Left Angle Cross

Left Angle Cross of Spirit 2

59/55 | 16/9

This cross brings four currents together. The first is intimacy, the strategy you carry for breaking through the barriers between you and another person and beginning something genuinely shared. Your way of choosing a partner is singular, and it is meant to be. This closeness lives deeper than talk, in touch and taste and scent, and its whole quality depends on entering it in correct timing rather than on impulse. The second is spirit, an abundance that rises and falls with your emotional wave. Your moods swing between hope and melancholy and are not a fault. They are how your sense of fullness ripens. The third runs underneath, in the body: enthusiasm that becomes skill through sheer repetition, the willingness to practise something you love far past the point where most people stop. The fourth is focus, the power to concentrate on the detail that everything else depends on.

Atlas Plate59/55 | 16/9
Human Design BodyGraph with the four gates of the Left Angle Cross of Spirit 2 highlighted: 59, 55, 16 and 9 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 Left Angle Cross of Spirit 2 highlighted: 59, 55, 16 and 9
Angle
Left Angle
Gates
59/55 | 16/9
Personality Sun
Gate 59
Personality Earth
Gate 55
Design Sun
Gate 16
Design Earth
Gate 9

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 59, this cross sits under Thoth, the thirteenth Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Duality. Read The Sixteen Godheads for what that means.

Watch how these four move as one rhythm. You learn love and closeness the long way, by living it, getting it wrong, feeling it fully, and practising until you understand what you are actually doing. Over the years those lessons stop being wounds and become gifts you can hand on. Your purpose is fulfilled through other people. You are pulled into their lives, and what you carry for them is a way of holding romance and spirit together, so that intimacy becomes something awake rather than something merely wanted.

None of this arrives all at once. A cross like this is a direction rather than a job description, and it reveals itself slowly, over a lifetime of real experience. The way to live it well is simple to name and takes practice to trust: follow your Strategy and your Authority, make each decision correctly for you, and never let urgency talk you into a bond your timing has not agreed to. Do that, and the theme stops being an idea and becomes the life you are actually living.

Questions People Ask

What are the four gates of the Left Angle Cross of Spirit 2?

Personality Sun in Gate 59, Personality Earth in Gate 55, Design Sun in Gate 16 and Design Earth in Gate 9, written 59/55 | 16/9.

Which profiles have a Left Angle cross?

Left Angle crosses belong to the 5/1, 5/2, 6/2 and 6/3 profiles. The angle follows from your profile.

Which Face of the Godhead is the Left Angle Cross of Spirit 2 under?

With its Personality Sun in Gate 59, it sits under Thoth, the thirteenth Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Duality.

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

The four gates

Profiles with a Left Angle cross

The other Spirit crosses

2 crosses share this name and theme; the numeral tells them apart, and each is built from a different set of four gates.

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