design level here between the 32/42. Remember the 32, there are certain gates that bring an atmosphere with them in a cross. Failure is a very deep and powerful theme, so that flavor gets carried into the cross. The moment that flavor is gone, we have two gates of the Cross of Laws, the 50n and the 3га gate.

On this Juxtaposition Cross of Thinking are people that through their knowing actually change knowing - that is the potential that is there. They change it by moving it along. Rooted in the Design Sun of the 50¹ The Immigrant, as that relates to the judge and laws, it is the recognition that one has to move on; as we mature the laws have to change with us. One of the driving forces in this cross is not to think about what is unknowable, and to try to bring that into knowing, rather it is the examination of what is already existing, and taking that to a level of personal insight where one knows it deeper than it has been known. It is one of those things where you can have a logical premise and yet out of the individual mutative mind know something about that premise that hadn't yet been seen. This comes out of this juxtaposition cross.

With the Juxtaposition Cross of Limitation, the rooting of the tribal lawgiver, the 50 and the 3 disappear. We're also moving away from this Cross of Laws. which was rooted in the channel of mutation. In the juxtaposition cross, we lose that definition. Here the 60 is locked into limitation, as its only focus and where it seeks purpose. Again notice that there is going to be a very curious kind of religious connection. Laws couldn't be established without the force of a God backing it up. Nobody was ready to truly take the laws of man. So what man did was he created laws in the names of Gods, in order to have those Gods be of influence. So there is always this connection here between the Cross of Laws and, what is not spiritual, but what is religious practice - in other words, the way in which you organize and control others.

In this Juxtaposition Cross of Limitation there is a fixedness on tradition rooted in risk taking. These are the kind of people that the moment the Catholic Church stopped doing the litany only in Latin, they changed religion. So they went to a more traditional practice. The moment that progress steps in, when you are dealing with this limitation, there is a retro movement, where people are looking for something that is more traditional. We have this schism now, and there are great difficulties in the religious organizations on this planet. All of them have to deal with modernity, with the internationalization of culture, and so people on this cross are going to start abandoning their progressive faiths. They are also people who will abandon progressive laws. "You know the old law was better. I don't like this new law."

With the Juxtaposition Cross of Fantasy, you lose the 28 and the 27 and get the 44 and the 24, two aspects of the Cross of the Four Ways. Shakespeare had the 41st gate, as a matter of fact he was a 41/31 - one doesn't know how reliable that is, but nonetheless, it is a nice example of the 41. There is this deep, deep potential in the 41 for fantasy; after all sexually that is what it is. The 41 can fantasize everything, without suffering the consequences of having to deal with it. Scratch any 41 and ask them about their sexual fantasies, if they'll actually tell you. I'm a 41 and I won't tell you. They will range across everything, and the beauty of that is it isn't emotional, so they don't actually have to get caught up in it, and feel like they have to fulfill that.

In this Cross of Fantasy, growing out of this Right Angle Cross of the Unexpected, in being attuned to the unexpected begins to look towards the expectation, and all the ways that it can go. These people are great in jobs where they are talking to you about what may be, because they can recognize the trend and what the possibilities may be. It doesn't mean that they are right, but they will have a better spectrum of that. The other thing is that it is just pure fantasy. In other words, better that it is a fantasy than an expectation. The fantasy itself can be deeply satisfying. The greatest gift for the 41 is always that recognition within themselves that the fantasy is enough. If you have the whole channel, it can't be. Then you have to be very, very clear about your feelings, which means in this configuration, "no truth in the now." It takes time to get clear that that is something to pursue.

With the switch from the 44/24 to the 1st and the 2nd gate, we have the Juxtaposition Cross of Need. It can sound like this is very extreme, very, very needy. But actually this is one of those intensely creative crosses. Here is a deep need to be creative, to be able to express oneself and to do that in private. It is absolutely essential for these beings to have their own territory, and enough resources, so that they can be totally absorbed in their creative direction. That is why it leads naturally into the Left Angle Cross of Refinement. In the juxtaposition, you may never see the beauty that these people create for their lives. You go inside their domain, and you can go inside of their creative beauty. In other words, they simply need to be able to express that and to be able to bring that out. It may be something that in the general sense nobody sees, but they are 4 line - their friends will see it.