Right Angle Cross

Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx 3

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Four currents come together in this cross. The first is leadership through influence. You see where things are heading and you help a group move toward it, and your natural place is just behind the person out front, guiding rather than commanding. The second is listening. People bring you their stories, their wins and their secrets, because they can feel that what they share is safe with you, and you keep the lessons of the past until the moment they are needed. The third, underneath and in the body, is a quiet inner compass, a knowing about the right way forward that does not need to argue for itself. The fourth is original expression, the urge to make something that is unmistakably your own.

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Human Design BodyGraph with the four gates of the Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx 3 highlighted: 7, 13, 2 and 1 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 the Sphinx 3 highlighted: 7, 13, 2 and 1
Angle
Right Angle
Gates
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Personality Sun
Gate 7
Personality Earth
Gate 13
Design Sun
Gate 2
Design Earth
Gate 1

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

See how the four move as one rhythm. You listen, and what you hear becomes a pattern. The pattern tells you where things are going, and your knowing tells you which way is sound. Then you point, and people follow, not because you insisted but because the direction was true. The past is not a burden to you, it is your evidence, and it is how you help others walk toward a future that will actually hold. This is a personal journey. Your life is oriented around your own unfolding rather than around carrying someone else's story, and that is healthy self-focus rather than selfishness. Others will cross your path and spark things in you, and the movement stays yours.

None of this arrives all at once. A cross like this is a direction rather than a job description, and it reveals its meaning slowly, across a lifetime of 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 lead only where you have been invited. 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 Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx 3?

Personality Sun in Gate 7, Personality Earth in Gate 13, Design Sun in Gate 2 and Design Earth in Gate 1, written 7/13 | 2/1.

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 the Sphinx 3 under?

With its Personality Sun in Gate 7, 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

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