Juxtaposition Cross

Juxtaposition Cross of Power

34/20 | 40/37

Four currents feed this cross. The first is raw power, a generative force that belongs to you alone. Others can admire it and they cannot borrow it, and it exists to fuel what makes you unlike anyone else. The second is the voice of the present moment, where seeing and saying arrive together in a single breath and you can do exactly what the instant calls for. The third is aloneness, a pull toward standing on your own, a love of work that is genuinely yours, and a real need for recovery afterwards. The fourth is the warmth that holds a family or a community together, the friendship and the fair bargains that keep a group working.

Atlas Plate34/20 | 40/37
Human Design BodyGraph with the four gates of the Juxtaposition Cross of Power highlighted: 34, 20, 40 and 37 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 Power highlighted: 34, 20, 40 and 37
Angle
Juxtaposition
Gates
34/20 | 40/37
Personality Sun
Gate 34
Personality Earth
Gate 20
Design Sun
Gate 40
Design Earth
Gate 37

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 34, this cross sits under Hades, the first Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Mutation. Read The Sixteen Godheads for what that means.

Put these together and you get someone whose power shows up as presence. You are busy, visibly and unmistakably so, and the charisma of that busyness is a display the community actually feeds on, whether you are entertaining people, making the deal, or simply being the one who gets things moving. This is a fixed geometry. You are set on this theme, neither pulled along by the crowd nor absorbed only in yourself, and the intensity of it is exactly what makes you compelling. The power works beautifully when it is guided. Left to run on its own it turns busy for the sake of busy, and you can lose yourself inside your own momentum.

This takes a lifetime to unfold. A cross is a direction rather than a job description, and it will keep showing you new sides of the same theme. Two things keep it healthy. Keep the bargains you make with the people around you fair, and renegotiate them often. Take the time alone you need to refill, because this energy runs on a heart that has to recover. Follow your Strategy and your Authority, make each decision correctly for you, and your power becomes something the whole community is glad to stand near.

Questions People Ask

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

Personality Sun in Gate 34, Personality Earth in Gate 20, Design Sun in Gate 40 and Design Earth in Gate 37, written 34/20 | 40/37.

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 Power under?

With its Personality Sun in Gate 34, it sits under Hades, the first Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Mutation.

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.