Right Angle Cross

Right Angle Cross of Planning 2

16/9 | 37/40

Four currents run through this cross. The first and strongest is enthusiasm, the capacity to identify completely with something and throw yourself into it. You do not arrive already skilled. You arrive able to fall in love with a craft and repeat it until the repetition becomes mastery and the mastery becomes art. The second is focus, a concentrated attention that can stay with the small details long after other people have drifted, and it is what turns your enthusiasm into something workable rather than merely exciting. Underneath, in your body, runs the warmth of friendship and the bargains that hold a community together, and with it a real sense of aloneness, a willpower that loves work that is truly yours and needs solitude to refill.

Atlas Plate16/9 | 37/40
Human Design BodyGraph with the four gates of the Right Angle Cross of Planning 2 highlighted: 16, 9, 37 and 40 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 Right Angle Cross of Planning 2 highlighted: 16, 9, 37 and 40
Angle
Right Angle
Gates
16/9 | 37/40
Personality Sun
Gate 16
Personality Earth
Gate 9
Design Sun
Gate 37
Design Earth
Gate 40

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 16, this cross sits under Lakshmi, the tenth Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Civilization. Read The Sixteen Godheads for what that means.

Notice how these four move as one rhythm. You find the right work, you identify with it deeply, and you give it the detailed attention that turns a promising idea into a genuine skill. Then you look for the words to show what progress actually looks like, so that other people can follow the logic of it and join in. Behind all of it sits a need for the right people around you: friends who back you while you get good, and a fair agreement about what each of you gives. This is a personal journey. Your life is oriented around your own unfolding rather than around carrying someone else's story, and though you will need company to do it, the path remains yours. That is healthy self-focus, not selfishness.

None of this arrives all at once. A cross like this is a direction, not a fixed job description, and it shows you its meaning slowly, across a lifetime of practice. The way you 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 aim your enthusiasm only at what your body actually says yes to. Do that, and the thing you love becomes the thing you are excellent at.

Questions People Ask

What are the four gates of the Right Angle Cross of Planning 2?

Personality Sun in Gate 16, Personality Earth in Gate 9, Design Sun in Gate 37 and Design Earth in Gate 40, written 16/9 | 37/40.

Which profiles have a Right Angle cross?

Right Angle crosses belong to the 1/3, 1/4, 2/4, 2/5, 3/5, 3/6 and 4/6 profiles. The angle follows from your profile.

Which Face of the Godhead is the Right Angle Cross of Planning 2 under?

With its Personality Sun in Gate 16, it sits under Lakshmi, the tenth 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.