Juxtaposition Cross

Juxtaposition Cross of Extremes

15/10 | 17/18

Four currents come together here. The first is a love of humanity in all its variety, and with it a rhythm that refuses to settle. Some seasons you rise early and move fast, others you go slow and quiet, and the swing between them is not a flaw. It is what keeps you open to every kind of person, including the ones who live nothing like the norm. The second is self-love, a lived code of behaviour. The more fully you know and accept what makes you you, the more quietly you give other people permission to do the same. Beneath these runs a mind that takes in the world as whole pictures and shapes them into opinions worth trusting, and an instinct that notices when a pattern has gone off, when something once healthy is quietly failing the people inside it.

Atlas Plate15/10 | 17/18
Human Design BodyGraph with the four gates of the Juxtaposition Cross of Extremes highlighted: 15, 10, 17 and 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
Human Design BodyGraph with the four gates of the Juxtaposition Cross of Extremes highlighted: 15, 10, 17 and 18
Angle
Juxtaposition
Gates
15/10 | 17/18
Personality Sun
Gate 15
Personality Earth
Gate 10
Design Sun
Gate 17
Design Earth
Gate 18

New to incarnation crosses? Read What Is an Incarnation Cross for how the four gates are calculated, what the three angles mean and how a cross is lived.

With its Personality Sun in Gate 15, this cross sits under Parvati, the eleventh Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Civilization. Read The Sixteen Godheads for what that means.

Watch how the four move as one rhythm. Your own swings teach you the range of what a human being can be, so you can hold space for extremes without judging them, and the mind and the instinct underneath are constantly reading what works and what has spoiled. Your example is the correction. You show, by simply being yourself in the full width of it, that there is more than one right way to live. This is a fixed fate rather than a wandering one. The theme is narrow, specific and lived with intensity: neither pulled about by the crowd nor absorbed in yourself, but fixed on the extremes and what they reveal.

None of this arrives all at once. A cross like this is a direction, not a job description, and it shows you its meaning slowly, across years of experience. The way to live it well is simple to name and takes practice to trust: follow your Strategy and your Authority, and make each decision correctly for you. Trust your changing rhythm instead of forcing a routine onto it. Let your corrections land on patterns rather than on people, and wait until they are asked for. Do that, and the theme becomes the life you are actually living.

Questions People Ask

What are the four gates of the Juxtaposition Cross of Extremes?

Personality Sun in Gate 15, Personality Earth in Gate 10, Design Sun in Gate 17 and Design Earth in Gate 18, written 15/10 | 17/18.

Which profiles have a Juxtaposition cross?

Juxtaposition crosses belong to the 4/1 profile. The angle follows from your profile.

Which Face of the Godhead is the Juxtaposition Cross of Extremes under?

With its Personality Sun in Gate 15, it sits under Parvati, the eleventh Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Civilization.

How do I find my incarnation cross?

Generate your free chart at humandesign.so/chart from your birth date, time and place. It names your cross and shows its four gates, taken from the Sun and Earth at birth and about three months before.

Connected in the BodyGraph

The Four Gates of This Incarnation Cross

Created by Peter Low, Human Design Practitioner. Part of the Human Design atlas.